Hello hunters,
Before you plunge into your weekend hunting, we wanted to catch a couple of minutes of your time to share some news.
On Tuesday we released a small patch with some fixes and a nifty new item. Two Person Tree Stand. Following its release, some people asked us to add the functionality to change sides in the tree stand, and boom, your wish is granted (well, it will be granted in one of the next game updates, right now Patrik is hard at work coding it ;))
Player survey – Tell us what you think!
As I announced last week, today we’re launching our annual player survey. We collect your feedback every day from what you share with us in the forums, support and social media channels, but once per year we launch a bigger questionnaire asking you all sorts of things about theHunter, the universe and everything. Such surveys help us reach as many of you as possible and collect a vast amount of community data, to make sure that we are developing the game you enjoy.
The theHunter 2016 survey will be open for 10 days, from today until May 2nd midnight CEST. It will take you no longer than 15 minutes and we would appreciate your honest and detailed replies. Naturally, you can only participate once, but please ask your hunter friends to complete it as well. If you answer all the questions and fill in your theHunter name at the end, you’ll be automatically enrolled in our em$ draw, where we will randomly choose five players and gift them 1000 em$. You can also choose to submit your answers anonymously. Please note that even if you let us know your name, the information you provide will not be stored with your account details, shared, sold, distributed or used in any other way that may harm you.
Introducing free species rotation
Many of you probably remember that back in January we added an additional free species, Pheasant, and exchanged Mule Deer for Whitetail, which made it possible for guests to hunt five species for free. Today we’re adding another little tweak to the free species portfolio, a.k.a. Rotation of Free Species. As a part of this change we’ll rotate two of the five free species every week to bring more variety to guest hunts. The weekly rotation will occur on a Friday to Friday basis, and we’re starting today with exchanging Pheasant and Snowshoe Hare for Brown Bear and Moose. Free animals will be announced in status updates, via banner images, and social media. Please note that this in an experimental feature, nothing is set in stone yet, we are trying this out to see how it will be received and reserve the right to roll it back at any time. The information about the free species on our website and Steam store page will remain unchanged for now.
Hunting friends IRL
This sort of news always make me super happy. Last weekend there was another real life meetup of our awesome German community Jagdfreunde (Hunting Friends in English). We wrote about their first meet-up last year and it looks like the bonds are only getting stronger! 23 hunters travelled from different parts of Germany, some of them as far as 500 km to spend quality time together in the German community Willingen/Upland. The joint Hunter Score of all the participants was a whopping 37276, the average 1775.05 (wow) and the honourable hunters present were: babba01, barbarillo, CZ75Mamba, ForstHeld, Harry91220, KlausDieterMeyer, Lennox1983, Lobo78, Lou24, markus84, Meradim, michi1259, Onkel666, Pratze, Schwungi, schwungijunor, sepp201167, Silvano1, stoiba3, Tarismo, TonyRaptor.
Having great time in a picturesque place with like-minded people, sharing some wurst, drinks and theHunter stories, all spiced up with some fishing and bow shooting. Not much can beat it, wish I had been there too 😉
Here’s to the next year meet-up and Waidmannsheil!
Hunting Horn bonanza – Results
It’s time to announce the results of our Hunting Horn Bonanza video challenge! The amount of entries for this one hasn’t exactly been overwhelming, but we want nevertheless to thank the guys who put efforts into creating their videos and everyone who watched and commented on those. The team has been unambiguous when choosing the winner. Congratulations RegimentsTyp2! Your video is awesome, we showed it to the whole Avalanche Studios team during one of our meetings and everyone loved it. Please contact me and let me know a prize of your choice (5000 em$ or a “Pathfinder” Membership Bundle).
We also wanted to celebrate blendy who took the second place in this competition and offer a consolation prize of 1000 em$ or a 3 month membership. Get in touch with me to claim it, and thank you for your participation!
Welcome Mattias!
Finally, here is the introduction of our new 3D artist Mattias, say hello and welcome!
Hello everybody, my name is Mattias Nordin.
I’m a 3D artist, previously worked on titles such as Little Big Planet and The Division.
I’ve just joined this awesome team of digital hunter-makers a week ago, and I’m looking forward to working here!
A little about myself, I’m originally from Hässleholm in Sweden where I was born and raised. I decided that I wanted to make games in 2007, so I got into the school called Sofe (School of future entertainment) in another small Swedish city, Karlshamn. While studying there I worked on Little Big Planet up until 2015. After a short stay in Malmö (at Massive game studio), I’ve now moved to Stockholm, where it all happens!
My hobbies and interests are mostly related to playing games. Right now I play a lot of BG:Siege of Dragonspear, Dota2, Cs:go and Factorio. I love to travel and spend time with my girlfriend. Everything from hiking to big city weekends and lazy beach holidays. I watch a lot of movies but not that many tv series, even though there’s always time for Rick and Morty!
I’m excited to be here and to (continue) make an awesome game.
Happy hunting!
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