Another major Monster Hunter Wilds progress bug will be fixed on March 10

Just days after patching a major progress-blocking bug in Monster Hunter Wilds, developer Capcom has acknowledged another issue preventing players from proceeding through the story. Fortunately, an update is planned for next Monday, March 10 that will also include a host of other fixes.

The issue in question concerns the “Omens” story mission in Chapter 5-1. According to a Steam discussion post from March 1, players are being asked to raise their Hunting Rank to proceed to the next part of the quest, despite already surpassing the required promotion.

Other users have commented with anecdotes about how players might be able to fix the problem themselves, but it might be easier just to wait for the official patch to ensure the bug doesn’t persist.

Here’s everything next week’s Monster Hunter Wilds patch will address, according to Capcom’s patch notes:

• The Meal Invitation event at Azuz and Sild does not occur on some occasions.
• An issue occurring when using Equipment Loadout, causing decorations to be removed from equipment, Bowgun Customization being reverted back to default, and Kinsects reverting to the initial rarity.
• When cutting off monster parts, the parts change into a monster part from a different monster.
• Gravios does not gain resistance to flinches after breaking its parts.
• An issue which may cause crashes or some monsters to act strangely under certain situations.
• Some skills are unintentionally activated under certain conditions.
• Some items/rewards can be obtained repeatedly under certain conditions.
• When trying to catch a fish with a capture net, the fishes nearby do not swim away from the fishing spot.
• Some environmental features such as floating rubbles can be activated multiple times.
• An issue wherein Main Mission: Chapter 5-1 “Omens” cannot be progressed.
• Palico’s support move “Attract Vigorwasps” may cause the hunter to become unresponsive to some controls.
• When scrolling through the quest list, only the first 20 quests are shown correctly.
• An issue which may cause the game to forcefully shut down when starting a game with saved data that encountered a force quit.

Capcom has yet to provide an exact time for the patch’s arrival, but if it’s anything like last time, you’ll probably want to stay offline until the game is done updating to avoid having an online session disconnected prematurely. Happy hunting!