Ol’ Geralt has gone tumbling by one other magical portal, this time travelling from the world of The Witcher Three to Monster Hunter: World. The crossover occasion lets us play as Geralt to trace and homicide a Witcher monster, the leshen treeman, along with his normal Witching methods. Do so and you will get his armour and sword, plus a grotesque outfit to your Palico catfriend. A second, more durable a part of the crossover starring Ciri will comply with later this month together with her gear as rewards, however just for a number of weeks.
Right so, right here’s Geralt of Rivia come fallen by one other portal in a brand new singleplayer quest out there at rank 16. Playing as him, we’ll monitor the leshen along with his magical Witcher senses that make issues glow crimson, analyse corpses, blast Igni flames, and pull different methods you’ll acquainted from The Witcher 3. I perceive the hunt additionally has facet goals that may open a number of endings. Do that and also you’ll get to make Geralt’s armour and silver sword for keepsies, and extra-good Geralts will get to decorate their Palico as a type of horrible little nekker monsters and provides ’em a spooky skullstaff.
That quest is a everlasting addition, out there to any extent further. The one with Ciri shouldn’t be.
From May 17-30th, rank 50 hunters can go on a mega-tough multiplayer leshen hunt. I hear that one’s an actual git of a hunt. Rewards out there from that embody Ciri’s rad armour and twin swords, in addition to methods to get assets for ‘layered’ variations of Geralt and Ciri’s armour that change your look whereas retaining stats of your different armour. You’ll solely have till May 30th for this hunt, although I assume it’s helpful that console gamers have already gone by the difficulty of determining how greatest to struggle the beastie.
See the crossover announcement for extra specifics on the everlasting and fleeting parts of the crossover. And right here’s a trailer from the console launch:
While Monster Hunter’s Witcher crossover hit consoles in February, it’s solely come our method in the present day. See the patch notes for extra particulars on different adjustments and fixes in in the present day’s replace, which is now reside.
Capcom are presently engaged on a Monster Hunter: World full enlargement named Iceborne. It’ll go to a cold new land, homicide new monsters, and all that. The console launch is due this autumn however sadly it appears the customary PC delays will proceed.