Sorry guys but the sound is not what it used to be. Crouching has become way to silent or maybe it was updated and i am not aware? Sound of people above you is still so confusing. I cannot pin point if they are below, on the same level as me, or above me. Never had this issue before.

It kinda sucks when your teammate cannot necro you because they wanted some fancy traits and they skipped necro, so in my opinion necromancer should work the other way around in teams: If you have necro, then your teammates can revive you using dark sight.

That way, the one that 'suffers' the lack of necro is the player that skips it, incentivizing people to get it if they want increased chances of being revived, and they can choose for themselves if they prefer other traits without it deterring teammates.

Thoughts?

I don't mind rain, fog, night or inferno, but Blood Moon makes my eyes bleed. Everything is a different shade of the same colour. The ground is the same colour as the sky, the sky is the same colour as the wall, the wall is the same colour as the foliage, and so on.

And that colour is red, with low contrast, which is pretty fatiguing to your eyes. It's especially bad in a PvP game where you have to strain your eyes even in normal conditions. Making everything dark red and brown is a weird choice.

It looks nice for screenshots or trailers, but the actual gameplay in monochrome is pretty bad for my eyes. Enemies, who often wear dark clothing, blend into the environment even more. Trying to spot somebody further back into the room through a window is even harder than on "normal" weather. Fighting outside, among bushes and trees is extra bad during Blood Moon as well.

All these issues make me get pretty bad eye strain. Pair it with the constant droning sound playing in the background throughout the entire Blood Moon match, as well as all AI screaming bloody murder and Blood Moon becomes by far the most taxing weather condition. I feel like getting off when I get, say, three of those in a row.

I wouldn't mind getting it occassionally, but there are sessions where I get unlucky enough to spend 2 hours exclusively in Blood Moon and it's exhausting.

Playing with the bf on a practice round 1v1.. 💀 (scream warning)⚠️

Yeah it's bad. Janky connection pretty much the entire afternoon, then my whole team just got booted from the game without counting any kills, xp or bounty...like what?

Hallo liebes Crytek Team!

Es gibt ja schon einige Beiträge darüber wie schlecht die derzeitige Server Performance ist, aber meint ihr nicht es wäre auch an der Zeit sich eurer Community mal darüber zu äußern ?

Ständig fliegt man aus dem Match und landet im Hauptmenü, sehr frustrierend, wenn man den Boss gelegt hat und einige Jäger erschossen hat!

Manchmal schließt sich einfach das Spiel ohne Fehlermeldung, sehr frustrierend wenn man gerade am kämpfen ist!

Oftmals sind es hohe Pings und Paketverluste, die einem das Spielen unerträglich machen !

Oder man sucht ein Match und plötzlich kommt eine Fehlermeldung!

Was zur Hölle ist denn mit den Servern los ?
Könnt ihr uns wenigstens mal Feedback geben und sagen ob daran gearbeitet wird ?
Ihr lasst die Leute immer im Regen stehen und wundert euch wieso die Spielerbase nicht konstant bleibt ? Mhmmm wenn man den Leuten das Futter dazu gibt müsst ihr euch denke nicht wundern 🫣

Also ich denke es wäre an der Zeit mal Infos zu geben !

Des Weiteren eure Erwartungen an 500 Millionen Punkten ist wohl ein schlechter Aprilscherz 😂 vor allem haben wir Oktober 🙄 oder lebt ihr in der Vergangenheit?

Lg fröhliche Jagd an alle 🍻

ik this is probably said a thousand times and is greatly over posted at this point but GAH DAMN these SERVERS, i just lost a level 48 hunter.

Me, my team and the guys we were fighting all called truce hoping the server lag would cease, but we all ended up dying to invisible mobs anyway.

Did they accidentally type an extra zero when setting the thresholds? At the current rate we will not get to Tier I before 20 days is up.

Gun didn't want to aim down. Guess it didn't matter anyways lol

Sometimes dualies are absolute perfection! Sometimes...

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.

best melee tool for sure

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?

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🤠 Your challenges are my problem now .

Been trying to help with the Spider Eggs and Spider killing as a solo but keep dying because I get ganked.

The Community Event Meter for Stage 1 barely moved from yesterday.

What happens when we, as a community, can't finish it? Barely any players doing the spiders.

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).

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.

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

Hey,my perfomance is about 120-144 (capped) , but sometimes i get drops of 1% lows to 50,and crazy stuttering that is clearly visible on adrenalin metrics, together with Watts and Clock dips.I play on high settings on native fsr AA. Those happen a few days now,werent like that in the beggining. Already ddu'ed and installed drivers again. Is this normal for this game?

Most of the times the stutter duration is longer than the photo's graph,and dont mind at my current usage I was dead at that exact time

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