Hunters,

Post Malone’s Murder Circus Encore is in full swing along with Update 2.6. This new in-game Event brings the spectacular to life, whether it’s traversing through the marvelous Circus Compound, bumping into laughing Circus Grunts, defeating Ursa Mortis, or getting your hands on some dazzling new rewards. There’s something for everyone in this Event.

To bring some extra excitement to the big top, we have a Twitch Drops campaign happening right now until December 24th 2025 (15:00 UTC), and this time there’s new rewards and new ways to earn them!

This Drops campaign introduces two brand‑new Support a Streamer rewards. You’ll be able to earn a Hunt-themed Twitch Chat Badge by subscribing or gifting one subscription to a channel streaming Hunt: Showdown 1896 live. Additionally, you can also earn a new Legendary Hunter, Head Taker, by subscribing or gifting a cumulative of two subscriptions to a channel live streaming Hunt!

You can subscribe or gift subscriptions to the same channel for multiple months or split it across multiple channels.

Check out the full rewards track below and the watch times. There are some new rewards such as random Sleigh Ride Skins (Ranger 73 variants), random Death’s Caroler Skins (Krag variants) and Random Avatars. Some fan favorites are returning too!

Watch Time-Based Rewards:

• Random Charm – Watch for 1 hour.
  
• Random Avatar – Watch for 2 hours.
  
• Random Legendary Skin – Watch for 3 hours.
  
• Random Ranger 73 variant Skin “Sleigh Ride” – Watch for 4 hours.
  
• Random Legendary Hunter – Watch for 5 hours.
  
• Random Charm – Watch for 6 hours.
  
• Random Avatar – Watch for 7 hours.
  
• Random Legendary Equipment Skin – Watch for 8 hours.
  
• Random Krag variant Skin “Death’s  Caroler” – Watch for 9 hours.

Supply Crates will also be making a comeback; you can earn them alongside the watch time-based Drops rewards, for up to nine total. )earn. Supply Crates will grant you several in‑game item instances, such as Weapons, Tools, Consumables, and a random amount of Hunt Dollars.


For a full list of rewards and what each random draw contains, read on below:

Previous Twitch Drops Hunters will have priority. If you are missing one from this list, you will unlock one of the following Hunters:

• Lulu
  
• Kill Buyer
  
• Billy Story
  
• Steel Eyed
  
• The Infected
  
• Umpire’s Bane

If you already own all previous Twitch Drops Hunters, then you will unlock a random Hunter from the list of Blood Bond Hunters. There is a small chance to unlock Bad Hand, Union Suit: Red Drawers, or Union Suit: Sunday Best as individual Hunters.

The new Blood Bond Hunters released as part of Update 2.6, as well as seasonal or Event-exclusive Hunters, are not available for Twitch Drops.

If you already own all previous Twitch Drops and Blood Bond Hunters, then you will receive 10,000 Hunt Dollars.

Previous Twitch Drops Legendary Item Skin rewards will have priority. If you are missing one from this list, you will unlock one of the following Legendary Equipment Skins:

• Solzer’s Silver – Bornheim No. 3 Extended
  
• Bingham Brash – Martini-Henry Riposte
  
• Spare Dime – Nagant M1895 Silencer
  
• Storied Past – Quad Derringer
  
• Sinner’s Sinew – Hunting Bow
  
• The Fifth Tale – Mosin Obrez
  
• Seven Sights – Sparks Sniper
  
• Bloodshot – Hand Crossbow
  
• Swallow’s Tail – Centennial
  
• Old Tusk – Springfield 1866
  
• Alley Cat – Bornheim No. 3
  
• Jackal’s Snare – Terminus
  
• Huff’s Kit – First Aid Kit
  
• Malady – Poison Bomb
  
• Ten Paces – Scottfield
  
• Lavish Farewell – Pax
  
• The Marquis – Knife
  
• Roe Stalker – Knife

If you already own all previous Twitch Drops equipment rewards, then you will unlock a random Legendary Equipment Skin from the following list:

• Mockingbird – Bornheim No. 3 Match
  
• Silent Sting – Bornheim No. 3 Silencer
  
• Mosquito – Nagant M1895 Silencer
  
• Doctor’s Snare – Poison Trip Mines
  
• Blister – Springfield 1866 Bullseye
  
• Gaunt – Mosin Obrez Extended
  
• Steel Sprung – Hand Crossbow
  
• Jack o’ Diamonds – Crossbow
  
• Revelation – Quad Derringer
  
• Calamity Jane – Centennial
  
• Long Hand – Martini-Henry
  
• Dying Breath – First Aid Kit
  
• Trident’s Teeth – Sparks
  
• Last Estate – Terminus
  
• The Last Word – Knife
  
• Certain Victory – Pax
  
• Reaper’s Arm – Knife
  
• Judge – Scottfield

If you already own all previous Twitch Drops and Blood Bond Equipment Skins defined in the above list, then you will receive 5,000 Hunt Dollars.

If you unlock a Random Death’s Caroler reward, you will obtain one of the following Legendary Krag Skins:

• Death’s Caroler: Bayonet
  
• Death’s Caroler: Sniper

If you unlock a Random Sleigh Ride reward, you will obtain one of the following Legendary Ranger 73 Skins:

• Sleigh Ride: Ranger 73
  
• Sleigh Ride: Aperture
  
• Sleigh Ride: Talon

Random Charm
Previous Twitch Drops Charms will have priority. If you are missing one from this list, you will unlock one of the following Charms:

• Carnassial Wills
  
• Sinner’s Hope
  
• Molted Curio
  
• Scaled Peak
  
• Hera’s Gift
  
• True North
  
• Gator Eye
  
• Moondial

If you already own all previous Twitch Drops Charms, then you will unlock a random Charm from the following list of Blood Bond Charms:

• Dawn’s Offering
  
• Ferryman’s Coin
  
• Second Chance
  
• Nemean Claw
  
• Demon Ward
  
• Lucky Buckle
  
• Seer’s Eye
  
• Jade Moon

Note: New Charms released as part of Update 2.6, as well as seasonal or Event-exclusive Charms, are not on the list and therefore aren’t available via Twitch Drops.

If you already own all previous Twitch Drops and Blood Bond Charms, then you will receive 5,000 Hunt Dollars.

For a whole list of all the random Hunters, random Equipment Skins, random Charms, and more, check out our FAQ here[huntshowdown.com]

Get some awesome rewards this holiday season. Watch, earn, and help your favorite streamers out!

We’ll see you on Twitch, Hunters!

Your Hunt: Showdown 1896 team

Hunters,

We have been closely monitoring your feedback since the reveal and release of Update 2.6. Though we are pleased to see that many of you are enjoying the update with its features and additions, we have also been paying close attention to community sentiment regarding some of the optional premium content introduced with this update. We wanted to take a moment to address those concerns with you.

As a live service game, Hunt relies on ongoing monetization to support its continued development. Our goal has always been to strike a careful balance between free content updates and optional premium content that does not impact gameplay but instead adds fun ways for players to express themselves in-game. We acknowledge that the initial pricing balance for Update 2.6 was misjudged, and we apologize for that.

We are excited to see that tens of thousands of players have already explored the new Player Profile customization options and have started the new Story Challenges. However, we also recognize that some of our recent decisions have caused frustration that we did not intend or desire to introduce to this community.

Based on your feedback, we are making the following changes:

• The time limitation for the “On the Winds of Midwinter” Story Challenge, as well as future premium Story Challenges, will be removed early next week.
  
  • Players who have already purchased a story will be able to complete it at their own pace.
    
    • With this change, we have identified an issue in certain Story Challenge chapters that include challenges tied to live content in the current event (For example: Killing circus grunts will only work while the Murder Circus is available). We will need some additional time to provide a solution to these that we will share at a later date. However, please note that Story requirements may change slightly after the event ends to ensure they can be completed afterwards.
  • It is our intention to add more optional, seasonal-themed Story Challenges in the future, which we hope will add even more depth to the Hunt experience. Though we recommend experiencing it during the relevant season, as its narrative and artistic direction are closely tied to that theme, that choice should be up to you. The purchase window for these will remain linked to certain times of the year, but once purchased, you will be able to progress through these at any time and at your own pace.
    
  • If you choose not to purchase it this time, we plan to bring back relevant seasonal Story Challenges in the future years. This was always our intention, but we failed to communicate this clearly as part of our reveal with 2.6.
    
  • We intend to continue to add a mix of free and premium Story Challenges over time, and will continue to offer a variety of formats here to meet different player preferences.
• We have also heard your concerns regarding the pricing of the premium Story Challenges. As a result, we will be lowering the price to 1,150 Blood Bonds.
  
  • Compensations in the Blood Bond price difference will automatically be issued next week for those who have already purchased the Story.
• Additionally, we will be reviewing the difficulty of Story Challenges. While these challenges are meant to offer meaningful lore-driven objectives, some have proven more demanding than intended. We will continue adjusting the balance between challenges and rewards, so they feel engaging, but not overwhelming. This will be an ongoing experiment for us all, and we welcome your further feedback, especially in light of the changes we’ve noted above.

• Avatars for all Blood Bond Hunters will be reduced to 100 Blood Bonds.
  
  • BB compensation for these purchases will be issued next week.
• Equipping and displaying Stat Trackers on Player Profiles will become completely free starting from next week. Seeing the progress of these Stats will remain free as it was before.
  
  • Compensations will be issued accordingly as soon as these changes take place.
• We would also like to clarify some of the confusion surrounding stats tracking:
  
  • Rest assured that all your achievements related to stat tracking are tracked by default, and there is no requirement to pay for progress tracking. You can see the stat progress by highlighting the tracker in the menu. If you decide to enable public display later on, all progress accumulated up that point will still be shown.
    
  • Due to technical limitations, we were only able to retroactively populate some trackers with historic data recorded from the first time you logged into Hunt. Unfortunately, this was not possible for all data points, which is why some statistics may appear already progressed while others may start at zero with the launch of 2.6. We do not plan to reset your progress of these stats, but will provide a clear list of all impacted stats and their specific start dates for tracking soon.

• We are also aware of the bug causing weekly challenges to appear auto-completed for some players.
  
  • After conducting an investigation, we believe we have identified the root cause and are now working toward a fix, which is planned for next week.
    
  • All affected players will be able to complete their challenges and claim their rewards.
• We are also aware of several bugs affecting the progress tracking for some items and categories and are currently working on a fix. Thanks for your feedback, which has allowed us to capture them early and start working on the solutions, including an issue where stats for some weapons and tools are not tracking properly and some other values have inconsistent values across various categories.
  
  • We will be prioritizing a fix for those in the upcoming updates.

Above all, we want to emphasize that the trust and loyalty of our community are our highest priorities. Every decision we make is guided by the desire to keep Hunt fun, fair, and sustainable for many years to come. While a stable source of income is necessary to support ongoing development, it should never come at the expense of your enjoyment or confidence in us. We acknowledge that we missed the mark this time, but hope our upcoming changes, fixes and compensation will go some way towards restoring that.

As always, we welcome your feedback. Please continue sharing your thoughts through social media or by reaching out to our Community Team. Your feedback is actively collected, reviewed, and used to guide our decisions.

Thank you for standing with us, Hunters.