Monster Hunter Wilds’ Pack-Based Ecosystems Can Hopefully Be a Solution to World’s Biggest Problem

Highlights

• Monster Hunter Wilds’ dynamic environments and monster packs offer new gameplay opportunities, possibly making hunts more efficient and rewarding.
• Quality-of-life changes in Wilds, such as Focus Mode, show a shift towards inclusive gaming experiences for all players.

Quite a bit of information regarding Monster Hunter Wilds has been issued since the game’s announcement and that’s surprising with how far out it is. 2025 is nearer with every day that passes but Monster Hunter Wilds seems fairly far along in development with how much it’s been comfortable to share and could possibly point toward a release in the front half of next year as opposed to the back half as a result. It’s certainly one of the only 2025 games to be so confident in what it’s showing and thus far it’s made many authentic strides that can already uniquely identify it apart from its predecessors.

“Dynamic, ever-changing environments” seem like a natural evolution of the diverse regions Monster Hunter World debuted and it’ll be exciting to see how Wilds takes advantage of current-gen hardware. Not every new feature needs to be as game-definingly drastic to be substantial, though; In fact, how Wilds is iterating on roaming packs of monsters may seem rather ordinary or underwhelming if not for what it could mean for gameplay. More specifically, Wilds may be subtly rewriting the guidebook on how players approach what would normally be a long-winded grind for monster resources.

Monster Hunter Wilds’ Large Monster Packs Mean More of the Same Monster at Any Given Time

Being able to carry two unique weapon types on players’ mounts is easily the most exciting new Monster Hunter feature due to all the opportunities that will be afforded in Wilds. That said, if “some of the large monsters of the region may also form packs” as the official Monster Hunter Wilds website states, that could mean it’s easier to come away from a quest or expedition with more resources at a time, making hunts more efficient without players needing to return to the hub and set out on another to wrangle the same large monster over and over.

The case may be that three or four Doshagumas are roaming in the Windward Plains during a particular climate that players can take on all at once to reap the reward of all their loot, for example. Packs probably won’t appear for every large monster, especially any Elders that Wilds happens to feature, but this feature will be fortuitous for anyone who needs a large monster’s resources if that particular creature can be found in a herd.

Monster Hunter Wilds May Be All About Efficiency and Quality of Life

Players probably won’t have to worry nearly as much about low drop rates or partaking in several of the same hunts back to back because they’ll possibly have at least twice or triple the amount of resources than they’d normally receive, giving them a better chance to obtain what they need in a shorter time and effectively cutting down on Monster Hunter’s typical grind. However, perhaps Capcom might decide to increase the number of resources required to craft or upgrade gear and weapons due to certain monsters being far more rampant.

Even so, large monster herds look like the result of a quality-of-life endeavor that Monster Hunter Wilds may be leaning into fully. Monster Hunter Wilds’ Focus Mode, for instance, is already a massive accessibility change that Capcom is incentivizing and will seemingly make hunts far more efficient. Wilds could be the most inclusive and quality-of-life-centered Monster Hunter game yet with such changes and it’ll be exciting to see how instrumental they all are when married together in the middle of an elaborate hunt.