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[LavitzSlambert]

For some reason I somehow skipped over how to upgrade armor, and played through the end of the story with an unupgraded ingot set. No wonder why the last couple fights were close to one shotting me with most attacks. Guess I should find something halfway decent to blow these armor spheres on. What's everyone's favorite set so far? Looks and utility.

 

[Coconutt]

Currently at hr 134 and gotta say there just isn't much to do aside from responding to sos. I've unlocked all the weapons and armor sets I want, lame event quests, fighting these monsters just isn't really much of a challenge.

I have the benefit that I have not played worlds since I completed Iceborne which was a couple of years ago but this just makes me want to go back to worlds and maybe start a new character until more content releases here.

 

[Comandr]

147h to get all the achievements. It was really good
Love the game.

I'm just chewing through the 100 multiplayer hunts and then I'm free.

 

[R6Rider]

For some reason I somehow skipped over how to upgrade armor, and played through the end of the story with an unupgraded ingot set. No wonder why the last couple fights were close to one shotting me with most attacks. Guess I should find something halfway decent to blow these armor spheres on. What's everyone's favorite set so far? Looks and utility.

I don't remember armor skills very well, but some of my favorites for looks (playing as female character) are:

Xu Wu
Odogaron
Nu Udra
Dahaad
Gore
Quematrice
Lala Barina

 

[bender]

...fighting these monsters just isn't really much of a challenge.

Sums up the entire game nicely.

 

[MagiusNecros]

I’ll try to keep it a short hit list:

I feel the same. I will mirror your key points. I had my fun but the game has issues. At least as a MH veteran.

-Story bad. When I say it's MH's Metroid Other M I am not kidding. Replace Arkveld with "The Baby" and "Authorization" and the similarity is uncanny. Only time I really got interested was Gore.
-Sidequests are either in optional quests or out in the field...so they are all over the place. In the field you have to wait for them to show up like it's a MMO time limited event.
-Jumping off cliffs should just be instant like in Rise and not be limited by a prompt just because it wants to railroad the Seikret.
-Weapons like Hammer and Charge Blade(Axe) are so streamlined there is generally only one way to play with the weapon and with Focus mode any skill expression is lacking.
-If you cut a tail it has to be with a bladed weapon and the only way you can tell is if a monster reacts to it or if you see it flying...whereas other games the Monster gets knocked down, audibly is distressed and had a large amount of hitstop to accompany it. Furthermore you can get Tail parts from wounds so...
-Rise has a bigger aerial focus and the only weapon I feel that's reliable in mounting in Wilds is Insect Glaive and probably only 3 times a fight. Priority is open as many wounds and then choose one to knock it down as opposed to MH4 and Rise where the purpose is to knock it down for a burst damage phase.
-I only like a couple sets myself and I think half are recycled.
-Music is very forgettable. Recurring themes like Gore is also a messy arrangement leaving the original as superior. Without the percussion and wailing wind instruments the impact just isn't the same. Like DD2 the music score just feels very hollow. Lacks heart.
-I don't like the UI compared to older MH games where it's more simplistic and used to look like hieroglyphs. Now there is a whole lot going on and it really just seems too robotic and high tech.
-Game is too easy. Many attacks are very forgiving, never really punished, outside of maybe Gore you don't really run out of Stamina and blocking blocks most attacks with little impunity. Going from Wilds to World or Rise/GU/4U is a complete difference.

Monsters don't strike fear into you when you are more dangerous then they are. Probably gonna stick with Rise for the foreseeable future.

 

[Comandr]

Now the wait begins.

 

[Robot Carnival]

folks, I'm sorry to report that the lady of this famous MonHun power couple is having an affair with the new guy in town.

Spoiler

 

[Draugoth]

Maybe a stupid question, lol, but what am I supposed to do with the B button here? I see four downward pointing arrows on it, it's not "hold" neither is it tap B four times. What is it though?

EDIT

I'm dumb, it seems it IS tap B four times.

Which weapons? You can watch the guide

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Is there any way to have HDR not look shit for console?

Xbox Series X
Sony A95K QD-OLED

The settings on Xbox and TV are correct. What are your ingame HDR settings?

HDR doesn't look good in this game

I'm playing it on PC and my home theater is calibrated and it doesn't look good

But at least it's brighter and more colorful. In SDR it just looks bad

 

[Robot Carnival]

I figured this is possible, but someone actually went and did it.

 

[Danjin44]

I figured this is possible, but someone actually went and did it.

LS can almost counter everything if you time it right, this is why is such a fun weapon to use.

 

[Krathoon]

Well, I had a crash while talking to the Blacksmith.
So, I installed the ReFramework mod and the game is behaving better. Yeesh.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Somehow managed to get my Arkveld kill with my mount finisher, it sure looks cool. Well, it would look cooler if you had better control over the framing of the shot when you get a monster kill in this game

Oh, I guess the story is over now huh. I mean it's like really, really over after Chapter 6 ends. Time to farm or whatever I guess

 

[Danjin44]

6 red star tempered Gore Magala with 30 minis time limit.

Majority of the quests outside of the quest board can give really nice challenge.

 

[struggler_guts]

Well after finishing the story I'm just loading into random lobby/SOS quests, this game gets old quick without people to play with.

I went and bought World

 

[Lokaum D+]

6 red star tempered Gore Magala with 30 minis time limit.

Majority of the quests outside of the quest board can give really nice challenge.

really ? you can do him at 10 to 15 minutes Solo if you are a casual like me, if you are a pro, you ll do him at 5 or less

 

[Stafford]

To have the best of visuals and framerate I assume balanced mode, 120hz,40fps capped is best? I'd try it out but it seems I can only change these settings in main menu, not on the fly during gameplay.

 

[rotorfire]

To have the best of visuals and framerate I assume balanced mode, 120hz,40fps capped is best? I'd try it out but it seems I can only change these settings in main menu, not on the fly during gameplay.

It's a nice compromise aye. It's been working well on both my PS5 Pro and my other half's PS5.

 

[rotorfire]

Is there any way to have HDR not look shit for console?

Not sure on your setup but on my LG C1 I found HGIG looked vastly better than DTM HDR.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

To have the best of visuals and framerate I assume balanced mode, 120hz,40fps capped is best? I'd try it out but it seems I can only change these settings in main menu, not on the fly during gameplay.

I'd say yes.

Personally I went with Balanced 120hz uncapped, but I believe there isn't much difference between capped and uncapped (although the difference seems noticeable when I play on PS Portal, so who knows?).

Balanced framerate feels smooth enough, imo, and it has the RT reflections, which look much better than what's used in Framerate mode.

 

[Krathoon]

Well after finishing the story I'm just loading into random lobby/SOS quests, this game gets old quick without people to play with.

I went and bought World

What is great about World is that it runs totally fine on a plain old hard drive. The performance is better than Wilds.

 

[Krathoon]

The Deluxe Pack for this game is very Japanese for some reason. It has demon horns and samurai gear.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Well after finishing the story I'm just loading into random lobby/SOS quests, this game gets old quick without people to play with.

I went and bought World

just booted world again and man, it delivers from the first minute, the OST is so good, if u never played world i recommend not using the OP armor and weapon they give you to rush into Iceborne, play it as intended for better experience, but thats me.

 

[SilentSpecter]

 

[Lokaum D+]

and the worst part is that the fight its isnt a challange, its a 10 minutes fight at best.

 

[ArtHands]

Pretty much done with the game, we need more monsters in future DLC

 

[Lokaum D+]

Pretty much done with the game, we need more monsters in future DLC

if MHGU combat didnt felt so dated, i would start play that again, 93 monster to hunt all day

 

[Arsic]

HR 42 and the game is done for me officially.

I’m surprised how MH longtime fans all post the same shit about difficulty and content drought. “Oh they fix it in time everytime just wait.”

Bro are you retarded? Why would an issue that hits every title be excused every time? The developer needs to stop repeating the problem and learn/adapt to make a better product.

If anything people should be far more livid and less willing to swallow shit from devs but such is the state of consumerism.

 

[Lokaum D+]

HR 42 and the game is done for me officially.

I’m surprised how MH longtime fans all post the same shit about difficulty and content drought. “Oh they fix it in time everytime just wait.”

Bro are you retarded? Why would an issue that hits every title be excused every time? The developer needs to stop repeating the problem and learn/adapt to make a better product.

If anything people should be far more livid and less willing to swallow shit from devs but such is the state of consumerism.

Nowadays devs dont do complete games anymore, they ll sell you half the game as base and the other half as DLC.

 

[TintoConCasera]

MHbros, has any on you tried Monster Hunter Frontier? I heard it got a translation patch and there are fan-servers up and running. Was curious about it since I've also read that it's the most challenging MH has ever been.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

just booted world again and man, it delivers from the first minute, the OST is so good, if u never played world i recommend not using the OP armor and weapon they give you to rush into Iceborne, play it as intended for better experience, but thats me.

I understand the theme they are going for in Wilds, and the Beauty of Nature is a good song, but there is absolutely zero memorable tunes in Wilds. It feels like Breath of the Wild, where the soundtrack was impressive but at the same time fell flat because I can't remember anything except maybe one song. Rise had some excellent tracks too, but something about World and the use of horns really gave it impact.

Aside from the clutch claw fucking up the balance of the game, World is probably still unmatched. Wilds' combat with everything else about World would be peak.

 

[R6Rider]

I noticed how they shove almost every HR fight into 5* and then only handful of 6* with even less 7* and 8*.

I have a feeling the first new monster added (Mizutsune) is going to just be a 5* fight unless they have variants planned.

 

[MagiusNecros]

MHbros, has any on you tried Monster Hunter Frontier? I heard it got a translation patch and there are fan-servers up and running. Was curious about it since I've also read that it's the most challenging MH has ever been.

Nope. Have my hands tied with non-online games and DDON.

 

[Lokaum D+]

I understand the theme they are going for in Wilds, and the Beauty of Nature is a good song, but there is absolutely zero memorable tunes in Wilds. It feels like Breath of the Wild, where the soundtrack was impressive but at the same time fell flat because I can't remember anything except maybe one song. Rise had some excellent tracks too, but something about World and the use of horns really gave it impact.

Aside from the clutch claw fucking up the balance of the game, World is probably still unmatched. Wilds' combat with everything else about World would be peak.

My problem with Wilds is the feeling, in MHWorld they made the "new world" feel new, unexplored meanwhile they didn't made Wilds feel Wild, i was supposed to be amazed cause they have a pack of "bulls" roaming around ? or cause a butterfly ll make a cocoon that no one ll give a shit ? Wilds is a good game, but id didn't delivered the feeling of Wilderness that it should, even World deliver more this feeling of wilderness than Wilds do, even the turf wars feels a lot weaker in Wilds, in World i remember running way as soon as a turf war started.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

I'm just chewing through the 100 multiplayer hunts and then I'm free.

What is the best method to get the crown related trophies? Any tips?

 

[struggler_guts]

just booted world again and man, it delivers from the first minute, the OST is so good, if u never played world i recommend not using the OP armor and weapon they give you to rush into Iceborne, play it as intended for better experience, but thats me.

Yeah I'm already liking World more after like 2 hunts. The base is way cooler and the characters more endearing, using sword and shield feels only a little more stiff. I'm really excited!

Oh yeah the one thing I knew about world was to not use the overpowered gear at the start, saw someone post about that a looong time ago on gaf and it stuck for some reason lol

 

[Lokaum D+]

What is the best method to get the crown related trophies? Any tips?

u can look for a Crown Squad ( you should find some on reddit ) or go on the hunt with your binoculars, go to a map, use binoculars to see if monster has a crown, if yes, save the monster as investigation, if no proceeds to the next monster, change area and repeat.

Or u can go to nexusmods if on PC https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/152

 

[Killjoy-NL]

u can look for a Crown Squad ( you should find some on reddit ) or go on the hunt with your binoculars, go to a map, use binoculars to see if monster has a crown, if yes, save the monster as investigation, if no proceeds to the next monster, change area and repeat.

Or u can go to nexusmods if on PC https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterwilds/mods/152

Wait, so people have been whining since launch that there is no hunting, exploring etc and then they use mods to skip part of the hunting and exploring?

 

[Comandr]

What is the best method to get the crown related trophies? Any tips?

From my trials, it appears that optional quest monsters are all a fixed size. As far as I can tell, variable sizes are only available as investigations- that is, monsters you find out in the wilds. Reddit is a good resource for sharing crown monsters, because they can be saved as investigations. There's a decent crown trading community out there.

 

[Stafford]

Not sure on your setup but on my LG C1 I found HGIG looked vastly better than DTM HDR.

Yeah I think on Sony TV it's called something else but I know it's on brightness preferred. With that setting off i believe it's basically DTM. I haven't tried it for this game but for some games I do use DTM because it's sometimes too dim in other games.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Wait, so people have been whining since launch that there is no hunting, exploring etc and then they use mods to skip part of the hunting and exploring?

Capcom already streamlined most of the game just to appeal to a wider audience, so, imo ppl can do whatever they wants with the game.

Want to Hunt them down ? You can do, want to streamline one more thing ? Sure, why not, i ll not be surprised If Capcom make this mod a feature in the next MH game.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Capcom already streamlined most of the game just to appeal to a wider audience, so, imo ppl can do whatever they wants with the game.

Want to Hunt them down ? You can do, want to streamline one more thing ? Sure, why not, i ll not be surprised If Capcom make this mod a feature in the next MH game.

Don't get me wrong, I love how they streamlined the experience.

I'm not a long-time MH fan and imo, Wilds >> World.

It just seems weird to use mods to skip part of the "fun", as some might say, given the complaints about how the game caters to casuals.
Seems counter-productive.

 

[Krathoon]

Surprise! A big honking monster! Whoa!

 

[Krathoon]

 

[Raven117]

My problem with Wilds is the feeling, in MHWorld they made the "new world" feel new, unexplored meanwhile they didn't made Wilds feel Wild, i was supposed to be amazed cause they have a pack of "bulls" roaming around ? or cause a butterfly ll make a cocoon that no one ll give a shit ? Wilds is a good game, but id didn't delivered the feeling of Wilderness that it should, even World deliver more this feeling of wilderness than Wilds do, even the turf wars feels a lot weaker in Wilds, in World i remember running way as soon as a turf war started.

This.

Don’t get me wrong, wilds is great and I’m happy for more MH, but they missed the vibes on this one.

 

[Krathoon]

Wilds just does not have that wacky feeling that World has.

Worlds is more true to the Monster Hunter formula. Wilds is like this strange detour.

 

[Lokaum D+]

wait till you start doing fishing and you ll see how much of a cancer Seikret is

Wilds just does not have that wacky feeling that World has.

Worlds is more true to the Monster Hunter formula. Wilds is like this strange detour.

Wilds play a lot like Rise, choose your hunt, mount on your mount, go straight to Monster, the world is just there for the sake of it, it has absolutely no purpose and thats why "The pit" ( Wounded Hollow ) is the best area of the game

 

[R6Rider]

My problem with Wilds is the feeling, in MHWorld they made the "new world" feel new, unexplored meanwhile they didn't made Wilds feel Wild, i was supposed to be amazed cause they have a pack of "bulls" roaming around ? or cause a butterfly ll make a cocoon that no one ll give a shit ? Wilds is a good game, but id didn't delivered the feeling of Wilderness that it should, even World deliver more this feeling of wilderness than Wilds do, even the turf wars feels a lot weaker in Wilds, in World i remember running way as soon as a turf war started.

Speaking of turf wars, in over 50 hours of play time I think I have actually seen one happen. Every other time it's just been the monster clipping into each other "fighting" and then doing basic attacks.

In World I remember them happening all the time, like almost every hunt.

 

[Krathoon]

I saw a monster run away from the monster I was fighting in Wilds. I found it funny.

I am kind of temped to get the Deluxe pack because it makes your mount look cool.