It has been a while since players last received an update for Capcom's Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. With Iceborne's final free title update released last October 2020, the development team suddenly announced a new patch to fix a minor bug that players have recently been experiencing.
With no more incoming content expansions and the recent departure of the game's director Daisuke Ichihara, fans are worried that Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is nearing the end of its life cycle. This is why hunters were surprised that the team was still onboard, popping up online to bring in a new update to address the issue regarding delivery requests from the game's Resource Center.
On the Monster Hunter World: Iceborne official site, the team shared that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players who are currently on Ver. 15.10 / 15.1.0.0 have seen their delivery requests disappear from their lists when they play in offline mode. This makes them unable to complete the request in the Resource Center and locks them out of the quest rewards. In an upcoming game update to Ver. 15.11 / 15.1.0.1, this issue will be fixed, and hunters won't see their delivery requests disappear even when they have gone offline.
The patch is slated to be online by Wednesday, January 6, 2021 0:00 (UTC). Until then, the development team proposed a quick fix for their hunters. They suggested players to first switch to online mode in order to restore the delivery requests back onto their Resource Center lists. Since a PlayStation Plus subscription is needed for online play, hunters who don't have PS Plus will have to wait for the update to go live before the issue is resolved in their own save files.
Though the release of Monster Hunter Rise for the Nintendo Switch is just around the corner, it is reassuring for fans to know that Capcom still has the team on standby just in case any more in-game issues like this pops up in the future.
Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.