With all the new detailed information about the Insect Glaive moves, and now having actual gameplay footage of people playing it, I just had to make another video sharing my thoughts.

Like I said in the video, I’m still hoping we’ll see some changes before release, but we’ll have to wait and see.

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FYI I am aware the video start a bit choppy not sure why but investigating the issue but as it clears up quickly I left it as it as. Hopefully I can find the issue fast and have a bit smoother footage next time.

Stay sharp and happy hunting!

Literally if they gave you a perfect dodge with a small attack that grabs an extract around where you dodge is all it needed.

Hope we get perfect dodge mechanic so much

A perfect dodge that had the kinsect spiral around us to get an extract would've been incredible, it's so bizarre that they punish IG so much for going into the air they even made the move that launches us up consume the red so we have no real follow up

Dodgeframes on while double jumping I frames on vault. Perfect dodge on vault would be op but some kind of it would solve all of my problems

What ticked me about whoever was in charge of making Wilds IG had no idea what they were doing was the fact that a lot of monster weapons have the Focus skill. Focus on Glaive. We have truly lost the plot.

I commented on your last video which I love that you are opening the discussion to the new portrayal/additions to Insect Glaive for Ascendance.

Up front notice this is gonna be long and winded comment.

As it is right now Insect glaive feels like a mixed bag... And the new things added don't really give anything to truly satisfy anyone out of the the IG community Speedrun glaives, ground based glaives, aerial glaives and those that blend the 2 organically.

Speedrunners didn't get much if anything at all in terms of stronger options granted towards the moveset.
Aerial Glaive players got virtually nothing new. Ground to air combo is nice but there's a slight missing piece to that equation for the 2nd half.
Ground Glaive combos aren't really altered much if any to alternate the basic way it functioned at all.
Blended gameplay we got a slight addition with the inverted tornado slash to offensively switch to aerial without consuming the extracts. However seems very slow and potentially more niche than essential the way it currently is (still need to personally test of course).

And like you said RLS is dead on arrival right now due to it consuming a red to perform. At first glance seems like a great assaulting repositioning tool then the cost renders it virtually useless... Like who was this move created for with its logic of consuming the red extract... If you were triple buffed you just lost your full standard gameplay moveset and if you only had the red you just lost your offset and descending thrust if you wanted to get back down to the ground fast... The aerial people lose there stronger version of air attacks and the mixed/blended gameplay players lose the ability to do either effectively.

Boosted offset moves are nice cus both generally have a larger window to land the offset but if you were already playing the weapon you more than likely are adjusted to its timing which unfortunately throws it into the "nothing new" category.

The only positive thing I truly seen was the powder change towards the way its handled, turns something that wasn't used at all to something that can be utilized properly (still needs more good ways of applying marking without being counter intuitive). But this weapon needs more than just a quality of life update.

The Focus of its showcase which was clearly the Offset which I counted the offset being shown a total of 6 times during its showcase (whether it was the boost trigger or the boosted SDS) which I find that funny because the offset capability was given to Insect Glaive on a wimb (may or may not have been in mind before the change. Purely speculation) after the feedback/backlash of it having neither an offset or a perfect dodge before the official release.

For the record in terms of each weapon showcase I'll list how much times I counted an offset performed per weapon from most to least;

Great Sword: 6
Insect Glaive: 6
Longsword: 3
Hunting Horn: 3
Bow: 3
Charge Blade: 2
Lance: 2
Dual Blades: 2
Sword and Shield: 2?
Hammer: 1
Gunlance: 1
Switch Axe: 1
Light Bowgun: 1
Heavy Bowgun: 0

Personally there's a few things I think to just get it to a baseline where it should be imo (not saying an amazing place, but a really good place):

1. Proper Successful offset follow up
2. Elimination of the red extract consumption for RLS or a revamp of the extract moveset system entirely or options to refresh buff duration with aggression or bank more than 1 set of extracts.
3. Focus strike Follow-up both grounded and aerial (Focus Thrust: Leaping strike)
4. Alternate aerial options
5. Some type of visually stronger version of your standard grounded attacks while boosted
6. An aerial expender skill like RSS would be nice
7. Having a system that rewards good gameplay while your kinsect is attacking a marked target

1. If they want to heavily focus on Offsets give us a proper follow-up attack like Great Sword, Hammer, Switch Axe, Long sword, Hunting Horn, or Lance (with that cinematic looking angle like Long sword). I thought of a follow up move which I'll probably 2d animate and render using sprites and post on reddit at some point (I'd do blender 3d animation but I have zero experience in that and would rather not the idea take forever to visualize... so 2d concept will be its best bet and the move would blend attacking and moving with the kinsect to dish out a powerful strike while utilizing the "airborne" skill since we are basically the only weapon to gem in that skill.

2. Triple Buff and Red Extract are too integral to the basic necessities of the weapon. The default moveset without triple extract is basically not a feature you want to use to hunt; it's slow, feels awful and does significantly less damage (highly doubt there is a single hunt uploaded using no advanced moveset for IG). That moveset literally exists to not want to use for the most part and missing the red extract in general deletes your descending slash and descending thrust which also offset. What's the point of making an option to destroy the majority of your other options without a significant benefit as a trade-off, which we already have with RSS. Right now they just look like they're only trying to create busy work for the basic standard.

3. This annoyed me a bit personally. While this move is stylish and I like the animation, after performing this move leaves you completely out of place in the fight... This creates the largest gap for a melee weapon... why is there no proper follow-up to get me back to the fight if it want to capitalize on it... the focus strike gave me my triple buff, I would in most cases want to be back in fighting range of the boss. Personally in my opinion give us a follow-up move like silkbind vault from Monster Hunter Rise with the kinsect with our slinger with RT + A as a follow-up, aerial or grounded with the option of doing an aerial move... Call it Kinsect Vault

4. Simple enough bring back the Kinsect Slash skill from Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. Make the input of Kinsect Slash be RT + Y in the air and Enhanced Insect Spiker be RT + B. RT creates the aim cursor so its a precision attack, Kinsect Slash is a less distance traveled aerial attack as well as changing the vault dance trajectory which creates more positioning options while airborne. Enhance Insect Spiker also makes it a really good angled trajectory heading back to the ground almost mirroring the Rising Leaping Strike. This would pair perfectly with my 3rd point I mentioned.

5. Right now honestly visually speaking I would not even be able to tell a Glaive user was boosted in my party if they were... The standard attacks do not stand out in the slightest as a "boosted" sense unless there was something I missed. That's more of a personally preference since the boosted SDS may just be a more significant boost than I imagine.

6. Goes without saying another option as a sacrifice for your buffs for a strong attack/window of opportunity move in the air would be a plus in terms of variety of options/situational plays.

7. Your good gameplay should reflect through your kinsect. Proper dodges or high uptime attacking should boost its rate of attack speed, replenish kinsect stamina or create more potent versions of the standard powders.

TLDR: I want more features to satisfy everyone.

it seems to me that capcom just despise this weapon, and all of us who use it. im very pissed off.

From what i saw from some gameplay footage of IG ascendance

The inverted tornado slash is more a thing you use every once in a while once the powder is built up. I’ve seen 3-5 powders active and exploding for around 700 dmg

The revamped powder seems to add a little bit more to the rotation

I still would LOVE a perfect air dodge

I feel like all of the new base moves were made around the powder changes. The new Rising Leaping Strike unlike Rising Spiral Slash doesn't recall kinsect so it can continue to apply powders and you can have red extract already stored on it. Then the inverted tornado both detonates and applies powder

We still need to try the demo to know for sure, but I agree..
Adding another offset isn't gonna fix the defensive issues of the insect glaive; they could have made dodge slash cover more distance and be influenced by Evade Window as a bare minimum,
Adding a perfect vault would be amazing, but it doesn't seem like it's a possibility at this rate
I do love the inverted tornado slash and the kinsect extract leaving powder on the monsters, but like I said, the demo will answer so many questions for us.

I’m Japanese. Please forgive any incoherence in my writing, as I’m using a translator.
I’ve been using the Insect Glaive since MH4*, but the *Wilds version has a completely broken concept. The core concept of the weapon is supposed to be:

Coordinated attacks between the glaive and the kinsect.

Fluidly switching between ground and aerial combat.

Self-buffing via extracts.

I have no idea what kind of concept the developers had in mind
or what they actually want players to do with it.

All I can say is, the person responsible for balancing it has clearly never used the Insect Glaive...

I hope CAPCOM gives the Insect Glaive a dodge or perfect dodge move—like the ones the Bow and Dual Blades have! This dodge could work by dealing damage to the monster while also collecting an extract. That would be perfect!

Youd think they would make dodge slash a counter or perfect dodge because it has dodge in the name thats a missed opprotunity, also it sucks how our new offset doesnt even distance close, so when we inevitably have to defend ourselves (poorly) with it, we will be attacking nothing while being locked in a combo due to no distance closer unlike hammer or GS, thanks capcom

They don't need to remove the red extract cost, instead they can make it so that in focus mode insect follows you and collects extracts just like Descending Thrust (also RSS works on the same principle, you spend extracts but also get some back)

-On the other hand Inverted Tornado Slash i think that move is a game changer. Gives us powder, doesn't cost stamina, collects extracts, have a good synergy with Descending Thrust~Rising Spiral Slash...

-And we need some i-frames somewhere.
Backward vault is ok, sometimes it's hard to do because of the direction of the camera and the direction of the character.  But even when you perform correctly, you will still be hit by some moves. I wonder how it will work against the Teostra supernova.
They can give us a little more i-frames or not only that the Backward vault has i-frames but also the side vault. Then we wouldn't even need a perfect dodge.

Btw glider mantle would be cool for a new map.

Thank you for standing up for IG 👍

"I'm not complaining but..." he said before complaining for 2 minutes straight

I just wanted kinsect slash back

I have spammed an essay under a lot of IG videos. Things I personally would change/ add:
- Rising Leaping Strike consumes no red extract (make it consume both white and orange for all I know)
- Give a perfect dodge (make it only available with white extract, since it is the mobility one, if it needs balancing) where the kinsect might collect one extract, available grounded only
- Give the aerial dash extended i-frames (make it bound to orange extract, as this is the defensive buff)
- Add kinsect themed attacks, like Awakened Kinsect Attack, Kinsect Slash or a completely new one (focusing on the "insect" theme of the weapon)

We haven't seen much gameplay nor experienced it ourselves, so we don't know in what way the other aerial moves are altered, but please, at least speed up the air vault and dash with the booster. Flying faster and further.

If only the devs would treat the glaive better :/
Well, let's wait for official demo/ beta versions and give them feedback, like after the Wilds beta, where we got our bounce back.

As a glaive main who is good enough at monster hunter, the only change i really want is to combo the focus strike into vault. Its always felt like it should combo but it doesnt and it feels gross. Anything else would be a fun bonus

They should add powder to all Kinsect bug attacks. Increase the flight jewel damage output. A Boosted downward thrust should be a Drilling multi hit attack along with the Kinsect bug circling while carving through the monster and leaving powder effects