Howdy Hunters,

We are back from our winter break and are now catching up on everything and anything that happened with and about theHunter during our absence. Here is a round-up for you:

• Many players have been reporting multiplayer issues when people were not able to join MP games. We implemented a fix yesterday and will continue monitoring this. If you’ve been experiencing the problem, please make sure to let us know, either in the forums or on our social media channels, whether the issue has been resolved for you.

• On December 19th, right after the team signed off for the vacations, a major bug occurred, which broke the functionality of scope reticles and HUD GUI elements (blinds, tents etc.) Our programmers fixed the issue on the next day, but the game was pretty much unplayable for about 24 hours. To reimburse you for this interruption, we’ll add 1 extra day to all memberships. We’re bummed about this unfortunate incident and especially its bad timing and we’ll try to prevent this from happening in the future.

• As per the special Primal deal, all the shotguns and extra memberships have now been added. If you still haven’t received your membership and have fulfilled all requirements, please contact our support and they’ll sort it out for you.

• We recently have become aware of a malicious phishing web-site: “playthehunter [dot] net”, which looked exactly like our official thehunter.com‘s first page. (Huge thanks to our community members who alerted us!) We’ve investigated this and it looks like the purpose was to lure our players into entering their theHunter usernames and passwords in order to steal/abuse them, so called phishing. There was also a link to a file hosted on a Google drive account, which most likely was ridden with malware and viruses.We’ve contacted both the hosting provider of the site and the domain registering company (the domain was registered with false information), and the site has now been taken offline.

  If you visited this site, or fear that you may have without realizing it, we suggest that you run a virus scan on your computer and update your account information with a new password.

  If you’ve become a victim of the culprits behind the website, please contact our support from the email address you used when registering at theHunter and we’ll help you to get your account back.

  only thehunter.com and Steampowered.com are official publishing platforms of theHunter. It is of course very important for us to protect our players and our own brand from evil doers, but we do not have control over and, thus, can not help about anything happening outside our official publishing platforms, even if it’s somehow related to theHunter.

• And last but not least… Meet Sandra – our latest addition to the art team who joined us yesterday. Read her intro below and say hi in the forums.

Hello!

My name is Sandra and I’m super happy to be joining the team at Expansive Worlds where I’ll be working as an environment artist. Previously I’ve worked at Guerrilla Games in Amsterdam but being back in my hometown Stockholm is a real treat!

I have a background in fine arts and graphical design but a few years ago I started to dabble in 3D and of course I got hooked. It’s just so much fun! I did my studies at Futuregames here in Stockholm from where I graduated in September last year.

When I’m not working I like to cook, and especially eat, food. Playing games, watching a movie or just having a cold one with my friends are also things you might find me doing on my spare time.

Happy hunting!

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