Monster Hunter Online will make you cry

[luigiman1928]

Not even sure if this leak announce has been covered, but here.

Achieved with CryEngine3
Original gameplay with new monsters, old monsters come from 1 to 3 .
Can drive vehicles(there are water motors in the end of Promotional video)
Environment elements can be destroyed or be used as monster's weapon to deal with hunters.
Not included in video but in their product description
the game world will be effected by weather, time and environments
Hunter's weapon can leave scars on monsters, not only preinstall body parts break.
There are active skills in game, will not be used frequently but will play a important role in fight. Hunters can excute team combo skills.
New world ("unknown continent") with villages and cities
Beta test in 2013.6

time of day system, where as time goes by the lighting changes
playable with gamepad,says even with keyboard and mouse you'll still be able to play well
weather changes, some monsters will have different skill sets depending on the weather
sword and shield has a new jumping slash move
greatsword has a new horizontal slash, it's mainly for monster parts that are very tough/hard, maybe has low chance of the sword bouncing
longsword has 2 staged circular slash, wastes a lot of stamina
special move system
after meeting some battle requirements, you can unleash this move
light bowgun's special move is insta-paralyse shot, you fire a shot that sticks on the enemy, and melee attacks needed to detonate the shot for it to activate
longsword's is a jumping downward stab move, but the article says the sword stabs the ground, so maybe there's some aoe effect?
will have battles on transport vehicles, mentions water battles and air battles (battle on airship perhaps?)
unlike MH frontier, this game will have a city/ main hub?
will have plenty of monsters, both from the old and new series, even those from MH frontier
24 player required monster, ??? which basically means big rock dragon

China only from what I've heard, and developed with CryEngine3, which is amazing! But despite what I know about Monster Hunter (Which isn't very much), I call forth the Wii U Master Race to tell me this is already on the Wii U.
Hope no one Cry's about it.

 

[pokefloote]

I welcome the changes. MH needs it.

 

[Gahars]

I beg you don't cry.

Seriously, that'd be super embarrassing.

 

[Foxi4]

The way I see it, CryEngine 3 is available on PC, PS3, XBox 360 and Wii U - this might be for any of those four and seeing that Monster Hunter Frontier, the last Monster Hunter "MMO" was for XBox 360 and PC and released only in Japan...

Well, I'd hate to see U Cry... ;O;

Seriously though, here's for hoping that it will be multiplatform.

 

[emigre]

Too late, I'm already in tears.

 

[zanfire]

I want it so bad ; ;

 

[dgwillia]

Unless its on consoles, or P2P, I get the feeling this game would be horrible.

The already abysmal drop rates on some items would likely go to below 1% forcing you to buy drop rate increasing items, you'd probably have to pay to access certain weapon classes, the monsters would likely be insanely strong compared to the console counterparts, etc.

I'd be interested what all the new mechanics could do for the future of the series, but I'm not that interested in this game itself.

 

[Black-Ice]

Brilliant.

 

[Rizsparky]

Looks pretty neat, looking forward to it!

 

[gokujr1000]

It had me sold at just the title alone.

 

[Terenigma]

Nice! Looks really good and ill most likely be investing in this.

 

[Deleted-188346]

I don't particularly care.

It's being published and distributed by Tencent Games. This, compounded with the fact that Capcom already had an online PC-based Monster Hunter game known as Monster Hunter Frontier which was never released outside of Japan, suggests that the chances of this game being released outside of China is extremely low.

The game also doesn't appear to have the same charm of the console based Monster Hunter games.

I'll just stick with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.

 

[DroRox]

My main concern with a free to play MonHun is the tendency for these kinds of games to easily become "pay to win" once they become overly popular. We all know quite a bit of horror stories of this kind regarding MMOs... All we can do is hope (that it gets released elsewhere eventually and never becomes a "pay to win" that is...)...

 

[The Milkman]

My main concern with a free to play MonHun is the tendency for these kinds of games to easily become "pay to win" once they become overly popular. We all know quite a bit of horror stories of this kind regarding MMOs... All we can do is hope (that it gets released elsewhere eventually and never becomes a "pay to win" that is...)...

Where does the article say its Free-to-play? This is Capcom were talkin about buddy, no way its going to be free.

 

[DroRox]

Where does the article say its Free-to-play? This is Capcom were talkin about buddy, no way its going to be free.

Almost every other article describes the game as a "free to play MMO". Guess I could be wrong though.

 

[Hielkenator]

As I understood this game is NOT developed by Capcom at all.
Tencent - a minor gamehouse from china trying to float with the popular franchise.

 

[FAST6191]

Tencent - a minor gamehouse from china trying to float with the popular franchise.

*Spits mouthful of Jelly beans across keyboard*

What? Tencent are a huge company with operating incomes in the billions- they own the Chinese equivalent of facebook, gmail and MSN all rolled into one (see QQ), they have performed the miracle of getting people to pay for access to it on mobile and sometimes in general and it goes on. Granted I am not so sure what their games division is like as a relative thing but it is much like comparing Sony the games division to Sony as a whole and ignoring the latter.

 

[ferofax]

RUMOR:

http://www.videogamesuncovered.com/...nline-is-coming-to-the-west.html#.UXGXhrVTBXS

 

[Andim]

>Tencent
>Owner of Riot games
Ahhhh ha ha ha, nope.

That's just great. The chinese remade Hunter Blade Online in cryengine and Capcom partnered with them. I pray to god it falls flat on its face, and if it doesn't that it never leaves China.