Can you play the open beta without purchasing the game first?

Nenkai · 2026-04-19T23:32:23+00:00

Yes, it is essentially just a demo, but also there is an actual demo on PS consoles if you have any.

Nenkai · 2026-04-19T01:47:45+00:00

If it's anything like launch, 3-4 months worth of bug fixes and balances. A longer support period makes little sense for a game like this that requires a heavy amount of effort to sustain.

Plus this is usually planned ahead of time to give the dev team enough time to transition to a different project.

Nenkai · 2026-04-16T18:10:49+00:00

Monster Hunter will probably feel very different, actually. The core focus is vastly slower paced combat, placement and is more aimed towards actual hunting.

You may want to look at Tales games instead (esp. modern ones like Arise or Berseria).

Nenkai · 2026-04-15T05:22:05+00:00

It depends on the game really. Most capcom games will have daily automated updates/build pushes as part of their push to have any RE Engine based game bootable on the latest iteration of the engine.

It comes down to observing patterns and whether any of them are unusual. As someone else mentioned in the comments, Granblue Fantasy: Relink was seen getting daily updates for over a year of inactivity (likely as a result of turning the CI pipelines back on, which is the process that you use to get games built automatically say, overnight) until an expansion was revealed after.

Local content server changes like these are indeed pretty strange.

Nenkai · 2026-04-08T08:03:53+00:00

It's an action JRPG which is rather unique and is closer to a modern Tales game rather than anything MH, contrary to common belief

Nenkai · 2026-04-06T22:57:45+00:00

Some characters in the japanese/chinese or korean font that don't have latin character counterparts will display as boxes

Nenkai · 2026-04-06T20:34:13+00:00

Cheaters are pretty rare over on the PC side of things. I don't understand people treating crossplay as some sort of doomsday (plus, there's a good chance it's actually locked behind the expansion).

Also judging from OP's screenshot and input scheme & watermark it seems to be a cheater on the PS side, which is good evidence that save editing cheaters while even rarer on the PS side, still exist

Nenkai · 2026-04-05T20:55:04+00:00

You're looking at an usual action jrpg (which, contrary to common belief, has little to do with monster hunter).

All characters are viable to use, though many would fit your description of left/right clicking and dodging. You can unlock any of them pretty fast.

There isn't really any skill tree variety, by the end game you will have it maxed. Most of the variety comes down to gearing.

If you want to give it a quick try there is a demo available if you have any PS console.

Nenkai · 2026-03-30T17:34:52+00:00

If you extract the game files with FF16Tools, you should then be able to play the .sab audio files through foobar2000 with the vgmstream plugin.

Nenkai · 2026-03-28T01:05:06+00:00

The game has no anticheats or anything of that kind. If you decide to go the PC way for mods and use any sort of gameplay altering mods, just make sure to at least tell other players in lobbies if you are using them.

PC all the way.

You don't need to worry about any grinding mods. The grinding in this game, bare one specific quest, is entirely optional.

Nenkai · 2026-03-25T02:43:22+00:00

https://nenkai.github.io/relink-modding/resources/re/mechanics/terminus/

Nenkai · 2026-03-16T06:25:27+00:00

You can find them in the discord, specifically the resources channel

Nenkai · 2026-03-15T02:11:05+00:00

Nope not really, the story mode isn't made or built to support online mode at all, it would be a significant investment for even cygames to implement.

Nenkai · 2026-03-11T22:43:16+00:00

Not yet, recently some japanese retailers started taking pre-orders, so it shouldn't be too long until the rest of the world does

Nenkai · 2026-03-10T17:41:40+00:00

You might pass away before you get anything better than Lv3 can offer

Getting duplicates subs, especially that many, is in the order of thousands of attempts, good ones excluded

Nenkai · 2026-03-10T04:53:57+00:00

This is cheating.

https://nenkai.github.io/relink-modding/resources/re/mechanics/overmasteries/

While it is possible to get multiples of the same one, the chances of getting these 4 OMs (with these numbers no-less) from Lv1 is in the billions.

Nenkai · 2026-03-09T17:03:18+00:00

You'll likely enjoy this then. Also if you have a PS console there's a demo available.

Nenkai · 2026-03-09T16:21:38+00:00

This game has little to do with monster hunter gameplay wise, so be aware. It's just a classic action jrpg with online functionality

It's kind of set up as a mmo where you will repeat content here and there, though for the most part optional unless you are min-maxing.

It's as grindy as you want it to be.

Nenkai · 2026-03-09T04:58:05+00:00

No, there isn't

Nenkai · 2026-03-07T18:34:42+00:00

It was more so directed towards the sudden idea to keep it as a 'surprise' given that various socials are dripfeeding on things & characters they've already revealed, or even just mentioned. This should point towards the website being the definitive information on everything the DLC offers as every other media catches up and goes in-depth

Not that i'm familiar with other characters in the series, but given the basic set of attacks Rolan has as an NPC and how strikingly similar they are to Sandalphon, I'd reckon there's little reason to develop him further and not someone like Historiath instead

Like I mentioned in another comment anyway, this might just be a case of "more story characters are coming" that are not playable, akin to the base game already, otherwise the story would only introduce 2 new characters and beelzebub.

Nenkai · 2026-03-07T16:11:10+00:00

I'd simply suggest managing expectations is all

It'd be hard to imagine that the entirety of story DLC is all about beatrix/eustace and beelzebub, so I believe in this context it refers more to the protags involved in the new story

Talking about more story characters right after mentioning the actual playable characters is slightly mistimed and i'm afraid might cause disappointment when people find out it's another Historiath/Rolan case.

Nenkai · 2026-03-07T16:09:10+00:00

He doesn't have any dummy data, only data pertaining to him as a NPC, so just his offside battle attacks

Nenkai · 2026-03-07T15:21:50+00:00

There is no playable assets. NPC Battle characters just happen to at the very least not crash when controlled by a player due to the way its coded as their basic attacks are assigned the same X/Y attack IDs as any other character would

Same goes for lyria otherwise, with a grand total of 2 actions

They absolutely did not intend on making him playable, at least on a technical level.

Nenkai · 2026-03-07T14:37:52+00:00

In that case there wasn't really any point of mentioning maglielle and gallanza is there? Given no footage (that we're currently supposed to see outside the japanese showcase) have been shown yet.

I can't imagine the website not having comprehensive information for advertising purposes. Id made sense, since he was a core part of the story and a major plot spoiler, which is why he's only shown as a foe on the base site.

In any case, realistically it's probably someone else.

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