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john hewitt: Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright. Howdy, partner! It's John Cat coming at you live from the Cat House. It's been a while.
john hewitt: Our last episode was in May. It's now August. I know you think we abandoned you like a fucking single parent. We didn't. There just, you know, there hadn't been too much.
john hewitt: And A, i i don't want to push the conversation. I'd rather let the conversation grow. naturally. Sometimes when you push the conversation, we run into the problem that we ran into before where all our episodes start to seem a little bit like stagnant. It's all the same thing.
john hewitt: But, you know, i mean, we'll double back. We'll try and get some more frequent stuff going on. But on top of nothing to really talk about, it turns out your boy suffers from a clinical depression. And and Yeah, I don't know. it was spin ah It's been a rough couple of months. Clutch has been a little bit busy. We'll throw this one out there for Clutch. Yeah, Clutch, that's for you. He's still around.
john hewitt: He's still the co-host of the show. He's had his hands tied. i with my bed yeah clutch that's for you he's still around he's still you know the co-host of the show he's just he's had his hands tied He's in a lovely relationship. I hope you and Mark are the best. I don't know who's the bottom and who's the top, but you know you guys are guys are a beautiful couple.
john hewitt: But I wanted to get in here and do do a little solo ep, because your boy you boy's been playing a little solo hunt. can be only one All right, we got to step it up with these sound clips here, fellas. I need you to fucking, and need you to help me out here because i don't know who's doing the sound in the booth, but this is dog shit.
john hewitt: yeah, playing a lot of solo hunt and to be quite honest, I've been fucking loving it. Uh, I go in with nothing as well. Naked and solo. Uh,
john hewitt: In my opinion, there's two ways that you could do a successful solo run. You could go in nuts to butts. We're talking at the moment. We're talking gun runner. We're talking every trait you could want.
john hewitt: On top of that, you know, you're you're going in there rocking a fucking crowning king and a Mosin sniper. All the tools and consumables you could ever want.
john hewitt: Or... You do it like a man. You do it like a man that goes in with nothing more than a melee tool, med kit, and a dream. That's not a
john hewitt: That's a knife.
john hewitt: Yeah, we're talking brass knucks, basic knife. Nothing heavy. never Never go heavy knife. Only basic stuff. And we're we're talking Naked Run.
john hewitt: You go in there, first thing you're looking for is anything that could help you. We're talking axe, hammer, shovel, whatever. And before you go you know you can go the super cheap route and just get a free hunter, which is it's cool.
john hewitt: I have been doing the hunter progressions for the rookie veteran survivor skins. I'm going to touch on that with Harrison and when we do our next episode, because I don't think he even knows that that's a thing.
john hewitt: But I've been doing that. So I will buy a hunter. Gives me 10 points. I will immediately go.
john hewitt: will immediately go Necro, Conduit.
john hewitt: And then the one that lets you throw melee weapons found in the world every time. Three for three. Drop in. I've been taking brass knocks. I don't mind the knife.
john hewitt: I just find that if you pull some bad RNG you end up on a map that's heavy and fucking emulators, it makes it a lot less like enjoyable for you to be there and just be straight up trying to bare fist beat the fuck out of a bunch of emulators while you can't even get to the first clue to get your conduit off.
john hewitt: It makes it a little bit more tolerable just to take brass knuckles and be at least set up to deal with the m piece that you know NPCs in the world, the emulators, monsters, and such.
john hewitt: But once once you drop in, like you're looking at sniper towers, you're looking for those big fire towers that are scattered around the maps. They usually have some weapon upstairs.
john hewitt: Uh, it doesn't pan out all the time. I'm not going lie to you. I streamed a couple of times on Twitch. We would be three, three fucking matches in every time I'm looking for ah ah rifle in the goddamn tower, every fire tower, nothing.
john hewitt: I'm going up sniper towers. The only thing in there is like a med kit or a dynamite bundle, which I'll take the dynamite bundles. Diamond bundles are useful. always look for toolboxes and stuff to try and up your, up your tools.
john hewitt: I've found that also looking for horses with saddlebags is also useful if you're a solo player because that's where you get like your consumables and stuff. And sometimes they have a gun in it. i've I've gotten real lucky a few times where the fucking the map is bone dry and I'm getting shot at from a guy that's figured out, oh, there's a solo with nothing on him.
john hewitt: I'm getting lit up and I just managed to find a horse with a carabiner shoved in the saddlebag. It's a fucking Tide Turner, baby. You find one with a fucking Centennial, you you're back in. You're back in the game.
john hewitt: I've seen other people do naked runs different ways. I've also seen that I believe Neo has been doing them on YouTube where it's naked-ish, where he only takes a bow, only regular arrows, only a medkit.
john hewitt: I've done this. it's It's almost harder than doing a naked run because I am trash with the bow.
john hewitt: Not trash. No. Fuck it. Be honest with yourself. Be honest with be honest with your friends. We're all friends here. Trash. I'm trash with the bow.
john hewitt: i Yeah. it's it's It's very hard to just go in double bow, no special arrow, And then just a mad kit, no melee tool. It is very fucking difficult.
john hewitt: But it's, I'm telling you, if you haven't had the experience of playing solo and playing in a naked solo run, I mean, we've tried doing naked runs as a group. It's just fucking difficult because there's not enough shit scattered around the field.
john hewitt: to support like three guys that are looking for shit. You can, it just makes it even harder. Cause now you have like loot goblins that are like, they're looting everybody. They're taking and like, you know, if you have a third that doesn't want to be a team player, your third winds up with a, you know, pistol and a rifle and you're still running around like, dude, I need one of those.
john hewitt: Like, what are you doing? Why are you looting every, every toolbox we come across? Like you gotta spread this wealth around, baby.
john hewitt: Yeah, fucking naked and alone. If you haven't had the experience, we're getting close, probably going to cut this in about 10 minutes. If you haven't had the experience, Eddie MMR.
john hewitt: If you're a six star and you've never done it, it's a test of your mettle. If you're a two star and you haven't done it, it is one way to get good quick because you will learn to listen. You will learn to slow down. You will learn to look.
john hewitt: You will learn to lead. it It's next level. Coming forward within the next few weeks, we're going back to it with Clutch.
john hewitt: He got to go to Gen Con. We're going to find out all about Gen Con. I did not get to go. My father-in-law regrettably passed away. Big Mike.
john hewitt: Big Mike had some some illnesses and he just never really... bounced back. I don't have The Undertaker on my soundboard anymore, so that's very upsetting.
john hewitt: But Mike, you will be missed, you silly son of a bitch. But they lived out in California, so I had to hop a flight, go out to California, and unfortunately I burned a lot of my money in my vacation to get out there and get back.
john hewitt: i had to I had to step aside for Gen Con, which A, sucked, but B, also really sucks because Can't get your money back once it crosses the threshold. And yeah, it just it just it sucked all over.
john hewitt: it it was It was a bad look. But we're going to find from Harrison at Gen Con. I've got some things cooking moving forward. Hopefully we can do some stuff. Get some cats, dogs updates. I'm i'm almost ready to start rocking and rolling here with that. And stay tuned.
john hewitt: For all your friends here at Waiting for the Players, a Hunt Showdown podcast, I appreciate you hanging out, sticking around, staying a fan. Find us on Waiting for the Players.
john hewitt: Waiting for the Players pod, all one word. Sorry, I had to check my notes because we haven't done this in a while. Waiting for the Players pod, all one word, on Instagram. We got clips. We interact with you.
john hewitt: It's a good time. I'm going to be doing more of these solo episodes just to kind of like... Just to fuck around a little bit. I like getting out there. I like talking with you assholes. You guys, hopefully you like listening to me. I'm done stuttering and stammering.
john hewitt: I'm going to go beat on Clutch's door. Try and make sure he's alive. Like I said, him and this new boyfriend of his. It's just been nothing but fucking...
john hewitt: all I hear coming out of that bedroom. It's it's upsetting. From all of us here Waiting for the Players of Hunt Showdown podcast, you might be living a three-star life, but goddammit, we all hope you're going to have a six-star week.
john hewitt: You beautiful sons of bitches, enjoy this weather. Summer's almost over. Eat a hot dog. Hug your namer. kiss your Kiss your spouse on the lips. And take care of each other.
