No love for Cryteks new game Hunt Showdown?

Have to say Cryteks new game looks amazing and probably the closes thing to Left 4 Dead 3 (with pvp). Easily a day 1 buy once it's released.

Crytek might be back

meh. no single player = waste of time.

I wouldn't get your hopes to high...

This look like every Steam game ever.

Watched Summit play, seemed very frustrating.

Looks like a generic game.

I just hope it doesn't turn into another Evolve with no depth.

Yeah echoing what others have said doesn't look like anything new but I'll keep an eye on it. I'm sure it will be fun playing with a friend, but as I don't have any then it will probably be another pass for me.

It's been a decade since Crytek last made a good game. None of their games during that time came close to the original Crysis.

The gameplay looks ok -but its Crytek and they haven't made a good game since Warhead, so it probably wont be.

I might have something to say about it, but those bastards didn't give me a beta key. Waiting for a sale on that one.

I like the setting its kinda like a first person monster hunter with some PvP elements. I'm keeping an eye on it to see how it turns out. This game might bring Crytek out of the slump they're in.

Crytek as we know are dead. they are now bankrupt and making just indie games or coop games. they are only good for making engines.

4A games are new Crytek in a sense they are pushing hardware to limit.

Once it becomes top seller on Steam then people will notice it.

Yup. Crytek was doing OK as a single-player focused developer, but when they went a bit more multiplayer and multiplatform, they lost whatever heart they had. Or their good luck ended, either way.

Also, they are at best a questionable company--layoffs, not paying their employees, too many projects not being finished, and so forth--so I don't really give a damn about Crytek these days.

And, call me cynical, but I have a bad feeling about this game; I think it will be Crytek's attempt to jump on the microtransaction bandwagon (I'd say Warface was, but that game is a failure). They were talking about cosmetic stuff in an interview, how you can make your character look like such and such, etc.

And they are not even that great at that. Kingdom Come is a mess and terribly unoptimized, a good chunk of that is due to the choice of game engine (Cryengine is not terribly great for open-world games like that). Not to mention Star Citizen abandoned Cryengine in favor of another (Lumberyard) due to the countless issues they were having with it. I blame Star Citizen for taking their sweet time, but I also blame the Cryengine for a lot of delays as well. And, you have to admit, ever since they swapped to Lumberyard the updates and refinement have been coming a lot quicker.

They're also suing Star Citizen devs for giving up Cryengine lol. What a bunch of broke, bankrupt, asshats.

@Ballroompirate:

**** Crytek and **** this no single player game.

Basically this!

If Crytek wants to make a decent shooter game, just give me Crysis 4 already.

well, there you go, everything PC Master-babies wanted from Crytek, a PC exclusive that doesn't compromise itself with console considerations, and gotta admit it looks kinda good

I wouldn't knock it for being more complete, considering how Crytek is teetering on the state of utter ruin, the choice to support them now or not will likely determine their fate; so, no pressure or anything

No, why should there be love for it? Crytek has been terrible. They'll have to prove themselves, and Hunt Showdown doesn't look very good..

I wouldn't trust Crytek as far as I could throw them.

imo Crysis 2 was not that bad. especially compare to abysmal games like wolfenstien.

Is this some kind of battle royale game?

Preferably a Crysis 4 that resembles the original Crysis, rather than Crysis 2-3.

Wish capcom wasn't the last company left willing to make PvE co-op games.

no SP so I'm not interested

Looks better than any Metro game

@enzyme36: I'm interested in Hunt: Showdown but I was a lot more interested when it was a pure coop game. I thought the idea for some of the boss fights like the Witch being invisible to all teammates except one it drags into its nightmare realm and that player having to shoot her so everyone else could know where she was at was a cool idea.

Sorta, its more of a PvPvE game. Several teams of two have the task of hunting down the boss monster, kill it and bring it back to the extraction point while avoiding being killed by monsters and other teams.

As much as I'd like a new Crysis we all know it can't happen with the current financial state Crytek is in. The last 2 Crysis games were commercial flops so its going to hard for them to find an investor or publisher willing to fund another sequel. They've already lost most of their talent to Cloud Imperium Games and other studios. Based on the reception Hunt Showdown is receiving so far this game might be a hit and bring Crytek back on the map where they'll be able to fund their next Crysis game with all the money they make off of Hunt.

I would be more interested if it had a single player component.

Seems like a waste to not include one, the setting seems ripe for a tense, survival horror story.

That's a fair argument. Crytek needs the funding. If Hunt: Showdown can bring in the revenue, then they could use that to fund an ambitious project like the original Crysis.

@Jag85:

Was that lawsuit against Star Citizen true or just a rumor?

True. It's still ongoing.

Yeah, it's going through the process. They were due to make verbal statements on Feb 9th but the judge decided it wasn't necessary. It'll go to court at some point over the next 3 months.

They're playing a word game, the main claims are that C.I.G. have signed a deal to "exclusively" use CryEngine to make Star citizen and broke that deal when they changed to Lumberyard, C.I.G. claim the word "exclusive" means they are only allowed to use CryEngine for Star Citizen and no other game. The second is that they claim Squadron 42 was not part of the original contract and that the deal only covered Star Citizen. The second paragraph of the contract clearly states that Star Citizen (Space Citizen in the contract) and Squadron 42 would be known as "the game" for the purposes of the contract.

There is a lot more they are claiming such as C.I.G. have breached the contract by not displaying the CryEngine logo even though C.I.G. are no longer using it, C.I.G. and have infringed copy right by sharing assets with Faceware and showing snippets of code in Bug Smashers (a weekly show to show how they fix various bugs). Basically they have thrown as much shit as they can in the hope that something sticks and they get some extra money from C.I.G.

I've watched some lawyers on Youtube discuss the full claims and so far not a single one of them think that Crytek have a leg to stand on, there's even a no legal action section in the original contract. At the end of the day it'll come down to a judge and jurors decision on what the ambiguous language in the contract means and who has the better lawyers (the co-founder of C.I.G. is a major power in copyright law, Crytek tried really hard to get him removed from representing C.I.G. but backtracked under threat of personal legal action for libel by Ortwin Feyermuth).