Skill Up: "You have to manage the sound you make." Also Skill Up: Shoots explosive barrel to kill a single zombie that's already moving away from it.

Its worth noting that this game has gotten astronomically better, and has a significantly larger population than at the time of this review. Seriously. New guns. New ammo. New, really really good boss. Play this game.

For anyone watching this in 2022. Hunt: showdown is MUCH more alive than it was when this video came out.

I started playing Hunt after watching this video and im now 2500 hours in, just wanted to say thanks, best game Ive ever played and its all thanks to you!

This video makes me want to buy hunt even though I already have hunt

Thank you for all the compliments about the sound design. Among other things, I designed the sound for the Caldwell Rival. My main goal was to make it “meaty” and “boomey”. :)

Bought the game and started playing it because of this video. *Everyone reading this, please play Hunt if you haven't played it. It has changed my perspective on multiplayer games!*

3 years later and Hunt is still niche, but going stronger than before! And still a lovely game.

Hunt is one of the best games my friends never wanted to play

I feel like this is the sort of game you need another reliable friend to play this with

Love that crytek is still innovative in a videogame industry of trend following.

Gotta say, even though it's been a while since this video was made, I'd say it has aged really well. It's my go-to to introduce people to hunt showdown who seem interested. Sure, things are outdated in the video, but it gets the message across really well. Very nice

I got 50 hours in after the review, and I'm finally becoming a reaper of men. It took about 70 hunters, countless hours, and a lot of nice people teaching me and putting up with me. And I just breached a boss compound. Blew a hole in the chest of one hunter with my shotgun, with my allies flanking. What followed was an 8 man skirmish like nothing I've played. It pushed every aspect of my gaming skill set. Listening, spotting and head shotting someone from across a swamp. Desperate flanks as I tried to save my pinned partner. Getting capped and rescued. Nothing like it.

Glad this game is finally getting around on more peoples radar

Thank you for introducing me to Hunt. 200 hours in and it's become my favourite game.

Now, a year later, will you make another video on Hunt: Showdown to keep it alive more? I've recently stumbled onto it and fell in love immediately. Would love to see others notice it too

I bought this cause you off handedly mentioned you liked it in a recent Laymen episode. To cut a story short me and now 5 friends are all level 60 absolutely loving this masterpiece and cursing the fickle fandom Gods that it's not as popular as it deserves to be.

@ 4:07 when he throws a lantern at the Butcher... Butcher: *laughs in immunity*

I love the way you break down the game into trade-offs between stealth, speed, and lethality that interact with each other through sound design. Brilliant review.

I started playing about 2 weeks ago at this point, in that time I have introduced 10 of my friends to the game and we all love it. It’s been the only thing we play now, it’s so addicting. Love this game

Hunt is really great. The thing that keeps me coming back to it once in a while is that tense and anxious feeling during firefights or panic moments.... the thing that prevents me from playing it more is that tense and anxious feeling during firefights or panic moments.....

Fun fact: The game was originally called Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age, and was a third-person co-op shooter prototyped by then Crytek USA. Those devs left to form Gunfire Games, and their ideas became Remnant: From the Ashes.

So firstly, I wanna give a big word of thanks to Skill Up for this video. Hunt went on a 50% sale recently, and while I'd been interested in it for a while because of the theme and art design of the game, I'd always been on the fence about getting it due to the polarizing nature of its reviews. This video got me to take the leap and spend money on Hunt, and I literally haven't stopped playing it since: it's everything described in this video and MORE! However, I do think it's important to note that this video was made a year ago: the game has changed a lot since then. It's the unfortunate downside of literally the best introductory Hunt video being made a year beforehand with nothing made recently coming close... this video is outdated in some major ways. That's not a real criticism of the video, it's more a commendation of Hunt itself: a LOT of the issues in the 'downsides' section haven't actually crystalised for me at all, and from the research I've been doing its because the devs have steadily been working tirelessly to fix them for the last year. So to start with, the matchmaking. With 10 hours of gameplay, I haven't been matched against someone more than 3 levels above mine (with one rank 84 exception on my squad, who was loading in with a level 1 hunter sans even a medkit XD). This is probably because of an influx of new players during the sale of course, but suffice it to say that when there are new players for it to find... the matchmaking DOES work. I haven't experienced any trouble finding people willing to play with me either, in fact I've mostly been playing with other new players. The one and only time I got a rank 84 hunter matched with me, he not only communicated well and readied up immediately, but was also invaluable in teaching me some fundamentals about the game. All in all, if my experience is anything to go by, matchmaking for newer players seems to be better than it's ever been. Secondly, punishment. Hunt now has a very important feature that was added after this video: firstly, your training character is now carried across to the main game, meaning you can start with all the essential tools Skill Up reccomends for free, but there's a far more important feature than that which I'm going to give it's own weight: For the first 10 levels, YOU CANNOT LOSE ANYTHING. Not a hunter, not any gear. Nothing. To make it even clearer, after 8 hours I'm level 5 and I've successfully extracted 3 times in a row, all of which means the amount of XP I've gained is above average. I think it's fair to say that for the average player you can estimate getting 10-15 hours at least of concequence free gameplay before hitting the meat of the game. This is very VERY important, as it's essentially 10-15 hours of completely free practise before you lose everything, something that honestly Tarkov could learn from. Also, for those first 10 levels skill based matchmaking is turned on. You can opt in to turn it off after, but those first 10 levels are clearly designed as a taster to get you aquainted with the basics. TLDR: This video is fantastic, with the only 'flaw' being how much Hunt has improved since it was made. If you were hovering around Hunt, saw this video and were enamoured with the concept, there literally isn't going to be a better time to start than right now when I post this comment. The game is currently just finishing a sale, so it is full of new players like me to play with. The matchmaking is working fine and to be honest the game seems to be experiencing a renaissance. Happy Hunting!

Now the charts are 📈 35K peak players a day

As someone with almost 500 hours in Hunt, thank you for giving this game the much needed exposure it deserves. I have tried my absolute hardest to advertise this game and share it with other people, but will drop it faster than it took to convince them to buy it. Like you said in your video, people will not understand that the game isn't meant to be fast paced, the gunplay isn't supposed to be extremely fluid. But when you put more than 7-8 hours in, you start to realize that the game is more complex and beautiful than everything seems

You just convinced me to pick up the game. Edit: its on sale, sweet.

A little part of me dies every time he used a gun for PvE

I've just started playing Hunt recently and I found that if you join the hunt discord server and through that the one for your region you can always find someone happy to queue with a new player and help you as you learn. It's a great community.

People don't be scared!!! 1. I had fun since minute one in this game! 2. Do NOT care about your KD. You will start with 0.X for sure and climb slowly, until you start wiping servers! 3. If you do not want to play solo (which has it's advantages like independence and freedom of movement) there are discord servers where people look for a group (very nice and friendly people; you just have to find a partner with a matching playstyle) 4. The servers skillup is playing on are looking lagy for me. I didn't have any ping problems on European servers (I heard NA West are also fine) 5. The game isn't that dark for me. 6. You can choose the maximum size of player parties. That being max of 2 or max of 3. 7. All weapons are balanced. You can win gunfights with cheap weapons vs the best one in the game. Sometimes it does not even will like a disadvantage because you don't care if you die and just give the guy a quick headshot. He on the other hand is under a ton of pressure. 8. To make it very clear: with real money you can buy only cosmetic stuff!

Got to be honest, the part with the elder dudes siting at the table was pure genius

So, I bought this game because this video recommended me to it. I went ahead, bit the bullet, bought the game and I've got maybe only fifty or sixty hours in there since I bought the bad boy. I've played when the servers are hopping, when they're dead, and I'm playing my first event as of today with "As the Crow Flies." Call it necro-posting, but I'm kind of doing a check back in, feedback kind of thing. So, by and large if the video above doesn't get you sold on it, then either A, nothing will. Or B, get the game on sale and go out on a limb, it really is a cool game with a lot of replayability. But mostly, I'm here to kind of assuage and clear up any worries of some sort you might have. This video gave me a -lot of hype- towards how stressful the game is and I think for the first twenty hours I was too scared to actually play the game or be useful to my team mates. The consequences really aren't that bad. Your money is hard to come by, sort of, but it's not nearly so precious as like, your bonds or whatever. It's not like that thousand dollars is never coming back to you, you -will- get more money, and you -will- get your cool stuff and big bad-ass hunters back, just... It takes some work. To really illustrate the impermanence of your losses, one decent victory will un-do a whole series of bad matches, trust me. I spend most of my day getting pinged in the nugget across the match, or being forced into an immolator and getting punched to death. Or my favorite is trying to hide and hearing the dreaded wail of a hive -right behind you in the barn you're trying to hide in-. You die. Stupidly. A LOT. And as such you get used to it and it stops being such a problem to lose your stuff. Three matches or so with free hunters and one good and lucky run on the bounties and you'll have your tier two with a bomb lance and stuff in no time. Don't assume the learning curve means you won't win. It -is- steep. Like, really steep. For Honor meets Dead by Daylight at high ranks kind of steep. But just because it's steep, doesn't mean it's like those two games with the way you have to learn. Often than not in DbD or For Honor, you learn by getting your ass handed to you on repeat and then learning by eventually getting a lucky guard in or something or out-maneuvering the killer with a chance spin and then perfecting that technique. Hunt isn't like that. There's no technique or stupid button you press and you have to time it right or you die. Hunt is about position and tactic, and even if you don't know what you're doing, sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you're hunkered down in a bush trying to avoid a meathead, and some dingus comes prancing along. They fight the meathead, they get hit a little. They're on low health and kill the meathead. And they also cleared the dog kennel, the crows, everything that you were worried about. And they're on low health. One good mosin pistol shot to the chest or head and they die. Cool! And it's late at night so the boss is right there and they were the only other player. Kill that bad boy, go get the second bounty, then extract. Boom. Just like that I won my first game of hunt as a solo. By accident while out farming grunt kills and hive kills for my lore entry. I wasn't above blood rank five, that guy was a better and experienced player who just got unlucky and thought he was in empty server and got caught in the open while wounded. That leads me to another thing, solo play. This video kind of makes it seem like "that's not the way you should play." And just like the video I'm going to tell you that sometimes solo is okay. Maybe it's not ideal, but it's hard, and it depends on your goal and what you want out of the match. I go in looking to kill the NPC's first and foremost. I'm trying to unlock stuff and get lore and guns. I -do- play in PvP, and I do engage compounds, but that's because I play with free hunters or legendary skins with minimal cheap gear. Low risk, high reward. If there's no players though and a compound is empty or they're off fighting over the bounty, then I clear the compound I'm in and try to cut off the bounty holder at the extraction point or something. But because I'm just there to farm for stuff with little intention to actually take the bounty (it's a bad idea as a solo, don't do it, just leave the bounty as bait until everyone else is dead) I'm not let down when I die and don't extract. If your head space is on total victory, yeah you're going to be disappointed. But if you have smaller goals to complete before death or extraction then it's not so bad to play solo. Just, don't expect to clear the board on every run. Trust me when I say, this game is a glorious experience in general. It has something here for everyone. There's a way to focus PvE, a way to just focus PvP, there's a really deep and complex lore behind the game and a cool way of unlocking it that forces you to play. And once you get over gear fear or some sort of innate attachment to your hunters (they're just skins, you'll see the same guy again in three re-shuffles, promise) there's nothing to lose and everything to gain. Every match is a new story, a new experience, and a new challenge. The environment is immersive and absolutely beautiful, and allows things to be eerie even in broad daylight. I've been nearly murdered by bungling idiot hunters with romero shotguns and shambling faceless horrors in the bright muggy bayou sun about as many times as I've been scuffling around an abandoned prison at night and been blind-sided by Armored or some psychopath with a bomb lance. I've never felt so sneaky in a game until I've had a trio of players walk right past me and get blown up by my dynamite bundle when they try to loot my team-mate, so bad-ass as leveling a duo with a chain-pistols last shots, or so invincible as taking a hailstorm of lead to the plate and smashing a combat ax into some cocky prestige player's melon. Luck is your friend in the Bayou- may it bless you more than your enemies. Thank you for the game recommendation Skill Up!

Playing hunt solo is terrifying! This game is just so unique and tense it's amazing

I watched this and bought Hunt. Having played exclusively solo for the last two weeks (masochistic roguelike player), I'm now about to prestige for the first time. It's been an incredible experience. You were absolutely right, this game is genius. I'm so glad I didn't miss it. Thank you for putting it in front of me Skillup, keep doing your incredible work!

Me at 5:36 "So it's Tarkov with Cowboys?" Skillup at 5:37 "It's sort of like Escape From Tarkov only with Cowboys and Zombies" Touché Skillup

You absolutely sold me on this game despite having literally zero online FPS/PvP experience. Within three weeks now I've bought myself a nice pair of cans with a decent mic, dropped every other game and constantly read and watch videos about tactics and what not. This game is unlike anything I've played and it's f'ing amazing, seriously. Thank you so much for this video and this is coming from an utter, complete beginner at even online gaming. The learning curve is vicious but it was absolutely worth it.

Like a lot here I’m playing Hunt because of this review, I’m about 20 hours in and I’m terrible. This game is hard. This game is repeatedly getting an arse kicking. This game is the best shooter I have ever played. Headphones check. Lights off check. Spare clean pants check. Thanks skill up - I’d have never have played a game like this previously and now I’m not playing anything but. Buy it, stick with it, love it.

I wish I could have Hunt in the form of an RPG. I'm terrible at the pvp, but my god the visual and audio atmosphere is stunning.

Hunt is one of the best and most unique games I've played in the last decade. It can be a mess at times, it can be frustrating, and it can be exhilarating; all at the same time. No other game I have played has given me the feeling of atmosphere and tension that Hunt has every single match. I love every second of it.

Update, 2023: The game is in an even better state now, more guns, another new boss, new tutorial, and a new all time player peak. Definitely check it out if you're curious!

Revisiting this video I want to mention a game I had the other day in Trios - it was a double bounty map on Lawson Delta, the first boss was already dead and being banished by the time my team and I located the second boss. Taking the boss down was easy since we went loud and blew it up with a sticky bomb and guns, but after that we knew we were exposed. We spent about 10 minutes fortifying the compound before we even started the banishing ritual, and then, we waited... Two other teams arrived almost in unison, but instead of fighting us (we were still holed up in the main building with all our traps) they start shooting at eachother. Beyond one or two pot-shots my teammates took at stray enemies, the two teams got into a massive gunfight which lasted around 4 minutes as they both battled for the right to take us on, with us just waiting inside and listening to the carnage unfold outside. Meanwhile, the fourth team finished banishing _their_ boss and, instead of going north to their closest extraction, decided to come south... to us. So we've got two teams having an outright war around us, a third team charging towards us on the map, highlighted on darksight and in possession of occult wallhacks, and we're still sitting pretty in our little bunker as the bullets fly. Eventually, one of the two teams fighting us emerges victorius, and things go quiet for a while. There's one or two probing attempts as they try to push in on us and we fend them off with our guns and traps before, finally, the last team shows up, and another gunfight erupts between them and the guys who were there already. The team with the other boss's bounty, who are still fresh and unscathed and also able to see through walls, easily dispatch the previous victors, and then they start trying to get at us. They foolishly try to push into our fortified arena, and finally it was our time to shine: With a combination of traps, good aim, and a bit of luck, we manage to take two out of three of the enemies down, only for me to go down to the third, followed by a tense moment where the final hunter backed off and forced my allies to push them. They put up a decent fight, almost downing another of my teammates before they, too, were finally taken out and I was brought back. Some of the most fun I've ever had in a game, to be honest, and I spent a lot of the time just hunkered in a corner with a shotgun listening to a massacre happen outside my desperately fortified compound. There's no other game that can quite capture the feeling Hunt does.

This game needs a free play week on every platform with all new players being matched together.

After seeing many reviews of Hunt : Showdown, I gotta say, this one is the best review for the game.

The annoying thing is that none of my friends are probably gunna get hunt, so I’ll be solo queuing for a long time

I have really bad hearing due to numerous medical issues but I still really enjoy Hunt, it’s honestly one of my favorite games and learning how to rely more on predicting and visualizing people rather than listening closely is an extremely satisfying and gratifying experience when it works.

To everyone who is scared cause of matchmaking : There is an official Hunt Discord Server where you find people to play with who are welcoming to new players and show you the rope. I've met some of the friendliest people on the internet there who are mad dedicated to the game.

I played this for about a month straight and whilst I was frustrated at times, I also played for those moments. When you have a character that you've been tailoring for game after game and you suddenly find yourself on the receiving end of a sniper's bullet or a stray round, an explosive or getting caught out with a shotgun and that's it, work effectively wasted. But it wasn't ever enough to stop me playing, I felt that Dark Souls desire to throw myself in and hope for the best. The tension is impeccable. Those last moments of a banishing were dripping in tension, I would be sat with friends and we wouldn't be saying a word, three of us sat in total silence listening to the jangle of chains, the crunch of broken glass, estimating if that fired gun was marginally closer then it was the last time it went off and I absolutely adored it. Running through a bayou with a bounty, especially when you played on your own, hearing footsteps powering through the water behind you, trying to navigate zombies and water demons, quickly switching between map and first person to try and find the best means of escape. I started to wind off after I maxed out my level but I've been yearning to go back and I think I was worried about how good people would have gotten in the meantime. 😂 But, y'all owe it to yourselves to try this. I've honestly never, ever felt such delicious tension in a game then I have with this. Accept some games aren't going to go your way, but that's the point, and get drawn into it's world. 💪

I came back to this game from escape from tarkov which, even though this game IS hard compared to the average battle royale, just makes this game feel like “easier tarkov” which is PERFECT! if you play tarkov and you’re tired of getting killed every two seconds this game will give you what you want

Apparently there can be only one review of Hunt, and this is it. Beautiful, detailed, well-thought out, and with great pacing. You made excellent points, most all of which I concur with and would have included myself. I send this review to people I'm trying to get into Hunt. Thanks.

Started playing Hunt a month ago - one of a kind masterpiece. Recently thought to myself I hope Skill Up reviews this under appreciated gem of a game and gives Hunt some much needed attention. So delighted to see your excellent review and point out how few people are playing it. A game like this deserves more exposure and a thriving community. Here’s hoping your valued opinion have many, many good people discovering and loving this truly engrossing and ingenious game :)

yes, Skill Up bring us more fresh meat for the slaughter

I have 80 hours in Hunt: Showdown, more than you have at the time of this recording. I'm shit at it.

When you started reviewing the audio, I instantly thought of Doc and Warzone lol. Glad to see that clip in there

after taking bounty with my partner we spent 30min sitting tight not moving, we had traps laid around the barn and didnt want to make sounds while we saw enemy teams shadows move outside, looking for us, trying to steal our bounty, and we waited them out as they wandered not knowing where we actually are, stepping into traps and getting jumped xD amazing expierence

Picked this game up with a friend months ago, fucking loved every game i played of it. Never sweat so much in my life

The intro with the poker game is brilliant. I still come back to experience it every now and then 😂

This video got me and my friend into Hunt and 500 hours later, I still come back to watch this from time to time. Ty

I like how devs incorporate sound in gameplay. I remember how in hellblade the sound guided you in combat such that the devs didn't have to use health bars.

The passion in his voice is palpable.

Man, this video is so true to the game. I love this game! I understand how can it be difficult to get into the game, but its amazing once you get good at it!

I finally went for it and bought hunt even though I knew I'd be playing solo and always have been bad a FPSs. I'm 15 hours in, getting killed all the time, and loving it! It's nice of you to warn potential new players about these somewhat off putting aspects, but to me even when always dying as soon as I see someone else there is so much fun in this. I've never before been so immersed and I like the 90 quiet percent of just roaming the landscape as much as the intense sudden action filled 10 percent. If you are at all tempted after seeing this review I would go for it! Thanks for all your good work, Ralph!

The feeling of tension and the reliance on sound are the exact moments me and my friends get from Escape from Tarkov. Both of these games are very similar.

You kept saying how this game has a huge learning curve and can be frustrating and all that jazz and it kept making me wonder how you felt that way... - until you talked about Escape From Tarkov. Then I realized, I did my time, and thats probably why me and my friends loved this game and never went through the frustrations, cause we already did with that game. Good review! Love watching both your channels (and Sam's singing ;) ). Cheers!

Hunt quickly became my favorite game after I bought it and I even bought two copies so my friend could play too, I got mine on sale but his was not, still dont regret it. Im happy i could support this game.

Great review! It's difficult to categorize Hunt, it's part tactical shooter, part survival horror, part battle royal but it's 100% amazing.

They took the concept of BR and made it in a way where there is no zone to push you unwillingly towards fighting each other but "areas of heated battles" that you approach however YOU choose to. It's a genius concept!

I remember sending you a superchat on the Lamon Gamon channel a long time ago, asking you to give Hunt a try. The review's been a long time coming, but it's been worth the wait. :')

2023 and still love this video! I send this if I want to explain what Hunt is to any of my friends.

I watched your review way back when it came out and I was interested but afraid to give it a chance due to the steep learning curve so I held off, I decided to watch this review again last week and decided to take the plunge and give it a chance and it’s been tough but this game is amazing, often times in matches I just stealth it out with a random in duos, killing the monster and gathering the bounty and escaping the map all without ever encountering another player, those matches are pretty chill but there’s always an underlying tension, thank you for this review Skillup (and your getting started guide for Hunt that helped me a lot too)

This looks like a game that requires, patience, skill and forethought and doesn't rely on the audience being 12 year olds coked up on Ritalin being dazzled by all the pretty colours and loud noises.

I love how you covered the deadly chain reactions of PVE when you make a single mistake, that lead to attracting other players towards the noise you make. I love how you covered how incredibly many organic layers this game has and how it's not appreciated since it's not a straight forward FPS but a game you need to take time for and understand. Only then it will blow your mind over and over again.

thanks for making this video. had no idea this game existed. picked it up a couple of days ago. my first multiplayer game in years, having a blast.

Isn’t it weird that 10 months ago this game was at 4K players and now it’s at 29k players lol

Super rare and unique atmosphere. Propably the best sound in a video game today. Raw and authentic gunplay. Everyone should give it a try at least for 10 hours because it's hard to learn and even harder to master.

Always meant to buy this game. Downloading it now thanks to your review reminding me why I should play this game. Thanks SKillUp

Your reviews are so poetic and articulate. I can't get enough.

Thank you for this review. Even after watching it I didn’t think it was a game for me, but I played it and I have over 100 hours in and it’s easily my most favorite pvp game of all time. I’m on vacation atm and wish I was at home playing it now lol

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god dammit skill up you made me walk all the way to my living room to get head phones. Dis how much I luv u

This year is fantastic for Hunt. You really should make a new video about how much was added/changed

I've been looking for a multiplayer game to get into recently and I'm trusting your good word, buddy.

THANK YOU!!! I haven’t really enjoyed a MP shooter in 15 years. It’s a genre that really hasn’t grown much at since the Quake 3 days. It bores me to tears. But not Hunt. No no no no. It’s a brilliant slice of “I’ve never played anything like this” to the umpteenth degree. I put about 300 hours into this on PC.... using a controller with no aim assurance versus every other player using M+KB. I almost only ever played solo. I died a million times. But, but BUT; every now and then my sneaky savage a$$ would have a run of straight swamp murder that sent my pulse racing through the roof. For 30-40 minutes at a time. White knuckle “I’m gonna have a stroke cocaine’s got nothing on this” raw survival instinct overload. Its the single most tense and exhilarating experience I’ve ever had in a video game. The atmosphere is unmatched by any other MP game I’ve ever played. Playing with a controller (I pretty much have to for reasons) put me at a huge disadvantage on PC but I stuck with it anyway. Its reputation for being “hardcore” is overstated. It’s just brutal and you gonna die. You gonna get mad. But eventually you’ll be the one ending another player’s match in spectacular fashion. Everyone who likes survival horror and shooters, even if you don’t like online ones like me, needs to give this a try. It’s very worth wrapping your head around it’s unusual (unprecedented, really) gameplay

Hunt is my favorite game of 2019 and 2020, and it is honestly only getting better and better

thanks to you i started playing, i love the game even though im pretty bad at it, would love to see the community grow more

Watching the these videos from Skillup got my friends and I into Hunt ...countless hours later still playing daily

I started playing hunt this year, and I honestly have to say it is one of the best games I have ever played. At the moment it is my favourite one for sure. The game is awesome and it will attract a lot more players in the future i am sure. Just be patient...

I played about 20 hours of this game and it was quite fun. I stopped cause it was a bit too frustrating to play alone. A PvE mode would have been really cool as they originally intended. But yeah, a really good game that is super brutal if you don't have a friend to play with.

Thank you for your review! I watched it a few weeks ago and picked the game up from then. Great game, met lots of nice people, and have had lots of good times (:

Hunt still going strong. There still ARE issues, not gonna lie, but still the best multiplayer shooter experience out there.

As a player who's been playing since the game particularly hit Early access this is a pretty damn good review. The only point I'd disagree with is your point on people leaving the queue and community. If you're joining randoms using the matchmaking. Personally, if you are going to get this game, I'd recommend joining the games official discord and looking for partners that way. People in the discord are almost always happy and willing to play with newer players and to teach them the ropes and mechanics of the game. Bar that, this is a really comprehensive review and is a great overview of what u can expect in the game. To anyone reading this comment as a member of the hunt community, we welcome you to the bayou if you are willing to take the plunge and join us

This review just makes me want to watch people play Hunt, sounds way too hardcore for me but sounds amazing

Thanks, Skill Up. I learned about Hunt from this video and I love this damn game, frustrating as it is a lot of the time.

Started playing this game because of this video. Now one of my all time favourites. Thank u ShillUp

I bought this game last saturday because of this video. I do not regret it one bit. I played it like crazy. This game is fucking insane. I'm a sucker for these kinds of games, I play Rainbow Six Siege, I played fucking DayZ for years when it was still a mod and I had a fucking pathetic computer that barely made the game run above 20fps and had no friends to play it with. And you know what? This put me right back in those old DayZ days, but it is fucking better. That teaming up with strangers, figuring out where shots come from, learning to use guns in a way you are definitely not accustomed to, getting lucky sessions where it seemed all the odds were in your favour, losing everything because of a mistake you made... yeah, it's all in here, and it's fucking awesome. I hope this game picks up because I am CERTAIN there is a public that would adore this. We've all had those games or ideas that you really wish other people would get into as much as you do, but actually there really wasn't a big enough target audience that would truly get into it. Not this case, I'm sure there's a lot of people like me that enjoy these experiences, there's a lot of other games that were able to attract these audiences, and I think this one truly deserves it.

As a big fan of this game who’s loved it for a while now all I have to say is... that god damnnn humming!

Thank you for your video man. Best review out there. Numbers have been slowly rising. Keeping my hopes up.

Oh my god, this is by far, the absolute best review and explanation of a game, hands down. It really took me a while and a bit of bickering with my friends to actually understand all this and while i consider myself eloquent, i'm 100% sure i could not have explained it better. Well done

I can already hear “the dark souls of the battle royale genre”

As someone with about 250 hours into the game, I can definitely attest to the unwelcoming nature of randoms in the game. Generally it is a better idea to find people to queue up with in Hunt's official discord, which has a relatively friendly atmosphere and there is plenty of people there to give advice or play along with beginners. It has helped me find some like-minded people to do the stupid builds and meme runs I've done so far. That, and the memes are just absolutely gold in the Discord.

Love this review and love this game. I'm happy to tell you how many of the problems you listed are mostly resolved and the game is just getting better every day. Don't sleep on Hunt showdown!

"Noi weapon that can one-tap you at range." Well, not anymore there isn't. I remember back during Early Access when I legit got one-tapped by a Nitro Express at 80m+. I do think Hunt is one of the most criminally underrated games out there, and seeing Escape From Tarkov do so good (and I do like that game too) while Hunt just sort of flops about.