The Third Fleet Podcast #13 - MH Rise News! Crafting, Dangos, Decorations, Palicos, Palamutes & More

[@shantanudharanala3351]

some timestamps: 2:11 Gajin and Yuna's iceborne playthrough 15:18 FFIV and Bravely Default 2 21:23 State of Play 24:17 FF7 mobile battle royale 28:47 Fantasian. 30:42 Monster hunter digital event 33:41 commercials (Ironbeard best boi) kamura tour 41:29 village vibe and villager relationships 48:20 canteen 56:22 Buddy island, Hellfire, and scrolls 1:06:32 Prowlers and how it would work for the palamute 1:09:51 palamute weapons 1:15:26 palico and palamute armour 1:16:27 Recommended player list 1:17:03 Rondine 1:20:40 portable quest board and barroth 1:22:35 new players and main weapons 1:27:12 Training zone, cannons and ballistae 1:33:28 forging, upgrading, and how raw and motion value works 1:41:16 making elemental great again 1:43:46 armor system and set bonuses 1:49:04 amount of skills on a set 1:53:34 craftable decoration and levels 1:58:19 RNG weapons 2:01:14 exclusive rampage materials 2:05:03 stuff we already knew, length of village quests, and pacing 2:11:40 PC rise 1:20:59 PS Vita 1:26:15 PC release delay

[@Qballiz2kool]

Ruri needs to pin this comment to the top, your a literal god.

[@gooooooooooofy]

thank you sir

[@thelostician]

I don’t want to sound rude, but you seem to have a broken time stamp sir, the portable quest board and Barroth one is missing a colon : . Thank you regardless of course. 1:20:40 is the time stamp In need of fixing btw.

[@shantanudharanala3351]

@@thelostician Thanks!

[@danisanerd]

thank you!!

[@craigbeasley8003]

Listening to this whilst working from home and waiting to finish so I can carry on my new MHW playthrough with a twist. The Forager, no items taken into the hunt, every item has to come from the quest box or foraged from the map.

[@jaketracy7330]

A motley mix is when everyone pitches in an ingredient to be cooked, usually in a pot luck type fashion :) hope that clarifies a bit of confusion

[@DraegoMH]

"It's a fine wine, don't chug it." -Gaijin I'm also on that side of playing slow for the first time.

[@joshmay2944]

I’m gonna craft every set in high rank between story quests! Savor it like a fine wine indeed... it’ll probably be a year or so until we get the G rank expansion.

[@benjones594]

Same

[@SassyYariKu]

Man I love this Podcast so much Listening to your journeys, opinions etc while drawing or gaming is so much fun

[@C3ns0rious]

So happy to have found this podcast such a fun listen.

[@Qballiz2kool]

*Unexpected Roastings* oh man, I’m in for a good one.

[@InitialPowerD]

If you're like me and can't wait for the presentations coming next week, this weekend Game Live Japan is happening with a 1hr Rise demo being first up on the Sunday / Saturday stream (depending on timezone).

[@yiangaruga4928]

Volvidon definitely deserves the thumbnail spotlight, he's so unique and needs more love

[@jewmanji6266]

Especially since right now he is the only paralysis monster confirmed for rise

[@lixd3054]

Banabra:Exuse Me!?

[@yiangaruga4928]

@@jewmanji6266 Is there any paralyze Elder dragon? I'd actually love to see what that would look like, fingers crossed whatever we see on the 8th will be good!

[@jewmanji6266]

@@yiangaruga4928 I'm assuming that they might make a new paralysis monster for rise, would be cool for it to be an elder dragon

[@matthewtaylor6926]

@@jewmanji6266 tobi from the first trailer?

[@HiiGino]

Watch yuna join team darkside in a couple of years

[@krakatoom]

Years? Yuna is a fresh wager competitive kid, later on in Rise after some weeks she killed the Allmother naked in under 10 minutes......I'd say a year at most...

[@yiangaruga4928]

I know about Burdock cause alot of Dragonball characters are named after fruits and Goku's father is named after it.. Bardock

[@itsturniptime3699]

And then there’s Freiza. Love the taste of Antifreeze.

[@Voltricity435]

yea i'm pretty sure all saiyan's names were derived from vegetables

[@Leave-the-handler-alone]

And then there is bulmas family, naming them after underwear 😂😂😂

[@RevelRosa]

@@itsturniptime3699 His name is Frieza cuz he’s the freezer that holds all the veggies.

[@shaky_brains8608]

The brid isn't just a monster hunter fan but a fan of another one of my favorite series

[@NovaBushido]

2:20:00 I think you're correct actually Gaijin, on pretty much everything you said. Switch also didn't have World so switching between what game to what platform seems like a strategy to at least give MH to as many people as possible.

[@LodestarLogado]

1:43:00 How I play this game, so excited to see Element getting an upgrade

[@Timmy_isle]

The moment you realize you're worse than a child

[@rurikhan]

She's got Gaijin's genes though.

[@Timmy_isle]

Good point lol

[@michaelmeissen844]

It happens with the younger generation. I got my little brother, who is 7 years younger than me, into MH back on portable 2nd/2nd G. I think I was 21 and he was 14 at the time. Long story short, he beat me to the Fatalis clear. I wanna say I beat him to the White Fatalis clear but that could just be a false memory I created to cope with him surpassing me.

[@ramadhanbenny6640]

Is Yuna Dark Side material? lmao

[@akaimizu1]

No shame in that. Heck, back on the 360, one of our very best Left 4 dead players was an 8 year old. There are some things people are almost a natural of, especially if they are the kid of an avid gamer, like her mother.

[@Goliathvv]

Another great episode, thanks for taking the time to do this. It's always a lot of fun to sit back, relax and listen to the podcast in the background while I play something.

[@SleepyPitou]

Gaijin: "there's gonna be a final fantasy mahjong game" Me playing mahjong in FFXIV "hehe, he doesn't know"

[@mikeconfalone6697]

I love and can’t wait for every episode of the third fleet podcast. You guys are awesome and I hope this podcast never stops!

[@abcbcd7974]

Guys, the palico riding the palamute is a eureka moment. I can see this happening. You can play prowler mode with hunters in multiplayer on genU right? Its perfect for rise multiplayer because you can bring 1 pet. Man, hopefully this will happen

[@meglo03]

Fortify is at least in 3U, the skill is called Survivor. Currently using it lol.

[@Stratelier]

Yeah, Fortify exists but unless it's part of your armor set by default, it was too much trouble to gem in.

[@justsomejojo]

It's in World too - the low rank Jagras set is the first one to have it - it's not as strong as the old one afaik and I'm not sure it kept the same english name. But the effect is the same.

[@PixelPhoenix]

Very happy to hear Gaijin mentioning Fantasian. I've been following that project for a while and it was nice to see it get so much coverage yesterday. It was mostly unknown for the longest time. It looks amazing and Mr. Sakaguchi is such an awesome guy.

[@william_sun]

1:36:00 The primary advantage of the bloat multiplier is that it more accurately shows how much of your damage is physical compared to how much of your damage is elemental. Since elemental motion values are pretty much 1.00 across the board, but physical motion values are usually much lower (0.2-0.4 for medium-speed weapons), the unbloated attack values will make the physical attack stat look like a much bigger portion of your damage output than it actually is. The bloat multiplier for elemental attack is always 10×, compared to lower bloat multipliers for physical attack, which balance out the difference in motion values. In fact, if you look at a lot of blademaster weapons, the physical bloat multiplier for them is very close to 10 times the physical motion value of a "normal" attack from the weapon, just like how the elemental bloat multiplier of 10× is 10 times the elemental motion value of a "normal" attack, which is 1.00. Of course, this is before you account for things like sharpness, Critical Boost, Critical Element, and monster hit zones, but it still gives you a much better idea of just how important or unimportant the elemental portion of your weapon's damage is.

[@Dillon_J]

when they said exclusive parts from apex i thought of Hyper Armor sets from MHGU. For those who don't know, one would fight special versions of monsters, more difficult, that yielded a "hyper" part. Then with that you were able to make a hyper armor set with more skills sometimes different skills and more defense.

[@montymont5943]

I still keep hoping that during the rampage mode. We can summon the training room Palicoes and they bring out the Mecha Tetanodron as a finisher xD.

[@joshmay2944]

You, sir, are a genius!

[@gordonxyooj]

I look forward to this series every week. These discussions are so enjoyable.

[@ramoncalleja3467]

Its nice that your talking about pacing and taking your time!!! Its really a great way of making this series more enjoyable!

[@chaosisprime9815]

Shout out to any of my Swaxe brothers and sisters out there. We are so few and far between.

[@OmegaMetroid93]

This is my favorite podcast, with two youtubers that I've watched for years. Good stuff, guys!

[@mattxstarx]

wow that idea to do quests for the villagers and unlock them as an NPC helper or something sounds awesome and makes them more seem even more personal and interesting. we are in the final month and i don't know how i'm going to function until then lol

[@KnightCyld]

Well Monster Hunter Rise is all about Wyvern Riding. Houjo is Wyvern Riding the little Tetuscabra, so that is his "weapon class" if you select him : ) Also Gaijin Hunter Team MIzutsune all the way, screw Glavenus : D

[@Solibrae]

Hojo using a mini version of Tetsucabra's moveset would be perfect.

[@bonkusdonkus3743]

Astalos man here..

[@bananarambo8163]

Experienced hunter with good basic would probably get turned off if difficulty bar gets lowered even more. Imho, there'll probably comes a time where MH would have more naked challenge/achievement (like pickle naked n afraid) just to unlock certain stuffs (baby tetsucabra deco, fugen facepaint or w/e). I really wonder how they gonna tackle this difficulties issue satisfying both new n old hunters

[@XxMissLadyBlissxX]

Gaijin and Yuna playing MH together is so wholesome. I wish I could get my dad into it 😂

[@lksas2295]

You might not get ur dad into it, but you make a child and get them into it!

[@Jaycan]

It’s so fun hunting with your kid. My 9 year old son loves playing with me.

[@drmacho8046]

@@lksas2295 We play video games...we will die virgins

[@justsomejojo]

When I recently restarted World on PC (since I only played on PS4 before) I actually went through making every LR set before progressing to HR. And I'm doing it again in HR, not because of completionism, but because I'm hella rusty and my goal in crafting everything is actually getting comfortable again with every monster. Nergi and Anji were behemoths on my first hunts, but by the time I had their stuff, they were puppies and it felt reaaaally good. Right now, I'm on Azure Rath, one of my most hated monsters and my bad temper on that thing means I have another motivator to get better. If your crossed fingers turn out true and we do get prowlers at some point, I'll be one happy camper, but I'll also have the same problem as I do now lol I completely botched my hunter skills because cats move so differently.

[@jeslan9773]

All this Mizutsune vs Glavenus talk.. WHERE'S MY TEAM GAMMOTH'S AT?!

[@rystalvitt]

Got my gammoth fan card RIGHT HERE

[@jeslan9773]

@@aetranm bug dragon is pretty dope... he does glow and shit.

[@VonFalcon47]

I would love Gammoth a lot more if not for "Hey, I'm gonna mount you. What's that, your head is outside the map area? Guess I'll stumble and fall then lol!"

[@Theron37]

I recently did all the G4 Prowler quests with randoms in GU, and when I saw 1 of them use the Rath of Meow, that looked really fun lol

[@w0wdonger896]

1:54:52 the most excited yes you'll hear today

[@nikopierrot]

I'm still disappointed that Frontier ZZ wasn't made an offline game. I would probably buy a Vita to play it.

[@thethirdd352]

What is interesting to me is that the rise demo is still playable. At least for me.

[@Qballiz2kool]

Well yea, you literally just delete your save data and you get the 30 tries back, and the demo will always stay on your switch unless you delete it.

[@VerPhysick]

As far as I'm aware, you can play offline single-player and I believe local multi-player

[@thethirdd352]

Ok that makes sense. Thanks 😊

[@evangarrison8297]

iirc the demo time limit was just for downloading it I’ve been playing it way after without a problem

[@unrulya]

The demo time limit was just for multiplayer, you can still download and play single player

[@anthonysayegh8187]

Something I would like for them to bring back is the special interactions like the Teostra and lunastra interaction

[@FakeHeroFang]

I agree that if weapon augments come back, it should be like a one and done finishing touch rather than basically the next tier of upgrades like it was in World. It should be a nice extra bonus for your efforts, not another level of minmaxing that pushes how much stronger you can make a weapon.

[@trysthartzell7092]

Yuna is an ace hunter in training. I can't wait to hear more of her hunting adventures.

[@welcometomylives]

So I was reccomended this channel as background noise during my gameplay. I know very little about either of you, but you appreciate the best weapon, so you are clearly the best.

[@wilddreams]

german voice synchronization is like the highest quality on this planet

[@johannesnagengast7643]

Agreed it’s pretty good. 👍

[@chriswalker562]

Yes & No. Highly depends on what you're watching/looking at. We fail hard at alot of synchro things in the horror Genre for whatever reason lol. But German voice synchro is defenitely ahead of alooot of other language voice synchros for the most part.

[@Lexgamer]

Arekkz's question was a little vague, this new universal elem def bonus for sets is still technically a 'set bonus', just not unique bonus' per set, but hard to say; we'll just have to wait and see on that one.

[@staticspider344]

Imagine Hojo with a bowgun like a hopping frog tank.

[@atwoodthehunter2620]

Honestly hearing that little call out to paradise and twosix was awesome. It'd be cool to see them two and vestmore join in as guests :D

[@joshmay2944]

@Rurikhan you had a great idea with weapons counting toward set bonuses for said monster's armor. There are plenty of references in games and elsewhere that include weapons as part of an armor set, and i see no reason for it to be "weird bc its not armor" like gaijin said. Yeah the weapon is not armor, but it is an essential part of a hunter's equipment, right along with the armor, so it makes complete sense for certain specific weapons to count toward set bonuses.

[@Eragon_RH]

im fine with alot of skills on armor as long as it doesn't get to the same extent world/iceborne, with full ATK lvl7, Critical Eye lvl7, Agitator lvl5, Tenderizer lvl5, Critcal boost lvl5 etc, the khezu armor seems to have only thunder attack as a offensive skill which im happy about, i want element to mean a bit more

[@statesminds]

I'm 20 hours into Bravely Default II. I'm enjoying it. MHW on base ps4 and xb1 has wayyyy longer load screens. They're not that bad at all in BD2

[@kaninhunter50]

NEW EPISODE MEANS NEW DAD JOKES 💯💯💯

[@robingrob9717]

There was a silkbind skill for the cat so... I mean its unlikely but wirebug prowlers would be so insane fun. I just hope they bring the prowler back. It just added so much more content and fun to this already amazing series. I mean the prowlers had styles in gu so why not give em wirebugs

[@TimFranzke]

On the Palamute "skills". From they way I understand it they get 2 slots for "gear". Those are the extra things they can do. The scroll is just another thing you can equip instead of the long chain for example. They are shown as ninja scrolls because I guess they don't show the dog using an actual tool when using these skills. This has nothing to do with their weapons though. We also have seen the Arzuros Palamute weapon which was a club so impact weapons for Palamutes are confirmed.

[@nergalrior7841]

What you talking about??? The pirate bearded maniac was the best supply for bird wyvern gems. He made farming them so easy. Even Rathian Spikes. That solved so many farming issues.

[@You-uj7sc]

I wonder if we'll have tier 4 decorations in ultimate, given that we can craft decos that would be a little bit complicated

[@BadJop]

I have never seen or heard anyone talking about that a Palico is controlling the mecha-Tetranadon in the training area.

[@tendermoisturized4199]

I never minded looking up armor sets in third party webpages. Sure it sounds and is a bit cumbersome, but in return the variety of monsters you fight in end game is super varied. In MH world (pre Fatalis) you pretty much got some Teostra and you just fought the dlc monsters when they came out and like made the raging Brachy waist or something but for example I have a g rank Jaggi piece in my daily driver in mhgu. When have you seen anyone wearing a piece of MR Great Jagras in their endgame set (if they're not already wearing 5 piece Fatalis)?

[@three_o_two]

Canteen food buff doesn't provide elemental resistance anymore. That could be the reason why Capcom added elemental resistance in armor set bonus. It would be much harder to build resistance in Rise.

[@bazelgoose9247]

I'm not the type who love listening the podcast but with Rurikhan and Gaijin Hunter, they're doing it well and it's become my main thing now! Love to listen this while doing my work at the same time.

[@ValkeersYT]

German localization isnt so bad. Translators often use some creative freedoms to put a specific blend of cute little things in there. I loved FF9s localization because they gave one of the theater gang members a thick bavarian dialect. It felt so funny to me when i was a kid... still appreciate it now. (Also text box lenght rarely ever was a problem. Its not much different from english im that sense, hard as it might be to believe)

[@justsomejojo]

Playing GU right now, reading all the dialogue again. The german localization is great. Though over the years I *did* notice that it's one of the more inefficient languages. So many sentences and words are way longer than their english translations.

[@reallargefungus4555]

I suspect we’ll get random charms and petalaces because I didn’t see a craft Petelace option in the gameplay at the smithy

[@LayZKimochi420BlazeIt]

I can attest to that piracy point of view of it being a service issue. Right now I have active save files im sort of juggling between MHF1, MHFU, MH3U, and MH4U that im playing on emulators on PC but i know for a fact I would rather just buy them in a heartbeat if they ported them all to the switch and the other consoles.

[@H8fulApe]

Gaijin has the perfect introduction/narration voice.

[@VenomPureEvil]

I watched Amadeus solo gogmazios using fortify so its been around for a while

[@mikus6487]

i have to agree with elements needing a boost. Back in Tri and mh3u i LOVED crafting what was in my opinion a "best" of each element. i liked switching out each weapon to what it was weak to. Now that we see the numbers and see how messed up elemental damage calculation really is in World, it hasn't felt worth it even once. I will be happy to use elemental weapons that make a difference.

[@moraganna4064]

For the Set Skill Bonus vs Set Resistances issue I think both will be in the game. In MH:W not every set had a Set Skill Bonus and were just worse by that design. I think those sets without Set Skill Bonuses will give a Set Resistance Bonus to have value as sets liked the Skill Bonus counterparts

[@WillyV089]

The real question is, will they sell an ultimate version totally separate at full price, or will they do what they did with iceborne and sell a DLC expansion?

[@ElMalditoPollito]

Im hoping a Dlc like Iceborne. Pokemon did it why cant monster hunter

[@xeroze01]

Surprised by the talk about bowguns having more status than bows, considering status on bow can go into crazy overload if you build for it. I had a reddit post previously on this. You could sleep monsters with a single spread shot, sleep ruiner like 5+ times in multiplayer, etc. Link: www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunterWorld/comments/jhw7xr/build_optimized_sleep_bow_build_for_guiding_lands/

[@Lexgamer]

Lol, I need Yuna to carry me through fatalis; never beat him and got tired of farming eyes the slow way xD

[@greenhillmario]

35:40 ruri I don’t think so unfortunately, from what I’ve seen most Japanese streams have been essentially the same as the Japanese TV shows, ie a lot of fluff for maybe 30 minutes worth of new info. We saw this with the gg strive stream from arc sys and the fighting game developers round table

[@Shirozvm6484]

When you guys started talking about Prowler i went full auto on how there are so many things they can do, nodded at the fact that they should be able to use the wirebugs and ride a palamute, and went how there are so many ways to improve upon them I seriously cannot scream louder the many different things from improved motion values, different support “gauge” system, fixing and balancing Piercing and Big Rangs specifically to make melee actually as good as they are (by making Weapon Upgrade its version of those buffs) and much much much much much much MUCH more Seriously tho, Gaijin is like “i want 2 of each” here i am being like “i want 4 or even 5 of each, the amount of builds one could make is utter insanity if they just imported everything from GU and added upon it”

[@luminous2585]

They don't handcraft a bubble for every single npc line. It just makes it big enough to fit whatever text is going to be in there. Granted, that can be a bitch to program already depending on what the engine can or cannot do with displayed text.

[@Daraeius]

its not actually the german language that sounds agressive we are just angry all the time

[@jaydenheber2053]

Whenever I hear German, it's either terrifying or super sweet sounding

[@richardallen8211]

When the started talk a behemoth I just thought in rise the might add dark beast Gannon

[@Eisenschnell]

Been playing GU and 4U and I wouldn't say IG is a crutch as much as it is rewarding once you finally get that red buff. It's easier in gen 5 for sure but I f eel a lot of my kill times could be so much faster if I could snag an early red. So I guess I'd say the weapon is balanced around the extracts(?)

[@SaintAdjacent]

Imagine getting to play prowler as palamute, but also running with 2 other palamutes. (Hopefully they add prowler mode)

[@KageMH]

This is the only podcast I watch regularly.

[@davidk.8686]

You wanted to know if we enjoy this format .... I certainly do! It's very clear you guys enjoy yourselfs talking ... and translates to the listener... even if I listen to health issues of poeple I have no personal relation with. :D. Best Gamer-Dad podcast ever!

[@GarliccDread]

I definitely want to try bouncing around more in Rise, especially since they're saying it'll cost less mats. But, it's so hard to stray away from my sweet baby IG

[@Qballiz2kool]

I’m thinking I’ll use Hunting Horn to start out Rise instead of using Greatsword, Switchaxe is half off the table because of the way they nerfed the amount of sword charge you get per sword swing in the Rise demo, not a big fan of that, other than that though the weapon feels solid, and Gunlance........there’s just way too many unknowns about Gunlance.

[@GarliccDread]

@@Qballiz2kool Horn definitely is one I want to use for sure. It was super fun in the demo so I'm hoping the different ones will also be in the final game 🎸

[@jordanhendricks3307]

@@Qballiz2kool you know about the wild swing finisher increasing the gauge gain? Still don't like it?

[@moritzkretz7930]

Awesome podcast as usual. In regards to bloated values. I can see why they use them in regards to weapon fantasy. If you look at dual blades vs greatsword for example. Would you expect their attack value to be the same or would you expect the greatsword to be higher (as it deals more with a single hit)? Personally I feel it would be the latter. Anyway both ways have their merits, but I feel like it would be too quick to dismiss the "feeling" of bloated values entirely. Also once you understand how it works it doesn't matter at all (you just divide by your weapon modifier and are done with it).

[@HenshinFanatic]

Motley Mix means the same thing as Varied Assortment.

[@AntonioCunningham]

I hope MH Rise have an augmented system. The augment system in base World made lower ranked weapons viable in end game. The only issue was getting the materials. That was made superior in Icebourn, (even though I hated having to fight Namille for health augments) but the DLC weapons made the weapon tree useless. I'm hoping for a mix in the augmented system in Rise.

[@Vulcanfaux]

The power of monster hunter is why I'm happy crash 4 comes out 2 weeks before on switch. Gives me a chance to play crash 4 before I get into monster hunter rise.

[@aeroai]

That intro was really excellent 👌

[@centurion8328]

I would love in a future episode for you to take some time and look at the effects of skills between Gen 3/4 and 5 and really consider what you're getting at each level. Hearing you talk about how amazing the Khezu armor is with it's smattering of skill points feels so much like the "MH:World skills bad" bandwagon without considering it's basically the same as wearing low-rank Khezu armor in 4U.

[@BlueNip]

I used to pirate, didnt do a lot of games but whenever I did it was just play it as a demo and see if I liked it or not. If I did I buy it if I didn’t then didn’t lose out on anything.

[@MCpolo92]

it was actually pretty clear if set bonuses are returning: if you buy the english version yes if you buy the Japanese version no

[@Revonlieke]

About the weapon RNG I gotta say Rurikhan has had probably the worst impression off of it, not having played 4U end-game and only experiencing Worlds/Iceborne systems. Now 4U's system wasn't perfect, but it was still near perfect for what it tried to achieve. The cool thing about 4U relic weapons was that they were inside "guild quests" and those quests were kind of like a small rogue-like inside monster hunter. Where the map would alter each time you acquired a new guild quest. And the relic weapons had I think 8 different designs as well as 4-5 different color options. And to get these relics you could do pretty much ANY guild quest, level up the guild quest to +lvl130. Now certain weapon designs WERE tied to specific monsters, but not a singular monster. So as an example you could get a weapon that looks like a Rathalos GS, from a guild quest that has a rathalos, rathian or let's say diablos. So it wasn't that you were doing the same thing over and over necessarily (even though leveling the guild quest to +130 was a bit too grindy) But at the same time, you don't always need to HUNT the quest. There were also rare blue ore locations that would give you these relics, or as I mentioned about the rogue-like map. There was a chance that the map had a Treasure-area that would yield more of these ore locations. And here's the kicker; this relic system wasn't limited to weapons. So you had armors as well and there armors had different designs as well going from Design A to Design F I believe. 4U relic weapons also had very specific skills also attached to them, that you wouldn't be able to get from normal armorsets or decorations (only a select few had these skills) And whilst you could say; "well does it make the normal armorsets pointless at that point then?" Not at all. I think 4U's relic system was really well implemented in that it was just a sort of a "novelty" item to get. Yes it took a shit ton of time for you to get a relic weapon that was the absolute best of them in terms of sharpness, status, raw and attached skill. it NEVER felt like it was something people absolutely needed. And because of this and how rare they were, once you got it.. Well it became a goal for other hunters to get what you got as well. But not to a degree that you weren't able to join in on hunts with your non-relic armor & weapons. The only downside people saw with it really, was just HOW grindy it was. As it was almost impossible to get exactly what you wanted. But those that did, well they stood out and it gave that boost to me as well to eventually get what I wanted as well. And on top of this, you had to hone the weapon from a scrap relic, to something you could actually use, which was a bit of a pointless extra step considering how hard it was to acquire already. Had MHworld & Iceborne at some point introduced a system where golden/red ore locations would pop up in expeditions and give the player a chance to get a Kulve/Safi relic based on their hunter rank would have been a good decision to alleviate the nature of hunting these monsters over and over and over.

[@Dillon_J]

the courier cat when you got too much mail in MHGU was hilarious XD

[@OmegaMetroid93]

Where was it confirmed that there'll be a second demo? I haven't seen anything about it.

[@msly07]

They should make it so that the low rank armor is required to craft the high rank armor. One of my biggest issues with progression in MH games is how low rank gear becomes completely obsolete once hitting high rank. High rank monsters can also drop low rank mats so that people who like to jump ahead still can, but I'd like to feel like if I choose to grind a set at low rank that it isn't completely useless and will get me closer to the upgraded high rank version.

[@Golden910]

There was so much to comment on but my main thing I'd like to say is I also hope they have a cross save system from the Nintendo version of rise to the pc version. Even though I doubt it will happen. I'd prefer to play the game on pc. Mainly because I don't like the controls of the switch controllers or joy cons

[@Zero0mtk]

I think the main issue of difference in content between Japanese/English is because of V-Jump's videos, the Japanese outlet that is doing a REALLY good job at covering details and gameplay. Really, the hunting videos of V-Jump were stellar as well, and showcases so many weapons. (For example, kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6jCm6uaiq-fi7c&ab_channel=%EF%BC%B6%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8D%E3%83%AB for the village info. Around 2:30 is the training room contents.) I checked the Japanese IGN video, and I don't remember seeing the details gaijin mentions in that. (In other words, IGN is not particularly great both in English and Japanese.) It's the outlet quality that seems to matter, not whether it's Japanese or English...

[@freddoesvox9033]

Gen u and 4U had high rank village quests as part of the story

[@tiberuishunter5390]

Those are ultimate games. If you look at mhw mhgen mhtri and mh4 (which was japan only) had low rank village and hub had low rank and high rank. I do hope that village has low and high rank

[@mydrillasanjay5397]

we have burdock in the uk, makes for a banger drink

[@Dillon_J]

i looove elemental weapons. Excited for rise for that reason.

[@anheiru]

I see your points on world, but in defense Ill say this: Altho meta is meta and whatever, world augments let you make the less rare monsters viable in the endgame. By icebornes time, the beotodus dual blades with elemental augments made them really good.for alatreon. Odo glaives with high affinity could be specced for attsck or massive health augment for comfort. Basically, altho complicated, at least worlds augment let me bring some weapons into the spotlight despite low rarity.

[@solio4327]

Yuna is a prodigy that will beat us all in our fastest times while picking up a new weapon in like 5 years.

[@iamrathercool12121]

Dandelion and burdock here in the UK.

[@Gamegurlz94]

you can change weapon on npc when you unlock them would be cool

[@Wolfclaw]

I think Rondine might be Dutch, because her neck piece gives it away. I have seen paintings of men from the Netherlands back in the day in art museums wearing that neck cloth similar to what Rondine has on. Correct me if I am wrong, I think the Dutch were the first Europeans to travel to Japan.

[@giovanigiacomeli7460]

Well, MH Rise in 60+ FPS will be nice. I dont care much about the graphics, but performance oh boi