Been cooling off on ACNH so started this back up in earnest. Finished my low rank Zinogre armor and managed to upgrade my GS to have quite a bit of blue sharpness and 190 base ATK (Kamura Ninja Cleaver.)
I also finished every single Village/single-player quest. I'm weird in that I need to do that every MH before I go online. I get anxiety that I'm not good enough and my armor sucks and I'll cart 3x and ruin everyone's day lol.
But now that that's out of the way I've been doing Hub quests in earnest, and holy shit, this game is so goddamn fun.
Auto-crafting is lit.
Doggos and
being able to sharpen with a whetstone while riding is lit. (I even customized my starter Palamute with layered armor and white color like my dog in real life, and even named her the same.
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Wirebug is fucking lit, both traversal and added attacking combos. I booted up Breath of the Wild and freedom feels clunky and limited in comparison.
But most of all...
JOIN REQUESTS RULE.
Especially joining someone else's via the quest board, hot damn I've been just chewing through my required quests. I'm still HR6 but wouldn't surprise me if I've unlocked my HR this week. World probably introduced Join Requests and they single-handedly take the online MH experience from merely "addicting" to full-on synthetic brain-cocaine.
Would love to join hunts with anyone here, especially once I unlock my HR and finally catch up with all you guys lol.
PS- I also purchased some DLC for this since I was having such a good time. $4 for the piano music is
so worth it , not sure about anyone else but the vocal tracks were getting grating to me. Being able to swap them out with chill piano renditions has made my playtime even more enjoyable and hard to put down.
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I also got some stickers and Buddy Handler Iori's voice since he says "No hard feelings" when carving a defeated monster, which is what I feel on the inside, man .
All in all not a bad $11 spent. I'd have gotten some poses or gestures but there's really no good ones. They removed and still haven't added back the one I used most in MHGU: sitting/relaxing on the ground.
VIDEO Also this came out last week.