After asserting that Monster Hunter Wilds has bought a formidable 10 million items in a month – making it Capcom’s fastest-selling title ever – the developer has addressed participant suggestions in a wide-ranging new letter.
In a weblog submit, sport director Yuya Tokuda touched on quite a few hot-topic objects, and laid out a broader plan to sort out each, in addition to the timeline gamers can anticipate future developments to comply with.
The letter to the group begins by thanking gamers for turning Monster Hunter Wilds right into a record-breaking sport for Capcom, and guarantees a free merchandise pack can be given to all gamers in celebration of the 10M milestone.
Capcom has not too long ago, after all, introduced a complete host of recent content material and fixes coming to Wilds in first main patch, Title Replace 1. The replace provides a brand new monster – Mizutsune – alongside Tempered and Arch-Tempered variations of current monsters. It additionally introduces the sport’s model of the basic Gathering Hub, now known as the Grand Hub.
Tokuda touched on the latest bulletins in his letter, and went nicely past to disclose a few of the work being finished behind the scenes, and what Capcom is prioritising. The subsequent main patch will arrive someday this summer time, however earlier than then, there’s a big-ish replace that can be launched on the finish of Could.
The topic of sport issue has been probably the most contentious since Wilds’ launch. Monsters are inarguably much less difficult in comparison with previous video games, and Capcom has vowed so as to add extra Tempered monsters to Wilds with each replace. The Could replace, specifically, will add Tempered variations of every area’s apex predator (Rey Dau, Uth Duna, Nu Udra, and Jin Dahaad), in addition to Tempered Gore Magala.
The Grand Hub is a part of a wider initiative to enhance participant high quality of life, partly as a result of it consolidates so many NPCs/features into one place. Capcom does, nonetheless, plan to make enhancements elsewhere within the sport.
As an illustration, you may anticipate UI/UX tweaks to make it simpler to entry sure options. Although the letter doesn’t share specifics, it does point out restocking objects, checking talent info, becoming a member of multiplayer quests and driving the Seikret among the many objects being addressed.
Past new content material, Capcom can also be taking a look at making a number of stability tweaks to the sport. This primarily impacts weapons, with the Hammer being first on the checklist to get a buff. Tokuda stated you may anticipate tweaks to different objects, such because the Corrupted Mantle, which can be nerfed to cease it from being the obvious selection. Stability changes additionally prolong to the whole thing of the movement of hunts, in addition to the in-game financial system. As soon as once more, no specifics there, nevertheless it appears nothing is off the desk.
Lastly, you may anticipate enhancements to sport stability on PC, and one factor that’s price highlighting within the letter is the discount to the sport’s VRAM utilization, and an improve to DirectStorage that ought to each cut back crashing and velocity up loading.
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