For hunters in Monster Hunter Wilds, their hard-earned equipment is sacred. This is precisely why some effects are currently causing trouble in the community.
What effects are we talking about? In Monster Hunter Wilds, it is possible to temporarily enhance your hunter in various ways. These enhancements are very useful and can give you a significant advantage in the right situations.
Some of these effects cause your hunter to glow brightly in red or yellow, for example. Others are activated temporarily by accessories like mantles and are applied over the armor. However, it is precisely these effects that annoy many hunters.
“I wish there was a way to disable power-up effects on my hunter”
Why do these effects annoy players? In Monster Hunter Wilds, pretty much everything revolves around the equipment of the hunters. It is about hunting monsters and crafting better armor from their materials. Often, this involves a lot of time and farming because some materials are quite rare.
Usually, multiple sets are needed because different effects and values are required depending on which monsters you are facing. In short: It takes a lot of effort.
Many fans place great importance on their equipment and like to showcase it proudly. Therefore, it greatly bothers players when flashy effects cover up their hard-earned gear, even if only temporarily.
Additionally, they feel they cannot avoid these effects since important power-ups are associated with them. By avoiding them, they would lose important advantages that can be crucial during gameplay.
What are the fans demanding? The community is therefore calling for at least the option to disable such effects. In a thread on Reddit, they also discuss various ways to approach this issue differently. User JagrasLoremaster initiates the discussion with the following words:
I wish there was a way to disable power-up effects on my hunter. With the game’s fantastic visuals, it seems somewhat disturbing when your hunter is constantly glowing red or yellow, especially with weapons like the insect glaive.
User Sauceinmyface also criticizes that these power-ups should be more like “hunting tools that aid you in the hunt rather than a Mario star” (via Reddit).
User Searscale suggests below via Reddit to limit these effects to lanterns or small individual equipment pieces. Others point out that there were also mods during Monster Hunter World that addressed this issue (via Reddit).
It is absolutely understandable that hunters care about their equipment. After all, it is not only useful but also often looks really cool. Many hunters therefore specifically use the endgame to assemble their armors based on appearance. You can see some particularly cool outfits from Monster Hunter World in our list: The 10 coolest armors from Monster Hunter World for all fashion hunters
