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u/Enineda Mar 02 '25
that's a weird thing to say but the first HR quest with all the Yian Kut Ku in the Forest full of colors got me kind of emotional.
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u/Bierculles Greatsword enjoyer Mar 02 '25
Yes, the forest during season of plenty looks absolutely amazing.
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u/pussy_embargo Mar 03 '25
I couldn't believe that they held that back until the end of the story
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u/flashmedallion Mar 03 '25
I respect it. It's nice to earn just nice things, and not only be here for the grind.
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u/EvilNamazu Mar 02 '25
that lil guy was kicking my whole ass
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u/matu_ninixu Mar 03 '25
Defeat an ultimate weapon capable of destroying civilizations and gets destroyed by funny red pecking birbs
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u/Vritrin Mar 03 '25
I have three carts so far. Guardian Rathlaos, Arkveld, and this guy. Something about the trajectory of the fireballs is so deceptive, I kept dodging into them.
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u/flashmedallion Mar 03 '25
That nearly got me with him early on, along with his tailswipe, and I had to check myself and take a step back and treat it like a serious hunt. Keep distance, poke, start observing. Feels great
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u/RaDiOaCtIvEpUnK Mar 03 '25
For me it was octopus guy mainly because I was being stubborn, and wouldn’t kill him until I had ALL his legs. Mister lightning dragon when he blindsided me with his
hammerlightning of the gods beam before I knew about it. As for the last one it was the first guardian bear guy, as I was half assing it from being tired, and just let it happen. I was like “yep I’m gonna die”, and then proceeded to just watch as it happened with no fucks given.→ More replies (3)18
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u/HaroldSax I Poke, Therefore, I Am. Mar 02 '25
Pecking little bastard…s! Multiple! They ignored my poop!
Quite a frustrating hunt lol.
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u/Dmbender I'll try spinning, that's a good trick. Mar 03 '25
After using a couple I've come to the conclusion that the giant dung bombs are worthless. They hit every monster and they all flee together to the same area (usually). I've had a lot more luck with the regular ones so far.
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u/khanhls123 Mar 03 '25
Same, i just use the normal pod on the target monster and then chase it to the next area.
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u/NeuroHex Mar 03 '25
That so much more efficient, I was using them on all the monsters besides the target
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u/lunatix_soyuz Mar 03 '25
Especially since pack monsters are so rare anyways. Most of the time you just want to get rid of one or two, making the regular dung pods so much easier to control the situation.
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u/Barn-owl-B Mar 03 '25
That dragging his mouth in the ground attack has some insane tracking, I’ve had him nearly turn all the way around and hit me while doing it
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u/MuseZeke Mar 03 '25
What looked like a monster slowly turning around usually, hit like a ton of bricks whenever that little turd would do it I accidentally killed it twice on top of that. Had to go to sleep for the night after that haha.
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u/VolcelTHOT Mar 03 '25
When they shot it with the paintball in the cutscene it felt like the game was saying "don't worry, Monster Hunter is still here"
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u/OuOutstanding Mar 03 '25
Right? That was such a great scene. I really enjoyed the story, especially the characters, but let’s be honest. I don’t play MH for the story, as heroic as it may be. I’m here to unleash genocide across the land so I can dress my kitty in cute clothing.
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u/LowClover Mar 03 '25
I get what you’re saying but I think that’s pretty reductive of the work they put in. I was captivated by the story the entire time. I really enjoyed the characters and talked to everyone, even the minor ones. I was very immersed and that, in my opinion, deserves praise. Never thought I’d care about a MH story (other than 4U, which this is tied to anyway), but here we are.
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u/Kaillier Mar 03 '25
For me, what makes me (funny)emotional is to see Low Rank Ebony Odogaron and his LR gears, it so cursed to see a monster that debuted exclusively in Master Rank(G rank) appears in Low rank and have a gear that he never have lol
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u/CookieXpress Mar 03 '25
I think the G.Rathalos scene/fight is enough to make any OG monhun player cry. Starting with its roar and its updated but recognizable moveset were really nice additions.
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u/DrMobius0 Mar 03 '25
Honestly, seeing neither hide nor hair of the raths until so late was kind of a nice treat. Normally they just throw rathian at you super early and call it a day, but not this time. Also rathian's moveset changes are, well, deserved and appropriate. Pink rathian is a relic of a time where subspecies were rather unimaginative in general, and rolling its moves into the base rathian makes me think it's just retiring in general.
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u/The21stPotato Mar 03 '25
As someone whose first monster harvested armor set ever was the Yian Kut-ku set in MH (that's right, 2004, PS2 Monster Hunter) I also got pretty emotional.
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 Mar 03 '25
I didn't have any mats for tranq bombs and you can't get one of the mats on the forest map or fast travel to another zone and spent an hour in full nerdrage until I just started killing it and then the story gave me the mats I needed 🤦
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u/beepbepborp Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
i think our mount acts as the item box now. i went all the way back to camp to get a trap and tranqs but looking back i think i could have also checked the seikret inventory and probably found the supplies there
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u/ImWhiite Mar 03 '25
I think more people needs to know about this, the item box is on our mount and it always provides what you need for that specific hunt, including capture quests, it hands you a trap and tranq bombs. For hot/cold regions it also provides cold/hot drinks too.
Also, ever wonder why Alma keeps saying "more supplies just came in" everytime in a middle of a hunt? The item box in our mount also restocks when a certain amount of time elapses during a hunt.
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 Mar 03 '25
It wouldn't be a Monster Hunter game if I didn't learn about a super convenient game play feature that makes the game easier 20 hours into me playing it.
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u/ImGilbertGottfried Mar 03 '25
Not me using a well done steak for the first time repelling Arkveld because I thought they did the same thing as rations which the game throws at you constantly…
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u/KuuhakuDesuYo Mar 03 '25
Well-done Steak coming in clutch when running out of potions, shit's rough when you forget to restock... lol
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u/OuOutstanding Mar 03 '25
Not me playing three whole ass MH games before I realized you can skip the camera panning at the end of the hunt.
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u/SaltForTheSaltThrone Mar 03 '25
Another useful thing I just learned that the game doesn’t tell you, you can fire your slinger with your weapon out in focus mode (L3 on ps5)
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u/ACupOfLatte Mar 03 '25
I'm shocked at how many people tunnel so hard on the monster they don't hear anything people say in game or out of it.
My friend and I were doing the Yian Kut-Ku capture quest, we didn't sync up as I had to do something. My friend was straight up malding over the fact that he didn't have any tranqs, so I asked him to check his Seikret. He didn't know it existed until I told him about it.
The thing is, when I did the quest Alma specifically informs you that they put in capture gear in your Seikret's pouch and you should check it during the hunt.
Not just that either, even before HR Alma constantly reminds the player that they added additional supplies to the Seikret's pouch.
So do people just not hear her...? Or is this just because a surprising amount of people play the game in a language that they don't understand and can't read subtitles accurately while hunting
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u/TheOldDrunkGoat Mar 03 '25
It's non-obvious that you need to manually push a specific button to "check your seikret's pouch" and get the supply items. NPCs in games say a lot of meaningless drivel so many people just tune them out.
Honestly, it's a reasonable assumption that if a game is going to magically give you free items that they would be added to your normal inventory. Not a special inventory that you need to be in a specific state and use a specific button to access. The game's tutorials only briefly mention the seikret supply pouch once very early on. And you don't exactly spend a lot of time actually hunting monsters at that stage so people are liable to either forget it or just not read it in the first place.
Not to mention the most used supply items are certainly the potions. But we don't even need to put the supply potions on a separate part of our radial menus any more because we have a special "I DON'T CARE JUST HEAL ME NOW" option instead. So people are not really going to be confronted with the major drawback of not understanding the supply pouch unless they completely skip picking up random herbs and honey while running around.
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u/rhuntern Mar 03 '25
But the right side of the screen pops up with a button prompt to access the supplies every single time the NPC says there's supplies that have been added. It even says in the prompt, "Supplies have been added, press [insert button here]". None of this is out of the way, it's right there, at the right-center of the screen, every single hunt. I think at that point, it's not really the game's fault that people are missing it.
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u/Aiyon Mar 03 '25
I mean in a vacuum yes those are reasonable assumptions. But In a game where someone explicitly says “hey your bird has an inventory”, it’s not that out there to think maybe there’s an inventory
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u/MadKitsune Mar 03 '25
Thing is - in this particular hunt, you only get the capture stuff in the supply box once you get it to pre-death/capturable state, it's not there whent the quest starts.
Que me going back to the tent, realising I don't have trap tools, going to buy them, then going back to tent because I forgot tranq bombs again, and then getting the supplies in the middle of the hunt >.>
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u/flashmedallion Mar 03 '25
I think more people needs to know about this
Alma isn't exactly quiet about it
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u/Eglor04 Mar 03 '25
i hated that quest it was my first monster hunter quest saying i need to capture something alive and i tried putting traps and using the capture net not tranq bombs
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u/UchihaIkki Mar 03 '25
It does feel like it...the game instantly becomes 10x better when the credits roll...Also amazing first HR mission in the forest, such a change of pace from all that white and gray
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u/sharpknot Mar 03 '25
And then you get bodied by some birds. That's when you realize, "Oh. Let's not fuck around now."
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u/feelsokayman_cvmask Mar 03 '25
Moreso than ever they really wanted to make sure that new players don't drop the game after a few hours. This certainly makes it the most accessible one in the franchise, very handholdy and still pretty undertuned difficulty-wise. But the way High Rank opens up on the other hand is a lot less limiting than in every game before it. I honestly don't hate that sort of compromise, although they should still tune low rank a bit less like they watch some noob play and die inside every time they cart once.
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u/Lokovo Mar 02 '25
Honestly I like the part where alma tells me I can hunt it like a good boy
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u/BigfootIssReal Mar 03 '25
realest shit
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u/l_TMCupid_l Mar 03 '25
“The guild authorizes you to hunt this monster” goes unreasonably hard
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u/CapnRoxy Mar 03 '25
It became an iside joke with my buddies of that scene from shrek, us all looking at Alma like "Do the roar." Just replaced with "Say the line"
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u/DickleInAPickle Mar 02 '25
I’m just glad I can layer armor now so I stop looking like a clown
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u/ComradeBrosefStylin Mar 03 '25
I just wore Lala Barina armour all the way through low rank. Drip or drown.
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u/yurilnw123 Mar 03 '25
First thing I crafted after reaching HR was Lala Barina set to get its layered armor. This shit looks so good.
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u/Farkyrie001 Mar 02 '25
Maybe I'm just bad, but that Rathalos was kinda kicking my ass.
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u/Astartes_Regis Mar 02 '25
I found being glued to his ass and having him spam tail attacks good for baiting dual blade perfect dodges and then laying on the pain on his face while he's distracted with those 2 tail whips.
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u/ToastedWolf85 Mar 02 '25
This worked pretty great with LS too. I got quite a few Spirit Helm Breakers on him with the spirit follow up attack that uses up the spirit gauge. This also was excellent at destroying all the wounds created, very OP.
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u/Kyrainus Mar 02 '25
That Rath was annoying MH wilds loves tight spaces eh?
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u/ToastedWolf85 Mar 02 '25
The secret to the fight was mostly stay close. I was using LS and probably did like 3 or 4 lvl 3 Spirit gauge spirit helmbreakers with follow up attack. He was very intimidating and I would not suggest that strategy to someone new but it worked surprisingly well.
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u/ImWhiite Mar 03 '25
I was fighting a tempered Arkveld in the floaty ruins ice region, 3 of the areas he ran off to where very tight spaces. Suffice to say I used up 2/3 of my allowed faints.
Why didn't I dung him? No idea.
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u/NK1337 Mar 02 '25
Did a similar thing with sword and shield. That fucking slide dodge is a godsend
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u/Noocta Mar 02 '25
The normal Rathalos at the entry of High rank was the most memorable hunt of the game so far for me. Fighting it in the Forest during the sunny weather and killing it in its nest atop the trees, peak monsterhunter experience.
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u/DragonFlareXD Mar 03 '25
Wait did I ruin this for myself. I slayed a ratholos in the open world in my first hour of hr. I'm surprised they allowed it to spawn that early if it's the final fight.
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u/Noocta Mar 03 '25
No, it's that one. But HR Rathalos with only low rank gear is a pretty good fight. They tuned him pretty well.
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u/MeGaNuRa_CeSaR Mar 03 '25
Feels like HR is really the "back to normal monster hunter with wilds characteristic" experience, while the low rank was really the narrative, "actual new game" experience.
For me, Jin Dahaad is still my most memorable hunt yet, but I think Gore Magala will be even better
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u/Antedelopean dooot~ Mar 02 '25
Rathalos felt definitely harder than guardian Rathalos, despite not having the extra explosions after stomps. Wilds hr Rathalos has got hands, and forced me to be more defensive.
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u/Lower_Fan Mar 02 '25
G rathalos carted me twice. I'm sweating.
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u/Mountain-Chapter-880 Mar 03 '25
I echo him. Rathalos was way harder than Guardian Rathalos. He's much quicker but he has just a handful of attacks. Although I think Guardian Rathalos damage is higher.
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u/ImWhiite Mar 03 '25
And Guardians' wounds heal overtime if you don't break the wound or focus strike it in time.
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u/Aiyon Mar 03 '25
Honestly, all wounds should, albeit some slower. Makes it feel more like capitalising on something Vs just “oh I guess I hit that spot enough”
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u/AutomaticInitiative Tri - bring back underwater fighting! Mar 02 '25
Guardian Rathalos is one scary motherfucker
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u/Owobowos-Mowbius Mar 02 '25
That was such a fun fight with the bow. Combination of perfect dodging familiar attacks and then getting blindsided by the new ones.
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u/Small-Relationship85 Capcom pls bring back old SAED I miss bonking Mar 02 '25
How much aura do i lose for saying i struggled a tiny bit with Quematrice on my first time. After a 1 year break with 50 hours on worlds 😭
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u/Farkyrie001 Mar 02 '25
Nah, man, i remember struggling against a damn pukei-pukei in world. A lot of people say the game is easy, but I think it's just that we're better. Don't think a total beginner will find the game easy.
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u/Small-Relationship85 Capcom pls bring back old SAED I miss bonking Mar 03 '25
I think everyones right about the game being "easier" but this decrease in difficultly is like going from 10 down to a 9.5 in terms of difficultly.
(ironic coming from me who had trouble with a tier 1 monster with the new broken ass CHB)Lets pray to god they never add defender armor or lock it behind dlc or a save file detection or something, THATS when the "easy game" allegations would come true lmao.
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u/BannedSvenhoek86 Mar 03 '25
I have a feeling we're getting two expansions for this one and both are going to be Shadow of the Erdtree level jump in difficulty after all the complaints lol.
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u/MCI_Overwerk Mar 02 '25
It definitely isn't easier. It is doing many things that are helping make it more manageable:
- seikret can be used as a welcomed rescue when getting thrown around, allowing to heal and sharpen in relative safety
- weapons flow much better and aim allows the usually long-winded animations of many weapon types to go where you want them to.
- many weapons have gotten offsets and counters. While these rely on skill once picked up it creates an opening where they weren't
- The game is just flat out better at telling you WHAT TO DO and WHERE TO FIND SHIT than in prior games. Newbies usually run in with subpar equipment after getting confused about what they need.
- monsters generally have less reliance on nuke attacks. Though they absolutely do have them. Even the early monsters can clock you out cold, but both their windup and the health bar signal will let even a noob know they need to react and fast. Rey Dau really was the first one I felt could whip out the delete gun with potentially little means of escape. But by that point you get into the rythm.
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u/Small-Relationship85 Capcom pls bring back old SAED I miss bonking Mar 03 '25
omfg calling the game more manageable instead of easier is the smartest take I've seen on this topic yet
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u/modix Mar 02 '25
If rise is your last memory, I found it's version to be the easiest by far. Seemed to have a pretty dumb AI and didn't use it's annoying behaviors much.
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u/crowsloft666 Mar 03 '25
A lot of monsters in rise just had hands in general since they had to be cracked out in order to compete with the wire bug stuff
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u/th5virtuos0 Mar 03 '25
I’m not gonna sugarcoat it
Perfect Guard > Spinning Reaper > Charged Chop
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u/Magellaz23 Mar 02 '25
I AM FREEEEE. Bye, Nata. I didn't find you annoying as others joke around, but no more railroads (hopefully).
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u/BurnieTheBrony Mar 03 '25
Turns out putting him in a funny baby hunter's uniform and giving him an actual job to do instead of just getting in the way makes him much less obnoxious in HR
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u/Cratoic Mar 03 '25
Lowkey, when I saw him in the leather armour in that ending cutscene of the low rank story, it kind of made me retroactively forgive him, lol.
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u/progrocksterone the interplay of sax and violence Mar 03 '25
It made me wanna teach him how to be a hunter lmao. Put a sword and shield in the boychild's hands and give me a quest to hunt a chatacabra with him, stat
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u/DrZeroH I'll sharpen to draw aggro Mar 03 '25
Low key same. Him calling me sensei (teacher) warmed me up to him
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u/Obelion_ Mar 03 '25
Almost like throwing a kid with PTSD into the most dangerous situations possible back to back isn't doing him any good.
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u/yurilnw123 Mar 03 '25
Yeah bringing him along everywhere didn't make sense lol. I know the story excused it as him wanting to check if the monster is the White Wraith but come on, there's gotta be a better way.
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u/Choozeubername Mar 03 '25
honestly, I found some of his dialog kinda cringe, but he was gonna fight arkvell with a rock and a dream. I 100% can respect that.
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u/JingZama Mar 03 '25
at least they gave him that baby slinger in the post game so he doesn't have to just lob pebbles anymore
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u/Lowerfuzzball Mar 02 '25
I'm almost there, just a couple more hunts I think. I cannot wait for the story to be over.
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u/ToastedWolf85 Mar 02 '25
This, I just found Nata's Village. I think I have got a few more hunts as well. I am trying tonight to at least get to High Rank!
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u/AllxFiction Mar 02 '25
Luckily they are the best hints of low rank.
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u/ToastedWolf85 Mar 02 '25
Please don't spoil them. I want them to be surprising, also just to give the last two monsters fought so you know where I am specifically, I defeated the Doshaguma variant and Rathalos Variant that seemed to be absorbing the Wylk/Wyvern Milk.
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u/AllxFiction Mar 02 '25
I wouldn't dream if spoiling them for you or anyone.
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u/ToastedWolf85 Mar 02 '25
Thankies appreciate it, I was just giving an idea of what ones to talk about. The last one was brilliant and at first I was super scared seeing him. I thought at first it was a weird, Azure Rathalos Which in World kicked my butt so bad because it never hardly landed. When The blue glow faded I thought the color was very bland, not red like you'd expect. The colors actually made me think Rathian though it didn't quite have exactly that color. Also I do not know either Monsters name, rather variant title. So only the fights. I will learn their names tonight for sure.
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u/aleony Mar 02 '25
Have fun, not only are the remaining fights amazing, but the music becomes sooo good for them too.
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u/AbsentReality Mar 02 '25
The music for those last two fights before HR was incredible.
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u/huggalump Mar 02 '25
I'm right there also! Let's go, hunter. The guild authorizes you to kick some ass.
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u/Hyldenchamp Mar 03 '25
The story stuff is so exhausting. I do like 2 hunts per day because the story just sucks the fun out of everything. This is trash compared to how the previous games had me just doing hunt after hunt. I'm gonna power through it though, wish me luck! The only annoyance I heard is that the handler keeps following you even in high rank missions. God...
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u/gibblywibblywoo Mar 03 '25
agreed. My two friends who started with world dont understand why i have a problem with it. When I mentioned I just started mass skipping after the forest area they called me a dumbass. but from what I've seen its just the usual "weird monster fucking with ecosystem" like Rise and every game before it.
they should have includeed a skip for experienced players its mind numbingly dull
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u/Choozeubername Mar 03 '25
I just need a house to put my pets and design then get one of those oil salamanders and I'll be set to play this game for another 3 years
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u/Bobboy5 stick w/o bug Mar 02 '25
What do we do now?
What do you mean? Now we can finally play the game.
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u/the_deep_fish Mar 02 '25
at least you can skip a lot of talking.
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u/Naptime-Enjoyer-7132 Mar 02 '25
But not the walking.
…And the walking.
…And the walking.
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u/PolarSodaDoge Mar 02 '25
I spent that time catching critters, its as fun as you can make it.
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u/EternalSage2000 Mar 02 '25
Right. It’s Pokemon Snap time.
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u/UnluckyFish Mar 02 '25
For sure, but I did feel guilty when my comrades were telling me life or death info and meanwhile I’m smashing bugs juices into my face…
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u/progrocksterone the interplay of sax and violence Mar 03 '25
The sheer number of times I didn't notice dialogue choices popping up because my attention was on a bitterbug or whatever is low-key kind of sad
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u/Beddict Switch Axe Mar 02 '25
I caught something like 30 Northpeckers during one of the walking segments because they were all over the Ceratonoths. I dunno what I'm gonna do with 30 birds, but I have them.
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u/captaincornboi Mar 02 '25
I spent that time yoinking materials with my slinger since I couldn't get them on foot
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u/huxtiblejones Mar 02 '25
I tried to replay World and was so annoyed by the unskippable cinematics. I was hyped to hear Wilds had skippable cutscenes... only to find you're forced into these live action talking segments you can't skip. Ugh!
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u/telumex_atrum Mar 03 '25
My wife asked me how the game was going. My response was "Just finished the main story part, so the tutorial just ended." She was really confused by that.
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u/raf3776 Mar 02 '25
I honestly don't mind the walking parts in the story. Kinda builds some atmosphere before the fight.
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u/Thotor Mar 02 '25
The story is fine. We just don't get any filler quest or free roaming in between.
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u/PineappleLemur Mar 03 '25
Nothing is stopping you from roaming, but it's all LR and kinda boring so focusing on the story is basically encouraged.
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u/BurnieTheBrony Mar 03 '25
Hey dude you know when Alma is like "hey you ready for this or you want to prepare?'
That's her saying "go grind and explore and whatever, we'll wait for you"
But yeah, that process looks a lot more intentional in HR. Plenty of side quests and extra optional stuff and whatnot
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u/VoidInsanity Mar 02 '25
You do its just optional rather than forced this time and the games pacing is much better for it.
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u/CopainChevalier Mar 02 '25
No, there's really nothing to do until you get to HR.
Once you get to HR, you actually get side quest that unlock new tools or this game's version of the farm. Low Rank is almost entirely on rails.
Yes, you can go pick up a generic "hunt this" optional quest, but given they unlock nothing and in low rank the game basically gives you full armor sets for one hunt, there's just no point in doing much of anything but the story.
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u/Kaizadon Mar 03 '25
That's what was the most annoying to me, you feel so rush to progress the story because nothing is worth doing in between the main quest.
Reaching HR was truly a breath of fresh air and I wish the pacing was like that right from start.
I understand how Capcom wanted a more streamline and cinematic experience for new players, but I feel like even them will find being so push forward annoying.
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u/Miss0verkill Mar 03 '25
I really miss the old MH structure where every hunter rank unlocked a bunch of quests with new monsters, optional refights with previous monsters in other maps, duo hunts, etc. Not knowing which quests where key quests without using a guide was annoying, but I still much preferred that kind of pacing.
Wilds LR is basically just a long chain of urgent quests. The optional quests are nothing but carbon copies of the story quest, just without the cutscenes and walking segments. The monster even starts in the same exact area as it does in the story. HR is MUCH better and I'm enjoying the game so much more.
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u/AbsentReality Mar 03 '25
I didn't even make or upgrade any armour until the first octopus when I made a mix of hibari and balahara for some evade distance/extender and didn't even upgrade that. Just got past the credits now. Looking forward to actually making a decent set of armour.
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u/Darmok-And-Jihad Is mayonnaise an instrument? Mar 03 '25
Seriously, I don't think someone was like "please capture the monster" until HR.
The entirety of LR in this game felt like the first quarter of LR in previous games. The game seems afraid to let me play monster hunter because they want me to experience the story.
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u/thisisFalafel Stop launching me goddamnit! Mar 03 '25
Devs really took "low rank is just the tutorial" to heart.
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u/VolcelTHOT Mar 03 '25
Yeah the story def feels like a super condensed and ultra streamlined version of Monster Hunter meant to get all the newcomers into the vibe of the game. I mean, I'm not mad that I didn't have a bullshit egg transporting quest to complete, but it's one of those things that makes these games unique that newcomers or casuals (and I don't mean that in a bad way) won't experience.
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u/boobers3 Mar 03 '25
There's a couple of side quests in the plains and forests where you have to use the net to capture a couple of rare non-aggressive fauna. The 2nd one gives you a bit of honey as a reward which is a welcomed sight since Alma won't let you collect any most of the time.
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u/TheArtistFKAMinty MHWilds Mar 03 '25
I would have minded them less if they were less frequent.
I think my biggest friction with Low Rank is that there's very little reason to do anything other than the main missions and pretty much all of the main missions have that "walk-and-talk until monster shows up" structure. Yeah, you could got out and do hunts of your own volition between main missions but the game throws enough materials at you to viable get through low rank without any optional grinding. That's a positive in some ways (you're going to chuck out all of your low rank gear regardless once you hit high rank so wasting time grinding out low rank gear isn't good long term) but it also means that In low rank the open world aspect of the game feels really pointless because you don't really have any reason to engage with it.
I don't know how people feel about Rise's structure, but the whole "complete x number of the available missions to unlock the story missions for this rank" approach means you're doing more standard hunts throughout, and you have some control over which ones and what order, rather than just doing main missions. "Should I fight the Anjanath or the Rathian?" is at least a decision you have to make.
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u/modix Mar 02 '25
People get so impatient with anything that interferes with gameplay loops. Forget that the rest of it is what adds the flavor that makes the loop worth it.
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u/BramScrum Mar 02 '25
I mean, I mainly find it annoying cause I want to play through the story with my friend, but MH being MH they just make it almost impossible. Like, why can't we share the same world and the cutscene we both see is just with the host character. It's not that jard. But no, you can only join, sometimes, when actually starting to hunt the monster. It's silly. And the 10 min of slowly riding around make it really infuriating
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u/mint_does_things Mar 02 '25
I don't mind the slow riding around, but the multiplayer is honestly unacceptable when they had a solution for this all the way back in 4U.
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u/BramScrum Mar 02 '25
Yeah. If I was playing single player by myself I wouldn't mind the riding around really. But it just isn't made for playing with friends.
Something about Japanese game devs making their co-op mode as complex and unintuitive as possible (looking at you FromSoftware)
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u/Shinobiii Mar 02 '25
I kind of like the exposition. What I don’t like, or rather what feels weird, is the constant losing control of my character or being constantly restraint to a lineair path.
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u/duschhaube Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25
Forget that the rest of it is what adds the flavor that makes the loop worth it.
Now in High Rank I am finally discovering the zones. In Worlds I felt at home in the forest once I progressed out of it. Here it is
"Hi there, you should go to the forest"
"there is a forest?"
"yeah right behind the river"
"there is a river?"
"smell ya later!"
Just wish they had given the areas more time, being railroaded through the zones I never had a "Woah"-moment like in the corral forrest in worlds. And I think they knew that, so they made me suffer through the NPCs having a "Woah"-moment every 2nd cutscene.
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u/HaroldSax I Poke, Therefore, I Am. Mar 02 '25
I mean, the exposition in World was a gameplay loop. You could explore the zones (with some limitations IIRC) but you were still out there.
I hated the on rails portion specifically BECAUSE I couldn’t interact with the environment more than the game decides is necessary.
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u/XeliasSame Mar 03 '25
I mostly got annoyed at the cutscenes that really felt like every 10 minutes I had to put the controller down to watch people yapping about events I was just part of. I preferred the walk along that at least let me enjoy the scenery.
It made the few really cool and good cutscenes feel less impactful because I was already so tired of them.
I also quite disliked never being able to pick my own hunts. Being in HR and being free to slowly raise my rank and hunt advance the story by hunting feels so much more true to the mh feel.
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u/Zaldinn Mar 02 '25
I enjoyed the story for the most part. Alma being the direct permission was pretty cool. You can tell at some points she feels bad having to give authorization
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u/zeldafr Mar 02 '25
i enjoyed a lot the story, it's in my opinion quite interesting lore wise. and in any case i will play this game for 100s of hours so the grinding time will come, this was a nice introduction
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u/gamingx47 Mar 02 '25
I really with Nata wasn't so prominent in the story. I think I would have much preferred exploring the world with the Guild team and then just have him show up once we find his village. What made the World story fun was that you felt like an explorer rather than a glorified babysitter. Instead of exploring for the sake of exploring, you're always dealing with this mopey kid.
The only cool part was that after you finish the main storyhe becomes a hunter.
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u/Darmok-And-Jihad Is mayonnaise an instrument? Mar 03 '25
Was honestly the most touching part of the entire story for me. He just shows up in his little suit, I was like awwww
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u/mrhshack Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
I love Monster Hunter but the LR/story completely missed for me, I really didn't enjoy it at all, mostly due to the constant on the rails segments where you're slowly walking to the next target for 5 minutes. But once you hit HR the game is so much fun, especially when you do the last story boss around HR40, now I'm actually playing Monster Hunter and I'm loving it. The monsters and gameplay are absolutely top notch.
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u/Downpouring7 Mar 02 '25
I’m new to this series so can someone explain what you mean by this?
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u/Hydeout_010 Mar 03 '25
The beginning or low rank is kind of like a long tutorial mode. The game opens up after you complete the main quest line and enter high rank.
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u/fragmentsofasoul Mar 04 '25
It's kind of like an MMO or Diablo or Borderlands. The main story is not the bulk of the game. It's entertaining and let's you naturally learn and progress. Once you beat the mainstory you are left to your own devices. You can grind to your hearts content. There's new monsters that don't quite fit into the main quest. And the difficulty is upped.
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u/Locopoots Mar 02 '25
I’m struggling so hard to get through the story, I can’t bear to play more than a mission or two at a time. I’d rather do the bs gathering missions than this, at least I would actually be playing the game and learning the map.
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u/CopainChevalier Mar 02 '25
It does get better once you hit High Rank. A lot of the "missing" stuff comes in; like actually being able to do side quest to unlock stuff
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u/Scuttlefuzz Mar 03 '25
Just grind it out, skip through everything and it's not that bad. Getting to HR is really so worth it.
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u/Akuma_ryu Mar 02 '25
Tbh I enjoyed the story with pleasure. I am also not a story/lore guy but the short breaks helped build up the tension and too look around this beautiful crafted environment. Also I turned the language to Japanese and no subtitles so I could make nice screenshots and don't get bored listening while at it.
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u/achmedclaus Mar 02 '25
You say that but the little shit that's been haunting the story pops up immediately after the first scene plays after the credits.
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u/Wacky_Pluto Mar 03 '25
This is my first MH game im actually playing seriously (i got about 5 hours is worlds and 30 hours in wilds now.) And i havent struggled at all. I think ive carted like 4 times on the path untill HR. Is this game just significantly easier than the others? (I remember getting my ass handed to me by anjanath in worlds.)
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u/THound89 Mar 03 '25
Literally how I felt today after beating LR. The story was fine but it feels so good to feel like I'm back in control of what to hunt now. Story was fine, I see what people mean about not being fans about Nata. Time to grind some real gear!
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u/SynapseReaction Mar 03 '25
IKR!
Though at first I was like, wow I got to HR pretty fast what’s that all about. And then I walk in to Yian Kut Ku bodying me and my confidence from just murdering main story final boss 🤣
Now it’s time to relax via fashion hunter and more vaguely authorised hunts…for science!
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u/SenpaiSwanky Mar 03 '25
How does layered armor work here? That’s my number one goal right now, to unlock that and settle on something that isn’t this Guild Knight set. It doesn’t look bad or anything but I need a change haha.
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u/Nopetygrwsf Mar 03 '25
it's MUCH simpler than World. You just have to craft pieces in HR and you can use them as Layered Armour
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u/Phimb Mar 03 '25
Once you get to HR, are you done with all the cut-scenes? Hoping it's a smoother co-op experience once you get to HR.
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u/PresentationOk8997 Mar 03 '25
not wanting to waste mats making armour in case i want a weapon in a certain tree made it a struggle.
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u/No_Assignment_5012 Mar 03 '25
Not gonna lie, the main story is really kind of grinding me down in terms of pacing. Toooo manyyyyy cutscenessssss
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u/Snake973 Mar 02 '25
everybody talking about being free of nata and i just had a cutscene with him at HR40
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u/PineappleLemur Mar 03 '25
There's a few more quests and side quests after the story ends, like most MH games.
Then it will pick up again in the expansion.
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u/Storm_373 Mar 02 '25
it’s crazy how the game locks you out of plenty for all the maps. the games actually beautiful at times and it makes me appreciate the gloomy weather
in the beta it was ALWAYS SANDSTORM
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u/vmsrii Mar 03 '25
This is the craziest thing for me!
Start the new zone in Fallow, so it’s brown and depressing
Get the final boss during a storm
Zone finally goes Plenty “Oh wow! So new! So pretty!So different! I’ll bet theres tons of new things to see and monsters to hunt! Anyway, off to the next drab, brown zone!”
Like, come on man, the entire game revolves around this open concept for the world, but I’m not even “allowed” to enjoy it? What nonsense is this
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u/FatherShambles Mar 03 '25
What’s the difference between low and high ? I just started playing Worlds so I’m new player
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u/Empero6 Mar 03 '25
Low rank is basically beginner tier. High rank is when you fight the tougher monsters and your gear starts to matter.
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u/WhichEmailWasIt Mar 03 '25
Low-rank is the main story. High-rank is kinda like a post-game with some story additions, kinda like an epilogue. But more importantly, there's more monsters, stronger monsters, old monsters with new movesets, more gear, more questing.
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u/Zuuey Mar 03 '25
Finally i can hunt the monsters i want and explore where i want, in the monster hunter game that wants to praise itself in being highly explorable.
No more half assed stupid story about some type of milk either, i can just hit the monster very hard.
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Mar 02 '25
No more 5 minute hunts! I can actually be challenged and savor the fights and all the work they put into this game. Nobody wants to breeze through a 20 hour tutorial! Great game tho
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u/bonesnaps Mar 03 '25
I've never wanted a main story to end in a game so badly before.
IIRC I actually wanted mh worlds story to go on and on, but holy fuck wilds entire game is one giant escort mission. Someone needs to get shitcanned from Capcom for this.
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u/PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT Mar 02 '25
This game is highlighting the fact that monster hunter is about the world and the monsters and I could give half a shit about the story.
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u/ProjectResponsible16 Mar 03 '25
This is my first MH game and I was under the impression there’d be more build crafting for the gear but there’s not that many apart from the decorations, granted I’m kinda early into HR at hunter rank 25. Is there any new mechanics that gets introduced later or is this it? And the layered armor is only cosmetic right? There’s no advantages to using certain armor as layer?
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u/ALiteralMoth Mar 03 '25
I'm so happy for having layered armor unlocked just for that starting outfit. Call me weird if you want, but I just really love it. Swapped out the hat for the quematrice hat, made the colors match, and I was golden.
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u/Lougan90 Mar 03 '25
Yeah, the limitations of exploring and moving during the main quests was kinda annoying. HR is Freedom indeed
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u/NotAUsernameIWant Mar 03 '25
Dude the fact that crafting any HR armor gets you the layered version of it is soooo great.