Monster Hunter

[teal halo]

reminds me of this time that i was hunting an odogaron

i hit it with an AED and then led that into an SAED and THEN a girros jumped out of nowhere and paralyzed it

this EXACT sequence of events happened twice in the same hunt

[balmy swan]

Odogaron and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

[desert light]

The funniest team kill I've seen is a rathalos doing his charge flight attack, only to get stung in the head by a banhabra and flinch.

[balmy swan]

It wasn't a team kill, but I once took out a Kushala Daora by beaning it in the face with a slinger shot while it was in midair

[hearty kayak]

i had a jho slam a hunt target into a trap

[brave hazel]

"Here, lemme get that for you"

[mystic cape]

I once killed a Shara Ishvalda with the head grapple shot. Not the wall bang, the shot that normally leads to the wallbang did it in.

[outer heron]

https://x.com/TrueAkantoreX/status/1879735335569260821

AkantoreX (@TrueAkantoreX) on X

Finally....... Hunter Monster

X · Jan 16, 2025, 3:40 AM

[frank epoch]

Pfffft

[naive elk]

lmao

[mystic cape]

The what?

[frank epoch]

The joke is that Asmongold is the real life Vaal Hazak due to his incredibly filthy apartment

[mystic cape]

Oh, gross

[foggy jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/dalamadur-monster-hunter-monster-hunter4ultimate-elder-dragon-gif-23427390

Ngl for the "boss fights" that arent black dragons

I feel Gogmazios, Athal-Ka and Dalamadur are the best

[eager anchor]

When someone asks me "What biological reason for the comets"
I can't help you sometimes its actual magic

[foggy jolt]

If a game asks me to do lao shan lung one more fucking time ill shit in Capcom's mailbox

[eager anchor]

Ok i'm crazy

I'm my groups seige monster fight lover

I love loading up transporter gems and moving cannon balls

[foggy jolt]

I loathe siege fights in general 😭

[eager anchor]

It gives me a thrill

[foggy jolt]

I wanna use my weapons

Thats why Dalamadur Gogmazios and Athal-Ka are so good

[eager anchor]

NAH ITS ONLY EXTRA WEIGHT GET THAT SHIT OFF I GOTTA RUN THEM STEEL BALLS

[foggy jolt]

Theyre not just a glorified cutscene

[eager anchor]

[stuck needle]

the concept of fighting a giant monster? very cool. lugging cannonballs around very slowly? not so much.

[outer heron]

I'm really hoping oilwell basin gives us a gogmazios return

but with a good fight

[foggy jolt]

If Gogmaballs is back

Im getting Wilds

[outer heron]

like the gen 5 sieges

[eager anchor]

Its funny because on the other hand you know what people do like

[foggy jolt]

You dont mean Rampages right.....

[eager anchor]

Sandy fish boy

[outer heron]

no

[stuck needle]

if not gog, surely some kind of elder/endgamefight with the same vibe

[outer heron]

the MHWo sieges

not MHR rampages

[foggy jolt]

Rampages were so bad Sunbreak did without them LMAO

Fuck rampages it was by far the worst part of the game 😭

[outer heron]

yeah

[foggy jolt]

And it was insulting to see them reuse the MHGU Deviants, then call them Apex like the 4U supermonsters

[outer heron]

worst part of any MH game ngl

[foggy jolt]

Like I know Rise tries to be GU so bad

But thats too much

[eager anchor]

Jhen Mohran and dahren mohran are seige fights all of my friends like

So i hope that comes back in wilds in some way

[foggy jolt]

They make me wish I could just afk the whole fight so I can come back to fighting real monsters 😭

[outer heron]

lol

[foggy jolt]

Im god's strongest siege hater

[eager anchor]

God made me to fight you one day

[foggy jolt]

So true

[eager anchor]

And I hope we have a epic forehead bash

[stuck needle]

I can't decide if Wild's open worldiliness makes sieges more or less likely, but the open desert and oilwell basin feel like they're begging for them

[outer heron]

the safi/kulve sieges were neat though

[foggy jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/sakuragi-headbutt-gif-27460244

[foggy jolt]

Kulve was the gold thing right

[outer heron]

yep

gold elder dragon

[foggy jolt]

Yeah i didnt like that one it felt like lao in my memory

[outer heron]

:(

[foggy jolt]

I dont want monsters to ignore me

I think thats the worst part of sieges

The monster kinda ignores you for the most part

[eager anchor]

I didn't like kulves fights either

[outer heron]

soloing their fights were real neat

[eager anchor]

I loved kulves design tho

[outer heron]

i like kulve a lot

[foggy jolt]

I want the monster to try to fuck me up

Not just me acting like a clingy girlfriend until it notices me

[outer heron]

"I like a woman dragon who will just kill me"

[naive elk]

Dalamadur my beloved

[outer heron]

i loved ahtal-ka, but i am not a fan of the dalamadur fight

[foggy jolt]

Me when I see Lagiacrus...

[naive elk]

i like the idea of Dalamadur than the fight

[outer heron]

god

[naive elk]

i just haven't actually fought Dalamadur

i will

[outer heron]

i played tri when it came out

[naive elk]

but not yet

[foggy jolt]

Dalamadur is fun because he fights you and you get to run on its body and all

[outer heron]

as an...8? year old

and i almost shat myself

[foggy jolt]

He doesnt ignore you

He wants to fuck you up

[outer heron]

when i first had to do a water mission with lagiacrus

when it transitioned between zones...

i thought i was safe

[foggy jolt]

Gen 3 Lagia is mental

[outer heron]

and then its music started playing

and i lost my mind and almost my bowels

[naive elk]

lmao

lagiacrus wants the smoke

[foggy jolt]

Hyper Lagiacrus in GU is so good

Like there is a quest

Seeking For The Sea King

I did it so much

[outer heron]

i really want lagi in Wilds

and especially abyssal lagi

[eager anchor]

-# Bringbackswimming/s

[outer heron]

abyssal lagiacrus can fucking GET IT

that thing fucks hard

[foggy jolt]

If lagi is back

I might get Wilds

Lagiacrus is my fav

Like some of my Wilds wishes for it to bring me back are
Lagiacrus
Gogmazios
Queen/Seltas

Queen/Seltas was such a good combat concept

[outer heron]

i preordered wilds months ago

[naive elk]

i probably would have preordered if not for the beta/demo thing

it ran so poorly i still have doubts my pc will even run it properly

[foggy jolt]

My biggest issue in the Beta1

Was the lack of Hitstop

But they fixed it i heard

[outer heron]

they did

my biggest issue was that LS and bow were like

[foggy jolt]

Because hitting enemies with an SA and it going like butter felt HORRID lmao

[outer heron]

tripling the damage of everything else

but they apparently fixed that too

[naive elk]

it was almost completely unplayably laggy for me

understandably this did not fill me with confidence regarding my computers ability to play the game

[eager anchor]

Its fucked that the beta wont have a newer build apparently.

[naive elk]

why even do a second beta if they're not going to make a new build

[eager anchor]

Like legit fucked for the purpose of seeing if this will stick on the pc or not

testing i suppose

More*

[naive elk]

well if it's not a new build then it's probably not even going to be worth it for me to download it

[eager anchor]

Like to be clear they may have been mistaken maybe this will have enough changes to fix things, but new build is like what we want to hear

its a little over a month out and it worries me too

[naive elk]

i prolly will pre-order a few days before release and test it on release

[outer heron]

this is a better idea than what i did

[foggy jolt]

??????????

[outer heron]

my pc ran it butter-smooth, though

so i'm cruising

[naive elk]

ic ic

my cpu is kind of ratty

[outer heron]

i preordered as soon as i played the beta

[naive elk]

my gpu should be fine since i've got a 2060

[outer heron]

and confirmed that i liked the feel and that it ran fine

[eager anchor]

Ill have a new motherboard cpu and more ram by the time the second beta hits

I hope its enough

[naive elk]

if i had any idea if the game would actually run well on my pc

[foggy jolt]

ill skip beta 2 if it is same build, I mostly care about how the weapons move and not really the selection of monsters, for a beta

[naive elk]

i would 100% buy it on the spot

but unfortunately i don't

[eager anchor]

God remembering frame generation

[naive elk]

currently running an i5-9600 cpu so i'm not optimistic

i could maaaaaaybe upgrade before the game comes out but it would leave me broke

[balmy swan]

I think that they outright said that the only reason they'd run additional betas is so that people who missed the first one could try it

Still seems weird not to update the beta build, especially given how many changes they made in response to the first one, but I know basically nothing about game dev so who am I to say

Maybe it'd be too much effort redirected away from polishing the release version or something

[naive elk]

i'm mostly just disquieted by how abysmally dogshit the first one ran

[balmy swan]

Yeah that's fair

I didn't get a chance to try the first one bc I didn't have my new rig yet and I knew there was no way my old one could handle it

I was still rocking a 1660 Ti. That just wasn't happening

[naive elk]

my gpu and ram and everything shoooouuullld be fine in theory

16gb ram and a 2060 isn't bad, but my cpu just does not keep up

[naive elk]

^

it's been a trooper running games like SM2 but even then it was struggling extremely

[balmy swan]

Well, worst come to worst you can pick it up on release, put it through the paces for an hour or so, and then refund it if it's not cooperating

[naive elk]

yeppers

prolly going to get it a few days before release for pre-order bonuses

since refund time is 2 weeks or 2 hours of gametime

give it a shot and see how it works

[balmy swan]

Solid plan!

[hollow comet]

my laptop didn’t get past the shader compilation, but i should be able to give it a spin on my pc this time :D

[naive elk]

my pc got it up and running but it was to horrific frame lag, broken as fuck textures, and just overall extremely poor gaming ability

[hollow comet]

the pre order armor looks real nice, but idek if i’ll have the time to play it on launch so it’s not an instant buy for me

[frank epoch]

I also had a 2060 when I played it. It was very playable

[hollow comet]

😔

[naive elk]

again

it's my cpu that is the problem

[frank epoch]

I had an i5-8400f

[naive elk]

huh

[frank epoch]

Was still fine

[naive elk]

well it was fuck off broken for me

idk what the difference would be

[frank epoch]

Unsure!

[naive elk]

like not only was it lagging some of the shit in the map was not loading

water just outright not existing

[balmy swan]

I'm kinda curious how the beta version will run on my machine tbh

Mostly because my specs are solid enough that any problems are probably bugs etc on the game's end

Wilds tempted me to get a PS5 more than any game has yet, but I wound up deciding that I'd get more general use out of an upgraded laptop

Plus I'd be able to cart to over to my partner's place to play with them 😊

[foggy jolt]

Tbh 2h of gametime barely gets you out of tutorial in MH

[balmy swan]

Should be plenty of time to get a sense of overall performance, still

[naive elk]

Yeah but if the tutorial is unplayably laggy then i will know anyway

It emphatically does not matter how good the game is as a game

I already know i will enjoy playing it

Performance is the only thing i'm interested in for the purposes of refunding it or not

[naive elk]

Zero Sum Discharge kinda fucks tho

[naive elk]

join quest
game crash
try to rejoin quest
quest full
i was the fourth member of the quest
"name of those who have left the quest won't be shown"
it was literally me
cannot rejoin quest
mfw

[foggy jolt]

The issue is that it kinda made the SA so much more one dimensional i feel

It made the normals lose value over aiming for more ZSDs

[balmy swan]

At times like these I like to channel Uno Hunter's attitude towards the HH spin attacks

i.e "I recognize that spamming this is mathematically superior, but I find it boring so I won't do it"

[hollow comet]

oh

oh goodness

[balmy swan]

what i needed: a rathalos mantle and a rathalos tail
what i did: SOSed into a rathalos investigation with gold reward
what i hoped: mantle from the gold reward and tail from the tail carve
what i got: mantle from the tail carve and tail from the gold reward

i'm not complaining at all, but, lol. lmao

[hollow comet]

😵‍💫

[naive elk]

aurafarming on top of Zorah Magdaros

we had to wait for like

10 minutes on top of it

[crude kayak]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/795984158882529290/1284525900959977472/image.png?ex=678f0ab8&is=678db938&hm=72536a3c20169441156e7e6b7fec6666124652b56e1af99a16daafcbbe4829cc&

very important post, yes

supervised monhun

[snow helm]

What is a hunter without their palico?

[halcyon fractal]

https://www.tumblr.com/rocketbirdie/730460409902055424/i-dont-think-they-can-fix-him-but-i-sure-as-hell?source=share

Lao Shan LONG

[steep gale]

lao shan longer

[eager anchor]

A longneck monster would be kinda sick tho

Like, Hydra shaped but one head

[twin ibex]

So, are elder dragons considered such because of the scale of devastation they can cause, or because their abilities are increasingly bizarre and no one knows how they work?

[mystic cape]

Both

Kirin may not destroy nations like Fatalis but you try explaining how it conjures lightening

[twin ibex]

Ah.

[candid perch]

Hmmm

PNET
Favourite monsters please
We are curious

[steep gale]

Pickle

[hollow comet]

Legiana is cool, I like the Good Luck set bonus
Great Izuchi is nice to try new weapons on, and I like how the lil guy hops around, feels good to test all my moves, movement, and counters
Malzeno is hecking cool and has a great theme

[main turret]

Nerscylla, Rakna-Kadaki, and Lala Barina because spiders
Gore/Shagaru Magala
Mizutsune

[teal halo]

5 Bazelgeuse. the trauma tastes like honey and nitroglycerin so it's good
4 Shara Ishvalda. SAMSARA OF CUT SINEW AND CRUSHED BONE I CAN SEE YOU, HUNTER
3 Dodogama. I do not need to explain.
2 Malzeno. I KNOW YOU'RE HERE, DRACULA. WHERE'S MY FUCKING MONEY
1 Xeno'jiiva. a celestial creature, shimmering with purified life. you were done so wrong, my child. may your starlit wings never fade.

[twin ibex]

Nargacuga, Odogaron, Lunagaron.

[outer heron]

extremely based list

[teal halo]

quite the edgy list

[twin ibex]

Yes.

[teal halo]

can you tell i'm a fifth fleeter

[twin ibex]

They cut a lot.

[teal halo]

the claws go chop chop chop

[frank epoch]

Diablos, Ahtal-Ka, Deviljho, Duramboros, Namielle, Poboruborumu, Raging Brachydios

[halcyon fractal]

SELTAS QUEEN
acidic glavenus
Odogaron
Namielle

[zenith sedge]

Mine are Gigginox, Gobul, Ahtal-Ka, Balahara, and Barlagual

[lost niche]

Odogaron, Deviljho, Namielle, Bazelgeuse, and Rajang are my top 5.

Really fun fights. Honorable mention to Brachydios.

[mystic cape]

The Magalas have a special place due to 4U being my intro game

[vocal haven]

Ahtal-Kha, Valstrax, Agnaktor, Lagiacrus, Nakarkos. Honourable mentions: Bazel, Bloodbath, Zamtrios, Tetsucabra, namielle, amatsu

[hollow comet]

oh yeah the magalas are rad

[vocal haven]

Gore is dope but I am not that big fan of shagaru that much

[frank epoch]

Vero not a Shaggy Maggy fan

[hollow comet]

i might ask my roommates what their favorites are

i got

1. mizu, gore magala, rajang
2. rathalos, malzeno

[frank epoch]

my buddies faves are Malzeno and Valstrax

[hollow comet]

ooh ye, valstrax is cool

i should play MHGU someday.. i think seeing my classmate playing it on his 3ds back in 2016 was my first exposure to mh, all I remember was insect glaive and sharpening being a mechanic

[frank epoch]

MHGU kicks ass

its my favorite

[hollow comet]

[gentle knoll]

Astalos, Zinogre, Glavenus

i think this outs me as me a MHGU fan...

[brave hazel]

Bazelgeuse

Also the various -taurs

[hollow comet]

yeah, daimyo hermitaur was also fun for trying new weapons

[lapis juniper]

Bazelgeuse, Zinogre, Ceadeus, Banbaro

all for intensely different reasons

Also Namielle

[red gazelle]

Nergigabte, Black veil, Styigian, gore Magala and shagaru Malaga

Oh ye and shara ishvalda

[brave hazel]

SAMSARA OF CUT SINEW AND CRUSHED BONE

THIS IS THE ONLY WAY IT COULD HAVE ENDED

[teal halo]

Layer seven makes me feel so many emotions

[brave hazel]

...

Idea

MonHun/Ultrakill crossover

And it's just Athal-Kha in an Earthmover

[teal halo]

Proof of a hero done in the style of WAR WITHOUT REASON

[snow helm]

Man it only just occured to me how much I would want to see an Ahtal-Ka vs Shara Ishvalda fight

[snow helm]

In no particular order: Valstrax, Tigrex, Safi'jiva, Duramboros even though the fight is a little sad, Copper Blangonga, Bazelgeuse, Ukanlos

Special shout out to Shara Ishvalda for having the best theme that I am obligated to repost at any opportunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhY0KUoHNk

[void narwhal]

I can't believe World got me with the 'WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT' type Monster twice

Xeno and Shara are some creatures

[lost niche]

I adore Xeno and Shara's designs/music. But their fights aren't all that interesting after a few runs

[teal halo]

Xeno’s an alien whom I love so dearly
Shara is a bastard of a buddha who can go fuck themself

[snow helm]

Yeah, it's a real shame

Shara especially is a really tedious one to grind, I also feel like their arena could be a lot more interesting

[teal halo]

Agreed

You know what it could’ve been

Filled with crystals like xeno’s but more colors and also slightly iridescent.

[void narwhal]

me with Namielle tbh

that intro is forever locked in my mind

but the fight gets so WUGH

[lost niche]

I would have really liked if every time Shara shuffled the field it buried/unearthed past victims of its predations

[snow helm]

The idea I had a while back while talking to a friend about it was that it should have started in a big cavern but when he does the phase transition and all the walls get blown out and knocked down it's revealed that you're on a mountain peak with huge vistas all around

[teal halo]

What does Shara eat?

[snow helm]

The non-tempered version is probably the only time I was ever seriously disappointed with a monster being too easy

[lost niche]

I think everything except Nergi?

Not counting the black dragons of course

[teal halo]

Ok so omnivorous except for natural predator, got it

[naive elk]

avert the apocalypse by stopping Zorah Magdaros
690 zenny
mfw 5 bucks reward

[balmy swan]

"thanks for preventing the continent from blowing up! now go buy a candy bar"

[naive elk]

genuinely struggling financially due to armor and weapon upgrade costs, get absolutely fucking nothing for actually doing my job 😭

[void narwhal]

weird how so much of the economy is supported by strange metal eggs

( some monster parts do sell well though )

[balmy swan]

carry your pig around until it sniffs out the random useless-but-valuable items buried around the base for some reason

(it's a pain in the butt without controller rumble, though)

[void narwhal]

I miss Poogie, come back to us Poogie

[teal halo]

The place was built on a money burial ground

[naive elk]

clearly

i mean honestly, i've already completed the game once so if it gets really annoying i will just save edit to save myself the trouble

currently just playing through the game with my friends since one of them hasn't completed it yet

[mystic cape]

I honestly didn't notice money issues when I played, but I also did a lot of farming after unlocking new monsters to acquire the longswords that could be crafted to fill out the entire tree for no other reason than to fill out the Long Sword tree

[balmy swan]

i find you run into it if you're trying to craft a whole bunch of new stuff

but if you've more or less got what you want and you're just upgrading occasionally then it's not a huge issue

[candid perch]

Thank you for telling us about monsters you like everyone

Twas very nice

[gentle knoll]

so a friend on a different server is playing MH4U for the first time after getting into monhun via world

SORRY WHAT THE FUCK
I CRAFTED
I SAW "GARBAGE OBTAINED"
HUH

[hearty kayak]

how do they feel about tools

[gentle knoll]

no news on that front yet

sounds like they're mentally prepared for tools at least

[hearty kayak]

i hate tools

its stupid world just ignoreing tools was good

[brisk dirge]

Haha, ambushed by crafting percentage

[gentle knoll]

update:

oh no

oh my fucking god
climbing down faster BREAKS the egg

[hearty kayak]

is this a multi egg mission?

[gentle knoll]

it's probably the first egg mission

wait

this is 4u

i need to warn 'em about konchu

[hearty kayak]

dont

its more fun this way

[gentle knoll]

lmao

oh

oh no

[hearty kayak]

wrong egg

[hearty kayak]

i knew it

[gentle knoll]

same

fuck
these monsters hit me and I dropped my gold egg

i finally understand why my friends love to follow me around/watch me stream when i play FF14

[gentle knoll]

never has a game
given me this amount of stress over small monsters
what the fuck
my Palico was there actually going 🧍‍♂️

[brave hazel]

If my sources are to be believed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34-_IhDrnbE

[hollow comet]

finally!!

valstrax LS 😌

[mystic cape]

https://youtu.be/rqdtqCQdCSk?si=MPAD0F6DlPVcNPL4

[outer heron]

guh

what the fuck

[hollow comet]

[naive elk]

whoever thought that having to run around a map looking for tracks that you can't actually track to find pink rathian, you are my enemy

i literally found Bazelgeuse following its tracks before i got halfway to Pink Rathian

and i wasn't even tracking its tracks

like i literally just ran around randomly and found Bazelgeuse

[balmy swan]

oh weird, i've been getting that too. i assumed that my rig just wasn't agreeing withe the game for some reason

[brave hazel]

Bomber jumpscare

[naive elk]

Bazelguese continues to be its usual shitkid self

[balmy swan]

seems to be restricted to the title screen, less a bit of screen tearing in-game

[hollow comet]

picked up bow last night, i'll sort through my switch skills sometime but it's pretty cool

[brave hazel]

Be ready to shell out exorbitant amounts of money and materials for a fuckload of sets

[naive elk]

probably going to swap off swaxe cause it's easily the least enjoyable weapon i've tried so far

[hollow comet]

dodging around and hearing the twang of the bowstring is good

[naive elk]

but i will keep going a little bit longer with it cause my friend likes it for some reason

[brave hazel]

Yeah it doesn't feel great

[hollow comet]

[brave hazel]

It's all in on offense

You get ONE defensive option

[naive elk]

i don't care about that

[balmy swan]

you just described why i like it 😛

[naive elk]

i play Dual Blades, Hammer and Insect Glaive

it's just unbearably fucking slow

hit one attack per minute

[hollow comet]

MASH MASH MASH

keep slicing

[hearty kayak]

i love SNS

and charge blade

[hollow comet]

i have become sns pilled

i'll take a longsword break

[brave hazel]

I'd like SnS but it feels too small

And I like its big brother better

Good ol charge blade

[hollow comet]

primordial malzeno was messing me up with LS, sns is so comfy and safe

[hearty kayak]

i do dislike that it didnt get a lot in rise or wilds

it kinda feels like a downgrade from world

i think they should have given it the cluchclaw baack

[brave hazel]

SnS getting clutch claw would make it ridiculously unbalanced is the thing

It'd just end up being the only weapon worth using because of how strong CC is

[hearty kayak]

it doesnt need the full clutchclaw

give it the shotgun and maybe a few new graplestrike moves

[naive elk]

alright i'm actually just done with World for today

[brave hazel]

That's fair

World's just Like That some days

[naive elk]

if i'm not allowed to play the game due to this stupid track gathering i won't play it

[hearty kayak]

give the SNS some speical slinger features

[hollow comet]

i think that’s my next story mission

[naive elk]

i did like 4 expeditions and i ran through the whole map on three of them and it barely got me halfway through the track gathering

absolutely abysmal

[hollow comet]

i had no idea what i was doing so i wandered around and did my Kill 10 small guys mission

then closed the game

[brave hazel]

It gets better, trust me

[naive elk]

i've hunted everything but Fatalis, i know, it just sucks now

[naive elk]

Wiggle Sentai Ryoshiranger

(i'm purple)

[hollow comet]

critters

[balmy swan]

i feel this meme on a visceral level

[teal halo]

The Wild Hunt calls ye

[hollow comet]

made some MR pukei armor for my bow fit, when I next have time for a full hunting session I'll go bow shopping for various elements 😩

[hallow shale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMiIeM_Ockc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_V8QdPRUY

We got the name for the cthulhu monster

[teal halo]

Nu'Udra my beloved

i know the apostrophe isnt there in the actual name but i like it there so im putting it there

[desert light]

Nice music, though the incredibly passive play of that Greatsworder is upsetting me XD

[steep gale]

Tbh they’re trying to let the monster strut a little

If they go crazy offensive they’ll kill the monster too early and people won’t see what it does lol

[snow helm]

Yeah, they give these demos really good gear so they have an easy time but they also have to play suboptimally to stretch it out as a result usually

[eager anchor]

That grab move is terrifying

Its like the moment you look down a dragons throat and see a spark

but instead its just pure crude oil

[naive elk]

got JJK jumped by Deviljho while trying to carve a Great Girros

[balmy swan]

surprise pickle!

[naive elk]

just had the funniest fight with Kushala

we managed to knock him down and he tried to fly away

he got a flash pod to the face

got knocked down again, tried to fly away

he got a flash pod to the face

tried to get up again and fly away

flash pod to the face

and then he died

was a certified "fight back, fight back" moment

[naive elk]

Xeno is down

holy fucfk

3/4 people in our group got the gem 😭

the person who didn't get it said they would kill anyone who got the gem 😭

[balmy swan]

Rip

There is a particular frustration in hearing the rare carve sparkle coming from someone else while you're trying to farm a gem or mantle, it's true

[hollow comet]

dang, you can hear other people get the rare stuff? 😭

[balmy swan]

You can in World at least, idk about other games

[hollow comet]

that's very funny

[balmy swan]

But I have definitely heard the sound effect and gone 😒

(though when I'm not in the middle of a farming grind my reaction tends to be "oh sweet good for you!" instead)

Btw I'm late to the Nu Udra conversation, but can I just say, fuck yes

[teal halo]

Nu’Udra is cool as fuck

[balmy swan]

Having a cephalopod monster in MonHun is something that I didn't know I wanted and never dared to hope for

[teal halo]

And the fact that it’s tar themed is perfect for me

[balmy swan]

And I fucking love how it can squeeze through small wall gaps when it changes areas

[teal halo]

Just like a real octopus oh yes oh yes oh YESYESYES

[balmy swan]

Bringing actual funky octopus biology into its behavior

Yes exactly!!

[teal halo]

I hope it’s armor and weapons are just as cool as it

[balmy swan]

Honestly Nu Udra might get me to go "fuck optimal builds, I'm building around this set"

Same with Rey Dau tbh

[teal halo]

I hate optimality im just gonna go for armor that is A. Better than my current stuff and B. Looks cool as hell

If your hunter isn’t looking good what are you even doing

[balmy swan]

My one solitary complaint, which is really not anything to do with the monster design, is that "Nu Udra" and "Uth Duna" sound too similar to me and I'm having to work to keep them straight

But then I still get Barroth and Barioth mixed up so that's hardly a new problem

[frank epoch]

Nakarkos crying in a corner

Yama Tsukami also but it's fine for it to cry in a corner. It's fight sucks

[vocal haven]

And it's the best one too

[eager anchor]

Fought Grank nakarkos yesterday, Glad it feels like an actual fight but its kinda lame that there isn't a single spot in the fight for the game to play proof of a hero

Theja says: Fights need a dragonator JUST for the music pop off

[mystic cape]

TBF Nakarkos didn't really take advantage of being a cephalopod

[frank epoch]

Yeah it didn't, mostly just some fun tentacle stuff

[balmy swan]

Well okay I'm effectively a fifth fleeter so I haven't encountered either of those 😛

Anyway my point stands, Nu Udra cool

[frank epoch]

Yeah im hyped, love cephalopods

[mystic cape]

Oh Nu Udra is objectively cool

Can't wait to see if it makes a shiny oily long sword

[eager anchor]

I hope we get to make noodles from NuUdra.

like its one of the food ingredents we get to unlock

Oily noodles

[stuck needle]

delicious crude oil

y'know, roasting monster tails always felt decadent, but having them drop cooking ingredients would be really fun. then you'd have a late game reason to beat up early game monsters, plus you could eat your way up the food chain by using buffs from weak monsters to hunt strong ones

[outer heron]

you know

it's really interesting to me that all the apex monsters share an obvious naming scheme

and the flagship very conspicuously doesn't

I'm quite interested in seeing how arkveld comes around and fucks up the region

[balmy swan]

I noticed the apex naming scheme but that's a good observation about Arkveld not falling into it yeah

Something something its outsider status as a living fossil

(although perhaps not so much "outsider" as "outside context problem" in this case)

[eager anchor]

(@AXLLOWS)

[hollow comet]

😨

AND HERE COMES RAJANG WITH THE WYVERNSNIPE

[steep gale]

Rajang when he sees you tryna drink that drank

[lost niche]

I don't see a tail

[candid perch]

Luckily there have been a few!
We're very happy to see them come back :D

[teal halo]

Less than a month to go!

[hollow comet]

when i'm playing bow, i feel like i run out of coatings pretty quick

maybe i should get used to close-range, because 70 power coating and 10 or 20 status doesn't feel like much, even with spare shot

my hbg takes like 9 types of ammo with 60 shots each and i didn't really have problems with running out of Normal 3 and Pierce 2 or whatever 😔

i'm well on my way to making chaotic gore armor though and I could even make the bow, rapid dragon would be nice for killing primordial malzeno and I'll have bloodlust from the armor anyways

[balmy swan]

are you bringing crafting components with you to make extra coatings?

[hollow comet]

yeah, but i can only hold 20 shrooms for a total of 70 power and maybe 30 status?

[balmy swan]

gotcha

[hollow comet]

😔

[balmy swan]

yeah in that case i don't really know

[hollow comet]

close range works well enough to finish a monster off i guess

and i can go restock between monsters if it's a multi hunt

[eager anchor]

The real answer is to use your allies inventory slots as your own to carry more munition

[hollow comet]

:O

[naive elk]

i gotta say

not being able to eat after dying to get my stats back for a fight so i can actually fight

makes me so annoyed

it makes sense why but it is so unfathomably dogshit when you're in a fight with an elder and unable to have proper stats

at least later it becomes less of a problem with ancient potions

[hearty kayak]

clonse range is good yeah

its a damage boost with no usage imit

[hollow comet]

[naive elk]

yeah i think imma just drop Swaxe

i'm not having fun solo hunting with it at all

[hearty kayak]

my problem with the weapon is its a bit on the simple side

[balmy swan]

its simplicitly is why it appeals to me; i like the way that its resource management flows directly out of combat in a way that doesn't hit the same for me on other weapons (e.g. charge blade, hunting horn)

but i can also see why it might not vibe for other people

[naive elk]

it's slow as hell

[balmy swan]

and if you're not having fun with it then you shouldn't be using it, simple as

goes for every weapon

[naive elk]

spend like, 90% of the fight slowly waddling to get into a position to attack then do like, no damage and the monster moves and i need to waddle and roll into position again

gonna try SnS

if i don't end up liking it i'm prolly just hopping back on DB even if that's not super engaging to use

[balmy swan]

when you say "waddling"--are you trying to move around a lot in sword mode?

[naive elk]

i mean, yeah, if i'm trying to use the sword mode to build up charge switching to axe is going to be a waste of time

[balmy swan]

okay yeah see, that's exactly why i get annoyed by the "axe mode is worthless" meme

[naive elk]

i don't see what that has to do with anything

[balmy swan]

axe mode is critical because it's where you get one of the swaxe's biggest strengths: its mobility

sorry, not trying to rag on you specifically

[naive elk]

i use sword mode a lot cause it's easier to get say, tailcuts when i can jump on with zero sum discharge

[balmy swan]

i just get frustrated by how often i hear people say "just focus on sword mode, axe mode is useless" when in fact the weapon started working best for me when i started ignoring that advice

[naive elk]

my friend who was teaching me about it told me he mostly plays with axe mode

i don't like axe mode much but i make use of it a decent bit cause it's pretty good for getting in quick hits

or if a monster is staggered and i just want to go to town on it

[balmy swan]

yeah

[naive elk]

sword moveset is much nicer imo but axe has its use

[balmy swan]

the way i usually play swaxe is to default to axe mode, and then swap to sword mode if i get a big opening for a combo

sword mode does more DPS because it attacks faster, but axe mode's hits (especially the overhead and upswing chops) do more damage in a single hit, so axe mode is better for positioning and poking

[naive elk]

i think i just don't fuck with slow weapons at all tbh

[balmy swan]

yeah that's totally fair

and i'm not trying to change your mind if the weapon doesn't feel good to you

[naive elk]

i'm a DB, IG and Hammer main mostly

and i count hammer as a quick weapon to be clear

[balmy swan]

i am a sometime hammer enjoyer myself

it has become my off-main

[naive elk]

trying out SnS now

[hearty kayak]

I like sns

[naive elk]

just maxed out a defender SnS for a trial

[hearty kayak]

it has ab unch of combos that are fun

and it has a spectal interaction with the clutchclaw

if you have the clurthclaw active while the weapon is still out you can acivate slinger for a shotgun blast that you can then go into a combo

[naive elk]

just did a 4 monster hunt and got almost no xp, the game has to be fucking with me at this point

apparently hr16 is just like, fucked

[hearty kayak]

if you want to raiseu p hunter rank there are specific event missions that boost it

[naive elk]

i already completed the main story

my cap is 29

i'm just not getting real xp from quests

my friend who is hr28 leveled up from the quest we just did, i barely got more xp than i did for hunting a single nergigante

[outer heron]

that's what fox is saying

there are event missions

that give you like 300x HR/MR

[hearty kayak]

world has a alot of useful event missions

like some that give you a bunch of points, some with special gear, some with goofy ammounts of gems

[naive elk]

being reminded of why i don't do arena quests

[naive elk]

ok almost have the Dante DMC armor set

and i have my crit eye charm at lvl 2 for the time being

need to kill Teostra for a gem and some webbing for the last armor piece and a nergi gem for the final part of the lvl 3 charm

[naive elk]

man i do not like Odogaron at all

[outer heron]

bwuh

[naive elk]

might just be hunting it with swaxe

[outer heron]

dog is one of my favorite monsters

[rapid lion]

Why? Odogaron is one of my legit favorite monsters.

[outer heron]

it's fast but telegraphed

[naive elk]

it's just entirely obnoxious to fight

[outer heron]

its hitboxes are super clean

[rapid lion]

I used IG and dual blades though, so maybe that’s different… but it felt like a rodeo weaving around or over it.

[outer heron]

it attacks a lot but with plenty of openings and it exhausts itself fast

[naive elk]

bleed is also just

not fun

[outer heron]

so odogaron is very much just like "weave around it then take your turn beating its ass"

it feels extremely fluid to fight

[naive elk]

doesn't really hit when you are using a slow ass weapon

[outer heron]

i think the one mean attack is the left foreclaw jab

but that's not a huge deal either, just gotta treat it like a fromsoft boss and stay to its right

[naive elk]

why is Deviljho here

bro

he's gonna kill this odogaron

he killed the Odogaron

well at least the quest is done

now i need to hunt Teostra

[frank epoch]

Odogaron is very predictable. With slow weapons you just have to get used to taking turns and attacking at the perfect moment

[snow helm]

Fatalis Armor let's me get Slugger 5, this is the best endgame I could have possibly asked for

[naive elk]

Teostra time

not my favourite fight but i need to get its parts for my Dante armor

[naive elk]

did not get the gem, or any webbing for that matter

will keep hunting teostra tomorrow

[desert light]

He's trying to recreate the highs of his first appearance back in Tri

[hollow comet]

!!

great for my dragon LS :D

[naive elk]

Yippeeeeeee

[hollow comet]

chaotic gore set completed

hashed out a really scuffed dragon bow build

attack boost 0

weakness exploit 0

😭

oh wait

wex 1

😎

[hearty kayak]

i think attack boost is often too expensive to me

[hollow comet]

yeah...there's none on the armor at all

and this bow has a ton of dragon element so i might not bother

[hearty kayak]

pirece i think is good

i think sometimes focus too much on pure damage and don't think about consistantancy skills

heres what my ls skills looked like by the end

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1221035459556409397/1332807548163723336/image.png?ex=679e8241&is=679d30c1&hm=8aad21dae0b9eb502caf4711bd107dba9bd92cd86a81030dfe595552d034763b&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1221035459556409397/1332807549027881031/image.png?ex=679e8242&is=679d30c2&hm=40afdffb17ea5a2f67a3d570d0533ec968d33352dcf6cab8ad7ba68ef1b057cf&

[hollow comet]

[hearty kayak]

wait nvm thats out of date

[hollow comet]

i definitely need rapid up jewels

ammo up in general

[hollow comet]

oooh

how does evade window 5 feel?

[hearty kayak]

good

it helps that i got a really good charm

3 slot stun resist 2 evade window 2

[hollow comet]

sheesh

[frank epoch]

frontier has some whacky stuff

hammers and lances have an additional "length" stat that is exactly what it sounds

there are physically short, medium, and long hammers/lances and their stats account for it

[hearty kayak]

i do wish weapons had some more diffrences within class besides just stats

some do like huntinghorn,gunlance

but stuff like SNS are still just all stat sticks

[naive elk]

time to hunt Nergigante 500 times for a gem

two gems

damn

[mystic cape]

You can meld them

[naive elk]

i don't have anything to meld them with

melding is not on the table atm

i'm not taking off the parts of the defender armor that have health boost until i get some fucking gems

[naive elk]

i forgot how many ways you can get effectively stunned in this game

[naive elk]

wow

hunted my first Kirin of this playthrough

that was comically easy

i used like

2 potions

fighting 2 kirins

time for more Nergigante 😭

[vocal haven]

nergi is a very chill monster to fight once you have a feel for it

[naive elk]

stumbling gets on my nerves so fucking bad

also you are not allowed to use clutch claw to wound Nergi

literally no point in even trying

[vocal haven]

do you have temporal or rocksteady mantle?

[naive elk]

no

[naive elk]

at this point i got every part of nergigante multiple times over except the gem

made the Xeno'jiiva armor for my Palico

[naive elk]

got to HR 28, almost at 29 to do the rank up quest

no gem sadly 😔

[balmy swan]

Saw a copy of Freedom Unite in the secondhand store today for $25 and I was so so so tempted

But given that I'm already playing a MonHun game and about to dive into a new one, not to mention that I currently don't have a battery for my PSP, I opted to pick up a could of DVDs instead

[halcyon fractal]

WOOOO YEAH BABY

NU UDRA

[naive elk]

i'm starting to believe the nergi gem is not real

i've done like 20+ nergi hunts

[teal halo]

just keep it up

you'll find the gem eventually

and if you don't, just take a break

that usually resets the desire sensor

[hollow comet]

my first successful bow hunt with the berserk build!

took a few tries but i think I've got the basics of evasion and managing hp

although I don't think kushala blessing works when bloodblighted 😔

[stuck needle]

it's weird to me that they're doing repeated betas with the same build. unless this is about testing, idk, the network backend, I don't know what they could be testing, and the optics around performance and potato monsters seem really bad

[eager anchor]

True but also consider

This may be the last time we can see the origami monsters

I must cherish every moment I can have with them before their sharp polygonal bodies disappear forever.

/joking

[stuck needle]

my heart goes out to everyone playing on consoles who won't be able to mod them back in

[mystic cape]

IINM they mentioned a couple surprises in these ones

New mons and stuff

[stuck needle]

mhm. that much makes sense to me: get people playing the beta and talking about the game by drawing them in with new hunts. it's just the lack of technical changes I find weird.

[balmy swan]

from what i heard the only reason they're doing the additional betas is so that more people will have a chance to participate

or at least that was their stated reason for it

it does seem weird to not at least do a basic performance pass? but who knows what their pipeline is like right now, maybe it's all hands on deck getting the release version ready

[crude kayak]

I never really took those kinds of "betas" as test of anything aside from stress network tests.

[mystic cape]

It's just a bit weird since it's been announced that the Wilds release version will have changes made baseed on feedback from the Beta

Weapon balance tuning and stuff

[snow helm]

I suspect the two betas is something that they had planned from fairly early for poorly thought out marketing reasons, (having two big events to keep hype going) so they planned and prepped their specific beta build for that

But then after deciding they needed to make some pretty big changes after the first beta they didn't have any part of the team free to implement them in a new beta build rather than directly into a more complete, final build

Perhaps because no one thought they would be doing as sizable revisions as they ended up doing, performance wise especially

[mystic cape]

TBF to the performance thing this version was made before they did the final optimizations so I doubt that was ever going to be a factor

It's just the announced weapon changes are on people's minds so it's going to come up

[rich valve]

Hopefully there will be a real benchmark tool soonish

[naive elk]

Makes sense, but also is supremely unhelpful imo

The beta test made me go from 100% in on buying the game to considering not getting it at all tbh due to how fucked the performance was

[stuck needle]

yeah, like, I fully believe that they're working on making it better. But I also have no idea yet whether it will run on my PC as it stands

[naive elk]

yeah

i have no doubt it's going to be optimized in the release version

but with how genuinely unplayable the beta test was

i like

i have made plans to buy it like, a few days before release so i can get pre-order bonuses, and then test it for an hour on release to see if the game will run well enough for me to even play it at all

if it's unplayable i can get a refund at least

[outer heron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PDife4pEeo&ab_channel=CapcomUSA

5 minutes

before it starts

[naive elk]

we beat up Kulve Taroth in the raid

we got her through all phases in one run too as well

genuinely we just fucked her up

[mystic cape]

Sounds about right

[vocal haven]

the oilpit monsters look so cool

[mystic cape]

Watching the new Showcase trailer: OH FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!

[vocal haven]

WTF'

||GORE JUST A NORMAL GUY SHILLING IN WILDS LMAO||

man the trailers showed a lot of monsters

oilpit monsters look sop good

[mystic cape]

Also we got to see the ||Ace Lancer|| which is nice

[desert light]

Spoil me?

[mystic cape]

Spoilers for after title trailer sting ||Gore Magala||

https://youtu.be/OFoueW07mxQ?si=6GHISkl4bCfymFpu

[outer heron]

that tropical zone looks gorgeous too...

i wonder if it's part of the scarlet forest

or a bigger area of its own

[vocal haven]

good question

I think it prob is connected to forest?

I would doubt we get 5 maps on release even if that would be dope

[outer heron]

?

world had 5 maps basegame

ancient forest, wildspire wastes, coral highlands, rotten vale, elder's recess

[naive elk]

holy shit, the ||flying wyvern thing in the ice biome :O||

[outer heron]

tri also had 5 or 6 iirc

and rise had 6?

no, also 5 I think

[vocal haven]

.....sleep brain sowy

ahhhhhhhhhhh

[outer heron]

shrine ruins, flooded forest, frost islands, lava caverns, and uhhh

fuck there was one more

huh, maybe not

guess rise only had 4?

[hollow comet]

was sandy plains base or sunbreak

[desert light]

Base

[outer heron]

i swear it was base

[desert light]

Sunbreak added the tropical island & castle ruins area

[vocal haven]

hmm I might be incorrect here again but didnt we see a storm and normal comparison of the tropical thing where it looked like the forest

[outer heron]

because almudron was there

[vocal haven]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdu9Q9Kxbk in this trailer at 1:03 and following

[outer heron]

ah ic

that makes sense

you're right

[desert light]

Also worth remembering the zones are huge this time around

We didn't even have access to all of the first zone in the beta

[fiery sentinel]

i do kinda wish we’d seen something a little Weirder like the coral highlands were

the oilwell mostly accomplishes that in fairness

[desert light]

Did you spot the second one?

[fiery sentinel]

but ‘generic ice zone’ has been in every game and never has much going for it imo

[outer heron]

hoarfrost reach is comfy, at least

but yeah I'd have loved if the cold biome was fucked up this time

[desert light]

||that's a clip of a massive one doing an ice attack on the fliers||

[mystic cape]

TBF this generic ice zone is also a lot of dark caves

[desert light]

So you're saying we'll get giggles back!?

[real zodiac]

Oh shit you're just getting layered as soon as you make a high rank piece?

[outer heron]

god i fucking love this dude

it looks so good

i can't wait to beat it up and wear its skin

they've fucking cooked with the leviathans in wilds

[hollow comet]

the music they (shortly) played with it was pretty cool

[hollow comet]

:O

[vocal haven]

We still havent had visual confirmation of Lagi

[naive elk]

yeah this is peak

[outer heron]

christ, balahara, uth duna, and now hirabami

all of them have been incredible

i also uh

just saw something of the datamine

and then immediately closed it

[vocal haven]

oof

[outer heron]

because my interest went from 200% to 10000%

[vocal haven]

you cannot do us like that

[outer heron]

and i want to see what these things are for myself

[vocal haven]

gaaaah

[desert light]

Now you have to share, lol

[vocal haven]

I am really suprised we havent seen Lagi in any trailer. But we also havent seen like a lot of the classics in any of these trailers except like rathalos at the very start

[outer heron]

spoiler, MHWi datamine: ||there are artificial "homunculi" called Guardian Monsters that are an entirely new class of monster||

||made by the Ancient Civilization||

i saw that and dipped, because i want to know nothing more

||it seems as though either arkveld, the final boss, or both are members of this new monster category||

[vocal haven]

||Do not tell me that the equal dragon weapon might appear...||

[outer heron]

I DON'T KNOW

[desert light]

Pretty sure we've had dev word though

Oh, yeah, knew about them for a while

[outer heron]

BUT I'M VERY VERY EXCITED TO FIND OUT

[vocal haven]

^SAME

[outer heron]

you can look it up, but i want to save myself that

[naive elk]

||CAPCOM, GIVE ME EQUAL DRAGON WEAPON, AND MY LIFE Is YOURS||

[outer heron]

because I'm at maximum activation now

[vocal haven]

same

cant wait

I am also so excited since its will be the first MH that me and friends will play as a 4 player coop on release

so hyped

[naive elk]

same

so long as all of us can run it that is

gods i fucking hope it runs ok on older systems

the beta has not filled me with much hope but i am begging and praying

[outer heron]

they've mentioned that there've been major technical improvements vs the beta, but

considering they're not giving those to us with the second beta, it's annoying...

[naive elk]

mentioned it before but i'm going to be very careful on release to play in a way that i can confirm if i'll be able to run the game or need to refund it

prolly gonna skip character creation entirely first time around so i can just get into the gameplay immediately and check if it will run

[outer heron]

oh right, other piece of wilds datamine spoilers (that's super obvious in hindsight...)

||there's a second new monster category that aiui Nu Udra/black flame is in, which is cephalopods||

||along with a couple other of the new monsters||

[vocal haven]

glad they decided to do that and also very unsprising ye

super dope tho

[outer heron]

||also lagiacrus my beloved confirmed, and apparently bubbleblight so either mizutsune, something new with it, or plans for mizu in the future||

[vocal haven]

||Abyssal Lagi is in the cards I believe!!!||

[outer heron]

but god, balahara and uth duna...leviathans absolutely fucking winning...

i fucking love leviathans

[vocal haven]

ALSO MEANS PROBABLY NO FUCKING JYURATODUS/LAVASIOTH

lesssggoo

[outer heron]

heh

i have no idea about those or other piscenes

[vocal haven]

I fucking dispised them for taking the spots of my beloved levis

[outer heron]

didn't see any, but i stopped looking through the monster list instantly

[vocal haven]

yaya

my biggest pray is the return of Agnaktor

my beloved

[outer heron]

oh!

@naive elk

[naive elk]

oh shit!

ok pressing the download button does not seem to want to do anything

might just be steam doing a funny

ok yeah now it works

[naive elk]

it's been optimizing for like half an hour 😭

[naive elk]

oh it's done

fuck

now comes the time of reckoning

[rich valve]

the beta ran real bad on my pc (and I had the potato bug) but the benchmark is good, they really did it

[naive elk]

trying out the benchmark now

graphics settings: lowest
upscaling mode: ultra performance

i may be cooked

think it's running on the lowest settings

tbh, even if it's the lowest possible settings, if the game can run smoothly, ii'll be pretty pleased

[hollow comet]

i wonder if that benchmark is for the beta

with no changes

[frank epoch]

This is annihilating me

[rich valve]

it works much better than the beta did for me

[outer heron]

i'm glad you enjoy it

kaneki ken skipper makes me lose my mind every time i see it

[hollow comet]

ooh good to hear

[rich valve]

silly thing to say but I almost wish they had waited a bit longer before releasing it, worries about performance were keeping my excitement on a lower simmer but now I know it should be playable 😅

[naive elk]

well

that's uh

not great, admittedly

[desert light]

But it is good! Says so right there

[naive elk]

51fps average is not stellar

but it is uh, maybe playable actually

honestly

i'll probably still like, check on release how the game runs for me

[teal halo]

we take what we can get

[naive elk]

true

it's uh

a bit better than what was going on in the beta test that's for sure

[frank epoch]

51 will be more than doable

Might take some adjustment

[naive elk]

i mean i have played games with worse fps

and also nigh unplayable levels of stuttering

but World is silky smooth on max settings so it's going to be an adjustment

[desert light]

51 fps is very solid, and you can always lock things to 45 or something to keep it from spiking

[eager anchor]

Where's that benchmark tool

Is it on steam

[lost niche]

Yeah, store page

[eager anchor]

bless, thank you

[lost niche]

Yeesh. I got 'Good' at lowest graphics settings, averaging 49.22 FPS.

Honestly closer to 30 FPS in the active sections. All the the textures and model geometry look like hammered shit

[naive elk]

yeah pretty much same

[lost niche]

Oh yikes, running it back at medium quality and we're looking at 20-30 FPS.

This is on a 3060

[void narwhal]

So they're just like using the same build as the old beta

?

[lost niche]

Dunno. But I may be waiting on some performance patches or a lot longer for a new PC before picking this up now.

[hollow comet]

i got around 30 on lowest, so I'll have to wait until I'm consistently back at my pc

which will be in may, so no big deal

[halcyon fractal]

wait a minute

[outer heron]

OH SHIT???

[mystic cape]

Solid candidate

[halcyon fractal]

ESPECIALLY with the hooks

[mystic cape]

Though I do find it funny that while we get an out of nowhere reveal at the end of the trailer we don't get a clear shot at the location apex, just a possible few seconds where it breathes down freezing fog into the zone near the end of the first montage.

[halcyon fractal]

AND its not even gammoth 😭

[hollow comet]

sword looks like it's gonna bite me

[halcyon fractal]

swaxes will do that to ya

[mystic cape]

Rewatching the trailer I'm getting the sense this ice zone is also being a "dead lands" zone, like the Rotten Veil but less wet and rot and more desolate and dustridden.

[brave hazel]

You reckon it's related to Somnacanth at all?

Kinda looks like one

[mystic cape]

Somnacanth can't fly

It barely travels on dry land

[brave hazel]

They can't, but it could be a related species

[mystic cape]

This is somewhat less surprising when you consider that it has a fothermucking ||GORE MAGALA|| just waiting to ||jump scare any returning characters!||

[brave hazel]

Which means the BEST fucking monster theme is getting a Wilds remix

I am frothing at the mouth to hear what they do with it

[mystic cape]

It also means we can expect at least one other to appear alongside it, if you catch my meaning

[brave hazel]

Aye, that's the theme I'm referring to

[mystic cape]

Indeed

[brave hazel]

I just hope it has more of a story presence here than in Rise

[mystic cape]

I'd be surprised if there wasn't at least something going on there

[brave hazel]

Given it used to be a big plot point and was kinda just "oh yeah btw this exists" in Rise, which was... disappointing

[mystic cape]

Rise is a spinoff, it kinda happens that way

[brave hazel]

True, true

[mystic cape]

Same thing back in Gun/Ult when it showed up there

[brave hazel]

...given there's an ice biome

D'you reckon we might see

Her

[mystic cape]

You mean Gammoth?

[brave hazel]

Not Gammoth, Velk

[hollow comet]

lagombi

nvm

[brave hazel]

PLEASE NO LAGOMBI

[mystic cape]

Uncertain

[brave hazel]

Fucking shitbeast of a rabbit I hate lagombi so much

[hollow comet]

i am also a lagombi hater

the ears are nice though

[steep gale]

lavasioth but ice

[hollow comet]

I did have to kill 3 elders for them

twice

[steep gale]

:)

[hollow comet]

just for bunny ears

😔

[brave hazel]

Wasn't that a Frontier monster?

[steep gale]

maybe idk

[mystic cape]

Thing is, I'm not sure how much of this cold biome is really going to be ice. It looks more like it's going to just be the absence of heat, if that makes sense. A desert at night where everything except the hardiest or deadliest have been ousted or killed. Very little left to give let alone feel warmth.

[void narwhal]

I wouldn't mind if we avoided Fish With Legs type monster, lavasioth was a slog to fight and ripping off Agnaktor's deal

[mystic cape]

What if they bring back Plesioth?

[vocal haven]

dont you dare. If lavasioth steals the spot that rightfully belongs to agnaktor imma lose it

[void narwhal]

Only if the hip check hitbox is worse

[teal halo]

they'd actually do it tbh

[vocal haven]

I think very unlikely. We got fucking leviathans

[mystic cape]

T'is a jest

[vocal haven]

oh wait plesioth is ok

i thought you mean my all hated JYURATODUS

[brave hazel]

Jyura's better by virtue of not having a hyperspace tackle

[lost niche]

I'm still scratching my head over here at the benchmark results.

Looking at the Steam Hardware Survey, my system falls solidly in the middle of the road for what Capcom could expect out of their audience.

[vocal haven]

wait

WHen was ||Gravios|| confirmed?

was it one of the trailers and I just missed it=?

[outer heron]

idk beotodus was actually pretty solid

[outer heron]

yeah, last trailer-ish

[outer heron]

beotodus is like

[vocal haven]

beo is cool

[outer heron]

"what if piscine wyvern but it's not a huge fuckass bastard 100% of the time"

and actually has readable moves + repositioning

[vocal haven]

also the website is being real "cute" with saying rathian is confirmed but not listing rathalos XD

[mystic cape]

IGN coverage

Showed a hunt of the big stony bastard

[vocal haven]

if gravios is here I MAY HAVE HOPE FOR AKANTOR

[mystic cape]

We only know that Basarios is confirmed to not be coming along

And some insight into their philosophy for bringing back monsters

Mainly that they want the monster to fit in the setting of the game and work for what they're trying to do

[snow helm]

I love how fucked up and evil the Iceshard Cliffs are looking, like there's all the strange ruins and organic shapes. It really has a foreboding At the Mountains of Madness feeling, like the whole place reeks of "We shouldn't have come here"

Like they are a little drab but it feels like a deliberate horror atmosphere

[mystic cape]

Definitely feels dead to me

Like the Burn in FFXIV

[brave hazel]

It's a given, it's like neglecting to mention Kratos is the protagonist of the next God of War or that Pikachu will be in the next Pokemon

Sky's blue, grass is green, tide goes in and out, rathalos is in the new MonHun game

[stuck needle]

Imagine if the rathalos from the trailer was, idk, the last one from reckless overhunting

[hollow comet]

maybe we could ride it

dragoon time baybee

[rapid lion]

Rathian and Rathalos are the same species so that doesn't even work as a twist in the same way.

[lost niche]

Nidoran dimorphism

[desert light]

Tbh, Nidoran/Nidorino & the raths make plenty of sense as dimorphism goes. It's weirder when there's no difference whatsoever

[snow helm]

Honestly, (though I think we already saw Rathalos in the distance in one of the first trailers?) there is the argument of Besarios and Gravios apparently not sharing games for the Raths to get split up at some point

[halcyon fractal]

DIVORCE

[snow helm]

Because, iirc, they are apparently not having the former share games because they're too similar fight/design wise just at different power levels so they feel it's a little redundant

[crude kayak]

Ah, benchmark is up on steam

[crude kayak]

something to look forward in 8 hours :>

[red gazelle]

We’re getting gore yay

(Gore magala)

[desert light]

First crack at the game without frame generation got me a solid 100 average FPS with everything set to max, so... yaaay!

Trying a frame generation run now and seeing what that does

Apprently something like a 40fps gain with frame genration

[desert light]

Wtf. Turning ray tracing to high I have gained fps!?

[eager anchor]

No no, We are getting gore too

[snow helm]

God I can't wait to see whatever the fuck this thing is in full detail

[teal halo]

That is Godzilla Minus One Kelvin

[mystic cape]

Huh, almost looks like a Lich Najalaka...

I got the name wrong

The maraca snake from 4U

Najarala

[void narwhal]

I'm struggling to parse the bodyshape

[snow helm]

In motion it's a little easier to make out as a big snake with arms appearing over the edge of a cliff

[red gazelle]

Wait really?

[eager anchor]

/j

[void narwhal]

gahd how big is it

[mystic cape]

Big enough to be a problem for us

[teal halo]

That is incredibly unspecific

[mystic cape]

Exactly

[void narwhal]

Can't wait for a new generation of gold star Small/Large monsts

[mystic cape]

I can't wait to see how the skills breakdown as far as the weapon/armor dichotomy and how decos/talismans change to account for that

[red gazelle]

If there’s no gore magala cb I’m gonna be very unpleased

[eager anchor]

The dual blades will make me play dual blades

I can't resist.

They are just too fucking cool

[teal halo]

I hope that there’s either a magala CB or LS

[mystic cape]

There's always been Magala in all weapon categories, why would that change in Wilds?

[snow helm]

Yeah I doubt they'll be scrapping any potential weapons since people got justifiably angry and the unique weapon situation in World

[teal halo]

Yeah

Why the fuck didn’t odogaron have a longsword its armor is the edgiest thing ever why not give it the edgy weapon

[void narwhal]

That was one of my main issues with World tbh

[hollow comet]

wait world didn't have all weapons for each monster?

[void narwhal]

Sure didn't! Which could be fiiine, but then they also skimped out on the weapon designs for some they -did- include, which felt kind of blah