Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27821200-20160218105613/@comment-25083735-20160728012335

Drake 512 wrote: @ Drakonzeta I cannot truly understand how could work a IG Underwater... Hoy Capcom could handle both of them?

Same for a possible UW Mounting Mechanic, or an Aerial Style Underwater... For Underwater mounting they could either completely scratch it or make it water friendly. In water all you would have to do is dive towards the monster and hit until its open for you to latch onto it and stab it, or maybe jump off from land onto monster and hold onto it while its in the water and stab it.

Also as for Aerial underwater... Possibility one is that you could actually jump out of the water like a dolphin and dive straight into the monster with your weapon, or maybe it grants you more mobility, such as when you dive into a monster and click again you hit it and kind of boomarang back at it hitting again, or maybe aerial gets a special grapling hook almost to where when you lung towards it under water you kick off of it shooting you far out, and then shoot it with grappling hook, allowing you to fly straight towards the monster, hitting it with lots of damage.

For instance if you were a lance user, you could lung towards it, kick off, grapple hook on the monster, cuasing you to fly straight towards it, peircing it with your lance or whatever. or maybe like I said earlier some retarded dolphin jump out of the water, idk.

For underwater glaive, that one is kind of tricky. Maybe similiar to all weapons, the IG is nerfed underwater, with reduced mobility, meaning you have to charge the bug up a bit more than usual for it to propell harder and faster underwater. Another idea is that you have to get a bit closer for bug to bite it, and when it does it releases a pheramone spill, and you have to swim up to the spill to get the buff. For instance the bug propells towards the monster, biting it, but becuase its underwater, it cant really extract it, so the peramones spill out into the ocean, and you have to swim up to it to get the buff, however the spill stays there for a while, making it a bit less tedious to have to constantly swim up to the peramone spill to get buff. That might also allow other IG users to get the buff too when swimming up to it, idk, but I like this idea better.

Besides that IG wouldnt be that complicated underwater. The only thing that seems a bit weird to me is Hunting arts underwater. Some of the dualblade and sns ones especially.

Basically.

I think in the next installment hunters will get special (Possibly underwater only) grappling hooks allowing for even more vertical combat, also easier water mobility, as well as the possibility for underwater aerial. IG will work cuasing "oil" spills of pheramones in which other hunters possibly could swim up to too. For underwater mounting you will have to jump off land and into water, which we already have access to land ledges near water in Flooded forest and Deserted Isle and whatnot. Either that, no UW mounts at all, or the grappling hooks might help with underwater combat or maybe you have to dive towards the monster and hit it a couple times until you are able to grab onto it with a better grip and stab it.