regmcfly wrote:

15 hours :'( pary

New dad. I'm shocked you managed that much

Done the Shara (lol at Water Mobility being endgame useful), now it's all the Guiding Lands stuff to see off.

I hope you're right. But I'm mid-tier at best.

Blue Swirl wrote:

I've watched the credits roll on the single player side of MHR. 35 hours on the clock, according to my Switch. Magnamalo went down first try with zero KOs. Have I got really good at MH or is MHR really easy? To compare, 3U had 600 hours ticked up before I had to call it quits, with the final quest yet to be done.

I dunno. I had a ton of fun, and MHR is gorgeous to look at. (Pretty sure the credits listed low double digit numbers of external animation companies, which I can fully believe.) I'm definitely going to keep playing, what with the multi-player, updates to come, and post-credits single player. I just miss the challenge. Even a bog standard Barroth took multiple attempts back in the days of Tri. And when I did succeed, I had minutes left on the clock. Magnamalo fell in under 20.

Oh, and I loved the way the credits feature an Ocarina of Time-style pan around the village. "Ah memories" says the game. "Remember this guy? What fun we had." I literally talked to them once between training quests. I laughed out loud during the final cutscene

Spoiler:

when the secondary characters all realise that the way they can help the village is to just keep doing what they were already doing. FUCK YEAH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

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The story is garbo and the village quests are piss weak, but the overall monster roster is really good and the Hub quests are also mostly really good, especially once you start getting into HR.

It ain’t G Rank, for sure, but there’s a few slightly tricky monsters at times. Wouldn’t call it hard, though. It’s deffo the easiest MoHan I’ve played when considering base game.

I'm probably going to watch the movie at some point. Fuck help me.

stonechalice wrote:

What's the best armour in this? Also, is it ever with switching out your buddies from the ones you get at the start? I've trained so many in the dojo but don't really see the point in using them?

There's no such thing as "best armour" in Monster Hunter. All armour has skills attached to it, and different skills benefit different weapons/hunting styles. If you're a Great Sword user, you'll get loads of mileage out of Quick Sheath, Focus, Punishing/Crit Draw. If you play Gunlance, those are effectively useless, and you'll want Artillery, Load Shells, and Guard Up skills, as a rule of thumb. There's then scope to mess around with other things - pure attack/crit up, evasion window/extender if you prize mobility above all. Decorations and Talismans let you fit new skills and plug gaps in builds. 

Most early game builds focus on Attack Up>survivability, then in High Rank you'll figure what skills you need and build armour pieces to match that. My current end game Great Sword build only has two pieces from a matching set, four monsters across the whole set to get me the skills I like.

As for Palicoes and Palamutes. The dogs don't seem to bring huge differences with them, but cats come from various types, denoted by their icon, and they all have different skills from pools within that. I like my basic starter kitty, who dishes out the heals, but you can get better attacks, trappers who deal stun/element, all sorts of different things. You might find you want the chance for a big stun/partbreak/element inflict over healing, which is why you'd swap.

I think consensus amongst the "meta" players is that HR Rathalos Arms and Spio Waist are invaluable for 90% of damage kits cos they have Attack 2 and Weakness Exploit 2 respectively, but I only run the Spio Waist myself.

Brooks wrote:

Shout out to this glorious fucking nonsense.

HOW?!?!

Minnesänger wrote:

Above may sound over critical - I like Rise a lot, just to be clear.

This. It's a good blend between the World style and older games, and despite the credits rolling very early, I can imagine spending a lot of time with this. Maybe not 3 Ultimate number of hours, but definitely more than I spent in World.

Boy is getting annoyed at the very first hunt. Some honey guzzling bear thing?

Can I co-op it with him? I’ll have to look up how to set up local co-op. 

I went through initial stages yesterday. Man, going through all those tutorials and stuff was so tedious but I guess it’s a must for a MH noob and given all the different things going on.

This game gets better and better. Just hit HR 6 this morning and my new Hunting Horn is an absolute beast

Minnesänger wrote:

When are you usually playing at the mo? Nina and I (and often shabby) are doing lunchtime (China time) hunts pretty much every weekday, and I often get some time in the evening. Would love to team up and hunt.

Whenever really. All the schools in Taiwan have been shut down until next Friday, so I'm free as a bird at the moment. We might be doing online classes next week but nothing's been decided.

I honestly forgot about the BnB Discord. I have my own for the same purpose; just me and a few old hunting buddies from down the years.

Check your discord Wookie - just @‘ed you. Assuming that’s still the Discord ID you use, you should be able to find the channel easily. There’s people in it every day at the mo.

Looks like Denuvo has been removed from the PC version. Capcom in continuing to be reasonable shock - at least for MH and RE games.

I do like the request system in MHR. Gets you some randoms in, and then automatically boots them after you're done. Means you can always find a hunt but you don't have to worry about being saddled with an eejit. No fuss, no muss.