r/MonsterHunter • u/domicci ​ gen4 hunter • 21d ago

Discussion Does anyone else hate fighting this this because this is the first monster i hate fighting Spoiler

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u/karothacker 21d ago

Unless you were one of the people who used the spiderweb exploit to clear the quest over and over in a few minutes.

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u/SmegLiff ​ 21d ago

Couldn't be me I just suffered for the love of the game.

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u/karothacker 21d ago

I easily had 700hrs in it. My brother deleted my 400hr save so I had to start from scratch and got back to where I was in a little over a month within 300hrs. World and Wilds players have no idea how good they have it. Welcome changes for sure but there are so many QoL improvements that have made these games so much quicker

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u/War_Daddy ​ 21d ago

MH1 I had to spend like 2 hours farming dromes to get the armor set so I could survive YKK

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u/jankarlothegreat 21d ago

I don't know how the next thing you didn't hunt was your brother after losing 400 hours

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u/Agreeable_Claim_795 21d ago

My mem stick was taken out by my brother and eaten by our dog. I lost 700 hours of gameplay for MHFU. I ended up getting hit by my dad cuz I said, "Seriously? God damnnit." Soul crushing

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u/S0ft-Boiled-Egg 21d ago

I kinda doubt it, I don't have fresh in mind how long takes to get to post game on W/Iceborne but when I tried to ran it on a new file (a couple times btw) it was disappointingly slow, while on MHFU I reach post Ulkanos in 48-74h depending on weapon, purist, no exploit, no HBG.

End game files when I have pretty much meta or close to meta gear were like 150-200h on MHFU and in W/I they where more like 500-1000h unless I'm not remembering well which is WILD (wink) been running MHF1 too and that one lasts like a third of FU.

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u/karothacker 20d ago

Sure, if I played it now on an emulator with better controls and visuals I would be able to beat all 8 star guild quests in under 80-100hrs. But you have to remember it was very difficult when it came out. No online. No real help on the Internet. The skills and resistances didn't make sense (descriptions sick). Playing on a PSP with the analog nub was hell. Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian arena quest was the worst thing in my life for months before my save data got deleted. Not to mention you had to kill white monoblos over 100 times to get it's heart and it was the same with every monster. Point is, for the second game in the US, it was an incredibly difficult game for a teenager. But it's what started my love for the franchise (played the PS2 version but I never got past 3 star quests because we were never home.)

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u/S0ft-Boiled-Egg 20d ago

Ah yeah, first contact with the series was with a friend playing local in PSP, we didn't kill anything, we mostly grabbed shrooms and ran away from big monsters lol, we didn't know shit about upgrade system, or what an Elder quest is, or...really anything related to progress or what to do. After a lot we downloaded Gfaqs weapon paths and started doing the prey weapons with the infinite stunlock thing lololol, you could stun a prey boss forever.

I managed to kill a Rathalos after quite some attempts in what what seemed like the most dragged on, agonizing fight ever done in gaming, ever, lmao. Good times, I think I'm gonna download MHF again.

With time we understood SnS was the way (also noob friendly) and cleared most of the content, but before going further MHF2 came out.

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u/DemonicAnahka 21d ago

300 hours in a month? What?

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u/karothacker 21d ago

A little over a month. I was 13 and took my PSP everywhere. Didn't sleep much either 🤣

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u/jodecho_the_2nd 20d ago

I had roughly 700 hours on MH2, But then my hard drive died on me and I lost it all... Even if I couldn't play it anymore because for some reason I could never get a controller to connect to the system again it was still nice to have.

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u/Kirosh2 ​ 21d ago

the spiderweb exploit

The what?

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u/karothacker 21d ago

You trade a spiderweb for a special mushroom in the quest and it'll complete the quest. Then you fight him the second time you do the quest and he has significantly reduced health. Rince and repeat.

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

Never knew about this. Was it intentional or a glitch?

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u/reddit0rboi 21d ago

How in the hell

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u/Lopsided-Link7085 21d ago

Didnt have to trade if i remember right just had to get to the zone with the trader and i remember picking mushrooms and letting the timer run out then if you fought him again he had severely reduced health.