Part of the reason behindMonster Hunter Wilds’massive success is how it improves upon the franchise’s best features, which were made even more prevalent inWilds' most recent title update. While many of the best offerings in the title update were features partially expected from its initial launch, they were nonetheless exciting additions to the game. Although the newly expanded gathering hub, challenging monsters, and near gear to unlock fromWilds' arena or event quests are great, one way of acquiring them might already be impossible.
With the sheer number of features and new content unveiled inWilds' title update showcase, many of the more unique offerings were somewhat overshadowed on release. Aside fromMonster Hunter Wilds' event quest scheduleadding more replayability between significant updates,the newly addedarena quests are a great way to push your skills to the limit while being rewarded for your effort. Even though not everyone enjoys the limiting nature of arena quests that lock you into using specific armor and weapons, Capcom finally offers more incentive to beat your best arena quest times.
Arena Quests Have Unique Rewards In Monster Hunter Wilds
Encouraging Players To Push Their Limits With Friendly Competition
Arena quests have offered interesting challenges in the past without being a necessary part of the experience, most commonly offering unique armor sets or even unlockable skills inMonster Hunter Rise. While some of these options provided incredibly valuable rewards, most didn’t have enough incentives to keep players engaging with them aside from their initial armor materials or completion bonus. In a surprising announcement revamping the system,Capcom confirmed that thefirst title updatewould introduce limited-time arena quests that offer exclusive rewards based on the time it took you to beat them.
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The very first of these limited-time challenge quests came in the form of an Alpha Doshaguma,offering three different pendants for simply participating in the arena quests, getting at least a B rank, and having one of the top 10,000 fastest times. Given that there wasn’t much reason to interact with the global leaderboard in previousMonster Hunterentries, aside from seeing how absurdly fast some players are, I was excited to see even more ways to interact with the community through some friendly competition.
In theory, limited rewards are a nice way to acknowledge and reward higher-skilled players or community members.
Given that pendants are purely cosmetic and hard-to-notice additions, they felt like a great way to add toWilds' newly incentivized fashion grindwithout feeling like a necessary chore. While some players were still upset that the reward couldn’t be obtained through hard work, I think that, in theory, limited rewards are a nice way to acknowledge and reward higher-skilled players or community members.
Cheaters Have Already Ruined Monster Hunter Wilds' Ranking System
A Leaderboard Filled With Questionable Ranking Times
Despite claims thatWilds' developers were planning to crack down on players who use cheats or mods to inflate their arena quest times, according to posts on the officialMonster HunterX account,the scoreboard is still filled with modified records.While some players are better at hiding it than others by choosing somewhat believable times, even loading into the game now will showcase countless pages of impossible times. With some players beating the quest in under four seconds,it’s clear thatMonster HunterWildswill need to take more aggressive steps to address its cheating problem.
Even if cheating is nothing new to the series, as the same problem has plagued every entry, this is the first timeMonster Hunterhas offered significant rewards based on global completion times, rather than individual satisfaction.
Even before arena quests, players were caught modifying the game files to create quests with game-breaking rewards or unlocking cosmetic DLC, which Capcom seemed much quicker to ban those players outright.
While limited arena rewards were an interesting idea,seeing pages of players cheating on their scores is incredibly discouraging for anyone who initially felt up for the challenge.
Modding Has Always Been A Grey Area For The Monster Hunter Franchise
An Unavoidable Aspect Of The Monster Hunter Community
While Capcom doesn’t officially support modding forMonster Hunter, they only seem to take action against players utilizing mods to take advantage of the game through cheating, bypassing paid content, or affecting other players' gameplay experiences. Given that arena quests are now being tied to limited in-game cosmetics,there is a chance that Capcom may decide to take a stronger stance against modding as a whole, which would significantly harm the overallMonster Huntercommunity.
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Monster Hunter Wilds has a ton of mods that affect the look of weapons and items, offer ways to cheat, change the aesthetic of the game.
Even if you don’t utilize mods yourself, they’ve been a core part of the hunting experience for years, ranging from massive gameplay improvements like adding inmissing quality-of-life features toMH Wilds, bug fixes, and performance improvements, alongside an endless stream of harmless cosmetic content. While the topic of some gameplay mods like health bars or anything that seems to eliminate the challenge of the game is heavily frowned upon by the community, so long as it doesn’t affect other players, most of these mods are harmless on their own.
Hopefully,Monster Hunter Wildscan find a middle ground to deal with cheaters without affecting innocent mod users.
Thankfully,Capcom’s decision to distribute rewards after the limited arena quest period rather than during it means they can manually remove any clearly modified scores. However, the more realistic ones may still be a challenge to tell apart from the legitimate ones. Hopefully,Monster Hunter Wildscan find a middle ground to deal with cheaters without affecting innocent mod users. Still, as it stands, the largest change to arena quests might be a waste of time until the problem is addressed.
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Monster Hunter Wilds
Monster Hunter Wilds is the highly anticipated follow-up to Capcom’s multi-million seller, Monster Hunter World. Announced at The Game Awards 2023, Monster Hunter Wilds will put players into a sprawling world where they’ll hunt monsters to create new weapons and armor while protecting their home base and uncovering the secrets of unexplored lands with friends or alone.
