Exact pre-load and release time for Monster Hunter Wilds!

[侍Kage]

Official information:

Game data will be available for pre-download on;
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 9:00 p.m. (PT) / Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. (GMT)

The game's full release is scheduled for;
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 9:00 p.a. (PT) / Friday, February 28, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. (GMT)

[[PBS] 🆃🅷🅾🆂🅳🆁🅰🆇]

Good news : )

[Hans Moleman]

Nice to know thanks :)

No i can't wait for postings of people not beeing able to calculate to there own timezone ;D

[EnderTogether]

sad ps5 can play 5h before me

[侍Kage]

Escrito originalmente por EnderTogether:

sad ps5 can play 5h before me

Are you sure that PS version releases 00:00 local time? That would make it so everyone starts at different times depends on their country. Like Japan would start playing too early than others, it will be filled with so many in game stuff, streams, videos etc. That would be sad, I would like to avoid that and experience it by myself in game.

Maybe it releases at the same time for everyone.

[EnderTogether]

Escrito originalmente por 侍Kage:

Escrito originalmente por EnderTogether:

sad ps5 can play 5h before me

Are you sure that PS version releases 00:00 local time? That would make it so everyone starts at different times depends on their country. Like Japan would start playing too early than others, it will be filled with so many in game stuff, streams, videos etc. That would be sad, I would like to avoid that and experience it by myself in game.

Maybe it releases at the same time for everyone.

I've never seen that it didn't come out at 00:00 midnight, maybe I'm wrong, let's hope so

[侍Kage]

Escrito originalmente por EnderTogether:

Escrito originalmente por 侍Kage:

Are you sure that PS version releases 00:00 local time? That would make it so everyone starts at different times depends on their country. Like Japan would start playing too early than others, it will be filled with so many in game stuff, streams, videos etc. That would be sad, I would like to avoid that and experience it by myself in game.

Maybe it releases at the same time for everyone.

I've never seen that it didn't come out at 00:00 midnight, maybe I'm wrong, let's hope so

:( if that's the case I need to avoid internet on 27th february, I'm only 5-6 hours behind Japan. They will start blasting too early for my time zone, spoiler alert ding ding ding :<

[DIM]

Thank you so much for the exact time of the release!

[Scyris]

I don't plan to preload the game, decrypting it will take 2-3x as long as it would for me to just download it when it releases. Good for people on poor internet though. Looks like the game will be out at 1 am on the 28th for me. As I am 4 hours behind GMT.

[TaeKwonDodo]

There will be a preload? Noice! :O
Thank you for the information! <3

[Cephiros]

I got my preorder locked in just in time for this. Thanks for the heads up

[icantsee]

o yea yea

[Gearwar]

prolly gonna need to decrypt for 1-2 hours thanks to denuvo

[Scyris]

Escrito originalmente por Gearwar:

prolly gonna need to decrypt for 1-2 hours thanks to denuvo

Erm I don't think denuvo has anything to do with the decryption of the preload. Since its not like that is the game actually running, its just steam decrypting the files so it can run. I do wish they'd improve the speed of that though as its slow as hell.

[reptiliancow]

Escrito originalmente por Scyris:

I don't plan to preload the game, decrypting it will take 2-3x as long as it would for me to just download it when it releases. Good for people on poor internet though. Looks like the game will be out at 1 am on the 28th for me. As I am 4 hours behind GMT.

normally i would agree, but since it requires online connection, even for private lobby, it most likely wont need to decrypt, they just wont turn on access to the servers.

[★ Moonlight ★]

Escrito originalmente por reptiliancow:

Escrito originalmente por Scyris:

I don't plan to preload the game, decrypting it will take 2-3x as long as it would for me to just download it when it releases. Good for people on poor internet though. Looks like the game will be out at 1 am on the 28th for me. As I am 4 hours behind GMT.

normally i would agree, but since it requires online connection, even for private lobby, it most likely wont need to decrypt, they just wont turn on access to the servers.

It doesn't need online for solo play, that was only a beta thing.