r/MonsterHunter • u/EnderDracon • Mar 02 '25

MH Wilds “Hunter, the Guild authorizes” is so damn cool Spoiler

The handler in wilds feels so much less like some sidekick and more of a HANDLER. Like, we’re the guild’s blade and she is the hand that guides us. The guild has given her FULL AUTONOMY to act on their behalf, and she alone can decide what we are hunting. The lines also came at really good times during cutscenes and overall just fed the vibes lol. Especially the final fight of low rank? SHIVERS

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u/CaptainKyrel Mar 02 '25

"By my own order"

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u/sharpknot Mar 02 '25

Kinda funny when you think about that scene. When the hunter said that, it means that Alma does not need to deal with the consequences of the hunter's actions. So if the hunter failed, she can shrug it off and say "I did nothing wrong!". I just wanna see the scene where something bad happens and the hunter gets reprimanded for it.

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u/Zjoee ​ Mar 02 '25

Hunter is definitely looking after Alma by accepting the consequences. I love that.

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u/sharpknot Mar 02 '25

Really wished that there is a "protected monsters" mechanic with some penalties. Like, kill certain monsters that before a passing doshaguma pack arrives. Or, kill only certain monsters in a pack to thin out the herd.

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u/DarthOmix Mar 03 '25

Fun fact: Lorewise this already exists. The Mizutsune in past games are always male because they're larger, stronger, and can get violent around their mating season. Female Mizutsune are smaller and non-aggressive so you're never sent to hunt them.

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u/Alblaka Mar 03 '25

There kind of is. If, during the story missions in low rank, you start going after a Large Monster that is not part of the mission profile, Alma will warn you that you are not authorized to hunt that monster, a warning symbol appears, and you don't get any rewards beyond the basic carves.

But that's the extent of it, and afaik in High Rank it just ceases to exist since you can just hunt whatever you come across.

So yeah, would have been interesting for them to introduce a (tame?) large monster that the hunter isn't allowed to hunt, and maybe has to do a chain of side mission first to bolster that monster's population till Alma authorizes taking one down 'for research'.

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u/ImWhiite Mar 03 '25

It still kinda exists in early levels of High Rank, the only monster quests you'll see on the map are those that you can hunt, but other higher ranking monsters also roams the map and it tells you that you can't create a quest for it.

I'll assume that if you just tracked it yourself and attempted to hunt it, Alma would just say you're unauthorized.

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u/AceMKV Mar 03 '25

In high rank I think it only applies to the Apexes until you finish their slay quests

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u/ImWhiite Mar 03 '25

I see, I think this makes more sense now seeing it was a Rey Dau.

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u/Alblaka Mar 03 '25

Can't confirm. Upon entering high rank, the first thing I did was run after two ??? icons, reveal the monster's identity and immedeately go to town with them, starting Field Survey quests once enough damage was dealt.

Maybe the warning only triggers if you accepted a main story quest to go after a specific monster, and then mid-quest divert into attacking another monster?

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u/ImWhiite Mar 03 '25

Well early on in High Rank I saw a Rey Dau roaming around Windward Plains and it doesn't allow me to create a quest for it, though I didn't try heading straight to it.

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u/MSGrejs2k Mar 02 '25

Imagine you're grinding a rathalos for it's gem and they stop spawning because you literally genocided all of them in the area. Then a group of guild knights come and put you and Alma in jail.

They could add a series of shots showing how the ecosystem is completely obliterated because of your actions too.

That'd be a cool secret ending.

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u/SeiTyger Mar 03 '25

Alma's purpose here is to prevent that exact scenario from happening. I like the fact that since the missions are longer we need someone to keep tabs on us. I figure her role, besides being the Guild's eyes on us, is to write down investigation notes, weaknesses, item locations, camp sites, etc, so we can focus exclusively on hunting. Imagine having to deal with paperwork on top of inventory management?

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u/kafaldsbylur Mar 03 '25

Same. I killed a couple of those sand leviathans early on because they were there and I could, but despite the "You are not authorised to hunt this monster", there was no downside to it aside from not getting the quest-end extra materials.

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u/Falikosek Mar 03 '25

Well, during Low Rank if you try to hunt, say, a Balahara, before fighting it in the story mission, Alma says you aren't authorised to do so (mechanically speaking, you won't get the extra Field Survey rewards).
In High Rank the same applies whenever you try to hunt a monster with a higher HR requirement than your current level (so, for example, if you instantly go after HR Black Flame once you see the credits roll).

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u/Boomerwell Mar 03 '25

Agree I think alot of the protecting the ecosystem stuff would go alot better or feel alot more real if we weren't killing anything that was even a minor annoyance to the locals.

It's not really a working ecosystem if the moment it steps out of line for what you think is ok you beat it into submission.

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u/Dylangillian Mar 03 '25

There is the mechanic where you get a pop up and Alma saying you don't have authorization to hunt certain monsters before reaching certain parts of the story, but all it does is prevent you from getting the quest rewards since you can still kill/carve the monster.

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u/Jarsky2 24d ago

In terms of lore the penalty for an unsanctioned hunt is death. The guild knights will hunt you down and end you.

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u/Vash4073 ​ Mar 02 '25

like a penalty fee or something? 100k for killing the wrong monster?

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u/Neperian-log Mar 02 '25

And if you keep doing it , guild knights come and « delete » your save file

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u/Psychobuffjet Mar 03 '25

you get a 5 star wanted level and the guys in guardian armor chases you

edit: hopefully they make Monster Poacher a MH spinoff lmao

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u/sharpknot Mar 03 '25

Nah, probably not to that extent. Maybe something like "the monster does not drop materials" or "less rewards/drops for the next few successful hunts of that monster".

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u/Vash4073 ​ Mar 04 '25

from what I understand that's what currently happens. you only get the carve rewards or trap rewards but nothing shows up at the end (please correct me if I'm wrong. I only learned this second hand from viewing friends play)

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u/ruebeus421 ​ Mar 03 '25

No. They just wrote it that way to make a badass moment.

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u/CaptainKyrel Mar 02 '25

I like being able to picture the handlers responsibilities and role within the guild. It really paints a picture of how high up the food chain handlers are.

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u/sharpknot Mar 02 '25

Yeah, I like that kind of lore. Really makes the guild look like a real, well thought out organization, instead of a bunch of muscleheads going around committing genocide.

Although this makes the handler in World to be very incompetent. considering how she just gets into trouble, leaving her Hunter to deal with the mess she made.

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u/MSGrejs2k Mar 02 '25

Yeah, the handler concept really didnt make sense to me in world, but in wilds, it actually feels like she is there to study the monsters and work as a sort of failsafe so a hunter doesnt just go beserk on an entire population of Kut-Kus or something.

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u/Alblaka Mar 03 '25

To be fair, even in World her job kind of made sense: You don't want the hunter to get bogged down in paper work or tracking of requests. That's why professional athletes tend to have 'handlers' (coach/trainer) that also take care of all the busywork so that the athletes can focus on the actual athleting.

And technically Handler in Worlds did that secretary part correctly, just that she fumbled most of the other stuff around it.

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u/MSGrejs2k Mar 03 '25

True, never thought about the paperwork part but yeah, Alma is definitely more competent than worlds handler haha

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u/Nattidati Mar 03 '25

In a totally unfitting side-note: the verb you were looking for would be "athling", instead of athleting.

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u/thegoldchicken Mar 03 '25

The problem was that we don't get to see enough of the handler doing her job. I don't care if you tell me that she does stuff, all I saw was her nearly getting the both of us killed against velkhana

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u/GarugaEnthusiast Mar 03 '25

Funny you mention Kut-Kus, hunted a large group of them recently, and I quite literally went berserk on them.

But they were starting there, menacingly!

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u/CaptainKyrel Mar 02 '25

To be fair she was really... ehh..

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u/sharpknot Mar 02 '25

"I'm gonna leave my hunter, my primary responsibility in this expedition, in order to learn about what my grandpa did a long time ago! Just ask another handler to handle my hunter, despite knowing she already has a hunter already!

Bye-bye!"

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u/Vast_Square1919 Mar 02 '25

My headcannon is that she was not fired because the travel back from the new world takes a lot of time and the command of the fleed couldn't bother making a report about her abandoning her post.

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u/sharpknot Mar 02 '25

Could've just sent her back using one of the supply ships. Let the hunter authorize their own hunt, since they are not the "standard" hunter, but the one who saved the new world.

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u/Alblaka Mar 03 '25

Or: She's in the New World precisely because that puts an entire continent between the Guild's main territory and her antics. Though that would imply there's some (maybe family relations?) reason as to why they can't boot her.

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u/ArseneJoker Mar 03 '25

Yeah, that'd explain it. I mean, hot take here but I actually like her, but her family having enough influence to ensure she doesn't get booted and how the Forbidden Lands Expedition was likely at minimum finishing up all the prep when the Fifth left port at the Old World... yeah I can see why they'd want her as far away from the arguably extremely dangerous expedition as possible.

Keep in mind I'm HC Wilds and World taking place at roughly the same time period until canon proves otherwise, but on top of the Guild both having a foothold in The New World courtesy of roughly 5 decades of work and actually KNOWING to a decent enough extent what the Ecology is there... in Wilds with the Expedition, WE are the equivalent of the First Fleet getting everything set up, with our Hunter and Olivia arguably playing the roles of the Admiral and Commander respectively.

It keeps her out of the Guild's hair, she's in a relatively safer position in the Research Commission compared to the Forbidden Lands Expedition and there's less risk of said Expedition, an arguably very important one since the Guild now has some evidence of things going to Hell regarding the Ecosystem in the East with the potential of a collapse there, going Not Good.

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u/AceMKV Mar 03 '25

Also the commander/admiral was good friends with her Grandfather

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u/Vast_Square1919 Mar 03 '25

nepotism at it's finest

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u/CaptainKyrel Mar 02 '25

I'm also going to walk ahead and brave every danger before my hunter !

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u/CaptainKyrel Mar 03 '25

Makes you wonder if there are repercussions to "By my own Order" I'm guessing if we do it too much, we'll get the guild knights..

Also makes you wonder.. could the knights handle us ?

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u/Vast_Square1919 Mar 02 '25

"Hunter, we need to talk. I just had a talk with the ethics comitee of the guild and they reprimended me because I authorized too many Chatacabra hunts and now they are facing extinction. Would you please tone it down a little?"

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u/sharpknot Mar 02 '25

"We're starting running out paper and ink from writing reports of your hunts. I also haven't slept for 3 days. I had to follow you during your hunts and I had to do the paperwork when I get back.

Please. Let me rest."

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u/Vast_Square1919 Mar 02 '25

"Why the hell did you have to kill 14 Rathalos? What Am I supposed to write in the reports?"

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u/sharpknot Mar 02 '25

"We're a research expedition! Capture is an option! "

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u/nashty27 Mar 02 '25

Def the best cutscene in the game.

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u/Pedro_64 Mar 02 '25

I just watched it and thank God Ps5 has a screen recorder. That scene was amazing. Props to whoever voiced voice 1 in Japanese. He sounds like the most badass anime protagonist, I love him 

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u/nashty27 Mar 02 '25

You can view it again from the gallery in the main menu! It even loads your current character.

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u/i_like_fish_decks Mar 02 '25

Dude that line was so fucking sick though actually

I was fully ready to fuck that boi up

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u/FranksRedHot420 ​ Mar 03 '25

“Let me solo her”

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u/Raydekal Mar 03 '25

My friends and I played as a group of three for every fight despite the weird method. But the update dropped during the cutscene. We ended up fighting the boss solo and it felt great and was totally appropriate.

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u/Zeukate Mar 03 '25

Yeah, that line, they cooked, absolutely perfect.

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u/gamera-the-turtle Mar 03 '25

Literal peak FUCKING fiction.

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u/Loloweb Mar 02 '25

Any objections, Adam?

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u/Chaosdecision Mar 03 '25

I authorize myself!

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u/NS4701 Mar 03 '25

Easily my favorite cutscene

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u/Odd-Category-9195 Mar 06 '25

Not gonna lie I overall dislike the story but that cutscene was pretty fucking good