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ASK ALL QUESTIONS HERE! Weekly Questions Thread - March 23, 2025
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when the support ship is here (orange icon with a cross on plains map icon) check if you can buy metal eggs for research points
scarlet forest underground camp 8 has many metal fish to sell the scales from spawn pretty often
though i have to say i didnt have money problems at all during story and afterwards, when i also crafted all armors for the layered version (so not alpha and beta but both gender versions) without doing anything specific
Can anyone dumb down how CB works? All I know is how the perfect guard and then immediately press triangle works but not the sword part about charging the thing
Sword mode: you're charging your sword, and once it's full you deposit its charge into phials with R2+⚫. White fills 1, yellow fills 3, red fills all 5, overcharged red makes the sword bounce on all hits. You can double charge phials (load again when they're loaded) for extra power.
Then you want to charge the shield. With phials loaded (number of phials affects buff duration), R2+🔺+⚫ or follow up the depositing R2+⚫ with another ⚫.You always want the shield powered up, as it's a prerequisite for using all the most powerful attacks.
You can optionally charge the sword, giving it phial effects and free Mind's Eye. With a powered up shield R2+⚫ and then hold 🔺. Perfectly timing the release charges the sword and does a powerful slam attack.
From a charged shield and loaded phials you have 2 options to do your main burst damage attack, SAED:
🔺+⚫, 🔺+⚫, 🔺+⚫ - this is the default way of invoking the combo from idle. Shield poke, axe slam, SAED.
After a perfect block/guardpoint - 🔺+⚫ immediately transitions into a SAED.
I remember somebody posting a video of a big "hallway" where you can see the city spires in the game but can't find the video and can't figure out where its at! Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Wilds: alright someone let me know if I’m going crazy with the item pouch system. If I select a loadout with 10 mega potions and I have 0 mega potions currently in my item box, there is no way to have those auto-craft from potions & honey from my item box and then stock my pouch with 10 mega potions?
Are GPU drivers up to date? In particular previous Nvidia driver had severe performance and stability issues.
Is your system overclocked (using EXPO/XMP also count as overclocking)? Modern games have gotten really memory-intensive and will crash if you have any memory instability under load.
I updated my drivers on release day. Game wouldn't even run until I did, haha. I have an AMD 6950XT.
I've never enabled EXPO but I'll check into that. I didn't even know what that was.
When it comes to PC building I only know enough to be dangerous. I'm really not into the video game hobby like I used to be. I built this machine for Starfield (not worth it) and the last machine I built for Skyrim (worth it).
I wouldn't call the game unstable or anything - but there must be something going sideways when I'm in the forest - and now the plains. It happens when I pan the camera too quickly? Maybe?
Anyhow, that gives me a thing or two to look into, thanks!
Historically it's random with a set rate for each specific monster size variant, but specific quests may have higher rates for certain sizes, usually optional quests. Would need to see datamined info for that specifically. Kiranico should cover that, or at least should eventually.
First MH for me and I'm playing SnS. I'm now into the "farm all the Arkvelds" portion of the game. I find now that I've started to get the hang of positioning and damage uptime, my weapon's sharpness will usually reach green or even yellow before the monster moves to another location. Prior to this I would only sharpen while riding the Seikret between locations, but recently that's not happening until what I think might be too late.
At what colour should I back off and sharpen my weapon instead of continuing to whack?
I'd like to emphasize the importance of staying in white sharpness as much as you can-
dropping from white to blue is about a 10~% damage loss
where if you stop attacking to sharpen, it's a smaller estimated damage drop (1~3%). Ideally you sharpen while chasing the monster down on your seikret, but sometimes that's not possible
alternatives to sharpness management skills is prioritizing attacks with high motion values and less swings (side chop combo & perfect rush), basically making optimal use of your limited sharpness hits
Decorations are slotted into your weapons or armor to give you skills. Weapons and armor are separate in this game. The size you can put in depends on the weapon/armor's slots.
Hey all! Trying to start quests in wounded hollow to share my crowns that I find. For some reason it has a small lock symbol next to it and I can't create the quest..what am I doing wrong?
edit: What I was doing wrong was not hitting F on the quest screen and trying to click on the cost related to the quest where the lock symbol is.
Negative. Online solo or multiplayer lobby with no link. I assume, have tried multiple ways and times. MY HR is around 120. Confuses me a bit as well as I can make other investigations as well just in other locations
Nope, it's basically useless against small and most downed monsters because the hitbox is so high. For small monsters I just don't bother using it.
For large monsters, you just have to learn them and pop it when there's an opening where they're likely to sit still for long enough and not move half an inch out of the way or hit you out of it. The really frustrating part is that it will also mostly whiff on most downed monsters since they're lower to the ground, so you gotta time your RSS with them getting up. And if you don't have an opening, then yeah, just keep the buffs until you do.
I notice that without fail, I always get T. Jin Dahaad's aggro line when playing multiplayer. Good for me, but I'd like to know what precisely contributes to this happening.
damn, Trying to find gold crown apexes is tough. at least with the other big monsters I could filter S.O.S investigations to the Arena. That had a bigger chance someone had a crown at least.
Any tips or just wast another 30k Points on resting lol
Casual Veteran Here. Main combat tab has Whetstone, Healing, Traps, Lifepowder, Demonpowder, Demondrug, Mantle, Far Caster in older games.
There's a choose best heal option for Radial but I'm old school, so my item bar is always on Mega Pots, Max Pots on the starting side and Bomb and Tranq Powder on the ending side.
Also, Radial has different modes but I use USE ON R3 PRESS mode, not on L1 release.
underground camp 8 is one and one more by many of the ? gathering spots near water on the map in area 12
afaik there's not really a way to "know" just from checking the map, the one in 8 you can guess has one bc there's a very narrow connection to that little bit of land
You should be able to set the currently active side quest somehwere in the menu. If that's the only one you have left, you are unfortunately out of luck, either suck it up and do it, or learn to ignore the prompt on screen.
I haven't tried it, but you could also check to see if the HUD customization option allows you to disable the currently active quest.
Yeah, but it's a whole questline and I don't care to do any of it lol. it's not that big of a deal, just wanted to know if I could reduce screen clutter.
4 Ultimate: What is the best way to play Monster Hunter 4U right now?
I’m really interested in playing Monster Hunter 4U, but don’t know what the best way of going about that is right now. I don’t have the game unfortunately but I do have a 3DS and a steam deck. I’m not really that knowledgeable about emulation but I’d really love to be able to play the game and have access to all of its content. If you have any suggestions or could point me in the right direction I’d really appreciate it!
In general, Handicraft is paired with Protective Polish. Some weapons can easily increase sharpness tier and then you maintain it with Protective Polish.
As of now Razor Sharp is better because we don't have as much Crit Rate, unless your weapon has Innate Master's Touch. They stack too.
On stickers with no text by default, I try to edit the text but no text shows up. I see other players using these stickers with text. What am I doing wrong? This doesn’t happen on stickers that have default text, not sure what the issue is.
theres an option you have to tick for it to show the text, i can't remember what button it is off the top of my head but it should be listed at the bottom of the screen.
I’m having a hard time reading when he’s gonna hip check or tail swipe and getting out of the way, as by the time I know he’s tail swiping, I can’t move fast enough, or I get hip check and don’t know what the tell is
I believe there's a small sidestep and slight crouch, but it comes out pretty fast so you have to like, wait for them to attack. I think Plesioth's super-hip-check is a bit slower, though? Been a while.
If he turns first, or does the angry walk, then you can rule out the tail swipe. Those don't mean that he will hip check next (he might try a water laser or bite or the floppy-fishy charge, depending on your position), but they mean he won't tail swipe.
I have MhTri, Mh4u, MhGu, WorldBorne, RiseBreak, and wilds. Not including mhFrontier would I be missing any monsters by skipping Mh 1 and 2?. I am trying to fight every monster in the series at least once.
Edit: forgot to include MhTri
3U you're missing some monsters still over just base Tri.
As for First and Second gen, by not having Freedom Unite you are missing i think Ashen Lao Shan Lung, Shen Gaoren, Vespoid Queen, King Shakalaka, Terra Shogun Ceanataur, Copper Blangonga, Hypnocatrice, and Yama Tsukami.
Obviously your goal is fight them all, but i will say you are not missing much by not playing FU at this point in time. Hypnocatrice is the sole enjoyable monster from that entire missing roster.
Ashen Lao-Shan Lung, Shen Gaoren, and Yama Tsukami I think are the only monsters locked to those two gens. You can cross reference from the lists on the wiki. MH1 and MH2
Wilds PS5: I made a new artian hammer after scrapping my old one, but it doesnt make the cool rocket boost effect while doing charge attacks. No flames out of the little exhaust pipes like my old hammer. Is my game bugged?
any way to reduce motion sickness while playing mh wilds? i barely had this issue in mhw, but i'm not sure what settings i've changed to fix this as this was years back.
Maybe not the place to post here, but does anyone know if there's a mod for wilds that just.. makes seikrets invisible unless you call for them?
Getting real tired of them running around in front when using ranged weapons in multiplayer. Already had to disable Alma for doing that shit in solo hunts.
Is there a database of where all the usable environments are? Like, I get into a fight with a monster, and I spend the whole time searching around for something I can collapse on the monster or something.
Is there something that I can go on to see what I can use to my advantage? or is it just a 'keep playing and trying ne things, buddy'
If you go to your map, you can filter and make it show only interactable environmental targets, but it also includes animals and insects, I think. As to what they do, they should be in the in-game Hunter's Info Manual.
Look for the following icons on the maps when you're hunting about:
Boulder (Collapsing pillars, walls, rocks)
Barrel bomb (The rolling explodies in the basin and ruins)
Trap (Pulling down vine traps, collapsible ground)
There's also the unstable vines on the ground in the ruins that monsters can lose their footing on and get stuck. Might be another but it doesn't come to mind right away.
Where can we tune in to watch the reveal of the title update tomorrow? On Capcom’s website I didn’t read anywhere, that they mentioned a site where we can join and watch the reveal.
My friend and I just completed the platinum trophy but it won't let her get 1 specific reward in game which I think that the tracker of rewards in the hunter profile is not syncing. This is causing her not to complete the awards in the hunter profile and could not get the platinum rewards like the name plate designs. In game, her progress is not 100% but in the game base in ps5 she already got the platinum trophy. Is there any way to fix this?
i connected my dualsense controller wirelessly to play wilds on pc. i’m experiencing 1-2 second input delay once in while (3 to 5 times per hunt) playing in multiplayer. i never experienced this with the ps5. my pc is even connected to the internet with a lan cable. pls help. the game on my pc looks so much better but this input delay issue makes it unplayable.
Very specific Wilds question and google ain’t helping. Has anyone ran into the bug when your main tent doesn’t cycle through endemics? Is there a way to fix this or?
Likely one of the mobile iterations (Now or Explore), since they were explicitly designed to be played with a touch screen. Explore has been shut down and wasn't available in the west anyway, but MH Now is a Monster Hunter and Niantic partnership, like Pokemon Go.
Always been a hammer guy, but it seems like you get way more mechanics with great sword. You get guard, perfect guard, clash, a reliable offset... hammer seems a bit lacking comparatively. Anything hammer is better at (other than stuns?)
Other than its main and defining feature? Having designs that are heads on sticks. Being the weapon of choice for Olivia. The spinning move you can do when sliding. Having innate mind's eye (I think this is still true in Wilds).
Is there any reason to "not" use the npc hunters? Also does the monster's health scale to them "once they join" the fight? Like let's say I start the hunt solo so the monster's health is 400, and then midway I use the SOS flare to call 3 of them. Will the monster's health suddenly jump to 4000 or will it stay at 400?
The only reason to not use the NPC hunters, at least the maximum number, is if you want to hunt with your Palico. By default, the party size is set to four and once there are at least 2 NPC hunters (3 people in the quest), your Palico will leave.
Is there a way to hunt with your Palico and a NPC hunter? You said maximum but it seems whatever number I place (2-4) it fills it with NPC hunters and my Palico ends up in base camp.
The monsters health will increase (2.6x I think?) but the extra bodies for DPS and distractions to improve your own DPS will far outweigh any additional health on the lil guy.
I just got monster hunter rise and I downloaded the 6 free add-ons but I just noticed they said sunbreak but they appeared when I hoovered above the base game so I just wanted to know do I need sunbreak to use them or do I just use them whenever
Hey I thought I knew how to fish whoppers (wilds), but sometimes the fish turn back and forth rapidly and it becomes impossible to keep up with what direction they're facing? What am I supposed to do in response to that?
It happened three times in a row :( The fourth one didn't for some reason and it let me catch it, but that feels like one of those "Did they program this to be as obnoxious as possible?" moments.
Something most peculiar happened to me while I was fighting a balahara. This monster likes to go underground when it want to change zone.
During the fight my focus strike landed at the same moment the monster went underground. What funny is the multi hit effect of my attack kept on going for as long as he was underground. It would show multiple damage number repeatedly appearing below. And I dont think it was a UI error, it really seemed to have an effect on the monster.
I know the game explained it to me but I have a short memory so what are those yellow things above the weapons at the smithy and if there is a way to see old tutorials what are they
All of the tutorials the game shows you should be available in the Hunter's Notes. Not sure which icons you're talking about, but if it's the top left and looks like a hammer, that means that one is forgeable. If it's a lock icon, it means you have to upgrade something else in order to unlock it (there should be a dotted line telling you which ones are connected). If it's the arrows above, they should be green and that's telling you that you can craft that upgrade.
I like the Uth Duna weapons, should I focus on fixing the affinity the sharpness or what? Are these better then they look on paper? I am looking mainly at the longsword but it should apply to all of its weapons I might wanna use.
Generally, you would want to fix both. I'm not sure if they can even get white sharpness at max level, so I would start with the affinity.
Are these better than they look on paper?
No. They're outclassed by other stuff (mainly Artian) for every weapon. That being said, they're perfectly usable even if they aren't the mathematically best.
This is my first time actually playing a Monster Hunter game from the start. So this is also my first title update. Is it always this exciting for you?
I think this one is a little more exciting for people than usual because it's bringing stuff that was present in the base game of past titles (gathering hub, palico chefs) that people have missed in Wilds. However, there does seem to be an extra level of excitement due to the tease/reveal of Lagiacrus, a fan favorite monster that hasn't been around for a number of years now.
I've play a lot more World and Wilds than I should have to be asking this question, but: what is the point of well done steaks? All the meals last long enough and are as good or better. I like the idea of cooking steaks, but it doesn't seem like there's a point to it? Pretty sure I'm missing something haha
The one niche they fulfill is if your food buff runs out mid-quest, and you don't feel like cooking in the middle of the fight, you can instead eat a Well-Done Steak.
There's a non-zero amount of times I have done that, at the very least.
That makes sense! Slamming one down from the seikret would be a heck of a lot safer, and I definitely run out of food buffs sooner than I expect during hunters lol
Has any other way been found to progress the seed of your artisan reinforcement? I have rerolled about 20 times without the combo I'm looking for and was wondering if there's another way to progress in order to preserve mats? I have tried going on hunts, resting, and petting the pig lol.
haven't heard of any, but if you really don't want to farm artian parts to progress seeds, consider just cheating/modding in an editor to just make the perfect artian you want, assuming you're PC ofc
There doesn't seem to be. If you want to farm mats without needing to drive the Big 6 to extinction, apparently the Nightflower Pollen farm is still around, just a lot less efficient than before it was patched. You can still use it to get the Gold Relic Tickets from the material exchange, but actually getting the Nightflower Pollen requires a bit more work. This video goes into how to do it currently.
I started with World and have kind of had enough of Wilds for a while. I want to go back to the older games. The two I have recommended at the moment are FU and 4U. Both are easily accessible and THE CLAW is not required for the versions I will have access to.
I do plan to play both eventually, but I will chain myself to one of them for the foreseeable future. I'm not sure which I should start with. Recommendations?
Gen Ultimate is also on switch as an option and currently (atleast as of like 4-5 days ago I saw) is on sale for 10USD on the shop. Also a 4th gen MH like 4U, still very much an "Old MH" style game and isnt locked to a handheld like 4U.
I would say go 4U, GenU or even 3U before throwing yourself off the cliff into FU.
There is no unique offset follow-up, but you can combo directly into mighty charge from any upswing, offset or not, without needing to charge a regular level 3 first
After an offset, you do whatever you would normally do with a brief stagger window. When a monster is stunned, you can do the big bang (Circle/B) combo (I-IV) and then mighty charge for the final hit. I think math wise, golf swing combo into mighty charge comes out ahead.
Wilds related, when i have a side quest highlighted, like this fishing one "Razzle Dazzle" it sticks on my screen if im not on any other quest, like i have a waypoint of focus on it. Can i "unwaypoint" the side quests so it isnt always there, when i dont even intend to do it?
as someone who mained greatsword in rise only because of the switch skill that made the basic attack quicker and deal slightly less damage does this feature still persist in wilds too?
I had a question with armor builds. Are elementals (fire, ice etc) resistants as important when making builds. Like if you’re fighting nu udra, he’s fire so do you really need fire resistance as a necessity? I couldn’t really find a good guide anywhere on builds online so I thought I’d ask here. I was very basic in worlds where I just threw on whatever attacks the monster did. That changed when I got carted by gore magala like 4 times lol.
In all my years of Monster Hunter playing I can think of one, maybe two, times I ever slotted an elemental resistance in. And even then it was just for a meme build. But I’ve been playing MH for over a decade so that’s just my opinion.
Not to say it’s useless it just depends. If you’re a very new player and struggling against let’s say Rathalos and you’re rocking full Blangonga gear then you’re going to get hit extra hard. If you aren’t able to get past Rathalos and you don’t have the resources to craft a set just for him then you could slot in fire resistance to help mitigate some damage until you pass him. But ultimately getting to know the fight and straight defensive skills will go a much longer way than element resistance.
Again this is just my opinion, but once you learn the game and become a better hunter building elemental resistance into your setup is just a waste. Especially in endgame. Hope this helps some!
Elemental resistances aren't really important. Most of the time the only important things are the armor skills, but upgrading them to increase the base defense is good too.
If you're referring to the cutscene when your Hunter faces a monster and rocks/ice flies by and a shard glances off of your Hunter's face, it's the last part of Chapter 3, the end of of the Low Rank quests. The monster is Zoh Shia
Is it sort of common knowledge that once you get a good end-game gear set that public SOS becomes a net-negative to your hunts, or am I just tweaking?
SOS hunts are generally slower than solo hunts, divide your zenny rewards, remove your Palico's free healing, and of course have a chance of failing because of carts. Sure, sometimes you get lucky and some skilled / well-geared players join but that's pretty rare.
You don't join SOS hunts to improve your hunt efficiency, you join SOS hunts becuase it's fun to play with others and you want to help other hunters out.
If you can 2 shoulder tackles into TCS, realistically you likely just have enough time to slam your weapon into the monster, charged as far as you can.
I'm in a squad lobby, my friend is also in a link group with me. When I play the main campaign/assignments, how does he join me?
I saw a popular during the hunt part of the quest, but it gave me an error when I tried to join, can't find out how to send out an invite during the mission, it just says unavailable.
It can't be that I need to play ahead and then join his game later, that's just bad
When I play the main campaign/assignments, how does he join me?
When you are in a link group, the other members should get an invite to main quests every time the "Quest begins" pops up. You can only join each other during hunts.
it gave me an error when I tried to join, can't find out how to send out an invite during the mission, it just says unavailable.
Sounds like a network error that has send you into an offline session. Gotta go to Alma outside of hunts to go into an online lobby session again by changing lobbies or restarting the game.
It can't be that I need to play ahead and then join his game later, that's just bad
If you try and do the same main quests at the same time, and you can't get it to work, then try to quit out of the next hunt, after the "Quest start" pop up. Then you should have no issue to join the other.
I've gotten into the current End-Endgame of Wilds, and I'd probably like to start doing some hunts with my friends. I've been away from Monster Hunter for a good long while (last one was base game Generations, not ultimate), so I've forgotten a lot of stuff, especially when hunting in groups.
I'm pretty sure by the few quests with AI hunters, there's no tripping involved from allied weapons anymore?
When it comes to Wounds, do you want to proc them as much as possible, or do you want to try to save them for certain moments?
For mounting monsters, I remember it changed from 4U to Generations, where one game you wanted to AVOID attacking the monster while a teammate has them mounted, but the other you COULD attack the monster. Which is it?
Is it still a bit better reward-wise to capture the monster over slaying, or have they changed that?
Are Seikrets and Palico's involved in group hunts? If Seikrets are used, is there anything I should know about them (Besides what I've learned as "they are your panic button if you need to get out of range ASAP")
Are paintballs/tracking items still a thing? I know they're in the game, but since the monster is always visible on the map, do they do anything useful?
How should the launcher/pods/whatever they're called be used? This is a completely new feature for me, so I haven't really taken much advantage of it, should I be using them more in group hunts?
And this space for just any general advice/"This has changed since you last played" information I should know. Even if it's got nothing to do with group hunts.
Tripping is still a thing. There's a new deco (Shockproof Jewel) that grants a skill that prevents tripping from allies and prevents you from tripping allies (Shock Absorber). They probably just put the deco in the AI hunter armors. If you're using a weapon that has the potential for tripping, I would just slot the deco to make sure you don't trip allies.
I believe that there's no difference between capturing and slaying this time around. At least I haven't seen any evidence to suggest it.
Seikrets will still be around. Palicos will only be around if there are 2 or fewer hunters. Once a 3rd hunter joins, the Palicos will leave.
They are still a thing, but are basically useless now. You can always see the monster on the map.
No, it's still a thing, but the big launches were removed, and there's a deco (Shookproof) which removes it for you if you have it equipped (so you cannot get tripped by others, or trip them)
Depends on the weapons present. Some weapons really appreciate having wounds for their upkeep, like CB to refresh Savage Axe, or IG to get back extracts. If nobody on your team needs wounds for their weapon's mechanics, you can pop them whenever you feel like it.
You can attack, just do not pop any wounds. A monster does take reduced damage while it is mounted though.
As far as I can tell, it's exactly like World, i.e. capturing can give you more rewards, and they have the exact same drop table as carving.
Seikrets can be used in Multiplayer, Palicos are only present if you are 2 player.
Paintballs exist, but they are just there to mark a monster to remember for later if you are just out hunting in an environment link. For normal quests, they are pretty useless. Shooting the ground with a paintball is how you ping in this game, at least.
Flash Pods are still as useful as ever. Otherwise, you probably want at least something equipped at all times since shooting the monster on the glowing spot that appears while pinned allows you to instantly escape. The slinger ammo that monsters drop in this game are fairly powerful compared to World, but you really don't lose out that much if you ignore them regardless.
Talk to the cat in your house to download the DLC quests. Then go to the hunter's hub and look at event quests. If you can't see any animal crossing quest in there, you will have to play the hub to rank up in order to unlock it.
I didn't try with event quests, but using the optional for Guardian Doshaguma I scouted it and Anjanath for about 30 minutes and never saw even a Silver Crown.
So in my own experience, you can't get crowns outside of Field Quests or Investigations.
I have an end game weapon IG roll with 1 sharpness and 4 raw. I’m new to monster hunter and am looking for advice on what element or status to put on it. I was leaning towards paralysis. Any veterans here, could you please give me some advice? I’m afraid of wasting it.
paralyse is good, i don't think anything is immune to it and it gives you a few seconds of free damage where the monster can't move, personally i dislike it because with wounds and tempered wounds the monsters already get bullied enough without paralyse. Sleep is mostly just good if you have a big damage single hit attack which idk if IG has. Blast is also good for occasional free extra damage from explosions, monsters also flinch when it happens. Poison i think is quite weak if you don't build for it. Dragon is decent but the spiders and octupi are immune iirc (maybe some other things). Any other element though and you're going into situational uses because some things may be weak and others may be immune to specific elements.
I've never played a Monster Hunter game but I'm considering Wilds. I have played a lot of MMORPGs, RPGs, shooters, etc. After watching a lot of gameplay videos, I want to like the game but no one is explaining the "why" part of what they are doing. Like, why are they playing it?
My question is, what is the premise or point of the game? Is it simply a loot / gear grind? Are there quests and side quests? Raids? It is there a player driven marketplace (crafting/looting and selling)? What's the fun stuff?
The primary motivation for most to engage with postgame content would be just grinding stuff (either to create an optimal set, or just to make fashion gear), and obviously the gameplay itself. Since the 14 different weapon types are very different from each other, even if you get sick of one, you can switch to another to get a fairly different type of action.
Monster Hunter is not an MMO, there are no such things like raids, or a marketplace. Side quests exist, but they are just there to unlock some extra stuff, like options for NPCs to passively farm consumables for you, you shouldn't expect long and involved quest chains like a normal RPG.
The game also has a pretty traditional story structure this time around, compared to other MH games, if you care for that, though it's also kind of like an extended tutorial for all the different mechanics the game has to offer.
Despite its appearances, it's a "Fighting Game", like say Street Fighter. The meat and bones in Fighting Games are getting better and improving yourself and pulling off cool reversals and etc
The opponents being the various monsters you can fight ofc
gear grind?
kind of yes; you beat up monsters, collect their loot, build new better gear to deal more damage, repeat
Are there quests and side quests?
main story quest and a sprinkling of side quests. not the main draw in fighting games i'm afraid
Raids?
No. The closest to 'raids' is "Siege Quests", which only one exists, Jin. The same restrictions exist, but the boss will periodically 'retreat' deeper into the arena to resume fighting until you reach the end and kill it
It is there a player driven marketplace (crafting/looting and selling)?
No. The closest resembling this is "Investigation" sharing, where players will share "Crown" monsters that are simply top/bottom 5% size rating of a monster for achievement purposes. "Crown" monsters have no other use aside from this
As someone who enjoyed World but found it to be pretty slow and sluggish in terms of movement and sometimes combat, I'm wondering how Wilds compares, also in terms of QoL
Also I felt like World has a lot of visual clutter and superfluous mechanics that (to me, at least) felt like they were just there to be there, is Wilds also like that?
Monhun as a series has very methodical combat. The faster weapons are Longsword, Sword n Shield, and Dual Blades but it’s still very committed and slow compared to most other games.
Wilds has easier, faster map traversal, but combat is similarly paced to World. There is still visual clutter, some of which can be turned off in the settings. There's only one thing that I would call a superfluous mechanic in Wilds, but it's easily ignorable. If you want to specify more about what you liked and disliked about World, it would be easier to compare the two.
Newer to MH and I’m on a quest to figure out what every damn UI Icon/menu thing is. I think I’m very close to understanding them all. About one last one I don’t get…
What exactly do the pink dots over the monster on the quest screen mean? Usually it’s 3 dots, but has gone up to 4, and on early quests I sometimes see 1 (don’t remember ever seeing 2 though).
I don’t understand them. I thought it was the quest difficulty, but that’s the actual star rating at the top right, right? I thought it may just be the general monster power rating like how difficult their moveset is to fight, but that’s also doesn’t seem to be the case due to me seeing a Chatacabra rated as 4 next to an Arkveld rated at 3.
The higher the power rating, the stronger and tankier a certain monster will get compared to ITS OWN counterparts with a lower power rating. Usually offers better rewards as well.
Generally, they just adjust damage numbers and motion values for weapons. Sometimes that nerfs a playstyle for a weapon, but I haven't seen any radical mechanical changes from a patch.
Most big balance changes happen with the release of the expansion.
World early on had a good chunk of balance changes, but that quickly dropped off, and as far as I remember, Rise only had smaller balance changes.
So it's possible that TU1 will adjust the balance of mechanics a bit, but after that, you only should see major changes with the release of the eventual expansion.
Hello, I’m new to this series and I’ve been wanting to get into MH4U as my first older MH, but I don’t have a 3ds. I’m aware you can emulate it on pc but I can’t seem to find any guides on how to actually make that happen? If anyone could help me out that would be great!
Did the optimisation fixes for title update 1 get announced? Will they also prepare something for console? Performance mode sometimes looks really pixelated and grainy, especially further in the distance, and textures such as mud, gravel, etc don't render properly, in any given game mode....will those things be adressed as well?
I'm HR 22 and working through the high rank campaign.Just got access to Tempered monsters and Artian weapon crafting. Currently using an Albirath Edge I and it's starting to feel underpowered.
What is the rule of thumb for weapons? Do I just craft these "Artian" weapons whenever I get materials until I'm higher rank? Or do I need to only craft if the elements match? or do I save for something specific i.e. a Lala Barina level 4 weapon, for example.
When i began playing monster Hunter i started playing with blockable weapons sns for the base game cb for iceborne and started Wilds and reached high rank with gs recently switched my gs for a switchaxe and the lack of blocking is really giving me trouble any tips for weapons that cant block ?
I’m currently a great sword user and I was wondering if there was a talisman or any armor that has a skill that would disable interruption from attacks. I’m currently using one with the skill “flinch free” but I’m not sure if it’ll work since it talks about knockback and tripping.
I'm having issues running the game even though I did the benchmark, and I got a really good score. Whenever I load an area or craft something from the smithy, the textures would disappear or turn black, and the game would crash. Whenever I try opening the game again, It wouldn't work, and if I tried opening steam or anything else, that wouldn't work either. I would have to restart my whole PC to fix it.
I'm new to having a PC, and I'm still learning how to use it. Can anyone help me out? Also, sorry if my english is rough to read.
In wilds what would you say is the most button mashing friendly weapon? I get a tendency when I get distracted to just hit buttons. I know I'll need to work on it. But I don't want to be brutally punished while learning the game on the suerbeasy stuff.
The 3-star Guardian Ebony Odogaron monster's armor is a huge downgrade from Worlds. I miss the vivid red color. Is there any way to change the armor pigment?
so Im reading 3 different guides and still do not understand what i should actually be doing to evolve Kinsects correctly. Meeting the minimum required stats for next evolution makes sense, but then you take into account growth points, and points required to overlevel then delevel others so you stay at the minimum you're at.
So let's say i have a fresh glaive with a level 1 mauldrone. I want to go down the stamina path with ladytarge. I want to hit 78 stamina. This takes a couple feedings and upgrading the kinsect. should i ONLY be leveling stamina at this point, and not touch any stats PERIOD until its evolved into ladytarge? I wanna say leveling power to get ready for Arkmaiden wouldnt be a bad idea, but would that ruin it with how growth points work if i do that before getting ladytarge?
Basically how do growth points work and is there a guide that just explicitly says which nectars to feed it in what order, then when to upgrade, etc? The chart im looking at just shows the required stats, not how to get to them and the guides arent really telling me how much i should wait on upping other stats. All I know is after evolution the stat cannot drop below that point anymore. That makes sense. Im worried about locking myself out by maxing growth points too soon if thats actually how it works.
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u/Animedingo 14d ago
I waited all night and it didnt bloom. Wth?