“Monster Hunter NOW” Season 5 content is released, and new monsters such as dragon slaying appear

“Monster Hunter NOW” developed by Ninantic released its fifth season content today (17th). At the same time, 4Gamers and other Taiwanese media also visited Yui Mai Gu, the producer who is responsible for the content planning and progress management of each season. Please She talks about future plans.

Season 5, Dragon Slaying

First of all, the fifth season “Sword Tail of the Sword Breaks the Spring Festival” will be released on March 6. Seeing this name, I believe that many old players will be able to think of the monster “Dragon Slaying” that they will soon be confirmed to be released in “Monster Hunter NOW”. In terms of main visuals this time, the development team in the new quarter wanted to challenge a brand new art style, integrating the colorfulness of spring and various features of “Monster Hunter NOW”. The producer revealed that he also discussed it with Capcom before making a decision.

The fifth season will confirm that two new monsters will be added, “Dragon Slaying” and “Brown Bear Beast”. A subspecies of monster will be launched in April, and a new ancient dragon will appear in May. Dragon Slaying will be a 5-star monster to jump, and it is expected to double its appearance in the early stages of the season. The Green Bear Beast takes off with 2 stars. In addition to the above monsters, there are also monsters and content added in the cooperation activities with “Monster Hunter Wilderness”, which we will tell you later.

The new attribute of Dragon Slaying Equipment is “brute force”, which will reduce the critical strike rate but will increase the attack power. Therefore, the newly added “Brutality” and “Brutality” in the fourth season can have a good match. The new skill equipped by the Blue Bear Beast is “Team Hunting Strengthening[Attack]”, as the name suggests, it is a skill that will increase damage during attacks in team battles.

The fashion for the fifth season is French casual equipment and denim denim equipment. In addition, this season will add monster-themed appearance equipment, integrating monster elements into modern costumes. The official costumes are fashions with bird-scratching and bird-striking themes. It can be seen that the color of the costumes is the same as that of monsters.

Since it is a fashion, it will not affect the equipment worn by players. The official also said that more monster fashions will be launched in the future.

In terms of weapon balance adjustment, the development team has also changed several major changes. Currently, the one-handed sword is weaker, which will make it easier to destroy the part. Specifically, if the SP skill can be pressed at the right time, Then there will be higher damage.

The double-sword ghost-like transformation is more difficult to switch. Now, as long as the screen is long + sliding to remove ghost-like transformation, the ghost-like transformation can be removed, and the damage of ghost-like transformation is also adjusted upward overall. The damage of the “Cancel Stage 4” of the bow is increased again, and even the power of the archery is too low, so the number of arrows shot from different charging levels will increase, and the power will also be adjusted upward.

There are many corrections for each profession. The official said that the corrections are all weak, and not as strong as Nerf, so players don’t have to worry. I hope that through this opportunity to adjust the balance, we will let everyone try other weapons.

S5 Other Details

Quarterly supplies:The supply “Expanded Storage Box” will be able to receive a maximum of 250 grid prop box.

Season 5After the start, some monsters will not appear in the wilderness for the time being. In addition, monsters that can be specified using the monster tracker in Season 4 will not be specified for the time being.

Bone Hammer Dragon,Thunder wolf dragon,The dazzling bird,The tragic claw dragon,Iwa Ryu,Strange dragon,Fox Dragon,Resentment of tigers and dragons,Golden Lion,Red Armored Beast,Mermaid dragon,Boom Dragon,Sakura Fire Dragon,Neurozoicus,Canghuo Dragon,Water monster bird,The above monsters of the Floating Sleeping Dragon will appear again after completing the monster appearance mission released in Season 5.Some can be specified using the monster tracker.

Work with “Monster Hunter’s Wild”

Many players know that the latest work of “Monster Hunter” “Monster Hunter Wilderness” is about to be launched. Therefore, the new monster that will appear on February 28 is the “Tangfrog” from “Monster Hunter’s Wilderness”. Its equipment will have the attribute of “defensive preparation”. The effect is that as long as you avoid it, the damage you will suffer will be reduced next time. It can overlap up to 3 times. Through this cooperation, some players who have just joined “Monster Hunter NOW” can play more smoothly.

In the interview, it was mentioned that the frog was the earliest known existence in “The Monster Hunter’s Wilderness” and it was also a monster that you would encounter in OBT. Considering that many people would take this opportunity to come into contact with “The Monster Hunter NOW”, from this point of view, I decided to find an early stage monster that everyone knows. Will hope. There are many charming monsters in “Monster Hunter’s Wild”. Niantic will continue to discuss with Capcom to get more monsters to join.

There are also many funny appearance equipment “Erge Dragon Rider”. The producer also thought about whether this equipment was too much higher during the production, but thanks Capcom, he still agreed that this equipment can be obtained through the event mission.

In addition, the starting set of “Hope” in “Monster Hunter Wild” (that is, the set worn by all hunter presets in Beta) will also be included in “MHNOW”, and will be airdropped directly to players in the form of supplies. There are also cooperative weapons, players have the opportunity to produce a full range of weapons of “Hope”. The starting level is 3, so novices can also use it.

March will celebrate its 1.5th anniversary

There is another big event in March, which is the 1.5th anniversary celebration, so there will be a special thanks event. During this event, players have the opportunity to hunt subspecies and rare species of monsters, and can also track subspecies of monsters through monster trackers. It would be a relatively rare opportunity.

During this event, there will be a special clearinghouse. During this period, players can obtain exclusive currency through hunting to exchange, including storage box space, weapon refining materials, armor refining materials, dragon jade fragments, etc. . This is also the first time that money is being exchanged for materials. I hope players can make more use of them, which will be much more convenient for the lack of materials.

Currently, this clearinghouse-like function will be open for only 1.5 years of anniversary, but it is possible to reopen the clearinghouse in the future with activities, or to cooperate with quarterly limited time opening. In addition, in the interview, the producer also mentioned that the development team has indeed considered the exchange function between materials, such as changing 10 R1 materials to R2, etc., but it is not yet possible to promise to do it.

Interview with producer Yui Maiya

This interview also focuses on some situations in the existing version, first of all, dragon attributes. Ms. Maigu said that the development team realized that the dragon attribute weapons are not used for many purposes at present, so they also hope that each weapon and armor can be active. place. Now some monsters also have some secondary attributes such as tails afraid of water, so the dragon attribute may also be adjusted like this.

We also asked about the frequency of the appearance of the monsters that were limited to appear during the period. Miss Maigu said: We have not thought about the specific frequency, but we will observe the current balance of the game, so that the subspecies and rare species of monsters will appear. “Last year, the Destroyed Dragon appeared on Carnival for the first time, and there are also related contents released one after another. We hope that it will make everyone hunt desperately when it debuts. Then don’t waste too much time before letting players hunt again. We are also discussing the length of this time middle.”

But the producer also said that it was a bit difficult to let everyone hunt for the rest of their lives just now. Now that it is entering the second year, some monsters that appear earlier should be able to make players hunt more often, or search through monster trackers. For situations like the appearance of the terror tyrannosaurus compressed to the exploding scaled dragon, they will try to adjust through activities in the future.

As for weapons and armor refining materials, in addition to daily tasks, they can also be purchased in the mall. The producer also revealed that it will be opened in the 1.5th anniversary clearinghouse, and the team will see when they can be obtained depending on the balanced environment.

In addition, some media mentioned the concept of considering temporary boxes or checking storage boxes after hunting. Ms. Maigu said that this is a great idea. The team also found the trouble of full warehouses in the team battle, and will try their best to improve this problem later. But it is not possible yet. In the future, the limited drifting stones will also be considered to strengthen some functions. Strong drifting stones can produce stronger skills, which is in the thinking of the development team.

In addition, some media asked about the fact that some damage values ​​and magnifications were not in the announcement. They found out when they were actually hunting. Ms. Maigu said that the team realized that some of the announcements were flawed, and we are reviewing this part. Whether we can consider strengthening backtracking, the production team believes that if we can backtrack at any time, it will become a strong weapon that everyone will concentrate on, which is not welcome to the development team, but we have considered backtracking under certain restrictions. Strengthen weapons.

The interview mentioned the criteria for choosing monsters, first of all, is the courage and impact of appearance, including the handsome monsters on the covers of all dynasties. The next standard is attribute balance. For example, the equipment in this quarter can better challenge the monsters in the next season. It will also be one of the standards.

Finally, I also asked what causes of continued play by existing players, Yui Maiya; “All community games will face the difficulties of maintaining old players and adding new players. The update of the fifth season has some new players. Improved features allow players to enjoy it.”

“Monster Hunter NOW” “Sword Tails that Breaks the Hearth” will be updated on March 6.