Monster Hunter Wilds (aka MH6) - speculations, launches early 2025

[BLOBERT]

I'm playing the beta on my fat ass PS5. Performance mode looks worse than PS3 games. Last week, I was playing the Demon's Souls remake and Monster Hunter World, both of which look awesome on PS5. It took a while for me to adjust to this 720p dog shit quality (probably upscaling from native 480p). But after 5 hours, I don't mind the bad graphics anymore, and the combat is fun, as usual, for Monster Hunter. The hammer is a winner; you can dodge while keeping your charge level, and they added two new charge levels after your third charge. So, basically, the hammer now has five charge levels.

Two on top of three... is five. This is good wisdom. You must enjoy flailing a hammer about in real life as well for this sort of insight!

Out of curiosity, have you ever accidentally domed yourself?

Yeah I do enjoy hammering your mom fat pussy.

BROS WEER NEED A NO COCK BLOCK RULE CAUSE I WANNA SEE PICTURES OF THE MOM PUSSY

 

[mediocrepoet]

BROS WEER NEED A NO COCK BLOCK RULE CAUSE I WANNA SEE PICTURES OF THE MOM PUSSY

The guy needed to work out that 3 + 2 = 5 and felt that it was a great insight that should be explained at length. You think he knows how to take a picture?

I'm surprised he could log in tbh.

You'd be better off waiting for porn mods for the handler.

 

[Old Bald Bad]

My PC can't handle the new game. The old Monster Hunter game still looks good. RTX 2060.

 

[Cheesedragon117]

My PC can't handle the new game. The old Monster Hunter game still looks good. RTX 2060.

Show me your settings. I can tell you what to toggle to get the best balance of looks/performance. Or I can just show you mine when I get home tonight.

 

[Old Bald Bad]

Here are my settings: Window mode, 720p resolution. I capped the frame rate at 60. Standing in the middle of the desert, it reaches 60fps, but everywhere else it fluctuates between 30-45 fps.
Should I cap the FPS at 30? I can live with it

Spoiler

 

[Elttharion]

Its pretty clear they are making liberal use of frame gen and upscaling to make up for the bad performance. I tried the beta on my pc (which is pretty old and ran like shit) and a borrowed PS5. I'll wait for some patches/master rank and a PC upgrade before I play this.

 

[Silverfish]

The Handler from World isn't in the beta.

 

[mediocrepoet]

The Handler from World isn't in the beta.

Maybe she's dead.

 

[Yuber]

So how is the game compared to Worlds? Is it as good/fun?
I spent hundreds of hours in World but hated Rise.

 

[sebas]

Hopefully they do something about optimization, I don't know what's going on with these recent titles releasing with muddy graphics that run like shit. This runs better than DD2 but that's not saying a lot. I can get stable 60fps with mediumish settings on a 6900XT, which wouldn't be a problem if the game looked gorgeous.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

So how is the game compared to Worlds? Is it as good/fun?
I spent hundreds of hours in World but hated Rise.

That's because Rise was not made by the A Team. Rise was made by the C Team. Wilds is made by A Team.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

So how is the game compared to Worlds? Is it as good/fun?
I spent hundreds of hours in World but hated Rise.

They made the whole game in the style of the Guiding Lands from MHW

Seamless hunts, seamless town integration, monster ecology, etc. No more quest loading/downtime baggage.

 

[purpleblob]

So how is the game compared to Worlds? Is it as good/fun?
I spent hundreds of hours in World but hated Rise.

Its much more World than Rise, which is good.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

wtf

 

[Modron]

wtf

Just turn DLSS on bro.

 

[Elttharion]

wtf

Thats your pc crying for help

 

[Silverfish]

PS1 filter is actually a pretty cool feature.

 

[somerandomdude]

The beta demo ran like dogshit and it looked like dogshit if I used frame gen, and I got a pretty solid PC. Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 64GBs DDR5 ram, 2TB SSD, RTX 4070ti. I had to use DLSS to even hit a 60fps+ target at 1440p, and the even crazier part is I was CPU bound in many scenarios even when the frame rates were around 60. I'd hate to see how bad the game murders lower tier CPUs. My FPS dipped to 56 walking around the main hub area, even a 7800X3D got choked down to sub 60 from a CPU bottleneck. If they would make frame gen not look like dog shit, I might use it, in some games it's serviceable, but not on this game. Frame gen is only decent IF you can get 60fps+ without it, and it might push you into the 150-200fps range, if you need it to hit 60fps, that's going to be a terrible gaming experience.

Weapons I tried out: Bow, LBG, HBG, Lance, CB, GS, GL. I'm mostly indifferent to the changes, or simply don't have enough information about how the weapons will actually pan out once you get into the game further, but early impressions of the bowguns and bow were pretty good. The others felt alright, I don't feel strongly one way or another about them, nothing felt bad to play, which is good I suppose. Some weapons *need* focus mode on pretty much always. The MV for HBG slicing ammo is crazy high, a dedicated slicing gun with decent mag size and recoil with slicing ammo at that MV would be a WMD.

I suspect there will be additional systems in the full game that we didn't have access to in the demo. They let us bring 2 weapons, but I'm guessing we'll be able to run 2 separate loadouts at some point in the full game. That would make weapon combos more versatile, and fit specifically to the user. Like, LS and Lance probably wouldn't use the same skill loadout, therefore combining those 2 weapons would have zero upsides, but if skill loadouts changed when you swap the weapons, there would be no downsides, and which 2 weapons you bring would be a matter of preference.

I hope nobody here carted out to a Rey Dau, you give up any claims to being a MH veteran if you lost to this thing. It's a freaking rath with lightning, it's slow and predictable, I soloed it with every weapon type I tried out above with no issues. In the MH Rise demo, the Magnamalo was actually a pretty tough fight because you were massively under geared, we didn't get a comparable fight in the Wilds demo.

 

[Damned Registrations]

PS1 filter is actually a pretty cool feature.

Dude that's a SNES filter. It looks like the first Starfox game.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

A typical meh interview. He mentions how they want the monsters to be more flexible and that they had to do prototyping, but does not give any deeper insight on the actual processing of making these monsters.

 

[Cheesedragon117]

We'll have to wait until the artbook before we get an in-depth look at what their design philosophy was for this entry.

 

[Old Bald Bad]

We saw that some of you were concerned as to whether your rig would be powerful enough to run Monster Hunter Wilds when it launches, so we are currently considering releasing a benchmark tool to hopefully help those of you with questions out. We'll keep you looped in on any further details here.

So that means no demo.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

There's another beta coming.

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/01/mon...est-set-for-february-6-to-9-february-13-to-16

 

[Cheesedragon117]

Be there or be square, this time, dude.