Capcom has issued a warning ahead of the new Monster Hunter Wilds update that their mods are not guaranteed to work upon its release.
Obviously, in the era we're in, game updates are a thing you have to deal with no matter if it's a single-player RPG or a multiplayer shooter. But when PC gaming is as popular as it is now, that in turn makes mods more popular than ever. The issue then arises when the two intersect, with game updates either breaking mods – as we saw with Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, which in turn led to the delay of Fallout: London – or the mods being installed breaking the game itself when a new update is released.
In a post on Twitter, Capcom warns Monster Hunter Wilds players, "If you have installed unofficial programs, such as Mods, these are not guaranteed to work and could cause compatibility issues, preventing you from launching the game or triggering game crashes." It requests, "If you encounter problems, please completely uninstall any Mods, recheck the integrity of the game files, and then start the game."
Capcom also asks that players install graphics drivers, namely NVIDIA GeForce: 581.57 or AMD Radeon: 25.9.1 or higher (but warns that AMD Radeon version 25.10.2 has "some issues").
Hopefully, this is a great update when it comes to performance, because Monster Hunter Wilds could really use it after the year it had. However, Capcom confirmed earlier this month that the performance fixes will be rolled out in three phases between now and the update in February, so I don't have my hopes entirely up that this will be the one. But if Capcom has it sorted by the time the game's G-Rank expansion comes out, then all is forgiven.
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