Monster Hunter Wilds Official Report Reveals Players' Favorite Foods From the Forbidden Lands

This week, Capcom released a elaborate investigation of Monster Hunter Wilds’ play data. Bearing the official-sounding sanction of “The Forbidden Lands White Paper 1,” the Japanese-language study covers subordinate activities aft MHW’s April 4 update, and reveals that Hunters person precise beardown preferences erstwhile it comes to the in-game food.

As good arsenic adding caller quests and monsters, Monster Hunter Wilds’ escaped April 4 update introduced the Grand Hub, an country wherever players tin stitchery and conscionable up. The Grand Hub besides has a canteen, wherever you tin speech Meal Vouchers for dishes from each portion of The Forbidden Lands. Eating a hearty repast successful Monster Hunter Wilds gives you assorted buffs depending connected the dish, truthful the Grand Hub and Meal Vouchers supply a speedy mode to get your quality acceptable earlier mounting disconnected connected quests with different players (without having to trek retired to a circumstantial portion to devour a peculiar cuisine). Meal Vouchers tin popular up arsenic regular login bonuses oregon arsenic Arena quest rewards.

As reported by Automaton Japan, the Forbidden Lands White Paper 1 revealed usage information for each of the 4 determination Meal Vouchers. Spring Kunafa Cuisine was the astir fashionable by far, accounting for a staggering 87.8% of voucher usage. This was distantly followed by Fresh Sild Cuisine (8.2%), Colorful Suja Cuisine (3.5%) and Hot Azuz Cuisine (with lone 0.5%).

The study gives a large crushed for the Spring Kunafa Cuisine voucher’s landslide victory. Five of these vouchers were fixed retired to players astatine the clip of the April 4 update, and it seems galore players utilized up these freebies. Spring Kunafa Cuisine vouchers person a accidental to springiness 1 of 3 buffs, and the study suggests that the Defender Meal (Hi) buff is apt fashionable with players taking connected pugnacious quests arsenic it greatly reduces harm from monster attacks.

An adjacent fig of these determination repast tickets person not been distributed though, which is thought to beryllium wherefore Sild, Suja, and Azuz lag down truthful significantly. The information connected the Pick-a-Meal Voucher usage gives a overmuch clearer representation of which dishes players really similar and dislike.

As the sanction suggests, Pick-a-Meal Vouchers let the subordinate to take a crockery from immoderate region. When utilizing these vouchers, players’ apical prime was Hot Azuz Cuisine astatine 41.3%, followed by Colorful Suja Cuisine (28.3%), Spring Kunafa Cuisine (19%) and Fresh Sild Cuisine (12%).

The achromatic insubstantial suggests that players chose to chow down connected Azuz dishes owed to the Tumbler Meal (Hi) buff, which greatly improves evasion. It notes that performing palmy Discerning Dodges is peculiarly important for bow users arsenic it fills up the Trick Arrow Gauge. The 2nd astir popular, Colorful Suja Cuisine, is well-suited to violative players looking to max retired their rewards, arsenic bonuses from this cuisine see Caprice Meal (Hi), which ups your onslaught harm astatine random intervals, and Exploiter Meal, which increases the rewards you get from destroying monster wounds (you besides get the accidental to ticker your quality excavation into immoderate immense sushi rolls).

Although players are apt choosing which meals to devour based connected the buffs that they give, the Pick-a-Meal coupon usage information has attracted immoderate amusement from players arsenic it seems to suggest that Sild Cuisine is unpopular. Most of the nutrient successful Monster Hunter Wilds looks mouth-wateringly delicious, with Kunafa’s banquet cutscene adjacent making immoderate players truthful bare that Nepalese restaurants successful Japan sold retired of food naan.

However, owed to Sild’s determination successful the barren ruins of Wyveria, the nutrient is precise elemental and includes unripe-looking fruits and vegetables, specified arsenic achromatic tomatoes and earthy ail bulbs. This stands successful stark opposition to the indulgent feasts of the different regions, with the Sild cuisine being deemed “unappetizing” successful examination by players, specified arsenic successful the pursuing Reddit thread.

It seems that Capcom volition merchandise aboriginal “White Papers” connected Monster Hunter Wilds, truthful it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if people’s in-game eating habits alteration successful the future. Monster Hunter Wilds conscionable got a caller update connected May 28, which adjacent adds Street Fighter’s Akuma to the crippled — here’s what’s caller successful Version 1.011.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.