Hunt: Showdown

I'd rather spend my time playing than writing reviews, but this game is worth the time. I am very bad at this game. The meta is quarter-second head-clicking but my physical handicap forces me to use a controller, which is a major disadvantage. I keep playing because the game begs you to get better, to find your niche, and to develop your own play-style. It gives you the tools and the environment to do this.
Every fight is a learning experience. Every run starts out feeling familiar then degrades into whatever mayhem emerges. Surviving is an accomplishment. Random headshots from nowhere are the norm. Even when you are sure that you wiped the server, there is some rat out there waiting to steal your bounty... you are never safe.
I highly recommend playing this game with friends. I recommend playing it solo if you are up for the challenge. A new map is coming out. The devs love their work and the game will keep growing.
I only have 2 complaints. The match-making is horrible, especially for new players, more-so for solos. Most of the time I was put into servers with all 3s and 4s. I understand the lack of players makes it difficult to fill an evenly matched server, but it is VERY unbalanced. Get good fast or die. The other complaint is the cheaters. The anti-cheat system doesn't stop everyone. I have actually witnessed players using some form of cheat while spectating them. Nancy, please re-attach your plums and turn off the cheats.
So the game is very good, the depth of playability is great, and the player base is a mixed bag of noobs, nutters, and nancy boys (just like IRL). It needs more noobs who want to become nutters so we can eradicate the nancy boys together.

The game itself is great, the new engine update makes it look a lot better than before, it has removed all the jaggy outlines on a lot of objects/models and for the most part performance seems to be the same or better with DLSS.
The UI is absolutely terrible though, they need to fix it, it's a complete step backwards from a UI that was already a bit awkward to use.
Giving it a positive review, just fix the UI, there's no point reviewbombing the game because of the poor UI when the gameplay is great.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☑ Difficult
☐ Dark
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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☐ 1
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☐ 10

The greatest 1st person shooter experience tied up in the worse user interface devised by human kind, the game will be good eventually when they fix the UI. also when they remove the shitty 800ms trade window.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ Ultra Realistic
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ 2D pixel
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Old Aged
☐ Everyone
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Matchmaking }---
☑ Justified / Good
☑ Equally divided SKILL GROUPS (MMR)
☑ Some Tryhards
☑ Smurfs
☐ Broken MM
---{ Servers }---
☐ Smooth Like Butter
☑ Good Connection - Low Loss
☑ Meh - Sometimes good, sometimes Sh*t
☑ Bad Connection - DeSync
☐ Horror - Escape From Tarkov Servers
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Its a freaking infestation
---{Rating}---
☐ 1
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☐ THE GOAT

What masquerades itself as a shooter is actually a mental game of chess where you can only hear the pieces. This cowboy-from-hell-ass game has sucked up 200 hours of my life so far and I have only just begun to scratch the surface of the ridiculous intricacies that these fights involve.

dope game.

In 30 years of playing videogames and especially FPS, I haven't played a game that's more perfect for me than Hunt. I truly love it. It's not for everyone, but those that like tactical action where every bullet matters and shootouts can last from 1 second to 5 minutes and longer, will probably enjoy it greatly.
It currently has quite a few annoyances with the menu UI being the prime example and I expect it stops people's enjoyment enough to give it up, but I'd stick with it, updates and patches do come out and the kinks get ironed, albeit slowly. Try it, you might just stop playing every other you own for a long while.