Capcom released a hotfix update on April 16 that fixed many fatal bugs and glitches in Monster Hunter Wilds. Most notably, the company finally removed many cheaters that filled up the Arena Quest leaderboards and lowered the requirements for obtaining the Arena-exclusive Pendants. The other significant fix is the removal of the Infinite Sliding glitch activated by abusing the Azuz’s Greetings gesture.
Personally, we also encountered the Zoh Shia quest crash quite often. It’s safe to say that the writer’s game crashed once every five hunts, ruining the challenging grinds. While some are overjoyed over the fixes, many are unexpectedly upset — as it changed how Meal Vouchers works.
Before the April 16 update, when someone used a Meal Voucher, everyone in the same lobby will get its effect as well. Yep, the whole 100-player lobby can eat any regional dishes at the Grand Hub for free. It does sound a bit too generous but nobody batted an eye. After all, that’s how it worked in all previous Monster Hunter games; albeit those games featured only 4-player or 16-player lobbies at maximum.
Now, no thanks to the hotfix, the Meal Voucher effect is applied to only four people that joined the same Link Party at maximum. As expected, this fix ended up riling up the fanbase as people enjoyed sharing their Vouchers with fellow Hunters.
“Seriously, this feels like it would be a completely natural thing to have,” wrote GoldDrake123 in their Reddit thread. “Not to mention the meal vouchers are already relatively hard to come by, so having someone give everybody a meal would be a much appreciated gesture.”
“THIS WAS UNINTENTIONAL?!” replied AstalosBoltz914 in the thread completely baffled.
Anubra_Khan chimed in, “I thought this was the point of them,” referring to how Vouchers work in older games.
“Game devs fixing only the bugs that make the game better,” complained Kamken.
We doubt Capcom would roll back the update just to add back this ‘feature.’ At best, maybe in the future, Meal Voucher effect is applied to everyone’s standing by in the Grand Hub but you shouldn’t hold your knife. For the complete April 16 Update patch notes, see below per Monster Hunter Wilds‘ official site:
Update Summary Ver. 1.010.01.00
Required Space (Current Update Only)
PlayStation 5 : Approx. 0.9 GB
Xbox Series X|S : Approx. 0.9 GB
Steam : Approx. 0.3 GB (Without High Resolution Texture Pack)
- – Fixed an issue where selecting “Sekka” from Nata’s Village Intermediary item trade window could cause the game to crash.
- – Fixed an issue where playing an arena quest with a Powercharm or Armorcharm in your item pouch could create duplicates of the item. (Note: Having duplicates of these items does not cause other bugs. Additionally, only one of each item can be put into your item pouch, so the effects cannot be stacked.)
- Xbox Series X|S – Fixed an issue where the voice pitch settings for the player character and Palico would not function correctly in certain scenes.
- – Fixed an issue that caused crashes during Zoh Shia quests.
- – Fixed an issue that allowed players to bring their own equipment into Arena Quests and Challenge Quests.
- – Fixed an issue that allowed players to keep the effects of Palico support moves (Sporenet: Song o’ Power and Sporenet: Song o’ Purrtection) into Arena Quests and Challenge Quests.
- – Fixed an issue that allowed players to bring certain skill effects into the Training Area, Arena Quests, and Challenge Quests.
- – Fixed an issue that caused some Arena Quest and Challenge Quest completion times to register incorrectly in the rankings.
- – Fixed an issue that would prevent the game from progressing in certain points if you had a Palico Bed set up at a camp.
- – Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash if you opened up a Hunter Profile while equipped with an insect glaive.
- – Fixed an issue that would cause the game to crash when entering a lobby.
- – Fixed an issue where using a meal voucher in the Grand Hub of a private lobby would unintentionally give free meal permissions to other members.
- PlayStation 5 – Fixed an issue where purchasing Value Packs could cause products not to appear in the Add-ons menu of the Support Desk.
- – Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when booting the game while your character is wearing certain equipment.
- – Fixed an issue where player movement would become erratic during certain gestures.
- – Fixed an issue where the Mizutsune Assignment could not be reaccepted.
- – Fixed other miscellaneous issues.
