Hunters,

Patch #3 for update 1.2 is now available, the details can be found below:

Gunplay

Flare Pistol:

• Increased the damage of the initial hit from 10 up to 75 to allow it to be more viable in PvP encounters.
  

Derringer:

• Increased the maximum effective range of the Derringer. (Headshot range increased to 52m previously 26m)
  

Sticky Bomb

• Damage output changed in relation to Bosses; 1 sticky bomb will bring a boss down to 25% of their health.
  

Choke Bomb:

• Increased Choke Bomb duration to 60 seconds (previously 30 seconds)
  

• Fixed a crash that could happen on throwing explosives
  
• Fixed some edge cases where the game server wasn't loading correctly (would result in 5 minute loading into a map before being kicked back to menu)
  

Performance & Stability

• Clients might crash when using bomb lance intensively.
  
• Players may sometimes experience desyncs / rubberbanding during gameplay.
  
• Players may expereince stalls when initiating the banishing process. This may only effect select players on the server when the banishing commences.
  
• In some rare cases, the client may freeze.
  

UI & Meta

• Transactions in the store may be slower than usual.
  
• Contract Status accolade doesn't appear at all in summary screen if no token was extracted.
  
• Book of Weapons item unlock popup repeats after every Training session if an item was unlocked in the last normal mission before playing the tutorial.
  
• Persistent grouping doesn't work sometimes when returning from a match.

Gameplay

• Tutorial: Bleeding audio does not stop after respawning in tutorial if player was also poisoned at the time of death.
  
• Quickplay: Weapon might not be lootable from killed player.
  
• Stamina consumption for two consecutive heavy melee attacks with Sparks might be incorrect.
  
• Reloading the sparks right after a shot before cocking the hammer, cocks the hammer twice and delays the reload.
  

AI

• Spider can become stuck sometimes.

Visuals & Audio

• Players may experience issues with textures appeaing to pop in and out more frequently than on live (this is due to slower streaming of textures).
  
• Winfield Aperture sight switching has some animation & interrupt issues.
  
• Distances for boss whispers are slightly off when the boss is underground.

~The Hunt team.