Necromunda: Hired Gun — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Celebrate the Lunar New Year with an update and dozens of new weapon skins! | 2022-01-27 | Hello Bounty Hunters! To celebrate the Lunar New Year, we’re bringing a free content update, which includes 38 brand new weapon skins for free and fixes some minor bugs! Become the most stylish bounty hunter on Necromunda Spruce up your guns with this huge new weapon skins set! Bring a brand new look to the classic Bolter, the devastating Plasma Gun, and many more - pick from the 38 new skins and parade your choices proudly in the Underhive. This new free content is available now, so get to work to unlock them, Bounty Hunter, and instill fear in your targets! Finally, for anyone still hesitating to delve into the heart of the Underhive, Necro |
| The Gang Wars Cosmetics Bundle is now available! | 2021-11-23 | Hello Bounty Hunters! It’s time to embody your favourite Necromunda Gang with three new sets of skins! Hunt down your prey with style by wearing the colours of the Goliath, Escher or Nautica gangs! With the recently released free Hellhound pack, players can add yet another set of skins as they eliminate high-value targets to further augment their deadly bodies. This cosmetic pack comes with unique cosmetics for your knife, outfit, and mastiff. Hunt bounties, make money, and look bloody good doing it The Gang Wars Cosmetics Bundle contains three new cosmetic sets with different looks for your outfit, knife, loyal cyber-mastiff, and chew toy. E |
| A new cosmetic DLC is available for FREE! | 2021-10-28 | Hello Bounty Hunters! It’s the spooky season in the Underhive! To celebrate it, we’re happy to announce the release of the Hellhound DLC, available for free on Steam! This pack includes a new skin for your knife, a new outfit layout and a skin for your mastiff! To activate the skins, simply talk to the Barmaid in Martyr’s End. See you in the Hive! -The StreumOn and Focus Teams |
| The Patch 4 has arrived! | 2021-09-09 | Greetings Bounty Hunters! The fourth patch is now live on Steam and brings various stability and QoL improvements! For this update, we mainly focused on improving the overall stability of the game and on bug fixes. Thanks a lot for your continued support of the game! Patch Content New features - Add a third slot for long weapons - Takedowns are now limited by a Takedown gauge that replenishes itself with time or when the player deals damages. Bugfixes - Global improvements of stability and performances - Fix a bug with the skins menu of looted weapons which was empty - Multiple minors bug fixes https://i.imgur.com/xZWk158.gif Hope you celebra |
| The third patch is now live! | 2021-07-23 | https://i.imgur.com/AdtFCUK.gif Greetings Bounty Hunters! The third patch is now live on Steam! This patch, based on your feedback as always, brings various improvements, new features, and bug fixes. For this update, we mainly focused on bringing new anticipated features like replacing the default stubgun with another one, on top of various bug fixes. Thanks for your support, we’ll keep working on improving the game! Now, let’s go through the patch content! Patch Content New features Opening the weapon wheel or the cyber wheel now triggers slow motion (this feature can be turned off in the settings) The mandatory stubgun can now be replaced b |
| The second patch is here! | 2021-07-06 | https://i.imgur.com/nwiSeqe.gif Greetings Bounty Hunters! The second patch is now live and brings various improvements, thanks to your feedback! For this update, we mainly focused on improving the stability of the game and reducing the stutters significantly, on top of multiple bug fixes. As always, we want to thank you for your continued support to the game! Let’s dive into the patch content! Patch content New features New dialogue added when leaving a merchant shop Eschers do not have Cameleoline (invisible effect) anymore, except the Boss New NPC melee attack variation New sound for overloaded cells (plasma gun and pistol) New sound for Gr |
| First Patch is live! | 2021-06-04 | https://i.imgur.com/C6mVwNF.gif Hello Bounty hunters! We have been reading your comments and compiling suggestions since the release a few days ago. Thank you so much for your feedback! We also hope that you like the Warhammer Skulls event and the Corsair skin set that comes with it! For those wondering where to get the skin for your Bounty Hunter, simply talk to the Barmaid in Martyr’s End. We’re happy to release our first patch on Steam. It includes various fixes based on your reports since launch. This is only a first step and we continue to work on various topics, including the stutters that some of you encounter. You can check out our la |
| Warhammer Skulls Event | 2021-06-03 | The Warhammer Skulls event starts today! This Games Workshop’s week-long event brings big discounts and new content for many games from the Warhammer and Warhammer 40000 universes! From today until June 10th, Necromunda: Hired Gun is 15% off on Steam, and on top of that, receive for free a brand new skin set for the Main Character (both genders), as well as a new knife skin! The Warhammer Skulls event concerns not only Necromunda: Hired Gun, but also many more games from the Warhammer and Warhammer 40000 universes, like Space Hulk: Tactics, Necromunda: Underhive Wars or even the newly released Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground, which will be 15% of |
| Second Community Update | 2021-06-02 | https://i.imgur.com/0zxYjXZ.gif Hi everyone, We’ve been having a blast seeing all of you shoot your way through the mad sprawl of Necromunda since Hired Gun launched yesterday! Thank you all so much for playing, for your support, and for your feedback and bug reports. These are invaluable to us as we work on our first patches. Getting here has been an incredibly exciting journey. We may be a small team but we made our game LOUD. The team are all delighted to hear that our efforts to create fun, impactful gunplay has been appreciated. We’re super passionate about Warhammer 40k and it feels absolutely wonderful to hear how many of you say we’ve |
| Release & First Community Update | 2021-06-01 | https://i.imgur.com/oFZduvX.gif Hi everyone, Necromunda: Hired Gun is OUT! We'd like to extend a huge thanks to all of you playing right now! Hired Gun is at the top of the charts and the team is glued to all the streams and videos - THANK YOU! We read and compile your feedback and reports already and are working on our first update to fix some of the issues you might have encountered. If you encounter any issues with the game, please submit a ticket in our support center: https://support.focus-home.com/hc/ We’ll do our best to help you there, and it will help the team to fix the issue faster for all players. Let's celebrate the launch of the |
| Discover the Opening Cinematic Trailer! | 2021-05-28 | https://i.imgur.com/Wbme4cT.gif The release day is coming fast Bounty Hunters! Plunge into our game’s Opening Cinematic Trailer to get an extended introduction to the treacherous depths of the Underhive! Hunt your targets, upgrade your arsenal Your first stop is Martyr's End - the sole relatively safe place in the Underhive. Here you'll find all the commodities you need: guns, ammo, cybernetics augments for your loyal Cyber-Mastiff and yourself, as well as high-profile contacts and fresh targets to hunt. Lock and load your Bolter, the hunt begins soon! Necromunda: Hired Gun is available for pre-order now on PC. All pre-orders receive the Hunt |
| Friends Forever! | 2021-05-20 | https://i.imgur.com/3QKqKZM.gif Greetings Bounty Hunters! We are thrilled to unveil our Friends Forever trailer! In this electrifying new video starring man’s best friend, get your blood pumping in expectation of Hired Gun’s digital release for PC on June 1st! Pick your contracts, hunt your targets, collect the bounty In proper RPG fashion, introduce yourself at Martyr’s End, the hub of all things bounty-hunting and more in your little corner of Necromunda. Choose your contract, prepare your loadout, and head out with your canine best friend to track down targets across one of the several despicable areas of the Hive. Alternate use of your gr |
| Bringing the music and sound of Necromunda: Hired Gun to life - Part 3 | 2021-05-13 | Hello everyone! In this last part of our blog about the music and sound of Necromunda: Hired Gun, we’ll dive into the sound creation process of the game. Happy reading! Creating the sound of the Domes There are a ton of sounds to produce and implement, from the character and NPC weapons, to discreet ambient sounds and huge machinery, to animation and cutscene synchronization. Being the sole sound designer on the team, I have to work on all aspects of the sound and know every tool of the engine. This includes for example the basic sound source in a level and the animation or sequencing tools for the character animations or cutscenes. It’s even |
| Watch our Gameplay Overview Trailer! | 2021-05-05 | Greetings Bounty Hunters! Today, we’re excited to reveal our Gameplay Overview Trailer! Time for a deep dive into Hired Gun’s various zones, weapons and perks and cyber-augmented Mastiff! Pick your contracts, hunt your targets, reap the rewards Introduce yourself at Martyr’s End, the hub of all the action, contracts, and factions in your little corner of Necromunda. Select your contract, prepare your loadout and track down your target across one of the several dark and twisted areas of the Hive. Nothing comes easy in Hired Gun, fighting and even trailing targets will put the best bounty hunters to the test. Use your grappling hook and wall ru |
| Bringing the music and sound of Necromunda: Hired Gun to life - Part 2 | 2021-05-04 | Hello everyone! In this week’s blog, StreumOn’s sound designer Olivier will dive into further detail on the voice recording and its implementation in-game. The voices of the Underhives What is a great way to bring some immersion into a solo narrative game? Voice over. This part was a first for all of us, both in terms of code and sound design. The work on the voice recording was divided into several steps. Before any recording was made, the casting process was done with SIDE (the studio in charge of recording the actors), Games Workshop, Focus, and our creative team. At the studio, when we saw several of the actors involved in the French vers |
| Bringing the music and sound of Necromunda: Hired Gun to life - Part 1 | 2021-04-29 | Hello everyone! We’re pleased to present you with this blog about the music and sound of Necromunda: Hired Gun. It will be divided in 3 parts, each one explaining a different aspect of the sound design. This first article will go through the thinking and creation process behind the original soundtrack of the game. We hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it! A brief introduction of the Streumons Maybe you still don’t know, but “Streumon” is a way of saying “monster” in French… but reversed. Here at StreumOn Studio, we are a team of 15 people working every day to bring you the best possible experience on Necromunda: Hired Gun. |
| Enter the Hive in a new trailer! | 2021-04-21 | https://i.imgur.com/PZrZ0t9.gif Greetings Bounty Hunters! Today, enter the Hive in a brand new trailer! Get a first glimpse of what awaits you in the gritty, violent city of Necromunda! People, places, factions, you better know what’s going on down there! Pick your contracts, hunt your targets, collect the bounty Introduce yourself at Martyr’s End, the hub of all the action, contracts, and factions in your little corner of Necromunda. There you’ll meet everyone from Kal Jericho, the infamous bounty hunter who saved your life, to the local barmaid, who will keep you well stocked with information and liquor supplements. It’s also where you gear |
| Watch our Reveal Trailer! | 2021-03-18 | Hello everyone! We’re thrilled to announce and debut our brand new bombastic, violent FPS: Necromunda: Hired Gun, coming to PC on June 1st! Unveiled today, watch our reveal trailer now to discover more about this dark and fast-paced FPS based on the iconic Warhammer 40,000 universe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI08MPiL7WQ Pick your contracts. Hunt your targets. Collect the bounty. Necromunda: Hired Gun is explosive and brutal, giving you endless options on how to engage your enemies. Wall-run, double-jump, use your wrist-mounted grappling hook to rush towards, disarm, or avoid enemies - and that’s before your upgrades. Everything from you |