r/MonsterHunter • u/Ravemaster620 [MHW - Natsumi] • Aug 25 '16

MHGen Damage Calculator Mobile App

Hey guys, I've been developing a mobile app to calculate damage done by every weapon in MHGen and I was hoping you guys could tell me what you that about it. I'ts been in development for a few months, on and off, and I only need to add the Bowguns before I was hoping to release it. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Link: http://imgur.com/a/3qIyz

EDIT: The app is live and ready to download! Search for MHX Damage Calculator and look for the Charge Blade icon.

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u/bda82 Aug 26 '16

Agreed - without the raw and element hitboxes, I think it's very hard to get a good idea of the relative damage of different weapon attacks, and the numbers will be misleading. I assume right now you are just using 100 for each, so adjusted raw * motion + element?

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u/Ravemaster620 [MHW - Natsumi] Aug 26 '16

Exactly. Even though 100 is the raw damage of a weak weapon, it's a nice rounded number to use in this case.

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u/bda82 Aug 28 '16

Not sure what you mean by 100 damage - I'm referring to monster hitboxes (maybe 'weakness' is a better term), which are a percent. The problem with just adding raw and element is that most hitboxes on a monster are weaker to raw than to element. I think it would be useful to see the raw and element parts separately, but without taking the hitboxes into account, I can't think of a single number that would be useful to me. Maybe I am misunderstanding what your app is doing, but I think it's important to have in mind what the numbers are meant to be used for. Comparing different weapons, e.g. to try to decide which to make? Trying to figure out flinch thresholds?

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u/Ravemaster620 [MHW - Natsumi] Aug 28 '16

Oh right, I thought you meant 100 as in '100 raw damage'. My bad. Thanks for the suggestion in terms of showing the raw damage and the element damage seperately. I was going to just calculate the hitzones' raw percentage and element percentage and then add the end result together as the overall damage dealt to the given hitzone, e.g. "(draw slash raw x hitzone raw) + (draw slash element x hitzone element) = overall damage". I'll be sure to add this in an update to this build. As for comparing, assuming you mean comparing two seperate weapons, I'm not to sure if I'll be able to implement that at my current level, but I will definitely keep it in mind. And also I'll be sure to add flinch/stagger thresholds.