17 Facts About Monster Hunter World

Monster Hunter: World received critical acclaim upon release, with critics praising how Capcom was able to make the game more accessible to new players and to Western markets, without detracting from the series' core gameplay elements and enjoyable difficulty, and fully taking advantage of the computational capacity of modern consoles to create living ecosystems, with some even calling it the best in the franchise.

Monster Hunter: World is the single highest-selling game in Capcom's history, with over 21 million copies shipped by July 2022.

The next mainline installment, Monster Hunter Rise, was co-developed alongside World and announced for a worldwide release on Nintendo Switch in March 2021, with a Microsoft Windows version released the following year.

Monster Hunter: World is an action role-playing game played from a third-person perspective.

Weapons and armor carry various skills which have a number of different effects for the player; Monster Hunter World introduces a new streamlined skill system compared to previous games, where each weapon or armor piece has one or more ranks in at least one skill, and the total effect of a skill on the player is determined by adding up all ranks of that skill from all equipped items the player carries.

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From camp, the player can acquire limited provisions, rest to restore their health, and new to Monster Hunter World, have a meal that provides limited-time buffs to the player.

The player sets out to track down monsters, which in World is aided with the use of Scout flies, which hover near tracks and other signs of large monsters, or highlight resources that the player can collect such as flora, ores, bones, and insects.

The player can carry various restorative items for health and stamina; unlike previous games where the player was forced to stand still to consume them, Monster Hunter World allows the player to do so while walking, though the player must not be interrupted for a few moments to gain the full effects of the restorative item.

The game will not include any type of microtransactions that influence gameplay; Tsujimoto said that as Monster Hunter is meant as a cooperative game, they did not want to create any type of "friction" between players due to some having simply purchased better equipment with real-world funds compared to those that spent the time to work through challenges to acquire the equipment.

The New World is an untamed wilderness where many powerful monsters roam free, and where researchers have been drawn to uncover new mysteries.

Development of Monster Hunter World started about three years prior to the E3 2017 reveal, following a year of brainstorming on what the next core title in the series would be.

Monster Hunter World animation was developed in part with motion capture, with human actors acting out some of the various monster actions.

Monster Hunter: World received "universal acclaim" from critics on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, and a "generally favourable" reception on PC, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Monster Hunter: World shipped over five million copies three days after release, including digital sales, which exceeded all other previous games in the series.

NPD Group reported that Monster Hunter World was the top-selling game in the United States within both January and February 2018.

Digital sales of the game challenged those of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on Xbox One's marketplace, which had held the top sales position for two months prior; in the United States, Monster Hunter World surpassed Battlegrounds in the second week of its release, while it came just behind Battlegrounds for the United Kingdom charts.

Monster Hunter World shipments surpassed 20 million units by October 2021, and Iceborne reached 8.