Hey all you good hunters,
Have we got good news for you? I think we do!
Overhauled gameplay for feeders and bait barrels
After some weeks of blood, sweat and tears, we are finally ready to introduce the simplified and improved baiting system. From its initial implementation, the system has been a complicated interplay of client and server code which made it not only prone to breakage, but also difficult to troubleshoot. Our primary goal was to simplify it to make it easier for players to understand and for us to maintain, all while keeping the hunting fun in check and not throwing game balance out of the window. Not the easiest task but hopefully we succeeded. We are curious to hear you feedback! Please make sure to read this detailed developer blog from David (caledonianblues) who worked closely with Roberto, our lead client programmer. Together they have been responsible for the server and client-side sorcery of this project.
It’s time to bait dem goats!
On that note, today we are also adding a new player in the baiting gallery of theHunter. Meet the Mineral Feeder for Feral Goats! It works in the same way as bear barrels and hog feeders, you place the feeder in a location where the goats are likely to roam, put a special mineral block in it (you can buy it for both em$ and gm$), put up a tripod or a tower and wait for billies and nannies to come by to lick the delicious salt. Have fun with new feeders!
Hunt-a-thon to win theHunter: Call of the Wild
We’ve teamed up with the theHunter: Call of the Wild team to bring you a special Hunt-a-thon competition in which you can get a piece of both games. Not only it will be our first Feral Goat challenge, but we are also going to raffle 5 copies of theHunter: Call of the Wild (and 5 special theHunter: Call of the Wild t-shirts) among all players who will get a score in it! The competition starts tomorrow, but you can already join it on the competition page.
Reserve load-out bundles
We’ve just put a couple of freshly baked load-out bundles from the winners of our community competition in the store. Here is the Rougarou Bayou one from Moohy55 and here is the one for Bushrangers Run from Takedown87. You can find the previously released bundles for Val-des-Bois from waiora, Hemmeldal from SloNeZ, Redfeather Falls from holliday50 (Hawkeye), Logger’s Point from WNorton.
That’s it from us for today.
Happy hunting!
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