Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Digital Event Announces New Monsters, Gives Hunters More Freedom In Combat
Sunbreak, the massive expansion to Monster Hunter Rise, is just over a month away, and there's so much more to learn about what kinds of monsters and locations to expect as our hunters move from Kamura Village to their new base of operations in Elgado Outpost. Today, Capcom held a digital event covering plenty of new content coming to the big DLC release.
The event began with a new story trailer, focusing on the cover monster Malzeno, who, with a horde of tiny vampiric monsters, drains life from the environment and captures other creatures. Malzeno has a history of devastating the kingdom of Sunbreak's new character Fiorayne and will continue to be a problem for hunters in this expansion. It can inflict a new Bloodblight statuswhich drains health and forces the blighted hunter into «a battle of life force» where damaging the elder dragon will recover that player's lost vitality. If Malzeno absorbs enough of a hunter's essence, it will transform into an even more terrifying form.
As for other monsters announced for Sunbreak, Seregios, the flagship monster from Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, returns to divebomb unsuspecting hunters with its bladed legs. Also announced are two subspecies of existing Rise creatures with the icy Aurora Somnacanth and the molten Magma Alumudron, both of which look like fun variations on the existing monsters. On top of these new subspecies and returning favorites, other existing monsters from Monster Hunter Rise will have more powerful versions in the Master Rank quests, some with new moves and abilities to spice up fights.
To combat these new threats, Hunters are also getting a significant upgrade to their arsenal of attacks. Switch Skill Swap is a new ability that lets players change between two
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