User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-6050823-20150801004219/@comment-4731324-20150801160247

It looks like they're changing the animation on other elements too. First, they're containing the elemental burst in an X pattern and then they're changing up the actual element visual too. The fire in the 30 second video above seemed to have more yellow than red and didn't seem very...flame-like.