This was my favorite game, played it religiously and with a broken heart i cant recommend this game anymore in its current state. This supposed UPGRADE has been a total disaster.

imma spare you the obvious which is the absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ UI, there's heck ton of new problems introduced with this new update

global illumination has become god awful, everything just looks worse, it's way harder to see in darker areas and not in a good atmospheric way, light just doesn't feel right.

looking outside windows now just feels like flashbangs, you cant see ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥


the graphics upgrade is just not an upgrade at all. yes the water looks way better but that's it. i have even increased my graphics settings this update yet feels like when they upscale a ps2 game to 4k. it's all opaque and blurry. textures are higher res but dont look better.

the audio which was this game's trump card , a masterclass design, now degraded. it still is a great sound design but its a downright degrade from what came before, they just fancied it with "true speed of sound" which is nice, but the audio overall just doesnt sound as good. what you could hear and identify in 700 meters now is hardly even distinguishable at 400ms. now you might think thats not a big deal over those ranges but this also applies to close range, you can no longer as sharply distinguish when you hit an enemy, you cant hear footsteps as you could before

edit : after playing more apparently there's another bug that makes sound traps absolutely silent client side, which means you can have a coop, tearing itself apart but you wont be able to hear it. now if that not enough for you there's even invisible ones. i have seen or lets put it better heard hanging chains and buckets that dont exist there but when you pass through it, it makes the sound :)

edit 2: they increased the speed of burning so that it would "INCENTIVIZE faster action and lessen the stalemate" guess what, it made it so if you are playing with randoms they dont even give a ♥♥♥♥ if you are down cause even if they did they can hardly ever choke you out in time without dying, so they just let it go. just remove the revive mechanic instead, that would be much clearer option. their way of lessening the stalemates is by making you watch your friend play the game trying to clutch while you are there for emotional support or if you are with randoms you'd be way better off going back to the menu and getting your next hunter ready cause 20 out of 21 times you wont be coming back anyway. nice job REDUCING STALEMATES. this change is only good for solos, and ♥♥♥♥ everyone else. (and just forget the fact that this game was at first designed only for teams and they added solos later on and yet all the balancing now a days is just to make solos happy)

TLDR; lighting sucks, textures look blurry, and audio is a downgrade
this game is still awesome, best in it's own niche but not worth it at the current state