Topic: Monster Hunter Rise

@Quarth No its more of Do it more you get better, You will luren what sounds or cues the monster makes for attacks, Its pretty easy when you get the hang of it.

Do you think they will add one more hunt, thats harder or a hunt for the monster in that demo, like Rathian.

@Snatcher Hope so! I've tried one 3DS game and the port on Switch, but it hasn't clicked yet, so I hope Rise will be the one that finally makes me understand and enjoy MH. Will give it more time!

Monster Hunter Generations is the only Monster Hunter game I've ever played, so I'm used to having the map exist as a series of interconnected hubs. What a difference it makes to be able to run freely from one end of the map to the other! Game looks great and plays great. This is a Day 1 buy.

So, here’s Framerate test of 4p online co-op, and while it’s not quite a perfect 30 like single player, it’s hugging within a frame or so. It’s pretty close to perfect. And that’s during combat with 4 players and 4 palamutes/palicos on screen at once.

The issues reported earlier stemmed from a weird issue where, if you have a lot of friends in your friend list, performance is worse. But if you play on a different account with less friends, it runs like this. Clearly an issue that will probably be resolved by launch. But I’m going to purge my friends list with the people I don’t remember just in case.

@Quarth
Top right corner of screen shows monster icons, and a symbol for R3 which means click R3 to lock on and toggle lock ons between different monsters.

Once locked on, simply tap L to swing the camera at the monster. There is another option that makes the camera face the monster all the time when you’re locked on but it’s ridiculously stupid because then you can’t look in any other direction other than the monster, which will get you killed quick.

This is a game that just takes playing and learning. Play the tutorials, take on the easy quest and just practice your moves. Combos, dodge rolling, sheathing, wirebug, etc. and battle whatever monster you want that you run into.

If you want help, let me know. I’ll hop online with you and take on some monsters together.

@Quarth try doing online hunts it much funner.

I'll give it to Capcom: I was kinda pissed when they totally missed Switch with MH World, but now I see the wisdom of that choice. Instead of some ugly 480p port of World that can barely hold 25 fps (although would it be all that different from the home console versions, in that case? ), we get this beautiful exclusive that runs perfectly and will probably end up being an even better game.

@Ralizah I agree This is way better then a crappy MHW port, I love the whole ninja theme and the dogs are one of the best parts of the game, you no longer have to walk or teleport to where the monster is closest now you can have a dog that can attack plus jump of on, plus you don't jump on the monster to do small damage now you can use it to attack other monster on top of hurting said monster your riding, it FREAKEN amazing.

I've killed Mizutsune... 4 times now?

Thing is a massive damage sponge.

@Ralizah
It is.

I had crossed the 10 minute warning when I killed him. I fainted once. I think the gear is a little under leveled for him. That or they balanced his difficulty for 2p min. Normally he takes me 20 min in MHGU, and this was double that, so it seems it had double HP for the demo.

Nice to feel a decent challenge though. I've been sun bathing in World as I cruise through at mach speed in the Steam version. This was a Splash of Cold water in the face, that's for sure.

It's also possible we're just averaging less damage now since his moveset seems reworked. He used to have a lot of openings, now he rarely provides any downtime. He's pretty relentless now.

@JaxonH I noticed. Thing pretty much never stops moving, which is why I found it so challenging trying to hit it with traditional melee weapons.

I'm consistently taking it down in around 40 minutes with the lance and the heavy bowgun now. With the lance, it's a simple task to tank its hits and keep sneaking in pokes (although it punishes me almost everytime I try to do something fancy). With the bowgun, I can snipe it from afar. You get amazing damage with the pierce ammo if you aim at the spikes on its back.

@Northwind Not tried light bowgun yet, but thanks for reminding me. The heavy bowgun is a bit unwieldy for my liking.

It took me, like, thirty minutes to figure out how to switch ammo, btw. I'm still slightly embarrassed at myself.

I kinda want to try the multiplayer out just once...anyone wanna do the Mizu quest? I figured we would hunt all 3 monsters there (or at least Rathian, lol)...but yeah, have the demo up for now.

EDIT: checks friends list, twitter, everyone is gone ...Why does this always happen to me. T.T Ugh, screw it....

I think Mizutsune took me close to 35 mins but I did waste a good five mins at the start whacking on Rathian.

MHGU demo was token of the Eshop most likely for the new demo, but I hope they bring it back after, I didn't finish the last hunt yet. Edit: OMG thank goodness I found it in my download list.

@Snatcher MHGU hasn't gone anywhere, it's still on the eShop like normal. Even when games do get delisted though you can still redownload them as long as you bought them before they were removed.

@BenAV I mean the demo sorry I forgot to say demo.

@Snatcher Right.

Never in my wildest imagination did I think that I would ever again in my hunting career get carted by an Azuros...

Man, that thing has some new moves and increased mobility that took me by surprise. That Wario style, dashing football tackle is no joke. I'm still a bit salty about the Hunting Horn, but I now know that this game will not be a run in the park if I can get carted by an Azuros of all things. XD

Also, the way the palamutes reacts to certain attacks cracks me up. Like that jumping slash they do every time I do a rising slash with the GL for example. The palico have somewhat less personality compared to the mutes in my opinion. May be a bad case of me not paying attention, but I don't remember seeing the palico contributing much to the hunt. Meanwhile, you got the mutes throwing kunai at the monster and stuff. Not sure how its doing that. Are their mouth blades also equipped with a kunai gun? XD

@JaxonH Thanks for the advice and offer to help. Will continue playing and see if I'll advance.

@Snatcher I'm more of a single player guy, but might try it eventually. Want to get a hang of the core gameplay first.

Edit: I really like riding the dog, it's great and when I figured I can hold A instead of going through the shortcut menu to mount it, it became even better!