LogInThe developers want to make sure "more people get to play at least some part of the fun part."
When people play a PvP-focused game, you expect them to score a kill at least once, right? Well, Hunt: Showdown has surprising statistics. The franchise's general manager David Fifield revealed that 40% of the game's players have never killed another player.
"We have an achievement in Hunt called Debut," Fifield told PC Gamer. "It's 'kill your first enemy Hunter', 40% of our players never get it. We're a PvP game where you come in, you do some things, and 40% of the people trying Hunt have never killed another player."
Hunt: Showdown is a tactical PvPvE first-person shooter, where you hunt for bounties, kill monsters, and eliminate competing hunters. At least that's what it's supposed to be, but as we now know, the last part is not true for many players.
"Balance is tricky," Fifield admitted and then vaguely compared games to chess, saying it's not that interesting to watch a skilled person win all the time. It seems much better to him when the underdog gets to defeat a stronger opponent.
"When you watch an unbeatable player go on for decades, 'Will anyone ever beat them?' is not a thing that a whole bunch of people are flocking to sign up and try, versus the amazing story of the lowly mid three-star who, with an axe, caught a six-star napping somewhere—or third-partied them after the six-star killed five other people. [If] you're the one that took him down with the axe at the end, that's an amazing story and amazing feeling."
There could be multiple reasons why only 60% of the game's population has killed someone – maybe the others are just there for the PvE part or they are not that skilled – but Fifield wants to "put more experiences in where that number goes down and more people get to play at least some part of the fun part, or find that mastery before they churn out having never got that achievement."
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