Although maybe only for some
Wild Heartsis apparently a pretty good lower-case monster hunter game, albeit one with somesubstantial performance issuesits developers pledged to fix. Maybe now they have: a performance patch was released earlier today, promising to address frame rates, unintentionally capped high-end CPUs, and more.
The patch wasdetailed in a Reddit postby a Wild Hearts developer. Aside from CPU caps and frame rate fixes, it also addresses an “audio stacking” bug that was causing performance issues; changes the default resolution; fixes a rendering issue when using an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX; and fixes an issue that could lead to corrupted save data.
Which sounds promising, until you scroll down to the comments or look elsewhere on the subreddit for all the people saying the patch has made no difference to them. Your mileage may vary, but it looks like lots of users who surpass the recommended specs are still suffering from subpar frame rates.
That’s a shame if so, because performance aside,Wild Hearts is seemingly a worthy alternative to Monster Hunter. It’s more accessible than its obvious inspiration, although it remains to be seen if it has the depth to keep folks hooked over the long term.
Here are the full list of fixes from today’s patch:
If this patch hasn’t fixed the issues for you, Omega Force do at least say they’re still working on it and that they will “continue to hunt down and slay performance issues in future updates.”
