Hunt Showdown 1896 Update 1.000.032 Out for Patch 2.5 Brings ‘Web of the Empress’ Content
Crytek has released a new update for Hunt Showdown 1896 today, and this brings the new ‘Web of the Empress’ content into the game. This is officially patch 2.5, but console players will see the update as version 1.000.032.
The Web of the Empress content promises to bring in new monsters, 12 tarot cards, and a whole lot more. See the highlights of the patch notes down below.
Hunt Showdown 1896 Patch 2.5 Brings in ‘Web of the Empress’
Highlights
Web of the Empress
Bileweavers
The Corruption has birthed new monsters: The Bileweavers, spider-like beings who hatch from eggs with venom ready in their fangs. While an individual Bileweaver is weak, they like to swarm together to overwhelm intruders. They’re bent on defending their territory—not just their own massive nests, but also the small web-covered areas throughout the Incursion zones.
- The Bileweaver is a new spider-like monster.
- Individually, the Bileweaver is very weak, but they attack in groups, acting like a swarm.
- Bileweavers are area defenders and can be found in the Bileweaver Nest and in small groups in other little web-covered locations.
Bileweaver Nest
- The Bileweavers have created massive, web-covered nests. Hunters brave enough to enter and skilled enough to leave alive will find treasure hidden within.
- Bileweaver nests contain:
- Exclusive Scarce Weapons
- 3 Tarot Cards
- Destiny’s Dial: A machine that gives randomized rewards (Traits, buffs, and more)
- Scarce and Burn Traits
- Restoration Kit
- Ammo Resupply Box
- 4-Shot Boon, XP and Dark Sight Boost envelopes
- A lootable hunter’s corpse.
Tarot Cards
- Get ready to experience the tools of The Witch, the journey of The Fool, and the power of The Empress. This update, we’ve introduced 12 Tarot Cards: single-use Consumables, each with a unique ability based on their traditional meaning. Use a card to gain its power…and sometimes, pay its price. It may be enough to tip the scales of fate.
- The unique effect of each card is below:
- The World: Reveals all Boss Targets.
- The Moon: Grants 2 seconds of Dark Sight Boost
- The Garden: Fully heals and removes Bleeding, Burning, and Poison for you and your teammates.
- The Fool: Copies the last Tarot Card you used this Mission.
- The Tower: Kills Monsters and damages Targets within a 65m radius. Your Hunter catches on fire.
- The Magician: Places a Dark Sight Decoy at your location causes Heavy Bleeding on use.Dev Note: The Dark Sight Decoy looks like an enemy Hunter to other players observing it with Dark Sight Boost. The Decoy also triggers Instinct on enemy Hunters. The Decoy has a distinct audio effect and can be dispelled by interacting with it physically. Decoys dropped by you or your own team do not show up in Dark Sight Boost or trigger Instinct for you or your team.
- The Devil: Reduces the sway and spread (excluding shotguns) for weapons until your Hunter is downed, then destroys an additional Health Chunk.
- The Sun: Grants an increased Regeneration buff for 60 seconds.
- Judgement: Doubles time of all current buffs. Reduces your Hunter’s HP to 1.
- The Hanged Man: Allows you to spectate the nearest enemy Hunter for a limited time. The spectated Hunter hears a warning afterwards.
- The Empress: Grants the Catalyst Trait, the Necromancer Trait, and one random Burn or Scarce Trait.Dev Note: Traits are added in the order mentioned above and cannot exceed the Hunter’s maximum number of Traits. The Catalyst Trait can only be obtained via the Tarot Card “The Empress” or as a random reward from Destiny’s Dial.
- The Chariot: Swaps Locked and Unlocked Extraction Points for all teams (only in Bounty Hunt). Destroys 1 Health Chunk. This ability has a five-minute global cooldown and can’t be used during the last five minutes of the Mission.
- Dev Note: Since there are quite a few new effects and abilities to learn, we have added a small quality of life feature for the Tarot Cards, where if you inspect them when equipped, a small hint pop-up will appear on the top right of the screen detailing the equipped Tarot Card’s effect. This feature can also be turned off via a setting in the menu.
- Tarot Cards can be acquired by:
- Finding them in the world: 3 Tarot Cards are available in each Bileweaver Nest, and some have a chance to spawn at web-covered locations around the map.
- Collecting Dark Tribute rewards: 2 Tarot Cards are earned at the first Dark Tribute stage, with 1 Tarot Card earned at each subsequent stage.
- Looting them from dead Hunters: Any Tarot Cards carried by dead Hunters can be stolen when looting, so long as you have a free Consumable slot for them.
Locked Extraction Points & Central Extraction Points
- With Web of the Empress, we’re introducing an additional Extraction Point to the center of the map. This Extract Point is always locked by default, and must be unlocked with the Tarot Card “The Chariot” to become accessible. These Extracts can be convenient and allow for speedy getaways, but are in exposed locations. One other random Extraction Point is locked at game start.
- The Tarot Card “The Chariot” swaps which Extraction Points are locked and unlocked. When used by a player, there will be a global cooldown on the card for five minutes. Players can still consume the card to make space in their inventory, but no extracts can be swapped while this cooldown is active. Players will receive a small status effect icon with a timer to denote the cooldown.
Battle Pass Reward Track
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- Level 0 – Stormseer (Hunter) (Premium)
- Level 1 – Splintered Jaw (Uppercut) (Premium)
- Level 2 – Envenom (Vetterli 71) (Free)
- Level 3 – Burning Web (Dynamite Stick) (Premium)
- Level 4 – Vertebrae (Marathon) (Premium)
- Level 5 – Coin of Umay (Charm) (Free)
- Level 6 – Envenom: Bayonet (Vetterli 71 Bayonet) (Premium)
- Level 7 – 100 Blood Bonds (Premium)
- Level 8 – Spider Hand (Equipment Animation, Vetterli 71) (Free)
- Level 9 – Black Silk (Mosin-Nagant) (Premium)
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- Level 10 – Argent Widow (Conversion) (Premium)
- Level 11 – Boom Flip (Equipment Animation, Dynamite Stick) (Premium)
- Level 12 – Indecision’s End (Centennial Shorty) (Free)
- Level 13 – Hangman’s Curse (Charm) (Premium)
- Level 14 – Black Silk: Bayonet (Mosin-Nagant Bayonet) (Premium)
- Level 15 – Envenom: Deadeye (Vetterli 71 Deadeye) (Free)
- Level 16 – Short Drop (Choke Bombs) (Premium)
- Level 17 – 100 Blood Bonds (Premium)
- Level 18 – Splintered Jaw: Precision (Uppercut Precision) (Free)
- Level 19 – The Hanged Man (Hunter) (Premium)
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- Level 20 – Envenom: Marksman (Vetterli 71 Marksman) (Premium)
- Level 21 – 100 Blood Bonds (Premium)
- Level 22 – Black Silk: Sniper (Mosin-Nagant Sniper) (Free)
- Level 23 – Avenger’s Oath (Charm) (Premium)
- Level 24 – Indecision’s End: Shorty Silencer (Centennial Shorty Silencer) (Premium)
- Level 25 – Not This Time (Equipment Animation, Conversion) (Free)
- Level 26 – Splintered Jaw: Deadeye (Uppercut Deadeye) (Premium)
- Level 27 – 100 Blood Bonds (Premium)
- Level 28 – Waxed Burning Web (Waxed Dynamite Stick) (Free)
- Level 29 – Argent Widow: Chain Pistol (Conversion Chain Pistol) (Premium)
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- Level 30 – Indecision’s End: Pointman (Centennial Pointman) (Premium)
- Level 31 – 100 Blood Bonds (Free)
- Level 32 – Envenom: Silencer (Vetterli 71 Silencer) (Premium)
- Level 33 – Spick and Span (Equipment Animation, Mosin-Nagant) (Premium)
- Level 34 – Vertebrae: Swift (Marathon Swift) (Free)
- Level 35 – Envenom: Cyclone (Vetterli 71 Cyclone) (Premium)
- Level 36 – Black Silk: Avtomat (Mosin-Nagant Avtomat) (Premium)
- Level 37 – 100 Blood Bonds (Premium)
- Level 38 – The Empress (Hunter) (Premium)
- Bonus Level – Fear and Beauty (Charm) (Free)
Our readers can check out the full patch notes by clicking here. Make sure to visit MP1st again for more Hunt Showdown 1896 content in the near future.
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