It's not even half finished and seems put together over a few weekends or for a university project.

Before I start there is one thing I do love, and that is being able to inspect the body and see how the animal died and where each of your bullets hit and in what order.

The things i don't like however are. Hiding is none existent, graphics are cartoon like. It is basically a copy of theHunter: Primal but doesn't have half the amount of things added and that was an unfinished game too. Its also 8 years later and the graphics, sound and everything is worse. All of that would be fine as you hope it can be improved. But when you can't even hide from a dinosaur what is the actual point of a hunting game.

The process is. I see it, Oh it sees me, it charges. Can i hit it enough times before it gets to me. Stalking is pointless being slow and sneaking is pointless. Setting up an ambush is pointless, because no matter where you are, how you are hidden or how far away you are, the second you take the first shot the dinosaur knows exactly where you are and charges straight for you. No smell, no scanning the horizon for the shooter, no listening for movement. No it just instantly knows your exact location and is moving the most direct straight line towards you. So like i said before, its a case of hope you see it first, get the first shot and then can you fire, reload, fire before it gets to you. The end.

Again this could be forgiven if the game was beautiful but its not. Its worse than a game 8 years older, that was an addon for another game and one that wasn't even completed. It was so incomplete that the makers took it off steam and made it free to distribute so no more money would be made on it, because they had stopped supporting it and knew they would never finish it. I only wish that more companies and video game producers would do the same thing. Instead of leaving it on steam forever under the safety blanket of the Early Access label and enjoying the residual checks coming in for something they never completed and stole many peoples money for. (Sounds like they should be joining the writers strikes. Give us more money upfront, more money afterwards and we want more of us too so we have to do less work. Doesn't matter if what we all do is crap and we only did 2 lines each. Doesn't matter that the show is a complete flop because of our terrible writing we still want and deserve more, weather you make a profit or not is immaterial.)

And before anyone says that this is an early access game and they are continuing updates, then you are these companies perfect mark. I'm not saying that this company is going to abandon this game and not finish it, but the fact that you use the EA badge as a defence for all and everything makes you the mark for all the predatory companies out there.

What I am saying however is that they attempted to copy a much older game and they have failed to do so. They didn't manage to do it mechanically or graphically . Because of this if they want to get it right, or make it even as good as that older game, then they will need to go all the way back to the beginning, to the engine itself, and start again. Because using what they have now will always have that cartoon feel, and not the realistic feel that people have been looking for, and are still hoping will one-day come. This means that as they continue to update they will have no choice but to lean into this aspect more and more. As a result the end product instead of being theHunter: Primal, fully fleshed out to take advantage of new graphical engines, weapon physics, weather systems and intelligent A.I. will instead be Primal Carnage.



In short its not going the direction it wants or wanted to go. Keep an eye on it and hope it course corrects. If it doesn't, well at least they were decent enough to recognise the limits of what they have been making and have keep the price to a nice manageable level. So props to the developer for not laughing like a super villain as they type the price for an early access game into their store page while thunder and lightning strike outside their window.

It should be the standard for any EA game and Early access game (hehehe). You get it cheaper because you are willing to help fund it before it gets completed. And if something happens so that its not released or only ever half a game is produced you haven't given away a small fortune to what basically amounts to fraud, if not just basic good to honest theft, like many of these "companies" do.

It's not even half finished and seems put together over a few weekends or for a university project. Before I start there is one thing I do love, and that is being able to inspect the body and see how the animal died and where each of your bullets hit and in what order. The things i don't like however are. Hiding is none existent, graphics are cartoon like. It is basically a copy of theHunter: Primal but doesn't have half the amount of things added and that was an unfinished game too. Its also 8 years later and the graphics, sound and everything is worse. All of that would be fine as you hope it can be improved. But when you can't even hide from a dinosaur what is the actual point of a hunting game. The process is. I see it, Oh it sees me, it charges. Can i hit it enough times before it gets to me. Stalking is pointless being slow and sneaking is pointless. Setting up an ambush is pointless, because no matter where you are, how you are hidden or how far away you are, the second you take the first shot the dinosaur knows exactly where you are and charges straight for you. No smell, no scanning the horizon for the shooter, no listening for movement. No it just instantly knows your exact location and is moving the most direct straight line towards you. So like i said before, its a case of hope you see it first, get the first shot and then can you fire, reload, fire before it gets to you. The end. Again this could be forgiven if the game was beautiful but its not. Its worse than a game 8 years older, that was an addon for another game and one that wasn't even completed. It was so incomplete that the makers took it off steam and made it free to distribute so no more money would be made on it, because they had stopped supporting it and knew they would never finish it. I only wish that more companies and video game producers would do the same thing. Instead of leaving it on steam forever under the safety blanket of the Early Access label and enjoying the residual checks coming in for something they never completed and stole many peoples money for. (Sounds like they should be joining the writers strikes. Give us more money upfront, more money afterwards and we want more of us too so we have to do less work. Doesn't matter if what we all do is crap and we only did 2 lines each. Doesn't matter that the show is a complete flop because of our terrible writing we still want and deserve more, weather you make a profit or not is immaterial.) And before anyone says that this is an early access game and they are continuing updates, then you are these companies perfect mark. I'm not saying that this company is going to abandon this game and not finish it, but the fact that you use the EA badge as a defence for all and everything makes you the mark for all the predatory companies out there. What I am saying however is that they attempted to copy a much older game and they have failed to do so. They didn't manage to do it mechanically or graphically . Because of this if they want to get it right, or make it even as good as that older game, then they will need to go all the way back to the beginning, to the engine itself, and start again. Because using what they have now will always have that cartoon feel, and not the realistic feel that people have been looking for, and are still hoping will one-day come. This means that as they continue to update they will have no choice but to lean into this aspect more and more. As a result the end product instead of being theHunter: Primal, fully fleshed out to take advantage of new graphical engines, weapon physics, weather systems and intelligent A.I. will instead be Primal Carnage. In short its not going the direction it wants or wanted to go. Keep an eye on it and hope it course corrects. If it doesn't, well at least they were decent enough to recognise the limits of what they have been making and have keep the price to a nice manageable level. So props to the developer for not laughing like a super villain as they type the price for an early access game into their store page while thunder and lightning strike outside their window. It should be the standard for any EA game and Early access game (hehehe). You get it cheaper because you are willing to help fund it before it gets completed. And if something happens so that its not released or only ever half a game is produced you haven't given away a small fortune to what basically amounts to fraud, if not just basic good to honest theft, like many of these "companies" do.