@@jeremiahtorrevillas4396 "shilled for it" is wild lmao *The devs gave out Review Codes without microtransactions* Most people reviewed the game without knowing there would be microtransactions because they didn't see them in game. All because of a piece of paper that mentioned the purchasable items. Bullet points or single paragraph.
@@jeremiahtorrevillas4396 You can avoid micros and still play the game, you can't avoid play and avoid game mechanics, strukture and design decisions.
I really hope so, and it wouldn't make sense for MH language to not be there. MH language, and no in-game captions will mitigate the awfulness that is VA Palicos.
I'm not complaining tbh. Even if I don't like it, it doesn't seem like it'll be pretty much mandatory like wire bugs were. Just gonna have to wait and see though.
@@mint5438they need to nerf bird sharpening though. Either slow it down significantly or some debuff to make ground sharpening more desirable. Try sharpening in Rise vs XX and see the difference. Once is braindead, the other one is intense. World has the perfect middle ground with you being able to sharp while unsheathed and can roll out if your opening is gone
@@KhangNguyen-ij4xh they should just make bird sharpening unavailable during combat. Doing it on the way to combat like we did in Iceborne is fine, but in the heat of battle you should need to be on foot to sharpen properly. Or they could make it so bird sharpening doesn’t reach max sharpness.
@@cablefeed3738 You could never ride mounts once you triggered a fight with a monster, though. That's an important distinction. If you can safely zip around on your mount, sharpening/using items, whilst the monster tries and gives chase then that's an issue imo
There's an option to toggle that in World, at least. If it exists in Wilds too, they might've just toggled it for the trailers in concern for squeamish viewers.
yeah no way they bring back the huge blood splatter the graphics have evolved way too much and it would probably be too realistic instead of cartoony like in the old games
The "tactical sharpening" argument is very funny, because in older MH games the map was split into small areas so if you really need to sharpen (heal or prepare some items) you could just run few meters into different area and replenish everything without the fear of monster chasing you. You also could do this in World, because there are plenty of areas that are not accessible to monsters. Sharpening on mount is less annoying and won't take you out of the combat, if you want a safe time window.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I see sharpening on a mount as a straight upgrade from that. Given you can't mount or bail out during battles in some arenas, it's not making the game less tactical overall.
I feel bad for those that have a “old good, new bad” mindset. Your comment is perfect. Nothing was ever lost, it’s just in a different shape now. Mind you a much better, more immersive, and time saving shape.
@@montef368 I am currently replaying MH4U and MHWIB back to back, so I see the difference in both games much clearly. And many streamlined systems in World make much more sense in the context of the game instead of comparing it to previous entries.
this is all true, but we don't have to go there even. in a group of 4 you will always have an opportunity to sharpen cause of other players aggro. this change makes it more convenient for the singleplayer experience without affecting the coop.
Except that leaving an area in the middle of battle to recover was heavily cumbersome and outright discouraged by the game's mechanics, balancing and old area traversal. Hunters, on top of being generally slow, have a stamina penalty when running away from large monsters, and even without said penalty, the average Monster is very good at chasing you down. Old areas were often shaped and had their exits placed in such ways to make leaving them hard especially when in combat despite their smaller size. Fleeing to heal is the safer option in paper, but the average player would soon find it to be a waste of time and far more troublesome than it is worth, thus, engaging with methodical sharpening/healing. Comparing what was a suboptimal, super-desperate-emergency-scenario option to safely outrunning in circles all the monster's attacks is outright false.
@fdevaa uh, no. You can call yhe monster taxi service anywhere on the maps once you unlocked it. And can sharpen as well drink potions and eat pills while riding on the taxi monsters. Could be that you have yet to unlock it in other parts of MHW?
I don't think that's wirefall to me that looks more like the mount scooping the downed hunter off the floor, not too dissimilar to how a palico would whack you to get you out of stun Also Reddit Oscar, I'd like to hear your guesstimation on when we can expect to see Armored Core 6.5
having to whistle and wait for your mount sounds a lot better than an instant escape with no means for the monster to interact if you ask me, unless the whole animation is an "i-frame" then it becomes another problem. first time i experienced wirefall, i was hoping that later monsters would be able to punish you for abusing it like rajang smacking you like a volleyball if you were in range
while i hope it doesnt make things too easy, it looks way more natural. i dont mind some anime-ish stuff in monster hunter, but the wire bugs took away from some of the realism imo. havent a cool monster mount that rushes to scoop you up when you're in trouble is way cooler
to be fair getting knocked down like that makes you invincible anyway, this is a way to just speed up combat by making you not have to wait through the downed animation, i don't think it's quite as worrying as people are making it out to be as it's slower than the wire fall
Wirefall wasnt really as bad as people say, the CC was worse than people say. I dont think we should have that much mobility but at the same time, Risebreak monster AI handles our mobility a lot better than Worldbornes monster AI handles us....and we were slower. You actually have to move a lot more in Rise, than any other title because monster moves are no long stationary, there is flexibility where it matters. Tail swipes for example would mostly be from one side, now monsters will attack from the left and right, it makes combat feel more fluid. Monsters have more flexibility in their combos and are a lot more reaction to our movement, just like us the hunters, dont forget how much effort went into making each weapon more flexible and fluid with the combat. A trained hunter, is going to dodge, maneuver, or block anyways, but that doesnt mean that the effort isnt there to make monsters smarter, to combat Rises mobility. Its so funny that people cant let this go with Rise but they never talk about how terrible Worlds AI was lmao. I took a wild guess that 6th gen would further develop the fluidity of combat based on what Risebreak was doing, and the proof is in the pudding. Monsters movements and attacks, are crisp and clean. Rathalos flying in the first trailer was very smooth, so outside of combat, they are really going out of their way to make monsters feel more natural, like real animals. WILDS is going to be a 100/10 game Rata, I am amazed you didnt make a joke concern about the beehives disappearing off of the trees, what are we going to do if we can gather important items and healing items???
In Rise you could adjust and even turn off the hunter talking so I hope you will be able to do the same with palicoes or seperately adjust the language to "meowing" :D
some legitimate concerns there, but also a bit too dramatic. mount rescue looked more like a Palico rescue, but more dynamic, more adapted to their new bigger world and possibly bigger monster encounters. sharpening and healing while mounted in combat didn't need to return from Rise, this I wholeheartedly agree. we don't know anything about Focus mode to get too worried - I think we saw an example of Focus mode when hunter hit that new big monster with a GS and then proceeded to run towards it. it looked really nice. but we need to see a full breakdown of this mechanic. Palico talking is definitely a double-edged sword. lest hope they will allow us to reduce the amount of dialog during missions in settings or something like that.
I think Focus might be more like a DMC style lock on. As in all it really does is make your character face your enemy so you can move back and to the sides without needing to turn + grant access to moves via inputs (back + attack, forward + attack, etc)
@@dergrandpa5989 there is some speed difference though. and even if I personally don't hate it too much, reliable and fast way to mount up and sharpen your weapon trivializes the important element of the hunt. and here we see that your mount can rescue you, you can heal up and sharpen immediately without any strategic decision making. just hop and go. we may need this in Wilds, but it also does appear a bit too easy to do.
@@wolfair People were saying this about being able to drink potions while walking/running but now it's celebrated. The games have been moving away from timing and strategic-based gameplay since World; Ran out of potions? Go back to camp. Wanna change weapons? Now you can do it on the go. They've been sacrificing structure for convenience and it's sad that people have let it get this far.
I can kinda get your point, but none of these things worry me. Specially regarding the talking Palico as I just change the settings for the voices to be in the made up MH language. I hate hearing the characters speaking in English.
The devs said there is a new gameplay trailer coming in SGF, and confirmed that both the hunter and the palicos are voiced 😂 Also, having two weapons reduces the need to sharpen in the first place. But i am super excited about the "enviromental changes" mechanic, it looks very interesting. So many possibilities...
Rise only had so many mechanics designed to speed up the game because it was on the switch. The game was designed to be played in short bursts. Wilds is a home console game so I don’t think it will be like that
Rise is in home consoles besides Switch, and short bursts are but lies given the critical flaw of the engine is the monster scaling being dependent on multiplayer participation. A lot of hunts are longer grinds.
Most monster hunter games are hand held exclusives. That is not the reason why Rise is the way it is. There likely isn't any one single reason why Rise was streamlined and sped up like it was. Partly for broader appeal, partly for accessibility, partly to do with Switch user metrics being mostly kids/teens, and probably more we can't even speculate on.
Yeah, it's a Portable Team game just like GU and P3 They have a much faster paced and spectical design philosophy, so we shouldn't assume the Mainlines take **too** much from Sunbreak
I think a compromise for sharpening while mounted is for there to be an upper limit to the sharpness you can reach due to the jostling of the mount, whereas while unmounted you can achieve full sharpness with a steady hand.
Sounds great, like you can't ever sharpen your best color sharpness in on the mount cause the thing is running and shaking like a chiken. And off of it, its easy.
Also I was rewatching the trailer and I believe the mount wasn’t treated as a wirefall, you can hear a whistle sound from the hunter right before he gets hit and then the mount comes in after the hunter recovers so I think it was really just the mount coming in late
Finally we'll be able to hear our palico call us meowster, and all of the shitty cat puns will be available to us not only in text but all their voice acting glory. Truly, this is the culmination of everything Monster Hunter was always meant to be. You might have thought "mr monster meet mr weapon" is as good as it gets, but this is on an entirely different echelon of immersive catpun based hunting experiences. Thank you Capcom, very cool.
upon rewatching, it’s not just the palico talking, our Hunter is talking too. that’s not an npc or a narrator, that’s our player character doing all that yappin’
Every MH game, on top of learning from past games, has also had critical flaws that bog the experience down. I respect their commitment to experimentation, but we never get a "normal" MH game that just seeks to improve on the formula. 3U had terrible water combat for half the game, and then it's scrapped in the next game. 4U had horrible jumping mechanics, which got fixed in Generations, but Generations was a crazy anniversary game. World changed basically everything (a lot for the worse), and some of that was fixed in Rise, but Rise was definitely a weird MH game. The series rarely just "improves" with each game, even if I think the games ARE improving over time.
@@Gatchu137 I think experimentation is the reason monster hunter games keep improving over time and certainly a welcome philosophy so the series doesn't become stagnant
@@noctisgaming2939 Like I said, I do respect them for it, and I agree that the series is generally getting better over time. It's just a matter of frequency. Since every game ends up introducing a bunch of new mechanics, every game ends up bogged down by how poorly implemented most of those new mechanics are, even if they fixed/cut all the problematic mechanics from the last game. So even though the series generally keeps improving, it's more of a "two steps forward, one step back" kind of thing. And it's fair for people to complain about something that they think could be that one step back.
@@Gatchu137 I'm all for fair criticism which I don't think it's the case in the video tho, people often act (mainly) fivers) that Rise/Sunbreak did nothing better than the previous game when I believe it did plenty, they also act like Monster Hunter has a fixed formula which it never did.
@@noctisgaming2939 I think Rise fixed (or at least tried to fix) a lot of the mechanics that were made worse in World, like the skill system and decorations. And while I like Rise, it's definitely not a traditional MH game. If we draw a line of commonality between all of the games, we can see what the MH formula is, and that every game has some additional gimmick on top of it. I do think that there's a pretty high demand for just a "normal" MH game at this point. I just want to appreciate the core gameplay and refined mechanics, without worrying about some new system.
I suspect that focus mode can be likened to Devil May Cry's lock-on. You can target an enemy and move around while facing them, and while doing this it allows you to use new moves like the stinger.
You can change character, npc, and follower voice settings in Rise. I guarantee you'll be able to change the voice to cat sounds for the palico, so it's kind of a non-issue
Better to voice concerns now, way before the game releases, so the devs actually have time to implement this kind of change. There is a chance they might not have the option as a planned feature.
I'm pretty sure we've had a Dark Souls lock-on since World, and I think it stayed in Rise. I don't find it to be that much of an issue, because the default targeting system is much better for positioning, but the focused camera is just an option for anyone who can't be bothered to keep locking on.
Also, Palicoes have canonically been talking the entire time, they've just never upgraded to have actual voice acting, while humans started in World. And we heard Palicoes speak in MH Stories 2, so it's not like this is truly the first example.
My first MH was Tri and in 3U there was a camera lock on but a bit shitty. I don't mind a better lock on like in World, it make the fight more readable. And the main point of DS lock on is that the player is facing the enemy, while in MH only lock the camera. I think it will be like that in Wilds
@@andreamassari7954 I don't remember having a constant camera lock-on in 3U. Do you know if it was only in the Wii U version? Because I played it on the 3DS. I only recall the method of tapping a button and having the camera snap to the monster's position, but it didn't stay locked-on to them like in Dark Souls. World was the first MH game that I remember having a constant lock-on option, but you could change it back to the original controls.
I love hearing the downsides to games I'm excited about, helps kill the hype a bit meaning the wait becomes more sufferable, you're doing a service for us all
my only concern as a hammer main is that they might give me even less reason to use the normal mode. idk why but it bothers me that theres basically no reason to not be using power charge/strength mode. its just not interesting, and i hope they do something with the different modes that is meaningful
That's my main concern. Hammer isn't fun to play efficiently, and if you aren't playing efficiently then you're missing out on a lot of damage. At this point they either need to double down on simplicity or just rework it imo.
i have no idea what yall about, mhr hammer is one of it best iteration and has ridiculous damage output in whichever combination of scrolls and skills you want to use. You can even have it all. There is not even a meta or an efficient way of playing sunbreak as level 300 investigations makes meta obsolete. A 5% increase in damage isnt gonna make a difference when the HP pools are high and monsters rarely stay still. Unless you are a speedrunner with a targeted run, none of it matters. You can run both modes of hammer with physical, status and elemental hammers and damage loss is too insignificant. Add to the fact that you have a counter and with good wirebug build have access to high damage moves, there is no downside to playing hammer. It was never the most DPS in any MH game anyway and it's stun and exhaust capabilities are still there.
That would be great, because you could do monster attacks that can be countered by attack sequences on certain parts. That would be strategic and stylish.
Yes, this sounds more logical because it works well with the "weakened" spots on the monster; we'll be able to target those weakened areas using focus mode a lot better than attacking regularly.
People complain about sharpening, healing, etc… on the mount but then completely ignore the fact we used to run from one area, load into a different area and do our sharpening, etc… there😂I get the complaints about having a camp to replenish items and stuff… but dying on the sharpening on the mount is ruining the game is silly to me.
I can see people having a preference for either one. Sharpening while stationary used to be the rule; now it's situational. And that makes combat slightly easier, which is understandably insulting to hardcore players but less frustrating for more casual ones. I'm kind of in favor of it, because it means it shortens the time between encounters on larger maps, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
I hope hammer gets a decent rework. I kinda like what they did with it in sunbreak, but it still felt like it could be outclassed by pretty much every other weapon.
focus mode, is new mechanic. it is a stance mode where you can follow up to attack, counter or guard. about spacing, you can see after the counter/parry, the hunter have option to clutch claw sling himself to the monster, while doing that he also run charged his GS.
and that's the problem. Why was the handler annoying? because she voiced the lines you typically only read. Now palicoes will be saying aloud the cringy dialogue that, while amusing to read, just does not translate to VA.
@fulltimeslackerii8229 kinda true, but no-one would have batted an eye if she weren't voiced, and palico lines are written very similarly to the way her lines were.
My thoughts about each point: -The wire fall thing seems like it isn’t very strong like you said, and I think it links the combat to the mount in an interesting way so I’m excited for it, all assuming it wasn’t the Hunter calling for it the moment before they got hit and getting picked up while they happened to be down. - Sharpening is mostly done outside of combat, and rarely does it decide the outcome of an encounter if you fail to do it at the proper time in combat. It does make you consider your build, but if I ever need to sharpen in the middle of combat, I usually run away first unless I know the monster’s moveset. It’s an immersive, yet tedious animation I’d rather be able to see while controlling my character on the back of my mount. - Focus Mode, I initially saw it as an improved target lock from World, but when they said you can use additional attacks, I became worried as well. If this is the main avenue for new moves, I’m optimistic, though. They understand the appeal of the combat, and wouldn’t change it so drastically as to introduce a lock on system out of nowhere. That’s not fitting the immersive camerawork I’m expecting from Wilds. It seems like a baked in clutch claw, which also pin pointed monster parts. This looks more interesting. - Palico voice acting is so weird. I’m willing to hear it out, as long as it isn’t too annoying and you have the option to turn it off outside of cutscenes.
You can see another instance of the palico talking in the shot where the hunter and handler are riding next to the pack of small monsters. It comments on how some of them have big spikes.
Rise’s experimentation was one of its strongest strengths and biggest weakness. It lead to insane creativity and great mainstay ideas but also being too unbalanced and in our favor. Wilds seem to be a refinement of these ideas and implemented in a more world/4U style of combat, which I’m all for and very curious to see if they pull it off.
honestly the fully voice palico is the least of my worries, im more concerned about the fact that I think i hear the Player character talking and being fully voiced, idk about yall but in games like monster hunter or other rpgs, i cannot stand voiced pro-tags unless there's a wide variety of voice options, being forced into one or two voices for MY character breaks my immersion and just overall doesn't feel great. for example fallout 4, i cannot run the game without some kind of mod that changes the voice because I dont think the default nate/nora voices fit me or the character im playing. even in baldurs gate 3 where the protag is only voiced in combat and overworld quips and you get a plethora of voice options im not entirely a fan. obviously a voiced player character isn't gonna break this game for me, but i just hope at the very least the option to pitch the voice up and down that's in monster hunter world is available and if not i hope there's several voice options for the player character
You’re missing the type of genre entirely buddy. And also if your only example is Fallout 4, that’s old news and simply a bad example. Go ahead and give us another. Because Aloy in Horizon is great, the characters in the Mafia Games are also great. You’re not role playing a character in any previous MH game that’s for sure, you’re role playing the hunt. If you honestly think nodding and muffled hmmms and ahhhs are “next gen storytelling” you.. may have a problem.
100% agree and Fallout 4 is the classic example of this. Not Nate’s voice only, but the things he said that were voiced were not how I would talk and it was a little immersion breaking. I always prefer a silent protagonist in games. I want to feel I’m the player character. It won’t ruin the game, but could be annoying especially if they talk when on hunts. I hope they have multiple voice options, but generally monster hunter had like 5 voices and that was just for grunts and shouts.
@@clashcatastrophe7289 yes it is 100%. I’ve played almost every one since the original, always make my own character and make them like myself. How’s it not? I’d understand something with a set protagonist like the Witcher, but not monster hunter where you pretty much always make a custom character.
Gave you a thumbs up just for having the balls to do it at this time. Coincidentally, I also agree with most of your concerns, in-combat mount especially for all the reasons you've stated.
I get what you're saying about healing and sharpening while mounting, but there's literally no reason not to do that. It would be like not being able to cast spells or heal on Torrent in Elden Ring...just cuz it would be easier than doing so on foot.
I used Torrent just like I did the Palamute in Rise/Sunbreak and I'll use Bird the same. Also I like it, it feels cinematic to race away and quickly prepare yourself to get back into the action.
Personally, I could not chug a glass full of potion while riding a dog/bird hybrid at like 30mph on bumpy terrain. I also probably couldn't sharpen my 4-foot, 150lb sword. I don't think a mount that small affords that kind of flexibility. I think the amount of healing gained while mounted should be reduced (since you'd probably spill plenty), and the mount should be slowed dramatically while sharpening. That alone would be a decent trade-off, because otherwise it would be able to draw aggro while you sharpen, but now the monster is solely focused on you.
@@Gatchu137just cause can't do it doesn't mean the people welding swords 10x their weight are gunna struggle. you gunna complain they have giant weapons now too cause you can't swing them? we are talking practically here, you would try to do all these things if you were the hunter and practice it ahead of time to be good at it. just edit your first paragraph out and the rest of your comment is fine
@@petercottantail7850 Putting aside the suspension of disbelief that hunters have inhuman strength, the draw of main-line MH games has always been that it's still relatively grounded. It's not a matter of practice, you're chugging from a bottle with a massive open lid, it's not practical to drink it while riding something. It's also poor from a gameplay standpoint. That said, you need to chill. You seem actually offended when my first paragraph was a joke meant to show how absurd these QoL changes are.
The focus mode is more like your character faces the direction of your camera and you can slowly shuffle back and fourth. You can see the hunter doing it in the trailer, its like in world when you held down both triggers while guarding, your character would face the direction of your camera.
As a hater, I love people who are not afraid to be a bit of a hater. If you really want to alienate me try being less eloquent. ;p Honestly I'm not too enthused about the trivialization of sharpness either. I would hope there's some kind of drawback for doing it on the mount, like maybe you sharpen much slower, or... Well, I can't think of a way to balance that that isn't immediately made irrelevant by the mount's speed. If they can make some monsters interrupt your mount before it gets to you or target the mount more viciously while you're riding it, something that makes sharpening on the mount *more* dangerous than doing it on the ground, then I could see it working out. I doubt this will apply in cutscenes but the Palicos will almost certainly have a voice slider during hunts. Both followers and other players had this in Rise and they could be turned all the way down to 0.
Eh same thing happened to healing. I remember not being able to move while drinking a potion now you can it just slows down the healing. If sharpening on the mount is there the only real thing the can do is make it so the mount cant go fast while you do it.
They likely added the healing on mounts because of the emphasis on pack hunting, and it won't exactly be conducive to healing if 2-4 large monsters are going at you at once.
@@StrikeNoir105E That's part of the fun lol. Finding the opportunities to heal or sharpen is all part of the hunt. Strategically positioning yourself or setting traps to do just that. I'm looking forward to just taking out a whole pack, screw separating them I got OG MH blood in me I'll no-hit hunt them all.
In the true og mh games the maps were many zones connected to one bigger map If u wanted to sharpen or to heal, yes u couldnt move but u just could go into another zone and do it without the monster had even the slightest chance of stopping you preparing for battle again and go in full life with sharpened sword I think its better to sharpen on mount than how it was earlier because it dont interrupts the fight and there is still a risk u get hit while sharpening unlike in old monster hunter games
@@martin_klx However, the old games had locals you couldn't retreat to another zone. Also in the old games retreating actually was a more strategic choice becase you couldn't outrun the monster. Mounted healing/sharpening trivializes that aspect because the mount can easily run circles around the monster. There is little to no risk involved.
My concern is - look at foldable weapon to fit in the mount's pouch. And people mistaken GS to LS in the trailer. I afraid the dumb weapon designs in world comming back, every weapon design now must be foldable or worse is just some scales strap on to bone/iron base
they must know that the weapon designs were pretty weak in MHW compared to other titles since it was a tribal restart in a new land, and people didnt really like it as much.
I'd say if these are the "worries" than we are fine. Also Jesus why. Who has this much of a problem with the trailer for the 2 minutes we've seen. Kind of a crazy thing to just put out as "I just got this great trailer and I have some grievances" it's WILD.
Maybe Fromsoft games have spoiled me but the voice acting in the trailer and the last few monster hunter games sounded incredibly cringy. Looks like I’ll be playing with Japanese audio again lol
I don't understand why ever since world they've gone so hard into the story when that's never been why we play MH. We play for the monsters, unique combat, the environments, cool armors and weapons, etc. Idgaf about most of the characters you introduce because the dialogue is and has always been cheesy and the plot just a fancy way to get to fight more monsters.
On the topic of Focus Mode, on the Japanese version of the website it goes into more detail with it being a zoom mode, allowing one to better focus on certain parts of a Monster. This building into what is called the Wound System, an evolved form of the Clutch Claw Wound from World where by consecutively attacking a Monster on the same spot/part, the Monster becomes more susceptible to damage on said spot/part.
we already have lock on system on rise, is on the camera options, but no one uses it because the camera shakes a lot against fast monsters. i dont think is going to be a problem
I feel like an important thing ti talk about would be paid dlc because rise has shown that they are fine qith making both armor and weapons paid rather than event quest items and wirod with a few collabs being paid dlc instead of being event questlike the old games do
About your first point, I think it's kind of funny to think it's the equivalent of a Wirefall, because that specific knockdown animation in Rise was used with attacks that disable your wirebugs. But I do agree. About Focus Mode, I fully trust the MH team with this. YES, I hated the Palico talking too, it's so weeeird. I don't dislike Palico dialogue, but I hope there's a "classic Palico" option.
Will really need to see more on focus mode before I get excited for this, "making it easier for all players to get in on the action" is just the worst thing to hear when you want an indepth and challenging game
It sounds like it's probably a way to help people better aim their attacks so they aren't swinging at air. Some newer players aren't good at positioning with respect to their weapons combo chain in ways where their hits will count for anything.
I think that's probably the reason you can carry two weapons with you at once and hot-swap them from the mount. Instead of altering the moveset of a weapon, you're instead encouraged to carry two weapons and swap them as necessary.
@@Armameteus Meh.. I'd still want switch skills. The option to change GS from a slow raw damage powerhouse to a meaty combo maker with repectable elemental damage is still more fun since it changes how you play a weapon.
Very hard no. I am in absolutely no fuckin hurry to go back to a very polarized gameplay loop of "do this one stupidly powerful move and nothing else on repeat for actually respectable damage numbers, also that move is on a cooldown and tied to a resource" If we want interchangeable moves, that can be fine, but DO NOT make them more powerful than anything else you can do, with no cooldowns and no resources to do them. Switch skills are at the very top of the things I despised about Rise. We do not need to repeat their mistakes.
"will make it even easier" I dunno man, I've heard this before many a time. Let's hope the game doesn't take until MR 50-100 or the future DLC to have any semblance of a challenge
I think as long as they don't give players as many overpowered gimmicks as they did in Rise, we can probably expect a more reasonable difficulty curve. Having large monsters move in packs sounds like an interesting challenge by itself.
I noticed there's actually quite a bit of delay between calling the Seikret and when you get picked up by it. At first I thought it was more like a wirebug escape from Rise but reviewing the video again where he gets picked up after being knocked down, the hunter actually whistles just before/simultaneously he got hit and it was still a second or two before the Seikret picked him up
The 2 weapons still has me a little worried. I dont like the idea of fights being designed around that (I think). “Oh here comes the phase where you need a ranged weapon”
Unless they force you to have one of each I don't see that happening, also the qol sharpening problem that rata has will be even worse because you can just swap weapon to avoid sharpening unless both are in bad condition, unless they decrease sharpness globally on all weapons and I hope that's not the solution.
This comment doesn't make sense... They don't design monsters for specific weapons to be used in the first place. Whether or not one weapon is better than another is coincidence due to differences in each monster's moveset. The developers don't know ahead of time what weapons you're gonna use lol
They design some of the fights around a titles particular gimmick, like the wyvern riding section for allmother for example. If this is One of Wild’s gimmicks I hope they dont go through that again. Thats what I meant
I suspect Focus Mode might be just a new kit added to all weapons. Like the horizontal swipe, the extended shoulder charge, and the Greatsword parry. It adds new movement and new offensive moves that will have more (hopefully) risk than the wire bug suite of moves.
I agree. I feel like Focus Mode is just a toggle for Hunter Arts. The website says that you'll be able to access "special attacks" when in focus mode so I think it'll work like MHR where you hold a trigger to "aim" like you would aim your wirebug and then press another button for your Hunter Art.
In its most extreme possible implementation it could even essentially be an entirely different moveset. Could be super fun if it limits your mobility and gives you very precise attacks in return, great for breaking specific body parts.
Honestly can’t wait listen to my little buddy talk with me and tell me about the monster as my hunter calls out his special attacks while I fight, gunna be epic.
I will admit I have concerns about Focus Mode as well, particularly the website's phrasing that makes it sound like a "makes the game easier for everybody!" toggle. Apparently there was an interview about it in a Japanese-only magazine that might clear up some stuff: The "weak points" are part of a new mechanic similar to clutch-claw tenderizing that are caused by you repeatedly attacking the same spot until it's wounded, the wounded parts are highlighted in focus mode by red scoutflies and that's when you can do the big attacks on them.
Have Capcom ever made a bad monster hunter? I rest my case. Also I cant even think of the last time I have gotten hit while sharpening in like 4 games......its just not an issue anymore when you learn to time it right after an attack or focus change. I dont like the talking palico or hunter, but you could change the language to MH language or Japanese in World and rise so if we have that it wont really matter.
Well, MH1 doesn't really hold up anymore, so there's one example. And a lot of people thought Rise was bad, I would say for valid reasons. But this guy isn't even claiming that Wilds will be bad, so I don't know what case you're trying to make in the first place. I'm just as excited for the game as anyone, but I can still recognize the potential for some of the gameplay changes shown in the trailer to impact hunting in ways that are less than positive. There's nothing wrong with tempering your expectations, even for something you're looking forward to overall.
@@lordmcsmith MH1 was good for its time, though. There is still merit to playing it if you put your mind back in time. You can't fairly compare it to today's standards. Played Dos to village completion recently, and that is a good damn game, even if its so unfair in ways. For its time it was amazing.
@@lordmcsmithRise is literally Capcom's second best selling game ever behind World at 1. The majority of Rise haters are World babies that never even played the series prior to it
Palicos not meowing? How is this Monster Hunter? They better have an option to change it not having a dozen cats around me meowing and stealing my stuff is going to break me.
Judging from the performance of their last game Dragon's Dogma 2 I'm indeed threaded for the performance of this game, that's what I'm more worried about..
@@McBurnstein That not how game development works…. Tons of games use the same engine and run very differently each time depending on how well the devs optimized the game. Dragon’s Dogma devs aren’t very good with optimization, meanwhile monster hunter devs are and the re engine Resident evil games run great as well.
@@ItsjustPrentiss Thats not true at all man, world ran like shit on PC on release and had to take 6 months after release to fix basic CPU thread problems on lower end rigs that were absolutely capable of running games of similar graphical level with no problems, and the RE engine games before Dragons Dogma 2 were all *closed area* games with small load areas, while Dragons Dogma 2 is open world, the first of its kind on RE-Engine. There is VERY much a good reason to be afraid of Monster Hunter Wilds optimization. I'm not saying to be a doom and gloom, but being cautious is a good thing, and its a very valid thing to be worried about.
@@falsechord the animation is relevant. There are animations that prevent a hard knock down completely (wirefall) and animations which allow for slightly quicker recovery from a knockdown (like calling a mount). They are different
@@kybalion5205 "slightly quicker". its not just slightly. its 90% quicker. ps. also the game devs can program the character to ignore the animation and still move even if the character is knocked down. the animation is irrelevant.
Trailer is fine (hopefully they give us a "palico speaks gibberish" option). What I continue to worry about is Capcom. They keep pushing into new predatory monetization territory with each new title. "World 2" is likely to be one of their biggest titles, possibly ever. That's a big fat juicy target for "continuing monetization". SF6 with their overpriced skins. DD2 with their convenience items. World and Rise both had some controversial monetization issues and there's nothing saying that can't get worse.
Over all I'm so happy with the trailer and can't wait to play wilds but the one thing that did just sightly concern me was the wording they chose for some of the break down on there site "Focus Mode will make it even easier for players of all stripes to get in on the hunting action." I just hope that doesn't mean it's literally a mechanic purely designed to negate and dumb down any challenge during hunts to try and appeal to an audience that don't like monster hunter. You mentioned you didn't want them to add a lock on but doesn't world have that option I never use it but it's definitely there.
Inb4 doom posting about mechanics that are barely explained for months on end until content creators get the game early and tell people the game isn’t even close to being as bad as they thought.
@@Gatchu137 I feel like clutch claw wasn’t a minor mechanic at all which gave it valid pre launch worries. Mantles also were pretty considerable. Wilds hasn’t really shown anything to that nature. There’s *potential* negative things you can just make up (rata acting like the mount is comparable to wire fall when it’s literally slower to get onto that thing than it is to just get back up manually) but no direct “this is BAD” take you could have like with mantles and clutch claw. That’s why I called it doom posting. Assuming the worst possible thing over something barely explained is just exhausting every time.
I was always under the impression the Palicos never spoke humanoid languages. Their tongues, mouth, cheeks, and vocal range makes them physically incapable of doing so (possibly vice versa). So when humanoids and palicos began working together, they simply learned what each other's languages sounded like. Still not about to speak each others, but understands each other's. Somewhat similar to Tekken universe. Its like telling a real cat to get off of a furniture and they listen. Or they make that meow you know means theyre hungry. But greatly exaggerated like everything in MH.
I mean, we can tell they speak the same language because they've been making puns the entire time. If their whole language was just meows, it wouldn't make sense for only some words to be intermixed with meows. It was just how they chose to depict them speaking, like how all the people spoke MH gibberish. There will also probably be a classic audio option that turns them back into the meows.
@@Gatchu137 If both parties are capable of at least understanding each other languages and they both understand that they both know each other languages, its very logical to make puns based on shared knowledge, regardless of whats spoken. Though now that I think about Tekken some more, Tekken has a similar circumstance. King and Armor King are latin style wrestlers, and canonically wear tiger masks. In-game however, their tiger masks are literally just a tiger head, and they screech tiger noises, even though canonically their speaking a human language. I think its very likely that the MH Language Setting will also make the meows return. But will you be able to choose one of the available languages whilst also toggling the meow? No one here knows, but that extra layer of customization is that much extra work and that much extra unlikely. Nothing to do but wait and see
@@effive7817 How would someone go about making a "meow" pun when their entire language is meows? It has nothing to do with shared knowledge, it's just strictly impossible. You'd either be translating the meows into whatever they mean, or the cats are speaking an actual language, but slip meows into their vocabulary. We know why the cats have made cat noises until now, and it's the same reason why hunters spoke gibberish until recently: because of developmental limitations. Hypothetically, let's say that the cats and hunters DO speak different languages. The hunters would speak hunter-ese, and the cats speak in meows. The hunters have been translated to English for the sake of audiences, so why can't the cats? It's not like either of them would canonically speak English.
@@Gatchu137 Meowing doesnt even make sense as a language anyway (certainly not to humans from another universe), puns within could be subtle or could be an exaggeration detail like many elements of MH. Though your last perspective is actually pretty neat havent thought of it that way. The gibberish MH Language is definitely a design element. Including other voice over is developmental limitations being overcome, but it was definitely a creative decision and the canon. The cat's speech though I dunno. We see written MH language, and theres no limitation preventing altered Japanese word textures,. Dont know of any canon written Palico language, and voice acting is a much more actual limitation. Overall though I was just expressing and explaining my perspective, not really making an argument.
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reddit moment
Remember him coping about the macrotransactions in dd2 and teling about it cuz he shilled for it lol
@@jeremiahtorrevillas4396 "shilled for it" is wild lmao
*The devs gave out Review Codes without microtransactions*
Most people reviewed the game without knowing there would be microtransactions because they didn't see them in game.
All because of a piece of paper that mentioned the purchasable items. Bullet points or single paragraph.
@@jeremiahtorrevillas4396 You can avoid micros and still play the game, you can't avoid play and avoid game mechanics, strukture and design decisions.
He has to hate that this is the top comment
"Remember Meowster, jagras hunt in packs!"
"A jaggi! They are wary of fire meowster"
"It's far stronger than a commeown Shakalaka!"
"What a large tree."
I think they should add Palicos to DD2 now and call them 'Paws'
@@caomhanbasswood8611 and the Purrisen
If it's added again, monhun language setting will come in clutch for palicos being annoying.
Lets hope they have the toggle option for non cutscene voices to be turned off.
Just keep MH language an option, and I'm good. It just fits better, imo.
I really hope so, and it wouldn't make sense for MH language to not be there.
MH language, and no in-game captions will mitigate the awfulness that is VA Palicos.
MH language is my go to setting regardless. I want my absolute gibberish setting.
@@itsyaboiguzmaSeriously, it's jarring when I see Rise clips and the character is shouting stupid bullshit.
MonHun casuals: A talking Palico? That's cool!
Stories players: Oh god the Navirou virus is spreading, the puns are fully voiced, NOOOOOO.
I like Navi 😂
In doses that is...
@@Spinexus Funny thinking it'll be in doses. Turning, at least the Palico, to MonHun language right off the bat.
Literally nox lol
the first time I heard that cat talk I set voice volume to zero for literally the rest of the entire game
I don't regret it
@@personman446 Jea that should be an option. Def won´t listen to this for 1k hours+ 😅
You missed one thing. The palico's voice, it sounded like Paimon to me. You will hear Paimon constantly making cat puns.
I hope I can turn that off. I hate voices like that
They should've stayed Meow, I don't like talking palico tbh
@Dastardly_Duo I don't see why not. They did that for our hunter in rise.
>You will hear Paimon constantly making cat puns.
brb gonna preorder the game
The duality of man
The website confirms you can indeed sharpen on your mount and use items.
Of course you can you've been able to do that since iceborn when mounts were first introduced
I'm not complaining tbh. Even if I don't like it, it doesn't seem like it'll be pretty much mandatory like wire bugs were. Just gonna have to wait and see though.
@@mint5438they need to nerf bird sharpening though. Either slow it down significantly or some debuff to make ground sharpening more desirable. Try sharpening in Rise vs XX and see the difference. Once is braindead, the other one is intense. World has the perfect middle ground with you being able to sharp while unsheathed and can roll out if your opening is gone
@@KhangNguyen-ij4xh they should just make bird sharpening unavailable during combat. Doing it on the way to combat like we did in Iceborne is fine, but in the heat of battle you should need to be on foot to sharpen properly. Or they could make it so bird sharpening doesn’t reach max sharpness.
@@cablefeed3738 You could never ride mounts once you triggered a fight with a monster, though. That's an important distinction. If you can safely zip around on your mount, sharpening/using items, whilst the monster tries and gives chase then that's an issue imo
Those worries are indeed wild
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We must rise.
the clash of all generations is ultimate
In freedom we unite
and this will go into the stories
I wish they brought back the bigger blood splatter effects and sounds. Still looks like they're hitting concrete with that sword
There's an option to toggle that in World, at least. If it exists in Wilds too, they might've just toggled it for the trailers in concern for squeamish viewers.
@@Armameteus The toggle in world doesn't do much, it gets nowhere close to the bloody good time we had in games before it.
A mod can fix that, but let's wait for upcoming trailers, there is a new one coming June 8 on the Summer Game Fest :)
@@ultradius7 I don't know if a new trailer will suddenly show blood if this one didn't.
yeah no way they bring back the huge blood splatter the graphics have evolved way too much and it would probably be too realistic instead of cartoony like in the old games
The "tactical sharpening" argument is very funny, because in older MH games the map was split into small areas so if you really need to sharpen (heal or prepare some items) you could just run few meters into different area and replenish everything without the fear of monster chasing you. You also could do this in World, because there are plenty of areas that are not accessible to monsters. Sharpening on mount is less annoying and won't take you out of the combat, if you want a safe time window.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I see sharpening on a mount as a straight upgrade from that. Given you can't mount or bail out during battles in some arenas, it's not making the game less tactical overall.
I feel bad for those that have a “old good, new bad” mindset.
Your comment is perfect. Nothing was ever lost, it’s just in a different shape now. Mind you a much better, more immersive, and time saving shape.
@@montef368 I am currently replaying MH4U and MHWIB back to back, so I see the difference in both games much clearly. And many streamlined systems in World make much more sense in the context of the game instead of comparing it to previous entries.
this is all true, but we don't have to go there even.
in a group of 4 you will always have an opportunity to sharpen cause of other players aggro. this change makes it more convenient for the singleplayer experience without affecting the coop.
Except that leaving an area in the middle of battle to recover was heavily cumbersome and outright discouraged by the game's mechanics, balancing and old area traversal.
Hunters, on top of being generally slow, have a stamina penalty when running away from large monsters, and even without said penalty, the average Monster is very good at chasing you down. Old areas were often shaped and had their exits placed in such ways to make leaving them hard especially when in combat despite their smaller size. Fleeing to heal is the safer option in paper, but the average player would soon find it to be a waste of time and far more troublesome than it is worth, thus, engaging with methodical sharpening/healing.
Comparing what was a suboptimal, super-desperate-emergency-scenario option to safely outrunning in circles all the monster's attacks is outright false.
That Palico is going to annoy the crap out of me.
Exactly
I believe in world you can sharpen while riding the monster "Taxi".
to be fair, that is out of combat at least.
Yeah, only out of combat
and you can only do it the guiding lands, iirc
@fdevaa uh, no. You can call yhe monster taxi service anywhere on the maps once you unlocked it. And can sharpen as well drink potions and eat pills while riding on the taxi monsters.
Could be that you have yet to unlock it in other parts of MHW?
@@WarnarI well honestly i dont know, i often leave my palico behind so the thought of taxi service doesnt even cross my mind
Me : Hunting
My palico : "THIS LOOKS LIKE A GOOD SPOT TO FIND SOME INGREDIENTS!"
Really shouldn't have let them have duck for dinner
NOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE NOOOOOOOO
MY PALICO DOES NOT NEED TO BE LIKE DONALD IN KINGDOM HEARTS III
Sora look!
my biggest concern is the hunting horn staying the same from rise
I hope it does
@@EmissaryOfSmeagol yeah let’s just dumb down every weapon mechanically and strip them of their identity for the sake of accessibility
@@sleepyashi yes
Same
I hope not. Hope it's closer to the style of world.
To be fair it does say "Aim your attack" so I see this more of an aim like in shooter games than a lock on system like Souls games.
Exactly!!
So auto aim?
If anything, it may be an extension of the Focus Camera from World onwards.
Interesting find. Really curious on how the mechanics works
Yeah my hope is that the aiming is still fully manual, and focus mode just locks your feet and changes some properties.
I don't think that's wirefall
to me that looks more like the mount scooping the downed hunter off the floor, not too dissimilar to how a palico would whack you to get you out of stun
Also Reddit Oscar, I'd like to hear your guesstimation on when we can expect to see Armored Core 6.5
I was thinking it was more akin to rolling to getting up. It took awhile for the mount to appear.
having to whistle and wait for your mount sounds a lot better than an instant escape with no means for the monster to interact if you ask me, unless the whole animation is an "i-frame" then it becomes another problem. first time i experienced wirefall, i was hoping that later monsters would be able to punish you for abusing it like rajang smacking you like a volleyball if you were in range
while i hope it doesnt make things too easy, it looks way more natural. i dont mind some anime-ish stuff in monster hunter, but the wire bugs took away from some of the realism imo. havent a cool monster mount that rushes to scoop you up when you're in trouble is way cooler
..."Reddit Oscar"? 😂
to be fair getting knocked down like that makes you invincible anyway, this is a way to just speed up combat by making you not have to wait through the downed animation, i don't think it's quite as worrying as people are making it out to be as it's slower than the wire fall
Wirefall wasnt really as bad as people say, the CC was worse than people say.
I dont think we should have that much mobility but at the same time, Risebreak monster AI handles our mobility a lot better than Worldbornes monster AI handles us....and we were slower. You actually have to move a lot more in Rise, than any other title because monster moves are no long stationary, there is flexibility where it matters. Tail swipes for example would mostly be from one side, now monsters will attack from the left and right, it makes combat feel more fluid. Monsters have more flexibility in their combos and are a lot more reaction to our movement, just like us the hunters, dont forget how much effort went into making each weapon more flexible and fluid with the combat.
A trained hunter, is going to dodge, maneuver, or block anyways, but that doesnt mean that the effort isnt there to make monsters smarter, to combat Rises mobility.
Its so funny that people cant let this go with Rise but they never talk about how terrible Worlds AI was lmao.
I took a wild guess that 6th gen would further develop the fluidity of combat based on what Risebreak was doing, and the proof is in the pudding. Monsters movements and attacks, are crisp and clean. Rathalos flying in the first trailer was very smooth, so outside of combat, they are really going out of their way to make monsters feel more natural, like real animals.
WILDS is going to be a 100/10 game
Rata, I am amazed you didnt make a joke concern about the beehives disappearing off of the trees, what are we going to do if we can gather important items and healing items???
Glad I’m not the only one concerned with the Palico yappin up a fucking storm about herbs and ores every couple of seconds lmao
In Rise you could adjust and even turn off the hunter talking so I hope you will be able to do the same with palicoes or seperately adjust the language to "meowing" :D
some legitimate concerns there, but also a bit too dramatic.
mount rescue looked more like a Palico rescue, but more dynamic, more adapted to their new bigger world and possibly bigger monster encounters.
sharpening and healing while mounted in combat didn't need to return from Rise, this I wholeheartedly agree.
we don't know anything about Focus mode to get too worried - I think we saw an example of Focus mode when hunter hit that new big monster with a GS and then proceeded to run towards it. it looked really nice. but we need to see a full breakdown of this mechanic.
Palico talking is definitely a double-edged sword. lest hope they will allow us to reduce the amount of dialog during missions in settings or something like that.
I think Focus might be more like a DMC style lock on. As in all it really does is make your character face your enemy so you can move back and to the sides without needing to turn + grant access to moves via inputs (back + attack, forward + attack, etc)
Sharping in mount ist in iceborn too And ITS the best Thing they addet
@@dergrandpa5989 there is some speed difference though. and even if I personally don't hate it too much, reliable and fast way to mount up and sharpen your weapon trivializes the important element of the hunt.
and here we see that your mount can rescue you, you can heal up and sharpen immediately without any strategic decision making. just hop and go.
we may need this in Wilds, but it also does appear a bit too easy to do.
@@wolfair People were saying this about being able to drink potions while walking/running but now it's celebrated. The games have been moving away from timing and strategic-based gameplay since World; Ran out of potions? Go back to camp. Wanna change weapons? Now you can do it on the go. They've been sacrificing structure for convenience and it's sad that people have let it get this far.
People are still saying that about potions. And I myself am definitely not a fan of it.@@rohan68842
I can kinda get your point, but none of these things worry me. Specially regarding the talking Palico as I just change the settings for the voices to be in the made up MH language. I hate hearing the characters speaking in English.
The devs said there is a new gameplay trailer coming in SGF, and confirmed that both the hunter and the palicos are voiced 😂
Also, having two weapons reduces the need to sharpen in the first place.
But i am super excited about the "enviromental changes" mechanic, it looks very interesting. So many possibilities...
Guess i'm turning off voices lol.
@@Foogi9000 I'll just play it in japanese i think 😅
@@fernandofaria2872 bro I played rise in Japanese and it was so much better than English
@@fernandofaria2872 How does that make any difference?
Rise only had so many mechanics designed to speed up the game because it was on the switch. The game was designed to be played in short bursts. Wilds is a home console game so I don’t think it will be like that
Rise is in home consoles besides Switch, and short bursts are but lies given the critical flaw of the engine is the monster scaling being dependent on multiplayer participation. A lot of hunts are longer grinds.
@Aereto Rise was meant to be switch exclusive, any changes for sunbreak and the port to other consoles was due to community feedback.
Sounds like you’re doing shitty damage. Try element, it’s super good in Sunbreak.
Most monster hunter games are hand held exclusives. That is not the reason why Rise is the way it is. There likely isn't any one single reason why Rise was streamlined and sped up like it was. Partly for broader appeal, partly for accessibility, partly to do with Switch user metrics being mostly kids/teens, and probably more we can't even speculate on.
Yeah, it's a Portable Team game just like GU and P3
They have a much faster paced and spectical design philosophy, so we shouldn't assume the Mainlines take **too** much from Sunbreak
An Atreus as a palico sounds like a nightmare
I think a compromise for sharpening while mounted is for there to be an upper limit to the sharpness you can reach due to the jostling of the mount, whereas while unmounted you can achieve full sharpness with a steady hand.
Sounds great, like you can't ever sharpen your best color sharpness in on the mount cause the thing is running and shaking like a chiken. And off of it, its easy.
Amen
Also I was rewatching the trailer and I believe the mount wasn’t treated as a wirefall, you can hear a whistle sound from the hunter right before he gets hit and then the mount comes in after the hunter recovers so I think it was really just the mount coming in late
Finally we'll be able to hear our palico call us meowster, and all of the shitty cat puns will be available to us not only in text but all their voice acting glory. Truly, this is the culmination of everything Monster Hunter was always meant to be.
You might have thought "mr monster meet mr weapon" is as good as it gets, but this is on an entirely different echelon of immersive catpun based hunting experiences. Thank you Capcom, very cool.
Our generous meowsters at Catcom have delivered the purrrrfect experience
upon rewatching, it’s not just the palico talking, our Hunter is talking too. that’s not an npc or a narrator, that’s our player character doing all that yappin’
I rather have pawtner
A series that always evolves and learns from past entries will always have people whinning.
Every MH game, on top of learning from past games, has also had critical flaws that bog the experience down. I respect their commitment to experimentation, but we never get a "normal" MH game that just seeks to improve on the formula.
3U had terrible water combat for half the game, and then it's scrapped in the next game. 4U had horrible jumping mechanics, which got fixed in Generations, but Generations was a crazy anniversary game. World changed basically everything (a lot for the worse), and some of that was fixed in Rise, but Rise was definitely a weird MH game.
The series rarely just "improves" with each game, even if I think the games ARE improving over time.
@@Gatchu137 I think experimentation is the reason monster hunter games keep improving over time and certainly a welcome philosophy so the series doesn't become stagnant
@@noctisgaming2939 Like I said, I do respect them for it, and I agree that the series is generally getting better over time.
It's just a matter of frequency. Since every game ends up introducing a bunch of new mechanics, every game ends up bogged down by how poorly implemented most of those new mechanics are, even if they fixed/cut all the problematic mechanics from the last game.
So even though the series generally keeps improving, it's more of a "two steps forward, one step back" kind of thing. And it's fair for people to complain about something that they think could be that one step back.
@@Gatchu137 I'm all for fair criticism which I don't think it's the case in the video tho, people often act (mainly) fivers) that Rise/Sunbreak did nothing better than the previous game when I believe it did plenty, they also act like Monster Hunter has a fixed formula which it never did.
@@noctisgaming2939 I think Rise fixed (or at least tried to fix) a lot of the mechanics that were made worse in World, like the skill system and decorations.
And while I like Rise, it's definitely not a traditional MH game. If we draw a line of commonality between all of the games, we can see what the MH formula is, and that every game has some additional gimmick on top of it.
I do think that there's a pretty high demand for just a "normal" MH game at this point. I just want to appreciate the core gameplay and refined mechanics, without worrying about some new system.
Palicos are a precursor species that evolved into Paimon
I suspect that focus mode can be likened to Devil May Cry's lock-on. You can target an enemy and move around while facing them, and while doing this it allows you to use new moves like the stinger.
You can change character, npc, and follower voice settings in Rise. I guarantee you'll be able to change the voice to cat sounds for the palico, so it's kind of a non-issue
Better to voice concerns now, way before the game releases, so the devs actually have time to implement this kind of change. There is a chance they might not have the option as a planned feature.
Can't wait to pay 5.99 for palicos to not be insufferable.
I'm pretty sure we've had a Dark Souls lock-on since World, and I think it stayed in Rise.
I don't find it to be that much of an issue, because the default targeting system is much better for positioning, but the focused camera is just an option for anyone who can't be bothered to keep locking on.
Also, Palicoes have canonically been talking the entire time, they've just never upgraded to have actual voice acting, while humans started in World.
And we heard Palicoes speak in MH Stories 2, so it's not like this is truly the first example.
My first MH was Tri and in 3U there was a camera lock on but a bit shitty.
I don't mind a better lock on like in World, it make the fight more readable.
And the main point of DS lock on is that the player is facing the enemy, while in MH only lock the camera.
I think it will be like that in Wilds
@@andreamassari7954 I don't remember having a constant camera lock-on in 3U. Do you know if it was only in the Wii U version? Because I played it on the 3DS.
I only recall the method of tapping a button and having the camera snap to the monster's position, but it didn't stay locked-on to them like in Dark Souls.
World was the first MH game that I remember having a constant lock-on option, but you could change it back to the original controls.
Palico meowing: This is cute, I love my cat friend.
Palico talking: Put him down, I've had enough.
I love hearing the downsides to games I'm excited about, helps kill the hype a bit meaning the wait becomes more sufferable, you're doing a service for us all
Palicos talking is really strange, I agree
I bet I BET, they're gonna put the original palico meowing sounds behind the ''Monster Hunter Language'' voice option
my only concern as a hammer main is that they might give me even less reason to use the normal mode. idk why but it bothers me that theres basically no reason to not be using power charge/strength mode. its just not interesting, and i hope they do something with the different modes that is meaningful
That's my main concern. Hammer isn't fun to play efficiently, and if you aren't playing efficiently then you're missing out on a lot of damage. At this point they either need to double down on simplicity or just rework it imo.
sunbreak hammer feels very tragic imo. it has such a large selection of moves, yet in terms of optimal strategies -
i have no idea what yall about, mhr hammer is one of it best iteration and has ridiculous damage output in whichever combination of scrolls and skills you want to use. You can even have it all. There is not even a meta or an efficient way of playing sunbreak as level 300 investigations makes meta obsolete. A 5% increase in damage isnt gonna make a difference when the HP pools are high and monsters rarely stay still. Unless you are a speedrunner with a targeted run, none of it matters. You can run both modes of hammer with physical, status and elemental hammers and damage loss is too insignificant. Add to the fact that you have a counter and with good wirebug build have access to high damage moves, there is no downside to playing hammer. It was never the most DPS in any MH game anyway and it's stun and exhaust capabilities are still there.
Focus mode feels more like that mechanic in mgsr where you get a lil more control over where you slash.
That would be great, because you could do monster attacks that can be countered by attack sequences on certain parts. That would be strategic and stylish.
This seems to be closer to what it is
Yes, this sounds more logical because it works well with the "weakened" spots on the monster; we'll be able to target those weakened areas using focus mode a lot better than attacking regularly.
People complain about sharpening, healing, etc… on the mount but then completely ignore the fact we used to run from one area, load into a different area and do our sharpening, etc… there😂I get the complaints about having a camp to replenish items and stuff… but dying on the sharpening on the mount is ruining the game is silly to me.
I can see people having a preference for either one. Sharpening while stationary used to be the rule; now it's situational. And that makes combat slightly easier, which is understandably insulting to hardcore players but less frustrating for more casual ones. I'm kind of in favor of it, because it means it shortens the time between encounters on larger maps, but it's not everyone's cup of tea.
The hardest quests were generally in arenas where you couldn't do this
I only complain about sharpening for hammer. How the hell do you sharpen a hammer?😂
I hope hammer gets a decent rework. I kinda like what they did with it in sunbreak, but it still felt like it could be outclassed by pretty much every other weapon.
Courage Elemental Hammer was busted in Sunbreak I went from never having touched the weapon in previous games to one of my favorites
I just hope we don’t get boring weapon designs
focus mode, is new mechanic. it is a stance mode where you can follow up to attack, counter or guard. about spacing, you can see after the counter/parry, the hunter have option to clutch claw sling himself to the monster, while doing that he also run charged his GS.
Palicoes have always talked tbf, we just haven't heard them before.
Yeah, but them just meowing with text and everybody can understand them is funnier and better every possible way.
@@thegodofsoapkekcario1970hopefully it'll be an option
and that's the problem. Why was the handler annoying? because she voiced the lines you typically only read. Now palicoes will be saying aloud the cringy dialogue that, while amusing to read, just does not translate to VA.
@@kwagmeijer26she was also annoying due to her personality and over insertion into the story.
@fulltimeslackerii8229 kinda true, but no-one would have batted an eye if she weren't voiced, and palico lines are written very similarly to the way her lines were.
Iceborn was where mounts were first introduced, and you could sharpen on them. So I highly doubt that's changed.
Yeah but you could only access the mounts out of combat
Mounts were out of combat, used to get from point A and B while you cab spend your time sharpening, healing, etc.
I'm so glad someone pointed out the palicos talking being annoying, I hope there's a way to mute them.
One of the best intro RUclips has witnessed
My thoughts about each point:
-The wire fall thing seems like it isn’t very strong like you said, and I think it links the combat to the mount in an interesting way so I’m excited for it, all assuming it wasn’t the Hunter calling for it the moment before they got hit and getting picked up while they happened to be down.
- Sharpening is mostly done outside of combat, and rarely does it decide the outcome of an encounter if you fail to do it at the proper time in combat. It does make you consider your build, but if I ever need to sharpen in the middle of combat, I usually run away first unless I know the monster’s moveset. It’s an immersive, yet tedious animation I’d rather be able to see while controlling my character on the back of my mount.
- Focus Mode, I initially saw it as an improved target lock from World, but when they said you can use additional attacks, I became worried as well. If this is the main avenue for new moves, I’m optimistic, though. They understand the appeal of the combat, and wouldn’t change it so drastically as to introduce a lock on system out of nowhere. That’s not fitting the immersive camerawork I’m expecting from Wilds. It seems like a baked in clutch claw, which also pin pointed monster parts. This looks more interesting.
- Palico voice acting is so weird. I’m willing to hear it out, as long as it isn’t too annoying and you have the option to turn it off outside of cutscenes.
Me: I'm sure there's not much to worry.
Rata: "The Palico is talking"
Me: ... No, this cannot be!
You can see another instance of the palico talking in the shot where the hunter and handler are riding next to the pack of small monsters. It comments on how some of them have big spikes.
Rise’s experimentation was one of its strongest strengths and biggest weakness. It lead to insane creativity and great mainstay ideas but also being too unbalanced and in our favor. Wilds seem to be a refinement of these ideas and implemented in a more world/4U style of combat, which I’m all for and very curious to see if they pull it off.
honestly the fully voice palico is the least of my worries, im more concerned about the fact that I think i hear the Player character talking and being fully voiced, idk about yall but in games like monster hunter or other rpgs, i cannot stand voiced pro-tags unless there's a wide variety of voice options, being forced into one or two voices for MY character breaks my immersion and just overall doesn't feel great. for example fallout 4, i cannot run the game without some kind of mod that changes the voice because I dont think the default nate/nora voices fit me or the character im playing. even in baldurs gate 3 where the protag is only voiced in combat and overworld quips and you get a plethora of voice options im not entirely a fan.
obviously a voiced player character isn't gonna break this game for me, but i just hope at the very least the option to pitch the voice up and down that's in monster hunter world is available and if not i hope there's several voice options for the player character
You’re missing the type of genre entirely buddy. And also if your only example is Fallout 4, that’s old news and simply a bad example. Go ahead and give us another. Because Aloy in Horizon is great, the characters in the Mafia Games are also great. You’re not role playing a character in any previous MH game that’s for sure, you’re role playing the hunt. If you honestly think nodding and muffled hmmms and ahhhs are “next gen storytelling” you.. may have a problem.
Fyi, MH Rise let you adjust the characters talking so it is very likely to be the same in Wilds
100% agree and Fallout 4 is the classic example of this. Not Nate’s voice only, but the things he said that were voiced were not how I would talk and it was a little immersion breaking. I always prefer a silent protagonist in games. I want to feel I’m the player character. It won’t ruin the game, but could be annoying especially if they talk when on hunts. I hope they have multiple voice options, but generally monster hunter had like 5 voices and that was just for grunts and shouts.
MH Isnt a game where you put yourself into the character
@@clashcatastrophe7289 yes it is 100%. I’ve played almost every one since the original, always make my own character and make them like myself. How’s it not? I’d understand something with a set protagonist like the Witcher, but not monster hunter where you pretty much always make a custom character.
Gave you a thumbs up just for having the balls to do it at this time.
Coincidentally, I also agree with most of your concerns, in-combat mount especially for all the reasons you've stated.
Im so hyped for Palico Puns
You echoed a lot of my worries. Thank you
I get what you're saying about healing and sharpening while mounting, but there's literally no reason not to do that. It would be like not being able to cast spells or heal on Torrent in Elden Ring...just cuz it would be easier than doing so on foot.
I used Torrent just like I did the Palamute in Rise/Sunbreak and I'll use Bird the same. Also I like it, it feels cinematic to race away and quickly prepare yourself to get back into the action.
@@WarriorCicada It also just makes sense lol. It would be so stupid not to be able to do anything useful on your mount.
Personally, I could not chug a glass full of potion while riding a dog/bird hybrid at like 30mph on bumpy terrain. I also probably couldn't sharpen my 4-foot, 150lb sword. I don't think a mount that small affords that kind of flexibility.
I think the amount of healing gained while mounted should be reduced (since you'd probably spill plenty), and the mount should be slowed dramatically while sharpening. That alone would be a decent trade-off, because otherwise it would be able to draw aggro while you sharpen, but now the monster is solely focused on you.
@@Gatchu137just cause can't do it doesn't mean the people welding swords 10x their weight are gunna struggle. you gunna complain they have giant weapons now too cause you can't swing them? we are talking practically here, you would try to do all these things if you were the hunter and practice it ahead of time to be good at it. just edit your first paragraph out and the rest of your comment is fine
@@petercottantail7850 Putting aside the suspension of disbelief that hunters have inhuman strength, the draw of main-line MH games has always been that it's still relatively grounded. It's not a matter of practice, you're chugging from a bottle with a massive open lid, it's not practical to drink it while riding something. It's also poor from a gameplay standpoint.
That said, you need to chill. You seem actually offended when my first paragraph was a joke meant to show how absurd these QoL changes are.
You can probably adjust the palicos voice line frequency. Just like you could with the hunter in rise.
or change it to just "meows" as per usual. i mean, if they let you choose "hunter language" in the language options, then it's only fair, right?
yay lets worry guys! What a great thing to do with the first trailer of a game we are excited for!
The focus mode is more like your character faces the direction of your camera and you can slowly shuffle back and fourth. You can see the hunter doing it in the trailer, its like in world when you held down both triggers while guarding, your character would face the direction of your camera.
As a hater, I love people who are not afraid to be a bit of a hater. If you really want to alienate me try being less eloquent. ;p
Honestly I'm not too enthused about the trivialization of sharpness either. I would hope there's some kind of drawback for doing it on the mount, like maybe you sharpen much slower, or... Well, I can't think of a way to balance that that isn't immediately made irrelevant by the mount's speed. If they can make some monsters interrupt your mount before it gets to you or target the mount more viciously while you're riding it, something that makes sharpening on the mount *more* dangerous than doing it on the ground, then I could see it working out.
I doubt this will apply in cutscenes but the Palicos will almost certainly have a voice slider during hunts. Both followers and other players had this in Rise and they could be turned all the way down to 0.
Eh same thing happened to healing. I remember not being able to move while drinking a potion now you can it just slows down the healing. If sharpening on the mount is there the only real thing the can do is make it so the mount cant go fast while you do it.
They likely added the healing on mounts because of the emphasis on pack hunting, and it won't exactly be conducive to healing if 2-4 large monsters are going at you at once.
@@StrikeNoir105E That's part of the fun lol. Finding the opportunities to heal or sharpen is all part of the hunt. Strategically positioning yourself or setting traps to do just that.
I'm looking forward to just taking out a whole pack, screw separating them I got OG MH blood in me I'll no-hit hunt them all.
In the true og mh games the maps were many zones connected to one bigger map
If u wanted to sharpen or to heal, yes u couldnt move but u just could go into another zone and do it without the monster had even the slightest chance of stopping you preparing for battle again and go in full life with sharpened sword
I think its better to sharpen on mount than how it was earlier because it dont interrupts the fight and there is still a risk u get hit while sharpening unlike in old monster hunter games
@@martin_klx
However, the old games had locals you couldn't retreat to another zone. Also in the old games retreating actually was a more strategic choice becase you couldn't outrun the monster.
Mounted healing/sharpening trivializes that aspect because the mount can easily run circles around the monster. There is little to no risk involved.
My concern is - look at foldable weapon to fit in the mount's pouch. And people mistaken GS to LS in the trailer. I afraid the dumb weapon designs in world comming back, every weapon design now must be foldable or worse is just some scales strap on to bone/iron base
they must know that the weapon designs were pretty weak in MHW compared to other titles since it was a tribal restart in a new land, and people didnt really like it as much.
People only said it was a long sword, cause they wanted their weapon to be in the trailer. It was very clearly a great sword
@@cablefeed3738looked like a gunlance to me *copium*
@@itsyaboiguzma nuh huh, it was the insect glaive
It was clearly Charge Blade and the shield was in another pocket
My emergency food can't be this cat!
I'd say if these are the "worries" than we are fine. Also Jesus why. Who has this much of a problem with the trailer for the 2 minutes we've seen.
Kind of a crazy thing to just put out as "I just got this great trailer and I have some grievances" it's WILD.
Maybe Fromsoft games have spoiled me but the voice acting in the trailer and the last few monster hunter games sounded incredibly cringy. Looks like I’ll be playing with Japanese audio again lol
I don't understand why ever since world they've gone so hard into the story when that's never been why we play MH. We play for the monsters, unique combat, the environments, cool armors and weapons, etc. Idgaf about most of the characters you introduce because the dialogue is and has always been cheesy and the plot just a fancy way to get to fight more monsters.
@@Foogi9000 If they're going to do a story anyway from now on, I'd rather they try to actively improve upon the writing.
Ah yes, i never let it bothered me as much ... but palico NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
“Talking Palico’s”
*Navirou flashbacks intensify*
On the topic of Focus Mode, on the Japanese version of the website it goes into more detail with it being a zoom mode, allowing one to better focus on certain parts of a Monster. This building into what is called the Wound System, an evolved form of the Clutch Claw Wound from World where by consecutively attacking a Monster on the same spot/part, the Monster becomes more susceptible to damage on said spot/part.
we already have lock on system on rise, is on the camera options, but no one uses it because the camera shakes a lot against fast monsters. i dont think is going to be a problem
Every Entry had some kind of Lock on Mechanic I don't even know how he didn't know this
Hopefully they have the option to change the palico voice to the OG voice like in World
3:25 in the playstation blog it confirms that yes you can sharpen when mounted
I feel like an important thing ti talk about would be paid dlc because rise has shown that they are fine qith making both armor and weapons paid rather than event quest items and wirod with a few collabs being paid dlc instead of being event questlike the old games do
About your first point, I think it's kind of funny to think it's the equivalent of a Wirefall, because that specific knockdown animation in Rise was used with attacks that disable your wirebugs. But I do agree.
About Focus Mode, I fully trust the MH team with this.
YES, I hated the Palico talking too, it's so weeeird. I don't dislike Palico dialogue, but I hope there's a "classic Palico" option.
Will really need to see more on focus mode before I get excited for this, "making it easier for all players to get in on the action" is just the worst thing to hear when you want an indepth and challenging game
It sounds like it's probably a way to help people better aim their attacks so they aren't swinging at air. Some newer players aren't good at positioning with respect to their weapons combo chain in ways where their hits will count for anything.
Good video, some things I didnt notice myself on first watch.
The voiced palaco seems confirmed in the latest video titled "Monster Hunter Wilds - Message from the Developers", at around 4:07 ish
Still hope they keep switch skills though. One of the things Rise had over World in keeping gameplay fresh.
I think that's probably the reason you can carry two weapons with you at once and hot-swap them from the mount. Instead of altering the moveset of a weapon, you're instead encouraged to carry two weapons and swap them as necessary.
@@Armameteus Meh.. I'd still want switch skills. The option to change GS from a slow raw damage powerhouse to a meaty combo maker with repectable elemental damage is still more fun since it changes how you play a weapon.
Exactly. I love the alternate hammer moveset in sunbreak. It's so satisfying to use.
Very hard no. I am in absolutely no fuckin hurry to go back to a very polarized gameplay loop of "do this one stupidly powerful move and nothing else on repeat for actually respectable damage numbers, also that move is on a cooldown and tied to a resource"
If we want interchangeable moves, that can be fine, but DO NOT make them more powerful than anything else you can do, with no cooldowns and no resources to do them. Switch skills are at the very top of the things I despised about Rise. We do not need to repeat their mistakes.
No thanks. I don’t want a hack and slash
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"will make it even easier" I dunno man, I've heard this before many a time. Let's hope the game doesn't take until MR 50-100 or the future DLC to have any semblance of a challenge
I think as long as they don't give players as many overpowered gimmicks as they did in Rise, we can probably expect a more reasonable difficulty curve. Having large monsters move in packs sounds like an interesting challenge by itself.
I noticed there's actually quite a bit of delay between calling the Seikret and when you get picked up by it. At first I thought it was more like a wirebug escape from Rise but reviewing the video again where he gets picked up after being knocked down, the hunter actually whistles just before/simultaneously he got hit and it was still a second or two before the Seikret picked him up
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The 2 weapons still has me a little worried. I dont like the idea of fights being designed around that (I think). “Oh here comes the phase where you need a ranged weapon”
Unless they force you to have one of each I don't see that happening, also the qol sharpening problem that rata has will be even worse because you can just swap weapon to avoid sharpening unless both are in bad condition, unless they decrease sharpness globally on all weapons and I hope that's not the solution.
"Remember, switching to your bow is always faster than sharpening" -Fleet Commander Gaz
This comment doesn't make sense... They don't design monsters for specific weapons to be used in the first place. Whether or not one weapon is better than another is coincidence due to differences in each monster's moveset. The developers don't know ahead of time what weapons you're gonna use lol
That is very Shadow of Colossus and a bit concerning for Monster Hunter if that is the case.
They design some of the fights around a titles particular gimmick, like the wyvern riding section for allmother for example. If this is One of Wild’s gimmicks I hope they dont go through that again. Thats what I meant
The Focus Mode speculation reminds me of the AC6 lock-on speculation. Coherent voiced palico dialog is understandable.
very happy to hear the classic unsubscribe outro again
I suspect Focus Mode might be just a new kit added to all weapons. Like the horizontal swipe, the extended shoulder charge, and the Greatsword parry. It adds new movement and new offensive moves that will have more (hopefully) risk than the wire bug suite of moves.
I agree. I feel like Focus Mode is just a toggle for Hunter Arts. The website says that you'll be able to access "special attacks" when in focus mode so I think it'll work like MHR where you hold a trigger to "aim" like you would aim your wirebug and then press another button for your Hunter Art.
In its most extreme possible implementation it could even essentially be an entirely different moveset.
Could be super fun if it limits your mobility and gives you very precise attacks in return, great for breaking specific body parts.
@@FireStormUnleashedThat'll probably be what happens.
Honestly can’t wait listen to my little buddy talk with me and tell me about the monster as my hunter calls out his special attacks while I fight, gunna be epic.
The first quest in Wilds will be to find the dialog volume slider and turn it off.
I will admit I have concerns about Focus Mode as well, particularly the website's phrasing that makes it sound like a "makes the game easier for everybody!" toggle. Apparently there was an interview about it in a Japanese-only magazine that might clear up some stuff: The "weak points" are part of a new mechanic similar to clutch-claw tenderizing that are caused by you repeatedly attacking the same spot until it's wounded, the wounded parts are highlighted in focus mode by red scoutflies and that's when you can do the big attacks on them.
I like the negative and worry videos. Keep it up
This video genuinely did not need to exist lol
Have Capcom ever made a bad monster hunter? I rest my case. Also I cant even think of the last time I have gotten hit while sharpening in like 4 games......its just not an issue anymore when you learn to time it right after an attack or focus change. I dont like the talking palico or hunter, but you could change the language to MH language or Japanese in World and rise so if we have that it wont really matter.
Well, MH1 doesn't really hold up anymore, so there's one example. And a lot of people thought Rise was bad, I would say for valid reasons. But this guy isn't even claiming that Wilds will be bad, so I don't know what case you're trying to make in the first place. I'm just as excited for the game as anyone, but I can still recognize the potential for some of the gameplay changes shown in the trailer to impact hunting in ways that are less than positive. There's nothing wrong with tempering your expectations, even for something you're looking forward to overall.
@@lordmcsmith MH1 was good for its time, though. There is still merit to playing it if you put your mind back in time. You can't fairly compare it to today's standards.
Played Dos to village completion recently, and that is a good damn game, even if its so unfair in ways. For its time it was amazing.
@@lordmcsmithRise is literally Capcom's second best selling game ever behind World at 1. The majority of Rise haters are World babies that never even played the series prior to it
@@joed5150 Apparently, Rise fans are babies who mistake sales for quality, and who throw tantrums any time someone else doesn't like what they like.
@@joed5150 rise horrible
Woke up and watched the trailer and oh that damn cat really doesn’t shut up, huh
The moment I saw the trailer I was waiting for your video
Palicos not meowing? How is this Monster Hunter? They better have an option to change it not having a dozen cats around me meowing and stealing my stuff is going to break me.
Honestly we'll have to just wait and see but i just hate to see the series butcher them like this.
Judging from the performance of their last game Dragon's Dogma 2 I'm indeed threaded for the performance of this game, that's what I'm more worried about..
The developers of MH have nothing to do with Dragons Dogma
Dragon Dogma and Monster Hunter Devs are two different developers guy.
@@ItsjustPrentiss Running on the same engine.
@@McBurnstein That not how game development works…. Tons of games use the same engine and run very differently each time depending on how well the devs optimized the game. Dragon’s Dogma devs aren’t very good with optimization, meanwhile monster hunter devs are and the re engine Resident evil games run great as well.
@@ItsjustPrentiss Thats not true at all man, world ran like shit on PC on release and had to take 6 months after release to fix basic CPU thread problems on lower end rigs that were absolutely capable of running games of similar graphical level with no problems, and the RE engine games before Dragons Dogma 2 were all *closed area* games with small load areas, while Dragons Dogma 2 is open world, the first of its kind on RE-Engine. There is VERY much a good reason to be afraid of Monster Hunter Wilds optimization. I'm not saying to be a doom and gloom, but being cautious is a good thing, and its a very valid thing to be worried about.
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When thing's get tough and my palico say"It's morphing time!", and I morph my Charge blade into pizza cutter mode.
Doesn't look anything like a wirefall. He called his mount to pick him up
hes talking about any mechanic that allows the player to instantly recover from getting knocked down. the animation is irrelevant
@@falsechord the animation is relevant. There are animations that prevent a hard knock down completely (wirefall) and animations which allow for slightly quicker recovery from a knockdown (like calling a mount). They are different
@@kybalion5205 "slightly quicker". its not just slightly. its 90% quicker.
ps. also the game devs can program the character to ignore the animation and still move even if the character is knocked down. the animation is irrelevant.
Trailer is fine (hopefully they give us a "palico speaks gibberish" option).
What I continue to worry about is Capcom. They keep pushing into new predatory monetization territory with each new title.
"World 2" is likely to be one of their biggest titles, possibly ever. That's a big fat juicy target for "continuing monetization".
SF6 with their overpriced skins. DD2 with their convenience items. World and Rise both had some controversial monetization issues and there's nothing saying that can't get worse.
Over all I'm so happy with the trailer and can't wait to play wilds but the one thing that did just sightly concern me was the wording they chose for some of the break down on there site "Focus Mode will make it even easier for players of all stripes to get in on the hunting action." I just hope that doesn't mean it's literally a mechanic purely designed to negate and dumb down any challenge during hunts to try and appeal to an audience that don't like monster hunter.
You mentioned you didn't want them to add a lock on but doesn't world have that option I never use it but it's definitely there.
Trailer #2 coming next week with a new monster!
The palico talking point is catastrophic
Inb4 doom posting about mechanics that are barely explained for months on end until content creators get the game early and tell people the game isn’t even close to being as bad as they thought.
Tbf, all of World's biggest problems were tied to things that were just supposed to be minor mechanics.
@@Gatchu137 I feel like clutch claw wasn’t a minor mechanic at all which gave it valid pre launch worries. Mantles also were pretty considerable.
Wilds hasn’t really shown anything to that nature. There’s *potential* negative things you can just make up (rata acting like the mount is comparable to wire fall when it’s literally slower to get onto that thing than it is to just get back up manually) but no direct “this is BAD” take you could have like with mantles and clutch claw. That’s why I called it doom posting. Assuming the worst possible thing over something barely explained is just exhausting every time.
i really hope if the cat talks they include a palico meow toggle
I was always under the impression the Palicos never spoke humanoid languages. Their tongues, mouth, cheeks, and vocal range makes them physically incapable of doing so (possibly vice versa). So when humanoids and palicos began working together, they simply learned what each other's languages sounded like. Still not about to speak each others, but understands each other's. Somewhat similar to Tekken universe.
Its like telling a real cat to get off of a furniture and they listen. Or they make that meow you know means theyre hungry. But greatly exaggerated like everything in MH.
I blame MH Stories for this crap.
I mean, we can tell they speak the same language because they've been making puns the entire time. If their whole language was just meows, it wouldn't make sense for only some words to be intermixed with meows. It was just how they chose to depict them speaking, like how all the people spoke MH gibberish.
There will also probably be a classic audio option that turns them back into the meows.
@@Gatchu137 If both parties are capable of at least understanding each other languages and they both understand that they both know each other languages, its very logical to make puns based on shared knowledge, regardless of whats spoken.
Though now that I think about Tekken some more, Tekken has a similar circumstance. King and Armor King are latin style wrestlers, and canonically wear tiger masks. In-game however, their tiger masks are literally just a tiger head, and they screech tiger noises, even though canonically their speaking a human language.
I think its very likely that the MH Language Setting will also make the meows return. But will you be able to choose one of the available languages whilst also toggling the meow? No one here knows, but that extra layer of customization is that much extra work and that much extra unlikely. Nothing to do but wait and see
@@effive7817 How would someone go about making a "meow" pun when their entire language is meows? It has nothing to do with shared knowledge, it's just strictly impossible. You'd either be translating the meows into whatever they mean, or the cats are speaking an actual language, but slip meows into their vocabulary.
We know why the cats have made cat noises until now, and it's the same reason why hunters spoke gibberish until recently: because of developmental limitations.
Hypothetically, let's say that the cats and hunters DO speak different languages. The hunters would speak hunter-ese, and the cats speak in meows. The hunters have been translated to English for the sake of audiences, so why can't the cats? It's not like either of them would canonically speak English.
@@Gatchu137 Meowing doesnt even make sense as a language anyway (certainly not to humans from another universe), puns within could be subtle or could be an exaggeration detail like many elements of MH. Though your last perspective is actually pretty neat havent thought of it that way.
The gibberish MH Language is definitely a design element. Including other voice over is developmental limitations being overcome, but it was definitely a creative decision and the canon. The cat's speech though I dunno. We see written MH language, and theres no limitation preventing altered Japanese word textures,. Dont know of any canon written Palico language, and voice acting is a much more actual limitation.
Overall though I was just expressing and explaining my perspective, not really making an argument.