Monster Hunter Wilds’ Seikret mounts are useful. Perhaps a bit too useful. With a single button press, they may scoop you up and shuttle you throughout the map to whichever monster you occur to be searching. It’s splendidly handy, however after a couple of dozen hours, you would possibly yearn for a bit extra management.
The excellent news is that your massive hen has some unadvertised options that may make traversal and exploration really feel extra energetic.
Even outdoors of autopilot mode, Seikrets default to a management scheme the place R1/RB improve your velocity, and R2/RT will gradual you down. The profit is that you could relaxation your left thumb throughout lengthy treks, however in the case of superb actions, I discover it to be much less responsive.
If you’d like your Seikret to regulate extra like your hunter, pop into the choices menu, tab over to controls, flip to the second web page, and swap “Seikret Handbook Controls” to Kind 2.
Pull the e-brake and drift
In case you’re manually controlling your Seikret, you get entry to a Mario Kart type drift increase, and it feels actually, actually good. Whereas holding the dash button (R1/RB), and with out letting go, hit the brakes (R2/RT). Your Seikret will begin to scramble as you crank the management stick within the course you need to go, and whenever you launch the brakes, it’s going to take off with a drifting sprint that offers you a pleasant increase of velocity.
Within the scripted opening of the sport, your Seikret leaps off a rocky outcrop and spreads its wings, gliding gracefully to the earth. It took me 90 hours of monster searching to appreciate I may do it once more. Oops! Any time you leap from a ledge whereas mounted in your Seikret, holding R2/RT will interact glide mode. Whereas gliding, you possibly can steer your self in direction of the place you’d prefer to land. I haven’t discovered an particularly sensible use for this but, however it’s undoubtedly enjoyable.
