r/MonsterHunter Mar 03 '25

MH Wilds Guys this is crazy

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u/TheTimorie Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

I wonder when Capcom will announce first sales numbers. Its gotta be Capcoms new company record for sales in their first week right?

edit: Well there it is. 8 Million copies sold already.

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u/JFboi Mar 03 '25

has to be, im sure, i got so many people playing, even non games and people that didnt play videogames since 5 years

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u/Puzzled_Body_4792 Mar 03 '25

Getting non-gamers to buy monster hunter might lose you some friends lol

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u/ThisBuddhistLovesYou Mar 03 '25

Eh, some veterans are complaining about ease of storyline/LR, but look at these numbers with all these new players jumping in based on what they heard about previous installments/word of mouth. Low Rank is for them.

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u/m0rdr3dnought Mar 03 '25

Not sure why they are, since LR isn't really any easier than it was in Rise or World. It's just that the bulk of the story takes place in LR now, whereas in World it covered both LR and HR.

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u/Ursolismin Mar 03 '25

Its not as easy as rise bit its definitely easier than world

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u/SuperBackup9000 Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

Yeah, I really don’t see how people are saying otherwise. The story in world teaches you things in hard lessons. Anja makes sure you’re actually upping your gear, Kulu makes sure you’re learning positioning due to its small size and its deflection rock of the gods, Tobi ramps the speed up out of nowhere and now you have to stay on your toes, Odo makes sure you’re learning how to utilize the downtime in between monster attacks attacks to get rid of the bleed, stuff like that.

None of that is really present in Wilds. You just sorta have to throw yourself at them nonstop. The spider’s deflection may as well not exist since it’s a massive body and small deflection window, Odo bleed takes 4 hits to apply which is a crazy amount for how weak it is, one shot potential isn’t until the guardians which is 70% of the way through, and there’s nothing really super fast and agile like Tobi at all. Not to even mention all of the status effects that World was constantly putting you up against making you actually use different items. Bugs for the heat and cold are all over their maps so you don’t need the drinks, and the most you have to carry is an antidote stack. Bugs that full heal you can also be sniped off the walls all over the place which is faster and safer than drinking.

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u/Inner-Award9064 Mar 04 '25

Deflection rock of the gods gave me a good laugh. That’s 100% on point.

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u/Torpytorp97 Mar 04 '25

Dude has more perfect parries than me in my 500hrs of elden ring

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u/BackgroundBarber7137 Mar 03 '25

I mean... I only upped weapons until I got to the rottenen vale and got my girros armor. But I'm an expert dodger and insect glaive user lol

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u/SurrealismX Mar 03 '25

The biggest challenge so far has been the terrible menu design. The whole options menu is cluttered with stuff you don’t really need.

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u/Aarschmade Mar 03 '25

Agreed. You can turn off /edit tabs tho. I made a favorite tab with stuff like Signal Member list Large monster guide World map

And i turned of the recently viewed tab. Obsolete

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u/XsStreamMonsterX Mar 03 '25

That's Japanese UI design for you. They've a cultural preference for dense UI that just throws everything at you that's been well documented at this point.

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u/Matasa89 Mar 03 '25

I kinda like it, but that’s just because I’m kinda like the Japanese in that I like to have all the dials and knobs available to me.

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u/Small--Might Mar 03 '25

Yup. A few clanmates from d2 convinced me and a couple others to buy it— never played a MH game in our life.

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u/Matsu-mae Mar 03 '25

I hope you like it! I've been playing this franchise for over 20 years, it's my absolute favorite 😍

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u/Small--Might Mar 03 '25

Loving it so far! Technically I tried Worlds awhile ago because it was free on ps5, really struggled and was overwhelmed so I dropped it very quick.

The new player experience with Wilds has been SO much better in comparison :)

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u/Matasa89 Mar 03 '25

Careful though - they still don’t teach you shit about how to do proper weapon combos. You still gotta look up a weapon’s guide.

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u/Small--Might Mar 04 '25

Any YouTubers you recommend?

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u/Matasa89 Mar 04 '25

I generally go with Arekkz Gaming, they do pretty solid work. You can learn the Monster Hunter World's guide and then learn the new moves from Wilds, and you should be set.

Alternatively, Gaijin Hunter seems to be releasing videos on Wilds. So far there's only a dual blade guide, but more should be coming.

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u/InformationRound2118 Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

Arrekz will give you all the foundations to understand every weapon (along with Gaijin Hunter) if you want Iceborne/Worldsborne guides. But Lightitupdan is pretty great too!

Also with some weapons that are particularly unusual there are specific guides from specific creators I'd recommend. I believe the man is retired and with his family these days so he's not making new guides but SH3RMSY goes into the minutiae of Guard Points for charge blade!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFIktKqUKDk

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u/Southern_Okra_1090 Mar 04 '25

If you haven’t, put divine blessing rank 3 in ur gear.

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u/elegentpurse Mar 03 '25

I guess that movie did a number on people lmaoo

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u/ShinyGrezz ​weeaboo miss TCS unga bunga Mar 03 '25

It's going to do numbers, but from this it's difficult to say if it will do materially better than World. World had many people play on console first and then simply not bother by the time it made its way to PC. Elden Ring, for example, almost broke a million concurrent when it launched on Steam, but only sold 500k more copies than World over its lifetime.

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u/Abtorias Mar 03 '25

I’m confused. Elden Ring only sold 500k more copies than World over it’s lifetime but didn’t MHW come out in 2018 and Elden Ring in 2022? If that’s so, that’s hella impressive for Elden Ring.

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u/Perfect_Persimmon717 Mar 03 '25

I imagine that MH would have a much bigger Japanese fan base than ER. Which would probably mean that there's a bunch more console players not accounted for in the Steam charts compared to with ER. Don't really know how popular PC is to console in Japan, so someone can correct me if I'm wrong

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u/NemButsu Mar 04 '25

Nowadays there are actually more PC gamers in Japan than PS5 owners.

(Which is why, for example, SEGA's main focus shifted to the PC market.)

And then the Switch dunks on all of them combined.

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u/Thaumablazer Mar 03 '25

Elden ring is also 4 years newer than world tho

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u/HaroldSax I Poke, Therefore, I Am. Mar 03 '25

Comparing the launch of Elden Ring to World is a bit strange, mostly because Fromsoft has a shit load more gravitas with their Dark Souls et al than Capcom has in the West with Monster Hunter. That is, until now.

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u/Firregani Mar 03 '25

When i do SoS flare searches, there's a TON that come up for all platforms and only a few that come up for my platform (PC). Not sure how good of an indicator that is for current players but the SoS always brings up way more when i search on all platforms

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u/Frozenpucks Mar 03 '25

This will absolutely crush worlds over it's lifetime lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

Quick google says that Elden Ring sold 28 mil, while World sold 21.3 mil.
And if accounting DLCs it's 32 mil for Elden Ring, and 28 for World.

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u/Benjo221 Mar 03 '25

I’d love to see that. I think this game is something special. The cross play infrastructure is only going to increase that.

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u/NamasteWager Mar 03 '25

I don't know, do you think it can out sell Street Fighter 6? /s

But it had to be, the only real competitor is Resident Evil i think. Capcom is such a solid developer right now, so many of their IPs, big and small, are amazing

The thing I love is that MH was only around 60gb to install. I am so sick of 100+gb games on my hard drive that don't feel justified. I don't play, but heard COD was like 120gb or something and that just feels like they didn't clean or optimize anything

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u/National_Vehicle8342 Mar 03 '25

It'll certainly get lower with time but still, competing with f2p games on release is INSANE

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u/pasher5620 Mar 03 '25

The fact that it’s #5 on steams all time concurrent player records is insane. I also had a look at who the top spot was and I do not remember PUBG having that many players.

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u/NZillia Mar 03 '25

It’s easy to forget since the fortnite takeover but pubg was an inescapable juggernaut for a few months. A lot of fortnite’s early success came from BR fans wanting a change from pubg with something that had shorter, more action packed games.

Also, much like CS, it’s huge in eastern europe.

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u/Stirfryed1 Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

BR fans wanting a change from pubg with something that had

Fewer hackers. That's why we left pubg to die. Refusal to region lock China and the abundance of cheaters.

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u/SharkBaitDLS Mar 03 '25

to die

It’s still right there on the list at number 3. 

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u/Stirfryed1 Mar 03 '25

Fair point. But I mean that PUBG is dead to western audiences.

I wish we could filter that chart by region, it'd be a pretty interesting stat to see. I imagine it's >80% Asian players.

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u/ProvocativeCacophony Mar 03 '25

I'm not stupid enough to think it's exclusively them, but man it's frustrating how much people complain about "Chinese hackers" ruining multiplayer games.

It use to just be assholes modifying their gamertags in Modern Warfare lobbies, but now it's shit like "invades you in Elden Ring and corrupts your game files" level fucked up.

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u/Stirfryed1 Mar 03 '25

Yeah, I'm not saying all Chinese gamers are cheaters, or that every PCBang machine comes preloaded with the latest hack client. But it was a legitimate problem that the dev team took too long to address. To the point they now do monthly updates on the cheating problem.

Shoot, here's a recent ban report from the dev team. https://pubg.com/en/news/8217

75,000 banned accounts for cheating in a week. And that number looks pretty consistent across multiple months.

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u/Mrbluepumpkin Mar 03 '25

Counter strike has me by the balls 😞

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u/CommanderBly Mar 03 '25

I would be playing cs2 a lot more if it had a working anticheat, lol.

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u/Mrbluepumpkin Mar 03 '25

The satisfaction of a headshot with an AK compels me too much

Also my friend is Norwegian so it's the only thing he'll play with us

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u/GrimSlayer Mar 03 '25

I’d say the majority of its success came from console only players wanting to play a battle royale on console. Fortnite was the first well made battle royale on consoles.

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u/ultrabobman Mar 03 '25

Nah its just pubg is garbage optimization & people can play fornite for free + alot of collaboration so kids like it

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u/SteveoberlordEU Mar 03 '25

And china right?

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u/Swiftzor Mar 03 '25

Given how much world and iceborne did for Monster Hunter I’m actually not all that surprised. Like a lot of people don’t quite know how strong world did after launch because of the various steam sales.

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u/dulcetcigarettes Mar 03 '25

Why "on release"? Release is when you usually have largest numbers, so that's when it actually can compete.

EDIT: It does depend on specific type of game. But this kind of game that isn't live service or anything like that, release is it.

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u/ReliableGorilla Mar 03 '25

It kind of is live service with title updates, it just doesn't plan to last forever

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u/yuriaoflondor Mar 03 '25

I’d say it isn’t “kind of” a live service, it is a live service games. It’s a game that continually releases updates to get people to come back and spend money.

And most live service games won’t last nearly as long as Wilds will.

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u/feelsokayman_cvmask Mar 03 '25

That's especially true for Monster Hunter, which has been doing numbers through hype first and foremost. If it even manages to keep over 100k concurrent players after the last base game title update it's got insane retention rate. The only way I can see the player count come close to the current one is with the release of the expansion.

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u/dirtyhashbrowns2 Mar 03 '25

I think a lot of people underestimate the current state of gaming. It’s not so much that monster hunter wilds blew up because the franchise is that popular, but more so due to social media and the fact that anything with an iota of hype gets content farmed and pushed in algorithms. There are also more gamers than ever before. Then big streamers play it and it just explodes. Congrats to capcom but we’ll be seeing this more and more with games that come out and are lucky enough to get on the social media algorithms (BG3, Black Myth Wukong and Helldivers 2 are some recent examples of this)

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u/CptKnots Mar 03 '25

Ehhhh I’d say Helldivers 2 is the only one there that really ‘went viral’. The other ones had large strong fanbases and social media amplified them

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u/dirtyhashbrowns2 Mar 03 '25

Yeah amplification is a better way to put it. World and Rise had steam peaks of 300k. Wilds is definitely a great game and I expected it be bigger than the last two but the only explanation going from 300k to 1.3m is social media amplification

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u/apexodoggo No longer a Long Sword one-trick. Mar 03 '25

Wilds also had a simultaneous release, which definitely helped it out compared to World and Rise taking a while to hit Steam.

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u/SolidPlasma Mar 03 '25

Exactly. I had already bought World on PS4 and was pretty far into the game when it came out on Steam. I wasn't going to play it on Steam with no way to port my character and progress over. I'm glad Wilds is getting the attention it deserves regardless of the hiccups.

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u/vrumpt Mar 03 '25

I think a bigger factor is this is the first time a MH game is released on PC and consoles simultaneously. World and Rise were only added to PC alongside their expansions. I imagine a lot of people had existing console versions and didn't want to start over or repurchase the game.

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u/Zetra3 Mar 03 '25

You don’t get to be the third most played game on steam cause of content farming

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u/dirtyhashbrowns2 Mar 03 '25

My TikTok and YouTube is full of monster hunter videos from people who have never played any of the games. Twitch and Kick are full of streamers playing it who have never played it. It’s a great game and I’m glad it exploded but a lot of these people are playing it to be apart of the hype and check out this great game everyone else is talking about and playing. Give it 2 weeks and only the dedicated monster hunter fans will be left

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u/Umr_at_Tawil Mar 03 '25

And yet both BG3 and Helldivers 2 doesn't reach this number, Elden Ring on release also didn't reach this number. all of those game didn't get the negative press about poor performance like with MHWilds, all those games run better on lower spec PC, all of those games received endless praises with little to no negativty, yet they didn't come close to MHWilds number.

you don't get get to be the third most played game on steam cause of content farming, if that was the case then it would be happen much more often.

Black Myth number is mostly because of the fact that Journey to the West is one of the most beloved story in China and the Sinosphere in general (I'm Vietnamese and me with all of my friend was all hyped for it), not because of content farming.

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u/Durzaka Mar 03 '25

Its almost like a game that sold 35 million copies 8 years ago is going to have a lot more people interested in it for its sequel.

When something does that well, people are going to become interested in what the next game is going to be like.

World was many peoples first MH game. And im willing to bet Wilds is going to be even more peoples first MH game. That doesnt mean its only popular from content farming. Otherwise the game wouldnt have sold a million copies before the end of the first day, nor would it have been on the top of the best sellers on steam for months before coming out.

You currently have it backwards. Wilds isnt popular because of people making content for it. People are making content BECAUSE its popular.

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u/fadeux Mar 03 '25

Yeah, I noticed this with some of the streamers I follow on Twitch. The ones that are variety streamers tend to stream "currently popular" games, probably as a way to grow their channel?

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u/lalune84 Mar 03 '25

You seem to be conflating virality with the power of word of mouth. Multiplayer games that seemingly explode out of nowhere into cultural landmarks are the result of virality. Helldivers 2 fits the bill, as did Among Us and.. whats the other one, content warning? You know about them because of content creator culture.

BG3, MH, and Black Myth Wukong were literally not that. BG3 was in early access for a long ass time, Larian had been building a decade long cult following, and D&D is a brand with massive weight. It didn't blow up overnight, it gathered steam over a fairly long period, and the more people played it, the more people came away saying it was the new benchmark for RPGs, which made more people play it and it just snowballed. Wilds is similar because World already built the reputation that Monster Hunter is the place to be fighting tnings over the past 7 years. Wukong was a success right out of the gate, to the point that China cancelled work for tons of people so they could go play it. Journey to the West is huge. That one is probably the best example: it doesn't have an iota of the cultural impact of any Fromsoft game in the west. It's explicitly not due to content creators or viral stream culture that it was successful. It went gangbusters in China and people elsewhere naturally got curious and together that was a massive enough audience to put it where it is.

You can't treat IPs or communities building a reputation for themselves with "things going viral". Larian built their success, it didn't just unexpectedly appear. BM Wukong was capitalizing on arguably the most popular work in all of East Asia's history. I'm not going to pretend luck and exposure are not huge factors in any part of the entertainment industry, but it's silly to act like its the only thing.

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u/Noosemane Mar 03 '25

Bruh that is crazy. I didn't know PUBG was still around.

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u/Rat-at-Arms Mar 03 '25

Its not westerners playing it I'll tell you that, lmao.

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u/Suki-the-Pthief Mar 03 '25

Yeah, pubg is dead over here but it has a huge dedicated fanbase in china

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u/JustGingy95 ​​​​ Mar 04 '25

Which feels extra funny seeing as it was cheaters from China that absolutely killed that game off over here in the first place. No idea if that’s still a major issue nowadays as I haven’t really played since then. Was legitimately unplayable around that time as every lobby had at least one of them just killing people across the map every second every round you played, I was honestly shocked to see they survived that as I assumed the game legitimately died because of it since a hefty majority of the playerbase left.

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u/Express-World-8473 Mar 04 '25

No idea if that’s still a major issue

It's not an issue anymore after Tencent stepped in to distribute the game in China. I remember reading about players getting arrested for cheating during that time. It was wild

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u/Echo259 Mar 04 '25

Wow well that’s one of stopping it.

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u/therealjoshua Mar 03 '25

That's what I was concentrating on, too. That game is firmly in my brain as a late 2010s experience.

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u/feelsokayman_cvmask Mar 03 '25

It's still massive in China, nowhere else though afaik. You can usually tell by what time the player counts peak.

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u/Rarecandy31 Mar 03 '25

PUBG is still massive, it's insane. I think they really did a great job of holding on to their player base after being one of the first BR's to blow up. I've only played it a bit, but it does feel pretty unique within that space of gaming.

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u/RoterBaronH (FU/Tri/3rd/3U/4/4G/Cross/World/Rise) Mar 03 '25

It helps that it fills an open niche

Apex Legend as a hero based battle royal

Fortnite as a more arcade battle royal

Warzone as a more fast paste battle royal

PUBG as a more "realistic" battle royal

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u/Aman632 Mar 03 '25

Monster hunter has been steadily growing since 4u from niche, sells maybe 1m copies to world surpassing street fighter as capcoms top selling title. And with a diminishing pool of competition, it only makes sense it would absolutely start blowing up with a big new drop like wilds

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u/Rbespinosa13 Mar 03 '25

If it hasn’t, it will be when SF7 comes out. Odd number street fighters never do well

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u/alxanta Mar 03 '25

ps1 to psp era ( and equivalent console on that years) were the eras where developer try to churn out every genre game possible as much as possible and hope some if it sticks.

back on psp eras we have God Eater, Lord of Arcana, Toukiden, Phantasy Star Portable which share same action rpg dna but all is dead with only Monster Hunter remaining

Last real attempt to make competitor is by EA x Koei via Wild Heartd and it didnt go big enough to compete with MH that now become goliath past world

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u/FunTao Mar 03 '25

Niche in the west maybe. MH has always been huge in Asia. MHP2G (MHFU) sold like 4.5 million on the psp

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u/blueruckus Mar 03 '25

This isn’t even accounting for console players too. Nuts.

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u/Poetryisalive Mar 03 '25

Again this IS ONLY PC. console probably has more

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u/PassiveRoadRage Mar 03 '25

My entire friends list is MHWilds or Rivals.

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u/SalmonToastie Mar 03 '25

Better friends list than mine, all I’ve got is marvel rivals and call of duty

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u/JazzzzzzySax Mar 03 '25

I think I have one friend who plays and it’s some random dude I added years ago

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u/RamsHead91 Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

Does it have launchers other then Steam because it could also be not even all of PC.

Edit: looks like steam is the only source of PC.

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u/Valuable_Work_2049 Mar 03 '25

Contrary to popular beliefs, Steam is actually the biggest gaming platform in the world, currently with 134 million active users per month, which is 5M more than PS and 14M more than Xbox

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u/MakimaToga Mar 03 '25

It's really fun.

And for those of us that don't have performance issues, it's even more fun.

I'm extremely pleased with the game so far.

My main gripes are a lack of palico food making animations, and no item box.

Outside of that I'm having a blast.

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u/cyanblur Mar 03 '25

I'm guessing the patch 1 multiplayer hub will have an item box

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u/OniMoth Mar 03 '25

Would be cool if they gave us an actual house like the previous games. That's my only true complaint. Removing the house and customization that came with it sucks. Worlds had the best with the pond and all the animal stuff

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u/NewmanBiggio Mar 03 '25

Yeah it's really odd to me that they went all in on the living ecosystem and endemic life and there's absolutely nothing we can do to interact with it other than catch them. I want pets dammit.

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u/aliensareback1324 Mar 03 '25

I hope that they just had their hands full with doing more important things and house will come with the hub or in onte of the other updates.

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u/CatawampusZaibatsu Mar 03 '25

It looked cool, but I never touched it. If party members could hang out there, I'd have customized the hell out of it and collect all the things.

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u/RedShibaCat Mar 03 '25

I'm pretty sure you could host a private session and let people into your house. Maybe not.

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u/ToxycBanana Mar 03 '25

People could come to your home attached to the Gathering Hub in Iceborne and hang out as long as you were in the same lobby as them and had your home set to Public

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u/BebopFlow Mar 03 '25

I really just want a place to fill with my favorite endemic wildlife

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u/MakimaToga Mar 03 '25

Hoping for that! And hopefully the gathering hub has some palico cookin

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u/GlancingArc Mar 03 '25

There is already an item box when you use the makeshift camp so it should be easy enough for them to add one in the hub areas. That and a quest board.

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u/cyanblur Mar 03 '25

I imagine they discovered that with the size of their lobbies too many people would just be crowded on one spot at the hub item boxes. And they wanted a quiet place for you to make gear and appearance changes. If they auto loaded your last item loadout after quests I wouldn't really care if we always had to go in a tent to access the item box.

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u/Prodigees Mar 03 '25

That and the fact there’s no gathering hub. The gathering hub has been a thing in MH online since Monster Hunter debut on the PlayStation 2 in 2004/2005.

I like that they’re adding it in April, but it just feels like a staple removed to drip feed content. Am I crazy?

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u/LeWiggler Mar 03 '25

I think the idea was more like the base camps now function as gathering hubs since you can see everyone there anyways. I am glad they're bringing back the standard though I vastly prefer the hub over anything else

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Mar 04 '25

Nah, you're not.

I think the intention from Capcom was to create this feeling of you the player just arriving to the new region and simply have to get to know the locals first as pioneers. Unlike in World where there's already an established research base.

I noticed this with how they emphasized the grand feasts to be from each village, the way you need to trade with them for food ingredients, and also material farming comes from having to ask a villager in each villagw as well.

Not that I agree with it since I much prefer hub to be available after LR/HR if they really want to make it make sense story wise.

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u/ghouleye Mar 03 '25

Same gripes really enjoying it. Guild just needs to send a chef to the forbidden lands.

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u/NyMiggas Mar 03 '25

I honestly couldn't believe there was no big chef station to get your ridiculously large meals from before the hunt. I swear that was where the majority of the budget went in World.

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u/MakimaToga Mar 03 '25

Those meal cutscenes were never skipped in my house lol

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u/Over_Bad_4167 Mar 03 '25

There's an item box at every popup camp that functions the same way as the old one

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u/MakimaToga Mar 03 '25

Is it inside of the tent?

I want one outside of the tent lol

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u/Over_Bad_4167 Mar 03 '25

It is outside the tent

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u/Important-Net-9805 Mar 03 '25

you sure? i havent seen that

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u/Over_Bad_4167 Mar 03 '25

It's only at the popup camp unless the ones I was seeing were story mission specific

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u/mymartyrcomplex bonk bonk bonk Mar 03 '25

You have to manually place it from the pop up camp customization interface and it is only for supplies so you can’t use it to resupply from your own inventory or change weapons and armor

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u/OmarioH88 Mar 03 '25

My only complain other then the lack of palico chef is just how limited you are in low rank, I would've liked at least some optional quests here and there to add some diversity, but yap, it's a great game, now that I am in High Rank I may even be prefering this over World

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u/GigarandomNoodle Mar 03 '25

Same, I started having a blast when I got to high rank. Reviewers were so right in that low rank felt like an absolute slog because of how much of a pushover the monsters were compared to other games (low rank in rise, world, 4u). I only really got to engage with monster move-sets and gear crafting after the fulgur quest lol.

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u/hemficragnarok Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

"no item box" meaning you'd rather have the static box than the supply pouch?

EDIT: My dumb brain catching up to the fact that I have rarely restocked my kit from my item box and have only used what I could craft or what was in the supply pouch 😅 I'm past the Arkveld fight and only carted once to Jin Dahaad. I agree on the principle but haven't needed to restock really

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u/sarthryxx Mar 03 '25

I think he means an item box outside of the tent, rather than having to go inside every time.

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u/MakimaToga Mar 03 '25

What the other guy said, I miss the item box being outside of the tent lol.

It's not a big deal, but it is strange.

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u/Ghostedyokai Mar 03 '25

I stupidly hopped on my seikret to try and get behind a wall for the wipe mechanic frantically trying to jump off it once I realized how close I was that guy got me my first cart too 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/-DiveR- Mar 03 '25

Say what you want about "slowly walking behind talking npc's" quests, but the story is really well paced imo. Wilds may be the most fun I've had with a mh story i general, and I'd say they did a pretty good job on making it feel like a story-focused game (though I've heard the multiplayer story experience is awful, like in World)

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u/Broskii56 Mar 03 '25

I had alot of performance issues day one, lately it’s been much better went from 30 - 50 fps to 50 minimum up to 70 consistently now. The game is really fun, the combat is slightly faster and more mechanical in certain aspects of dishing out damage. Loving it

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u/jpetrey1 Mar 03 '25

I’m more shocked counter strike maintains those numbers. It’s wild

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u/Manusiawii Mar 03 '25

Beside for the game itself, Counter Strike is big for the skin gambling stuff too

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u/aggroware Mar 03 '25

I think I’m more impressed about Naraka than I am about monhun lol

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u/derintrel Mar 03 '25

Free to Play also helps out Naraka for sure.

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u/anor_wondo Mar 03 '25

ir was dying before f2p

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u/Azazir Mar 03 '25

Its pretty unique in its BR style, ngl i remember having a blast a year or so ago with some big patch i dont remember, but damn is it messy game if you have higher ping.

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u/BuzzyWasaBee Mar 03 '25

I've somehow already sunk 20 hours into this game and I barely even played on Friday. I'm having a blast!

It's already been worth the money and I'm nowhere near finished

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u/RememberSummerdays_ Mar 03 '25

Once you get through that tedious Main Story the world just opens up to you, I love how you can go hunting all day non stop not having to base even once, it’s so addictive!

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u/BuzzyWasaBee Mar 03 '25

I don't know how much is left of the story. Yesterday, I just hunted Arkveld. I don't really mind the story so far although the pacing feels off. It feels slow and rushed at the same time.

I really liked the endemic life side quests though. I hope there are many more. The world and life in it is amazing!

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u/SrGoatheld Mar 03 '25

I've only been able to play for 10h more or less, so I'm in the story, which I'm sure must be worst part in the game since I hate the autopathing and all the part my character just follows Alma on rails, however, I don't mind is being able to start a hunt and I'm having the best time in my gaming life!

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u/SH4DY_XVII Mar 03 '25

Its bitter sweet. I'm really happy to see the series succeed after spending years telling people about monster hunter and them telling me they'd never even heard the name, BUT at the same time these figures set an example to studios that even if your game runs like utter horse shit it can still sell well.

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u/MaryPaku Mar 03 '25

This further proves the point that the most important part is always if the game is actually fun.

Elden Ring was having massive optimization issues the first few days and it still doesn't matter.

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u/Serito Mar 03 '25

Does it? These are 2 absolutely behemoth IPs releasing long awaited sequels with almost no competition in their respective genres

I mean both franchises essentially have a cult following and pulled insane pre-orders

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u/m0rdr3dnought Mar 03 '25

Sure, but part of the reason so many people pre-ordered the game is because they knew the game was likely to be good based on past entries. Both FROM and the MH team have proven themselves able to consistently release good games.

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u/Parhelion2261 Mar 03 '25

I can't have fun if I can't play the game :(

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u/cruzin_basterd Mar 03 '25

Yeah you can ship a half baked game. Just make sure it is fun enough to have the fan base divided on how important performance is.

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u/Draagonblitz Mar 03 '25

Same im still praying they decide to fix the issues cause with these numbers they could just not give a fuck...

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u/DweebNRoll Mar 03 '25

I knew MH was peak back in 06, who knew all we needed was more accessibility ☺️ I'm so happy for their success and all the new hunters 🥰

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u/ShyPlox MHX Mar 03 '25

Back in 2006 this is what we had hoped for and it really came true I knew one day everyone would love this game series, we saw all the upgrades and how the game evolved along the way and it feels special being part of that

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u/DweebNRoll Mar 03 '25

For real! I remember reading Freedom's back flavor text. Thinking to myself: "Customizable character, many playstyles, Dragons and monsters, AND CO-OP?" I was hooked when I saw the Plesioth, and it's sheer size! We've come a long way! Happy hunting! (Time to clock 50+ hours today for wilds)

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u/jeetkunebo Mar 03 '25

All I wanted was to look at Rathalos and company in HD graphics. Worlds accomplished that beyond our wildest imaginations. The rest is just gravy.

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u/cruzin_basterd Mar 03 '25

Does this game have massive performance issues that render it unplayable for so many people?

Yes.

Is this game ridiculously fun for those who are able to play it?

Yes.

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u/JCDentoncz Mar 04 '25

I'm holding my fingers crossed for a swift performance patch before taking the plunge. The benchmark was somewhat misleading with the cutscene feeling like it was artificially improving frames.

I don't want to reach master rank only to find out the new monsters drop frames into 10-20 range.

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u/iamkristo Mar 03 '25

That’s awesome, and I’m the one idiot who can’t play it, Because somehow a strix 3090 24Gb, a 7800x3d and a tomahawk with 48 DDR5-7200 is only able to generate 30-40 frames.

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u/CookieXpress Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

Hmm..thats abit odd. I am currently running it on a 2080S and 5700x3d on High, getting 60 fps most times, but dipping to the 40s on certain scenes like seikret chases.

Your specs are just straight upgrades to mine, so technically, it should run well, right?

I think it might be some background processes taking up bandwidth, assuming you've done everything else. You might want to take a look at the task manager and maybe run a deep scan on Malwarebytes to see if there are any malware that may be causing this.

P/s: I'm not trying to downplay your statement. I just wanna help

Edit: Just saw your RAM specs.

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u/CookieXpress Mar 04 '25

Also, I want to add to the other comment that it could also be your storage. MHWilds is currently running on my M.2. SSD. Maybe the texture loading is causing the issue.

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u/OoSiLeNcEoO Mar 03 '25

aaactually...

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u/OctaviusThe2nd Mar 03 '25

Yup, this game is no longer niche lol. It deserves the success though.

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u/Portgas_D_Kamina Mar 03 '25

Is it mh is literally one of the most popular franchises it took the west till world to realise how good it actually is

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u/Seananiganzz Mar 03 '25

Glad yall are having fun. I still haven't opened the game again because it turns my $2500 PC into an air fryer

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u/ehtoolazy Mar 03 '25

It is kind of impressive considering there are a number of people who are waiting to get the game still. I will end up buying it without a doubt but want to wait for the game to get optimized and maybe a sale or something. Tons of people still haven't even got it yet and it's still doing numbers

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u/JFboi Mar 03 '25

These are the current players on steam

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u/Sadaxer Mar 03 '25

That’s the crazy part, imagine console numbers. So much easier to get the game there as the barrier of entry is lower.

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u/anor_wondo Mar 03 '25

series has been selling more on pc since world

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u/No_Interview_1964 Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

Dude and I’m on ps5, this is only steam numbers. I got my five bros to get it and their loving it 😌💪🏾

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u/Vivid-Process-4421 swag Mar 03 '25

“Niche franchise”

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u/Ok-Transition7065 i miss the buster axe :c Mar 03 '25

Naa this its wild

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u/NotAnAss-Hat Shoulder-Bash Main Mar 03 '25

you had one job fam.

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u/clockattack Mar 03 '25

wth is naraka bljatpoint doing so high

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u/ZealFox01 THE SWORD IS GREAT INDEED Mar 03 '25

Its GIGANTIC in China

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u/StygianStrix Mar 03 '25

Isn't it free to play? Also since it's a mobile game ported to PC, it's super easy to run on anything

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u/JamesGecko Mar 03 '25

Naraka mobile was announced after PC version. It’s a ground up rewrite of the game.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

Imagine how much higher it would be if the recommended specs weren’t so high

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u/Cbthomas927 Mar 03 '25

Makes me happy! But also makes me feel they could be even higher if they’d fix the crashing issues

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u/Alchadylan Mar 03 '25

I'm already over 30 hours played and loving every second.

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u/Dycoth Mar 03 '25

Well deserved in terms of gameplay and such, not deserved AT ALL in terms of performance and optimization.

Although I can run it at 120fps, I had to install four different things to get it to work this way. And I still have very shitty textures and some lightning artifacts sometimes.

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u/deadering Mar 03 '25

Yeah, even when you can get the performance to be playable even on High textures it's often far worse quality than even Rise. It's really noticeable too with how many cutscenes there are

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u/Mopey_ Mar 03 '25

Square Enix would say it didn't meet sales expectations

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u/SummerExtra2940 Mar 03 '25

I feel like the game is good like i got an i7 11th gen and a 3060 6gb ram and it is perfectly fine at 70fps at medium with frame gen i use fsr over dlss just saw them triangle for the first time but it isnt too bad. I feel like once this game gets it first patch or two it be perfect. And for the difficulty I’ve only died 2 times to that new elder dragon and that perfectly fine for me to sit down and just enjoy a hunt without stressing is fun just trying the new combs [longsword] and enjoy the game. I’ve been playing since MHFU and I’ve played 2 and 1 just never beat them and it like besides MH4U which I got like 1300 hrs this might be my second favorite game.

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u/gammagulp Mar 04 '25

Whats crazy is how so many people enjoy counterstrike. Is it solely because the majority of the planet is poor? Game sucks lol

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u/xenopizza Mar 03 '25

Rookie numbers. Master rank isnt even out yet

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u/Grundval Mar 03 '25

Imagine if more people could run it.

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u/TheBanthaPoodoo Mar 03 '25

Now, imagine what the numbers would be if the game was optimised

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u/Bacon-muffin Mar 03 '25

Its another reminder of how the reddit / content creator bubble can drastically skew perceptions.

If you were purely basing how the game is doing on reddit posts and content creator videos etc you'd think the game was unplayably bad and just concord levels of dead or something.

Meanwhile the games doing insanely well, like by far the best capcom has ever had a game perform yet alone other game companies.

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u/Nolis Mar 03 '25

Reading comments made me think I would be lucky to get 30 FPS in the benchmark, lo and behold when I downloaded the benchmark I got 160 FPS average never dropping below 120 lol

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u/S4M0R41 Mar 03 '25

1.3 million reasons why most triple a publishers release unoptimized trash.

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u/samuelokblek Mar 04 '25

Capcom knew the game would sell a lot after World, it kept selling millions of copies even after Iceborne stopped getting free TUs lmao

Get the money first finish the game later, i guess.

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u/Infamous-Tangelo42 Mar 03 '25

Yeah and all those other games realized that multiplayer was figured out in 2010 and doesn’t take a degree to navigate. Then monster hunter came out with the most convoluted and aggravating multiplayer system in the known world of gaming. Hell driving across country to couch co-op an snes game is easier.

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u/NovaKet12 Mar 03 '25

Crazy? I was crazy once, they locked me in a room, a rocky room, a rocky room with a Uragaan, and the Uragaan makes me crazy.

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u/Hippocrap Mar 03 '25

God damn do I feel like I'm missing out because I'm poor.

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u/Coughingmakesmegag Mar 03 '25

Good game is good game. I do think they need to make co-op a better experience but me and my wife are having a blast.

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u/coolgaara Mar 03 '25

I'm not surprised. This is like Elden Ring for me. First of the franchise and the games so fun that I'm willing to overlook horrible performance.

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u/Peacefulgamer2023 Mar 03 '25

If I told my 11 year old self sitting on the couch with their best friend playing monster hunter on ps2 that one day monster hunter would become capcoms largest game, I don’t think my younger self would believe it. So many failed attempts to return the wyvern egg because of “green dragon” and “dinosaur” and “bug”, I’m proud of what the game turned into.

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u/Fun-Opposite-5290 Mar 03 '25

1: Game is really good 2: game sells well

Love to see it hope they take the sales optimize it better so even more ppl can play it.

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u/OneMorePotion Mar 03 '25

Add Console to that and I guess Capcom is currently celebrating that they struck gold.

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u/LegitimateYam8241 Mar 03 '25

It's a great game deserves success. Need to give more monsters though >:l

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u/Leviathan369 Mar 04 '25

can’t wait for my pc parts to get here so i can actually play :’)

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u/Delicious-Ad6111 Mar 04 '25

Yeah crazy how counter strike has that many players

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u/Wilds_Hunter Mar 04 '25

But digital foundry said the game was shit

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u/JGPC Mar 04 '25

That settles it. I suppose the majority of complaints about difficulty is coming from mh vets. Myself, i been playing since freedom unite, and personally i find the "easier" difficulty to be a breath of fresh air, knowing that master rank would kick my butt even in chatacabra form

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u/SwervoT3k Mar 04 '25

Ya I know who the fuck still plays PubG

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u/yurilnw123 Mar 04 '25

I didn't reallize PUBG still has that many players.

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u/No_Seaworthiness9620 Mar 04 '25

I wonder how many people would Play if the Performance where allright!

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u/JannLu Mar 04 '25

It is indeed absolutely crazy. I didn’t even remember Naraka existed and it’s the top 5 most played game in Steam atm.

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u/Jazzlike_Ad267 Mar 04 '25

I thought the price was pretty insane too tbh 😂

Gaming shouldn't be so expensive. But here we are