Hunt Showdown Update 1.13, Notes and more

As part of its continuing support for the game, Crytek has rolled out Hunt Showdown Update 1.13 today, June 28, bringing the anticipated Tide of Shadows content to the forefront. The patch is currently available for PC, with the console release expected to follow in a few days.

The headline of the update is the new feature – a Shooting Range. This addition is designed to provide players with a designated area to test their loadouts. It serves as a risk-free environment where players can familiarize themselves with the unique gunplay that Hunt Showdown offers, solo or with friends.

The Shooting Range is based on a redesigned version of Fort Carmick, furnished with an array of weapons, consumables, and traits for players to experiment with. It features five primary areas: short, medium, and long-range shooting galleries, a throwables testing space, and a projectile penetration testing zone.

The range comes with custom dummies for players to trial their loadouts. These dummies replicate actual Hunters, with similar health points and susceptibility to status effects. Post-downing, these dummies reset after 3 seconds. These dummies can also be spotted in Dark Sight, aiding players to spot targets at a distance.

Exclusive to the Shooting Range, any damage inflicted on the dummies by players is shown via a floating damage indicator. The indicator color varies depending on whether the damage is standard or caused by status effects.

The ping function enables players to gauge distances within the Shooting Range. This displays a range indicator extending from their current position to the ping marker’s location. Teammates’ ping markers also feature range indicators.

Players can revive themselves when downed in the Shooting Range either by Reviving in place or by Respawning. Both options restore full health, but Respawning also teleports the player to a safe location nearby with a replenished inventory.

Hunt Showdown June 27 Patch Notes

Audio

Distant explosions should now better represent the size and severity of the explosion.
Reduced the amount of reverb on distant explosions.
Improved audio design for Hunter movement in water.

Ammo Supply Rework

For 1.13, we have reworked how resupplying ammunition works. The amount you resupply from ammo sources is now a fixed amount per ammo type carried. The previous resupply ruleset worked by resupplying you with a percentage of the total extra amount you could carry, which was an inconsistent and sometimes confusing system which caused multiple issues.

By moving to a fixed resupply amount, we have decoupled a gun’s extra ammo amount from the amount it gets resupplied. This means there is no increase in the amount of ammo resupplied when equipping two weapons of the same ammo type.

Developer’s Note:

In the new system, you are now encouraged to equip different ammo types for both of your weapons, as each pool will receive some extra ammo. Of course, it is still possible to equip weapons sharing the same ammo type, giving you the flexibility to choose which gun to load the ammunition into. However, as it is just one merged pool, you only receive extra ammo once and not per weapon. We think that this will be a healthy change that encourages more experimentation with interesting loadouts, as well as help reduce some previously used strategies to only pick a sidearm to boost the pool of your main weapon. It will also help make the resupply to be less of a deciding factor while choosing a weapon, like, for example, what the case was while considering the Mosin-Nagant vs. the Lebel bolt-action rifles, where the Lebel was much harder to supply due to its small extra ammo pool.

Ammo Crates

The following numbers are the fixed amounts per ammo type you will receive when resupplying from regular ammo crates.

Compact Ammo: 8
Medium Ammo: 6
Long Ammo: 2
Shotgun Ammo: 2

Special Ammo Crates

These are the amounts you will receive when resupplying from special ammo crates.

Special Compact Ammo: 8
Special Medium Ammo: 6
Special Long Ammo: 2
Special Shotgun Ammo: 2
Arrows: 3
Compact Bolts: 3
Bolts: 2
Nitro Express Ammo: 1
Dolch Ammo: 3
Bomb Lance Ammo: 2

Ammo Box (Consumable)

These are the amounts of ammo you will receive when resupplying from an Ammo Box. We have increased these amounts quite a bit, so the Ammo Box offers more value when equipping them in your loadout. Rounded-up, Hunters receive about 2.5x the ammo from ammo crates you can find in the world.

Compact Ammo: 20
Special Compact Ammo: 20
Medium Ammo: 15
Special Medium Ammo: 15
Long Ammo: 5
Special Long Ammo: 5
Shotgun Ammo: 5
Special Shotgun Ammo: 5
Arrows: 7
Compact Bolts: 7
Bolts: 5
Nitro Ammo: 2
Dolch Ammo: 7
Bomb Lance Ammo: 5

Small Ammo Packs:

Compact Ammo (Red Packs): 4
Medium Ammo (Blue Packs): 3
Shotgun Ammo (Green Packs): 1
Long Ammo (Yellow Packs): 1

Dual Wield Ammo Reduction

We have reduced the extra amount of ammunition carried by half when dual wielding handguns. This is a complementary change to the Ammo Supply Rework above.
Developer’s Note:
This reduction means that you will get the same amount of extra ammo whether you are dual wielding or not. Previously, dual wield weapons had an excessive amount of extra ammo, inviting players to blast away indiscriminately. We want to ensure that like with other weapons, players are mindful of their bullets and need to consider resupply as part of their strategy. Many players also started using their dual wield extra ammo pool with the exclusive purpose to feed their main weapons. By halving the amount of extra ammo, we intend to reduce the incentive of using dual wield weapons just to boost ammo pools and are instead promoting the use of Ammo Box consumables as a tax for this playstyle.

Gunplay

Bomb Lance

The Bomb Lance can now equip up to two different custom ammo types, which can be switched mid-mission as needed. Ammunition counts and prices per slot have been adjusted accordingly (prices listed separately further below):

Explosive Harpoon: 1/3
Dragon Breath: 1/3
Steel Balls: 1/4

Gunplay Balance Changes

Increased base damage for all Shotguns against Hives and Armoreds.
Increased base damage for Throwing Knives on Horses to allow a single body hit to kill.
Incendiary ammo can now set players on fire with one hit at short range until its base damage starts to drop over distance.
- Larger ammo types travel further before this starts to happen.
- The Salveskin Trait will protect Hunters from being set on fire on the first hit.
Developer’s Note:

We want to encourage players using powerful weapons like long ammo bolt-action rifles to consider equipping incendiary ammo more often as a valuable alternative. Previously, losing the ability of larger calibers to penetrate walls was too much of a downside to even consider using incendiary ammo on these weapons. We hope the ability to pressure enemies by setting them on fire at close ranges will be seen as a more viable alternative to help create opportunities to break stalemates and push ahead. We are curious to hear your feedback on this change. We’ve also increased the price (listed further below) accordingly.
Increased the explosion damage of the Sticky Bomb to be able to severely wound or kill players within a slightly larger radius. This will allow more offensive use and require more care when using it against Boss Targets or Meatheads.
Increased damage on the Machete to allow one hit kills to the upper torso on enemy Hunters.
Medium Dumdum Rifle Ammo now applies intense bleeding to set it more apart from Compact Ammo.
Slightly reduced the reload time of the Romero Handcannon and increased the reload time on the Romero Hatchet. This allows them to fill their own niche, with one reloading faster while the other has a powerful melee attack.
- Romero Handcannon reload went from 3.5s to 3.2s.
- Romero Hatchet reload went from 3.5s to 3.7s.
Slightly reduced the cycle time on Martini-Henry IC1 Ironside and increased its extra ammo.
- Cycle time decreased from 1.9s to 1.8s for a faster rate of fire.
- Extra ammo increased from 10 to 15 for all ammo types.
Slightly increased levering speed on the Winfield M1873 Musket Bayonet.
Adjusted the recoil on the Nagant M1895 Officer Carbine and Nagant M1895 Officer Carbine Deadeye to be more predictable and feel less erratic between shots.
Increased recoil for the Mosin-Nagant M1891 Avtomat to make it less controllable on full-auto and further reduce the chance for successive hits at longer range.
Explosive extra ammo increased to base extra ammo levels.
- Explosive Ammo on Springfield 1866: from 9 to 12.
- Explosive Ammo on Martini-Henry IC1: from 7 to 10.
- Explosive Ammo on Nitro Express Rifle: from 2 to 4.
- Explosive Ammo on Caldwell Conversion Uppercut from 3 to 9.
Increased extra ammo on Springfield 92 Krag from 6 to 8 for all ammo types and variants.
Reduced the XP unlock requirements within the Martini-Henry IC1 family.
Reduced the unlock requirements within the Poison unlock family.