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Volcanic Cavern

- find monsters like Gravios and Iodrome here
- Elder Dragon Teostra is also here
- Dragon who originally appeared in Monster Hunter 2
- male counterpart of the Empress of Flame, Lunastra.
- uses flammable powder that he spreads across the air with his wings, followed by explosions
- flamethrower attack that is said to triple its length when he’s in rage mode

Gravios and Basarios

- Gravios is known for being one of the largest dragon-type monsters
- has an extra tough body
- Gravios has the ability to emit flaming and sleep-inducing gasses
- it can also shoot powerful fire beams

Iodrome

- Iodrome and its Ioprey minions will be making a return

- Felynes have characteristic traits, called Trends
- these show their preferred actions and abilities
- Healing: This Trend will have your Felyne support by using heals and other flute abilities.
- Bomber: Felynes with the Bomber Trend will help by using various types of Barrel Bombs.
- Assist: The Assist Trend is one of the more useful ones, which involves using Shock Traps and more
- you'll have a Main Felyne, along with Regulars
- Regulars will consist of five selected Felynes
- these 5 have their own Trends
- Main Felyne’s Trend will completely depend on the Trends of your Regular Felynes
- encounter wild Felynes with different Trends while you’re out on the Hunt
- scout them to join you
- when you finish a question, you can take a closer look at the Felyne’s stats
- this lets you decide whether you want them to tag along or not

Hidden Shark Zaboazagiru

- amphibious monster
- adult Sukuagiru who spits out a special liquid built up inside its body
- surroundings are freezing
- wears ice-like armor on its body
- nicknamed Hidden Shark because of its unimaginable transfiguration

Iron Dragon Kushala Daora

- ancient dragon with outer skin like iron that wears the wind
- known as the Wind Soaring Dragon
- flies about the sky
- hunters are unable to to approach it due to the wind pressure

Information comes from Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and director Kaname Fujioka.


- Your Felynes can wear a space suit.
- bottom screen now indicates various icons for the different parts of town
- arrow shows wherever you’re walking
- map screen can be accessed by pressing the green “World Map” icon
- click a destination to pick between a shortcut to the town or your house
- click the top-middle button on the World Map screen for “Play solo / Play with everyone”
- this allows you to pick between three choices
- first is an offline solo play, second option is local wireless play, and the third is online play
- online play gives 3 more options: Create Room, Search For Room and Friend List
- see other player names, HR rank and the weapon they’re using
- you can be in different villages as the other Hunters in your room and still be connected
- continue attacking when the Charge Axe is already yellow to change it into a red glow
- charging a red glow will fill up all five energy bottles

The following info comes from producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and director Kaname Fujioka.



- the village where caravans from around the world gather is called Barubare
- lower-screen shows a map with various other bases (villages) that are available
- there will be more to the lower screen yet to be revealed
- online play option called “Play With Everyone”
- as the host of a room, you have options such as: Recruit Hunter, Target, description and password
- Underground Cave is one of the new locations
- Charge Axe has two modes, Sword and Axe.
- Charge Axe’s Sword Mode is slower in attack and movement
- continuously attacking in Sword Mode will accumulate energy
- this is shown-on screen via filling bottles
- once your weapon begins to glows yellow, you can stock the energy in a bottle
- energy stock can then be used once you switch to Axe Mode
- using the bottles allows for more powerful attacks

The pair also discussed monster types and told users to expect tons of new content.

Dengeki: At the end of the trailer, there was a familiar-looking monster, that looked kind of like an Elder Dragon we got a glimpse of…

Tsujimoto: (laughs) There was. It was kind of flying and sort of a red monster.

Fujioka: We’d like you all to feel the bulk of the game, this time around. We want it to be bursting with popular monsters. There are still plenty more monsters, so please look forward to it.

Dengeki: Lastly, would you care to share a message for our readers?

Tsujimoto: We were finally able to announce a release date, but we ask for you to please wait just a little longer. We’ll be sharing plenty more information from this point on until the release date, and we’d also like to touch up on different monsters in a timely manner, so please look forward to that, as well. The volume and content are going to be great, and I believe we can present something that will live up to your expectations!

Fujoka: There’s still plenty more content compared to past Monster Hunter titles. Not only the number of monsters, but it’s also packed with new communication features and more, that will allow you to enjoy even the game longer. There’s much more new content we’ve yet to reveal that we’ll be showing off by the bulk, so please look forward to it.

- called Frozen Sea
- completely covered in ice
- centered around freezing water
- fights take place on surrounding glaciers
- blizzards give you a tough time while traveling
- frozen cave areas that have icicles and monsters
- Alceltas is a bug several times larger than the hunters
- it will viciously attack from above

“Frozen Sea”

- blizzards are rampant
- beautiful displays of aurora borealis
- find nimble white rabbit-like beasts called Lagombi living in the north
- they will attack hunters with snowballs
- hunters hit with snowballs will turn into snowmen
- Skuagil (Sukuagiru) will attack from the waters
- they'll skewer hunters with its sharp head
- hunting/eating other monsters causes their body to swell up to several times
- Arselnus (Aruserunusu) is a rhinoceros beetle-type creature that excels at flight
- it will being attacking in mid-air with its sharp horns.
- also attacks with acid spray, which has a corroding effect on hunters

Garara Ajara


- uses its long snake-like body to entangle its prey
- fangs are covered in venom

Kunchuu

- insects that attack in groups
- they roll themselves into balls to fend off hunter
- these are the Yian Kut-Ku’s favorite food

Charge Axe

- in Sword mode, you’ll get to do whirling slashes, finishing hits and dashing attacks
- includes horizontal finishers as part of its normal attacks
- has a finishing attack that changes it to its Sword mode
- attacking will charge sword energy
- this is used for charge attacks
- without sword energy, it will overheat and your charge attack will have a chance of not hittin

Garara Ayala

-snake dragon
- giant, snake-like body.

Kunchuu

- rhinoceros beetle
- small monster that gangs up on its prey in large groups
- feeds on Yian Kut-Ku

New field

- “Unknown Sea of Trees”
- here, the player can meet Nora Otomo (ノラオトモ) and Piggie

- Flying dragon-type monster
- called Furufuru
- emits the 狂竜化 virus
- Khezu will be making a return
- Khezu’s first reappearance since Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite
- the virus can spread to players
- this will affect natural recovery rates
- reverse it by repeatedly attacking the monster

- celebrating the 20th anniversary for V Jump and 45th for W Jump
- exclusive collaboration items
- Felyne’s armor design was made to look like a pirate captain
-‘Legendary J Anchor’ armor

- coming from Asahi
- officially called Asahi Dodekamin Hunter Cola
- 500 mL bottle
- bottles feature different Monster Hunter 4 creatures on the label
- eight bottles in all
- each one costs 140 yen ($1.50)
- available in Japanese convenience stores starting on March 12