PC rig owners have been stuck in a rough spot since the game launched, with performance hiccups, random crashes, and updates that never seem to fix much. Instead of seeing meaningful improvements, many have had to rely on mods to get the game much more playable. Now Capcom has finally acknowledged the problem yet again, but the news isn’t great. Real fixes for Monster Hunter Wilds are being pushed all the way back to Free Title Update 4 this winter.
The official Monster Hunter X account says Capcom is committed to ‘listening to feedback’ and working on multifaceted ‘CPU and GPU optimizations.’ That sounds nice, except PC players have already been drowning in stutters, frame drops, and even hard crashes since launch. Every patch so far feels like duct tape on a sinking ship, and the post replies have reflected that plunge.
@__4pm wrote angrily, “You’ve been “improving” since launch, less talk and more action.”
“6 months later you finally listening the players?” complained @Augerbenoit86.
Even a console player chimed in. “I hope you dont forget about consoles too,” wrote @ChochoP0P. “picture quality is really bad on base consoles on performance modes.”
Update 1.021 already left a sour taste; it added RNG Talismans for endgame content, but also random crashes bug. It happened every time players fast traveled or fainted, but now, some (like me) can’t even play the game as it always crashes on start-up. Using mods to improve performance barely helps either, as I can only squeeze in one quest before it throws me back to the desktop.
It’s a tough pill to swallow for PC hunters, especially when Steam reviews have nosedived and have been stuck in ‘Mostly Negative’ for months now. It should’ve been the wake-up call for Capcom, instead, it just handed paying customers another vague plans and told us to be patient.
So now the plan is suffer through months of instability until Title Update 4 drops sometime in the winter. That can be either in December, January, or heck, February next year. By then maybe we can hope performance actually improves and say bye-bye to sudden crashes. Nevertheless, even that promise comes with a catch.
Capcom says Monster Hunter Wilds Winter Title Update 4 will only be the ‘first stage’ of optimizations. Then it’ll be followed by another round of vague ‘mitigation measures’ later, who knows when.
Translation? Don’t expect everything to magically run smooth even after waiting half a year. Anyone who hasn’t bought the game might as well wait until the Master Rank expansion drops.
