The developers at Illfonic surprised us with some new content today for their “Predator: Hunting Grounds” asymmetrical multiplayer video game, including one item that should be very familiar to Predator fans!
There are three new Predator trophies now unlockable in the game, including two prehistoric weapons and one very interesting alien-type skull! Check them out:
Prehistoric Mace
Prehistoric Knife
Alien Hunter’s Trophy
The last “Alien Hunter’s Trophy” should be very familiar to fans, as it appears to be a smaller and modified version (missing its outter jaws) of one of the skulls found on the Lost Predator Ship built by Stan Winston’s team and featured in the film “Predator 2”!
Now along with those new Trophies, Illfonic has announced the Saber mask is now out of early access and available to all players.
Saber Mask
Not scheduled for another update until October, this drop of content was a pleasant surprise for this game’s loyal fans, who just experienced a large influx to their player database thanks to “Predator: Hunting Grounds” being free to all PlayStation players who subscribe to PlayStation Plus!
So if you’re a subscriber and haven’t already, be sure to download the game before its availability expires after Monday, October 4!
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- Bone mask
Despite the preview it seems to operate how was expected. The mandibles of Falconer, Mr.Black, and Wolf will curl into the face. This leads to an amusing sight where it looks like the image of that trex "furrafic farc" where the jaw is gone or put up into the skull like on a puppet.
- dreadlocks
They're here this time! Though despite the preview image the Emisssry dreads are STILL not featured in Hunting Grounds.
- Bionic
The model is gorgeous. He actually has a unique head unlike the other OC Predator. Where the Hell was this on the past releases Illfonic? The mask kind of reminds me from that one mask from (I think) AVP:seed.
Mottle like Emissary doesn't work. However near as I can tell no texture is bugging out. Seriously, someone really gave a shit about this model and I respect that.
His stats are near max across the board
He has a new roar! It's the female one but I dig it.
One touch I kind of like is that the wrist blade is a telescoping knife. Like it folds out of itself and then back into the arm. Good shit.
I wish there was more here but someone should be proud of the work they put into the cyborg.
So technically there's two masks. A cybernetic mask and a Bionic Predator mask. It'd also explain why he's the only one who has an exposed face. The image could be suggesting we can go "unmasked" now. The laser might be coming from the eye like Lasershot.
Bionic Predator is currently live on PSN.
Note as of posting he's available for purchase but no patch has dropped.
EDIT - never mind
Make it happen, Dibneh!
Depends how....Rad he is.
https://c.tenor.com/xuRFQfJG9hsAAAAC/explode-boom.gif
But damn, this Pred actually looks really cool!
I'm still riding high on Prey hype, so I'm totally going to make another financial mistake when this guy comes out!
Aha someone got the reference.
Ok that's...pretty goddamn badass. Need an action figure of this ASAP.
Hold on, this is the only OC with a new head, what just happened? None of the others are like this. Alpha being an exception due to its association with the toy but as another pointed out even the teeth are new. The Hell's going on here?
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/603438127314632704/1011672614588125194/unknown.png
Small studios make small games is no excuse. How come they were able to get Arnold back if its a small game? At the time there was 5 films, numerous comics and book characters They could use and they gave us a nfl player? The 1 year anniversary was delayed a day so the one year exclusive deal was up with epic and what they release a £20 dlc bundle where only new thing was early access to a mask. Even fortnite won't let you buy cosmetics more than once. It's a scummy company and needs to be called out on.
As I said before, they probably COULD'T LEGALLY use the new film to Advert a game released 3 years ago. Yes they HAD the rights to the previous predator films, were probably given a Lore Bible on the PREVIOUSLY released films and told THATS where they can build assets from. I'm not saying to give Illfonic a "pass" but I really do feel that fans of the game should seriously re-evaluate their expectations of this game and what Illfonic is able to accomplish with such a small staff. It was never supposed to be a HUGE game, its barely above a quickplay arcade game.
Small Studios make Small Games.
and personally I find it unhealthy to focus on the lowest points of any franchises for many many years. Let it go, your negativity isn't going to magically make Pitchford, the Strauses, or even Jeunet care or change anything about the media they released.
Edit.
Did I like the game. Yes loved it. The friends I made are awesome. Am I bitter and angry now about it? Hell yes. The one year anniversary showed illfonics true colours as a greedy company who's focus was squeezing as much money from the fans of a franchise that hadn't had many gaming outings and that's what's made me angry when in the lead up to release they were talking about how they are fans
To this day we still talk shit about the new born, AvP2, Aliens Colonial Marines. Why does Illfonic and their complete mishandling of this game get a pass?
That's how many were playing at that time.
Got to remember on PC it was on Epic for a year before released on steam. So assume a large amount of the playerbase is on epic on pc
https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/10722-predator-hunting-grounds
EDIT: Make no mistake, I DO wish this game was better, and i agree Hunting Grounds is in a rather disappointing state right now, but its not fair to willfully ignore a companies desire to pay their employees by focusing on other games.
Here is my source btw
https://steamdb.info/app/1556200/graphs/
The game has consistently been having 250 active players at once for the last few days, keep in mind these are the players you see the least in game, I've seen one exactly once after player 15 matches the other day.
Game development pipelines again are not 1:1 with what the audience perceives or whatever dataminers find in the game files, barring the fact that Illfonic is not a large scale game dev, with >120 employees its absolutely understandable that content gets cut. I understand that its frustrating to play a game that isnt perfectly optimized or balanced, but there just isnt the devpower to just "fix" the game. As far as them releasing the Captured predator, the biggest consistent complaint ive ever seen in the game is that the JH was a preorder release, so of course theyre going to find a work around and still honor the preorder.
Look I love this game, for what it is, a small arcade style PvP game. But its so dreadful to keep seeing nothing but negative comments about this game from fans who refuse to see the forest for the trees.
If we are to take the fact that Steam players make up around 1/10 of the active playerbase seeing how rare they are to find, that would mean that the game has at least 2k+ players at the moment.
Also, Illfonic has ALWAYS been neglectful when it comes to this game. Lack of proper weapon variety, lack of new gamemodes, lack of bug fixing and communication, this isn't a new feeling, it's been there since the first few months of release, also they have continuously failed to follow their promises, Captured is just JH, to the point he uses the exact same assets, which goes against their "no preorder content avaliable to other people" bs, and they also failed to deliver all the promised War Paints in time.
Game Industry =/= Film Industry you can't look at one and try to find correlation in another. They can't just decide to put the new films Predator into their game, there needs to be all kinds of legalese/permissions behind something like this. Hunting Grounds was released in 2019, its been 3 years which is a lifetime in PvP multiplayer games, Illfonic is a gaming studio, not a predator studio, they HAVE to make new games to stay in business.
Can we FULL STOP talking shit about Illfonic and acting like they NEED to "fix" the game, when theres literally less than 500 people ever playing it at once?
That's rubbish. The ferel pred was revealed way before it came out. People release artwork for months.
The point is on the lead up to the films release they didn't post anything about Predator or Prey so clearly don't care about the franchise.
And if they didn't make the mask until AFTER the film was released like you say how bad are they that they only take a week to make new content but only release a mask and shaders every 2 months?
You realize that Illfonic doesn't get any sort of inside information about Prey because they made a predator game, right? Like they probably had to MAKE that helmet AFTER release and get it ready to show off during that week.
Took a week for them to go a mask is coming.
To be honest I'm pleasantly surprised we're even getting Feral's mask as I figured there wouldn't any tie-ins to Prey whatsoever.
oops just saw the proper thread for IDs. Ignore this post.
Yes it would be nice to see more predators added, and it would only help in marketing, but who knows, maybe they'll surprise us. Even more, hopefully we'll finally get a single player mode (which I doubt)
Whoever they may add, it wouldn't matter for me because I'm absolute trash at the game. I can never figure out how when I'm the predator, I get smoked in two seconds flat, but when I'm on fire team, I absolutely swamp the predator in bullets, but yet he never drops.....it's a mystery to me....but then again my dumbass keeps playing it. Whoever knew that a budget $40 title could get more play than any flagship title out there (with the exception of gtav hahaha)
Yeah, I've been really disappointed with Hunting Grounds lately. Just feels dead now.