Monster Hunter Wilds director confirms my suspicions: a bug made monsters run away too frequently in the beta and the full game doesn't have this problem

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It's not just you, monsters really were running away too frequently

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A bug in the outdated build used for the Monster Hunter Wilds beta caused monsters to run to new areas too frequently, Capcom has confirmed, and the full game won't have this annoyance.

As VGC reports, Monster Hunter Wilds director Yuya Tokuda discussed the beta at a recent press event. "The open beta test was an earlier version that actually had some bugs in it, and one of them was that the monsters were moving more often than intended," he confirmed.

"It wasn’t actually a design intention to have them be so rapidly moving, it was just that every X amount of seconds they just were moving on, and it wasn’t something we were planning for. So we’ve gone ahead and fixed that bug, so we’ve now seen since the beta test lots of feedback, and that and many other things are being improved for the final game, and also just the general processing of how monsters decide where to go next and what to do – that’s being refined towards the full game."

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