About the Ledger

Ledger pulls Hunt: Showdown 1896 stats for every tracked profile, writes a snapshot, and renders the rolls - ranked rosters, regional pulse, monthly highlights, per-hunter dossiers, playstyle archetypes.

What it shows is what you may see in-game. The Bayou Ledger only turns it into a history and provides the easy access.

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Hunt: Showdown trackers before this one worked from a stats file the game wrote onto your own disk. To read it, you had to run a little piece of software on your own PC that parsed that file and served the numbers up.

That file is no longer written. Crytek shut it down to honor privacy policies in some regions - so the trackers that leaned on it had nothing left to read, and quietly went away.

The Bayou Ledger takes a different road. It talks directly to the API the game itself uses, so there's no software for you to run - all we need to make your stats appear is your Steam ID, which is public anyway.

Crytek could of course change what that API exposes one day as well, and that's their call. But I'm hopeful it stays as it is and the project lives on, for a few reasons:

• First and foremost, we do no harm to the game or its community.
• We've put serious work into optimising how stats get refreshed, so we barely tax the game's API even with a large roster of tracked hunters.
• We take players' privacy seriously - you're tracked only if you choose to be.
• Right now there's no other Hunt: Showdown tracker around, and there hasn't been one for quite a while.

If you're a part of Crytek team - I'd genuinely welcome a conversation about anything that could help keep the Ledger alive.

The game ships with an in-game switch that hides your stats. The Bayou Ledger honours that flag - whichever way your stats are out of reach, nothing is stored and no numbers ever land on the rolls. And it needn't be all-or-nothing: sign in with Steam and, from your account page, you can hide only what you choose - drop off the leaderboards, keep your match history private, or make the whole profile private. Hiding only takes you off other people's screens - you always keep full access to your own stats. Although some may use these to hide abnormal suspiciously high stats, we honor those rules to not mess with possible Crytek's policies.

Also, if you do sign in with Steam, your account page carries a Delete everything button - one tap wipes your session, your tracking entry, and every stored stat. There is no undo.

No. Nothing about the Bayou Ledger touches your game and accesses your account. You install nothing, you run nothing on your PC, and the site only interacts with the game's servers (all of it under The Bayou Ledger's own technical accounts), exactly as when someone views your stats in-game after a match. We don't have nothing but your Steam ID, which is actually already public.

And there are already 4,800 hunters on the rolls - banning every last one would be plainly insane. A small share of them I added to the ledger myself, which would make doing so more insane still.

The Ledger refreshes on an adaptive schedule rather than a fixed clock. While a hunter is actively in matches, their profile is checked every couple of minutes, so their numbers are rarely more than a few minutes behind the game. For this you have to keep your Steam profile public and it must be seen publicly that you're playing Hunt.

Once a profile goes quiet, the Ledger eases off - checking less and less often, out to several hours - so idle hunters cost the game's API almost nothing. The moment someone starts playing again, they move back to the fast cadence.

Hunters on the paid Banisher tier are the exception - the Ledger keeps them on the fast cadence around the clock, even between sessions, to ensure nothing slips past.