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Update 1.5 For ‘Hunt: Showdown’ Introduces Custom Ammo Feature And More
Crytek USA has announced their big 1.5 update for their competitive FPS Hunt: Showdown, which introduces a whole whack of new content and fixes for the game, including a brand-new feature to make your bounty hunting much more interesting.
Among the various bug fixes and gameplay tweaks, the update introduces Custom Ammo, which can be applied to almost every weapon. Types such as the Poison Ammo and the Incendiary Ammo have their strengths, but are balanced out by drawbacks such as decreased velocity or stopping power.
Along with the new Custom Ammo, you also have new weapons in the Winfield family of guns. Single-Shot weapons have also received an update, which allows them to split their extra ammo capacity across two different ammo types.
You can read up on the rest of the changes/additions from the patch notes link up above.
The 1.5 update is available now across all platforms. Hunt Showdown is available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam.
Overshadowing the announcement of Ninja Theory’s third entry in the Hellblade series earlier this month were reports that the developer was facing possible closure by Microsoft, alongside South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games and Double Fine. Now according to a new story by GamesBeat, another developer under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella is potentially facing closure in Undead Labs, who are currently working on State of Decay 3.
Earlier this month, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had announced that Microsoft was in the process of ‘resetting’ Xbox. That resulted in a report by Bloomberg during Summer Game Fest that revealed that multiple developers were negotiating with Microsoft to spin off of Xbox to avoid closing down. Now, according to the GamesBeat report, Undead Labs is now part of that group of developers negotiating to be bought to avoid layoffs.
The article states that Undead Labs could lose 110 jobs if it were shut down, while Compulsion could lose 90 jobs, Ninja Theory could lose 135 jobs, and Double Fine Productions could lose 100 jobs.
Other developers and publishers at Microsoft also reportedly face cuts, including Blizzard, id Software and Bethesda.
Undead Labs was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, with State of Decay 3 being announced in 2020. News on the development of the game was quiet until 2024, when a new trailer was released. Updates on the game again were hard to come by until last January when then-Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan revealed that development was still very much alive. That was followed up this month with an official announcement that State of Decay 3 would be coming next year to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.