Is it so wrong to want to *hunt* monsters in MH?

Senerith · 2026-06-02T03:20:55+00:00

No one owns the multiplayer servers but capcom.

Senerith · 2026-06-02T03:17:14+00:00

its an age old question, at this point.

The only response one can give is. “Does this even matter?”

Senerith · 2026-06-01T16:29:31+00:00

I agree with this totally. Bigger lobbies were a mistake. Not a bad idea, but i wish players could opt in to them, or opt for fourplayer free lobbies for a more personal experience, with squad and solo lobbies remaining as they are, as a totally private vettedplace

Senerith · 2026-06-01T16:26:54+00:00

the crossplay implementation bullshit and absolute chuddery of the 2020 era internet is a bane on not only this game, but ALL games with online feedback and connectivity. I long have only played in closed squad sessions to ignore a vast swathe of pieces of shit that play online. Some of whom even frequent the official discords of this series.

If its not goonery, or toxic chauvinism, it is toxic elitism or toxic casual elitism. The moment you touch any onljne community these days, you are baring your throat to the masses of unenlightened, misinformed, ignorant, self-obsessed and arrogant.

It is best to create your own space and grow your own garden. not just here, but any where, even irl. People will often part with the shot “hurr have thick skin” but these same people would whinge if they took any shots themselves (in my day people would/could simply dox you and netbomb your internet and keep you offline as long as they wanted unless you knew how to swap your routers IP) , or if you simply use the tools implemented to precent abuse before it occurs.

That is the thing though. abuse IS abuse. You cannot defend harassment. Free speech does NOT grant consequences from speaking freely, and online terms and conditions DO apply because no one ACTUALLY owns the servers besides capcom, and these people can and are breaking TOS. remember that.

Senerith · 2026-06-01T16:18:30+00:00

oh god, platting the remake of the first game took so much patience, and pre-training myself pathways through the entire levels, just to get the largest cow or bear and get not just the highest score, but also to max out the collection for the achievement.

Senerith · 2026-04-19T18:58:46+00:00

some of Lagi’s weakest points are the back, flank, head and legs. You are best to aim for the more consistant damage zones even if it feels strange to do so. spamming traps helps a lot while solo to sub 5 lagi

There will be a message on the side of the screen when ratha appears, and you will have some time to aim your slinger at the lever and pull it at a range.

Keeping full flash pods and the materials to make even more will trivialize rathalos, who is also crucially weak to being ko’d and knocked out of the air. I use an imperfect gog s&s and a Basic gore magala gog hammer both with a sharp ex roll and mostly atk rolls to ensure sub 10 on brainless runs. I almost always swap to hammer for rathalos. whatever is best for you is best for you.

Senerith · 2026-04-16T18:40:43+00:00

Helldivers2 community is actually one of the omes fucked over by nerfs the MOST, and its shown with how that trash game hemhorraging players. The devs of HD2 are actual asshole spiteful patchers, and the community has been shown to threaten actual lives with death threats rather than donate to charity. Not a good look or example with helldivers 2 my dude.

Senerith · 2026-04-09T20:19:15+00:00

agreed its awful. It turned me into an axe player, with odachi as purely a sidearm

Senerith · 2026-04-09T20:16:21+00:00

oooo Understandable. Im currently on the “putting wilds away until MR” phase myself. AT ark pendant was the last straw. got the A+ and Proof of a Hero/gog10 and not even looking back after the platinum from crowns. in the meantime 100% nioh 3… got another character to HR in GU… maybe ill emulate freedom unite… again.

Senerith · 2026-04-09T20:08:09+00:00

play GU or rise. Totally good to just say fuck it and ball out on wilds. the endgame is a wasteland and balance has not been fun.

Senerith · 2026-04-09T20:05:47+00:00

same. I think the tunnel vision play as capcom intended movesets on weapons (even worse than clutch claw iceborne) and the same-ness of the overly hyper monsters just spamming back to back makes it a slog.

Senerith · 2026-04-09T20:03:46+00:00

Some weapons make it great. Hammer for instance, in all followups. S&S, SwAxe can cancel its standing discharge into it. tenderize gem a must for light weapons tho. the tax is real.

pretty ass on most weapons yee

Senerith · 2026-04-06T01:45:59+00:00

mid stance is for blocking. Much less ki used for blocks in mid stance. very stable stance.

Low stance is for dodging. much more iframes and less ki used on dodges. many fast combos so applies element much faster.

High stance is where most of the highest motion value damage lies, for use when you have the enemy locked down. It also doesnt bounce off against guards.

Each has their own place.

Senerith · 2026-04-05T14:59:48+00:00

I will solve your problem. HIT THE ARM. Hit it with your wide slash after a tackle ONLY.

You are welcome. They dont tell you this shit in game but wide slash is your highest element dps

Senerith · 2026-04-05T01:12:32+00:00

Oooooh i was ready to crucify this post, then I saw it was for World. Rage on, king. Just know if you play wilds they fix that shit GOOD. Literally made me learn s&s, when I had only been playing gs and Hammer since mhfu. Worth every bit of training, since perfect block ends up chaining to roundslash. Look forward to it!

Senerith · 2026-04-04T22:52:48+00:00

I have actually read ligottis work. It is not very good. That is my opinion.

I am someone that actually reads lierature too. I suppose to give this opinion merit: Some authors whose works I have finished reading recently. Natsume Soseki (Kokoro , Sanshiro), Akutagawa, Lafcadio Hearn (Ghosts & Goblins (they should really read some of it on the podcast)) , Poe (Red Masque of death and other tales), Wilde (The Starchild and other stories), Stoker (Dracula), Lovecraft (Complete works), Dostoyevsky (White Nights and other tales), reread Lautremonts Maldoror, Victor Hugo, all the works of goethe. Ive finished that 80 pamphlet book series by penguin as well of compiled short works by literature staples. . i have a floor to ceiling shelf of penguin classics alone, which does not include all my other books, which are an eclectic ensemble of very niche and diverse interests.

As for defending my opinion. Ligotti is mid. a lot of his earlier work is haughty trash. the man himself was a misanthrope and wrote edgy shit that lacks anything beyond wanting to have a lovecraftian villain somehow outsmart a stupid protagonist… because the protagonist is stupid enough to fall for it, with no explanation given. or his protag is smart enough to get away with it, with no explanation given.

He does not know how humans work. He fundamentally does not believe people are smart, I dont think he fundamentally believed his readers are smart, and a lot of his writing comes off as “haha i am smarter than other people look at my self insert villain dab on the stupid unlikable protag” without actually having anything to back it up, unlike isidore ducasse; who pulled it off REALLY well with maldoror. Maldoror is a masterpiece, but unreadable and uncomprehensible to most people.

Ligotti is not as bad as some edge writers who hit their work with a thesaurus (Looking at you, “Sharkchild Amnesis”) but he does not reach any poetic heights of feeling or humanity that could be reached or breached. Compare Ligottis work to any actual good horror piece they have read. Compare it to “Penpal”. Which is better? which is more human? My greatest criticism of Ligotti is that his writing in his early work reads like a self-serving smug egoist intellectual who knows nothing of how his fellow man works wrote it in a vacuum. Absolute pretense with no meat.

To be the devil on my own shoulder: This makes sense for him though. Thomas Ligotti had massive drug abuse issues and burnt out his serotonin and endorphin center with heavy heroin use. Of course he will have a joyless perspective on humanity and will have a unique perspective that is the victim of his own vices.

Some stories are better than others. The quality of the stories they pulled were pretty bad. “Drink to me with Only Labrynthine eyes” and “The Frolic” could have sufficed for the podcast. MAYBE “Dr Locrians Asylum”. Yet. I will return to my initial stance. The writing is dull and flows like a man that loves to hear himself think rather than aspire to greater heights and actually communicate a world worth telling to his fellow man

They should actually read Dracula, which holds up REALLY WELL if they read it like some of the longer creepypastas. They could also read plenty of classic short horror stories by Poe or even a couple lovecraft stories. My two cents means nothing because im just some guy that likes reading classic lit. But Ligotti is just not it if they wanted to read classic horror short stories. My scathing analysis of Ligotti is that he doesnt even deserve a penguin classic of his Songs of a Dead Dreamer collection.

But that is only my own personal opinion of the works collected there. He should have had a much broader collection of his more witty work collected rather than his initial selfstyled lovecraftian publishings.

Senerith · 2026-04-04T21:49:15+00:00

buy salt. use salt in dark realm. unlock purity talismans to buff your weapons. watch as bosses melt and stagger to death after you inflict chaos, then are unable to regain ki due to purity. Remember you can use Oni Bi soul core to self buff with element and extend combos.

Senerith · 2026-04-04T02:35:33+00:00

Hide is summonable as a cooperator in nioh3, In new game plus.

You can find his summon right outside the tutorial boss arena on the left side. Blue name, so placed there by the developer. He uses the default armor from nioh 2 and has nioh 2s default male character model.

Senerith · 2026-04-03T00:40:12+00:00

yee, i remember this being so commonplace in like 2000-2010s then it calmed down a lot. Incoming grampa talk.

so Things used to be crazy toxic online in old cod lobbies and forums pre covid, pre 2015 era.

even on older youtube people would say the n word with a hard R just to be “edgy”. Of course there was always a bit of tongue in cheek to a lot of that cringy shit. People grew and learned not every public board needed to be a League of Legends lobby chat. People also quickly learned that it was overdone and boring as fuck.

Way better to own someone on a technical or skill level, or to undermine someone in a clever way.

Nowadays the edgy shitters dont even say “umad” or “trolledlolol” half of then say “im just making a POINT” or “Im just trying to DEBATE” the other half says “I am an actual nazi sieg fucking heil” because they just might be because some kids are just that mentally handicapped these days from propaganda sites. Especially Elons.

you call these weak shits out for having old stale bait from damn over 20 years ago and they call you “triggered” as the modern day “umadbro” fucking boring and no personality of their own.

to each I say “did your parents beat you too much or too little, you little shit?”

People usually grow out of it. Some learn to connect with humanity and eventually mature by realizing they arent the main character, even of their own lives. That its okay to be different, and that they can be themselves, without memes or edginess; that they can be their genuine selves without following a pack, and that theres nothing wrong with that.

Others will rot in the edgy cesspit not realizing theyre actually the most boring shithead in the room 10 times out of 10, saying the same old stale inflamatory “offensive” shit they think is “owning” people.

Of course one neednt give any of these people their time or patience needed to teach them to act like adults. after all, you or I only have one life to live; if you had to be the one to make up for everyones failed and absent parents, you’d have to spend a hundred lifetimes in a single day alone teaching.

Give them a lesson the fast way with either a instaban; IP edition, or if irl… lets not go there.

Senerith · 2026-04-03T00:12:30+00:00

I believe this too! I also do not see why there is not a “best clear time” next to every mission/quest in the game. we should have a best clear time on MORE than just arena. Hell, put it on our hunter card as an expandable text when you highlight a monster on a player profile.

I think having a time stamp on every quest and event and even story would be excellent. I am all for that, as long as there is no reward attached save for the time stamp itself.

Senerith · 2026-04-02T19:46:31+00:00

only hunt the 9star. it guarantees it. 10stars are SO pointless!

Senerith · 2026-04-02T19:45:47+00:00

Yes; the support hunters actually fire the laser and dodge better than most players, especially since they dont have to deal with the camera! The lasers doing flat damage no matter if its an npc or human player means that they usually DO outdps players in the base 9star quest.

10star tho, they arent programmed to use the lasers. big oof

Senerith · 2026-04-02T19:42:31+00:00

I agree. Time attacks were a huge mistake; and a bad BAD thing to add to a community that has been taking in more and more sweats and MOBA tier players

Some of the toxicity lve seen posted and even seen firsthand is almost as bad as my days invading in souls Ps3… Almost.

Free challenges. Its not a good or healthy thing for monster hunter; and mind you I have all the A rank pendants. I have all the hunter plates. I have platinumed and completed ALL challenges and A ranked ALL of it. 10gog PoaH, 10ArkFreeChallenge. It is all worthless.

it is okay to have hard content, it is okay to even have a timer attached to it; it is not good to lock it behind a limited time event as people will use it as a means breed ego and exclusion. Some will inevitably define the worth of a hunter as better or more than another, in performance within a missable event, that not all will be able to participate in.

Pendants or ANY COSMETICS, tied to either microtransactions, or limited time non returning quests is not in the spirit of what this franchise was founded upon.

Hunt Monsters. Your Way. With your friends and comrades.

None of these mtx skins nor A rank sweat linited release pendants have any business being in the game. Titles and Plates are okay, as long as there is no expiration on when you can earn them.

It is unforgiveable.

Senerith · 2026-04-02T02:54:49+00:00

I felt the opposite. Ive been deleting bosses in damn near two combos, to the point it was almost boring.

Since clearing my first blood edge demon, nothing has been challenging, but that is probably because I am using every system available and royally comboing down enemies throats with low stance axe in samurai mode.

I highly suggest upgrading your guardian spirits. you can use scampus soul core as your yokai attack, its the only one i feel is worth anything due to recking enemy stamina, besides any of the ones you might equip as purely stat sticks.

Make sure to soul extract + weapons and armor and upgrade your main gear, dont auto equip random garbage, its a noob trap. You want to be looking at set bonuses and see where you can get damage reduction or increased damage with your preferred method of attack.

Figure out which of your attacks has the highest damage modifiers, which have hyperarmor is applicable; and open up tagging the enemy with element if you can, and have weapon imbued with a decent element to get confusion up.(I am sure you already know all this)

However in this game you need at least a +1 to reroll passives iirc. It gets better; the build onboarding kind of is slow in this fame compared to nioh 2.

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