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Solo Events Debut in ‘Hunt: Showdown’ Starting Today
Starting today and lasting until September 6th at 10am EST, solo players will be getting catered to with Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown, as the game’s Solo mode has been added in the game’s debut live event. Players now have the option to choose Solo contracts, which pit up to ten solo players against each other in multiplayer matches. In Solo Event matches, there is just one bounty and one winner.
Players participating in this live event will also be eligible for special awards, and the players who extract from the map with the most bounties have quite the incentives. The rewards are as follows:
- Top 50: 3500 gold
- Top 10: 3500 gold, custom Hunter name for a single Hunter
- Top 5: 3500 gold, custom Hunter name for a single Hunter, 3 weapons of choice (1 large, 1 medium, 1 small), 3 consumables of choice, 3 tools of choice, and 50 points worth of traits
- Top 3: All of the rewards available to the top 5 players, as well as +1 prestige level
Hunt: Showdown is currently in Early Access.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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