11 Monster Hunter Wilds features from the Gamescom dev streams that have me hooting and hollering like an inbound Bazelgeuse | Gaming

At Gamescom, the developers of Monster Hunter Wilds have been hosting daily, hours-long livestreams, featuring lengthy gameplay demos of devs hunting in real time. With hours of new mechanics and features on display, this is basically a public holiday for Monster Hunter veterans—a beautiful cohort of beings with deeply addled brains, who love nothing more than to pick apart the implications for the next era of hunts.

After poring feverishly over the livestream footage and accompanying fanbase frenzy, here are a few of the features—new and returning, big and small—that I’m thrilled to see in Monster Hunter Wilds.

1. Stronger dung