There are multiple village, we already see two of them one in wasteland and one in oil volcano area.
In village they can cook you food that has stronger buffs than what you can cook on the field.
Wilds beta alone is much more fun than World (and I played billion hours of World). Offsets and power clashes make fights like a beautiful deadly dance. Monsters designs already infinitely better than World, not to mention weapon design.
The performance is horrendeous, the visuals are heavily downgraded from World and the combat lacks that meaty and methodical ways of prior games. The streamlining has gone to such extreme lengths that MH now plays like any other action game. I think it is losing its identity. MH Rise was already pushing it with wirebugs and instant monster GPS lock.
I recently finished replaying World/Iceborne in including beating Fatalis I enjoyed a lot but I can safely say I’m enjoying Wilds a lot more even on old build beta.
I can understand saying this about Rise, but Wilds combat is extremely similar to world with a few different moves per weapon and a wound mechanic instead of the clutch claw. I have no idea how it is streamlined.
Which is fucking 10000 times better than that fucking Tenderizing mechanic in Iceborne.
Weapon swap during battle does make monster matchups a bit easier. I hope we have some Monsters that are immune to Focus System to spice things up. Some DPS checks might also be nice if you need to pop a wound to knock a monster out of an unblockable attack. Streamlining I see is cookie cutter DPS rotations, auto crafting, excessive amounts of guard points and perfect evades(Dual Blades) being present in weapons. Multistake on GL has Guard points everywhere and I believe Iframes on the first quick Wyvern's Fire following Multistake.
I think they picked the worst locale to show off. Probably should of went with the Ice zone or the Red Forest.
Visuals objectively better than World, this isn't subjective. The fights with Rey Dau and Arkveld are pure spectacle with all the effects on screen and performance hold up well. I'm playing on the pro though, regardless they mentioned performance is being improved.
I figured I’d share this since it’s kinda funny. I was listening to a debate on Wilds and how keyboard and mouse is the best control input (main argument was around focus mode) and I had to laugh… after 1000’s of hours of console MH, things happen:
Anyway, this is muscle memory to me now. But I’ve been aiming my attacks (ala focus mode) years before Wilds appeared.
It's streamlined, and yet more fun... because the ingredients aren't just items in a menu screen, you actually cook meals with them. It must have been so much work for them to create this system, just for immersion / enjoyment. Another change I don't mind, and honestly prefer.
The performance mode still looks like a blurry mess to me from that footage. Most of the footage in the video is from Resolution mode.
Maybe I'm wrong but it seems better to me compared to the beta. Maybe I shouldn't have said much better lol.
DOF and motion blur can be turned off in the options. At least in the beta those had absolute garbage implementations that resuled more in smear than anything else.
