Hunt: Showdown Closed Alpha Impressions - The RPG Files - MMORPG.com

SBFord · February 2018

Hunt: Showdown Closed Alpha Impressions - The RPG Files - MMORPG.com

Hunt: Showdown’s concept had me intrigued ever since I first got wind about it last year. You and a partner are Hunters tasked to hunt down a monster in a hauntingly beautiful map by following clues using your Dark Sight (think Arkham Asylum Detective Mode). Along the way, you’ll have to avoid gloriously grotesque creatures who are all trying to kill you. In short, find monster. Kill monster. Banish monster. Evacuate.

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Panther2103 · February 2018

Great write up. I didn't understand what this game was when I was watching people stream it the other day. It looked like Day-Z to me, but now I understand what was going on. It seemed like the people I was watching were trying harder to kill other players than go for the monsters.

It looks interesting. It's like mixing a Battle Royale / Day-Z type game with a game like Evolve. I'll have to check it out when it gets further down the line.

Bloodaxes · February 2018

The game already has a wider variety of monsters than others, its a shame they are just filler exp into a monotonous game mode.

Ozmodan · February 2018

Soon as I saw that players were more intent on killing other players, I wrote this one off. Just flawed design to my mind.

strangeside · February 2018

Been playing this casually, and we have found that the game is very CPU intensive until they further optimize (more likely will be when EA launches). I'm currently running a 8700k and had consistent frame around 50-70.

Gameplay wise, I agree the shooting is maddening and hope they revisit it very soon. But once you land that shot and get a kill it's the best feeling in the world.

Level design is amazing, especially night maps.. This game truly gets the heart pumping.

SlyLoK · February 2018

With the ability to kill the other players that is all this game will turn in to... Just another player killing game with the actual monster objective as an afterthought.

Samhael · February 2018

Yeah, I agree with a couple of the posters thus far. Putting in the ability to kill other players basically changes the game so *that* is the main focus. It really sounded interesting otherwise. I don't really understand the large volume of PvP-focused games these days. With a few exceptions, they don't seem to last very long. I don't regard "kill other players" as content so this just strikes me as lazy programming and suggests that many of the target demographic will only last short-term before they shelf or uninstall it.

Solar_Prophet · February 2018

Changing the focus to competitive MP killed any and all interest I had in this game. A damn shame.

Mykell · February 2018

Add a timer so the longer the monster stays alive the stronger it becomes, more low level monsters appear to stop the death match mentality and it might be interesting.