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Monster Hunter Wilds shoots past 1.1 million players on Steam alone in its first 7 hours, making it Capcom's most successful PC drop by over 500,000 hunters and climbing (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What? Wilds can be played offline. The grind is there but it’s about the same as the other monster hunter games which can also be played offline. The online part of the game just lets you do hunts with other players.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure you can play completely offline, is that really the case? You can play single player the whole thing tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So far, yeah. If it's like World, eventually there's a quest that is just too damn hard to carry alone (Extremoth in Vanilla, I'm looking at you), but if you are not a completionist, sure you can be offline and single player for most of the story line. Actually it looks like offline support is slightly better in this one.

I'm not a total solo hunter, but I am 90% of the time, don't really play with randoms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What I mean is that the game won't let you be truly offline, you seem to always be connected even when alone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And I'm saying it's the same as world. You can drop off the net and play. Private session --> drop connection, play on. Can't say I've ever tried starting it with no network because there's no way in hell it's running on the deck, but you could with MHW, so I wouldn't be surprised if the same rules apply. I will try to remember to check later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it played in MMORPG style in that it doesn't have a pause feature? If so then it may as well be played online. If you can't walk away from the game until you're in a safe spot, then there's no functional difference between an MMO and this game except you don't get randos teabagging your corpse. This is why I stopped playing MH games.

I played MMOs for years and they're great in some ways, but I got tired of always having to arrange myself safely before stepping away for a bio break or a snack.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It has a pause option, at least in a solo session. From what I understand it also can be played offline after the initial denuvo activation (but haven't confirmed it myself). I'm not extremely far into the game yet but so far, the pacing of the game has been really quick and I've never once had to grind anything, but that may be in part due to my experience with monster hunter making it relatively easy to get by with lower tier equipment.

I definitely wouldn't say it's anything like an mmo or live service game besides the fact that it will get free content updates for a little while, and has the option of playing with friends.