Monster Hunter Wilds Addresses Challenge Quest Cheaters

Summary

Cheaters in Monster Hunter Wilds Challenge Quest face restrictions/bans for fraudulent clear times.
Legitimate players can expect rewards in 1-2 weeks after investigations are completed.

The Monster Hunter Wilds development team has plans to deal with players caught cheating in the game’s recent Challenge Quest, which will likely involve restrictions and bans from the game. The recent Doshaguma of the Hollow quest is now over in Monster Hunter Wilds, but participating players shouldn’t expect to see any rewards for at least a week, as developers need time to sort out the cheaters from the players who completed it in good faith.

Capcom released Monster Hunter Wilds on February 28, 2025. A follow-up to 2018’s Monster Hunter World, the latest entry in the long-running series has received mixed reviews from fans but has also earned some of the best critical review scores in Monster Hunter franchise history, with reviewers giving particular praise to its combat and gameplay loop.

A grid showing three weapons in Monster Hunter Wilds

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Along with working their way through the main story, players can participate in Monster Hunter Wilds‘ Challenge Quests, competing for top spots with the rest of the player community to earn in-game rewards. One recent event, Doshaguma of the Hollow, launched on April 3, challenging players to slay a wild Doshaguma as quickly as possible. However, it seems some players were breaking the rules to post the fastest times possible, and a new community note from Capcom on Steam states that the development team will be investigating players and will “take appropriate measures” to ensure a fair Challenge gameplay experience.

Monster Hunter Wilds is Cracking Down on Cheaters

Players who completed the event without cheating should expect to see rewards in one to two weeks, after the investigations are concluded, and the corrected results after the team removes the fraudulent clear times will be posted on the game’s official Twitter page. Players who have been caught cheating, however, will have their game accounts restricted and may face bans. This news follows announced changes to Challenge Quests in Monster Hunter Wilds from earlier this week, in which the developers stated that players who participated in the recent Challenge Quest and others will not need to be ranked on the leader board in order to receive rewards.

Even before the announcement, Capcom had already begun enforcing its policy of enacting bans against cheaters, and its team members will continue to do so in the future after proper scrutiny. That should be good news for players trying to legitimately receive high leader board ranks, as Monster Hunter Wilds‘ Event and Challenge Quest schedule contains three ongoing and more than a dozen upcoming quests between now and early May.