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Hunt: Showdown’s new map is now available on test serversThe first in three years
The first in three years
Hunt: Showdownis getting its first new map in three years. Called DeSalle, it’s available on test servers now, and there’s a new trailer showing its various compounds below.
DeSalle Awaits You - New Map Official TrailerWatch on YouTube
DeSalle Awaits You - New Map Official Trailer
DeSalle has an autumnal theme, and is set across a “decayed urban sprawl” including a prison, church, bank and a saloon, alongside industrial and farming regions. Crytek also say it’s more vertical than their other, swampier maps, allowing players to climb areas to reach higher ground.
Its inclusion on the test server brings the total map count of Hunt: Shodown up to three. That doesn’t sound like many, but each of its environments is large and varied. This is the kind of game where you want to memorise sightlines between every tree and bush, and it already has a lot of trees and bushes.
I liked it, as did Matt Cox in hisHunt: Showdown review. It’s honestly been nice to see the game grow in popularity, from player counts in the low 1000s in 2018up to 10,000-ish in more recent months.
Thetest server has 2500 people playing it right now. Note that it’s a separate install from the base game, but if you own Hunt, it should already be in your Steam library.
