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Sounds better than my "let's just accept the default" two seconds job.

but if you do want to master the greatest weapon in MH I recommend CaoSlayer's youtube videos


www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy9m_AgudJY

Lance is always my back-up option.
I fancy skilling up with hammer this time around, and the support role of HH appeals to me as well.
In lategame Rise I always have the two sisters with their HH as my hunting buddies.

lol, I spent about 15 mins this morning and thought I was happy until she rocked up into the world and suddenly she has dayglow eyebrows and 'Ross Gellar teeth'.

Will need a tweak methinks

You wash your mouth out, sir.

Nothing quite like the bigbaddaboom stick, although you need the anti-flinch skills and armour to tank hits.

So, first hour, fighting the controls and camera more than I should, and if MHW had options, oh mamma. Arachnaphobia filters, really ? 15mins of tweaks after the first two toad/chupacabra fights, and I think I've got it handling like it should. Lance has some new auto-counter quick hits I see, but GS is as GS should be.

Like the saddled 2nd weapon, new wound/precision mechanics seem fun for piling on damage, and the learning new monsters is always fun.

Not keen on some of the areas, trying to judge distance/camera position on some sloped dunes is an absolute nightmare, but going back in I'll see if the tweaks have worked, specifically having not been able to lock-on camera for love nor money.

Yeah it'll work, you just need each other's Capcom ID to invite each other. I'm pretty sure there'll be a clan/group to keep all the ID's together. We have an Streetfighter FG group that does the same thing.

did we not play on PS4? I was nearly exclusively HH.

And I don't remember any 'bubble' stuff.

Especially as the carves are useless!

Quick hammer hunt - good fun. Worth learning some combos..

You need to use a pad.

I'm already on my third revision of settings. It's all starting to click again, muscle memory is engaging...

Btw, gunlance now SLAPS. Has some perfect counter (block and white flash) that engages the tug-of-war/power struggle minigame quite frequently, and suddenly I'm an explosive ballerina, unleasing 2-3 full barrages in a twirling explosive mess. IT IS GLORIOUS. Wyvernfire seems to have a boosted recharge too, for the pefect finisher.

And a call back to Far Cry 2, as everything in it's path is SCORCHED EARTH, actually sets fire to the scrub and scares small monsters
away, and possibly a bit of DoT for all ? I couldn't really tell over the manic, manic laughter and the blackened, ash ground. Ahem. I think I might be changing my main.

The HBG seems quite powerful too as midgame(?), absolutely wrecks the toad/rocklizard solo, need to try on the larger bois with some distractions.

Explored a bit more, entire icy caverns beneath the map, a "forecast" on the map showing special events, upcoming monsters, and even the varying strength of them. A 2* doesn't seem to have as many/rare drops as a 4*,  but that could just be RNG as usual, but I assume they vary in health/stagger/attack power ?

There's a lot more going on than first appears,  starting to delve in and understand it, but it feels like constant Guiding Lands 2.0 -The Grind Never Ends. And I mean that in a good way, with the variety of monsters popping in with timer limits (12 mins before it leaves, so weak ones can be ignored, hunt something else), the ability to walk into someone's ongoing hunt without quest boards, the auto-travel as you restock/combine in menus. The only thing at the minute is possibly smithing requiring leaving a lobby, but I'd wager that might unlock in the village if not the camp come full game, seeing as the cat cook placeholder is in.

Could you not visit the smith in the lobby in World as well?
Perhaps not, when I try to remember the top of that ship in Astera.

It feels completely upside down not using X for a primary attack and having it on Y. I have smashed through loads of consumables because I just can't train my brain to not use X. I could not work out how to swap weapons. I've done it accidentally and managed to swap back but trying all the buttons did nothing. I found there is a guide in the menus and it said press D-pad right but all that did was bring this stupid fucking bird in to scoop me up which then runs off with you and takes 3 seconds to cancel out. Finally realised you have to be on the stupid fucking thing to swap them.

Gah! I've had enough, 3 hours of banging my head against against a vertical wall. I'll watch a few more guides and give it another go tomorrow but I'm finding it impossible to get into so I might just fuck it off. I think I might like it but at the moment it's just an exercise in frustration for me just fighting the controls more than anything else.