In the latest update of Monster Hunter Wilds, new challenges have been included, bringing an official leaderboard and exclusive rewards. Unfortunately, this also attracts players who do not play fairly. The community is therefore frustrated.
Why is the community frustrated? In the 1st free title update of Monster Hunter Wilds on April 4, 2025, new challenges were added with the new meeting point “The Great Site”. In the so-called arena quests, interested hunters can compete against the clock with set equipment and earn a spot on the official leaderboard.
Depending on the position achieved, exclusive rewards await, this time in the form of pendants. The community had already expressed concerns that this approach would attract many cheaters. Therefore, Capcom released a statement a few days ago announcing that they would particularly take action against players who use cheating methods in the context of the arena challenges.
Just one day after the launch of the new challenges, the leaderboard seems to be full of players who have cheated their way to the top. The community is questioning whether Capcom’s approach is the right one.
“It will be almost impossible to get a challenge pendant”
Why are fans questioning Capcom’s approach? As user deddonekku points out in his thread on Reddit, the leaderboard is already full of numerous players whose completion times for the challenge are anything but credible.
The top positions all show times around 10 seconds. Any player who has hunted a monster in Monster Hunter Wilds should understand that it is impossible to achieve such times fairly. According to the player, the extent is so immense that he questions whether Capcom can manage this in the long run:
I already feel like an idiot trying to get a good rank for the pendant. The first few thousand ranks are cheated. The idea that the top 10,000 players will receive the pendant sounds great, but in practice, it doesn’t work. Hopefully, they will change the way to obtain it, or actually implement their promise to act quickly against cheaters.
In the comments, there are almost exclusively players agreeing with him. They are therefore calling for rewards not to be limited to placement but also to specific times achieved. This way, the problem could be avoided, and fair-playing hunters could still receive their rewards. They would even be willing to accept that cheaters also receive these rewards.
According to them, cheaters would always keep coming back and are fundamentally a big problem in Monster Hunter Wilds, since Capcom generally allows mods and cheats and only takes action against them in rare cases. Therefore, a second solution approach from the community to generally ban mods and cheats seems very unlikely.
In the case of the arena quests, they want to take action against it, but the community doubts whether this will be a sensible solution in the long run, not to mention whether it is even feasible, considering the number of players who behave this way.
Capcom is already aware of this situation and is working on a solution, as stated in a post via x.com. They obviously still want to try – how well that works will be seen in the future.
The new arena quests are intended to offer players a fresh challenge. However, the cheaters diminish the enjoyment of the game by dominating the challenge leaderboard. Many hunters are therefore turning primarily to other new features that also seem to provide a tough task: “What the hell was that?!” – Players found Monster Hunter Wilds too easy, new update now breaks hunters one after another
