Crytek’s acclaimed multiplayer shooter Hunt: Showdown is making some important adjustments within the coming weeks. The developer has confirmed that the sport is making the soar to CryEngine 5.11 with an replace that’s at the moment deliberate for this Summer season, and whereas that may convey with it visible and technical enhancements, it should additionally imply the sport must drop help for some {hardware}.
Particularly, Hunt basic supervisor David Fifield confirmed in a lately launched developer replace video that when Hunt: Showdown upgrades its engine this August, it should change to working natively on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S, which in flip means its last-gen variations on PS4 and Xbox One will not be supported as soon as the replace is reside.
That signifies that not solely will future updates not be out there on last-gen consoles, the sport will grow to be solely unplayable on these platforms. Fifield assures within the video, nevertheless, that gamers’ accounts and their possession of any and all DLC they’ve bought will stay intact and switch over to the sport’s current-gen model for gratis, so those that have both a PS5 or an Xbox Collection X/S will be capable of proceed enjoying with out too many points.
Particulars on precisely what the upcoming summer time replace will entail precisely when it comes to different enhancements and have additions are at the moment scarce, however Crytek says will probably be releasing common replace movies over the approaching weeks to treatment that. The replace itself is about to go reside on August 15.
Hunt: Showdown is at the moment out there on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
