It's the standard party size. The world may be bigger, but monsters are designed around 4 players and it can already feel crowded because you're swinging around huge weapons that can knock your friends around.
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Monster Hunter: World (PS4/XB1 early 2018, PC later, directed by MH4 lead planner)
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It's the standard party size. The world may be bigger, but monsters are designed around 4 players and it can already feel crowded because you're swinging around huge weapons that can knock your friends around.
Jawbreaker
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They confirmed no cross-play, unfortunately.
Vital Tundra
Member
Damage numbers are OKAY. I hope to god you can't see other players numbers. Thats when the elitest assholes start kicking players for not doing enough damage. Keep personal damage numbers to yourself, and be able to turn them off if you choose, and keep monster HP invisible.
Chaos2Frozen
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Yup this is exactly how I imagine them trying to do this with all the new mechanics added.
More strategies in addition to whacking things in the butt
Sangetsu-II
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Hope it's that, main team better know what they are doing.
Nope. Confirmed that no crossplay. Worldwide servers, but that really only means anything for PS4.
I would say avoid buying the XBOX version at all costs. That thing's gonna be deader than dead online. PS4 is easily the platform to go on it seems.
Just turn it off in the options. Every game with hit numbers allows you to do that and I don't think this will be any different.
Honestly though, it's about time the game actually tells me how much damage I'm doing.
ShemhazaiX
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To me it sounded more like there's a reaction when you hit stuff. Can't remember his exact wording though and the post was deleted.
Sammy Samusu
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So apparently they are having a live demo in less than 2 hours?
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/874447619405131780
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/874447619405131780
If you could link me to something to show me how to set this up so my wife and I can play an online game my PSN account (with PSN+) owns together (she doesn't own the game nor has PSN+) I would be seriously grateful. When I look it seems like we would both need a copy of the game and an active PSN+ account to do it.
I remember using a cheat code back in the PSP days that gave me enemy HP bars... and it felt dirty.
It could just be an interview with the devs. I am hoping it's a demo though.
ShemhazaiX
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I reckon the PC version will be healthy too. A lot of people on there that would eat this shit up since it's a pretty hardcore game. Might not sell as many copies, but it'll have high activity I reckon.
I'm hoping it'll be what they showed the guy on reddit, and on the 20th they give us a larger walkthrough of the systems or something. Though it'll probably just be dev interview. :[
Maybe, but it also seems like the type of game to fall off a cliff playerwise or just be full of hackers everywhere which would be a bummer.
MH World is confirmed to be the next main title developed by the main team at Capcom (as I've been saying here for a while) and it's the next MH release in the west according to Socksy.
I'm so excited for this. I'm bummed that we won't get MHXX here any time soon but I've been ready for MH World for years now. I will have it.
(I'll also just import MHXX in August to tide me over)
I'm so excited for this. I'm bummed that we won't get MHXX here any time soon but I've been ready for MH World for years now. I will have it.
(I'll also just import MHXX in August to tide me over)
Vital Tundra
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I had a weird worry when the trailer dropped but now with these impressions I cannot wait. Its gonna suck not having a portable hunter after over a decade of portable hunting but a PC version is all I have wanted at high fidelity.
I've chilled down to "maybe it could be acceptable in spite of itself" on this. It actually does have main staff on it and it's sounding like the underlying gameplay is actually likely right, whereas rumors pegged it as westernized and dumbed down, so that at least quells some of what would've pissed me off most.
All that said, if it succeeds for me at all, it'll be in spite of everything they've shown, not because of it.
Like, maybe stealth will be easy to ignore, impossibly dumb as it is. Tracking... tracking actually worries me above all else as that sounds harder to avoid and could slow crap down a lot.
Open/seamless world is eeeeeeh. I see zero real advantage to it (I guess no minor loading? But it's all about fighting monsters in arenas, so being in zones has never been something I wanted to see go away), but maybe it won't be that negative of an impact.
Destructible environment to effect the battle I'm meh on, sounds very take it or leave it to me. Monsters fighting each other I actively don't like, sounds freaking bad as an actual gameplay thing. Like, all that can do is make things waaaaaaay easier.
And then the new monster looks HORRIBLE to me, like possibly the least I have liked ANY large monster in the franchise, so it's worrying to me that they're leading with it.
Sure, fancy new graphics are nice I suppose (though honestly I was fine with janky old 3DS graphics, and much as it was gonna happen eventually... there's like zero percent chance this content matches the 3DS games in terms of monster count at all, and that's gonna hurt.), but I'm not liking all the stuff that comes along with it.
So I dunno, I'm still grumpy, but I'm less raging grumpy at least, and willing to wait to see more to hopefully at least mitigate some of what's rubbing me so wrong.
All that said, if it succeeds for me at all, it'll be in spite of everything they've shown, not because of it.
Like, maybe stealth will be easy to ignore, impossibly dumb as it is. Tracking... tracking actually worries me above all else as that sounds harder to avoid and could slow crap down a lot.
Open/seamless world is eeeeeeh. I see zero real advantage to it (I guess no minor loading? But it's all about fighting monsters in arenas, so being in zones has never been something I wanted to see go away), but maybe it won't be that negative of an impact.
Destructible environment to effect the battle I'm meh on, sounds very take it or leave it to me. Monsters fighting each other I actively don't like, sounds freaking bad as an actual gameplay thing. Like, all that can do is make things waaaaaaay easier.
And then the new monster looks HORRIBLE to me, like possibly the least I have liked ANY large monster in the franchise, so it's worrying to me that they're leading with it.
Sure, fancy new graphics are nice I suppose (though honestly I was fine with janky old 3DS graphics, and much as it was gonna happen eventually... there's like zero percent chance this content matches the 3DS games in terms of monster count at all, and that's gonna hurt.), but I'm not liking all the stuff that comes along with it.
So I dunno, I'm still grumpy, but I'm less raging grumpy at least, and willing to wait to see more to hopefully at least mitigate some of what's rubbing me so wrong.
using environments to help with monster hunts sounds dope. thats something ive been looking forward to for some time
-tetsuo-
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What is this assumption even based on?
Castef
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An online fantasy game... dead on a Xbox Platform.
Maybe you should check some more stats...
Does not says Live Demo for monster hunter tho
This seems to cover every step clearly enough, you will need to create an acc for her if she doesn't own one.
http://www.wikihow.com/Share-Games-on-the-PlayStation-4
Hope it's ok to post this here, it's been on many threads around the site before.
Main MH fanbase right now in the west is going to PS4 or PC and I don't see XBOX picking up that many new players so it's gonna be a ghost town with no crossplay. What segment of the Japanese fanbase that comes over will be PS4 only.
Castef
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Main MH fanbase in the west either own a Wii U or a Nintendo 3DS.
They may as well own a PS4 and/or a XB1.
Your assumption is quite weak.
Dragon's Dogma had a healthy community on X360.
Thank you kind sir! Time for my wife and I to play through some SoulsBorne games, and look forward to a new monster hunter game!
-tetsuo-
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This.... does not answer the question lol
The bigger question is the format of the hunts. I assume it's the same old load up a mission, spawn a monster on a map and go which if that's the case then of course you'd still be able to party up.
I don't need enemy HP bars but I'd really like to know how much damage each of my hits actually do. Like if I'm hitting the monster's chest, is it a weak spot? Is it doing less damage than the head? Etc.
That information feedback for the player is invaluable.
ShemhazaiX
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I personally think it will be a Dark Souls level success on PC ASSUMING it's a good port. Can't speak for consoles, but personally speaking, every Monster Hunter fan I know owns more gaming systems than just a 3DS, and I'm sure a solid majority of the fanbase will jump over.
Get out of here. Astalos or bust.
I am a Switch owner but I was fine with PS4/XB1 getting a MH game. The more the merrier. Now everyone can do some Monster Hunting! It was great news. But now it seems to drum up sales for this new game they deny the West a game that is already essentially done? So we get no version of it at all? Not even the 3DS version?
A lot of people were looking forward to playing this game.
Not a good look Capcom.
A lot of people were looking forward to playing this game.
Not a good look Capcom.
DS also had extreme hacking issues on PC so we'll see. Getting into a game only to have hackers oneshot the monsters would be a huge bummer.
Also, Nargacuga is the best fight in all of MonHun. I'm sorry. I can't have it any other way.
These still updating links to dev and employee answers are doing a lot to settle my nerves on this game.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/6gwnml/live_from_sonys_e3_presentation_monster_hunter_on/div4izx/
Drop in and Quest Start co op parties, all 14 weapons, etc. Ok ok... I just need to see more now!
https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunter/comments/6gwnml/live_from_sonys_e3_presentation_monster_hunter_on/div4izx/
Drop in and Quest Start co op parties, all 14 weapons, etc. Ok ok... I just need to see more now!
foxuzamaki
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Its just the same ok capcom just like from the Wii era
Sangetsu-II
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This makes me feel at ease.
Yeah honestly I'll be ok if they don't bring back the styles. I was still having fun with MHGen, but it felt a bit ridiculous when I would be able to dodge anything or constantly jump around to mount the monster over and over.
And some of the new weapons just seemed to cover too many bases with their transformations -- kind of made some of the classic weapons feel obsolete. Hope they use World as an opportunity to kind of retool the weapons so each one has a place.
Vital Tundra
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To be fair I think Capcom will take cheating more seriously than From and Bamco, who after 3 games still has done little in anticheat.
chicken_pasta
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Yuri just confirmed no local multiplayer on twitter
OrbitalBeard
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It does suck, but it's not surprising to me -- Japan got MHP3 on PSP but it was never brought over to western PSP audiences. Played a bit of it in japanese but the language barrier hurt my enjoyment. Next english game I played was on Wii and it was very light on content (though it did control well and I actually liked having it on console instead of handheld)
That rarely seems like a given for co op focused games, so we'll see. A lot of companies seem to go 'well no one can cheat and get an unfair advantage against someone so whatever'.
Id rather that be solved by in game armor skills, so it's something you have to actively prepare for.
And instead of something like damage numbers, I would rather have simpler solution where the blood/hitsparks are more intense depending on how weak the area you hit is, with varying levels of intensity depending on percentage of damage you do.
I think showing numbers would just confuse people because of Monster Hunters weirdly complicated damage formulas for every weapon.
Sangetsu-II
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Sadness, would it be possible at a later date or another version if successful. Only negative I see if not possible.
Hopefully there'll be a way to limit it to play with friends and it won't be a big deal, unlike DS where randos can come in.
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