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First Monster Hunter Wilds updates fix a progress-blocking bug, but not the dodgy PC performance
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First Monster Hunter Wilds updates fix a progress-blocking bug, but not the dodgy PC performance

Monster Hunter Wilds has been racking up the skulls, attracting well over a million simultaneous Steam players this weekend despite a mixed player reaction, with particular scorn reserved for its technical performance.

Now begins the process of patching the behemoth to address some player-reported problems with certain quests. Patching is sort of like slaughtering a Monster in reverse: sewing on horns and tails rather than chopping them off, re-embowelling the shackled form of the creature so that it can gallop across the plains, monstrous and free.

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By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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