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Excellent news: Monster Hunter Wilds has a launch date, so Capcom can lastly cease throwing round that imprecise “2025” window. Even higher: Wilds is launching on PC the identical day as console, an enormous first for the collection, on February 28, 2025.
Launching all over the place on the identical time is nothing new for Capcom, however it’s new for the Monster Hunter collection. Capcom’s wording round Wilds final 12 months recommended that it was placing its full weight behind the PC this time, however like Monster Hunters World and Rise earlier than it, some have been nervous PC would nonetheless have to attend a bit longer to hitch the looking get together.
At the moment’s trailer premiere at PlayStation’s State of Play stream did not assist clear issues up. The trailer solely talked about a PS5 launch date, and the accompanying PS Weblog put up did not title different platforms both. Fortunately, a special model of the trailer revealed by Capcom supplied the excellent news. Three platforms, one date: February 28.
Capcom’s embracing of Monster Hunter on PC makes extra sense should you’ve adopted the collection’ rise in prominence these final handful of years—following Wilds’ reveal in 2023, PC followers returned to Monster Hunter World in droves, contributing to its highest concurrent participant counts in three years. 9 months later, World nonetheless hasn’t left the most-played charts.
PC players love Monster Hunter, they usually have loads of new information to sift by on this trailer. This one’s extra story-focused than earlier seems at Wilds, displaying off Wilds’ second area, the Scarlet Forest. Dynamic climate will play an enormous half in Wilds—we have gotten a great take a look at the sandstorms that may whip up in Wilds’ introductory area, and in distinction, the Scarlet Forest has a tropical storm that “batters the setting, lowering visibility and inflicting the water currents to surge,” based on Capcom.
“After the storm breaks, the solar shines by the timber within the dense forest, making approach for vibrant blue skies and water because the crops and creatures change…”
Do not inform me any extra. Beginning immediately, I am on a self-imposed Monster Hunter blackout till February.