It looks like a bit of a crossover as some endemic life forms from the Final Fantasy XIV world of Eorzea have managed to enter Monster Hunter. These weird plant types have started wandering about, and the official Monster Hunter Twitter account had to warn Erik specifically about the dangers of poking them. Boys, probably not the smartest thing to do! The tweet showed little morbol-like creatures, basically baby versions of those nasty breath monsters the Final Fantasy players know and… tolerate? Fear? Whatever.
Player reactions have moved from hype to sheer confusion. Some players love these additions with all their might. DevinsCodex basically says, “I love the baby malboros!!” And honestly, same. They’ve got that kind of cuteness that says ‘this thing will probably kill you.’ But, coming to contrast, there are those like daktru283 who are already solving the puzzles, yet with little hope: “I still don’t understand how morbol works, if I proc him he runs at me, shouldn’t it go to omega?”
And suddenly, the oldies congregate to save the mobile platform with some downright useful advice from Shadowhunt98: “It only spawns during the nerscylla dps check, you hit it, it will walk towards you, then you’ll see an orange circle to know where the bad breath will hit, try to nail the spot to have the nerscylla get debuffed by it.” Come on, that’s exactly why I adore Monster Hunter players- if they see someone struggling or at their wits’ end, they’ll be in with the strats.
The best part about inquiring for answers is that more questions awkwardly fill its place-now chapinin is wondering if they’re “only in the Omega fight;” whereas Azrioael has claimed they spawn in the Windward Plains. But of course, Mikey (trencherstorm) was having some troubles with spawning himself: “I made a bunch of resets and didn’t find a single one. 😂” Right on! Sometimes the rare hostile search really makes you angry.
In times like these where there’s a crossover, feelings will certainly be… mixed. User fiveshiftone had some thoughts on the direction of the game: ‘I just want my monster hunter game to have monster hunter monsters in it before it loses its continuity to a bunch of crossovers. Literally like… what, three monsters have been added to its limited roster and there’s already been two crossovers?’ Which, fair point honestly. When you get a Monster Hunter game, you kinda expect… monster hunting? Not Final Fantasy tourism?
Then the replies get all kinds of crazy. User realgaming0 decided to ask for buffs now: ‘yo monster hunter BUFF BOTH planetes just to ragebait those saying to nerf them I think my idea is pretty cool :3’ On the opposing side, Kh3sama is pleading, ‘Dont you dare nerf omega~!’ Balance team is having an absolute field day with this feedback.
Aside from that is the classic problem of Monster Hunter – can we display our captures? User hunxnuh virtually begged: ‘YAY YIPPEE GREAT BUT CAN WE DISPLAY THEM PLEAAAAAAASE!!!’ Which is the same energy as every collector that ever played these games. We catch the cool stuff, we wanna show it off! Tanukiballsack pointed out the practical issue though: ‘No point capturing them without a home to make them pets in anyway.’
The mention of Erik in the original tweet generated some hilarious replies. Tom P. T. perfectly imagined the scenario: ‘Oh you just KNOW Erik would’ve been all over poking them. And not with our primal safety gap tool of the humble stick, either! But with his biologist fingers!’ Gandalfsoda posted a funny image of what Erik would look like after getting his hands on a morbol.
Performance requests were next, with HeizOllie asking if they could ‘improve the performance on series s if possible?’ while also requesting to have the beta test character creation theme back. Meanwhile, chillinskey simply wants to ‘layer over akuma’ because fashion hunting is the real endgame, let’s be real.
There is always one who twists everything half-way through though – St4rszzvirus demanded, ‘Add Resident Evil back to Fortnite that’s the collaboration we want.’ Like, wrong game entirely, my dude? Next is random ‘N A Z I’ from EdwsBParker which… what? How did we get here?
The community seems rather divided about the crossover content on the whole. Some players are eating it up, others are concerned about the game losing its own identity. What is for sure, however, is that they are talking about it, playing it, and trying to figure out these new mechanics on their own. Whether you love the crossovers or hate what they’re doing to core Monster Hunter, this new endemic life really got the people’s attention. And honestly, watching players trying to figure out morbol mechanics while debating game direction and joking about poking dangerous plants? That’s the whole Monster Hunter community in a nutshell right there. Always messy, always passionate, and never boring.
So, there’s new stuff to hunt, new mechanics to learn, and the never-ending debate about crossovers. Pretty much just another regular day in the world of Monster Hunter. At least we can all agree that poking the weird plant monsters is probably a bad idea, even if Erik might disagree.
