at first I thought it was really obnoxious that they stick you with the slow as hell kinsects when you start out, but I think I'm beginning to develop a begrudging sense of why - it's to discourage newcomers from using the kinsect as a ranged weapon. making it super slow forces them to really get up close to the monster in order to grab their extracts (which is good practice even once you have fast bugs!)
...but also, I'm not neeeeeew, let me get the fast bugs alreadyyyyyy
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