There may still be a few months to go until the release of Monster Hunter World's snow-themed Iceborne expansion, but that hasn't stemmed the flow of information spewing out from Capcom's enthusiastic maw. And we now have a whole bunch of new details to ponder over, courtesy of Iceborne's latest trailer and developer diary.
For long-time Monster Hunter fans, perhaps the most exciting revelation in Iceborne's new trailer is the tease that classic phallus-headed foe Brachydios, last seen in Monster Hunter Generations, is set to make a return in September's expansion.
Unfortunately, Capcom is remaining tight-lipped as far as any further Brachydios details go right now, although its latest developer diary does offer more concrete information on other new monsters heading to World as part of the Iceborne expansion.
The limited-time Astera Fests return to Monster Hunter: World for five full weeks of festivities! During the fests, almost all event quests will be available. With the release of Monster Hunter World: Iceborne just around the corner, now's the time to get any special equipment and materials you missed out on!
Week 1: Spring Blossom Fest Friday, July 26 00:00 a.m. to Thursday, August 1 23:59 UTC
Week 2: Summer Twilight Fest Friday, August 2 00:00 a.m. to Thursday, August 8 23:59 UTC
Week 3: Autumn Harvest Fest Friday, August 9 00:00 a.m. to Thursday, August 15 23:59 UTC
Week 4: Winter Star Fest Friday, August 16 00:00 a.m. to Thursday, August 22 23:59 UTC
Week 5: Appreciation Fest Friday, August 23 00:00 a.m. to Thursday, August 29 23:59 UTC
What are Astera Fests? Seasonal events held at the Gathering Hub. Visit Astera's Gathering Hub, the Celestial Pursuit, and you'll find it bedecked with decorations, and the staff garbed in their celebratory best!
・ For the duration of the fests, almost all previously released event quests will be available! ・ As a login bonus, you'll get two Lucky Vouchers! (Three during the Appreciation Fest) ・ There will be daily limited bounties where you can earn Fireworks and Tickets only available during Astera Fests! ・ Special seasonal platters will be available in the Gathering Hub, and items/services at all facilities will be available at reduced costs! ・ The Handler will have special costumes available for a limited time! Note: The Handler will have a different costume for each seasonal event, and if you want to keep using these special costumes after the events have ended, you can purchase them as downloadable content. Please visit the official website for more information. ・ You'll get new backgrounds, titles, poses for your Guild Card, as well as costumes for your Poogie! (If you have yet to acquire them) Note: For a limited time only, from Thursday, August 8 00:00 a.m. to Friday, August 9 23:59 UTC, the event quest "Mosswinin' and Dinin'" will be available to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Steam release!
Week 1: Spring Blossom Fest ・ During this period, almost all of the previous special Event Quests are available again. ・ You'll get some new login bonuses and limited bounties too! - As a login bonus, you'll get two Lucky Vouchers plus a Spring Blossom Ticket. - For the duration of the event, there will be daily limited bounties where you can earn Blossom Fireworks and Spring Blossom Tickets. ・ With Spring Blossom Tickets, you'll be able to craft the Blossom armor set, as well as the Felyne Butterfly set for your Palico. ・ You'll get new backgrounds, titles, and poses for your Guild Card, as well as the Buzzy Bee costume for your Poogie. ・ The Handler's Busy Bee Dress will be available for a limited time only. ・ Items or services at all facilities will be available at reduced costs. ・ A special seasonal platter will be available in the Gathering Hub.
Week 2: Summer Twilight Fest ・ During this period, almost all of the previous special Event Quests are available again. ・ You'll get some new login bonuses and limited bounties too! - As a login bonus, you'll get two Lucky Vouchers plus a Summer Twilight Ticket. - For the duration of the event, there will be daily limited bounties where you can earn Twilight Fireworks and Summer Twilight Tickets. (To celebrate the Summer Twilight Fest's first time on Steam, you'll get two Summer Twilight Tickets each time you complete the daily limited bounty registered in the first limited bounty slot.) ・ With Twilight Tickets, you'll be able to craft the Diver armor set, as well as the Felyne Aloha set for your Palico. ・ Take the Summer Twilight Tickets to the Smithy to activate the delivery request for crafting the Diver Layered Armor. ・ You'll get new backgrounds, titles, and poses for your Guild Card, as well as the Seaside Sausage costume for your Poogie. ・ The Handler's Sunshine Pareo outfit will be available for a limited time only. ・ Items or services at all facilities will be available at reduced costs. ・ A special seasonal platter will be available in the Gathering Hub.
Week 3: Autumn Harvest Fest ・ During this period, almost all of the previous special Event Quests are available again. ・ You'll get some new login bonuses and limited bounties too! - As a login bonus, you'll get two Lucky Vouchers plus an Autumn Harvest Ticket. - For the duration of the event, there will be daily limited bounties where you can earn Harvest Fireworks and Autumn Harvest Tickets. ・ With Autumn Harvest Tickets, you'll be able to craft the Harvest armor set, as well as the Felyne Ghost set for your Palico. ・ Take the Autumn Harvest Tickets to the Smithy to activate the delivery request for crafting the Harvest Layered Armor. ・ You'll get new backgrounds, titles, and poses for your Guild Card, as well as the Pumpkin's Revenge costume for your Poogie. ・The Handler's Mischievous Dress will be available for a limited time only. ・Items or services at all facilities will be available at reduced costs. ・A special seasonal platter will be available in the Gathering Hub.
Week 4: Winter Star Fest ・ During this period, almost all of the previous special Event Quests are available again. ・ You'll get some new login bonuses and limited bounties too! - As a login bonus, you'll get two Lucky Vouchers plus a Winter Star Ticket. - For the duration of the event, there will be daily limited bounties where you can earn Star Fireworks and Winter Star Tickets. ・ With Winter Star Tickets, you'll be able to craft the Orion armor set, as well as the Felyne Snow set for your Palico. ・ Take the Winter Star Tickets to the Smithy to activate the delivery request for crafting the Orion Layered Armor. ・ You'll get new backgrounds, titles, and poses for your Guild Card, as well as the Boa Bell Coat costume for your Poogie. ・ The Handler's Spirit Coat will be available for a limited time only. ・ Items or services at all facilities will be available at reduced costs. ・ A special seasonal platter will be available in the Gathering Hub.
Week 5: Appreciation Fest ・ During this period, almost all of the previous special Event Quests are available again. ・ You'll get some new login bonuses and limited bounties too! - As a login bonus, you'll get three Lucky Vouchers plus an Appreciation Ticket. - For the duration of the event, there will be daily limited bounties where you can earn Blossom Fireworks and Appreciation Tickets. - During the Appreciation Fest, the reward for the 4th limited bounty will be four Lucky Vouchers instead of just one. ・ With Appreciation Tickets, you'll be able to craft the Gala Suit armor set, as well as the Felyne Star set for your Palico. ・ Take the Appreciation Tickets to the Smithy to activate the delivery request for crafting the Gala Layered Armor. ・ You'll get new backgrounds, titles, and poses for your Guild Card, as well as the Sparkling Party costume for your Poogie. ・ The Handler's Friendly Felyne costume will be available for a limited time only. ・ Items or services at all facilities will be available at reduced costs. ・ A special seasonal platter will be available in the Gathering Hub.
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Capcom has released a new developer diary video diving into the upcoming Monster Hunter: World expansion Iceborne. The video touches on a number of additions and changes coming in the update, most important among them a new and improved Gathering Hub, Seliana.
Seliana is a "home base that provides a sense of warmth" by adding a hot spring to the cold world of Hoarfrost Reach that also serves as a new Gathering Hub. Players can indulge in the springs while fully geared up or in more comfortable attire, and will also have access to new gestures, "to take the experience to the next level."
As well as facilitating player interaction, the new hub will also streamline the process of gearing up for a fight by enabling quick access to facilities including the Smithy, Resource Center, the Botanical Research Center, and Argosy. There are still "transitional periods," but the number of loading screens will be reduced.
Iceborne will also incorporate new Squad functionality, with Squad Cards and Sub-Leaders, and player rooms will have customizable furniture, décor items, and wall textures. A planned post-launch update will also enable players to invite friends and fellow huinters into their rooms to hang out.
The video also showcases three of the new monsters who will appear in Iceborne, two sub-species—Fulgur Anjanath and Ebony Odogaron—and the Glavenus, a sword-tailed beastie from Monster Hunter 3. The monsters turn up around the 15 minute mark, or if you prefer you can cut straight to the good stuff in the condensed trailer down below.
Monster Hunter: World—Iceborne comes to consoles in September, but just like the base game, we have to wait: It's not slated to arrive on PC until sometime in the winter.
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You need some downtime when you re huntering monsterers. You need to take the time to wash the Jagras bile out your hair, to trim your Palico’s claws, and to talk to your fellow hunterererers about the Gajau that got away. Capcom has realised that, because the incoming expansion, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, has group baths, saunas, and more monsters as well. Videos below.
On Thursday, July 18 at 00:00 a.m. UTC, we will release title update 6.1, which includes the following new features and bug fixes.
Major Additions and Changes - NVIDIA DLSS support. This allows for improved performance while maintaining visual fidelity, using the powers of AI and deep learning. (Requires an NVIDIA RTX graphics card and Windows 10.)
Required resolutions to use NVIDIA DLSS: 16:9 aspect ratio - 2560x1440 or higher 21:9 aspect ratio - 3360x1440 or higher
- Data for future events.
- Various bug fixes.
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Yes, yes, it’s me. I know, I know, but calm down. While it’s obviously very exciting to have a celebrity as handsome and excellent as me writing you some Steam Charts, I’m still just a regular ordinary guy underneath it all. I leap into my trousers both legs at once, same as anyone else.
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I do remember there being some pretty bad cat puns that we all wish we could unhear,” Marco Bombasi tells me. He s the localisation director for Monster Hunter: World, the man in charge of translating the dinosaur-harvesting game from its original Japanese into other languages, including English. Every player in Monster Hunter gets a cat sidekick who says things like Hello Meow-ster , so I ve asked Bombasi if writing the game’s ubiquitous cat punnage ever produced wordplay so heinous it managed to give the team paws for thought. He says yes, it got bad.
So bad, in fact, that our editor and resident cat pun professional, David, had to write a rulebook on acceptable usage.
If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to sweep through the Steam Charts like a giant fart, it’s a Steam Sale. Blowing out all the fresh, original or interesting new releases, the mid-year discount warehouse (Junction 45 off the M91) ensures it’s a top 10 of games you already bought or decided you don’t want to buy.
So who is buying them? Baddies. You lot are the goodies. It’s the baddies who do this to us.
Here's a fantastic bit of news I missed during E3: Monster Hunter: World is getting a dynamic difficulty system, fixing a lonstanding series issue for multiplayer hunts.
In Monster Hunter games, there's typically only two sets of monster difficulty, one for singleplayer and one for multiplayer. Tackle a hunt with a party, and the monster will have approximately double the health they do for a solo fight. But it doesn't matter if you're in a party of two, three, or four: the health doesn't change. This makes two-player hunts a real slog compared to full party hunts, and if you start a hunt with a group and they disconnect, you're stuck fighting a monster solo that has twice as much HP as it should. That's a real drag.
No more. As IGN points out, during an E3 livestream Capcom said that World is getting a new dynamic difficulty system, and it's not just for Iceborne players. It's coming to the base game. There's now an in-between setting for two-player hunts, where monsters have less health than they would for three- and four-player groups.
The best part is that if you drop back to solo play, the monster's health will now scale with you back to singleplayer levels. That should earn a sigh of relief from anyone who's run into a random server disconnect or had a player bail from a hunt after dying once.
There's no word on when this mechanic will make its way to the PC version, but it's available in the current Iceborne beta on PS4. At the very latest, we should at least get it with the PC release of Iceborne this winter.
The Monster Hunter World Iceborne beta gives you an early hands-on with the upcoming expansion, which releases in full on September 6th.
Exclusive to PS4 players, the Monster Hunter World Iceborne beta is playable without needing to own the base game - and offers several of the expansion's new beasts to fight against.
Here's everything we know so far on Monster Hunter World Iceborne beta - including access, start times, new features to sample and some beta rewards to take into the full release.
