The Monster Hunter Wilds open beta gave us a glimpse of what many are already considering a Game of the Year nominee for 2025. It included a beautiful open world, brand new monsters, our favorite weapons, and everything else we love about the Monster Hunter franchise. Well, almost everything. Although it was sorely lacking in the beta, the developers have promised that hitstop will be more of a consideration in the final game.
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As is the purpose of a beta test, fans pointed out any things they thought needed tweaking in the final build. Along with hitstop, some weapons also required a bit more balancing, but one of the big complaints was how monsters kept running away so often.
Why are you running?
Monsters running away after taking a lot of damage has always been a part of Monster Hunter. So have followed them to their lair, planted explosives and landed the biggest hit here. However, it seemed like they did it too often in Monster Hunter Wild's beta, which broke the flow of a fun hunt. However, director Yuya Tokuda explained to VGC that this was a bug.
“In fact, the Open Beta test was an earlier version that actually had some bugs in it, and one of them was that the monsters moved more often than intended,” Tokuda explained. “It wasn't actually a design intent for them to move that fast, it was just that every X number of seconds they just moved on, and that wasn't something we planned for.”
He went on to say that this bug has already been fixed, and the developers are still refining the frequency when a monster decides to flee. At launch, this feature won't be as repetitive, and will feel more like it does in previous titles.
Tokuda also revealed that four of the game's weapons that have received a lot of complaints will undergo some major changes. “Some weapons will also have a big change. Insect Glaive, Switch Axe, Lance, Sword & Shield are the weapons that will have big changes when we have the final product version,” he revealed. “So we hope everyone is looking forward to it.”
The unbridled power of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments that transform drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story about monsters and humans and their struggle to live in harmony in a world of duality.
Fulfill your duty as a hunter by tracking and defeating powerful monsters and forging powerful new weapons and armor from the materials you harvest from your hunt as you discover the connection between the people of the Forbidden Lands and the places they inhabit.
The ultimate hunting experience awaits you in Monster Hunter Wilds.
