Summary
Monster Hunter Wilds’first Title Update is now live, bringing with it some interesting new fights,helpful new features, fun little minigames, and the addition of the Grand Hub, a place to hang out and socialize with other hunters. It also added a new quest type that lets players compete for the fastest hunt times, and if that sounds like something that could very easily be abused, thenCapcomwould agree.
Shortly before Title Update 1 went live,Capcom issued a statement on Twittersaying it would “take action against accounts participating in fraudulent ranking activity”, most likely in an attempt to persuade any potential cheaters to rethink their plans. Unfortunately, words of warning weren’t enough, as online leaderboards have already started filling up with very questionable times.
Monster Hunter Wilds Online Leaderboards Are Already Full Of Blatant Cheaters
A Reddit user called Millenium_Starwas one of the first to bring the problem up, as they show off a leaderboard with times so incredibly unrealistic that you almost have to respect how little disregard the cheaters have for their own accounts. You can see in the Reddit post embedded above that one leaderboard even has a time logged as 0 seconds, which is someone just asking for a ban.
You can also see the second and third times on the leaderboard are 28 and 45 seconds, which are also pretty blatant, given that even the weakest monsters in the game take at least a minute or two to be killed. It’s not a great start for the online leaderboards, and as another user called KiraTsukasa points out, “we all saw this coming”.
Expectations for the leaderboards appear to be in the toilet, as many have already given up on Capcom’s ability to police them properly, even though it’s an impossible task in the current format. Others have pointed out that there will be cheaters that constantly set their times to slightly higher than everyone else to avoid a ban, so maybe don’t go expecting to break any world records any time soon.
