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dragon enthusiast posted:new flagship looks duuuuuuuumb as gently caress you shut up the jet dragon is great. 
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I'm inclined to agree. It feels like everything is bloating out of control. Like the end of Akira, with more hats made of monsters. Dual Blades for cats is sick though.
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Dec 8, 2016 06:13
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dragon enthusiast posted:new flagship looks duuuuuuuumb as gently caress turn ur monitor on
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dragon enthusiast posted:new flagship looks duuuuuuuumb as gently caress Look I hate the dumb Frontier spikes-on-everything designs as much as the next fantastical beast anatomy nerd but if you can't appreciate Jet Turbine Gore Magala then you can get the hell out
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Dec 8, 2016 06:39
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dragon enthusiast posted:new flagship looks duuuuuuuumb as gently caress Not the kind of comment I'd expect from a dragon enthusiast. All monsters are special in their own way and I look forward to being knocked down a million times by this new precious baby.
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Dec 8, 2016 11:41
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Is that a rocket dragon?
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Stormgale posted:Is that a rocket dragon? Yes, and it is glorious. My handsome son, my ultrasonic lizard child
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Dec 8, 2016 13:34
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It is apparently a jet dragon with swords for wings too. I love everything about this. Also I really really really want to see Deviant Astalos's equipment, that blue color looks so sick on it.
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Dec 8, 2016 15:04
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Squidtentacle posted:It is apparently a jet dragon with swords for wings too. I am extremely hyped for Deviant Astalos because my number one problem with the regular Astalos equipment is that the electric element hit animation is still blue. Finally I'll be able to use his cool rear end weapons without having my ocd constantly triggered!
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Dec 8, 2016 17:39
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AttackBacon posted:I am extremely hyped for Deviant Astalos because my number one problem with the regular Astalos equipment is that the electric element hit animation is still blue. Finally I'll be able to use his cool rear end weapons without having my ocd constantly triggered! If you dye his armor, it changes the color of the glowy bits.
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Dec 8, 2016 17:42
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deadly_pudding posted:If you dye his armor, it changes the color of the glowy bits. I know but it's the weapons that are the problem! Not that they are really good enough to use much at endgame in Cross but that'll be fixed with a Deviant version as well.
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AttackBacon posted:I am extremely hyped for Deviant Astalos because my number one problem with the regular Astalos equipment is that the electric element hit animation is still blue. Finally I'll be able to use his cool rear end weapons without having my ocd constantly triggered! Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I was really glad (if maybe not surprised) that the switch axe and charge blade were set as elemental type phials, since that would keep the green lightning bursts. If only the elemental impacts could be altered a little, too.
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Dec 9, 2016 00:49
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I have a couple of long flights in the next few weeks so I'm going to finally put some serious playing into this thing (still only Village 4/HR 3). What High-Rank gear should I look out for as a Hammer user?
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Dec 17, 2016 05:00
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New Double Cross videos showing SP mode and Alchemy style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtdxdCg_hCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVdXPStWNos
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Dec 19, 2016 03:27
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What's SP mode? I can't really figure it out just based on the video.
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Dec 19, 2016 03:36
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Countblanc posted:What's SP mode? I can't really figure it out just based on the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE6MPeGs2Yc The short of it, it gives you buffs depending on what style you are using. You activate it by either you or someone in the same area as you activating a hunter arte that has been set as the SP arte.
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Dec 19, 2016 03:43
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I've been looking for games to play over the holidays (no computer) and remembered that I never really got into much of HR/online stuff in Generations. Also that the game is the best game ever. So uh, I have two questions; 1) will I have any luck online nowadays and 2) how exactly does online work again? I remember reading that you have to do quests twice and stuff, and it sounds like a hassle to organize (I've literally never touched the feature).
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Dec 19, 2016 22:35
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You'll do fine online, there's still plenty of people playing. And online is TRUE MONSTER HUNTER; it's an entirely separate line of quests than the singleplayer village quests. Fewer gathering missions and such, more Big Monstas; There's tiers just like offline, but they're organized by HR instead of stars, and that's pretty much it. Oh, if you haven't been getting the free DLCs, go do that. Just grab everything, it's primarily extra missions with weird equipment as loot.
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John Lee posted:You'll do fine online, there's still plenty of people playing. Good to hear! I had an absolute blast single-player, and I honestly kinda wish there was more of it. I mean, I still spent like 150 hours just in single-player but.. The reason I haven't done any online yet because I fear I'll screw up and make people angry  I don't know the etiquette of MH online interactions, and I'm the type of person who will usually play solo even in stuff like MMORPGs. I know it's possible to do a lot of the online stuff (or perhaps all of it if you're crazy?) solo, but stuff like difficult multi-monster hunts makes me want to at least give online an honest try first.
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Dec 19, 2016 22:54
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Your Computer posted:I remember reading that you have to do quests twice and stuff, and it sounds like a hassle to organize (I've literally never touched the feature). With Urgent quests, quest completion only counts for the host. Unfortunately in MHGen they added a ton of other quests that act like this, namely villager requests and deviant monsters.
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Dec 19, 2016 22:55
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Get in the discord in the OP and you should be able to find some goodhunters to play with. Other than that, avoid hitting people, don't just run into a hub and post your quest going 'plz hepl', bring potions and mega potions and don't take every item in the item box for yourself. As long as you're hitting the monster and not getting hit too much yourself you'll be doing good.
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Dec 19, 2016 23:01
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Yeah, etiquette is super simple. Generally don't put up a quest yourself; when you join a room, the room will usually say what everyone's in for ("Hunting Gore Magala!"). If you've been on a few quests, and you want to another thing, feel free to ask the other people in the room to see if they want to join you. The biggest deal is to be aware of which moves your weapon has that knock people around heavily. Hammer and Hunting Horn can send people flying, so be careful about that. If you're maining a different weapon than you were in singleplayer (or just starting a new character) keep an eye on what things gently caress up others, and try to do them when people aren't around.
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You'll want to bring lifepowders and remind your comrades to do the same. You can also always be the one to eat for insurance too and make sure it's always up. Multiplayer is surprisingly low pressure outside of the elder dragons in generations. With 4 players and lifepowders you will not die outside of one shots.
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I already consider myself pretty good in the "hit monster and don't get hit" department so my worry is mostly in the online-specific etiquette  Thanks for the tips!Is it mostly joining other lobbies or creating ones for yourself and hoping people'll show up? Do you clear the first X number of quests solo and then find people for the big stuff? How good are the communication features?
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Your Computer posted:I already consider myself pretty good in the "hit monster and don't get hit" department so my worry is mostly in the online-specific etiquette If you're just looking to farm certain monsters or charms then hopping into an existing lobby is totally fine. If you're looking to clear all your quests or target the key quests only then making your own specific lobby might be best. You'll probably want to do the kill 50 bnahabra type quests alone. They're much quicker in a team but still the very definition of tedium and you're unlikely to see people actually stick around to do them. There's nothing stopping you from diving right into HR once unlocked. Taking the time to get an early HR set solo or making sure you have a good late LR set would certainly be appreciated though. You probably wont find many rooms for hunting Great Maccao and the like so you may end up doing that type of quest solo too. You'll be swimming in fated four rooms though. The communication tools aren't the best and the character limit on messages kinda sucks but it's totally adequate. You should have plenty of time to ask people to bring bombs for when you sleep the monster etc when people are restocking their inventory in even the fastest paced rooms. The preset lines in quest only really need to be changed if you wan't to add a little bit of flair and uniqueness.
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Can somebody explain the armour in this game to me? Why doesn't my character have any trousers?
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bloodclot posted:Can somebody explain the armour in this game to me? Why doesn't my character have any trousers? Is your character a woman? The answer is "Japan". Real answer: if the armor happens to include pants, they are usually part of the "greaves" slot, which is boots/legs. The waist slot is typically a belt/kilt.
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deadly_pudding posted:Is your character a woman? The answer is "Japan". basalt fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Dec 20, 2016 |
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Dec 20, 2016 21:53
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As cool as the Monster Hunter series is, it still has it's fair share of titplate, lack of pants and other dumb gendered armor. It's no Dark Souls in that department, but at least most of the armors are pretty good  Completely unrelated: are there any good Monster Hunter youtubers/streamers? Not for weapon tutorials and stuff (Gaijinhunter etc.) but just... hunting and playing the game?
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It's really dumb and insulting how few lady armors include honest pants. There are sets where it looks like your hunter's decked out in tank plating except for a glaringly exposed window of your crotch and inner thighs because what even are arteries, really. It's idiotic. Not even from a titillation standpoint, it's just straight-up stupid and is one of my only complaints about the aesthetic of the series. Monster Hunter is a game about playing as tiny, squishy humans fighting monsters orders of magnitude beyond your size and strength. As a hunter, your only real defense against being pasted instantly is your armor. Boob windows don't make any sense for this thematically or practically, cover that poo poo up or you're gonna get gored.
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It probably says a lot about my naivety (I haven't played many Japanese games) that it didn't even occur to me that this was a conscious design choice. It just looks strange. I must have gone through the armour menu a dozen times looking for the piece I was sure I had missed.
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Dec 20, 2016 23:02
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Hunters do not normally employ pants, ineffectual against the strength of the beasts as they tend to be. Pants are nice, but not if they engender passivity.
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Dec 20, 2016 23:08
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I mean honestly, it's not so much "Japan" as it is the fantasy genre (and videogames) in general Western games do the exact same thing to the point where "boob plate" is a term everyone understands.
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Cicadas! posted:It's really dumb and insulting how few lady armors include honest pants. There are sets where it looks like your hunter's decked out in tank plating except for a glaringly exposed window of your crotch and inner thighs because what even are arteries, really. It's idiotic. Not even from a titillation standpoint, it's just straight-up stupid and is one of my only complaints about the aesthetic of the series. Monster Hunter is a game about playing as tiny, squishy humans fighting monsters orders of magnitude beyond your size and strength. As a hunter, your only real defense against being pasted instantly is your armor. Boob windows don't make any sense for this thematically or practically, cover that poo poo up or you're gonna get gored. This is my main beef with the series, at least aesthetically. I went through and ground out enough tickets to make a fully upgrade a set of Silverwind armor... only to discover that the chest piece is even skimpier than the regular Narga armor and the legs are a goddamn thong.  No, I think my dignity is worth more than some broken evasion skills, as good as they are.So I made the Snowbaron set instead. Not only does it look cute, it has nice skills too.
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Your Computer posted:As cool as the Monster Hunter series is, it still has it's fair share of titplate, lack of pants and other dumb gendered armor. It's no Dark Souls in that department, but at least most of the armors are pretty good Octaneblue and his posse have done tons and tons of group hunts across the last 4 games or so. His MHGen playlist starts here.
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I'd say that a lot of the MH armors that are skimpy for one gender are the same for the other. The worst complaint I could level against most of it is that the designer must have a huge hard-on for seeing bare thighs. Some of the deviant and small monster armors in gen are really bad exceptions to that. Male version of Silverwind is bad and the female version of Grimclaw is bad.
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Silver Falcon posted:This is my main beef with the series, at least aesthetically. I went through and ground out enough tickets to make a fully upgrade a set of Silverwind armor... only to discover that the chest piece is even skimpier than the regular Narga armor and the legs are a goddamn thong. somewhere, in the alternate timeline 
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Your Computer posted:I mean honestly, it's not so much "Japan" as it is the fantasy genre (and videogames) in general I think that's a different, though related, issue. Boob plate can still otherwise resemble a functional suit of armor, like in Skyrim. What Monster Hunter has is "chainmail bikini"
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Minrad posted:somewhere, in the alternate timeline  Yes, please, tell me more.
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deadly_pudding posted:I think that's a different, though related, issue. Boob plate can still otherwise resemble a functional suit of armor, like in Skyrim. What Monster Hunter has is "chainmail bikini" You're right, I messed up my female fantasy armor terminology  I still maintain that it's a deep-rooted issue with the fantasy genre in general though, rather than a "Japan" thing. Remember how blatant they used to be about it, too!  "fantasy.jpg" Games that use the same armor for male and female characters are still few and far between, but we've come a long way. Japan might lag behind though, what with otaku subculture and such
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