So what’s next for the Hunting Grounds?

#1

(https://www.illfonic.com/news/illfonic-developer-update/)

So what’s next for the Hunting Grounds? Alongside our announcement of the Oni Predator coming to the game, we also shared concept art of another legendary warrior from Killer of Killers. We are hard at work ensuring this fierce combatant lives up to his legacy. Additionally, we’re working to get test servers online for Predator: Hunting Grounds that will allow players to try gameplay/balance changes, provide feedback, and get sneak peaks of new content. This will also be the perfect opportunity for Fireteam members to test out a brand new way to traverse the jungle .

What happened to this?
@CommunityTeam

#2

PHG is dead, developer wise. They’re sinking all their money and time into the new game, Halloween.
Being a shoddy remake of their past games with reused assets and playability, that alone would drive people away. I just don’t care about mike myers though. I think half of their budget is going to animate the movements of the original person who played mike, who is now very old. It just screams a failed game, made by someone who really loves the halloween franchise.

I hope it succeeds though and I’m wrong, because, PHG was awesome. Took a really long time to get it stable, and by that point, the userbase was gone.

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#3

nothing

#4

Huh?

Never heard of it.

#5

I think Halloween is doing well, so they should come back to update PHG from what they’ve learned from their other games.

#6

I don’t think there’s much wrong with PHG. Some people found security loopholes after several years, but that’s because they spend all day everyday brute-forcing it by hand. It’s a good game that died too soon.

#7

why would they do that ? if halloween is doing well why would they waste time with phg when they can take money out of a bigger playerbase ? they already announced 10 dollar skins on halloween, they will milk that game getting money out of dlcs, then abandon it after 2-3 years like phg

And they haven`t learned shit, Halloween is full of bugs and they keep making the same shit balance changes, mainly nerfing Michael Myers into an underpowered pos like they did for predator

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#8

Just so you know that post was in 2025…hello.its 2026. Nice try. maybe they are depleted of funds.

If you sold something like a dlc for 5 bucks, how many units do you need to move to fund a whole years worth of developers?
Or do you take out more business loans and the banks hope you’re onto something?
maybe they are trying to woo the mafia for some extra quick cash.

#9

It really doesn’t take that much to turn nothing into something fun. The best changes, are the smallest of tweaks. Just requires creativity and a little bit of interest in furthering the project.

PHG has a dead userbase. It’s never coming back. It’s over. I’ll still play once in a while b/c it’s fun as heck.

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#10

PHG is still a great game man. Not going to lie, to keep it fresh doesn’t mean more dlc. just means maybe they should give more attention to how to play privates. Private matches is a shit ton of stiff they just placed with a no UI schema and figured that people will get how to use it. My thought is, people just don’t want to look at a checklist before their game. They want a UI.

My guess is they might turn it into a very large UI interface like how (insert whatever game has an elaborate UI for customizing their game) is and make it front and center.

The game has no playerbase because -not because its not a great game- its because the game hasn’t received anything notably different in terms of the game type customization and its ability to create customize their matches like the way Privates are currently.

Lets be honest, when the game was alive it was kicking. If people are just bored, than you can’t blame a large player base for not feeling it anymore.

I mean its not a forever game, but when people haven’t played it they might for a fairly long time until they can’t find anyone. but i’m sure they can find potatoes and its still fun. The Social means they just won’t be advocating the shit like we used to on the forums.

Here I am, a mushroom waiting to grow but there aren’t any fertile soil.

If the next biggest version depricates customizing (or limiting) the customizations of predators and strictly use DLC based designs for Predators, then they have something. Let loose 3rd party designers and give us stuff on the open market of art studios making stuff.

Then give us a fun, unlockable private settings UI, give us some unique dailies -i mean unique like a shit ton of unique stuff for dailies. Then they might have PHG 2.0 here.

On top add Identifying predators something that is done in realtime- in game rather than something FT sees right off the bat.

#11

it can be fun for shits and giggles, i still get back to bully assholes with the shock gauntlet once in a while but i dont expect anything on this game anymore

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#12

OH, also there is the Arnold allure. Take that out and it might not have much charm.

#13

Bullying people with charm is all apart of the uniqueness with PHG! At this point they might as well make an official leader board with charms (with official baddass emojis) to save the public forum from having to go too macho. I advocated this as a the forum was lame to begin with. Adding some controlled stuff might benefit the ecosystem in the long run.

#14

shock and hook, to play with assholes lol. I think my loadout is named something like that. 4tryhards
though a single disc kills them all just as well

#15

A good game would be that you only get enough leverage to kill 3 out of 4. and the last one gets away.

#16

Yeah. They don’t get that far.

#17

the balance is atrocious

#18

The balance is fine. I can kill teams easily, and pred easily. Seems fair.
Oh, except for the obviously glaringly shock gauntlet which is just … wth illfonic lol.

#19

I didn’t mean balance between FT and pred, i meant balance between PC/PS skill level/issues.

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#20

Fuck this game.

Arc Raiders is fun. You get to blow shit up, kill anyone that annoys you, and take all their gear in the process. 🙂