Monster Hunter World

jaxxx · 13-06-2019 12:07pm

Small update on multiplayer level scaling:
- solo = no scaling (obviously)
- 2 players = slightly increased scaling
- 3/4 players = full scaling

And to repeat from my last post, difficulty will now scale back if players leave a quest (3/4 to 2, and 2 to 1) which is FRICKIN' AMAZING!

Not that it's much use to me cos I hunt solo, so git gud noobs

:D:D

That being said, I'm pretty sure that doesn't apply to special quests like Behemoth/Extreme Behemoth/Ancient Leshen - I am basing that solely on a random comment I read, so it could be entirely false.

Some other changes not covered in the above posts:

Glebee · 13-06-2019 12:36pm

Reinstalled MHW..:D

Have about 63 hours played and for the love of Christ id love to know how to play this game correctly, I don't think ive completed the single player yet, but not sure. Don't get me started on crafting and perks...

jaxxx · 16-06-2019 1:13am

New returning monster theory: Khezu/Gigginox.
- based solely on the caves shown during E3. They just scream the perfect environment for those two. Of course if you've never fought them in previous games, fair warning, they're ugly as ****

EoinHef · 23-07-2019 10:08pm

The matchmaking with friends system is interesting,strangest thing ive come accross in awhile:(

jaxxx · 24-07-2019 10:02pm

Jesus I completely forgot about this thread! Quick update on what's new since I previously posted:

New old monsters returning CONFIRMED:
- Glavenus
- Barioth
- Brachydious (teaser from most recent trailer the same as how glavenus was teased a while back, no gameplay footage as yet)

New subspecies:
- Ebony Odogaron
- Acidic Glavenus
- Fulgur Anjanath

There are still rumours floating around that Zinogre will return. Its gameplay skeletal structure is almost identical to the Behemoth's, plus the release of the new Fulgur Anjanath further adds possible evidence, as Zinogre gets its thunder abilities from Fulgur bugs.

jaxxx · 26-07-2019 8:43pm

The Summer Fast started today peeps! Most event quests have returned (one or two exceptions), one of the ones you wanna focus on though is The Greatest Jagras for farming decorations! Also, even if you don't fancy playing much, log in anyway because there's a free Attack Jewel being given away with the login bonus, so that's reason enough just to login!

ShadowHearth · 27-07-2019 12:45pm

jaxxx wrote: »

The Summer Fast started today peeps! Most event quests have returned (one or two exceptions), one of the ones you wanna focus on though is The Greatest Jagras for farming decorations! Also, even if you don't fancy playing much, log in anyway because there's a free Attack Jewel being given away with the login bonus, so that's reason enough just to login!

I did that yesterday. Haven't played in looong time! So decided to go solo Great Jagras. With GS, which is not my main. I am so damn rusty, it kicked the loving Jaysus out of me lol.
Might still go and play a bit, take rust off. Decorations will still be relevant in expansion.

jaxxx · 27-07-2019 2:26pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I did that yesterday. Haven't played in looong time! So decided to go solo Great Jagras. With GS, which is not my main. I am so damn rusty, it kicked the loving Jaysus out of me lol.
Might still go and play a bit, take rust off. Decorations will still be relevant in expansion.

Yeah, even with maxed out armour it can still almost one shot you. One trick though when you enter the quest, don't go for it straight away. Start at the southern camp and wait in the first area where the Aptonoth are. It will come and devour one of the Aptonoth, then you can have at it. This will force it to spit out a lot of jewels, which will appear as "Great Jagras material" on the ground. Can easily get 20+ jewels every run. 30 is the max I think, after that the materials just become Jagras parts again.

Spring event btw not Summer, my mistake.

Dcully · 27-07-2019 5:02pm

Absolutely love MHW, put in a silly amount of time with it, done every activity available but i have one problem with the game which in the end made me stick with heavy and light bowguns more than anything else and thats the combo gameplay, its just not something i enjoy in games.

deceit · 29-07-2019 3:08pm

I've bought this game but haven't got into it yet. Would anyone be interest in helping me get started on it? I have it on xbox and pc but would have a preference for pc.
(I bought it on both as I like to support devs that make good games so I bought it on xbox then picked it up on pc when released with the intention to play it.)

Canis Lupus · 30-07-2019 2:14am

SO I've given this another chance. I'm playing with the charge sword? I've just killed Barroth so I assume I'm not far in. The 'asianness' of the game still gets under my skin with the character design and most particularly the weird cringey dialogue and voice actors.

Also I dislike the weird ways of using the weapon. You want to charge your phials? build up powerr then ctrl right mouse. Simples. Want to charge your shield. Well you have to slash slash and then go for a mega slash BUT cancel it and now your shield is charged (RM+LM, RM+LM, RM+LM then quickly ctrl). That makes no freaking sense and looks stupid as well......

Having said all that I'm enjoying it more this time around but I'm still very overwhelmed by all the stuff I'm constantly picking up, I'm not sure if I should be using armor spheres to upgrade my origin armour or do I forge new stuff or does all this become clearer with more play?

Dcully · 30-07-2019 12:21pm

Try a ranged weapon if like me you hate the combo crap to pull off a move.
Underneath is a magnificent game.

Potential-Monke · 30-07-2019 4:18pm

I keep getting tempted by this, but the fact that it's geared towards groups of players has always put me off. Others mentioned that it's possible to do solo, and I even see it's currently down to €20 for the base game, so really tempted now. However, I also see the game page on the store is littered with 'dlc' of skins and emotes, etc. Seeing that puts me off it again (specific face paint design for €2...). Anyway, I will most likely pick it up (to continue the trend of buying games and not playing them), so wanted to check in to ensure there is nothing preventing progress?

nix · 30-07-2019 4:39pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I keep getting tempted by this, but the fact that it's geared towards groups of players has always put me off. Others mentioned that it's possible to do solo, and I even see it's currently down to €20 for the base game, so really tempted now. However, I also see the game page on the store is littered with 'dlc' of skins and emotes, etc. Seeing that puts me off it again (specific face paint design for €2...). Anyway, I will most likely pick it up (to continue the trend of buying games and not playing them), so wanted to check in to ensure there is nothing preventing progress?

You can play solo entirely, I did when the game first came out, i didnt have internet at the time so played offline, and im pretty sure i killed all monsters. They may have added some monsters later that need a group, but id still say those would be soloable also, just might take long.

But eh, the game has a learning curve and can be difficult for some Id imagine.

YouSavedMyLife · 30-07-2019 4:54pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I keep getting tempted by this, but the fact that it's geared towards groups of players has always put me off. Others mentioned that it's possible to do solo, and I even see it's currently down to €20 for the base game, so really tempted now. However, I also see the game page on the store is littered with 'dlc' of skins and emotes, etc. Seeing that puts me off it again (specific face paint design for €2...). Anyway, I will most likely pick it up (to continue the trend of buying games and not playing them), so wanted to check in to ensure there is nothing preventing progress?

For the price of the base game there is a metric **** tonne of value here. I sank a total of 400 hours into the PS4 version and i didn't do as much of the endgame grind as alot of other players do. Stopped playing at about Hunter Rank 120. I also played the game entirely solo bar 2 of the end game monsters which i did with groups, as they are designed around them.

The DLC in shop is mostly trash. Mainly emotes for people who are big into the social aspect of the game, the base game comes with alot of free event style DLC and alot of monsters where added over the games lifetime as free DLC.

Monster Hunter: World is my first MH games and is one of my favourite games of all time. It really is that good, with Iceborne being the only "game" im looking forward to this year. The only problem i could see you having with it Monke is the difficulty. If i recall correctly you couldn't getting into the Souls games because of the difficulty. That being said i don't consider it on par with Souls games in difficulty terms. The combat is much slower and planned out versus Dark Souls sometimes twitch based action. No monster in MHW gave me problems the way, say a Dark Souls boss would

Potential-Monke · 30-07-2019 6:05pm

Sound peeps. Similar to Dark Souls/steep learning curve would not be good for me, so cheers for pointing that out. I'm still torn, may wait until it drops to a tenner! :pac:

Dcully · 30-07-2019 8:13pm

I played mostly solo starting out.
Ignore the DLC plenty of free mods for of version too

nix · 30-07-2019 9:00pm

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Sound peeps. Similar to Dark Souls/steep learning curve would not be good for me, :pac:

Kinda, its not as cruel as those games in terms of you can die as easily. You can put up a good fight before dying usually, you're constantly beating on and chasing the monster back to its nest for the kill, you're allowed to be KO'd 3 times before your mission fails and the monsters health doesnt reset if you get KO'd, he may regenerate a lil buts thats about it..

I found playing it, if a monster rinses you fast in the game, it usually means you need to farm mats to make better armour/weapons to progress with more ease.. theres no leveling system in the game, just harvesting monsters for better armour/weapons...

Canis Lupus · 30-07-2019 10:33pm

Dcully wrote: »

Try a ranged weapon if like me you hate the combo crap to pull off a move.
Underneath is a magnificent game.

I don't mind the combo stuff as such, just it's weird that there's a 'sensible' option to charge phials but you have to do 4 move cancel to charge a shield and a to a lesser extent a cancel action to charge your sword (which itself makes your do an attack).

But whatever, I can deal it.

Tell me.... I just forged a great jagras charge sword and as best I can make out it does fractionally more DPS of the default one that I've upgraded to level 3 at the expense of not having the same sharpness bands. Is there other more important aspects to these trees other than some of them having elemental damages? Is it mostly just aesthetics?

BTW I tried the bow and that seems more unwieldy and again is just odd from a controls perspective. I can't 'unsheathe' the bow without shooting it (might just be an options thing). Then if I toggle on aim first BEFORE unsheathing then nothing happens if I press the same shoot button, I've to turn off aim, shoot blindly to unsheathe then I can toggle on aim. Then with the bow if I press F to aimlock (that red targetting box) it seems to jump all over the shop rather than stick on one thing. Like who designed this madness??

Dcully · 31-07-2019 2:00am

I cannot recommend these setting enough, real game changer.
Also try the heavy and light bowguns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lU2e_boztk

K.O.Kiki · 01-08-2019 2:19pm

Got any settings guides, too?
I've a beefy system (i7-5820K overclocked, GTX 1080) but I seem to have messed it up somewhere and I'm not sure what I should turn down to get it running at 1440p 60fps+ again.

raze_them_all_ · 01-08-2019 3:50pm

**** sake not out till January on pc

Dcully · 01-08-2019 8:19pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Got any settings guides, too?
I've a beefy system (i7-5820K overclocked, GTX 1080) but I seem to have messed it up somewhere and I'm not sure what I should turn down to get it running at 1440p 60fps+ again.

I recall some setting giving a 40% boost alright ,should be in this vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mjZvZIy8S4

Canis Lupus · 02-08-2019 12:23am

I believe it's the volume rendering. Turns off that annoying vaseline smeared look and saves a chunk of performance.

jaxxx · 07-08-2019 1:56pm

All Confirmed Monsters for Iceborne thus far with 1 month to go (sorry PC users

):

- Banbaro
- Beotodus
- Shrieking Legiana
- Nargacuga
- Tigrex
- Barioth
- Velkhana
- Brachydios (though not officially confirmed, but a teaser confirmation in one of the last teaser videos released by Capcom, much like Glavenus' initial teaser)
- Glavenus
- Acidic Glavenus
- Fulgur Anjanath
- Ebony Odogaron
- Coral Pukei-Pukei
- Viper Toby Kadachi
- Nightshade Paolumu
- Ruiner Nergigante

** The last 6 in the list are all subspecies, as opposed to Shrieking Legiana which is a variant.

You can be sure there are more as well. Still high hopes for Zinogre shared by the MH community. Undoubtedly there will be an end game boss monster as well, much like

Xeno'Jiiva

was in base World. Nargacuga/Tigrex/Barioth all have subspecies that would fit in nicely in World, so that's also a possibility. I would guess that Velkhana and the end game boss are not the only Elder Dragons we are getting. Much like the base game as well, you can be sure that more monsters will be released down the line as was the case for World where Deviljho/Lunastra/etc were released months after game launch.

Btw I assume you lot have been hitting the game every day to utilise the daily bounties??

YouSavedMyLife · 07-08-2019 3:26pm

Gotta be more than one Elder Dragon. I bet we see a Nergigante Varient/Sub-species (I don't know the difference) and some other new/returning monster

Some new balance changes where revealed today also. Buff to elemental weapons and nerf to crit basically. Here's a video, have to skip to over half way for the MH:W segment

-Edit-

Actually after watching that video, i hope the main hub area is also the multiplayer lobby. That was the only thing i didn't like about the base game, that they where separated

jaxxx · 07-08-2019 11:14pm

Variants are basically the exact same monster, all but identical, but much stronger and haven taken on extra traits. If you compare Legiana and its Shrieking variant, physically they look almost identical except the Shrieking variant has darker marks on it and will be a much tougher fight compared to its normal version. Subspecies are as the name says, a completely separate subspecies of the monster, e.g. Rathalos and Azure Rathalos, keeping the same skeletal structure as their cousin, but looking completely different to one another. Sometimes even taking on completely different elements/status to their normal counterparts, e.g. the regular Anjanath has fire attacks, Fulgur Anjanath will have electric attacks.

Nerigante is getting a variant alright. It's called "Ruiner Nergigante". Be sure to bring your brown pants!!

As for the Crit nerf, if I remember right the changes are this:

- Mighty skill: will only activate if stamina is maxed for a certain period of time, i.e. if you dodge, it will no longer be active and you'll have to wait a while after it maxes out again for it to reactivate. Whereas before if you dodged, it would activate as soon as the stamina bar maxed out again.
- Tenderizer skill: top % is being dropped from 50% to 30%. So I assume now instead of 10/30/50%, it will be 10/20/30%.

I'm happy about the elemental buff. I was sick of the meta being using Kulve Taroth weapons from the siege. I'm guilty of it myself, but hopefully this buff will put all weapons on an equal standing again.

YouSavedMyLife · 08-08-2019 11:29am

So varients seem to be like Arch tempered to some degree? I also hope it's a case of elemental weapons being the best possible weapon in a class against monsters that are weak to it. So you have you non element weps that are decent against monster monsters and the elements ones which are simply superior

jaxxx · 29-08-2019 11:54pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

So varients seem to be like Arch tempered to some degree? I also hope it's a case of elemental weapons being the best possible weapon in a class against monsters that are weak to it. So you have you non element weps that are decent against monster monsters and the elements ones which are simply superior

Arch tempered or regular tempered are the exact same monster physically, but much more powerful versions. Variants have slight physical differences to their regular counterparts and are typically stronger, but are not separate subspecies. Even I struggle with the difference sometimes.

Anyway.. .. ..

ZINOGRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE THUNDER DOGGO IS BACK!!!!!!!!!

Most of the flagship monsters from previous games are now confirmed. The exceptions being Lagiarcus (unlikely), Gore Magala (very unlikely), Seregios, Astalos, Gammoth and Mizutsune all 4 of whom I think are still possible (the latter three form The Fated Four together with Glavenus).

BUT ZINOGRE'S BACK SO I'M HAPPY!

Star Lord · 30-08-2019 12:29pm

Don't see why they couldn't bring Gore Magala in, was a very cool/interesting beastie.

jaxxx · 30-08-2019 7:33pm

Star Lord wrote: »

Don't see why they couldn't bring Gore Magala in, was a very cool/interesting beastie.

I agree, but if they did they'd have to bring in the Frenzy virus as well which I expect would take a lot of work, having to overhaul pretty much all large monsters for the frenzy virus. I can see them possibly doing it in another expansion, but for Iceborne I very much doubt it.

Geez I have nightmares of Shagaru Magala from 4U. Could not find a room to pass the urgent, and it took me forever to do it solo. Two things I love about World, no longer needing to be the one to post urgent quests and how online monsters are scaled for solo play.

I'm probably being greedy but now that Zinogre,s confirmed, I'm hoping for Stygian Zinogre as well!

jaxxx · 03-09-2019 3:56pm

HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS!! RAJANG CONFIRMED AS THE FIRST DLC MONSTER! IMAGINE THE MOST FURIOUS APE YOU EVER DID SEE, AN APE THAT GOES SUPER SAIYAN, AN APE THAT LITERALLY IS RENOWNED FOR EATING KIRIN FOR BREAKFAST!! WOAH BABY!!!!!! Also: RAJANG VS DEVILJHO TURF WAR!! THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO SEE EVER THIS PICKLE BOY WAS INTRODUCED, AND NOW FINALLY IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!

YouSavedMyLife · 03-09-2019 6:57pm

jaxxx wrote: »

HOLD ONTO YOUR BUTTS!! RAJANG CONFIRMED AS THE FIRST DLC MONSTER! IMAGINE THE MOST FURIOUS APE YOU EVER DID SEE, AN APE THAT GOES SUPER SAIYAN, AN APE THAT LITERALLY IS RENOWNED FOR EATING KIRIN FOR BREAKFAST!! WOAH BABY!!!!!! Also: RAJANG VS DEVILJHO TURF WAR!! THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO SEE EVER THIS PICKLE BOY WAS INTRODUCED, AND NOW FINALLY IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!

MH:W is my first MH game. You don't fail to get me hyped up for **** i don't know about. Well done jaxxx

jaxxx · 04-09-2019 8:30am

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

MH:W is my first MH game. You don't fail to get me hyped up for **** i don't know about. Well done jaxxx

I'll take that as a huge compliment

Seriously though, if ever there was a monster that could make you ****e yourself, it's Rajang. Word of advice: don't use flash pods against it! Any Rajang hunt is a world of hurt in itself, especially when it goes super-saiyan. Throw a flash pod into the mix.. .. .. hell on Earth. This thing literally hunts Kirin as part of its diet. It's one of those few regular monsters that is all but an Elder Dragon.

YouSavedMyLife · 05-09-2019 10:20pm

Less than 2 hours now!

YouSavedMyLife · 08-09-2019 11:47am

Nobody playing Iceborne? Everyone migrated to the PC and waiting on the delayed release? From the outset they seemed to have added alot of content, just like game expansions in the old days! The game puts you into Master Rank from the get go and pits you against new monsters right away. Crazy thong is all those Monsters you hunted in the vanilla game, they also have new armour and weapons! Really wasn't expecting that. Not to mention they also have new attacks to spicy them up abit.

The new monsters I have fought so far have all been tough and fun fights, some quite unique designs with Glaveneous being my favourite fight so far including the base game.

Great stuff so far. Hope to sink another 400 hours into this expansion

jaxxx · 08-09-2019 2:13pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Nobody playing Iceborne? Everyone migrated to the PC and waiting on the delayed release? From the outset they seemed to have added alot of content, just like game expansions in the old days! The game puts you into Master Rank from the get go and pits you against new monsters right away. Crazy thong is all those Monsters you hunted in the vanilla game, they also have new armour and weapons! Really wasn't expecting that. Not to mention they also have new attacks to spicy them up abit.

The new monsters I have fought so far have all been tough and fun fights, some quite unique designs with Glaveneous being my favourite fight so far including the base game.

Great stuff so far. Hope to sink another 400 hours into this expansion

Got it yesterday. Haven't played that much of it. Viper Kadachi though, omfg that poison! I'm using Beo armour to start with, which looks frickin' awesome I must say.

YouSavedMyLife · 08-09-2019 5:52pm

jaxxx wrote: »

Got it yesterday. Haven't played that much of it. Viper Kadachi though, omfg that poison! I'm using Beo armour to start with, which looks frickin' awesome I must say.

Viper Kadachi carted me 3 times on my first attempt. At that point I decided to farm some MR armour

Dcully · 08-09-2019 6:23pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Nobody playing Iceborne? Everyone migrated to the PC and waiting on the delayed release? From the outset they seemed to have added alot of content, just like game expansions in the old days! The game puts you into Master Rank from the get go and pits you against new monsters right away. Crazy thong is all those Monsters you hunted in the vanilla game, they also have new armour and weapons! Really wasn't expecting that. Not to mention they also have new attacks to spicy them up abit.

The new monsters I have fought so far have all been tough and fun fights, some quite unique designs with Glaveneous being my favourite fight so far including the base game.

Great stuff so far. Hope to sink another 400 hours into this expansion

Waiting on the glorious PC version

jaxxx · 08-09-2019 7:58pm

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

Viper Kadachi carted me 3 times on my first attempt. At that point I decided to farm some MR armour

Rathian armour is fairly decent early defensive setup, especially for Venom Kadachi. Health boost and poison resistance.

I've secretly discovered the existence of some late game monsters that were not mentioned by Capcom

raze_them_all_ · 08-09-2019 9:14pm

No clue how this isn't out for pc.

gimli2112 · 09-09-2019 7:48am

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

No clue how this isn't out for pc.

I imagine it's all about money. Timed exclusives are the worst.

ahnowbrowncow · 09-09-2019 11:22am

gimli2112 wrote: »

I imagine it's all about money. Timed exclusives are the worst.

I thought it was due to optimising the port, concentrated on consoles first.

gimli2112 · 09-09-2019 11:26am

ah it could be I just assumed. Strange they wouldn't wait a few months and release it all at the same time maybe hoping people will double dip? MHW just didn't grab me. I got it at launch but never got into it

Dcully · 09-09-2019 12:01pm

@gimli get over the first 2-3 hours and it totally opens up into an amazing game.
Its known to have a terrible opening in terms of setting the tone for whats to come, the campaign is only just an introduction to the game.
After that it opens up and offers literally infinite hours of gameplay.

gimli2112 · 09-09-2019 12:06pm

I think my main two problems with it is that it's melee based and it's just so over whelming earlier on. I prefer shooting stuff although thankfully not in real life. It's certainly a good game just haven't been able to get into it. There's no chance at the minute as Borderlands 3 is going to consume me.

Dcully · 09-09-2019 12:59pm

There is ranged weapons , infact i have most time put into the heavy bowgun than anything else, you also have the light bowgun and bow.
Im not a fan of the combo system at all hence why i play mostly ranged weapons.

Zapp Brannigan · 09-09-2019 5:52pm

I bought this as I got a good deal on a preorder. Had 90 hours on my save from World but I’ve forgotten so much about the game. Debating starting a brand new save.

ShadowHearth · 10-09-2019 9:19am

I am ashamed to say, that I completely forgot about this until yesterday morning. So before work I went on to Xbox and bought it. Came back from work last night, dusted off my Lance and went head in to the "New" New world!

So far fought two first new monsters and loved it! Already planing my new mix set from first few Master rank monsters. Unfortunately still working until Thursday, so won't be able to put in a lot of time.

jaxxx · 11-09-2019 6:46am

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I am ashamed to say, that I completely forgot about this until yesterday morning. So before work I went on to Xbox and bought it. Came back from work last night, dusted off my Lance and went head in to the "New" New world!
So far fought two first new monsters and loved it! Already planing my new mix set from first few Master rank monsters. Unfortunately still working until Thursday, so won't be able to put in a lot of time.

I'm quitting my job!! :pac:

Just discovered something very disappointing which was covered by GaijinHunter on his latest video. Weapons that finish at rarity 10 have very very disappointing looks. They're basically all look like bone weapons that have some slight 'tinge' of the monster it was forged from. I think there was a similar issue with hammers in particular in base World. Very disappointing. Apparently it's only for rarity 10 weapons, 11 and 12 are fine.

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