Once you have finally reached level 100 in Hunt: Showdown after countless deaths and a lot of sweat and blood, you can give everything up, click on Prestige and start all over again. But what does that actually bring? We at MeinMMO explain the mechanics.
What is Prestige? In Hunt: Showdown, you level up a bloodline regardless of your individual hunters. You start at level 1 and can level up to 100. During these level-ups, you unlock numerous new weapons, items, and tools that make life in the Bayou a little easier.
You also unlock new abilities through the bloodline level. For example, your character can revive allied players from a distance with the trait Necromancer starting from level 69 or even double their received healing with Doctor starting from level 73. So there are plenty of useful things waiting for you once you reach level 100.
Once you reach level 100, you can then go Prestige. When you do this, a red one appears next to your name, signaling that you are in Prestige 1. There are actually a total of 100 levels here as well. However, you start again at bloodline level 1 and have to unlock everything again. Both weapon attachments and the weapons themselves, as well as traits and more. Essentially, you are starting completely from scratch.
What does it bring? With each of the 100 Prestiges, you can choose one of three bonuses that can make the next 100 levels a bit more pleasant for you. Prestige gives you the following options:
- 2,000 Hunt Dollars immediately at level 1
- 10% more experience (for both hunters and the bloodline)
- A random real money skin that you do not yet own, as a permanent unlock
An exception to this are certain Prestiges that include predetermined exclusive rewards in the form of skins. These are given at the prestige levels of 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100.
The effects do not scale with each other. You lose the bonus from the previous prestige in each prestige. So if you choose 10% experience in Prestige 1 and again in Prestige 2, you do not have 20% more, but still just 10.
You can also only choose the random skins from Prestige 1 to 10; after that, you only get the opportunity every 10 prestige levels. By the way, you cannot unlock skins from DLCs or events with this.
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Is it worth it? Yes, at least once
What reward should you choose? Whether you want skins or not, we leave out in this evaluation. If it is important to you to have the nice weapons and you do not want to spend real money for it, you can always choose the random skin.
But between the 2,000 extra dollars and the 10% more experience, it quickly gets tricky, what should you choose? Our expert tip is to always take the 10% experience, because the money is redundant. Especially since, after you have gone Prestige, you do not start with 0, but with 4,000 dollars. So you are not completely broke.
Moreover, the 10% experience brings you much more in two scenarios than that little bit of money.
- If you want to get through the Prestiges as quickly as possible and into the next one, you can achieve that faster with more experience.
- But even if you are tired of Prestige afterwards, the 10% experience is still worth it. If you remain permanently in this prestige, you will never lose this bonus. That means all your hunters will always receive 10% more experience, and thus potentially more skill points.
Experience is money: And even more importantly, if you stay in the same prestige, the bonus experience earns you even more money than 2,000 dollars. Once you reach bloodline level 100, the game gives you 200 dollars for every 5,000 bloodline experience. In the end, you actually get more money from experience than from cash.
Therefore, our tip is to always choose experience. Even if you only do one prestige and then realize that you have no desire to level up to 100 again, this decision gives you a bonus for the rest of your playtime. Therefore, the first prestige is absolutely worth it in our opinion.
Prestige 2 and higher – Only for connoisseurs
Prestige 100 as a goal: Whether all the effort after the first restart is still worthwhile is a question that has been haunting the Hunt community for a while. If you play long-term, enjoy unlocking things, and have no problem starting over repeatedly, the 100 Prestiges are a carrot on a stick for you.
Because you don’t really get anything from it. Except that your badge changes with each prestige at first – from level 10 onwards, it only takes on a new form every 10 prestiges. For a seasoned player, this means only every approximately 150 hours. There are no further rewards at all.
Although Crytek wants to revise the prestige system at some point to make it interesting and rewarding even after the first time, it is currently still unknown when that will happen. Until then, Prestiges 2 to 100 are just something to keep you busy and to live up to the name, namely, to collect Prestige in the true sense of the word.
What do you think about it? What prestige do you have in Hunt? Or are you still considering whether you want to start over at all? Feel free to write it to us in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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