Monster Hunter

[gentle knoll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_wNFT4j6qI

[desert light]

Dammit, beat me byminutes

[mystic cape]

Anyone else notice the unusual Rathalos had similar coloration to Arkveld's chains?

[desert light]

innocent whistling

Also, first TU in spring: Mizutsune

[real zodiac]

Interesting to see how mizu is adapted for a slower game

[vocal haven]

YOOOO

How many monsters you peeps reckon we get we have not seen yet from the trailers?

[desert light]

See

I can't answer that

cos i actually know.

Datamines hooo

[vocal haven]

booo smh

[desert light]

That said, dont expect a huge cast, would be my advice. It's a good cast!

[vocal haven]

dont spoil xd

[vocal haven]

I mean its base mh

[desert light]

But it's just over ||30+ at launch. maybe closer to 35||

Spoiler is a rough number, never fear

[real zodiac]

I think world had abooout 30m

[vocal haven]

Ye 29/30

[real zodiac]

(Just looking at pre icebreak, not sure about title updates)

[balmy swan]

so we're looking at ||10-15|| monsters that haven't been revealed yet

👀

[real zodiac]

I'm curious about new monsters that haven't been teased

And stuff from pre-world

[frank epoch]

Please God Capcom give us Namielle with a cooler fight

Like variant Namielle or something

[outer heron]

black tar namielle with a blunt and a gun

oilwell basin hunt

[void narwhal]

Seltas Queen I beg of ye

I need to see the funny animation in beautiful HD

[balmy swan]

i wonder... including Gore Magala in the game makes you think of the frenzy virus, right? i wonder if they're going to play with the idea of a monster that can infect other monsters again

[snow helm]

Not quite that many, no, having seen the datamines. Still some big meat missing though, and really curious stuff that they've decided not to show

But there's going to be at least two more opportunities to reveal before release

Interesting thing I saw pointed out with this launch trailer is that a couple of the moves we see used by the hunter are ones that apparently got added after the first Beta with the big balance changes, so its possible the reason the radio silence went for so long is that they were in a big crunch that included redoing some promotional materials

Because usually trailers are recorded months in advance and this one seems to have at least had new clips added fairly recently

[snow helm]

This thing is fucking nuts, they really made a regular hunt monster the size of Kulve Taroth or another siege elder. Almost straining the idea of "regular" monster vs Elder

[outer heron]

it's a big motherfucker, for sure

[snow helm]

I have to wonder how they'll have it move around the map/if it will have an arena like Ukanlos/Akantor rather than being a regular roaming monster

Because it seems too large to move around normally, unless it exclusively moves by going off map (going in to pits/climbing walls) and reappearing other places

In the one shot from the previous trailer it looks like it's peeping up over the edge of a cliff

[mystic cape]

IIRC we do see it in the previous Ice Cliff reveal trailer where it breathes ice down on a group of those flying herd leviathans and us so it'll probably move along the cliff faces and stuff

[outer heron]

yeah i'm so incredibly fucking hyped

for this new wyvern

[mystic cape]

I had a similar thought, perhaps monsters surviving an encounter with Arkveld and became stronger from overcoming the life drain or something similar

[outer heron]

JIN DAHAAD MY BELOVED

[snow helm]

Damn I realize that Wilds is really going to be the Leviathan game

So far we have Balahara, Uth Duna, Hirabami, and now Jin

And Mizu as a TU

By comparison we have just the Raths, Gravios, and Rey Dau for flying wyverns

Well, unless you count Arkveld

[balmy swan]

i feel like they might be making up a bit for World's "oops all wyverns" roster

[snow helm]

Yeah, absolutely. Brutes are kind of underrepresented too, I realize, with only Quematrice and Rompo, which also might be a reaction to World having some many theropods. Arkveld also seems to have a different skeleton than the Raths/Gravios/Rey too

[mystic cape]

They also have two spiders and a new monster type in cephalopod

[balmy swan]

iirc datamining suggests ||at least one more cephalopod in the base game|| right?

[mystic cape]

I've been trying to avoid that so I dunno

[balmy swan]

fair 🫡

[desert light]

Yes

And iirc, they wanted leviathans in world. There's actually test footage of an anjath getting murked by lagi

But they had huge issues with the skeleton that weren't solvable

(iirc, lots of problems with it clipping and not working well in the heavy 3d environments)

It's kinda hard to overstate what a massive change world was from the prior generation games (which basically consisted of flat arenas. Or mostly flat arenas separated by some height)

They managed to crack the problem in time for Rise, and then ported the tech forward here

[balmy swan]

the director said in an interview that they wanted to do cephalopods as far back as 3rd gen but have only now managed to figure out the tech to make it work

what a time to be alive

[outer heron]

||and lagiacrus|| :)

[mystic cape]

Good News abiut this Timeline: Monster Hunter is better than ever!

Bad News about this Timeline: ...Just...everything else...

[desert light]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2qbFgRGDDA

[mystic cape]

Lowkey, kinda hope we see Astalos in Wilds too for no other reason than hot damn it'd be sick as shit

[desert light]

You can see lagi at about 330 in

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x0O9KwMZ7_8

Here's the mh4 prototype video, which gives you some idea of just how massive the leap between gen 4 & gen 5 was

[mystic cape]

I swear that hunter run looks like it should be accompanied by the Benny Hill theme

[gentle knoll]

i want a fated four reunion if possible

[snow helm]

It does seem like it could be the perfect game for it

But I don't know how to get Gammoth to work on a mountain cliff map

Though with as big as the ice Leviathan is maybe there will be arenas big enough

I would also kind of love to see a desert Gammoth subspecies

[snow helm]

True but then also || Seregios||

[teal halo]

it is what it is

[snow helm]

You can almost picture the inspiration board the concept artist for Jin would have had going, with the alien and rusting ship hulks

[candid perch]

It'd be a good include with the presence of lightning weather!

[lost niche]

Jin Dahaad got that Long Term Nuclear Waste Message sort of build

[brave hazel]

...huh, that sure looks a lot like modern scaffolding to my eyes

You think we might actually get to take a look at the precursor civilization? First Oilwell, now this

OH SHIT LOOK WHO'S BACK AGAIN

[hollow comet]

who is that

[real zodiac]

From rize

eastern river dragon vibes, inflicts a blight that makes your movement slidey

[hollow comet]

[gentle knoll]

even earlier, mizutsune debuted on generations

as part of the fated four

[brave hazel]

Aye

[gentle knoll]

mizutsune of water, astalos of lightning, glavenus of fire, gammoth of ice

[brave hazel]

Maybe we'll get lucky and the Fated Four will be reunited once again

[crude kayak]

minus gammoth

[gentle knoll]

poor gammoth

[brave hazel]

...god can you imagine if Magnamalo made it into Wilds?

Absolutely insane fight without wirebugs

[candid perch]

It would be indeed

I'd appreciate a Lunagaron if I had to choose anything

Or Goss Harag

[brave hazel]

Goss would be fun

...

Yknow what's be cool as shit

Malzeno himself

[candid perch]

Absolutely

[brave hazel]

I mean if fucking Velkhana could randomly show up in Rise for no good reason Mal could do the same

[candid perch]

Mal >>>> Velk
Sorry y'all
But I'm right

[brave hazel]

Velkhana is better because Iceborne > Sunbreak

[candid perch]

That's a very different topic I feel

Ultimately
Both are cool
But one is a monster I enjoyed the fight of much more than the other

[brave hazel]

Fair enough

[desert light]

Mag is fine and all, but i dont actually like his design much

he's v. overworked

and doesnt make a lot of sense

Random spikes and blades in a way that's very agaisnt the grain of Monhun's naturlistic desgins

[real zodiac]

I mean it's very of a vibe of the handheld games rather than mainline, I think?

I'd says he very much of a kind with zinogre

[desert light]

Zin makes more sense since a lot of his spines are actually hives

[naive elk]

I always think about the fact that all Mizutsune are male whenever i think about it

[real zodiac]

I wouldn't say that the spines being hives to be terribly naturalistic?

[rich valve]

i would be happy to see magnamalo again as while he's a bit over the top I don't think he is too much so
but if I had to pick one I would prefer goss harag or malzeno
or maybe even narwa tbh, im one of the world's few narwa enjoyers

[real zodiac]

It has barnacles of insect hives that it can control telepathically and uses to summon lightning, and the barnacles never do anything inconvenient like grow on eyes or orifices?

I'd rather have malzeno too, yeah

[mystic cape]

I think bringing back Najarala could be fun, but I also don't hear much about Najarala so I doubt there's much clamour for it

https://youtu.be/q2ug1HPFyXc?si=oGhQoGwqdQ1FI8Ol

[hollow comet]

yeah, at least in rise i had a ton of trouble with velk, not sure if the world fight is different

maybe i should try velk with bow

[vocal haven]

wilds valstrax pls

[snow helm]

Honestly Valstrax is my pick for first elder added, I feel like it somehow fits with the weird biomechanical/alien monsters we've been seeing

Plus it's a global nomad without territory so why couldn't it show up in the forbidden lands?

For similar reasons I want Bazel to return

[snow helm]

Hammer is still just a bonk stick
Oh hell yeah

[rich valve]

i like valstrax purely because i think an elder dragon as an invader is funny
although if I could only pick one invader it would be bazel

[real zodiac]

I loved rise valstrax a lot

[candid perch]

Val is pretty cool

Just as a monster

Hopefully it's normal Val so we get that banger of a theme

Oh

Wow

Yeah

We've only seen Gore so far for potential elders and it's technically not even an elder here

I wonder if there are even going to be elders in base Wilds

Probably late-HR

[balmy swan]

If they're going to hold anything back as a surprise, it'd make sense for it to be that

But we'll see

[mystic cape]

I'd ne surprised and upset if we didn't get at least Shagaru at some point

Since, ya know, Gore

[balmy swan]

Ye

I am once again wondering if the frenzy virus will come into play and how it will interact with this Arkveld energy thing implied by the trailer

[mystic cape]

It'd be wild if it turned out the monsters around Wilds had some kind of resistance to the Frenzy Virus which is why Gore had to migrate to the 4U zones before to finally get some apocolypse going

[outer heron]

gogmazios where...

[eager anchor]

He got stuck in the doorway because of all the tar

[teal halo]

noooo not my boiii

[eager anchor]

I'm excited for the almost guaranteed arena fight for at least one big elder dragon.

-# maybe this will be the game we get a 8 player all in the same zone raid monster fight

-# I can dream...

[frank epoch]

Wonderful, 7 longsword users hitting the head and not going for the tail

[brave hazel]

Too real

[eager anchor]

whats #8

[frank epoch]

Me, the HH user, choking on both my own sobs and also dirt after being tripped four times in less than a second

[hollow comet]

[night prairie]

bro didn't take flinch free

[frank epoch]

LS bros need to learn to hit the right parts. I'll superslam until they become re-educated

[hollow comet]

idk what the right parts are

[outer heron]

the tail

it's always the tail

LS is a cutting weapon with the reach to comfortably hit tails, so that's its automatic priority on every monster

in group hunts

[frank epoch]

Tails, then legs for trips

[hollow comet]

i see

ty

i should hunt with others more

it’s been a little lonely

[fiery wave]

I generally hunt with my brother who is a hammer main so I've long since learned to avoid the front

that said he has a habit of "suggesting" I mount the monster at inopportune times

[graceful snow]

I put in my preorder for Wilds today because I remember IsThereAnyDeal exists

Also being a CB main is wild because being able to help with stunning and cutting is great.

[brave hazel]

Oh yeah, they HARD buffed stun buildup for CB

[brave hazel]

Hunter Space Program

[graceful snow]

I mean even in Rise CB stunning was great

[hollow comet]

what are the main CB playstyles in rise? I played it for a while in world but not much in rise

is it still saed vs savage age?

[graceful snow]

From my understanding, yes

[balmy swan]

savage axe is a switch skill in rise, right?

[brave hazel]

Yeah, for some reason

Replaces your charged sword iirc

Which is

Certainly A Choice

[void narwhal]

Some of the choices felt a little arbitrary but I get not wanting to load every weapon with 1000 functions

[brave hazel]

True, but I mean

Charge blade's identity is having like 1000 functions

Idk, it just feels weird making you choose between two of the biggest modes for CB

[graceful snow]

I think part of the reason why it is how it is in Rise is because of wirebug skills

[brave hazel]

Yeah the wirebug skills do make up for it

[hollow comet]

bzzzz

[brave hazel]

Like the counter that instantly charges your phials and renders you functionally immortal for a split second

Oh hi Danny

[hollow comet]

https://tenor.com/view/spider-man2-spider-man-tobey-maguire-pizza-time-spiderman-meme-gif-26415903

[graceful snow]

https://tenor.com/view/tmnt-michelangelo-pizza-pizza-time-pizza-day-gif-16743907

[graceful snow]

Wilds beta is back up for those that are interested

[snow helm]

https://youtu.be/1gAJDxyQL08?feature=shared

Surprise Blangonga reveal in the Japanese tv spot

[desert light]

...dammit, i recongize the VA they've got in that spot

but i dont know his name offhand

https://old.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/1iooq1i/apparently_normal_rathian_can_do_pinks_tatsumaki/

Oh no

Normal rath got one of Pink's nastiests moves

[real zodiac]

Nice, good to see it have a nice transition to flying

[teal halo]

god I hate pink rathian

[graceful snow]

Also I want to boost this now while I'm thinking about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/1iokjnh/the_new_monster_hunter_wiki_how_its_going_and_how/

The community is moving away from fextralife/fandom to a dedicated wiki

[crude kayak]

nice

it's kind of miserable how biggest wikis are the worst

[desert light]

It's mostly Fandom and Fextra that are the problem

Fandom is just odious with Adds

Fextra is... wlel, they're gross tbh

use a bunch fo explotive tactics and are poorly maintined

(They have "hidden" widget that makes you count as a twitch viewer for their stream, for instance)

[brave hazel]

Fextra's scummy but Fandom is straight garbage

I hope they crash and burn

[desert light]

More and more companies are actively dumping them anmd making their own

Satisfactory, Leauge of Legends (this is a BIG one, given the absurd size of it's playerbase)

[brave hazel]

Terraria too

[hollow comet]

ty for sharing 🫡

in the summer, I'll try to help out with this and the new ER wiki if I have time

[mystic cape]

https://youtu.be/-ogeqkwx9K0?si=35n1ss_wLI-eTiQE

[frank epoch]

Getting GU brimstone slash vibes

[fathom osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/756199439114174514/1340082896362274847/m2-res_1080p-4.mp4?ex=67b110f4&is=67afbf74&hm=f537a8b95f25656eea894279647e9db74dd1ff06d330c9e765f3d7017044e80e&

It's so peak

[hollow comet]

goty

hammer is pretty fun

speeeeen

BONK

[void narwhal]

I wonder what about this game makes this engine struggle like this, I remember a lot of RE stuff running great

Is it just the vast

[fathom osprey]

I think all the RE games that run better are just smaller in scale

DD2 runs pretty poorly too

[void narwhal]

Ooh, true, forgot that was on here

[fathom osprey]

Might just be a lack of experience or the engine isn't super suited for it, but it's an inhouse engine so they use it, who knows

The cube creatures are really funny though

[void narwhal]

Pristine shapes

And those eyes

[fathom osprey]

Special eyes...

[mystic cape]

MY BRAND

[void narwhal]

Tragically it seems to run pretty well on ps5

[fathom osprey]

That sounds like a good thing to me

Hopefully the PC release is a lot more optimized as well

[void narwhal]

well yeah but I don't get to experience Creatures, also just being dumb

It's so strange not to have the beta on a new build

[fathom osprey]

Probably too much production time to make a half changed build to publish for a second beta

But it would be nice to know how well the game will run, the benchmark helps but eh

[stuck needle]

I'm bummed, because the people I'd like to play it with won't be able to run it at launch based on the benchmark. (I can't either but I'm more willing to justify an upgrade)

[fathom osprey]

That's pretty rough yeah, I have a couple friends who either need to decide to upgrade or wait too

I barely get a stable 60 FPS on high settings without frame gen, which is alright generally but not amazing for the hardware I have

[rich valve]

it's actually kind of non-trivial to make something like that beta without it also being a vector for people to learn everything else that is going to be in the game

[desert light]

Yeah, it's also part of why Demos stopped being such a thing

And well, demos/vertical slices of a game actually eat up a ton of production time etc

[snow helm]

I think it's just a combination of a lot of things, both big ones and small ones added together. It feels designed to stress GPUs and CPUs, though my impression is that VRAM might be the most important limiting factor for most people

[snow helm]

Yeah, and it does seem like the first beta precipitated a pretty huge crunch after the performance problems and some of the gameplay/balance changes

So it was even less likely for an updated build to come out

Like the marketing schedule seems to have been disrupted by the first beta and the crunch afterward

So there just really wasn't time to make an entire new beta

[desert light]

snicker

that's fantastic

[desert light]

I'm really, really, really, REALLY glad i predicted i would need a new system, and was sorting it early/mid last year. Thoguh i got lucky with getting a small bit of inheritence from my grandfather passing away.

Previosuly was on a 1660 super with 16 gigs of ram and shit.

Now on a 4080 super with 64 gigs of ram in the computer and a 7800X3D >.>

https://i.redd.it/bghu2yjdg3je1.jpeg

Poor Rathalos.

@shiburingaru321 Is the artist

[snow helm]

Honestly it feels like it's been a while since there's been a game this big coming out that actually was going to have it's player base significantly limited by the specs its demanding

[desert light]

To be slightly kinder to capcom, i dont think tehy were expecting the tech market to up and shit itself with AI crud

then start rolling around in the muck

causing a giant clusterfuck on people acquirng tech

also reprotedly it's running pretty okay on PS5/Xbawx according to streamer previews etc

Oh shit, new tech: https://old.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/1ipbjhl/fun_fact_your_seikret_can_pull_you_off_the_ground/

Sekriet call to get you out of being stunned/trapped etc

[snow helm]

At 30-40 frames but also stably and not grainy like the PC version at the same quality settings frustratingly

I am curious about the effects all the pre-release performance problems might actually have on sales though

Even with the PS5 version probably being the most important sales wise

[mystic cape]

I just realized something

If they bring back anything like the Frenzy skills from Sunbreak for Gore they would most likely be on the weapons which is the coolest possible way it could happen

https://tenor.com/view/mighty-need-invader-zim-gif-3450358

[brave hazel]

Agreed

[mystic cape]

Of course this would go for any other big enough monster to warrant such a thing, which is equally cool

[desert light]

https://monsterhunterwiki.org/images/1/15/MHWilds-Vigormantle_Bug_Render_001.webp

It's adorable and i wanna pet it.

[hollow comet]

[brave hazel]

I think this is my new favorite charge blade

The fucking sword is HUGE, man, it's ridiculous how enormous it is

I think it might actually be the largest charge blade sword in any of these games

I love it so fucking much

[halcyon fractal]

what is this guy?? 👀

and is that some form of healing juice on its back?

[fiery wave]

vigorbug I believe and yes

they hang out on the walls and you can pop their backpack to heal

dw they are fine tho

[real zodiac]

Nah all thr charge blades are huge

That's certainly long, but I think the world break one's are frequently broader

[hollow comet]

bow ammo changes are amazing

[halcyon fractal]

oooh

[graceful snow]

I now have max potions, and hardshell powder in the wilds beta along with tranqs

[teal halo]

new healbug! yippee!

[balmy swan]

three kinds of monhun players

[real zodiac]

And somehow the weeb name isn't thr longsword player

[gentle knoll]

well the most famous yoruichi in media is reliant on speed so DB makes sense

[hollow comet]

are these all the quests

gemma isn't set up so i don't have better gear

arkveld kicked my butt

but idk how to make the camp progress

[teal halo]

vinestigate the catachabra

[fiery wave]

it's just the open beta so the camp is deliberately like that

there are techincally three more quests which are investigations for the other three big monsters

you can get them by just finding the monsters and murdering them

[hollow comet]

ah gotcha

ty!

[brave hazel]

Like a certain someone that we've not seen since GU

[desert light]

You can bounce on their snoot, it's great

[hollow comet]

2 plates, a gem, and a tail 😭

can't wait to get nothing in the full game

[brave hazel]

I do hope that the drop rate of rare stuff isn't this high in the actual game

The grind sucks and I hate farming for three years to get one rare part but I'd hate having everything just dumped into my lap more

[desert light]

Gems etc arent that rare, usually

People just over-emaphzie the rarity

[hollow comet]

we were so close to taking down arkveld twice

[fathom osprey]

I do like that you can use your map to see if any of the mons currently around have a rare drop on em

[tiny wind]

i'm really bad with any melee taht's not the CB :/

i'd like to plau something fast like DB and IG any tips ?

[mystic cape]

Which game are you hoping to use them in? Tips may vary.

[tiny wind]

Wilds and maybe rise

[desert light]

https://old.reddit.com/r/MHWilds/comments/1ipqol1/this_is_why_your_seikret_is_so_hard_to_control/ some useful stuff

https://old.reddit.com/r/MHWilds/comments/1ipr14v/if_your_game_looks_washed_adjust_your_brightness/

[desert light]

Dual Blades are all about constant aggression. Even more so in wilds, because we now have a buff for doing perfect dodges, and the buff makes us even stronger.

It's main gimmick is managing stamina (being in Demon Mode inflicts a constant stamina drain) and Archdemon mode- a meter you build up by hitting things in Demon Mode, that then empowers you whenever you're not in Demon Mode .

A lot of attacks in Archdemon mode spend that meter, so you're constantly flicking in and out of demon mode to maintain it, and looking for opportunities to do your Blade Dance/Demon Dance combos. Notably you can now chain demon dance & blade dance back to back, which let's you wrack up crazy damage if you're on a weak point.

Disadvantages are your defence is only dodging, though you have a really good dodge compared to everyone else, managing stamina can be a real headache & will get you punished if you screw it up, and you have tiny reach, so often you end up attacking legs or similar, and can have trouble reaching tails etc. Course, once you do trip something...

Focus attack comes out really fast, which makes it great for countering moves that can be focused. But it'll also destroy as many wounds as it can, which might upset teammates. Otoh you often trip the monster from this, so it's not all bad.

Other big disadvantage is it's a dps weapon. No big hits here. You win by thousands cuts, so you have to stick onto monsters and just keep slicing. Makes the occasional whiff less impactful, but also means getting your face bashed in is time you're not dpsing

[tiny wind]

Thx. I already play bow so i have a pretty bad addiction to dash juice

[eager anchor]

Mushrooms

Mushroomancer to solve all the problems

[fiery wave]

Another note about the focus attack is every hit in the spin racks up meter so it can be a handy way to top up while scoring a knockdown/stagger

[graceful snow]

I love charge blade so much

[real zodiac]

Brrrrrrrrr

[desert light]

Forgot just how much fun SnS could be

[desert light]

This never works for me becausei wlays foget which mushroom is doing what

and it just fucks with me terribly

[eager anchor]

There's only the four but I get you

[desert light]

FOUR TOO MANY

[balmy swan]

I have not tried mushroomancer before

[brave hazel]

It's alright

[balmy swan]

The other night I SOSed into a hunt with a SnS user who was running a Wide-Range build, that was pretty fun

[brave hazel]

Saves pouch space if you like using max pots but that's about it

[balmy swan]

"if Rathian hit you with her tail flip, no she didn't"

They had like 96 heal/buff actions logged on the end screen

[zinc pier]

quick world question
would it to use augments on a weapo to increase element/status
or to get extra slots and then put deco's in those slots?

[fathom osprey]

That kinda depends on what weapon you are using and if you are using QoL skills in your builds or not

But most of the time you just go Element Up

[zinc pier]

"mountain blizzarioths"

ah fair enough

[fathom osprey]

No weapon type, not the weapon itself

[zinc pier]

ahh

dual blades

im trying to get as prepped as possible for kulve

i can work with this

[fathom osprey]

If you are only looking at optimal damage output it's basically that you always want to hit the max rank of your elemental attack skill through solely armor and go for Health and Elemental Augment

[zinc pier]

[fathom osprey]

There's a pretty big google doc for DB somewhere out there with optimal gearing steps for your journey if you care about that

Optimal meaning as much damage as possible, assuming you don't die

[zinc pier]

ah i've got that google doc, saved , somewhere

so you max out , just elemental on armor
and do what with the weapons again?

[fathom osprey]

Though idk what the prefered skills to drop are in case you want some comfort skills

[zinc pier]

elemetnal augment?

[fathom osprey]

Health Augment first

Elemental second

[zinc pier]

a h

oh damm i dont even have the materials discovered for health 1

assuming you mean health regen?

[fathom osprey]

Yeah

[zinc pier]

okay i'll have to google that at some point

[fathom osprey]

But it's a little conditional

Health Augment and Elemental Augment are prefereable in setups where you reach 100% crit when hitting the correct hitzones

Which is basically what is optimized

But if you forego that for whatever comfort skills you like I have no idea if priority might change

[zinc pier]

i think i might be able to get to 100% crit rate on the right zones

or at least like, 60+ range

[fathom osprey]

I do recommend Health augment though, it's a nice safety net

[zinc pier]

does sound helpfull

although i dont think i die to kulve very much

everytime i've failed kulve its been due to time

i'll merk this thing eventually

and then like , another 10 or so times after that
maybe more i have no idea how many times i'll have to farm this

[vocal haven]

Are you running full or partial Safi?

[zinc pier]

i dont have any safi yet

im planning to farm kulve for kulve weapons , so that i can farm safi

[vocal haven]

Ye the kjarr weapons are your final DBs

[zinc pier]

plan is

get kjar daggers,
use kjar daggers to farm safi

once i have a full safi set
kill alatareon and fatalis

[vocal haven]

If you can you really wanna do kulve with other people to get the double headbreak (or use like the solo HBG strats if you are equipped to do that)

It will accelerate the farming by a fuckton

[zinc pier]

i was planning to do all this solo

[brave hazel]

Lmfaoooooooooo

[fathom osprey]

Letting you edit stickers is so funny

[graceful snow]

Its a great feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2ZoThIkV8A

[halcyon fractal]

mom said its my turn to be the alpha

[hollow comet]

world is only getting 30-45 frames even though my pc should probably be fine for a 7 year old game 😟

[zinc pier]

world , please
please just let a tigrex spawn in the guiding lands

[naive elk]

behemoth slayed
duty failed

i want to die

[zinc pier]

how does that work? (hasnt done the benemoth fight)

[zinc pier]

also turns out
all but 2 of my zones were not high enough level for a tigrex to spawn
so thats, unfortunate

[naive elk]

he does a map wide instakill when you win

if you don't have meteors to stand behind you have to dodge with an emote

[frank epoch]

just figured out that hunting horn can offset in the middle of recitals and then immediately resume playing afterwards

[naive elk]

and we had no carts left

and no meteors

[zinc pier]

thats

[naive elk]

and someone didn't have the emote equipped

[zinc pier]

well thats a
bizzare mechanic

[naive elk]

it's a final fantasy thing

it sucks though

the fact that it's map wide is ass

because if you're not close to him

and aren't in the tent when he does it

you just die unless you can tech it with the emote

[zinc pier]

note to self
be very afraid of behemoth

[naive elk]

he does cast meteors before he does it

so you're supposed to have cover

but he can also fucking destroy said meteors

so like

[frank epoch]

behemoth is sort of a whack fight but you don't have to do it

[naive elk]

you can just lose cause he rng's the meteors

[zinc pier]

how solo'able is it?

[naive elk]

well

[frank epoch]

iceborne content quickly obviates it so the only reason you'll ever need to do it is if you want the dragoon layered armor

[naive elk]

he always scales as a 4 player hunt iirc

so like

how much do you want to do a 4 player hunt solo?

[frank epoch]

it's pretty soloable with iceborne gear

[naive elk]

we're pre-iceborne

[zinc pier]

its going on the list then

[naive elk]

i'm wearing like, partial defender gear and some of the dante dmc stuff

[frank epoch]

you'll still have to use your brain a bit when fighting him but he won't be nearly the challenge he was in base game

if it's providing a lot of grief you can absolutely skip it

[zinc pier]

good to know

i think that brings my total of things left to hunt to 4

[graceful snow]

I wonder wh at fun crossovers we'll get for Wilds

[naive elk]

i'd say after having fought it a lot

i do not like Behemoth

i don't think it's particularly fun

it's just fucking AoE constantly and random shit that will just kill you no matter what because you're stunned into another move or something similar

[outer heron]

wilds HH looks so fucking gigabrain it's unreal

[frank epoch]

capcom finally doubled down on the core audience of hunting horn players

calvin klein models with 530,000 IQ

[outer heron]

lmfao

[zinc pier]

hmmm
question for world
what would be the best way to go about raising a guiding lands area level?
(and or , easiest way to go about hunting a specific mon)

[vocal haven]

I think my tiniest pet peeve I hope they fix with wilds is the player number scaling. Specifically why there is no 3 player scaling!

Or is the 4 player scaling made for 3 people and there is no 4 player scaling in world (either way would be cool not to lump 3 and 4 player in the same basket)

[brave hazel]

Or the cool kinsect

[brave hazel]

I know Yoshi P. said he wants to do another crossover

[teal halo]

if he does we are going to be fighting motherfucking bahamut

[brave hazel]

PLEASE

PLEASE GOD LET ME FIGHT BAHAMUT

[graceful snow]

Sorry, we have to fight Warmech or Omega now.

||Or ||

[teal halo]

himb

[brave hazel]

I will happily take Omega or Warmech

...

Y'know who my pie in the sky won't ever happen but I can dream choice is

Gilgamesh

Uses a Fatalis sword but it's one of those low rank Fatalis swords you could get from mining the Fatalis greatsword in that one old gen game

Reflect on the whole Excalipoor joke

[graceful snow]

The hero sword from MH1

[rich valve]

I don't think I'd want a crossover boss who is just like a guy

[brave hazel]

Eh, yeah

Doesn't really fit in with MonHun

...but also he's not just some random guy, he's Gilgamesh

He's the series' longest running gag

[rich valve]

You want a big model with different hit areas weapons can reach which isn't true of a big human man

[graceful snow]

I have the best worst choice for an FF monster to cross over.

[brave hazel]

Ah yes

The O R B B

Whu dat

[rich valve]

Damn it why is my phone making it such a pain to link images

https://tenor.com/view/marlboro-final-fantasy-bad-breath-attack-battle-gif-26930176

[graceful snow]

That would be Ozma, the FF9 super boss

[brave hazel]

Oh Christ that would be miserable

Hope you brought nullberries, fuckhead

[graceful snow]

I think that's kind of interesting because you can cure most blights with a single nullberry

[graceful snow]

But also like, in Rise (and possibly world) it was super easy to become ailment immune basically

[brave hazel]

Aye

Easier in Rise

[naive elk]

Nullberries are on some shit tbh

They cure basically anything weird

[brave hazel]

Yeah nullberries are cracked

I'd be surprised if the wider world didn't use them as a means of dealing with sickness

[naive elk]

They will cure just about anything but being set on fire or poisoned

[graceful snow]

Don't nulberries cure fireblight?

[zenith sedge]

They do

[mystic cape]

But rolling saves you the berry

Now that I think about it it'd be both funny and sad if nulberries were some sort of saught after cureall that Hunters just had en mass because they can get their own or know people who can grow a ton of them

Same could be said of most Hunter remedies I suppose

[graceful snow]

Yey

[eager anchor]

What is that

Why is the paper so thirst

[graceful snow]

I appreciate all of the cute small animial interactions

Huh, I accidently stumbled upon how to get EAstern Honey, you capture net a giant vigorwasp

[brave hazel]

Eastern honey?

[graceful snow]

Its one of the cooking ingredients

[brave hazel]

AH, that

[vocal haven]

Oh no

[teal halo]

oh gods no the consequences

[candid perch]

[graceful snow]

I miss the beta

[brave hazel]

Did they close it?

[graceful snow]

WAit,

[brave hazel]

Ah, yeah, I think so

[graceful snow]

I forgot about the 24 hour extension

[brave hazel]

Oh wait fr?

Nice

[graceful snow]

Esiy no

I can't timezones

[brave hazel]

I'll get in a few final hunts before it closes

[graceful snow]

IT ends in...10 minutes

[brave hazel]

Agh shit

[graceful snow]

Yea sorry

[hollow comet]

[balmy swan]

get bonked idiot

[balmy swan]

sleeby buppy all tuckered out from trying to eat my face off ❤️

[brave hazel]

Oh hey, someone modded in the Hope weapon models to World, sick
https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterworld/mods/7945

[snow helm]

Blangonga render, gotta say I both like it more and less than the older versions

He's much more gorilla than the old one was, which had this weird mandrill/lion Chimera thing with the digitigrade back legs and overall longer but thinner body shape

[mystic cape]

It is supposed to be an arctic primate, so the thicker look makes sense, if only for fur/fat insulation

[snow helm]

Yeah, they also seem to have made him significantly larger, which feels appropriate with how he's usually a scary mid game monster

Like I definitely feel he's more believable and intimidating, he just feels a little less exotic at the same time

Bizarrely he is one of the monsters I'm most excited to see returning

Hopefully we get Copper Blangonga as a TU/part of the expansion

[snow helm]

Oh sorry here's the higher res version

[brave hazel]

Given the big main area is a desert I'd be surprised if we didn't see copper blangonga

[candid perch]

Holding onto hope they're hiding a Seltas queen in there somewhere

[gentle knoll]

credit: at Rulia_Hermitaur on twitter

[brave hazel]

What do y'all reckon we'll get for DLC

[balmy swan]

Mizutsune 😛

in all seriousness... hard to say

[brave hazel]

Eh, yeah

[balmy swan]

i'm trying to think if there are any fan favorites who haven't been in a game for a minute and who suit the revealed biomes/skeletons

i know a lot of people are still pulling for Lagi

[brave hazel]

I mean

||I think that there were some Lagi weapons that got datamined||

[balmy swan]

||given the developer comment that they wanted to do cephalopods as far back as 3, it does kinda fit that Lagi would come back in the game where they finally implement them||

i feel like leviathans in general are kind of a good bet since they weren't able to have any in World

making up for lost time, as it were

[brave hazel]

||Plus I do think there'll be underwater combat once more given there's already at least one swimming section||

[frank epoch]

My one wish is for a Namielle variant that spices up the fight and makes it live up to its potential

Namielle should've been a Frontier monster so they could've gone sicko mode with it

[balmy swan]

as far as skeletons, we've got... flying wyverns, fanged beasts, leviathans, cephalopods--what am I forgetting?

[frank epoch]

Like Hadal Namielle or something like Valstrax got

Brute wyverns

[balmy swan]

right ofc

[frank epoch]

Whatever they call the big bugs

[balmy swan]

RIGHT

[frank epoch]

Carapaceons I think?

[balmy swan]

i don't imagine they'll be too keen on bringing back monsters that were in World and Rise

[frank epoch]

Who's to say

[balmy swan]

me. i'm to say 😛

nah i'm just idly speculating

i assume their priority would be bringing back monsters that haven't been in a game in a minute, but they might yet surprise me

i wouldn't say no to getting to smack around Anjanath again, though

i do kinda like that funky t-rex

[main turret]

Neopterons

Not to be confused with Temnocerans, which are arachnids

[real zodiac]

We do also have temnocerans

[main turret]

Yes, and it does make me very happy. Especially since my og fave Nerscylla is back

[real zodiac]

I would like to see almidron alongside lagi and mizu

[brave hazel]

Bird wyverns

[frank epoch]

you are the first person i've met that actually liked or cared about almudron lmao

[brave hazel]

Ditto

I don't think many folks actually enjoy almudron

[lost niche]

I doubt they actually would, but I'd love to see some frankenstein zombie dragon if we're getting into lost civilization stuff

[real zodiac]

Honestly don't hate almudron

I'll take it over kushala, and it's more interesting than somnacanth

And the mud is somehow less annoying that barroths?

[teal halo]

like say...EDW?

[desert light]

We know at least three of the monsters from title updates due to data mines. One of which is gonna be a big big hit with folks

[lost niche]

Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of

[teal halo]

fantastic!

[outer heron]

Equal Dragon Weapon mentioned

[desert light]

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/adding-new-weapon-types-to-monster-hunter-is-very-difficult-says-wilds-director

[balmy swan]

tbh i'm glad it's something they think about carefully and that they don't add new weapons just for the sake of new weapons

having each weapon be a different but fun experience is a hugely important part of the franchise

[graceful snow]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/1islcti/this_is_why_you_dont_stuff_10_birds_into_your_coat/

[desert light]

I'm glad it valdiates all ym arguments against new weapons XD

[mystic cape]

I still think a medium speed impact weapon like a bo staff could work. Gimmick is ground mobility as a sort of inverse of IG, maybe a similar speed move set, perhaps with impact charges where you bam the monster for extra damage every now and then

[real zodiac]

Didn't they do dual tonfa in one?

[brisk dirge]

in Frontiers yeah

[gentle knoll]

it was in the comically wacky one yeah

[brisk dirge]

Frontiers also has another new weapon
magnet something

[mystic cape]

Magnet axe I think

It's like a super heavy

[snow helm]

https://monsterhunter.fandom.com/wiki/Accel_Axe

There's the accel axe from explore

[frank epoch]

magnet spike!

[snow helm]

But it feels like it has a little too much overlap with the hammer/GS

[frank epoch]

just tonfas in frontier

[snow helm]

I feel like a meteor hammer/flail weapon could be really cool for a fast Blunt weapon

[frank epoch]

tonfas and swaxe are pretty overpowered in frontier and magnet spike is fucking insane

like they're actually just Better

for reference a move that hits pretty damn hard has a motion value of like, 50 generally

Magnet Spike has a move with like 600 MV

it might be 700

[teal halo]

GOOD LORDS

[outer heron]

in fairness magnet spike is uh

no yeah i got no defense

it's cool though

[frank epoch]

yeah it hits ridiculously hard, can do cutting and blunt damage easily, has a ton of mobility, and a ton of i-frames

it's just completely over the top

[steep gale]

wait what is the 600MV move

is it the pilebunker

[desert light]

My personal pitches for wepaons i've wnated to see are:

-Harpoon as a spear type weapon that has ranged/melee hybrid gameplay (Presuambly wiht grapples)
-Them bringing back the concept art they had the of the Hunting Boomerang. WHich was a greatsword sized boomerang... which you could throw,a nd then you had giant punching gloves, and you could punch it in the air to send it out again (And punch monsters)
-Just some big arse power fist style weapons, because i cannot yet punch monsters in the skull and that's shameful

[steep gale]

oh what in the goddamn

magnet spike is dumb

[frank epoch]

okay i changed my mind frontier is the best monster hunter and it's not close

there's a g rank event quest called "welcome to G Rank". it does not tell you what monster you're fighting

you get in there and they've put the game producer's face on one of the monkey monsters and he fights you while throwing out fireworks

when you beat the quest he just waves at you a lot and you get a bunch of money for it

not to mention the ||spongebob collaboration quest where you kill mr. krabs (zenith daimyo hermitaur) ||

[brave hazel]

Oh dear god

||The secret ingredient is confirmed at last||

[real zodiac]

Hmm, guess I should get wilds on ps5

Performance looks like it's better than what my pc can run

[hollow comet]

NOOO

[vocal haven]

My personal pitch would be like a bloodborne style single hand bowgun (pistol) and a Dagger or sword

[red gazelle]

I’d like an insect colony as a weapon

Like only kindest

Kinsect*

But a lot of them

[desert light]

celebratory dooting My key came through

Mosnter hunter wilds is in my acount

[brave hazel]

Or dual one-handed bowguns maybe

Though I'm uncertain what niche they'd fill that the regular bowgun doesn't

[mystic cape]

Plus it'd need to be explained in lore cause part of the reason the weapons are so bonkers big is because they have to be to actually hurt anything

[stuck needle]

dual blades (and light bowgun, sort of) mess with that a bit.

[mystic cape]

LBG still fires mortar shells and DB uses the magical science of elemental damage

[brave hazel]

Easy, they're Alucard-sized pistols that fire stupid huge rounds like .45-70 or some such

Some shit like this

[eager anchor]

The big pistol from Gungrave (Anime)

[stuck needle]

https://tenor.com/view/joker-smile-villain-long-gun-gif-17427254

[eager anchor]

.475 Wildey Magnum

It will hurt your arm to fire supposively

-# sorry as an aside I love gungrave and it does such a good job picking the guns to use for the show

[desert light]

A dual blade sword is a real life two hander, they're absurdly big weapons

[eager anchor]

The only weapon I would want is another "Trick" weapon.

Whip sword or something

[frank epoch]

fuck lmao. there's a debuff/status in Monster Hunter Frontier that monsters can inflict

it disables your chat window

and you can get skills that make you immune to it

[hollow comet]

i have no voice but i must send stickers

[teal halo]

lets take it further

debuff that mutes and deafens your discord call

[graceful snow]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/1itcifk/please_dont_terrorize_the_villagers_in_the_full/ Nani the fuck?

[real zodiac]

Y'know, i miss the world -aans

[brave hazel]

Well

So much for those diplomatic relations

[graceful snow]

I sure do hope Nanao didn't get a job there

[snow helm]

I suspect this is somehow just a consequence of the same house models existing out in the actual environment, probably as an abandoned village or two on this map or others, that you can actually fight monsters in so having them be destructible is meant to happen in the course of a normal hunt

[graceful snow]

Supposedly, there's a trailer where doshugama are invading a village.

[stuck needle]

Wasn't that in the announcement trailer?

[frank epoch]

alright i found out the general number values for magnet spike pin finisher

for reference, that move has a motion value of 600

absolute max power true charged slash for greatsword in both Risebreak and Iceborne looks to be 264

so. lmao

[stuck needle]

isn't it also super conditional? I remember a post going around about how its reputation was sort of overblown

[frank epoch]

less conditional than you think

you'll get fewer of those off in a hunt than you would TCS but it also pins the monster in place for a long time when you do the move

it's got insane damage, can do cutting and blunt damage, has crazy mobility, shitloads of i-frames, it's really just kinda nuts

feels like 80% of people use it

[snow helm]

Ah yeah there was, I think it was just a sound bite but that solves that

Multiple doshaguma destroying houses like this is going to make my PC burst into flames though holy cow

[hollow comet]

it's huge

and so is the hitbox

[frank epoch]

Oh yeah thats a funny quest

[halcyon fractal]

GOOD LUCK

TRY NOT TO DIE

[hollow comet]

i died 8 times

received my paltry 6000z (x2)

rip my voucher...

[halcyon fractal]

🫡

You took one like a true hunter

Or like.
You took 8 like a true hunter

[hollow comet]

HAHA

yeah 😆

[halcyon fractal]

(This reminds me of that event quest in mhgu with the puny gammoth)

(Or that one quest in frontiers with the water absorbant plesioth)

[brave hazel]

Protip: Shoot it

[desert light]

Folks like that freak me out

[brave hazel]

Yeah that's

Super fucking unhealthy

[teal halo]

There’s a fine line between enjoyment and obsession and there’s an even finer one between obsession and worship

[steep gale]

Sometimes ya get hyperfixated for a moment

But if it lasts more than a few days, get outside and clear yer head

[frank epoch]

I'm sating my desire to play Wilds by playing Frontier instead

[hollow comet]

1/3

[balmy swan]

toaster down

[teal halo]

Now you just have to beat the Corpse God (my beloved) and The Windy Bastard

[hollow comet]

i have decided that i dislike kushala

[hollow comet]

an apt nickname

got it down to skull

then spent 10 minutes trying to chase it in the air

because i accidentally fired my last flash on a clutch claw

[teal halo]

Kushala Daora or as some know him The Embodiment Of Chicago

[hollow comet]

😭

taken out at least!

26 mins

[teal halo]

Congrats

[steep gale]

It Fucken Wimdy

[teal halo]

Now you have to fight the best elder dragon in base world that isn’t xeno!

[hollow comet]

it sure is

https://medal.tv/games/mh-world/clips/jJoSl0ew1T6lkira7?invite=cr-MSxvc0osMTgwOTUwMTQ1LA

[steep gale]

Danny

[hollow comet]

https://tenor.com/view/luhmao-little-meow-luhmao-grab-grab-vr-grab-gif-12222958141830498829

[steep gale]

Do yourself a favor

[hollow comet]

i'm all ears

[steep gale]

Do not ever fight Arch-Tempered Kushala Daora

[hollow comet]

dear lord

[steep gale]

It isn’t worth it.

[hollow comet]

i'll take your word for it 😭 😭

[steep gale]

AT Elders are cool boss fights for endgame base World

AT Kushala Daora is the exception

It is a little bastard that’s mostly immune to most attacks most of the time

[hollow comet]

https://tenor.com/view/bleak-it's-bleak-shaking-head-its-bleak-black-and-white-gif-9592734580409210082

[frank epoch]

shin is fighting for his life

[hollow comet]

just gathered the tracks for it!

it'll have to wait until tomorrow though

[desert light]

Yeah. It probably freaks me out because like - Monster Hunter is super fucking totemic for me. It has gotten me through some serious shit.

BUt it's also still a game, it's something i enjoy, it is not somethign that rulkes my life. Any kind of obessesion like that always freaks me out tbh

[eager anchor]

One week folks

-# ITS BEEN

[teal halo]

Now I’ve got Neil Cicerega’s “Smooth” in my head again, thanks Thej

[hollow comet]

it's ben

[balmy swan]

IT'S BEEN
one week since you carted me
knocked me flying through the air 'cuz you're angry

[lapis juniper]

god fucking damn it Theja

[desert light]

https://preview.redd.it/oves7k1gsake1.png?width=1199&format=png&auto=webp&s=4685da293ee041acff9864fe739d5da10a59e10f

[hollow comet]

bro was stinky

[hollow comet]

https://tenor.com/view/its-peak-peak-fiction-one-piece-gif-26139262

[teal halo]

Damn right it is

[hollow comet]

xeno was a very pretty monstie

i enjoyed being able to smack the hands but the head was a bit harder

[teal halo]

Xeno is the best monster hands down and that is because of prettiness alone

[brave hazel]

Aye

I wish they'd kept leaning into its weird alien vibe with Safi

[desert light]

https://i.redd.it/um430gbe7eke1.jpeg

Somewhat salty at the 18 hour differance between console and steam for NZ =x

[naive elk]

Oh shit, right

Need to pre-order the game soon

[brave hazel]

We are but a week away from release

So close

[rich valve]

this time next week i wont be playing it because ill be asleep
but i could be

[inland ruin]

This time next week I'll be in France so I can't play

[brave hazel]

Boy there sure is a lot to look forward to next week

Skullcrusher Pack for DRG and the Wilds full release

[eager anchor]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1231075734949331005/1342688471914905830/Overcooked-1740021003202.mp4?ex=67ba8b95&is=67b93a15&hm=b2d4de77a30d9663b0460c57d51d7a5f373512856c7d5b8230aeecbcb29fa124&

[hollow comet]

seliana is so cozy

🥺

[brave hazel]

It is

And the theme is so nice too, especially the night theme

[hollow comet]

https://medal.tv/games/mh-world/clips/jKdI84bzJDpRYtugr?invite=cr-MSxVVlYsMTgwOTUwMTQ1LA

i screamed when it turned around and i realized it was holding a damn TREE

[hollow comet]

mhmmmm

[desert light]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=56jUTbT9_3Q

[desert light]

Armor set spoilers from rtoday's stream, just the visuals:

||https://preview.redd.it/craxes5p6oke1.png?width=417&format=png&auto=webp&s=98c5a04593160606419e63c33b415a4ce3ec03e2||

Likel Dahad's armor, very pretty

[hollow comet]

😭

[candid perch]

Mmm yummy foo-

[desert light]

https://youtu.be/ZbuaiokyY4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zo69-lKm1c

Some beautiful arikveld takedowns

shows you what you can do with the greatsword esp

And the dual blades shows osme cool tech like using the blade dance as a combo starter

[graceful snow]

I gotta see a charge blade one now

[desert light]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEwWdWFX88w

[graceful snow]

Humm...is Pizza Time a Fell Cleave?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/252654256593698817/758357283515269201/image0.gif

My survey of 1 people says yes

[crude kayak]

yes

as a war and cb main

[graceful snow]

Also, I finally found The Charge Blade Guide™ and I'm reading it ri ght now going "Wow I already intuited all of this so far."

[vocal haven]

They said they increased hitsto pright? but not for the beta?

[fiery sentinel]

yeah, all the QoL changes weren’t in it

same for some of the bigger weapon changes like IG getting the aerial dodge bounce back I think

[mystic cape]

Aerial Dance I think is th etechnical name, but yeah

Though it was mentioned for people thinking the new IG controls could be clunky that they're gonna have to get used to it

[crude kayak]

there's a lot of buttons to hold with new IG

especially with focus mode

[vocal haven]

crowded controller layout?

[frank epoch]

frontier wasn't lying. those monsters can zenith

zenith statuses and blights are so fucked lmao

[candid perch]

I'm gonna miss being able to SAED right from SNS mode

But hey

Counter SAED is still there

[mystic cape]

Better stock up on tiny barrel bombs

[candid perch]

I played GS in Sunbreak
I got this

[real zodiac]

Honestly I love savage axe so, win for me

[candid perch]

https://youtu.be/oElZi31PIZU?si=lQfKgN_rNY7fzn3k
We have made an apparent discovery

[frigid mango]

Boy, the Crystal Kulu Ya ku fight sure is… something

I appreciate that they gave it the Chocobo theme, if nothing else

[graceful snow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR1fqXYGaCI Perfect game

[crude kayak]

Can I get tldr without having to listen to the them?

An attempt was made.

[candid perch]

If you [remove] the big stegosaurus looking guys while there's a lightning storm, lighting just starts striking everywhere constantly.
In the video, it ended up killing pretty much all of the small monsters around

[crude kayak]

And thanks.

[desert light]

Turns out the living lighting rods serve an important part of the ecosystem

werid!

[void narwhal]

Heroes...

[teal halo]

i hate that kulu ya ku and fear it more than ffxiv fans fear red chocobos

[real zodiac]

Okay but red choco casts meteor

[graceful snow]

https://tenor.com/view/ff14-final-fantasy14-bozja-red-comet-iki-iki-gif-18861938

[frigid mango]

I’m of two minds. On the one hand, having a Kulu Ya Ku of all things grow progressively bigger and stronger does sound like a pretty funny fight. And again, use of the chocobo theme is a plus.

On the other hand, fights whee i spend half of it trying to angle myself so that my weapon isn’t bouncing off is annoying to say the least

After a while, i found myself just kinda wishing the fight could be over

[eager anchor]

Red chocobos are scary

[balmy swan]

this honestly might be one of the best end screens i've ever gotten

[brave hazel]

THWONK

[desert light]

Heads up folks: Reviews are starting to leak, dataminers are spinning up, etc.

Please be careful if you're anti-spoiler. By the same token, if you're a spoiler hound, please respect the folk who aren't - use your spoiler blocks via double | at either end of a sentance

Like ||MONSTER HUNTER IS COOL|| this

[desert light]

Just to give some idea of the scale of the leaks: We have pictures of the fianl boss, we have pcitures of a monster that hasnt been even revealed in any trailers etc

so, ya know

BE CAREFUL

[halcyon fractal]

^^^

gotta make sure you don't see 'em

ESPECIALLY ||the final boss, who looks straight outta bloodborne||

[teal halo]

I am very excited now

But I will witness no more

[near bane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EuEtXtd47M

review is out

[balmy swan]

https://www.tumblr.com/damnwyverngems/776369180588015616/famitsu-cover-art-of-monster-hunter-wilds-edit-by

[balmy swan]

the couple of reviews i've listened to (including gaijin's) generally seem to agree on "good foundation, interested in seeing where it goes from here"

[stuck needle]

the performance is the only real bummer

[frank epoch]

World had pretty questionable performance on launch, they'll be tightening it up for sure

[balmy swan]

Arekkz's review did mention that there was a kind of strange range of performances on similar machines

like iirc they were all running 4080s and i7s, yet some of them had no issues and some of them kept running into bugs and glitches

for my part i had the beta running pretty decently on a 4070 and a 13th gen i7, fingers crossed that that holds up in the full game

[real zodiac]

I wonder if it's a driver thing

[balmy swan]

could be, i should make sure that mine are up to date

[real zodiac]

Saw a post about talking about a huge performance increase after an amd driver for the bench

[mystic cape]

This is not a joke this is real

[brisk dirge]

I'm surprised, since Jo said he wasn't gonna do Crap Guides anymore

but I guess when it seems like Capcom asks him directly

[balmy swan]

https://tenor.com/view/the-return-of-the-king-lord-of-the-rings-ro-tk-title-card-gif-22191928

[gentle knoll]

it was a short one, but also yeah i am kinda dissatisfied at capcom for reaching out to jo

like, from a business perspective, that makes every single ounce of sense

however... dude publicly announced he's done with jocrap

[rich valve]

i guess he wasnt or he wouldnt have done it

[gentle knoll]

i mean could just be money enough to make an exception

[steep gale]

Jo isn’t made of stone, Capcom has hella money to throw around

[frank epoch]

I think Jo's been slowly making their way back up to putting out content

[stuck needle]

I think Jo identifies as cis and male, just somewhat gender-nonconforming, but I don't follow him closely

[gentle knoll]

he's active now (or i guess soon, just checked twitch, most recent streams are a month ago)

[mystic cape]

He made a video about coming back into the fold, but with changes

He made a vid about his Japan trip not long ago

[frank epoch]

Gotcha, wasn't sure. I sorta default to their if I don't know lol

[stuck needle]

yup yup! a good policy IMO

[gentle knoll]

in jocat's case, him being cis man is kinda lore relevant so i assume it's more likely ppl will show up to remind others of his pronoun

[stuck needle]

because he went through a lot of gender introspection, or like. literal lore about his persona/character?

[frank epoch]

Yeah I get that

[zenith sedge]

Apparently he mentioned a few days ago that there will be one exception to the "no more JoCrap" thing, and this is that exception

[gentle knoll]

ah

then i retract my statement regarding my displeasure towards capcom

[real zodiac]

Sometimes you gotta make some art that pays bills so you can make art for the sake of making art

And yeah

I'd probably go with he's relatively happy for the opportunity

[frank epoch]

Hell yeah

[naive elk]

if i ever have to fight another Piscine wyvern again i'm going to go completely insane

[frank epoch]

Lavasioth?

[naive elk]

just fought Beotodus

[frank epoch]

Ah, gotcha

[zenith sedge]

I enjoyed Beotodus but I've only ever fought it with Lance and Heavy Bowgun, being able to block its attacks is definitely nice

[naive elk]

seeing Grammeowster Chef makes it all worth it again

[vocal haven]

Beo is atleast cool

[naive elk]

Grammeowster Chef the GOAT

I would eat anything she cooked for me no questions asked

[balmy swan]

the food she cooks looks amazing

meat so tender it starts falling apart when you pick it up? yes please

[naive elk]

the food was the one thing i was missing when i started playing Rise

it doesn't matter how yummy that Dango is when you compare it to grandma chef's 5 course michelin star cooking

[real zodiac]

Holy shit, watching gaijin hunter's review, and dual blades look so good?

[halcyon fractal]

https://cbsky.app/profile/sketch-and-scale.bsky.social/post/3livj4mgma22q

[desert light]

Gahhhhhhhhh

Folks need to get their facts right before posting on the internet

And not complain about this like the game doesn't have lock on

[balmy swan]

MonHun's had lock-on for ages, hasn't it? At least since third gen, probably longer

[gentle knoll]

lock-on got introduced with touchscreen, pretty sure

[desert light]

I think they wanted like hard, elden ring style?

[balmy swan]

Huh. That's... an opinion, I guess? I don't know how well a Souls-style hard lockon would mix with MonHun's hitzone-based gameplay

Like whiffing hits thanks to lockon awkwardness is already a problem in Souls games where you mostly just care about connecting with the opponent's model at all

[desert light]

It wouldn't.

[desert light]

Yes, they were complaining about whiffing attacks that's why they wanted a lock on, and my man, this is literally a skill issue

The basic arse structure of the game wants you to master how to position yourself and aim!

[gentle knoll]

complaining about whiffing attacks feels like they're not good at facing the right direction or am i off base?

[desert light]

I don't think you are, given their complaint about wanting lock on

It's literally a skill issue, and it frustrates me in that the game they're after isn't monster hunter. It's a fundamental not understanding the game

[balmy swan]

Yeah, unfortunately a lot of people tend to approach games with an idea of how they're "supposed" to be rather than trying to understand what a given game is trying to do and meeting it there

And like, if you don't vibe with a game then you don't vibe with it, but "this game successfully does something I don't enjoy" is different than "this game fails at its design"

And it is frustrating when people don't recognize that

[graceful snow]

I'm sure there's going to be videos of Streamers™ rage quitting to Dosh or something

[real zodiac]

Ehh, idk about that, tbh

[teal halo]

There’s gonna be video essays about how “monster hunter is a badly designed game” and the fans will obliterate them.

[naive elk]

immaculate drip on Cheesegrater

[naive elk]

kinda nice that Raging Brachy shit is so universally busted

i don't really need to think about what weapon i want to build for endgame i just make a raging brachy one

[vocal haven]

yeee

altough I do think for Alatreon and Fatalis you prob wanna have ele weapons

altough I am not 100% on fatalis.

prob does depend on weapon

[naive elk]

My endgame build for IG used raging wep so it's prolly fine

Iirc elementless Swaxe is good

Was thinking of making a Lunastra swaxe but that one is blast andi'm likely to unlock Raging Brachy before i fight Lunastra so that's kind of pointless

[graceful snow]

I wish I could preload right now

[naive elk]

I'll buy the game tomorrow i think

Prolly won't play it this year unless some lucky things happen, but i do want to get the pre-order bonuses at least

[frank epoch]

Don't need ele for fatty

And you can basically skip alatreon

There's like an easy version of the quest or something

[naive elk]

Yeah then blast is def the best option

[frank epoch]

Have you fought raging brachy yet?

[naive elk]

No

We haven't gotten to Velkhana even lol

[frank epoch]

Gotcha lol

Good luck

[naive elk]

We'll get Velkh tomorrow prolly

Shouldn't be too hard

[frank epoch]

Velk's not so bad

[naive elk]

I should mention it's just on this run, my other character is on fatty

[frank epoch]

RBrachy is another story

Gotcha

[naive elk]

Rbrachy is kind of a fuck but i can deal

I have a full rbrachy set and weapons on my other char

It's 3 people including me who have gotten to fatty and our friend who hasn't played World before

He did 100% Rise tho so he knows the score

[vocal haven]

Shudders in ATVelk

Velk is such a great Elder 😌

[naive elk]

I'm looking forward to Fatty mostly at this point

Strongly considering hopping on my old char for Fatty tho

[vocal haven]

Why call him that :c

[naive elk]

Idk if i want to grind out fatty level gear and jewels on a second char considering how long it took the first time

[naive elk]

Hate

Stupid beast may hate me but i can hate it back just as easily

[frank epoch]

Fatty (honorific)

[naive elk]

Pretty much

I respect it too much for it to be derogatory

[balmy swan]

I just cleared seething goose last night, at this rate it'll be lucky if I manage to get through the story quests before Wilds drops

Seethegoose was kinda fun, though

[desert light]

You missed the bloodborne guy rage quit to khezu? 😄

[desert light]

Goose: SMoldering edition

[candid perch]

what

[graceful snow]

Yea that was a thing

[desert light]

https://old.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/mhtkel/heyzeusherestoast_mhw_veteran/

TLDR: HeyZeusHeresToast is a (in)famous Blodoborne str eamer. they tried mosnter hunter, failed terribly, and rage quit vs a low rank khezu on stream.

Infamous in that it's very likely they cheat at things like blindfolded Bloodborne runs, etc

[naive elk]

Abysmal dogshit

[desert light]

https://old.reddit.com/r/bloodborne/comments/r55wjk/what_is_wrong_with_this_heyzeusherestoast_guy/

A whole reddit thread on why folks dont like him over here too.

[naive elk]

Ragequitting to low rank Khezu is insane

[desert light]

He couldtn evne track it was on the ceiling!

it was very funny

he also spent 40 minutes vs village aksom or something equally silly

[naive elk]

How bad do you have to be to lose to fucking low rank khezu 😭

[desert light]

Ego!

It's a hell of a thing!

Hell, i just had someone get mad at me for beating them in a boardgame and start c laiming it was all luck, and there was nothign tehy could have done

very silly

[naive elk]

Like fine if you cart a few times or lose a hunt

Khezu is kind of a bitch

But ragequitting in low rank is crazy

[desert light]

Again, it's just ego

Like shit, i got a bit saltytt at gettin g wrecked by Arkveld in the demo

[naive elk]

There's no way this person is doing anything legit in Bloodborne either if they ragequit on fucking low rank Khezu

[desert light]

but... i'm not ashamed to admit i got wrecked, And evnetually i went okay, i'm struggling in the dmeo, i'll do better in the full game when i have an easier time with gear, etc

[teal halo]

not a chance in hell

[desert light]

and i consider myself a good gamer in general

[naive elk]

Low rank Khezu...

[teal halo]

i get my shit wrecked in monhun all the time but i've been getting better. ive played bloodborne. if this guy beat any bloodborne boss legit then he wouldn't do this shit but i bet he hasnt even beat gascoigne legit