My FIRST Time Playing an Extraction Shooter (Hunt: Showdown) 

Hunt has some of the best sound design of any game I've played. Also, if you do decide to keep playing, there's a massive new update coming next Friday with a new map.

I've mostly given up PVP games as i've gotten older, but i make an exception for Hunt. Incredible game.

Hunt Showdown is an underrated banger, I love this game.

Like how he starts by complaining about ppl playing slow in these types of games then proceeds to have a standoff with a spider

I've been playing Hunt for years now, so glad it's getting recognised outside of its community. Such a unique game.

Him rushing to loot every kill was giving me anxiety lol

He put in work with that Nitro. Every bullet had a name on it.

I hope you keep playing hunt, and if you do, here are some tips! 1. Movement is your only armor: in multiple situations you stood still, crouched, or looted unnecessarily which often leads to your death. I recommend literally always moving and minimizing crouching as it makes you soooo much easier to hit 2. Stealth is important: sound traps and gunshots can be heard across the map so try to avoid those. Any type of movement can be heard a long distance away, so I prioritize movement over crouching while pushing. 3. Bring better gear: the economy in hunt is very generous toward players so don’t try to worry about losing too much. Bring helpful tools and equipment that complements each other. Bring a melee weapon every time and use it often, you will save a lot of ammo and time. I hope you keep playing this amazing game. DEFINITELY the best extraction shooter out there!

As someone who’s been playing for 3 years and has 2000 hours, there has never been this much hype for the games future. Love to see you playing my favorite game!

Oh good lord. Aztecross playing Hunt this is gonna be good. He definitely will continue playing this.

Hunt is my favourite extraction shooter, you need to revisit it after the next big update.

Hunt is 10/10. It’s casual enough to not be a pain in the ass to play, but competitive enough to be interesting.

Man those comments near the beginning got me triggered with their stupidity 😂 Goyem's comment was just plain incorrect, and a pretty dumb comment at that. Hunt is an extraction shooter, it's just not based on Tarkov mechanics. A game doesn't have to be like Tarkov to be an extraction shooter. That's like claiming that Metallica is real metal music and Iron Maiden isn't. "You don't extract with anything in Hunt". Ugh. The main point of the game is literally extracting with the bounty.

If you ever play this game again a tip I highly recommend is using your melee weapon for basic pve like the average zombies so you dont waste ammo and more importantly time reloading your weapons

Great job using the guns you've chosen, btw It will get a lot more fun when you learn the actual purpose of the guns, special ammo types(FMJ to shoot through walls, Dragonbreath to set enemy on fire, explosive rounds to break cover/doors and to check corners or finish off hiding enemy with splash of the explosion, and a LOT more) Tools like fake dynamite, blank bullets you can throw and they imitate gunshot on impact, traps of all kinds, choke gas making enemy cough and thus give away their position and having their aim shake when they cough. Heck, we don't even have to list different things you can use, you can keep going with same tool and talk about numerous purposes. Same old choke gas bolt I mentioned above can extinguish fire, make visual cover, be used as sound trap in doorway, instakill immolators quietly, quietly break lamps and windows(and that has purpose too!), create sound cover and so on. Just from the top of my head And then you learn how environment works, what ammo can penetrate which surface, how different barrels can explode and different ways to trigger them, how to trigger ai to make it chase and give away enemy position or how to turn that ai against enemy if there's an opportunity There is just so much and it's so satisfying to pull it off. It's a thinking man tactical extraction shooter(though has bows, crossbows, throwing knives, tomahawks, spears and a freaking glaive that can also shoot bombs and steel balls) And it also is kind of like rogue like with these perks that open sometimes completely new ways to play and handle situations, giving you new cool abilities(Ghoul, vigilant, witness, shadow leap) or just badass new ways to use same guns(e.g. fanning, levering) There is much more, and this game just keeps on giving There is a lot of unique stuff not found anywhere else and the setting is badass too. Tarkov is fun but overrated. This one is a real gem if you take time to learn it, Hunt is much more than meets the eye

The chat whining about the tutorial length is frustrating asf, glad you took your time and respected the learning curve. I can't recommend this game enough to anyone watching, and for you yourself to continue playing. Arguably the best gameplay loop of any FPS out there, top shelf audio, beautiful and faithful to life weapon animations, killer art direction, good music, there is just everything to love if you can get behind the unique arcade extraction shooter.

I want to make an important note that this game is getting completely overhauled and face lifted on the 15th including a new map. Probably the biggest update to date.

Hunt is a fkin amazing game, super unique and insanely fun when you understand the mechanics There is so much more to it than meets the eye And we're getting a huge update for it soon

I've been playing hunt since 2019, and its by far my favorite fps. But i had NO idea they got Geralt of fuckin Rivia to voice the new tutorial! Always good to see new hunters in the bayou!

I got more than 1.500 hours in this game and its a masterpiece, such a unique game. Hunt Showdown is 6 years old now and the best part is that engine upgrade is coming next week, so the game has a bright present and future

Hunt is such an underrated banger with some of the best gunplay and combat encounters. 10/10 underrated and slept on game

YES BOTH TO CROSS PLAYING THIS GAME AND MORE MARKETING FOR HUNT, I love hunt showdown so much and it’s gameplay loop is the most enjoyable of all extraction shooters. The issue with the “pure” extraction shooters is they all have the same boring grind at the beginning of picking of dog shit for a few runs and slowly building up, and have 0 incentive for players to move around the map other than looking for loot, hunts bounty is the objective of each match and there’s a clear path from the start of the game to the clue and also leads teams to fight, instead of just random mf sitting in a corner all game. Now this can still happen but it’s less frequent and less annoying with the lack of a prone button (which I am thankful for)

Cross...so glad you ran Hunt. The audio ALONE deserves anyone to take a look. I'm a nobody, but I definitely know a thing or two about the Bayou. hmu if you need a tour guide. Great video!!!

I'm not a huge Extraction Shooter fan, but Hunt Showdown is easily one of the best I've ever touched, and is just in general an insanely good game.

Glad you gave this a chance and actually read to understand what you were doing. So many people skip the tutorial, try to run and gun, and delete after they die.

"Shake the gun above your head" & then the Sand People sound effects 🤣😂

Hunt showdown is about to have its biggest update to date and an engine upgrade. New weapons new map new monsters. Helpful tip always get gator legs perk.

Hunt is getting a massive "2.0" update this Friday. Please keep playing till than/check out the update.

Loved watching you play this cross! Hope to see you play HUNT again.

1:10 Worst take ive seen on hunt, its an extraction shooter and one of the og's its fantastic. Wish i had people to play it with though.

Hell ya, Hunt showdown is one of my fave PVP games. It has the best audio in any game i have ever played you can tell exactly where shots are coming form on the map by the sound allone

Your chat giving you bad info about Hunt:Showdown. First thing First, Marathon was an Arena Shooter and this reboot it's an extraction hero shooter. Already chasing a trend. Secondly, Tarkov is a Milsim extraction shooter the emphasizes hoarding loot in the world, not gonna be easy to get into, trust me, but if y'all want something similar Arena Breakout infinite is more streamlined and better quality of life improvement than Tarkov. Lastly, Hunt: Showdown is hardcore but easy to get into, since the extraction emphasis is taking the bounty, in return you get xp and money, in addition, skill points, after your first successful extraction you have full control to customize your hunter loadout and their perks, you decide your play style base on your build. Your hunter becomes stronger each time they survive by completing quest and kills. Simple task for any newcomers. Hunt weapons are slow firing, clunky, and unique due to the 1800's weaponry and its prototype designs, mostly iron sights and sniper scope size, short, medium, and long.

Dude my heart was pounding on that last round. Insanely well played for your first rounds. Theres alot of stuff you will get down with experience. Gamesense is key in this game but damm you crushed it dude.

Having 3,000h in game, it is very interesting to see a new player jumping in Hunt. Welcome Aztec!

Cross, as a fellow Hunter, welcome to the Bayou

That's a great perspective. Looking into the extraction genre in prep for a Marathon review. I'm looking forward to their old IP coming back. I hope they give us some information at least this year. Looking forward to your other games in this series.

Cross having no issues being called "Hunter" just shows his true allegiance.

Glad to meet a new Hunt player! Picking up the Nitro from game 2 is pretty nuts, but VERY well played. In future use your melee tool (knife, dusters) to kill grunts and other AI to save ammo, you got away with it because you used a silent pistol, otherwise your position is revealed to everyone on the map

Chat: fight the spider boss Cross: *try’s to kill it with fire. (Major Payne voice) if he still down there…he ain’t happy. 😭😭😭

I've sunk over 1,000 hours into hunt showdown and still find nearly every match different and fun. It's my favorite shooter game I've ever played. With that said, I really enjoy it most playing with a group and my reluctant friends have surprisingly logged a few hundred hours with me since trying out the game. As a former destiny player who has enjoyed your content, I'm happy to see you try out this game as it can be one of the most exciting, unique shooter games to date and they continue to build on its core mechanics and release free amazing content. Cheers!

It's a great game, it's even better with friends. The game is about to get a huge update this week on the 15th, basically a 2.0 update for the game. Now is a great time to jump in, if you can get past the learning curve its one of the best fps games.

Been playing this game like crazy the last couple weeks sooooo glad to see you hop on it

Hunt is the best in my opinion, don't get me wrong, it far from perfect. But Crytek with this one nailed very specific niche, it has old school FPS mechanics mixed with modern in the best way possible. There's so much depth in this game it takes you like 100h just to learn it on the basic level, you can have hundreds of loadouts, and strategies and almost infinite replayability. And adrenaline rush is incredible, after some clutches I feel like I'm really really high.

Hunt is probably my favorite extraction shooter of them all currently just because you don't feel pressured to minmax all the time. Sure there's the Nitro but the cheap Romero can kill just as easily if you play around the gun. Its very satisfying to wipe a squad with a single shot gun that isn't matched in many other games. Plus the wide variety of weapon variants allows you to try different takes on the same weapon (chainpistol my beloved). Can't give it enough praise from a gameplay perspective!

Glad to see you give Hunt coverage. They're doing a massive update this week, including a new engine and improved visuals. It will basically be Hunt 2.0. I encourage you to try it again in a couple weeks.

Hunt is the first extraction shooter I played before Marathon got announced and I adore it. Thats why I'm hyped for Marathon, the tension you get from those games is unlike anything in the FPS market. People need to be a little bit more open minded.

Honestly this was a great video and the Hunt: Showdown looked like a really awesome game and i never even heard of it before.

I really enjoyed watching you play, and I hope you enjoyed hunt uniqueness when compared to other typical extraction shooters, I recommend y'all find fiends or family to play with in duos and trios. More action and crazy shootouts with clutch moments.

19:29 I love how it took him one real game to fully break down Ratting in these games lol

As a devoted member of the hunt community welcome to insanity with that being said hunt is by far the best extract shooter right now!

This is the greatest sound design in any game ever..... HUNT: SHOWDOWN

HUNT SHOWDOWN IS SO PEAK

Hunt: Showdown has one of the best Twitch communities I've ever seen. The game might not be for everyone, but the people are lovely

My friend showed me this game once and was really excited about it and his sharescreen was just him camping one of the extraction points

I really hope you play more of this it's such an amazing game

As someone as who plays hunt and tarkov, tarkov is more tailored towards people like me that enjoys realistic gunplay and in-depth weapon customization. But Hunt showdown is by far a superior game and is getting a big upgrade next Friday that will change a massive amount of the game and add a new mountain map

On the 15th they are upgrading the game engine in a big update. Interestingly they are dropping the last gen consoles with the update. Something i suggested for d2 a while back.

I've roughly 700 hours into Hunt - Initially bought while the game was still in Early Access, years ago. Great game, even though Hunt has it's own fair of issues, it still remains one of my favourite PvP shooters. Ain't nothing like an intense shootout with multiple teams while inside, or outside of compounds. Also, you may wanna melee the grunt monsters more than attempting to shoot them, or just straight up avoid them.

Hunt is the closet thing to a casual extraction shooter out atm, its got all of the good things people want from an extraction shooter with less of the BS.

Been playing since early access- best multiplayer ever. Play it like a horror game and expect to die alot. As you gain experience you'll start to control your surroundings instead of getting bltchslapped by everything. There's nothing like the tension of Hunt and it's very fun to make it out with a bounty.

3:25 that's 100 percent cowboy Geralt lol

Taking nitro for the first games is wild. They probably should keep the old unlock system for the first 100 bloodline levels, and only prestigeing unlocks all at bloodline 0.

It's sad that The Cycle shutdown. I think Cross would've liked it the most out of all others. As a longtime Destiny player it's the one I took more of a liking to.

Really like Hunt's aesthetics, this gritty frontier Western style it has, and some of the DLC characters I've seen have great designs. Really have to hand it to the devs, they made a good game that looks great.

I respect your intro and your thought process and motivation behind making this video. It's crazy, that something so simple. As a respectable logic into your decision making, it's something that got me wanting to watch your channel.I hate how rare it is for people to just make sense nowadays

Been playing this for Years! Its so good. And the updates they add consistently and the gun play is so unique Edit:this is literally the most positive comments ive ever seen for a game 😮

I love how patient and calm he was along with willing to listen to his chat and then not overwhelming him. Good new player and experience here (as good as it can get for Hunt anyways).

Hey Cross, I know it's not really a "shooter," but I would recommend trying Dark and Darker as well. it's a fantasy extraction shooter where you fight goblins, skeletons, giant bugs, ghosts, and all sorts of other shit. it is also a hero extraction game as it has the classic classes in common with D&D (hence the name). they've got ranger, druid, bard, fighter, wizard, warlock, barbarian, rogue, and cleric. they are still adding more content to the game, so that's all the classes they have so far. it's still in early access, but I'd say it's worth an attempt. probably the closest game to Marathon you'll find since it is a purely loot based game with unique characters and play styles. only major differences are the heavy melee focus and the unforgiving nature of the combat.

I dig it when new streamers try hunt and do well. Inspires new players to try the game. Massive new updaye coming this week, new engine, new map, new rewards, skins, gameplay updates, really good time to try it.

Very very good game,love to see you play this more

Hunt is fucking amazing. I’ve been playing this game for years now I love it

HUNT IS PURE CR4CK! I hated the first 20 hours and I have no idea why I kept playing it, but it is now one of my all time favorite games. It is unlike anything out there. I wish I started playing this years ago.

The sound design in Hunt is immaculate.

Welcome to Hunt! I was so excited to see this video on my feed.

Hunt is by far my favorite is these kinds of games, with Gray Zone being second once it gets fleshed out a bit more.

I just started playing this game too! That theme song tho

Love hunt showdown. Nice to see Cross trying it out

Glad people are still finding this game, its so underrated. can't wait for the new update. You should definitely give the game another go with the new update, new map, new engine and a whole bunch more!

I honestly don’t know why people say Tarkov is the best extraction shooter. That game is way too hardcore for the average person to have any fun. Hunt though I am biased I feel is way more fun and has a much lower bar of entry

respect for playing and learning solo, hunt is a lot easier to get into and learn with someone to teach you imo

Absolutely incredible game. High learning curve, great gunplay

Hunt is genuinely one of my favorites all time games, it is so good.

Hunt showdown is my favorite game as of right now, super fun high skill ceiling and no single match is the same.

Hunt is a unique extraction shooter, and the atmosphere CT captured is amazing.

I love that you are playing this

Hunt is such a sleeper banger. Super happy to see muh boi Cross checking it out

10:35 the moment cross learns why extraction shooters are either hated or loved, loss of all items you had

thank you for playing hunt the game deserves more players. 1 thing I want to say about EFT is that the game is focused on team play. Solo is fun but more then likely you will be outnumbered.

HUNT BANGER mentioned O _ O and to whoever said hunt is not a legit extraction shooter, how about you extraction shoot this automat at your face (in-game)

Aztecross Hunt showdown combo just made my morning. One of my favorite games ever,

Hunt: Showdown is a great game! I’m glad more mainstream is getting into it!

You did a lot more killing and a lot less dying than beginners normally do :D

Should have waited till the 16th to play Hunt. Thats when the new update goes live: new graphics and major improvements to gameplay, sound design, and environment design. As well as 4k textures

Can’t believe he is playing this and now I want a series of him playing this now lmao

I can’t believe I missed this. Good shit.

Hunt is my favorite fps of all time. They’re also releasing an update on Thursday that is basically going to be Hunt 2.0.

Hunt is far better than tarkov, but thats just my opnion

This video was pretty good! Hope to see more of this game in your channel!

Really want hunt to get more attention, game is a fucking gem and takes a lot of inspiration from the part of southern culture that isn't racist

I'm a hunt showdown addic! Loved the video thanks for playing my favorite game.