Following the release of the latest Hunting Party DLC Pack 2 for Predator: Hunting Grounds, a hotfix (Patch 2.45) was deployed a couple days back. There wasn’t anything beyond some minor fixes detailed in the Patch notes, but it was discovered that four new Predator masks were added as part of the patch. Oddly they’re nowhere to be mentioned in the patch notes, and some minor balance tweaks were also omitted. Check out the images of the new masks below.
The masks are added are called Relic, Spider, Detox, and Sempi. Relic is a half mask covering the lower part of the Predator’s face, while Detox has a kind of eerie gas mask vibe. Spider seems reminiscent of a ‘Bionicle’ design. Sempi is actually Scar’s mask from the original AVP film.
These masks were originally discovered in a datamine back in summer 2021. There’s also been leaked evidence of another original class, Tank, as well as the Tracker Predator from Predators. Given the lack of new content beyond Predator classes and occasional mask drops, it would seem the game is nearing the end of its support.
Predator: Hunting Grounds remains active though, and we had no trouble finding games with other players during our livestream last weekend. If you still haven’t gotten around to playing, the game is currently on sale for a significant discount on PlayStation, Steam, and the Epic Games Store until the end of the month.
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Yup and Jungle Hunter is back with this physical release pre-order.
the trailer is up for preordering Hunting Grounds on PS5 for physical. the trailer itself includes Feral but then lists the 10 exclusive Predators for the physical release with Feral not among them just like the preorder listings on various sites. I'm assuming now that Feral is just built into the game period, with the 10 exclusives being exactly that. But I guess we'll see.
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Right thanks for adding that, I forgot about that.
Well I preordered the physical release, so I guess i'll find out
It is also on pc for those that preordered it back then.
Also, the physical release preorder is only for PS at this time.
Wasn't Jungle Hunter a preorder bonus only for the original release? And the fact that only film specific Predators are listed, with no mention of Feral, as being included is interesting.
From what I remember, I feel the same way. Was playable but I remember it being dark.
Plus it also depends the kind of shade or tint of red we talking here. Some kind of mid-light red could help if its too much trouble. But least for me, I had no such problems.
You are absolutely right in the original 87 film, Preds natural vision is extremely difficult to see, it's like a monochromatic with no contrast red. Id imagine that lack of clarity was probably due to the special effects at the time of filming and not a purposeful choice.
AvP1 & 2's red vision mode is very detailed, and the Aliens stand out very well. Perhaps it was just the jungle setting, but I don't recall the environment being particularly clear in film.
I always thought that one was the darkest vision hardest to see anything besides the aliens
Haha you're absolutely right, it would of been unplayable.
He had his Brian's blown out so he had trouble thinking. Basically blind to her movements, heavy damage from prior fights. Exactly. Oh you are most welcome!
Actually, thinking about it even more, it makes me review the final fight between Naru and Feral with more context now, seeing how there was movements he missed Naru doing as he had no mask in the fight. Like no wonder he struggled even more than people think he did. Predators are short sighted beings without their masks. I recall that in the final fight, the red vision has less details far away compared to their masked blue thermal vision where details is more defined and sharp. Thanks for that point!
Also technically all of the predators at the end of Predator 2 would be surviving predators from hunts and an elder who very much has survived countless encounters. Also to note, at least 30 people die in every film besides the first movie before a single predator goes down and they have a far greater understanding of advanced technology as well as our own even in the films. The ones that do die, they typically fall to hubris and not a severe lack of intelligence.
Though the only criticism I would say is the Isabelle tapes, mentioning she and the science team hypothesized that predators were "not very smart" due to how they had their equipment interface set up. In the end though, it's simply her opinion and she knows very little about them as a race outside of a few Bad Blood encounters. Maybe she didn't remember they can't see anything because of their rather poor vision so would require things to be highly noticeable while flying? Lol
It's been quite cohesive in bringing the lore together.
Its been like a year since the last patch, its over.
On second thought being on different planets yeah that might be a bit of a stress I do agree, so how about Hunting down dinosaurs?
Maybe sometime in the future they might try to do some changes again but at that point everyone will forget the game even exist so it's just pointless now.