Hi there hunters,
Welcome to our weekly status update. Here is what’s been going on in theHunter.
Player survey
Last week we launched our player survey and since then we’ve been monitoring data from our players from all around the world – pretty exciting! This has been the most popular of our surveys, with about 5,000 hunters having submitted their replies so far. It will be open until the end of Monday, March 23rd, so if you haven’t already completed it yet, here’s your chance to be heard and influence the future development of the game.
St. Patrick’s Day Event results
Here is the final leaderboard of the event that ended on Tuesday, with players who collected the most amount of shamrock$ and finished top 10, congratulations guys!
- trancebabe – 45351
- zerohero555 – 45133
- tkaya – 40821
- SiiinysTer – 39193
- TROPICIEL3 – 29831
- corredorcorredor – 29829
- IJRI – 28112
- Paf_Paf – 27381
- Wulf 67 – 26594
- josepaco – 24119
We’ve also decided to give a special (surprise!) rainbow trophy to the hunters who have collected the highest number of pots of gold during the event but didn’t end up in top 10. Here are the most thorough gold collectors:
Agent441 – 434 pots of gold
Mrkurd – 298 pots of gold
jamesclavell – 222 pots of gold
CSS balancing
We received a fair amount of community critique during the St. Patrick’s Day event about CSS which is not accurately balanced. This results in waterfowl and rabbits disproportionately high CSS values. We hear you, appreciate this feedback and are looking to make adjustment to CSS system, so we can offer a properly balanced score system which will reflects the difficulty of harvesting quality animals within each category and rewards accordingly.
To make this happen, we’d like to ask you, our community, to help us collect data for us to analyze the existing holes in the CSS system and resolve them accordingly.
If you want to help us with that, here is what you should do:
- Create a multiplayer game, but play by yourself (so that you can keep a track of your CSS values more easily).
- (Important!) Only focus on hunting one animal.
- Take notes of the hunt duration, amount of kills and the total CSS that you’ve gained.
- Open the CSS Feedback form, choose the animal you’ve been hunting in the drop down menu and enter your data. Easy!
We’d really appreciate your input on this!
Say Hi to Paul
Meet another new team member – his name is Paul and he has recently joined our backend gang.
Hey all!
My name is Paul Kruitz, I have joined Expansive Worlds as a Systems Engineer. Which means I work on backend technology improvements for theHunter.
I hail from the Netherlands from a small town called Sittard. I went to the UK to get my uni degree to finally start my lifelong dream and make games. So far I have worked on CMR: DiRT2, DiRT3, DiRT Showdown, GRID 2 and Mad Max.
Outside of work I love to play games and travel to the far reaches of the planet and see how people live of there and experience new things
Kangaroo revamp
On a final note, a quick update regarding the red kangaroo model: we’ve collected some great feedback from our community members and our artists are now working hard to improve the model, based on your suggestions. Hopefully soon we’ll be able to see a better version of Skippy on Bushrangers Run!
That’s it from us for today.
Happy hunting!
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