Whereas Capcom has already introduced that Monster Hunter Wilds is actually one in every of its greatest launch to this point, the title has been proving this reality over the weekend. In line with SteamDB, Monster Hunter Wilds had, at its peak, greater than 1.38 million concurrent gamers. This additionally marked a brand new milestone for Steam, for the reason that title helped the PC gaming platform hit a brand new peak of 40 million concurrent gamers.
On the time of writing, Monster Hunter Wilds presently sits at quantity 2 on Steam’s concurrent gamers record with 1.13 million gamers. This places it proper behind free-to-play aggressive shooter Counter-Strike 2, which presently has 1.48 million gamers. With regards to all-time figures, nevertheless, Monster Hunter Wilds is presently ranked because the fifth most performed sport when it comes to concurrent gamers.
The record is headed up by PUBG: Battlegrounds, which at its peak had greater than 3.2 million concurrent gamers. Not counting free-to-play titles, Monster Hunter Wilds can be ranked third when it comes to concurrent gamers, proper behind Black Fantasy: Wukong (peak of two.4 million gamers), and Palworld (peak of two.1 million gamers).
Capcom revealed this week that Monster Hunter Wilds had offered 8 million copies inside three days of its February 28 launch. For context, the earlier mainline sport within the sequence was Monster Hunter Rise, which offered 4 million copies in the same timeframe, whereas the older Monster Hunter World had offered greater than 5 million copies.
Within the wake of Monster Hunter Wilds‘ success, Capcom has introduced that sequence producer Ryozo Tsujimoto can be taking on a brand new place of Chief Product Officer of the corporate’s sport growth divisions. Beginning within the new place on April 1, Tsujimoto can be taking up the function from Yoichi Egawa.
Issues haven’t been utterly rosy for Monster Hunter Wilds, nevertheless. Earlier this week, Capcom had introduced that it was investigating a bug that would lead to gamers being blocked off from progressing by means of its story. The bug basically prevented an NPC that gamers have to work together with from spawning.
This bug has seemingly been fastened with a latest replace, nevertheless. The replace additionally fastened different minor issues that Monster Hunter Wilds had, just like the Ingredient Middle not unlocking for some gamers. For a full record of bugs fastened with the replace, try our protection.
Monster Hunter Wilds has additionally had a rocky launch throughout platforms, with PC gamers seemingly being hit the toughest. The title’s mixture evaluation score on Steam presently sits at Blended, with many gamers complaining concerning the title’s poor efficiency on {hardware} that meets, if not exceeds, the spec necessities that Capcom had confirmed.
Addressing these efficiency points, Capcom had taken to social media platform X, asking gamers to attempt varied fixes like updating GPU drivers, disabling any compatibility modes that is likely to be interfering with the sport, and readjusting the in-game graphical settings.
Monster Hunter Wilds is offered on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. For extra particulars, try our evaluation.
