r/Manhunt

Urban segregation is one of the most common parts of city life in the states (I should know, I seen it in action on the daily) and it greatly affected the Steel Belt, or what is now the Rust Belt. When a city is primarily blue collar, that industry leaving fucks everything up. Carcer City is one such city.

Carcer City is on the decline. Crime and poverty are up, job opportunities are down, and the city is being taken over by a mysterious entity who seems to have ties to the second most powerful man in the city, the police chief. But the residents of Carcer don’t lose their pride.

The Skinz might be one of the poorest gangs in the game, yet they insist on finding ways that they’re superior. They’re heterosexual white men, so that means they’re superior right? No, of course not, but this twisted perception of worth is the only thing these absolute freaks have going for them.

The Wardogs are obsessed with the military, and they seem to be equally low on the socio economic totem pole, as they live in the projects. These guys likely never saw A Shau valley or Southeast Asia at all, but this identity, even if it’s false, is all they have, so they cling to it and berate anyone who they perceive as a civilian.

Even though the CCPD is a huge police force with hordes of men, they’re under equipped and underfunded, and they’re here on the ground floor doing the dirty work while their superior officers sit on their equally corrupt asses not informing them of the task at hand fully. And yet they cling to the fact that despite all of that, at least they aren’t homeless, and they take it out on the growing homeless population just for fun.

Nearly everyone in Carcer City is under the thumbs of a few extremely powerful and rich men, living in poverty or barely scraping by, but instead of bringing the city together to go against a common enemy, they remain split apart by their races and classes, all bitter against another group of people, and determined to be seen as better than them.

This is extremely realistic. Sadly, it is human nature to try to find ways you’re inherently better than large demographics of people. It’s how we have homophobes, classists, sexists, racists, anti-Semites, and transphobes. Carcer City is an exaggerated, yet realistic portrayal of the effects of urban segregation.

I hope this was an interesting read and I hope I raised a few good points. Most importantly, make sure to treat others with respect regardless of your race, class, sexuality, gender identity, or creed. We’re all human and deserve a chance until we’re proven not to.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Lmk your opinions below.

i've been working A LOT on the map lately, the demo map will feature a bunch of different places like some sort of playground for you guys to explore, find and try out different weapons and executions.

demo will be out very soon!

SPOILERS Manhunt 1 and 2

While replaying manhunt 1 and 2 after all these years, one idea kept bothering me. The idea that almost everybody in these games is being watched and yet, that fact does nothing to add any layer of protection. A divine witness would imply moral weight, but there is nothing sacred about the watcher in this case. As Cash has Starkweather above him and the camera's gaze follows him all throughout Carcer City. The funding of this spectacle is only made possible because of there being a market for such content and perhaps that says a lot more about us than we care to admit.

Daniel, on the other hand, has Leo constantly beside him, guiding his hand gently enough to make him believe that his choices are his own. While beneath the surface and from an external perspective, it is easy to recognise that Leo is intentionally manipulating Daniel into trusting him to make the decisions for him.

All of the above led me towards the religious side of Manhunt

Nietzsche's "God is Dead and we have killed him." fits the reality of Carcer City very well. Manhunt illustrates a place where human beings seem to have lost their inherent value. Cash is only worth whatever entertainment his suffering can produce. The gangs are only useful as a visceral canvas that Cash can better express his artistic side through. Even Cash's family becomes useful to Starkweather once he realises that he can use them to get a reaction out of Cash.

But I also considered the other possibility

Proverbs 1:26-28 describes a case where people reject wisdom until calamity finally arrives, but at that point it's already too late. So maybe it wasn't God who abandoned Carcer City, but rather it was us who turned our backs first.

Carcer City may not be a world abandoned by God. It may be a world abandoned to itself.

The idea burrowed it's way into my skull to the point that I ended up making a video essay speaking on this, alongside Cash's morality, Starkweather winding him up just to see what happens, Daniels relationship with Leo and the deeper question: Why do we as players enjoy watching manhunts brutality in the first place.

I finished the video and figured this would be the one community where people would have strong opinions about it:

https://youtu.be/iH6HvXdu5oY?si=W322ZVOIhsJLozC4

I'm curious as to how you guys read Carcer City. Is there a moral order behind this somewhere or could Manhunt be showing us what people become when they believe there is nothing above them?

https://www.dixmor-hospital.com/mods/view/nostalgia-modpack-1-6-8

This update is so good. Now you can even play manhunt 1 levels inside manhunt 2 with gameplay improvements of sequel like interactive and environmental executions. Plus it has all original cutscenes, plot, voices, music, hunters, etc. It's basically remaster at this point and should be available in steam.

I changed the lower part of the head because the one from the previous model looked quite out of place
and also to make it more consistent with Leo's model. I made some minor adjustments to the rig and the blood UVs, and slightly rescaled the textures; as an added detail, I also changed the eye texture to make it look more like the original model.

I'll upload it to Dixmor Hospital soon, and I'm open to any suggestions.

Don't take it seriously; I just did it out of boredom xD