Hunt Down The Freeman — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HDTF Isn't Dead Yet! | 2025-02-21 | Hey everyone, Terrors here. I'm making this announcement because a lot of people don't know that work on the game is still ongoing. We unfortunately haven't been able to update the default version of the game for two and a half years due to all the big changes we've made to the game. We also have less people working on the game now than before so it's going to be a while before everything is polished up enough to push to the default version. In the meantime if you want to see what we've been up to with the game then to access the newest public version go to the games properties, betas and select the build called 'owf_staging_prep'. It has a t |
| HDTF Art livestream! | 2023-09-14 | Its another HDTF art stream! We'll be creating props for the game along with showing updates on the game along with chatting with the community and taking questions! As usual right now, the main 3D models we'll be working on today are simply environmental props |
| HDTF Art livestream! | 2023-08-17 | Its another HDTF art stream! We'll be creating props for the game along with showing updates on the game along with chatting with the community and taking questions! |
| HDTF Art livestream! | 2023-08-11 | A Hunt Down the Freeman art stream is currently live, where we'll be showing the production of game props, along with perhaps showing some progress on the game here-and-there! |
| July blog: where we're at + looking for team members! | 2023-07-03 | Hey all! It's been a hot minute since our last blog post, so I’ll get on with it already. We’ve got some important news, along with a literally game-changing one! For those looking for a TL;DR I’ll list them at the top here but for those more interested in all the details, scroll down to find out more. We’re taking a step back and examining the game as a whole in preparation for continued work Metro/subway and canal maps during the 7hr war have gotten big changes with entirely new sections and entirely new music! Bink video is replaced with webm (like CSGO and Source 2) and has successfully freed up 5.7GB of space Work on the soundtrack is co |
| December Blog: current progress | 2022-12-30 | Hey all! There's many things to jump into so I'll get straight into it. Over the past year the HDTF team has grown from about 5 people to 20 - including weapon animators, modelers, shader programmers, VFX artists and more. As such we can now afford to become more ambitious with our overhaul of Hunt Down the Freeman! As the team has grown, we’ve also ditched the old name: M3SA Team and the M3SA build are no more - Operation Whisky Freedom is ready to go! Something to note is that since I am on the art side of the team, this blog post will mainly focus on art/graphics-related content, but there is a ton of mapping and gameplay work being done s |
| Happy National Video Games Day Update! | 2022-09-12 | Hello all you avid Hunt Down the Freeman fans! We have some pretty exciting news for you all that you might like to hear. After the downpour of support that we had following the release of the sudden April 1st update, our little team expanded from about five people to over twenty. What does this mean? It means that we’ve been able to add a bunch of improvements to the code, game levels, overall performance, models, particles, rendering systems and whatever else I’m forgetting at the moment. We are releasing an update that’s going to fix some of the stuff we didn’t catch in the April 1st update, as well as add in a bunch of new map fixes, some |
| Fixed M3SA Build Update | 2022-06-01 | the source code was update to vs2022 and the default settings is debug and i forgot to change it, it's fixed now sorry. i keep forgetting that hdtf gained traction and there's more than five people on the m3sa branch uwu sorry lmao |
| April Fool's Update! | 2022-04-01 | Hey all, it's been awhile. It's me, the dude who has been managing the Twitter and the Steam Store page. I've been working with a number of new people and other former devs to make hunt down the freeman more playable. They, along with the community, have done truly amazing work, massively overhauling parts of the game in about four months. We hope you'll have fun playing it! |
| Important Update 002 | 2018-03-21 | Hello Everyone. We'd like to inform everyone that we lowered the price a few days ago in an effort to make our game more available to our global community. A lot of friends we've made couldn't play the game because of the price, and so we agreed for many reasons why it needed to go down. We've received a ton of feedback and advice both on our Discord, as well as the Steam Forums. RRE would like to personally thank everyone who has been trying to help us improve. It really means a lot to some of us on the team because we've given up other opportunities to work on Hunt Down The Freeman, working as hard as we could on it. You guys are awesome, t |
| Important Update 001 | 2018-03-15 | Hello everyone. We pushed a pretty big update a few days ago to the game and made it playable. We've listened to all of you and we've reworked some of the combat on a few levels, improved loading times for 83% of the levels, and fixed a good deal of bugs. Stay tuned and expect more updates in the future. |
| The Past, The Present, and The Future of HDTF | 2018-02-26 | Hello everyone, We want to talk about HDTF, what happened and what will happen. Two and a half years ago, Berkan had the idea to make a short film about HDTF, and after that idea, he chose to make it into a hl2 mod. After that, He started to make a small project which started to get attention. He pondered if he should make something bigger. The Indigogo campaign was started and raised nothing, but he didn't want to give up on it. He had to make his idea a reality. He went and found an investor, a company, and a team. That is when the actual project started. After a development of almost 2 years of an ambitious project, when we came close to t |
| The Past, The Present, and The Future of HDTF | 2018-02-26 | Hello everyone, We want to talk about HDTF, what happened and what will happen. Two and a half years ago, Berkan had the idea to make a short film about HDTF, and after that idea, he chose to make it into a hl2 mod. After that, He started to make a small project which started to get attention. He pondered if he should make something bigger. The Indigogo campaign was started and raised nothing, but he didn't want to give up on it. He had to make his idea a reality. He went and found an investor, a company, and a team. That is when the actual project started. After a development of almost 2 years of an ambitious project, when we came close to t |
| HDTF - DAY 1 PATCH | 2018-02-24 | Hello everyone, more updates are coming! Please, continue giving us feedback! Bug Fixes: -Cutscenes are now downloadable. -Dev texture brush on metro removed. -Alaska cubemaps fixed. -Missing textures fixed. -Missing ending levels are now downloadable. -Adam's mysterious twin brother is no more in the metro. -Missing keyboard texture -Flickering model textures in urban fight level fixed(for trucks and tents). Have fun! |
| HDTF - DAY 1 PATCH | 2018-02-24 | Hello everyone, more updates are coming! Please, continue giving us feedback! Bug Fixes: -Cutscenes are now downloadable. -Dev texture brush on metro removed. -Alaska cubemaps fixed. -Missing textures fixed. -Missing ending levels are now downloadable. -Adam's mysterious twin brother is no more in the metro. -Missing keyboard texture -Flickering model textures in urban fight level fixed(for trucks and tents). Have fun! |
| Update in less than 24 hours. | 2018-02-24 | We are aware of the game breaking glitches, a fix will be applied in less than 24 hours. If you see any glitches, please report them in our forums, or in our discord. This is a massive embarrasment on our part. Thank you for your patience. |
| Update in less than 24 hours. | 2018-02-24 | We are aware of the game breaking glitches, a fix will be applied in less than 24 hours. If you see any glitches, please report them in our forums, or in our discord. This is a massive embarrasment on our part. Thank you for your patience. |
| LET THE HUNT BEGIN! | 2018-02-24 | Ladies and Gentelmen, Hunt Down The Freeman is out. Crowbar VS. Machete. Have fun. |
| LET THE HUNT BEGIN! | 2018-02-24 | Ladies and Gentelmen, Hunt Down The Freeman is out. Crowbar VS. Machete. Have fun. |
| IT'S COMING TODAY! NO MORE DELAYS | 2018-02-23 | Hello everyone! We're uploading the latest game build, and we'll be ready to publish as soon as we get conformation that everything is working as intended. Stay tuned, Hunt Down The Freeman is releasing today! RRE Team. |