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season 2 episode 6 trying to stay above water
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post the event and post the news of layoffs at crytek these two intrepid cowpokes get together to try and make sense of the world, hunt, and how Brandon Sanderson writes so many damn books
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Banter
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john hewitt
That's right. We're back-ish. It's not a whole new show. It's not another season. This isn't season three. We're here with season two, episode six, Waiting for Other Players, a Hunt Showdown podcast.
00:00:25
john hewitt
This is John Cat coming at you live from the Cat House. I'm sober-ish, Saturday-ish, nighttime-ish, and I don't have his theme song, so we're just going to hit a little one of these.
00:00:37
john hewitt
And his name is John Cena!
00:00:45
john hewitt
And his name is the Clutch Commando. Harrison, how are you doing this Sunday afternoon, evening, daytime, uncle, brother, cousin?
00:00:56
Clutch Commander
I'm doing good on this Uncle Brother day.
00:01:01
john hewitt
Solid. Solid.
Technical Glitches and Reading Adventures
00:01:04
john hewitt
We're still reconnecting the soundboard from Scraps. We had a My old computer pretty much emulated itself like a Vietnam protester, and I'm piecing this thing back together.
00:01:18
john hewitt
So we don't necessarily have the classic sound bites, but. and Well, fuck it. We have one of these. Howdy, partner. Session one, Harrison.
00:01:32
john hewitt
What are you up to this week?
00:01:35
Clutch Commander
This week, just reading books, trying to finish the Stormlight Archive series.
00:01:36
john hewitt
and we last talk than it to be this week can be last Since we last got into this, what have you been up to?
00:01:48
john hewitt
Wow.
00:01:51
john hewitt
Now, are are you I'm not a Sanderson guy. Are you like working backwards? Are these current releases? or
00:01:57
Clutch Commander
It is current releases.
00:02:00
john hewitt
and Okay. And it's, a it's decent. It's not, it's not devolving into like you hear about certain authors that all of a sudden people are like, they're just finishing the book series because they want to get to the end. And then when you ask them, well, is it still good? Ultimately they're like, yeah, not that, not that much.
00:02:23
Clutch Commander
Uh, no. I'm five books in. It's been great. Every book. I have not been disappointed.
00:02:29
john hewitt
while he's kept up.
00:02:30
Clutch Commander
Yes. Surprisingly, it has.
00:02:32
john hewitt
Good.
00:02:33
Clutch Commander
Because he started, this is very much as an ensemble cast. It was like 10 or 12 people. And you're getting all their perspectives of everything.
00:02:44
john hewitt
Nice. I'm glad he's threading that needle for you. There's nothing worse than getting to the end of a book series and you're like, i really don't give a shit what happens.
00:02:48
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
Gaming Talk and Life Reflections
00:02:54
john hewitt
Uh, I'm pretty much in the same boat. I've been a little Baldur's Gate action. We're still making our way through that shit. We'll have an episode coming up shortly, probably episode seven.
00:03:05
john hewitt
We'll get into it a little bit thorougher, and then we'll make it a bit going forward, because we're about halfway through... we're getting about halfway through act two, but I have my own private game going on.
00:03:18
john hewitt
Plus, I imagine we'll have another playthrough coming for other decisions, but... Yeah, I haven't really had a lot of stuff going on.
00:03:29
john hewitt
Yeah, outside of Hunt Baldur's Gate, like it's been a pretty pretty set week. Work sucks, but what going to do? It's the way it is.
00:03:39
Clutch Commander
Yeah. Well, you know, it is what it is, at least you're getting through it.
00:03:47
john hewitt
Yeah, it's it's all you can do. In this country, this great country,
00:03:57
john hewitt
The American anthem that I acknowledge. In this country, I think it's all you can do anymore. Just get through it. And not let anybody talk to you about political affiliations or politics of any kind because it's just bullshit. i You don't want to hear that shit.
00:04:17
john hewitt
I don't want to hear what your political views are.
00:04:20
john hewitt
They're like assholes. Everybody's got them.
00:04:23
Clutch Commander
Sure does.
Epic Hunt: Showdown Session
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john hewitt
What it is. Speaking Speaking of hunt, let's get into section two. I keep hearing from the season, session.
00:04:35
john hewitt
Section two of the show that we always talk about. Gameplay. Hit this soundbite right here. Suit out, right? It's a fucking suit out.
00:04:46
john hewitt
We've been having some bangers.
00:04:48
Clutch Commander
We have. We've had some crazy games.
00:04:51
john hewitt
Oh yeah. We're post we're post event. We'll be getting into that in the, when we get to the topic at hand, but yeah, we've been, up we've been having some crazy ass matches.
00:05:04
john hewitt
Anything in particular you want to go over? Because I got a couple in my mind. If you don't have anything,
00:05:09
Clutch Commander
No, let's go with yours. What do you have?
00:05:12
john hewitt
The other night we're waiting. Our week is broken up into we may or may not play on Sundays. Usually Tuesday we'll play a couple games, but at that point we're all fat and old.
00:05:25
john hewitt
So none of us want to do too much shit. We'll play a couple games Tuesday and then Thursday we'll meet up and we'll play some Baldur's Gate. But it happened to be that Thursday, Arthur decided he had an emergency at work.
00:05:41
john hewitt
So he left us hanging for about an hour and a half, and we decided to play some duos versus trios. And we got in this in this barn burner in DeSalle, or not DeSalle, in new map.
00:05:58
john hewitt
Gorge. Whatever Gorge, right?
00:06:00
Clutch Commander
Yes.
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john hewitt
Lackawanna Gorge.
00:06:02
Clutch Commander
i I don't know the maps, but yes, that one.
00:06:04
john hewitt
Yeah. I just call it that, that one place, but we get into a, a fight on the new map.
00:06:08
Clutch Commander
Yep.
00:06:12
john hewitt
And for some reason, somebody snags the bounty. So we creep up, we get into a building across the way because we're both kicking it with, I think we both have winnies or centennials or something. It's part of the challenge.
00:06:27
john hewitt
And we're waiting. Cause we're like, these guys are going to come out or pop their head at some point. And I've been, I've been deleting headshots this whole, this whole game. Every time we turn around, headshot, headshot, headshot.
00:06:39
john hewitt
Well, sure as shit. They use dark sight. They see us. So we're we're trading shots back and forth. And at a certain point, people start showing up to which fucking they start dialing in on us.
00:06:56
john hewitt
We don't have we don't have a bounty. We don't have dark site pinging us. It's just people that know we're in there. So I'm handling the ramp. You're handling the guys in the distance and it's you, you take a round.
00:07:12
john hewitt
So then I'm handling the distance while you're healing. And then you're handling the ramp. I mean, I think we got easily eight kills off that one game we lost, but it was fucking nuts.
00:07:25
Clutch Commander
it was It was pretty wild because we were positioned in between the bounty lair and everybody else, and everybody else decided just to focus on us instead of to the bounty lair.
00:07:43
john hewitt
Yeah, I felt like felt like really going to the... Because now with the new update, you can eat you can use VoIP whether you're in a party or not. You just hit down on the D-pad and it activates VoIP in in the game.
00:08:00
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
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john hewitt
like just really wanted to hit down and be like, guys, we don't have anything in here. like Why don't you go pester the bounty like we are? like What are you over here shaking my monkey tree for?
00:08:11
john hewitt
But it was too hard, you know, it was too hard dealing with people marching in and out for me to be a smart ass. Cause I was like, I just, I got to keep pumping rounds down this damn ramp.
00:08:26
Clutch Commander
Yep, they kept coming down that ramp.
00:08:26
john hewitt
But, uh, yeah.
00:08:28
Clutch Commander
each I kept throwing fire there trying to keep them off.
00:08:32
john hewitt
Uh, isolate it.
00:08:33
Clutch Commander
Yeah,
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john hewitt
Yeah. had
Fast Food Mascot Debate
00:08:34
john hewitt
Narrow it down. Yeah. No. great game. It was easily like, I haven't laughed that hard at stupid shit like that in so long. It was it was it was a really great game.
00:08:34
Clutch Commander
and they kept fucking coming.
00:08:45
john hewitt
But, um, I think that's pretty solid gameplay. Let me hit this thing and we'll get into our actual topic this week. I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy that says shenanigans.
00:08:58
john hewitt
Okay. Okay. So first off, I'm to give you a shot out of a cannon because this is something that's been bothering me and I want to use, I want your opinion and there's no better time than our topic of our return show.
00:09:11
Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:09:12
john hewitt
The other night, hanging out at my buddy's house. The women want dinner, we want dinner. So me and my buddy, we go to pick up dinner. It takes us a while. My buddy and his wife, they have a newborn baby.
00:09:28
john hewitt
young Ming Ming is about a year and a half. So like they're basically in the market of, they have their location turned on on their phone.
00:09:38
john hewitt
So if something happens while one of them has the baby, they know where the other one is they can go vice versa. don't have that. I have no kids. I'm, you barely married.
00:09:49
john hewitt
What are you going so we get back and they're laughing.
00:09:51
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:09:54
john hewitt
Because my buddy's wife said, what do you mean you don't have locations tied on? To which my loving wife decides to say, where the fuck is he going to go? McDonald's or Wendy's?
00:10:08
john hewitt
Like, why do I need to know where he is? And I was like, you think that that's just where I go? I i i just go to McDonald's and Wendy's is I'm like, I'm not out up to fucking mischief. I'm just going to fast food.
00:10:21
john hewitt
So. Once I got done with my hurt feelings and I ate my weight in fast food, it made me think, what fast food mascot would you hook up with if you were if you were hooking up with a hop with a with a fast food mascot? Which one would you hook up with?
00:10:41
john hewitt
I just had to punch my cat.
Post Malone Event Praise
00:10:43
john hewitt
he He's just walking around my feet screaming at me. Yeah, get the fuck out of here
00:10:49
Clutch Commander
hmm. Probably, i don't know, Wendy's?
00:10:55
john hewitt
here. See, I thought Wendy, but I think I'd really fuck the Grimace. I'd give him something. I'd give either him or the Hamburglar. I think I could really get in there.
00:11:02
john hewitt
i Yeah, I was thinking the Grimace or the Hamburglar, but I think Wendy is just, she's love i mean, is there a Dairy Queen?
00:11:11
john hewitt
I mean, i i don't know. i mean, there's a literal guy for Jack for Jack in the box, but I was like, is there a Dairy Queen? Are there five guys?
00:11:24
Clutch Commander
yeah is that an option
00:11:26
john hewitt
I don't know. I don't know. But it was one of those things where i was like so offended and then I thought about it and I was like, yeah, I probably would be at McDonald's or Wendy's right now.
00:11:36
Clutch Commander
Yes, I don't know.
00:11:37
john hewitt
Nobody cares.
00:11:37
Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:11:38
john hewitt
Go, go away. Go away. fucking tuna, everybody. My good friend, tuna. Uh, we're going to be going through this in and kind of a rapid pace. Cause he is being kind of a shithead and it is almost time for me to feed my boy.
00:11:55
john hewitt
question of the week is we're post event. Clearly we've been post event for a while. Now you guys are playing, you guys know, uh, first thing I want to do,
00:12:04
john hewitt
is mute my mic so I can cough. Uh, second thing I want to do is, I want to commend my man, Post Malone, because he managed to make one hell of an event followed directly by one hell of an Oreo.
00:12:23
john hewitt
Uh, that motherfucker, the Oreos are off the chain.
00:12:29
Clutch Commander
Yes, I've had them finally.
00:12:31
john hewitt
Yeah, no, they are, uh, They're next level. Little caramel swirl in there. I'm like that fucking fat kid in the meme. I'm like, you give me one of them, I'll fuck it up on camera right now.
00:12:43
Clutch Commander
They,
00:12:43
john hewitt
But... Oh, go ahead.
00:12:46
Clutch Commander
uh... I got them finally. And, uh... They were real good.
00:12:53
john hewitt
But my question
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john hewitt
is...
Concerns Over Crytek Layoffs
00:12:58
john hewitt
With all these layoffs now, At Crytek, we've heard a lot of people have been laid off of Crysis. a lot of people have been moved from Crysis to presumably to Hunt, but we've also heard people have been laid off from the Hunt staff.
00:13:13
Clutch Commander
Yes.
00:13:13
john hewitt
Do we think that we're goingnna be playing Hunt in a few years or is this just going to go the way of everything else? and Do you feel like Hunt is in a bad place or do you think that they can thread this needle and hold on to everything?
00:13:27
Clutch Commander
I hope they can hold on to everything. I, I like hunt. I would like it to be around for a few more years.
00:13:37
Clutch Commander
Um, Um, But, you know, time is the enemy of everything.
00:13:42
john hewitt
yeah I don't know, but because i mean we've been playing Fortnite for a thousand and a half years, and I'd i'd like to have that longevity for something like Hunt, because it's simplistic enough. like like The lore is very complex. but The lore to some extent. I'm sure a guy like Hazmat or something would point out that the lore's been dumbed down.
00:14:03
john hewitt
It's like D&D. The lore's been dumbed down for fucking children at this point. but There's no reason the lore has been dumbed down.
00:14:07
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:14:09
john hewitt
But... I think, dont I don't know. I feel like if something like Fortnite has the legs to last this long, I think there's no reason to think that they, like, that we would lose shit out of Hunt, because Hunt is very simplistic. it's You're hunting these monsters in this fucking wasteland, and occasionally they throw us an event that changes shit for a few months, and we go back to the regular thing.
00:14:36
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:14:36
john hewitt
i I don't want to believe it's as simple as this thing's not making money because we know people are buying skins and everything else. And I don't want to believe it's as simple as fucking, it's fucking, it's just, I think the legs are there for to go the distance, but I am nervous that this is a thing that, that time, time will catch up with.
00:15:06
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:15:08
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I'm hoping it it lasts.
00:15:08
john hewitt
I got
00:15:10
Clutch Commander
I really want, you know, six years out of it.
00:15:18
john hewitt
another. i mean, and I mean, they're celebrating seven years. i preposterous that to think that could we go another seven? i don't know. But I've had a blast with this seven and we only just got an upgrade.
00:15:33
john hewitt
So now we're in like a whole new fucking we're in a whole new world.
00:15:33
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:15:37
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I like the upgrade so far. I like that they're going back on the UI and putting it back to what it was.
00:15:45
john hewitt
like that but like 1896 as itself like we've we literally just got the 1896 the engine upgrade so as far as the UI goes I mean we've got nothing but time baby they can fix that shit whenever they want but it's a it's a thing of like you know fix the UI do whatever but we've basically I'd say we got another seven fucking years for them to sort this out
00:15:55
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:16:14
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:16:17
Clutch Commander
But, I mean, they're they're working on it, though, and I and i like that. They're trying.
00:16:21
john hewitt
Appreciate it, yeah. I just, I want to see them, I don't want to see them fold up their, i don't want to see them fold up their tents. I want to see them double down. I've never met a fucking person that's even played a crisis game, let alone enjoyed a crisis game.
00:16:37
john hewitt
But everybody I know that likes Hunt, they they live and they breathe it, so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Weapon Preferences and Strategies
00:16:44
john hewitt
On that note, playing Hunt, what's your what's your loadout been lately? What have you been what have you been running a lot?
00:16:51
Clutch Commander
Um,
00:16:53
Clutch Commander
I've been going back to the Vetterly silenced.
00:16:59
john hewitt
Really?
00:17:00
Clutch Commander
Yeah. I've been doing that and I've been having a lot of fun as a manic person throwing fire everywhere.
00:17:12
Clutch Commander
Because apparently when I'm in no-win situations, I burn everybody.
00:17:19
john hewitt
Well, you know, if you gotta go, you gotta go. go. Skit-skat. Skit-skat, kitty cat. Yeah, I've been going been going classic Winnie, and I've been hot-swapping the pistol, or I had a very, very, very good game, and I just took three conversion pistols.
00:17:37
john hewitt
And I was fucking dudes up, man.
00:17:37
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:17:40
Clutch Commander
Yeah. um
00:17:42
john hewitt
think I...
00:17:42
Clutch Commander
You know, that and a Caldwell every now and then is nice.
00:17:45
john hewitt
Yes. yeah Or I'll take a Spectre. I like a good Spectre.
00:17:51
Clutch Commander
Yeah, not a bad gun.
00:17:52
john hewitt
No.
00:17:54
john hewitt
Do you have any anything to add on your way out the door? I know this has kind of been like a slapdash reunion. Drop the gun. You are under arrest. It's been kind of a slapdash reunion. We haven't done an episode in a while, but realistically, there hasn't been a lot to say for a
Future Podcast Themes
00:18:11
john hewitt
while. We were playing Event Hunt.
00:18:14
john hewitt
The vent hunt was fine.
00:18:15
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:18:15
john hewitt
We had a good time.
00:18:15
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:18:17
john hewitt
I heard people had a good time. And to be honest, maybe I just wanted to let the guys at Hunt Banish Extract have have a little you know little breathing room. They didn't have my fat ass breathing down their neck.
00:18:28
john hewitt
event's over and we're back, baby.
00:18:30
Clutch Commander
yeah
00:18:38
john hewitt
Yeah, we ain't fucking around. We're going to be having our Baldur's Gate special coming up here shortly where we're talking about that and we could talk about other role playing game stuff. We got Gen Con coming up.
00:18:51
john hewitt
We're going on the road.
00:18:55
Clutch Commander
Yep, I'm excited for that. How about you?
00:18:58
john hewitt
very, very excited. I i love role playing games and you know like being creative.
00:19:06
john hewitt
But I'm getting ready to go out here and kill this cat. So you have anything to add on your way out the door?
00:19:14
Clutch Commander
No, just glad to be back and hope to keep doing this for however long Hunt is.
00:19:19
john hewitt
Another seven years.
00:19:21
Clutch Commander
Yep.
Community Gratitude and Impact of Layoffs
00:19:22
john hewitt
I want to take this time to thank our legendary hunters. Hopefully you're still listening out there. Chime back in on Instagram, waiting for their players pod. All one word. We got footage over there.
00:19:33
john hewitt
And yeah, were we're still kicking strong. we got We got clips. We got all kinds of funny shit. We're talking about the Boys at Hunt, Banished, Extract specifically. We're talking Rat 329. We're talking DJ. We're talking about the Weasel.
00:19:49
john hewitt
We're talking about the Ponytail Palm, Richard. We're talking about Richard. We're talking about Malcolm Glenn. my man Post Malone. We're talking about Nitro Nate, Taco Man Manor Von Veldt, OG Gamer Mitchell Gertz, Hunt Showdown memes all the guys, all the ladies I want to thank Curdy, Curdy's back making footage, i haven't been happier I've been loving seeing Curdy coming back it's just it's it's a lot of good Hunt shit going down right now and and the news of these layoffs is really fucking you know it's really killing my buzz man
00:20:22
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:20:28
john hewitt
Just, you know, it's too good. It's too good of a a time right now for this game for them to start being like, by the way, fuck everybody that works for us.
00:20:40
Clutch Commander
yeah
00:20:41
john hewitt
what the fuck ever? You know, we've all got our problems. I guess they got theirs. Harrison, say goodnight to the fine people.
00:20:48
Clutch Commander
Good night, everybody.
Closing Thoughts and Listener Support
00:20:50
john hewitt
Good night, everybody. You're living a three-star life. I hope you have a six-star week. Don't fuck the grimace. And ah just, you know, take care of each other. It's a rough time out there for everybody. ah Yeah, don't know. Here, try this one for the way out the door. mad at me and yelled at me. And I pissed in my pants.
00:21:11
john hewitt
And I never did change my pee pants all day. I'm still sitting in my dirty pee pants. I'll wear my bed.