Monster Hunter Rise Won't Feature Cross-Play or Cross-Save

If you were banking on bringing your Monster Hunter Ascension character progression from Switch to PC, or perhaps you just wanted to play with a friend who only plays on PC, information technology seems you're out of luck. A few hours ago, CAPCOM confirmed in a tweet that cantankerous-play and cross-save functionalities won't be bachelor for Monster Hunter Ascension, as the developers looked into implementing them but couldn't do it.

We've heard your requests for Cantankerous-Save / Cross-Play for Monster Hunter Rise & Monster Hunter Sunbreak, merely unfortunately, after looking into it throughout the development procedure, nosotros found nosotros are unable to implement it this fourth dimension. As e'er, nosotros appreciate your continued feedback and support.

This is presumably for technical reasons, and the wording seems to imply they will keep trying, if non for this game at least for the side by side Monster Hunter installment.

As a reminder, Monster Hunter Rise launched earlier this year on Nintendo Switch and information technology has now shipped over vii.five million units globally. It's also coming to PC on January 12th, 2022, and then the Sunbreak expansion will exist released for both platforms next Summer.

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Despite my overflowing love for Monster Hunter Globe, I recall Monster Hunter Rise might actually overtake it as my favorite original title in the series. The ways that Capcom has streamlined the onboarding and pre-chase experiences to give players more time to focus on the actual hunt itself show that Capcom wants to respect the player's fourth dimension, especially when they're trying to get three friends together for an afternoon of hunting. Minus the new Rampage quests and the obligatory few egg delivery quests in the hub, at that place's nothing about Monster Hunter Ascension that I tin hate!