Along with the biggest update the game has ever seen, the new event in Hunt: Showdown 1896 is also starting under the name Scorched Earth.
In our event guide, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about it!
Start & end time
- Start: August 15th, 2024
- Duration: 52 days
- End: October 6th, 2024
New map: Mammon’s Gulch
The new map Mammon Gorge is the only one available for the first 30 days of the event. It takes players from the swamps more to the north, where you can see more signs of civilization and industrialization.
The map is much more vertical than the previous ones and is set in a more mountainous region with many signs of mining and deforestation.
Each location on the map should offer significantly more access points and opportunities than was the case on the previous maps.
There will also be alternative ways to get from one point to another, such as walking over a mountain or running underneath it under the protection of the mine.
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As in previous events, there are once again three pacts that you can join, each with their own skills.
At each supply point you will find three shrines where you can join one of the pacts.
There is a new pact ability and two abilities with additional effects per pact:
The Wilderness Pact
The Wilderness Pact aims to fight and eradicate the corruption of the land.
The Pact’s abilities focus on the mobility and movement of your hunter.
Pact ability:
- Surefoot: You can sprint with prepared throw items or when using first aid kits.
- Extra for solo players: Your footsteps are quieter while crouching.
Additional effect for existing skills:
- Beastface: You no longer startle animals or break branches when running over them.
- Frontiersman: You gain an extra Covenant token for the first 30 event points in each round.
The Lawful Pact
The Lawful Pact attempts to restore stability to the Mammon Gorge.
The abilities of the Pact help you in PvP combat.
Pact ability:
- Peacekeeper: Gain an empty health bar when you loot a dead Hunter.
Additional effect for existing abilities:
- Packmule: You find extra ammunition when looting hunters.
- Vigilant: The range of the marker in Shadow Vision is doubled.
The Demented Pact
The Demented Pact is addicted to the madness of corruption and worships its creatures.
The Pact helps you in melee and PvE combat.
Pact ability:
- Berserker: Increased melee damage
Additional effect for existing abilities:
- Adrenaline: 25% speed boost for 20 seconds if you have a critical health level.
- Ghoul: When you deal damage to a boss or wild target you restore health.
Event points and how to get them
At the heart of the entire event are, of course, the event points, which you can use to earn Pact Tokens and to advance your Battle Pass progress.
What’s new this time is that you will also receive points for killing normal, special monsters.
You will receive event points for the following actions:
- Bounty from the Sealed Cache – 100 Event Points
- Extraction with a bounty – 30 Event Points
- Win as the Soul Survivor – 30 Event Points
- Interact with the Master Clue – 30 Event Points
- Loot Hunter – 12 Event Points
- Kill Hellborn – 12 Event Points
- Banish a Target – 12 Event Points
- Interact with Event Clues & -Rifts – 10 Event Points
- Kill Meathead – 5 Event Points
- Kill Immolator – 3 Event Points
- Kill Hive – 2 Event Points
- Kill Armored – 2 Event Points
Pledge Marks and how to get them
The second event currency that you actively use in the game are the Pledge Marks.
You can use these tokens to unlock items at the Sealed Cache, get all the clues in one go or even get an extra bounty.
You can have up to four Pledge Marks per hunter at the same time and they remain intact over several rounds and do not expire until you spend them or lose your hunter.
How to get Pledge Marks:
- First banish of a boss – 1 Pledge Mark
- First loot of a hunter – 1 Pledge Mark
- On the first 30 event points collected per round – 1 Pledge Mark
- Become the Soul Survivor – 1 Pledge Mark
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Sealed cache
The sealed cache can be found on the map again this time and is marked by an orange triangle in a circle on the map.
In addition to ammunition, you will also find various sealed world items here, including a master hint that immediately shows you the position of a boss or a bounty token that has to be extracted just like a normal bounty.
You can find the following world items at the sealed hideout:
- Bounty Token – Cost: 2 Pact Tokens
- Gives you an additional bounty token, exclusive to the first players to break the seal.
- Master Hint – Cost: 1 Pact Token
- As the name suggests, destroying the seal reveals all clues and thus the position of all bosses on the map immediately. This does not apply to Rottjaw and Hellborn. Exclusive to the first players to break the seal.
- Healing effect – Cost: 1 Pact token
- Restores all life bars and life energy
Pact seals in the game world
In addition to the Sealed Lair, there are also some other sealed items from which you can obtain some nice bonuses using the Pact Tokens.
In addition to the sealed hideout, these can also be found at normal supply points and in the large and small lookout and hunter towers.
- Four Shot Boon – Cost: 1 Pact Token
- Grants you all 4 shot effects for 5 minutes (antidote, regeneration, stamina and a small health sprite)
- Experience Boon – Cost: 1 Pact Token
- Grants you a large amount of experience points
- Big Cash – Cost: 1 Pact Token
- Grants you a large amount of Hunt Dollars
- Large Supply Chest – Cost: 1 Pact Token
- Fills all your ammo supplies and tools (which are in your starting loadout).
- Explosive Crate – Cost: 1 Pact Token
- Replenishes three explosive weapons, exclusive to the first player to use it.
New weapons
Once again, you can unlock new weapons via the Battle Pass and event progress. If you don’t manage to do this or don’t want to buy the Battle Pass, these items will be unlocked as normal via levels and variants once the event has ended (see above).
- 1865 Carbine
- Lever Action rifle with medium ammunition and high damage
- Infantry 73L
- A Winfield variant, also with lever action function
- Infantry 73L Sniper
- Sniper variant of the Infantry 73L
- Rival 78 Trauma
- Variant of the double-barrel shotgun with a reinforced stock for close combat
- Crossbow Deadeye
- Variant of the crossbow with a “deadeye” sight for medium distances
- New types of ammunition
- Marathon – high velocity ammunition
- Marathon – fire ammunition
- Crossbow – steel bolt (for longer distances)
- 1865 Carbine – full metal jacket bullets
- Martini Henry – high velocity ammunition
- Martini Henry Ironside – high velocity ammunition
- Drilling – high velocity ammunition
Free rewards & Battle Pass for Scorched Earth
Free rewards
Even if you don’t buy a Battle Pass for the Scorched Earth event in Hunt: Showdown 1896, you can still unlock the new weapons, the bear trap as a new tool and some weapon charms in the event.
Battle Pass rewards
If you have purchased the Battle Pass, you can unlock a few more rewards in addition to the free content.
These include new hunter skins, weapon skins, weapon charms and skins for some consumable items.
