Monster Hunter Wilds Is Getting a Patch To Fix a Known Story Progression Bug

Monster Hunter Wilds has a patch arriving soon, addressing a known but fairly important issue with its story progression.

As noted over the weekend by the Monster Hunter Status account on X/Twitter, players encountered an issue where a certain NPC didn't appear. Without the NPC there, this disabled story progression for Main Mission: Chapter 5-2 "A World Turned Upside Down."

The main Monster Hunter account followed up with an update this morning, and confirmed a patch addressing the known progression blcokers will be deployed tomorrow morning, March 4. The update will briefly drop players from their online sessions when it goes live, but they will be able to jump back in after updating.

It's a fast turnaround for a very frustrating bug, which is good to see. Hopefully anyone stalled out by the random disappearing NPC will be able to find them now.

Repliers and commenters are still clamoring on social media for performance and optimization updates though. PC players have been voicing concern over Monster Hunter Wilds' performance on their set-ups, and joining together in various communities to try and find settings to help optimize play.

A title update for Monster Hunter Wilds is expected in April, which is due to add a new endgame area to gather, as well as more monster hunting action for players to embark on. We'll see if the update takes aim at PC performance and optimization. In the meantime, though, it doesn't seem to have affected player counts: Monster Hunter Wilds has been shattering records for both its own series and the PC storefront Steam.

To help get your Monster Hunter Wilds adventure started, take a look at what Monster Hunter Wilds doesn’t tell you, and a guide to all 14 weapon types in the game. We’ve also got a detailed Monster Hunter Wilds walkthrough in progress, a Monster Hunter Wilds multiplayer guide to explain how to play with friends, and if you’ve played one of the open betas, here’s how to transfer your Monster Hunter Wilds Beta character over.

IGN’s Monster Hunter Wilds review returned an 8/10. We said: “Monster Hunter Wilds continues to smooth off the rougher corners of the series in smart ways, making for some extremely fun fights but also lacking any real challenge.”

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.