Next month, Capcom will deliver Monster Hunter Wilds to gamers simply over seven years because the final mainline sport, Monster Hunter: World, debuted in 2018. There was an open beta for gamers in October, and now Capcom has introduced {that a} second open beta in February. The information was accompanied by the next video, which options Monster Hunter Wilds producer Ryozo Tsujimoto utilizing the create-a-character operate to put himself within the sport.
By way of content material, the brand new beta will likely be similar to the one from final 12 months. Gamers will nonetheless have the ability to use the character creator, check out the story trial, and full the Slay Doshaguma quest. Nevertheless, this model of the demo may also embrace Gypceros, a monster from the earlier video games who was absent within the first demo.
In accordance with Tsujimoto, characters created within the first beta could be carried over to the second beta and to the ultimate model of the sport as nicely. Nevertheless, sport progress is not going to be transferable. The second open beta will likely be held over two weekends on Xbox Sequence X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. It’ll even be cross-platform, and the beta is open to all gamers no matter whether or not they have Sport Go or PlayStation Plus.
Gamers who participate within the new beta will get bonus in-game rewards together with a attraction for a weapon and an merchandise pack. The second beta will happen from February 6 at at 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET till February 9 on the similar time. Then the beta may have one other weekend preview on February 13-16, presumably throughout the identical hours because the earlier occasion.
Tsujimoto famous that the group has applied adjustments primarily based on suggestions to the primary beta check, which attracted nearly 500,000 concurrent gamers on Steam. Sadly, these adjustments is not going to be within the subsequent beta. As an alternative, Capcom will probably wait till the sport’s February 28 launch date to implement these enhancements.