Hi there hunters,
I know that many of you have been patiently waiting for this status update, so let’s take the plunge right away, shall we? First of all, be sure to check out yesterday’s game update which boasts a beautiful array of changes and bug fixes, some long-awaited and all highly welcomed (e.g. the muzzleloader reload animation).
Let it snow!
Now moving on to something that we briefly mentioned last week. The new species in the works. There was in fact one more hint that some of you picked up on. The snowy reserve background on the image of the “Lone Star” release. No, it wasn’t Hemmeldal and yes, it has a direct relation to the upcoming species. To cut a long story short, it’s the BISON indeed (as it has become known thanks to curious players roaming through our German partners’ site) and it will be living in the new, very exciting reserve, located somewhere in the sub arctic (we call the new area the Arctic North). Our artists have been working their magic on it for a while and, as you know, it takes a tremendous amount of time and efforts to create a new area in theHunter. The work will be ongoing for quite a bit. As we progress, we’ll be sharing some behind-the-scenes moments and other exciting stuff with you, but for now, just savour these screenshots which should hopefully give you a rough idea of where you’ll be able to hunt one glorious day soon 😉
Please bear in mind that what you see here is very, very much work in progress, lots of things will change and improve. We don’t have the final release date that we can share with you yet, but stay with us and you’ll be in for a treat as the EHR Arctic North will come with more surprises and hidden gems.
Best community load outs are chosen
The anonymous polls for the best reserve load-outs are over and the winners have been picked in a fair and square competition. Here are the hunters who have managed to pull together the most efficient, versatile and practical load-outs:
- SloNez – Hemmeldal “Hunt-em-All”
- holliday50 – Redfeather Falls Gentleman Hunter
- Maximelamb – Hirschfelden Universal
- BuiuRei – Settler Creeks Universal
- Takedown87 – Universal Bushrangers Run Loadout
- Moohy55 – Rougarou Bayou Load Out
- NateJR – Whitehart Island load-out – All Species
- waiora – Val-Des-Bois Comps
- SloNeZ – Logger’s Point Complete
- brenno20 – My 30+ harvest kit for Logger’s Point
- Jim_Shadow – Logger’s Point perfection
Congratulations to the winners, please drop me a message and specify the prize you’d like to receive. All winning load outs will be featured in theHunter store as permanent bundles. You can now find all the players’ names next to their load outs.
Thanks to everyone who took part in this competition, it’s been really cool.
Community vs. Devs hunting battle
It all has started the way crazy things start here at the office. During one of the hunting sessions Daniel dropped to us: “How about … we do a hunting battle Devs vs Community?” The idea got lots of love and we’ve gathered a brave bunch of devs who would like to take on the challenge to compete against representatives of our community. We’ve been picking our brains on how to choose players from the community, since as we can imagine there will be a lot of volunteers, so here is how it’ll work. The contenders will be chosen amongst those who have filled in this form. We’ll try to pick hunters based of different skill and experience levels, so everyone has a chance! We’ll tell you more details later on.
Translators wanted
As we are looking to introduce more people all over the world into the thrilling universe of theHunter, we are right now on the search for players who are native in Japanese, Chinese and Thai languages and who would like to help us with translating the game. If you are one of those, or if you know any other language on a native level, have some free hours to helps us with translation and can keep secrets, get in touch!
That’s it for now, happy hunting!
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