It appears Monster Hunter Now’s developers are cracking down on cheating. On October 2, they adjusted the game. They disabled Monster Hunter Now Spoofing, preventing players from faking their location to hunt. This means players will now actually have to go outside and touch grass.
Now, when players utilize a spoofing GPS faker for Monster Hunter Now, they encounter Network Error 6-4, which prohibits them from beginning the hunt.
Some players have even reported getting soft banned from the game. They supposedly see nothing on their maps, not even landmarks.
Many players utilized spoofing to work around many of the game’s flaws — including the rather unbalanced health regeneration system and monetization of potions. But now, it appears players will either have to use microtransactions to purchase more potions or simply play perfectly without ever getting hit to properly progress in the game. The only other realistic alternative is to wait around thirty minutes between faints for the Hunter’s health to regenerate.
Once Capcom and Niantic balance the game’s health regeneration alongside other GPS bugs, this change could very help the game’s longevity. After all, players will actually be able to see other players out in the wild. Recently, many players reported seeing only the character in hunts, who were not accompanied by real people. This means the social aspect of the game will improve. But without a health regeneration fix, Monster Hunter Now limits social play time.
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Here in South Africa the people will rob the ma se poes out of you if you walk with a phone in your hand. People will even stab you just for your phone so yea fixing this just basically screwed the whole South African community cause Im not risking my life just to play this game
Stay safe ma se kinders
100% this. The ONLY reason pogo is still alive is because of spoofers. There’s hardly any content worth walking for in MHN and even more so since they used old map data
I’m recovering from major heart surgery and I used spoofing to enjoy the game. This news basically stop my progress entirely as my mobility is very limited for the time being. I don’t think I’ll get back to it. Uninstall and forget
Sorry to hear that. Hope you recovering well soon. I hope those children unable to walk can find others game to replace this game due to the issue.
A 6 star monster rewarded me with tier 1 and 2 materials. I had to use up 3 first aid med just for that monster. Shitty rewards from when fighting higher star monsters. At least spoofing let’s us find those specific monsters we need. And I spend money just to buy more potions. But now.. uninstall.
Last time I can still join the hunt while riding the train and passing through stations, but now I can’t even hunt the monsters marked with palico balls because of this error “Network 6-4”.
No good for me.
Agreed with the above comment. I do not have much possibilities to leave the house and have been playing since day 1. Already uninstalled it and I really enjoyed the game. This “control everything and everybody” disease is going to ruin the game faster than pokemon go did. Way to go Niantic. This is not an improvement, it’s just killing a game that has less than 1 month of existence.
Yes, since lot of ppl dont have time to run around or play from work building which they cant exit and nothing spawns inside, without spoofing there is no point to play now… They restricted spoofing to be locked within 2-3 biomes anyway so this step to disble it is counterproductive per my opinion…
this game will dead soon,the developer not thinking about loss of player and money flow,they want to loss just give it,this is not pvp game actually
Say goodbye to a good chunk of your playerbase not that the game was that good to begin with
If our planet is cooler like 20years back then maybe i will walk around and step on the grass hunting monster..
stupid policy not everyone run or going somewhere places just to be hit by a car stupid game
nah, less people will play the game anymore. not an improvement, but degeneration of player.
I’m wheelchair bound and this just sucks. I liked the idea of monster hunter as a pokemon go game, now I can’t play it because of this. Sad
I doubt less people will play honestly monster hunter is a huge thing and i dont see this dying anytime soon!!!!
Agreed. I’m a South African player and it is not safe to walk almost anywhere with your phone out. Even down your own street.
So you are happy that people who can’t walk around outside have no way of playing the game now? Damn you are heartless.
Agreed. Not every country is safe enough to walk around with your phone out. I am a South African Player and it definitely would not be safe to do so.
Only people progressing in the game are Streamers (people getting paid to play) & Spoofers. Now it’s only streamers. Good job 👏 👍 patching your game to death. 💀
Man this article is such an echo chamber lmao
It should be pretty clear what the perspective is
As a game based on activity and designed to get you moving, the developers simply want it to accomplish it better. If you don’t want to move / can’t move, then you should probably play a different game? This doesn’t have much to offer. It is free though, so fair point there.
As it currently stands, it’s not a competitive game really, so there’s no loss from cheating except your own loss. It’s unfortunate that not everyone is capable of walking around as the game wants, but the potential gains of forcing people who are simply too lazy to actually walk is evidently something they decided to go for. Everything is a choice, and there is a valid reason to desire one feature or the other more. Not every game will make everyone happy, and there are plenty more to try if *the literal primary intent of the game* doesn’t suit your needs.
Agree, this is kind of stupid, if 70% people is using spoof to play the game, you are now left with 30% people
Its not like fake gps ruins the game, i invited my friend to play even. Now i myself cant play!
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