What I do most of the time is immediately keep launching the monster into a cliff until I automatically jump off. Does a ton of damage and stuns it for ages
I wish there was a way to ride them without actually bringing one with you on a hunt. I dislike hunting with the AI companions but the speed boost from the palamutes when it comes to traversing the map is too good to give up.
Id say honestly tho for multiplayer hunts you basically have to carry a palimute if you wanna keep up i think
Yep, funny how there was just a different gameplay loop. I enjoyed trying all the weapons and getting better at the ones I'm most interested in—I've done probably 40 hunts, which is more than I thought I would do. Having a sandbox to do it in rather than feel like I have to constantly progress in the quests is a nice change of pace, even if I realize that's a self-inflicted one. But it's probably time to put the brakes on it for me, too.
I've felt the same. Hits a nice sweet spot between having a slight break and continuing the hunt.
No worries, the demos are genuinely obtuse almost intentionally - they're really meant to be Sandbox's for returning players, this is actually the first demo I can recall to even have any degree of tutorial, lol. You did fine too! Greatsword is notoriously hard versus small fast mons, and it's not very new-player friendly with its slow movement and reliance on precision. I love SnS, it's sleek, fluid, fast, and fun. I recommend it but it's also got a seriously large amount of depth to it, which could be overwhelming. <3
Huzzah!
Honestly, just wire-bugging is pretty fast. 10 or so seconds behind at most, I really hope someone does a comparison between the two; you're certainly slower but you get access to special and more direct routes, along with verticality also increasing how far you travel. I use Palico-only, never riding doggo, it's great and I'm never *that* slow.
I must admit, reading your posts was quite the rollercoaster lol
Yeah, my main frustration starting out was navigating the menu so that I could use items to heal and stay alive long enough to get comfortable with the combat.
Nice! I suggest that you go to Options > Controls and you switch the "hold L" controls to the actions menu instead and the dpad for items. That's how it works in World and is a lot more intuitive.
Goss Harang skeleton is similar so we'll probably get Rajang eventually if not at launch
Mizutsune is pretty freaking great.
Anyway, took the plunge and bought a switch pro controller because using joy cons with drift is torturous and oh my goodness what a world of difference it makes. Using the bow feels so good now but I wish the sound when hitting the monsters with the arrows was a bit different but it's a minor issue for me.
I have no opinion on Khezu since it's brand new to me but the overwhelming negative reaction to it kind of makes me dread facing it lol.
Once you learn the monster's movements, you won't need to run away and heal ;) you can just dodge and keep on smacking.
He first premiered in Monster Hunter Generations as one of the four "flagship" monsters. Since Generations was really more geared toward veterans, and he wasn't in World (where a lot of people got their start), there are plenty of newcomers who probably haven't seen him. He was definitely my favorite from Generations, and I have been absolutely delighted to see him in Rise (and with some new tricks to boot).
Pressing A loads the special ammo, in this case a rapid-fire machine gun I forget the name of; you can see the ammo above the shot types as like a machine gun belt thing. Forget how it regenerates but it does.
Got it. I was confused because the game has the machine gun mode as default, so I thought that was your normal attack and not something you should save.
