Capcom has announced that it is investigating a key issue in Monster Hunter Wilds that could stop players from progressing further into its story. Taking to social media platform X, the Monster Hunter Status account posted that the bug involves an NPC, who needs to be interacted with, having a chance of not appearing in Chapter 5-2: A World Turned Upside Down.
While the company has acknowledged the bug and is looking into it, it hasn’t announced a timeline for when we can expect the issue to be fixed.
“Hunters, we are currently investigating the following issue,” posted the Monster Hunter Status account on X. “There may be cases where an NPC does not appear, disabling story progression in Main Mission: Chapter 5-2 A World Turned Upside Down. We are currently working on these issues and will provide further updates when we have them.”
Minor spoilers below: For some additional context, Chapter 5 of Monster Hunter Wilds takes place well into the later parts of the game. With the main story largely revolving around the first four chapters of the game, Chapter 5 takes players higher up the Hunter Ranks and involves fighting High-Rank monsters.
Since its release, Monster Hunter Wilds has also been plagued with technical problems in its PC version. Capcom has acknowledged these issues, and has recommended that players try out a host of potential solutions, including updating GPU drivers and disabling any compatibility modes to try and alleviate issues.
Despite issues, however, Monster Hunter Wilds has been incredibly popular. Its launch day alone saw concurrent players on Steam cross 1.2 million before subsequently peaking at 1,384,608 over the weekend.
While Capcom works on fixing these issues, the company has also revealed that the first major update for the game will be released in early April. The update will bring a new monster to the game – Mizutsune – as well as other features, including a Gathering Hub for multiplayer.
Mizutsune first debuted as one of the four cover monsters for the 3DS-exclusive Monster Hunter Generations. While it wasn’t present in Monster Hunter World, it did return in Monster Hunter Rise. Since it is a post-launch addition to Wilds, Mizutsune will likely be a more challenging monster to fight than what the game has so far featured in its story.
Leading up to the launch of Monster Hunter Wilds, series producer Ryozo Tsujimoto spoke about why the team hasn’t remastered or remade any of the older mainline games in the franchise. In an interview, Tsujimoto spoke about the older titles being designed around the technical limitations of console hardware and Internet infrastructure of their times, and releasing them on modern platforms would essentially require remaking them from the ground up.
Monster Hunter Wilds is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Check out our review for more details.
Hunters, we are currently investigating the following issue.
・There may be cases where an NPC does not appear, disabling story progression in Main Mission: Chapter 5-2 A World Turned Upside Down
We are currently working on these issues and will provide further updates when we…
— Monster Hunter Status (@MHStatusUpdates) March 2, 2025
