Overview
- Update 1.041 lands as the last major base-game patch, led by the permanent event quest Freedom from Solitude featuring Arch-Tempered Arkveld.
- 'Proof of a Hero' introduces an endurance fight against Arch-Tempered Rey Dau, Uth Duna, Nu Udra, and Arkveld, with new ten‑star quests and Arch-Tempered Jin Dahaad available separately.
- Performance upgrades on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5 reduce CPU/GPU load, add levels of detail for models, and optimize spawns and effects, with early testing showing steadier frame rates.
- Quality-of-life changes make material-yielding event quests permanent and playable offline, raise pop-up camp limits, enable Gogma material melding, add item safeguards, and allow faster retries.
- A Monster Hunter Stories 3 collaboration and a new Nadia questline arrive alongside an anniversary program, as Steam reviews rebound to roughly 68–70% positive and peak concurrents approach 80,000.