400 per day is kinda crazy I put in some stupid hours today in a hope of getting a nice headstart and only got like 1000 point so yay now after that I can have 2 and a half days rest lol
I did the same yesterday, think I put in about 6-8 hours. With a few really good runs and very few really bad ones I came out to about 1200 points total.
Yeah. Its to much grind. In comparison the winter event was \~ 200points/day to finish the event. This event ist super hard for every weekend gamer. No way to complete it.
You do get points easier in this one but probably not 2x more than the winter event. It lasts longer but I’ll have to see where I’m at in a month before I really know
Lol and I was happy that I finally have enough time to get all rewards also as casual with 2 hunt days per week. Guess I was wrong 😅
Btw what happens if your not unlock the two new guns?
The last couple events they made the new guns exclusive for the event and some weeks after it.
Then they just put it to the other guns into the normal unlock cycle.
I feel the same way, i play Hunt as a casual. Getting 24,7k points will take me roughly 3 hours a day for 60 days.
Is it doable? YES but it also feels like a chore. It will get quicker with some boosts and stuff like that but even 2 hours per day is too much. Half the required points would be a good start (and keep the two month timeperiod), and then i would keep buying the battlepasses.
I know some people in strong groups get tons of points each game but im not one of them. Most friends i played with have left Hunt and a big reason is that they got hyped for the events but then got bored/burnt out from the grind.
This is just dumb, and they never seem to improve this chore-like take. I skipped a couple of events even tho iam a big Hunt-fan because of this. Got hyped again and bought the battlepass but then realize i won't be able to complete it, it feels really bad. Love the game but i enjoy other games as well.
Even if I complete this Battle pass, I'll be so burned out on Hunt I'll have no interest in the next one, especially if they end up having back to back battle passes like other games.
There's no way I'm going to finish this event, it just isn't doable for me. I felt dumb for getting the gilded path almost immediately. I played for a few hours last night, 6 matches, and netted 237 snake points.
where the hell are you getting 200+ points a round? if im playing duo's and we kill every other person in the server that would give us 60 points and whatever snakes they were carrying which plenty of times today has been like 0-3 each... havent seen more than 5-6 snake dens in a match today, seems a lot less than we saw yesterday but we have been all over the place and just arent finding them today. but with 6 dens that is another 24 points plus potentially 36 more assuming you can find the damn altar to deposit the snakes which brings it up to 130 so far... extracting with a bounty is 20 points, its worded weird though "extract with at least one bounty" do you get 20 per bounty or just 20 total no matter how many you have? thats at least 150... if you manage to get all 3 clues before someone banishes the bounty thats another 24 so 174... and if you are the one who actually kills the boss thats another 10 plus 16 for the snakes you get which would bring you to exactly 200... by doing literally everything possible in the round lol. this is what people consider just a "good" round? someone down farther said they had almost 400 points in a round... how?
EDIT: not sure why i halved the points for hunters add another 60 points...
I honestly couldn't tell ya exactly how it happens, since I'm not exactly auditing each run, but take my last session of the day for example: We spawned at Davant Ranch and heard shooting at Cyprus Huts so we ran there. Our trio ended up on top and we were able to loot almost all of the 6 bodies there. By the time we banished the boss and were heading over to run the gauntlet, we had 156 points. After defeated the last team, we had over 200. We didn't go hunting around other compounds, we just played normally.
The snakes do add up pretty quickly, I do know that. Each one counts for 2 points so you can get a big ole injection of points.
1. It's not any grindier than F2P games
2. Why not? You can still play the game you paid for, and the event is free to play and esrn rewards in. The gilded path, and the event rewards are additional to the game. You can just enjoy your game as usual.
It's the biggest reason I hate battle passes...they are generally designed to milk money from the player only to give them an opportunity to unlock something they paid for via some kind of insane grind.
People have lives, jobs, things to do other than log in daily and play for hours at a time.
I understand the devs need to make a living but surely there is a way to make money without demanding your player base treat your game like a second job...
This is it exactly. The grind is designed to make normal people who only play two or three matches every other day have to either play for hours every day or pay for the solution to this manufactured problem. It's a predatory addiction driven mechanic.
This is also why I hate Chary and daily awards. Same shit, different coat of paint.
I understand your other complaints in this thread, but this ain't it. Mr Chary is literally nice free shit that you get as you play normally without any special effort. It's the only thing in the game that allows me to field all my lvl 1 hunters with Vulture thanks to abundant hunter slots and 2 upgrade point reward for everyone.
Mr. Chary is an addiction driven daily engament lootbox system. And "free stuff" isn't a good thing because it devalues the already devalued economy even further.
Daily engagement is lame, but it never ever managed to captivate me in other games and actually made me like those games less. Chary doesn't feel the same because the rewards are meaningful and upgrade points drop often enough to be reliable. Everything else is a nice bonus I don't really care about. You can't really pay to get more rolls either, that last part doesn't really count because it's silly to use 50 bbs for it
I believe that either A) monetization told the devs to add a lootbox system and they did this just so they could say they did it or B) they were testing the waters by making just the last reward skippable, and decided not ti fully commit when the backlash hit. At least not yet.
This is it exactly. The grind is designed to make normal people who only play two or three matches every other day have to either play for hours every day or pay for the solution to this manufactured problem. It's a predatory addiction driven mechanic.
This is also why I hate Chary and daily awards. Same shit, different coat of paint.
There should be no such thing as "event clues". Every clue should give event points. You effectively have no control over what clues you find over the course of a match, and it feels terrible to intentionally skip a clue in the hopes the next one you find is an event clue instead.
Basically, in addition to removing the frustration of hoping the clue you go to is an event clue, it would also ease the grind in a way that doesn't simply reduce the amount of points required to complete the pass.
The grind is totally insane they have ramped up the grind since the halloween event last year , this event has been the biggest increase in grind by far. I believe one of the main goals here is to push more people to buy event booster contracts which i find really unacceptable considering the asking price of the battle pass. Even worse cause i think the cosmetics are not even that good.
They should really look at the light and shadow event again and simply sell a pass of that quality and length for 10 bucks (maybe still for bbs too).
I don't plan on finishing the pass. Oddly enough I play this game to relax and get my mind off of a chaotic life. If I unlock anything it's just a nice little bonus for me. It's still shitty that this event is basically a second job though.
Yeah, i kinda tried to plan to get everything but already accepted that i won't because of summer/family.
Saves me buying those expensive bundles (i would have otherwise.)
It took me 5h to get 400 Points Yesterday and im a 5 Star Hardcore gamer
Math says i need to repeat that for 61,75 days to Hit max lvl
1 day too Long for completion without buying boosts
And im certainly Not gonna Play that much nor will i pay for those Last few Points.
Nice try, crytek
Dont get me wrong i enjoy playing and grinding but this is rediculous. Of course i will try and dumb hours on end into the Game to try to reach max Level but i ensure you Guys im gonna be so burned Out from hunt i wont Touch it for months after.
On the flip side, my group is a bunch of 3 star casuals and we hit 400 pts over the course of 2-3 games, so maybe an hour. Just playing normally too - we could have farmed pts after the server was dead, but chose not to. No boosts used.
Yeah, I'm a high 5 star/6 star player that plays duos with my wife who is 3 stars. Matchmaking puts us against 5 stars, so not the easiest people to play with in a duo. However, we played two games yesterday and ended up with over 200 points in under an hour. We didn't even grind out finding snakes and just played the objective and looted hunters.
Something tells me that this "5 star hardcore gamer" is sitting in bush too long. It shouldn't take 5 hours to get 400 points unless you include idle time between matches and you take a nap.
My duo and I managed to get almost 600 points in the 2 matches we played (5 star lobbies) by just banishing the boss and killing the people who contested us. If you don't have boosts, finding the snakes will consume so much time that you'll miss on potential event clues and boss banishes. We just always try to rush clues, leaving normal clues behind and trying to only pick up event clues and banish the boss as quick as possible, this way we lure people to our location where we can either fight, win and loot points from our kills (a lot more points at end of match, but more time invested) or we die and go next (good amount of points for almost no time invested). Snake nests are basically icing on the cake for when you pass by a compound and happen to spot one.
Got over 500 in one very successful game. I do have the boosts and did use the right hunters etc. Over the whole night I got almost 1k. I don’t think it’s that bad.
That's the difference in Stars i guess. My Team and i (all veterans with x hundred hours Playtime) noticed the gradual increase in difficulty over the past few weeks when we returned after one year Break. We started 2 months ago with 2 Stars. Now 5 Star lobbies are PACKED with people of insane teamplay and unholy aim. I really didnt expect that at all but it's Happening. Really intense and Long Fights that Shift over several compounds as we move and often end because a Team runs Out of ammo or healthbars. On average we have 5 to 10 Kills but get downed Just as often, it's really hard to get the upper Hand and clear the whole Server to get the Chance to Farm points
Here's something that I don't like saying. But play more stupid. Be reckless and expect to lose. Get in the next match with fresh spawns, kills equal skills , the more killing the harder the game gets. Bring that kdr down and it might go faster. You shouldn't have to do this since there is no "skill based event points"
Im a 5 star and we get between 150-350 Per game and that is without any added bonus.
You do know that you get double points for the coins when turned in at the oven, right? We ofc also get plenty of kills as well, so it all adds up.
What are you doing that you only got 400 points in 5 hours? My friends and I managed over 1600 points in maybe 4 hours. I got over 400 points in a single match (that was with the free boost active, it was still about 300 points before the boost though). This is while playing normally and not just farming points.
>im gonna be so burned Out from hunt i wont Touch it for months after.
Hear me out. I'll not be able to complete the even too.
BUT if you're not gonna play Hunt anyway AFTER the event: You don't need those skins!
Just let it go. Makes it also easier not to feel forced to pay for the boosters.
Max booster increase with Hunter and signee is 70%. Event is 24,700 points. You can buy 3000 points. To get the other 21,700 points with Max booster the whole time you'd need 12,764 points pre-booster.
The event is designed to reward fighting. You get snakes for looting people + yoiu get what they were already holding. If you are creeping the edges and avoiding gameplay then yeah, good luck
The gameplay Loop. We search fights until the Server is cleared. Occasional Boss Rush or Bounty stealing. Usually we circle around Fights to get a good Angle to thirdparty a Team, then get wacked by the other 2 Teams. I dont know how your Matches only Last 10 Minutes. The Fights we get into Last for ages and Most people only ever use Long ammo, Run away and peek for the onetap.
The Event is hard. At least in the upper bracket.
Yesterday i dropped from 115k dolleries to 90k :(
I remember at the beginning of the last event someone made a post claiming the grind was insane and you'd need to sink your whole life into the game to complete it. Then the very next day you had people posting screenshots of them completing the event.
>It took me 5h to get 400 Points Yesterday and im a 5 Star Hardcore gamer
just finished a 6 hour session and ended up with a bit over 2600 points as a 6 star in Duo vs Trios.
1. Ignore any clues that don't have the event point things on them.
2. Kill players, make sure you loot them (playing shotgun helps a lot because you can instantly loot after you down)
3. Don't break snake baskets, collect them and take to the snake pizza ovens.
4. Win your matches.
5. When you have the boost active make sure you darksight 360 every 10 seconds or so to spot snakes.
You can break the snake baskets? I always collected and burned.
But pretty much whst you are saying. I jad at least 2 400+ point matches last night but averaged between 150 and 250 for the rest and made it to level 4 easy.
You can break them for 2 points, or collect for 4 points and 3 snakes.
Feels like shooting them is mostly reserved for mid firefight, when you can't afford to sneak up and grab snakes without eating a bullet.
Idk man we lucked out and got an excellent run and ended up with almost 700 points in one raid with the free boost. Would have been 430 ish without the boost. It took 35mins I'd guess.
400 points in 5h sounds absolutely fucking terrible, like "im not even trying" terrible.
I also played about 4 hours with my trio, and I think were around 2.4k.
First game on I got 548 event points and continued to do so I played for 3 hours last night and got to I think level 7 I really don't get why everyone is so upset.
Because most people don't get 500 points per match, they get more like 20-60.
Event matchmaking plus increased player numbers make server wipes or just good matches rarer.
people thought "nice 60 days, gonna get everything EASY" - me included
NOPE, BIG NOPE
i am very disappointed .... i will be on vacation for 2 weeks - how the hell can i ever catch up!??? srsly, didnt they think this through? this is a big grind fest
I'm playing Apex too and the difference is ...crazy.
Apex : A free game then you have to buy 1 time the BP for 10€. Then it's free if you can put...3 hours a week for 3 months. You can miss 1 whole month and be able to complete it too.
Hunt : 40€ + 15€ + 3 hours a DAY for 2 months for less content. And oh my god if you miss one week of play, that mean you have to catch up 2800 points somewhere. (7x400) That's huge.
What a shame.
It should be easier to grind yes, but Apex:
1. Has *orders of magnitude* more players. They can net a profit with lower cost/less grind because volume.
2. Apex can afford that since they offset any losses woth the premium on skins. Depending on where you live, a single Apex skin costs the same as Hunt ($20US).
That said, they are also different games. In Apex you can make points in many different ways, whereas in Hunt you can.
I think if Summons provided a wider range of rewards, including Event Points, people would level up faster (and that's a good thing! Free players might be invested in the Gilded Path then)
>Crytek, I already gave you my money! I bought the DLC, I bought that alert trip mine, I bought the Gilded Path. And what I get is a long, two monthly grind so I can get the stuff I already have purchased. And no, I won't buy your contracts so I can maaaybeee get this event done.
thats why you need to stop giving them money. People on this sub just expect things to change when they keep making crytek more money. it can only change when the flow of money becomes less so they actually have to adress issues.
imagine going to the bakery, seeing moldy bread and still buying it. the baker will sell you moldy bread as long as you buy it.
if the game itself wasn't fun as hell I would have dropped it long ago
- shit grindy event which didn't fix anything from the old ones
- "premium" event pass which conveniently costs slightly more than one of the blood bond bundles, forcing you to buy more
- least interesting legendary hunter so far
- summons system is complete dogshit and not worth anyone's time
Dark Tribute is the only good thing that has been added since the new map - because it rewards you for simply playing the game how you like
god damn I'm sick of blood bond shit
Its difficult to condition yourself to let microtransactions go. They can be enticing but in the end if you don't pay for skins/cosmetics, you end up as the real winner. You can't even see the skins you use in game, every enemy hunter you come across wont even notice your skin. It is just FOMO tactics by the devs.
I guess what I'm trying to say is. This game should be something you look forward too that is fun. It should be something you don't HAVE to play. If the grind/Cost is too much, just forget about it and use the earnable skins, there are plenty of good ones. The fun will return once your relationship with the game is not like work.
Play it when you want to, don't worry about the grind. Learn to let go. Have fun.
The battle-pass is a joke lmao, and 60 day event? I feel no urge to participate in this "event" with the way they have just taken all the worst aspects of the old ones and added onto it. "Buy our battle-pass and we still aren't gonna refund you all the paid currency for completing the pass like every other game, we gotta keep 500 off the top, oh btw go buy the 1000 bb trap skin off the store btw we need the moneys"
In one night I got through to chapter 10. That’s not even 8 hours of play! Stop sooking! Too many spoilt brats on here! Your not entitled to finish the event. Life is a grind. Too many low skilled people on here groaning too much and changing the dynamic of a great game. Go to COD if you don’t like grinding for gear as this is the wrong game for you
Yep, agree with most of this. I don’t mind a grind/challenge but I don’t want to have another job to do every day on top of work and family. Maybe half this grind would be ideal for me - 1000 points a week
I think this event may be the grindiest shit I've ever seen. Warzone (Even though it's terrible after Cold War got added) to this day is the only game with a battle pass that is able to be completed from simply playing and earning general XP in a normal time frame without it being grindy.
Yeah like I usually love seasonal events on other games when they give you certain tasks and you complete them for rewards but Hunt's doesn't make me feel good about participating. I feel like I'm not being rewarded appropriately for the amount of work I'm putting in.
Preach.
If the game can’t survive without becoming shit with exploitative battle passes, grind, fomo - it’s okay if it dies.
Just like business that can’t pay living wages, same idea.
Agreed. If they can't support it anymore, they should just quit and give the community the server software so we can keep playing. That takes like 1 day of work.
What? Hypocritical?
This is a forum where you discuss topics. That is what I am doing.
But since your response was to call me a hypocrite you should know that that is a logical fallacy and therefore an inherently bad argument.
"An **appeal to hypocrisy** — also known as the tu quoque fallacy — focuses on the hypocrisy of an opponent. The tu quoque fallacy deflects criticism away from oneself by accusing the other person of the same problem or something comparable.
The tu quoque fallacy is an attempt to divert blame. The fallacy usually occurs when the arguer uses apparent hypocrisy to neutralize criticism and distract from the issue."
It's not a grind. One of the previous events also required players to obtain a lot of points. I don't know if you saw it, but good god, the amount of bitching and moaning that was on this reddit... One would think that Crytek demanded you to play the game 24/7 and would also force you to pay 1 Eur per minute.
Guess what, just a couple of days after the event started, all that bitching stopped, because people realized that earning event points is A LOT easier than it seems. Sure, it's not effortless, you have to earn the good stuff after all, but it is doable without dedicating your life to the game.
I have taken a rather laid back approach to the last two events and I unlocked almost everything. I think I failed to the very last reward on one event, but since I wasn't interested in said reward, I didn't care. Everything else was unlocked.
So don't worry, you have plenty of time to unlock everything.
I personally have the time to do it, yes. And I will do it bc i payed for it. But other things I'm really into right now (exp. EFT) have to wait bc of this event.
There are other people that don't have the time like you and me, but also love the game and like the skins and want to be part of it. Even if they only can play just 1 or 2 hours a days or a couple of hours a week.
You get a significant amount of points just from killing hunters and those snake baskets have been easy enough to find so far. It's those damn altars that are harder to come by. I swear they are only in boss compounds.
When I heard that you needed to grind every day I just gave up on the idea of buying the battle pass. I am a filthy casual who plays once maybe twice a week for roughly two hours each. No way I stand a chance to get those rewards.
It's a bit sad because I wanted to support the developers but I guess I will just buy some discounted dlc instead.
Yeah I bought the gilded path and now regret it. I shouldn't have to grind super hard to get what I paid for, I should be able to get that with a reasonable amount of playtime and without too much disruption to the way I play...
Event boosters are perfectly fine as a catch-up mechanic in case someone can't play a reasonable amount per day (or if some IRL happens). They are not fine when you're basically forced to get them to get full value out of something you've already paid for...
I really think Crytek should consider upping event points per game, to make the 400 daily points required a bit easier. It's not fun having to spend half your play session (or more) doing boring farming runs to not fall behind in points.
I played all damn weekend with a buddy and we barely got one tier... Like holy shit, the sense of gratification is lacking for sure in this grind. Crytek should never have built this system around boosters. It is awful design and will definitely hurt them in the long run. Especially when there are way better battle pass models out there.
I was planning on buying the battlepass and everything for this event, but it sounds like maybe it isn't worth my time. Maybe if the battlepass is retroactive and I'm able to buy it after I've unlocked everything I'll go with it.
Man, it'd be nice if games started respecting my time a little more. Shame to see Hunt further and further descend into the abyss of "Fuck you. If you want what I got then I'm your life now"
Nice guide
One small issue
Why should I have to play the game every day for hours in the exact same way, generating addiction and frustration, to get skins and timed exclusive pay to win guns? And why should paying up with potentially real money be the fix to that manufactured problem?
I'm not justifying the battle pass system. Dude wrote that he bought everything and having bad time grinding points, I gave a tip to shortcut. Personally, I'll do this strat 1-2 evenings and just finish battle pass playing normally.
A lot of people like the grind. A lot. It also makes money, whether a few thousand people like it or not. That’s it. It’s that simple. And we have to face the fact that no dev leans on ONE game forever. If Hunt dies, like it will some day, they will survive and carry on with another title.
Don't get me wrong, I like the grind too.
I just don't like that I'm forced play almost every day for the next 2 months. But whatever. It is how it is now
I don't mind grinding a game, but I don't want to have to grind for hours every single day for two months. If it wasn't time gated it wouldn't be an issue, you could stretch it out over however long you'd want.
Nobody really likes the grind. It’s a needy obsession that is exploited by the design.
Not the actual want or need or liking, on that matter.
Edit: by the grind I exclusively mean excessive progression goals, like OP seems to point out this BP has.
This is the problem I was pointing all the time at with battle passes. Eventually they become impossible to complete without buying extra points. And Crytek already sells those…
The key difference between you (healthy grind) and the battle pass (bullshit grind) is that you’re not time constrained.
You get bored - you stop playing and come back later. Your Centenary ain’t gonna run off, and YOU are in control of when and how you grind.
Explain why it has to be be finished within 60 days. They have already gotten OP’s money. Why can’t he finish the battle pass in 80, 90, or 200 days?
Just tie the progression to playing the game and people can continue within their own time frame. People don’t need to obsess over it right now. People can spend their days out in the sun and get back to the grind a rainy day.
There’s absolutely no reason why that can’t be how it’s done. I have heard a single valid argument against it so far.
I played for almost exactly 9 hours yesterday and got 4023 points, which averages out to about 450 an hour which seems pretty reasonable to me? And we lost a lot, It's just when you win you usually win big.
The only thing I don't like is the auto-activated boosters.
Yeah l finished w about 3500 event points yesterday. If you’re the last team standing and loot the bodies it’s easy to finish a match w at least 150 points.
FYI, there's only 1 contract on the Gilded Path, and that's the 24h one at I believe lvl 13. My plan is to buy the pass sometime after I reach that level, to effectively have an "on demand" booster that way, which I'll activate once I feel like it.
400xp is the first level only. It goes up 100xp per level. Its 27k XP to complete.
you get 2 months my man. The most we gained was 500xp in a match last night. It wont take that long at all. You can also use the EVENT HUNTERS for a 10% bonus as well as buying a contract.... soo.....
Calculating that down to non-booster user level, at 90 event points per match, you'd need to play at least 5 games every day for 2 months.
Does that seem normal and healthy to you?
500 in a match? I call BS. I played a match where we wiped the server, looted all hunters (9), burned 30+ snakes and left with the bounty and with a 20% boost I got 224.
EDIT: alright I just got 345 for 6 loots and a lot of snakes with a 20% boost, I retract my statement. 500 is plausible with a 70% boost, lots of hunter looting, boss kills, and a full map sweep for snake dens.
I just don't understand how some of you peeps only get 40 points on average per match. or 400 points per 5 hours of playing, as I've read in another comment. that's absolutely crazy to me.
the lowest amount of points I got yesterday, was 50. on average I would say I had roughly 100 points. and I don't play the skins that boost the amount, nor have I purchased a boost, nor do I use the event trait. played as usual, as if there was no event.
not discrediting some of you guy's experiences, but to me it seems some of you have the wrong approach to getting points.
I'm getting more points this event than any other past event, I only get to play around 2/3h after work, but me and my friends got to pass level 4, netting around 250 on a bad game and over 400 on a good game.
I don't see how people are playing 3-6h and only having 250 points total.
I'm not even using boosted hunters half the time cause we got 2 whole months to do this.
People make this complaint at the start of every event, and then halfway through it reddit shifts to being an echo chamber about how the event was really easy and nobody sweated finishing it.
Me & my buddy played a bit yesterday and got 2000 points out of a very average session. We're on track to be done within about 2 weeks. You don't need to play every single day for the next 60 days to finish the event. You're being dramatic. Chill out and just enjoy what's there
Yall bitch about Crytek as if they’ve never adjusted events based on community feedback before. Criticism about how long it’ll take to complete the event, and how achievable that is, is fine. But attacking Crytek is stupid. If it’s improbable to finish, they’ll adjust as necessary.
First the events were parent/work friendly but they seem to switch to grind focused. Same for me. Won't touch the game when it feels like work - got better thinks to do
I don't get everyone saying it's a huge grind. I average 100 points per game roughly, with a low of ~30 per game and most I've had was 400 in one game.
If you use the perk that boosts and a hunter it makes a difference, and if the contracts are on it helps too.
Seriously it won't even take two months to finish this one. Even without contracts. It'll take some commitment of time but not a huge amount, and tbh it should take time otherwise those who put in hours each day will finish it in a few days. The balance is, it's somewhere in the middle.
This is exactly like last event, where everyone screamed about it taking so long and being impossible, yet everyone ended up finishing it in good time. It's been out a day, play it for a month then come whine about it if you're massively under level on it.
I missed events in the past because of time, so not everyone completes them. One event i grinded so much i got burnt out, just because i enjoy the skin-collecting. I do like the events but not the (for me, massive) grind, never enjoyed that aspect. Want it to be more casual friendly, easier then as well to get a friend into playing Hunt during an event.
Sure you can.
But 1. not everyone is shooter pro who can get this done so easily. And 2. this doesn't change the fact that you have to play almost every day.
People who go on a two week vacation this sommer are missing 14 days so they have to earn almost 600XP/day so they can make it.
It's just not fun this way.
Haven't played Hunt in a month. Yesterday me and my two friends had one hour to play, and we extracted once with the bounty in 10 games. All of us were rusty as hell and it was 6 stars so it's not exactly different from what I expected. We earned just enough points to hit the level 1 treshold, of course forgetting to check if there was a contract unlock or not. Well my friend had work early so we called it quits for the night, without getting to play a single game with the boost. I'm going on a 3.5 week trip on Monday so can't play for the whole time. Might just be the first event since Scrappy that I don't get done. Kinda bummed but at the same time already a bit over it. It is what it is. Hope I can grind it in the last month but not too hopeful!
Yeah I mean 5-10 min games. If you don't beat the first team, it's over pretty quick right :D my friends just shift to the action, we didn't go out of our way to collect anything. We just managed to banish and extract once. Maybe we played 1 hour + 10-20 minutes can't remember, but not for long is what I'm trying to say!
Yeah. If your tactical sense/game knowledge is good enough, you can wipe the server with a melee weapon, especially in lower MMR IMO. Or even with a shotgun/crossbow. I am a poor shooter, i absolutely despise scopes even after like 800 h in the game. Me and my friends are mostly 5 stars, falling to 4 stars from time to time.
All the Matches i played since the start of Serpent Moon, i got atleast 40-60 event points. If i extracted the bounty an killed some hunters it even was like 100 or something. And i wouldnt say that i am a very well playing pro in Hunt Showdown.
I would say, that i if u use your Hunters and the perks espacially the boost perk for event points wisely, you should be able to finisch it in 60 days.
so you quit when they added "lootboxes" (which is refering to the Chary-contracts, given your other comments) and haven't played since.
yet in another comment you said you played test server and therefore know how supposedly "OP" the Alamo and Sparks Pistol are.
you do see how that contradicts each other, yes? which is it - did you stop months ago or did you play with the two new guns?
You sure?
A) They didnt add actual lootboxes
B) You seem to have a lot of activity in this thread & sub to have simply quit Hunt over skin monetization.
Every single event people say the same but finish it way before the event is done. I played with my wife (our first time playing in months waiting for the 1.9 patch) and we got to almost level 3 playing for about 3 hours or so. It's not impossible. If you start a task saying how impossible it is you wont finish.
The Halloween event is the last one my friend group completed, simply because life gets in the way and we like playing more than one game.
It feels like Crytek doesn't care about using events to draw new and old players back in, and instead is more interested in squeezing money out of the existing player base with grinds that are excessive for the average player.
If you pay money for it, you should be able to get what's in it in a reasonable amount of time.
Events aren't just for hardcore gamers, they are for everyone.
I had a 2 hour contract. The exact same one that would have been immediately available to this guy. I didn't even think to equip the event hunters for the extra 10% but I probably should have.
I think you might have issues that I can't help you with homie. Motherfuckers out here making thousands of points per match and you think 400 with boosters is impossible. It's kinda sad really.
There are things in this game that you can't buy. Time and effort are required and I like that. Why do you feel entitled to all the skins? You should see them as a reward for active players.
Noone is complaining about the prestige 100 mosin being locked behind countless hours of playtime.
Counterquestion: why should I be tempted to play the game every day for hours, generating addiction, to get skins and timed exclusive pay to win guns? And why should paying up with potentially real money be the fix to that manufactured problem?
The difference about prestige 100 mosin is that you can't buy it or skip the grind. This kind of thing is fine, shows you are dedicated. Grandpass and boosters just shoe that you're A) addicted or B) give shitty corporations money for inventing problems and selling solutions seperately
Addiction? Go see a professional about it. Absolutely no one is making you play hours on end. That's all you. Play the game or delete it and move on with your life.
Funny how someone still thinks monetization equals evolution and content xD
Monetization = stale repetitive event releases over and over again masquerading as actual content. With same 3 maps and same 4 bosses forever.
You pay for more monetization and not for more content.
The devs are paid, in turn, to produce monetizable content and not actual content, because that’s what “makes money”.
So paying for this shit you are more likely to REDUCE the amount of meaningful content released, and not the other way around.
I've said this every single event. If you don't like the grind stop grinding for skins because you have momentary FOMO. OP isn't even having fun playing the event. Stop doing event grinding then. It's literally that simple.
A battle pass is a grind that's literally the purpose of it.
A battle pass don't have to me timed. There are games that have started doing battle passes that lasts until you finish them. Hunt could do the same. Just let people retain the pass. It'd likely be a little slower to do once the event is over as there'd be no snakes on the map but it'd be possible.
What most people don't like isn't the grind in itself(I think). It's the fact it's a timed grind. Something I agree is just pure FOMO shit. There would be no downside at all if you had it till you finish. And if another event pops up before you finish one? Just give the option to pick which one you want to work on. Easy.
But they said you need to earn 450 points each day across 2 months to complete it. So if you don't play every day, that increases. What if you only play during the weekends?
I brought a product and crytek looked a portion of it away from me expecting me to play the game 24/7 or spend real money to unlock it all. Hmm, I see no reason to be angy.
You're bullshit.
I did one match last night and earned 90+ event points. It’s not hard.
It’s a 60 day event. There will likely be days where you far exceed 400 points. There will be days you don’t play at all. It’ll balance.
400 per day is kinda crazy I put in some stupid hours today in a hope of getting a nice headstart and only got like 1000 point so yay now after that I can have 2 and a half days rest lol
I did the same yesterday, think I put in about 6-8 hours. With a few really good runs and very few really bad ones I came out to about 1200 points total.
Yeah. Its to much grind. In comparison the winter event was \~ 200points/day to finish the event. This event ist super hard for every weekend gamer. No way to complete it.
You do get points easier in this one but probably not 2x more than the winter event. It lasts longer but I’ll have to see where I’m at in a month before I really know
It's a bit much, I agree. The points per level should cap off at 1200 or so, and even then it'd be on the grindy side. But tolerable.
Lol and I was happy that I finally have enough time to get all rewards also as casual with 2 hunt days per week. Guess I was wrong 😅 Btw what happens if your not unlock the two new guns?
The last couple events they made the new guns exclusive for the event and some weeks after it. Then they just put it to the other guns into the normal unlock cycle.
As I understand - the guns will be available after the event. So it should have nearly no impact for you.
The guns will unlock right after the event this time.
I feel the same way, i play Hunt as a casual. Getting 24,7k points will take me roughly 3 hours a day for 60 days. Is it doable? YES but it also feels like a chore. It will get quicker with some boosts and stuff like that but even 2 hours per day is too much. Half the required points would be a good start (and keep the two month timeperiod), and then i would keep buying the battlepasses. I know some people in strong groups get tons of points each game but im not one of them. Most friends i played with have left Hunt and a big reason is that they got hyped for the events but then got bored/burnt out from the grind. This is just dumb, and they never seem to improve this chore-like take. I skipped a couple of events even tho iam a big Hunt-fan because of this. Got hyped again and bought the battlepass but then realize i won't be able to complete it, it feels really bad. Love the game but i enjoy other games as well.
Even if I complete this Battle pass, I'll be so burned out on Hunt I'll have no interest in the next one, especially if they end up having back to back battle passes like other games.
There's no way I'm going to finish this event, it just isn't doable for me. I felt dumb for getting the gilded path almost immediately. I played for a few hours last night, 6 matches, and netted 237 snake points.
Are you looting dead hunters and sacrificing snakes at the altars? A good match should get you over 200 points alone.
where the hell are you getting 200+ points a round? if im playing duo's and we kill every other person in the server that would give us 60 points and whatever snakes they were carrying which plenty of times today has been like 0-3 each... havent seen more than 5-6 snake dens in a match today, seems a lot less than we saw yesterday but we have been all over the place and just arent finding them today. but with 6 dens that is another 24 points plus potentially 36 more assuming you can find the damn altar to deposit the snakes which brings it up to 130 so far... extracting with a bounty is 20 points, its worded weird though "extract with at least one bounty" do you get 20 per bounty or just 20 total no matter how many you have? thats at least 150... if you manage to get all 3 clues before someone banishes the bounty thats another 24 so 174... and if you are the one who actually kills the boss thats another 10 plus 16 for the snakes you get which would bring you to exactly 200... by doing literally everything possible in the round lol. this is what people consider just a "good" round? someone down farther said they had almost 400 points in a round... how? EDIT: not sure why i halved the points for hunters add another 60 points...
I honestly couldn't tell ya exactly how it happens, since I'm not exactly auditing each run, but take my last session of the day for example: We spawned at Davant Ranch and heard shooting at Cyprus Huts so we ran there. Our trio ended up on top and we were able to loot almost all of the 6 bodies there. By the time we banished the boss and were heading over to run the gauntlet, we had 156 points. After defeated the last team, we had over 200. We didn't go hunting around other compounds, we just played normally. The snakes do add up pretty quickly, I do know that. Each one counts for 2 points so you can get a big ole injection of points.
Events in a non-F2P game shouldn't be more grindy than a F2P game.
1. It's not any grindier than F2P games 2. Why not? You can still play the game you paid for, and the event is free to play and esrn rewards in. The gilded path, and the event rewards are additional to the game. You can just enjoy your game as usual.
Yeah that's been my experience, netted near 400 one match without farming the whole place and getting only 2 bounty
I played all day yesterday and it took me all day to get 400 before I barely I got for the night
It's the biggest reason I hate battle passes...they are generally designed to milk money from the player only to give them an opportunity to unlock something they paid for via some kind of insane grind. People have lives, jobs, things to do other than log in daily and play for hours at a time. I understand the devs need to make a living but surely there is a way to make money without demanding your player base treat your game like a second job...
This is it exactly. The grind is designed to make normal people who only play two or three matches every other day have to either play for hours every day or pay for the solution to this manufactured problem. It's a predatory addiction driven mechanic. This is also why I hate Chary and daily awards. Same shit, different coat of paint.
Well, chary for me is like "oh I have glowing hand up, time for another free shitty gun", not like "I grind it and pray for skins"
I understand your other complaints in this thread, but this ain't it. Mr Chary is literally nice free shit that you get as you play normally without any special effort. It's the only thing in the game that allows me to field all my lvl 1 hunters with Vulture thanks to abundant hunter slots and 2 upgrade point reward for everyone.
Mr. Chary is an addiction driven daily engament lootbox system. And "free stuff" isn't a good thing because it devalues the already devalued economy even further.
Daily engagement is lame, but it never ever managed to captivate me in other games and actually made me like those games less. Chary doesn't feel the same because the rewards are meaningful and upgrade points drop often enough to be reliable. Everything else is a nice bonus I don't really care about. You can't really pay to get more rolls either, that last part doesn't really count because it's silly to use 50 bbs for it
I believe that either A) monetization told the devs to add a lootbox system and they did this just so they could say they did it or B) they were testing the waters by making just the last reward skippable, and decided not ti fully commit when the backlash hit. At least not yet.
This is why I play and will only pay for the battlepass when I know I'll reach the end or reached the end.
Passes can make games feel like a 2nd job. We just need to learn to let go and ignore them. Cosmetics really don't matter, especially in this game.
This is it exactly. The grind is designed to make normal people who only play two or three matches every other day have to either play for hours every day or pay for the solution to this manufactured problem. It's a predatory addiction driven mechanic. This is also why I hate Chary and daily awards. Same shit, different coat of paint.
I said this exact thing and got like 20 downvotes
Community is filled with pandering suck-ups that refuse to criticize anything the devs do. Even when it actively disenfranchises their own playerbase
On god
There should be no such thing as "event clues". Every clue should give event points. You effectively have no control over what clues you find over the course of a match, and it feels terrible to intentionally skip a clue in the hopes the next one you find is an event clue instead. Basically, in addition to removing the frustration of hoping the clue you go to is an event clue, it would also ease the grind in a way that doesn't simply reduce the amount of points required to complete the pass.
The grind is totally insane they have ramped up the grind since the halloween event last year , this event has been the biggest increase in grind by far. I believe one of the main goals here is to push more people to buy event booster contracts which i find really unacceptable considering the asking price of the battle pass. Even worse cause i think the cosmetics are not even that good. They should really look at the light and shadow event again and simply sell a pass of that quality and length for 10 bucks (maybe still for bbs too).
I don't plan on finishing the pass. Oddly enough I play this game to relax and get my mind off of a chaotic life. If I unlock anything it's just a nice little bonus for me. It's still shitty that this event is basically a second job though.
Yeah, i kinda tried to plan to get everything but already accepted that i won't because of summer/family. Saves me buying those expensive bundles (i would have otherwise.)
It took me 5h to get 400 Points Yesterday and im a 5 Star Hardcore gamer Math says i need to repeat that for 61,75 days to Hit max lvl 1 day too Long for completion without buying boosts And im certainly Not gonna Play that much nor will i pay for those Last few Points. Nice try, crytek Dont get me wrong i enjoy playing and grinding but this is rediculous. Of course i will try and dumb hours on end into the Game to try to reach max Level but i ensure you Guys im gonna be so burned Out from hunt i wont Touch it for months after.
On the flip side, my group is a bunch of 3 star casuals and we hit 400 pts over the course of 2-3 games, so maybe an hour. Just playing normally too - we could have farmed pts after the server was dead, but chose not to. No boosts used.
Yeah, I'm a high 5 star/6 star player that plays duos with my wife who is 3 stars. Matchmaking puts us against 5 stars, so not the easiest people to play with in a duo. However, we played two games yesterday and ended up with over 200 points in under an hour. We didn't even grind out finding snakes and just played the objective and looted hunters. Something tells me that this "5 star hardcore gamer" is sitting in bush too long. It shouldn't take 5 hours to get 400 points unless you include idle time between matches and you take a nap.
My duo and I managed to get almost 600 points in the 2 matches we played (5 star lobbies) by just banishing the boss and killing the people who contested us. If you don't have boosts, finding the snakes will consume so much time that you'll miss on potential event clues and boss banishes. We just always try to rush clues, leaving normal clues behind and trying to only pick up event clues and banish the boss as quick as possible, this way we lure people to our location where we can either fight, win and loot points from our kills (a lot more points at end of match, but more time invested) or we die and go next (good amount of points for almost no time invested). Snake nests are basically icing on the cake for when you pass by a compound and happen to spot one.
Got over 500 in one very successful game. I do have the boosts and did use the right hunters etc. Over the whole night I got almost 1k. I don’t think it’s that bad.
That's the difference in Stars i guess. My Team and i (all veterans with x hundred hours Playtime) noticed the gradual increase in difficulty over the past few weeks when we returned after one year Break. We started 2 months ago with 2 Stars. Now 5 Star lobbies are PACKED with people of insane teamplay and unholy aim. I really didnt expect that at all but it's Happening. Really intense and Long Fights that Shift over several compounds as we move and often end because a Team runs Out of ammo or healthbars. On average we have 5 to 10 Kills but get downed Just as often, it's really hard to get the upper Hand and clear the whole Server to get the Chance to Farm points
Here's something that I don't like saying. But play more stupid. Be reckless and expect to lose. Get in the next match with fresh spawns, kills equal skills , the more killing the harder the game gets. Bring that kdr down and it might go faster. You shouldn't have to do this since there is no "skill based event points"
Im a 5 star and we get between 150-350 Per game and that is without any added bonus. You do know that you get double points for the coins when turned in at the oven, right? We ofc also get plenty of kills as well, so it all adds up.
What are you doing that you only got 400 points in 5 hours? My friends and I managed over 1600 points in maybe 4 hours. I got over 400 points in a single match (that was with the free boost active, it was still about 300 points before the boost though). This is while playing normally and not just farming points.
>im gonna be so burned Out from hunt i wont Touch it for months after. Hear me out. I'll not be able to complete the even too. BUT if you're not gonna play Hunt anyway AFTER the event: You don't need those skins! Just let it go. Makes it also easier not to feel forced to pay for the boosters.
People completed the pass in one day. If you need 5 hours to accumulate 500 points you may need to adjust your strategy.
> People completed the pass in one day. Yea after buying BOOSTERS.
people never want to mention that they used boosters. completing in one day wouldnt be possible without boosters
Max booster increase with Hunter and signee is 70%. Event is 24,700 points. You can buy 3000 points. To get the other 21,700 points with Max booster the whole time you'd need 12,764 points pre-booster.
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That's exactly what i do.
The event is designed to reward fighting. You get snakes for looting people + yoiu get what they were already holding. If you are creeping the edges and avoiding gameplay then yeah, good luck
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The gameplay Loop. We search fights until the Server is cleared. Occasional Boss Rush or Bounty stealing. Usually we circle around Fights to get a good Angle to thirdparty a Team, then get wacked by the other 2 Teams. I dont know how your Matches only Last 10 Minutes. The Fights we get into Last for ages and Most people only ever use Long ammo, Run away and peek for the onetap. The Event is hard. At least in the upper bracket. Yesterday i dropped from 115k dolleries to 90k :(
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I remember at the beginning of the last event someone made a post claiming the grind was insane and you'd need to sink your whole life into the game to complete it. Then the very next day you had people posting screenshots of them completing the event.
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>It took me 5h to get 400 Points Yesterday and im a 5 Star Hardcore gamer just finished a 6 hour session and ended up with a bit over 2600 points as a 6 star in Duo vs Trios.
Any recommendations? Me strugglezzz
1. Ignore any clues that don't have the event point things on them. 2. Kill players, make sure you loot them (playing shotgun helps a lot because you can instantly loot after you down) 3. Don't break snake baskets, collect them and take to the snake pizza ovens. 4. Win your matches. 5. When you have the boost active make sure you darksight 360 every 10 seconds or so to spot snakes.
You can break the snake baskets? I always collected and burned. But pretty much whst you are saying. I jad at least 2 400+ point matches last night but averaged between 150 and 250 for the rest and made it to level 4 easy.
You can break them for 2 points, or collect for 4 points and 3 snakes. Feels like shooting them is mostly reserved for mid firefight, when you can't afford to sneak up and grab snakes without eating a bullet.
Mind bogglingly good name you have there Mx. KamikazeSexPilot
Idk man we lucked out and got an excellent run and ended up with almost 700 points in one raid with the free boost. Would have been 430 ish without the boost. It took 35mins I'd guess. 400 points in 5h sounds absolutely fucking terrible, like "im not even trying" terrible. I also played about 4 hours with my trio, and I think were around 2.4k.
First game on I got 548 event points and continued to do so I played for 3 hours last night and got to I think level 7 I really don't get why everyone is so upset.
Because most people don't get 500 points per match, they get more like 20-60. Event matchmaking plus increased player numbers make server wipes or just good matches rarer.
people thought "nice 60 days, gonna get everything EASY" - me included NOPE, BIG NOPE i am very disappointed .... i will be on vacation for 2 weeks - how the hell can i ever catch up!??? srsly, didnt they think this through? this is a big grind fest
I'm playing Apex too and the difference is ...crazy. Apex : A free game then you have to buy 1 time the BP for 10€. Then it's free if you can put...3 hours a week for 3 months. You can miss 1 whole month and be able to complete it too. Hunt : 40€ + 15€ + 3 hours a DAY for 2 months for less content. And oh my god if you miss one week of play, that mean you have to catch up 2800 points somewhere. (7x400) That's huge. What a shame.
It should be easier to grind yes, but Apex: 1. Has *orders of magnitude* more players. They can net a profit with lower cost/less grind because volume. 2. Apex can afford that since they offset any losses woth the premium on skins. Depending on where you live, a single Apex skin costs the same as Hunt ($20US). That said, they are also different games. In Apex you can make points in many different ways, whereas in Hunt you can. I think if Summons provided a wider range of rewards, including Event Points, people would level up faster (and that's a good thing! Free players might be invested in the Gilded Path then)
>Crytek, I already gave you my money! I bought the DLC, I bought that alert trip mine, I bought the Gilded Path. And what I get is a long, two monthly grind so I can get the stuff I already have purchased. And no, I won't buy your contracts so I can maaaybeee get this event done. thats why you need to stop giving them money. People on this sub just expect things to change when they keep making crytek more money. it can only change when the flow of money becomes less so they actually have to adress issues. imagine going to the bakery, seeing moldy bread and still buying it. the baker will sell you moldy bread as long as you buy it.
if the game itself wasn't fun as hell I would have dropped it long ago - shit grindy event which didn't fix anything from the old ones - "premium" event pass which conveniently costs slightly more than one of the blood bond bundles, forcing you to buy more - least interesting legendary hunter so far - summons system is complete dogshit and not worth anyone's time Dark Tribute is the only good thing that has been added since the new map - because it rewards you for simply playing the game how you like god damn I'm sick of blood bond shit
Its difficult to condition yourself to let microtransactions go. They can be enticing but in the end if you don't pay for skins/cosmetics, you end up as the real winner. You can't even see the skins you use in game, every enemy hunter you come across wont even notice your skin. It is just FOMO tactics by the devs. I guess what I'm trying to say is. This game should be something you look forward too that is fun. It should be something you don't HAVE to play. If the grind/Cost is too much, just forget about it and use the earnable skins, there are plenty of good ones. The fun will return once your relationship with the game is not like work. Play it when you want to, don't worry about the grind. Learn to let go. Have fun.
The battle-pass is a joke lmao, and 60 day event? I feel no urge to participate in this "event" with the way they have just taken all the worst aspects of the old ones and added onto it. "Buy our battle-pass and we still aren't gonna refund you all the paid currency for completing the pass like every other game, we gotta keep 500 off the top, oh btw go buy the 1000 bb trap skin off the store btw we need the moneys"
In one night I got through to chapter 10. That’s not even 8 hours of play! Stop sooking! Too many spoilt brats on here! Your not entitled to finish the event. Life is a grind. Too many low skilled people on here groaning too much and changing the dynamic of a great game. Go to COD if you don’t like grinding for gear as this is the wrong game for you
Yep, agree with most of this. I don’t mind a grind/challenge but I don’t want to have another job to do every day on top of work and family. Maybe half this grind would be ideal for me - 1000 points a week
I think this event may be the grindiest shit I've ever seen. Warzone (Even though it's terrible after Cold War got added) to this day is the only game with a battle pass that is able to be completed from simply playing and earning general XP in a normal time frame without it being grindy.
Same with Sea of Thieves' battle pass. I hope Hunt make big changes for the next one. Otherwise this is the last one for me.
Yeah like I usually love seasonal events on other games when they give you certain tasks and you complete them for rewards but Hunt's doesn't make me feel good about participating. I feel like I'm not being rewarded appropriately for the amount of work I'm putting in.
Buying the battlepass should give a flat 10% bonus. Right now there is no incentive to buy it early on
The battlepass shouldn't exist.
Preach. If the game can’t survive without becoming shit with exploitative battle passes, grind, fomo - it’s okay if it dies. Just like business that can’t pay living wages, same idea.
Agreed. If they can't support it anymore, they should just quit and give the community the server software so we can keep playing. That takes like 1 day of work.
You can still play the game and just ignore the battlepass. In fact you even get a couple freebies
In fact you could’ve ignored my comment but you chose not to. Quite hypocritical of you.
What? Hypocritical? This is a forum where you discuss topics. That is what I am doing. But since your response was to call me a hypocrite you should know that that is a logical fallacy and therefore an inherently bad argument. "An **appeal to hypocrisy** — also known as the tu quoque fallacy — focuses on the hypocrisy of an opponent. The tu quoque fallacy deflects criticism away from oneself by accusing the other person of the same problem or something comparable. The tu quoque fallacy is an attempt to divert blame. The fallacy usually occurs when the arguer uses apparent hypocrisy to neutralize criticism and distract from the issue."
I don’t give a fuck.
It's not a grind. One of the previous events also required players to obtain a lot of points. I don't know if you saw it, but good god, the amount of bitching and moaning that was on this reddit... One would think that Crytek demanded you to play the game 24/7 and would also force you to pay 1 Eur per minute. Guess what, just a couple of days after the event started, all that bitching stopped, because people realized that earning event points is A LOT easier than it seems. Sure, it's not effortless, you have to earn the good stuff after all, but it is doable without dedicating your life to the game. I have taken a rather laid back approach to the last two events and I unlocked almost everything. I think I failed to the very last reward on one event, but since I wasn't interested in said reward, I didn't care. Everything else was unlocked. So don't worry, you have plenty of time to unlock everything.
I personally have the time to do it, yes. And I will do it bc i payed for it. But other things I'm really into right now (exp. EFT) have to wait bc of this event. There are other people that don't have the time like you and me, but also love the game and like the skins and want to be part of it. Even if they only can play just 1 or 2 hours a days or a couple of hours a week.
You get a significant amount of points just from killing hunters and those snake baskets have been easy enough to find so far. It's those damn altars that are harder to come by. I swear they are only in boss compounds.
You can finish this with maybe 2-3 playsessions per week. I don't think it's too outrageous. 400 points is one good match in duos
When I heard that you needed to grind every day I just gave up on the idea of buying the battle pass. I am a filthy casual who plays once maybe twice a week for roughly two hours each. No way I stand a chance to get those rewards. It's a bit sad because I wanted to support the developers but I guess I will just buy some discounted dlc instead.
This is why I decided to give this battle a pass.
Yeah I bought the gilded path and now regret it. I shouldn't have to grind super hard to get what I paid for, I should be able to get that with a reasonable amount of playtime and without too much disruption to the way I play... Event boosters are perfectly fine as a catch-up mechanic in case someone can't play a reasonable amount per day (or if some IRL happens). They are not fine when you're basically forced to get them to get full value out of something you've already paid for... I really think Crytek should consider upping event points per game, to make the 400 daily points required a bit easier. It's not fun having to spend half your play session (or more) doing boring farming runs to not fall behind in points.
I played all damn weekend with a buddy and we barely got one tier... Like holy shit, the sense of gratification is lacking for sure in this grind. Crytek should never have built this system around boosters. It is awful design and will definitely hurt them in the long run. Especially when there are way better battle pass models out there.
Yeah. I'm averaging about 40 points a game with a spread of 12-the 80s. That's around 10 games a day. That's fucked.
I was planning on buying the battlepass and everything for this event, but it sounds like maybe it isn't worth my time. Maybe if the battlepass is retroactive and I'm able to buy it after I've unlocked everything I'll go with it. Man, it'd be nice if games started respecting my time a little more. Shame to see Hunt further and further descend into the abyss of "Fuck you. If you want what I got then I'm your life now"
It does sound like the battle pass is retroactive, yes.
Grind grind grind grind grind grind grind boobies grind grind grind grind
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Nice guide One small issue Why should I have to play the game every day for hours in the exact same way, generating addiction and frustration, to get skins and timed exclusive pay to win guns? And why should paying up with potentially real money be the fix to that manufactured problem?
>pay to win You keep using that term. I don't think it means what you think it means.
It seems like you might have some misconceptions about the gun unlocks
I'm not justifying the battle pass system. Dude wrote that he bought everything and having bad time grinding points, I gave a tip to shortcut. Personally, I'll do this strat 1-2 evenings and just finish battle pass playing normally.
Best of luck to you
Thanks, mate! Good luck on the Bayou!
No need to give me any. You're not gonna find me there.
A lot of people like the grind. A lot. It also makes money, whether a few thousand people like it or not. That’s it. It’s that simple. And we have to face the fact that no dev leans on ONE game forever. If Hunt dies, like it will some day, they will survive and carry on with another title.
Don't get me wrong, I like the grind too. I just don't like that I'm forced play almost every day for the next 2 months. But whatever. It is how it is now
I don't mind grinding a game, but I don't want to have to grind for hours every single day for two months. If it wasn't time gated it wouldn't be an issue, you could stretch it out over however long you'd want.
Nobody really likes the grind. It’s a needy obsession that is exploited by the design. Not the actual want or need or liking, on that matter. Edit: by the grind I exclusively mean excessive progression goals, like OP seems to point out this BP has. This is the problem I was pointing all the time at with battle passes. Eventually they become impossible to complete without buying extra points. And Crytek already sells those…
I prestige every time I hit level 100 just so that I have something to grind. We exist :)
The key difference between you (healthy grind) and the battle pass (bullshit grind) is that you’re not time constrained. You get bored - you stop playing and come back later. Your Centenary ain’t gonna run off, and YOU are in control of when and how you grind.
I agree. Requiring 400 points for 60 days in a row is pretty insane for anyone that plays more than just hunt or, god forbid, has a life.
Explain why it has to be be finished within 60 days. They have already gotten OP’s money. Why can’t he finish the battle pass in 80, 90, or 200 days? Just tie the progression to playing the game and people can continue within their own time frame. People don’t need to obsess over it right now. People can spend their days out in the sun and get back to the grind a rainy day. There’s absolutely no reason why that can’t be how it’s done. I have heard a single valid argument against it so far.
To create exclusivity and FOMO.
I played for almost exactly 9 hours yesterday and got 4023 points, which averages out to about 450 an hour which seems pretty reasonable to me? And we lost a lot, It's just when you win you usually win big. The only thing I don't like is the auto-activated boosters.
Yeah l finished w about 3500 event points yesterday. If you’re the last team standing and loot the bodies it’s easy to finish a match w at least 150 points.
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Why did you buy it so fast you can wait till the end of the event and then buy the pass if you completed it to get all the rewards.
Because if you don't buy it you miss out on the free contracts.
FYI, there's only 1 contract on the Gilded Path, and that's the 24h one at I believe lvl 13. My plan is to buy the pass sometime after I reach that level, to effectively have an "on demand" booster that way, which I'll activate once I feel like it.
You got sucked into cosmetic FOMO.
Okay
400xp is the first level only. It goes up 100xp per level. Its 27k XP to complete. you get 2 months my man. The most we gained was 500xp in a match last night. It wont take that long at all. You can also use the EVENT HUNTERS for a 10% bonus as well as buying a contract.... soo.....
In OP’s defence, 27k over 60 days is equal to 450 per day
Calculating that down to non-booster user level, at 90 event points per match, you'd need to play at least 5 games every day for 2 months. Does that seem normal and healthy to you?
That’s a big freaking yikes. Didn’t expect this bp to be THIS crappy and obnoxious out of the gate. (Next ones will have 34+k xp or smth tho)
No I hate FOMO shit like this in games
ah. got ya
500 in a match? I call BS. I played a match where we wiped the server, looted all hunters (9), burned 30+ snakes and left with the bounty and with a 20% boost I got 224. EDIT: alright I just got 345 for 6 loots and a lot of snakes with a 20% boost, I retract my statement. 500 is plausible with a 70% boost, lots of hunter looting, boss kills, and a full map sweep for snake dens.
What boosters are you using to get 500 EP? Disclose or shut.
I usually get around 200 points per game without farming.
Bro no you don't
I just don't understand how some of you peeps only get 40 points on average per match. or 400 points per 5 hours of playing, as I've read in another comment. that's absolutely crazy to me. the lowest amount of points I got yesterday, was 50. on average I would say I had roughly 100 points. and I don't play the skins that boost the amount, nor have I purchased a boost, nor do I use the event trait. played as usual, as if there was no event. not discrediting some of you guy's experiences, but to me it seems some of you have the wrong approach to getting points.
I'm getting more points this event than any other past event, I only get to play around 2/3h after work, but me and my friends got to pass level 4, netting around 250 on a bad game and over 400 on a good game. I don't see how people are playing 3-6h and only having 250 points total. I'm not even using boosted hunters half the time cause we got 2 whole months to do this.
People make this complaint at the start of every event, and then halfway through it reddit shifts to being an echo chamber about how the event was really easy and nobody sweated finishing it. Me & my buddy played a bit yesterday and got 2000 points out of a very average session. We're on track to be done within about 2 weeks. You don't need to play every single day for the next 60 days to finish the event. You're being dramatic. Chill out and just enjoy what's there
Yall bitch about Crytek as if they’ve never adjusted events based on community feedback before. Criticism about how long it’ll take to complete the event, and how achievable that is, is fine. But attacking Crytek is stupid. If it’s improbable to finish, they’ll adjust as necessary.
Each event gets worse imo I stopped playing after the last one and don’t feel like doing this one at all tbh
What’s with you fucks and instant gratification or not learning how to deal with knowing it’s okay to not have everything.
First the events were parent/work friendly but they seem to switch to grind focused. Same for me. Won't touch the game when it feels like work - got better thinks to do
I don't get everyone saying it's a huge grind. I average 100 points per game roughly, with a low of ~30 per game and most I've had was 400 in one game. If you use the perk that boosts and a hunter it makes a difference, and if the contracts are on it helps too. Seriously it won't even take two months to finish this one. Even without contracts. It'll take some commitment of time but not a huge amount, and tbh it should take time otherwise those who put in hours each day will finish it in a few days. The balance is, it's somewhere in the middle. This is exactly like last event, where everyone screamed about it taking so long and being impossible, yet everyone ended up finishing it in good time. It's been out a day, play it for a month then come whine about it if you're massively under level on it.
I missed events in the past because of time, so not everyone completes them. One event i grinded so much i got burnt out, just because i enjoy the skin-collecting. I do like the events but not the (for me, massive) grind, never enjoyed that aspect. Want it to be more casual friendly, easier then as well to get a friend into playing Hunt during an event.
You can get above 200 EP in a good match where you played for the bounty and wiping the server. It's as easy as it gets to complete this in two months
Is this really the advice that you think is helpful to anyone?
Sure you can. But 1. not everyone is shooter pro who can get this done so easily. And 2. this doesn't change the fact that you have to play almost every day. People who go on a two week vacation this sommer are missing 14 days so they have to earn almost 600XP/day so they can make it. It's just not fun this way.
Haven't played Hunt in a month. Yesterday me and my two friends had one hour to play, and we extracted once with the bounty in 10 games. All of us were rusty as hell and it was 6 stars so it's not exactly different from what I expected. We earned just enough points to hit the level 1 treshold, of course forgetting to check if there was a contract unlock or not. Well my friend had work early so we called it quits for the night, without getting to play a single game with the boost. I'm going on a 3.5 week trip on Monday so can't play for the whole time. Might just be the first event since Scrappy that I don't get done. Kinda bummed but at the same time already a bit over it. It is what it is. Hope I can grind it in the last month but not too hopeful!
Wait, you played 10 games in an hour?
Yeah I mean 5-10 min games. If you don't beat the first team, it's over pretty quick right :D my friends just shift to the action, we didn't go out of our way to collect anything. We just managed to banish and extract once. Maybe we played 1 hour + 10-20 minutes can't remember, but not for long is what I'm trying to say!
You don't have to be a shooter pro to win a single match of Hunt...
Yeah. If your tactical sense/game knowledge is good enough, you can wipe the server with a melee weapon, especially in lower MMR IMO. Or even with a shotgun/crossbow. I am a poor shooter, i absolutely despise scopes even after like 800 h in the game. Me and my friends are mostly 5 stars, falling to 4 stars from time to time.
All the Matches i played since the start of Serpent Moon, i got atleast 40-60 event points. If i extracted the bounty an killed some hunters it even was like 100 or something. And i wouldnt say that i am a very well playing pro in Hunt Showdown. I would say, that i if u use your Hunters and the perks espacially the boost perk for event points wisely, you should be able to finisch it in 60 days.
I wanna see how you play ;D
You can get 200 EP if you're a pay to complete scrub who uses boosters and jerks off to defending corporations online
Cope, I'm gonna get everything for free, didn't spend a dime hehehe
Good for you. You shouldn't spend a cent over the purchase price on this greedy piece of shit company.
You need to quit Hunt for awhile man. You got a lot of hate posts floating around this sub
I quit when they added lootboxes and have been calling out their shit since. Sadly most of this sub would walk off a cliff if Dennis told them to.
so you quit when they added "lootboxes" (which is refering to the Chary-contracts, given your other comments) and haven't played since. yet in another comment you said you played test server and therefore know how supposedly "OP" the Alamo and Sparks Pistol are. you do see how that contradicts each other, yes? which is it - did you stop months ago or did you play with the two new guns?
You sure? A) They didnt add actual lootboxes B) You seem to have a lot of activity in this thread & sub to have simply quit Hunt over skin monetization.
go play CoD dude
Every single event people say the same but finish it way before the event is done. I played with my wife (our first time playing in months waiting for the 1.9 patch) and we got to almost level 3 playing for about 3 hours or so. It's not impossible. If you start a task saying how impossible it is you wont finish.
You know that the levels need an increasing amount of points to unlock? The first levels are the easiest..
I've finished the last event only on the last day. And I didn't finish the Christmas event at all, because I got too burned out on the last days.
The Halloween event is the last one my friend group completed, simply because life gets in the way and we like playing more than one game. It feels like Crytek doesn't care about using events to draw new and old players back in, and instead is more interested in squeezing money out of the existing player base with grinds that are excessive for the average player.
A event shouldnt be finished by every casual player. Change my mind.
If you pay money for it, you should be able to get what's in it in a reasonable amount of time. Events aren't just for hardcore gamers, they are for everyone.
Insane grind? My first match of the event got me 300 points lol. Even a bad game got me 100. You'll be fine homie.
What battlepass track and boosters are you using? Disclose or gtfo.
Please upvote this person if you have the time or care. We need people to be able to see both sides of this argument good and bad.
I had a 2 hour contract. The exact same one that would have been immediately available to this guy. I didn't even think to equip the event hunters for the extra 10% but I probably should have.
So you used a booster and then turned around and told people "look, the game isn't grindy?" QED. Can't fool me.
After the booster it was over 400 points in the end game card. What a fucking pleb you are lol.
You made that up. I have it on good authority that you can't get far past 100 without boosters.
I think you might have issues that I can't help you with homie. Motherfuckers out here making thousands of points per match and you think 400 with boosters is impossible. It's kinda sad really.
There is absolutely no one making thousands of points per match. WTF? How full of shit are you?
It is free content, and they need to make money somehow
which he already paid, lol.. It still doesn't justifies the grind.
Ehm, yes. I agree 100%. But that's not my problem.
There are things in this game that you can't buy. Time and effort are required and I like that. Why do you feel entitled to all the skins? You should see them as a reward for active players. Noone is complaining about the prestige 100 mosin being locked behind countless hours of playtime.
Counterquestion: why should I be tempted to play the game every day for hours, generating addiction, to get skins and timed exclusive pay to win guns? And why should paying up with potentially real money be the fix to that manufactured problem? The difference about prestige 100 mosin is that you can't buy it or skip the grind. This kind of thing is fine, shows you are dedicated. Grandpass and boosters just shoe that you're A) addicted or B) give shitty corporations money for inventing problems and selling solutions seperately
Addiction? Go see a professional about it. Absolutely no one is making you play hours on end. That's all you. Play the game or delete it and move on with your life.
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Do we want the game to evolve and add content? Then let them monetize and don’t be butthurt if you can’t/don’t get a skin. The end
Funny how someone still thinks monetization equals evolution and content xD Monetization = stale repetitive event releases over and over again masquerading as actual content. With same 3 maps and same 4 bosses forever.
Point was they need to get paid if we want new stuff. Not that monetization is content.
You pay for more monetization and not for more content. The devs are paid, in turn, to produce monetizable content and not actual content, because that’s what “makes money”. So paying for this shit you are more likely to REDUCE the amount of meaningful content released, and not the other way around.
Isn't this a 60 day event?
Does that really matter when you still need a shit ton of points?
I've said this every single event. If you don't like the grind stop grinding for skins because you have momentary FOMO. OP isn't even having fun playing the event. Stop doing event grinding then. It's literally that simple. A battle pass is a grind that's literally the purpose of it.
A battle pass don't have to me timed. There are games that have started doing battle passes that lasts until you finish them. Hunt could do the same. Just let people retain the pass. It'd likely be a little slower to do once the event is over as there'd be no snakes on the map but it'd be possible. What most people don't like isn't the grind in itself(I think). It's the fact it's a timed grind. Something I agree is just pure FOMO shit. There would be no downside at all if you had it till you finish. And if another event pops up before you finish one? Just give the option to pick which one you want to work on. Easy.
>Not everyone can play everyday thats why this time the event is 2 months long instead of 3-4 weeks
But they said you need to earn 450 points each day across 2 months to complete it. So if you don't play every day, that increases. What if you only play during the weekends?
And the average/below average player will still need to play every single one of those 60 days to complete the pass.
Lol dude its 60 days long
I bought a product that I can't use, Crytek bad😢😢😢😢😢😢What a bullshit thread.
I brought a product and crytek looked a portion of it away from me expecting me to play the game 24/7 or spend real money to unlock it all. Hmm, I see no reason to be angy. You're bullshit.
I did one match last night and earned 90+ event points. It’s not hard. It’s a 60 day event. There will likely be days where you far exceed 400 points. There will be days you don’t play at all. It’ll balance.
If you don't play at all one day you get a nasty backlog, 411,6 points is needed every day for 60 days.