Hunt: Showdown devs appear to be cooking up some kind of horrible, pilotable bug

pcgamer.com:

Two teases on Hunt: Showdown's Twitter account in the last two days have convinced me that the next feature and creature added to the game will be a flying surveillance bug that players can use to spy on opponents. And I think it could be arriving as soon as next month.

The above image, shared yesterday, was actually focused on the return of the promotional skin Billy Story, a likeable homage to Daniel Day Lewis' character from Gangs of New York. But careful observers (ie, those with at least one eye) can take more from the flittering silhouette released from Billy's hand, a flying beetle that we've never seen before. Surely this scary scarab isn't just for decoration—it would be out of precedent for Crytek to show a detail like this and not back it up with something concrete.

And very quickly, it did. Exactly 24 hours and 1 minute later, the team at Crytek shared this short video:

As current findings are relatively new, and scientists have yet to conclude their research, we can only assume that further information will be revealed in the near future regarding this species, and their origins. pic.twitter.com/OfRPlCSZiNSeptember 22, 2022

It shows a hovering first-person camera patrolling one of Hunt's prison compounds. A creepy-crawling, upsetting exoskeletal sound can be heard. The heavily vignetted vision—blackened like a modern security camera—pulses in rhythm with a heartbeat. This has gotta be our bug.

The accompanying lore blurb for the video even alludes to a newly discovered creature: «As current findings are relatively new, and scientists have yet to conclude their research, we can only assume that further information will be revealed in the near future regarding this species, and their origins.»

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