Capcom has introduced that it’s investigating a key subject in Monster Hunter Wilds that might doubtlessly cease gamers from having the ability to progress additional into its story. Taking to social media platform X, the Monster Hunter Standing account has posted that the bug includes an NPC that must be interacted with to progress the story has an opportunity of not showing. For context, this occurred in Chapter 5-2: A World Turned Upside Down.
Whereas the corporate has acknowledged the bug and is wanting into it, it hasn’t introduced a timeline for after we can anticipate the problem to be fastened.
“Hunters, we’re presently investigating the next subject,” posted the Monster Hunter Standing account on X. “There could also be instances the place an NPC doesn’t seem, disabling story development in Principal Mission: Chapter 5-2 A World Turned Upside Down. We’re presently engaged on these points and can present additional updates when we now have them.”
Minor spoilers under: For some further context, Chapter 5 of Monster Hunter Wilds takes place properly into the later components of the sport. With the primary story largely revolving across the first 4 chapters of the sport, Chapter 5 and past take gamers increased up the Hunter Ranks and includes preventing Excessive Rank monsters.
Since its launch, Monster Hunter Wilds has additionally been plagued with technical issues in its PC model. Capcom has acknowledged these points, and has really helpful that gamers check out a number of potential options, together with updating GPU drivers and disabling any compatibility modes to attempt to alleviate points.
Regardless of points, nonetheless, Monster Hunter Wilds has been extremely well-liked. Its launch day alone noticed concurrent gamers on the sport’s PC model cross 1 million. The all-time peak concurrent gamers for the sport has hit 1,384,608 over the weekend.
Whereas Capcom works on fixing these points, the corporate has additionally revealed that the primary main replace for the sport, appropriately dubbed Title Replace 1, shall be launched in early April. The replace will carry a brand new monster to the sport – Mizutsune – in addition to different options, together with a Gathering Hub for multiplayer.
For some further context on Mizutsune, the monster first made its debut as one of many 4 cowl monsters for the 3DS-exclusive Monster Hunter Generations. Whereas it wasn’t current in Monster Hunter World, it did return in Monster Hunter Rise. Since it’s a post-launch addition to Wilds, Mizutsune will doubtless be a tougher monster to battle than what the sport has to this point featured in its story.
Main as much as the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds, sequence producer Ryozo Tsujimoto spoke about why the crew hasn’t remastered or remade any of the older mainline video games within the franchise. In an interview, Tsujimoto spoke in regards to the older titles being designed across the technical limitations of console {hardware} and Web infrastructure of their instances, and releasing them on fashionable platforms would primarily require remaking them from the bottom up.
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Hunters, we’re presently investigating the next subject.
・There could also be instances the place an NPC doesn’t seem, disabling story development in Principal Mission: Chapter 5-2 A World Turned Upside Down
We’re presently engaged on these points and can present additional updates after we…
— Monster Hunter Standing (@MHStatusUpdates) March 2, 2025
