The public ban wave announcement thing is a huge 'morale' boost on games that have it implemented, like Siege. I wholly endorse that decision, it shows the community that reports/anti-cheat work.

I hope we continue to see Developer Insights long after the engine update hits. It goes so far in helping the player base feel seen in regards to issues.

Replay system will resolve many of these problems

I hope they add SEA server. The game deserved more popularity here.

Thanks for being so upfront, also compensating for mistakes like delayed console stuff is great. I wish phasmophobia would do the same… it’s so satisfying when a dev group is constantly interacting with the community!

You should be able to file reports while spectating. I think that would solve a lot of issues.

Lowering ping limit is huge W

Replay system will help a lot

Thank you for the update and for everything you are doing to make the gameplay experience better and more fair for everyone! 💪

Wait They think no shadows exploit is gone? That's adorable. Literally the day they "fixed" it people figured out all you need to do is rename the ini file and some of the lines within it.. No shadows is still rampart and its as easy to run as it was before they "removed" it.

I understand it wasn't for everyone, but I would love to see them create their own stat page like certain websites had from the attributes file. I don't care about leaderboards, but I did enjoy seeing people I has encountered many times in my games. How many time they killed me, and I killed them. Teammates I played with most, random or otherwise. Even having a list of weapons I killed with most would be awesome. I personally enjoy seeing statistics. Having any sort of statistics page that is more in-depth than we can currently see would be great.

Cheating made a lot of my friends quit, which also made me quit. We've been playing since day one and have spent a lot of money on the game. Cheaters push away loyal customers.

Hope Crytek adds SEA/Mumbai server. Very much a neccesacity at this point.

For clear reports we need killcam. Games almost 20 years ago have this system, so why Hunt can't? You just need to implement a player that based on txt or whatever files devs have, creates a movie rendered by your computer. This system was in Battlefield at 2005. No extra data, no additional server overload.

Thanks for the frequent videos! They are highly appreciated :) Can't wait for the new content and all the surprises you have in store for hunt! It's by far my favorite MP Shooter :)

add a deathcam and problem is solved instead of us guessing if the cheater was cheating or not. Many of them pretend to not be cheating after they killed you.

Y'all took the headsmen skin more serious than you do cheaters.

The big one is people who can basically turn off foliage so they can clearly see thru bushes and trees. I have also seen a far more frequent uptick in solos teaming up in games now. Both with necro so they can just keep getting up.

I know he's probably just reading from a prompter, but I really like how this guy talks. He seems quite genuine.

I really hope they add new servers and more regions then, with new ping limits we either can’t play at all or can’t play with any friends in some regions(either because of no servers or low population region) and that might as well be same as not playing. After all a multiplayer game is more fun with friends.

Just a thought...instead of removing the Attributes file to make it easier for Cheaters/hackers to hide....why didnt you just update terms to be accepted by players to meet requirements of the EUGDPR as you stated? Also id be curious to know how the ingame reporting is actually acted upon. Two friends and I ran into a VERY obvious cheater about a month ago. We spectated and he was solo sniping head shots through walls over 100-150m away with no bounty. We all reported. We check his Steam profile every few days and there are no bans and he is still playing on that account.

Dear Crytek, requesting only "objective reports" sounds naive, considering that if a cheater has even a basic understanding of how to play this game, wont exhibit obvious and easy-to-detect cheating behavior. For example they might just know where all the opponents are on the map, but doesnt mean they will foolishly aim at them through the walls. But I really appreciate that you acknowleged the responsiveness issue on your part regarding the reporting system. I would also like to hear from you in future videos whether the possibility of introducing map replays with a free camera or smthing else kinda helping to detect cheaters, if it will be considering at all? Thank you for your work and improving communication with us, players!

Thanks for having you at Crytek, David! You're leading a great team. Keep up the good work.

Name exploits will still work on console, FYI. It'll get censored with stars. Then all you gotta do is hide statistics so people cannot click to go to your profile. Total incognito.

Can I still be useless? Because that's kinda my thing..

Low player count in OCE has resulted in a lot of exploitative play (multiple friends all joining the same match as "solos" and working together, all with self-revive) and as such, the only option for a "fair" game recently has been to play on other region servers, thus amplifying the low player count in OCE... I love this game and don't want to see it die in this continent.

Asking rage reporters to have some self respect is both hilarious and awesome. Look forward to all these changes very hopeful for the future of Hunt

Finally, I have always said the #1 issue with reporting other player was the lack of communication from Crytek.

i suspect a cheater i report a cheater, its on you guys to confirm and withhold the integrity of the game. I dont get paid to find cheaters.

Don't get me wrong I'm happy to hear all this but not getting any dates sucks. This is the same group that said 'soon' and it was over a year later. Fingers crossed they get on top of this in time for the engine update and new event since that's always when the cheaters come out in force.

Honestly, me and also my friends been pessimistic about the game after the never ending waves of events and the lack of meaningful important updates! I am very happy to see, that you got back in touch with the community's needs and concerns and that you communicate frequently and transparent what is going on! Thanks for that!

So far these weekly update vids have been perfect. You're saying everything I want to be hearing from Crytek. Thank you!

Allowing us to know that something happened with our report will make a massive difference with people complaining I think. I know a lot of people make false reports but I know myself and some streamer friends of mine will be so relieved to know if legit reports are acted upon!

In game reports actually leading to something would be great. Being told they do also helps reinforce that actions are indeed being taken, and that the report system is actually used to ban cheaters. On a side note I strongly recommend giving players access to videos of what cheating looks like. Too few actually know what cheating looks like to make adequate reporting. It's often not as obvious as one thinks. I have a large amount of experience watching cheaters in various other shooters myself, such as Apex, Team Fortress 2, and CS. But not everyone is as enthused about the idea of watching gameplay videos to learn what cheating looks like. Giving access to examples of cheating behavior that is not as obvious on the report page on the Hunt website would help those that willing to go to the website to report cheaters a clear picture of what it looks like to help compare to their own footage.

Damn… it looks like I won’t be able to play with my friends in Australia anymore on a US East connection. I understand the need, but were hovering 3-4 star max We’re not hurting anybody. We get rolled more often than we win. I hope there is some flexibility around this.

You guys are knocking it out of the park with these recent videos. They're massively appreciated, even including the parts where you do not have solutions but let us know that you're aware of the issues and are trying to determine what to do.

Great update really appreciate the info that was provided. Crytek said they would be more communitive and if they keep this up over the next couple months with weekly / bi-weekly videos it will build a really solid bridge of trust with the community

Since when is first party data a GDPR issue? I can do status in the CS2 console and get more info than what was shared in the attributes.xml file. Feels like a genuinely weird excuse for removing a useful file people could look through to check their MMR instead of relying on an extremely sparse star system that doesn't tell you much since the ranges are different between them drastically.

I spectated a guy prestige 100 in quick match last night trying to lever a guy 100+ meters out yesterday. Every time he popped out of cover his crosshair placement was absolutely perfect spot on. the only reason he lost is because his aim bot did not compensate for the slow muzzle velocity of the gun he picked up, so even though he was locked on, because his enemy was strafing the bullets missed. I love this game so much but feel like i want to abandon it lately. I run into guys like the one i described so much lately that I just cant bring myself to play it sometimes. I hope you guys can get things under control.

If the attributes file is to remain unavailable, I hope the new UI updates include some form of meaningful/advanced statistics to pour over. It was quite impressive the self hosted and web based stat trackers that fans were able to cobble together that provided a wealth of match history, data and stat tracking. What little was in the ingame stats panel paled in comparison. If the community isn't able to build these tools themselves due to aggressive EU regs, then perhaps Crytek could see fit to improve the stats tracked within the client themselves, even if it is limited to only the player themselves (and perhaps friends/party members).

Is there anything in the works to look at player data like # of kills vs account age to automatically send up a flag within your system? The fact that we even have to report someone with 20k kills on a 1 year old steam account is frustrating. I know you say you look at reports, but we have all been reporting the same people day after day and they are still playing. I really want to believe that something is being done about the blatant and rampant cheating, yet I still see it happening almost on a nightly basis on US East.

ultra wide monitor support please have the hud in corners of ultra wide monitor instead of center '

I think report feedback will be a big deal. It will really motivate players to report rather than just ghost the game out of frustration.

Love getting feedback after action was taken from a report I made. Dota added one that tells you the date, time, and what you reported them for. It's such a great feature. These videos are amazing! Keep up the good work, Hunt is one of my favorite shooters of all time.

Thanks for the update! As a developer i get that GDPR is a concern and the attributes file was a privacy concern, but i hate that you didn't just make it anonymous but instead opted to remove it. I only used it to see my own MMR curve over time and to track my KDA from the past 30 days. I don't care a single bit about the other player's data. I really urge you to do something about that. If the attributes file doesn't return, then maybe think about including MMR graphs and KDA (for custom time lengths like "the past month") in the new UI you teased yourself. It's a pitty that we are now being thrown into the dark again about what MMR we are ranked at. There ARE players out there that want to know these informations and automatically track this data.

I like a lot this new way of charing development processes! Transparent and precise!

Between this video and the previous “Dev Insight” video it really feels like you guys are trying to be more open and honest with the community which is awesome. It goes a long way towards making as feel heard. Keep it up!

I have so much love for this game, I haven't played since the event ended because I encountered so many suspicious players, and blatent cheaters that I just can't bring myself to play. The cheating situation is the soul reason I haven't been playing.

I reported the game ID exploit a little while ago. I'm really happy to hear you are fixing it, whether or not it's because of reports on the issue. I feel taken seriously as a customer, so keep it up going forward!

Great. When are you fixing the trade window?

Thank you! This Cleared up so many doubts I had. I love that we finally get some communication and infos!

The weekly videos are amazing! You are doing a great job guys. Keep it up. Looking forward to the next one 💙

Love Hunt! Taking a break though at the moment so August update can't come soon enough.

Could we also be looking at getting a south african based server considering these new expansions of servers in overloaded areas? Our best server connection at this point is to the EU at 180 - 200 ms. Us African hunters would love some feedback on this idea.

I'm really impressed you mentioned GDPR...greatly appreciate the transparency and support. Much Respect!

the transparency is so refreshing where other companies just shrug, you guys go above and beyond, thanks for taking care of your baby!

Ty for the update, Crytek!

After 6 Years, welcome to modern Anti-Cheat measures

I hope with the ping limit, a middle east server becomes available as well. EU and Russia servers both give me above 150 ms pings which although are tolerated, I'd assume will be a big problem in the Future.

There's has been a couple of occasions where I (and many other players in the South America region) would have ping issues related to routing, this happened many times and some player had to rely on a VPN to connect to the server in Brazil. is this going to affect me if i have ping issues again?

How is the ping limits going to work Im from South Africa and we have no servers and the closest one is EU i get 155-170 ping normally and i play with friends from EU so i wont be able to play an game with them?

love you guys for the weekly updates ❤

Thank you so much for the updates. Is sit possible to show a tech demo or a short showcase of the new Engine before it Launches on August 15th ?

I was gonna get a bit upset that this wasn't about the new engine features but it was so detailed and well put together that I can't complain at all. One question though, would you consider enabling DXVK for windows users in the future? Currently this is only possible through a dll I think and that can be classed as manipulating and exe.

feedback on reports is going to be so helpful

game should have a killcam, once all your team is done, you could watch how the opponent killed you, to make sure that was not a hacker

Thanks for the update :). Keeping fans in the loop is always nice. Another note or suggestion would be to see the players health bar somewhere on my screen. Can be next to their profile image next to the clue/bounty icons. I know the health indicator comes up but I do think a full health bar would be helpful. Can see how much they’re burning or health chunks they have left.

The news I was waiting and hoping for ! Thanks for the good informations, you definitely give me hope for an even better Hunt experience than before ! Can't wait for August update !

Do we already have the new requirement specs to run the update?

This is the best Developer Insight video you guys have ever made to date. THIS is the transparency many have been asking for. THANK YOU

This is really a great update and can bet that the Hunt community as a whole will really appreciate the change in approach. The only criticism I could have is that you should have had more and clearer answers much earlier than now and certain things, like the reason for the removal of the stat file, should have been more clearly stated. I'm getting more and more excited and can't wait for August 15 to come to finally be able to experience all of your teams' hard work for the past few years!

1). Thank you Hunt Showdown team, this is so far and beyond what most games do for fair play that it's nice to see. 2). Reporting of numbers in ban waves I think would go a LONG way to help us see that your team is doing something. No need for specifics to keep the fog of war against the cheaters but even seeing something is appreciated. I know that takes man-hours and work but it would be greatly appreciated. The automated system is a great idea. 3). Nice to know why I couldn't report on one occasion for someone obviously cheating, didn't have a way to film at the time so they never were reported. Glad to see y'all are working on that. 4). Might be useful to put a button hidden somewhere in the settings that links to your customer service site. Don't know the legality of that or how hard it would be implement but just an idea. 5). Didn't even think about the EU GDPR, makes sense, still sucks, but its good to know that it wasn't removed for no reason.

Please integrate Death Cam and Replay.

Keyboard and mouse use on console? Either figure out a way to ban it, or allow cross play with pc and enable it as a native thing so people can use whatever they want. Then matchmake based on detected peripheral/mmr. If sweats on console want to play with M&K, let them, just throw them into M&K lobbies with PC players instead. An even playing field would be nice

I would really like you to add the tdm mode, on many maps of the game there are locations that are simply cut out of the main map and make maps for tdm from them

The "Developer Insight" Format is really cool and professional, appriciated !

So does this apply also to the m&k Users on Console's??? And will they really get a righteous penalty after we report them? Or does this all effect only for PC?

I like they are responding to the community with these videos

Good to hear that work is being done. While yall are at it, could you fix the Bolt Thrower bug? There is a problem with the Crossbow: after firing, if you try to switch ammo types before reloading, the Crossbow uses the long reload animation, not the Bolt Thrower animation. It's been like this for at least a year now (I've reported it before, but nothing has been done). This bug does not affect the Hand Crossbow for some reason.

Thanks for keeping us in touch with some news. Always good to know what you're working on. Can't wait for all those changes/updates

Let's be real here, we know the ingame reporting system is not actually utilized and is just a make people feel good button.

would it be possible also to fix the 'box names' that come from use of characters\letters that are not supported (by the game I presume? )

great that you have listened to the community - it felt like yelling into the void until huuge used his megaphone.

I'm wondering if you worked on removing the shadows via config, why is it still working?

Thanks for the transparency.

I love that you guys are gonna look into ping limits and region locks. But in my opinion everybody should just play on their own servers unless you're invited by a friend. There's no reason for a full russian team or a full chinese team to play on eu servers.

I have played this game for two months or something after joining in 2022, but recently started watching these videos. So far, good news. Engine upgrade, many things I disliked were "fixed" by now, and finally, the ping limit will be lower. Sorry to say this, but person behind the previous idea of 225 ping limit "cuz playas wanna play with friends" deserves all the insults you can imagine. There is absolutely zero excuses to allow people with high ping to play together. This is a server-based PvP game. It's not a private co-op match where host can decide what to do... My only question here is, what's the new limit? With such big number of active players, you obviously can afford adeqaute limit of 100. At least on EU. More often people don't have ping above 80 in games (even then, it could be bad server), unless it's a game like Hunt. I played many online games, so this is an experience. 100 is enough! What about VPN bans? Unstable connections (ping can change at any moment of the game) etc.? You mentioned trades in previous videos (If remember it correctly), so that's another thing. Abuse of graphics settings was also mentioned. Tons of good news. The last thing remained is matchmaking. This is the ONLY game that I know with such poor design. Duo against Trio? Solo against Trio? Was it intentionally designed for people who can't play fair? A fair mode, for normal people, where it's solo-only, with no revives, would be great addition! With separate ranks... Thanks, Santa! 🎅 🙏

Manipulating local game files such as a config is a normal thing to do in FPS games. One can disable shadows in almost any game, yet your team now calls it "exploiting" after years of players tweaking their config to get an advantage over others, whether it be to get higher FPS or better visibility. In Counterstrike one turns on shadows as it can give away the position of an enemy. Everyone can turn on shadows in Counterstrike, as everyone can tweak their config to remove shadows in Hunt. The issue is that your team does not communicate clearly what is allowed or not and when they do, it is only after they have already banned players for doing something that was not clearly prohibited. The code of conduct says: "Keep the game fair: do not cheat, do not use third party programs, do not use client-side hacks, and do not exploit bugs and glitches." Since when is tweaking a config file an exploit? The term "config" stands for "configuration", it is supposed to be configurated. If this was a problem, then tweaking the config to such extent should not have been able in the first place. Regarding Nvidia Profile Inspector: You mention in the video that your team is still investigating and making their minds up if Inspector has a significant enough impact to label it as an exploit, which shows that your team does not fully understand high level gameplay in Hunt. I understand that it is unreasonable to expect people working on the game to have the same understanding as players with several thousand hours of playtime under their belt coming from a different perspective, but it appears that there is a disconnect between your team and the high MMR player-base. Using the Profile Inspector is not an exploit, it is a cheat. Inspector is a third-party program (code of conduct is rather clear here) that removes all foliage in the game which opens the nastiest angles and is basically a soft wallhack. If one plays smart and does not derender players from impossible angles (e.g., Stillwater white house roof to Alice) it becomes difficult to tell if someone is using it or not. People are using it because your team has no clear stance towards this program and you publicly mentioning that your team is still making their minds up about it will make high MMR players now use it even more as they understand how to make it not too obvious. Why don't you simply forbid it and punish its use with a permanent ban and disregard those five people that play Hunt on an outdated machine looking for a slight FPS boost? The engine upgrade is around the corner anyway.

Excited for the upcoming changes, KEEP UP THE HARD WORK!!!

How about mouse and keyboard exploits on console?

Sounds promising, thanks for the update! I, for one, rarely see cheaters in my games, though sometimes I do report suspicious people who may use some kind of exploits for advantage.

Thank you for the update. My friends and I love this game! Between this acknowledgment/progress plan, and the engine upgrade in August, it’s a great time to be a Hunt player! See y’all in the Bayou 🤠

"Please use the in-game report system, it's checked daily" is one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time these things never get checked at all and there is so much evidence about that online I mean it would be great if you guys would actually check them in the future but let's not pretend the in game report system is at its current state, anything else than a button to let out your anger in hopes of someone getting punished (which will never happen)

I really do hope USA and EU can continue to play together, or I'll lose half of my friends to play with... =/

The EAC upgrade was definitely needed, disabling the ability to turn off shadows and taking action against people exploiting the NVIDIA profile inspector is also comforting to hear, curious to see how the ping limits will change moving forward, glad to hear the report exploit is getting priority, also a big relief to know there will be a system in place to give feedback to people who report cheaters and publicly publishing ban-wave stats will give the community peace of mind, thank you for this video a lot of people needed this.

Nice! Thanks for the update, keep it going. And maybe next weekend infernoweekend? plspls?

I’m US military on base in Japan. so usually play on US West with friends. My ping is usually 130. I pray to god the new limit isn’t 100. I have 3000 hrs in this game and all my friends play in US west. Hunt is my main game. If I no longer can play games with my buddies i’d be devastated.

3:04 I see that smirk through your words bro... Give us a death cam that is accurate and an accurate spectate. The spectate is so laggy it hides all the people using aim bot and only people blatantly using silent aim will get caught in spectate.

love it, thanks for the feedback and information. this sort of 'face to face' media about the activities going on in the background and really just showing people you're there, working on it, is super helpful for us

Any stance on players who use third party hardware like XIM/Cronus to use Keyboard and Mouse on console? I think any reasonable person would agree that mouse aim provides a speed and accuracy advantage over thumbs tick that is detrimental to a level playing field in a competitive environment. I have been seeing more and more of these players lately, and it is seriously impacting enjoyment of the game.