Monster Hunter Wilds - THIS is BIG - Equal Dragon Weapon & Extinct Monsters - Dev Talk! (Theory/Fun)

[@RageGamingVideos]

Guys as always it's a bit of fun talking about the EDW and as I say at the start this entire discussion/theory is around literally Dev interview responses and nothing more, it's shame something so cool ruffles feathers by simply existing, I don't know why a small minority would want MH to be... like lamer?

[@Lillyrosechan]

I love lore and your lore videos because there is reasons for certain monsters to exist in certain areas and why some hunters hunt them specifically. And I can't wait for wilds to actually show us some of that lore if it is like confirmed ater for wilds that is. But the fact they still reference to concepts they've drawn years ago is amazing.

[@jockpackage1770]

Monster Hunter is like a Star Wars bar, no droids allowed lol

[@NikoNiiOS]

"Theory"😂

[@devilalastor3320]

Legend has it that if you talk enough about the equal dragon weapon, gaijin hunter will go into another unnecessary rant

[@euphoricganjanath5625]

and somehow its all Rises fault

[@devilalastor3320]

@ and forbade us from talking about it. What?

[@Avellar3000]

He can blow it out his ass! He's not and will not be the end all be all voice of MH

[@euphoricganjanath5625]

@@devilalastor3320 Im just cracking a joke dw about it haha. Gaijin gets very goofy over EDW.

[@TalanWH]

Gajin is gonna hate the plot of Wilds ..the leaks for the game are exactly the kind of thing he hates. I've heard some of the actual audio files and let's say that artifical monsters may be a fundamental part of the base game...

[@pauldavison2856]

Nvm i commented a few weeks ago asking if josh was ok because he hadn't done his annual talk on the equal dragon weapon, guess he's fine after all

[@Breakingchainz]

If the equal dragon weapon actual was ever a real fight in Monster Hunter, I think I would actually get teary-eyed as I love all the lore implications that surrounded it ever since I was a kid playing monster hunter 1

[@Krescentwolf]

I feel like if the EDW ever becomes real, it'll be a literal push the big red button moment. XD

[@LEONDAS-]

When the eventual dlc comes up in 2026-2027 I would really love the final boss creature being a semi/sentient equal dragon weapon that was long forgotten in the forbidden lands that reactivated indirectly thanks to the hunters. Just imagine mid fight the EDW starts using elemental properties from previous dragons and has a sadistic personality ( probably because humanity created them to hunt down other elder dragons without hesitation) To the point that if it manages to cart you or land a really heavy blow it starts to some how chuckle

[@AnimationWarrior301]

Cool idea

[@isuckatgaming3527]

Imagine when it's near death, it uses a burst of Gore Magala's frenzy virus to boost itself from truly dying, just to show how much it despises it's creators and would do anything to satisfy it's vengefulness towards them. Even if it's their descendants.

[@Userfound7]

Honestly the EDW actually does seem like to be something that could be possible since the hunters are coming up with various different ways to combat monsters and its not like they havent seen some monsters that you could never have hoped to see like arkveld

[@LordShonji]

Gaijin Hunter somewhere in Japan: I don't know why, but I feel like I need slay 50 Raging Brachydios and sell all my great swords in my inventory.

[@jackwilliams801]

Don’t forget that the first art book has early concepts of weaponized insects long before the Insect Glaive was introduced in MH4. Also I feel the concept for Blackveil may have taken some of its ideas from the Fungus Dragon in the same book. Just goes to show that unused ideas are never thrown out and may be referenced for future titles.

[@shimik11]

people have been theorizing that gaismagorm is a pseudo-equal dragon weapon

[@matheusps92]

Not gonna lie, I would love to fight Wyvern Rex in Wilds, it's a monster that just makes sense for some reason.

[@iMightBeCrazy]

I think the other party from the guild is going to activate the ancient tech releasing the edw and then we have to stop it before it wrecks the ecosystem

[@mechadebzilla]

It may not be exactly the EDW but yeah it would probably play out that way.

[@hollyshock8400]

I’m one of the few who loves the implied MH lore and I would love to see the Ancient Civilization explored. I never understood people who say that the EDW is too outlandish. The Artian armor existing shows that the ancients had insanely advanced tech, I see no reason why they wouldn’t be able to make a bioengineered dragon.

[@jorgeluisperez7700]

I want to see a Lao Shan Lung make a chrysalis and then emerge as a colossal winged dragon.

[@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf]

What the fuck 💀

[@zzzzzzzzzPP]

I want a prequel so bad, about genetically enhanced dragon catchers that were there before hunters and tribes

[@Lillyrosechan]

Isn't that just monster hunter stories?

[@WhiteDragonCM]

Im not interested in fighting in the Ancient dragon war. not my kind of team or setting x3 but i would LOVE to play a game where you can feel the impact of that war in a more tangible way. have a bit more context, keep it vague as to much of this would taint the fun vibe of monster hunter, but leave that deeper lore simmering under the surface, and then some post game you just happen to be sent to a decrepit ruin, that happens to be made of Kushala plate, or something, having an oddly high tech vibe. you fall through the floor and you see that THING the equal dragon weapon, trussed up in the ceiling, likely in for repairs after a clash with fatalis or some other terrifying beast, and it appears all the world to be dead, only for you or your palico to trip up, make some noise, and it starts moving, tearing itself free, as it starts coming at you with everything it has, whatever allowing the ancients to control this monstrosity long corroded due to the centuries of neglect and now its just out for blood, and you have to run, because until you get to a good vantage point or figure out some way to hurt it, you're its target practice after centuries of being cooped up. I would absolutely love that scenario, and squeal at the sheer spectacle and lore implications. Monster hunter as it is, trying to live in harmony with nature is a grand old time, treating life and death struggles with nature as a festival, but getting a glimpse of those dark origins, would suddenly show why the guilds focus on balance is so important and clues us in pretty firmly on why it came to be, stopping tragedies from the past, from playing out again. adds a lot more depth and weight to the situation i think :3 also the fact that the new game is being set in a place called the "forbidden lands" from what i hear, just sounds like a good place to explore this idea. Why was it forbidden? perhaps because something horrible happened there, that the guild wishes to never repeat. something that made the land dangerous and taboo. i think i recall something about the wyverians taking humanity under their wing after everything happened and started the guild. cant tell if I'm remembering correctly or not, but i could just see those wyverians warning the humans against going there, and never truly telling them why, to prevent them from stumbling into such a horrible truth, and the reason eventually being forgotten completely as history not shared tends to do.

[@mechadebzilla]

This sounds so fantastic! If this tale is not going to be told in Wilds, it needs to be a fanfic.

[@el_guapo1318]

I still feel people are reading too much into the "extinct" species part. By that I mean, people are assuming it means the ones like Wyvern Rex and shit that went extinct hundreds of thousands if not millions of yeara ago that all modern monsters are descended from, but so far, the game instead seems to mean "monsters that were driven to extinction more recently, probably because of humans". For proof of this, the intro to the game outright states that the area of the Forbidden Lands has only been off-limits for the past 1000 years. That is not very long, in terms of evolution. Not mention that that implies that humans were originally there. So, it probably was an area that only became off-limits after the end of the Ancient Dragon War. And based off of how talk about that time always seems to include monsters that are around currently in the timeline of the game, it implies that all the monsters around now were monsters around back then too. You know, like how in the real world, literally every animal we have around now has been here since before human civilization started. And there are definitely animals that were around when Ancient Egypt, Roman Empire, and such that are no longer here today, and in every case, the animals went extinct because of humans (Obviously, with my emphasis on "human civilization" I am referring to after the last Glacial period ended and not referring to the Late Pleistocene Extinction event, as a lot of species went extinct around that time due the change in climate and not simply because humans over-hunted them.) In the past couple thousands of years, humans have directly caused the extinction of numerous species, including Aurochs, White Rhinos, Dodos, Moas, Thylacines, and Stellar's Sea Cows, just to name a few. And to me, it seems much more likely that when this game refers to "extinct species", it is referring to creatures we (the guild) know existed because records exist of humans hunting them to extinction, not to creatures whose millions of years old fossils were only discovered recently.

[@belovedwarrior3192]

Of course, people like the idea of a fight against a Frankenstein monster made up of dragons. The armor would probably keep that Frankenstein look of being made being using multiple monster parts from different monsters

[@universalgamer9615]

To be honest I just want to hear your wildest theories you got for MHWilds till the game comes out/has a beta announced.

[@Cheslovesnuclearrods]

Every piscine wyvern should come back and should force all players to appreciate how they made fighting a fish hard

[@mechadebzilla]

Me too. Once it's out then all the fun theories kinda take a back seat.

[@Rageouz]

can say the actual game will be crazier than your theories

[@FTL7I1H]

Their "wildest theories" just happen to line up with leaks

[@nothuman5335]

these arent even theories these are just straight up based on leaks

[@ShmarveyXD]

I really hope Wilds handles the old civy lore with care!

[@deltaknight2764]

I really want the thing behind the door Arkveld was chained to to be the EDW and we have to destroy it.

[@yeepman5412]

I'm really hoping Wyvern Rex appears in Wilds with all these "extinct species classification" theories that everyone is talking about. That would be so awesome I would cry lol. If not the base game then hopefully the future dlc expansion master rank for Wilds.

[@Dumb-Comment]

The story telling and the epicness combined with the MW music to tell the story of the Great War would be the most chilling video game moment ever

[@kidc8109]

Sometimes when I think about how MH fans argue with each other on what lore is canon or not, makes me want to compare them to the researchers in the when they argue amongst themselves when it comes to the ancient civilization. 😅

[@jacktheomnithere2127]

you know what would be great? if Wilds' DLC explored the Ancient Civilization. we could learn more about them. ancient texts about biomes that they've seen, but no-one from the present day knows about; ancient blueprints of lost weapons from the 14 types (remember 4U's Eternal Vengeance, which is made from the Rusted Sword? something like that); their customs, culture, and philosophy - which are implied to be different from modern day MH; portraits of places like the exterior and interior of an intact Castle Schrade. come on, you'd want to find out about any of that too, even if we'd all rather just hunt monsters. we could see the return of a remade and fleshed out Tower (the summit being exclusive to powerful monsters like Rare Species). what? that map needs an overhaul, and it's connected to the AC, which is the thematic of this theoretical DLC. why not use it? we could find the Equal Dragon Weapon *(if they decide to canonize it),* decaying and incomplete, and perhaps even harvest from it like FU's giant Fatalis Great Sword, meaning we'd get unique armour and weapons. reanimating and fighting it is a bit of a stretch, imo. and lastly, we could fight Fatalis again, since the EDW is the probable reason why he snapped and destroyed Schrade, and ended up hating Humanity. and this time, there would be a 35 minute timer, just like the old days; and no phases. i know, it's all what made him fun in Iceborne; but just how long has it been in-game since then? a year or two, maybe 5? wouldn't it be nice to have the fight be as hard as the Iceborne fight's Phase 2 for all 35 minutes, to make up for the lack of phases? besides, i wasn't a fan of having half the map being blocked off in Phase 1. if the devs were smart about it, however, they'd intergrate Wilds' DLC with the Iceborne fight, where this time we'd be the reinforcements (as in the ability to use SOS Flares after beating Phase 1 in the Special Assginment, remember?). all of that is assuming the DLC's about the Ancient Civilization. look, Wilds is effectively the "20th Anniversary" game we wanted/needed; it'd be a wasted opportunity not to explore the Ancient Civilization and everything they've done - including fighting Fatalis again, since he's integral to their story.

[@user-uj5sh8pz1d]

Sounds like an interesting idea . Start in the offset regions of wilds and end up in a AC ruin. MB as arcvelds prison? And either fighting in there or whatever would happen there sets the course like a return of white fatalis because of what's happening and peaking out in triggering an edw. Because nowhere was it said it was only one. They only FOUND one... So MB just MB there is a chance for that. ...

[@floofmeister52]

The EDW isn’t even canon, and even if it was, it was made by a different civilization than the country Schrade is in

[@user-uj5sh8pz1d]

@@floofmeister52 well strictly speaking the book didn't say there was definitely only one of them. So there might be more. Which makes a reasonable assumption they would bring the topic into a game. Second where was it said that schrade was ac? It was just stated it got destroyed over night if I remember correctly. And if I still remember the pro&noob right it was in frontier where they had a tower like ac system and white fatalis in connection. And the frontier door broke open with rise and sunbreak. So it's possible to spin the concept further and make the tower go up and down. In the basement you'd have an edw fight and at the top end white fatalis keeping watch since eons ago...would be a fair split for endgame fights . You notice the tower because even old fatalis would need food. Clear upwards and beat him. Then explore the ruin and trigger the fight in the basement. Easy concept. now you'd just need a very off the grid place for it to happen... And some meaty fights in between to flesh it out and MB some ac dragonator likes for fun XD

[@Rageouz]

bro...

[@floofmeister52]

@@user-uj5sh8pz1d frontier was not “broke open” just because of espinas and his subspecies, they still don’t acknowledge the rest of frontier as canon in the main series. The tower is near the jungle, schrade is not, and the civilization that is theorized in all these fan theories to make the edw is not the same place where Schrade is. The book was also pure concept art, the EDW as it is in that concept art does not exist. Hell, as of iceborne, white fatalis doesn’t even exist yet because only regular fatalis is even known at this point.

[@Cloakarius]

I will NOT be getting over how the logo for wilds features two """""Mechanical""""" looking dragons and that one of the locales is a GIANT FORGE. Surely this means nothing and that the ancient civilizations did not build anything giant or dangerous with the forge

[@GunlessSnake]

I think the crux of the debate is ultimately the final product, the implementation. Various extinct species that started off as concepts for existing Monsters have been properly brought into the fold of hard canon in phylogenetic trees, but by the same token the current backstory and ideas behind Hunters and the foundation of the Guild completely contradicts old notions of "engineered superhumans of the Ancient Civilization" or "great war between humans and monsters". Part of the big pushback against folks claiming things like "Ancient Civilization" and "Great Dragon War" or 'EDW" in recent times is the fact that it was a symptom of a huge amount of outright misinformation from the Monster Hunter Fandom Wiki where non-Japanese fans had nothing but this old concept art and sparse descriptors to go off of for information on the games' background due to a lack of accessibility to proper sources. Nobody wants a repeat of that era, hence why there are now major community initiatives like the new community-driven Monster Hunter Wiki and the efforts of proper citations by dedicated members like Banned Lagiacrus and Goji. It's why I've been so much more critical and quick to point out misinformation that Josh has continued to purport, as it's very easy to just look it up on the Fandom Wiki without realizing that you don't even know if it was properly sourced or not. In that regard, I find that it's best to distance yourself from anything that hasn't been hard confirmed in-universe or by the developers specifically. Until we see the EDW or Great Dragon War actually appear in official hard canon, don't treat it as canon; that way, you don't end up spreading misinformation. That's not to say you can't still use such ideas. My own personal fun headcanon is that Fatalis, who is hard confirmed to be speculated in-universe to be an interdimensional traveller, hails from a universe where the Great Dragon War and Equal Dragon Weapon actually happened. Multiverse theory can work wonders, and the MH setting is already part of a multiverse given the portal intrusions of Final Fantasy, The Witcher, Fatalis, and the live-action movie.

[@buragi5441]

"nooo those are just mistranslations and false info spread by fans" How many more Iceborne Fatalis situations do you newer fans need to stop spouting that nonsense??

[@austinobst8989]

The equal dragon weapon should follow the old rules for black dragons. Tell us nothing and let us see it in game when its ready. The reveal will be legendary

[@guessm.7956]

Plot twist: the new world and surrounding lands are actually the ancient world and the dalamadur and zoramagdaros that act as the foundation of the new world and guiding lands were remnants of the war killed by the ancient civilization. Note: I am a 5th gen who has basically no knowledge past this video on the deeper monster hunter lore. This purely an idea that just popped into my head while watching this.

[@aadam4035]

As much as people hate on it, please dont stop talking about MH and Wilds. I dont care, i just need constant chatter about it lmao

[@mechadebzilla]

There's gonna be people who don't like this kind of video because they'd rather have fresh news about Wilds. I love this stuff and have enjoyed y'alls lore videos in the past. It would be so cool to have the peoples we meet in Wilds be decended from the ancient civilization that fought the war. But the real reason to leave settings like that "unset" as rumor and supposition is to deepen the background texture of the world. The devs shouldn't explain and explore every last detail of MH history. The mystery makes us curious and love their world more.

[@markabyss1200]

I would prefer the idea of EDW being a failed attempt at creating something monsterous, and an elder dragon of some kind adopts its remains to use as weaponry. Maybe even something like an Ahtal-Ka controlling it from within. Obviously it would need to be a new monster, but the idea of it being a failed creation makes way more sense to me than a monster flesh golem.

[@ObisonofObi]

I love old lore like this in games and I’m very much would like to play a monster hunter game exploring the dragon wars and ancient civilization but that would have to be its own game or the focus/center of one. I don’t believe that’s the direction the devs are going for wilds.

[@jamesconley4107]

Would be an interesting concept if we find hints of the EDW in the forces

[@thinktwice3211]

We could make the Ultimate Hunter, harvest parts from Rage, Cotton and Hollow!

[@ZevielS]

Moment it becomes canon in game oh ima hype gell out of it. Consudering thwres hints to a old war. The dragon weapon is just concept the old civilization and such are fact from in game text.

[@ZevielS]

Imagine a dragon war and it ends not in us beong a hero but a survivor were last fight is survive fatalis and we beat it but cutscene is it comes back up pissed and destroys city being castle schrade. From then on its us and the scarlet mystery man and others forming the guild. Thats how it ends guild being formed. Us meeting Scarlet mystery man,etc. With extonct species ending in game its us wiping them out by the people consudering after each quest. Rather then us hunting the weapon we see it fight fatalis just for him to wipe it and scheade out fully

[@skylarehrlich98]

So if the equal dragon weapon exists in the wild, unless someone released it and lost control of it, if its brought into the main line series wouldn’t that give way to a team rocket situation where some other fleet would use it on us?? So a mecha Godzilla or team rocket evil fleet

[@skylarehrlich98]

My question is, if put into game to fight … why are we fighting it

[@Maite-AileenBrandt]

Ikr, exactly what I thought as well.

[@mechadebzilla]

Maybe we fight it because the Guild wants it back and the other team is under secret orders to do so. We're along as extra muscle but don't know anything. Later the truth comes out that Arkveld was held in thrall of Keepers of the EDW but escaped, destroying Natah's village. Eventually we all catch up to EDW but it is too wild and destructive to control. It causes unnatural harm to the ecosystem blah blah and we have to fight it. The end.

[@theluckyshot7]

So, just a wild theory about the EDW, but what if we have already seen a finished one. (the concept art is a half finished one) As something that is unnatural, when looking at monsters that feel the most unnatural I look at Fatalis and think "what if he's a rampant EDW? One that the kindom of Shried (forgive the misspelling) activated by accident." Its a fun concept to think about, especially when you look at Fatalis lore, it's regenerative abilities, it's effect on the natural ecology and even its power. Again, just a wild idea for fun

[@FTL7I1H]

This video is just leaked info passed off as a "wild theory"

[@ShinKamaitachi]

Will it be cool if they made a prequel game that took place in the past when the Ancients existed

[@diegocantu9853]

Imagine if that weird doctor from Stories 1 tries to resurrect the EDW so you temporarily partner up with a Rider to stop him in a crossover quest?

[@sekiro_the_one-armed_wolf]

God I hope not

[@dedsecturbotowns6069]

This is the first time I'm hearing about this "equal dragon weapon". A frankenstein's monster of an elder dragon is NOT something I expected to be in Monster Hunter's lore.

[@itsyaboiguzma]

Well its non canon and originated from scrapped lore and arr design concept from the MH Illustration book covering the 1st and 2nd gen games. The original concept for MH was much grittier than how it was in MH1. The book is worth a look and read

[@tomasskala4405]

This is the second video where I have heard the topic regarding something called the "equal dragon weapon", all in the same day. Not foreboding at all...

[@danielharris1825]

I only started this frachise properly recently and i love it

[@mirrorpep2996]

I always enjoy any MonHun discussions, it’s just fun to think about what could possibly happen, only to be more surprised with what does happen in the actual game, which is another reason I will always love these games

[@deviljoegaming]

If they don't want to make the equal dragon weapon a fight, id be fine with them putting it's model in a game and have it twitch or move slightly in a cuscene or something, then go limp again to show that it was a failure and the idea was abandoned by the ancient civilization. I'd like this because it's a bit absurd to try to fit the equal dragon weapon into monster hunter's semi realistic lore.

[@superjos3874]

I think that big horn looking thing sticking up out of the ground above rays nest is apart of a big dormant monster like Godzilla

[@TheAngriestBrachydios]

I'd love nothing more than to see the Equal Dragon Weapon become canon as a hunt in Monster Hunter, it's by FAR the most horrifying, dark, and gruesome thing we've ever seen in Monster Hunter, which is incredibly cool. But, I don't think they will ever directly bring the Equal Dragon Weapon into the main series because if they brought it back into a canon entree into the series, they'd indirectly confirm most things about the ancient civilization lore, and the great dragon war, and also Athal-Ka is most likely based on the Equal Dragon Weapon, the interview literally confirms they look back on things like that while making new games, also Athal-Ka doesn't create the problem with the first reason I stated. Maybe capcom will make a spinoff game about the Ancient Civilization one day.

[@KAINIVERUS]

Thats funny your mentioning this. I left comment about this subject also having lao-shan lung

[@ollowainasgaard3072]

I think this is a very generous interpretation in the positive direction. They don't have an interest in dismissing it, because it's a interesting theme for their fan base and has led to a big own route of speculation. They don't have much of an incentive to stomp the idea dead. What for? Community is engaged with the world of monster hunter. If it would be true and an deliberately planned route for the series, they would be more embracing of it

[@Reze03]

Today’s thing that changes everything…

[@Maite-AileenBrandt]

Am I just hearing it wrong, or is that an out-take left at ~ 11:51? Anyhow, thanks for the video, I really liked it and the dive into the topic covered. :>

[@TheIdealofGreed]

00:37 . . . Is there a mod, World or otherwise, for tinfoil hats?

[@CEO_of_fred]

You better start deleting comments lil bro we know what you are

[@SShiro937]

EVERYTHING CHANGES... EVERYTHING!

[@RageGamingVideos]

ALL OF THE TIME

[@iMightBeCrazy]

I've been saying equal dragon weapon since trailer 2

[@tanukichikurumi]

I agree with keeping those stuff a mystery because it preserves the power scaling. For example, one thing I hate about Fatalis is that we killed it. That makes it's power questionable. Did it really destroy Schrade? Or was it something else?

[@natsu2010]

Wonder if the Equal dragon weapon have a connection to Kinship from stories. As it looked armored up.

[@itsyaboiguzma]

It existed before the original game even existed so it has 0 connection to stories as EDW was scrapped concept art with a little background on the old civilization but was deemed non canon by the devs. You can find the full story and concepts in MH Illustrations Book 1. Hell you can see a plague dragon VERY reminiscent of Vaal Hazak that was planned for the 1st generation of MH but never made it.

[@josephmatla1743]

Oooooh I so wish for this to be a thing in wilds

[@papamushy6882]

can you do a video on the new monster that was shown in the welcome to monster hunter video? it’s at 9:32 drawn next to a reydau it looks like a wendigo.

[@naherathe]

pretty sure its the bone armor set helmet

[@papamushy6882]

@ I checked and it doesn’t fit at all besides being bone the shape of the skull and horns are completely different

[@naherathe]

@@papamushy6882 yeah checking again i can see it does not look like the bone helm, but now to me at least it looks like the dober one lol

[@TheLi0nc0urt]

1. Equal Dragon weapon is just a hunter. We kill dragons all the time. 2. They used the model in the book for Zorah Magdaros under his shell. 3. Profit?

[@windstar120025]

Here's the thing. If the Book is use to inspire new designs then maybe the reason we haven't gotten a EDW monster is because we actually have one inspires by it. For this I'm going to reference Atalka, and its massive mech being a thrown together massive dragon made of apare parts and held to gether by strings.

[@josephfrancis3250]

EDW looking like a badass Digimon (Devidramon specifically imo)

[@Wadson172]

If Wilds is to be the ground setting for, or even exactly THE MH game that'll show us what was the ancient civilization era, monsters and stuff, I'm all in for that. I know that it's maybe too "dreamy" right now for the little info on story we have, but if there's a chance to be faced with what's been"MH secrets never told before", I would be on a living dreams anyways, hahahaha, so be it!

[@ghosttonesg]

What if Arkveld is an EDW but somewhat perfected to look like an actual monster and that's why it's an unknown class and also why it's going around attacking the other apexes? And if that's the case maybe it isn't the only EDW in the game

[@darthjarjarbinks2480]

I wonder if there is Gona be a game where the community does not say the equal dragon weapon is coming this game probaly only if it does get added and it never is probaly

[@DoctorTBR]

am i tripping or is the girl edited onto the sofa, and the sofa edited onto that background??

[@hihello-uw7tc]

didn’t you say this last year?

[@skylarehrlich98]

We built this tower by using Kushala mash potatoes

[@kurisu1204]

Never heard about equal dragon weapons.

[@cannnb]

As cool as a concept as the equal dragon weapon is, i dont think it could ever work in the context of monster hunter. In a pure fantasy, for sure, but its on the same level as the manticore dragon and two-headed cobra from the concept book

[@brandonmiller9155]

Monster hunter, the world where immortal dragons, weapons imbued with elemental damage by grafting parts of monsters together, and literal alchemy exists, doesn’t allow for.. what is essentially an alchemical/bio-mechanical chimera? The EDW feels like something that could ONLY be done on monster hunter, because of how unique it is as a game concept. And all the lore about how weapons and armor and the forging process itself being leftovers from the ancient civilization. Two headed snakes have existed in real life, as much as we like to think of it as fantasy. And that manticore concept likely evolved into the teostra and lunastra. Things like the Kirin and other elder dragons don’t make sense from a grounded biological perspective, but that’s the point, our hunters and the guild DONT know everything. Something I’d love to consider, even though it’s likely not accurate, is that the black dragons could be EDWs. Alatreon being able to control all the elements is even more out there than other elders, unless it was intentionally DESIGNED to. Fatalis being so unquestionably powerful could be a result of its design to be the ultimate weapon. Dire miralis having a heart that beats forever, even after death, and the ability to regenerate no matter what, and that its mere presence killed an entire sea, given that it’s like a living volcano, not like zorah, who is a fire dragon that collects stone and ash on its back that forms a shell that gets super heated by its body’s magma-core, but an actual LIVING volcano. Just screams artificial dragon to me. Like I said though, probably not accurate to the lore.

[@shayed_6668]

All monsters have been leaked and im sad

[@Cap_The_Captain]

"Its heard tell that evennnn- (cuts) *grumble noise* SO we return to-" Heard tell of what Josh? Heard tell of WHATTTTT? XD

[@Cadmean_7]

Have you seen the new mh post on Instagram ?

[@jockpackage1770]

Yes, this untamed land where you have tribes that don't comprehend what a weapon is... "So's what's your saying is... We's gonna find robots!!" The fuck? No LMAO! It's Jurassic park, not fucking robots. This would not fit Wild's vibe at all. This is the exact worst time for that. Probably just some relic we'll never see again, from the era of the siege fight of goblins in a castle mounted on a turtle. That was in concept art too, back when what is now Monster Hunter was almost went more conventional fantasy rout. Yeah, he's as likely to being thinking in his head: "Gods no, I regret that we even made that or showed it off publicly, in any published work. Can we just let this die and stick to the form of Monster Hunter that we went with, all those years ago? Fuck it, it's history that was revealed so we better just accept that it happened, as a drunken mistake but just not use it." This stuff is so far removed from what Monster Hunter is that why the hell would they randomly use it more than 20 years later. A spin off is the best move, if they ever do this. Using the evolutionary trees concept art and the ancestor monsters is something else entirely. It's still animals to hunt so I'm all for that. Don't care how long you wait, Monster Hunter Robots is always going to be a bad idea, in main line.

[@TheIdealofGreed]

11:14 Hello, possible Nakarkos inspiration, never seen you before, aren't you cool❤

[@yarro7428]

If you haven't seen the leaks yet, I must insist, beyond any doubt, that you keep yourself spoiler free. Like, truly, you will resent yourself for spoiling it if you don't.

[@thinktwice3211]

Wilds will be the 1st Monster Hunter to get 2 expansions.

[@alexciesielski1840]

Is this weapon the final boss? I say most likely

[@camerondavis800]

Its rathalos prime

[@Sadcatblake]

I have a theory, what if fatalis is the finished experiment of the equal dragon weapon and thats why he hates humanity so much and went to kill the ancient civilizations? I don’t actually think this is true but i just thought about it and it sounded cool.

[@thmistrapillay1811]

There's enough evidence for me to say "screw yall haters, all this shit is 1 MILLION % true cuz I said say"

[@celestialnomad045]

josh it wasn't your fault it's been years you can let the equal dragon weapon go

[@ComfortZoneComic]

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[@LordOfAsshes]

I don't think it's cool, personally. If someone wanted smth like this, go watch Attack on Titan, play Code Vein or other titles, where cryptic schizo-stuff with twists and reveals are done in coherent way, already built in both worldbuilding and scenery. I can concur with Gaijin and others alike about THAT kind of MH lore, which just feels forced to make firstly plain game (OG MonHun 1) setting to smth kinda unique, but made with no real detailed and coherent thought process behind. Also, for many games since old civ. first mention it wasn't enhanced through mainline games, so basically current core of the worldbuilding itself can be just not suited for "old civilization, bioweapons" and all that, sorry, crap. So if Wilds will have this new reveal, it will be Deus Ex Machina or even piano in the bush kind of moment. Just like Might & Magic franchise (before Ubisoft) in lore is k-I-n-D-a sci-fi, but in reality it's just plain typical fantasy with another words atop of basic things: magic becomes technology, angels become robots/steroid uberhumans, demons - aliens and so on. No detailed explanation - things just called in another way, being in core still fairytale stuff. It's like how Doom Eternal becomes very much crazy BS epic fantasy after a good attempt in continuing sci-fi syle in Doom (2016). But Eternal is satiric and sometimes just straight up not serious about it's own worldbuilding, whereas MH really is (funny weapons and gear, melodic grill and some other little fanservise is almost nothing compared to everything else). And without even slightest adjustments to make it coherent and not so cheap, as it seems from leaks (boi, MAGICAL WEATHER CHANGING ARTIFACT and never feeding eternal guardian-monsters), which deters Eternal's pseudo sci-fi fantasy from papercrafted "sci-fi" of M&M franchise, MonHun can become just braindead from the ingame universe perspective. And I'm not a fan in the slightest. I like nerding about specevo worlds, and MonHun was made with that at heart from the first game, from the first concepts. In core, and not like Tower or other "old civ" details somewhere in the background or periphery with no depth. So losing this for just "we have epic twists at home" - that's not a fair bargain. It's a robbery. We have a lot of "hidden lore aspects with second bottom" kind of universes in games. We have almost nothing in coherent ecological fiction worlds with fauna and flora. So I really don't want to make that count even fewer, so Capcom bosses can have more dimes from new players, who came for cryptic edgelord stuff. I apologize if I offended anyone, but I myself am offended by such statements, when people take it upon themselves to speak for the entire community, when it is a pure lie. I just wanted to make myself and some other people akin to me in regard to this topic more acknowledged from the reasons behind hate to old civilization, bioweaponry in monsters appearance, Fatalis fairytale lore aspects and so on.

[@Lesistius]

It. Is. A. Concept. How about talking about real Monster Hunter News? Like how they found the whole Gypceros quest in the Demo’s code ?

[@TheRikaido]

Try convince me that gogmazios is not one equall dragon weapon, because he is, he just is, dude have a dragonator in his back.

[@euphoricganjanath5625]

This actually does change everything. You forgot something important, thats not directly tied to the EDW. The devs told us that they would not tell us when or where Rise takes place because they wanted to create a mystery around it. There have been conspiracies or oddities that get placed in the lore, but now we can experience strange things. A good example is Crimson Glow Val and Sandy Plains. The devs didnt just bring back SP for the sake of it, it changes what we know about the locale, we are playing out a real piece of history kind of like how WIB gives us a new taste of old history with the black dragons. It also created an oddity like Rises Basarios, they dont exactly explain it, but its the only plausible reason for him to heat up to the degree that it changes his fight. The devs set their sights on Crimson Glow, and found ways to make Sandy Plains feel more than just new visually, an elder dragon can actually change the ecosystem, not just be a negative thing for flavor text. Lava Caverns deepens the mystery around Ibushi and Narwa, while letting you see the skeleton. I dont know about you, but seeing the skeleton like that filled me with thoughts, it told me how ancient this story is. They used the Jungles return to signal to the origin of hunters with the sigil in the bottom area of the map, not just recreate the map and flesh out the ancient details. Small note, I thought they way they brought back the rock drop in the jungle was a 10/10 thing because they are rocks caught in vines They let us actually explore and gave purpose to the Ziggurats in Forgotten forest.

[@iAteAnEthernetCable]

yooooo