As Capcom’s Monster Hunter collection has grown in scope and recognition over the previous 20 years, so too have the sport’s worlds. They’ve gone from discrete zones to huge open-world environments populated with smarter, extra plausible creatures. Monster Hunter Wilds continues that evolution, with an emphasis on its ecosystem, an ever-changing local weather, and wildlife that feels extra real looking than ever earlier than.
I acquired to pattern a small slice of what Monster Hunter Wilds has to supply throughout a hands-on occasion in August, and some new parts stood out as probably having a big impact on how gamers expertise this world.
That begins with the brand new mount, a dinosaur-like creature referred to as a Seikret. I acquired my arms on a Seikret from the earliest moments of the sport, which act as a kind of tutorial for experience and command one. Due to this speedy new mount, it’s simpler than ever to maintain tempo together with your prey in Monster Hunter Wilds. The Seikret opens up new fight ways, too: You may retailer a back-up weapon in your Seikret you can swap to whereas using it — very helpful when you want a ranged possibility on the go.
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But it surely was throughout my battle to search out a Doshaguma — a brand new bear-like monster — the place the ecosystem of Monster Hunter Wilds began to indicate its potential. In an early mission, I used to be tasked with slaying the alpha Doshaguma in a pack of the beasts, and was advised that launching a big dung pod at a bunch of Doshaguma would assist break up them up. So it did; I launched that shit proper at a charging pack and watched them panic. The chase was on.
Shortly after the pursuit started, the Doshaguma alpha bumped into an space with inclement climate that shortly was a raging thunderstorm. The Doshaguma had foolishly run into the territory of a Rey Dau, a brand new kind of flying wyvern that’s the apex predator of the desert space often known as Windward Plains. A turf warfare was on. The 2 beasts clashed, and for a second I assumed the Rey Dau may simply end the job for me. It zapped the Doshaguma with lightning bolts, draining a whole lot of hit factors from the beast.
The Doshaguma fled, and located a protected haven in a valley. It was badly wounded, and utilizing my nice sword (and a few assist from summoned AI-controlled allies), shortly dispatched the beast. Utilizing Monster Hunter Wilds’ new Focus Mode assaults, which supplied an easier-to-follow digital camera angle of the Doshaguma throughout fight, I bested the alpha and carved off my spoils.
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After I used to be finished with the Doshaguma quest, I realized from a Capcom worker that I had another choice. As a substitute of utilizing the dung pod to sow chaos among the many Doshaguma pack, I may have lured the trio right into a sand pit and drowned them in quicksand. Apparently, solely the alpha Doshaguma of the group would have been sturdy sufficient to combat its approach out of that sand entice. Clearly I wouldn’t have had the help from the Rey Dau, however the sand entice scheme seems like one other intelligent approach to make use of Monster Hunter Wilds’ dynamic ecosystem to strategy battles.
I actually solely acquired to mess around with Monster Hunter Wilds’ desert surroundings, however clearly there’s extra to the sport’s ecosystem than simply sand, lightning, and wind. The wetlands and jungle flora of the sport’s Scarlet Forest absolutely have some qualities of their very own that may result in completely different gameplay methods. I’m probably not wanting ahead to dealing with the brand new risk there, the arachnoid often known as Lala Barina, once I get my arms on Wilds subsequent time.
We’ll discover out far more about Monster Hunter Wilds’ various ecosystem and the creatures that inhabit it when the sport launches on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X someday in 2025.
