Capcom smashes the emergency glass with a MH: Wilds update that puts the hot blacksmith in a bikini

Gemma the blacksmith wearing her new bikini outfit. — (Image credit: Capcom)

Capcom's had enough of all those players going around in Monster Hunter: Wilds, having fun, and not opening their wallets. It wants some microtransaction money and it wants it now. And so, dear reader, it has deployed the most dastardly tactic of all: swimwear.

That sound you hear is millions of hunters groaning as, almost unbidden, they navigate to the storepage for the upcoming Festival of Accord: Flamefete seasonal event. The summer-themed event comes with a seasonal Grand Hub, new armour sets for hunter and palico, new events and cosmetics, and then a bunch of summer outfits for certain carefully selected characters.

Handlers Alma and Erik get attractive and somewhat revealing outfits that are fairly typical summer wear: open shirts, ponchos, flowery necklaces, and heart-shaped sunglasses. Gemma the blacksmith, on the other hand, gets an itsy-bitsy teeny weeny green and rather tight bikini. She's also wearing some sort of light overalls around it, but the designers have helpfully ensured that they don't cover much.

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One especially nice touch is a new gesture: Water Gun. This gives your character a water gun, and you can both move and dodge while firing as well as spamming the button to soak your comrades.

Finally, for the duration of the event Fabius (Hunter’s Guild head honcho) can now occasionally join you on missions as a support hunter. Also, it doesn't seem to mention this in the announcement, but towards the end of the release video a hunter is definitely using a gunlance that is a giant corn on the cob. The Festival of Accord: Flamefete event runs from July 23 to August 6.

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Rich is a games journalist with 15 years' experience, beginning his career on Edge magazine before working for a wide range of outlets, including Ars Technica, Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, Gamespot, the Guardian, IGN, the New Statesman, Polygon, and Vice. He was the editor of Kotaku UK, the UK arm of Kotaku, for three years before joining PC Gamer. He is the author of a Brief History of Video Games, a full history of the medium, which the Midwest Book Review described as "[a] must-read for serious minded game historians and curious video game connoisseurs alike."

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