I really don't think one outclasses the other. Palamutes don't have support skills the way Palicos do. You're essentially choosing between increased mobility or all the skills and help Palicos would normally provide.
@Mountain_Man In single player you can bring both with you but if you're playing online (I believe with 3 or more people?) you become restricted to one so you'll have to choose who to take.
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Palicos provide clutch healing bubbles while you’re getting stomped on, and have often saved me from a cart. Palamutes require actually being able to mount them, and assuming they’re not healing in the corner. Palicos are better in combat. Clutch healing > sharpening
That said, Palamutes are better overall if you have to choose only one, simply because of the mobility (and the sharpening) but I think that’s the whole point. They are not trying to make them “equal”. This game is all about the Palamutes. But they still give you the option to take a Palaco instead if you just want the classic experience.
And once you have a palamute, there’s no reason to take a second. The marginal gains from a second Palamute are far outclassed by the gains of a palico as a second companion.
So the game is essentially designed around taking a Palamute in MP, and taking one of each in single player. Or, if you’re a conservative hunter and want the classic experience, you can just stick with Palico in MP and two Palicos in single player.
For anyone jumping into MHGU while waiting for MH Rise, who are coming from World and have never played any of the older games, here’s a nice beginner’s guide to help you get your bearings.
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@Mountain_Man In single player you can bring both with you but if you're playing online (I believe with 3 or more people?) you become restricted to one so you'll have to choose who to take.
Ah, okay, that makes sense. It won't affect me, then, since I don't play online. But it seems like anybody who doesn't go with palimute for online play will be at a disadvantage to anybody who does since they will be able traverse the levels significantly faster.
Keep in mind, just 2 weeks ago after trying MH for the first time in the MH Rise demo, he was complaining how clunky everything felt and how he wasn’t interested in the series
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They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
@JustMe For me, it looks like I'll be continuing my tradition of using the Switchaxe since 3U, BUT, I was also blown away by the hammer out of nowhere this time around. I've never liked the hammer in any previous MonHun but suddenly it feels amazing to use, so I'm really excited to bonk monsters with it this time around.
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Looks like the long sword was the most popular, followed by the great sword, followed by the hunting horn.
@JustMe I did try a the hammer a bit in world but it didn't click at the time. But afaik you didn't have two hammer charging stances and the ability to spin jump into the monster could only be done off of slopes, whereas the wirebug lets you do it any time here.
Honestly both of the hammer's wirebug moves are incredible. The one that costs two wirebugs is SO satisfying to land, and the spin-jumpy one is a really nice way to help close the gap between you and the monster quickly.
1 SOS system returns. But you don’t shoot a flare, you send off your cohoot owl as a “Join Request”. Anyone who has requested to join that quest will be matched up and join your game, even while the quest is underway. That’s awesome.
2 Rampage has a separate group of quests in the quest menu. So it’s clearly a different type of quest, and they are playable online from the Hub Quest menu.
3 Key Quests are now shown to us, so you don’t have to guess. I know World did this as well, but it’s nice to see the portable line has now made the change too.
4 Maps are covered in clouds, and only become revealed as you discover the map by exploring it. This is similar to World. But the cohoot still marks ? on the map for monster locations, even when the map isn’t yet revealed.
5 Expeditions return.
6 A new “random” option is presented in the Hub quest board, to help a random hunter in whatever quest they’re doing. Whether it chooses a random Quest among all quests of a particular rank (Low or High), or if you can narrow it down to choose a random quest within a particular star level (1-star, 2-star, etc.) we don’t know yet.
7 Low Rank seems to go up to ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ but I think that’s for the Hub, which historically has half as many star levels as Village Quests. The footage shows a hunter with access to high rank quests, and the Low Rank Quest menu only showed 1, 2 and 3. I presume High Rank will be 4, 5 and 6, and the Ultimate expansion will add G rank with 7, 8, 9 and 10. This means the Village likely only has Low Rank Quests which go up to 6 stars. The G rank expansion will likely add High Rank village Quests that are 7, 8, 9 and 10.
8 Quest description pages now have artwork of the target monster, so you don’t just have to rely on icons or read the description to figure out what you’re hunting. The visual quickly communicates the monster you’re hunting.
Yeah.. I wouldn’t call Rise the biggest game of the year. Mainly because while I’m excited for it, we still don’t know what else this year has in store for it. For all we know, Breath of the wild could get it’s sequel this year. Or another game that’s in a series bigger than this could get a new release. It’s just a bit too early, as we’re only two months into 2021
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I don't think "biggest game of the year" necessarily has to mean "highest sales of the year".
I take it as the one with the biggest impact, the most important, and most hyped.
Even if Zelda releases this year, I think MH Rise is the bigger release. Few gamers out there will be buying a Switch for Zelda BotW 2 who haven't already bought one for Zelda BotW. But MH Rise is going to shift more Switches than any game this year. Of that I'm confident.
And I think it's a far more important release than a follow up sequel to Zelda which is already on the system.
That's not to say Zelda BotW 2 can't be the better game, can't sell more, and can't generate more hype, but I don't think it'll be nearly as impactful.
All that said, I don't think the video was making the argument "this WILL be the biggest game of the year, 100% for sure, no matter what gets announced". It's merely saying, "there's a good chance this is the biggest game of the year, or at the very least one of the biggest".
It doesn't have to be such a rigid take. Having said that, I can't think of a single game that could be announced that would change my mind on MH Rise being the biggest release of 2021. Not even Zelda, and I love Zelda. But I already have one on Switch. What I don't have is a modern, AAA, open map, post-World era Monster Hunter on Switch.
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