Capcom still hasn't announced a release date for Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance, the Sunbreak-scale DLC that was revealed in February, but it seems like we might be getting a chance to sample the expansion before too long. A recent Steam listing update has provided a strong reason to suspect that there'll be a public beta for Ascendance available ahead of its launch in 2027.
As SteamDB changelogs show, the Steam app entry for Monster Hunter Wilds' 2024 public beta was quietly updated early this morning to change the app's name from "Monster Hunter Wilds Beta test" to "Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance Beta test." Similarly, the listing's visual assets were updated to feature key art of a hunter facing an Arateka, one of the new monsters being introduced in the expansion.
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