Monster Hunter

[wanton scroll]

Double Almudron mantle

RODINE HAS A SWAXE OMG

NOOOOO SHE GAVE ME THE GLAIVE

wanted your swaxe

[wanton scroll]

I built the ore MR hammer

because of those damn crabs

[wanton scroll]

oh my god I get it

or at least

we kinda do

Big smack = big hype

[void narwhal]

Big smack, big stun, big hypes

[hollow comet]

golf swing 😌

[final hedge]

wilds has the funny windmill attack

[wanton scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/homura-akemi-gif-25263507

[final hedge]

extremely true

[wanton scroll]

Love the rocket engine on your palmute when you equip the royal order armor

[wanton scroll]

Defeating two crabs in like 17 minutes with a hammer feels good

okay, now to continue with MR3

[hollow comet]

bonk!

[final hedge]

I'm thinking about entering that reddit fashion contest for a bit of fun

but idk if I can be bothered

[elder tusk]

me at red lobster

[final hedge]

knight vibes fit

also I finally got my second two gog gems

its taken me like an actual week to get 3 gems

[hollow comet]

😔

[final hedge]

but I have em now

got a good 4 point gog / 2 point scorcher build goin

[hollow comet]

let's freaking grow

I wanna try 4 pc gog with bow

[final hedge]

I was farming gog with bow for a while but then I was like wait I can just use sword and shield and not suffer so much

bc with 3 npcs the dps overall isnt that different

the only thing I still can't dodge consistently without the bow dash is the big double wingarm slam

where he uses both at once

sometimes I feel like he makes his whole torso a hitbox for it before hes actually brought his arms down. get weird instant death before I'm about to dodge it

[hollow comet]

wilds does have some weird hitboxes

[teal halo]

i love fighting gog. but i keep forgetting he has a fucking command grab

[hollow comet]

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

[final hedge]

gog has a grab???

[hollow comet]

^^^

??

[teal halo]

YEAH

[final hedge]

how

[teal halo]

and it's not the kind that you stab to escape, no he just grabs you with his wing claws and throws you at the ground

[final hedge]

I've never once seen that

[teal halo]

i wanted to watch this video but then he mispronounced monster names to a degree i've never heard before and left

[hollow comet]

yea... 😭

[teal halo]

i've experienced it twice

[final hedge]

he has one move that can stunlock and chain you down with tremors which is kind of annoying

[teal halo]

yeah that's a bitch

[final hedge]

and his gaseous state initialisation move where he just sprays laser and aoe goop everywhere is kind of shit

[teal halo]

eh

i like it

[final hedge]

if he didnt go back over areas that would be fine because you could run through it

but it really is just like a random squiggly line and he whips it around so fast

[hollow comet]

goss harag is quite cool

[final hedge]

hes very fun

I like breaking his ice

[hollow comet]

mhmm

dunno how i'm supposed to break rajang's arms

ah well

ig knock it out of enrage first

[final hedge]

he has separate red arms mode where they become hard

mans basically got 2 parallel enrage systems

I think if you knock him out of rage he goes out of red mode tho

[hollow comet]

gotchaaa

think i need 3 of these 😔

or more

only rajang fur for crit eye decos but still going back to HR

[final hedge]

maggy plate sucks

[hollow comet]

hopefully if i'm farming scorned i can get one

hitting instablock against goss harag's swings 😌

it's like i'm playing lies of p again

gotta cap and break front leg for the claws.,.,

next time

[balmy swan]

Went back to Iceborne for a bit this weekend

MR Black Diablos is an absolute pisser, but having a maxed out swaxe build with 1110 attack is worth it

[hollow comet]

shell yea

what did you need it for?

[balmy swan]

Maxed out Diablos swaxe

Gonna go for the Deviljho one next

[hollow comet]

yippee

[balmy swan]

I gotta say, Deviljho's big dragon element cloud was already not my favorite attack

Savage doing the same attack but the cloud lingers? Nightmare altogether

[dark juniper]

time to face Lunagaron

We had Garangolm armor for 1 whole MR

[dark juniper]

Peak monster

Arwyn | She/It (Cybele) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) time to face Lunagaron

[hollow comet]

it's quite cool 😌

[dark juniper]

Malzeno also badass

[hollow comet]

[candid perch]

Will I have enough free time to play MonHun stories..

[hollow comet]

😔 ain't that a mood

[tardy grotto]

What mon is this?

[final hedge]

thats malzeno from sunbreak

and mon is short for pokemon

[hollow comet]

calzone 💖

today I learned Recovery Up increases your healing from Blood Rite

that's replacing my stamina thief and/or free meal lmao

Rise 1-slots are not super amazing ime.,.,

well, I suppose the risen elder skills are quite nice

kushala blessing 3..

[full sage]

intrepid and shockproof can be pretty nice

[dark juniper]

Lunagaron took over 4th place from Mizutsune

If only the gear was better skilled

From what we've seen, Mon is just Monster rather than a specific franchise

Audrey 🌻 ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) and mon is short for pokemon

[dark juniper]

Wonder if we should try our original main weapon again in Rise (Sword and Shield)

We tried bow in the training area but it didn't click with us tbh

And LBG

[hollow comet]

oh huh! didn't realize intrepid was a 1 slot :D

[candid perch]

Oh so that's how people are making those unkillable DB builds..

[hollow comet]

that reminds me that I have to try a Berserk DB build

To discuss some of the specifics, Demon Mode adds a 35% Element and Status boost to the hunter’s Dual Blades while transformed.
what the heck lol

[full sage]

there's an intrepid 1 slot that gives 1 level, and a 3 slot that gives the full 2 levels.
aside from the 3 elder dragon unique skills, my experience with end game sunbreak builds is that many of your upgraded qurio crafted armor pieces won't have that many spare 1 slots anyways, and between the trio elder dragons, shockproof, intrepid heart, possibly element to round out a 4+1 5 levels of an element skill, and possibly spiribird's call for qol, you should probably be fine

db has traditionally been an elemental weapon, and all the different possible elemental boosting skills really shine on it in sunbreak, there's a bunch of different build options available to you

[hollow comet]

ohh yes, the element skills make sense

i mostly only have raw builds atm so that didn’t even cross my mind hehe

[full sage]

berserk straddles the line of comfy and uncomfy in a really fascinating way, blood awakening is also really fun, though it is a bit match up dependent, you can do really funny things with a frenzied bloodlust focused build, mail of hellfire (element) is quite powerful...

and there's funny Dragon Conversion/Furious stuff you can do for dragon element specifically!

and pieces of each of these strategies get mixed and matched after cramming as many skills onto your armor as possible

[hollow comet]

😌

tyty for the infoo

[final hedge]

I havent done most of the post launch content but sunbreak builds were already getting very silly

I can only imagine the sheer number of skill points you can get on endgame stuff

[hollow comet]

there's a lot.. and my builds aren't even fully endgame yet

i really like the amount of wacky armour skills, synergies, and customization you have

[final hedge]

significant silliness

[hollow comet]

🙂‍↕️

I really like Lucent Narga weapons having low-ish purple and white, so you can use Heaven-Sent to recover sharpness and activate Grinder for 10% raw for 90s because you go from Blue -> Purple with the 50 (?) units Heaven-Sent gives you

fun times

[balmy swan]

Sunbreak sounds like it really gets wacky (complimentary) with the build options

[final hedge]

it really does

you can do a lot of funky stuff

you can also get really really high damage numbers because of the new silkbind moves

[wanton scroll]

Base Rise gives you the Soaring Wyvern Blade on Swaxe. If you land the main hit you can charge a lot of meter

[balmy swan]

I do like me some flashy swaxe moves

[dark juniper]

You launch up and then dash in the direction of your camera while switching to sword mode

[balmy swan]

Tragically my partner's copy of Rise is on Switch, and I have no Switch of my own... but maybe I can get us both Steam copies to play together on

[dark juniper]

It's fun because the following explosion will always be a critical regardless of where it lands

Or a weak spot hit? Don't know the difference

The numbers go orange

Sunbreak allows for silliness with switch scrolls, allowing you to have two sets of switch skills at any time

[tardy grotto]

Yeah, rise and SB goes down to like 10 bucks on sale

[tardy grotto]

Weak spot, ye

[dark juniper]

On LS you can do the Sakura spin to build meter, then switch to spirit helm breaker

It's funny

[hollow comet]

mhm! i really like that there's distinct playstyles based on your armour and switch skills :D

[balmy swan]

This pleases my internal build pervert

[hollow comet]

😆

[tardy grotto]

I should play Rise

(I need to finish LR Wilds first, at very least)

[balmy swan]

Like literally this is why I have ~250hrs in AC6, I keep spending hours on end just tinkering with putting build pieces together into different assemblages

[balmy swan]

Felt, I'm already concurrently playing Wilds endgame, Iceborne late game, and 4U LR

This game will never let me go

[hollow comet]

real...

I made the executive decision to uninstall Rise until after my midterm on Thursday LOL

it's been taking up too much of my brain space.,.,.

[balmy swan]

Good luck with the school

MonHun will be there for you when you're done

[hollow comet]

🙂‍↕️

[dark juniper]

Did an MR Rathalos hunt

2/5 armor pieces gotten so far

the fight is nice

[dark juniper]

We now have the headcanon that the Gunlance was designed after someone recovered an ancient rocket launcher

smithies obv could replicate all of it so they just stuck it on a lance

Switch Axe/Charge Blade could be tools like debris clearers or entrenching tools

[twin ibex]

I mean...

I guess you'd need to be kind and caring.

[elder tusk]

It's not "which monstie ARE you" 😭

[tardy grotto]

Where's the link to this?

[twin ibex]

I know.

[twin ibex]

Idk.

[elder tusk]

🫡

[carmine delta]

yo anyone wanna join me in wilds?

[balmy swan]

talking with a friend who is (re)playing their way through World

[final hedge]

banbaro is a moose

hes a good boy. very very large

gold crown banbaro is huuuuge

[rustic dove]

yay yippee yay i love rng

and rng loves me

[wanton scroll]

ASTALOS NEXT?

pumped for tomorrow

[balmy swan]

Jazz hands!!

[wanton scroll]

we just realized that Astalos is an electric monster......

oh neptune

time to sideboard in some electric resist

[hollow comet]

astalos is my goat

it's such a fun monster

I keep getting got by the ball after the diagonal zaps (which also move a lot faster than in GU), I think that's a new move for sunbreak

and I love that they gave it the big boltreaver crest-sword-beam

[dark juniper]

Seregios is next

And Magma Almadron

[dark juniper]

Astalos has cute RGB lighting

Este (they/she) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) astalos is my goat

[bleak halo]

Astalos has such awesome music

[hollow comet]

🙂‍↕️

[hollow comet]

ohh yeah, the wings are so pretty in rise 🥹

[dark juniper]

Why does Seregios do the kamen rider kicks

[hollow comet]

😭

[dark juniper]

tempted to build the legs for that other four slot

[hollow comet]

the swooper

do seregios weapons still have some kind of unique mechanic in rise

[dark juniper]

just got Rath armor tho

[hollow comet]

shell yea

[dark juniper]

we would lose full earplugs

[hollow comet]

what weapon are y'all playing again?

[dark juniper]

swaxe

[hollow comet]

gotchaa

[dark juniper]

and LS

and hammer

and maybe S&S

[hollow comet]

not sure what gets affected by earplugs 5

just realizing i've never run earplugs 😭

[dark juniper]

us neither

but rathalos set gives us level 7 attack boost

[hollow comet]

thankfully you can counter roars 😌

it might be a bit hard to do with the swaxe wirebug skill, but the other weapons you mentioned can get it quite consistently (other than hammer since Water Strike can only be used from neutral iirc)

[hollow comet]

oooh gotcha

hrm hrm

[balmy swan]

i always try to roll through roars instead of using Earplugs, i'm not very good at it though xP

i am slightly better at blocking them

but i find that a lot of monsters' roar telegraph is... iffy at best

[rustic dove]

my goal is sub 15

[dark juniper]

Magmadron sucks

we like the base species more

ESPINAS NEXT WOOOOOO

[dark juniper]

Damn, Espinas has claws

[dark juniper]

Valstrax is now our 10th favorite monster

[final hedge]

I always fuck up the roar dodge and I never slot earplugs

I accepted my fate long ago

[hollow comet]

[final hedge]

esp in multiplayer if youre on tail and it roars at someone else its often super hard to tell its doing that

[hollow comet]

hunted my midterm... now i hunt monsters...

[dark juniper]

Valstrax was slain by our hands

Este (they/she) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) hunted my midterm... now i hunt monsters...

And Astalos

and Espinas

Next up checks quest list Gore Magala?

shit

[hollow comet]

shell yeah

[dark juniper]

We also did Utshushi's follwer quests

[hollow comet]

ooh nice

i have not done many of those LOL

i should do utsushi's because i think his horn gives AuL?

[dark juniper]

We don't play horn oops

Learned that Royal Order swaxe is behind Admiral quests

How are the other weapons? they look kinda stinky

[final hedge]

I really liked the aesthetics on the royal order weapons

the longsword might be my favourite

[elder tusk]

Damn okay

[final hedge]

I love playing fashion hunter

[hollow comet]

ah, i mean he gives you AuL as a supporter

it's on his song list

[dark juniper]

the stats give are funky

Audrey 🌻 ↩️

[(click to see attachment)](#1164963928531533855 message)

also what is that set

[final hedge]

mizu mask swallow chest gala waist royal order legs and I don't remember what the arms are sorry, probably royal order if I had to guess

I did some hunts with people in vc here yesterday and they seemed kind of shocked that I mixed 5 sets for a layered armor set

[dark juniper]

AuL?

Este (they/she) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) ah, i mean he gives you AuL as a supporter

[hollow comet]

Attack Up (L)

[dark juniper]

oh

awawa

[hollow comet]

oh maybe it's just called attack up, sorry

seems to be a 10% (raw?) boost

[hollow comet]

fight check

fit

i have violence on the mind

[hollow comet]

lies of p 🙂‍↕️

oooh berry berry nice

I can slot in so many attack boosts... IF I HAD THEM!!

goss harag I'm coming for you

also I realized Recovery Up is a 2 slot in this game

😩

...

[full sage]

ah, just like old times

[hollow comet]

yeah 😭

me having entirely too much fun with Insta-Block

[rustic dove]

I LOVE LANCE RAHHH

[hollow comet]

AR 200 woohoo

[hollow comet]

🙂‍↕️

[snow helm]

Starting a new playthrough of Wilds finally, absolutely chuffed with how my hunter turned out after spending the whole evening in the character creator. Now I just have to figure out what weapons I want to use this run, which may take another entire evening if I'm honest

[tardy grotto]

Charge Blade eating goooood

[final hedge]

this bun is ready to throw hands

[final hedge]

consider trying hammer if you haven't played it, it's great in wilds with the offsets

[near bane]

In my biased opinion, play lance

[hollow comet]

🙂‍↕️

[wanton scroll]

GORE IS AMAZING

Malzeno time

[hollow comet]

i really like the moga village theme

[wanton scroll]

you can charge the hammer attacks oh shit

[wanton scroll]

we fully understand the Gore hype but we don't know if it's top 20 material

We might've trashed it in under 20 mintues (including getting spiritbirds)

will throw it at 20

and Malzeno at 7

[snow helm]

Hammer, after the buffs, feels so good in Wilds it's crazy. Having your offset being smoothly integrated into one of your basic combos makes it so comfortable to pull off. My first character started Swaxe, then went GS, and I finally settled on Hammer for him

[final hedge]

have you played sns its super chill with the instablocks

[wanton scroll]

we want to try SnS in rise

and GL

and Bow

so much

[hollow comet]

real

i also wanna try GL

[tardy grotto]

I do wanna give GL a go, ye

And Swaxe

[final hedge]

rise sns is the goat

get the street fighter event quest layered weapon and punch the monsters

[hollow comet]

rise akuma looks a lil chopped 😭

[balmy swan]

My partner mains hammer in Wilds and she is the offset queen

I've gotten used to regular monster barrel rolls when we're hunting together

[wanton scroll]

Calzone ❤️

[sharp gull]

Do I play Rise or Generations Ultimate first?

[wanton scroll]

We wouldn't be able to speak on games other than Rise or World, but we'd assume either is fine to start with

[sharp gull]

ok

I’ve already played World

Oh, or Stories 2

[wanton scroll]

The Stories games are more along the lines of a monster tamer game and doesn't play exactly like the normal monhun games

[sharp gull]

I know! I thoroughly enjoyed the demo for stories 3

[wanton scroll]

but we'd assume it's fine to start with

[sharp gull]

https://tenor.com/view/mango-madness-coffeeplease-motivational-facebook-business-gif-3806943831635166736

[wanton scroll]

We've been playing Rise almost religiously recently

[sharp gull]

Ooh, is it fun?

[wanton scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/espinas-monster-hunter-espinas-monster-hunter-espınas-espınas-monster-hunter-gif-27198952

[wanton scroll]

very

[sharp gull]

espenis

[wanton scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/espinas-monster-hunter-rise-sunbreak-gif-124615045169674527

he eep

The movement is baller when you get into the flow

The only downside are spirit birds

and frequent hiccups on PC after interacting with something in the hub (at least on our end)

Switch skills are rad

the monsters are awesome

[sharp gull]

I heard 🦀

[wanton scroll]

Not the main game, but the DLC has 🦀

[sharp gull]

🦀

[elder tusk]

my deepest wish for the Wilds expansion is that we get a new Carapaceon

[sharp gull]

or a new cephalopod

[final hedge]

rise is really fun, can recommend

[hollow comet]

🙂‍↕️

[hollow comet]

having trouble wrapping my head around gunlance

i'm sure it'll work out in time

[wanton scroll]

Guess who read up on Kushala and found the poison strategy doesn't work on his World incarnation?

[elder tusk]

[naive elk]

you're uh

you're gonna have to just fight Kushala Daora in World

it's not fun but that's unfortunately how it's gonna go

[elder tusk]

elderseal is a pale but barely acceptable substitute for poison 😔

[naive elk]

could be worse

you could be fighting Rise Amatsu

genuinely the single worst fight between World and Rise

[tardy grotto]

Oj

[elder tusk]

I don't even remember what Amatsu was like in Rise

[tardy grotto]

I just realised

[naive elk]

i fought it solo for 40 mins the only time i did the fight

[tardy grotto]

I'm not getting my Nersc CB in Rise

[elder tusk]

The tragedy of having a favorite weapon design attached to a monster who isn't present 😔

[tardy grotto]

Not design

Mechanics

Guard Up + Eep = Profit

[naive elk]

ok it was 37 minutes not 40

still

wretched fight

[tardy grotto]

What's the issue?

[final hedge]

I did amatsu with este back like last year

it was tough

[naive elk]

first of all

Amatsu flies the entire fight

second, it spams AoE tornadoes

over the entire damn arena

so you gotta constantly get into the air to fight it and you need to avoid the AoE attacks that are littering the whole arena

[tardy grotto]

So go IG

[elder tusk]

or gunner

[naive elk]

also it has lightning strikes it does iirc, and it has a mapwide super attack

[tardy grotto]

I might take HBG, yeh

[elder tusk]

is it lightning lightning or "damage other than lightning that nonetheless looks like lightning" lightning

[naive elk]

i was playing with dual blades in Rise

[naive elk]

gigantic lightning strikes that come from the sky iirc

[elder tusk]

(do they do thunder damage)

[naive elk]

i have no idea

i only beat the fight once

never did it again

[final hedge]

we did it with the two of us and then two matchmaking randos

[naive elk]

i did it completely solo while watching One Piece with my friends on Discord

[final hedge]

not sure what weapon I used, maybe GS

or bow

[naive elk]

i was on Dual Blades

[final hedge]

but it was definitely a fuck, it took us a few goes

yeah db would not be happy fighting that thing

[naive elk]

i know cause i made this meme about the fight

cause i got 30+ minutes in and had no carts left and managed to clutch the fight

and i put the armor set in that screenshot together for the Shagaru Magala Dual Blades

i still need to go back to Rise

[halcyon fractal]

Sick 👀

I'm currently playing thru LR with a friendo

[naive elk]

i think the next thing i was gonna do is like

the final superboss

[final hedge]

I havent really done the post release stuff in sunbreak

I think I will go back and do it eventually

[naive elk]

i was working on it

but i got kinda bored farming

and then me and my friends went to hunt Fatalis

and did the entirety of base world and icebreak

so i sorta didn't end up coming back to Rise

[near bane]

https://youtu.be/o5E_LFMCFkQ

[naive elk]

we're back in the game

[tardy grotto]

What armour that?

[naive elk]

Somnacanth and Rajang

[tardy grotto]

What's the red glow?

[naive elk]

demon mode

[tardy grotto]

Ah

[hollow comet]

amatsu with db sounds rough

[naive elk]

it was

it really was

[dark juniper]

don't think we can ever go back to World with how good Rise movement is

[dark juniper]

https://youtu.be/ejgjpPl085A

average rise movement

[balmy swan]

late response but: if you've already played World, Rise will be more familiar in terms of QoL features (seamless maps, infinite whetstones/gathering tools, gear wheel, restocking at camp, etc)

if you're curious about the series pre-World, then Generations Ultimate is a good capstone experience of what it was like, but you're going to be dealing with a lot of the jank and friction that got smoothed away in World's revamp of the mechanics

aside from that, they're actually surprisingly similar games--they were both made by the same sub-team, and you can kinda tell in the way that Rise iterates and expands on ideas from GU

[hollow comet]

💪

[candid perch]

-# vibrating in anticipation for the reactions to the other ones

[dark juniper]

I know what Shargu and Chaotic Gore are tho

Just yet to face them

[candid perch]

They are so fun

Especially Chaotic

[elder tusk]

I'd unironically recommend that new players return to all of the older games because having more people gain first-hand perspective on how the franchise has changed over time is invaluable to the future of meaningful community feedback

unfortunately the only accessible one at this point is GU

[hollow comet]

😔

[elder tusk]

You can emulate pretty much every single one of them along with meticulously maintained (and sometimes completely reverse engineered) online support

[balmy swan]

Or just be me and stubbornly refuse to get rid of your 3DS

[elder tusk]

I still have mine but it's buried somewhere :(

[balmy swan]

I've had pretty good luck trawling the secondhand game market, though. In a period of a few months I've managed to find copies of 3U, 4U, and Generations

[elder tusk]

I also never got one with The Camera Nipple, so I still have to claw if I ever want to go back to the old games

Which I can do but god I don't wanna

[balmy swan]

Oof yeah

The camera nipple is pretty handy

[elder tusk]

shout-out to the camera nipple

[hollow comet]

still excited for when my friends and I can schedule time to hang out, my bestie is possibly willing to give / sell me a 3DS - just need to check if one of the shoulder buttons is broken

[elder tusk]

good luck!!

[hollow comet]

if it is broken, then I think it's replaceable, although I'll have to do that after exam season hehe

[hollow comet]

tyyyy

[elder tusk]

I don't remember what the 3ds shoulder button mechanism is like but hopefully you can fix it the way I fixed my Xbox controller (with a carefully folded and installed wad of electrical tape)

[hollow comet]

I was going to say if one is broken, I hope it's L because you can use the touch screen to target monsters? but then I remembered it's also item bar 😭

[hollow comet]

[dark juniper]

Double capture was hard

even worse cause it was both Sergeios and Gore

still did it in just over 16 mins + Spirit birds

IT IS TIME

TillCounterPunch (They/Them) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) -# vibrating in anticipation for the reactions to the other ones

[candid perch]

2/3 :3

This one's nuts

[dark juniper]

done

We rode like 4 monsters that fight

Bagel
Espinas
Seregios
Zinogre

and then also Sharu Magala

We have to play solo from now on

having followers, even Minoa/Utsushi just trivializes the game for us

and even then

They eep

[hollow comet]

after 228 hours i have unlocked my 3rd argosy slot

i should probably do more sidequests

that was definitely a waste of a lot of potential resources

[final hedge]

lol rip

[wanton scroll]

Monster Hunter satan is tough

[wanton scroll]

anyway, we made a Long Sword out of it

[tardy grotto]

Who?

[wanton scroll]

Gaismagorm

[hollow comet]

i like that LS a lot

used it until I got my valstrax one

[wanton scroll]

also: first weapon with purple sharpness

[hollow comet]

🙂‍↕️

[wanton scroll]

god, hitting 1K damage strikes with the Sacred Slash Combo is hilarious every time

[wanton scroll]

Afflicted monsters time

ohno.flacc

[hollow comet]

don't feel pressured to take it on right away

it was added a few updates in iirc

[elder tusk]

It'll be a breeze 😏

Really incredible how even Capcom themselves gave up on writing out the entirety of Amatsumagatsuchi

[wanton scroll]

Why does Goss Harag's MR helmet give you Ex-Aid's hair

[elder tusk]

fashion...

[hollow comet]

this made me realize I've never used a crit draw build myself

[wanton scroll]

next up is Metal Raths

[hollow comet]

o7

they're actually fun to fight in this generation

life is good

[candid perch]

Man..
MHS3 Spoilers:
||I think Simon just got obliterated. Like.. he's gone||

[night prairie]

nahhhh

[candid perch]

Aw hell naw

[night prairie]

(idk, i'm still only a bit further ahead than you lol)

[candid perch]

(oh I thought you were ||implying that he was in fact completely fine||)

[night prairie]

i was being intentionally vague lol

[elder tusk]

||Dude's performing fucking semaphore with his own death flags, I'm not surprised in the slightest (I actually had a hunch that this was about him so I checked lmao)||

||IT'S NOT A SPOILER IF I COULD TELL SINCE THE DEMO, CAPCOM||

[wanton scroll]

Lunagaron doesn't have its own theme wtf

[hollow comet]

aw :(

it's quite a fun monstie

thank you anomaly investigations for giving me reasons to fight these monsters again!!

[wanton scroll]

it's #4 on our top five

[candid perch]

Neither does Garangolm :((((

They really deserve them

[snow helm]

Both Luna and Garan feel strangely like afterthoughts, Garan especially

He's a gorilla the size of Uragaan with exploding fists and somehow he feels like a forgettable pushover

I get that they seem to have wanted to have you fight one of the spooky trio right away when you get to the new area, but I really feel like Garan would have done much better as an end game fight

He could have gotten a lot more juice as a result

[twin ibex]

https://youtube.com/shorts/GQf5EVZfecQ

[hollow comet]

my life flashed before my eyes multiple times

i wasn't trying to use the cross counter, I just misinput my leaping thrust

😭

[final hedge]

we gamer

[hollow comet]

i can't believe the explosions didn't hit me

with frenzy fail that might have one shot me

[wanton scroll]

Damn, MR Narwa has windsacs

and thunder sacs

[wanton scroll]

a bit of grinding helped out a lot

Turned a wall into 15 minutes with the back up band

[hollow comet]

heck yea

[wanton scroll]

Grinded Malzeno using the f o r b i d d e n tech
AKA: sleeptoad into two blast toads

kinda missing earplugs now ngl

pain

[elder tusk]

me looking at earplugs: nah I can roll the roar
me failing to roll the roar:

[dark juniper]

I swear that you can recover from the roars of, like, 90% of monsters before they get an opportunity to attack you

But they're always annoying

[night prairie]

the humble nergigante:

[near bane]

Did you know you can perfect block a roar

Atleast in wilds

[teal halo]

it's always sick when i pull that shit

[near bane]

Dont remember if you can do that in world, didnt mess with shields much and haven't played it in a while

I sometimes do it even when i have earplugs, just for the fun of it

[teal halo]

same

i run the artian armor with a bunch of other protective charms so roars are Not An Issue™ but i still roar parry saed

[near bane]

Artian armor ?

[teal halo]

yeah!

you know that one side quest involving two blangonga?

if you beat that you get access to the artian armor set

[near bane]

Oh yeah, i remember, thats some pretty early game armor

[teal halo]

fym early game?

[near bane]

You unlock it pretty early and there is better armor with more gem slots and im pretty sure it doesn't have a set bonus

Cant remember, do all high eank armors have a set bonus ?

[teal halo]

yes

now i just feel bad cause i really like it and think it's really cool

[near bane]

You know you can layer it right

[teal halo]

i know but i like how many gemslots it has

[near bane]

Also you dont have to feel bad, if your playing casually you dont need the late game armor sets

[teal halo]

fun fact! wrong! i have a goal in mind, and that is to make every armor set and weapon across the entire monster hunter series

[near bane]

Oh really, mine is usually achievement hunting

If not collecting 1 of each thing

What weapon do you main ?

[teal halo]

yes

[near bane]

Lol

[teal halo]

my goal is fashion hunting and by god i will give myself the ultimate wardrobe

[near bane]

Have you tried arch tempered arkveld?

[teal halo]

not yet. still getting to hr 100. though when i do face it, i'll TRY to solo it

[near bane]

I have to defeat him in 22 min to get the A rank

For the challenge

You are locked out of allot of the end game till your level 100

You can solo it, it might take a little

I suggest taking a immortal build and a lance, his attacks are scary

[wanton scroll]

Our goal in Rise is to see all the late game monsters in MR

So we're going to fight scorned maggy and that'll be the end of that

[hollow comet]

thank goodness yeah

in GU, rathalos roar into fly+fireball is true if you're in front of it

thankfully that tomfoolery is gone

[willow charm]

I have tried several times to get into classic MH, and I am just incapable

the single biggest issue I have; even more than gathering being extremely slow and taking consumable tools, moving around the map to initially find the monster being painfully slow, and the map being segmented into different loading zones; the lack of damage numbers

in a game about improving and learning how to fight the monsters most effectively, it just feels so bad to get zero feedback on how effective different attacks are or hitting different body parts

[balmy swan]

iirc there's some kind of relationship between the size of the blood splat when you hit and the effectiveness of the hitzone? but yeah it's nowhere near as obvious or intuitive as "orange numbers good"

[hollow comet]

yeah, the blood splat and critical hit sfx/vfx are the big indicators

I don't mind it too much, I do prefer having damage numbers overall though

I'm getting a little sick of qurious crafting, and this video's pushed me closer to the edge of being tired of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl9uKmxyTao

I think I will adapt something mentioned as a fun little possible solution, which is to make up a list of monster parts that seem like a fair trade for an augmentation just like how weapons are crafted - for example, a Scorned Mango mantle (+ some other parts maybe) for a Mail of Hellfire augment, since I don't want to just cheat in complete builds with no work

well this was suggested in the context of charms but I'm fine-ish with charms in Sunbreak, so I'd rather just have this for qurious armour crafting

[balmy swan]

I know pre-World the system was that decorations were crafted and charms were RNG, the idea being that you got your build from armor + decos and then charms were icing on top that could add something interesting or suggest an unusual build depending on what you got

[hollow comet]

mhmm

[balmy swan]

Then World inverted that, with decos being RNG and charms crafted

And now we've drifted back to RNG charms

[hollow comet]

AND RNG decos

[balmy swan]

But yeah, I like the idea of the bulk of your build being craftable and then the RNG element being something extra that you can pursue as much or as little as you want

[hollow comet]

what a time to be alive

[balmy swan]

Honestly I wish they'd kept something like augments from base World too

But yeah, I don't like the drift towards more and more RNG gear mechanics; it smacks pretty badly of playtime padding

[hollow comet]

yeah :((

[void narwhal]

Nothing spoils my drive like that kind of RNG, it's meant to be in the .5% drop chance from breaking one part that sucks to break, not like this

[candid perch]

Bah, when all the title updates are out and I've beaten all the monsters, I'll honestly just cheat in the stuff that requires ten billion RNG points to get

Like
Sorry
Deco grinding is still even dumber than talisman grinding

I actually really liked Sunbreak talismans? At least the endgame ones

Being able to just choose a skill that was guaranteed to be on there is awesome

[mystic cape]

IMO the only RNG that should exist in MonHun is what part you get from hunting a monster since that can be controlled for. But you can't really control for Deco nor Charm RNG

[willow charm]

well. There is the factor that some people want to just put in a thousand hours playing regularly with friends, so there has to be some sort of eternal continuing rewards for that.

it's really not as if you ever need to get a specific qurious upgrade

though all charms being pure RNG did really really suck, since they're a main part of your build.

[mystic cape]

My issue is there will always be a "best possible outcome" that will be the core of any "best build" in the game and I personally become a little obsessed with it because I don't want to be the weak link in a team

[hollow comet]

yeye

[hollow comet]

yeahh, it is nice to have long chases for those who just want more time with the game, but with a marked improvement to work towards (I fall somewhat into this group)

and RNG is a good theoretical way to create that because the chance of getting better and better items decreases with compounded complexity (combinations of skills + levels + deco slots for charms, for example)

and it's nice if you can implement that without locking a large level of power behind pure randomness, Sunbreak's Choose-A-Skill melding with getting a decent charm fairly easily

I do think that RNG systems that a) focus too much on one monster (Gog, Safi, Kulve) or b) break the general gameplay loop and flow aren't the best.. being pushed towards farming 1 monster and sitting in menus rerolling isn't really what MH is about imo

especially in the case of Qurious armour crafting, you can end up with a lot of the items needed to reroll, so if you want that one skill on your armour, you just sit at the smithy selecting and confirming and selecting and-

IMO, It would feel a lot more organic if you took a Qurious armour piece on an Afflicted monster hunt, and completing it would present results of some number of rolls for each armour piece (maybe with certain skill appearance rates influenced by the monster you hunt!) - it's stuck onto the normal gameplay loop instead of taking a lengthy detour where you do not Hunt Monsters

[elder tusk]

imo the further any given grind strays from "hunt monsters in a particular way to intentionally maximize the chances of getting the drop you need to obtain the gear you want" the worse everything gets, and it should never stray further from that than "go gathering"

one sec I have a couple of companion videos to that one

https://youtu.be/Yj8hwbWNI5o

https://youtu.be/W5sGofvJEsI

[candid perch]

I really do hope Wilds MR backtracks a bit

I was super turned off by artian weapons, and.. then they doubled down on them with Gogmazios..

[final hedge]

I agree I dont like having to do the big setpiece fights more than like twice

[candid perch]

They take so looooong

[final hedge]

they are cool the first time and then just tedious

this is something the series has been grappling with since literally the first game like 20 years ago

[candid perch]

At the very least
It's a marked improvement over fudging Zorah

But
Yeah

[final hedge]

you dont have to farm zorah

[candid perch]

This is true

You literally have to farm Gog

[final hedge]

I'd rather do the what, 3 zorahs than like 30 gogs

[candid perch]

In other news

MH stories 3 is keeping up the trend of improving upon the previous games

Like
By a lot
I can't think of a single thing I don't like better there

[final hedge]

thats nice /gen

we like a lil wholesome monstie

[candid perch]

I don't know who they have on that team, but they're super awesome and good at game design

Oh!
||Turns out Simon is alive btw. But... He's possibly leaked forbidden monstie tech to one of the kingdoms?||

||REY DAU IS HERE???||

[hollow comet]

:O

will watch later..
and yes agreed

[hollow comet]

I think they did introduce a way to meld the focus materials thankfully, I don't like fighting it that much either

[candid perch]

||they actually just named the railgun 'railgun' 😌 ||

[elder tusk]

I need to figure out how much of my love and esteem for Jhen Mohran is genuine and how much of it is nostalgia goggles

fascinatingly, Zorah is just Worse Jhen Mohran

[candid perch]

This is true

Uhh

Look
Sandships are cool
Dune worms are cool

It just works

Like
You shouldn't farm it, that's tedious
But I looks pretty neat the first time I think

Zorah just....mostly stands there

The energy is very different

[elder tusk]

I farmed Zorah for its armor and it's kind of embarrassing how quickly it can be soloed with your brain turned completely off

aside from the obligatory "wait until you're allowed to continue playing"

[mystic cape]

If/when I get back to Wilds I'll be sure to put in a mod for making the stuff I want to bypass RNG because fuck that

[elder tusk]

it's exhausting that they keep doing it 😭

another interesting question I keep asking myself: Why did the rotating event quests in Tri feel so good, and why do rotating event quests in World and Wilds feel so awful?

[candid perch]

That feels like nostalgia glasses may play a part

Because...I kinda just hate all the rotating quests as a concept

[elder tusk]

I think I know the answer for Jhen specifically; It was the event. A sandstorm rolled in on the server, and everyone started engaging in the local Loc Lac festival tradition of Hunting Jhen Mohran, which was a cooperative task you could quickly master and streamline. I'm also pretty sure that, while very server followed the same clock, they were out of sync, so there would almost always be a lobby where Jhen was available.

though iirc the event quest was the only way to access it in high rank, with it also having a low rank version and a repeatable low rank version that originated from the HR30 urgent

and yeah I agree that they're pretty universally a dogshit idea

it's miserable to be subjected to time-based fomo in monter hunter

asynchronous availability is just a bandage to offer an extra hoop to jump through instead of doing away with the pretenses and just Letting You Play The Content

[candid perch]

looks at Rise contently

[elder tusk]

[hollow comet]

☺️

[dark juniper]

Am writing a mon hun crossover fic

First monster? Mud fish

Maybe we'll throw in The Izuch at 1 star

Monoblos is making an appearance at 3 star though (we would love to see one on modern games)

Still love Diablos as far as we can throw it but we kinda would love to see Mono come back

[elder tusk]

Wilds would be such a good opportunity to bring Monoblos back and explore its lore

[dark juniper]

So far the cast of monsters is:

1 Star:
Mud Fish
Great Izuchi
Arzaros
Lagombi

Urgent: Tetranadon

2 Star:
Tobi Kadachi
Aknasom
Great Baggi
Great Wroggi

Urgent: Monoblos

[tardy grotto]

Suggestion:

No Raths

[dark juniper]

Hmmmm

In reality it's going to be 2 Monoblos but a character gets introduced that chapter who takes care of one herself

Arwyn | She/It (Cybele) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) So far the cast of monsters is:

1 Star:
Mud Fish
Great Izuchi
Arzaros
Lagombi

Urgent: Tetranadon

…

[sharp gull]

I love dodogama

[dark juniper]

They're adorable

[hollow comet]

i don’t know if I can’t query correctly, but I can’t seem to find required MRP per MR anywhere

[hollow comet]

I guess I can just note my MR and required points to next before and after a hunt with known MRP payout..

[candid perch]

Doubly so cause Diablos isn't present there, right?

We still have a space for big sand wyvern that charges at you

[near bane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-IuBTF2CYo

[hollow comet]

first vid is berry good

[hollow comet]

second vid is also good! I like moze videos

ty for sharing

[elder tusk]

😊

Moze videos good

[hollow comet]

alright I went from MR 176, 756 MRP left to next > MR 178, 436 MRP left on a 7200 MRP event quest

so that's 2 MR + 320 MRP = 7200 MRP -> 3440 MRP per MR (assuming constant MRP needed per MR)

well I guess that isn't insanely helpful since they don't tell you exactly how many HRP you get at the end of the quest anymore, but for quests that kiranico has MRP rewards for I guess it's good to have a stick to measure against

[wanton scroll]

Doing some more of our crossover writing, what do you all think, MH folks?
(Spoilers are story content, no cw)

[hollow comet]

fun fight too

that is quite cute

[halcyon fractal]

puby...

🥺

[hollow comet]

i love you insta-block

losing counter guard on adept hurts though

also I'm having trouble getting shield dash from neutral, idk if you have to be holding block first in this game

[wanton scroll]

Getting hitstunned by pronunciations rn

Ser ee gee os

Lagi ahhhh chris

No shade to the person saying it but this hurts, yall

[hollow comet]

i can't tell if these are how i say it or not 😭

[rich valve]

I think everyone I play this game with heard them say Lagiacrus in Wilds and then totally ignored it

[wanton scroll]

Lag crust

[balmy swan]

Laggy ackrus

[final hedge]

I call it lagi (like laggy) for short but la-jee-uh-crus for long

and seregios is just called steve

[void narwhal]

I call Seregios Regi idk how Steve caught on

[final hedge]

I dont ever call him anything other than steve

[final hedge]

steve is actually an older name for him than seregios

he was revealed but not named and people called him steve

and it stuck

[void narwhal]

Strange and neat

[final hedge]

I think a community manager or something called him steve as a joke and that was what started it

[hollow comet]

i wish glavenus was in rise 😔

[wanton scroll]

We've learned the secret to defeating Astalos

don't use an armor set with -15+ Thunder resist

[hollow comet]

true!

[hollow comet]

snagged a neat glavenus/hellblade glavenus swaxe mod over bishaten/blorange bishaten

i guess i should have gotten a screenshot where it isn't in the ground but whatevs

[wanton scroll]

Tried LBG in a hunt

idk about it tbh

may have corrupted it cause we have full attack boost

kinda blows ngl

[hollow comet]

what happened?

[wanton scroll]

not feeling it

[hollow comet]

ah gotcha

[hollow comet]

sheeeeesh

risen shagaru unlocked,.,. looking forward to it

i did the shagaru event quest and realized i haven't fought it much in this game

[wanton scroll]

Got our fav Swaxe back

We have been headcanoning that Swaxes, charge blades, and gunlances are all ancient heavy anti-monster weapons

and that the multiple ancient kingdoms used monsters as instruments of war

[balmy swan]

lines up with what we see in Wilds tbh

[wanton scroll]

no spoilers pls

[balmy swan]

🤐

[wanton scroll]

sorry

we kinda want to experience it ourselves

[hollow comet]

is that the velk swaxe?

[wanton scroll]

yes

From mid-DLC in Iceborn to endgame DLC weapon in Sunbreak

[balmy swan]

no worries! shouldn't have assumed you'd already played it 😅

[hollow comet]

gotchaa

[wanton scroll]

Earlier lore said they used monsters to guard their stuff but I highly doubt nobody didn't go further

we don't know what wilds shows but we're going off of earlier stuff

[hollow comet]

rise swaxe feels great to play

I think I'll try to update my set for it

and maybe make a new swaxe too.. the (re)conqueress deserves a break

[wanton scroll]

We did it

Flaming Espinas has thorns, fire, and claws

never in our life have we been walled that hard

[wanton scroll]

Also Violet Mizu first try

was nowhere as hard as Flaming Espinas

[elder tusk]

Wilds doesn't actually add any new information on either of those fronts, just new reasons to speculate, which come with every game if you look hard enough (or if you've played any game with Rustshards in it)

Ancient weapons have been a thread since I think Tri, and it's been implied that monsters could be wielded as weapons of war for as long as there have been capture quests from royals and military leaders

tl;dr not really a spoiler don't worry about it

[hollow comet]

shell yeah

risen shagaru is scary

I'm learning it a bit tho

what's evil is it has the normal magala head bonk into tail swipe when you're beside/behind it, but sometimes it augments it with frenzy and there's 2 quick hits in succession

idk if you can double tap instablock to parry both, but single tapping it got me hit by the frenzy explosion

I thought you were invincible during the instablock animation if you didn’t do anything, but maybe that doesn't apply to explosive attacks (or I was inputting something)

[hollow comet]

oh while I'm home for the weekend i should do the at arkveld timed challenge

[hollow comet]

i'm washed

[hollow comet]

29:05

4 mins could be cut off with better map routing and not dying once but idk if i can hit 22

[hollow comet]

maybe i'll try again tmrw but i'm not hopeful

the double chain hits are tough, because the first hit will activate counter guard

maybe i can chain a perfect guard after, or use the counter guard release GP, but there usually isn't enough time if i'm doing it on reaction

[tardy grotto]

Playing MHS1

How are you supposed to read monsters?

[elder tusk]

iirc they follow a set pattern forever

[wanton scroll]

I apologize, Amatsu, I was unfamiliar with your game

So that's why they nerfed Kushala

[hollow comet]

i want to try amatsu with a pierce bow

I need my "Natural recovery has returned to normal!" message in new gen when my Immunizers run out 😭

[tardy grotto]

Does that change in 2 and 3?

[elder tusk]

Changes in 3

[tardy grotto]

Oh?

[hollow comet]

24:15

if i don't die and also make use of some traps i might be able to do it

1 more try

[hollow comet]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

it is what it is

I think i messed up an area transition, teleported to camp too late after it started fleeing, riding it out might have been faster

also played badly at the end due to panic

ah well

[wanton scroll]

It took taking a copious amount of Mega Demondrug and Mega Armorskin to kill

[hollow comet]

I feel that

i'll probably just use normal demondrugs or nothing for risen shagaru until I can kill it

using Megas while learning feels a little costly for me.,. I should farm more khezus once in a while

[tardy grotto]

OK

Opened up the Monstie menu in Stories

WHAT DO YOU MEAN GENETICS???!?!?!?

[willow charm]

you'll understand when you're older

[hollow comet]

risen shagaru is tough :(

i'll give it more tries another day, but I'm having trouble finding openings

[naive elk]

https://bsky.app/profile/moomanibe.bsky.social/post/3mi7mit6g3s2r

Aura/Moom (@moomanibe.bsky.social)

CBC announcing this like Monster Hunter patch notes

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[elder tusk]

Arzuros :)

[hollow comet]

does anyone know if shagaru's frenzy explosions are directional relative to the centre of the explosion in terms of being blockable?

like this attack has been getting me because i block towards the monster and get pushed into the bottom chain, but if I point my shield away from Shagaru (but ALSO away from the centre of the explosion), will I still block it?

I can try once I get home tonight but was just wondering if anyone knew.,.,
black dot is me, red arc is my lance shield

this might be a moot point if the projectile it lobs to start this has a hitbox, then I have to block forwards-ish anyways (although maybe I can aim to get pushed to the diagonals)

or use Sheathing Retreat!

[final hedge]

I think you just have to do something that gets you out of there or has longer iframes

because the aoes overlap a little iirc

[hollow comet]

yeahhh

[hollow comet]

does Guard Up reduce all chip damage by 30/50/80%, or does that only apply to unblockable attacks?

[final hedge]

I think in wilds its all attacks

but not rise

[hollow comet]

aww bummer

ty!

[hollow comet]

:D

it's done (with followers)

oh i forgot to cut tail while i was sending this

didn't need to tho 😌

[halcyon fractal]

🎉 sick

[hollow comet]

💖

got it down with lance too in 16 mins

gonna see if i can work towards doing it without followers

evade extender helped a lot, even at level 1

and I really enjoyed playing rise LS again..

[hollow comet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uOWG2vH4h4

remember to send all your friends this banger

[elder tusk]

[snow helm]

I don't know how it happened Mizu, specifically Rise Mizu and Violet Mizu, have ended up being my favourite monster

He's just so damn fun to fight

And the theme is such an incredible banger it's unbelievable

https://youtu.be/xRFO-E0iGtQ?si=2r-kKrLRrqpzCYqS

[final hedge]

yeah he is kind of peak

very dynamic

and has a fun flow with the combos and openings, it feels like a real back and forth

[snow helm]

The fight with Rose's Swaxe with full rapid morph is such a dance

I hope Violet Mizu returns in the Wilds DLC, with the Soulseer Tempered rage mode and all

I would love to see Violet get to have turf wars and environmental interactions since it was stuck in an arena in Rise. Would love to see it get to flex being somehow a crazy Elder level threat despite just being a flaming weasel

[hollow comet]

if hyper gold rathian has no haters then i am dead

[dark juniper]

ugh, we need to beat amatsu in order to get Primal Malzeno

the farthest we've gotten was the 2nd phase, guessing then we should take electric resist?

[naive elk]

Amatsu my beloathed

[dark juniper]

We can tell

[dark juniper]

Angy Rajang is next tho

[dark juniper]

Angy Rajang was kinda easy

[hollow comet]

velkhana is quite fun

[dark juniper]

She's always a very fun fight

[hollow comet]

mhmm

I'm having fun playing Rise LS again

getting better at playing with the circle, even if it's a bit annoying

spirit blade 3 my beloathed

so slow

maybe I should try dividing slash, but roundslash is a bit easier to hit than reckoning slash..

[dark juniper]

New layered armor set btw

[hollow comet]

ooh nice

is that fiorayne’s chestpiece

[dark juniper]

Yes

[hollow comet]

i might have to take hyper gold rathian into an online lobby 😭 this is too hard

[dark juniper]

Amatsu our beloathed

[dark juniper]

LFG

[dark juniper]

Oh, Primodial's like that

[hollow comet]

[hollow comet]

yea..

I should try fighting it with ls..

[dark juniper]

do.... do ancient potions in Rise not give you full heath and stamina?

[hollow comet]

bloodblight reduces healing effectiveness, even from max and ancients

[dark juniper]

No, we tried popping an ancient to skip the spirtbirds

[hollow comet]

ohh i see

[dark juniper]

They did give you full heatlh/stamina in world

[hollow comet]

i don't think the spiribirds are skippable, i'm guessing max and ancients would just give you the food health + stam like other games

but you don't lose food buffs on death in this game so it's whatever

[dark juniper]

brugh

[hollow comet]

once again singing the praises of rainbow spiribird spawn mod, maybe worth giving a look if you don't want to deal with spiribirds

[dark juniper]

Can we get a link?

Este (they/she) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1164963928531533855 message) once again singing the praises of rainbow spiribird spawn mod, maybe worth giving a look if you don'…

[hollow comet]

https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterrise/mods/886

[dark juniper]

ty

[elder tusk]

I bring you nostalgia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW5kDpCX6hA

[hollow comet]

why would Evil Joe do that

[elder tusk]

[hollow comet]

decided to do a safi siege for funsies

the way the camera moves and the game looks and the hit sfx crunch is so goodddd (for world in general)

oh huh, couldn't find one like this for wilds but there is one for rise! https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterrise/mods/1657

bit of a mean thumbnail but for sfx I agree...

[elder tusk]

Hyperbolic thumbnails are the name of the game to be fair

[hollow comet]

aww, from a comment and my own light testing in the training room, the LS sounds are for non-weakspots which do not sound very satisfying

[elder tusk]

😔

[hollow comet]

help

[elder tusk]

ough

[hollow comet]

https://medal.tv/games/mh-world/clips/mrKg6gHGO7TGQoUqc?invite=cr-MSx0encsMTgwOTUwMTQ1&v=29

pokey pokes

[rustic dove]

pokey pokes ‼️

[hollow comet]

GU victory theme is so good 😌

i really like that the main melody usually starts after the monster death animation/sound if you slay it

thank goodness for modders 🧎

got a voice mod but can't find a skin mod for the matching character, so i might just turn it off 😔

[hollow comet]

only took 3 tries to get it down with lance

mantle on da horn break for my troubles

[tardy grotto]

Quick question

How big is the QoL jump from Stories 1 to 2 to 3

[candid perch]

big, every time
but the biggest is probably 2 > 3

the game gets noticeably more fun to play each time
I will say though, stories 3 can still have a bit of tedium with the new habitat mechanics (but like.. it's fine. you don't even have to engage with them unless you want to afaik)

[full sage]

the habitat mechanics sort of go hand in hand with some of the changes they made to the rite of channeling mechanic to over all keep some of the same gameplay loop, but make it a hell of a lot smoother and friendly to work with

... also thematically less sketchy

[elder tusk]

the death of the monster blender 😔

[rapid lion]

Suddenly remembered an old idea someone once shared: a unique specimen who was an intersex Rath. I just can't decide if it'd be better as Electrum Rath (Gold + Silver) or Violet Rath (Azure + Pink).

[elder tusk]

might have been me actually

the most difficult part of the concept is figuring out what Capcom would actually do with its themeing constraints

the names in particular

the colorful subspecies would probably be violet, but unfortunately there's already a Violet subspecies of another monster

the metallic subspecies can't be Gold or Silver, Electrum is the obvious combination of those but naming it "Electrum Rath" makes people expect a Thunder monster (which is just one of the many considerations they'd make)

its base color would probably end up being a sort of amber brown, so a copper or bronze color might be an easy answer to the metallic subspecies

going from "drab brown" to "vivid purple" to "polished bronze" would be a compelling visual design path

but they might worry in that case that the base coloration and the metallic coloration are too similar

[full sage]

the subspecies/rare species/variant naming rules being different in English and Japanese always makes things a little confusing (it turns out it's a lot easier to tell which is which in Japanese because all subspecies and rare species are literally just called "monster name subspecies" and "monster name rare species")

... mostly bring this up because it means gold and silver are simply "rare species" as is violet mizutsune, so it's not like there's a color redundancy lock out, or a requirement to name either rare or subspecies color names, as plenty of subspecies and rare species got noncolor names

[elder tusk]

😳

[hollow comet]

[balmy swan]

every time i swear

[final hedge]

its way better in wilds than it was in world and rise. but still a little inconsistent

I think its an animation lock thing

[balmy swan]

that makes sense except when the animation is triggered by me selecting the healing item

i guess it's possible i'm unwittingly doing things that animation cancel the item use, though

[hollow comet]

ruinergi down

[elder tusk]

I love how much of a brawl it is

[hollow comet]

yaya

[candid perch]

Hhough

Finally got back on MH stories 3

We got ||Boltreaver||
This thing

Is crazy

[hollow comet]

ooooh

i like that one

[full sage]

can get it extremely early, and it carries until end game
you're kind of starved for neat technical focused monsties in area one, so having those is real nice

... though, amusingly, I've been using a dragon yian garuga for elder dragon slaying lately, since it's really good at wyvernfell. not even a deadeye, a regular one

[elder tusk]

yian garuga is just like that

[full sage]

i click the funny pickaxe beak button off of deadeye yian garuga and things eat 7 billion wyvernfell damage, it's great

[sharp gull]

why the fuck is generations ultimate so hard

am I just a scrub

[hollow comet]

where are you at in it

[sharp gull]

great maccao and tetsucabra

[gentle knoll]

village?

[sharp gull]

Yea

I finished all the tutorial quests, went to the hub, and failed at everything

[gentle knoll]

hub IIRC is designed for multiplayer and makes no effort to tone down for single player

[sharp gull]

oh

then what the fuck am I supposed to do

[gentle knoll]

to a degree, if you are down for it, hone so you make fewer mistakes and up your ability to keep damage going, i forgot if the scaling only apply to monster health or if anything else get scaled too

[sharp gull]

I can't figure out how to progresss

[gentle knoll]

my personal history with it is to focus on village quests

[sharp gull]

How do I do that

Nothing showed up at the quest counter

[gentle knoll]

lemme try to remind myself how it works

or i lean on gaijin hunter, see if this video makes sense to you: https://youtu.be/MvTahUUpLrw?list=PLDR3ta7VqKrwNwPt9oCXER96N1JzcprUY

seems like he didn't get to how to get the quests... maybe you didn't talk to all necessary village NPCs?

[sharp gull]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'll just look it up or something

God I feel stupid

[gentle knoll]

look, X is 10 years and 5 months old by release date, design choices not being intuitive to modern gamer is honestly something to be expected at points

[hollow comet]

yeah quests can come from npcs, even key ones

[sharp gull]

I wonder if anyone else enjoys the Leshen fight

[weak gulch]

The MH World Leshen sounds cool on paper, handles really poorly with MH controls.

[mystic cape]

Part of the issue is for the base fight you're playing with a static set with little ability to make the set up one that can do the nunbers

[elder tusk]

I'm not a Leshen hater, but it definitely feels more like a chore than most hunts

The collab quest itself is awesome though

shout-out to it just outright having a secret enemy in it

Surprise, we put a King Shakalaka reference in your Witcher collab quest

Also, with regards to Monster Hunter Games Made Before World;

• Don't skip dialogue. Sometimes it will tell you something critical you need to progress, and it may only say it once (unless you speak to the correct NPC again and make them repeat it) (this can rarely be so vital that missing it feels like you've been softlocked)

• Every time you complete a quest, do a circuit of the village looking for NPCs with speech bubbles. Always exhaust them before you go do anything else.

• Gen U is the last game with static multiplayer scaling, meaning that every hunt in the hub is permanently upscaled rather than being dynamically adjusted for the number of participants. Treat solo hub as a Hard Mode. It's 100% doable, however, but it's comparable to soloing a multiplayer hunt scaled to a team of 3 in later games.

• If you don't want to look up individual key quests, or you just want to experience as much of the game as possible, just do every single quest that ever becomes available to you.

[desert light]

IKt';s also super possible to solo them, i used to do that back in Tri U when i had no acecss to online play

[hollow comet]

I've played the game almost exclusively solo, it can be tough at times but definitely doable

in general, I've had to play a lot slower and more deliberately than newer games

picking my openings to attack and heal and all

[hollow comet]

hope i'm ready... although i'll have to do it when i get back from my trip

if i can't get it, then i'll get the health augment on my weapons

and i should finish up the Agitator 5 charm.. just need a raging brachy mantle

[elder tusk]

that steel uragaan player will become beloved in the community

I'm gonna work up to Seltas Queen and form a performance art adjacent harem of Seltas players and it's going to be so polarizing that it provokes a rebalance

[mystic cape]

Just so I can get in on the joke what exactly is "The Isle"?

[twin ibex]

A survival game where you play as dinosaurs

@mystic cape

[elder tusk]

basically every player is a dinosaur sharing the same ecosystem

herbivores and carnivores have different playstyles, etc

is it the one where you can fall down a two foot cliff and snap your legs and lay there starving to death

[sharp gull]

Look at you flexing having the assassin hood

[candid perch]

||what do you mean the elder dragon i'm hunting crystallized an entire lao shan lung??||

[full sage]

to be fair, occasionally, ||lao shan lung|| just do that

[candid perch]

That's true 😔

[hollow comet]

i edited my save for it

i am a relatively new hunter...

[elder tusk]

valid

anyone who does timed content availability can fuck off

[plain gazelle]

fomo is the devil

[zenith sedge]

After I lost access to our old computer, I was left with a 9 year old potato and thus could not play Monster Hunter Wilds, but now that I have a new computer, I can finally gaze upon my pretty bird again

[elder tusk]

source is carrottrembling on twitter

[night prairie]

wow