While other games are celebrating with cute seasonal events, Hunt: Showdown is self-immolating.
Grab a bucket. Stop drop and roll. Dive into a river . Hunt: Showdown is burning.
Today the game's German developer Crytek has torched portions of Hunt: Showdown's three maps, Stillwater Bayou, Lawson Delta, and DeSalle. For the next 24 hours, fixed areas within these maps are set ablaze. It's a controlled burn, technically: the"Inferno Wildcard Condition," the name for this special game state, is part of the Devil's Moon event that kicked off earlier this week.
I jumped into the event this afternoon to take in the heat. The environmental fire doesn't spread, but it can turn portions of your health bar to cinders just as other instances of fire do within Hunt. It's a disruptive and thematically interesting change, but it isn't so dramatic a change that it will turn gunfights on their head.
Otherwise, the orange, soot-stained sky reminds me of living in California, which is a little unsettling.Creative players might be able to use the walls of fire to stage daring ambushes. The flames provide a lot of visual cover, and bottlenecks that they create might be able to be exploited. Forest fights are certainly going to be trickier, and any extract path that passes through one of these blazes.
Given the long, 60-day duration of Devil's Moon, I think it's great that Crytek is breaking up the grind for event points with micro-events like this. Crytek has plans for more Wildcard conditions in the future, presumably based on how players feel about this first one . The Inferno will return"on select days" while Devil's Moon runs until February 15.
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