After saying that Monster Hunter Wilds has offered a powerful 10 million units 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 publish, sport director Yuya Tokuda touched on numerous hot-topic gadgets, and laid out a broader plan to deal with each, in addition to the timeline gamers can anticipate future developments to comply with.
The letter to the community 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 lately, after all, introduced a complete host of recent content material and fixes coming to Wilds in first main patch, Title Replace 1. The update adds a new monster – Mizutsune – alongside Tempered and Arch-Tempered versions of existing 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 carried out behind the scenes, and what Capcom is prioritising. The subsequent main patch will arrive someday this summer season, however earlier than then, there’s a big-ish replace that can be launched on the finish of Might.
The topic of sport issue has been one of the most contentious since Wilds’ release. 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 Might replace, particularly, 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, nevertheless, plan to make enhancements elsewhere within the sport.
As an illustration, you’ll be able to anticipate UI/UX tweaks to make it simpler to entry sure options. Although the letter doesn’t share specifics, it does point out restocking gadgets, checking talent data, becoming a member of multiplayer quests and driving the Seikret among the many gadgets being addressed.
Past new content material, Capcom can 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 listing to get a buff. Tokuda mentioned you’ll be able to anticipate tweaks to different gadgets, such because the Corrupted Mantle, which can be nerfed to cease it from being the obvious selection. Stability changes additionally lengthen to the whole thing of the circulation of hunts, in addition to the in-game financial system. As soon as once more, no specifics there, but it surely appears nothing is off the desk.
Lastly, you’ll be able to anticipate enhancements to sport stability on PC, and one factor that’s value highlighting within the letter is the discount to the sport’s VRAM utilization, and an improve to DirectStorage that ought to each scale back crashing and pace up loading.
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