The Hunter

The Hunter is one of the Gungeoneers in the games Enter the Gungeon and Exit the Gungeon.

Story

1,147 years prior to the Hunter's adventure into the Gungeon, she travelled to Blacksword Manor to defeat Dr. Wolfenclaw. However, she was captured and stored in a cryo-pod until the events of Enter the Gungeon. It is unknown how she escaped the cryo-pod.

Past Kill^ETG

If the Bullet That Can Kill The Past is used on The Hunter, she will be brought back to the front entrance of Blacksword Manor before her capture. After entering the manor, the Hunter will eventually come across a strange machine. Dr. Wolfenclaw will appear and greet the Hunter, saying that he's thrilled to be able to use her in his latest experiment. The Hunter responds by saying that she will not let him have his way with her and that she's come to stop him and his twisted religion. Dr. Wolfenclaw will then summon a circle of bullets, trapping The Hunter. The player will be given the option to use a Blank to destroy the trap. Dr. Wolfenclaw will initially be surprised by such advanced technology but claims that it won't matter and decides to unleash his monster upon The Hunter. Should The Hunter defeat the monster, she will be relieved that it is finally over and leave the manor with Junior.

When The Hunter gets trapped, the player will also have the chance to give up. If this option is selected, Hunter will say: "Never! I'm not getting frozen again!", which leads the player back to the option of fighting Wolfenclaw.

When entering the past, The Hunter will have Colt 1851 and Sticky Crossbow as available weapons, along with Wolf as an item.

Strategy

Enter the Gungeon

The Hunter starts out with the smallest loadout of all the Gungeoneers, having only 3 items to work with compared with the usual 4. However, the tools that The Hunter is given are strong enough for her to hold her own within the Gungeon's depths. The Hunter's main weapon, the Rusty Sidearm, can best be described as average. It has decent damage, but with a mere 6 shots in a single magazine and slower bullets than most starting guns, it forces the Hunter to constantly be on the move. Arguably the best part about the Hunter is her secondary weapon, the Crossbow. It's the strongest of the starting guns in terms of damage and can 1 or 2 shot every basic enemy on the first floor except for Gun Nuts, which take around 5. The extreme range provided by the Crossbow allows the Hunter to stay much farther away from enemies compared to other Gungeoneers and thus, take less damage on average. The Crossbow is also extremely ammo efficient to the point where it's quite possible for it to clear the majority of the first floor (including the boss) alone.

The Dog is the Hunter's only passive item, but it has the potential to be quite useful over the course of a run. Upon completion of a room, the Dog has a 5% chance to dig up a pickup. The pickup chance is completely separate from room rewards, so it's possible to get both at once. The pickups uncovered by the Dog can be coins, hearts, armor, blanks, keys, ammo and maps. Keep in mind that the Resourceful Rat will steal any armor and ammo left in the room, so they should be used/picked up immediately if they appear. The Dog will also bark at Mimics, though this feature is less beneficial for more experienced players.

Overall, The Hunter is an all-around solid Gungeoneer, as the Dog is able to provide free resources, while the Crossbow gives a viable alternative to the otherwise average Rusty Sidearm until more powerful weapons are found. Due to this, the Hunter probably has the strongest early game of the 4 main Gungeoneers.

Exit the Gungeon

TBA

Escape Route^XTG

For a more detailed breakdown of each elevator, see; Routes#The Hunter's Route

Like all characters in Exit the Gungeon, the Hunters escape route up through the Gungeon features a series of unique elevators.

The Forge	The Hollow	Black Powder Mine	Gungeon Proper	Keep of the Lead Lord
Standard two-level elevator with no way to fall.	Two-layer elevator with a large gap in the center of the bottom platform.	Six small platforms surrounding a central platform. Surrounding platforms have faces and will shoot at the player, but stepping on them can press them down and prevent them attacking.	No elevator. The player must climb a series of rickety platforms to keep pace with an auto-scrolling camera.	Same for all characters. A free-moving rocket powered platform which bounces around the elevator shaft.

Unlocks

Enter the Gungeon	Exit the Gungeon
Wolf Kill the past Dog Kill the past	Dog Exit the Gungeon Witch Pistol Exit the Gungeon The Tentacled (Hat) Defeat the Gloctopus

Skins

Main Page: Skins

Skins are special unlockables that change the appearance of a playable Gungeoneer. In Enter the Gungeon, they are unlocked by killing the Past, meanwhile in Exit the Gungeon they are unlocked by exiting the Gungeon, and purchasing them from Snails. Skins do not change the appearance of the player's map icon, boss splash screen image, or dialogue portrait. Skins also have no effect on the appearance of the Dog.

Hunter
Enter the Gungeon Exit the Gungeon
	Game(s): Enter the Gungeon, Exit the Gungeon Interactible:	"I love your cape!" - SnailsNotes The default appearance of the Hunter.

Beastmaster
Enter the Gungeon Exit the Gungeon
	Game(s): Enter the Gungeon, Exit the Gungeon Interactible: Unlock(ETG): Kill the Past. Unlock(XTG): Purchase from Snails for 50.	"Quite the hunter aren't you?" - SnailsNotes Bears a resemblance to Junior, the Hunters pet wolf. Named Beastmaster in Snails' shop in Exit the Gungeon.

Old Blood
	Game(s): Exit the Gungeon Interactible: N/A Unlock: Purchase from Snails for 100 after exiting the Gungeon as The Hunter.	"Dressed to transcend the hunt are we?" - SnailsNotes Based on the main character of the game Bloodborne, who is also named '"The Hunter"'.

Other Appearances

The Hunter in the Instruction Booklet, page 11. Note the Dog item is superfluously rotated 90°.

In-Game

• A RatFigure breakable statue depicting the Hunter can be found in the Keep of the Lead Lord.

Other Materials

• The Hunter is featured in key art for Enter the Gungeon and Exit the Gungeon illustrated by Max Grecke, including art for the Advanced Gungeons & Draguns and A Farewell to Arms update.
  • She also appears in early key art for ETG, illustrated by Maximo Lorenzo.
• The Hunter is the subject of Enter the Gungeon Steam Trading Card 2, titled Hunter.
• The Hunters face is the subject of a common Enter the Gungeon Steam emoticon titled etghunter.
• The Hunter appears in the animated launch trailer for Enter the Gungeon.
• The sleeve for the 2022 special edition vinyl release of the Enter the Gungeon soundtrack includes an illustration of the Hunter by artist Joseph Harmon.
  • The Hunter also appears in the inside art of the sleeve, again illustrated by Joseph Harmon.

Trivia

• Although the Wolf accompanies The Hunter in her past, the item will show up as Dog in the Ammonomicon.
• The Hunters pose in her boss splash screen image resembles Clint Eastwoods iconic pose in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
• The icon on her belt is the 'Serious Bomb' logo of the video game series Serious Sam.
• The Blacksword, and in particular Dr. Wolfenclaw bear resemblance to how Nazis are portrayed in late 20th century media. From this, the similarity between the names Wolfenclaw and Wolfenstein and the visual similarity between Dr. Wolf's Monster and Mecha Hitler, the Hunters past can be safely assumed to be a reference to the Wolfenstein series.
• If the Hunter's past is accessed in co-op, she will say to the Cultist “Oh, and... you. If you want to get back to the Gungeon, I'd hop in one of those cryo-pods for about... fifteen hundred years or so.”
• The Hunter's role as an artifact hunting scholar who seeks to retake an ancient relic from a naziesque organisation may be a reference to the film franchise Indiana Jones.

Cut Content

• The Hunter has gone through the most name revisions out of any character, originally being called 'The Scholar' in very early development, and then 'The Guide' during the pre-alpha.
• In Enter the Gungeon's pre-alpha, the Hunter (then known as the Guide) started with Sense of Direction instead of Dog.
• There is an unused item called the Hunter's Journal which seems to fulfil a similar purpose to the Dog, and may have at one point been the Hunter's starter passive item.
• There are several unused UI text strings related to the Hunter, dating back to a Pre-Alpha period in development where starter Gungeoneer loadout was represented with text rather than images. These various strings suggest that the Hunter's loadout underwent a number of changes throughout development. What these items did, and whether they were early versions of her current loadout or not is unknown.
  • #CHAR_GUIDEPOWER with the value Crossbow. (Notable in that this string implies the Crossbow is a 'power')
  • #CHAR_GUIDEACTUAL with the value Hound.
  • #CHAR_GUIDEACTUAL2 with the value Faithful Mutt.
• Like other mainline Gungeoneers, the Hunter's facecard has undergone several iterations over the course of development.

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  An old facecard iteration
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  Ditto

Gallery

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  The Hunter during the boss splash screen.
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  Facecard
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  Punch Out Facecard (Slightly Injured)
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  Punch Out Facecard (Very Injured)
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  Breakable statue of the Hunter
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  Ditto, broken shard
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  The Hunter and Pilot consulting a map in key art for AG&D, by Max Grecke
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  The Hunter in key art for A Farewell to Arms, by Max Grecke
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  The Hunter in key art for XTG, by Max Grecke
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  The Hunter in key art for ETG, by Maximo Lorenzo
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  The win screen after defeating The Hunter's past.
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  Steam Trading Card
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  Steam Trading Card, Full Art
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  etghunter Steam Emoticon
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  The Hunters appearance in the launch trailer for Enter the Gungeon
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  Ditto, with Junior II
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  Ditto, being ambushed by a Mimic
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  The Hunter on the sleeve of the 2022 special edition soundtrack vinyl. Illustration by Joseph Harmon.
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  Ditto, on the inside art of the sleeve