They came off Purgatory a little while ago and managed to get suspended again for going on yet another transphobic rant about Capcom going ‘woke’.
Suspension is a moderator action which goes to Admins for review, sooner or later an Admin will decide to either kick them off Suspension (usually if the acting moderator made a mistake or if it took the admin an exceptionally long time to review them) or place them in Purgatory. Purgatory varies in length depending on a variety of factors, but eventually if it’s clear the user won’t learn from their mistakes they’ll wind up Banned. Fenia probably has another few rounds of Suspension before they get that far though.
As for the Insect Glaive news that I’m personally very excited about!
Powder Vortex: In the trailer we see this attached to Bilbobrix (Most like Forz due to Blast Element) After 4 attacks the Vortex is triggered, seemingly without input from the Hunter. Watching an old Arrekz video, the Kinsect in his video the Kinsect managed 4 attacks before running out of Stamina. Thus, I believe Powder Vortex activates AUTOMATICALLY when the Kinsect runs out of Stamina.
Boosted Powder Extract: Vezirstag Velox and Forz come from Monarch Alcunid and Empresswing. Both are Slashing-themed Assist types. The BPE appears at approximately the location where Tetranadon was Marked after being struck by the Kinsect-assisted Tornado Slash. I really hope you don’t have to Mark to use this, but I’ll give a more thorough analysis on all three below.
Kinsect Charge: We see Foliacath who evolves from either Pseudocath or Grancathar. The Tail of the Hunter’s glaive also glows blue with the icon once the charge is ready. It looks like the hunter attempts twice to command the insect to attack or recall to no effect, this could be the command to get the kinsect to start charging in the air. Also worth noting is that this charge hits three times.
Altogether I believe these new options will be related to the Kinsect’s “Bonus”. My reason for suspecting this is actually Speed types. Speed doesn’t have any sub-types, but does have a lot of Bonus options. The Foliacath has a charge speed of ~5s, so that at least proves it doesn’t have Fast Charge, and the charge attack it did perform didn’t behave much like Charged Chain Attack (It does hit three times though). If these new abilities are new Kinsect Bonuses, then what does that mean?
Well, Assist types can’t use BPE and Dual Color at the same time. That’s actually a small problem, as Assist types won’t fly out unless you already have Triple Buff. This is a high-risk high-reward type problem. If you haven’t left the BPE dust lying around at the time your triple buff runs out, you’ll be stuck doing three swings to get your extracts back*. If the monster needs to be marked for it to work…well I guess it’s a good thing AKA marks targets after all. This might also give us use for Tetraseal Slash. Tetraseal is actually pretty good DPS, but with high animation commitment it just couldn’t fit on most builds. With SSS solving that problem and Assist’s possibly losing dual color but gaining the cool triple extract cloud this could make that move more popular. For those hoping to make an AKA spam build. It’s probably doable, just make sure you’ve dropped a cloud before using AKA. You probably won’t make a cloud using it.
We don’t know if the Dust explosion from Vortex does any increased damage or not. Since it seems to trigger automatically I’m guessing this is a way to add consistency to your Dust types. They’ll explode whether you hit them or not now. I don’t think anyone cares about Stamina Use Slowed or Idle Stamina Recovery Up, but Auto-Attack Frequency Up would have been nice to have with this perk. I suppose whether or not the Vortex is worth it depends entirely on how well you actually utilize all of the dust as-is. Any Dust users able to weigh in on that?
Now what does this mean for our final Kinsects? Thanks to the Kinsect Level system, if you want to keep using the old abilities you can do that, probably without any decrease in stats. The only question that remains is what about Forz / Velox / Medis alternates. Are we getting two versions of Bilbobrix, one with the Dust Vortex and the other with some unrevealed new move? Hard to say with what we’ve got right now.
Either way, I’m really looking forwad to IG’s changes. Seems they’ve practically reinvented the weapon and I’m looking forward to seeing what playstyles emerge from this.
