Features
* Harvest value. Harvest value is a new way to score harvested animals that focus on how the animal was harvested rather than how it looks. Learn More.
Game update
Status Update
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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Status Update
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
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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Game Update
Features
* Added possibility to share Trophy shot direct from the game if you’ve connected your theHunter account to your Facebook Account. Just click on the check box before accepting the Trophy shot
* Added Casual clothing line
Changes
* We’ve changed a bit how you accept or discard Trophy shot pictures. Instead of using your mouse buttons (right and left click), now you’ll need to click on either the accept or discard button on the screen
Game update
Bug fixes
* When aiming with bow the weapon played the animation two times (and the zoom was a bit off)
* After shooting with a revolver with auto-reload off the character did not cock the weapon
* Not possible to aim with crossbow without reloading it first, the weapon behave weird when trying to do so
Game Update
Features
* New weapon, 6.5×55 Blaser R8 Bolt Action Rifle
Changes
* .308 “Rival” Handgun is now 8% less powerful than the .308 Anschütz Bolt-Action Rifle. Previously they both performed exactly the same but as some members of the community correctly pointed out this is unrealistic due to the difference in barrel length. This should also benefit game balance since the handgun now makes the rifle less obsolete.
* Removed extra damage multipliers from head & neck shots on Whitetail, Blacktail, Mule Deer & Coyote. Hitting the brain or neck bones still lead to instant death. This tweak should make casual headshots less attractive because you now need to hit the brain, not just any part of the head, for effective kills.
Bug fixes
* Random crash that had to do with tree stands
* Fix for being able to enter world items after they had been removed
Status Update
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
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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