Keep hunting with the La Luz Mala DLC for Hunt: Showdown

We’ll give Crytek some serious credit – they keep on pushing the content for Hunt: Showdown at a pretty regular rate, giving players the chance to continue expanding their hunting opportunities. The latest addition is that of La Luz Mala. 

If you’re unaware, Hunt: Showdown is Crytek’s highly competitive PvP and PvE Louisiana swamp based monster hunting experience, one in which you take on the role of a bounty hunter and get out there looking for the kill. It’s a game that has been kicking around on Xbox and PC since 2019, picking up some decent acclaim as it has grown. In fact, we gave it a 3.5/5 in review, as we talked about the stunning visuals and sound design, as well as the great multiplayer concept. 

But since that time Hunt: Showdown has changed constantly, mostly thanks to a whole ton of new content and DLC packs. Frankly, there have been a silly number of downloadable content drops for the game, giving players all new opportunities. The latest of those drops is that of the La Luz Mala pack. 

Priced at £8.39, the Hunt: Showdown La Luz Mala pack adds in a new Legendary Hunter (the titular Luz Mala), along with a couple of Legendary weapons and a single Legendary tool. You could say it was chock-full with Legendary gear. 

Luz Mala is the Hunter, a girl on the hunt for some vengeance, whilst she comes equipped with the Del Ojo (Vetterli 71 Karabiner Deadeye) as well as the Raiz Mala (Caldwell Conversion Chain Pistol). From there, you’ll find her utilising a Choke Bomb too – the Premio del Tonto. 

Full DLC details as to the backstory of Luz Mala can be found below these words, but basically put, if you’re a Hunt: Showdown player on Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S then you should be hitting up the Xbox Store and adding this pack to your game. You’ll find it on other formats too, like PC, for instance. 

Remember, you’ll need Hunt: Showdown in your digital library prior to being able to make any use of the La Luz Mala pack. 

DLC Description:

Riders and shepherds on the great rangelands of Patagonia know not to follow la Luz Mala, the bad lights, when they flicker in the night. The wise warn the curious against being lured by the dancing phosphoresce. But the foolhardy are tempted by stories that la Luz Mala lead to riches and treasures. When those that are want to stray do, the luckiest find old bones and broken pots under the lights. The rest find their graves. The bad lights are strongest on days where rainfall is a distant memory, when canteens swill with dregs, and the earth cracks and gasps. On such a day, years ago, a girl was sent for water. She ignored her elder’s advice and strayed towards the lights. She walked until it fell dark, and then further until it became bright. Lost, she spent days on the plain, sucking the moisture out of roots, until a plume of smoke ushered her homewards. At the base of the plume, she only found a massacre. After she buried her family, she saw the lights again on the horizon and set off after them, her despair mingled with a newfound veneration. The ranchers who committed the massacre also knew the legends of la Luz Mala, but did not fear them. They believed them to be some kind of natural luminescence, nothing more. But as the years wore on, and their hair greyed, when they saw the lights, they became more and more uneasy, as if the lights were looking back at them. Once their uneasiness set in, it soon blossomed into outright terror. Whenever the lights appeared, one of their number would turn up dead. The ranchers began to believe the stories that they were the spirits of the unquiet dead. Some chased the lights, daring them to fight. Others fled, new lights blinking into their path from the depths of the darkened plain. The girl spent too long as the ghost in the glow. She could no longer distinguish herself from la Luz Mala, and though her vengeance was sated, the lights still guided her on. The legend of the bad lights spread, and soon even the bayou was said to flicker with the threat of Luz Mala.