Neo_Crimson posted:

Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:

g rank is fun but its more or less a new game+ mode with slightly harder monsters

it really doesnt seem too hard to make because the monsters are mostly recolors with more stats who spam their worst attacks more

but it really is just the easiest way to resell the same game twice

Dr. Red Ranger posted:

Did anyone notice in the IGN Barroth hunt video that Barroth can now attempt to use his "shake mud every where like a wet dog" attack while clean? If he does, the attack fails and the befuddled dino will turn around to peek at his butt and shake it vainly looking for mud. I hope more monsters get adorable "oops" animations like that.

Funkmaster General posted:

The justification for urgent quests behaving that way is a narrative one; It's YOUR urgent quest. It's like a rite of passage. Everyone has to do it. Your friends can help, but they still have to do their own. It makes more sense, both from a narrative and a mechanical standpoint, if people aren't forming hunting groups, and you do quests with different people, and the group you're with is all at different levels of progression, so you end up doing an urgent quest once at a time, and maybe at some other time helping someone with theirs. The "do the same quest four times in a row" thing ended up being the result because people tend to stick together for large periods of time, one group doing a ton of quests, and everyone ends up at the same rank, so they all hit their urgent at the same time and run them all at once. The intention of the design of urgent quests wasn't to have you do that quest for everyone in the lobby all in a row, that's just how it ended up working out because the community plays that way.

That's not to defend it, mind you. I kind of like urgent quests the way they are, but that's because of nostalgia stockholm syndrome and a hate of change. It would certainly be more player friendly if the urgent counted for everyone involved, at least as long as those players already had that urgent up.

Terrific Accident posted:

Having played the beta, I wouldn't hold my breath for Dauntless being any good. The combat is janky even by monster hunter standards and they tried way too hard to make the weapons distinct from their MH counterparts. The hammer has a poorly explained gun mechanic that doesn't jive with the playstyle and the sword is extremely simple except for a pointless power up mechanic where you gain charges and then release them for a temporary boost. This would be fine if the weapons themselves were satisfying or had any oomph to them, but the animations themselves lack any weight and it feels like you're whacking monsters with wiffle bats. In the current build monsters also stand around for periods of time literally not doing anything while you beat them to death. It's unsatisfying to play on just about every front and I can't see future builds really turning this around, having seen what their philosophy on weapon design is. It's even more pointless now that we're only two months away from World.

Bombadilillo posted:

This is the problem I have with every MH knockoff. Theres no weight behind it. The first World trailer with the greatsword golf swing just game me the tingles. Thats MH. I cant wait.

Bleck posted:

You're not wrong about gamers, but it was also definitely the case that a handful of weapon/style combinations were basically a downgrade in every way.

dragon enthusiast posted:

glavenus sucks put in raizex instead

Zore posted:

Astalos rules