From the thirty designs submitted to the competition only seven were chosen for the final voting round. However, some of the designs that for one or another reason didn’t make it are very good and deserve to be seen by the community. That’s why we’ve decided to put them together as Honourable mentions.
By Pastuh:
By TundraPuppy:
By MonacoSteve:
By Sayanel:
By CaptainMunch:
Bug fixes
* Fix for random crash on startup
* Fix for random crash when exiting trophy shot
* Fix for clues saying fleeing even if the animals was not fleeing
* You can no longer place the player in too deep water in Trophy shot mode
* Orange outline on decoys no longer visible inTrophy Shot Mode
* Message added for being able to rotate decoys with MOUSE2
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.
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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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
2. M4G1E
3. 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.
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:
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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You know what time it is.. that’s right, it’s Status Update time!
Yesterday we released a Game Update with what we call Mirror Trophy Shot. With Mirror Trophy Shot, members will be able to capture that precious moment with their avatars on the pictures.
More news; today we released a set of all new missions developed in cooperation with famous archer and avid bow hunter Laura Francese. We really hope you enjoy them!
Also, don’t miss out on winning the all new Laura Francese in-game Avatar! Submit your best trophy shot via the official theHunter Facebook page!
On Monday this week we released Wild Boar missions, which we know a lot of you wanted since the release of them on Hirschfelden. We are working on more missions, and if you behave we may release them soon.
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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)
(Windows 8)
Once again, we’re terribly sorry about this. Happy hunting!
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We have closed down the survey since we felt we had enough answers. We’d like to thank all of you who took the time to fill it out. The findings will guide us in improving the game and to make sure we’re working on the things you, our community, wants. We had a workshop on Tuesday, where we discussed the result of the survey and made some initial planning. It seems as Daniel is very disappointed that not more of you seemed to like the idea of paintball guns in the game. I’m sure he’ll tell you about his vision when it comes to the subject of paintball later on.
We also spent a few hours trying some different rifles at the shooting range. Unfortunately we had so much fun so we totally forgot to take pictures…
We’ve launched a new feature today: Teams! Teams is an optional way to organize players in a multiplayer game into teams. This can be used for things like unofficial competitions with players on the same server or to allow private communication between a group of players in a free for all game. There might also be other uses that we haven’t thought of so be creative! You will soon be able to read more about how teams work in the wiki.
We are aware of that there may be some questionable ethics involved in the type of hunting that comes from real-time competition but we feel that this is a case where fun has to prevail over realism.
We would also like to point out that this is an experimental feature and we will, as always, monitor community feedback to guide its future development.
Sadly we have something negative to bring up. We really don’t want to bring it up, since we don’t want this to happen in our game, but unfortunately it does. If a player uses a hijacked PayPal account or stolen credit card to pay for anything in the game, he/she will immediately be banned from the game. It is against the law and it gets reported to the police, but it also costs us a lot of money in fees.
We’ve fixed a few minor bugs in the game and you can read more about in the game update.
Happy Hunting!
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Today we can proudly announce that we’ve released a new weapon, the 9.3×62 Anschütz Engraved, which has been retrofitted with a unique stock and detailed engravings by the highly acclaimed Doc Monsignor studio. We hope you like it!
We’ve also released new competitions for the 9.3×62 Anschütz Engraved, join them now!
We can also announce that we’re working on a Cross Species Scoring system used in the game client to be able to run local competitions or just to organize the hunts a bit better with groups of hunters and such. You will be able to assign yourselves to different groups of hunters, and if you want, compete with each other withing the game.
It’s not something that will be reflected in the web in any way though, at least not for the time being.
We will release more information regarding this feature in the upcoming Status Updates.
Finally, we want to remind you that it’s not allowed to modify the game in any way, doing so will get your account banned.
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Still summer and the office is still pretty much empty. But we’re still working hard bringing you new stuff and fixing bugs.
On Monday we released a game update fixing some of the bugs you have reported, and hopefully more bugs will be fixed in the upcoming weeks.
We’re not only fixing bugs in the client, we’re also working fixing issues and such on the web site.
Today we released a new weapon, the 12 GA Blaser F3 Game O/U Shotgun. It works with all the 12 GA ammo types, like the other shotguns in the game, which makes it possible to hunt all the different animal species in the game with it.
We really hope you like it!
New week, and a new status update!
People are still on vacation so the office is pretty empty right now, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are not working on new stuff and bug fixes!
Hopefully we’ll be able to release a patch later this week fixing a couple of sneaky bugs that have been on the game for a while now.
We’ve updated the in-game inventory with an error message when something goes wrong, so it doesn’t get stuck in the loading spin (as some of you have experienced). We’re still working on fixing this issue, but until then at least you’ll get feedback directly so you’ll know that something actually went wrong and that it’s not the inventory that takes forever to load.
Remember, you can still join and participate on The Hog and Boar Challenge, don’t miss on the opportunity to win some em$ and an awesome trophy! You’ll have until tomorrow the 25th.
Happy hunting!
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