A Complete Beginner's Guide To Hunt: Showdown

Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring the video. If you want to set up your own website (and get a discount while doing it), hit this link for more info: www.squarespace.com/skillup Timestamped Sections: 02:10 Pre-Game: Loadout 05:47 Pre-Game: Matchmaking 07:24 Early Game: Your First Few Moments 10:25 Early Game: Getting From A to B 12:26 Early Game: How To Deal With Enemies 18:04 Early Game: Sound Traps 22:28 Mid Game: Disrupting A Banishment 25:21 Mid Game: Set Us Up The Boss 29:37 Late Game: Extraction 31:03 End Game: Unlocks and Progression 34:25 Getting Gud

9:50 Correction: this icon will flash (white or red) only if you're like 30-50 meters from the boss lair. Otherwise the clue itself will glow red if enemy hunters are nearby.

A solid starter guide! There are, however, some little details I think are worth sharing. One of the biggest pieces of advice is regarding enemy aggro and alert states. Enemies in Hunt tend to have 4 states: Passive, Alert, Searching, and Aggrod - In passive state, they patrol, or sit/lie down (zombies) and are otherwise harmless. In this state, their 'detection' radius for sound and visuals (though mostly sound) is lowered. Zombies in passive state will most often hear a player before seeing them. - Nearby SOUND, or damage from silenced weapons, will put enemies into Alert state. In Alert state, enemies have an increased awareness, especially for VISUAL stimulus. Be very aware of Hives (Bee ladies) in Alert state: Their detection radius is massive, and they can even spot players through little gaps in walls, etc. Enemies in Alert state behave differently than Passive - they tend to be louder, and more active. This can be a VERY helpful indicator of other hunters being nearby. Hives especially are a very obvious 'tell' if they are pissed off (you'll see a cloud of bees around them). - If you make a SOUND near an alert enemy, the enemy will enter Searching state - they will move to where they heard the most recent noise, while in Alert state. If they do not find anything there (the player moved) they will resume their Alert behavior at the new location. This is very important when playing in teams: often times, a single player can run through enemies without drawing aggro - but anyone following them will run into Alert enemies instead, and be attacked. The Searching state can be skipped if you are immediately seen by the enemy - but you can break line of sight to reset this. - Once an enemy SEES the player, they enter Aggro state and attack. Aggro state varies from enemy to enemy, but generally involves the enemy running after the player and attacking. Breaking line of sight with the enemies can often times put them back into Searching/Alert - this is especially effective on the grunt zombies. Immolators are better at keeping track of the player even if they try to hide. Hives will send bees directly after the player, and slowly move themselves towards the player. I also wanted to share some more advice about Immolators (Burny Boys). They can be huge pests, but you can leverage them to your benefit: - If you shoot one from a distance to ignite them, they will enter a rampaging aggro state. This makes them aggro on to everything, including other enemies, explosive barrels, sometimes even doors and barriers. This makes them extremely dangerous to hunters - if you are inside a building, especially defending a boss, don't be shy about shooting Immolators that are outside to make them go nuts. - Once an Immolator is ignited, they 'burn out' (lose HP) over time, and will die in 30 seconds. - If you lure one into deep water (the really slow movement areas), you can safely pierce them and kill them (very useful for knives/swords/bayonets). -Choke Bombs (a later unlock, releases smoke that puts out fire) kill Immolators almost immediately. -Even if you one-shot them with a heavy weapon, they will always explode. -If you ever see another hunter trying to melee an Immolator - shoot the Immolator. I promise you will enjoy the results! -If you ever need to burn a Hunter, but don't have a lantern/molotov, shoot an Immolator and lead them overtop of the corpse - Immolators ignite everything they touch, including downed players. Also left out is one of the most important tools - though admittedly they take some time to unlock: Decoys! It's just a bag of metal scraps but you can use them for SO much. Some of the best uses are: - Throw a decoy at a lantern to break it (example: the lanterns on the chicken coops and dog kennels). - Throw a decoy at a door to knock it open - this one is very underrated, and can fool people into thinking you are right by the door. - Throw decoys into water to attract Water Devils (you can also shoot the water to attract them to that location - if you are in a hurry this can give you time to cross the water). - Throw decoys at/near enemies to put them into alert state - this raises their 'awareness' and makes them more likely to notice hunters. Use this if you are trying to flush out other players. Especially useful on the Bee Ladies, as their aggro radius becomes very large once they are alert. Hopefully these tidbits help out some other new hunters! Hope to see you out in the swamps.

Jesus. What perfect timing in an ad. "When a hunter is near, you'll hear angry whispers like this" "My balls will thank me"

Hey there this is a long one.. I just want to add some informations or correct you here and there. Maybe it helps others or you . (I am at 725 hours Hunt.) First of all there are alot of more or less important details missing for all the PVE enemies but that would make the video atleast 5-10 min longer so thats alright. 1. Even if you trigger chickens or dogs in a cage. DONT shoot the lantern. The chickens etc can be heared maybe a third of the map. Your shot can be heared everywhere. If you want to take them out. use a flare,decoy,throwing knive. or even throw a lantern at the lantern above. 2. (just added information) You can kill 4 Hellhounds solo without loosing to much health. It needs some practice a normal Knive (prefered). Still better to avoid them if possible. I dont recomment fighting dogs with dusters or with the mellee of oyur gun. 3. (Little tipp for the horses) You can use 1 throwing knive to the head to kill them or (until they fix it) you can even use 2 throwing knives to the body. (they wont trigger if you hit there body for some reason) Or a third option is take a lantern turn it of with x and throw it at the horses head. (Will die instantly) 4. Crows. They are loud yes but you cant hear them over the entire map. Maybe half or even less (im pretty sure its less than half) But they are still loud. You can kill them with a firebomb or a lantern. (i think Crytek said that poisen bombs should kill them but that is bugged as far as i know (Havnt testet it in a while cause i dont want to waste a poisenbomb) 5. The Darksight (wallhax) (you explained it later in the video) are nice but they give you more of an disadvantage. You only have 5 Seconds of it after that you are like all others exept that everyone knows where you are until you die or leave the map. 2. You can only see them behind walls you cant shoot at them while seeing them so you need to watch where they are take out your gun and shoot at a wall. (You dont always know if there is more than 1 wall or other stuff between you so your bullet wont hit for sure. 3. Its not so easy to tell the distance to the other hunters with your wallhax and the image of them is blurry and not 100% acurate which makes it even harder to hit them. And the last thing. If they are close they can hear oyu use the darksight and shoot at you before oyu can shoot at them. So its a double edged sword really. 6. i dont recomment killing the PVE around the boss. Some of them sure but not all. With some experience you can tell what is a zombie and what is a hunter. And the PVe enemies outside are basicly traps that can eather hit player so you can 1 hit them to the body or atleast alarm you when they trigger them. And it takes time to kill the PVe mobs, And you need the time to set traps and kill the boss. 7. For the bosses. Best thing is a bomblance or a sticky bomb but that is not what you normaly have. If possible use an Axe its just the best. If not avlable use a sledgehammer. A pitchfork or a shovel are way better at fighting PVE than the bosses. But they work if it has to be. 8. The health bars form tier 2 or 3 Hunters. Maybe you wanted to say the right thing but you didnt. Yes they often have more smaller (25) healthbars. But if you look at regeneration that is an disadvantage. If you take 100 damage you wont regenerate anything. Dosnt matter what health bars you have. If you take 99 damage and have big bars (50) you will regenerate this big bar and only miss 50 health. If you have 4 small bars for example you only regenerate 25 and miss 75. The small bars help when you get killed cause when you get revived you are only missing 25 and not 50 for the rest of the game. Overall if you are new and dont know how to fight PVE a big bar is better cause you regenerate more PVE damage. When you are a veteran player take small bars cause PVE wont touch you much anyway. If anyone read all of this than thanks. i hoped it helped. And if you are new to hunt or want to start playing it then i will gladly help you out. You can ask me questions or we can play hunt sometimes in discord for example.

You will hear angry whispers like this “Today i want to talk about Raid Shadow Legends” Yep that would make me pretty angry as well

The most memorable moment in Hunt as a solo for was when I spawned near the Godard docs spider lair, meleed it to death, and began the banish and entrenchment. 90 seconds later I didn't see a single duo...but rather the rest of the server who took up arms against whoever killed the boss so quickly. In early access at the time the only viable rifle was the Mosin so I took it and managed to 1 tap two of them but alas the other hunters were already banging at the doors. I had bear traps set but they're only good against one hunter then they need to be reset. One came up the sliding doors stairs behind bear trap boy and I let the double-barrel sing and managed to take them both out. I popped a quick reload and downed another hunter at the westerns stairs and managed to damage one behind him. Another hunter broked the second-floor door, hit me with his Crown but missed the second fatal shot as I used me second round of the double-barrel to finish him off. At this point I took the bounty, jumped out the second-floor window facing the dock and tossed a large dynamite in the same window and blew the place to kingdom come...At last, I used my dark sight and saw not a single soul left. I claimed my reward by looting a dolch, the crown and king and about $2K worth of cash (no hunt bucks at the time) and quickly fucked off to the extraction point. Then I got wrecked in the second match at clue #1. What a game

You wanna burn the Spider and the Assassin, the Butcher is imune to fire. You wanna burn armored zombies too. You can burn crows and caged dogs and chickens. You basically want to see the Hunt world burn.

"If you die, It's because YOU are bad, not because your weapons are bad." I feel personally attacked by this XD

Been sitting at level 100 with 50k + money since like.. last October. Still watched all the way through, you make good videos.

You may have touched on this in the video, but one of the best things I learned wast that the map gets blacked out the same for all teams, no matter what clue they get. Helps a lot when hearing gunshots and predicting where they go next based on the map. As well as the double clue opportunities at Nichols, Fort, or Lawson to get to the boss first.

I can't express to you enough how grateful I am that you've shed some light on this game. Hunt has felt slim on players since mid-way early access, and I'm hoping with your extensive reach we can bring this beauty back to life.

Thanks SkillUp, I once watched this video years ago. Now I'm 1,300 hours into Hunt and loving every minute. 😁

Pre-game 2:08 - Loadout 5:47 - Matchmaking Early Game 7:24 - Your First few Moments 12:26 - How to Deal with Enemies 18:05 - Sound Traps Mid Game 22:28 - Disrupting a Banishment 28:05 - Defending a Banishment Late Game 29:36 - Extraction 31:02 - Unlocks and Progression 34:25 - Getting gud

Aim at the(original) head that is stuck around the side of torso for the Hive.

I'm a Veteran Hunter with only 600 Hours and i'm playing since the early acces and i take my time to teach Newcomers the game. If you need Help. We in the Psychoghost community welcome you with open arms and if you want i can teach you the game. PS: this shall not be advertisement for the community. But it can be hard to get Partners sometimes. I know from expirience

So accurate when you were talking about what new players worry about. "Dying to much losing all your money and not being able to play etc etc." I thought of all those things. Great video mate, like really this is an excellent guide for new players. You've answered literally all my questions and concerns.

Review for 2023!!

@20:30 just letting you know that crows make a "cacophony of murder", you missed a great opportunity to say something like that

I've checked this game out a few times and always thought it looked really cool. Your videos reinforced my curiosity, so I bought it. Thanks for helping me make the jump, Ralph.