Monster Hunter Wilds is a massive critical and audience success for Capcom, and now we have some numbers to quantify that.

You’ll need to locate “ The Black Flame ” near the end of Monster Hunter Wilds ’ second chapter. It’s a bit of a curveball, as the the only thing you have to go on is a set of tentacles you only glimpse during a cutscene as it tears up some Ajarakan. So what is this “Black Flame,” and how do you find it to complete the “Long Forgotten Flame” quest?

Roughly 4.9% of players hunted 100 large monsters, compared to 0.4% who captured 50. 12 times more players have hunted 100 monsters than captured 50 on average. Wilds has a 12:1 hunting-to-capturing ratio,