Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

Eh, it's fine...it does get chaotic towards the end. But, it's doable. I think For Apex Rathian I almost failed since the last gate had about 1 hit left. lol

@Snatcher
I doubt it does anything, but you never know.

The Glad Tidings outfit for your cohoot was said to “bring good luck” which immediately made me think, “Poogie... legend of increased drop rates petting the pig... perhaps this outfit increases drop rates?”.

But I doubt we’ll ever truly know. Until then will continue petting our pigs and feeding our owls dressed in decorative garb, hoping against hope it increases that orb drop rate from 3% to 5%

last night anyway i decided to finally interact with the stupid cahoot owl at the village. Petted it a few times and fed it. Man it felt stupid and boring doing that. Plus I had my hunter sit down on one of those benches and did one of the choices to laugh silly and play with some toy flute.

Petting the poogie pig was alot better in the previous games Freedom Unite and Monster Hunter 3/4 and plain Generations

@JaxonH I really miss the poogie But the owl isn't to bad, But did you know they have a nest and if you find it they give you extra stuff?

@Snatcher
Of course. I know every square inch of Kamura. I’ve even gone to the nest so many times I don’t have to climb up the back anymore. I can double wirebug hop to the top all the way from the entrance just from doing it so much and getting efficient at it.

@JaxonH Dang I need to take time and look around.

@JaxonH I've seen some people repeating as low as every 8 talismans unfortunately

@Ralizah Honestly I forgot that was a thing, considering how little I use this place nowadays outside of this thread lol.

@xPH03N1Xx86
Don't think that's correct. Arrekz and Gaijin Hunter reported 42 is the lowest possible number, and even that is exceptionally rare, to the point only a few people in the entire community had encountered it. Not saying there isn't a chance that's wrong, but I suspect there's a higher probability whoever is claiming that is mistaken, for whatever reason. And if it's not, it's going to even even more rare to the point the odds of it happening to you are virtually nill.

@JaxonH In his video about it he shows a clip from a user stating they've been getting it every 8, about 40 seconds in. Unless he followed that up after in a different video, I don't watch his stuff often. Not a bug I'm worried about particularly, I'm sure itll be fixed soon enough

I’m really surprised at how fun they made all the monsters in Rise.

Take Basarios, for example. Basarios is the juvenile form of Gravios, One of the most despised monsters in the entire series, perhaps save for the piscine wyverns (which I’ll get to in a second). Basarios was universally regarded as a bottom tier monster in MH4U. And when he was revealed for Rise, there wasn’t too much excitement, although people did note he looked a lot better with the glow up.

But my goodness, Basarios is one of my absolute favorite monsters in the game. It’s such a good fight! He’s such a good monster now. They did Basarios justice. And he’s not the only one.

Look at Juyrutodus. Perhaps THE most disliked monster in World. Panned across the board. At his reveal, the only response I saw was, “but why”. And yet... they totally redeemed Juyrutodus. I think part of it is putting him in a water setting where it’s shallow enough that it doesn’t slow your movement down, but also just making him stronger. Most people regarded him as a Great Jagras type punching bag in World. But no more. They locked him to high rank, and an urgent quest at that. And he was super fun! I won’t go so far as to say he’s one of my favorite monsters, but he’s definitely not one of my least favorites, that’s for sure. And coming from where he was before, that’s a pretty big leap forward.

Even Arzuros, which, I think most people liked Arzuros already, not because the fight is difficult, because it’s not, because he’s a cute Honeybear. But even the Arzuros fight got a glow up. I was surprised at the fact he was knocking me on my butt so much in the demo. I wasn’t used to that from him. They actually made his fight a lot more interesting, and don’t even get me started on the Apex variant. Muah!

It seems as if they really went all out ensuring every monster in this game is a good fight, and brings something to the table. I can’t think of a single monster I dislike.

Btw, now that I’m in HR6, I ran into an Anjanath when on a small monster quest in Lava Caverns, and casually decided I would try to break his face for some break rewards... oh boy. Let’s just say I came within a tale swipe of carting not once, but twice. And that was in fully upgraded Basarios armor with full Defense +7 skill! I was shocked!

Then I fought Zinogre... in my Royal Ludroth gear... Ya. I carted. And that was with Defense +7 gemmed in. I can’t imagine how hard that fight would’ve been if I hadn’t gemmed in Defense. That’s when I realized I have arrived. I’m there.

A lot of monsters in World were mostly pushovers, I even felt like the flagship didn't put up much of a fight for me. Not to mention the freakin' AI, Barroth suffered from this greatly...
shakes mud off body when has no mud
"Where's my mud? I don't have any?"
...Yeah, it was cute, until he did it ten bajillion times and, yeah...he was super easy.

In Rise, I have not seen him do this AT ALL. By the time most of his mud was gone he was already moving to cover back up.

In addition to the pushover thing, there were a few more annoyances that caused me to give up on that game multiple times. Monsters were cowards, they ran away WAAAAAAY too much, I still remember my first Tzitzi (or however you spell his name, lol) fight, he runs away and climbs up a bunch of cliffs (this was at the Coral Highlands, so, yeah.. lol) and makes it to his nest, once I got to him and woke him up with an attack, he IMMEDIATELY went back to the previous area. I followed, made it to him and right when I attacked....he went right back to his nest.....back up the cliffs....again. Then there's was my first experience with Banbaro...it was similar except the chase was way longer because of Hoarfrost's massive size....speaking of.

Map sizes...way too large and complicated. Moving on, lol

Monster roars, I think I noticed why they did this, they would roar constantly when another monster appeared, the other monster would roar. They also roared when they would run away (meaning they would do this a lot, lol)...it...was...ANNOYING. Especially when most of them were the quick ones that would constantly stun you before your weapon hits.

....I could talk about it more, but...yeah. Rise is like World....BUT FIXES all of the issues I had with World.

...Also Rise's new monsters I just like in general, all of them...even if I hate giant spiders...
Some of World's monsters felt underwhelming to me, and Anjanath was annoying, but thankfully they also fixed him in Rise. Man, that constant puff of fire after every attack....Even when blocking, he would still cause fireblight. It wasn't fun, it was just annoying. lol

EDIT: Oh yeah, the other thing that bugged me in World...Some of the attacks were unblockable, that should've been blockable. Rathalos was a perfect example of this, I get that some attacks out there can't be blocked, but a simple claw attack from Rathalos should be blockable. Instead he just constantly trips me over, picks me up, and tosses me somewhere.

Even Rise fixed this, although there are still some attacks that has this issue, but they're less annoying. They're also less frequent, so, eh.

@JaxonH I had fun with all of (I hate that horned demon). back in world I never used demon drugs or armor skins I found them very cheaty and still do I mean do they count as cheating, they sure made hunts better but I just have this guilt so I can't feel right wile using it.

@Joeynator3000 The monsters were hard for me And I never did a hunt on my own, (It was my first MH game) But I sure did hate the weapons, they did not look nearly as good as others I just googled them and man they were a downgrade.

Man world is the worst monster hunter game imo it's also the only MH game I've played that I've only had a few hrs played time on ( think I got 10-20hrs) I finished the first ending on world and never touched it the constant finding footprints to track a monster was horrible the first time it felt great but after that just no. Rather stick needles in my eyes

The armour & weapons were dull and all looked the same

World although vast in size was shallow and empty in soul & character where as rise has smaller maps but they have far more character to them

Edit I also feel like world was a game produced for the masses but rise was a game produced for the fans maybe that's just me but rise just feels like it was designed more for its fan base rather than to break through to a wider audience

I mean yeah if it's your first MH game then I can see them giving you trouble, I remember my first game (Tri) and Great Jaggi constantly kicking my butt. lol

But in general, I did feel World was easier compared to other games...like the flagships, I felt Nergigante didn't last long for me...it was over before I knew it. Before that there was Valstrax...that quest took me almost the entire 50 minutes. Yeah I was still new to the whole Prowler thing and I was also probably using the wrong element against him, but still.

Then there's Magnamalo, he was in between...I was constantly healing and trying to stay alive, yeah I still won and probably only fainted once (I can't remember, don't feel like watching my video, watching a movie right now, lol)...but he was still putting up more of a fight than World's flagship. xD

Oh yeah the weapons...omg World's stupid weapon designs. Another thing Rise fixes, lol.

Also yeah I didn't like some of World's monsters, yeah I wanted some new Fanged Wyverns already, but they over did it a little...Jagras and Girros...I don't like them, Jagras because he just looks like a dired out/dehydrated Ludroth, lol. Girros I just hate because I hate paralyzing monsters in general. xD

But yeah, Tobi and Odo I'm fine with....was kinda hoping Odo would return here, maybe in the expansion.

Also hoping Paolumu and Legiana will return, would've been better than that stupid mud fish. lol

Also Val Hazak...I don't know why but I liked him...his music, too. (despite World's ost being kinda "meh" to me) Only thing I didn't like was that virus thing, it gets annoying after a while.

More edits: Yeah World was geared more towards western players and newcomers, and focused more on realism. Rise is based more on the older games.

World got ridiculous near the end though. Honestly @Joeynator3000 I think you have the impression that World is easier because you haven't done Iceborne, and especially Iceborne's end game.

Raging Brachy, Rajang, Alatreon, ug.

Yeah I think overall the game was hard for me to stay into it because of difficulty, and by the time I unlocked Glavenus's and Nargacuga's quest I lost interest in the game completely.

I struggled to get to Master Rank because of this, I just felt like I wasn't having fun. And because of the flaws I pointed out before, I was getting more frustrated and not liking the game even more.
With Rise, I'm having fun, and the frustrations I'm having here are just...normal and common MH frustrations....
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LIKE THE STUPID DESIRE SENSOR AND MAGNAMALO'S STUPID PURPLE ORB THING!!!!!!
....cough Eh hem...yeah. lol

One trade mark about monster hunter is, no not the monsters, The hit boxes LOL.

@TeeJay I heard some scary things about ice born I have yet to get it tho since i'm working on rise.