u/MordredLovah

Hello, I just started a couple of weeks ago, currently clocked in 80+ hrs. I'm having difficulty dealing with AT Arkveld. He's the first AT I've fought and damn he got hands...and chains. Everything is going smoothly and then boom, he's the first monster to officially and professionally peg me in the ass without any consent.

I'm definitely shit at the game, but I don't know if I'm under geared too. I captured him twice last night and I died like 7-9 times between those two kills and to make it worse this is a capture with 33 minutes. I'm also having trouble adjusting to him due to the block/offset heavy gameplay of GS which is not what I'm used to so I'm working on that. I also ate the Kunafa meal with the Defender to make up for my lack of Divine Blessing.

I just recently unlocked Omega, Gogmazios and ATs so I don't know the natural progression here, should I tackle those two first or should I clear all other AT first and get their gear?

What skills/armor should I replace or improve?

He has this one attack where he uppercuts/swipe up and if he is powered up with milk it penetrates through my shield and perfect block and that led to the two carts that you see there. Is guard 3 required for that or should I just dodge instead?

Tips/Advice are appreciated!

Greetings again to Giftofgames, hope y'all have a fine day, I do because there's a lot of damn good games that just recently got announced in Summer Game Fest. Gaming truly is the perfect drug for a man, GIVE ME MORE.

I'm back again to participate and have another attempt with my request for MonHun Wilds, as usual I'm satisfied with my own request after re-reading through it, but I also changed and added some things here to keep things fresh. I hope some readers here get to rekindle or inspire their passion or interest for this franchise with some of my poorly structured but sincere story and memories.

What is Monster Hunter Wilds?

It's a game where you hunt monsters, use their carcasses to craft stronger gear to hunt bigger and badder monsters! You get your trusty weapon, use it to give the monster a one way ticket to the afterlife and use their corpse to craft yourself some of the drippiest armor known to man. You are a hunter that hunts these gigantic monsters that threatens the ecosystem either by yourself or with your three friends.

Aside from your weapon, you can use a variety of tools, ingredients, recipes and everything else in the environment to overcome these forces of nature. Once the game clicks with you, it clicks HARD and it's hard to get out of it after diving deep into the MonHun rabbit hole. There are a lot of things that could get you hooked into this IP.

Why Am I Requesting Monster Hunter Wilds?

It's damn expensive. I do buy games too but those that are very cheap on discounted price, usually after a couple months or so, then I'm back stuffing my face with gacha games or Overwatch lol. Expenses and common necessities here are also expensive which is also not helping. That's pretty much it. I'm also unsure if this is enough reason for me to participate but if it's not then please don't hesitate to DM me so I could stop sending personal requests like these after this one.

My Old and Current History With Monster Hunter - Skip if you don't know much about MH, it's just me yapping the "good ol' days."

I grew up playing Monster Hunter, started when I was in high school back when I got my precious PSP. I tried MH Freedom Unite, the most famous MH in PSP, and obviously as someone completely oblivious to this genre, didn't liked it at first impression. I felt confused and frustrated getting introduced to this kind of "methodical" action games that it took me multiple uninstalls to finally get the hang of it.

Then I tried Portable 3rd, a newer and more streamlined title than Freedom Unite, and the game finally clicked with me! It's all downhill from there to rabbithole. The abyss of pain and suffering is where I met my best friends, we played together by visiting each other's houses during weekends.

Discovering Monster Hunter is like a big transition toward my perception on action games because it made me realize that I prefer slow methodical games much better than lightning-fast gameplay. However, I still like those such games, I still played and finished fast action games like DMC and Nier.

However, I did not discover Monster Hunter by itself, it was God Eater Burst that introduced me to the subgenre albeit being different like the speed and rhytmn of the game being faster compared to MonHun. I used to play God Eater Burst a lot on my PSP and boy it helped me a lot in appreciating the gameplay and loot economy of MonHun that it made me love the subgenre. I might not play God Eater as much as Monster Hunter, but the franchise itself still had a special place within me.

I started playing games like Toukiden Kiwami and Lord of Arcana, I also tried Dauntless and Wild Hearts (game isn't optimized on my spec so I never played it fully, which is also disappointing that EA gave up on it easily). I craved for the Monster Hunter formula, and I approached every game who dares to do it with open mind because hot damn this subgenre is really NICHE and hard to do.

I love everything that makes up Monster Hunter. One of it is the phenomenal music, to which I am still listening soundtracks from the PSP games even at this day. I like listening to anime and video game music, so my playlist is a jumbled mess of video game/anime soundtracks and openings. Monster Hunter's music is special because of their fictional language; here are some examples: Ibushi and Narwa Theme and Song of Guidance. I mean goddamn they're eargasm.

I also love how creative the MonHun team gets crazy when designing monsters, it goes from a simple small velociraptor to a wyvern that is literally breaking the sound barrier with its jet wings. I like reading up how these monsters behave in the environment, I watch fantasy ecology videos from MH youtubers like Oceaniz and Unnatural History channel.

World and Iceborne is the first PC game that I purchased on my Steam account when I created it back on January 5 2021, smack dab into COVID era. Transitioning from playing Freedom Unite and Portable 3rd to World was a mind-numbing experience due to the HUGE change in engine, it's like my head can't wrap around the franchise having these realistic graphics.

It was also the first game where I planted my ass in it for the whole day, only getting up when I need to do necessary things like homework or shitting, it was the start of my semester so there's not really much to do. I am completely overwhelmed by everything and anything because I skipped like 2 generations (mainline titles) of MH because it's not playable on the PSP and my rusty old PC from back then couldn't handle the emulators. After finishing everything, I also got addicted to the multiplayer feature because it's the first MH game where I get to experience playing with randos around the world.

Then Rise came, and "It was perfect. Perfect. Down to the last-minute detail." I really really love the Japanese aesthetic of Rise and because it is a love letter to Portable 3rd, a game with similar themes. I still remember me and my best friend completely losing our shit seeing a monster from Portable 3rd make a comeback in MonHun Sunbreak. Our first kill of it was us teaming up and using the iconic Yukumo set from Portable 3rd to relive the nostalgia.

My curiosity for the series keeps growing which led me to download MonHun Frontier, because people are praising how creative the mechanics of the monsters there are, and they are goddamn right. I made it to G Rank and have tried myself a few Zenith fights, well most of it is just me getting my ass kicked repeatedly by cracked up monsters so I could get my anime transmog. Honestly, I think I've reached my limit there, but I'll still try; Heck, I've been using a potion that reduces damage to you by 70% to fight a regular Elzelion and it was still kicking my ass. If there is something good in that game, is that the frontier monsters each have very distinct fight mechanics that makes them very very unique, and I would say that they are much better than most monsters in the mainline games.

All in all, Monster Hunter is one of my favorite game franchise of all time due to my love for action rpg as well as lots and lots of layers that sticks with me like the epic musical themes that sounds like a grand adventure, songs with fictional language, armors and weapons that looks badass in every angle, every weapon feeling like a different game, the grinding economy that seeps dopamine through my neolithic brain, monsters that felt like it could exist in real life, or the theme of the series that's like a mishmash of futuristic and prehistoric.

Right now, I'm still playing the same ol' Worlds and Rise when motivation strikes. I just love helping new players especially with the harder endgame monsters.

There's Monster Hunter Outlanders the mobile gacha game which is...unfortunately exclusive to mobile because I have a shitty phone and another gacha game will just drive me insane. So, I'm passing on this one chief.

What Am I Excited For In Monster Hunter Wilds?

EVERYTHING, I love Monster Hunter with every fiber of my being. I will play the game to its fullest; use every weapon, hunt every monster, catch every bloody fish, explore every nook and cranny of game's ecosystem, finish every quest, side quest, arena and event, and indulge myself with the unbelievable transmog system that was clearly a HUGE upgrade compared to World and Rise combined. I'll also use the coop feature to help players on difficult monsters. Platinuming the game is obvious, it might be slow for me this time around, but I'll eventually get that shiny medal.

I really like customizing my characters and stacking up my layered sets, you can see some of my post here of me sharing my transmog sets. Seeing as how diverse Wilds is compared to Rise and World, like the countless awesome cosplays that people are customizing in the MH subreddit makes me really excited to try out the transmog in Wilds, I don't know how it works fully but it seems like they really went all-out in giving us freedom over armor colors.

I'm also excited for the returning monsters from the OG games, seeing them transition from polygonal models that I am once used to when I was a kid to 5th - future gen highly detailed and high polygon model is mind blowing. This is the best part, it's like experiencing seeing the reveal of Monster Hunter World again, I feel like if a guy from the future travelled back in time to show me unbelievable things.

Despite the game being on my radar ever since Geoff Keighly and Capcom graced a sinner like me with this game 3 years ago, I never looked at any spoilers regarding the lores and anything story wise in this game. All of my knowledge in Monster Hunter Wilds came from the trailers, teasers and my experience with the demo.

I never watched streamers nor reviews discussing it or playing it. However, I'm not that successful with my "mission" to go into the game fully blind because I've been spoiled multiple times by thumbnails/titles of the newest/returning monsters from the past generations which is painful because it definitely took away the surprise for me. I also pull my eyes away on the newest monsters whenever I saw the thumbnails so funnily enough it kinda "worked" for me because I can't remember what they fully look like and all I remember are blurry shapes. I've looked into the early 3D renders of the teaser monsters but everything after that I just stopped completely to not ruin the fun. I never looked at the mods; heck it might even spoil me with the newest monsters.

Regarding the gameplay, yes, I experienced it with their demo, albeit a bit painful because I spent a lot of time tweaking with the settings due to terrible performance. I got full knowledge of the newest changes in the weapons such as focus mode that lets you basically adjust the direction of your attacks in full circle, definitely a huge game changer for a game that requires precise inputs (I also watched every trailer of every weapon).

Regrettably I couldn't try all the weapon types in the demo before it got pulled out because of me spending a lot of time performing black magic on the settings menu. I used most of my playtime with Greatsword and Gunlance which are my most used weapons. Apparently, the game has also been incorporating old moves from older generations into Monster Hunter Wilds, which is not suprising because Monster Hunter Rise has also done it using moves/skills from Generations Ultimate, which is older than Rise.

For hard solid evidence of my insanity, here are some of my screenshots with the demo. Oh yeah even got some ss of me suffering in the settings haha.

Also yeah, I saw the latest expansion Ascendance, nearly gave me a heart attack. Especially when they revealed a returning monster from old gen. If you made it to bottom of this wall of text, I thank you for reading all of this and I tip my hat to ya.

Steam Account

Monster Hunter Wilds Steam Page - $29.39 / $23.87 Regional Price / ₱1,465.80

[GoG] I Too Have Been Blessed and Humbled by u/Space_Yeti-'s Generosity.

Customization in Wilds is insane so here are 20 sets that I would like to share!

[GOG] A BIG, GIGANTIC, HUMUNGOUS, ENORMOUS, COLOSSAL THANK YOU TO THE GOAT u/XYZGiveaways

Just wanna thank the community for my last post, also needed more tips!

Endgame/AT Arkveld Tips Needed

THE DEMONS TOLD ME TO.

[REQUEST] [STEAM] Wishing For The Authorization For Monster Hunter Wilds! [$29.39 USD/$23.87 PH Regional] (13th Attempt)

Pipes Are Just Wonderful.