Capcom are laying a standard grumble about Monster Hunter: World on PC to relaxation in a pair weeks, with the discharge of an non-compulsory HD texture pack. While the PC model of the game is the smoothest, nicest-looking approach to play the large boss rush, eagle-eyed people observed that many textures within the PC launch had been barely fuzzier up shut than their console equivalents. Not an enormous distinction, however it was nonetheless seen. Capcom smoothed out a few of this in final October’s replace for the game, however will quickly provide gamers with further area and VRAM the choice to crank all the pieces up additional.
According to Capcom’s announcement, the April 4th replace will provide the excessive res textures as free DLC. The system necessities are a GPU with 8GB of VRAM, and “40GB of free space”. Whether which means the DLC weighs in at 40GB or if that’ll be the ultimate measurement of the game when it’s put in (MH:W is at present 21GB) is unknown. The replace can even embrace a brand new TAA+FXAA anti-aliasing choice and a pair minor quality-of-life enhancements, however in any other case seems like a reasonably minor replace. I’m curious to see what this does to the game’s general efficiency, too.
The graphics replace shall be adopted on April fifth by a brand new occasion quest – an Arch-tempered version of endgame dragon Xeno’jiiva is on the best way. You’ll should be Hunter Rank 50 to take the brand new quest, and repeatedly blatting the even shinier crystal dragon (now with metallic highlights) will earn you two new units of high tier armour. Still, that is only a light warm-up for the upcoming Iceborne expansion, which appears to be like to be re-introducing G-Rank hunts to the game: New Game Plus styled remixed fights towards harder, quicker, meaner variations of outdated creatures with new assaults.
Frustratingly, there’s nonetheless no date for the Witcher crossover on PC. It’s already out on consoles, and options Geralt, playable, looking a forest demon from his world plus the choice to completely unlock him and Ciri as full character skins with their very own perks and particular weapons. The HD texture replace launches on April 4th. Arch-tempered Xeno’jiiva lands April fifth and leaves April 18th.
For newcomers enticed by the up to date visuals, Dave’s guide to Monster Hunter’s basics can be a superb first cease.
