Hunt: Showdown's disappearing dirt man will finally be visible in upcoming patch

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Bam! You're playing Hunt: Showdown, and you just got shot in the head. Sorry. You're confused, because you didn't see anybody but the death screen says your killer was only a few meters away. I don't blame you. Hunt characters are usually pretty easy to pick out among the bayou's muddy swamps, but your killer was Cain, Hunt: Showdown's problematic dirt man.

Cain is a $7 premium hunter skin that has become an increasingly popular pick for Hunt players trying especially hard to win. Usually, the main benefit of buying a premium hunter is looking cool, but Cain has risen to the top of the pack because his «outfit» (which is mostly just bare skin covered in dirt and paint) blends in incredibly well with Hunt's environments. After months of player complaints that Cain is just too hard to see, Crytek is making a second round of artistic changes to his character model that will (hopefully) do the trick this time.

In a recent dev stream, Crytek shared two comparison images with new and old Cain, one clean model view, and another that shows how he actually looks in-game.

At first glance, it's hard to determine if these Cain changes will make a huge difference. His skin is certainly peachy-er and his white body paint is brighter—those changes are obvious in the clean model view, but less so in the environment comparison. He still appears to have a natural leg up on characters who wear white shirts or leather trench coats. Crytek says the goal is to prevent him from blending too well into environments while also maintaining his wildman aesthetic, but when you're a guy covered in dirt inside a game full of similarly-colored dirt, it's hard not to be a chameleon. There's also the fact that time of day during matches is random, so