I wish they gave you the ghillie suit and all that a little earlier on, I feel like I’m three hours into a tutorial and I want to be thinking more about loadouts and area control rather than just grinding out upgrades and chasing guys when they run away
still, enjoying this a lot since I got to play with booji some tonight
The fact that gameplay has evolved in this to reflect the setting (actual tracking, collecting research) rather than just being an expansion pack to the previous entry per usual is both the gutsiest and coolest thing. I spent all day today just walking around and exploring the first area and watching how the animals interact with each other.
Capcom: we’re putting ryu in mhw
me: right, like a costume. that’s pretty cute, I’ll wear that
me: what the FUCK
that’s the Capcom I missed
Using weapons, what the fuck indeed
oh i’ll be sending more
getting everyone in the squad is a small hurdle but things are gonna be dope once that’s out of the way
did a four body hunt with sonford booj and sakurina and it was anjanath and there were two deaths in the first five minutes and it was fun as hell
I’ve just now hit HR3 and I chased an Anjanath all over that damn forest and he just ran away until his time was over. THE COWARD.
can anyone add me to sbutt squad? sad-rave on psn.
yeah you’ll have to accept my game invite that i’ll send when i see you on and then i’ll add you
Please add me as well, I’ll be on a good deal today.
am I the only one with the headset on at all times?
I don’t really do ps4 online normally but I figured for monhun I’d just wear it and y’all are muted a lot
anyhow I just finally got the ghillie suit + did a mission for which the grappling hook appeared to kick in at last, as well as finally locating the item shop (I was beginning to think it was weird that I didn’t know how to get more potions) and I have yet to either die or do a single side quest so things are proceeding swimmingly! Glad to finally be past the amount of kit the demo gives you.
I am glad the matchmaking works so well in the meantime, it’s really easy to get people with the SOS. I just wish they were more talkative!
How in the world does the online system in this work?
Will I ever escape cutscene and incredibly boring tutorial “story” hell?
How come Capcom stubbornly refuses to design UI elements to be visible on a television and not a desktop monitor 2ft from your face?
get @bib to invite you to the sb squad so that you’re automatically placed in the same hub with us every time you log in and fire your SOS flare in missions when you want people to join basically
the cutscenes are very overbearing for the first hour then it’s fine
Might just be Destiny habits but we’re used to splitting off into separate parties instead of using in-game chat. Booji and I are having some NAT issues so we have to use in-game chat together, and it’s a pain because voice chat isn’t separated by “team” but rather by “zone”. You can have your conversations cut off by the midway point of a loading screen because you’ve switched zones faster than your buddy, and neither of you has any idea it happened until you realize you’re talking into the void.
Felix is wrong, I am two thirds of the way through low rank story quests (eight hours or so in) and it is still cutscene hell.
I think I very strongly disagree with them ditching the village/gathering hall split for quests. It wouldn’t be as bad if the cutscene thing didn’t make it super awkward for people to play story quests together, but (at least so far) you are only unlocking optional no-cutscene quests that are easier than the hardest story content you’ve completed instead of harder ones, which are generally what you want to team up for. I think they expected you to play all the way through low rank on your own and then team up in high rank, where the bulk of the quests are optional.
@bib just joined me for my first failure and my first time trying charge blade instead of insect glaive
Oh well
Answered my own question here – anytime folks don’t seem to be in in-game chat they’re in PS4 party chat
This is my first monster hunter, and I’ll concede that not being able to summon help for story missions until after you’ve seen the monster’s intro cutscene is weird (h/t to booji for explaining to me how the flares actually work), but at least the content of the cutscenes and the VA gets a lot less cloying after hour one
I still haven’t enabled voice chat because I didn’t have a headset for a while, I’ll do that whenever I’m on next. I think first faint of the game went to the Rathian during the “escort” quest where for the most part you don’t actually have to be anywhere near the thing you’re escorting (which is very nice but a bit silly).
From a great distance I somehow managed to be noticed. Thought of fighting it for a bit then dashed on out of there!
I’l try and jump on with a headset later this week fo sho.
Is there any quicker way to confirm Join Requests than maneuvering through the menu…during battle? Maybe I should just set them to auto-join.
SparkySquirrel was obnoxiously constant with his attacks, but it turned out to be my favorite hunt so far.