Howdy Hunters,

Well, it’s not Wednesday but the closest thing, Thursday! For all of you sending us PM’s and asking about where the status update is, every now and then the update might be late and some weeks there might actually not be one at all. Our aim is to have something to say every week, but sometimes that’s not possible. This time the lateness was due to Pim being ridiculously jetlagged after visiting David in the US. Pim had a fantastic time and came back with loads of new ideas.

Today we’re kicking off the sweet event mentioned in last week’s update. It’s a countdown to Valentine’s Day. Every day up until the 14^th there will be a new challenge for you to take on. To get your hands on the fanciest Valentine’s trophy you need to complete all challenges. To complete most of the challenges you need to use the specially designed Cupid Arrows. Every player will get 15 arrows for free* (we’re giving away 19500000 arrows!), but if you run out of them you can either buy new ones from Doc’s or try to win them by being one of the top 10 completing the most offers through Matomy. You will still get Em$ for completing the offers, the chance of winning additional Cupid Arrows is just a bonus. Matomy’s competition ends Monday at 6:00am CET.

Please note that this arrow does not perform exactly as the regular arrows and that power, trajectories and zeroing varies from bow to bow. Make sure to practice at the Archery Addictions Range before heading out to hunt!

We’re busy arguing what contribution in the Video Tutorial Competition is actually best. Right now it’s a tie between all of them.  A winner will however be declared soon.

Peter and Tomas spent the morning out in the forest today to gather inspiration for the new reserve. It was snowing heavily here in Stockholm yesterday, so we’re not sure how much that’ll inspire them.

Happy hunting!

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* Each player will receive their 15 free cupid arrows when they log in for the first time during the event.

Wednesday means status update! So, even if it might feel quite weak compared to last weeks update, here it is.

We have been out of office all day today. We spent the day at Pim’s place for a day of planning and brainstorming. So our interns, Tomas and Erik, has been holding the fort while we’ve been away. We’ve been going through some of your suggestions and feedback and talking a lot about the game and tried to figure out what features to work on in the future. There were a lot of great ideas that got tossed around. Unfortunately we can’t reveal anything, since nothing is set in stone yet, but we can assure you that (more) good things are coming.

Pim’s house

Peter and Tomas’s been kept busy the past week working on the coming reserve. It’s looking better and better for every day, but it’s hard work and creating a reserve takes time. So even if the sneak peak we posted last week looked pretty done there’s still a long way to go.

We, especially Björn and Herman, are working on a new event. It’s kind of a sweet surprise, so we don’t want to ruin it. But stay tuned it’s not very far away.

We’d like to remind you all that it’s a good thing to like us on Facebook, since we, every now and then, have Facebook exclusive offers and competitions.

There’s still plenty of time to join our video competition. So don’t be shy, show off your bear hunting skills and have the chance to win a great prize!

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It’s Wednesday!

We know that many of you have been waiting a long time for the new bow, so we got some good news for you. It’s finally here! The wait has been long but we think it has been worth it. It’s a great bow and it looks stunning. We’ll kick off a new competition today where you’ll have the opportunity to explore the new bow extensively.

The new 3D archery range is also live now. We hope you’ll spend loads of time there to get to know the new bow and improve your archery skills.

A big congrats to the winners of the new Parker Python compound bow in last weekends multi-species competition:
MrEnzO
whiteox
Patrik6357
Trackingmaster
juagarzo

We got a delivery this week. Our new theHunter t-shirts arrived. Unfortunately no one wanted to pose as model so we had to take this picture of José, without his knowledge, while he was working. One of you might actually win one of these tees in a competition in the future.

We’ve started to investigate how to be more effective in preventing spawn mashing. We think we might have a solution, so we will investigate this further and will preform some testing on this over the coming weeks.

Peter and Thomas are working on the next reserve. It’s coming along nicely and we’re aiming at a release in March/April. All we can say about it at this stage is that it is pretty cool looking.

Sneak preview of the coming reserve

Robert and Herman are still working on the web framework. This will eventually mean that site and parts of the client will get a visual improvement. But since it’s a major task we can’t communicate a release date at this stage yet. More info will come at a later stage.

We’d like to thank all of you who filled out last week’s user survey. The information you provided well come in handy for us to make decisions for future development of theHunter. It was especially great to see that almost 80% of you are very likely to recommend our game to a friend! Please do so! The more new players we get in the more effort we can put into develop the game further.

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Another week has passed and it is Wednesday again. Snow has been pouring down here in Stockholm so it seems the winter is here to stay this year as well.

As mentioned in last week’s update we’re releasing a variation of an old favorite today: Scent eliminator mini. The reason for this is that we saw that there’s a need for this feature to be more accessible, price-wise, and this smaller, and cheaper, container means that you can get it by earning em$. So more players can take advantage of this helpful equipment.

We’ve gotten a lot of questions for when the new bow is out and we can tell you that it’ll be soon, but not this week. Sorry. We want to release it at the same time as the new archery range and we’re still making the final amends to that. We can however tell you that the new bow will be more silent, than its predecessors, and is equipped with a three pin sight.  And on top of that, it looks awesome!

In our work to improve theHunter we need your help. So we would greatly appreciate if you can help us fill out a survey. The survey contains questions about your computer setup and also some questions about you, as a community. Go to the survey

This weekend we’ll have another multi-species competition and the winner will get a pretty great prize on top of the usual prize. So prepare yourself for this 😉

We’d also like to remind you of the new video competition, this time we want you to create a bear tutorial.

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