So I was replaying Monster Hunter World and remembered the woodland pteryx. It looks quite a lot like the mount, and the endemic life researcher did ask us to catch one.
It could be an offshoot, if you are in the new world, and a part that is cut off (crazy storm systems etc. maybe?) It's quite similar to the woodland one but I think maybe it could be a desert or wasteland Pteryx. It evolved to have a beak snout rath looking front of its face instead and could be bigger for whatever reasons would make sense in the situation.
I appreciate your level headed approach to this. I think too many other people are too caught up in the hype and made all these wild predictions and have all these super high hopes for what will come in Wilds. I don't doubt it'll be an amazing game, but expecting underwater combat, new weapons, new lore and a full open world? I'm not saying all of those things aren't possible, but I think you're setting yourself up to be disappointed if you go in expecting so much.
after seeing a trillion shadow of the erdtree videos of this style this past week, im very glad the sexiest swiss brings some spice into my life by doing a video like this for the monster hunter in me
One thing I really hope to see from Wilds is the ability to truly observe how Elder Dragons can impact the environment around them. I would say B. Vaal Hazak did this a little when they went to the Ancient Forest, but it can be a lot more involved than that. Teostra visits a forested area and burns part of it, or raises the ambient temperature of the area so you need cool drinks in areas you normally don't. Velkhana freezing over bodies of water and causing snow in otherwise temperate regions. Or, what if the sandstorms in the trailer were caused by a Jhen Mohran? Or of there's a coastal area that experiences occasional earthquakes, caused by a Ceadeus? You don't necessarily have to show those monsters on-screen, either; a little secret area with a couple of shinies that point back to the monsters causing the phenomenon in question should be enough for people to connect the dots. Imagine if there was a title update that was going to add Gore Magala (or some similar monster), but before that update dropped, you could find "Mysterious Scales" or notice other monsters acting strangely (which, sidenote, is another thing I want: monsters reacting to the presence of other monsters in ways that go beyond "fight 'em!"). New players might become intrigued by this mystery, while series veterans get to feel smart for recognizing the signs of a familiar monster before it gets officially announced in the coming days. I dunno, I think the idea is neat.
I think the idea has a lot of merit, and it can be implemented heavily or just to a minor degree. Either way it would be a boost to the games overall atmosphere which is my jam. When you play a game like monster hunter for so many hours, variations in the environment would be greatly appreciated as a reason to continuously enjoy the hard work put into making such amazing environments.
Being able to tell a monster's near just by observing the small monsters is a neat concept Something that kinda gets buried over time in world cuz of the scoutflies hiding but y'know Neat
I'd definitely appreciate really powerful monsters showing up early - like way before you're ready to fight them. Maybe it's just me, but I really enjoyed the feeling in World of running from the big Apex predators when they showed up and I wasn't geared for them yet. Especially if they stuck around for a few quests - essentially giving you the choice of dealing with the hazard of an Elder Dragon / Apex Monster when questing in a region, or *avoiding* the region altogether for like 4-10 quests until it moves on. What'd be even cooler would be if the map was altered for a bit after they left, too.
I want their intelligence to also be realised it would be cool to have certain elder dragon species act differently towards you depending on how you hunt them- sort of like a reputation system like some could act friendly if you hunt rival species stuff like that or like kushala daora invading quests because they hold grudges
something that is worth noting: tokuda wanted to add underwater areas with underwater combat in world, specifically in the wildspire waste, with the swamp there being what remains of that idea. they gave up on this pretty quickly due to time concerns, but it is worth considering that he wanted to add it and that capcom is thinking about it. but given how much bigger in scale wilds is, I do agree we probably won't see underwater combat. if the game had smaller maps like world, I think we might have seen underwater combat... but both underwater combat, expanded weather and a much bigger world together seems like too many innovations for one project.
Also, I really don't understand those people who want underwater combat. In Tri, I always tried to avoid them whenever possible because it was just so terribly annoying for me to move underwater. I never got to exactly where I wanted to go.... So I actually hope they keep it drowned in the past and focus on something more fun
They going full out with this budget wise, everyone on monster hunter team is working on this and they been given a free reign to do the best game they possibly can, Capcom expects the success of the game to keep the company going for a whole fiscal year, I think they bringing underwater and Lagiacrus back.
@@MonsJazierI’ve been playing 3u on and off for the past 2 years, 200 hours in it, and while some aspects of it were iffy I did enjoy all the water hunts. It also makes specific fights better than they would be otherwise like with lagi and plesioth, and monsters like ceadeus are just fucking cool.
One major thing pointing in favour of underwater combat is Tokuda taking the helm again. In an interview it was said that MHW was originally gonna have underwater combat in the wildspire very early in development and Tokuda could be looking into trying again. (Also technically 10 mons could be fought underwater, there's the rare cases where you could fight Ivory Lagi underwater) Good video!
More arthropod monsters would be amazing. I am all on board for Taikun Zamuza, but I'd also like to see Akura Vashimu, reclassified to a Temnoceran. How do we not have a Scorpion monster in mainline yet, but Frontier had TWO? Also, bring back Seltas and Seltas Queen. Seltas Queen is the coolest looking monster in the series and it's a crying shame that she wasn't in Gen 5.
My wishlist for the game would be: -MHW artistic direction with MHR combats balanced with each other -More monsters from less popular categories like Neopterons, Carapaceons, Temnocerans, Amphibians and Reptiles -REWORKED WATER COMBAT. I want HD Abyssal Lagiacrus and underwater Namielle fight -A rework of "unused" Monsters like Hypnockatrice, Vespoid Queen or Monoblos -A few selection of MHF and MHO monsters -Bring back colossal monsters. Like 100m+ colossal For the rest, I know they will cook
I hope we see a more diverse monster roster that can keep up with the endgame. The issue with base rise was the lack of endgame monsters while Sunbreak helped all monsters get into that higher tier.
I hope they give all the flags ships a break from wild. I tired of them always taking the spot light. I rather they bring back monster that haven't gotten the 5th gen treatment or brand new monster. If there new monster, I want ether new species or make more monster for the species that have a few specimen. God I want a new weapon so damn bad. I do agree that the tonfa would be the most likely to be add in the mainline game. If they do I hope they ether keep the hitzone change mechanic of the tonfa or the evasion beast of a weapon like in frontier, of course no fly because that be silly. For underwater combat, I want it returned but I don't think it happen anytime soon. The closest they might do is have a raid monster or something of that degree and be semi underwater to test and see how the community would react
I don't think we'll get a massive reveal about THE Ancient Civilization, but I think we'll learn a few things about an ancient civilization that was indigenous to the New World. The New World has Wyverians and the Tale of the 5 seems to mention humans I think, so it would make sense that the New World would have an indigenous population of humans at least at some point in its history. I can see this game exploring exactly why they're all gone
I got into Monster Hunter when MH:World came out and I mostly played Charge Blade through base World and CB/Switch Axe through Iceborne. I eventually dabbled into Hunting Horn, and now I'm trying to learn every weapons' nuances. Throughout my playthroughs, I felt that I wanted a "blunt Dual Blade" archetype in the form of "fist" type weapons that use explosive Phials in tandem with their attacks. I envisioned that their combo strings would be more free-form allowing the player to string "light", "heavy", and "phial" attacks in any order with special powerful charged combo-enders. After learning about the tonfas, I think they embody the idea that I had in my head of this agile brawling weapon with quick strikes weaved in with powerful hard hitting attacks. Even if tonfas don't return in Wilds, I hope that they return in some MH title down the line because they look pretty rad, especially those pile-bunker attacks!
Perhaps this is a far-fetched hope, but I would like to see (a) Dalamadur in Wilds. As a new player to MH that started playing World around this past Thanksgiving, I havent had a chance to dive into the older games. A giant snake that wraps around mountains is mind blowing.
The fight with Dalamadur was... something, not bad, no,no... Remenber Zorah magdaros? yeah, kinda like that but it feels... divine, inmense, imposible.
If it turns out to be open world, I want to see (probably in the endgame or expansions) some of the super powerhouse monsters and how they interact with their environment. I want to see ukanlos wandering around the snow, I want to have an event where one of the maps is darker and tar is all around only to randomly stumble across a gogmazios. I want to be attacked by an ahtal-neset in the desert and track it back to the forlorn citadel. I even want to see the entire mountain level be taken over by a dalamadur.
@@maldivesthegamer9774 you're probably right that that's a long jump from where we are now and it's probably not going to be wilds that does this, but they made dalamadur work on 3ds. I'm sure they could get what I said to work on modern consoles.
@@victory8928 the ahtal-ka we see in the games kind of rigged its environment to its advantage so it would be cool to catchbone by surprise and see how it fights outside of the citadel
weatherchanges were a thing in world, especially when an elder dragon was around, fighting Kirin and look around, its a thunderstorm, vaal hazak weather was very foggy and mistlike, daora was a storm but i guess you meant that the weather has more direct influence on the gameplay
The issue maybe the tail but that can be tweaked. Honestly would love to see some more cat like monsters though maybe in more unique areas or that fight in and take up unique niches in the environment.
Have you looked at any of the conceptual monster hunter fangames? Some are rather interesting, one I particularly like partially because my internet is not good enough to use visit the fangame wikis is "Monster Hunter Thrive" though it hasn't been updated in a while and some proposed mechanical changes aren't the best the ecology and monsters are interesting. It also has a hypothetical world map. Edit: Also has an alternate phylogenetic tree.
One other thing about crossplay that's good to know.. Their most recent game Street Fighter 6 HAS crossplay. That game was also made in their RE engine, which is very very likely that MH Wilds will be too. I'm 95% sure there will be crossplay in MH Wilds!
Honestly, I feel like a full open world in wilds is a bit more likely than most people think. In the trailer we were shown only one biome throughout the whole runtime, and it looks MASSIVE. I think just from the trailer and previous games, I think it shouldn't just be swept off the table. We don't have any idea of how big the map is because we were shown only the one biome, which also might mean it isn't open world as well, but there's also the fact that the raptor has pouches on its side that look like they might be a moble version of the camp boxes. Why would we need that if it was just big open areas? I know I could be wrong entirely, but a full open world just seems to be what the series has been building up to. An open thriving world of monsters that can be explored in its entirety. Again I could be wrong, so feel free to come back and bully me if I am wrong when the game releases.
I feel the problem is implementation sure the games may seem to be leaning into that but open world is such a massive issue and had saturated the market I don’t think it is a good idea. I personally don’t like open world as much especially cause it would mean removing aspects of the games that were staples. Doesn’t mean we can’t see monsters in very environmental situations but I don’t think it makes sense to dwell into it since it is such a sink and can be such a trap. I hope we have great traversal and that monsters utilise that and the environments well but I don’t think the game should be open world
@@victory8928 While, yes, I understand the market is very oversaturated with open world games, and their enviornments can feel very empty and bland, I don't see why open world is inheritly a bad thing. If the devs decide to actually put effort into the map and traversal, it won't feel any different than something like world. Again, I could be wrong and feel free to correct me when the game actually releases.
I really hope it will be a fusion of world and rise. Rise has so many great gameplay mechanics. Real character voices. And especially great weapon and armor designs. Worlds Designs are mostly boring and similar looking. So they need to take the best of both worlds
There is an in game reason why don’t see Monoblos as a hunt anymore and I like it but I do wish we had it back and that’s because Monoblos are now endangered species and the guild being all about balance forbids any hunts but it doesn’t stop the Black Market hunters who hunt for its horn and spikes and heart plus if we go by elephants for the likely gestation period of a Diablos Monoblos births are likely just as long since both species have live young despite Stories having them hatch from eggs
I keep seeing this repeated but I have never found anything that officially says that Monoblos is endangered. Do you happen to have a source for that (or even just remember where you might have heard it originally)?
I love these theories. But something to bring to mind is the fact that theyve been working on wilds since world or rise. And need 1 more year to release Wilds. I personally theorize that Wilds is gonna be there biggest game yet, but that just me lol. Love your vids!
I'd like to see the weirdo monsters return. I'm talking Kecha Wacha, Qurupeco, Great Maccao, Congalala, and maybe Gobul if they can make fighting him on land fun somehow
Open world can work as long as you have to discover a monster's lair, multiplayer might be a bit difficult to implement if all players could just wander around discovering different things at different times, the host would be screwed over Each lair can have like a mini arena so you get to use the environment to your advantage and do cool tricks Maybe they'll put more focus on the smaller monsters and endemic life Anyway I'm looking forward to it
I agree that MHWilds will probably be multiple large open zones, not an open world. My personal theory is that each "lightning rod" seen at the end of the teaser trailer is a physical indicator of where each fighting zone is, and if you take the end shot to mean that, the map looks like an expanded version of Rise's take on region design. I think people dreaming about the true open world fail to consider a lot of hurdles Capcom would need to get over with that formula. You really can't just drop Monster Hunter into an open world and expect everything to work itself out
I would like them to introduce some of the old creepy lore mh had like the chimera monster. While the story hasnt been an important part of the mh games, i would like them to make something more interesting than monster x is disrupting nature. Im looking to see how they will do with the maps, im hoping the reason why we are getting a mount is because the maps will be bigger and there will be more vertical exploration too. I think the mount being a mobile camp might mean that we will be limited to a second load-out and limited items to bring so we will have some restock but wont be an unlimited amount of restock/switch gears per hunt. That might be a bridge between the players that felt like the camps were too OP in world/rise and that ones that likes the way it is now.
Couldn’t give a damn about cross save, bc can’t say I have the budget to play one game on multiple platforms. No clue how a lot of people can afford that. I will say though that cross play would be awesome bc that would open more friends of mine to trying the game if they can play with me to help them out. That makes it seem more profitable to the company imo. Not sure if the returns are worth what is probably a hefty investment tho.
The whole time I was wondering what was bothering me with the monsters in MH World compared to Rise... It's absolutely variety! World is great, but the selection of monsters just felt a bit too similar throughout, Rise does have the edge on that front.
I hope they have a large amount of monsters to bring back. A lot more content better events and crossovers, get rid of armor and weapon layered armors just have the weapons the way they are and armors as well.
We also have to remember that MH3 was made in 2010, that is 14 years ago, of course it was a hassle to develop an entire 3rd axis of underwater movement.
People talk about how the ancient civilization must have built the lightning rods, because they had advanced technology. I think people have forgotten that you could buy and use portable lightning rods in MHFU, meaning that they could very well be a modern invention in the MH universe instead
Underwater increases dev time because it’s basically 2 different games.Technically is not harder than ground game but it’s a whole different set of balancing and animations for 14 plus weapons for the player on top of all other shared anims.
So, in evidence for an open world design for wilds. 1, world's maps are, in fact, walking distance from each other so tech limitations was the bigger issue for make world open world. 2, both rise and world have 1 map with multiple biomes, so it seems they are at least considering how it could work.
And said environments are kinda just phasing stuff cause guiding lands’s whole gimmick is that it is the new area for end game hunting while the Sunbreak one is to show off the three lords. I don’t think it makes sense to have massive interconnected worlds mostly cause you need good intermediates and that is lacking in some regards sure rotten vale and highland connect a bit (mainly on the highland end) and the ancient forest and wildspire connect but it feels a bit well segmented off in those cases. I just think that having some good maps that allow for unique ecosystems that the devs can add monsters to that fit would be cool maybe even adding back older maps that could just some unique love by making unique monsters for certain niches or revamping existing monsters with subspecies and the like to help flesh the map out while having good interactions. Having open world means you are gonna be getting lots of open space (look at elden ring which is literally cramped with stuff to do)
@victory8928 I'm neutral on if it should or shouldn't be open world, my specific take is that the devs have been striving towards an open world experience with each iteration of the game. I could care less what the maps specifically are as long as the devs are executing on their vision. I also think from watching the series evolve that their ultimate vision includes a form of open world environments.
So my argument to the level designs.....the reason they've done those style of maps big unconnected maps in world and rise is so they can eventually do a fully integrated open world, think of starfield and how much it sucked not to be able to travel from map to map, and to your argument of the different biomes if that elden ring has many different biomes across its huge open world from snow to volcanos, to plains and swamps
Open world is just buzzworld. By itself it's neither gain or lose. And i don't think it add anything in MH formula. 1) If the put emphasis on ecology or environment and some level of "realism" for it to immersion, zones can't be too small. It would be weird to switch from forest to dessert and for the ecosystems to be believable. In same way open world games often look more unrealistic. Why? Because we have to pretend that these few houses are bustling city, that few acres of trees are gigantic, continent spawning forest. To cover wild changes of environment in small area you need to obscure distance adding mountains or other such things. In case of maps you know that map are in small part of city or small part of forest. Actually several big maps are more realistic. That how it works in real world. If you want to hunt in savanna you travel there. If you want to hunt in arctics you travel there. You don't just walk around and think that after walking for 15 minutes you will found temperate forest. 2) MH games are not about free exploration but about hunting. You hunt, usually for particular monster. I doubt you would like to travel 15 minutes to different zone for a hunt. You would want to fast travel there. But in that case open world gives nothing when you would just fast travel to particular biome you are actually interested in. It would work the same whenever these biomes are connected or not.
Stories 2 hunters used scoutflies and slingers if memory serves, which was in the old world I believe. I took that to mean its the standard kit of commissioned hunters who are working directly for the guild, rather than more independent hunters who use the kit and techniques of their home village. Not that stories is probably considered canon, but I don't care. It makes sense. Simple tools that are easy to train on while wirebugs probably take a lifetime of practice to use effectively.
I expect 30 to 40ish monsters on release while I understand your point about the scale of the game being huge and them reworking the series, I think you forgot 1 key factor MH is HUGEEE now its capcom's fastest growing franchisee and their top 5 games have 3 MH games (well 2 games and 1 expansion) so the game's budget might be the biggest capcom budget for a game ever or at least something like double worlds budget therefor I don't think its out of the question that we will get a TON of monsters with a TON of ecological details of course this depends on if they add new weapons, will it be fully open world or like the witcher but I honestly don't think there is a world where wilds only starts with 25 unless the title updates have 2/3 each and we get 5 so 15 more monsters making base game end with 35 to 40 monsters (since I highly doubt its going to add 2+ new weapons or be a fully open world game) but we have to wait and see and even if its only 25 monsters the game will be really good anyways and we will get more over time
Hi Oceaniz I really like your content and the ecology documentary of MHW and MHR and got me more into mh and one of my friends into it so ty and keep up the hard work
I can't even imagine if Wilds uses an open world concept, it would look like ARK Survival Evolve that has a HUGE map with a variety of different biomes with different eco systems and own unique creatures. Personally i think it's not that bad considering how good the gameplay of ARK is when moving to different biomes doesn't feel strange at all it just feels like it was there and also how similar both games are literally just beating the life out of a monster.
if people really want Underwater combat, why Capcom didnt try port 3U into switch or PC? at least people actually can experience how clunky underwater combat is
Considering that we never saw these things in world, and the wildspire not being that big of an area (you can see a large portion of it from astera), I believe this will either take place in the old world, or be a different area than the new world we were at before. It seems to me that the new world is just a peninsula and we'll be exploring the main landmass as "pioneers". Carrying multiple weapons, having mounts, and the camping gear indicate that the hunter is going to be playing more of an exploratory role in this game. I'd like to see some kind of mechanics that let us be more self sufficient rather than relying on a hub to return to. Maybe something like modifying weapons at your camp, and logging quests and hunts for yourself.
Welp, you definitely missed on some of those predictions. I think you're probably right about underwater combat, but I hope you're wrong because I never understood the hate for it.
i have my own hopes for MH Wilds - whether it takes place in the New World or not; allow me to share them. *1)* the return of the Verdant Hills and the Marshlands. what's that? they'd be boring? i didn't hear complaints when the Jungle returned in Sunbreak. besides, it'll do the franchise some good to go back to basic environments - but with New World monsters like Blackveil in the Verdant Hills (remember the Jaw Wyvern concept art? it'd be a lovely reference to it). and if the theory that we'll be exploring uncharted parts of the New World ends up being right, why not have biomes similar to those of the Old World? it'd be better than the Ancient Forest and whatever that bog in the Wildpire Waste is supposed to be (which hardly count as a forest and marsh, imo). and i agree with you: we need an official Old World map! (and a replica of the General's armour. that cape's too good to pass up) *2)* an overhaul for Lao Shan Lung. CR-Volcanic's video named "Let's make Lao Shan Lung fun" explains it best; and my comment adds a few things that *could* make it better: - the new fortress would be built to guard a mine in a mountain that extracts and houses ores and minerals... which Lao eats. he would attack because the fort essentially holds a bouffet; but we need those ores because we know we'll have to fight a lot of dragons - we thought of making Ballista Ammo, Cannons, Cannon Balls, and a Dragonator or two. - a breath attack. working in tandem with CR-Volcanic's rework of Lao's fight, the monster would be more threatening if he could also blast you from the ramparts or blow you away before you got too close to him. it'd look like cold breath (aka your breath made visible because of Winter's cold), and inflicts Dragonblight. Lao's one of the first monsters to introduce you to the element. far-fetched? let's not forget that Kushala Daora's stomp in SunRise and Fatalis' mere BITE inflict the status. and i also want to *truly* like this dragon. - Lao Shan Lung would have all 14 weapon types. Online has Lao weapons that the mainline games and GU don't - few of them were Ashen Lao's weapons (Online gave Ashen Lao's SnS a paint job; and i doubt it's that hard to do. why isn't it in GU, which came out *after* Online?). i highly recommend watching CR-Volcanic's video - there's also my comment saying the same things i've said here. *3)* more power to the monsters. remember when you first started out, and Yian Kut Ku kicked your@r$3? fast-forward to G-rank, remember when Yian Garuga, Rajang, Teostra and Deviljho were terrifying? good times. now i want them back. not counting Alatreon and Fatalis from WorldBorne, the closest thing i got to that were Raging Brachydios and the Risen Dragons.
I'm really hoping for new weapons cuz we've gone weirdly long (an ENTIRE generation) without any additions And I want more returning icons of Frontier, but obviously none of the crazy stupid Z stuff that gave frontier it's bad reputation, i'm talking bringing the goofy guys like foro, poboru or toridcless Maybe even the single greatest monster in all of monster hunter He's the biggest boy He and his variants have a total of 11 of the best songs in the entire franchise He's a snake and a wyvern but not a snake wyvern And he could seriously benefit from some much needed TLC Its less likely than getting 3 attack jewel 4s at once, BUT I goddamn love Laviente
I've been playing lots of Dragons dogma, seeing what the RE engine is capable of is crazy. The other day i was on my way to a town, fucked up some goblins, got attacked by an oger, in the middle of the fight a griffin shows up, i get distracted looking at it. Tje oger bitch slaps me across the road, as i get up, a pack of wolves shows up amd drags me away. My side pawn is healing me, my main pawn was left to 1v1v1 the griffin and oger and is now dying in the back groun. Some lizard bitches roll up to have their tails sliced. The only reason I survived was cuz some random pawn party came through and helped fight. Basically, I'm excited to see monster interactions in Wilds.
I hope we get Nargacuga, Tigrex, Barioth, Brachydios and Gravios and the Zamtrios and Gammoth and finally Deviljoe and more back... or please with and open world title: All Monsters back and some new monsters till the new title is there. That would be so awesome! :D
You forgot 1 thing big. The logo of wilds actually looks a bit more like a serpent than a dragon because they are so long. Then also that the Gaint rock formation almost looks like something was Slithering through them. And we know a sertain Gaint Serpent is in the new worlds Rotten Vale. Ofc I am talking about Dalamadaur. If you take all these things toghether it makes perfect sense that dalamadaur comes back. I mean why else would the rotten vale be made out of 2 of them. They could have also done just rotten flesh. But no, they chose Dalamadaur. Showing they are in the new world. Some where… the forbidden lands ofc.
My theory for underwater combat is that it'll be introduced in the big series paid DLC, similar to iceborne for world, introducing new areas and mechanics. Keeping the good level of entry for the base game and gatekeeping and garentee a level of experience for underwater combat.
Kinda late to the party but I have two points to make: 1. Back when underwater combat was invented, it was developed on a way older engine. Maybe engine limitations were the reason why it was so difficult to develop. That's why I don't think it is unlikely for underwater combat. Plus they tried to make Lagiacrus work for MH World but failed (bcs they did not see how to make the fight great without unterwater combat). I feel like it really oculd return now as technology has improved alot. 2. To the topic of weapons: weapons always released in a pair of two. The big swords (Long Sword and Great Sword), the lances (lance and gunlance), the morphing weapons (switch axe and charge blade, the blunt weapons (hammer and horn) etc. The only two weapons missing the other part are insect glaive and bow. So I personally see a spear like weapon or maybe a crossbow coming at some point. Tho if they decide to release another pair to the main series, fast blunt weapons would be a solid choice.
Even though I enjoyed Rise more than I did World, I am hyped so hard for this game. Being an OG Hunter from Freedom 1, I hope that they will bring back the older (more complex) crafting system. I am pretty sure they won't, but hey, a man can have dreams :')
I feel that Guiding land in World is a testing ground for Wilds, Wilds can be something that is in a similar idea of a massive Guiding land. This way they can add large monster like Gammoth or Ahtal-Ka in Wilds.
Every mainline game except World added MULTIPLE new weapons. And World was really an anomaly due to it essentially being a new foundation for the franchise. Now that the foundation is set again, I'm confused to why everyone seems to be resigning themselves to the idea of no more weapons. And I'm really confused about the idea that the weapon roster is already complete with no new playstyles to unlock. Just off the top of my head, I can think of several new playstyles/weapons that I'd personally love to see added.
the most important thing to me is NO RNG DECORATIONS. As long as Wilds has no RNG decorations, you just get the monster parts, and craft what you want. Ill buy the game and enjoy the hell out of it.
I am so tired of the "no one liked underwater combat" every MH RUclipsr say the same thing but they also say they enjoyed it. Most people in the comments enjoyed the water monsters and combat, and to top it off, ORIGINAL LAGI was voted top 3 of all the monsters. Like come on. Stop lying
Crossplay pls Capcom Also a like Paliraptor more :V I need a new Gunner weapon! A Crossbow with ballista mode, Dual Pistols with wirebug mobility like Attack on Titan, but Tonfas is good too, I would like a Chain Whip/Blade I want to be Kratos 😅
I think Wilds will more than likely take place in the unexplored north of the New World. Also the symbol being shown off in the trailer kinda looks like 2 Dalamadur with how they have long, possibly large serpentine bodies and a couple legs each. That's what really peaked my interest at least (Symbol could very well be a brand new monster).
My biggest concern is Capcom and their recent takes on mods. My second concern is trend chasing. This is the AAA extravaganza, I don't want to see them copying other AAA games with minor features. I want World, with the Rise fixes, the better features of old games, and overall more depth in the game world itself.
If you look closely, those pangolin herbivores could be related to the Aptonoth and Apceros Its head resembles that of a Stegosaurus, a dinosaur within the Thyreopora group of Ornithiscians, which include armored dinosaurs like Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs Aptonoths and their relatives are also within Ornithischia and upon closer inspection, are within Thyreopora (as theyre classified as being under Clubbed Tail suborder, which is basically just Thyreopora in monster hunter) My take is that these pangolins, or "Pangonoths", are either closely related to the previous dinosaur herbivores or at the very least convergently evolved to look like them Possibly more related to Apceros than Aptonoth, in a way that the smaller Nodosaurs are semi distant cousins to the club tailed Ankylosaurs
I"m still anxious about the gameplay. If clutch claw is back and functions the same. The game is fucking dead to me. Who thought of clutch claw? Ichihara? The one that "left" the company? If it was Tokuda.. jesus, hope they took the feedback and never implement it to any other monhun ever again.
as someone starting on new world/new content, i rather have more old world as well, if anything i want a bigger focus on more lore, specifically human side, culture, not just hunter culture i want to hear about civilized people as ive seen another one of your videos talking about it and i didnt even think about that like would be awesome hearing about more of the world not just monsters but everything
The desire to bring underwater combat back is bizarre to me. Because of all the things mentioned in the video but also.. it was clearly an attempt to add verticality to the environments but it ended up being too expensive. 4 went the other way and added maps that went UP and were way more vertical, there’s a lot of climbing and falling down cliffs. And since then MH has been doubling down on implementing verticality in a smart way. Rise’s whole gimmick was basically letting you fly, a spiritual opposite to 3’s water combat. I guess my point is that MH combat is evolving and experimenting all the time, there’s no need to regress to an old idea that wasn’t even that good.
Hey I just want to say thank you for putting your videos out. I always look forward to your Monster Hunter content. I appreciate your time and work you put in to these. Cannot wait for MH Wilds!!! It’s been such a long wait already lol, hurry up 2025!
12:18 "I think theres really only one choice" Me: Tonfas! Tonfas! Tonfas! "The one niche thats not filled is fast and blunt" Me: TONFAS! TONFAS! TONFAS!"
Honestly, Whatever they do with Wilds, I will be happy with because well, its a new Monster Hunter game.. Personally I think with Tokuda at the helm, they could explore the underwater idea a bit more but whether we get it or not, I am still unsure.. part of me lives in hope that they do but alas, who knows. Thanks for the video! What is something you guys would want to be in Wilds?
I completely disagree with your idea of it not being an open world game. They always test things in current games for the next one, I think the whole “map” will be one big Guiding Lands, where temperatures shift and environments change and swap, like they do in the guiding lands. This will create an interesting gameplay where you never know what you are going into… might be a snowy day with heavy snowstorms where the waters freeze over, might be a sunny dry day with oasis like environments. If they do this, they are able to make it open world, but lock certain environmental changes behind key quests to unlock new monsters. Tbh the whole game will probably be about a monster that is effecting the environment while just existing, like elderdragons do….
Honestly I’d love if it were just world2 with more old monsters given that glow up for the new gen and more new monsters with different body types. But if they did bring back underwater combat It would bring it from 9/10 to 12/10 for me
“A Chad in the Monster Hunter team”
So just a regular member of the Monster Hunter team?
yeah
Literally The Old Huntsman of MHW
- Appears
- Does 0 damage to Nergigante
- Leaves and gets drunk
monster hunter team just built different
Oh boy, dev worship.
Got my dose of cringe for the week, thank you.
@hakageryu-hz7jz it’s not worship, it’s appreciation.
Maybe the reason you don’t know the difference is because your family never gave you any.
Me when i see a kecha wacha vs great jaggi turf war in wilds: I AM THE HYPE!!!!! RAAAAAAHHH!!!!!
Kecha wacha vs Bishanten: monkey madness 😱😱
Great Jaggi is the king of monsters.
@@superchiefdunga5394 indeed, sorry for my folly great jaggi vs fatalis
@@somepvpguy69 fatalis? i think its a basarios and gravios situation here, clearly its an old great jaggi
So I was replaying Monster Hunter World and remembered the woodland pteryx. It looks quite a lot like the mount, and the endemic life researcher did ask us to catch one.
It could be an offshoot, if you are in the new world, and a part that is cut off (crazy storm systems etc. maybe?) It's quite similar to the woodland one but I think maybe it could be a desert or wasteland Pteryx. It evolved to have a beak snout rath looking front of its face instead and could be bigger for whatever reasons would make sense in the situation.
I think it could be a distant relative in the same family but branched due to different environments and needs
My theory is it's gonna be wild
that's a wild theory
I think it's gonna rise to be world's better than the last game
boooooo , take my like but boooooo
i eat glue and i loveeating glue😂😂
@@thephoenixfromtheashes *drops mic
I appreciate your level headed approach to this. I think too many other people are too caught up in the hype and made all these wild predictions and have all these super high hopes for what will come in Wilds. I don't doubt it'll be an amazing game, but expecting underwater combat, new weapons, new lore and a full open world? I'm not saying all of those things aren't possible, but I think you're setting yourself up to be disappointed if you go in expecting so much.
We're gonna get atleast 2 of those, basically a gaurantee that one of 'em will be lore, but expecting 3 or more in base game would be hopium copium.
after seeing a trillion shadow of the erdtree videos of this style this past week, im very glad the sexiest swiss brings some spice into my life by doing a video like this for the monster hunter in me
But hey, thats just a theory. A MONSTER HUNTER THEORY
MatPat’s Final Hunt
Don't remind me :(
It's tomorrow for me
Its a also a pretty `Wild` theories
Too soon
All I want from Wilds is for it to have a crustacean monster in the base game.
Just one singular one, pretty please...
A pistol/mantis shrimp carapaceon is loooong overdue
And Arachnids 😊
@@reallynotsogoldenisopod Or a lobster.
I just want one damn Carapaceon, JUST. ONE. CARAPACEON.
@@Sing_LoveWRSi want taikun zamuza in mainline
One thing I really hope to see from Wilds is the ability to truly observe how Elder Dragons can impact the environment around them.
I would say B. Vaal Hazak did this a little when they went to the Ancient Forest, but it can be a lot more involved than that. Teostra visits a forested area and burns part of it, or raises the ambient temperature of the area so you need cool drinks in areas you normally don't. Velkhana freezing over bodies of water and causing snow in otherwise temperate regions.
Or, what if the sandstorms in the trailer were caused by a Jhen Mohran? Or of there's a coastal area that experiences occasional earthquakes, caused by a Ceadeus? You don't necessarily have to show those monsters on-screen, either; a little secret area with a couple of shinies that point back to the monsters causing the phenomenon in question should be enough for people to connect the dots.
Imagine if there was a title update that was going to add Gore Magala (or some similar monster), but before that update dropped, you could find "Mysterious Scales" or notice other monsters acting strangely (which, sidenote, is another thing I want: monsters reacting to the presence of other monsters in ways that go beyond "fight 'em!"). New players might become intrigued by this mystery, while series veterans get to feel smart for recognizing the signs of a familiar monster before it gets officially announced in the coming days.
I dunno, I think the idea is neat.
yeah the potential to show the power of elder dragons in wilds is massive
I think the idea has a lot of merit, and it can be implemented heavily or just to a minor degree. Either way it would be a boost to the games overall atmosphere which is my jam. When you play a game like monster hunter for so many hours, variations in the environment would be greatly appreciated as a reason to continuously enjoy the hard work put into making such amazing environments.
Being able to tell a monster's near just by observing the small monsters is a neat concept
Something that kinda gets buried over time in world cuz of the scoutflies hiding but y'know
Neat
I'd definitely appreciate really powerful monsters showing up early - like way before you're ready to fight them.
Maybe it's just me, but I really enjoyed the feeling in World of running from the big Apex predators when they showed up and I wasn't geared for them yet.
Especially if they stuck around for a few quests - essentially giving you the choice of dealing with the hazard of an Elder Dragon / Apex Monster when questing in a region, or *avoiding* the region altogether for like 4-10 quests until it moves on.
What'd be even cooler would be if the map was altered for a bit after they left, too.
I want their intelligence to also be realised it would be cool to have certain elder dragon species act differently towards you depending on how you hunt them- sort of like a reputation system like some could act friendly if you hunt rival species stuff like that or like kushala daora invading quests because they hold grudges
something that is worth noting: tokuda wanted to add underwater areas with underwater combat in world, specifically in the wildspire waste, with the swamp there being what remains of that idea. they gave up on this pretty quickly due to time concerns, but it is worth considering that he wanted to add it and that capcom is thinking about it.
but given how much bigger in scale wilds is, I do agree we probably won't see underwater combat. if the game had smaller maps like world, I think we might have seen underwater combat... but both underwater combat, expanded weather and a much bigger world together seems like too many innovations for one project.
Also, I really don't understand those people who want underwater combat. In Tri, I always tried to avoid them whenever possible because it was just so terribly annoying for me to move underwater. I never got to exactly where I wanted to go.... So I actually hope they keep it drowned in the past and focus on something more fun
They going full out with this budget wise, everyone on monster hunter team is working on this and they been given a free reign to do the best game they possibly can, Capcom expects the success of the game to keep the company going for a whole fiscal year, I think they bringing underwater and Lagiacrus back.
@@MonsJazierI’ve been playing 3u on and off for the past 2 years, 200 hours in it, and while some aspects of it were iffy I did enjoy all the water hunts. It also makes specific fights better than they would be otherwise like with lagi and plesioth, and monsters like ceadeus are just fucking cool.
I just need Great Jaggi to make a return, and I’ll be happy.
i would love to finally meet great jaggi!!! the ears :3
also bring maccao back too!!
@@spookyfrogs1874 macaco vs great jaggi, battle of the century
Baggi better
@@spookyfrogs1874yesss, Great Maccao is so good!
One major thing pointing in favour of underwater combat is Tokuda taking the helm again. In an interview it was said that MHW was originally gonna have underwater combat in the wildspire very early in development and Tokuda could be looking into trying again.
(Also technically 10 mons could be fought underwater, there's the rare cases where you could fight Ivory Lagi underwater)
Good video!
Cross play and cross should an industry standard
More arthropod monsters would be amazing. I am all on board for Taikun Zamuza, but I'd also like to see Akura Vashimu, reclassified to a Temnoceran. How do we not have a Scorpion monster in mainline yet, but Frontier had TWO? Also, bring back Seltas and Seltas Queen. Seltas Queen is the coolest looking monster in the series and it's a crying shame that she wasn't in Gen 5.
Woo. And bring back Gamoth lol.
My wishlist for the game would be:
-MHW artistic direction with MHR combats balanced with each other
-More monsters from less popular categories like Neopterons, Carapaceons, Temnocerans, Amphibians and Reptiles
-REWORKED WATER COMBAT. I want HD Abyssal Lagiacrus and underwater Namielle fight
-A rework of "unused" Monsters like Hypnockatrice, Vespoid Queen or Monoblos
-A few selection of MHF and MHO monsters
-Bring back colossal monsters. Like 100m+ colossal
For the rest, I know they will cook
Also, bring back hunter arts, I wanna get the most useless attack in history back.
*Switch axe intensifies*
I hope we see a more diverse monster roster that can keep up with the endgame. The issue with base rise was the lack of endgame monsters while Sunbreak helped all monsters get into that higher tier.
@@victory8928 fr
I wanna see dalamadur, I don't even care about fighting it or interacting with it, I just want to see it moving around the map.
all i need is Hellblade Glavenus
🙏
I stand with you
I hope they give all the flags ships a break from wild. I tired of them always taking the spot light. I rather they bring back monster that haven't gotten the 5th gen treatment or brand new monster. If there new monster, I want ether new species or make more monster for the species that have a few specimen.
God I want a new weapon so damn bad. I do agree that the tonfa would be the most likely to be add in the mainline game. If they do I hope they ether keep the hitzone change mechanic of the tonfa or the evasion beast of a weapon like in frontier, of course no fly because that be silly.
For underwater combat, I want it returned but I don't think it happen anytime soon. The closest they might do is have a raid monster or something of that degree and be semi underwater to test and see how the community would react
Monoblos and gigginox are monsters that have been left out too long. I'm tired of diablos and khezu
I think it’s basically confirmed to be in the New World, just with the whole Return to World thing that the MH twitter account’s been doin
I don't think we'll get a massive reveal about THE Ancient Civilization, but I think we'll learn a few things about an ancient civilization that was indigenous to the New World. The New World has Wyverians and the Tale of the 5 seems to mention humans I think, so it would make sense that the New World would have an indigenous population of humans at least at some point in its history. I can see this game exploring exactly why they're all gone
I hope we will not see wire bugs. I am not spiderman, i am a human hunter.
They 100% will not be in the game. Just as wystones arent in future games, or hunter arts, or the clutch claw.
The water calls to me 🗿🌊
@@bavuh1249nooo clutch claw is awesome
@@sir_quirkus7206 somewhat respectfully, strongly disagree
@@bavuh1249 some of the clutch claw attacks were pretty fun (clutch counter for example), but I don't ever want tenderizing back.
Nah the droplets in the logo are a very subtle reference to tears of the kingdom lol
Lore accurate Link. The DLC.
Monster Hunter Wilds: A Link tears a new one to Monster. 😅
the only thing I want is justice for the Monoblos
You have to love it when the word “wilds” means open world but the word “WORLD” didn’t.
Exactly
The name for the raptor is negotiable and will be Birb told by the great gog myself
I can confirm that OP did indeed put it on gog.
I got into Monster Hunter when MH:World came out and I mostly played Charge Blade through base World and CB/Switch Axe through Iceborne. I eventually dabbled into Hunting Horn, and now I'm trying to learn every weapons' nuances. Throughout my playthroughs, I felt that I wanted a "blunt Dual Blade" archetype in the form of "fist" type weapons that use explosive Phials in tandem with their attacks. I envisioned that their combo strings would be more free-form allowing the player to string "light", "heavy", and "phial" attacks in any order with special powerful charged combo-enders.
After learning about the tonfas, I think they embody the idea that I had in my head of this agile brawling weapon with quick strikes weaved in with powerful hard hitting attacks. Even if tonfas don't return in Wilds, I hope that they return in some MH title down the line because they look pretty rad, especially those pile-bunker attacks!
Perhaps this is a far-fetched hope, but I would like to see (a) Dalamadur in Wilds. As a new player to MH that started playing World around this past Thanksgiving, I havent had a chance to dive into the older games. A giant snake that wraps around mountains is mind blowing.
The fight with Dalamadur was... something, not bad, no,no... Remenber Zorah magdaros? yeah, kinda like that but it feels... divine, inmense, imposible.
Bring back my Gobul, sucky sucky angler fish. World had little ones, I want him back
on the topic of crossplay their is a lot of evidence going for it being in Wilds, Im 100% sure it'll be in
If it turns out to be open world, I want to see (probably in the endgame or expansions) some of the super powerhouse monsters and how they interact with their environment. I want to see ukanlos wandering around the snow, I want to have an event where one of the maps is darker and tar is all around only to randomly stumble across a gogmazios. I want to be attacked by an ahtal-neset in the desert and track it back to the forlorn citadel. I even want to see the entire mountain level be taken over by a dalamadur.
I don’t think they can do that in this game but maybe in next 2 or 3 games the technology should allow them to do that
@@maldivesthegamer9774 you're probably right that that's a long jump from where we are now and it's probably not going to be wilds that does this, but they made dalamadur work on 3ds. I'm sure they could get what I said to work on modern consoles.
Certains maybe I would love to see an athal-ka that used its environment to its advantage and not just a repeat of the final boss athal-ka.
@@victory8928 the ahtal-ka we see in the games kind of rigged its environment to its advantage so it would be cool to catchbone by surprise and see how it fights outside of the citadel
weatherchanges were a thing in world, especially when an elder dragon was around, fighting Kirin and look around, its a thunderstorm, vaal hazak weather was very foggy and mistlike, daora was a storm but i guess you meant that the weather has more direct influence on the gameplay
I'm really hoping it takes place in the New World. I loved the setting.
I hope they use the Odogaron skeleton rig to bring some huge cats to the franchise. The rig is perfect for it
The issue maybe the tail but that can be tweaked. Honestly would love to see some more cat like monsters though maybe in more unique areas or that fight in and take up unique niches in the environment.
15:12 from the same producers of *orangütan* , get ready for *pangölin* 🔥🔥🔥
Have you looked at any of the conceptual monster hunter fangames? Some are rather interesting, one I particularly like partially because my internet is not good enough to use visit the fangame wikis is "Monster Hunter Thrive" though it hasn't been updated in a while and some proposed mechanical changes aren't the best the ecology and monsters are interesting. It also has a hypothetical world map.
Edit: Also has an alternate phylogenetic tree.
One other thing about crossplay that's good to know.. Their most recent game Street Fighter 6 HAS crossplay. That game was also made in their RE engine, which is very very likely that MH Wilds will be too.
I'm 95% sure there will be crossplay in MH Wilds!
Honestly, I feel like a full open world in wilds is a bit more likely than most people think. In the trailer we were shown only one biome throughout the whole runtime, and it looks MASSIVE. I think just from the trailer and previous games, I think it shouldn't just be swept off the table. We don't have any idea of how big the map is because we were shown only the one biome, which also might mean it isn't open world as well, but there's also the fact that the raptor has pouches on its side that look like they might be a moble version of the camp boxes. Why would we need that if it was just big open areas? I know I could be wrong entirely, but a full open world just seems to be what the series has been building up to. An open thriving world of monsters that can be explored in its entirety. Again I could be wrong, so feel free to come back and bully me if I am wrong when the game releases.
I feel the problem is implementation sure the games may seem to be leaning into that but open world is such a massive issue and had saturated the market I don’t think it is a good idea. I personally don’t like open world as much especially cause it would mean removing aspects of the games that were staples. Doesn’t mean we can’t see monsters in very environmental situations but I don’t think it makes sense to dwell into it since it is such a sink and can be such a trap. I hope we have great traversal and that monsters utilise that and the environments well but I don’t think the game should be open world
@@victory8928 While, yes, I understand the market is very oversaturated with open world games, and their enviornments can feel very empty and bland, I don't see why open world is inheritly a bad thing. If the devs decide to actually put effort into the map and traversal, it won't feel any different than something like world. Again, I could be wrong and feel free to correct me when the game actually releases.
I really hope it will be a fusion of world and rise.
Rise has so many great gameplay mechanics. Real character voices. And especially great weapon and armor designs. Worlds Designs are mostly boring and similar looking. So they need to take the best of both worlds
I just hope we get dlc voices again and the character talk more again. It gave our created character so much more personality.
There is an in game reason why don’t see Monoblos as a hunt anymore and I like it but I do wish we had it back and that’s because Monoblos are now endangered species and the guild being all about balance forbids any hunts but it doesn’t stop the Black Market hunters who hunt for its horn and spikes and heart plus if we go by elephants for the likely gestation period of a Diablos Monoblos births are likely just as long since both species have live young despite Stories having them hatch from eggs
I keep seeing this repeated but I have never found anything that officially says that Monoblos is endangered. Do you happen to have a source for that (or even just remember where you might have heard it originally)?
It's a description somewhere in Monster hunter stories 2. I think it's from the giant crab monster that uses a Monoblos skull as a shell. @@Oceaniz
@@vgas11 daimyo hermitaur?
I love these theories. But something to bring to mind is the fact that theyve been working on wilds since world or rise. And need 1 more year to release Wilds. I personally theorize that Wilds is gonna be there biggest game yet, but that just me lol. Love your vids!
I'd like to see the weirdo monsters return. I'm talking Kecha Wacha, Qurupeco, Great Maccao, Congalala, and maybe Gobul if they can make fighting him on land fun somehow
Open world can work as long as you have to discover a monster's lair, multiplayer might be a bit difficult to implement if all players could just wander around discovering different things at different times, the host would be screwed over
Each lair can have like a mini arena so you get to use the environment to your advantage and do cool tricks
Maybe they'll put more focus on the smaller monsters and endemic life
Anyway I'm looking forward to it
I agree that MHWilds will probably be multiple large open zones, not an open world. My personal theory is that each "lightning rod" seen at the end of the teaser trailer is a physical indicator of where each fighting zone is, and if you take the end shot to mean that, the map looks like an expanded version of Rise's take on region design.
I think people dreaming about the true open world fail to consider a lot of hurdles Capcom would need to get over with that formula. You really can't just drop Monster Hunter into an open world and expect everything to work itself out
I would like them to introduce some of the old creepy lore mh had like the chimera monster. While the story hasnt been an important part of the mh games, i would like them to make something more interesting than monster x is disrupting nature.
Im looking to see how they will do with the maps, im hoping the reason why we are getting a mount is because the maps will be bigger and there will be more vertical exploration too. I think the mount being a mobile camp might mean that we will be limited to a second load-out and limited items to bring so we will have some restock but wont be an unlimited amount of restock/switch gears per hunt. That might be a bridge between the players that felt like the camps were too OP in world/rise and that ones that likes the way it is now.
Couldn’t give a damn about cross save, bc can’t say I have the budget to play one game on multiple platforms. No clue how a lot of people can afford that. I will say though that cross play would be awesome bc that would open more friends of mine to trying the game if they can play with me to help them out. That makes it seem more profitable to the company imo. Not sure if the returns are worth what is probably a hefty investment tho.
The whole time I was wondering what was bothering me with the monsters in MH World compared to Rise... It's absolutely variety! World is great, but the selection of monsters just felt a bit too similar throughout, Rise does have the edge on that front.
Ever since world came out I've been split from my hunting party. I had playstation but they had xbox. Crossplay is probably my #1 want for wilds
I hope they have a large amount of monsters to bring back. A lot more content better events and crossovers, get rid of armor and weapon layered armors just have the weapons the way they are and armors as well.
We also have to remember that MH3 was made in 2010, that is 14 years ago, of course it was a hassle to develop an entire 3rd axis of underwater movement.
If no one asks... How was everyones day?
It's been over a decade since underwater combat. They have to find a way to bring back the monster locked behind it eventually.
People talk about how the ancient civilization must have built the lightning rods, because they had advanced technology. I think people have forgotten that you could buy and use portable lightning rods in MHFU, meaning that they could very well be a modern invention in the MH universe instead
Controversial opinion: Palamutes are boring as fuck and i'm glad we have a raptor instead
Underwater increases dev time because it’s basically 2 different games.Technically is not harder than ground game but it’s a whole different set of balancing and animations for 14 plus weapons for the player on top of all other shared anims.
So, in evidence for an open world design for wilds. 1, world's maps are, in fact, walking distance from each other so tech limitations was the bigger issue for make world open world. 2, both rise and world have 1 map with multiple biomes, so it seems they are at least considering how it could work.
And said environments are kinda just phasing stuff cause guiding lands’s whole gimmick is that it is the new area for end game hunting while the Sunbreak one is to show off the three lords. I don’t think it makes sense to have massive interconnected worlds mostly cause you need good intermediates and that is lacking in some regards sure rotten vale and highland connect a bit (mainly on the highland end) and the ancient forest and wildspire connect but it feels a bit well segmented off in those cases. I just think that having some good maps that allow for unique ecosystems that the devs can add monsters to that fit would be cool maybe even adding back older maps that could just some unique love by making unique monsters for certain niches or revamping existing monsters with subspecies and the like to help flesh the map out while having good interactions. Having open world means you are gonna be getting lots of open space (look at elden ring which is literally cramped with stuff to do)
@victory8928 I'm neutral on if it should or shouldn't be open world, my specific take is that the devs have been striving towards an open world experience with each iteration of the game. I could care less what the maps specifically are as long as the devs are executing on their vision. I also think from watching the series evolve that their ultimate vision includes a form of open world environments.
So my argument to the level designs.....the reason they've done those style of maps big unconnected maps in world and rise is so they can eventually do a fully integrated open world, think of starfield and how much it sucked not to be able to travel from map to map, and to your argument of the different biomes if that elden ring has many different biomes across its huge open world from snow to volcanos, to plains and swamps
Open world is just buzzworld. By itself it's neither gain or lose. And i don't think it add anything in MH formula.
1) If the put emphasis on ecology or environment and some level of "realism" for it to immersion, zones can't be too small. It would be weird to switch from forest to dessert and for the ecosystems to be believable. In same way open world games often look more unrealistic. Why? Because we have to pretend that these few houses are bustling city, that few acres of trees are gigantic, continent spawning forest. To cover wild changes of environment in small area you need to obscure distance adding mountains or other such things. In case of maps you know that map are in small part of city or small part of forest.
Actually several big maps are more realistic. That how it works in real world. If you want to hunt in savanna you travel there. If you want to hunt in arctics you travel there. You don't just walk around and think that after walking for 15 minutes you will found temperate forest.
2) MH games are not about free exploration but about hunting. You hunt, usually for particular monster. I doubt you would like to travel 15 minutes to different zone for a hunt. You would want to fast travel there. But in that case open world gives nothing when you would just fast travel to particular biome you are actually interested in. It would work the same whenever these biomes are connected or not.
for me, the most important thing is a lot of interesting and unique monsters and an ecosystem
If there was ever a time to bring back Copper Blangonga, this is it.
Stories 2 hunters used scoutflies and slingers if memory serves, which was in the old world I believe. I took that to mean its the standard kit of commissioned hunters who are working directly for the guild, rather than more independent hunters who use the kit and techniques of their home village.
Not that stories is probably considered canon, but I don't care. It makes sense. Simple tools that are easy to train on while wirebugs probably take a lifetime of practice to use effectively.
The only new weapon I would want is a dual blade like blunt weapon that is knuckles
7:25 Welp, you can now according to Trailer 1
We know one thing - you will not be able to skip the cut scenes
I thoerize lightning rods :)
I don't really care about cross platform saves, but cross platform multiplayer is 100% a must.
God I hope it’s not like rise. I don’t like rise
I expect 30 to 40ish monsters on release
while I understand your point about the scale of the game being huge and them reworking the series, I think you forgot 1 key factor
MH is HUGEEE now its capcom's fastest growing franchisee and their top 5 games have 3 MH games (well 2 games and 1 expansion)
so the game's budget might be the biggest capcom budget for a game ever or at least something like double worlds budget
therefor I don't think its out of the question that we will get a TON of monsters with a TON of ecological details
of course this depends on if they add new weapons, will it be fully open world or like the witcher
but I honestly don't think there is a world where wilds only starts with 25 unless the title updates have 2/3 each and we get 5 so 15 more monsters making base game end with 35 to 40 monsters (since I highly doubt its going to add 2+ new weapons or be a fully open world game) but we have to wait and see
and even if its only 25 monsters the game will be really good anyways and we will get more over time
Hi Oceaniz I really like your content and the ecology documentary of MHW and MHR and got me more into mh and one of my friends into it so ty and keep up the hard work
I can't even imagine if Wilds uses an open world concept, it would look like ARK Survival Evolve that has a HUGE map with a variety of different biomes with different eco systems and own unique creatures. Personally i think it's not that bad considering how good the gameplay of ARK is when moving to different biomes doesn't feel strange at all it just feels like it was there and also how similar both games are literally just beating the life out of a monster.
A cool weapon would be a whip imo
Id love to see the tonfas in game
if people really want Underwater combat, why Capcom didnt try port 3U into switch or PC?
at least people actually can experience how clunky underwater combat is
Its nostalgia. Once they try it again, they'll shut up.
@@wits_end. i already experience it again through emulator (biggest mistake i done), it was painfull to do underwater combat, even in actual console
Considering that we never saw these things in world, and the wildspire not being that big of an area (you can see a large portion of it from astera), I believe this will either take place in the old world, or be a different area than the new world we were at before. It seems to me that the new world is just a peninsula and we'll be exploring the main landmass as "pioneers". Carrying multiple weapons, having mounts, and the camping gear indicate that the hunter is going to be playing more of an exploratory role in this game. I'd like to see some kind of mechanics that let us be more self sufficient rather than relying on a hub to return to. Maybe something like modifying weapons at your camp, and logging quests and hunts for yourself.
Welp, you definitely missed on some of those predictions. I think you're probably right about underwater combat, but I hope you're wrong because I never understood the hate for it.
i have my own hopes for MH Wilds - whether it takes place in the New World or not; allow me to share them.
*1)* the return of the Verdant Hills and the Marshlands.
what's that? they'd be boring? i didn't hear complaints when the Jungle returned in Sunbreak. besides, it'll do the franchise some good to go back to basic environments - but with New World monsters like Blackveil in the Verdant Hills (remember the Jaw Wyvern concept art? it'd be a lovely reference to it).
and if the theory that we'll be exploring uncharted parts of the New World ends up being right, why not have biomes similar to those of the Old World? it'd be better than the Ancient Forest and whatever that bog in the Wildpire Waste is supposed to be (which hardly count as a forest and marsh, imo).
and i agree with you: we need an official Old World map! (and a replica of the General's armour. that cape's too good to pass up)
*2)* an overhaul for Lao Shan Lung.
CR-Volcanic's video named "Let's make Lao Shan Lung fun" explains it best; and my comment adds a few things that *could* make it better:
- the new fortress would be built to guard a mine in a mountain that extracts and houses ores and minerals... which Lao eats. he would attack because the fort essentially holds a bouffet; but we need those ores because we know we'll have to fight a lot of dragons - we thought of making Ballista Ammo, Cannons, Cannon Balls, and a Dragonator or two.
- a breath attack. working in tandem with CR-Volcanic's rework of Lao's fight, the monster would be more threatening if he could also blast you from the ramparts or blow you away before you got too close to him.
it'd look like cold breath (aka your breath made visible because of Winter's cold), and inflicts Dragonblight. Lao's one of the first monsters to introduce you to the element.
far-fetched? let's not forget that Kushala Daora's stomp in SunRise and Fatalis' mere BITE inflict the status.
and i also want to *truly* like this dragon.
- Lao Shan Lung would have all 14 weapon types. Online has Lao weapons that the mainline games and GU don't - few of them were Ashen Lao's weapons (Online gave Ashen Lao's SnS a paint job; and i doubt it's that hard to do. why isn't it in GU, which came out *after* Online?).
i highly recommend watching CR-Volcanic's video - there's also my comment saying the same things i've said here.
*3)* more power to the monsters.
remember when you first started out, and Yian Kut Ku kicked your@r$3? fast-forward to G-rank, remember when Yian Garuga, Rajang, Teostra and Deviljho were terrifying? good times. now i want them back.
not counting Alatreon and Fatalis from WorldBorne, the closest thing i got to that were Raging Brachydios and the Risen Dragons.
I'm really hoping for new weapons cuz we've gone weirdly long (an ENTIRE generation) without any additions
And I want more returning icons of Frontier, but obviously none of the crazy stupid Z stuff that gave frontier it's bad reputation, i'm talking bringing the goofy guys like foro, poboru or toridcless
Maybe even the single greatest monster in all of monster hunter
He's the biggest boy
He and his variants have a total of 11 of the best songs in the entire franchise
He's a snake and a wyvern but not a snake wyvern
And he could seriously benefit from some much needed TLC
Its less likely than getting 3 attack jewel 4s at once, BUT
I goddamn love Laviente
I've been playing lots of Dragons dogma, seeing what the RE engine is capable of is crazy.
The other day i was on my way to a town, fucked up some goblins, got attacked by an oger, in the middle of the fight a griffin shows up, i get distracted looking at it. Tje oger bitch slaps me across the road, as i get up, a pack of wolves shows up amd drags me away. My side pawn is healing me, my main pawn was left to 1v1v1 the griffin and oger and is now dying in the back groun. Some lizard bitches roll up to have their tails sliced.
The only reason I survived was cuz some random pawn party came through and helped fight.
Basically, I'm excited to see monster interactions in Wilds.
I hope we get Nargacuga, Tigrex, Barioth, Brachydios and Gravios and the Zamtrios and Gammoth and finally Deviljoe and more back... or please with and open world title: All Monsters back and some new monsters till the new title is there. That would be so awesome! :D
You forgot 1 thing big. The logo of wilds actually looks a bit more like a serpent than a dragon because they are so long. Then also that the Gaint rock formation almost looks like something was Slithering through them. And we know a sertain Gaint Serpent is in the new worlds Rotten Vale. Ofc I am talking about Dalamadaur. If you take all these things toghether it makes perfect sense that dalamadaur comes back. I mean why else would the rotten vale be made out of 2 of them. They could have also done just rotten flesh. But no, they chose Dalamadaur. Showing they are in the new world. Some where… the forbidden lands ofc.
My theory for underwater combat is that it'll be introduced in the big series paid DLC, similar to iceborne for world, introducing new areas and mechanics. Keeping the good level of entry for the base game and gatekeeping and garentee a level of experience for underwater combat.
Kinda late to the party but I have two points to make:
1. Back when underwater combat was invented, it was developed on a way older engine. Maybe engine limitations were the reason why it was so difficult to develop. That's why I don't think it is unlikely for underwater combat. Plus they tried to make Lagiacrus work for MH World but failed (bcs they did not see how to make the fight great without unterwater combat). I feel like it really oculd return now as technology has improved alot.
2. To the topic of weapons: weapons always released in a pair of two. The big swords (Long Sword and Great Sword), the lances (lance and gunlance), the morphing weapons (switch axe and charge blade, the blunt weapons (hammer and horn) etc. The only two weapons missing the other part are insect glaive and bow. So I personally see a spear like weapon or maybe a crossbow coming at some point. Tho if they decide to release another pair to the main series, fast blunt weapons would be a solid choice.
Even though I enjoyed Rise more than I did World, I am hyped so hard for this game. Being an OG Hunter from Freedom 1, I hope that they will bring back the older (more complex) crafting system. I am pretty sure they won't, but hey, a man can have dreams :')
I feel that Guiding land in World is a testing ground for Wilds, Wilds can be something that is in a similar idea of a massive Guiding land. This way they can add large monster like Gammoth or Ahtal-Ka in Wilds.
Perhaps the area where in the reveal the hunter on his mount is zig-zagging from rock to rock, is a transitional region between two biomes.
Every mainline game except World added MULTIPLE new weapons. And World was really an anomaly due to it essentially being a new foundation for the franchise. Now that the foundation is set again, I'm confused to why everyone seems to be resigning themselves to the idea of no more weapons. And I'm really confused about the idea that the weapon roster is already complete with no new playstyles to unlock. Just off the top of my head, I can think of several new playstyles/weapons that I'd personally love to see added.
the most important thing to me is NO RNG DECORATIONS.
As long as Wilds has no RNG decorations, you just get the monster parts, and craft what you want. Ill buy the game and enjoy the hell out of it.
I am so tired of the "no one liked underwater combat" every MH RUclipsr say the same thing but they also say they enjoyed it. Most people in the comments enjoyed the water monsters and combat, and to top it off, ORIGINAL LAGI was voted top 3 of all the monsters. Like come on. Stop lying
Crossplay pls Capcom
Also a like Paliraptor more :V
I need a new Gunner weapon! A Crossbow with ballista mode, Dual Pistols with wirebug mobility like Attack on Titan, but Tonfas is good too, I would like a Chain Whip/Blade I want to be Kratos 😅
I think Wilds will more than likely take place in the unexplored north of the New World.
Also the symbol being shown off in the trailer kinda looks like 2 Dalamadur with how they have long, possibly large serpentine bodies and a couple legs each. That's what really peaked my interest at least (Symbol could very well be a brand new monster).
My biggest concern is Capcom and their recent takes on mods. My second concern is trend chasing. This is the AAA extravaganza, I don't want to see them copying other AAA games with minor features. I want World, with the Rise fixes, the better features of old games, and overall more depth in the game world itself.
If you look closely, those pangolin herbivores could be related to the Aptonoth and Apceros
Its head resembles that of a Stegosaurus, a dinosaur within the Thyreopora group of Ornithiscians, which include armored dinosaurs like Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs
Aptonoths and their relatives are also within Ornithischia and upon closer inspection, are within Thyreopora (as theyre classified as being under Clubbed Tail suborder, which is basically just Thyreopora in monster hunter)
My take is that these pangolins, or "Pangonoths", are either closely related to the previous dinosaur herbivores or at the very least convergently evolved to look like them
Possibly more related to Apceros than Aptonoth, in a way that the smaller Nodosaurs are semi distant cousins to the club tailed Ankylosaurs
I"m still anxious about the gameplay. If clutch claw is back and functions the same. The game is fucking dead to me. Who thought of clutch claw? Ichihara? The one that "left" the company? If it was Tokuda.. jesus, hope they took the feedback and never implement it to any other monhun ever again.
as someone starting on new world/new content, i rather have more old world as well, if anything i want a bigger focus on more lore, specifically human side, culture, not just hunter culture i want to hear about civilized people as ive seen another one of your videos talking about it and i didnt even think about that like would be awesome hearing about more of the world not just monsters but everything
The desire to bring underwater combat back is bizarre to me. Because of all the things mentioned in the video but also.. it was clearly an attempt to add verticality to the environments but it ended up being too expensive. 4 went the other way and added maps that went UP and were way more vertical, there’s a lot of climbing and falling down cliffs. And since then MH has been doubling down on implementing verticality in a smart way. Rise’s whole gimmick was basically letting you fly, a spiritual opposite to 3’s water combat.
I guess my point is that MH combat is evolving and experimenting all the time, there’s no need to regress to an old idea that wasn’t even that good.
Hey I just want to say thank you for putting your videos out. I always look forward to your Monster Hunter content. I appreciate your time and work you put in to these. Cannot wait for MH Wilds!!! It’s been such a long wait already lol, hurry up 2025!
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"I think theres really only one choice"
Me: Tonfas! Tonfas! Tonfas!
"The one niche thats not filled is fast and blunt"
Me: TONFAS! TONFAS! TONFAS!"
Honestly, Whatever they do with Wilds, I will be happy with because well, its a new Monster Hunter game.. Personally I think with Tokuda at the helm, they could explore the underwater idea a bit more but whether we get it or not, I am still unsure.. part of me lives in hope that they do but alas, who knows. Thanks for the video! What is something you guys would want to be in Wilds?
I completely disagree with your idea of it not being an open world game. They always test things in current games for the next one, I think the whole “map” will be one big Guiding Lands, where temperatures shift and environments change and swap, like they do in the guiding lands. This will create an interesting gameplay where you never know what you are going into… might be a snowy day with heavy snowstorms where the waters freeze over, might be a sunny dry day with oasis like environments. If they do this, they are able to make it open world, but lock certain environmental changes behind key quests to unlock new monsters.
Tbh the whole game will probably be about a monster that is effecting the environment while just existing, like elderdragons do….
Honestly I’d love if it were just world2 with more old monsters given that glow up for the new gen and more new monsters with different body types. But if they did bring back underwater combat It would bring it from 9/10 to 12/10 for me