History VideoGame / HuntShowdown

** The derringer. It is reasonably cheap and can be invaluable for riflemen looking to finish off their targets. Most of the pistol options are either too expensive or too slow to accomplish this, leaving the derringer to excel in this niche.

* SniperPistol: The Caldwell Uppercut is a revolver pistol that fires long rifle ammo, having nearly the damage and range of said long rifles. However, since it's a pistol and not a rifle, it has massive recoil per shot, is slow to fire, and sways much more than a rifle with a stock.

** Most of the Hunters will be some variation of this, given the setting and the available weapons. Can be [[UpToEleven taken up to eleven]] by selecting the “Fanning” trait, which allows single-action revolvers to be fired rapidly.

* NiceHat:
** Plenty of them across the many hunter outfits, including the traditional ten-gallon cowboy hats, boater hats, slouch hats and many others. Often paired with [[BadassesWearBandanas bandannas]] and [[BadassLongcoat long jackets]] for maximum style points.
** Several Legendary Hunters have unique hats, such as the Mountain Man's bear head and Scrooge's top hat.

** Shovels, woodcutting axes, and sledgehammers can be picked up and used as heavy melee weapons, and the Tomahawk trait will let you throw them short distances.
** Bear traps can be set to hunt an entirely different kind of game. Especially useful while waiting for a banish to complete, knowing it's drawing other hunters in.

* KillItWithFire:
** One of the most useful strategies when dealing with most monsters, as well as other players. With a few exceptions, fire will kill most AI opponents within seconds, and when used against players, fire damage will burn away permanent HP if not dealt with quickly.
** Averted in the case of the [[TheButcher Butcher]] boss, who is not only immune to fire, but also uses it against the player!
** Functions as a kind of DoubleTap when used against fallen players; if a player dies, but still has some permanent HP chunks left, then they can be revived by a partner, if they have one. Oftentimes, if one player of a pair dies, their partner will lie low until the enemies leave and then rush forwards to revive their friend. In order to prevent this, a good way to ensure a dead Hunter stays dead is to burn their body, which will slowly destroy any remaining HP chunks they have, eventually killing them [[{{Permadeath}} for good.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon:
** Several of the gadgets available to the hunters are homemade or experimental, especially some of the explosive weapons, but with a few other examples.
** The Frag Bomb, Flash Bomb and Poison Bombs are all essentially sticks of dynamite rigged to various items in order to create makeshift grenades that would otherwise be anachronistic; the Frag Bomb is simply a tin ball of metal fragments, while the Flash Bomb is filled with mercury and magnesium to create it's titular effect. The Poison Bomb on the other hand has a glass vial filled with a volatile toxic liquid, which vaporises on impact and creates a cloud of [[DeadlyGas poisonous gas.]]
** For a more traditional example, there's the Fire Bomb, which is a tried and true [[MolotovCocktail Molotov Cocktail.]]
** A more unique example comes in the form of the Concertina Bomb: A spring-loaded coil of razor wire which violently unfurls when activated, creating a large area of twisted, razor sharp barbed wire that causes [[DamageOverTime Rending]] damage to anything foolish or unlucky enough to get caught in it.
** Several of the modified weapons are implied to have been designed by the hunters themselves, such as the “Talon” variants of the Winfield rifles and the Romero shotguns, which include blades attached to their stocks, allowing them to function as both firearms and melee weapons.
* InTheHood: A few of the tier-3 hunter outfits sport these, often paired with [[BadassLongcoat ragged trenchcoats]] or cloaks to really hammer home the look.
* InterfaceScrew:
** Being poisoned turns the player's screen green and muddy in addition to making the player unable to heal.
** The Assassin has a unique debuff that spreads crawling roaches all over the player's screen for a few seconds.

''Hunt: Showdown'' began its life as a game called ''"Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age"'', which was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen quite a different game]]; originally being a [[ThirdPersonShooter third-person, over the shoulder]] [[CoOpMultiplayer co-op shooter]] similar to games like ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. However, with the close of the Crytek USA office in 2014, the project was moved to the Crytek headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, and in May of 2017, the newly re-imagined ''Hunt: Showdown'' was announced. The game became available for Early Access on Steam in February of 2018 and was fully released on August 17, 2019.

** Several guns, such as the Specter 1882 and the Mosin Nagant rifles will eject perfectly good bullets if they're reloaded with a round already chambered. This can be circumvented using a trait called “Bulletgrubber” which allows the ejected ammo to be caught in midair, but still requires that it be loaded, so reloading after a single shot will still mean having to load two bullets.

** Even present in fictional variants, such as the [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Mosin Nagant Avtomat]] – because it's made from a converted bolt action rifle, it can still reload using stripper-clips... ''two'' of them. And as with the normal Mosin Nagant rifles, reloading the Avtomat too early will mean needing to load individual cartridges. With the regular five round Mosin Nagant, this isn't too much of an issue, but the Avtomat can hold ''twenty'' rounds, so reloading it at the wrong moment can take up a lot of unnecessary time.

* WasOnceAMan: Three of the bosses (Butcher, Scrapbeak, and the Spider) are all demonically twisted former humans.

* AnimalisticAbomination: The Spider crosses squarely into this territory. Despite once being human, it’s now an arachnoid, demonic, tangled mass of human limbs rivalling an SUV in size that can spit poison, rapidly climb ceilings and walls and can take some nasty punishment before finally dying.

* NiceHat: Plenty of them across the many hunter outfits, including the traditional ten-gallon cowboy hats, boater hats, slouch hats and many others. Often paired with [[BadassesWearBandanas bandannas]] and [[BadassLongcoat long jackets]] for maximum style points.

* InterfaceScrew: Being poisoned turns the player's screen green and muddy in addition to making the player unable to heal.

* WeirdWest: Members of a supernatural CreatureHunterOrganization wage a secret war on demonic monsters during the late 1800's. The game doesn't happen ''in'' the Wild West, but everything else fits.

** One of the ImprovisedWeapons that can be found in the environment is a two-handed sledgehammer.

* {{BFG}}: The Nitro Express rifle is an elephant gun that kills any player or normal enemy with one shot and can even kill the Spider with just 2 headshots. It still takes 8 shots to kill the Butcher since he has no weak spot, and the damage drop off over distance is considerable so it is outclassed by real sniper weapons at long range. It's also so loud it can be heard clear across the map.

** The expensive, semi-automatic Dolch 96 pistol was also extensively nerfed, such as being changed from using medium ammo to very rare special ammo, and decreasing its handling and increasing its recoil. Buffs to compact ammo also mean that cheap guns like the Winfield and especially the Nagant Officer Carbine have a better chance of contesting a Dolch 96 at close-to-medium range.
** The Nagant Officer Carbine and Bornheim No. 3 pistol, both semi-auto weapons with a high rate of fire, have had their prices increased significantly relative to similar tier weaponry (i.e. the Winfield and the Nagant Officer pistol) due to their popularity in the meta. The Officer Carbine also had its recoil increased in a later update.

** [[BeeAfraid Hives]] are walking corpses [[BodyHorror grusomly bisected]] by a demonic beehive.

** A valid strategy, considering that other hunters often pose a threat in the form of competition. Killing hunters also brings XP rewards anywhere from 100 to 1000 depending the tier level of the hunter. And the “Hunting” aspect of this trope is played completely straight, as there is no traditional “Radar” system or kill notifications, meaning other players must be tracked using sound clues and trails of evidence.

** While several of the weapons in the game share their names with their real-world counterparts (such as the Mosin Nagant M1891, the Vetterli 71 Karabiner and the Nagant M1895 pistol) there are several which are based on real weapons, but have fictional names to avoid copyright problems. In general this trope seems to often be averted with the weapons for whom the original manufacturer no longer exists. Amusingly Caldwell, the game's stand-in for Colt, is actually a real life manufacturer of hunting equipment.

** While several of the weapons in the game share their names with their real-world counterparts (such as the Mosin Nagant M1891, the Vetterli 71 Karabiner and the Nagant M1895 pistol) there are several which are based on real weapons, but have fictional names to avoid copyright problems. In general this trope seems to often be averted with the weapons for whom the original manufacturer no longer exists.

** Quickplay mode drops the player in a more traditional battle royale type match with limited loadouts (each player chooses to start with a pistol, low grade shotgun, or melee weapon and spawns onto the map with no tools, consumables, or perks) that costs zero hunt dollars and earns money and experience just like a regular hunt.

** If a run of bad luck leaves a player completely out of Hunt dollars, they can recruit one free Hunter per day.

** The main Hunt mode is a variation on this. There's a much stronger emphasis on assembling a loadout before queueing in, plus the wrinkles of the various [=NPCs=] and bosses, coupled with a drastically smaller player count (just twelve, rather than the usual fifty-to-a-hundred range).
** Quick Play mode is a much straighter example. Players choose whether they'll spawn with a random pistol, random low-grade shotgun, or upgraded melee weapon (or a completely random loadout selected from the above). They spawn on the map with just that, a medkit, and a melee weapon, with weapons and tools being much more common than in normal gameplay. Clues are replaced with "Rifts," and interacting with one grants a random perk. Once a player has sealed four rifts, "the wellspring" opens up and it becomes a quest to fill the Wellspring gauge without dying, winner take all.