Yes, you can switch functionality of L and ZL, as well as R and ZR in the options.
This is true for new players especially. I-framing attacks is the bread and butter of higher-level play though, however tight the timing may be.
The best advice I can give you is to be reactive, stay far back while you try to learn the monsters attacks and only attack AFTER they attack (unless you know for sure you have an opening). Keep your distance, watch, wait, and as soon as you get out of the way of their attack, counter attack with a few hits and then get as far away as you can quickly, rinse and repeat. Even if you struggle to learn their attacks, if you stay far enough away you should be able to react to the attack in time.
I would really like to buy and enjoy the game but given the fact that I cannot beat Mizutsune in under 45 minutes, burning through 95% of my supplies and carting at least once or twice on top of that doesn't give me a ton of confidence that I'll enjoy it. It'll probably be the same story as always, beat the first few monsters that are super easy to read, maybe a couple of the harder to read ones by burning through supplies and tanking hits and then hit a wall.
Anyone else been looking for fun vantage points? Not sure if it's the highest point, could be. I'm loving exploration in this game.
Even veterans are struggling against the Mizutsune in the demo. It hits very strong and having a preset equipment doesn't help.
I still can't believe I did this quest directly with killing all 3 monsters ...
This is good advice. Dark Souls has invuln frames out the wazoo when rolling, that's absolutely not the case with MH's dodges unless you have a ton of skill points invested in Evade Window (not the case in this demo). With very good timing you can roll through some stuff like roars, tail spins and other attacks that pass through you very quickly, but for the most part you need to avoid attacks not by pressing the dodge button just before getting attacked, but by positioning yourself in the right spot relative to the attacking monster.
It does though, I was in multiplayer with my friends the other day on top of a mountain like that watching my friends chase after a Rathian clear on the other side of the map.
oh thanks - i'll try that but i'm not sure we have that many people on the friend list.
This is exactly it. At the point you fight it on the campaign, you'll be wearing kit and having skills, near-infinite items and assistants of your choice, on top of a couple dozen hours of experience, and likely a huge health bar from having eaten a meal. This isn't an example of how the hunt will go in the middle of the campaign, it's meant to be a challenge to veteran players. It wiped me out in under ten minutes on my first attempt and I've killed dozens of the things in MHG/GU.
Yeah, I think it helps a lot if you've both played World so you're familiar with all the often pretty extensive weapon moveset and mechanical changes that carried over to Rise, and you've played Gen/U so you're familiar with Mizutsune who can be a tricky monster to read with some attacks whose slippery movements are not so easy to understand at a glance. I think a lot of people only played one of the two. I played both, and very recently, so I'm kinda breezing through it. If it's been a hot minute since you played GU and you skipped World for example I can easily imagine getting roughed up.
I guess I can always play multiplayer if I struggle against a given monster.
You can, and once you get past it in multiplayer, you'll have better kit and can go back and stomp the SP version. It's worth pushing as far as you can in SP to unlock village facility upgrades, but advancing in tandem with multiplayer is great for advancing, learning, and not getting disheartened by taking a kicking on your own. Don't worry, there will be multiplayer hunts where you'll be commiserating as a team too :D
I think all of the Generations flagship monsters are fun to fight, except for mammoth.
No, while guarding, you could only ever do singular pokes, at least in World
Yeah, I like Astalos and Glavenus too. Both are fun fights. Gammoth is so boring and easy to fight.
Yea it can stay in the graveyard anyway. But would love Glavenus, Astalos and Valstrax to return
In GenU you could do multiple of the upward shield pokes with gunlance. In Alchemy style which I played a lot of, the third upward poke was replaced with the slam. The gunlance combo tree was quite different depending on the style, which has really fucked me up going from style to style to World to this game now.
I'm fine with this as long as Attack Up Large isn't a ludicrous 20% boost to all players, that's just insane for this game and makes me feel like I'm limiting myself by not bringing it. I really want to use the other songs but it's hard to even justify them when AuL is so busted.
Monster Hunter music slaps but honestly this is the first time where the music doesn't get lost in the ocean of other sound effects for me. Maybe its the sound mixing, maybe its the added chorus, but something about it actually makes it easier to listen to while fighting monsters.
You underestimate the power of break dancing moves
Random question, but I got the Iceborne Master Edition on Steam from the Winter Sale and I'm getting close to having to fight Nergigante, can I start Iceborne immediately after beating him or do I need to hunt the other Elder dragons? I want to get into Iceborne before Rise drops.
