As we speculated in our post about Patch 2.0, Illfonic has officially announced the next paid DLC as Dutch ’87! In addition to Dutch’s appearance from Predator, we’ll also be getting early access to Dutch’s M16 and Underslung grenade launcher (called Mercenary weapon for Hunting Grounds)!
Back in May we brought you Dutch 2025, but Predator: Hunting Grounds would not be a true love song to the ’87 Predator film if we didn’t bring the community a classic Dutch playable character. The opportunity to tell a new story with Dutch, and to represent his iconic look was so good, we had to do both! And just like Dutch 2025 you will get all the character lines voiced by the one and only. This Paid DLC will also get you 8 tint customizations and early access* to Dutch’s fully automatic, hard-hitting Mercenary weapon featuring an underbarrel grenade launcher and steady hip firing action.
The paid DLC has typically been released on the 28th of the Month, but it looks like Dutch ’87 will be out on the 1st of September, meaning that we wont actually be seeing any paid DLC for August.
Patch 2.0 is currently slated for release on the 28th of August, and it has now been announced that Illfonic will also be launching a trial weekend on the PlayStation 4 (I didn’t see any mention of Epic) so now’s a chance to try and convince any fellow Predator fans sitting on the fence about the game.
The trial will be open from 7am PT / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST on August 28th to 7am PT / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST on August 30th on PS4 for players with an active PS Plus membership. If you don’t own Predator: Hunting Grounds just visit the PlayStation Store, download the Trial, and join your friends in the hunt. And don’t worry, the progress you make over the Free Trial Weekend will carry over if you decide to purchase the game. And just in time for Dutch ‘87!
And don’t worry, the progress you make over the Free Trial Weekend will carry over if you decide to purchase the game.
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That's it! I knew I'd heard it somewhere in P2, I just couldn't think where. To me it's become synonymous with AVP since it was basically the roar you'd hear over and over again for the Predators.
Still not sure how they managed to mess it up when games from around 20 years ago got it right though.
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/744297900321931306/748912946557747251/unknown.png?width=621&height=677
Really? Wow, I didn't think of that. Yeah, I guess it could be. I have to give it another listen. Doesn't that Predator 2 roar have the cauterizing sizzling sound in the beginning of it, then it gets muffled when it cuts to Herb's wife? Well, that would explain why it cuts short.
Also I think some weapons were changed in order thus explaining the switched loadouts
His new one is one of the main roars from the AVP PC games, only this time it cuts off halfway through, so not only does it just sound weird but he's also left doing the animation with no sound.
Not to mention that the loadouts are all busted again after this patch, and not just because some of the gear and perks have new weight numbers. Weapons are missing or changed in some loadouts, and the second Predator loadout won't even, well, load.
Add to that the fact that the game crashed in my very first post-patch Predator match and I'm suddenly not feeling like this is going to be the update to fix all the things that have been broken for so long.
Oh, and people can still get under the coastal village buildings on Backwater, so I'd imagine they can still get under the map too. Because that's not something that needed to be fixed.....
It will be available in tomorrow's Part II update.
Well as someone who didn't buy it. I can tell you I at least have a pretty serious issue I'm a little upset about. It says that at level 100 you should have the city hunter combistick... I'm 150, it's locked...
pls help
Maybe that quacker of a biomask will be addressed in part two? Hopefully? 🤞
https://forum.predator.illfonic.com/t/patch-2-0-part-i/13475
I guess we know why they photoshopped Arnold's head on the game model's body in the promo.
Btw, thanks for posting those pics Mole-star!
https://photos.wowroms.com/emulators-roms-logo/22/137120/420-420/Predator.jpg
BTW I still like a C64 version.
Could be. For instance, Arnold's nose is not the shape it used to be, which comes from age. The nose never stops growing in life.
https://i.ibb.co/jkJKf7H/Screenshot-20200826-074441-Samsung-Internet.jpg
He kind of looks like modern Arnold just aged back and so if they used that head as a baseline it could just be modern Dutch elements shining through.
You think? I don't know. The eyes are all wrong, throwing off the entire model I think. Illfonic did such a better job with Dutch 2025...
https://i1.wp.com/media.criticalhit.net//2020/06/Predator_-Hunting-Grounds-2.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/jRgmq3F/Resized-Screenshot-20200526-125323-You-Tube.png
https://www.gamespark.jp/imgs/p/1UNSdyJKsYSbpw0t-zkIAAoLiAcGBQQDAgEA/424318.jpg
https://www.gamespark.jp/imgs/p/1UNSdyJKsYSbpw0t-zkIAAoLiAcGBQQDAgEA/424319.jpg
https://www.gamespark.jp/imgs/p/1UNSdyJKsYSbpw0t-zkIAAoLiAcGBQQDAgEA/424320.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/V8j11X7.jpg
'Three winners will each receive a Predator: Hunting Grounds poster signed by Dutch himself and one code for the Dutch '87 DLC for PS4 or PC.'
https://gleam.io/O46rR/the-original-returns-sweepstakes
https://d36eyd5j1kt1m6.cloudfront.net/user-assets/1259046/W7jLdnpdyKHoUE44/signed.jpg
In my humble opinion it would have been wiser to break up the two Dutchs with an alternate Fire team DLC.
I have my eyes on a different cyborg...
https://twitter.com/FnVoodooMagic/status/1296167216321302535?
Both incarnations of Dutch are important for different reasons more or less that 2025 is the first time Arnold has been officially back, and 87 because the game's based on the first movie and anything related to that holds a bit of weight to the fanbase. Monetary reasons of course is why this happens in the first place but even getting it at all is huge given how Arnold historically just doesn't come back for these. I doubt he has any new lines but this being what it is I don't doubt it'd sell. Now if we get a third version of Arnold that isn't as distinct we'd have a problem but this isn't Battlefront's Millenium Falcons all over again.
I wouldn't be surprised if within the 2.0 update we get the other masks due to the 87 connection. While AVP and Predators did have three masks, we know of Berserker and Scar and I don't know why we'd get Scar's mask for free when you'd think that'd be a selling point for the character class. I feel like it'd make more sense now that I think about it that it's going to be Jungle Hunter and its derivatives before they move on.
The original mask
https://www.therpf.com/forums/attachments/cp01-0001-1-jpg.1125154/
2010 classic
https://www.sideshow.com/storage/product-images/400047/battle-damaged-classic-predator-mask_predator_gallery_5c4c54ff5eedf.jpg
And I'd wager it's either some Amengi (original suit Predator) inspired mask or it's getting to use the mask on Dutch's shoulder.
No joke Voodoo, I'd pay to see a Hunting Grounds equivalent to the AVP Arcade Dutch.
Before we get those, we have to complete the Dutch collection!
Dutch 2025
Dutch 1987
Baby Dutch
Teenager Dutch
Old Man Dutch
Arm Wrestling Dutch
Thumb Wrestling Dutch
Double Dutch
Triple Dutch
Dutch's Twin
Dutch's Triplett
Dutch's Clone
Dutch 8
Anti-Dutch
Ninja Dutch
Retired Dutch
Cybernetic Dutch
Chances are that because I'm a damn fool I'll still end up getting it anyway, but I might at least wait a little to see if there are any new voice lines at all. But it's hard not to see this as the calculated move it is. They knew full-well that if they put the original Dutch skin out first rather than the "old Dutch" we got that everyone would have just bought that and be done with it. This way they know there's a lot more chance they can get people to double-dip.
I get it, it's Dutch. But still, I doubt too many people would have been disappointed with Harrigan or Royce, or even a character from the comics, perhaps. I'd totally be down with an Enoch Nakai fireteam DLC too.
I guess they do not have the final version of the head yet. Even another screenshot is not showing it in the blog article.
For a while everything felt managed well by Illfonic in my humble opinion. Then not capitalizing on Predators 10th anniversary, offering Alpha for free so soon after people sometimes paid absorbent prices to seek out the codes, not staggering fireteam releases with Predators to offset the wait times, the worst paid DLC yet where the City Hunter is broken in so many ways and still hasn't been patched a month after players paid, and now the way the (paid) Dutch 1987 is being handled so far just boggles the mind.
I meant that they used AS head from the film promo photo and put it on 3D model.
I have noticed this 3D clipping too.
https://forum.predator.illfonic.com/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a6ef1fe614234ac9f27dcfe300490129cc83d983.png
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/d/d3/Dutch_promo.jpg
Might be a combo of both. There's things not matching, and stuff that looks totally photo real.
https://i.ibb.co/p0LQgr2/Screenshot-20200825-121226-Samsung-Internet.jpg
It looks like his head is photoshopped on the model