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"Remember Meowster, jagras hunt in packs!"

MonHun casuals: A talking Palico? That's cool! Stories players: Oh god the Navirou virus is spreading, the puns are fully voiced, NOOOOOO.

If it's added again, monhun language setting will come in clutch for palicos being annoying.

You missed one thing. The palico's voice, it sounded like Paimon to me. You will hear Paimon constantly making cat puns.

I wish they brought back the bigger blood splatter effects and sounds. Still looks like they're hitting concrete with that sword

The website confirms you can indeed sharpen on your mount and use items.

Those worries are indeed wild

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.

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 believe in world you can sharpen while riding the monster "Taxi".

Me : Hunting My palico : "THIS LOOKS LIKE A GOOD SPOT TO FIND SOME INGREDIENTS!"

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.

That Palico is going to annoy the crap out of me.

my biggest concern is the hunting horn staying the same from rise

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

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 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...

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???

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A series that always evolves and learns from past entries will always have people whinning.

Palicos are a precursor species that evolved into Paimon

Iceborn was where mounts were first introduced, and you could sharpen on them. So I highly doubt that's changed.

An Atreus as a palico sounds like a nightmare

Focus mode feels more like that mechanic in mgsr where you get a lil more control over where you slash.

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.

I bet I BET, they're gonna put the original palico meowing sounds behind the ''Monster Hunter Language'' voice option

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.

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

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.

Palico meowing: This is cute, I love my cat friend. Palico talking: Put him down, I've had enough.

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.

You can probably adjust the palicos voice line frequency. Just like you could with the hunter in rise.

Palicos talking is really strange, I agree

I'm so glad someone pointed out the palicos talking being annoying, I hope there's a way to mute them.

You echoed a lot of my worries. Thank you

Palicoes have always talked tbf, we just haven't heard them before.

Me: I'm sure there's not much to worry. Rata: "The Palico is talking" Me: ... No, this cannot be!

I have absolutely ZERO issue with the palico voice. Don’t see what the issue is. I’m happy the palico has a voice now. Plus, if it’s anything like World you can probably customize the pitch.

I just hope we don’t get boring weapon designs

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

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 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

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

Hopefully they have the option to change the palico voice to the OG voice like in World

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.

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.

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

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

"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

yay lets worry guys! What a great thing to do with the first trailer of a game we are excited for!

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

Ah yes, i never let it bothered me as much ... but palico NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

“Talking Palico’s” *Navirou flashbacks intensify*

The Focus Mode speculation reminds me of the AC6 lock-on speculation. Coherent voiced palico dialog is understandable.

Still hope they keep switch skills though. One of the things Rise had over World in keeping gameplay fresh.

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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.

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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.

3:25 in the playstation blog it confirms that yes you can sharpen when mounted

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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.

Doesn't look anything like a wirefall. He called his mount to pick him up

Good video, some things I didnt notice myself on first watch.

The moment I saw the trailer I was waiting for your video

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”

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.

Im so hyped for Palico Puns

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

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..

I think we also can doing qa wirefall move with the reworked clutch claw/slinger. Yes i say we get even a new way to use silkbind/hunter arts with the Hunter Focus mechanic.

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.

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.

The palico talking point is catastrophic

very happy to hear the classic unsubscribe outro again

Woke up and watched the trailer and oh that damn cat really doesn’t shut up, huh

It seems to me like it's going to be narrative-focused kinda like God of War (PS5). The hunter seems to be the protector of this band of NPCs involved in a plot focused around the kid. The kid is kinda implied to be looking for something, maybe their father who might also be a hunter, and their group is there in the Wilds to look for him or whatever it is. I'm honestly more concerned that the hunting game itself is simply a going to be put second-place behind a majorly narrative focus. I like the MH series and the plot can be staple anime-like at best, but that's what makes it better IMO because the entire focus is majorly on the hunting gameplay component. I don't need the drama in my hunting game, and this trailer is not boding a good sign to me.

This video genuinely did not need to exist lol

I think mounting actions perfectly needed with how much enemies you have at a time. Remember a pack of large monsters vs you and your avian raptor pet that has lot of mobility seems a perfect match

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.

Monster Hunter World already had a lock on feature but it was horrendous xD

No hot takes here. Only perfectly reasonable worries to go along with my hype that is increasing on the daily. By the time Wilds comes out, I plan to have ascended to divine levels of hype and I need you, Rata, to keep me grounded.

The voiced palaco seems confirmed in the latest video titled "Monster Hunter Wilds - Message from the Developers", at around 4:07 ish

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