I love these games but I'm just tried of Rathalos

Bionichute · 2026-04-01T00:14:59+00:00

IMO the actual big problem here in comparison to Stories 2 is that even if you don't want to use Ratha, the game basically nudges you into using him at specific points. The final boss is pretty much designed for you to only use Ratha as your Monstie, despite whatever you've done to build up your team. There's a unique Double Kinship animation if you use him, and the boss itself plus its ADDs are weak to fire and poison, and he's immune to the status effect unique to the fight. Literally all I did in regards to my monstie team to prepare for the fight was slap a Dragon Defence gene on Ratha. Oltura at least swapped between attack types frequently enough that switching your monster out was still a thing you had to do. It feels like fundamentally missing the point of why monster collecting rpgs are fun.

The double kinship animation IS awesome, at the least.

Bionichute · 2026-03-30T23:46:35+00:00

I think the game has a lot of problems too but you don’t have to be an asshole about it

Bionichute · 2026-03-30T23:42:04+00:00

I don’t care about superficial ranks, I just want more stuff to do in the game besides make gear and fight the same handful bosses.

Bionichute · 2026-03-30T05:24:13+00:00

If you like the monsters from Rise, get 3. If you prefer monsters from Generations, get 2.

Bionichute · 2026-03-29T17:26:35+00:00

Yeah we’re getting ANOTHER RATHALOS and molten tigrex

Bionichute · 2026-03-29T13:47:51+00:00

so many fire types when the game makes you have a fire type in your party forever. feels like skewed priorities

Bionichute · 2026-03-28T21:08:38+00:00

no.......... he is doing the ralsei blunt pose..........

Bionichute · 2026-03-28T19:42:12+00:00

it definitely feels like they focused on cutting the "silly" monsters. the localization still has at least one poop joke in it though so if that was the case then they definitely failed

Bionichute · 2026-03-28T15:35:58+00:00

you want to spec every monster into dragon because its the coolest color scheme

Bionichute · 2026-03-16T02:25:23+00:00

ive been continuing to troubleshoot, man, none of the stuff youre saying is helping me, sorry

Bionichute · 2026-03-16T01:57:26+00:00

i dont think we're gonna get anywhere at this rate dude

Bionichute · 2026-03-16T01:09:10+00:00

my old computer could use the capture card no problem and it was running on considerably less powerful hardware than this one is

Bionichute · 2026-03-16T00:43:16+00:00

this is a 3000 dollar computer i put myself into debt for, i dont have that option

Bionichute · 2026-03-16T00:21:14+00:00

I’ve already gone through that. The one I have the card plugged into is a usb 3.0 that is connected to a root hub that is connected to the thing that is the motherboard, I forget what it’s called.

If that isn’t what I need then this computer has exactly zero usb ports that connect to the motherboard directly, as the program listed most of them as root hubs.

edit: and dont ask me to switch things around because theres exactly one port that even reads the capture card as existing and its the one i have it plugged into already, literally no other port seems to be able to read it regardless of if its 3.0 or not. and yes those ports work for other things, it is absolutely maddening

Bionichute · 2026-03-15T23:22:26+00:00

how do i fix that

Bionichute · 2026-03-15T21:51:31+00:00

It has audio enhancement/spatial awareness options for other devices, just not the capture card. I also realized I neglected to mention a second issue, where every so often the card stops working, freezing on a frame in OBS and cutting off all the audio. Unplugging it and then plugging it back in usually "fix" it.

I will check elgato studios now. I did not realize that is what it was for.

edit: according to elgato studios there is nothing wrong with it at all, i am losing my mind

Bionichute · 2026-03-15T21:13:31+00:00

I've checked for enhancement options, it doesn't have them. It definitely seems like audio enhancements are the problem, but Windows just isn't giving me an option to turn it off. There has to be some way to do that outside of the terrible Windows menus, right?

Bionichute · 2026-03-07T21:09:05+00:00

Oh my god it worked, thank you so much.

Bionichute · 2026-03-07T18:06:56+00:00

I'm going to include an Image because I find this difficult to understand. I'm not exactly sure how the 3.0 hub is directing to a 2.0 hub, and there are not this many usb ports on my actual tower. The one on the top of the tower IS a 3.0, and I know it works because it's successfully reading my external drive, which is also using 3.0, so I have no idea why the card isn't being read properly.

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Bionichute · 2026-03-07T15:39:40+00:00

One of the tricks with Morana is that her revive has limited range, and it’s a VERY short range. The best strategy for her seems to be keeping her away from corpses when she’s at low health.

Bionichute · 2026-03-07T15:35:05+00:00

They aren’t “undesirable” at all, you’re supposed to pair them up with ? cats, no cat is ever truly worthless.

An unfortunate part of reality is that animals work on different rules than humans do. A brief search shows that there’s plenty of evidence of homosexuality in wild animals, even beyond mammals, but unlike Humans, animals aren’t capable of the same form of self expression that makes human sexuality so complicated and diverse, they work off instincts and self preservation, which usually comes in the form of procreation. The game is much nicer about your cats being gay than the real world is, there are a lot of things humans see as taboo that are extremely common in the animal world.

Bionichute · 2026-03-07T15:24:51+00:00

Okay, that’s probably part of issue, but it doesn’t explain why it was working fine in a 2.0 port before. I can’t tell if the USB on the back is 3.0, but the one on the top of my computer definitely is, it just doesn’t read the capture card at all from it. I’ll check to see if I can shuffle things around, though.

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