is this game worth it now with current sale

[Jebe]

on release it was almost unplayable and i wonder if it's at least playable right now

[S7even]

I just bought it as well while it's on sale today lol. Last time it was really bad tbh, performance really bad. Dunno about the last version performance. Heard if you change the audio settings ingame will eliminate the stutters. Gonna test in few days after i'm done downloading

[Suzaku]

I've had a friend, cousin, and myself with drastically different performance, all with PCs above the recommended specs. While my friend and I could play just fine and had a great time, my cousin couldn't get a decent framerate. So I don't think there's anything we can say here to reliably tell you what your experience will be like.

Your best option is to buy it, do a couple hunts, and if the performance is good, keep going. If the performance is bad, refund it. If your performance is good, then you'll likely have a great time; I certainly did.

[NeonGrim]

Been playing the game and as a monster hunter fan, I must say that the game could've been a great competitor. That said, the performance while better than launch, is still kinda atrocious.

Even with my high end system, the game struggles to maintain a consistent frame pacing, thanks to how CPU heavy this game is.

My custom build has a 7800x3d which boosts to 4.9 ghz all core pretty reliably, a 7900xtx, 32GB of RAM, with plenty of ventilation and running linux with the xanmod kernel.

The issue with this game is that its extremely CPU bound, which is not what you want. Preferably you always want to be GPU bound, cause then you could actually try to fix your performance issues by changing graphical settings, you cant really do that in this game.

For the most part, I'm able to maintain 120fps with good frame pacing, with my CPU pegged at 40-60%. The issue arises in those CPU heavy scenes, where my CPU can be pegged at 70% or higher, which causes the game to feel extremely stuttery.

If you have a strong CPU (GPU doesnt really matter as long as you have something like a 3070 or 6700xt) and are willing to accept the performance issues of the game, I can recommend it getting it on a sale. It basically runs as bad as monster hunter world on release.

[NeonGrim]

I'm back again with some tweaks.

From my testing at least on linux, a lot of the stutters seem to be caused by improper frame pacing thanks to either vsync or the frame limiter. By forcing a frame cap through manoghud / libstrangle (equivalent linux software to RTSS), I was able to somewhat smooth out the frame.

Additionally I disabled or set to lowest any setting that could increase CPU load, like procedural generation, particles, clouds and reflections. Every other setting is maxed out, with exception of AA cause I hate TAA.

By running through the first area this seems to somewhat have smoothed out my gameplay, allowing me to maintain 80-120fps without bad frame pacing, paired with VRR and its for the most part smooth riding. The City also seems to run a lot better, which is the heaviest area I've encountered.

[Jebe]

Thanks for the detailed responses, I am not in a rush to buy it this sale, there will be another sale for sure where I might pick it up.

[TheCrazedEB]

I would recommend to only buy this game if its $15, Even 20 bucks is asking too much for the dog water performance you get. No matter what cpu or gpu you have, you can not power house for better performance. The game flat out is unoptimized period. The devs and publisher do not deserve anyone money above $20 for this tbh. Its low effort all around.

[Onishi]

My System:
i7 12700k
64GB DDR5 6000
RTX 4090
Asus Z790-Plus

This game would constantly crash on me. I did the verify file integrity and it worked great for about 2 hours, then started crashing again, sometimes even crashing my system. I ran my memory at 6000 through DOCP and saw a few people say to turn off DOCP (overclocking). This is the only game I have that has issues with running ram at 6000. So I turned off DOCP to run my memory at 4800. So far, I think I'm on day 4 without any crashes. Everything runs smooth. My friend has his system overclocked and the game crashes on him as well. In forums, people have rigs that aren't overclocked and have the same crashing issues. The game is fun, it's just the crashing that ticks me off because you can't fully enjoy the game. For PC, I don't recommend people buy this. For console, certainly. Console players don't have this issue.