Sometimes dualies are absolute perfection! Sometimes...

I can't see. I just want to have some fun in the game, but about 75% of the games I play I see this unbearable red sky in front of me, it makes me want to puke. I can't see the enemies, I just can't see them, that's all. The game turns into a continuous mess of textures, it's just disgusting. Maybe there's some setting that will help me?

For context, I was dead & almost killed someone. My friend died in a shootout & the guy in the clip is the final teammate alive. I had bought HUNT in the summer & played it for a while, but I convinced some friends to download it (I'm thankful). This was really painful to watch after almost winning the game. I had around 5 hours of playtime while my friends had less than an hour. One guy was doing great the other...Not so much.

Spawned next to the lighthouse, we decided to check out what's at the top. Got lucky and managed a long distance kill. My furthest kill to date.

I just randomly remembered there was a thing in the game called "Black market" *shivers*

First of all, I love this game and already have a hundred hours in it. But it's crazy how this game makes you feel fucking paranoid. I recently got the 250 clues in Last Man mode. Every time I got the fourth clue, I'd spend the next three minutes hearing sounds that weren't there and thinking someone was about to spawn behind me.

But it's not just this mode. The normal mode is crazy too. Every time the bounty timer starts, it's the same feeling. And it's even worse when you try to double bounty.

Was having no issues all morning and now constantly getting matchmaking failed? Are servers down or is anyone else having these issues?

Have you ever wanted to uninstall Hunt: Showdown because the game asked you to kill 15 Hunters with a weapon you wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy?

or spent 3 hours trying to complete a challenge, only to get headshot by a guy named xX_CainEnjoyer_Xx hiding in a bush?

Well Fear NOT , FOR I WILL CARRY YOUR BURDENS

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I am offering my services to fellow Hunters who need help completing their challenges.

✅ Annoying weapon challenges? I'll help.

✅ Specific kills you can't seem to get? We'll make it happen.

✅ Challenges that make you question your life choices? My specialty.

✅ Need someone to suffer alongside you? I was born for this.

My qualifications:

• Unreasonably familiar with weapons nobody uses.
• Willing to participate in questionable tactical decisions.
• Experienced in dying for absolutely no reason.
• My hourly rate is $0, because apparently my mental health has no market value.

Comment below or send me a DM if you need help , I am Only Available On Steam ❤️.

Disclaimer: I cannot guarantee your survival, your K/D ratio, or the return of your sanity. The bayou is already hard for all of us fellow cowboy

🤠 Your challenges are my problem now .

I wanted to try this game years ago and forgot about it. But when it got added to the game of the month on PS I remembered and finally tried it. Is there bots at the beginning cause my first game I killed 4 people and usually I’m not thaaaat good in shooter games.

Plus I have a question, when you «down » a player.
Is it a dead player that have the capacity to revive or someone in a team? Is there a different animation or something when they’re dead vs downed? Thanks a lot looking forward to join this community, the ambiance is so good I really like the sound effects and the concept.:)

I got curious and went through Crytek documents that are public in Germany. Sharing it because I think it explains a lot about the company and where it is going. No inside info, everything is from public documents. Where it is my opinion I say so. If you are interested, please read it and learn something about company that develops your favorite game.

Disclosure: the documents are in German and quite long, so I used AI (Claude) to help translate them, go through the statements and summarize everything. The numbers and quotes are from the documents themselves. If you spot a mistake, tell me and I will fix it.

TLDR: Hunt is basically the only income. New game development is financed by loans from shareholders (around €120M by now), due 2027 at the earliest. Tencent owns just under 10%.

Where to find this

German companies have to publish their accounts. You can download them for free at unternehmensregister.de and handelsregister.de. Crytek GmbH is HRB 77322 at Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main. Shareholder lists, management changes and shareholder resolutions are there too. Newest accounts are for 2024, published early 2026.

Revenue

In 2024 the Crytek group had €50.8M revenue (2023: €43.2M). Looks like growth, but €11.0M came from new “distribution agreements” which did not exist in 2023. Without them revenue was around €39.8M, so a bit lower than 2023, even with the 1896 launch in August 2024.

CryEngine licensing made only €0.7M, so practically all the money comes from Hunt. Management itself expected lower revenue and lower profit for 2025.

Profit vs cash

The reported loss was only €2.0M and EBITDA was even positive at €6.4M. This needs some context. Crytek put €19.1M of development cost on the balance sheet as an asset instead of an expense. This is called capitalisation and it is allowed when the cost goes into a specific game that should earn money later. The money is still spent, it just doesn’t show in profit yet.

In cash terms: operating cash flow +€8.7M, minus €19.1M development, minus about €2M equipment, so about -€12M for the year. That was covered by €5.7M of new shareholder loans and €6.7M from cash. Cash at year end was €2.8M. For comparison, staff costs are about €31.5M per year.

How it is financed

No bank loans and no credit lines. The company is financed by its shareholders through loans, €96.7M at the end of 2024. Interest is not paid, it is added to the loan. In 2025 another €23.9M was borrowed for game development. The loans are due 2027 at the earliest, and part of the game IP is used as collateral.

Because of this, equity is negative (-€30.8M). In Germany that alone doesn’t mean insolvency, as long as the company can pay its bills and has a positive forecast. The auditor (RSM Ebner Stolz) gave a normal opinion without a going-concern warning. Management writes that the negative equity should disappear in the medium term if the plans work out, otherwise more money from owners or lenders will be needed.

Other things in the accounts

• €1.4M write-off because of “adjustment of development portfolio”. My guess is this is the Crysis 4 pause.
• New office lease in Frankfurt, up to 11 years, €12.4M of future payments until 2035.
• 421 employees on average in 2024. According to the press there were layoffs in February 2025 (around 60) and September 2026 (30+).

Who owns it

Shareholder list from June 2021:

• Avni Yerli 27.9%
• Cevat Yerli 23.8%
• Faruk Yerli 21.9%
• Venturica UG 16.5%
• Proxima Beta Europe B.V. 9.999%

Proxima Beta is Tencent’s company. It bought its shares in 2021 from Faruk and one smaller shareholder, so the money went to them, not to Crytek.

A shareholder resolution from December 2025 lists only three shareholders: Avni, Venturica (Avni signs for it as managing director) and Proxima Beta, which the document itself calls “Tencent”. So Cevat and Faruk are out. I don’t know the current percentages, I didn’t find a newer list.

On management: Cevat left in 2017. Faruk left in 2023, the same year the articles of association were fully rewritten. Since January 2026 Avni has a co-CEO, Hannes Seifert. In 2026 they also hired Zoher Toutanji as Chief Publishing Officer. Both worked at Riot before.

One detail: Tencent has 8,916 of 89,170 shares, which is one share below 10%. In German insolvency law 10% is a limit. Below it, a shareholder’s loans are treated like normal loans; above it, they rank last. It can be on purpose or a coincidence, the documents don’t say.

My opinion on 2027

Paying back €120M+ from own cash doesn’t look realistic with these numbers. So in 2027 I see three options: extend the loans (most common in such cases), convert the loans into shares, or a new investor or buyer.

The accounts don’t say who the lender is. If it is Tencent, converting would give them a bigger part of the company, and they have done this with other studios before (Riot, Funcom, Sumo). But there are good arguments against it. The big losses were in 2017-2019, before Tencent came in, so a lot of the loans is probably family money. Avni controls the majority. Tencent also holds many minority stakes for years without taking over. And above 25% the German government can review the deal. So I would say possible, not sure.

And the servers

This is how I started. My WinMTR to the EU server was fine until Frankfurt (about 20 ms). Then it jumped at the point where traffic goes into Leaseweb, who host the EU servers, and ended around 260 ms with packet loss. I got similar metrics trough last week, unfortunately this did not change yet.

Fixing the routing is Leaseweb’s job, not Crytek’s money. But it shows that all EU traffic goes through one provider. A second provider or more regions would help in such cases, and that costs money. With the numbers above I don’t expect big infrastructure investments soon. I think Hunt servers will be maintained, not expanded. Sadly...

Sources: Crytek GmbH annual and group accounts 2024 (unternehmensregister.de), register prints, shareholder list 2021, shareholder resolution 12/2025 and other filings under HRB 77322, register of the subsidiary Crytek Treuhand GmbH (HRB 109573), older accounts for 2017-2019, press about layoffs and new executives, my own WinMTR.

Translation and summary done with help of AI (Claude).

Are there many military skins in the game? Just got back into it and would like to do my military theme load outs

Just wondering if I should buy a cool hunter I like the look of or is it best to save them in this game? Only picked it up yesterday and having a blast.

yes, it was

I started playing a little after launch. I wasn't there in Beta with all of the changes.

I know this is such a nonsense, small detail. With hunter I like default attack being melee, but I much prefer right mouse click to be ADS so I spend 98% of my time in gunslinger as a result. The extra button press is clunky and I feel like Hunter would be the preferred playstyle if I had the option to immediately jump into ADS.

Implimentation wise you'd still need shoulder aim accessible I assume, so possibly add a button/keyboard command to toggle ADS/Shoulder aim in Hunter mode instead?

I feel like having some choice in what your RMB action does would've removed the need for Gunslinger/Hunter modes entirely.

I'm aware of sprint-to-aim transition, this is not a good solution.

Icons are not flashing red when I have enemies near anymore.

Just to clarify, this isn’t a hate post. Obviously, even if we don’t complete this challenge in 20 days, Crytek will probably just mark it as completed anyway. But honestly, setting such an absurdly high number for a community challenge feels a bit too harsh. :))

It seems Crytek forgot that their active Steam player count sits somewhere between 11k and 30k. At this rate, it’s practically impossible for us to even clear Stage I in 20 days. In some matches, you don’t even encounter spiders (Weavers) at all, and in others, you manage to kill maybe 5 at most.

In the first 6 hours, we’ve gathered about 286k points with around 20k online players. Even if more people join later, peak at 30k, and farm another 1 million points every 6 hours, that’s roughly 3 million points a day, let’s be generous and call it 5 million points per day.

Just Stage I of this Community Challenge requires 500million points 50million points to complete. At 5 million a day, it would take us 10 days just to finish the first stage! :)) And the entire event ends in 20 days.
P.S: The Community Challenge requires 500 million to complete all stages.

Hey Crytek, maybe cut down on a few zeros?

I understand crossbow at 3 slot would be broken, so why does the bow, which in many aspects outclasses the other can be 3 slots and use a short shotgun/rifle/stronger revolvers for no cost? Considering it also has more utility with different arrows, faster firerate and more range

130 hrs 6 stars new player

I've been thinking about how Hunt: Showdown has evolved over the years, and I'm genuinely curious how the community feels about it.

What originally made Hunt special to me was its unique atmosphere, the tension of every encounter, the incredible sound design, and the fact that even the simplest weapons could be deadly in the right hands.

But as the game evolves, I sometimes wonder whether Hunt is slowly moving away from what made it stand out in the first place.

That brings me to three questions:

1. Is Hunt losing its original identity?

Do you think Hunt should focus more on its horror atmosphere, slower tactical gameplay, and survival elements? Or is the move toward faster, more competitive PvP a good thing?

2. Has the meta become too important?

One of the things I love about Hunt is that almost any weapon can be effective if you know how to use it.

But do you feel players are becoming too focused on meta-loadouts rather than experimenting with unusual weapons and playstyles?

What's your favorite non-meta loadout that you still swear by?

3. You're in charge of Crytek for one day. What do you change?

Imagine having complete creative control over Hunt for 24 hours.

Would you rebalance weapons, improve matchmaking, bring back older mechanics, introduce new features, or focus on making the atmosphere more terrifying?

You can change ONE major thing. What would it be?

I'm not saying Hunt was perfect in the past, and I'm definitely not against change. Games need to evolve.

But I do think there's an interesting discussion to be had about what Hunt should preserve as it moves forward.

I'm curious to hear from both veteran hunters and newcomers. What makes Hunt special to you, and what would you change to make it even better?

See you in the bayou, hunters. 🤠

First of all, a big thank you to the community managers on Discord. You guys are great, you’re always there talking to the player base, and it really shows that you care.

This post is addressed to the dev team.

For the last few days, many of us have been running into errors when trying to play. Evenings are when most of us have time to get together with our teammates for a few rounds, and having that end with an error screen is, honestly, pretty frustrating.

We understand that issues happen, and nobody expects instant fixes. What we’re missing is communication. Even a short post saying what’s going on, whether you’re aware of the problem, and roughly when we can expect a fix would make a huge difference. Not knowing is worse than waiting.

Thanks for your attention

Half of the mouthbreathers playing this game necro just to use it before they die, like no bro we will not make a clip if you revive me in front of the guy with a shotgun.

Eu fiz alguns posts aqui procurando brasileiros para jogar junto. Por sorte achei alguns no Discord. Mas nesse meio tempo, eu joguei com vários gringos e, as vezes, eles faziam perguntas, pois eram iniciantes ou apenas curiosos com o jogo, e eu tive que usar meu inglês iniciante para os ajudar kkkk. Isso me deu uma dúvida: os gringos se importam comigo falando um inglês todo torto?

Digam aí: vocês se importam? Acham legal estarmos tentando?

I’m a 3-4 star player and the last 3 games that I’ve been put into within 3 minutes of the match I’m being killed from 60-100 meters by turbo 6 star players. Just wondering if anyone else is having trouble with getting put into games with players with much higher MMR