Hunt: Showdown is one in every of our favorite multiplayer video games. In the event you love dying in bushes, it could be one in every of yours, too. Builders Crytek have now outlined their roadmap of coming updates between now and the center of 2024, and it consists of an engine improve and new minimal specs.
Crytek are upgrading Hunt to run on CryEngine 5.11, with plans to launch it in early 2024. The replace will deliver a brand new map (with a brand new biome) designed to behave as a showcase for the engine improve’s new graphical bells and whistles, which embody DirectX 12, FSR 2.1.2, and HDR. The trade-off is that the sport’s minimal spec will rise to an Intel seventh gen CPU (or equal and an Nvidia GTX1650 Tremendous (or equal). The present minimal specs on Steam point out an Intel i5-4590 and a GTX 660.
“After 5 and a half years of Hunt, we wrestled with the numbers and reviewed the set up base,” says Hunt common supervisor David Fifield. “Amongst energetic customers, these upgrades ought to influence lower than 10% of the neighborhood, whereas tremendously enhancing the expertise for the opposite 90 p.c.”
For console customers, this improve will spell the top of assist for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in April 2024, however free upgrades shall be accessible to new console variations on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence S/X.
There are different updates on the way in which, together with a UI overhaul to coincide with the engine improve. Earlier than that, there shall be gamepad assist, adjustments to development and base weapon unlocks, a matchmaking refactor, and a gradual rollout of the power to examine your weapons in-game.