The Monster Hunter: Rise Thread

tokucowboy

I don’t know if this is a thing or just a coincidence, but I’ve noticed a trend in online games (especially among Japanese players) that I enjoy:

So you know how there’s just a trust system for taking the starting potions & rations from the item box at the beginning of a multiplayer quest? Since there are four of each & four maximum players, it’s Monster Hunter etiquette to just take one of each when you’re in an open lobby, as someone else might pop into the quest later. I’ve been responding to Join Requests & I’ve seen numerous times now where new players pop into the quest, check the item box, see that someone has taken all the items & not left any behind for new questers. They immediately leave the quest upon this discovery.

These are high-rank folks, so it’s not like they need the med kits or rations. It’s just the principle of, “these shits are rude, I’m out.” Maybe I’m reading the behavior the wrong way, but this is my narrative & I like it

kory

tokucowboy Haha, that’s an interesting behavior to arise organically from the game design—I like to think that the devs consciously left out any restrictions re: removing items from the box at least in part to encourage this. I have yet to go online, but I’ll be sure to stop ransacking the public item box when I eventually do!

tokucowboy

kory It could be coincidence, but I could also seeing it tying into the general lack of theft & the habit of returning lost items & respecting public items that you see in Japan. In any case, MonHun is a pretty good community (as far as gaming communities go), so I hope you have fun online. I’ll get around to putting up a friend code one day, but if you ever see a Toku online, it’s probably me

Privately_Attack

I haven’t even caught up on the new content but I think I might be burnt out finally. I played so much in such a small amount of time. I don’t think it’s time to close the book but I might actually try and play something else for a while that doesn’t feel like a job.

jaws

just beat the story, tried a 5 star village quest and barely made it out alive. was not prepared for the difficulty spike of the “real” game.

seems like talismans are a thing now, should I be trying to craft those on the regs between missions? I finally got into a good cycle of training my buddies and dispatching them for missions/trading. this is my first MH so I’m not sure what endgame routines are supposed to look like. 😅

kory

jaws The initial talismans abilities are not the most useful…I made it to the second “tier” of talismans and there are some better ones at that point, though the success rate is low so I’m ending up with some garbage ones…

I wouldn’t sweat them too much, just pump some of your excess monster parts into making them if you see a useful skill. In my case, as soon as I saw “Free Meal” I made a beeline for that–it’s one of my favorite skills! I managed to get a level two Free Meal talisman, which means that as long as I have this equipped 25% of the time when I use a consumable item it is not removed from my inventory.

I don’t know if I’m in what would be considered the “endgame” yet, but I have stopped getting new village quests and now I’m just plugging away at the early High Rank hub quests.

rejj

If you have an excess of parts in your storage and don’t plan on doing anything else with them, forging talismans is not a bad option. Once you are in proper endgame, you should probably have talismans on the go as often as possible (every mission is ideal, but availability of or willingness to use parts is a limiting factor sometimes).

Don’t stress out too much trying to fish for a great low tier talisman. If you are short on cash, consider just selling your excess parts rather than making talismans from them. Otherwise, roll the dice and go for it.

kory

Here is a translation of a recent tweet by Yoko Taro in which he expressed some story ideas for MH Rise:

As I play MHRise, here is a story I thought up

After the tutorial there is a rampage and the buff old man acts as a shield to save everyone but dies. In fact, he dies due to a mistake made by the player.

Either the dango girl or the buddy plaza kid dies. The one who doesn’t falls into darkness and sets fire to Kamura village. The chorus from the buddy plaza BGM no longer plays.

The last boss arrives but nothing you can do will harm it, but you can sacrifice one of the twins and make a weapon out of her that will damage it. You the player has the choose which of the girls. After creating the weapon, there is no longer singing in the village BGM.

As main characters die out, they are replaced by the store generic NPCs, and they start to come to the conclusion that the player is a danger to the village. They start restricting items and weapons, making the game more difficult.

During a super hard quest, the target monster is able to talk. They tell you the “true meaning” behind the monsters and Kamura village, and we learn the reason why our hunter has a voice in this game.

After clearing all the village quests, the village is left asunder. You can only play online multiplayer. The players, who have lost everything, can only go on killing monsters in this cold and barren world. (Title of the game is shown)

I’d play it

Syzygy

(Title of the game is shown)

lol

◉◉maru

Provided you have a standard NSO subscription (which would be a pretty useful precondition to enjoy the game anyway), Monster Hunter Rise is currently free to play on Switch for one week in all (currently operational) Western eShop regions, in order to convince new people to join in and catch up in before Sunbreak comes out this summer. There is also a new overpowered beginner armor set provided for free to speed things up (they did the same for World before Iceborne).

As usual with this type of trial, there is also a -33% sale promotion going on at the same time, in case your free week convinced you to keep playing and, right on cue, Capcom will show Sunbreak on March 15.

◉◉maru

Here it is. June 30. Most important news: Hachiko costume for the dog if you pre-order.

Each of the three new monsters seems inspired by a classic Western horror story (the vampire dragon, the werewolf, and the Frankenstein monster gorilla) which is a pretty neat touch considering the European setting.

Gaagaagiins

◉◉maru Time stamp of video

…was that an intentional reference to the Bloodborne new area sound??

◉◉maru

Hum. Pretty good.

◉◉maru

Nice little tribute to Ahtal-Ka, the bestest Last Boss in ~~Monster Hunter~~ video game history and/or possibly most hilarious fan homage to the Metal Gear Solid series (we’ll never be sure). I guess at this point it’s OK to spoil yourself the concept unless you somehow planned to boot up Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate for the first time in 2022.

Really hope we see her come back in Sunbreak given who’s behind the game and how fun it would be to tackle her with wirebugs.

LoBFCanti

I should be sleep but here I am. Awaiting this DLC unlock.

dracula

LoBFCanti I stayed up for a bit getting into it and then thought I’d sleep in too late to take advantage of the day yet 4 hours later here we are and the party begins!

rejj

I have about 100 hours in Rise in my switch, but I have not played for quite a while. I haven’t done/seen any of the extra monsters that have been added over time - I was well in to High Rank and on the talisman grind treadmill by the time I got distracted by other games and put it down.

I cannot recall: was Master Rank in the base game, or is that an addition in the new expansion?

How does the game with the new expansion run on the switch now? Should I get it on steam instead? I don’t like the thought of having to redo everything again, but perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad - I imagine all of my HR gear is essentially junk now and would be quickly replaced by MR sets, right?

◉◉maru

rejj I cannot recall: was Master Rank in the base game, or is that an addition in the new expansion?

Rise goes up to HR. As per the tradition of G versions / expansions, Master Rank is one of the new features of Sunbreak.

I want to start Sunbreak but I have just recently started Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, hmm…

Gaagaagiins

rejj I don’t like the thought of having to redo everything again, but perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad - I imagine all of my HR gear is essentially junk now and would be quickly replaced by MR sets, right?

If it follows the precedent set by World, which was consistent with past games too, basically, yeah. It’s not unlike the jump from Low Rank to High Rank. You might take a slight downward or lateral move with regards to your favourite skills or most finely tuned sets, but it will be a large enough step up in Defense and/or decoration slots and/or raw skill count that you won’t get more than a few quests in before you’ll be replacing stuff.

◉◉maru

One can finally realistically cut limbs with the bow in Monster Hunter Rise, apparently. I guess this makes up for the charge Lv.3 / charge lv.4 nerfs.

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