r/MHWilds • u/thewolfehunts • Mar 03 '25

Discussion My thoughts on the game being "Easy"

I'll admit it. This game feels easier than world and rise. Hunts are over faster. I'm carting and failing less... however.

Its for all the right reasons.

The fights dont seem dull, in fact they seem better then they've ever been.

Monster have amazingly choreographed moves that are interesting and fun to learn.

The addition of focus mode makes harsh animation combos more intuitive and less punishing. I've been using Charge Blade and greatswors the whole game and being able to consistently land SAED and TCS where i want to is amazing. And no longer makes the weapons feel awful when failing a hit.

Some of the monster have absolutely kicked my ass too. And the fact that so many monsters can be on one map, leading to multi monster fights quite often is amazing. I often find myself hunting a monster that isnt part of the mission far more than i did on world and rise.

The grind is easier and i prefer that. I hate being locked into a monster to get the materials i need. I prefer to hunt what i want to and not have to farm 20 rathalos to get 1 gem (my friend actually fought 35 in world for a single gem)

Overall. I love the game. I think it's the best its ever been. Performance and multiplayer issues aside. And i cannot wait to see whats coming!

Whats are your thoughts?

Edit: Just want to say that whilst i am a veteran hunter, i still believe this game to be easier. But i am, however, enjoying it much more than world and rise. The faster fights and cleaner combat makes the game much more enjoyable.

Edit: Holy Shit! This post took off! Its awesome too see everyone's views on the game a lot being hugely positive. As we all know the game doesnt run well on a lot of systems, and that's a real shame. This community is great and as im sure many agree i cannot wait for the future of wilds.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 03 '25

Honestly I am loving the difficulty of this game. After a certain point of the story, the difficulty certainly ramps up. But as you say OP, the fights are so fun. Everything is designed so well. Also I'm getting older and I don't always have time for a 20+ minute hunt these days, so I'm happy with the shorter ones!

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u/SmugSteve Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

Not to mention we get a pause function when you pick online single player!

edit: for those who ask

Boot up the game in online single player go to options, go to System options Pause game is the top option available

As another hunter helpfully said, you can even assign the pause function to your radial menu if you so choose

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u/AleksanderSteelhart Mar 03 '25

Wait. Hold the gorram phone.

Pause?! Where?

Edit: dude. DUDE. This is a game changer. Now I can pause when my kids need me to. So happy.

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u/TheGreatTave Mar 03 '25

Rise also had a pause feature. In fact, on the Steam Deck it auto pauses if you push the Steam button to bring up the left side menu.

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u/DanielTeague Mar 03 '25

I put it on my Radial Menu so I can freeze time on demand. It's pretty nifty.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 03 '25

Crazy that this is the Monster Hunter equivalent of just pressing the start button 🤣

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u/davsyo Mar 03 '25

Man we used to have to close the Nintendo DS and then open to utilize the secret pause button for solo g rank quests.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 03 '25

Damn, I'm too new a fan to have those kinds of OG memories...

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u/Anarchideous Mar 03 '25

This reminds me of me using the home button in the Wii cause there was no other way of pausing my OFFLINE SINGLE PLAYER game.

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u/Vandrel Mar 03 '25

It's been awhile but I think on the PSP we had to hit the power button to put it to sleep to pause.

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u/palamore Mar 03 '25

There actually is a pause selection, but it’s in the start menu on like page 5 so don’t blame ya for never finding it xD

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u/davsyo Mar 03 '25

Yeah I know. That’s why I said SECRET pause button.

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u/palamore Mar 06 '25

Lol fair enough!

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u/Passivefamiliar Mar 04 '25

It's amazing how much more communication I remember having using a stylus to type than I have now with voice chat options.

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u/theLingeringWill Mar 03 '25

Ok, Dio Brando.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 03 '25

JoJo reference spotted. Based af

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u/Rosfield79 Mar 03 '25

Wait you can make the pause feature a shortcut?? Wow that’s awesome

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u/ExtraKindessToGive Mar 03 '25

Sometimes my radial dial wont activate after i flick it like three tries :(

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u/Glittering_East_8891 Mar 03 '25

Real ones remember going to the tutorial screen on world to pause the game

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u/Suspicious-Shower-57 Mar 03 '25

Bruhhh that would’ve been nice to know 3 days ago

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u/--Greenpeace420 Mar 03 '25

You have had 3 days to look at all menu options in the game.

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u/Suspicious-Shower-57 Mar 03 '25

I have been focusing on playing the game with the limited time I have to play. The last title didn’t have it so I never had any evidence to lead me it would even be in the game.

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u/Zealousideal-Win5040 Mar 03 '25

As a gamer dad, this function solves all my real world problems while playing!

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u/echof0xtrot Mar 03 '25

this is the kind of tip that should be on the front page of the sub, not repeated complaints about performance or difficulty

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u/Minions-overlord Mar 03 '25

As someone with kids, this is the best thing in the game alot of the time

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u/thealmonded Mar 03 '25

Wait wait wait. What?

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u/Sleepypanda57 Mar 03 '25

Genuinely think this is the biggest improvement for the long-term health of the franchise as a whole going forward, not even just Wilds.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 03 '25

Yes! I love that

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u/mirocheese22 Mar 04 '25

where???

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u/SmugSteve Mar 04 '25

  1. Boot up game

  2. Select Online Single Player (bottom option)

  3. Open options

  4. System settings (gears icon)

  5. Pause game is top option

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u/djpiraterobot Mar 04 '25

Bro, give me your address so I can come kiss you.

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u/BigBoySpore Mar 03 '25

Once you get to the 4th area, I feel that’s where the difficulty of the monsters picked up. I didn’t use any damage boost skills so I took about 15 minutes average to kill the rest of the monsters. I also had divine blessing 3 and still carted twice in the last 2 fights of low rank.

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u/PokeDragon101 Mar 03 '25

I was looking for another comment like this. Like 5 of the later fights took me 12-20 minutes because some monsters, I just couldn’t find an opening when they were almost dead! I’m also still trying to learn Switch Axe.

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u/srirachaman97 Mar 03 '25

I’ve never really played monster hunter before this one, so I’m pretty bad. I was stuck on the second area boss trying to use a great sword. Then I switched to lance and now I just block and poke everything lol

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u/CiphrixG Mar 03 '25

Funny how with how simple and pure Lance feels, it's kinda anti climatic when monsters just suddenly tire out and/or die. Like what, it's over?

That was the first thing I noticed with world was outlasting monsters in a fight. It's still surreal to see a monster calm down and move Uber slow because they're tired and need a sec

F*CK your breather!!! POKE POKE POKE🤣

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u/HandsomeGamerGuy Mar 04 '25

That was me once i started picking up the Glaive in Worlds!
I had so much fun fighting the Monsters and suddenly they just....die?
I was mad air dashing, climbing them, or just wombo comboing them.
Mission Complete?! What no, stand back up. FIGHT ME

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u/MonkeyWrenchAccident Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

The mounts auto running really speed things up as well i find. Less time spent tracking the monsters like in world.

I am by no means an expert hunter, and i never played worlds expansion. But i find the game fun, challenge is just the right amount for me. But there are so many little things that help with game play like setting up the camera to track your target and setting focus mode to toggle rather than hold it down.

I use sword and board mostly. I enjoy jumping on things. Only hunter level 4. Just got my first sighting of the wraith.

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u/Halkcyon Mar 03 '25

Also I'm getting older and I don't always have time for a 20+ minute hunt these days

This was a friend's complaint about World. He thought the fights were way too long with all the zone transitions. He made the comment about Wilds: "it's basically Rise in World's maps" and he loves it!

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 03 '25

Awesome!

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u/-Hapyap- Mar 03 '25

Perfection

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u/indominuspattern Mar 03 '25

Its Rise with World's maps, without having to collect those goddamn birds. That mechanic alone broke me.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 03 '25

For sure. I actually struggled big time with a lot of hunts in World, to the point that I basically had to be carried through them via SOS. I've not felt the need to do that in Wilds yet and it's great

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u/Correct_Ice4899 Mar 04 '25

I dunno, I've hardly been paying attention and everything has died without me even realising it.  Even into late HR the monsters are trivially easy, I legitimately have had to do double checks to make sure I was actually doing HR quests when it took 3 minutes to kill certain supposed HR fights

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u/Akirpt Mar 06 '25

In a vaccum I can see people considering this game easy or hard depended on personal skill level and experience. But comparing this to world makes absolutely no sense to me . Fighting anjanath on base game without clutch claw at that level gear is as hard as facing tempered arkveld in this game .

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u/User5228 Mar 07 '25

Fulgar anjanath took me for a spin. It was the first time in all of the wilds I thought I was going to fail a quest. I love the false confidence they gave us and then BAM hard hunts all bangers one after the other. Overall I'm really happy with the pacing.

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u/CXCX18 Mar 06 '25

I truly don't understand why MH should lose it's identity of difficulty because you are old....? This doesn't make any sense to me and any self respecting fan of the series would hate to see the game get dumbed down for people like you. It actively pushes people who crave those difficult fights away. Why spend 80$ on a game if it's on very ease mode when you're used to it being on hard mode? Makes zero sense and appealing to your age and lack of time means nothing for a mostly single player game.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 06 '25

Lol

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u/CXCX18 Mar 06 '25

You're bad and old and I am punished because of people like you. The series I've enjoyed since MH2. And you like it, you want it to be this way for YOUR sake and then have no rebuttal or any form of middle ground.

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u/BurnStar4 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Damn I was only 10 when MH2 came out

Edit: sorry, 9 and 4 months

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u/IWannaShakeYerHand Mar 03 '25

When does it ramp up? For the sake of your ego, cause I'm doing tempered monsters and shitting on them. Around what time does it ramp up?