AMAZING game... but I'm done.

[Risk Management]

I'm gonna get flamed, I understand.... "get gud" or whatever simple minded folk say. I'm trying to obviously!

Firstly, I absolutely freakin LOVE this game. The atmosphere, the sounds, the graphics, the weapons, the locations... possibly the best game I have ever played in 30+ years of gaming and I find it very hard to fault. 99% of people I team with are cool as hell and I appreciate that after the constant abuse in other games.

Why am I done? This game has just become stressful. Competing against vastly higher K:D opponents leaves me no desire to play. Other than a Rank number, which means pretty much nothing, there is no reason left to play. Gaming for fun would be nice but it's just not fun any more. I want to invest time into a character and feel some emotion when I lose one. At this point they're barely lasting a few rounds so I can't even recall any of their names or anything. They are just cannon fodder.

I've seen many posts about this now.... the match making is a JOKE. It shouldn't be about Rank in a game like this cos the Rank means ♥♥♥♥ all. Why can't matchmaking be geared towards K:D?

I'm an older player so I'm already at a disadvantage and I'm OK with that. I don't expect to ever be some legendary player (nor do I care to) but losing 90% of the time just sucks, simple as that. This game relies heavily on tactics and I do understand this is not your regular FPS. I have some hearing loss and my eyesight and reactions aren't the greatest so my K:D is very average at 0.4. So why am I being matched against players that have hundreds of kills and a K:D of 3.0+??

I'm fine with dying, it is just a game afterall, but over... and over... and over... and over again just completely saps the fun out of the game. The occasional win against a similarly matched K:D opponent would be nice. Higher level team mates is great and I've learnt alot from them, but many higher ranked players leave the group before we even start cos obviously they want to be teamed with better players.

I'm bailing to play something that doesn't end in frustration. I get enough frustration at work already. If the devs don't care about matching similar level players there's no point wasting more time on this game. Glad I didn't spend more $$ on DLC.

[sethlynn]

also the ones who has high KD in this game are usually the ones who usually camps and observes, Unlike CSGO or valorant pros who actually good at aiming ,,,, the pros in this game uses their knowledge as their main advantage

[Seven]

Originally posted by Iron|Cu!:

[...] is just making a fool out if himself. I am on about 3.3KD. [...] Very, very, very rare are the situations where I find myself playing againts players of my own skill [...] Killed 8 guys who clearly not close to my skill.

You think FailSpawner or James from twitch would have 3.5 - 4.0 KD? Yeah, they would, in their dreams. Those guys have like 3-4K hours of Hunt and are almost always mm' with begginers.

Go play CSGO and be a bronze playet and play againts global elite ones :)

There, I optimized your sassiness. Don't you look fabulous.

[RΣMΣDY]

Originally posted by veoba:

Its not about MM its all about cheaters. Right now shooted guy from bushes and he insta 180 degrees turn on me and BOOM - headshot. about 60m with gun.
Another game the guy took 5 shoots from pistol, i heard they all landed in him, abot 10-15m distence - and hes still alive!
Big thanks!

Everyone that is better than you is a cheater.. got it.

[RumbleFish]

Yeah current matchmaking is garbage. Why do all of randoms I get matched with have K/Ds around 1.0 plus/minus 0.3 but then I consistently get killed by hunters with 3.0+ K/D? I don't care if the player base is small, I care more about having quality games even if they are not always full. Instead of jacking with weapons and ammo specs, fix the damn matchmaking!

[crackshot]

i just turned 40, just hitting 130 hours. still having tons of fun.
cant wait to see whats next for hunt.

[APN34Z]

30+ years an u still didnt learn to chill while gaming an rank means ♥♥♥♥ ok pmsfl

[Inv1s1ble]

ELO ("player strength" would be a very simple analogy) should be a lot more precise than K/D. For example: If you kill a lot of noobs, your ELO will not increase much. Kill a few very good players and your ELO increases a lot.
So theoretically a player with a KD of 0,3 can have the same ELO as someone with 3,0 KD. It depends on who they have killed.
But yeah, every matchmaking is only as good as the size of the game's playerbase. Hunt's playerbase might not be that big, but even worse: I believe many people sink a lot of hours into it, thereby increasing the overall skill of players in the game.

There are some things you can do to increase your fun with the game:
1. Get on discord, join the Hunt community there and get some partners with whom you can regularly play with. This will be a lot of fun with the right guys/girls.
2. Read/Watch some beginners guides on youtube or steam. There are quite a lot of helpful information.
3. Sink a lot of hours into the game, to improve map knowledge, map awareness, timing, tactical decisions (which situations to attack and which situations to let another team walk by). These are VERY important in this game and will improve drastically if you play a lot and reflect on your death and kill situations. These skills are not bound to eyesight, reflexes or hearing :-) So you can compensate these disadvantages with em. Hunt offers many options to outsmart others.
4. Get used to different kinds of guns and playstyles by playing with all of them (maybe in Quickplay). Then find a gun and playstyle that fits your skills.
5. Be as stealthy as possible to not give away your position. If you give away your position, it is very likely that you will be hunted or ambushed, which gets you in shorthanded situations. So never trigger crows, ducks, chickens, dogs etc. Don't shoot unless it is absolutely necessary. I'd go this far and say: Don't even kill any AI, if you can quickly walk/sneak around it.
6. Enable Nvidia highlights to be able to analyze your deaths. There is always something to learn from them.

[Currently Online]

Don't forget about brazilians and other high ping hommies to come and play on N/A server

[Robknob]

dont forget to get that Bulwark too! saves you from the insta kill when at full health.

[dynatierchen]

how many hours in hunt ?

[marclnelson]

What you’re feeling is normal. I played Hunt Showdown about a year ago for about 250 hours. Maxed my level for a long while, never prestiged, felt like a really bad player and took a long break. I’m actually on the forums because I think it’s time to return.

The matchmaking has always been ROUGH because the player pool isn’t huge. If matchmaking was more aggressive with experience pairing it’d take a LONG time to get people into matches. So it is what it is.

Hunt is a stressful game. I played on PC with a controller all those hours. Queuing solo 99% of the time. I’m convinced that’s indictative of some kind of mental illness.
Yet, Hunt remains one of the absolute greatest games I’ve ever played. In 30 years of gaming ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Take a break, play something else. When you want To scratch that itch only Hunt scratches come back :)

[Draktok]

I'm nearing same result - i don't believe its hackers or anything, but poor matchmaking for sure. Dying to anyone with a 2.5k/d+ when my queue was instant is super frustrating. arrow up or double arrow up is super frustrating. I don't want to play against super amazing players and 'learn' because half those deaths are headshots from mosins at 100 meters+ lol

I like this game a lot and i still play but it's definitely moving from "omg hunt every day" to "eh maybe i'll play tomorrow" for me

basically due to matchmaking which is of course going to cause more match making issues as players quit playing and its a death spiral but eh. is what it is.

[gutschein]

Just played 2 rounds in a row against a guy having >5 K/D, ranked in the 40s. That guy singlehandedly wiped out our team of 3 in both games. My K/D is 0.64. His is 8 times better than mine. That's not even in the same magnitude.

This is not about "winning every game" or whatever. It's that there is just no way winning against such people. I know I'm not a good player and that's okay, but why can't I play against people who are also not good? I don't even see how I can get better if I never even get to shoot once because I'm dying instantly.
And what fun can that be for the other players? What can somebody with >5 K/D gain from killing me? I just don't see it. It to be boring for them as well.

If you seriously argue that this game is for the best players only and the rest can quit, then wow, this argument is messed up. Who do you think pays for this game? Just the 2% who enjoy it because their K/D is above 3, or maybe the 98% who constantly get killed?

When I started the game you joined an empty server quite regularly. That was not very much fun but at least you got to level up a bit. And you don't know that the game is empty, so you still had to take care and it wasn't completely boring.
Now it's like they just put 12 random people in a game. Servers are almost always full.

I will definitely not pay any more real money for this. It's like Gee said; why would I pay for something that mostly is not fun? A few weeks ago it became really extreme. It's just frustating almost all the time.

[FourMile]

Great to hear from another older player. Like you I've had over 30 years of gaming, and I'm hard put to think of a game I've enjoyed more. Hunt is the first FPS I've played extensively, so I find it extremely difficult as I just don't have the background knowledge on how to play FPS games. I've de-installed it twice because I just found it too frustrating to play, particularly the first 100 hours.

I'm at 1.3k hours. Its seriously taken me that long to get my K.D up from a constant 0.45 to around 0.9. Not a massive improvement but enough for me to feel that I can at least hold my own at times and now I look forward to getting into fights.

I don't think you can form a true opinion on this game in 20 hours, times that by 10 and you might just about understand the various guns, their ammo and some of the nuances of how to win a gun fight. I don't say this to be insulting, I'm actually trying to say play more. Its not about "git gud", if you're like me you can never be "gud" in the full time gamer sense, but you can be sneaky, play better, and when you do and you get some kills its probably the most rewarding game out there.

My advice would be keep going:-

To get gunfight experience play the "quickplays", they are far more busy, with less creeping about and more out and out battles to hone some of your skills. I care less about K/D in quickplay so i don't mind charging about and getting shot

Find some similar friends to play with, Duo's with a friend are better than solo's or randoms.

Use the "Training" to find a couple guns you like and are comfortable using and try to get good with them. You also get the chance to learn the maps, their various locations and each locations layout....that it itself if 100 hours of play.

The matchmaking does not work, but with practise the game doesn't feel so unfair, and everyone dies to a headshot.

[FourMile]

Oh and any of you other oldies are welcome to send me an invite and we can creak and stagger through some games together, have a few laughs along the way