Monster Hunter Boardsie Caravan Ultimate Generations X G

Linoud wrote: »

Nice. I haven't played this in awhile, a fair few months, I think I just got to hunting the Gore Magala? Not too sure. Fun game. Using Greatsword and dual blades myself. Only HR2 or 3 I think in the gathering hall. I usually just play solo or with one other friend but he's buggered off and jumped onto an MMO. >.>

Do you guys happen to use the MH Ireland FB Group? I haven't really been active on it much and the chat was mostly just the same 5 lads talking it seemed. Didn't want to jump into gathering hall with others just pulling me through it, felt like I'd be missing the experience of learning to hunt at my own pace, yknow?

Banjo wrote: »

Started doing the level 1 quests in the gathering hall last night. On the one hand their incredibly easy in that the monsters at this stage are very predictable but christ can they take a beating. Suddenly stamina management is my issue, that and having the physical time to finish the hunt before something in the real world gets in the way. I might leave these till I've upgraded my charge blade a little, or use them later to practice a new weapon. I remember looking into IG last year - is the suped-up Extender bug still the one to go for?

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

Ah I click out so rarely into the main Nintendo forum that I always completely miss it when a topic pops up about the new Monster Hunter game.

If anyone doesn't remember from the MH3U topic (Hi Shadowhearth!), that was by far my favourite Monster Hunter game. I put a loooooot of time into it. More than I'm willing to admit. I tore through the main game start to "finish" with my beloved Lance, then for general play and messing around, I tried to get my usages of all the other weapons up to equal and respectable levels. By the time my interest in 3U petered out I felt like I was pretty respectably decent with all weapons. Here's my guild card:



My time in 4U has been a bit different. Rather than solo-ing the whole thing, I've been playing it almost exclusively in two-player, as my new missus likes gaming in general and monster hunter specifically, we played from HR0 to G-Special-Rank together with our Ace Palico assistants joining us.

I think 4U is definitely "The best" Monster hunter game. The weapon balance, new mechanics, new monsters and quality of life stuff is all excellent (Thank Jesus for Item sets). 3U will probably still always be my favourite, but that's a personal thing. I'm not a huge fan of the artificially inflated difficulty of 4U in the form of gigantic monster damage, apex monsters, high level guild quests and the massive focus on farming randomly generated gear. Also it's a shame seeing all the ass MH2 monster padding out the ranks of the game content.

To try to keep this game fresh, I didn't allow myself to use any weapon from 3U until I had "beaten" the game, so I was running CB and IG exclusively until I hit G-special. Then I broadened it out a bit.



Since I obviously don't play ENOUGH MH, myself and the missus also made alts to replay MH3U using alternate weapons, for that character I'm exclusively using gunner weapons and armour.

AND because that was so much fun, and I don't want to level any of my "paired" characters without the missus there, I also made a gunner-only MH4U alt exclusively for solo play on my lunch break at work.

So yeah.... you might say I like theses games....

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

Jesus, solo gunning in MH4U is like being punished for a crime I didn't commit.

I'm having tremendous money difficulties. Probably because I am trying to simultaneously upgrade every LBG, HBG and Bow. I understand that's a little ridiculous, but I'm really desperate for one of the weapons to turn out to be really good.

Like the basic gimmicks of each weapon is:

Bow - Infinite ammo. Very money efficient, but very poor damage unless coatings are used. Even if coatings are used, damage drops massively when you run out, and you will, because all the starting bows are crap.

LBG - Rapid firing ammo. Get 3 or 4 bullets for every single shot fired. Middle ground of money efficiency between Bow and HBG.

HBG - Crouch firing ammo. Fire lots of bullets without ever needing to reload. Most expensive option, but most powerful if you can afford it.

My issue is that 95% of the weapons I've made are crap. None of my LBGs excluding two can rapid fire anything. The two that can only rapid fire slicing shot (which I'm too poor to shoot, insert Chris Rock joke here) or Pellet 1, which isn't powerful enough at this point in the game to be worth it.

I even made the Kut Ku LBG in the hope it could RF fire shots. Can it? No! Can I upgrade it from Rare 1 to Rare 3? Not till High rank. Waste of parts.

All my bows are crap too. I was hoping the Seltas one would be water element at least, but it's just high raw and low affinity. The Kut Ku bow is my only one with a bit of element, but it's stats are really poor, and the only bow I have which can apply power coatings (the most important thing for bows outside of the focus skill) is the Hunters Bow II, which is the Rare 1 bow you start with, upgraded once.

What I find I'm doing most of the time is spending all my money on Normal2 and Pellet2 when the shop is on a half price sale, and then bringing a full compliment of them on every quest with the Tetsu HBG the "Straw Drumcannon" (Minus the 30 Normal2 and 10 Pellet1 every quest seems to put in the blue box, god bless item sets).

I shoot all of those bullets, and often run out before the monster is dead (definitely run out if I'm trying to kill all the monsters on an expedition), and then crouch fire normal 1, because that's the unique property of the Tetsu HBG. It's very very far from optimal gunner damage, but 30 Normal1 shots in a row without reloading is honestly some of the best damage I can do as a poverty gunner.

It can also be suicidal if you're fighting a monster with high damage and low knockback, because you won't get knocked out of siege firing or get any kind of invincibility between hits, you just die really fast.

I just killed the Nerscylla on my file and haven't looked seriously at any of her gear yet. The plot wants me to go for a boat ride, but I don't feel quite ready for that yet.




I really like that Charge Blade. All the Seltas weapons have a lot of natural defense, and the CB for some reason has the most. I use it on some end game quests where I'm more worried about dying than doing elementally appropriate damage. Looks awesome as well.




I still think Pink Rathian is probably the biggest jump in difficulty from regular monster to subspecies. We definitely talked about this in 3U lol.




I'm afraid not. I'd like to, but since we last played I have moved from Dublin City Centre to Rural Cork. I don't even have internet set up yet, but it looks like when I do get it, it will be satellite or some other nonsense equally unsuited to online gaming.

I could probably hop in a room sometime in the future and give you my guild card, but I have serious doubts my connection will support gameplay.

Although it's entirely possible we've streetpassed at some point without either of us realising. Maybe you have my card already :P



There isn't a best weapon. Try them all and go with whichever one you like the best. They put quests in the game to allow you to use them all versus the Great Jaggi free of charge, so this is a good proving ground.

Don't be shy about checking the in-game manual either. Access it by pressing the home button during play. I guarantee there are more useful buttons for your favourite weapon than the tutorial will tell you about.

For best starting armour, keep playing until you unlock expeditions, then keep doing expeditions until you get a Guild Quest with a Velocidrome. Repeatedly kill this guy until you can make a full set of his armour. This will last you for most of the game.