Monster Hunter Wilds offers a completely new multiplayer options when playing with either friends and strangers. The new system makes it the most seamless multiplayer experience ever, as 100 players will be gathered in one lobby. From there, each can post quests and anyone can easily join or do their own things. But, there is another new option in Monster Hunter Wilds to help you group up called Environment Link which is activated through Link Party. How does this system actually work and why you should use it when running the game with a team?
What’s The Difference Between Joining a Lobby Normally and Using Environment Link in Monster Hunter Wilds?
When you enter a normal lobby, you can see other players in the Base Camp — but not outside in the hunting areas. If you want to spend time with fellow Hunters while taking in Windward Plains’ views, then you need to group up with Environment Link. Anyone who are part of your Link Party and join up in the same Environment Link group will be able to meet and do free hunts together.
Nevertheless, activating and joining an Environment Link will block you and your teammates from posting Quests from the Base Camp. For reasons listed before, the main use of Environment Link is to gather materials and run Investigations together with friends in your Link Party.
Here’s how you can invite friends in the same or even different lobbies to your Environment Link:
- Open the start menu, go to the ‘Communication’ tab.
- Select the ‘Link Party’ option.
- Select ‘Invite to Link Party’ and pick players from the lobby’s player list or your friends list to send an invite.
- Once your selected players have joined your Link Party, open the ‘Link Party’ option in the start menu again.
- Pick ‘Invite to Environment Link’ and invite the players currently in your Link Party group.
- Wait for a while until other players in Base Camp disappear from your screen and only your friends remain. If they are not in the Base Camp, then they’ll drop down from a Wingdrake.
- Now you and up to three teammates can roam around the hunting areas together.
However, keep in mind that any Investigation Quest you activate by hunting a monster will still appear in the room you’re currently in. Even when you didn’t activate SOS, other players in the same lobby that aren’t part of your Link Party will still be to join the quest.
For more information about Environment Link, you can check it in the tutorial menu via: Info > Play Guide > Tutorial List > Connection/Communication Function.
