The Monster Hunter: Rise Thread

ttzop

I’ve never even touched another weapon than the Great Sword going back to 3 but to avoid that samey feeling I might have to dip my toes in something new here to start, not a single clue what though!

Gaagaagiins

ttzop My cousin is also a Great Sword devotee, the way they explained their choice was that to take down a big monster you’re gonna need a big sword. Can’t argue with that.

Also Great Sword rules, I dabble but I tend to want to play it in a way that requires an elaborate skill set up which means I’m often stuck not enjoying it as much until I can get juuuust the right one and just the right suit of armor and charms and… then I end up just playing something else.

seasons

I’ve only really played the 3ds one, and by play I mean I binged it. I picked up World on the ps4 when it was on sale, but felt burnt out even 3 years later and didn’t get too far along. Looking forward to Rise, and welcome any streamlining as I’ll probably have forgot how to play anyway.

I rotated between the great hammer and hunting horn. I tend to like slower, weightier stuff, but I’ll be trying out every weapon in the early going to see what sticks.

Blrb

rejj Blrb the hunting horn changes

I hadn’t looked up anything about Rise, so wasn’t aware they changed the Horn. I just did some very quick searches and reading and I’m not sure I entirely understand. Every horn has exactly 3 melodies now, and there is a way to gain all 3 buffs in one move?

Yeah, each horn has three buffs, and also mixes up which button those tunes are on. The big difference is that you don’t have to play the song, it just happens as you hit the monster (though you can switch it to be a little bit like it was before, but there’s no encore move). So it’s like a hammer that does buffs without you really having to think about it. I miss walking round going doot-do-doot :( but my co-op partner’s probably won’t?

(I stopped using glaive ’cause it’s a pain with the small mons at the start and have been using horn~)

I found a cool secret endemic life mon today!

Blrb

This thread has like every hunting horn player in it somehow

beets

Rise has been completely off my radar. I’ve played MH4U a whole lot (400ish hours) and a fair amount of MHGenerations. I also played through MHWorld solo but wasn’t captivated enough to get Iceborne. I personally found a lot of the quality of life changes in World detrimental to the game, there was a lot clunkyness removed that I felt adds to the experience. Also I really liked the gem/skill system in the 3DS games.

I used charge blade in 4U but could never adjust to the changed movesets in every following game. Now I usually go to the hammer or long sword as they’re both good weapons for soloing and they have simple but adaptable movesets.

I just watched the launch trailer there’s some of my favourite monsters in there zinogre and nagacaruga?. Do we know if riding monsters is mandatory or can it kinda be ignored?

Blrb

beets Do we know if riding monsters is mandatory or can it kinda be ignored?

Mostly mandatory. After enough mount damage they go into a vulnerable state where any attack will mean you mount them. You can leave them for a short time (maybe 10-20 seconds) and they’ll recover, but that’d be annoying to do every fight.

I’m also not a fan of the riding stuff. Quickest way to do it–if you don’t care about extra damage–is to bonk them into one wall, don’t do the recovery move, and you’ll be thrown off and they’ll be knocked down.

I guess it’s meant to be a more interesting take on mounting monsters, but it feels really unnecessary.

yeso

have to say I agree with you on World’s qol aspects sanding away meaningful parts of the MH atmosphere. Played a few hunts of rise and it does look washed out and a little ugly. Way too many bugs, plants, mushrooms etc coated in neon (in a bad way) that you just run past and hit a, feels like busywork rather than hunt prep as it once did. Seems like a good game but doesn’t seem to have gone back to the old aesthetic, just world on switch. Not a bad thing but I don’t know how long I’ll stick with it. Might take a look at what the lobby situation in generations is like these days lol

milo

I used to play Monster Hunter on the PSP back in the day with my group of friends. I tried the demo for MHW but felt it was too streamlined?? I dunno, someone earlier mentioned they “sanded down” the MH experience which, yeah, kind of made it not feel like a MH game and it just didn’t jive with me.

I am very excited about Rise though! It feels more like the MH games I used to play on PSP. I was playing the demo like every night with my wife’s boss and his son, but kids are fickle and now he’s over it and they don’t want to play with me anymore loooool.

Usually I pick the Gunlance. I normally don’t go for slow, tanky weapons but the gunlance is so cool and unique. Other than that, I really like the light bowgun, but since it’s kind of a support weapon it’s difficult to use it solo.

Moon

I have this game. I’ve been going through some pains trying to get online to work. My wifi at home is spotty and drops for no reason every few minutes so I bought the ethernet adapter for the dock. But now my dock and my switch aren’t playing nice with each other and I need to try someone elses dock to see if the problem is with my switch or my dock. I hope it’s the dock because I dont want to have to send my switch in for repairs! A comedy of errors.

This is my first monster hunter game and there is quite a lot thrown at you all at once but damn are these early missions boring. Still trying to figure out what weapon I like. The ranged weapons seem very useful but almost make things too braindead easy in the early game?

The game has yet to challenge me, at all, (except my patience a bit with the grinding) and I’m looking forward to the moment that it does.

yeso

Moon Post MHW they significantly dialed back the difficulty of the early going, so I suspect it’ll ramp up before long. MH does the “the real __________” starts here thing

p3ters

this game is a lot of fun. I’m doing Switch Axe tho, aka Swag Axe, and unfortunately I don’t think the weapon is as fun as the ones I used in MH World. Its gimmicks just arent as satisfying compared to how I was playing before. I’m still gonna stick with it for a while, but see myself changing weapons sooner than later.

Does anybody know, how do you join other hunts? I went to the Hub and created my own hunt, and during it another 2 ppl ended up joining mine. But, how do I join another person’s hunt?

One of the monsters made me die twice; something I doubt would have happened if I had better armor, so I just wanted a funner way to grind monsters for their armor sets.

p3ters

p3ters Does anybody know, how do you join other hunts? I went to the Hub and created my own hunt, and during it another 2 ppl ended up joining mine. But, how do I join another person’s hunt?

I figured it out… there’s a Quest Board in the Hub room that will match you into other ppl’s hunts.

it’s funny tho, it’ll take you like 3 minutes to kill a monster and the results screen will then show you the hunt took 20 minutes :p Thank you other hunter for softening up the monster for a whole 17 minutes lol

Blrb

I think my main criticism so far is that there’s not enough hunting. They’ve made it do you don’t ever have to find monster, they’re always shown on the map.

Has anyone unlocked the shrine in the buddy area?

ttzop

Blrb Yeah, I was able to after finishing the 4 to 5 star urgent quest in the Village.

donrumata

Picked this up today because the guys at work have been really excited about it and what I saw Friday during our lunch break looked promising. It’s cool! I liked Toukiden 2 a lot and this has a lot of that’s DNA in it.

kory

Been a busier weekend (and probably upcoming week) than expected, but I’m hoping to dig in soon. At least I have it in hand, had to splurge for the sweet amiibo!

rejj

I bought Rise, loaded it up, and discovered I now suffer from a large amount of joycon drift on my left stick. Unplayable, my hunter does nothing but run to the left.

I have no idea if the free replacement thing is (still?) available for me where I live. I might just fork out for a new one.

Blrb

rejj I have no idea if the free replacement thing is (still?) available for me where I live. I might just fork out for a new one.

Def try contacting Nintendo, and if they try to get out of helping you mention the magic word ‘ACCC’ :) I’ve had good experiences with their support in the past though.

vegetables

Been fun slaying innocent monsters with a group of pals. It’s nice that you can just jump right into online co-op. I remember it being a pain in the ass in World. Also really like that I never have to get off my dog to gather crafting materials. I’ve played like 10 hours or something already, but it’s only because I have this week off for covid vaccine recovery.

donrumata

Have to say I was really skeptical of the wirebug and dog-riding mechanics potentially not being a good fit for the series, but I am super glad to have been wrong. The reworked movement in general just kinda rocks. It’s significantly less annoying to have to collect all the weird little materials and stuff when I am incentivized by being able to play with jumps like I can here. Good game.

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