Hunt: Showdown – Should You Retire Your Hunter?

Hunt: Showdown is as intense as it is unforgiving, regardless of the mode that you are playing. If you happen to come out either victorious or alive from any single server/match, then you will have ranked up in some degree. However, this system for the game’s player progression takes a lot more manual handling to really dish out any bit of success you get in it. Read on to get to the finer details!

Should You Retire Your Hunter in Hunt: Showdown? – Answered

In Hunt: Showdown, the Bloodline mechanic is the core progression tracker of the entire game. Experience (or EXP) acquired for it comes from interacting with posters randomly generated on the walls across the map and locations, levelling up Hunters, and retiring them.

This is the key reason to retire any number of Hunters – to increase your Bloodline. Ranking up in it unlocks traits, higher tier Hunter skins, equipment and in-game currency. Players can reset once they hit rank 100 to obtain a snazzy badge that shows the number of times a player has hit the maximum in Prestige level each and every time.

When it comes to how retiring a Hunter alters this progression bar, it can do so in a number of ways depending on how you go about it. That is because what it comes down to with this specific question of an article is that it completely depends on your intentions with how you want to play the game. If you wish to Prestige quickly by accumulating the most EXP as possible in one go, retire your Hunter; preferably at the maximum level you can do at 50.

The flip side to this is if you prefer keeping a Hunter who is already decked out with Traits. The obvious issue here is losing your Hunter, but at the same time, the possibility of dying with said Hunter as you work your way to hitting level 50 with them is just as challenging. The reward for doing so is far greater since the amount of points one can accumulating for the Bloodline bar is at its most profitable the closer you are to level 50 rather than level 25 – the lowest level one has to hit to retire said Hunter. It also happens to be an achievement to have five level 50 Hunters in your roster at one time.

The progression of EXP for each milestone for the Hunter’s level is as follows:

• Level 1-24: 100 XP
• Level 25-49: 2500 XP
• Level 50: 5000 XP

It is as the old saying go – the greater the risk, the greater the reward.

We hope we helped you out. For more information about Hunt: Showdown, see our articles about How to get Pledge Marks in Hunt: Showdown or How to farm Event Points in Hunt: Showdown. Gamer Journalist is on Facebook and you can follow us there to stay up to date with the latest coverage and content.