‘Monster Hunter Wilds’ players are saying it’s too easy: “I don’t even have to try”

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Monster Hunter Wilds was released on Friday (February 28) but a number of players are already complaining the game is too easy.Monster Hunter Wilds is the long-awaited follow-up to breakout hit World, which transformed the Monster Hunter series from niche fan-favourite to global phenomenon.

Wilds looks set to continue that success with the game already one of the most popular titles to ever launch on Steam, racking up more than a million concurrent players over the weekend.But despite that huge launch, a number of players are complaining that Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy due to new features like Focus Mode and the Palico armour, which make defeating intimidating monsters a far easier challenge.“Monster Hunter Wilds is too easy in the start here.

I am rusty, and not having trouble at all finishing hunts,” one fan wrote on X. “Monster Hunter Wilds beat in 11 hrs. Probably could’ve done it in nine.

Main story was cool but honestly too easy,” said another while a number of posts on Reddit also complain about how easy the game is. “There is a difference between the game being easy because I’m playing well, and the game being so easy that I don’t have to play well.