Hunt: the new map of Showdown is live

Lawson Delta, the new Hunt card: Showdown unveiled by Crytek in October, is now available in the 3.0 beta update. The map is built around a prison, a fort and a train station. It is designed to give players a better sense of location and direction than the previous map.

The update also provides a new skills-based matching system, inspired by the Elo system used in chess, which "weighs heavily on player-versus-player skill to create more equitable matches," and on modifications. anti-team "of the group of players. are intended to prevent pre-lobby teams. Players will now experience the inertia when they move to make it more difficult to dodge attacks – patch notes indicate that players "were abusing ADAD buttons".

"Some [movement] The changes may seem a little slow at first and will require players to get used to them over the match, "writes Crytek in the release notes. We have tried to strike the right balance between the need to add inertia to the players' movement, while keeping the same feeling and speed of movement. Players can always perform the same hopping tricks, get quickly to the shelter, or browse the world as they are used to. "

Melee combat has also undergone significant changes aimed at "improving internal coherence and enhancing the strengths and weaknesses of each weapon". Hunted hunters will now drop their weapons on the ground, where they can be salvaged by others. Looted weapons are marked as contraband if they are removed from the mission and can not be sold in the store.

Crytek also warned that entry into a game may be a slower process requiring more steps after the update, but added that it was a problem. temporary situation made necessary by the next mode of fast reading. Quick Play will be an improved version of the Solo mode, which has been removed from the game. Crytek does not know when it will be deployed. He announced that it would be soon, "to ensure that our solo players can return to the game as soon as possible".

There are a host of other bug fixes and modifications, and of course some known issues, including a "default system texture" error when attempting to load the game. If it's convenient for you, make sure that you Have the latest video drivers installed, get the latest Microsoft Visual C ++ 2015 redistributable, and if all else fails, contact Support. The full description of the 3.0 update can be obtained on Steam.