Monster Hunter Wilds might have brought the summer heat with the Flamefete Festival. However, Capcom still can’t get away from the performance issues when the seasonal celebration got a little too hot for one VTuber. In a recent livestream, Hololive’s Tsunomaki Watame saw her high-end $5,000 rig freeze up and crash thanks to one Monster Hunter Wilds gesture glitch.
The Festival of Accord: Flamefete seasonal event added the fun Water Gun gesture free for everyone. As its name implies, the gesture lets players whip out a giant squirt pistol and soak everything in sight. And it does damage to boot — with the most hardcore Hunters using it to hunt Zoh Shia in just 20 minutes. But there’s an unexpected side to this seemingly innocent emote.
When you shoot a Palico, it will spray out two water guns in retaliation. Unexpectedly, that side-effect can trigger any nearby Palico as well, creating a chain reaction. Now imagine if that happens in a packed, 100-player Grand Hub. One stray drop and this turns into an unstoppable loop of squirt-gun crossfire that tanks performance and can outright crash the game.
That’s exactly what happened to Watame during her birthday stream.
She and her chat watched in disbelief as the ‘summer festival-like’ water fight spiraled out of control. Sprays from other players and Palicoes flooded the Hub in particle effects until her $5K PC just suddenly gave up. “Ah, it crashed. It suddenly crashed!” Watame said when her screen froze. “It was too powerful.”
“At least the PC didn’t completely break down,” commented @Ebichili-g1i. “If the CPU overheats, it’s like heatstroke to the brain, and it can’t be restored to the original state.”
However, anonymous posters on 5channel speak more harshly toward this Monster Hunter Wilds Water Gun glitch incident.
“This should have been predicted without even testing,” said one anonymous user. Another took a jab at Capcom, “No wonder the developers are being criticized.”
“I bet there’s going to be another accident with the guitar gesture as well,” wrote another, referring to the upcoming Fender collaboration emote.
For the record, here’s Watame’s PC specs and its estimated price range.
| Component | Price |
|---|---|
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU | ~$590 |
| RTX 5090 GPU | ~$3,900 |
| ASRock Z890 Nova WiFi mobo | ~$320 |
| Noctua NH‑D15 cooler | ~$140 |
| Lian Li UNI FAN AL V2 (3-pack) | ~$115 |
| Fractal Pop Air case | ~$100 |
| Total | Around $5,265 |
Of course, this sort of accident is not going to be a daily occurrence unlike the Infinite Sliding glitch. After all, while the game does support 100-player lobbies, I don’t think any random person has this much of a pull. Let alone telling everyone to huddle up in one spot in the Grand Hub.
You can watch the entire Water Gun gesture meltdown in the Monster Hunter Wilds stream archive above. The exact timestamp is at 03:41:44 mark.
