HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME news & patch notes

Hey everyone!

It's the end of June, and as promised, we have an update for you all!

We're still hard at work planning out some big (and exciting) changes to the game based on feedback and ongoing discussions here at the studio, as well as more content of course. We know that everyone is eager to get a glimpse at the roadmap of what's ahead, and we're going to do our best to get it out as soon as possible.

But until then, we want say another thanks to everyone for having reported bugs and leaving feedback these last couple of months. It's been super helpful, and you all play an important roll in shaping the future of the game! This really is just the beginning for the game.

In any case, in this month's update we wanted to focus on increasing the pool of cybernetics and mods, adding new weapons, adding more gameplay variety to indoor spaces, alongside fixing as many bugs as possible of course. And of course, adding the heavily requested"save and quit" feature.

More or less everyone here at studio will be on summer vacation for 4 weeks here in Sweden this upcoming month, starting the second week of July, so expect less updates and communication duing this time. We'll be back in full force in August! Stuff is cooking, and we can't wait to share it.

But for now, here are the V.790 patch notes: New Features & Content

• Save and Quit

  • It is now possible to save and quit your current hunt through the Pause Menu, and later continue where you left off. This can be done:

    • When choosing a route.

    • At the start of a level.

  • When choosing a save slot from the main menu, you get the option to continue a saved hunt.

  • You may also abandon the current hunt through the Pause Menu at any time.

• Several new interiors to be liberated in New Detroit.

• 12 New Cybernetics:

  • Ballistics Neural Frame

  • Bioelectronic Tissue Stimulators

  • Gun Melee Coordination

  • Field Medic

  • Self-Destruct Hack

  • Tactical Servo

  • Vulnerability Analyzer

  • Regenerative Tissue System

  • Adaptive Resurrection Suite

  • Graviton Anchor

  • Engineered Metabolic Organ

• 4 New Weapons:

  • Bolt Buster

  • Anti-Grav Snare

  • Seeker Rifle

  • Plasma Cannon

• 28 New Weapon Modifiers (giving every weapon at least 5 mods)

  • Ranged Bullet Mods:

    • Poison Ammo

    • Shock Ammo

  • Ranged Projectile Mods:

    • Fire Explosion

    • Cryo Explosion

    • Poison Explosion

    • Cluster Explosion

    • Heat-Seeking

    • Heavy Material

  • Ranged Plasma Mods:

    • Ultraheated

    • Plasma Splitter

    • Advanced Pattern

    • Crater Creator

    • Piercing Plasma

  • Other ranged Mods:

    • Recoil Control

    • Critical Aim

    • Surge Enhancer

    • Electron Shrapnel

    • Surface Cooler

    • Lingering Cryo

    • Impact Freeze

    • Oil Infused

    • Thrust Force

    • Smart Tank

    • Wild Spray

    • Self-sustaining

  • Melee Mods:

    • Aerial Impact

    • Synergizer Alpha

    • Synergizer Beta

• A new random encounter to be discovered in New Detroit.

Changes & Minor Additions

• Weapon Licenses and Cybernetic Modules now have specific progression and loot pools for better progression pacing.

• Joe Bob Senior Barnes now drops weapon licenses on first kill.

• Added Plasma Melt Sounds.

• Critical hits now have a different damage number color for clarity.

• Removed higher ranks of certain cybernetics and moved their effects to the previous rank, giving you more of the cybernetic’s power on a single level up.

• Plasma Asteroid Demolisher projectiles now bounce.

• Global Progression on save file should now properly reflect progress based on what’s currently available.

• Sentry gun visuals and gameplay updated.

• You can now open the Pause Menu from NavDek.

• Many crates have updated visuals when thrown.

• Dual Shot and Piercing Shot mods are now mutually exclusive to each other.

• Lowered base damage of Sammy Sixfinger’s guitar throw attack.

• Explosive Bullets mod:

  • Decreased damage bonus from +100% to +50%

  • Slightly decreased range on minigun and shotgun.

  • Adjusted how enemies are knocked.

• Ol' Painless (Minigun)

  • Damage output was slightly lowered to better scale the weapon throughout hunts and meta progression without removing the badass feel.

• Black Market Cybernetic - Adrenaline Injector

  • Increased health when reviving to 50% of max health.

• Upgrade - Tactical Belt

  • Can now be unlocked much earlier.

• Malfunction - Weapon Disabled

  • You can now freely manage weapons in the disabled slot, just not attack with it.

• Malfunction - Boiling Point

  • Has been removed. It was deemed too punishing and not interesting enough.

• The first kill on Main Targets now give a higher amount of francs and credits than subsequent kills.

• It is now possible to exit the Weapon Machine instantly after upgrading a weapon.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing enemies to sometimes land below ground.

• Partially fixed a couple of issues causing the toilet to get stuck mid-air Joe Bob 'Senior' Barnes.

• Fixed an issue causing the game to softlock after defeating Joe Bob 'Senior' Barnes when trying to level up.

• Fixed an issue causing Scoped Shot increased damage to override Piercing Shot damage.

• Fixed an issue causing status bars to remain on cuffed enemies.

• Fixed an issue causing Cryo not to damage enemies properly when 1 hp is remaining.

• Fixed an issue causing Big' Otis Barnes to miss his charge grab when the player was too close.

• Fixed an issue causing Cybernetic buff effects not to reset when starting a new destination.

• Fixed an issue causing Cryo Grenades explosions to loop against the Rhino enemy in The Silent Zone causing a game freeze.

• Fixed an issue that made it possible to use Stimpaks on max health when having “Halved Health” malfunction.

• Fixed an issue causing the player to be able to take damage after collecting the reward from bosses.

• Fixed an issue causing some weapons not being able to reroll weapon mods.

• Fixed an issue causing the player to have their Max HP and Max Stimpaks adjusted when not engaging with Neurocore Stations and engaging bosses in the silent zone.

• Fixed an issue causing Cherry 'Boom-Boom' to only take one instance of explosion damage when shooting her with a Shotgun with Explosive Bullets.

• Fixed an issue causing the lightning ball not to be removed properly when climbing ladders with Lightning Justice weapon.

• Fixed an issue causing the Van in New Detroit to play Gore Plasma SFX when defeated by a Plasma Weapon.

• Fixed an issue causing the Flamethrower flame to sometimes move backwards together with the player.

• Fixed an issue causing enemies not to notice the player properly in interiors.

• Fixed an issue causing enemies with pistols to sometimes be able to shoot through crates.

• Fixed an issue causing Sawyer to be able to doubletalk when he got hit and healed himself with a Stimpak.

• Fixed an issue that made it possible to jump out of bounds in the transition hub to The Silent Zone.

• Fixed an issue causing the player to lose mainframe protocol upgrade at Neurocore Station when opening invalid menus.

• Fixed an issue causing Adrenaline Injector (Death Save) not to trigger properly when defeating a boss at the same time as the player dies.

• Fixed an issue causing VFX and particles to remain on the screen.

• Various camera fixes.

• Fixed an issue causing the player to be able to get stuck in a wall in the silent zone.

Hey Bounty Hunters!

Hope everyone is enjoying the game so far! We're hard at work making new stuff for the game, and we of course want to make sure everyone is kept in the loop on what the plan is for the game going forward.

With that said, we're working on a Roadmap, but it's taking longer than expected. We really want to get this right, and we'll keep you all updated as soon as we have stuff to share.

In the meantime, we are cooking up a patch at the end of June!

Expect:

- New rooms and interiors in New Detroit

- Save and quit current hunt, resume hunt

- More controlled Weapon Licenses and Cybernetic Modules drop pools for better pacing

- Some new Cybernetics and balancing to give them more impact

- New Weapon Mods

And more…

Much love,

The Easy Trigger Crew

Hey Bounty Hunters!

The latest patch is now live! We've focused on smoothing out some of the most widely reported balance issues and cleaning up as many bugs as possible. There's also some new content in this patch, but more is on the horizon.

We're in the process of finalizing our roadmap, so stay tuned for that. Exciting times ahead!

And a big thanks again to everyone leaving feedback and reporting bugs, it's super helpful and we read it all!

Cheers, The Easy Trigger Crew

Full Changelist: Additions

• Updated several rooms and interiors in "The Zone".

• It is now possible to find small health pickups.

• Added Turbo Fire + Extended Mag mods on Grenade Launcher and Conductive Compliance.

Updates

• Reduced damage from normal and elite enemies in "The Zone".

• Reduced some elite enemy health in "The Zone".

• Increased the chance that bounties reward credits.

• Alive bonus for bounties can now provide credits.

• Poison status effect now deals % damage of enemy health, depending on enemy type.

• Flamethrowers can now knock back enemies.

Tweaks

• Ringo turned down his music to attract customers to his weapon shop in "The Zone".

• Updated Flamethrower, Cryothrower and Electric Baton damage calculations.

• Weapons that (for now) only have one possible weapon mod cannot reroll mods.

• Weapon mods can no longer reroll the same mod on the same slot.

• Updated enemy knockback from plasma weapons.

• Added enemy death visuals from plasma.

• Doors can now break from explosions.

• Updated more bull variations in the Buck Barnes fight.

• Updated debris to be placed better on the ground.

• Updated Martha-Mae 'The Cook' Barnes visuals and gave the pig some blisters.

• Outhouses are no longer always occupied.

• Adjusted Grenade Launcher and Conductive Compliance dual projectiles mod angles.

• Updated the zone starting level visuals.

• Explosive Bullets, Piercing Shot, Shrapnel Burst mods now show new HUD visuals.

• Updated some shotgun enemy visuals in "The Zone".

• Closed doors can now hide what’s inside.

• Updated some sound effects for enemies in "The Zone".

• Increased Crowbar damage.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue causing level up reroll not to reset correctly between hunts.

• Fixed an issue causing some rewards not to spawn correctly inside rooms in "The Zone".

• Fixed an issue causing manholes to appear in "The Zone"

• Fixed an issue causing the player to die from burn or electric damage when they shouldn’t.

• Fixed an issue causing old keybindings to override the “Reload” mechanic incorrectly.

• Fixed an issue causing Explosive bullets to override other weapon mods.

• Fixed Supercharged mod not applying the effect correctly.

• Fixed an issue causing elemental impact damage to not trigger in some situations.

• Fixed an issue causing mines to trigger when they shouldn’t.

• Fixed an issue causing Scoped Shot to target cuffed enemies.

• Fixed an issue causing Joe Bob Senior Barnes to be able to take damage during his phase transition.

• Fixed an issue causing reload to break when some weapon mods were attached during reload.

• Fixed an issue causing manual reload to empty ammo for a certain reload type.

• Fixed an issue causing status effects not to refresh properly.

• Fixed an issue causing Martha-Mae 'The Cook' Barnes´ pig to freeze when killed from electricity.

• Fixed an issue with Sledgehammer weapon dash attack hitbox.

• Fixed an issue causing bounties not to die from certain hits.

Good day bounty hunters! We are pushing a small update with the most urgent fixes.

- Fixed an issue causing save data to become corrupt, added savedata backup.

- Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to progress after fighting "the bus" (RockVan).

- Fixed an issue with explosion effects getting stuck around the screaming hanging enemy in The Zone. Stay tuned for a chunkier patch coming soon!

Major Updates

• Reload input is now fully supported and rebindable on controllers and keyboard.

• Added a quick time event to cuffing that affects how quickly you can finish cuffing.

• Updated boss HUD to show their name.

• Enemies have lower resistance to status effects, making them easier to inflict. This makes weapon modifiers that add such effects stronger.

• Updated Elemental Mods to now also deal bonus elemental dmg.

• Fixed an issue causing explosive bullets to both deal bullet damage and explosive damage rather than only explosive damage. To compensate, the explosive damage has increased.

• Fixed an issue where explosive bullets incorrectly extended shotgun effective range. Reduced detonation distance for high-speed explosive bullets, while still remaining longer than those of slower bullets. 

• Reduced all weapon license prices by 50%.

• Added skip functionality to most cutscenes, including bounty intros.

• Reduced Scrap Gun enemy bullet damage in The Zone. Also made his first bullets ricochet early.

• Added a primary weapon crate in The Zone hub.

• Increased chance for a rank up to an existing Cybernetic to appear when leveling up.

• HUD now previews which empty weapon slot a weapon will be picked into.

• Lowered Sammy Sixfinger’s damage resistance while doing his spin attack.

• Added damage resistance to Joe Bob Senior Barnes in certain states.

Minor Updates & fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the game to get stuck in an infinite loading screen when dying and falling down to the tunnels.

• Fixed an issue causing a part of the tunnels not to render correctly, making it possible to go out of bounds and die.

• Fixed an issue causing Adrenaline Injector to not bring you back to life if you died and fell into the tunnels in the zone.

• Updated HUD to show Stimpak icon.

• HUD experience bar now also shows current level.

• Fixed platform animations in the Joe Bob Senior Barnes boss fight.

• Fixed an issue causing Stiletto enemy to attack from out of range sometimes.

• Fixed an issue causing The Pig to drop cash.

• Updated Dorothy cat animations.

• Added soldier NPCs to The Zone hub.

• Updated normal maps on Sledgehammer enemy.

• Fixed the weapon enhancement (Algorithm and UI).

• Updated The Zone weapon shop.

• Updated so that the mouse cursor is now locked to game.

• Updated debris placements and sound.

• Fixed being able to assign NavDek to other inputs.

• Various font and language fixes.

• Slowed Knife Thrower enemy’s melee attack speed.

• Updated map icons inside NavDek.

• Increased the base damage of katana.

• Slightly reduced Sammy Sixfingers pyro damage.

• Increased reload time for Ol’ Painless.

• Increased damage from thrown objects using Torque Connector.

• Updated Brass Knuckles to now be able to hit back projectiles (like other melee weapons).

• Update height adjustment of the input prompt.

• Temporary fix for Reload - clicking Left or Right analogue stick will reload your current active weapon. This works with Dualsense, XBOX controllers and more using Steam Input. We will add proper support for reload input including keyboard next update.

• Many weapons now passively reload over time when out of combat.

• Updated Cuff to Hold the button instead of mashing it.

• Fixed an issue causing performance to drop in rooftops biome.

• Fixed an issue causing Anti-Grav Trap to destroy performance.

• Fixed an issue causing Remote Bomb to not damage enemies correctly.

• Fixed an issue causing enemies not to spawn correctly outside the screen.

• Fixed an issue causing CREDITS not to be deducted properly when purchasing cybernetics with several ranks in C.I.R.E.

• Fixed an issue causing some unfinished and locked content to appear in the weapon shops: Skyhook, Harpoon Launcher.

• Fixed some places having too big jump gaps.

• Fixed an issue causing Sawyer to be able to open NavDek when he was not supposed to.

• Updated how dps ranges are shown.

• Several language improvements.

• Updated frequency of Sawyer kill comments.

• Adjusted the Swiss Franc counting sound effect.

• Lowered the volume of music inside The Silent Zone weapon shop.

• Updated Joe Bob Senior Barnes platform visibility.

Great news Hunters,

HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME is available on Steam Early Access NOW!

Start dispensing your own brand of street justice as John Sawyer,  professional bounty hunter who’s all out of bubblegum, in HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME. In this prequel to Huntdown, you battle your way through the mean streets to get to your targets and bring them to justice for big rewards. This is not only your goal; it’s the fuel to keep your ass-kicking engine running, equipping Sawyer with enhancements and an arsenal of new weapons.

Features

• Brutal roguelite – Permanent cybernetic enhancements and unlockable weapons make each step in your journey different

• Choose your path – Multiple routes through gang-infested zones and hostile territories, giving your different rewards and challenges with each run

• Two hand-crafted biomes – The streets of New Detroit are where it begins, but Early Access will take you beyond with an additional zone, with more on the pixelated horizon

• An arsenal of explosive proportion – Unlock an array of firearms, melee weapons, and tactical gear that would make Rambo hesitate

What People Say

“What's already here is a visually impressive retro shooter with satisfying combat and inventive ideas like its risk-reward bounty system.” – GameSpot

“The run-and-gun action is slick and fast-paced, with a welcome incentive to switch between melee and ranged weapons. The various bounties also stand out, each bringing larger-than-life personalities and unexpected twists to combat that kept me on my toes." – Rogueliker

There’s nothing more to say, Hunters. The streets aren’t going to clean themselves, so you’d better be prepared to put in some OVERTIME!

Hey Hunters,

Don’t mind us, bustin’ in here with the Huntdown: Overtime Early Access Release Date.

That’s right. You can step into John Sawyer’s mighty large shoes on May 7 and show us how street justice is done.

Your feedback will directly shape how the game evolves. So when the time comes, we welcome you to jump in, tear it apart, and help us make it into something truly special.

John Sawyer has more content in store for you.

Check out our latest Gameplay Overview Trailer for HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME for more details on our game before we head into early access!

Time to lock and load.

INCOMING TRANSMISSION

Tune in to the Galaxies Spring Showcase on April 16th to find out when you can get your hands on HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME. Don't miss it.

⏰ April 16th, 12 pm PT / 9 pm CET

📺 or

Time to clock in, bounty hunters!

After years of work we at Easy Trigger are so happy to finally get to unveil HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME! This prequel to the original HUNTDOWN features bounty hunter John Sawyer and is a fast-paced action roguelite inspired by the VHS-era of action classics. Each failed run sends you back to the operating table where Sawyers's flesh is systematically replaced with metal, granting him enhancements to fail less often but more spectacularly on subsequent forays into the mean streets.

Check out the trailer!