Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

Does anyone have any tips for getting Rathalos Medulla? I have been trying to get it for about two hours( trying to get the jaeger prime 2 if it matters). The only tips I know are cutting of its tail and breaking its back. Any more would be appreciated.

Edit: I got enough on the very next rathalos I hunted.

Up to like Level 40ish on the Investigations now and they are starting to get really hard. Nothing has really changed other than the Monsters just hitting stupid hard. Also bested Seething and Silver Rathalos. Both fairly easy fights, I have to assume harder versions are coming. Both of them having a Anomaly style mechanic where you hit the glowy bits, pop them to do massive damage and then they fall over makes them in some ways easier than regular monsters.

Seething's armour is great for cosmetics, Guts seems cool but not enough to build the armour set for. I hope I can get Guts via some other means. Silver has a bunch of perks on it I like, but a lot of other stuff I am not really interested in, made the helmet but then will probably look for other sources for the other perks on it. Wanna try and make the Silver Lance though, not a lot of interest in the Seething Lance.

Fit update using some Seething cosmetics:

@blindsquarel
Just a tip for the future, if you go into the menu there's a list of all Large Monsters, and it will show the drop rates for each mat. You have to obtain the mat at least once to unlock the item shown, but if you've got at least one, it'll show up along with the percentage change of a drop for each category, such as carves, target rewards, capture rewards, break rewards, shiny drops, etc.

@JaxonH
Yeah I know about it, thanks for the tip though. I hadn’t gotten any of said material at the time, so I couldn’t see the drop rates.

@blindsquarel
Ah, gotcha.

Is Rise your first MH game, or did you play previous entries? Just curious

@JaxonH
Yeah it is my first MH game. It was always appealing to me, but I really had no consoles to play the games on before the switch. I do want to try other games in the series though,. I have generations on the switch, but I haven’t had the chance to play it yet.

I also want to pick up world for the ps4.

@blindsquarel
MHGU is especially hard to transition to. There's a reason MH was so notorious for being difficult to make new fans. But it's a great game if you can adjust.

World will be much easier to acclimate to. But even World feels pretty slow and sluggish compared to Rise. There's no Palamutes or wirebugs, and the maps are less vertical and more spread out, so running everywhere takes forever. You can fast travel to camps though, and eventually you unlock tailriders, where if you attack a pack of small monsters, sometimes your palico will tame one for you to ride. But you can't control it. You can only put a pin in the map and let them take you there. Its not that quick like Palamutes though. Still, it's something.

But even so, World is amazing. You should definitely play that game. And it will be a good steeping stone to MHGU. If you went straight from Rise to MHGU you might be off put by some of its slower, more dated mechanics.

@JaxonH
Yeah I want to play world soon. I don’t have as much money for games since I bought a crested gecko recently, but from what I have seen world is pretty cheap used. From gameplay I have watched it looks incredible.

I'm dying to get back into Sunbreak with all this meaty content, but I'm hopelessly absorbed into Xenoblade 3 atm.

@JaxonH I've purposefully put off buying XC3, just to allow me some time to grind those MR levels in Sunbreak! I'm in love with this expansion, and TU1 is a lot of fun with quiros crafting etc.... its a nice change to see the game really open up to such a variety of 'unique' builds (as opposed to 1 or 2 'meta' sets per weapon). But I am reaching a stage now where 1 or 2 hunts a day would be fine, and Sunbreak can be my side-game against something meatier.

I'm looking to get XC3 this week, and potentially kick it off at the weekend. What difficulty do you play on out of interest? I've played through XCDE on Normal, and found it a little on the easy side... I'm debating starting XC3 on 'Hard', but would be keen to hear the experiences of others.

I just keep hearing nothing but good things about XC3, and the jealousy is kicking in now ha!

@CJD87
I'm playing on Normal, and the early game chapters can be surprisingly difficult if you're not leveled correctly.

However, there's so many good sidequests, it's easy to become overleveled by 10 levels or so bt Chapter 4/5. The solution to this is, don't use your bonus XP at camps to level up further. Just bank it if you're gonna do the sidequests, and if you reach a boss that's too tough you can always go spend a few at a camp and come back.

That would be my approach, anyways. I'd reserve Hard Mode as a failsafe in case you get too overleveled and want an immediate correction.

@JaxonH OK that sounds fairly reasonable, and I do remember that XCDE had a few decent difficulty spikes… even when playing normal mode.

Are you locked into difficulty from the start? Or can you change at any point? (Your comment suggests I might be able to bounce in/out of hard mode at any given time?)

I’ve managed to avoid any spoilers, which I’m really pleased about! Sadly with XCDE I had a major mid-game plot twist spoilt, and it soured the experience a bit for me.

When do you plan to jump back into Sunbreak? Greatsword is calling mate…!

I might jump on for some online hunts soon, but otherwise I've accepted Sunbreak will remain on the backburner for months. Xenoblade 3, Splatoon 3, Mario + Rabbids 2... it never ends. I yearn for the next drought period.

@CJD87
Ya, you can change difficulty freely at any point.

I may put Splatoon 3 into backlog so I can get back into Sunbreak before Nier Automata, Mario Rabbids, Persona 5 Royal, Bayonetta 3, Harvestella, Pokémon and Dragon Quest Treasures release. After all, Splatoon 3 will be going strong for years, and it'll give some time for the S rank players to filter to the top so I don't get wrecked.

Mario Rabbids can go into backlog until I finish the first and DLC, and Harvestella, as good as it looks, can probably go into backlog until January. Same for Pokémon and DQ Treasures. The ones I fully intend to play day one are Nier Automata, Persona 5 Royal and Bayonetta 3. Even then, Idk how I'm gonna manage all 3 of those games in one month. Nier I can probably beat in 2 weeks before Persona, but once P5R drops, there's no way to beat it in a week before Bayo3. Meaning it'll temporarily go into backlog while I play Bayo3, then in November I can get back to Persona 5 Royal, and hopefully beat it by Christmas. Then I can start chopping away at all those backlogged games.

So ya, I fully intend to hop back into Sunbreak as soon as XC3 is done. I just hit Chapter 5, and there's only 7 chapters, so it shouldn't be too much longer.

@Ralizah
It's crazy.

I never thought I'd see the day I got pulled away from a brand new Ultimate version of a AAA Monster Hunter on Switch, but the release schedule has been unprecedented.

It's unfortunate, but also a good problem to have. I love feeling like I'm drowning in top-shelf games I can't keep up with.

But make no mistake, I will be returning to Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak. There's just sooooo much content waiting to be dug into.

@JaxonH Yeah. Ultimately, given it will be my primary MH game until the next Nintendo hybrid entry releases, I'm not in a gigantic rush to return to it right away. Especially since content drops through next year ensure that people will continue to return to the game. for a while yet.

@Ralizah @JaxonH Too many games to play right now, and not nearly enough time eh

Be good when you guys jump back into Sunbreak, let's try to get a team hunt together!
Enjoy the last stages of XC3!

Capcom has already announced update 2 for late September with 2 teaser silhouettes:

Sunbreak is also a part of Capcom's TGS plans.

Ya, they showed that a while back. Looks like a Mizutsune and Espinas subspecies.

If the title update is 6 weeks out (same as title update 1 being 6 weeks after launch) then it should drop around Sept 23rd.

People on Twitter keep saying it's a Mizu rare, lol