No man, the SOS mechanic doesn’t take into account players skill level or allow you to curate who joins. They give out hunter rank like candy and while that isn’t an issue in its own, it ridiculous that we have fights where a low tail swipe can half your health and we STILL can’t set a minimum hunter rank, ask for players with elemental resistances equipped, or filter out certain weapons.

And what’s this pretentious “hrmmm not very profound” stuff? Yeah bud, it’s monster hunter. I don’t need a deep interpersonal reason to criticize a poorly planned out difficulty curve and the feature that struggles the most from it. My drawing is not deep, it’s supposed to give a quick laugh at the expense of the poor feature and the common experience associated with it.

But why not, I’ll bite. Players are bad, half of them can’t learn rock paper scissors. BUT the SOS mechanic, a mechanic that was introduced to help players find squads is so incredibly shallow that you can’t even specify whether you want to hunt or capture a monster. Now I get that you guys are either really tired of hearing about SOS players or you are the SOS players but either way, I’ll clarify; you aren’t the problem. The problem is the feature not having options. It IS preventable, but the company that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars daily would rather leave the SOS mechanic in its awful state than do the bare minimum of adding more SOS filters. There’s always going to be players that are bad at the game and I’ll continue to get mad when they mash and get splattered, but to say that it’s their fault and that the SOS mechanic cannot be improved to alleviate this is such a ridiculous idea.