r/HuntShowdown

So I want to share my thoughts on the latest update and see how many players share my perspective.

I really loved the loadout changes, but bastion...

Before Bastion, I was walking around trying to sniff out hunters and take clues. It felt like you were actually HUNTING other players. The addition of the map and scout towers really benefited that feeling, but Bastion completely ruined it.

Before Bastion, you never knew when or where you might run into another team. There were lots of surprise encounters, and every fight played out differently. Now it's always the same. Everybody goes to Bastion because the game incentivizes you to. If you don't, you most likely won't meet other players, or you might only run into one team. The main focus is always the fort.

Adding different kinds of forts at least added a little variety, but now, with the addition of the air balloons, I absolutely hate it. At least before this, you could choose to go for the boss because you knew you could catch the Bastion team later. Now, if you don't go there immediately, you're almost guaranteed to lose a bounty, and it has made the already repetitive Bastion fights even worse.

Before the balloons, you could at least bait the team inside or wait for one mistake, kill a player, and create an opportunity to push. Now you can't really do that, especially if you didn't spawn close enough. If you arrive at Bastion even a little late, you don't have time to bait or wait—you have to push. And blindly pushing a place that's basically a fortress, full of traps, explosives, free healing, and a machine gun, is just frustrating. If they've also placed Concertinas and other traps around the area, you're pretty much done for.

English isn't my first language, so this might come across as skill issue whining, but that's not my intention. I genuinely feel like the game has split into two separate modes. Every match has started to feel the same. This update removed the hunting aspect from Hunt, and the air balloons made the already questionable Bastion fights even worse. It feels like a worse version of Clash in the middle of Hunt.

Anyway, I want my scout towers back lol

If you have your mic turned on, TURN DOWN YOUR FUCKING TV.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Specially with randoms, nobody wants to play "Bounty Hunt" anymore. Every match is Bounty Clash with extra steps. Team mates just rush Fort and die.

Don't even take clues, just bee line to fort. That's not hunt.

Hey guys, I've recently been toying with a build featuring Remedy/Relentless to counteract Devil Card, do you guys have any guns with high spread/sway that would maximise the payoff? Currently eyeing dual Bornheims and Vetterli Cyclone.

Just died to this spot and cant work out from the kill view how this guy even got here. both my teammates also died here without spotting the guy.

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Had a little time this morning, EU.

Played two games.

First game. Everyone is [][][][] and all my hit markers feel delayed by half a second.

Second game. Spawn next to [][][][] dudes who somehow know where we are and immediately beeline to us to engage, we disengage and run to the fort, fight a while, [][][][] dudes somehow constantly know our exact location and eventually win. Dude killing me has multiple game bans on record. We quit, maybe tonight EU time.

This is really not good.

I saw someone say in a post the other day that if they had a teammate with a 0.4 k/d, they would dodge the group. That got me thinking, how high do you expect your teammates k/d to be before they're acceptable to play with?