I randomly threw out a slinger line to collect an item from the world and my Palico was standing next to it and the Palico had an animation to flinch when my slinger whacked it on the head by accident and I was like damn they somehow thought of this and animated it lol
Also in MH4U biggest threat we’re not frenzy monsters instead Apex monsters which you couldn’t fight them properly without using waystones on your weapon so your attack wouldn't bounce off.
That is correct. Frenzy monsters have way less health in exchange for more aggression.
Icymanipulator
Think of them more of lore fights for something you've yet to see than challenge.
I sent a squad request char name is IllyasvielDraugoth @James Sawyer Ford @Miyazaki’s Slave
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Saw some who were interested in playing together, so I setup a NeoGAF squad to get things started (if someone wants lead/sub-lead let me know). For those who don't know, it's basically a guild/clan and you can use it to join a squad lobby to more easily play together (bc Capcom somehow made multiplayer more confusing than ever).
Squad name: NeoGAF
Squad ID: XG6EV5EH
How to join:
You need to finish the tutorial hunt and talk to a few people in base camp to unlock the squad counter.
- Talk to Felicita/go to squad information counter at base camp.
- Manage squads --> join a new squad --> squad ID search.
- Search for XG6EV5EH and request to join (approval required).
- Post your character name in this thread and tag a leader/sub-leader.
You can easily skip cutscene and you view armor set just like you can in World.
Aaaaallllllll-righty!...
I would argue that the tempered elders in base world were harder than the tempered apexes we have in wilds.
I highly disagree on that, I replayed World/Iceborne not too long ago before Wilds came out and no Tempered Elders were not really challenging except maybe Kirin and Lunastra.
I'm not talking about viewing armor.
That doesn't make any sense, self imposed challenges are not "bad design", as you can do this with any game and in that case every game is badly designed because everyone will experience difficulty, challenge, and fun differently.
Needs more MH4U Double Apex lvl140 Rajang.
You are spot on, limiting yourself to get a bit of challenge is bullshit game design.
It’s not that world was *that* much harder, but the elders are generally more of a threat considering they can’t be trapped, captured, or exhausted. They seem also generally more aggressive than non elders.
LR and HR never ever going to be difficult for experience players unless they make HR hit as hard as G rank.
Once the low rank story is over you gain hunter rank very quickly. I went from like hr8 to 30 in 6 hours or so.
This makes no sense? Are you saying you can get these weapons without grinding?
Depends on weapon, but artisan blast long sword and artisan sleep greatsword are currently the best for those weapons. The game is also currently lacking when it comes to water weapons, so water artisan weapons are good for elemental builds.
I've got 2 bows I'm trying out atm:
Unfortunately I know nothing about bow in this game at the moment. So I don't know which of its artisans are the best.
No problem. I'm also not looking for what the meta is, just wondered if there is any particular reason why Artian Weapons are better than regular weapons.
I should not have tried out Bow...because Bowguns are indeed shit. Sad day as a longtime HBG player. Found a build that'll give 95%-100% affinity so it'll be great for both Bow(Dragonpiercer Spam) and Insect Glaive. The lack of skills that decrease Reload, massive magazine sizes or decreased recoil on anything makes them unintuitive to use.
Killjoy-NL
Artian Weapons are used for Decorations for skills or to make say a Blast Switch Axe which otherwise does not exist. Min maxed and with a good RNG roll you'll have a slightly better weapon then regular weapons but most Monster Weapons or either on par or pull ahead of Artian...and once expansion happens Artian is dead anyway. Endgame outside of Element builds will always be RAW damage and Artian weapons have low RAW. No point in making a Artian Gunlance when Arkveld dominates. Gravios GL also looks attractive.
My friends keep telling me to just switch to Bow but they don't understand that I like bowguns not because they're ranged but because they're bowguns. I wanted to just go with gunlance but everytime I try I keep wishing that I have (reverse) blast dash from Risebreak. Right now I'm mostly debating between SA and CB. SA honestly feels like it's the best it's ever been.
SA I feel is still the best in Sunbreak. CB is probably decent in Wilds. But I'm a ZSD addict so there is that. Wilds SA is too reliant on Full Release.
this seems mostly true. most of my complaints about difficulty stem from the fact that... i'm pretty bad at videgames. so it's kind of alarming that i'm melting these monsters with only like 4-5 carts at just near HR 100. but maybe i actually did become better at MH over the years. that said, in past games harder fights usually stressed me out because of the timer, especially multiple monsters. i’m not a good meta-build player and my dps has always been pretty shit. but I have not once even thought about the timer in all of Wilds. just based on how quickly these hunts are over, I’d say the game is definitely easier imo than previous, but there probably is truth to just being a better player now too. idk. it is what it is. overall I’m enjoying my time, and I like the majority of changes. the game does feel like they rushed it out the door though, in some areas.
For me it makes it up for better with variety, we have more different body types compare to World. heck in World we had monsters like Jyuratodus and Radobaan which considered "new" monsters but there were actually just variant version of returning monsters.
Yeah, have to agree the performance mode on Pro has been really solid. The only issues I ran into are immediately after fast travel, but it's just for a couple of seconds. The general IQ of this mode is sooooo much better than the beta too.
