Hello Hunters,

There is a big Swedish holiday coming – Midsummer – during which the majority of Swedes (including the EW team) will retreat to the countryside to indulge themselves in pickled herring, strawberries and weird games and dancing in the midnight sun. The team will be off until the next week, so we’re taking the opportunity to wish you all a happy Midsummer (and summer)!

Pre-holiday update

As the holiday season begins, it’ll be less crowded and much calmer in the office in the next month or so, which will influence the speed of releasing new content. The team has been busy working on a new species, but it probably won’t be released until a couple of months from now, because of the summer doldrums. Plus, as you know, bringing in a new animal in theHunter requires months of full-time work from game designers, artists, animators, programmers and web-developers, following by weeks of testing. You may start to speculate what the newcomer might be, for now we can only say that it has been a popular community request for ages and it’ll be living in one of the most popular reserves.

Apart form this major project the backend staff has been fixing bugs and server related issues, such as messaging problems, friend requests and referrals, “members only” MP sessions and a bunch of minor ones.

Football Jamboree – Your favourites 

The first week of our Football Jamboree is over and the favourites of theHunter community have become clear. Judging by the amount of caps sold, most of you believe that Brazil or Germany will win the whole thing. The third most popular cap has been the Spanish one (which will probably change now), followed by the Argentinian, Dutch, Italian and French. You have another week to buy a cap of the team you root for  at a super discount and get a chance to win the cool shotgun with the gold engraving. Please note that the shotgun won’t have separate achievements, because it’s never going to be released in the store and we want to provide fair chances to all players to reach the maximum Hunter Score possible.

Trophy competition – Results

This event didn’t spark that much interest, compared to the previous design outfit competition; we only received a dozen submissions, so we had to tweak the rules. After having gone through the submitted concepts, we could only choose one living up to the standards we set for a theHunter trophy. Since the community voting has lost its sense in this case, it’s been decided to announce it the winner and use it as the idea for the new theHunter trophy.

Here is the winning concept created by CaptainMunch:

   
Thank you everyone who took time to create their concepts, even if they didn’t make it to the final your work is still very much appreciated. We’ll publish some interesting submissions in the competition thread.

That’s all from us for now.

Happy hunting!

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