What's the Best Setup For Running in Hunt: Showdown?

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[JustttMatt]

Lot's of people are commenting about the conditions not being exactly perfect. As stated 0:15 there is some human error as pathing may not be perfect. Everything is tested under the same conditions. So while the times may not be perfect for each setup, it isn't enough of a deviation to mess up the end results of what's the best setup.

[basilinogaming]

It looks like when testing regaining stamina with zero perks you’re running as soon as the lungs go away. It’s more efficient to wait a couple of seconds after the lungs go away

[SmokinBunGaming]

That was informative. I'm glad to see I made the right choice by taking Greyhound when I hadn't unlocked the big stamina shots yet. Subscribed!

[HuntShowdownLab]

Did you happen to figure out the ideal length of time to walk to recover? I think it's about 10 seconds after the lungs icon dissapears, but haven't had the time to test that.

[jimmyrocks]

Thanks for doing the legwork on this one

[Yawyna]

Something big for yourself is you aren't back to full stamina as soon as the lung icon disappears. That lung icon just simply means that you aren't at zero anymore. Think about it like the melee stamina meter: starting to run again immediately is like using a melee attack as soon as you have the slightest sliver of yellow. It's substantially slower, yes. Wait 4-5 seconds for your stamina to regenerate after you lose the lung icon so your stamina has time to regenerate.

That's the biggest thing though. :>

This experiment gets ran every couple years or so by someone, and the takeaway is that Greyhound is pretty damn underwhelming at distance running, especially with the above strategy of allowing your stamina to regenerate before you start running again. The other guy that did this experiment did it along the full length of stillwater bayou's road that runs across the North and South of the map and for all that distance iirc it gained less than 30 seconds of optimal stamina regen cycling.

[JBXXR]

wheres the determination = vigor combo?

[mediumplayer]

Feels good to know points not spent on Greyhound and Determination are indeed better off elsewhere. Also surprised to find out that running without stopping actually ties with running and stopping, as from what I've heard mostly so far, latter was deemed the faster option...

[bobtomlyn]

Vigor also affects running stamina use that in combination with greyhound and determination.

[thehazellator]

if you listen to your hunters breath closely they will exhale about a second after the lung icon disappears. this is the audio cue for your running stamina being full, the icon lies

[NightFlutter]

the hidden stamina gauge for running should be under the yellow bar so we know when it's full or empty

[arsenez.]

If I'm not mistaken Vigor regenerates stamina twice as fast, including running stamina. I'm a stamina shot enjoyer so I've never tested it myself, however, I noticed that when I heal with Vigor + regen shot at the end of a match (when my stamina shot has run out), my combat stamina regenerates very quickly with Vigor. I think that's another thing that can be tested under this topic.

[blackAngelit]

Quite informative and straight to the point, that's quite rare these days.

The only thing that would be an interesting addition: is there a min distance/time where resting starts to become more or less protifable? The tests have all been done with the same distance I suppose, I wonder if the math stays the same for different distances, or if there is a curve somewhere...

[christianjenko]

I guess you are missing the most interesting point which is the ideal time to "wait". If I remember correctly it's 16 steps once you have hit the lunge symbol to recover and only ~half of it if you stop right before you are out of breath. (Count the heavy breathing.) Unfortunately cannot finde the video for it...

[NoisR]

damn trying to hit 1000 goodbye is an insane task...

[egorpanteleev]

test is not detailed enough

you should have considered running greyhound in 2 styles: recovering stamina and not recovering stamina

and you should have measured a proper running line to have a precise running distance instead of having unreliable descriptions
simply testing a 100m run and 200m run would be enough

[therealw]

that pvz song has been permanently marred by the Young fly on the track version

[Friday_WasTaken]

Very unscientific video and better ones already exisits. All this dose is further spread misunderstanding.
Dont feel bad though bro. We all goof sometimes