Hunt Showdown: 5 "Noob Traps" to Consider 

I'm playing trios with a friend who loves alarm mine + red barrel combo. He has been killing a lot of hunters. Not many enemies, but a lot of hunters nonetheless...

Be mindful of what Perks you take, and how they complement your playstyle. Too long to list every one but something REALLY obvious: Don't take Quartermaster AND Fanning on the same Hunter. You can't fan any medium/large slot weapons, so no matter what loadout you take, you're wasting a perk. Also, if you are concerned about soundtraps, Beastface is your friend for moving quickly and quietly. Light-step and Kiteskin pair beautifully as well, keeping your mobility high. And regarding the Silenced Nagant, even with Fanning, it's better to think of it as a Tool. You can potshot grunts and hives, sure, and even Fan some bosses. But it's main utility is misdirection. Assuming you're far enough away from Hunters you're stalking, you can set off distant noise traps like crows or dogs. Or if they're being sneaky, poke that Meathead or Armored, and make their day more interesting. Just remember to have a primary weapon that can handle the rest.

About killing sound traps I thought you were going to call out that you might want them alive for when other players show up, especially if they totally block off an angle of approach to the boss compound and either have to be triggered or destroyed, making noise, or avoided, funneling other players down more limited paths when they try to come after your banishment.

absolutely love hearing ode to joy in the background

So we just assuming no one uses the electric lamp

My two tipps are: Speed is sometimes more important than stealth; if you are chasing a group of bounty carriers who do a full sprint to the exit, don’t do the extra mile trying to not trigger the crows. They will most likely escape. You don’t allways need to melee an AI: Don’t be afraid to shoot the ai if they are messing with you while fighting someone else. If you missing some hits on the group of dogs charging at you and you run out of stamina, shoot them. It’s better to give away your position then dying anyway to them.

It's important to consider there are different playstyles and making noise isn't always bad. If you can move quickly from compound to compound and get to the clue before others that's fine, so long as you're able to understand the flow of the map and the speed at which other players can get to where you seem to be indicating your going. It may be easier for a new player to play quietly but I see all too many hunters even after a thousand hours think that's the only way to play because that's what they were taught in the beginning. This game uses sound heavily and its important to understand that sound can be both a hindrance and a tool to be manipulated. You can avoid it or you can use it to draw in hunters how you want them. Often time we'll make noise in compounds but not between them, which draws teams to that compound allowing us to turn around and third party if we hear them fighting behind us. Everyone's afraid they will make too much noise and get one shot by a sniper who is just watching them but if you move from compound to compound quickly and scout out spawns that are nearest then you should never be caught out early game.

Avoid sound traps but don't destroy them. You never know when that very same trap will signal a enemy team coming in. Especially when banishing.

Something I always have to tell new people is that crouching does not eliminate walking noise, just dampens it. Also, if you can hear someone walking/running/crouching then they are in range to hear you do the same.

Finally someone complain about chain pistol, I’ve abandoned it for a long time, I would rather take normal conversion than that. You can land your shots only if your enemy is on your face.

My personal pet peve that most new players do is, crouch all the time everywhere, even in combat, to be "stealthy", and tbh I did this alot to when I was new to the game and thsts probably why it triggers me so ^^. Crouching ofc has it's time and place but it's imo super important for new players to learn when not to crouch and when to asap.

Players who permanently tether themselves to you during the game. Seriously. Spread out! There’s almost no advantage to being 1 meter away from your teammate in this game.

My only tip for the game is don’t abandon the Winfield immediately after unlocking the sparks or other long and medium ammo guns the Winfield is great at all levels of the game and because of its slower velocity can teach you the crucial leading mechanic you need to win fights.

6. Always buying most expensive weapons. I found myself without any money at least 2 times. I'm in love with Lebel so I prefer to buy it and play with it basically always, when I have it unlocked. If you have really bad luck and can't live long enough to earn some money from bounty, you will end up recruiting new legendary hunters, giving them Lebels/Mosins over and over again and finally spending all your money, so only option to play is taking free recruits with trash weapons or buying them cheapest stuff. Economy in this game is more important for avarage player than you can think.

I used to use silenced weapons to help power level those weapon line before I switched to using the duster/knife to weaken enemies then finishing them off with a weapon melee. Silenced Nagant is surprisingly effective for general use when you consider it's ammo capacity and how good the sights are (especially compared to the silenced Winfield or sparks). it's also a useful way to trigger immolators near hunters from a fair distance since it doesn't (or didn't at least, haven't had time to play for a bit) make much noise past about 50-60m.

I had to learn this the hard way on a few matches, but leaving sound traps intact and AI enemies alive at a boss compound is a GODSEND when getting ready to banish. Odds are that the average random team will try to rush you once you start the ritual, so anything you can use to keep them distracted or give away their position will buy you those extra precious seconds to land a headshot or escape with the bounty.

While I do agree that the Heavy knife is poorly advertised as a straight upgrade I feel that it has a few positive characteristics that when used effectively can make up for the negatives. First on armoreds you don't need to use a full stamina bar, as 2 heavies and 1 light to the head will bring it down. Second, is the heavy attack has an area of effect meaning you can hit multiple enemies at once. Against dogs I find this can be quite useful if you can bait the pack into attacking as a group you can take them down more quickly than using the normal knife. Finally against hunters there isn't much of a difference if you're going for headshots or if you've already hit the target before going in for the stab, but the heavy knives heavy into light attack feels more consistent for quickly killing hunters than the basic knife. That might just be a preference for the heavy knife hitbox on my part which definitely takes some getting used to. Great video, I look forward to more in the future. :)

Keep it up guys, I started playing a few weeks ago, and this channel has helped me a lot.

I love the Knuckle Knife for its overall versatility. You might say the butt of your gun can do the same thing, but tell that to my stamina bar

shooting immediately upon spotting instead of waiting til the opponent is in a field or exposed bringing fire bombs with the intent of using them offensively falling for alert red barrels or just standing near one

I literally fell into each one of these traps in the beginning..great video

"Sniper towers are bad" Me, a brand new player, who just finished a game where my partner died by lagging out and camped in a sniper tower for 20 minutes, annihilating 2 teams and leaving victorious with the bounty: "I see where you're coming from, but..." On the serious note, yes I do recognize that sniper towers are not places to stay at. I lucked out hard by encountering teams who couldn't figure out how to deal with me, but I couldn't leave the tower. I had 4 people staring me down, so my only option was to outgun them, which I somehow did. Good video, ty for the tips

Man, spot on. My friend was bringing silenced nagant + romero (before compact ammo buff). These weapons combination was useless on anything past 20m. If only he took pax, it would be killer combination. Also, when I heard hunters and crouched, he came right next to me, and instead of trying to figure out where they are, he started shooting all zombies around :)

New players shooting the immolators or throwing lanterns to the butcher

2:19 I believe that hive might be flirting with you.

PSA 4SF gaming, the heavy knife can take out an armoured with two heavies and one light, leaving you with one slash remaining. Also I know it wasn't knowledge at the time of making this video, but as of 1.4.2 you can one shot dogs with a light to the head.

As a nub, game is pretty enjoy able when play with friends, best as three. We gotta come up with creative strats and baits to make up for our lack of experience against the seasoned players.... Tis working out pretty efficiently

On the subject of immolators, team composition is important. In 3s having one person with a duster be "the immolator guy" is great as it let's you quickly clear them and move on.

I usually carry both dusters and a knife. Dusters are good for clearing out lots of small enemies very quickly without running out of stamina. I carry the knife for rushing hunters.

One thing that annoys me that some players do (new or veteran) is clear out all the AI in a boss compound. For me the AI works as a solid sound trap to enemies trying to sneak in during banishing, forcing the opponents to either take a different route in or exposing themselves by triggering/killing the AI

Knuckle knife is awesome. Quickly takes down just about everything and is pretty stamina efficient. One shots hellhounds to the head too.

my favorite gun to use fanning with is the coldwell swift as a backup to any single shot weapon its a panic button if someone gets too close and you miss your shot on your rifle or its the perfect compound clearing tool peak, spam, run away to the other corner of your cover, by the time youre there, youve got 6 new rounds ready to go.

My biggest peeve is when a teammate shoots the lantern above chickens or dogs with an unsilenced weapon. Like what was the point? Enemies have a chance of hearing those traps when triggered or killed, but are DEFINITELY going to hear the gunshot no matter where they are in the map

I think a mistake i made a lot when i was new was killing everything in the compound before killing the boss. Its better to leave everything you can around the boss lair to make it harder for enemy hunters to come to the banishment.

Also, the heavy Knife will hit ALL npc's or hunters in front of you... one swing can hit multiple threats. So taking on that pack of hounds can be done in a few swings. Sure, it takes more stamina but its output can be invaluable when you get swarmed. I prefer the wider range if attack and like the sound trap suggestion, stamina isn't the end of the world if you minimise your impact on the game world

Heavy knife can kill multiple dogs in a heavy attack (just needs to be line up correctly). I still use the heavy knife for armor (require less swings to kill) and small zombies.

Lol the dog pen sound traps thing is so obvious yet i still always destroy them! Its kind of just become a habit, this put me in check 😂

I'm 2000 hours in with me kd of 2.2 I love new players I take them under my wing I train them with this method 1. We pick a free loadout and run to the first building 2.i put my concertina traps down and we shoot riot 3.other players think we're killing the boss we are not 4.then they run in at us thinking we don't have a clue we kill them 5 .we take there good loadout and away we go During this process there practicing there headshots on all the grunts Ps I do this solo sooo fun

Chain gun is not a bad gun, It's a good one but I would say to a noob: Don't be overconfident with it. For sure you'll have many kills at 20-30 meters away, but there is also many times you'll be bad at aiming and the shotgun opponent will be better than you and you will be trapped by your confidence overdose.

Shotbolt and chain pistol with fanning is my love. Have to watch my positioning in the forests, and avoid getting caught out in the open. But I've been solo in a trios server and taken out 6 hunters in less than 10 seconds with that combo getting pushed by both teams at once XD When I do play with the squad I'm the vanguard assaulting the compound 11 out of 10 times. Spent enough time with the loadout that I can even flick some LONG shot kills with that shotbolt. Even surprise myself sometimes lol Great video as always. My cousin bought this game for me to draw me in and yours was one of the channels that helped me get started.

Dude you make the most informative videos about my favorite games. Keep it up.

I've had a few "Divine Intervention" encounters with players running at me with the chainpistol lol

Mlg l33t pro tip : axe is the best weapon. Why? oneshots players. cuts down locked doors. kill bosses really quickly. cheap af. scary af You might think im memeing, and ya, a little bit, but i've honestly had some amazing matches jus running the axe and a silenced nagant. its nuts.

My tip: be aware of ally positions, as to not shoot or throw bombs at their feet.

The topic of whether or not to kills kennels/chickens is such an interesting topic to me. A similar question is whats worse, a lot of flair pistols going off in succession or 1 pistol shot? I think the answer boils down to how long are the dogs going to go off for? Are you triggering them once as your run past, or is there a clue on the other side of the fence from them?

Not communicating with your team. Honest to god, I made a plan with my team to utilize a sound trap to our advantage. I ran into the boss compound while there was banishment going on, hitting the sound trap on the way in. I opened fire like mad at the boss house and drew the ire of all three hunters inside. Once I had their attention, my partners rushed from another side, both with shotguns, both getting into the building as I lit the place up with tons of noise. A chaos bomb and me opening fire from cover with a fanned chain pistol absolutely hid their approach and three shotgun shots later they were dead. Never, ever underestimate how you can use sound as a weapon. Sometimes you just gotta be loud to be quiet. They can't hear your footsteps if all they hear is gunfire.

Very good video mate, I just started Hunt a few days ago playing with my cousin, it's honestly so much fun, and terrifying sneaking about xD manage to double dip on my fifth game, so we got both bounties and killed all teams but a solo (who we got extracted from). Yeah Hunt is very very good. I'm quite aggressive in my playstyle, so this game is really nice in forcing me to play differently.

1:35 yes but also no. Stealth weapons can be used to break windows & scare crows from angles outside of your own approach. Forcing your enemy to waste darksight boost and put guns down could save you & pinpoint them if a teammate is doing it for you. 2:30 the strongsuit of the heavy knife is that you can use a light attack instead of a heavy, which is a lot quieter overall. Heavy melees can be heard throughout a compound. Its faster as all light vs heavy hits but in essence youre saving yourself getting Silent Killer for 5 trait points in trade for versatility & stamina efficiency.

Im a very knew player but it dawned on me pretty early on that if i silence sound traps in a compound and have to hold it down for the boss/banish, the sound traps can no longer alert ME to other hunters

I have watched a few of your Hunt videos now & happen to love the advice and content! Much appreciated! See ya in the swamp!

also if you set of a dog/hen pen and have no silent weapon to destroy the lantern just leave em be and get out of dodge the sounds they make lasts so loong so if an enemy team starts moving in on the compound you are loong gone.

I use dusters for stamina. 10 heavy hits will get you out of almost any ai situation. I can't count how many times I've been swarmed by 5+ grunts or multiple armoreds, and anything that runs you out of stamina in 4 hits or less just doesn't cut it. I haven't tried the knuckle knife too much yet, but that also seems like a good option if you want to conserve stamina but also be able to hit hard.

Chain gun, armored bullets,, do holes in a building. This works quite good.

one thing i tell newer players is the important of a poker face, sounds weird... but if you can keep your head level during a situation, you'll pick up on smaller things that'd go unnoticed if you or a teammate is panicking; things like the difference in the sound of footsteps or someone going into darksight. that is also to say also not locking up. seriously, either get the hell out of dodge, or get ready to do so once the fighting starts.

BTW the silenced variants don't do less damage, they do the same damage, but have less muzzle velocity and drop off faster, so they have a lower effective range.

Well, I would say to never use fanning outside a 10m range, regardless of it being with a chain pistol or pax or whatever. I often found myself winning gunfights because I kept calm, used ADS and landed two precise shots, while my enemy was spraying with fanning like a madman and (obviously) missed most shots.

I know you mentioned it in the video but I’d have to say the most frustrating thing about playing with randoms is when they stay waaaaay too close to you. It can be infuriating when I’m either trying to be stealthy or listen closely to a noise I heard, and all I can hear is my teammate stomping literally 3 steps behind me. Even had one guy do it on a night map with his damn flashlight on me the whole time, needless to say we extracted early that round lol

My opinion here, but the Knuckle Knife is the melee weapon that I like the most. I know .. the regular knife will do the job, but I like the way the knuckle knife uses less stamina without losing much damage compared to the regular knife; but you are right.. the common knife is the best melee against dogs, although I have no problem with dogs using the knuckle knife.

Just about to start playing this game. These vids have been super helpful. Thanks dude

Heavy knife is God teir on console. The swipe heavy attack makes it much easier to hit people with. Sure less range but when your on controller the swipe matters a lot more.

(500 hour s on hunt Pc- 75 hours on PS4, i love the nagant presion and sawed off springfield, it brings me joy to drop tier 3s with 2000 hunt dollars loadouts with a 200 hunt dollar loadout. Thats right im a tier one main #dontatme

Dusters work good for dogs if you can headshot them. Insta kill. I wait till they jump and hit them before they bite. Works every time.

Crouch walking every damn time in open fields. Trying to be super stealthy everywhere. Crouch walking in water, to a compound they heard people in it. Too much hugging roofs. Not using their consumables: "i wont use this vit shot, i maybe use it later!". Why later is a noob trap? Well, they usually follow some guides or friend advices on consumables and bring right consumables, but they are never using them. So i think new players should use consumables that they don't fear to use. Maybe bring 2 small vit shots and 2 firebombs for 18 dollars. So you still be useful and burn bodies.

I like to run an uppercut sidearm and then swap it out with a fanning chain pistol if i manage to survive the round and have limited short range firepower like a sparks. I shake my head when I have a mosin nagant / uppercut and hear new players tell me "don't worry bro I got this I have fanning and levering" while they're carrying a silenced Winnie/ silenced nagant. Those players usually make so much noise anyways that the silenced weapons just hurt their loadout.

I agree with most things said in this video, chain pistol is good for close range fight like hiding behind door and wait for someone to open the door, i agree with you on best choice for fanning too, normal caldwell and silenced nagant are the best for that, before 1.0 chain was good and also lemat, now lemat is bad, pax is still good too, and knife part is good explained too, i am more about dusters but duster is useless against players, i play for 2 years and killed maybe 2 players with dusters, about sound traps too, you can easy hear dogs burning or chickens even from 100m range and alerted dogs ever further so yea, yust try to avoid contact with it

I do like the silenced weapons when I'm zombie farming. Find a clue, stay in the black areas, and just farm. It ain't much but it's honest work.

Heavy knife can hit dogs easy if you get used to the timing. If you bait dogs together, particularly around a solid object like a tree, you can slice off 2 heads with one heavy swing.

One noob trap I can name is scoped weapons. They're actually harder to shoot than normie iron sights ones in many respects, especially for newer people with poor aim and little understanding of in-game ballistics. On top of that they encourage that scaredy cat playstyle that gets you absolutely nowhere and kills any chance of improving at the game. The other one is loadout logic. Your weapon choices should always complement each other in maximum ways possible, and provide you with maximum flexibility. If you're going with a single-shot rifle like Sparks, you need something to cover your close combat base - Officer Nagant or a fanning revolver would be a good choice. Enforcing limits upon yourself before the game even starts is certainly not a good thing to do if you intend to play to win.

wow thanks for that :) 45 hours in the game and I always felt really smart silencing those sound traps with throwing knifes but dude these lanterns over the cages are very loud. I will avoid them now rather then disable them.

Just subscribed and was blessed with a new vid. Cheers :)

Like to keep sound traps alive because it lets me know if someone is coming into the compound I'm in. I'll often think I'm alone grabbing a clue but then hear someone melee the armored I snuck past earlier.

New players need to go out and get in fights and shoot zombies they need the practice aiming. I love playing with new players, one it's a challenge two, I enjoy helping them out come out with a win.

Silenced winnie with levering is hilariously good thanks to the light ammo buff.

Some of my friends are new and it’s super funny because they call out every gunshot and act surprised when I dont Also they really like heavy knives for some reason

I really like using weapons I don’t see often in the bayou. Crossbow with bolt thrower? Nasty good. Double nagant with fanning? Funny as hell. Especially double silenced nagants lol

People always forget they can still ADS with the chain at medium range.

Playing with my less experienced friends and they love to use shotguns. They'll take a romero or a slate to rush straight into the enemies before dying in a terrible spot. Don't automatically assume you can kill everyone simply because you have a shotgun.

Don’t shoot everything you see I’ve been with countless new players who have a silencer and just kill every grunt with the gun they have it’s annoying and I try to tell them NOT to shoot or Pearce the immolater. Simple stuff that I was guilty when I first started playing

About the last noob trap : sure , its loud so not really a good idea - but cause its loud and obvious its makes for good bait if you're hunting for players.

5 lights will kill an armored and leave a quarter of your stamina bar. Also the heavy knife exists purely for baller status. I know it’s less efficient but having that bad boy in my pocket gives me confidence.

Killing every armored you see 'quietly' with fusees or a flare gun. Better than shooting them, but just ignore or stab the thing if it's not in the way

Just recently have started playing this awesome game and your vids helps a ton! Thanks a lot! Hopefully this game isnt gonna ended full of cheaters like warzone.

Best load out: Martini-Henry IC1 riposte Chain pistol with dum dum ammo and fanning Finally a sticky bomb to kill the boss fast The rest can be whatever Prove me wrong

I like the chain pistol for one reason: The Hedera Mortiferum skin

My favourite CQC combo is the Chain Caldwell and the side-by-side shotgun. Cheap as hell but you need a vet hunter. Still... Unmatched at close range imo

Great video, but I feel the need to point out that the "laser beam" silencer nagant tip is super outdated. I have actually tested all revolvers with fanning, and nagant silencer is equally as imprecise as the chain pistol - yep, it is that bad. And I didn´t test it by shooting, I tested it by literally measuring how many milimeters there are on the screen between the crosshair marks on each revolver when fanning. Chain pistol and nagant silencer have precisely the same spread.

Idk if it’s the players I match with but every time the suppressed winnie scares the shit outta me. Also basic Caldwell conversion w/ fanning is a laser

Used a sniper tower last night for like the 3rd time ever. It payed off as I was above a trio team I killed with a red barrel it was pretty epic. Tip from this? Look up sometimes boys never know who's watching from above.

you are seriously overlooking the greatest strength of silencers: they look cool

this game needs way more players so i bought it for myself and for two of my friends

Well i agree with most of the points but there is one weapon that is silent and deadly, the crossbow, the crossbow is actually amazing if you get use to it instakill with shot bolts up to 100+ metres against players if you can hit them, also versatility if you run the hand crossbow you can instantly kill these pve mobs with poison tip bolts, dogs immolators, 2 to 5 grunts grouped together, the assassin, the butcher, husks, armoured husks, and crows are now killable as well much easier and so much quieter. With a poison tippd crossbow you can quickly move through the environment with very little noise. As a bonus you can run half and half now you can run 5 poison bolts and 5 regular bolts and switch while in game. Another thing the hand crossbow at about 30 metres is instant kills hunters if they are hit in the chest. The full sized crossbow is instant kill up to 45m to the chest without special bolts, and like the hand crossbow you can run 2 sets of ammo, say you want 6 explosive bolts and 6 shot bolts you can run it. The crossbow is under appreciated, however, i have a warning, its not easy to use and will require immense practice to master but if mastered you will be feared when you can fire three shots and instantly kill an entire trio

number 1 Buying poison bullets and incendiary rounds for long rifles

One I would consider a newb trap is when to run and when to sneak

the chain pistol is the gun you use in buildings if you take a shotgun never take a chain pistol or a sword anything close range really medium or long if it is a shotgun

Hi there, thx for your vid. Good job. I have a question : why at 00:21 secondes on video you one shot the guy and at 00:24 sec video you need 4 shots to kill the second guy ?? Even when i play it does the same..sometimes i one tap with specter sometimes 2 or 3 taps... -_-

You just sold me on the knife. I'm giving up my dusters today.

I often run into a ton of mobs. If you have the knife, you can only kill 4 at a time, but with dusters you can kill 8. This is why I bring dusters, not just for imolators. And while the knife is better for pvp, the dusters still do a damn good job in a pinch. Ask the notches on mine ;)

Strongly disagree on knuckle dusters, they are superior to the knife in almost any situation due to their very low stamina requirement. While one lone immolator is not a problem to get rid of, if you run into a random immolator or a bunch of zombies while rotating during a fight chances are your stamina bar is not going to be full and you're really screwed if you have to resort to slow melee. Dogs are not really a problem with dusters either, you just have to crouch when hitting them.

If you do 2 heavies then 1 light to the head with the heavy knife it kills an armored with 1 attack left. but I also still never carry it

Sniper towers are like hiding in plain sight for me. No one uses them or checks them, so it’s really fun to give a team the slip or even get behind them by just hiding out in one