Capcom Adds Final Fantasy 14 Raid Boss to Monster Hunter Wilds as Steam Reviews Plunge Amid Performance and Driver Woes
Eight months since release, the dust has settled—what landed, what lagged, and what comes next.
Monster Hunter Wilds just pulled off a flashy crossover with Final Fantasy 14, but PC players are not exactly celebrating. The new boss is cool; the frame rate, not so much.
The crossover: Omega shows up, performance issues stick around
The FF14 x Monster Hunter Wilds event is live, bringing in Omega Planetes — basically a spin on Final Fantasy's recurring super boss — as the latest thing to punch until better pants fall out. It is, on paper, a great get. In practice, the PC version's long-running performance problems are stealing the spotlight again.
Steam sentiment cratered right when the collab hit
Player reviews on Steam took a hard turn once the crossover update went live on September 29, 2025. The timing is not subtle, and the numbers are rough:
- In the past month, nearly 5,000 user reviews have come in — and 77% of them are negative.
- On the day the update launched, 770 users left thumbs-down reviews.
- Complaints center on stuttering, low frame rates even on modest settings, and the sense that performance has not meaningfully improved since launch.
What players are actually mad about
One player with 187 hours said the game feels practically unplayable on low settings and that hitting 40 fps is a small miracle — and that the collab might as well be trying to fry their PC. Another fan with just under 50 hours pointed out it has been eight months since release, claimed the same performance headaches have lingered since day one, and argued Capcom seems more focused on paid extras than fixing the fundamentals. Whether you agree or not, that sentiment is loud right now.
Capcom's plan (and timeline)
Capcom addressed performance last month and says bigger optimizations are coming this winter as part of Free Title Update 4, with more changes after that. Their words:
"Although we will continue to implement gradual improvements in the weeks ahead, we are targeting Free Title Update 4 this winter to implement a multifaceted plan, including CPU and GPU related optimizations, followed by a second stage of mitigation measures afterwards."
So: small tweaks in the near term, a larger technical pass in winter, and a second phase later. That is the roadmap, at least on paper.
Heads-up for Windows 10 users
Capcom also issued a broader PC notice: starting mid-October, the company will no longer guarantee that Monster Hunter Wilds, Rise, and World will run on Windows 10. For Wilds in particular, Capcom is telling players to update their graphics drivers. Not the most comforting combo if you are already fighting to keep a stable frame rate.
Bottom line
Omega Planetes is a neat crossover boss, but it is not masking the same old PC performance problems. Unless TU4's promised CPU/GPU optimizations actually land this winter, expect the Steam reviews to keep reflecting what players are feeling right now.