10 Wild Hearts tips and tricks to master this beast mix

Some Wild Hearts tips and tricks will do a lot to help you get off the ground with a range of advice on weapons, tactics, building and more. While arguably a little more accessible than other monster hunting games, there’s still a lot to learn for newcomers, as it offers new systems like Wild Hearts Karakuri building and its own basic type of kaiju called Kemono. With our 10 Wild Hearts tips and tricks to help you take down some giants, we’ll walk you through both the basics and some little extras to help you along the way.

1. Set up Tents at Camps for cheaper permanent fast travel destinations

Wild Hearts’ levels are big and sprawling and can be a bit of a challenge at the beginning of the journey. Building a Tent allows you to travel fast, but costs a lot of resources from your Dragon Pit. However, if you can find “Camps”, which are special, semi-hidden locations around the map, you can pitch a Tent there for a very small fraction of its value. Now you have a cheap fast travel destination…

And not only that, it’s permanent! Each The Karakuri structure you build in Wild Hearts is a permanent addition to the map that will be there even for the simple ones, even if you go back to Hub Town. And while “essential Karakuri” like Chests and Bows can be shattered by enemy attacks, “Dragon Karakuri” – Tents, Campfires, and anything else that requires resources to build from the Dragon Pit – will instantly rebuild itself if damaged. So yes, your Tents and other structures will always be there unless you specifically choose to delete them!

2. Find and upgrade Dragon Pits for more resources

Each region in Wild Hearts has Dragon Pits where players can spend special crystals and gems to expand that island’s resource pool. Each Pit offers a specific combination of resources determined by where you find it – so a coastal Pit will likely offer a lot of Water, while a jungle Pit will offer a lot of wood. All Dragon Karakuri you build benefit from this limited resource pool, so be sure to take some time to expand it! Between hunts, use the map to navigate to all the Dragon Pits in the area and purchase upgrades you can afford.

3. Eat BEFORE the fight because you can’t eat during the battle!

You’ll likely get a lot of food along the way – berries from plants, meat from small game, fish plucked from ponds. All of these foods are edible for geeks (at least until they’re too full to eat any more), but make sure you do this before fighting a Kemono! The game doesn’t let you chew a banana in the middle of the battle, keeping you out of this option until the monster dies or flees the battle to move to a new area. Eat before a fight to get all the various supplements your throwaway snacks should provide, or you might regret it! It’s easy to forget this advantage, especially considering how much food you can carry in one go.

4. A Kemono’s weaknesses should be considered before and during the fight.

The monsters in Wild Hearts have weaknesses and resiliences that greatly affect the course of your fight against them. These include:

• Physical/Weapon weaknesses (Does a Maul’s blunt damage do more damage than a Wild Hearts Bow’s piercing damage?)
• Attribute/Elemental weaknesses (Should you upgrade your Wild Hearts weapons to fire, wind, or water damage?)
• Disease Activity (Is it particularly easy to poison, burn, or freeze this beast?)
• Part Softness (Is it better to hit its tail, torso, or head?)

You can check these items in Cyclopedia from the main menu, but you won’t get an entry until you’ve fought a Kemono at least once. However, you can then use them to prepare for rematches and craft weapons based on strategies to match. Once in combat, target these Soft Fragments and the bright blue Kemono weaknesses in his body – break the cover over them and you can jump on them and rip them out with your Hunter Arm strength.

5. Build in constant combat, but know your limits

Your basic Karakuri can be incredibly helpful in an instant build fight (assuming you have the thread). Chests offer instant height gains, springs offer improved dodge, and gliders give you air control. Then there are the more complex ones, such as trenches and hammers, that require a combination of Karakuri structures mixed together. Learn the patterns to memorize them, because more complex recipes will come into play later – like the explosives made from the Spring/Torch/Spring tower.

Not only that, there are limitations in the design as well – the hammer, for example, aims at where the Kemono was when you built it, instead of tracking its movements. You should always be ready to build, especially the basic stuff, but remember that all these builds have their downsides – and if nothing else, Thread is easy to run out of!

6. Regularly upgrade your Tsukumo friend for more help

Your little Tsukumo is a robotic ball that follows you and can be incredibly helpful if cared for. Tsukumo has several abilities – they can distract enemies, deal small amounts of damage, disperse healing mist, and create Threads for the player to grab. These abilities can be upgraded in Campfires, but you will only need Ancient Wheels to be found by finding them to pay for them. other Tsukomo in the wild (fifty hidden in each region). Each one you find will give you an Ancient Gear, and you can bring them back into the fire to make your own ally a little more skilled. Like the Dragon Pits, it can be worthwhile to spend some time between hunts and grab some Old Gear from the wilderness around you.

7. Create a mix of weapons and armor for different situations

Based on our tip on weaknesses, you should have a variety of gear that you can pull out if you need to over time. Weapons with different elements, armor with different resistances. This will get easier as you encounter more monsters you can craft later in the game, but it’s still good practice and definitely better than constantly smashing a single weapon and turning it into different forms. Especially armor will be one big In later stages, with elemental resistances that are integral to surviving the game’s worse monsters.

8. Build a web of ziplines, towers, and whirlpools to facilitate travel

Since all of your structures are game-by-game dependent, you can make traveling through a region much easier if you start building early. Ziplines, launchers and wind whirlpools give you quick and convenient travel options, while the Towers, Shovels and Quarry give you more options to prepare and harvest before a big hunt. Similar to Death Stranding, you can create an entire interconnected system to take you around the world – and since it’s all Dragon Karakuri it will rebuild itself if damaged.

9. Return to Minato regularly for side quests and Fishing Guild jobs

Minato, your central town, has a lot to offer, but sometimes it’s easy to forget that as you jump from one prey to the next, you never leave the wilderness. But you should! There’s a regular line of “Scrolls” (side quests) out there that offer unique catches and rewards, not to mention the Fisherman’s Guild that gives rewards for completing basic objectives. You should come back here after at least two hunts to make sure you get the most out of your expeditions.

10. Multiplayer makes things (sort of) easier

Wild Hearts multiplayer and online mode shakes things up – you lose access to your Tsukumo and monsters become harder to scale, but allow for combined efforts that can make the deadliest Kemono much more manageable. This can really sabotage everything if everyone is not doing their part, but if everyone works together it can make impossible hunts easier. It also gives ranged fighters like those wielding the Wild Hearts Hand Cannon time to shine, as your allies draw the monster’s attention away from you, giving you a chance to select it from afar.

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