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I ordered from them too. Always nervous about their codes though.
I agree with this. I don't really get a lot out of stance switching and Impact Crater spam gets old. Kind of lessened the satisfaction of the weapon. Similar thing happened to the Lance where it no longer is like playing the lance with positioning and countering but instead about doing weird dash-guard impact spam with Spiral Thrust to instant-transmission all over the place.
We're launching at 9:00am PST simultaneously worldwide. In other words, 11.5 hours from this post.
As for pre-loading, there won't be any since the download size is around 19GB and it doesn't meet Steam's minimum threshold to qualify for pre-loads.
I suppose there's diminishing return in terms of time saved from pre-loading vs. time required to decrypt the pre-load bits below a certain package size. In some cases, downloading and installing games from straight-up unencrypted data may be faster. Still sucks for folks who are on slow internet connections, but it is what it is.
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I wanted to say re8 there, but I guess I remember wrong about it not launching at midnight.
Sadage but understandable.
Wait... Steam has a minimum threshold for how big a game must be to allow for pre-loads? What? I had no idea this was a thing. I thought it was just 100% a publisher decision but it makes a lot of sense now.
Thank you for the clarification. Good to know the game is only 19gb though. Was expecting it to be 30-50 or something lol
Connectivity to Steam's matchmaking server is paramount for a game like Monster Hunter, so we chose to launch during Valve's core office hours in case something goes awry that requires Valve's attention.
Goddammit Capcom I'm just staring at Steam waiting for this thing to unlock!
Lol, funny thing is I wasn't even hyped when the game came out on switch but out of nowhere I'm really wanting to hunt some monsters...
Ah I see, that is a good reason. I understand why you guys choose to do it like that.
Thank you for clarifying.
Yep - the last thing we want is to launch a game and run into connectivity or hardware issues while Valve is still asleep :-) Too big a risk to take for a game like Monster Hunter.
Anyhoo, see you all in 11-ish hours!
I see! I guess for some reason I didn't consider that Rise would be using Steam's Matchmaking service!
Yep!
Of course, we have our own set of servers for non-PII telemetry tracking if you opt-in to data sharing. This helps us understand how customers engage with our games (i.e., what weapons are popular, what hunter rank people get stuck at or drop off, etc.). All this data helps us improve the game itself, content release cadence, and more.
Well of to work, when I'm back it's hunting time friends! :D If anyone wants to play multiplayer I'm all up for it
It's really nice to see the PC release has rekindled interest in Rise to such a noticeable extent, based on what I've seen on the internet atleast.
Thanks for dropping in to answer all of those questions! I had no idea about the preload size requirement either. Sadly I'm on a rural broadband line in the UK so won't be playing until Thursday, but I'll blame my government for that rather than Steam or Capcom =P
Your posts on this thread have been informative and taught me a lot. Thank you.
as a side note, add my note to the pile of evidence that people want cross save in future monster hunter games across all platforms. ❤️
thanks for all you do and happy hunting! Fingers crossed for smooth launch.
I'm hoping they've fixed the bugs dealing with online that was perhaps introduced with Iceborne or had possibly always been there with World PC. Connectivity with what I'm assuming my ISP, Cox, to others' EU or East coast US would cause my connection to Steam's online to crash completely and kill entire lobbies. Kicking me offline in Steam and unable to access any of Steam's online features until I did a restart. Made me never grind out any of the "raid" type content because it required multiplayer.
Do you guys have a access to a Steam Deck dev kit over there in the US branch? I'm wondering how this game is running on the unit.
The ultrawide aspect ratio is currently broken in the demo, there are slight black borders at the left and right edges of the screen. Is this fixed in the full release, and if not, is this something Capcom is even aware of?
According to Intel a few days ago it shouldn't affect any games anymore. Either the games got patched or Windows updates fixed them.
My code is showing on my downloads page on the site. I have successfully redeemed it on Steam and ready to go!
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Thanks for the heads up about Steam's threshold and the reasoning for the global timing!
It's always so nice when a publisher is upfront about these kinds of things, because it avoids so much speculation and bitching.
I've added a countdown to the OP to hopefully avoid the release timing being lost on a page change.
I'm not sure how much control you have over this, but are there any plans to share this info in future, especially weapon/buddy usage stats?
I remember that the weapon usage stats were in World via the First Wyverian (which was tedious but workable), but AFAIK there hasn't been anything like this for Rise yet apart from the demo.
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Yep! Every weapon from World is in this.
I mained SnS in the Switch version of Rise, and it's an absolute blast and a half. You'll love it.
Not only is it there, it's also more fun than World's is. You get a silkbind move that is a counter and is almost guaranteed KO with high damage if you time it right, AND, shield attacks in Rise are strong enough that you can viably pick between regular sword combos, vs only slightly weaker blunt damage shield combos with good stun and never lose durability, but no element/status
Apparently it's too small to warrant a preload by Steam standards. 19gb.
Hard to answer without you elaborating, they're pretty similar in terms of gameplay and systems involved, the new mobility options make the gameplay a bit more 'twitchy' maybe.
The structure of the game is more straightforward than world though, a little bit less filler in terms of exploration and looking for monsters.
My new Xbox controller arrived just in time!
The only, ancient Xbox 360 controller barely survived my time with MH World and Iceborne.
The only, ancient Xbox 360 controller barely survived my time with MH World and Iceborne.
Oh wow, that's weird. On the switch they were nice enough to let us pre-load it.
Can't jump into this rn but looking forward to playing it soon-ish.
Might switch away from Gunlance this game.
Might switch away from Gunlance this game.