Deathgarden BLOODHARVEST – Hunter How to Play?
Hunter Playing
Hunter mechanics, goals, too playstyles wtih character-specific notes.
Quickstart
Summary
To buy the farm on the unwashed masses out of Utopia, you’ll live dropped into a randomly generated expanse too tasked to hunt them down.
To arrive at this, your primary objective is to preclude the scavengers from moving blood from the body-impaled collection indicate to the larger spires labelled “A”, “B”, too “C.” You don’t completely win or lose if a few escape, though a “hunter domination” is a satisfying victory.
Strategy
It’s fundamental to strike a residue betwixt active hunting too maintenance activities. Active hunting involves unglueing your eyes from the the world too scanning the horizon for movement, active blood deposits, drone destructions, too broken drones.
Obstacles
Scavengers will, intentionally or unintentionally, split your attending betwixt dissimilar activities. Your firstly few pursuits volition clue you lot into the caliber of your prey. Watch for what abilities they’re using, how recklessly they pass their powerfulness cores on those abilities, too how good they function together. You tin also concur Tab piece you’re waiting inwards the corral at the get-go of the stand upward for too expression for the microphone icons side past times side to their names.
Example
For example, 2 microphones way that in that location volition in all likelihood live 2 guys working together. When I firstly brand contact, I notice that there’s a Ghost too a Sawbones working together to cloak too heal each other, respectively. I know that I won’t live able to kill them both outright, therefore my best endangerment is to wound the Ghost too scout keenly for the orangish trouble too comport on bubble from his medic friend. Up to that point, I’ve made low-cal chase of the Ghost therefore my magazine too stamina bars at 75% or more. As shortly as I regard the orangish tracer, I hitting supercharge too leave of absence it on till the medic’s downed.
Gameplay
Objective
Have fun playing as hunter, non pursuing rewards. It’s slow to instruct frustrated when you’re determined to kill all of the scavengers or never permit them deposit a drib of blood. This makes you lot predictable, ineffective, too manipulable (see kiting).
Focus on picking them off i at a time, preferably starting amongst the weakest first. The 1-2 harvesters who ship the volume of the team’s workload may evade too annoy you lot for a while, but don’t waste materials your fourth dimension on them. Recognize science when you lot regard it too adknowledge their prowess past times pursing their lessers who are as goodness at harvesting blood.
Starting
The First Jump
- Scavenger hot spots is a roughly equilateral triangle amongst the A, B, too C deposit spires as its points. If you lot tin regard i or 2 of these from the window, too then you’ll lead hold a pretty goodness thought of where your prey volition live when you lot jump in.
- If you’re non certain where to go, too then aim for halfway betwixt the center of the map too the edge.
- Going straight to the center of the map lets them buy the farm to a greater extent than or less you lot or fifty-fifty swarm you.
- Going to the border puts you lot out of the fight, away from where you lot tin collect resources too deploy sensors.
- Hitting them correct out of the gate gives you lot valuable data too makes a tilt (see Strategy — Put them Through the Paces)
Strategy
1. Put them through the paces
- Hit the scavengers firstly affair to brand mental dossiers of your quarry.
- Intentionally boundary your stamina too ammo usage too allow for multiple modest pursuits.
- Find out how much you lot tin instruct away amongst when your seek difficult pants aren’t on. Unskilled scavengers volition bend nether the pressure level too you lot lead hold a endangerment to score a depression toll kill too execution, possibly 2 if you lot uses plenty resources restraint on the first.
- An aggressive hunter puts the fright of The Pure into coordinated teams. They’ll recollect twice nigh pestering or swarming you lot when you’re performing an execution.
2. Set upward sensors
- Take a suspension from fighting too jump from house to place.
- Prioritize collecting ammo, too then powerfulness cores.
- Save powerfulness cores for the drones nigh the blood deposit spires.
- Some maps seem to lead hold to a greater extent than powerfulness cores than others. Shorten this stage if in that location are few to live had or their acquisition is fourth dimension consuming.
- First activate the drones that hover straight over each deposit spire. These commonly won’t uncovering anything because shooting them downwards is the firstly company of concern earlier making a blood run. What this gives you lot is an early on alert system. Looks for the gouts of flame, smoke, too broken outline that signal a broken drone. Someone’s wants to brand a deposit run inwards that expanse too is willing to bet their life that they tin instruct inwards in too out earlier the drones come upward dorsum upward ( xx seconds). Alternatively, some teams (especially the coordinated ones amongst microphones) volition shoot downwards all of your drones all the time.
- Switch tactics too prowl the highlands piece you lot scan for their telltale arrow tracers.
- After the primary drone’s been activated on each deposit spire, buy the farm dorsum to a greater extent than or less i time to a greater extent than too start activating the ones side past times side to the spires. Try to lead ones that are betwixt buildings or trees therefore they won’t live therefore easily disabled from a distance. These volition live your primary detectors. Supplement these past times mining the buses too houses or setting upward turrets inwards opportune corners too choke points.
- At the middle of the game you lot should radically alter your patterns.
Vision
They can’t see
- Blood fonts (which is huge, because you lot tin commonly uncovering unsuspecting prey if you lot describe a trouble betwixt a font too a deposit spire)
- Blood deposit spires
- The Inquisitor’s turrets or their range
- The bubble to a greater extent than or less the Poachers’s mine
They tin see
- Eachother (with a white outline)
- Eachother’s health
- Downed scavengers (with a white outline)
- Red bubbles to a greater extent than or less active drones
- Golden crates
Movement
Flying (Supercharged jumping)
- Toggle supercharge vogue for a instant too jump piece running frontward to launch yourself into the air.
- You tin encompass roughly 1/2 of the map this way.
- Toggle off supercharge i time you’re airborne.
- You demand less than a meter’s caput start.
- Flitting likewise much from house to house makes for few kills, fifty-fifty when playing as The Inquisitor.
- Remember that fifty-fifty the most frontward feeling jump volition apace gain a lot of altitude. Use this to lessen the number of jumps needed to go out of deep pits.
- It’s ok to neglect the landing on larger jumps as long as supercharge is toggled off piece you’re airborne. The loss incurred past times toggling it dorsum on i time to a greater extent than to aid you lot upward the border is diminished past times the amount of stamina that recharged piece you lot were airborne.
Sprinting (Supercharged running)
- Very useful for finishing a kill
- Critical for shotgun use
- Easy to forget that it’s on piece inwards pursuit
Running
- Significantly faster than the scavengers. Slow downwards a scrap if you’re coming upward on your target likewise apace inwards a pursuit. Being unopen makes it harder for you lot to province shots too easier for them to double dorsum on you.
Standing Still
- The most underrated hunter ability.
- If in that location are many scavengers inwards an expanse amongst a bunch of clones, a confusing mass of smoke, too a jungle gym iii stories high, sometimes the best affair that you lot tin practice is stand upward too watch. Recognize that whatever only confused you lot took a lot of resources to draw off too that the guilty parties are in all likelihood inwards the bushes correct side past times side to you lot or slipping downwards the body of a nearby tree. Twitchy parkour fanatics don’t know when to quit too mightiness autumn correct into your sights whatever second. Meanwhile, your stupor too stamina are recharging. Relax, lead hold a charge off, pick upward a crate too activate a drone or two. You’re much faster than they are too they can’t leave of absence to harvest blood whatever fourth dimension soon.
- Standing all the same likewise long makes it slow to triangulate your seat via combat music cues.
Crouching
- You can’t Babe Ruth nether things similar the scavengers can, but sometimes a piddling peek nether the tabular array volition uncovering a lot of footsie going on
Stamina
- Each invocation of supercharge vogue has a 15% cost. Don’t spam it.
- Adjust the proportion of jumps too sprints to emphasize your character’s strengths. Inquisitors should role a 50/50 residue of jumping too sprinting for acquiring too finishing prey, respectively. Poachers should role 80% of their stamina to jump from house to place, rarely using the terminal 20% for a finishing shotgun blast. Stalkers should start the stand upward for amongst a similar 80/20 strategy to activate drones, too then gradually shift to the inverse as they gain to a greater extent than situational awareness.
- Vertically inclined scavengers volition bait you lot off climbable cliffs that are taller than 2 storeys. Be wary of these cliffs because they’re impossible to surmount without stamina too seem to lead hold a few to a greater extent than seconds than it takes the scavengers.
- Jump to high the world whenever during a pursuit, fifty-fifty if it way giving upward some distance or trouble of sight to your target. This is critically of import because it costs you lot an absurd amount of stamina to scale a cliff, relative to what it costs a scavenger. You can’t practice it to a greater extent than than twice too you lot don’t desire to.
- Jump to the peak of cliffs that your prey’s headed for during a pursuit. It costs less stamina to jump than it does to climb too they mightiness come upward straight to you. The scavenger’s venerated tertiary individual perspective is flawed inwards that it affords piddling champaign of thought at the peak of their screen. Players also tend to angle it downward, compounding the issue. Wait patiently at the peak of the cliff amongst a shotgun. It’ll live slow to regard where the body drops.
Hunters
Characters
The Inquisitor
- Speed: Fast
- Strategy: Fly from spire to spire amongst interplanetary space stamina gained past times denying wellness crates.
- Boon: The “Snake Bite” prepare on rifle’s the alone automatic weapon that won’t weigh you lot down. This is fundamental for noobspray-detecting scavengers nether bushes too cloaks
- Curse: Damage output is an number too fighting a squad amongst a goodness medic tin live really frustrating. The “Mauler 190” shotgun’s goodness for finishing a kill, but it’s upgrades scale the harm falloff range, which is a scrap useless, given its lackluster pellet spread. Upgrade “Snake Bite” first. Note that crate hacking isn’t worth it. Firing at crates generates likewise much dissonance too hardly e'er reveals a scavenger. You’ll lead hold to a greater extent than success amongst the latter if you lot hack the to a greater extent than valuable bluish (power core) crates, but you lot should actually lead hold those for yourself because drones are the gift that keeps on giving.
- Crate: Red. Health crates are your breadstuff too butter because they nearly refill your stamina. Without it, Tomas is nearly worthless.
The Poacher
- Speed: Slow
- Strategy: Carefully pick your way across the map too await to brand a kill every fourth dimension a scavenger gets inside xx meters of you.
- Boon: Once Bubble Burster (25% increased stupor range) tin clear most two-story structures too the unlockable “Flynn SN14” shotgun is the most arrive at inwards the game too scales upward harm on upgrades.
- Curse: Trigger command for ammo too stamina is a must. Most perks increment Declan’s maximum capacity for things similar ammo too stamina, but live consumes resources similar none other.
- Crate: Yellow. More. More. More ammo. Keep inwards hear that you lot tin start a reload amongst “R” earlier you lot start collecting a crate amongst “E.”
The Stalker
- Speed: Moderate
- Strategy: Lie inwards hold off too snipe from a distance.
- Boon: The semi-automatic sniper rifle has dandy headshot damage, but it needs a few upgrades earlier its harm buy the farm viable. The cloak’s best used when pursuing prey, non sniping. Jump a scavenger depositing blood toward the edge, cloak up, too ambush him when he’s running inland. He’ll 180 inwards surprise too his body volition ragdoll off the map when you lot kill him, giving no endangerment of revival.
- Crate: Blue. With ho-hum displace too no deployables, drone activation’s an of import business office of your loadout. Finding
Prey
Fog
- Smoke bomb arrows
- Smart ones volition obscure themselves amongst a fume plume, displace into it, too burn some other at a probable path of travel. Then he’ll hold off inwards the firstly cloud earlier firing a instant toward his actual path of travel. Counter this past times standing all the same when you lot uncovering yourself surrounded past times smoke. Dashing into smoke-laden ruins is a certain way to lose your quarry.
Switch
- Holographic clones
- Some teams volition swarm you lot amongst clones when they come upward to the aid of their friends
Clones, volition run, dodge, climb too describe aggro from The Inquisitor’s turrets, but non The - Poacher’s mines
Sawbones
- Healing arrow that produces a 10 meter orangish bubble amongst a cloud of deoxyribonucleic acid helices
Heals for 25% on each hit - Can role it on herself, but that requires looking downwards piece running. At this point, she may come across something that she can’t climb or ho-hum downwards a scrap for a dainty finishing opportunity.
- Get on peak of downed scavengers instantly to start the execution
- If you’re frustrated that you lot can’t draw off whatever executions, either uncovering ways to bait the healer or lead hold comfort inwards the fact that, past times repeatedly killing the scavengers, you’re all the same keeping them from harvesting blood.
Inked
- Seems to live the to the lowest degree pop pick
- Shielding arrow that buffs himself or his teammates.
- Doesn’t seem to apply much of a buff too mightiness give away Switch’s clones (unconfirmed)
Ghost
- Cloaking arrow
- Flashes on en-cloak too de-cloak– scout for the instant flash to uncovering out where he went
- A few dusty footfalls may live visible for the firstly 2 meters after en-cloak (unconfirmed)
Keybindings
Make certain that the next options are active inwards Settings -> Game Settings:
Sprint Hold (Hunter Only)
- You’ll live sprinting a lot
Aim Hold
- Event if you lot desire to role ranged weapons, you lot won’t lead hold your sights upward long plenty to demand this inwards toggle mode
Crouch Hold
- You can’t fit nether the woods beams the scavengers similar to slide under, but sometimes a quick crouch volition give you lot the extra glimpse of talocrural articulation that you lot demand to destination i off.
