Nothing quite beats slaying monsters with your friends, so of course multiplayer has made a return inMonster Hunter Wilds. Here’s the fastest way to access multiplayer inMonster Hunter Wildsas well as how the multiplayer mode works.
How to unlock multiplayer
After completing the initial prologue mission that has you save the brother and defeat your first monster, the Chatacabra, you will unlock access to the base camp as well as multiplayer. In order to start multiplayer, visit Felicita, the Squad Information Counter. She will allow you to create Lobby or a Squad and start participating in multiplayer.
The fastest way to reach Felicita and unlock multiplayer is to head straight forward from the entrance of the base camp and you will see her sitting in front of the main tent.
How multiplayer works in Monster Hunter Wilds
InMonster Hunter Wilds, multiplayer works by first creating a Lobby. Creating a Lobby will turn your base camp area into a multiplayer hub, where you can invite friends to bring them into a shared instance of your world where you can talk and make plans to group up. Each Lobby can hold up to 100 players total, but only 16 other players at a time will show up at the base camp visually, though you can affect who shows up by grouping with them.
From here, if you want to group up, you will need to form a Link Party. A Link Party can hold up to four players and forms a dedicated chat channel between those players. When a party member accepts a quest, all members in the Link Party will get the invite to that quest. Furthermore, returning from a quest or adventure will keep the Link Party intact when you return to base camp.
Inside a Link Party, you can also invite members to start an Environment Link. You can then share the same environment with other players, allowing you to tackle investigations together. Some story missions may need to be completed solo before you can create an Environment Link.
Regardless of whether you’re in a Lobby or Link Party, you can use an SOS Flare at any time to play wither other players as well.
What are Squads?
Squads are essentially mini-guilds inMonster Hunter Wilds. you may create or join a Squad at any time which will give you access to an interface to see all of your Squad members, their Hunter Rank, current activity, if they are online, and more. You can also use this interface to quickly and easily setup Squad-based Lobbies and even Link Parties.
Each Squad can have 50 members at a time, and you can be a member of up to 8 Squads at once. In this regard, Squads act more similarly to Linkshells fromFinal Fantasy XIthan standard guilds which only allow you to be in one at a time!
