For every new player, I can just BEG YOU NOT TO BUY THIS GAME. Let Crytek overthink their actions, but with their combined 3 brain cells, that's probably never going to happen.
Do not waste your time and play something else, this game is not worth it.

After way too much playtime I can tell you this game was fun about 2 years ago, but with every further update, it gets somehow worse...
Crytek seems to think the issue for their dropping player count is a promo problem, that's why we get event after event starring 400h veteran players, but the real problem is Crytek itself. Every update - even tho it gets tested internally and let me tell you their testers do an outstanding job, they know about every existing bug - gets pushed live in an unplayable state, the UI has been an absolute nightmare for almost half a year now, but all they do is promise, "with the next update it's gonna be better" but no.
The number of bugs on live servers is just insane, but the leadership thinks that "only because players don't complain about it do we not need to fix it." When a bug becomes an issue, they have no fix for it for weeks or even months.
Instead of caring about their diminishing, for some reason still loyal player base that hasn't uninstalled this unplayable mess, they ♥♥♥♥ you right up the ass with every new update, just after raising your hopes that the game is going to be playable again.... but hey guys, there is a new DLC you can buy and while you´re at it, buy the season pass as well.
In summary, every new update goes like this: there is one absolutely broken gun/trait/traitline, one pretty okish thing and something horrifically useless.
Don´t make me start with the UI, it's a mess, you can't find anything and after trying to equip a hunter you have either a broken mouse from clicking it to death or sore hands from all the useless and inconsistent key binds.
By the time you finally get in a game you grew a beard and the server either crashes, has horrible performance or you get outpinged by Chinese with 200ms+ ping, but hey, at least they are not cheating right *smiley face* - wrong the anti-cheat sucks and every cheater that gets banned is free to play on another account as long as they are not cheating again - right because they learned their lesson and stopped. With a hardware-id spoofer you can avoid their bans and just keep cheating, you´re welcome cheaters btw, go haunt Crytek.
And I almost forgot about the sound. The sound once was so good you could hear everything, now you can´t hear ANYTHING, no footsteps, no gunshots, no nothing.

Developer Meeting :

Hey guys, I have a great Idea! How about we update the game engine 5 Years after the game was released? Ruin the entire menu UI which everyone asked for us to clean up forever and consolefy it. As an added bonus, alot of players that bought the game years ago cant even start the game anymore due to our "update". Oh, youre listening? Okay, I got more, how about we also delete 66% of all of our maps and then, months after all of that going down and us fixing nothing - we deal the ultimate blow and release pink clown zombies with funny music and gangsta rappers with lazer weapons! You know, in our "1894 realistic gritty western shooter"

Sounds good? No? Okay, lets release it.

I want the game I bought back - because this current piece of trash isn't it. Not even close.

I bought Hunt:Showdown. I want to play it. Where did it go? I didn't buy this. I can't even go back to the original game that worked (mostly) and had some fun times in it.

I feel like the developers have literally stolen something from me that I owned and enjoyed. The curse of modern game development - an awful and inexorable slide of any good title into the has-bin of mediocrity as some corporation tries to squeeze every last penny from its beaten and abused IP. We think we own our games. What a joke.

They should have just made a new game so that I could have avoided it rather than ruining a game that I liked. Instead they made the sorts of changes I'd expect and might understand - if it had come from an Early Access title I'd paid half-price for rather than a fully priced AAA title I'd played and enjoyed for years.

Will never purchase or promote another Crytek product again.