Here's Why I'm Switching To Centered Crosshair in Hunt: Showdown 1896

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00:00 - Intro
00:17 - How it Works
00:43 - Advantages and Disadvantages
01:22 - My 2 Personal Reasons For Switching

[RachtaZ]

Video about Graphics/Settings comparison is coming in few weeks once Crytek fixed the graphical bugs in the update.

[Panossa]

"Falling backwards" is the EXACT description of the feeling I had when starting off with Hunt with lowered crosshair and I could never explain what made me feel uneasy with it.

[KungThulhu]

even after 1000 hours the offset crosshair always felt weird. I switched to centered and didn't even need time to adjust. It was just instantly better.

[mq]

I honestly feel more comfortable with the lowered version, bc everytime I ads with centered on I feel like my weapon is way above the enemies head

[hero-f-war]

While I can see your point about aiming at the ground when moving, I never really noticed it until recently when I explicitly paid attention to it... I don't know, centered feels so weird to me and the weapon takes too much space on the screen (for my taste at least) that I'll stick with the lowered crosshair. I find myself rarely getting killed by people below my screen or by traps that where hidden by it that I don't really want to lose the screen space above my aiming point.

But I'm glad that people are happy with the addition of the centered crosshair. :)

[tothkrisztian]

Since we have centered crosshair in most fps games, I switched to it in Hunt too

[boost]

switched to centered because every other game has taught me to know exactly where the center of my monitor is.

[zeroth]

I was so wigged out when I booted up Hunt for the first time after the update. My screen felt squished with the gun model. I never even noticed the lowered crosshair when I started playing Hunt years ago. After a few hundred hours someone told me and I was surprised I’d never noticed it before. I’m sticking with lowered. I definitely prefer it

[phantommlord]

Your second to last reason is exactly why I wanted to switch. I always had my head slightly down when running around and had to flick up somewhat because of the lowered crosshair. It was fine and I played thousands of hours like that but centered is more universally normal. I switched.

[extummementomori]

Settings comparison video would be lovely Mr Rachta. Great video!

[TheAkrillion]

I've been playing video games for over 20 years now and I'm VERY used to centered crosshair in FPS games. Hunt was different for me because of the lowered view, which, while didn't really impede my aim or ability to kill, always felt off despite getting used to it. Having the option to center my crosshair is definitely up my alley, especially since the viewmodels look so dope when centered.

[yelanha]

Since Hunt ist my first shooter (except for one other we don't mention here, mistakes were made lol) and I learned to play with the lowered crosshair I'm sticking to it, but I can imagine that it's a big relief for those who were used to centred crosshair and then started Hunt.

[gregorh.]

Gotta say- Lowered is it for me. I played 2 games with new Patch without realizing it's centered and didn't hit shit. bruh. I was mad. ^^
As soon as I enabled Lowered, I got back to my old Huntself. xD

[csgphoenix]

This was one of the main things I was waiting for in the update. As a person who plays a lot of FPS games, trying to use muscle memory in Hunt always made me hit only bodyshots or legs since it was lower than expected

[SlCKNESS_]

I'm definitely sticking to Lowered, especially considering I never looked at the ground when running around. My crosshair placement has always been neckline. I don't even understand how people can run around looking at the ground, but I guess it kind of make sense if it makes you feel like you're falling.

[lmoa]

I feel like the advantages mean I should switch to centered but having the viewmodel take up more screen space feels awful to me

[Ciel]

I was skeptical whether or not i'd want to switch after over 600 hours, but the final comment about looking at the floor just about sold me. If you unexpectedly need to take a gunfight while running from place to place, you're likely looking at the ground, so you'll have to adjust more to hit your target rather than if you already had your screen centered on them.

[Enzar]

I'm keeping mine lowered for now. I'm just so used to it by this point. I also really dislike how much screen space is taken up by weapons with the centered crosshair as well, and the ability to see window peekers better is very valuable to me. I might change at some point, if I feel that floor things are more of a problem in 1896. But for now I'm keeping it as-is.

[theMelvinShow]

I stay lowered. Didn't even notice it until someone pointed that out lol. Now centered feels kind of weird. I also noticed that with centered crosshair people tend to aim at the floor a lot more rather than chest height. Very obvious in casual shooters and low level CS

[AnErrorOccured]

i'm switching to centered since i commonly switch between counter strike and hunt, so it makes it easier to transition between the games