i want to suck a fart out of her asshole

>>735083759
That would hurt no?

ass

I noticed the defense stat for a lot of cool monsters is really low in the monsterpedia, does it change a lot in the actual stats?

>>735083698
So is Simon a traitor?

>>735083698
good god
i need to breed a woman

Yes, it addressed my biggest problem with 2, which is how on rails it was. Even 1 didn't have that problem. I am just entering the second zone after like 17 hours because I've been off doing my own thing breeding superfreaks and killing all the ferals and invaders instead of following the story.

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>>735084727
no, lots of them are glass cannons

>>735084990
Let's just say Capcom expected most of the people to play like you and "made sure it's not like E33".

>Thea has damage
>Kora has tankiness and aggro redirection
>Ogden has status effects
What do Gaul and Eleanor do? I guess Gaul has his party-wide status cleansing items, but is that really a niche?

>>735083698
it's alright
feel like the balance is only really good in the story bosses, since they can make those long with big health bars, and attacks that don't do that much damage but keep chipping away at your attrition. you don't want every regular monster fight to be that long obviously, but in turn it means they either 1-shot you or can't provide any kind of challenge.

so what's the deal with the "tendency"?

>>735086601
Determines what kind of moves your monsties will pick on their own and how careful they are with stamina.
Letting them go with their default picks gives slightly more kinship btw.

>>735086075
Gaul’s cat army inflicts debuffs and Eleanor is cute

>>735086075
Eleanor is good at dps and increases your attack

>>735083698
is redhelm arzuros in this?

Game is fun

>>735087910
BOOBA

>>735089456
Finally! I was wondering what the fuck most of those meant.

What's the final monster in the Death Maw area? Can't seem to find the thing in any den.

>>735090726
Rey Dau, I think you have to progress the story

>>735091676
Oh sweet

>>735091676
Aha that makes more sense. I was assuming it would be Ebony Odo, if it's in the game.

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>>735092698
>if it's in the game
It is in the game.

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Have you guys found good looking armor?

>>735093510
Taaawww

>>735086075
Gaul does status ailment application and prevention, which frees you up a lot. Eleanor has really good damage, uses Vital Essences a lot more it seems and has (L) buffs to boost your own damage, part breaking and wyvern bar thing.

>>735091676
It's like 2 all over again, except everything is thunder and fire.

is this a good barbie dress up sim? layered armor was my entire motivation for grinding endgame content in world

>>735098178
I wouldn’t say so. Armor is selected as a full set, so you can’t mix and match individual pieces. The character creation is also much simpler than World.

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>>735098178
>is this a good barbie dress up sim?
Look up armor sets online, while it's still fun collecting them (and you can recolor 2 shades) it isn't as intense as mainline

>>735098178
It's a Barbie collector Sim, I guess.

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shilling the wip egg skills spreadsheet

https://cryptpad.private.coffee/sheet/#/2/sheet/edit/+5uuIxpunADFpg3+EMce8J+J/

we're pretty close to finding all of them. please fill in any you can help with

>>735093874
rathian set looks pretty good
they should require you to wear those goofy looking sets if you want the bonuses. this layered armor mechanic just feels like a cash grab to sell skins

>>735099802
I agree layered armour is bad for mainline, it destroys a lot of incentives and discourages creativity there. I don't think it matters for a story focused singleplayer spinoff though.

>You can't remove Ratha from your party even after you beat the game
Why would they do this?

I don't get how the colour variant thing works. It doesn't seem to change the element like I expected it to so I can't tell what's different. Also is it worth finding an egg for every monster in an area as a variant? I'm struggling to wrap my head around the eco conservation system too.

>Steve fight in Ogden's second quest
No I will not engage with your gimmick. I will simply stunlock him with traps and kinship attacks while Boltreaver Astolos chunks his health bar.

>>735100286
i wasn't talking about mainline. i haven't played a mainline monster hunter in years. do they have layered armor there too? then it also sucks there. but that's got nothing to do with us.

all the dlc is layered armor or hair. and i am saying that not only does layered armor detract from the fun of gathering different armors, but it also removes any balancing you would do for looks vs benefits.

i get that some (other) people might like it, but personally i think it should mean something to win and look good doing it.

>>735101168
The thing is that in these games unlike the mainline games the armor is full set or nothing, no mixing.

>>735100961
Monsters get the alternate element associated with the zone you developed them in. i.e. the lake in the starting area is water, so they'll get water as their sub-element if that's where you release and then find them again. Colour is linked to element but that palettes aren't always consistent, for example some lightning alts are brown and others are green.

Conservation is mostly for egg moves (tied to zone, again a water zone will give the water egg move, odds of getting one increase with rank of the released monster), increasing spawn rates in the overworld and egg rates in dens of the monsters you release, and unlocking subspecies. When you find a monster that has a subspecies check the monsterpedia and it will tell you the coniditons for the subspecies to spawn. The early ones like Rathian and Lagiacrus are just "reach rank S in a zone with the base monster" but later ones need to be in specific elemental zones or cohabitting with specific monsters to get their alts.

>>735101249
there is such a difference, yes. why the apparent non-sequitur?

>>735098178
You can make cuter characters than the ugly "realistic" games, but customization is pretty limited. You do immediately get layered armor after crafting the real armor and you can edit your character at any time for free though.

>>735100787
you're not supposed to keep playing a story game after you finish the story

>>735101268
I see. Is there even much point chasing elements on specific monsters then outside of aiming for those specific variant monsters like Stygian Zinogre which I assume would be just putting Zinogre in a dragon zone? I don't really see what use I'd get out of having a monster with a new element.

Is the a Fire or Electric move equivalent of Crash Wave? I've been spamming the ever moving fuck out of that move and I'm in the last area of the game, just killed Goss.

>>735083698
Would she make you call her “mommy”?

>>735093874
No, I'm still stuck using the base armor design because I haven't found anything better yet.

>>735101415
Fire has one, I think it's from aknosom.

>>735084906
Sorta yeah. He still cares about the MC and co, but really wants to kill the big bad Whale Monster while you want everything to live in harmony.

>>735101415
closest are probably royal decree and thunderclap. unless a later monstie gets one as a unique move

>>735101586
>but really wants to kill the big bad Whale Monster
WHITE
WHALE
HOLY
GRAIL

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i'm pretty sure i hatched tons of monsties with dual elements before getting this achievement.

is there something more to being dual element than just hatching a fire element in a lightning region at S?

>>735102171
No, you just get the Steam achievement when you max out the in-game achievement, which needs you to hatch like 80 monsters or something.

>>735101168
I didn't say you were talking about it, I brought it up to say that I agree with you in certain contexts. The difference is that mainline is based around and balanced on the equipment choice itself. There used to be a dynamic of choosing fashion over function or full set vs mixed set all paired with the unique charm drops that resulted in very diverse builds everywhere and sub communities around them, but that was damaged by the introduction of layered armour in GU and then destroyed entirely with the new skill system and Layered weapons in World.

Stories does not have any of that stuff at all, your set is not a defining feature of the mechanics or the balance of the combat.

Remember to save the environment by filling the nearest population center with Deviljho

Can you add any monster to any environment having every monster everywhere theoretically?

>>735101403
I assume it might matter more in the late game if you're hyper-optimising for optional superbosses, I remember making a specific elemental Seregios for one in MHS1 before 2 dropped the system, but so far I haven't found much reason to do it.

That's not how you'd get Stygian Zinogre, though. The subspecies have specific unlock conditions that the game tells you, doing what you said would just give you a regualr Zinogre with dragon element. There'd be more hoops to jump through to make the subspecies start spawning.

>>735102458
There is nothing interesting about having to look stupid to fully engage with the armor system I can’t believe people are doing this shit still lol
>nooo looking reasonable with good skills is a skill
It’s like arguing a fighting game would be improved by only one costume being able to do all the combos

>>735102593
No, because you can only add a max of 5 non-native ones to each zone. If you try to add another after that it asks you to remove one of the existing ones.

What happens if you remove an endangered monster before getting a second egg? Can you just get another one from the original nest?

>>735102934
Save file bricked. It does give you warnings beforehand.

>>735102934
Yeah, I think it falls back to that.

>>735102730
>There is nothing interesting about having to look stupid to fully engage with the armor system
It's almost like I didn't say that at all. I don't really care if you personally dislike the old armour system and prefer the new simplistic and casualised one, nobody is talking about that.

This game looks fun from what I've seen in the threads and the reviews have made me very interested.
Should I play 2 before 3?

>>735103031
Arguing that you should have to sacrifice fashion for function is arguing exactly that, it’s unironically casual elitism because you believe people should be punished for clown suiting

>>735102458
>, your set is not a defining feature of the mechanics or the balance of the combat.
certain armor sets do make a definitive difference, notably the black diablos for hammer builds. you can elaborate on what is a defining feature for you, but being able to break down wyvernfell gauge before a death AOE goes off if you wear the armor vs don't seems to fit the criterion
>>735102730
you should look like you are wearing plate armor if you want the defenses of plate armor, yes.
are you really defending trannies with peak meta sweatlord gear running around in bikinis? the balancing act of fashion v function is interesting and colorful.

Are Monoblos or White Monoblos in the game? What about Molten Tigrex?

>>735103419
there's three tigrex. vanilla, brute, and grimclaw

>>735103292
>it’s unironically casual elitism
So you're just shitposting and having a laugh right?

initial stamina is more important than stamina regeneration

>>735103498
>grimclaw
lame and gay

Any mons you guys have been messing with that surprised you as far as being either good or bad?

>>735103870
i think it's pretty cool looking and run one in my party. it's strong

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Post your Monstie bro for life /v/

>>735103942
>surprisingly good
tobi-kadachi
royal ludroth
>surprisingly bad
brachy
dreadqueen

>>735103942
No surprise, but Arkveld and Malzeno seem disgustingly strong.

>>735099591
Are there plans to put skill descriptions/costs/damage/Wyvernfell statistics somewhere on the sheet?

>5 monster slots
>Forced to have Ratha
>Essentially forced to have Canyne and a swimmer
Should have done it a bit like SV and had slots specifically for overworld traversal. Plus there's like 4 speed monsters I want to use and feel like I can't

>>735103419
>Are Monoblos or White Monoblos in the game?
No.
>What about Molten Tigrex?
No, not yet.

>>735104381
Just give your main monster all 3 attack types, they would still use them all randomly and in case you want to win a clash just manually choose which attack to use.

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>>735104301
i thought about doing that but i ended up playing the game instead.
I put in a third page for it and filled in a few, but i don't really plan to do all of them. You can ask for specific ones.

What’s that? More Power/Fire monsters? Say no more.

So is the game actually going to get title updates? I'll probably just wait on playing the game in that case until they're all out. This isn't an online game so it's not like I need to be in a rush to play it.

>>735104070
Would be Seltas Queen, but we're not allowed to ride those

>>735105315
We don't know for sure. Kind of iffy record honestly. First game got a big update that was japan only for the longest time. Second had a full roadmap of updates. Datamines show there are missing slots though that doesn't guarantee anything.

>>735105423
I kinda hope not cause title updates make literally zero sense in this context. I'm mildly concerned cause people say the game has a non existent end game but if they just do it all at once in a big update I wouldn't mind.

>>735105509
Honestly, the endgame thing is a bit overblown. Elder's lair really wasn't good in my opinion. In comparison the calamitous Elder bosses are much better content, along with the feral and invasives in my opinion though they are not locked to the end and you can tackle them whenever.

>>735104692
Don't even need that. Just have at least one of each type in your party and then change to them without selecting a move when you need a specific attack type, they'll always do their basic attack of their default type and guarantee a H2H every time.

>>735105942
The original poster said they wanted to have 4 speed monsters in their party but felt like it would be detrimental when it barely matters when you can just give them all the 3 attack types for the full coverage.

>>735106185
Yeah, but then you have to sacrifice bonuses from the bingo. 4 + Ratha + Technical monstie gives you full coverage without sacrificing anything.
Also you don't need Wall Climb since you can climb without a monstie, and you can get by without a swimmer by gliding most of the way I guess.

>>735105720
Would you say Stories 3 is structured more like a traditional JRPG? I do always like the idea of superbosses that are harder than the literal main final boss of the story.

>>735100787
Probably coming in a TU update if we're getting any

>>735106763
I'm not fully through the game yet, but it has several things off the beaten path in every area so far worth fighting that aren't intended for you to beat early on, some very clearly are late game level. Like in the very first area of the game there is a level 40 boss, a level 60, and a level 75 as well as some that are gimmick fights initially but presumably can be fought for real later on.

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>>735104070
I'm still in the first area, but I carried this fucker until the postgame in MHS2. My favorite addition to 3 is that most monsties have multiple skills, it allows for more variety.

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I'm starting to think that Rudy is worse than Navirou which is a hard bar to beat. How can someone be so stupidly antagonistic without a care for how many steps it'd set your companions back in a whole new region? Him going right for Corbin's jugular for no reason also is souring me on the game's writing. It's like they want to make another Navirou + Reverto manzai comedy duo but it's just not landing.

>>735103242
All three are great games, going backwards is difficult as each sequel has significate QOL

>>735107204
he's the best written character by far.
the game has dogshit writing, and this entire segment is badly written, but rudy not letting mc be a punching bag for a bunch of dog fucking tribals is the last thing to criticize

>>735107125
You can go back and fight the invasives for real. It's how you get materials for upgrading some of the stronger stuff like Jho's gear. I went back and tried to fight the invasive Yian but that fucker throws out a ton of AoE that's capable of one shotting you since he's level 65.

I'm about to make a zone in the second region uninhabitable for those savages. Two types of Mizus, and three types of Zinogres will turn the area into a deathtrap.

>>735107204
Oh please, you can't name a single thing that Rudy did wrong. A stranger walks up accusing you and your friends of being immoral criminals and you're just going to say nothing?

so is synchro rush basically never worth doing after the very beginning of the game

>>735107873
It's situational I guess, depending if you really need the kinship filled and it's enough to do it.

Is there an easy way to get Kinship without killing the monster to see various different monster's kinship attacks?

>>735108230
HH kinship song + pet + lagi armor I guess.

>>735107862
>>735107648
When you're trying to find answers to important questions, angrily telling people pointing spears at you "How dare you!? Stand down!" is such a strange gamble to take when there's a high chance they'll respond with "Of course you criminals would react this way" and proceed to either lock up or resort to violence to push you out.
Corbin already was trying to smooth things out until our dumb ass suddenly tells them we're Transgressors, which Ko already brought up once so wouldn't the smart thing be not mentioning you're a Rider in their face and just let them believe you're an adventurer like Corbin?

>>735104301
Done

>no good water or ice monster in the first 2 areas
They are all such fucking jobbers all the cool monsters are fire/lightning/dragon

>>735108618
How much does elemental effectiveness matter anyway for damage? I've mainly been swapping my monster for countering the rock/paper/scissors attacks.

>>735108724
Depends per monster, some cases it feels like big damage drop.

>>735109416
I guess ideally you'd want a monster that beats the monster you're fighting's move type and also is weak to it's element but that would be way too niche. Never sure what to prioritize. Don't really like how you're punished for swapping monsters by losing all your Kinship.

>>735108490
well, i understand why you specifically would think this. but being a doormat and a tool is not the way to get what you want.
you're just going to end up used, tricked, and then discarded. incidentally, spoiler alert, this is what happens in the game.

instead, you should negotiate benefits on terms that are favorable to you.
now, i'm not saying that it should matter that they treat you honorably or something like that. first of all, that's a useless thing to care about, you're here to get answers not get flattered, second of all they are tribal savages so they wouldn't know what honor is in the first place.
but rudy does, and rudy is the prince's right hand man. he's always been vexed by how everyone treats the prince like shit, and he's right to - when the prince succeeds the throne, how will he be a legitimate monarch if his own soldiers call him useless to his face. let alone some savages that should be on their knees and thanking the rangers for letting them live.

>>735108618
Same as it ever was. Water/ice/dragon always lacked.

>fighting Red Icon Feral Maganamalo
>Get him to under 10%
>Use both my traps
>Odgen NEVER uses any traps despite being a trap whore the entire time throughout the game

????????

>>735108724
you do about double, maybe more.
feels like 1 in 3, maybe less, attacks even have RPS attributes. most are yellow

I LOVE how open ended the difficulty is in this. 1 and 2 were both baby mode until post game so just throwing a bunch of shit at you way before you're meant to beat it and saying "go nuts" rules. Just beat Feral Espinas at level 40 and it was a super fun fight. Didn't deal enough damage to just trap stall him like you can do to stuff that's only a bit above your level so it was all about timing the wyvernfall breaks instead.

>[female mating call]
>"that sound lets them know that we're friendly"

>>735111012
yeah, it was definitely a good sign in the trial how far you could take things with planning and building right.

>>735108618
Use the cross element system. I'm running Water Steve and he's great.

I thought this was a monster‑tamer, but after watching some videos it just looks like a regular RPG with monsters slapped in.

Why does it feel like Rudy and Thea are the only ones that give a shit about us?

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>>735107204
Him calling Kora a degenerate was actually kinda funny and based. That one line already makes him way better than Navirou.

what's the difference between a rathian and a rathalos

>>735113604
Rathian are female, Rathalos are male

>>735108490
Well no, if they're pointing spears at you and accusing you of being a criminal you really only have two options. Either fight them or make them believe that you're not one, and you can't appeal logically to people who are acting purely on emotion. Rudy's outburst at least makes it clear that the party doesn't consider themselves to have done something wrong and also that the villagers can't just push them around.

If you want to complain about bad writing and characters, then you should be calling out that whole village instead.
>It has always been our people's way to run away from our problems when our village is threatened
>except this time where we'll be passive aggressive assholes to people we claim to be afraid of and stay inside this valley being terrorized by an elder dragon

>>735108724
It can be a sizeable difference. I've got two Boltreavers, one that's setup to deal more part and Wyvernfell damage when it hits a weakness, and one that's focused on pure damage. The element aligned one outright destroys parts in one attack after his buff, or they'll have a fraction left, on top of dealing mid 4 digit damage if the enemy has a weakness to thunder. The other one still does crazy damage, it's just not as high.

If anyone else has unleashed the Mizus and Zinogres on Blessing Hill, do you know where Stygians spawn at?

>>735107204
Nah, the worst part of 2 was everyone non-stop shitting in MC and MC nodding and being a good cuck, Rudy meanwhile goes "FUCK YOOOOOUUUUU DAMN COMMONERS THIS IS MY PRINCE YOU ARE TALKING TO"

>fighting Arkveld AFTER Malzeno
>"It's(Arkvekd) is the boss around these parts for sure."

No fuck you game Malzeno >>>>>>>>>>>> Arkshit

>>735114081
based rudy

>restored all of the habitats to S rank
>nothing happens
???

>>735110506
In one aspect I disagree but on another hand I do see how this would be bad optics as the next in line to the throne. Though this entire altercation at the village is only seen by the prince's essentially most trusted allies so I also don't see how not keeping up appearances would lead to the masses of a kingdom disrespecting the throne down the line.

>>735113604
rathalos set you on fire then poison you
rathians poison you and then set you on fire

ya dig?

>>735114257
murray is telling everyone what happens.

>>735113996
how would you have played it if you were the prince

No Tsukino, no play.

I should help the dog village by introducing Deviljho, Arkveld and Diablos into the habitat.

>>735114941
introducing a horde of Nercylla into the local gypceros habitat is a special kind of cruel that i'm all for.

>>735114807
I waltz in riding my Boltreaver Astalos named The Thunderdome, as Rudy atop my blood red Deadeye Yian Garuga known only as the Chuparatha are both alternating death stares between all the villagers.

>>735115218
so far it's more or less the same, what next?

Might be an unpopular opinion but I think all monsties should have a single gene move that you can't transfer. It would avoid monsties boiling down to being massive stat sticks and give even the less powerful ones have niche uses. For example, Bichaten's Fruit Frenzy would be a move that's completely unique to him and you want to use that move, you have to use that monster but everything else regarding genes is fine, the system's great

>realize I didn't rename my Seregios Steve
Oh shit nigga what am I doing

>>735115515
like kinship moves?

>>735115515
while i agree, mixing and matching has its merits, like putting "art of striking" on my nargacuga so it looks sick as shit as a giant monster throws kunai.

Verneil is SUPER lucky the prince is a peace-loving hippie, if the prince was a min-maxing metafag warrior, he could have had a Dreadqueen Rathian, Ivory Lagiacrus, Boltreaver Astalos, Brachydios, Espinas and Namielle by the time they attacked Azuria.

>>735116068
how do you get an astalos

Retard here, my Seregios has an attack up skill, is it worth it or does it use too much stamina? I can replace it with a rainbow gene if need be.

>>735115275
Now that I've threatened their lives for no reason, they'll react amicably and we can begin negotiations while my Monsties play with their Canynes.

>>735116141
Azuria, Nighttime. go to ashen pass and fly west until you get to the river. land on the strip with all the glowing worm thingies and defeat the seregios with a hammer that has "sweet spot"

after that, astalos will spawn out in the world.

>>735116141
Top left of the Azuria map connected to the lake, bring a hammer for the invasive, I think with the sweet spot skill.

>>735116181
unless it uses a ridiculous amount like 50+ its fine to keep.

>>735116331
Thanks, it's around 30 or 35 I think.

>>735115515
The problem is that you'd be going from "everything is viable for everything but some are 15-20% better at it" like we have now to "most of the roster is garbage except all the endgame monsters and a small handful of niche low tier ones."
Time Stranger did what you said too, and most unique skills are either garbage or not notably stronger than the freely interchangeable ones in that. Same with SMTV where almost all the low tier monsters are only usable specifically because you replace their unique skills/genes with the universal ones.

>>735116286
>>735116271
the spot with the invasive plesiroth where you get lagiacrus?
west of that there's a very tiny lake with some shinies but there's nothing there. i think there used to a monster there a while ago but i ran past it and looted the stuff behind it very early on... bricked?

>>735116401
send them on an expedition to canalta that way they can get some bonus stamina regen, it should balance out.

>>735116852
yes, lagi is there, invasives only spawn at night.

>>735116852
I think you need to fly? May want to check youtube, I forgot.

>>735116852
nevermind, i figured it out

>>735108618
bro your Plesioth?

>>735116829
The solution here would be to allow gene upgrading for lower tier skills to bring them up to elder dragon tier. It's just a matter of numbers and the previous Stories games already let you upgrade passive genes. Time Stranger has a balance issue where if you want to use a weaker digimon, there isn't a way even with mods to bring their base skills up to par with the endgame selections. And with mods, you can slot in any attachment skill into those four slots but they're all using generic attack animations so you lose all the flavor in exchange for power which doesn't feel good at all.

I'm assuming monster skills can go up to XL based on what Namielle's armor gives. Around what point do those become available?

Or maybe I'm completely wrong and shit caps at L.

>>735117670
In the previous game not every gene had an xl version.

does every region have an invasive monster?

>>735117880
More than one per I think.

>>735117876
Ah, but they do exist then. Thanks dude.

>>735083698
The first 2 were fun for maybe the first 15 hours and then really boring the rest of the game. Is 3 more of the same?

From what I recall it's because the games introduced every mechanic fairly early on but then don't add new shit for the later half of the game. Except sexo Gato.

Ultimately, beyond the chance of getting better genes and increasing restoration level quicker, there's no difference in stats between a regular egg and an ultra rare one, right? Just channel the genes.

>>735118437
Don't think so, nope.

>>735118437
Only features that are locked at hatching are element, stamina inclination, and eco rank.

>>735118787
I was doing a side by side comparison and it doesn't seem like there are any differences. If there's a slight change on something, like Wyvernfell for example, it must be the skill.

>>735117936
3 feels a lot less linear and railroaded which really helps, I'm at 30 hours taking my time and still having fun, haven't even gone that far in the story yet, busy unlocking habitats and collecting S-rank monsters.

why is the mc such a cuck?

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>head to head attacks are a huge deal if you want to win fights
>monster uses a yellow ability
>then a AoE yellow ability
>then becomes enraged
>then uses another yellow ability
>then finally gives me a head to head prompt that i have a 1 in 3 chance of guessing right when i'm already low on HP

i'm about to crash out right now.

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>she did it again

>>735118983
Good to know. Might check it out then. Thanks.

>>735119414
you're the main character of a JRPG, its amazing your character has a personality at all.

>>735119524
Yeah, the RPS system is now a big liability because half the time the monsters don't use RPS attacks.

>>735119559
EAT
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>>735104070
Veloci‑poo is the only correct answer.

>>735104070
Pukei-Pukei has always been reliable. Decent damage, poison, moves fast in overworld ect.

>>735119524
>he doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of monster behavior
haha yeah i was just lucky

Can you get the egg hunter outfit?

>>735104070
I want my Tigrex but I havent seen any yet

>>735120987
i just got one yesterday. how far along are you?

Is the maiden's armor still available and if so when

>>735121164
Just got to the desert. I'm guessing I have to get an endangered egg?

>>735083698
It's good but the biggest issue is that the writing is kind of stilted.
Like, I get what they're going for but they've got two basic issues, one is in the script (it's present in both Japanese and English) and the other is in the presentation
The script doesn't really let characters interact much in ways that sound natural. It has a little bit of that Horizon Zero Dawn, HR-In-The-Room feeling.
The second issue is that the delivery of lines is really stilted in an unnatural way, both between spoken lines and in how each line is REALLY slowly delivered. The irony is something like Xenoblade generally works around both these issues somehow

>>735121386
>Playing with a dub
Anon pls.

>>735083698
Sexo

>>735121341
yeah. good luck anon

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Was the hidden Espinas in Azuria moved from where it was in the demo? Can't seem to find it anymore.

>every good monster looks the same
i'm sick of wyverns bros

>>735105951
I love these dumb, over the top attacks. the series is chock-full of soul

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When do we get to breed with our monsters?

how do i turn off these dumb, over the top attack animations?
2x speed is still too slow

I've seen a few screenshots of attacks that target random enemies, but I haven't found any myself. Do they potentially strike multiple times against a single enemy? If so, the huge damage numbers I see attached to them should make them really fucking good.

>>735119524
Yeah while this game has a lot of QoL, they changed the one good thing about Stories 2's combat that improved on 1.
>Stories 1 monsters had random patterns and just a "tendency" to use a certain attack type more often than others
>Stories 2 monsters have a set pattern and learning that pattern is like learning a fight in the mainline games so you can optimally kill them
>Stories 3 monsters are somewhat random in their selection of skills and often will do one HtH between one or more skills and many monsters cannot have their certain "form change" skills skipped by kinships like 2 could (excluding special cases like Gammoth)

>>735122152
yeah. and yeah they're good.
thing is, you can't target a body part with it, so all you get is damage

>>735120209
I want to like Velocidrome, but they keep shafting Great Jaggi for him so instead I only feel a seething anger whenever I see that guy.

>>735122191
Too many people complained about it being braindead because you could never lose once you figured them out.

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Who am I missing? I thought it was Lagi or Astalos but nope. Is it Nami?

>>735122326
i don't know. it couldn't be namielle, that's an elder dragon boss.

>>735122373
yeah that's What I thought. ED don't show in the ecosystem ranking.

>>735122191
I don't know man, I hated that aspect of 2. Gammoth is the most obvious example of it. It literally can't do anything against you even when you're under levelled because it only has Power moves, but the problem extended to even the superboss Fatalis where the fight entirely boils down to remembering which colours were used in different phases. It was an extremely cool gimmick when they really leaned on it like the Velkhana puzzle boss, but I don't miss the other parts.

>>735122198
Well shit, now I need to track down a thunder version of those skills to throw on Astalos. I wouldn't mind losing out on part targeting in exchange for something that's gonna hit like a tactical nuke on him.

>2: We demand you to care about raths
>3: We demand you to care about human characters who are worse than handler. Also it's humans fault that monster whale fuck up things

are there any monster hunter games or mods, where there's no plot or progression and you are just thrown into a sandbox?

just did the part 2 side stories, where everyone gets their second weapon, how the fuck do i use them? or is it just auto and hope they use them
also why are theyre not good high ranks water/ice monsters early on, everything is fire or neutral i swear

>>735123074
RS on the select screen.

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Out of the box, Soulseer Mizutsune is probably the most broken monster I've used so far.
Guaranteed Accuracy Down (L) on a 15 Stamina cost is crazy.

so what exactly was the transgression?
it's the same thing that we do with all of our monsties, right? it's just that their monsties got eaten and this caused a bad reaction?

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>>735121557
Don't remember where it was in the demo, but now It's in a cave along the Broadleaf Basin inlet.

How is switch version?

>>735123241
I immediately threw a ton of genes into Soulseeker when I saw that move in action, and it's been my water attacker ever since.

is there any way to extend buff duration for your monsties? especially that next-turn big attack up buff

>>735122540
I found Gammoth to be a well designed fight. You know the RPS so you SHOULD be limiting its moves. The main issue comes from knocking snow off of it so it doesn't do a full aoe and wipe two hearts off of you (or setup a way to dodge the aoe). If you're fighting it as soon as its first seen, it's impossible to clear the snow so you have to get creative with dealing with it, most of the time players stumble upon kinship buildup strats to Ride On right before the aoe to "avoid" it and reset back to dismounted after taking the hit. This is basically similar to what people are and have been doing for stuff like low level Feral Brachy or Feral Espinas anyways, but the only difference now is sometimes the monsters will just come with multiple aoes to use or have a constant barrage of aoes.

>>735123589
I don't think anything can extend next turn specific stuff, but others can be boosted by a hunting horn song.

>get Mizutsune
>Zinogre needed for mutation
>Zinogre not until the next area
Damn it. In the meantime, when can I fight Espinas? Not sure hoe strong I need to be.

>>735123602
I don't really agree. It's possible I'm the odd one out and most people didn't experience this, but I found it was extremely easy. Just wait until you don't have a partner and you can just auto win Gammoth the first try. Even Fatalis was really easy if you just focus on head to heads, it was fine even like 20 levels below him with just a single Great Jaggi on my team.

>Rudy in the Ray-dau fight
what the fuck
is he hacking

>>735119414
>design a nerdy pretty boy with no prior knowledge
>mc ends up being a cute nerd in the story
I'm good with this

>>735123752
I did it at 30 without any cheese strats but it did come down to RNG and getting lucky with some well timed paralysis kicking in. You can probably do it more comfortably with better planning and set up.
Also, if you’re like me and fuck up and kill it before paintballing it so it doesn’t retreat, it does spawn rarely in monster dens in Azuria sleeping or while you’re collecting eggs. It’s actually easier during those encounters because attacking it on the field leads to a preemptive strike chunking off almost a third of its health and giving you a free turn instead of having to wait for it to wake up.

>>735121649
Where the fuck are the bugs and crabs, Shogun isn't enough.

>>735124049
>"i just did it on instinct"
what is this anime bullshit

why are her thighs so FAT

>>735124049
>>735124271
Superior genes bro.

>>735123314
>How is switch version?
My brother in christ play the demo

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>>735120987
nvm we are so back

>>735124049
Rudy is descended from your Felyne from MHS1 and 2 who was experimented on to give them elemental powers, Navirou got lightning.

>>735124049
CHADvirou genes anon

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>"Should we camp near the edge of the area away from places that monster's frequent, your highness?"
>Perish the thought, this place seems like a delightful place to make camp. We just have to shoo this rampaging monster away real quick.
How are any of them still alive?

These last few bosses hit extremely fucking hard. It's been quite a while since I played MHS1 and 2 but I don't remember it being like that in those games (aside from Soulseer maybe in MHS2?). Some of these bosses even with my decently chunky and damaging bros are doing between 250-300+ damage a turn.

>>735125050
>we need to conserve the environment, let's introduce some jhos and arkvelds

>>735123589
There's an environmental skill you can get that extends the duration of self-casted buffs. Not sure if it works on the "greatly increases damage on your next turn" buffs, though.

Friendship with level 1 Deviljho armor is over, now max level Steve armor is my best friend. 3 deco slots is really good now that I've got a good assortment of decos.

>>735125050
I feel like game was written by same dude who wrote main story of 4 and world

WHY DID THEY NOT ADD A WAY TO MANUALLY REMOVE MONSTERS FROM HABITATS FUCK OFF CAPCOM THIS IS SIMPLE SHIT

you have to have a free slot in order for a mutation to take place instead of the game just fucking doing it once the requirements are met and asking you if you want to put the monstie in the habitat

Why is there so much AOE spam in this game?

>>735125247
Feral Blangonga is the only time I've struggled at all so far.

>>735125594
the betrayer

>>735125247
They upped the difficulty a bit. 1 and 2 were baby games where if you knew a monster's patterns you could win every fight without taking a hit. Monsters actually have a fighting chance in this because they do a lot more damage and they also mix things up more by using neutral/unblockable attacks.
That was my main complaint with the first two. They became a snoozefest about midway because you were in no danger of ever losing. I've actually had to pay attention to what I'm doing in this one.

>be the heir to the kingdom
>ignore your duties and fuck off to the forbidden lands
lmao how the fuck hasn't the dad disowned you at this point

>>735125505
isn't that the eco-conservation thing

>>735125687
It's less so they're super difficult but more on their output. Like I just fought an armored Lunagaron boss and used two Vital Essence during the fight while Ogden lost all three hearts twice. Still got through it first try but it felt messy. I was wearing maxed out Malzeno armor and still taking nearly 400 damage from the bosses party wide moves.

>>735087910
I swear to God Monster Hunter Stories as a franchise feels like aesthetically where the soul of old Capcom is.

>>735125987
That was meant more to say that difficulty really ramps up at the ice area, usually I just lazily let Boltreaver solo everything.

>>735125594
Hime is very cute.

>>735125917
I have opposite opinion
Nothing in third game comes even close to doing "hard" quests when they were level appropriate in 2. Like not a single time I felt needed to use traps to stunlock asshole for turns or bombs to break things

>>735125942
yes? once you have 5 spots filled they are filled permanently. you can switch monsters in and out as you wish but you cannot get a free slot back. mutations need a free space to actually happen.

>>735123251
its explained further into the story. but unless you dont really care its: they weaponized monsters as war beasts and used them to attack other nations instead of co-existing which goes against everything being a rider stands for

>>735126135
They throw tons of Vital Essences at you in this game which makes all the AoE spam pretty tolerable but some of the damage bosses do in the last area WILL one shot you at some point. I don't remember anything in 2 being difficult other than some of the free update stuff.

is stories 3 the smt of stories?

>grow up a farmer in the azuria countryside
>sometimes have to deal with a pesky great jaggi or kut-ku
>prince starts his eco project
>suddenly pink rathians and dreadqueen rathians
>become a fisherman instead
>lake now full of ivory lagiacrus and the lakeside full of boltreaver astalos
>try to become a lumberjack
>forests full of nargacuga
>maybe the forbidden lands will be better
>apparently prince bred deviljho there

>>735126608
In what way? In terms of difficulty not really. You just can't turn your brain off against some late game bosses because they hurt.

Everything that isn't 10 levels lower than you hits like a fucking truck

>spam Composure and fuck up the gauge before I get fucked up
Been working like a charm for the most part

>made the girls sexy
>uglified namielle

gdi

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I liked the game but the whole final boss buildup segments and everything soured the experience a lot.

>>735126713
My Tomboy student can't be this cute

>>735127095
Hnnnnngggg

Can you be asshole to your party members, or it's like wilds?

>>735128064
there are no dialogue options

>>735128108
That's gay, but guess it's better compared to how code vein 2 and wilds handled their dialogue options

>>735128193
seems cool

>>735126503
>They throw tons of Vital Essences at you in this game
i haven't used more than four, and i only have ten in stock. i also bought four.

you are a liar and should kys

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>>735128193
>hunting horn buffs
>status ailments
>traps and tools
Based old man carrying harder fights for me.

>>735126632
>complain one (1) time
>rudy overhears
>beheaded for treason

>>735128476
*for lese majeste

>>735122581
i haven't found a thunder version. the water and dragon ones are both egg skills, so i know those. but there are no egg skills like that of other attributes.
you'll have to look for them as unique moves on other monsters.

>>735128476
Truly our strongest ally.

>>735126270
>which goes against everything being a rider stands for
why is fighting people so different from fighting monsters?

>>735083698
I am yet to get through mhs 1 and 2

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>tfw Magnamalo is not Fire type

>>735128965
tfw another soul sacrifice never ever

>>735128962
just skip them

I've played 1000s of hours of jrpgs and turn based games and what makes this one stick out is its unintuitive combat and boring party building.

>>735129916
>man who plays game for 1000 hours is bored

>>735129992
>man
it's a tranny: he plays jrpgs

>>735129916
Why is it whenever I see people say shit about the game, they can never be specific about their issues with it? It's always some wishy washy broad statement.

>>735104070
It's a crime that they removed Rajang in 3.

>>735129916
I'll give you boring party building, but how is the game's combat unintuitive in any way?

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I’m honestly super glad it doesn’t play like a generic JRPG for once. My only real gripe so far is the partners. They’re great and all, but they make the game way easier than it should be. I really wish we got that MHST1 solo experience back.
It’s a shame we’re never getting that again, but the game is still great.

is the game hard? how many games over do people get and only reply if you're good at games and play on hardest difficulty possible in every rpg you play

>>735130535
Yeah, it was tough but I do miss it too.

>>735104070
I love this stupid chud beast but he can't do shit. Can't wall climb, can't fly, can't ground dive, can't swim, can't breathe.

>>735130714
YMMV, honestly. This game gives you a kinda insane degree of being able to go out of your way to get stuff you shouldn't be able to get at the point you are at in the game. Aside from area locked stuff, there's not all that much in the way of hard gates if you are stubborn.

>mass releasing deviljo
this will save the environment

>>735130989
Yes anon, you totally is the first one who made that joke

>>735083698
>look through list
>most cool monsters are speed
>technical is starved again
they don't learn

>>735128854
I found the thunder version. Unsurprisingly, it's on Thunderlord Zinogre. Boltreaver is now turbofucking nearly every monster I come across. I also built a Grimclaw that specializes in non-elemental, so now I'm on the hunt for other monsters I can turn into elemental powerhouses.

>>735131506
given how easy the bingo is now due to the rite changes making a monster strong isn't that hard it seems. My ivory lagi and espinas deal so much dmg with each having two power, speed and tech attacks that I don't really need to use anything else anymore

>Kora's gunlance is a symbol of her marriage with her late husband
>Her second side story is about making a new weapon with help from (you)
Bros we still have a chance
And by we I mean me

>>735126243
No they don't

>>735100787
rathalos shilling is worse than charizard shilling I swear to god

Does secondary ele have all benefits from primary? E.g. if I'd make a water ice mizu full ice would it be on par with a primary ice?

>>735132312
The game clearly pushes you and Eleanor desu, I feel like every decision of the protag is only made after her nod of approval

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DIE MONSTER
YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD

>>735132396
Yeah the attack bonus is the same but you lose out on the elemental defense bonus from stacking elements and you can't change the element of your kinship skill so you have to weigh your options

>people did Nami at level 10 in trial
>just spawned her and got wiped in a few turns at like ~50ish

naruhodo...

>>735132396
As far as I can tell, there's no elemental damage bonus from having the same element as your attack's element.

>>735132998
People were doing specific cheese stragegies with electric Espinas and purple Gyp hammer and it took like 30-45 minutes a fight.

>>735132998
Did you come back to Azuria afterwards or did you actually grind to 50 without progressing the story?

>>735132998
I did her at around 50 with blast coating, perfect crush (blnt), the solar cry egg move and Ogden. I did reset a few times for a first turn stun with sweet spot and tail stun though, but after that it's a bit smoother. Took multiple repels though, so the last fight was just the remaining 35% of her health. I don't think I'm up to killing her without repels yet.

Anybody know a good place to level up?

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>>735132391
Well. people actually liked charizard and anime did him justice
No one fucking likes cuck of the sky

>>735132970
sounds bad. I cant really decide on an ice monster given my current setup. I guess I'll wait till I get a Barioth

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Give it to me straight. Im a monsterhunter FAGGOT but never played stories. Theres nothing to game and im done with mewgenics. Hows stories 3?

>>735133264
no i've been playing normally i'm at the sacrosanctum, but i wanted to go back and get Nami before its too late to actually enjoy using, because it's my favourite (though the stories3 look is a bit underwhelming)

>>735133621
ah okay, Namielle's one of my favs too but I didn't want to fuck with the difficulty curve by grinding for it too early.
It does look pretty meh in this game, can't even use it for swimming despite being 'the' water ED and the color changes from dual element look much worse than the base.

>>735133749
99.9% of Stories' monster animation budget goes into kinship attacks, the kush skeleton has never been placed underwater and they're not gonna be the ones to make it happen

>>735133571
I made my canyne ice right away because those are basically the only ones meant to be elemental shifted, everything else is a shitty recolor

>>735133539
your main guys?
fighting red monsters is the easiest. you'll go up multiple levels at once.
guys at level 1? autobattle (L1 + R1). Not attacking (B) but enter the fight and then quick resolve.

>>735133585
It's a monster-based JRPG in a MonHun setting, it's fun to collect them and use them to fight. You still have Brachy and JhoJho to harass you early game as per 3U tradition, your human party members are all playstyles (item user, trap user, HH buffer ect) and you have a 6-mon party that also interacts with the game world woth gliding, swimming, wall-climbing, roaring, blasting ect.

The 1kb update broke REframework again

>>735133958
I'm pretty sure attacking monsters on the field gives the same xp, even though it doesn't give you the popup. If you put a level 1 monster in your party and go hit something, they'll level up.

>>735133571
It's important to note the context. Like how the attack part of the kinship riding mechanic isn't actually that great, what's important is the riding portion which isn't negatively affected by Applied Elements. The defense part just boils down to Dual Elements giving slightly worse elemental weakness, and using the monster's default element for Applied Element gives a slight increase to an element resistance (I think so anyway). However any defense difference can easily be outweighed by just choosing a monster who is strong against fire to turn into an ice monster for example, now you've got someone strong against the fire enemy and resist his attacks more than a default ice monster probably would.
Basically it doesn't really matter.

>>735117207
I'm also running him out of desperation but I hate him

bros i'm lvl 33 and reached 2nd area and I haven't even fought feral brachy, am I too high level?

>>735108618
You can get Mizustune right after the Arzuros boss, you just need some way to get Defense Up Large.

>>735134583
Don't worry too much about your level.

YOU
(yes you praying monsuta hanta)
WIRR
RIKE
RATHAROS

gorillas don't lay eggs

>>735134872
Shut up and hatch your dog eggs

>>735133571

zamtrios

>rudy just called the old man an unc
kek

>>735134891
Zamtrios is not in Stories 3.

>>735134806
At this point I hope they realize people have had enough of Rathalos and do something different in Stories 4. Let us choose a starter like in pokemon or at least a Canyne if it had to be a forced marketable partner, and you can still have Rathalos have some legendary status in-game but not tied to the main story.

what is premium deluxe over deluxe?

>had to go back to Azuria to submit a sidequest
>dodging Lagiacrus and Narga and Astalos and Rathian everywhere I go
WHAT HAVE I DONE

>>735135009
I don't even care about him being in the story, just stop forcing him into my party to never get used
>>735135012
An extra set of companion costumes and hairstyles

>>735131506
>>735128854
i found the fire version. it's on aknosom

>your whole rider group keeps running into rise monsters and have no fucking clue what they are
kek

You guys ARE talking to every NPC around the world after every major story development, right?

Can you tell the a mannys apart?

>>735135321
Not personally, but they do have pretty distinct voices. If they had more than two lines each then they'd be easier to tell apart.

>>735135295
i stopped talking to the blue <...> NPCs after chapter 2. i'm here for the egg autism.
i do go back to help that old lady with her pet velocidrone, though.

Best stamina tendency? Average seems to work for me the best

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>>735134806
i like ratha, i hope the later games have it too.
you guys are dumb if you don't like riding badass dragons. let me guess, you ride a dog everywhere? what a bitch

>>735134583
i fought feral brachy in the high 30s, toward the end of chapter 2.
it's less about the level and more about developing strategies imho

>>735135595
doesn't matter. manually control every move and swap between all six monsters, letting stamina regenerate in reserve >>> riding

>>735083698
I loved 2 but I find myself slowing down a bit into chapter 2. I loved the egg and monstie autism before but I think I am just overwhelmed this time around.

Also Kora is hot as fuck.

>>735135596
>dragons
Flying Wyvern*

>just realized my male character runs like a sissy girl down hills
bro what the fuck is this shit

>>735135778
Weak, feminine vermeil genes

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>whale noises

>ignore defense
>but
>is highly inaccurate
this sucks

This is unironically my GOTY so far. How did they knock it out the park this hard after the shit show that was Wilds?

>>735135283
I laughed hard when I got to the 2nd area
>oops all Rise

why is everyone so fucking white

>>735122326
Aren't the initial 5 monsters already roaming around the area? Can't you figure out which one it is by finding a monster that's not one of those 4?

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>>735136592
nta but i have the same issue, and i haven't seen any different monsters wandering around the area

>>735126073
it's split between a three way one of them is bound to trip up a bit.