‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ reviews hit “Overwhelmingly Negative” on Steam with many players citing issues running the game, claiming that performance has worsened over time and some noting the lack of new monsters and endgame content
‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ reviews hit “Overwhelmingly Negative” on Steam with many players citing issues running the game, claiming that performance has worsened over time and some noting the lack of new monsters and endgame content
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Can’t argue with performance. I just stopped playing because of all the frame drops and crashing.
it’s depressing how unoptimised games like this still sell millions
I think the game is fantastic, but the limited content and the 45 FPS cap, even on my 3080 Ti, is really disappointing.
This is actually so sad. Yes, the game has performance issues but it is a great game. Capcom should really fix it, they should’ve done so already.
And lack of content, well yes kinda but wasn’t it the same with world for example? Base World was also pretty “empty” but if you play now it is so much fun, especially with Iceborn.
We can only wait and hope that Capcom will deliver, fixes and content, and the reviews will change for the better in the future
It’s hard to argue with the criticism, it really has gotten worse over time and the game is so streamlined you can’t even take your time with it, I’ve never completed a monster hunter as fast as this one.
Xbox one and ps5 came out 5 years ago citing how they were both going to run games at 60 fps.
It’s 2025 now and the fact that nearly every developer can’t optimize a single title to actually hit 60 fps is very telling of how lazy developers are now.
Yeah the pace of significant updates really is quite slow. I’ve been playing at launch, then once again when the first medium sized update dropped and that’s it.
The game feels way too easy, everything dies in 5 minutes, building strong and exciting sets is not necessary when you barely notice the benefits.
Plus bugs, they never fixed the “vibrating” character models during conversations or cutscenes in the months since release on pc (well, my pc at least haha)
I’m mainly disappointed by the crap story and how it ended before High-Rank. And especially how much focus there was on the story, I was expecting a more fleshed out scenario.
And the High-Rank part that lead up to Gore Magala barely felt like a story at all. Just some extra stuff.
Even as a huge MH fan, I stopped playing shortly after release because there just wasn’t shit to do. I didn’t even pour that many hours in, the game just wasn’t great. Shit is WAY too easy to kill, it’s a faceroll to become OP, and (on PC) the crashes were so demotivating that it just wasn’t worth it to *maybe* play for 30 mins before I crashed.
Hoping that Capcom will get their ass in gear and optimize the game for stability and longevity, otherwise this is gonna wind up being a regret purchase that’ll make me question going forward with the franchise.
this makes me curious so i go back to my favorite title:
Monsters Hunter: World is currently having ~298k reviews, overall rating is at Very Positive.
and the player count is about 26k at the moment. i guess it’s always one of the best MH games, unlike Wilds.
wow crazy how all of the “it runs fine on my machine” people at launch suddenly disappeared. almost like it didn’t run “fine on my machine”!
I’m a simple man; I see Denuvo, I don’t buy.
Well you guys already paid for it despite the performance issues being obvious from the start. Insert the bike meme lol
To be fair, no MH ever was that bad, had so little content and was that boring. The performance is ass, the game is largely ass and the updates are so ass that TU2 is technically still only cut content that should have been there before. Its the onliest MH the speedrunning community largely gave up on and even worse nobody cares for.
People always say that we have just gotten too good but realistically speaking, between sneak attack, mount, paralysis and knockout, other stuns, traps and flashes no monster just does anything. The entire game is like punching dummies. Add to that the least amount of monster ever and the least interesting monsters ever.
Takes one guess as to why every recent monster hunter now has more players than whatever this is
Edit: Its worse actually because after the horrible beta, the benchmark kinda lied to people, showing better performance than the actual game afterwards. Which is certainly something
Games are starting to hit a point where the players are better off just waiting years to play their unoptimized game. I loved the first Division. I don’t know why I didn’t play their second right away but I just started when it recently hit gamepass. The game had a ton of content, solid player base, and it seems they have really nailed a lot of quality of life changes. 6 years after release and I am playing the best version of the game almost free (bought the New York DLC so far). I have no doubt monster hunter will be a great game for $5 years from now and I will enjoy the hell out of it then.
I know my 3060 isn’t high end but this is literally the only game I’ve played that crashed on medium and low settings.
Crashing itself used to be a rare thing too. It’s honestly the only game that’s crashed multiple times for me.
People are definitely complaining about performance.
But the game is being review bombed in China, just like the last two monster hunter games.
Ever since the whole ridiculous “dirty knees” fiasco from the monster hunter movie, every single monster hunter game has been review bombed on steam.
Look at the majority of recent reviews – nearly 70% of all recent reviews are from china and almost all of those are negative, of which less than half are actually making comments about the game at all, let alone performance.
about fucking time you lot took a stance. shame you couldn’t do it at launch after Capcom enjoyed all those profits.
This might be an unpopular opinion, but Wilds is probably my least favorite monster hunter ever. And the performance sucks
I guess Alma and Gemma could only carry the title for so long 🤷♂️
I’ve uninstalled at this point. Maybe see ya when the dlc drops
I felt zero desire to grind for any high tier loot because of how easy and fast the hunts were to begin with. In World, I was always chasing better gear and decos to kit out my guy and I was still getting slammed by monsters and that just encouraged me to get stronger. Then Master Rank with Iceborne came out and it was a whole other journey to get strong 💪
And people were citing this as a GOTY contender…
People clearly didn’t want to learn from Dragon’s Dogma 2 dogshit performance lmao. The fact it sold 10m copies will enable Capcom to release games in a sorryass state even more on PC.
yeah it’s really unoptimised, more than half my friends can’t run the game on stable 60 without frame gen, dlls and turning everything to mega low. Making the game look extremely washed, I’m lucky to have a good computer but ever since last patch everytime i fast travel the game freezes for 5 seconds. Just makes you not want to play
Totally deserved. It’s just embarrassing for Capcom at this point. AAA devs really be coasting lately.
I don’t get how since World’s they cannot get a decent endgame going. Also yes performance is ridiculous even on a high end pc
Pretty much sums up my experience.
Perfomance issues are something to be concerned about and people are right to complain.
But if you post a negative review because you burned the game in the first week by playin 24/7 and they dont release a new monster each month you need to shut the hell up, go play some other games jeesus!
Performance issues aside, cause that is important, but this is the downside of MH finally getting popular during the time of live service games. To newbies the game very much seems like live service so they expect constant streams of new stuff, or they played games at the end of their life cycle like risebreak or iceborne and expect all that content in wilds. This is not bad for a base game with 1 title update. Stop bitching because you rushed to the barely existing endgame with a build you found on youtube. Also if you’re complaining about not enough content, spoilers, that means you probably like the game lol
Capcom having their FFXIV Dawntrail moment lmao
I switched to pc gaming and it’s unfortunate that I have to keep and eye on certain companies due to the fact they are known for making bad pc ports.
It should be criminal to release such unpolished and optimized crap as a final ***paid*** product.
On PC, I found the issue with performance wasn’t the game, but due to Nvidia drivers that shouldn’t have been pushed.
It’s a known thing right now that new Nvidia drivers are highly unstable and cause games to crash, and I encountered that with MHWilds, and Nvidia response? Downgrade while we fix the issues and that was three updates to their drivers ago.
As soon as I downgraded, MH Wilds was running fine again. If you are having issues with Wilds, try downgrading back to an earlier Driver. Mine ended up needing 576.02 and after that, resolved all my issues with Wilds. You have to install manually though, can’t use GeForce Experience.