Hunt: Showdown – All info about the shooting range and update 1.13

In a new livestream, the developers of Hunt: Showdown have presented the contents of the upcoming update 1.13.
Among them are a shooting range game mode to try out and train, a lot of weapon adjustments and other balancing changes.

Shooting range

The shooting range is supposed to be a way to try out weapons and loadouts. You’ll be able to join the new mode simply from the main menu, where you’ll be able to play both with and against other players.

Five areas

For the shooting range, the Fort Carmick location has been converted and includes five test areas where different weapons and items can be tried out:

• Test area for short range
• Test area for medium distance
• Test area for high distance
• Test area for throwing items
• Test area for the penetration of weapons

Weapons & Possibilities

There are weapon boxes scattered throughout the area that you can help yourself to. In addition, there are abilities that affect weapons – for example, levering – which can also be easily learned via the item.
Of course, there is also enough ammunition.
By the way, all level restrictions do not apply for the test period.

Dummies are available as targets, they have 150 health points (like a hunter) and reset themselves after 3 seconds.

In this special game mode, new indicators are also available, such as damage and ping distance.

Coop & PvP

If you want, you can play with up to two friends in a team or as a single player against other hunters and practice PvP combat.

You will also benefit from the special respawn mechanics of the shooting range mode, because you have the choice:

• Respawn directly at the point of death with full life.
• Respawn nearby with full life and full consumable items.

By the way, everything that happens in the shooting range mode does not affect the regular game or your stats.

Tutorial improvements

The tutorial for getting started in Hunt: Showdown, introduced in the last patch, has been reworked and improved again:

• Hints are now displayed until the next hint is triggered.
• Custom key bindings are now also taken into account in the tutorial.

Time for quest series expires

The Billy Story and Stalker Beetle quest lines will receive a timer and will be available and completeable from the update until September 14, 2023 at 12pm UTC.

Quickplay becomes Soul Survivor

The single-player mode Quickplay will get a new name and will then be called Soul Survivor starting with update 1.13.

The name was only meant as a placeholder and since the last survivor has this title, the new name is of course fitting.

Important bugfixes

• Legendary items are no longer purchased when they are selected in a preset loadout and one of these items is found in the inventory.
• The ammo reserve display should now show the correct values.
• Fixed a bug that made some windows indestructible.
• Throwing axes and throwing knives are no longer destroyed when something they are attached to disappears.

Ammo changes

New ammo replenishment system

The current ammo replenishment system is based on a percentage system, which is based on the ammo supply of the weapon.
The new upcoming system will dispense a fixed number of bullets to the player depending on the ammo type.

If you have multiple ammo types equipped, you will receive supplies of each ammo type.

Ammo changes for two identical weapons

Carrying two of the same weapon (“Dual Wield”) will no longer dispense double ammo to the player when replenishing at an ammo box or other sources.

Other ammunition changes

• Fire ammo will now immediately set players on fire if you are within the range where there is no damage drop yet.
• Larger calibers continue to fly until damage drops off
• The Salveskin ability prevents you from being on fire on the first hit.
• Ammo boxes are now unlocked at rank 1.
• DumDum ammo twisted with the medium caliber now causes heavy bleeding.
• The extra ammo for Explosive ammo is matched (increased) to that of the other ammo types.
• Extra ammo for all Krag variants has been increased from 6 to 8 bullets.

Bomblance with two ammunition types

The explosive lance can now hold two ammo types for its fired bolts, though this also reduces the ammo pool per type.

Balancing changes

Weapon adjustments

• Sticky Bombs: Sticky bombs are now deadly to players in a larger radius.
• Machete: The damage of the machete has been increased so that one hit to the torso can kill a player.
• Shotguns: The base damage of all shotguns against Hives and Armored has been increased.
• Throwing Knives: The damage of throwing knives against Horses has been increased so that a single body hit is enough to take them out.
• Romero
  • The reload time of the Romero hand cannon has been slightly reduced.
  • The reload time of the Romero hatchet has been increased slightly.
• Martini Henry Ironside: more extra ammo and faster firing order
• Winfield 1873 Musket Bayonet: The lever speed of the gun has been slightly increased.
• Nagant Officer Carbine & Variants: The recoil characteristics of the weapon have been improved.
• Mosin-Nagant Avtomat: The recoil (horizontal and vertical) has been increased.

Ability Adjustments

• Resilience: The ability will now restore the total health points
• Assailant: Cost reduced from 2 to 1 skill point

Gameplay

• Hunters who reach level 50 will receive 500 Hunt dollars reward.
• Closing the 4th rift in Soul Survivor now gives 75 Hunt Dollar bonus.

Other changes

• Several bugs in the combat log have been fixed.
• The combat log now also shows events that happened shortly after your own death.
• Added over 100 loading screen tips that are played out to players based on player experience.
• The quest line weapon variants will be regularly unlockable through weapon progression after the expiration and release of Update 1.13.

Legendary content

• “Deputy” – New Army (900 Bloodbonds)
• “Heaven’s Key – Martini Henry Ironside (700 Bloodbonds)
• “Eulogy” – Winfield Slate (700 Bloodbonds)
• “Judge” – Scottfield (700 Bloodbonds)
• “Jury – Scottfield Swift (700 Bloodbonds)
• “Widower – Chain Pistol (900 Bloodbonds)
• “The Noose” – Vetterli Carbine (900 Bloodbonds)
• “Sanguis Christi” – Weak Vitality Syringe (800 Bloodbonds)
• “Equine Heart” – Sticky bomb (800 Bloodbonds)
• “Knotted Spine” – Knuckle Knife (700 Bloodbonds)

When is Update 1.13 coming?

The test servers for update 1.13 for Hunt: Showdown are supposed to be opened soon, also another video about upcoming economy changes in the game and another event have been announced.

Currently, a time frame of 2-3 weeks (shortly after the end of the current quest series) seems realistic, but this is just an estimate.

Watch the stream later

If you didn’t have the chance to watch the stream live, you still have the possibility to watch the recording: