Hunt: Showdown 1896 News

🎃 Cosplay Contest! 🎃

Cosplay has always been a cornerstone of our community outside of the game, and we figured what better way to celebrate spooky season with a costume contest?

To enter:

• Show us your best Hunt: Showdown cosplay
  
• Publish your work on social media using hashtag #DressedToDie
  
• Send us the link and the originals to [email protected] by 1 Nov 2024
  
• Get ready for the Harvest of Ghosts event!
  

Prizes:

• 1st Place - Hunt merch*, Hunt Displate, 5 DLCs, Hunt game key, and 2000 Blood Bonds
  
• 2nd Place - Hunt Displate, 2 DLCs, Hunt game key, and 2000 Blood Bonds
  
• 3rd to 5th Place - 2 DLCs and a Hunt game key, and 500 Blood Bonds.
  
• Availability may vary by region
  

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Image courtesy of the amazing team:

- Photo by Christian_freitag_
- Hail Mary – raptobot
- Redshirt – snowwolf_creations
- The Reaper – katastrophenmechaniker

Good luck!

Scorched Earth has come to an end!

With it comes another feedback survey. This is your chance to let us know your thoughts on the event including what you liked and, didn't like.

So click the following link and let us know:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QX8QG38

Hunters,

Update 2.0.2 is now live! You will find the description of the update below:


[h2]Meta [/h2]
The new Weapons, their variants, and their Custom Ammo have been added to the regular progression.

• Rifles:
  
  • 1865 Carbine – Bloodline Rank 1
    
  • 1865 Carbine Full Metal Jacket Ammo – Bloodline Rank 1
    
  • Crossbow Deadeye – 2nd unlock in the Crossbow Family
    
  • Crossbow Steel Bolts – Bloodline Rank 1
    
  • Drilling High Velocity – Bloodline Rank 1
    
  • Infantry 73L – Bloodline Rank 1
    
  • Infantry 73L Sniper – 3rd unlock in the Infantry 73L Weapon Family
    
  • Marathon High Velocity Ammo – Bloodline Rank 1
    
  • Marathon Incendiary Ammo – Bloodline Rank 1
    
  • Martini-Henry High Velocity – Bloodline Rank 1
    
• Shotguns:
  
  • Rival 78 Trauma – 3rd unlock in the Rival 78 Family
    
• Tools:
  
  • Bear Traps – Bloodline Rank 35
    

[h2]Weekly challenges[/h2]
Weekly challenge sets have been updated. Make sure to check them out in game!

• Resolved missing shaders that required us to disable certain hunter and item skins temporarily.
  
• Addressed several bugs with a very low reproduction rate that occasionally caused crashes.
  
• Fixed a bug where changing the region wouldn’t take effect until restarting the client.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from completing the tutorial due to an inability to catch fire on Xbox.
  
• Corrected a collision issue that blocked shots in O'Donovan Stone.
  
• Fixed a bug where attempting to purchase a new Hunter slot would return players to the lobby without the new slot.
  
• Resolved an issue where shadows would occasionally fail to appear.
  
• Fixed a bug where audio was missing on poison barrels before they exploded.
  

Hunters,

Servers will be down from 09:00 CEST on Monday the 7th of October while we deploy Update 2.0.2.

Estimated downtime ~3 hours.

This update will include adding Scorched Earth items to regular progression, add a new set of weekly challenges and include an assortment of bug fixes. We'll have the full release notes shortly.

Thanks.

All Hallows' Eve draws near, and with it our Harvest of Ghosts Event.

Get ready for new Pact Traits, equipment, and beyond for you to get your grisly claws on and use in wicked ways, starting on October 16th.