Devilgunman
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Can you write some detailed impressions?
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Monster Hunter World (XB1/PS4, PC later, Early 2018) E3 info [Up: Effectively MH5]
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Can you write some detailed impressions?
CertifiedFP
Member
Those would be awful names for DLCs.
More than likely grabbing similar sounding trademarks for IP protection purposes.
I think we should give him time, so many questions.,
Yeah sounds like it.
All 14 weapons return. It's in the OP.
Night Angel
Member
As a filthy SWAxer, I agree. Other than tail chopping on extremely tall monsters and the occasional opportunity to lay down a good X-pattern smackdown, the axe mode is too weak.
I'm also a dirty LSer and a casul IGer. Parties HATE him!
UI is mostly the same. Minimap in bottom left and controls in upper left now. Added a separate item selector for aimable/throwable stuff. There was an item shortcut system where you could quickly pick items with the right stick.
Impressed by environment interaction. Most work..? Honestly it looked pretty good, no glaring problems. Players took fairly low damage from monster attacks but I assumed they adjusted that for the demo.
Seemed mostly similar. It just looked like MH.
valkillmore
Member
I've never seen any media of a Monster Hunter game much less have I ever played one, but I came away having watched this trailer thinking the animation was absolutely stunning. It has this visceral, almost stop-motion quality to it. I could not take my eyes away from the monsters. I don't know how scripted this trailer was but it felt like I was just watching an animation that was hand-crafted, as opposed to real-time reacting to the player's actions or other monsters, in particular when the fight occurred.
Jawbreaker
Member
Doesn't sound like DLC at all.
Big hits from Greatsword were like 50-60, horizontal were in the teens. Not sure about environmental.
Controls are 90% the same as 3DS.
Additions:
L3: Sprint
R2: Draw weapon
L2: Grappling hook and throwable items
D-pad: Item selection and other shortcuts
Transitions are tunnel-ish. Fairly natural.
Good variety of creatures.
did you see hammer gameplay? switch axe? dual blades?
No hammer or SA. Brief dual blades appearance but not long enough to figure out any changes.
Chaos2Frozen
Member
How exactly does the fireflies work? How do you control what they seek out? I wasn't sure of that from the trailer.
They basically replace both paintballs and psychoserum. You scan enough footprints, drool, etc. and the scout flies tell you where a specific boss is located.
So do you actually have to find the footprints/drool yourself or do you just press a button and it's highlighted ala witcher sense?
Did you have any input on how the grappling hook affects the flow of battle?
FinaruDensetsu
Member
The demos were amazing.
I actually watched the theater live demo twice at E3.
The first time they lead the Trex looking thing (Ansomething) to the Rathalos and the Rathalos freaking picked it up and dropped it off a cliff. The team then just tried to take down the Rathalos but failed in the time alotted.
My second viewing the Rathalos and trex kept fighting until they both broke a dam and the water that poured out washed both monsters and the player down the cliff. The two monsters continued fighting each other until the trex got really hurt and tired and tried to run back to its lair visibly hurt and limping. The team of players then chased it and killed it.
All throughout these monsters where destroying trees and other parts of the environment as they tussled.
The variety in what can happen was just astounding.
I actually watched the theater live demo twice at E3.
The first time they lead the Trex looking thing (Ansomething) to the Rathalos and the Rathalos freaking picked it up and dropped it off a cliff. The team then just tried to take down the Rathalos but failed in the time alotted.
My second viewing the Rathalos and trex kept fighting until they both broke a dam and the water that poured out washed both monsters and the player down the cliff. The two monsters continued fighting each other until the trex got really hurt and tired and tried to run back to its lair visibly hurt and limping. The team of players then chased it and killed it.
All throughout these monsters where destroying trees and other parts of the environment as they tussled.
The variety in what can happen was just astounding.
They exist on the map and get highlighted when you get close to them. You interact with them and they increase a gauge that tells you where the monster is.
Grappling is cool. You can use it to pull down environmental stuff or escape certain situations.
That is why we love monster hunter
. No other game has so cool monster animations.Yeah but that's 4 days away.
Now look at how far away "Early 2018" is. :'(
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Are those the two only 'big' monsters of the demo?
Don't remind me. =(
Yeah, Monster Hunter has only been recently became second place in having the most advanced creatures around.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
Well the Trex is the goal of the mission they were on. But in the demo they were obviously purposely taking him by the rathalos nest to show off the interactions.
But in that one demo you saw 4 unique big species interact and 5 if you count these baby versions of one of them. Because it all starts with this lizard/snake type monster that literally kills and swallows another herbivore type monster whole like a snake.
He then takes it back to his nest to regurgitate it to his pack.
In one of my demos the babies would come out climbing down from the trees and out of bushes sometimes to attack the trex that had body slammed their momma on the ground. They got thrown around like the velociraptors in JP when they try to fight the Trex. The ones that managed to survive then scampered in all directions to flee including up the trunks of trees.
Night Angel
Member
I wonder how prevalent monster fights are going to be. I imagine you won't be able to cheese every mission by having Papa Rathalos clean up your mess every time.
At the same time, the strategy of luring larger monsters into your prey's arena could be good fun. I'm imagining bringing multiple smaller monsters to damage the big one and taking it out once it's been weakened.
Knowing who's developing this one, I trust they're not going to ruin the difficulty of the game. I bet this demo was specifically designed to showcase every new system they could. Many missions may not have a godmonster to carry your prey away.
At the same time, the strategy of luring larger monsters into your prey's arena could be good fun. I'm imagining bringing multiple smaller monsters to damage the big one and taking it out once it's been weakened.
Knowing who's developing this one, I trust they're not going to ruin the difficulty of the game. I bet this demo was specifically designed to showcase every new system they could. Many missions may not have a godmonster to carry your prey away.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
I think I'll make this my first Monster Hunter game.
The demo guys had to try pretty hard to get Rathalos involved and even then Rath eventually left. I wouldn't worry too much.
No way this is going to release on schedule. My bets are delayed to fall 2018
Chaos2Frozen
Member
Yo!! The monster interactions sounds insane!
I'm not even sure how viable it would be. At least in the older games, if Deviljho or something comes in and wrecks the target monster, you can't easily carve it anyway. That could be different in World though. Like if you no longer get sent back to the hub after completing a mission.
Hunting mission timer present? if so, the usual 50 mins?
Night Angel
Member
Not worried in the slightest (these guys have been making MH for years, they're not gonna fuck it up when so much is on the line). That definitely sounds good.
If they make it a challenge to trick monsters into doing your dirty work, it could be a fun alternative style of play. As long as the effort/reward ratio is similar to a good ol' fashioned brawl, I'd be happy with being able to completely kill off hunts with bigger monsters.
Can't remember the last time Capcom delayed a Monster Hunter game.
There was a timer but it was 25 for the demo. I'd assume it's 50 in the normal game.
someone else on gaf mentioned it's 25 minutes afaik
First multipat WW release, though. And they better make it right and launch with good amount of content than rushing, IMHO.
They've been working on this for 4 years, I wouldn't be worried.
killatopak
Gold Member
I'm really glad they made it multiplatform.
Everything seems fresh and the series fatigue is gone now.
Everything seems fresh and the series fatigue is gone now.
Infinite_Daremo
Member
So there was a french interview posted on Reddit saying the PC release was a month after the console release. Has this been debunked or proven yet?
GhostTrick
Banned
Where ? I'm French.
Edit: Nvm found it. It's not an interview, it's their own conclusions/understanding. Keep in mind Jeuxvideo.com happens to make some mistakes with the news treatment.
This is the first next gen monhun since the ps2 days, everything is new + multiplat.
Already delaying the pc version should tell us they're running on a tight schedule
But the PC version is still TBA.
At any rate, they should avoid a SFV scenario as much as possible. Re7 did it good, and I believe it was also delayed by a bit, or I'm wrong?I do hope is true, though.
Infinite_Daremo
Member
Fair enough. Its now the only news I need clarifying.
MHtri was delayed. But I believe MHW will release on scheldue. Considering they are preparing a worldwide release, they must very confident with the release date.