Hunt: Showdown 1896 Trophy Guide

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Reach Bloodline rank 67 to unlock Bloodline Tier 3. This requires a total of 51,800 EXP. By the time you reach this rank, you should be very familiar with how Hunt works — or at least very familiar with hearing one suspicious branch snap and immediately assuming somebody is aiming at your head. Continue playing matches and earning Bloodline EXP until rank 67.

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Complete 100 Bounty Hunt contracts by successfully extracting bounty tokens. Each boss drops two bounty tokens. If you and your team extract both tokens from one boss, that counts as +2 progress for everyone on the team. You do not need to be the player who kills or banishes the boss. The only thing that matters for this trophy is getting the bounty tokens out of the match successfully. One player can only carry one token from a single boss at a time, so you need at least a duo if you want to extract both tokens from one boss. You can carry two tokens at once if they come from two different bosses. If a match has two bosses and your team manages to extract all four bounty tokens, that gives you +4 progress in a single match. That is about as efficient as this grind gets.

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Play duos or trios whenever possible and prioritize successful extractions over unnecessary fights once you already have bounty tokens. This will probably be one of your final trophies, but it is more of a time investment than a difficulty wall. Keep banking contracts and eventually the number hits 100.

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Retire 25 Hunters. A Hunter can be retired once they reach level 25. Retiring them permanently removes that Hunter from your roster, but you receive 100 Bloodline EXP for every level they had. That means a level 25 Hunter gives you 2,500 Bloodline EXP when retired. You can start doing this as soon as you have eligible Hunters, but there is a very good reason to be patient. Five-Ace Hand requires you to have five level 50 Hunters alive at the same time, so retiring promising Hunters too early can make that trophy take longer than it needs to.

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Work on Five-Ace Hand first, then start retiring Hunters once you no longer need to protect your five level 50 survivors. After that, every retirement becomes progress instead of a potential regret.

Warning

Retired Hunters are gone for good. Make sure you are not retiring someone you still need for Five-Ace Hand.

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Kill 100 enemy Hunters with headshots. This will likely be one of the final trophies standing between you and the Platinum. Headshots against enemy Hunters are always deadly, but landing 100 of them consistently is much easier said than done. There is no tracker for your total headshot kills, and there is no big visual notification telling you that the kill counted. Headshots do have a distinct sound, though — basically the world's least appetizing watermelon. Scoped weapons can make this much easier. Deadeye and Marksman scopes give you a clearer view at range and let you line up shots without having to get dangerously close. Melee weapons do not count. Even if you smack someone directly in the head and kill them instantly, it will not register as a headshot for this trophy. Try different weapon types and stick with whatever feels most comfortable. Hunt has bolt-action rifles, repeating rifles, revolvers, pistols, shotguns, and more, and not all of them are equally useful for consistently landing headshots. You can also experiment with the Mosin-Nagant M1891 Avtomat. It is fully automatic and kicks hard, but at close range that recoil can sometimes work in your favor and send follow-up shots upward into the head.

Tip

Make aiming for the head your default habit from the beginning of the game instead of saving this for the end. Every headshot you land naturally is one less you need to grind later. Scoped rifles are especially useful if you are more comfortable taking deliberate shots from range.

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Melee head kills do not count toward Deadeye. The killing blow needs to register as a firearm headshot.

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Investigate a total of 250 Clues in Bounty Hunt. Each boss has three Clues connected to it, so a match with one boss gives you up to three Clues and a match with two bosses can give you up to six. Use Dark Sight to locate them. A normal Clue glows blue. If an enemy Hunter is nearby, the Clue becomes much louder and glows red instead, which is Hunt's polite little way of saying, "Maybe don't stroll in here like you own the place." If another player has already investigated a Clue, it will have a black hole in the middle. The important thing to know is that once you locate a boss, any remaining Clues tied to that boss can no longer be investigated during that match. If there are two bosses, the other boss's Clues will still be available. When playing in duos or trios, everyone on the team gets credit when one teammate investigates a Clue, so you do not personally need to interact with all 250.

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Do not go out of your way to grind this early. You will investigate a huge number of Clues while working on contracts, boss kills, Hunter levels, and the other long-term trophies. If you are close to a boss but still need Clue progress, consider grabbing the remaining Clues first. Accidentally discovering the boss can lock you out of those Clues for that match.

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Kill a total of 50 contract targets in Bounty Hunt. Despite the trophy description, you do not have to play solo. Duos and trios count too. The important part is that you personally land the killing blow on the boss. Your teammates can help damage it, but if they get the final hit, that kill will not count toward this trophy. Since bosses are the main objective of Bounty Hunt, you will make steady progress while working on everything else. You also do not need to banish the boss or extract with the bounty afterward — the kill itself is enough. The four bosses covered in the supplied information are The Butcher, The Spider, The Assassin, and Scrapbeak. The Butcher is slow but hits extremely hard and deals fire damage. Keep your distance, avoid standing in burning areas, and be careful when it dies because it performs one final sweep attack before collapsing for good. The Spider moves much faster and deals poison damage. Its pounce is especially dangerous because it hits hard, poisons you, and can leave you exposed to follow-up attacks. Fire works well against it, so lamps and Molotovs are useful options. The Assassin can move quickly and is invulnerable while traveling around in its bug form. Wait until it exposes itself before attacking. Its hits can cause bleeding, and it can create copies of itself during the fight. Those copies are easy to kill, but damaging them does not reduce the boss's actual health. Scrapbeak works a little differently because there are no supplies around its lair. Instead, it drops ammo, health, lootboxes, and melee weapons as it takes damage. Be careful with explosives, because they can destroy those dropped supplies. Scrapbeak also uses a melee weapon and scatters concertina around the area as it moves.

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Explosives can deal heavy damage to every boss, and a well-placed Big Dynamite Bundle can potentially finish one very quickly. The Bomb Lance is another strong option. Its explosive shots hit hard, and its melee attacks can deal serious damage. Combined with stamina shots, it can even help keep faster bosses like The Assassin or The Spider under control. If you are playing with teammates, tell them when you need the final hit. Nothing hurts quite like doing 99% of the work and watching your friend casually bonk the boss for the kill credit.

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Only the player who lands the killing blow receives progress toward Lone Wolf. Team damage helps, but team kill credit does not.

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Burn 50 chicken coops. This can be one of the more annoying trophies because chicken coops only appear at certain locations, and even when a coop spawns, chickens are not guaranteed to be inside. Dogs can spawn there instead, and those do not count. You specifically need to find a coop containing chickens. Once you find one, shoot the small lamp above the coop. The lamp will ignite the enclosure, kill the chickens, and count toward the trophy. Do this a total of 50 times.

Tip

Check chicken coop locations whenever you pass through a compound instead of making this your only objective. The random spawns make it much less painful when you chip away at it naturally.

Warning

You must ignite the coop by shooting the lamp above it. Molotovs or other fire sources will not count. And yes, by the time this trophy unlocks, you may have developed an entirely unreasonable grudge against chickens.

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Recruit a total of 100 Hunters. You recruit Hunters from the Recruitment menu, and all three recruitment types count toward the trophy. Recruits are the most common option. Four Hunters are normally available at a time: one free Hunter and three that cost Hunt Dollars. Early in the game you will only see Tier 1 Hunters, but Tier 2 and Tier 3 recruits become available as your Bloodline rank increases. You can reshuffle the available recruits if you do not like the current selection. Your first reshuffle is free, while additional reshuffles cost 25 Blood Bonds. The free reshuffle refreshes after every match, so there is usually no reason to burn Blood Bonds just to speed this trophy up. Soul Survivors also count. These are Hunters you successfully save by winning Soul Survivor matches. They can come with 1–4 random traits depending on how many Rifts you closed and will usually be somewhere between level 7 and 15 depending on the EXP earned during that match. You can store up to four Soul Survivors before recruiting them. If you already have four waiting and save another one, the oldest will be replaced. Legendary Hunters count as well. Once unlocked, they can be recruited repeatedly for Hunt Dollars. You begin with five Hunter slots and can purchase additional slots with Blood Bonds, up to a maximum of 10.

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Do not waste Blood Bonds repeatedly reshuffling recruits just for this trophy. Play a match, use the refreshed free reshuffle, grab the free Hunter when you have room, and let the counter build naturally. This is one of those trophies that sounds much worse than it actually is. Between deaths, retirements, Soul Survivors, and the general swamp-shaped revolving door of Hunters, you will be recruiting plenty while working on everything else.

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Unlock 25 entries in the Book of Monsters, also called the Liber de Monstrorvm. Each monster has multiple journal entries tied to it, and you unlock them by killing that enemy type enough times. The first entry for a monster usually requires very little work, and boss entries can begin simply by locating their lairs. Because the early entries are so easy, you can build a large chunk of the required 25 very quickly. After that, continue playing normally and killing different enemy types until enough additional entries become available. You can view the Book of Monsters from the Journal section of the main menu.

Tip

Spread your kills across different monster types instead of farming only one enemy. The early entries are much faster to unlock and will get you to 25 sooner.

Warning

You must manually claim unlocked entries in the Journal. If you do not claim an entry, progress toward the next entry for that monster will not begin. So check the Journal regularly instead of wondering why your monster-killing career has apparently stalled.

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Close a total of 250 Rifts in Soul Survivor. This trophy is earned entirely in Soul Survivor. You can close a maximum of four Rifts in a single match, which means even in the absolute best-case scenario you are looking at around 63 matches. Realistically, expect more. Use Dark Sight to locate the nearest Rift. It appears as a blue glow, and the glow becomes brighter as you get closer. Rifts behave very similarly to Clues in Bounty Hunt. If another Hunter is nearby, the Rift can become much more dangerous to approach, so do not assume every glowing objective is free progress. If you only care about finishing this trophy, you can make Rifts your entire priority. Run from one to the next and close as many as possible before the match ends.

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Do not worry about winning every Soul Survivor match while grinding this. Four closed Rifts with a loss is still four more toward 250. This is one of the longer grinds in the game, so treat it like background progress rather than trying to knock it all out in one sitting. Your sanity will appreciate the mercy.

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Unlock 50 entries in the Book of Weapons, also called the Liber de Armamentariis. Entries are unlocked by gaining access to new weapons, tools, and consumables. Some come from increasing your Bloodline rank, while others come from earning EXP with specific weapons and unlocking new variants or modifications for them. You already begin the game with 9 entries. Simply progressing through the Bloodline ranks unlocks another 30, which means you should be sitting at 39 out of 50 by the time you reach Bloodline rank 100. The remaining entries should come naturally as you use different weapons, tools, and consumables during your matches. Keep using your gear, earn EXP with it, and new variants and mods will gradually fill out the rest of the book. You can view the Book of Weapons from the Journal section of the main menu.

Tip

Try different weapons instead of sticking to the exact same loadout forever. You will make better progress toward new variants and weapon entries without needing a dedicated grind later.

Warning

You must manually claim unlocked entries in the Journal. If you leave an entry sitting there unclaimed, progress toward the next one will not continue. Hunt apparently wants you to do a little light reading between all the shooting.