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Tried the beta and was completely lost as to why I couldn't recreate my World's performance (700h+ with the SA), and... yeah they removed the gauge gain when you morph. Baffling decision, made the weapon near unplayable. The amped state and phial management in World were simply good enough. Then it appeared that the ZSD became useless and you can't clutch claw while doing the standing discharge anymore, also a big hit. Mobility was okay. As for the feeling of the weapon, Axe mode lacked weight during most attacks like the overhead slash and the sweeping morph attack, it's a shame, the weapon felt too smooth. Even the phial explosions in sword felt meh. I would love for the standing discharge grappling combo animation from Iceborne to actually get s or be a counter (while keeping the small delay), this would give more incentive the use ZSD. Phial bursts in axe mode and the idea of the tempest axe would be really nice as well. In short, identical Iceborne gameplay + some Rise moves/buffs, paired with the focus mode and that's it, why is it so hard.

You know what, I don’t like the monster hunter great axe because you, that’s right you who is reading this, have a sub par relationship with their father.

Finally someone addressing the real probelm of Wilds.

Personally I found the starting minute confusing, as the term "capitalizing" just made it a bit vague. This normally means to "exploit" something and how to use it for profit, not just how to find something. But the examples were very good and as you pointed out, you don't need to do the hard work of forcing and making the opportunity when some are just out there in the open if you know what to look for, so I think the point got across in the end. Thanks for the video series!

they not change shit to switch axe

I want this viral. I want them to see this. Please lets make it happen!

at least capcom said something about the swaxe, the charge blade community has been complaining since the OBT and we have not gotten a single word

このシリーズに慣れてるプレイヤーが多い日本人はよく武器バランスについて議論するけど、経験が浅い人が多い海外では「楽しければいい」って人が多い印象だった でもしっかりプレイしてきた海外プレイヤーはちゃんと問題点を理解して指摘してるんだね

i have to agree with juzzi on this one they not changing shit

im not really sure why im here, i care more about the monsters than the weapons but its definitely interesting to see.

4:53 okay, who else heard "fire beams" as "fire memes" instead lol

I find it funny that that one comment is calling out Tokuda specifically... Did you play Rise, bro? That game had serious balancing issues. It's not just the one team. Both have strengths and weaknesses, because they're humans. My view of amped state and full release is rather simple. Sure, let full release be the pure damage option, not to such an extreme, but let ZSD be viable for damage with defensive utility. FRS should not have ANY damage mitigation what so ever. Give it resistance to interruption, so taking minor hits doesn't waste it but also so that things like the black flame's fire cone would roast you alive if you were dumb enough to use it at the wrong time. Give each of those attack, that use the same resource, a niche. That's all you have to do, that and don't make FRS all of its damage.

Maybe the New World just isn't ready for the true power of Switch Axe...

Video's good n all, great points (i need a cb saed version from someone) but not recognizing from where ur thumbnail was were driving me nuts

Good ideas, me likey

Bottled water is nice but the pollution of the oceans is not and is going to be a death knell to a lot of species so you can't really blame people pushing alternatives. That's my only objection with this video.

I started with frontiers with my friend in which I was a long sword main but In the beat I tried the switch axe and really enjoyed it, so much that when I got world I played with the switch axe I didn't notice much difference ( I did not know how to use it though and I probably didn't use even a fourth of the move set )

All the issues you said at 1:47 are definitely what I was feeling during the beta

How can someone dont like the elementel discharge? I am a simple man, if weapons make boom i like them.

the problem with the weapons that are too much similar in the gameplay of rise, we are going in the direction of a bosses combact arcade game. The monsters feels a lot less like monsters, just moving puppet. the immunity during the final release is just bullshit... why the hell a guy that is charging the most powerfull attack when get attacked does not flinch at all, FROM AN ATTACK OF A 1 BUILDING SIZE MONSTER. wtf, don't talk about GS because that has some sense, LG meh, anime enjoyer weapon, so do what do you want with that, but do not ruin the other weapons pls.

Capcom hire this person pls

I like rise's switchaxe but I think it deviates from its predecessors a bit too much for it to be put in the more grounded wilds, with some moveset changes and stats modifications wilds switchaxe could been really good but hey I didn't expect much from their change since the community seemed to like how the switchaxe played in the beta unfortunately. Maybe by the time I finish the first playthrough someone would've made a mod to fix it. And honestly it would have been fine if it wasn't for us seeing how intuitive LS and GL behave now, and the massive difference in speedrun times of almost all weapons vs. switchaxe. I think there was someone who analysed the beta speedruns, and the swax (which was always a DPS machine that lacked defensive options) was second to last place. Kinda shows how bad we are getting it.

I want the Portable/Sunbreak team to do the touch ups. They clearly know how to make weapons balanced and feel good to play.

A way to prevent these issues from switch axe is simply not using it. It's garbage compaired to bow

When the community update drop and seeing the changes for SwAxe, the weapon i use and love since freaking MH 3rd Portable. The change make me feel like the dev dislike develop the weapon or seeing it as hastle for work with. From then i were waiting for video from people have more influence than nobody me to speakout for the SwAxe.I thought no one care about it anymore because most SwAxe enjoy ytber hasnt drop any vid bout the changes right after the update. Thank you, last few week really sad for a Swaxe main like me

I think this always happens to every game series. Once a weapon is close to perfect they keep making changes and end up ruining it. I´m not talking about Swaxe specifically.

But at least the SA it’s better than in World now 💆‍♂️

It feels like someone is trying to have a conversation with me in a circus what is this music

I hate knocback resistance on moves, it's not only scrubby it's also boring. I play SA because it is a hard to use weapon with close to none defensive options and little mobility, for example using hops that are harder to use defensively but stronger offensively. Giving me more ease of use changes won't fix the weapon for me.

I feel personally attacked.

the game ain’t even out yet big dawg

i disagree, ur points revolve around a single premise: that axe is solely there for charging axe mode nothing wrong with rethinking that premise which is what capcom seems to have in mind. to me it seems that capcom wants to make axe more meaningful to be in by making sword only a little better than axe then making the finisher even more important than always beeing in sword mode so that players are insentivised to go axe --> sword --> finisher ---> repeat. Its true thzat axe mode only had that one purpose ur speaking of. but to me that made it so that the time spent in axe mode didnt feel good.

Why the damage so damn small?

That's disappointing what they've done. I tried swaxe in gen U but I bounced off of it because it seemed like the axe mode was pretty pointless and easy to skip, (I think I was valor?). When you skip the axe part what you're then left with is basically just a watered down greatsword, which is what I ended up playing instead. In world I bounced off charge blade for the same reason, I thought the idea of the weapon is you have a fast S&S and a slow Axe but in practice you don't really get to choose which one you get to use and when, you kinda always gotta follow the chargeblade script. I ended up playing both sword and shield and greatsword in World, which individually I found each of those weapons to be wayyyy more interesting that the whole charge blade package. I think their whole philosophy behind transforming weapons is just fundamentally wrong. Their whole idea is, "you use these moves so you can transform and then use these better moves". It feels like you're always on a script and the game makes a lot of decisions for you. I think the way it should be is: you have these strong but flawed moves in each mode, together you have the perfect weapon but you never have access to all of the moves at once.

hey, i dont know if the point was including every change you wanted from the base obt version but some of those changes did happen, from the changes we saw sword damage has been basically doubled(more like 2.5?) and less gauge, they also made so you can counter roars with the counter and less dmg (this has been a thing since tgs24 but the beta is from like early 2024), it also seem like from what they said you should get more by morphing but they just said that without any other reference to us so it's up in the air bc it's so vague

there's an axe? pre 5th switch axe.

TEMPEST AXE MENTIONED 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Rise SA was practically perfect, they finally make full use of the "switch" in its name, I was looking forward to Wilds, then this happen. It's 4U>Gen CB all over again for me, even worse is CB also feels off in Wilds, so I lost both my main weapons...

Where is that thumbnail from i see it everywhere

recently played through P3RD with swaxe was my first time using it actually really fun this reminded me I should try it in more games great video dude

12:47 oh no, he has american culture war brainrot 😔

It feels top heavy in the full release slash.

Me when the vaster casual community sees bad change and celebrates and will kick anyone who disagrees in the shins but people who actually know and understand the weapon are in shambles

My brother absolutely adores Rise Swaxe, and is just about ready to fight someone after waiting so long seeing Wilds Swaxe being mediocre only for it to get the most "spare change stranger?" Buffs we've ever seen.

Escaton gives me pretty much the same feeling as apexes and wystones in 4u. They're intrusive, they're constricting, they make me feel like I'm playing a different game, and they make you want to just sidestep the mechanic entirely, but not only was it easier to sidestep apexes entirely, the game actually eased you into it through the village quests. Escaton comes out of nowhere with a low MR requirement, expects you to have just about the best elemental setup you can get (which still screws over certain weapon types DESPITE the elemental multipliers) and forces you into a fight with a practically brand-new monster where you're forced into a highly scripted fight where a million things can happen to screw you over, like bad attack patterns, clutching at the wrong time and getting FRIED for it or missing a wallbang because you foolishly tried to do it on the ground where almost nowhere actually lets you wallbang. They pretty much made it so this fight has the most friction with the rest of the game by far and if you ask me, the flawlessness that's expected of you, let alone of a group of up to four players, is incongruent with monster hunter in general.

Mannnnn the unrelated note him liking R2 so much. 😂 it irked in the beta how i couldn't fix my controllers All valid pojnts as someone who mains the morphing weapons and the majority of blademaster weapons (besides dbs sorry) lol

Peak video. I knew that the switch axe felt really weird in the demo but I didn't have the time to figure out why it felt so bad. Now I know!

I don't play a lot of this weapon but yeah it felt pretty ass in the beta 👍

Thank you for this.

Personally, I understand your criticisms and would like to share my take of changes that would probably help. 1. Axe mode in general needs a speed boost. I mained SWA for GU and my favorite way to play was Valor style with Tempest axe. The speed allowed me to take advantage of openings I could see but not act on before. Plus it would make the weapon feel more responsive. To finish this point, a small 5% boost would be good enough. 2. Power Axe mode should be removed, because it is already unnecessary maintenance on top of amped state. This weapon already has so much going on that having to manage 3! meters on top of it is ludicrous. I felt this way in world, then rise and again in wilds. (That said, the speed boost buff idea is a good compromise) 3. There should be benefits to using wild swing for more than 3 swings. I'll take anything, but the easiest that comes to mind would be the buff that we got in world. Personally I would like the Tempest Axe speed up mechanic and that should lead into enhanced finishers. Namely, faster, more hits, natural mind's eye or what not. 4. Stop Full Release Slash from being usable from neutral. Lock it behind special moves like the counter and elemental discharge or something of the sort. Make me work for it.