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Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate |OT2| "OT" means Official Thread!
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Yeah I had fun. We weren't far off on that dble savge. I was GROSSLY mal-equipped for it (my set was weak to drg...). Should've worn something more appropriate, wouldnt have gotten one shotted like an idiot. ;_;
No sweat, needed a break as well anyways. Nice playing with you btw!
Yeah, kinda, sry. About to watch some stuff on tv with the wife. Whatabout tomorrow?
No worries it happens! ;DLOL though i died due to lack of focus XDD
But yea, it was funny
I still hop on whenever I can, though my time zone and schedule don't always give me a chance to join the GAF meetups outside of weekends.
Sure I think tomorrow could work.
Cool. Perorist mentioned he's getting a copy of the game today as well, should be fun!
I can get on now for maybe a cple of hours.
Awesome I will be right on who wants to create the room?
Made one. If anyone wants to join, we're in: free3 - L10 - Gaf-G0lD.
Conor_Fool
Banned
Hey everyone,
I was thinking about picking up a used copy of this game for my Wii U. I don't have any friends that own a Wii U, so I was wondering if I would be able to join online matches with random players? If so, I think I'll definitely have to purchase this. If online play is limited to friends, I may have to pass
I was thinking about picking up a used copy of this game for my Wii U. I don't have any friends that own a Wii U, so I was wondering if I would be able to join online matches with random players? If so, I think I'll definitely have to purchase this. If online play is limited to friends, I may have to pass
PotionBleue
Member
You can join people you don't know, text chat, voice chat with them. Europe/Australia+America are on the same server. Japan version has its own server.
Conor_Fool
Banned
Thanks a lot, that sounds pretty awesome! I may just have to give this game a try
Astral/H3X
Member
Does GAF still play this game with any regularity? Currently trying to do some quests and it can be somewhat hard to get a good group going.
Fire is the Lagiacrus's weakness.
Lance and Gunlance can block the trickier attacks underwater and are my preferred weapon for fighting Lagiacrus, but the beast is doable with anything.
Eat at the canteen to get Felyne Thundercaller.
The breast is the weak point, and the breaks are the horns, claws, breast, back, and tail.
When Lagiacrus's spikes are glowing, it will have electricity properties on some of its attacks, so be extra aware.
Nullberries can cancel the thunderblight Lagiacrus leaves.
When Lagiacrus moves to the weird cave area, it's about to go to sleep.
I don't have a great understanding on this game, but I believe this game relies heavily on the community. Is it too late to get into this game? Amazon is having it on sale in 1.5 hours and was curious if it was worth getting or if I would be too far behind to catch up with the rest of the community.
Although it's fun to play with other people in cooperative groups, that's not a requirement by any means. The whole game can be played solo. There's even a lengthy solo-only area with a lot of quests designed to bring new players up-to-speed. In addition, the online multiplayer area is divided into sections for newbies and ones for experienced players, so anyone can jump into the game online at any time and find other people of comparable skill to hunt with.
It's never too late to hop in and get started.
260 hours of my save file were played on 3DS, and there's not a second of multiplayer in that time. I would say there's definitely a bottleneck to hit between 250-300 hours when you're only playing solo, but I feel like saying that would get me slapped by someone.
Most games would hit that point in a quarter of the time :lol
I had about 500+ hours on my JPN game and that was before the Wii U version even came out so it was all single player. After that I put 600+ more hours once the English version came out with online.
I've got about 250 on the 3DS as well and got to endgame solo just fine. There are some walls you might hit but there's always better equipment you can get.
Just transferred my 3DS save over to the Wii U version yesterday. Going to be online in a few hours if anyone wants to play.
I might hop on for a bit, I'm getting tired of farming Shaggy Magara anyways
Post back once you make the room and I will if I can join
Not sure how to create a room or if I have to add you lol, messing around with randoms right now
My NNID is Weissritter
Edit - Tested a bunch and seems like I can join people but they can't join me
PotionBleue
Member
Armor Spheres are not rare at all besides Tru Armor Spheres (the endgame ones). What you should be looking at first would be armor skills. Technically if you don't die and don't have the impression spending too much time to kill a monster you're fine with what you have, especially at the beginning of the game where money/resources are quite limited.
I think all my deaths could be avoided if I start acting more careful. I have a tendency to just run into a monster and start hacking-and-slashing.
Speaking of which, I'm not sure if I should continue using the Sword & Shield as my weapon. I like that it's fast and that I can block but it does low raw damage. Apparently I should be using different elements to inflict the most damage, but I don't know how to do that.
That's probably the trickiest thing to learn. Although the game will let you attack as often as you like, a good hunt feels more like a turn-based game - sort of a move/countermove dance with times to dodge and times to attack based on what the monster's doing. But predicting what's going to come next gets easier with experience.
No harm in trying out a few different weapons to see if something else is more enjoyable. But taking advantage of elements is mostly about learning what elements monsters are weak to and crafting a variety of weapons to do different kinds of damage. Like Great Jaggi's weak to fire, so it'd be ideal to bring a sword which does flame damage, but you might want something else against a Rathian who's resistant to fire.
So I'd have to forge/buy multiple weapons, each with different elemental properties? I'd rather not deal with that. I did try the other weapon classes for a bit but none of them felt right to me. They were either too slow (long sword) or lost their sharpness too quickly (dual sword) or were too complicated (switch axe). I guess that's all part of keeping everything balanced.
Once you get far enough to forge slime weapons you could just use that all the time.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Do any of you still play online? I just got my copy today.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Boo. Thanks.
I don't really want to subject someone to play MH4 as their first MH but that local 3DS play...
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
But I'd still need the internet to play 3DS with WiiU right? I also don't have a Circle Pad for my XL since I upgraded from the regular 3DS with one so it'd be weird playing without it.
It is! I'm at 3 star village quest right now I think but I took a break from it. Should pick it up soon.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Cool. I'll try that then. Thanks!
I did, just bought the Wii U version last week so I can do some direct feed recording. Framerate on the 3DS version in much nicer though
I did.
There's no issue with the 3DS game. It was built first, so don't worry about it. And it has nicer framerates too.
I only have a few multi monster arena quests left and some DLC, but I'm on a break now.
I actually bought my Wii U with and specifcally for HD Monster Hunter so it'd have been a waste if I didn't use it. > >
I will throw in that I'm playing MH4 exclusively on 3DS though!!
DD