Howdy hunters,
Hope y’all are fine and dandy on this marvellous Friday! Stockholm is finally warming up following the seemingly endless winter, and people at the office are also becoming less grumpy and even Doc feels like a rather pleasant human being, for once!
Doc’s Desk Mystery
We believe it’s your fantastic efforts to clear his desk of all the mess that has put him in a chirpy mood. As I write this, the total number of community harvests is approaching 440,000 which means we are almost halfway through, and some things are starting to become visible to tease your imagination. There are some guesses and theories being shared in the forum but, for now, we won’t be commenting on those. Not until the last leaf falls off Doc’s desk. We’re following the thread and reading your conversations eagerly, discussing it intently within the team. Thank you for your fantastic engagement!
10mm Semi-Automatic Pistol
Earlier this week we released a new instalment for our handgun gallery. The sleek 10mm semi-automatic pistol. Semi-automatic firearms have been notoriously popular with our community and this one is no exception. Following your feedback about the performance of the pistol versus large game, yesterday we tweaked its ballistics data a bit to give it slightly better penetration. Right now we are running a special close-up challenge for you to try out the new pistol, and you can also find a matching bundle in the store.
Player Survey
Following our good tradition, every year in spring we run a large player survey. Lots of good things have made their way into the game as a result of those surveys, including Timbergold Trails, feral goats, not to mention more stuff that is currently in the pipeline. Of course, we collect your feedback every day from the forums, support and social media channels, but this kind of global survey helps 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 2017 survey will be open for 14 days, from today until May 19th midnight CEST.
It should take you no longer than 15 minutes and we would appreciate your honest and detailed feedback. 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, in which we will randomly choose five players and gift them 1,000 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.
Odds and Ends
Finally, we would like to give you a brief overview of what we are working on. Obviously, almost all of us are busy with the mysterious creation hidden on the Doc’s desk, but not only that. Roberto has been doing an excellent job on our web launcher, and we can now say that we are in a very safe spot when it comes to patching the web launcher so that you don’t have to resort to the Steam workaround any more (unless you prefer to use Steam of course). We still have some work to do there before we can confidently say that we fixed the issue once and for all, but we are getting there.
Linus and Moe worked on some Dall Sheep related bugs that were fixed in the patch yesterday. We are aware of the crazy Dall Sheep scoring bug that is still experienced by some players, and we continue investigating it. In the meantime, we will regularly rid the leaderboards of erroneous scores.
As always, we are trying our best to find a good balance between fixing bugs and developing new things and we appreciate your help in filing proper and detailed reports in the bug forums, which we always read and take into account.
That’s it from us for today.
Happy hunting!
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