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Monster Hunter Wilds hits Mostly Negative on Steam despite stellar launch

by admin June 18, 2025

Recent reviews for Monster Hunter Wilds have plummeted all the way down to Mostly Negative, with overall reviews sinking to Mixed. Though it had a great launch critically, players who have sunk in hundreds of hours aren’t happy with the game’s current state.

With a metacritic score of 88, Wilds is one of the biggest critical hits of the year and immediately became Capcom’s fastest-selling game ever. It’s only a few points behind big hitters like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Blue Prince. But Steam reviews are a stark contrast.

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Reviews are filled with people claiming that Wilds is much worse than prior entries like World and Rise, saying that the endgame lacks the same staying power as prior entries.

This, combined with performance issues that have only gotten worse in comparison to an already rocky launch, has landed Monster Hunter Wilds a much lower Steam rating than it had a few months ago.

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Monster Hunter Wilds reviews experience a massive downturn

In Monster Hunter games, credits rolling on the main story is typically just the beginning. Getting to High Rank hunts and crafting the game’s best armor is what keeps players hooked for hundreds of hours.

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However, those who are in the endgame claim that it’s way too easy, with fights being much shorter than prior entries. People looking for an endgame challenge don’t have much to look forward to going by reviews.

“As much as I love Monster Hunter, I cannot defend this game in any way shape or form. It runs terribly on PC, the game is ugly as hell compared to what MH World had to offer, the fights are underwhelming for what MH usually has (but I do hope that can be improved with a DLC),” said one Steam user.

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“Monster Hunter Milds. Way too short, too easy, too streamlined, too expensive, and runs like trash,” said another.

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One user even claimed that they haven’t been able to make the game run for almost a month on their PC, with them being blocked out from the game entirely after an update in late May.

CapcomNot even putting Akuma in Monster Hunter Wilds could lift review scores

“As of 5/28/2025, after 250+ hours of gameplay, the game will no longer boot up. I’ve tried re-installing, deleting shader caches, uninstalling REframework (which is basically needed to run the game smoothly at all), rolling back my NVIDIA drivers, re-installing again, restarting my PC a dozen times, nothing works,” they claimed.

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With performance getting even worse since launch according to some users and people being unhappy with the general gameplay loop, many longtime fans of the series are recommending new players try old entries even after they’ve put 100, 200, 300+ hours into Wilds.

And, while many of these diehard fans are willing to wait for updates to try and add more engaging endgame content and improve performance, they’re keeping their reviews negative until Capcom makes some changes.

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June 18, 2025 0 comments

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All Positive And Negative Libra Deals

by admin June 14, 2025

Screenshot: FromSoftware / George Yang / Kotaku

In Elden Ring Nightreign, right before you fight the Nightlord Libra, Creature of Night, it’ll try to bargain with you, offering up a powerful boon to increase your abilities for a price.

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First appearing as the Scale-Bearing Merchant, it will stand in the middle of the field and ask if you want to accept a deal. Attacking it immediately begins the boss battle and transformation into Libra. Refusing a deal also triggers the boss battle, but choosing to leave the conversation doesn’t.

The Scale-Bearing Merchant typically provides three options, and they seem to cycle in and out between expeditions. Here are the ones we’ve found so far, as well as both their positive and negative effects.

All Libra, Creature of Night Deals

Add an extra flask to your maximum amount.

Decreases your maximum HP

I wish for eventual greatness

Grants Ascetic Greatness, which Increases max HP, FP, and Stamina.

Halves max HP, FP, and Stamina through Ascetic Path for a limited time, until Ascetic Greatness activates.

When HP is at a critically low level, it fully restores it.

I want to hold death at bay

This does not protect against deathblows and you lose one level upon restoration.

I want to fight at utmost strength

Temporarily increases player’s attack, madness resistance, and max HP.

Libra gets a damage resistance buff.

– I wish to expand my intellect
– have great strength
– have great dexterity
– have deep faith
touch with arcane

Changes stats based on what was chosen, like a class swap. For example, a magic-focused Recluse can choose “have great strength” and gain the strength of a Raider. The Recluse’s intelligence stat is also now similar to that of a Raider’s.

The change is seemingly irreversible for the rest of the expedition.

Grants an accessory that provides extra runes dropped by defeated enemies. This is automatically equipped upon retrieval but can be unequipped to remove both its positive and negative effects.

HP constantly drains slowly.

I want resistance to ailments

Grant ezra resistances to ailments.

I want the power of a demon

An eye periodically appears above the player which can shoot projectiles at enemies.

Madness builds up within the player whenever the eye does appear

I desire a powerful weapon

Grants a powerful weapon.

I want to gain many levels

Grants the player three additional levels.

Every time a flask is used, one level is lost.

Out in the wild

Sometimes, you’ll encounter the Scale-Bearing Merchant during your expeditions and it will curse you with a spell that caps your maximum HP. This is an incredibly detrimental effect that needs to be removed ASAP and in order to do so, you must pay a Rune fine upwards to 35,000 (or attack and try to kill it, which it will then turn into a less powerful but still tough version of Libra, Creature of Night).

Screenshot: FromSoftware / George Yang / Kotaku

If you decide to pay it off, it’ll also let you bargain for one of its boons. This version also has its own set of boons, which are worded a bit differently but have similar effects:

Take resistance to status ailments
Take enhanced armament
Take sacred flask
Take runes

Elden Ring Nightreign is available now on PS5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PCs.

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MindsEye hotfix promised for the end of this week as Steam rating sinks back down to ‘mostly negative’

by admin June 12, 2025

After an ugly launch that saw its Steam rating crater to “mostly negative,” briefly climb to “mixed,” and then biff it back to “mostly negative,” MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says it’s working “around the clock” on performance improvements, and that the first in a series of planned patches is slated to arrive on PC at the end of this week.

The team acknowledged on launch day that the game’s minimum system requirements “are very high” and said on Reddit that developers are “working around the clock to improve performance on mainstream hardware as well as consoles.” In a subsequent update on Steam, Build a Rocket Boy went into more detail about what it has in the works.

“Right now, our top priority is game performance,” the studio wrote. “We understand that the requirements are high and have limited the experience for many of you, and for this, we sincerely apologize.

“Improving performance across all devices is our immediate focus. A patch that begins our commitment to address this is scheduled for the end of this week on PC, which will also roll out to consoles as soon as possible.”

The first hotfix will include:

Initial CPU and GPU performance improvements, along with memory optimizations
Reduced difficulty for the CPR minigame
A new setting to disable or modify depth of field
A fix for an issue with missing controls for the MineHunter and Run Dungeon minigames
Pop-up warnings for PCs that have Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling disabled, and PCs with CPUs that have potential crash issues

Build a Rocket Boy also said the content creation platform Build.MindsEye is now fully accessible, and it’s also working to resolve problems with missing DLC, which will be added to owners’ accounts as soon as possible.

The release of MindsEye has indeed been a mess, to the extent that Build a Rocket Boy seemingly cancelled a sponsored stream with CohhCarnage, literally as the stream was starting—”first time that’s happened,” the streamer said.

The real trouble facing Build a Rocket Boy is that while the technical issues are very real, MindsEye’s bigger problem is simply that it’s not very good. We don’t have a review but PC Gamer’s Tyler Wilde has played the first two hours—and his impression was that “the Steam collective had it right back when the reviews were ‘mostly negative’.”

It’s impossible to properly review a game after just a couple hours of gameplay, but this does not look good:

Ironically, MindsEye ran pretty well for Tyler, despite his aged RTX 2070 Super GPU: “I was a bit worried that my stubborn refusal to upgrade would finally defeat me, because early negative Steam reviews often come from players who have technical problems, but it’s stable for me, if frequently ugly on the settings I’m using. It’s gone all slideshowy a couple times, but only in narrative moments where it didn’t screw me up. The faces look nice, at least.”

Build a Rocket Boy encouraged players to continue sharing feedback through “support channels, Discord, Reddit, and through direct messages on social media,” and promised that it reads them all—”even the tough ones.”

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June 12, 2025 0 comments