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To celebrate everything we’ve added to Dauntless since our initial PS4 release two years ago, the “Call to Arms” update launching December 2 adds 36 new Trophies for you to collect in the PlayStation 4 version of the game. You can also jump between the two and play with your friends with cross-play and cross-save. If you’ve already been playing Dauntless on PS4, you’ll be able to pick up your progress automatically on the PS5 version. Together with the PS5’s SSD, load times have been significantly reduced, getting you into the hunt faster than ever.

You’ll also be able to use the microphone built into the DualSense to chat with your party and we’ve added support for immersive 3D Audio. You’ll feel your character’s stamina and empowered Repeater ammo through trigger resistance, hear radio callouts through the speaker, and see applied elemental effects in the lights. Of course, we couldn’t come to PS5 without supporting the DualSense controller. The Shattered Isles have never looked so good! We’ve also got higher-quality lighting and materials, new volumetric fog, and improved visual effects across the game. In addition to dynamic 4K resolution targeting 60 frames-per-second, there are enhanced environmental textures and detail across all our islands, including upgraded trees, grass, and water.
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For now, though, at least someone is out there making it happen.With the native PS5 version of Dauntless, we’ve taken the opportunity to upgrade visuals across the game.

That’s a trend I’d like to see a lot more games adopt in the future. Luckily, since Dauntless is crossplay on all platforms, the Nintendo Switch version should get all of this stuff at launch - and everything else in following updates. These are pulled from an expanding pool, unlocked with your seasonal talent tree, and further add to the variety. In addition, each round presents you with random buffs and challenges. Randomized variants of monsters will appear (such as ice creatures that would normally deal shock damage), forcing you to shake up the kinds of equipment and tactics you typically use on them. It seems like a nifty system! And it does shake up the core gameplay pretty significantly. So in order to face the Malkarion Behemoth, you need to finish off four monsters in a row without dying.

The electrifying snake monster seems to only appear at the end of an Escalation mission at the moment. You fight multiple Behemoths at a time, building towards a new creature called Malkarion. It also comes into port with a new mode, called Escalation, that developer Phoenix Labs likens to a roguelike. It’s pretty appetizing for short bursts!Ĭircling back to the Battle Pass (or Hunt Pass, as Dauntless calls it), there’s a new one to coincide with the Switch port. Considering my go-to Monster Hunter game on Switch before this was Generations Ultimate - a game that doesn’t even have any of the quality of life improvements made in World - that is… Well, it’s like I said. Weapons are simpler to control and require a bit less maintenance. Missions are quicker and sport a lot less downtime. More importantly, though, being a free-to-play-ass free-to-play game means Dauntless is structured a bit more casually than Monster Hunter.
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Destiny went free to play earlier this year and BANG! Battle Pass. It’s got a Battle Pass and everything! That’s how you can tell. Not to mention Dauntless makes no bones about being free-to-play as hell.
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Hell, Capcom can’t even keep the PC version up to date with PS4 and Xbox. It was one of my go-to “relax and grind” games in 2018, narrowly pushing out the likes of Destiny 2 and Final Fantasy 14. Particularly after the release of its Iceborne expansion, Monster Hunter World is damn near unassailable. I have to admit that Dauntless isn’t my preferred game of monsters and hunts. The free-to-play game with some serious similarities to Monster Hunter is out now on the Nintendo console, and you can still play with friends on any other system. A Switch version of Dauntless sounds mighty appetizing - especially with the same cross-play the game has on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 4.
