Enraged monsters have a high chance to resist dung pods and Black Diablos has a tendency to enrage at the drop of a hat. Rathalos also pretty ragey.
Monsters can do some pretty decent damage to each other so it’s definitely possible that Rathalos killed your bagel goose.
HRose
2005
In the meantime, CPU is still busier working on badly coded protection rather than run the actual game:
“All the purple threads in this screenshot were doing nothing but scanning the executable’s memory and then signaling the next thread to wake up and do the same thing. With the anti-tamper killswitch option those threads are all immediately suspended at application start.”
(he also explains an interesting detail: these protection cycles are scheduled as low-priority, so technically they shouldn’t affect the performance of the game, because the game has priority. But since these run with all the spare power, then they max everything the CPU can give, push load to 100%, that makes the CPU overheat, and consequently reduce the performance as result…)
I’m back to this game now. I had a weird situation with Banbaro. He finally started to show the skull icon, but every time I went to his new location, I could only get a few hits in before he ran off to the next one. This happened 6-7 times. Is this a glitch? I seem to remember it happening in the base game once or twice.
What was scary is one of those times he got into a turf war, took 1500 damage, and still kept going another couple sequences. So much HP.
Not sure if this is it or not, but in the expansion update they changed it so that the monster will fight or flee instead of going to sleep if you or large monsters are too close to its nest when it’s near death. You might want to try staying further back, out of sight until it goes to sleep.
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. He did go to sleep once. I guess I didn’t do enough damage in that phase. Then Beotodus and I started bothering him.
And I guess I’m a Hammer main now. I can’t believe how much it “clicked” with me. Loving it.
Also, I’m up to MR elder dragons now, probably just 4 or so missions to the end of the story. Had some pretty great fights in the way, too. I love this game.
rei
2010
Just started this after buying it so many months ago. So many freaking systems to keep track of, it’s overwhelming.
Bateau
2011
Me too, even though it’s simultaneously the most infuriating game I ever played. No other game has so many situations where everything aligns perfectly against you - you end up whiffing the last most damaging attacks of the combos all the time, or you end up eating a perfect cascade of attacks from the monster and cart because there was nothing you could have done after it started. It really feels like developers went out of their way to tune the game to annoy you to the max. And don’t get me started on hitboxes.
But, I’m taking a more casual approach to the game this time and I’m really starting to appreciate the longer fights in MR. It gives otherwise underused skills like Tool specialist or Slugger more use, especially if you hunt solo. Having to keep track of resources is also a nice change of pace from HR.
I’m about to fight Velkhana, been working on my Optional and Event quests but so far everything has been manageable and if various forums/reddit are any indication I’m doing pretty well kill/capture time wise while still using the Defender weapon. Seriously, these things are insane. For fun I swapped my Defender Warhammer V for a guild palace hammer (rarity 10 I believe), which was 1144 raw + 300 blast vs 1470 raw (with NEB) and I found it waaaaaaaaaay easier to play with the Defender because of the passive healing from augment and blast procs. Faster hunt times across the board.
Nesrie
2012
Early on, you can mostly focus on just learning your weapon and watching the monsters so you can learn that behavior. You don’t really need to perfect or even know everything when you first start off.
I finally built a damn Tobi-Kadachi MR Longsword after way too much farming LR/HR trash.
I’m getting used to the new Iai attacks, which are just badass enough in the Devil May Cry way I was hoping for. Tomorrow I finally dive into Iceborne quest number 3. I’m looking for Viper Tobi-Kadachi to continue down the upgrade path. I should know the attacks better now, but I hate poison!
Kolbex
2014
Everybody’s playing Iceborne and I’m just sitting here having finished the base story. What a long ass fight that was. The cutscenes lost a bit of their emotional resonance since the Handler was in her event cat suit (not catsuit).
Bring poison resistance and herbal medicine and you should be good. The cutscene for Viper Tobi Kadachi is also awesome, just so you know. ;)
Anyway, I’m two quests away (or one two-parter quest?) from the end of the story in Iceborne and it’s been amazing so far. That said, I failed a quest for the first time because of “time’s up” in the last elder dragon fight I had. It was a really cool monster, and the skull was flashing on it in the minimap, but there was not enough time. If I had 5 more minutes I’d have succeeded. Oh well…
Thankfully, I tried again in MP and it went down in less than 30 minutes, so yay! So close now.
Kolbex
2017
Wow, the Witcher crossover quest sucks so bad.
Definitely. I failed something toward the end of the first quest, I don’t remember what. I haven’t bothered to restart it.
Or maybe it was taking too long and I had to quit the game for real life things.
Kolbex
2019
Also I finished the story (as I said), but some weapon upgrades still have ??? for some of their materials. I guess I still haven’t seen every kind of monster, huh? Actually come to think of it, I’d seen Kirin stuff in the upgrade tree, but the story never introduces you to a Kirin. I happened to see a quest for them in the Events tab which I think is only there because it’s the Appreciation Fest right now? It was only a 5 star quest, too. Weird.
The “???” turn into descriptions once you meet the monsters they’re related to, or when you get to a certain point in the rank or story.
Ok, watched this video today and thought it was pretty funny (and correct). There are a few spoilers though (including a certain key mission featuring Velkhana), so if you haven’t reached that point in the story, please keep that in mind.
I didn’t bring either and I was definitely not good. Poisoned within 2 light hits.
I went back with maximum poison resistance and enjoyed a fun and engaging fight. To hell with poison.
I just need a big yellow sac and I can upgrade my LS to Crimson Viperfang, which seems to be popular for the early game.
I’m googling some more and now I’m not sure whether to move from Thunder to Paralysis. The Viperfang has only slightly more raw damage.
