So here are producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and director Yoshitake Suzuki to tell us all about the first free update of the expansion to 3 million copies sold. No letting hunters get bored: Capcom plans to release three free updates in 2022 alone, with the second scheduled for the end of September and the third at the end of the year, knowing that more updates will be released again in 2023, as can be seen on this roadmap.
But it’s the August 10 update that interests us here, with the new Forbidden Tower area on the program and a batch of four monster subspecies that have already appeared in previous chapters: the Silver Rathalos, the Golden Rathian, the Vulcan Bazelgeuse and the Lunar Nargacuga, which had not appeared since Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate in 2013. In addition to these new targets which will be accessible at Master Rank 10, the update evolves the Anomaly quest system , which makes us face monsters tormented by the Qurio and therefore subject to fits of rage. Here, spawning 5-star Anomaly quests involves crossing paths with afflicted monsters as uncivilly as Lunagaron and Almudron Magma.
But the most important novelty of the update are the Anomaly investigations, battles whose level of difficulty displayed when choosing the quest is proportional to the interest of the rewards. In addition to a level of difficulty that can burst the ceiling (Lv 80), the conditions of these quests are imposed and random, including targets, area and number of players. There remains the prospect of unlocking all new improvements to strengthen the defense of his equipment thanks to the materials obtained during these high-risk investigations.
In addition, new event quests will be launched each week from August 18, as well as particularly infernal quests called “Double Threat” since we will encounter two monsters there, for example a couple of silver Rathalos and gold Rathian. In addition, a range of paid content will also be available, limited as always to cosmetic elements. Let’s mention a special armor to take the appearance of Lady Fiorayne, whose voice will be the subject of a DLC sold separately.