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[Monster Hunter] Wilds coming 2/28/25 - Open Beta is over (Sad Palico meow)
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Gunlance is in such a good place now.
I do think they need to adjust how much lock facing happens with sword mode. It's already so much less mobile, I found I was having a really hard time getting attacks to connect that I wouldn't have a problem landing in world or rise.
I think it's at 1:13 but they hit some crazy block angles on that tail swipe.
also I haven't really been watching too many vids but I just saw a youtube short of someone with DB zipping through the air and all over the place on the clutch claw(?) wire - is that a blades-specific feature or something other classes will be able to do?
because if that's unique to DB and IG isn't as good like I've been hearing, my main may have been decided...
Dual Blades wound break move is the aerial bounce into heavenly blade dance from Rise
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I did the same thing, except since I never actually played Sunbreak I sucked it up and unlocked MR; gonna at least play through the MR story/hunts and stuff, then see how I feel about the HR grind afterwards
But god did this remind me how tedious I found base Rise. Rampages are awful, and Narwa is a miserable boss as well, no wonder I burnt out on the base game so hard.
Thank god you can just immediately go to Sunbreak after finishing the base game story at least, no way would I have been able to grind up to HR100 again on PC (I played on switch originally but then bought sunrise for steam when it was on sale).
I like to hop into World from time to time and join some random SOS hunts to freshen up
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I was never able to pull off the hammer offset reliably, having it the third in a combo always threw my timing off and my timing for the offsets wasn't the best as it was.
Like obviously it's all new to me so comparing it to retreading through base Rise is unfair, but holy shit this is way more fun. Sword and Shield feels great, the monsters are fun (Blood Orange Bishaten rules), and the follower stuff is excellent, adds a ton of character
Me neither until I realized you can hold it, which made it so much easier.
And so much of it is completely useless like your Cohoot, but they put it front and center.
Plus there are other combos that can lead into it. Really seems like something you can keep in your back pocket and if you see the right conditions let it rip. Lets you play hammer a little more aggressively, once you really dig into learning the combos.
I think part of the issue with learning movesets for me is I'm extremely indecisive so I tend to bounce between weapon choices and I don't really stick with one or two. I'm a jack of all trades but a master of none.
Making a character and here's your weapon here's your armor okay here's your palico and now you have a dog and a bird and you've gotta collect these plants and oh. Yeah. Here's the thing your hunting
Oh shit wait I forgot here are the two quest givers. They're identical character models but do different things
And now here are the four other NPCs you need to check through in-between every quest
Just...Jesus it's a lot
And on Reddit at least, it seems that everyone recommends Rise to be your introduction to MH, which to me is bonkers because you also have to learn all about switch skills.
I guess people suggest Rise to start because it does away with a lot of the tracking and other secondary systems from World, but in my memory World also had a much better paced onboarding/training period to get you up to speed
Also my brain imediately started trying to focus mode to re-aim, so that's A Sign.
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As someone who also started with 3U, I'd normally recommend MH4U. All 14 weapons, a nice tutorial (fight Great Jaggi in an arena to test-drive your weapon), and a decent solo story mode that slowly introduces new concepts in a logical way instead of all at once. Adds a bit of complexity with the introduction of mount attacks, but nothing crazy like Styles/Hunter Arts/Switch Skills. The problem here is that 4U is only available on 3DS so that could be a problem these days. World is certainly more accessible and clearly picked up a ton of new players, so I assume the onboarding there is also fine but I have no first-hand experience there.
4U is where my wife started (I had pre-ordered a copy, then they announced the Special Edition New 3DS that I windmill-slammed, so now I had 2 copies...); she tried out all the weapons vs Jaggi and fell in love with Charge Blade just on feel.
Of course the start is slower and gathering sucks and the controls are worse, but mostly it's the old sectioned off map that had me putting it down and just going back to Sunbreak (exploring is fun, and I forgot how much I hated both the paintball stuff + the HR/G Rank hunts just dropping you into a random section with no map)
Of course it's probably not very fair to revisit those games while I'm currently playing through Sunbreak for the first time, gotta meet them on their own terms and all that. And I did put like 150 hours into GU after playing through Worlds so it's not like I hate that style, but the entire time I was just thinking "I could be hutning Lunagaron instead"
God, Lunagaron is just the coolest
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There's a training dummy of some kind, you could see it in the little preview videos in the movelists. Presumably it's at least as fully-featured as the one in World.
It'll be called the Frogenemy and it'll look like a Chatacabra
i might say to start with Generations, maaaaybe, but really any of them will give you weird and tedious minutiae to catch up on.
maybe World is the best start, and i say this as someone who vastly prefers mobile team's work.
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I'm really over that cycle. Trudging through the normal rank of any monster hunter game is a slog to me.
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You may be over it, but it works well for Capcom's development team (Gives them plenty of time to harvest feeedback from the HR end game and implement changes into the MR end game), and it makes the megabikkies of cash, so why change it?
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Side note, be cautious out there if you're spoiler adverse: Dataminers have managed to pull a ton of dialogue as well as a bunch of monsters, including possible title update 1 monsters, out of the demo. This icnludes heavy story spoilers, due to it involving a huge chunk of dialogue. Ya done been warned.
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Ran with SnS the whole time so far, this weapon feels so fucking good in Sunbreak it's insane. The entire kit is so fluid and clean, and between backhop invuln + metsu counter you pretty much get to keep full uptime so you're always doing "something"
Need to finish up going back to HR to farm the last few base game decos I need (I booted up my switch copy the other day and got super depressed seeing all the insane charms and piles of decos I had in that version of the game), then it's on to the MR postgame and title update stuff, should be fun.
Shit...they got me. I'm going to spend so much money on funny hats for my cat.
I expect the story to be very dumb. Probably as dumb as the story in World, if not more so.