Camps are a integral part of Monster Hunter Wilds. In Wilds, youll visit camps in each of the games unique locales, and wont really have a big city hub to return to after hunts. But you wont just rely on these base camps, youll also need to find and establish pop-up camps around the area, some of which can be destroyed by monsters if youre not careful.In this in-progress Monster Hunter Wilds guide, well walk you through how to set up camps, and show you maps of all the camps weve found so far in the first two environments.How to find and establish new camps in Monster Hunter WildsAs you explore each new area in Monster Hunter Wilds, youll come across secluded and not-so-secluded areas where you can put down a campsite. Once youve discovered a potential campsite, youll be able to talk to a Palico in that areas base camp to build a pop-up tent there, which youll be able to use to as a fast-travel point, to replenish your loadout, or to respawn at if you faint. You wont be able to have every camp site active in each area and will need to choose, with some being more dangerous as in monsters can break them, causing them to be temporarily disabled than others. You can unlock additional slots by progressing through the main story.There are five main regions in Monster Hunter Wilds where you can build pop-up camps: Windward Plains, Scarlet Forest, Iceshard Clifs, Oilwell Basin, and Ruins of Wyveria. Below, youll find maps for Windward Plains and Scarlet forest. Check back later for the remaining three areas!Windward Plains camp locationsSo far in our exploration of the Windward Plains, weve found 11 campsites, which you can find in these areas:South Campsite (Area 3, by the ledge)Mineral Cave Campsite (Area 4, inside the cave itself)West Campsite (Area 4, resting against the cliff wall)Southwest Campsite (Area 8, on the sand)Southeast Campsite (Area 8, near the grouping of trees)Lookout Hill Campsite (Area 9, up the cliff vines)Southeast Campsite (Area 10, under the dead tree)Oasis Campsite (Area 13, next to the pool of water)West Campsite (Area 13, between two sand dunes)Groundwater Vein Campsite (Area 14, in the cave under the oasis)Northwest Campsite (Area 16, between the spiked rocks)Scarlet Forest camp locationsSo far in our exploration of the Scarlet Forest, weve found 10 campsites, which you can find in these areas:Flowering Rocks Campsite (Area 6, through a gap in the vines)Bower of the Great Tree Campsite (Area 7, on the ledge by the river)South Campsite (Area 8, by the twin trees)Underground Lake Campsite (Area 8, in a cave behind the waterfall)Southwest Campsite (Area 10, at the top of the ridge)Northeast Campsite (Area 12, on a ridge by the river)Ruin Interior Campsite (Area 16, on the long path near the waterfall)Great Lake Shore Campsite (Area 17, at the top of the ruin)West Campsite (Area 18, in the large treetop platform)Treetop Hill Campsite (Area 18, in the small, elevated treetop platform)Check back later for maps of pop-up camps in the Oilwell Basin, Iceshard Cliffs, and Ruins of Wyveria areas.In the meantime, our Monster Hunter Wilds guides can outline your progress with our main story walkthrough and monster list ahead of reaching High Rank, help you settle on an armament with our weapons list and best weapons explainers, and teach you how to uncover ores, bones, and get monster tails.

The monster list in Monster Hunter Wilds is stacked, filled with creatures that range from fan favorites to completely new monsters to the franchise. Each of these monsters have an assigned difficulty, and youll encounter some in the games lower ranks, while others youll need to hunt into the high ranks to discover.In this Monster Hunter Wilds guide, well walk you through a full list of Low Rank monsters before showing you the High Rank monsters you can fight once you roll credits.[Ed. note: This guide contains the names of all major story missions in Monster Hunter Wilds, as well as the monsters youll fight in them.]All Low Rank monsters in Monster Hunter WildsBelow, youll find a list of Low Rank monsters, all of whom youll encounter during the Monster Hunter Wilds campaign (although weve removed any monsters that you cant technically hunt in Low Rank but encounter during the story).In the table below, youll find the name of each monster next to their in-game difficulty level, the main story quest where youll first encounter them, and the habitats the in-game journal says they can appear in.MonsterDifficulty levelUnlock requirementNatural habitatsChatacabra1 StarChapter 1: Desert Trotters Windward PlainsQuematrice1 StarChapter 1: Village of Whispering WindsWindward Plains, Ruins of WyveriaLala Barina1 StarChapter 1: Forest FindingsScarlet Forest, Ruins of WyveriaCongalala1 StarChapter 1: Forest FindingsScarlet Forest, Ruins of WyveriaBalahara1 StarChapter 1: A Hunters PrideWindward PlainsDoshaguma1 StarChapter 1: A Hunters PrideWindward Plains, Scarlet Forest, Ruins of WyveriaUth Duna2 StarChapter 1: A Feast in the DeepScarlet ForestRompopolo2 StarChapter 2: Toward Fervent FieldsOilwell BasinRey Dau2 StarChapter 2: The Eye of the StormWindward PlainsNerscylla2 StarChapter 2: Hopes of HomeIceshard Cliffs, Oilwell Basin, Ruins of WyveriaHirabami2 StarChapter 2: Hopes of HomeIceshard Cliffs, Ruins of WyveriaAjarakan2 StarChapter 2: Long-forgotten FlameOilwell Basin, Ruins of WyveriaNu Udra3 StarChapter 2: Long-forgotten FlameOilwell BasinGuardian Doshaguma3 StarChapter 3: The Faithful KeepersRuins of WyveriaGuardian Rathalos3 StarChapter 3: The Faithful KeepersRuins of WyveriaGuardian Ebony Odogaron3 StarChapter 3: Full CircleRuins of WyveriaXu Wu3 StarChapter 3: Full CircleRuins of WyveriaGuardian Arkveld3 StarChapter 3: Broken ChainsRuins of WyveriaZoh Shia3 StarChapter 3: Monster HunterRuins of WyveriaHigh Rank monsters list in Monster Hunter WildsBelow, youll find a list of High Rank monsters. Most of these creatures are upgraded versions of their Low Rank counterparts, although there are a few brand-new monsters that are only available in High Rank.In the table below, youll find the name of each monster next to their in-game difficulty level, and the habitats the in-game journal says they can appear in. Weve also included the hunter rank where we first started encountering them in-game, although its possible you could encounter some of these monsters earlier, depending on how your map populates.MonsterDifficulty levelHunter Rank requirementNatural habitatsYian Kut-Ku4 StarHR 8Scarlet Forest, Iceshard CliffsChatacabra4 StarHR 10Windward PlainsQuematrice4 StarHR 10Windward Plains, Ruins of WyveriaBalahara 4 Star HR 10Windward PlainsCongala4 StarHR 10Scarlet Forest, Ruins of WyveriaLala Barina4 StarHR 10Scarlet Forest, Ruins of WyveriaHirabami4 StarHR 10Iceshard Cliffs, Ruins of WyveriaNerscylla4 StarHR 10Iceshard Cliffs, Oilwell Basin, Ruins of WyveriaRathian4 StarHR 10Windward Plains, Scarlet Forest, Oilwell BasinGypceros4 StarHR 10Oilwell Basin, Iceshard Cliffs, Windward Plains, Ruins of WyveriaRathian4 StarHR 10Oilwell Basin, Scarlet ForestRompopolo4 StarHR 10Oilwell BasinDoshaguma 5 StarHR 10Windward Plains, Scarlet Forest, Ruins of WyveriaAjarakan5 StarHR 10Oilwell Basin, Ruins of WyveriaBlangonga5 StarHR 10Iceshard CliffsRathalos5 StarHR 15Scarlet Forest, Oilwell Basin, Ruins of WyveriaGuardian Fulgur Anjanath5 StarHR 20Ruins of WyveriaXu Wu5 StarHR 20Ruins of WyveriaGuardian Ebony Odogaron5 StarHR 20Ruins of WyveriaGuardian Doshaguma5 StarHR 20Ruins of WyveriaGuardian Rathalos5 StarHR 20Ruins of WyveriaGravios5 StarHR 32Oilwell Basin, Ruins of WyveriaJin Dahaad6 StarHR 32Iceshard CliffsThe list is currently a work in-progress, and well add the remaining High Rank monsters after we locate and fight them.Before fighting these creatures in Monster Hunter Wilds, see our specific guides for monsters like Doshaguma, Lala Barina, Nu Udra, Guardian Rathalos, Rey Dau, and Ajarakan. Or learn how to capture monsters.

In a livestream today, OpenAI finally announced the launch of its GPT-4.5 model, but with a twist: For now, using it requires a $200 per month ChatGPT Pro subscription.Thats because the new large language model, or LLM, is still technically in a research preview state. This is all apparently shorthand for please pay us for the privilege of being a beta tester.Jokes aside, the company is promising GPT-4.5 provides more natural conversation, and performs better when it comes to programming, pattern recognition, writing, and solving practical problems.Note that GPT-4.5 isnt intended as a reasoning model, meaning it wont have the self-correcting or deep research capabilities of OpenAI o1, o3-mini, or the upcoming full version of o3. In a leaked document, the company said its not considering GPT-4.5 a frontier model, but it is OpenAIs largest LLM yet, which should make it ideal for everyday queries, as the large database of training material should make for quicker answers. Credit: OpenAI In internal tests, OpenAI says the new model hallucinated about 24.7% less frequently than GPT-4.0, and was about 34.3% more accurate. Around 57% of internal human testers reportedly preferred GPT-4.5 to 4.0. Credit: OpenAI In other words, GPT-4.5 isnt exactly at the cutting edge of AI, but it should be an improvement on other non-reasoning models, providing a nice middle ground between cheaper, more traditional LLMs and their frequently paywalled successors. The only major omissions seem to be multimodal features like AI Voice Mode and video input, although OpenAI says its working on updating its user experience, which seems to hint some version of these capabilities might come to the model in the future.That makes sense, given that, once again, this is technically an early release, with OpenAI saying its still exploring GPT-4.5s limits and how people can use it. To that end, the LLM is set to expand to all paid ChatGPT plans over the next two weeks, before presumably reaching free users as a replacement for GPT-4.0 once it leaves its preview state.

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Microsoft is making its Copilot AI assistant available as a Mac app. The native macOS app will offer access to the web-based version of the Microsoft tool. It's rolling out today in the US, the UK and Canada. In practice, the apps functionalities sound pretty much identical to the experience of going to the web version of Copilot. The real distinction is that the Mac app includes a keyboard shortcut for activating the AI assistant with Command + Space and it can be viewed in dark mode.Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it would make the Copilot features Voice and Think Deeper, which taps into OpenAI's o1 model, available to any users for free. Both moves seems aimed at broadening the company's audience for Copilot.Big tech companies have a rocky history of trying to make their software available on rival hardware. Sometimes, it can take years for a service to be optimized for a different brand's exact specs. The arrival of a dedicated macOS app for Copilot, which is already out as an iPhone and iPad app, might be about as quick as Microsoft has ever brought a service to the Apple ecosystem.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/microsoft-launches-native-mac-app-for-copilot-235945829.html?src=rss

Gaming accessory maker CRKD and Gibson have teamed up to revive the guitar controller in the form of two Gibson Les Paul-shaped controllers that will let you play your way through Fortnite Festival, Clone Hero, and even Rock Band 4. The Gibson Les Paul Black Tribal Encore Edition Guitar Controller and Gibson Les Paul Blueberry Burst Pro Edition Guitar Controller featured the whammy bar and colored frets from older gaming guitars, updated to work with modern platforms. CRKD is making both multi-platform and Xbox specific versions of the guitars, and depending on whether you pick the Encore or Pro Edition model, you'll get a slightly different set of features.CRKDThe Pro Edition includes frets that have been "engineered for unmatched precision and responsiveness," along with a Hall-Effect whammy bar and a Hall-Effect Strum Bar with haptic feedback. The Encore Edition only has traditional mechanical frets and a normal strum bar, but CRKD says both guitars are designed to be modular, so you can purchase and swap in new components down the road if you want.Both guitars have built-in analog sticks and a d-pad for navigating in-game menus, and offer three different methods of connecting the controller to your console, mobile device or PC: wired via a USB cable, wirelessly via a 2.4GHz wireless dongle or Bluetooth. The Xbox versions of the guitar controllers work across Xbox, PC and Android, while the multi-platform version works on PC, Switch, Android and PS3. Notably, if you're looking to play Guitar Hero instead of Rock Band, you'll want the multi-platform guitar controller, because it offers greater compatibility with Guitar Hero games.CRKDGuitar controllers fell to the wayside as the companies largely responsibly for making Guitar Hero and Rock Band games either moved on or where shutdown. The bright spots in the slow decline of the music rhythm game genre has been third-party PC games like Clone Hero and YARG, and Harmonix's Fortnite Festival, which brought Rock Band-style gameplay to Epic's battle royale game in 2023.The Gibson Les Paul Black Tribal Encore Edition Guitar Controller is available to pre-order now for $109.99 for the multi-platform version, or $119.99 for the Xbox version. The Gibson Les Paul Blueberry Burst Pro Edition Guitar Controller can be pre-ordered for $119.99 for the multi-platform version, or $129.99 for the Xbox version. Both guitar controllers will start shipping in June 2025.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/crkd-teamed-up-with-gibson-to-make-new-guitar-controllers-230204820.html?src=rss

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