User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter: World Discussion/@comment-6050823-20170614012436/@comment-26034899-20170614013439

It's nice to see that the servers aren't region-blocked this time around, and I'm all for making the monsters interact with the environment and other monsters; it really makes them feel like the wild animals they are as opposed to straight-up murder machines. Hopefully they'll improve upon the monster relations Tri set in motion (while monsters did interact each other outside of large monsters eating Herbivores in previous games, it was pretty rare; for example, Velociprey would occasionally attack Rathians, but only if they were weak).