• There are no 'levels' in Monster Hunter. You unlock additional content by "ranking up" by completing specific missions, which are generally increasingly more difficult hunts.
  
• Hunting a monster is not limited to just killing it dead, you can also capture it when it is weak by using a trap and tranquilizers. This will usually result in even more parts obtained.
  
• Equipment is crafted by using monster parts that you gather by hunting them or finding them in the field.
  
• Increasing your Defense is done by making higher rank armors, however this will not stop you from dying often against the later monsters.
  
• Armor Skills. Each piece of armor has a few points of specific skills, once you get enough points from your armor, they will activate. These are the real tools of the hunt. They vary from anything simple like "attack up" to incredibly useful utilities like "auto tracker" or "speed sharpening".
  
• There are 12 different weapons (8 in Tri) to utilize. All of the melee weapons have a "sharpness" rating, which degrades as you use it. It must be restored by stopping to sharpen the weapon. Ranged weapons use ammunition.
  
• There is a kitchen (every game that isn't mhp3) or a spa (mhp3) for use. Combining certain foods/drinks will result in different buffs that will carry over into the missions. You can also acquire specific skills through this method that you usually couldn't otherwise (such as a skill that causes bombs to get bigger, or a skill that makes you able to fall from infinite height and not flinch).
  
• Missions are timed. The general limit is 50 minutes, however special instances have a shorter limit. If you don't complete your objective in this time, you fail.
  
• You have limited lives. If you die 3 times, you fail the mission. In very special instances, you are only allowed a single death.
  

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Emalde fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Jan 26, 2014

• A bunch of new monsters! There's bears, armordillos, giant sand fish (with stupid names), and a bunch of different colored versions of the monsters you had already come to know and love hate.
  
• Returning elements! There are some monsters from the older games that have been brought back, as well as all of the weapons that Tri had previously dropped.
  
• Some new areas! Also, the old areas have been revised to suit the gameplay.
  
• G-Rank, a rank beyond High.
  
• Free Hunting has been expanded to include High Rank monsters during the night time.
  
• The new flagship monster has introduced a new element: Slime. This is basically a bomb coating, after enough hits there is a small explosion at the strike point.
  
• Cha-Cha has a buddy now. Yay?
  
• Way too many things to keep listing.
  

• Disable your internet/router/wifi settings.
  
• Set your time/date to January 21, 2012.
  
• Get a stopwatch/timer ready, set it for 2 minutes plus however many seconds (see next step).
  
• Determine what table you want with the list above, and then set your system clock to 2 minutes before the appropriate time listed below (24 hour clock, so 00:10 is 12:10 AM, etc):
  

  code:

  HH:MM:SS
  T1 00:14:11~13
  T2 02:14:39~42
  T3 00:11:28~30
  T4 00:05:47~49
  T5 00:56:43~45
  T6 00:42:17~20
  T7 01:43:58~01
  T8 09:25:48~51
  T9 07:09:58~01
  T10 00:14:43~45
  T13 00:07:46~48
  T14 00:17:02~05
  

• Start the timer
  
• Boot the game up
  
• Hover over the "NEW GAME" option
  
• As soon as time is up, confirm the selection
  

• Gold/Silver Raths - HR8
  
• Lucent Nargacuga - HR40
  
• Abyssal Lagiacrus - HR70
  
• Hallow Jhen Mohran - Capture at least 1 of every normal/sub/rare species, excluding Elder Dragons and Abyssal Lagiacrus, and clear Alatreon [Unlocked by completing every Village Quest] in single player.
  

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