Features
* Updated localization
Changes
* Arrow impact sound distance increased to 20-30m
Bug fixes
* Fix for the scopes attached a bit above the weapon
* Fix for rare crash when hitting animals
Design theHunter Outfit – Honourable mentions
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:
Status Update
Hello Hunters,
This status update is quite packed with goodies, so grab your coffee, sit back and enjoy 😉
New semi-automatic shotgun and a new challenge
Tomorrow we’re releasing a weapon, which a lot of you have been eagerly waiting for – 20 GA semi-automatic shotgun. Since it has been a hot community topic literally for years, we’ve decided to do something special this time to celebrate the launch, so today we’re running a unique challenge, 5 lucky winners of which will get the new shotgun for free! Read the details and join here.
Please note that, for now, the new shotgun will be released with birdshot ammo only.
An eventful rest of the week
To pay tribute to the Olympic Games in Sochi, we’ve created our own version of the Olympics – theHunter Quadrennial Bird Games 2014, during which you’ll be able to put a new “semi-awesomatic” shotgun to test. The challenge will launch tomorrow, so keep an eye on our updates.
Another event we’ll be celebrating this week is February 23, which is the Men’s Day in Russia and other Russian speaking countries. We’ll be throwing a proper hunting party on that day, make sure to check the forums on Sunday for details.
Design theHunter Outfit – the voting starts today
We’ve received 30 submissions for the Design theHunter Outfit competition, and we were pleasantly surprised by the overall quality level, thanks to everyone who took their time to participate! The team put their heads together and picked 7 to go through to the final voting round. When choosing designs for voting we were taking into consideration a number of criteria: how well a specific outfit would fit into the theHunter world and gameplay, how much resources its incorporation would require, as well as the general idea and implementation.
A piece on theHunter
Pim has recently been interviewed by the video gaming website Polygon, alongside the CEO of Avalanche Studios. It has been talked about the future of Avalanche in general and theHunter in particular. You can read the whole article here.
Happy hunting everyone!
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Game Update
Features
* Mallard hunting tutorial
Changes
* New reload animations for pump shotgun
* New reload animations for lever action
* Small performance improvements when aiming at animals
* Improved animal hit detection
* Animal feeder pie menu options back to original layout
Bug fixes
* Mallard ducks spook bug when client player whistles fixed
* Mallard ducks spook bug when re-entering player “spawn” radius fixed
* Pie menu after being hurt fixed
* Fixed minor things with pie menu
* Mallard ducks multiplayer sync bugs fixes
* Camera overlay fix
* Fix for crash when client tries to use a world item when the host already removed it
* Gui properly restores after changing between windowed and fullscreen mode
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Announcing Valentine’s Hunting Spree
It’s that day again, whether you love it or hate it. We’re celebrating it theHunter style, by taking a plunge into a three-day-long hunting spree where intricacy meets elegance.
Heart is the name of the game today, so the main challenge is to hit an animal in the heart. Each day there will be a different animal and a different weapon, with the difficulty level increasing from Friday to Sunday. We’ll be running sales on the items and licenses needed in the competitions and, as a special bonus, the Cupid arrows will be available in the store throughout the whole event at a very sweet price (it’s Valentine’s day after all).
The top 10 hunters of each day will be awarded with em$ and gorgeous trophies created by Oskar. Each trophy is unique, so you’ll have three chances to win a truly exclusive award. Yes, the competition will be fierce but so is love, isn’t it? 😉
Happy heart-hunting!
Valentine’s Hunting Spree
February 14th – Romantic Elk competition
Details: Roosevelt Elk vs. .30-06 Lever Action Rifle
Sales: .30-06 Lever Action Rifle, .30-06 Nosler Partition, 4-8x32mm Rifle Scope – up to 30% off. Roosevelt Elk license – 25% off. Bonus: Cupid arrows at 20% off
Trophies for the first 3 places:
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February 15th – Rosy Roe Deer competition
Details: Roe Deer vs. .270 Bolt Action Rifle
Sales: .270 Bolt Action Rifle, 3-9x40mm Rifle Scope, .270 Nosler Ballistic Tip – up to 25% off. Roe Deer license – 25% off. Bonus: Cupid arrows at 20% off
Trophies for the first 3 places:
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February 16th – Ravishing Red Fox competition
Details: Red Fox vs. Compound Bow “Snakebite”
Sales: Compound Bow “Snakebite”, Compound Arrows, Cupid Arrows – up to 40% off. Red Fox license – 25% off.
Trophies for the first 3 places:
Join now!
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Status Update
Hello hunters,
Here is what we’ve been up to at theHunter HQ:
Valentine’s Day is looming
In tribute to Valentine’s Day, we’ll be kicking off a three-day-long event on Friday, with tricky challenges and sweet prizes. The details will be published in the blog on Friday morning.
Server migration news
The project of moving our server into a cloud environment is closing to its end. We’re working to make sure that the migration doesn’t cause any downtimes, but we can not rule out the possibility that there might be some, so we’ll make sure to let you know in advance when the Big Move is going to happen.
Ducks bug fixes
Tomorrow we’re releasing a game patch with a bunch of bug fixes, one of which a lot of you have complained about and which is known as ”ducks breaking and spooking bug”. We want to thank the community and especially Mickey415 for providing very thorough and valuable information when reporting the bug, it was of great help for Danny and Andrés!
On the topic of theHunter T-Shirt
Following all your great feedback we’ve received during the Spot a Dev event, we’ve decided to release our special T-Shirt in the store for a limited time only. The real T-Shirts we were wearing on the picture seemed to be even a bigger hit, so we’re looking into the possibility to open up a merchandise section to sell those.
Design competition deadline
Today at midnight CET is the deadline for the Design theHunter Outfit competition, so hurry up if you haven’t sent your contribution yet. We’ve received some very cool designs, can’t wait to get the voting going 😉
New Nosler missions
For those of you who are done with the Blaser missions and hungry for more, Daniel have baked a new bundle, this time featuring Nosler products.
Happy hunting!
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You’ve blown us away with the amount and quality of the pictures you’ve taken during the Spot on Dev event and choosing the winners was by far not easy. The team was unanimous in choosing the winner, but when it came to 2nd and 3d places, it was a head to head race.
Here are the pictures that were chosen the winners:
1st place: theHunter T-Shirt and 3000em$ goes to destuy for this amazing photo of StigOlow:
2nd place: theHunter T-Shirt and 2000em$ goes to TPAKT0P for this gorgeous shot:
3d place was decided to divide between 3 hunters for these pictures:
Rigermas:
DrRaton:
& Mungo667:
All three hunters will receive theHunter T-Shirts and 1000em$.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone who took part in the event, we had a blast, hope you too 😉
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Status Update
Hey you good hunters,
As promised, today we’re announcing a new event, namely…
Spot a Dev Competition
All members of our team will be roaming the Evergreen Hunting Reserves at different times Thursday through Friday and it’s your task to spot us. We’ll be wearing exclusive theHunter T-Shirts, so you can tell us apart from other players. The mission is simple – track down someone from our team, take a picture of them as a proof and post it in the competition thread. If you’re lucky, you’ll run into someone chatty (for example David ;)) and get a chance to have a good talk. The spotters who’ll manage to get best pictures will receive em$ and a cherry on top – that very exclusive theHunter T-Shirt. Make sure to read the complete competition rules in this forum thread.
To give you a hint who to look for, we took a team picture today (why, of course we’re wearing the same T-Shirts ;)). Here we are all, minus Pim, Danny, Andrés, Herman & Joachim all of whom are out of office today…
.. and plus David NAOutdoors checking in from across the globe:
So, keep your eyes peeled for the next two days and have fun dev-spotting!
Pim in the desert
Pim is now at a games conference in the USA, but he took some time to go shooting in the desert next to Vegas. Here he is, trying different weapons:
Cheating and fraud incidents uncovered
We have lately discovered a large amount of players who cheated by using game hacks. As you know, we have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to cheaters, no matter members or guests, so all those players’ accounts were banned forever.
Another issue we’ve found out about is even more unpleasant. We discovered that someone was selling gift codes for theHunter em$ and memberships which were bought on our site with stolen credit card details. Since this is a crime, we’ll involve police into the investigation and, unfortunately, all players who’ve purchased such codes will lose their memberships, em$ and items bought using the codes. We’re asking you to always buy our memberships and em$ on our official site, to avoid losing money and becoming a fraud victim.
New Blaser missions
We’ve released 5 new missions featuring a Blaser shotgun, so make sure to lay your hands on those nifty weapons if you don’t have them yet.
Happy hunting and see you around!
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Status Update
Hi there and welcome to our weekly status update!
We’re starting with the sweetest piece of news…
Community competition – Design theHunter outfit
We’re inviting you to take part in co-creation of theHunter and we’ve chosen clothing as the area where we can allow some freedom, without running a risk of disturbing the game balance. So, today we are announcing a community competition to create a theHunter outfit. The winning design will get incorporated by the art team into a game outfit and afterwards released in the store. Please find the competition details here and let your creativity go wild.
What’s up with Steam…
…some of you have wondered. We continue working on it, and our plan is to fix the server issues first, so the Steam launch won’t create unpleasant surprises for all of us. We’ll keep you updated how the work in this direction is going.
Translation help wanted
We are looking for volunteers to help us localize theHunter into all languages. To join the localization team, you need to be a native speaker of the language you apply to translate into and a hunter in real life. If you are interested to become a part of our localization team, send me a PM with your details and I’ll get back to you.
News from Andrés’s corner
As we announced yesterday, some bug fixes were released, alongside new player emotes.
And finally…
Next week we’re announcing a fun event, involving the whole dev team, so make sure to read our status update on Wednesday.
Good hunting all!
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Game update
Features
* Player Emotes. Learn more
Changes
* The 12GA single shot shotgun has a new fire sound
* The “pie menu” graphics have been updated. (Graphics shown when using a world item with the USE key, eg. dismantle a tent.)
* Some Mallard rares are less common
* Updated localization
Bug fixes
* Fix for random startup crash
* Fix for animal clues not being removed for host player when bagging an animal
* Fix for missing arrow impact sound when hitting animals
* Fix for missing score info in the spotting message for Mallards
* Fix for a rare bug causing mallards to spawn less often
* Fix for broken 8×57 Anschutz shoot animation when lying prone.