{"id":45256,"date":"2025-03-06T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=45256"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:01:11","slug":"monster-hunter-wilds-players-are-zooming-through-the-game-with-50-already-reaching-high-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/monster-hunter-wilds-players-are-zooming-through-the-game-with-50-already-reaching-high-rank\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster Hunter Wilds’ players are zooming through the game, with 50% already reaching high rank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Capcom only released Monster Hunter Wilds <\/strong>on February 28, however achievement and trophy data reveals that around half of the game\u2019s players have already unlocked the high rank environments, suggesting that many have been playing the game heavily since release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You start out in Monster Hunter Wilds at low rank. This is essentially the game\u2019s main story, which introduces you to different monster types, their behaviors and how to hunt them. To unlock high rank, you need to reach the game\u2019s end credits, i.e. finish the main story. Although Wilds was only released last week, 53.9% of Steam players and 47.1% of PS5 players have already unlocked the High Rank environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To put this in perspective, let\u2019s look at the stats for the series\u2019 previous mainline entry, 2018\u2019s Monster Hunter World. In World, 53.9% of Steam players and 47.5% of PS4 players have unlocked the achievement\/trophy \u201cDeath Begets Life\u201d for successfully guiding Zorah Magdaros, thus unlocking six-star assignments and reaching the high rank environments. These are almost the same percentages as Wilds, however, Monster Hunter Wilds has only been available for a week, whereas Monster Hunter World launched 7 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that around half of the players have already reached high rank could also be thanks to Wilds\u2019 speedier and improved gameplay. Both World and Wilds are spacious, open-world games with mounts that can be ridden to help you cover the distance between hunts. However, Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 Seikret mounts<\/a> have an autopilot that swiftly takes you straight to your next hunt, potentially cutting down on travel time if you choose to use it. Part of the reason autopilot was added to the game was because there were reports of people quitting 2018\u2019s Monster Hunter World without even making it to the end of a hunt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Monster<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 UI was also designed to make it easily accessible to a variety of players, and the difficulty of the low rank hunts was designed to increase very gradually, making it potentially less likely that players will run into something that will make them give up. Series veterans and experienced open-world RPG players have likely found it easy to zoom through to the high rank environments of Monster Hunter Wilds without much trouble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s the fact that Monster Hunter Wilds has a powerful, addictive pull on many players. While Balatro addicts might be thinking \u201cjust one more run,\u201d Monster Hunter Wilds players are thinking \u201cI\u2019ll just explore this valley, I\u2019ll just complete this short hunt, etc.\u201d Although player numbers have started to decline a little over the past two days, Monster Hunter Wilds has been attracting a steady peak of concurrent players on Steam, ranging from around 1.3 million to 1.1 million (source: SteamDB)-<\/a> suggesting that many are playing the game every day (while maybe popping out for a cheese naan at lunchtime<\/a>). Even the PR manager of The Hundred Line got so distracted by hunting in Wilds that they forgot to log in to the 100-day challenge for their own<\/em> game<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monster Hunter Wilds is available now on PC \u00a0(Steam<\/a>), Xbox Series X|S and PS5.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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