As you stated her problem, is the player can bascially ignore her outside of cut scenes. Chief Cat for food, quest board for quests, field team leader for annoying tutorials. As a player all I see her doing is getting into danger, giving useless advice, stuffing her face, and etc. She feel like a toddler I have to take care of, or dead weight.

Imagine if the Handler could do some of these things you suggest mid-hunt. Instead of the camera awkwardly locking on to the collapsable wall at the top of the tree, after a duration of fighting up there she chimes in and mentions how fragile it looks - prompting the player to find a way to break it. The wall is already visually clear in what its intention is, but the person tasked with understanding what the hell is going on could be doing the field work in real time instead of a wink and a nudge from the camera. Great video btw!

BOLD decision to start the video with that joke haha! Absolutely loving the energy and vibe of this video. The 9 straight hours of editing clearly paid off, plus however long the script and footage-finding took. Ecology is the coolest part of Monster Hunter and it's why all the games that try to do the same thing (cough cough Dauntless) often fail. I'm very sad to hear that World doesn't succeed at making it feel as important as it should be.

100%, I think I can speak for a lot of players that world just doesn't tell it's story right. For most players, they're the ones that are going in, and hunting these monsters to "balance" the ecology. That's it, for the majority of players, the only story being told in World is "We are THE heroes". In reality though, we're just a cog in the machine, and if you paid attention to the minute details, you would realize that we were a REALLY stupid hunter, and way in over our head when we thought only the humans are responsible to maintain the balance of the new world. So because the story doesn't exactly showcase the idea of the cycle well, it gets to a point where every time someone says "we" did something in the game, the player's only real reply is "fuck you mean we, I was literally the only one there". Rise definitely solved some of that issue, as the NPCs actually get involved in your day to day hunts, but that's just the hunters of the village. As a long time player of MH who's really into the lore and ecology of the world, I understand the role of our handler. I just wish they did more with them. I definitely agree with a lot of the points you brought up that would help shine more spotlight on our important number 2. As for the mods, as someone who LOVES modding, it's just the way it is man. People are just horny. And I do mean people, I have friends of both genders salivating at the idea of thiccness. As it is, I think it's harmless. The only times an NSFW mod like that is considered harrmful to me is when they start saying things like, "X character is too ugly, this will make them better". Then it becomes less of a situation where you're just a degenerate, and more you're a degenerate AND an incel/femcel. I am extremely thankful that there are a good amount of mods that offer a variety of SFW and cool things to balance out the NSFW ones.

You offered some really good ways to fix the problem with the handler, when she calls me Pard it is annoying because we don’t feel like a team. She is there at camp doing nothing that I can see or sitting in the canteen. She is not integral in any way to my hunts that I can tell.

They wanted the handler to be the caravaneer, they wyventurer, and be the quest gal all at the same time :U she is the main character in the game tbh, its just they didnt do a great job with that concept- specially in the gameplay aspect

On the topic of ecology...you mention Valstrax. Elder Dragon mate. ALL Elder Dragons are like that. Literally in the lore too. Elder Dragon is literally the classification for ANY monster which has attributes which cannot be explained. How does Kushala Daora manipulate wind and fly when its skin is coated in metal? Elder Dragon. How does Kirin control lightning, and electricity without a thunder sac or any other corrosponding attritube like Tobi-kadaci's thunder sac and static electricity, or Zinogre using its Highly conductive thunderfur to store electricity and thunderbugs to create it. Outside of the lore, The creaters of the game series incorperated Elder Dragons to further push the fantasy of the game, while also using them to showcase how grounded the other designs are.

On the topic of expanding Handler's role, for gameplay reasons, her giving hints of interactions can be translated into [bonus quests]. The bonus quest starts out with "do x to diablos" and the handler at the start of the quest says "hey partner, i heard from the research group that diablos are really good at hearing things, do you think they hate loud noises?" Then the bonus quest "do x to diablos" pops up, before hiding itself into the menu. This incentivizes the player to figure out the hint when interacting with diablos during a hunt. You notice from a few earlier hunts with other monsters in this map that the small monsters flying in the area alarm other small monsters to flee whenever a large predator is approaching (could be anjanath, deviljho, glavenus and rathian) and whenever the screamers get hit by anything, they scream with a shrill cry, then fly away to a safer part of the combat area. You see the bonus quest pop up at the start of your fight with Diablos before hiding itself back to the menu again as a quick reminder for your incentive. You put 2 & 2 together, hit the screaming monsters during the time whenever Diablos is underground because you aren't doing anything else, so why not, and get rewarded with diablos resurfacing into a trapped animation with a raised stun vulnerability. The camera briefly zooms in on the interaction, the bonus quest pops up again and changes into " Use a screamer on Diablos" before clearing itself. And at the quest reward screen, you get a bonus of screamer sacs and screamer pods alongside some goodies and bonus research points. This incentivizes interaction and the reward makes it a positive thing for players to repeat. The quest only pops up once since the hunter doesn't need to be reminded again & again as that would be an insult to the player's intelligence. There are multiple bonus quests per monster as your research level increases from Lv1 to Lv4. All monster drops are available, but their drop rate is standard, BUT the drop rate for certain low % parts like Gems and Mantles will only increase after you clear the bonus quests. This gives research-inclined players a reward for playing the game to 100% and the combat-focused players get neat coincidences. There's probably more that could be done with this system in mind, but I can't think of any beyond collecting monster tracks at the moment.

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