Frank, nice job on the hammer. Those hits felt convincing.
Bill, you looked awesome with those dual blades, choreographer deserves a shout out
Tommy, excellent work as the monster. You really felt terrifying. What’s that? Your arms? Oh, I’m sure they’ll grow back. We’ve got a fruit basket for you in your trailer
Well, at this point you're kind of to blame too, when you rely on the pull out method instead of the wrap up method. And you're both 8 legged entangled lovers who love to cuddle, so there was just no way that was ever gonna work. But hey now, look on the bright side. At least you can finally have enough players to play a whole game of baseball / soccer. You're living every Japanese man's dreams.
12 eggs? More like 120,000. Look up at the ceiling where Nu Udra sleeps. You can also catch the ones that float down as endemic life. They're called Nu Yaya.
I’ve headcanoned that the hunters and monsters actually have a Mario and Bowser dynamic, where it’s all just a play and they’re all pals outside of the events of the games.
And that also explains why you can hunt them hundreds of times in a row, it’s all the same monster just doing the whole shebang all over again. Also why the hunters never die, only faint and get carted back to camp.
nah it's more likely it's the monster's relative, you can see two of them in the same hunt for example. a little bit of nepotism that's just standard in the industry
Thought the same thing. If they're going to fade out regardless, just do it on the spot.
I think it would be cool for a few NPC's to spawn in with a cart, and then just idle around the monster until the hunter leaves.
They have assets for villagers walking in the environments with a cart already, and it would actually sell the idea that the captured monsters are taken in.
Are captured monsters taken in? Could be that they’re caught, studied by Alma, then released in this game, instead of actually transferred back to Hunter HQ
Whenever you capture a monster, Alma runs over to it and starts taking notes. After 30 seconds, she closes her notebook and the monster wakes up and runs away. So that's apparently what we're after - a live specimen to briefly study in a controlled environment.
She takes whatever sample or measurement she needs, sends her report to the guild, the monster is released back into the wild, and the guild sends back a selection of parts carved from other, slain monsters as a reward for our hunter's contribution.
This is now my headcanon, mostly for the idea of her having a bag full of different sized anklets that she has to rummage through every time we capture something.
Some of the quests in older games imply the Guild gives you parts they had in supply when you capture monsters, while they do whatever with the living monster.
Like some of the quests in 4U involve rich people, either for zoos or pets for spoiled rich kids.
When I played the older games my head cannon was the monsters that were captured ended up being put in the arena to train hunters who would face those monsters in the wild. Obviously not every monster in game had a quest in the arena. But it made sense in my head as a kid playing monster hunter freedom 2 because of the training quests.
I kinda liked world's cage. It was kinda neet seeing the monster you captured.... Well captured and being researched. Maybe they could have put it into an artificial environment.... 💡
Devs, if you are reading this subreddit, here is an idea for you:
Considering the amount of damage we did to the monster i.e broken head, torn wings, and severed tails, its pretty cruel to let it go back out in the wild rather than finishing the job imo
Lmao in world when you captured a monster you could fight it again in an arena. I'm pretty sure you could capture them again in the arena and just keep the same monster to fight
Also in World you can actually go look at the monster you caught. In Astera there's actually a little cage area with the monster sleeping. Iirc it even reflects tail cuts and the like.
As someone who started with World, it convinced me that that was why you "couldn't" capture Elders and other specific monsters. They were too dangerous to bring back to Astera for study. Which, I mean, is kinda correct.
What also bothers me is that the sleeping monsters are just placed on that platform unrestrained and having no safety protocols whatsoever. What if a Deviljho I captured awakens in Astera huh?
It would be hilarious if a Huge group of felynes came with a large cart and just picked them up, then carted them to their designated sleeping area. Maybe the furthest spot from where we captured them. Consider it as “relocation”/“catch and release”, proceeds to dump mega potion x10 on them after chucking them to the ground.
>capture Rathalos in World
>get Skull and two Wings as extra loot
>nice.jpeg
>return to hub and see Rathalos sleeping in the cage
>skull and wings very much intact
>what other lies have I been told by the fleet council?
Pretty sure that's what's happening, but intentionally. If you watch Alma she studies it and takes notes, then it wakes up and runs off after. It's a catch and release for research.
I noticed it completely on accident when I did an open world hunt, after the hunt concluded. I don’t know if you actually have the time to see it if you take an optional quest/saved investigation. Pretty neat detail though.
I don't really think it's because we have no place to put them in the world. It's probably more due to how they decide to implement monster bodies into the world. All dead things decompose after a while and become skeletal remains. They can't really do that with large monsters that got captured tho.
I personally think they should have used an animation similar to the camp building. Spawn 2 Palico that throw a net or box over the monster and let it be carried off by a Windrake. Not sure if that would be more silly than what we've got right now.
Love the implication that it just works on an honor system. If I get carted 3 times I'll leave you alone, but if you get caught, you have to come back to my place
I’m not going to hurt the monsters! They were never in any danger! Just the implication of things might go wrong if they dont wake up from the trap and go back to camp
Catch, study and release since they don’t have the infrastructure to contain them at the base for the time being. Im pretty sure once the base is setup we will have them there. Including other amenities like our room and the canteen.
Why would the guild rerelease a Rathian with both wings broken, back broken, tail severed and head severely hammered in by a group of dudes wearing her husband lol might as well kill it for gear at that point
That makes zero sense, the food system isn’t any different from other games except for the fact that it’s portable. Cat canteen will definitely be back
Cat canteen is probably a paid option that uses their own ingredients. You can still gather and cook the ingredients for free on your grill, but I'd imagine cat canteen will take zenny or hunter points like other games.
I want all of this. But I especially hope we have a room to display things like endemic life. World spoiled us with three different rooms and a mansion, and now we live in a tent we can't customize. I jave customized the pop up tents, but it's not the same.
I have very little faith in us getting a room until possibly the dlc. Endemic life can also be seen in the research tent in the plains, where a random assortment of things you caught will be there.
But yeah, I don't know how much effort they are actually going to put into this gathering hall as I feel like it's kind of going against what they wanted for the game.
Granted it was probably in development for months and they just wanted it as a part of the drip feed content so I'm sure it will look nice. But I feel like it might be bare bones, kind of like the gathering halls from the old 3/DS games or the OG in world
I think it is possible they planned this the whole time. They said the gathering hall is for end game content. Id imagine you'd have to complete the story and probably reach HR 50-100, before it's unlocked. In the end credits the guild master guy talks about wanting to build a guild headquarters there but wants the locals approval/invitation. I could see it being this update. At least I'm hoping for it. 😅
The game is selling absolute gangbusters and they're well aware that players love the cat canteen, gathering HUB and player rooms and customization. There's no doubt in my mind they're gonna put their all in to supporting this game.
I could see it being the weakest form of the special ingredients (or even weaker than what we have now), so you could get an equivalent of say the cheese for a def boost, but it's be eastern cheese and provide half the bonus of the western cheese to keep the incentive of using your own ingredients there but making it so you don't need to grind if you don't want to
It would give me something to spend zenny on. The only repeatable sink I have right now is trap tools, and catching the swarms of thunderbugs kinda negates that.
You order your meal from a restaurant menu (same options as we have with ingredients) and it uses what you have, and you pay for ones you don't have would be neat imo
Realistically they should have had guild researcher NPCs ride out and start studying the creature. They could still then have the creature wake up and move away and it would have made a small amount of sense.
Or better yet have some guild personal strap it up and have some popos start to drag the creature off, and they all fade away.
Something a little less pointless than the monster running away 😂 even the monster just disappearing would have been better.
The first time I had a group sever every tentacle from Nu Udra, I was trying to get a screenshot with all his limbs in it. Barely took the shot before he started moving and freaked me out.
Hey, we're hunters, that's what we do. Kill something and make their skin and bones our boots and fancy necklaces! We've been at the for 1000 years now
In MH: World your captured monster showed back up in town then was gone when you got back from your next mission. I don't think it's ever explicitly stated, but it makes sense.
One of the researchers in Iceborne mentions they have to be careful to not let the monsters get the scent of the base so they don't come back when they're released
Same place they've always come from: the Guild. The Guild keeps a big reservoir of monster parts which they distribute to Hunters as quest rewards. That's why sometimes your quest rewards can include multiple drops of something a monster obviously only has one of, unless you're inclined to believe Gypceros is hiding a few extra heads somewhere.
At least, that's the most reasonable explanation I've heard. Could be canon, could be fanon.
That much there is no reasonable explanation for, it's just because this is a game- which is also the correct explanation for where quest rewards come from, but the question of "where are those parts coming from" being asked in the first place implies a desire for some manner of immersive answer based on plausible lore.
I'm a little disappointed they didn't do what they did in World. If you captured a monster and went back to the main camp you would see a pen near the entrance with whatever monster you last captured sleeping in it.
Probably couldn't think of a way to do otherwise. In Wilds we don't have a permanent settlement, so there's no cage/enclosure to hold monsters. There's also the always active open world now so unless they designed a whole modeled animation of someone collecting the monster, then I don't know how else they'd handle it except for them simply fading away like in World. But since we don't have a cage for the monsters to appear in after they disappear from the field, having them run away makes the most sense I guess.
idk, before i actually saw it happen I thought the monsters just fade away while sleeping and I would have been okay with that. I guess I'm just wondering why they felt the need to make the monster walk away after a minute
I had just commented that to my BF the other night. I miss being able to see the monsters you captured back at main base. Or I guess having them be captured at all lol
There was a cutscene in Rise that showed the guild carting the sleeping/slain monster out. Not sure why they didn’t go with that. Imagine palicos & researchers lifting the monster together and carting it off haha that’d be a sight!
We have a Palico that walks back the entire map to the main camp and then this lazy design choice ¿?
We could have a little scene where some Palicos cart the monster away (to the camp) and then display the slept monster in the basecamp (like world) or something just anything more that simply vanishing into the air.
There's many instances where I feel Capcom run out of time on Wilds and it's so frustrating cause they have such an strong and fun core mechanics that I can only think in what they missed :( something similar to what happened to Dragon's Dogma 2. I hope they make up for it with G Rank DLC
Despite all 9/10 game.
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“Aaaaaand scene..”