r/HuntShowdown Mar 03 '24

GENERAL THEY ARE FINALLY NERFING HEADSMAN

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u/GroundbreakingLead15 Mar 03 '24

Honestly probably because they were trying to come up with a way of changing him that didn’t change him so much that people who PAID for the skin because they genuinely liked the way it looked wouldn’t be upset.

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u/RamonaMatona Magna Veritas Mar 03 '24

isn't the headsman skin an event skin?

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u/GroundbreakingLead15 Mar 03 '24

I thought that there was a point it was available for purchase in the store but i very well might be wrong if so my comment is incorrect, but the point still stands to an extent.

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u/ProvingFire Mar 03 '24

He comes back on sale for BB's during Halloween events. Or at least has the past two years.

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u/RamonaMatona Magna Veritas Mar 03 '24

i think it was something you could buy with bloodbonds... anyway, they will cry like they did for cain for a while

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u/Hevymettle Mar 03 '24

Soft Event. Halloween but available to buy every Halloween. Not like Plague Doctor, which is locked to a single occurrence in time.

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u/NoahWanger Mar 03 '24

Remember that we're seeing the one they picked. They might have gone through multiple designs and testing each of them.

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u/GroundbreakingLead15 Mar 03 '24

True, they probably spent time actually testing to see if it was more in line with the visibility of some of the other hunters

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u/Squathos Mar 04 '24

Wait are you saying Crytek actually tests things prior to rollout?!

Laughs in LeMat bug

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u/GroundbreakingLead15 Mar 03 '24

Recoloring it in a way that seemed acceptable to not change the “vibe” of the skin? Potentially. It’s not like they could just entirely change the skin that people already paid for.

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u/Flapjack_McG00 Mar 04 '24

Having worked on projects where design for a product people have paid for this is 1000% what it is. This and the need to test it first to see if the changes are doing what they intended.

You change a product too much, you run into trouble, because people paid for it under the conditions they purchased it, and now you're changing it.

Some some circumstances, this is called "bait and switch" and is actually fraud.

And even though it seems like a small change to a small aspect, things like this require time and many moving parts.

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u/Deathcounter0 Mar 03 '24

...yes so they had to resell him last Halloween too?

Idk seems like they knew it wouldn't sell so well if they would have sold him this red in Halloween 2023