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UPDATED LIST. Since some of you have missed mobile payments we’ve, in collaboration with our payment partner, added a few new options in some countries. Please see the list below to see what offers are available in what countries. Our aim is to add more options over time.

In some countries, like the US, the carriers don’t support Premium SMS, we are however working on getting some kind of coverage up and running there as well. We have no idea of how fast this can happen, especially with the Holiday season coming up.

 Country   Em$ Packages  Starter Bundles  Basic Memberships
 Azerbaijan  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Austria  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer  Pathfinder    3 months  6 months  
 Belarus  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Belgium  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Bosnia-Herz.  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Brazil  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Bulgaria  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Canada  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Chile  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Colombia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Croatia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Czech Republic  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Denmark  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Finland  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Estonia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 France  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Georgia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Greece  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Germany  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Hungary  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Indonesia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Italy  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Ireland  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Israel  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$  5000 Em$  Wayfarer  Pathfinder    3 months  6 months  12 month
 Japan  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Kazakhstan  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Korea (Republic of)  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$  5000 Em$  Wayfarer  Pathfinder  Trailrunner  3 months  6 months  12 month
 Latvia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Lithuania  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Mexico  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Moldova  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Netherlands  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer          
 New Zealand  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Norway  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Poland  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Portugal  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Romania  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Russia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Serbia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Singapore    2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Spain  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Slovakia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Slovenia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 South Africa  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Sweden  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Switzerland  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer  Pathfinder    3 months  6 months  
 Taiwan  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$    Wayfarer      3 months  6 months  
 Thailand  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Tunisia  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    
 Turkey  1000 Em$  2000 Em$  3000 Em$  5000 Em$  Wayfarer  Pathfinder    3 months  6 months  
 United Kindom  1000 Em$  2000 Em$      Wayfarer      3 months    

 

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Status Update

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Dear Hunters,

We’ll start off with an apology, since we’ve been so terribly busy with the new reserve, new species and server fixes we didn’t have time to write a status update last week. We hope you’re not to upset about this.

Payment options
We know some of you are not very happy with the fact that mobile payments have disappeared in your countries and neither are we. We haven’t removed these on purpose, they were automatically removed due to the network operators not being able to support our price points with the new payment solution. We’re working on fixing this, but it looks like it will take some time. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s working again (hopefully soon).

Missing in action
Last week Robert left us to explore the world. Even though he moved to the other side of the Atlantic, he’s still within the company group working in Avalanche’s New York office. Robert will be replaced by a new star, Adam, within weeks, so we won’t lose too much momentum. Adam will hopefully not be too shy when he gets here and will introduce himself as soon as he’s started.

Server problems
We are well aware of the server disturbances some of you have experienced over the past weeks. It is the web teams top priority to fix these issues right now.

More pretty pictures
We appreciate all the great suggestions you all came up with for naming the new reserve. We’ve decided to name it Rougarou Bayou since we felt it was really suitable. You can read up on the two words here: Rougarou. Bayou

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Rougarou Bayou

Rougarou Bayou

Rougarou Bayou

Say hello to my little duck
So that cat’s out of the bag. The new species will be the Mallard. So we’re introducing a completely new type of gameplay. For those of you who have hunted ducks in real life knows that it’s very different from e.g. hunting Pheasants. We’re super excited about ducks coming to theHunter and judging from some of comments we’ve seen in the forums so are some of you.

Mallard

Mallard

Mallard

Mallard

Happy hunting!

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Status update

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Howdy Hunters. Status update time! We think it´s about time we give you some more info on the new reserve we´re working on, and which is taking shape quite nicely. As some of you have already guessed this is a swamp/marsh dominated environment mainly inspired by places in the US state of Louisiana. There´s a brand new animal living here as well, but one thing at a time! The new reserve will feature two main “biotopes” based on Water Hickory and Bald Cypress trees. There will also be a lot of shallow water areas. The reserve is currently in it´s final stages where a lot of small things is tweaked and the terrain is polished to suit the intended gameplay. We´ll let the screenshots below speak for themselves. Note that some things are still subject to change though.

swamp_reserve_01

swamp_reserve_03

swamp_reserve_02

swamp_reserve_04

swamp_reserve_05

We would appreciate your help in naming this reserve and would like if you provided us with ideas and inspiration that make this one fit nicely next to the rest of environments! Please add your suggestions in this thread in our forum for us to have everything in one place.

On a different matter; we´ve done some “under the hood” work on the inventory in an attempt to reduce loading times. These tweaks was applied on the live server a short while back and we would appreciate your feedback on whether you think it now works better or not? We´re well aware that the inventory sometimes takes a long time to load, which depend on many things. But we perfectly understand this can be a very annoying immersion breaker when playing and intend to work continuously on it if needed.

Happy hunting until next time!

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Status Update

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Halloween is over and many a player is scarred for life due to the horrendous Beast Bear(s). Luckily, many managed to work through their trauma and come out as winners. Speaking of, here are the top three contestants:
1. arcwolf
arcwolf

2. M4G1E
m4g1e

3. BEST85
Best85

Congratulations! All prizes and trophies will be distributed as soon as possible. If you are interested in the full final leaderboard: Here you go.

The store is getting a new addition this week: A new, awesome looking, heavily customized .44 Handgun. It has a more modern look than our previous .44 revolver but packs the same hefty punch.
handgun_44_01

Also, we have been working extensively on providing more payment possibilities. This work is finally done which opens up our store to pretty much every country in the world. One can almost hear the collective sigh of relief from the Mule Deer population at Logger’s Point.

Lastly, anyone interested in the new reserve? Of course you are! Here is a sneak peak:

New Reserve

As you can see, work on the new reserve is coming along nicely and we are sure you guys are going to love it once it’s released.

Happy Hunting!

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Status Update

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So it’s Halloween week and we’ve kicked off a week-long event. We’re really excited about this and we hope that you are enjoying it.

Exciting news, Pim managed to pass his Swedish hunting exam this Sunday, so he’s now free to hunt and purchase weapons for hunting (as soon as he’s gotten his licences approved by the police, something that usually takes 16 weeks when you live in Stockholm).

We’re wondering if we have any, preferably Swedish, hunters in our community that would like to donate any antlers or head mounts to us. We’d love to decorate the office walls with new friends for Hoggy and Roenny. We feel that we’re lacking a proper hunting feel in the office. Please PM a member of the dev team if you’d like to donate something.

Work on the new species and reserve are going as planned. We still have a long way to go before anything gets released. Andres and Daniel are working on the new AI, José is animating like a mad man. Peter and Tomas are creating new vegetation. Peter’s said that if you all behave he might show you some screenshots from the coming reserve next week.

Herman and Emil are looking into ways to speed up loading of the inventory. Something we hope will happen very soon, but we can’t promise anything just yet. And we’re also about to add more payment options, since we know that many of our players can’t purchase things in the game today due to our payment options not being available in your countries.

Happy hunting and beware of the beast bear!

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Status Update

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Today we released a new game update for all of you!

The main feature added today is the possibility to share your trophy shots on Facebook directly from the game client. All you need to do is check the check box you’ll see right before accepting the trophy picture. At the same time as adding this feature we have change the way you accept trophy shots a bit, instead of right or left clicking your mouse, now you’ll have to click on one of the two buttons on the screen, accept or discard.

You can connect your theHunter account with your Facebook account here. 

We’ve also added a new clothing line called “Casual”, featuring two t-shirts, two trucker caps and a pair of jeans. Hope you like them!

 

Also, our beloved hog (Hoggy) has a new friend here at the office, we present you Roenny!
More exciting news, we’ve started work on a new reserve. Those who have been around for a while knows how much work this is, so it’ll take while before it gets released. All we can say right now is that it’ll be hosting the upcoming new species. We’ll give you some clues on the location further down the road.
Happy hunting!
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It’s a lovely, but cold, Wednesday in Stockholm. The fall is well on it’s way. We are settling in in the new office and the wild boar is finally up on the wall. So it almost feel like home now.

Winners
We’ve selected the winners in last weeks trophy shot competition. A big thanks to all of you who participated.  It seems as you liked the new feature.

We decided that all top three entries will receive the Laura Avatar. So the winners are (drum roll!!!):

Third place, who gets Laura Avatar + 500 em$, une

Second place, who gets Laura Avatar + 1000 em$: BambiGoHome

First place, who gets Laura Avatar + 1500 em$: Decoy13

The work on the new species is coming along as planned. We’re just mentioning it so you know what we’re working on, we still have a long way to go before it can be released.

We’re working on improving the GUI system (Graphic User Interface) right now. This will fix a bunch of GUI bugs and allow us to make other improvements and make it easier to add new features.

A new piece of hardware will be released very soon.

Happy Hunting!

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Status Update

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Hello Hunters,

It’ll be a short update today since we’re terribly busy right now. We’re moving to a new office tomorrow. We’ll move back to the same building as Avalanche are sitting in to be closer to the creators of the game engine.

Tomorrow Pim, Björn and Andres will visit a world acclaimed sight manufacturer to try their products out and see how we could possibly implement them in the game. We’ll tell you more about this at a later date.

We’re still working on the new species, it’s coming along nicely, but we have many many weeks/months ahead of us of before things will start to come together.

We’ve killed a bunch of bugs and you can red about it in the latest game update. We’ll continue to kill bugs so hopefully some more will disappear next week.

Happy hunting

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Status Update

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Do we have news for you? We sure do!

The all brand new first person animations are finally done. It’s taken Hampus and José several months to complete all the animations required. And if we might say so ourselves, they look mighty fine. We are aware of the fact that some bugs might still be in there, but we’ll monitor this as closely as we possibly can, so we can kill them swiftly. For those of you who’d gotten used to not seeing your weapon, we’d like to remind you of the H-key (default key). It hides whatever you are holding. So we hope you are as excited and happy about the animations finally being in place as we are.

The new first person animations have sorted the ground blind problems out, so you should not have any problems seeing out of the blind any more. We’ve also improved prone so you won’t get “motion sickness” and you can now go prone in slopes again.

To celebrate the new animations we also released a brand new weapon today. It’s a single-shot handgun that we call “Rival”. It’s got the mobility of a handgun with the power of a hunting rifle and fits in the small weapon holster. The Rival is accompanied by a 2-4x20mm Handgun Scope.

We’ve also re-vamped the maps. This is hopefully something you won’t notice, unless you find them loading faster, but if you find any bugs please report them in the bug section of the forum. The new system will also make it easier for us to add more functionality to maps later on.

We’ve fixed a few bugs as well and you can read about them in the latest game update

Happy Hunting!

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Status Update

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Greetings hunters,

Another week has passed and things are great at Expansive Worlds. Our interns are getting up to speed and hopefully you will soon see some of their creations in the game.

We’ve started working on a new species, we’re telling you this much since some of you seems to think that we aren’t working on the right things. We will tell you more at a later stage, but as many of you, who have been around for a while, knows, it takes a very long time to complete a new species. For those of you who are fairly new, a new animal requires a lot of work from our graphic artists, animators, game programmers and game designer and most of the time they can’t work simultaneously, since they need to wait until the previous discipline has completed his part. We can also tell you that its one of the species mentioned in the user survey posted a while ago. So feel free to speculate on what it might be 😉

We’re aiming at releasing a bunch of new missions next week. The missions are being tested at this very moment and we need a few more days to make sure everything is fine and dandy.

And the winner is…
After long and hard discussions we’ve finally selected a winner in the Profile Shot Competition. We’d like to thank all of you who participated, and if you liked this kind of competition let us know, we might have another one in the future.

1st prize goes to ohotnikna who gets 5000 em$
 Second prize goes to vladimiroquai who gets 2500 em$

And finally third prize goes to ToyBoy who gets 1000 em$

We’ll end this status update with an apology. In the last installer we managed to add a rather undesirable feature. When you install the game the installer makes your browser auto start when you boot your PC and sets theHunter as default web site. This was never our intention, but we have added a fix in the new launcher that will remove this. So if you are experiencing these problems just update the launcher (you do this by starting a new game) and the problem will be resolved.

If for some reason the automatic fix does not resolve the problem you can manually address it by following these steps:

(Windows XP, Windows 7)

  1. Open the start menu and navigate to “All Programs/Startup”
  2. Right click “theHunter” and select “Delete”
  3. If there is a dialog about administrator permissions click “Continue”
  4. Done!

(Windows 8)

  1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete
  2. Select “Task Manager”
  3. Select the “Startup” tab
  4. Right click “theHunter” and select “Disable”
  5. Done!

Once again, we’re terribly sorry about this. Happy hunting!

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