In a game about fighting giant scary monsters, Monster Hunter Wilds’ arachnophobia mode fails at its most important job. It’ll turn little spider-like creatures into slimes, but it doesn’t touch the massive ones you fight for several minutes at a time — one of which shows up only a few hours into the game.
PC players can thank NexusMods user TeaSharkLad for putting in the work — before even playing the game — to fix the useless arachnophobia mode. “I want it to be known that the first thing I am doing before playing Monster Hunter Wilds is modding Nerscylla and Lala Barina into giant slimes,” they wrote on X over the weekend.
A few hours later, they released the first version of the Temnophobia Mode mod (Temnocerans are what arachnoid creatures are called in Monster Hunter). With it installed, both spider bosses become big blobs. TeaSharkLad says the slime models makes it hard to see their attacks, but they tried to include some visuals tells to help. “It’s not great, and I’m not the person who should be doing this, but someone had to…” they wrote in the mod’s description.
To get the mod working, you need to install Fluffy Mod Manager and REFramework. Both of them aren’t hard to install as long as you can unzip a file and find where your Monster Hunter Wilds folder is. And then the Temnophobia mod is just a drag-and-drop away.
TeaSharkLad says they initially thought of the mod as a joke, but realized it would help anyone betrayed by the arachnophobia mode. I’m sure their efforts will be appreciated by many, and maybe Capcom will learn how to actually do it right for the next one.
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