Capcom Developing Another Monster Hunter Wilds 'Large-Scale Expansion' Similar to Iceborne

Monster Hunter Wilds volition invited a "large-scale" enlargement aboriginal this year.

Addressing fans successful a video celebrating the open-world escapade game's archetypal anniversary, bid shaper Ryozo Tsujimoto teased that this enlargement volition beryllium akin to Monster Hunter World's Iceborne add-on, but was different coy astir the details. He did, however, accent that this volition beryllium the "final update" for the monster hunting game.

"We are presently astatine enactment connected a large-scale enlargement akin to Monster Hunter World: Iceborne and Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak for Monster Hunter: Wilds," Tsujimoto said. "We program to stock much accusation with you this summer."

We besides learned a small much astir the update dropping connected February 18, too, including details of Arch-Tempered Arkveld, 10-star Arc-Tempered monsters, a peculiar collaboration with Monster Hunter Stories 3 — a spin-off bid that releases adjacent period — positive an day lawsuit wherever each erstwhile awards and quests volition beryllium "re-available."

Players who log successful during the day lawsuit volition person a escaped point pack, and each erstwhile seasonal lawsuit volition instrumentality for a play rotation. "Almost all" antecedently released lawsuit quests volition beryllium made imperishable from February 18.

"We person been implementing improvements to crippled stableness and show since Title Update 4," Tsujimoto added, "and this update volition present adjacent further improvements." Again, we're told to expect much details person to the time, truthful Capcom suggests you show its societal media accounts for updates.

"While this marks the extremity of large contented updates, the squad is presently hard astatine enactment connected a large-scale enlargement to Monster Hunter Wilds," the squad added. "We look guardant to sharing the archetypal uncover of the enlargement this summer."

Monster Hunter Wilds has had thing of a bumpy thrust of late. Title Update 4 arrived astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth and ushered successful a agelong database of gameplay and equilibrium changes, arsenic good arsenic CPU/GPU improvements, load reduction, and the optimization of "PC-specific processes and summation of options and presets to trim processing load."

A improvement roadmap, elaborate successful December, mentioned plans to code the myriad issues impacting the PC version. However, conscionable past month, 1 subordinate believed they had discovered that PC show was dictated by the fig of DLCs a idiosyncratic has. Capcom looked into it and concluded they were right, calling it "an unintended bug" that would beryllium resolved with Patch 1.040.03.01.

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