I'm guessing we might still be getting the New World as the main event for this update, but the way Cari worded this Ekabar tease is...concerning.
Like, back at the bar in Blackridge Dalia mentioned that Frontier Trails is the only Wild West server left that is basically operational after the other server got abandoned because of a zombie infestation, yes? And recall during the Collector whodunit that Fake Priestess kept harping about the Xenomorphs being a prelude of an event where the servers get overrun by monsters as a way for "the AI overlords to take back Eternum" or something along those lines (which I called bull because it sounded like someone trying to explain or rationalize a phenomena that is happening at the moment on all servers)...
What if whatever is happening in Andromeda and the other Wild West server is also now happening in Ekabar? Like I'm guessing these beasts in the latest preview are being corraled by the hoonters (I didn't mispell that, this is a nod to how Eileen the Crow pronounced the word in Bloodborne) working for Ulysses for the Big Hunt event in January (like how the Romans used to capture wild beasts for their fights in the Colosseum). But something goes horribly wrong and they've gone completely feral to the point that the hoonters are pushing the exterminatus button. And Orion and co are somehow caught in the middle of all this mess (I'm guessing Luna either wanted to see the monsters before shit hit the fan, or she smells a mystery afoot and she's there to investigate why the monsters are suddenly going feral).
Of course, this event could be a prelude for the gang getting VIP access to the Big Hunt proper in January. Orrrrr...
...like the Andromeda tapes and the red flags about the NPCs before it, this is Cari basically laying the groundwork to whatever he's planning in 0.8...
/imagines Cari cackling in glee ala Kefka while "
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" plays in the background as he starts putting the pieces together for
the dreaded 0.8 cliffhanger
...like I said,
very concerning.