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“They get one shot by Anjanath and don’t know why”

That made me mad for some reason. I get that monster hunter doesn’t do the best job of onboarding people, but it’s a reminder that people hate reading and looking for themselves so much!

I’m playing with a friend and he gets so mad, and I’m like “bruh if you just read XYZ, this will make sense” lol. But he insist on doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result

I bought the game a couple weeks ago, and altought I'm having fun... They're chasing an impossible goal. Almost no game on steam has a 100% completion rate, even critically aclaimed games like Elden Ring has less than 50% I think. The truth is the average gamer doesn't finish games, no matter how hard they are. I don't understand why they're so fixated on appealing to people who don't really want to engage with game mechanics or bother to learn the basics. Asking players to sometimes change their build to counter monsters is not a big ask, crafting gear is half the gameplay loop anyway. I think World did it better, walls should be distributed over the story, so the game has a "curved" difficulty curve, not a flat line then a vertical spike with TUs. I would rather have several challenges on the main story than get bored all the way until the end, when the game hasn't prepared you for an actual challenge.

I had a work buddy who never played a MH game get all the way to To Guardian Rathalos without ever crafting or upgrading armor. I watched him play and he didnt even get his first cart until Nu Udra. Game was insanely easy in the beginning.

Anyone who expected Wilds to continue where Worlds ended I dont know what to tell these people. By that logic, the last fight in the prior game should be dwarfed where World started, and believe me you don't want to fight anything on EX Bloodbath level as your introduction monster.
Aside from that, yea there's a bunch of reasons people might've dropped the game, it doesn't always go back to "too difficult". It can be anything from lack of time over shifting interests all the way to it's just not what they expected it to be. And let's be real here, the vast majority of newcomers in World were Soulsborne players, they saw a big monster, a stamina bar and a dodge roll and thought "hey, that looks like a fun clone", not realizing it's an entirely different genre.
IMO they had nailed the difficulty of the series for generations, I don't know what happened that they dropped the ball with Wilds so hard but I guess misreading data is a reasonable excuse. Here's to hope that the series will go back to its roots from now onwards.

World was my first Monster Hunter game, and it sure as heck was a learning curve. PC keybinds are one thing, learning a weapon a second, but knowing all the items available in your toolkit, navigating to them on the item scrollwheel and also effectively using them took me quite some time to manage. Because of World, Wilds was a breeze for me, because it laid the foundation of what makes a Monster Hunter game.

But I think that we should also look a bit further beyond just MH. Elden Ring was a massively popular Souls-like that brought many people to the more difficult, un-telegraphed kind of boss fights. I do believe that lessons learned there carry over towards reading a boss. It still requires learning weapons and the item toolkit, but the core element of the game will be understood by Souls-appreciators picking up MH for the first game, is my estimate. Conversely, my MH knowledge helps me to better understand Souls-lite games. I'm just not the kind of player for souls-like, hence the lite.

It also begs the question if World satiated the newer playerbase for Monster Hunter, resulting in possibly fewer newcomers to Wilds, meaning it was comparatively more easy/too easy? I'd need statistics on that matter to draw any conclusions, but that could also play a factor.

But what really sets Wilds apart and makes things really (too) easy is the improved mobility, the ease of micro-repositioning and the ability to change direction while attacking. World demanded far more commitment to actions, so you had to be more mindful of your next action.

Monster Hunter World was so easy compared to the previous entries. But I guess if it’s your first Monster Hunter, it could have been difficult.

Capcom: we underestimated players
Also capcom: let's make monsters spam attacks nonstop and give them 60k+ HP like endgame monsters

Monster Hunter is a game about realizing you're out of your depth with a new monster and going on a training arc to get new armor and weapons to help you rise to the occasion. Wilds doesn't push back on the player at all during low or high rank, and that means it fails to convey the core appeal of the experience in favor of... making sure people see the whole story? I understand G/Master rank is where you get the most challenging content but the base game ended up feeling soo unsatisfying compared to past games in the series. I've revisited older games since and found the difficulty far more engaging, whereas in wilds I don't think I carted once until I fought gore magala. It just sucks to wait so long for a new monster hunter game and then be told to just keep waiting because this is just a $60 tutorial

If anjanath is a wall, and you don't even understand you can make new gear, then maybe those people should just stick to putting square blocks in square holes.

makes sense i guess now why it was so easy at launch. Glad they admit their mistakes moving forward, i hope the dlc works out

This sort of stuff is something I feel like I've given an increasing level of thought to over the years.

i played 1 and FU but the series didn't really click for me until tri's release and I've played all of the games since except IB(life stuff came up); i feel like in titles like MH or Dark Souls there's been too much emphasis on difficulty.  People would talk about their struggles and overcoming challenges but i don't remember the community ever rallying together demanding ever increasing difficulty. The pursuit of difficulty and ever increasing mechanics/syatem bloat actually makes games more difficult for me to come back to. The games originally got popular in japan specifically because they were quick little 10-20 minute fights they could knock out on commute.

I see people talking about it being too easy now but i prefer group play and all I see is people getting absolutely clapped. I came back for the AT's at one point and spent hours joining SOS just to watch groups get wrecked over and over again.

In some ways,  there was even easy mode in the older games: lance trivialized a lot of tri, many large monsters were incredibly easy with hbg, blast in general put in work but everything was cake with a kelbi bow, charge blade on release smoked everything in 4u. Traditionally,  these games were only difficult if you imposed Western thinking to how you played; even things like solo'ing guild quests was more out of necessity than challenge.  The online play sucked for a long time and the community was small so it was preferable to just do the guild quests even though they were scaled to 4 players than wait for a group to pop.

I feel like the community more recently at times is asking for the games to be something they were never meant to be.

World was 80% new players, Wilds was 80% veterans and they still made it easier and were suprised with the story completion being so much higher than World. Doesn't add up, of course Wilds would have higher story completion, all the players who didn't finish World stopped playing MH there. Now every MH game is gunna be easy AF because of false statistics, sadge.

sounds like i'm gonna be stuck on rise as that had the perfect difficulty for me where i was able to complete everything and feel like i achieved what i wanted. world the endgame of the dlc filtered me, and now the endgame of base wilds filtered me. im an old man and got stuff to do, i want something i can actually farm some gear in the 2 hours or so i got to play games.

Its funny you mentioned Fatalis, as IMO, there's a real chance we get a Fatalis variant. Reason being, Zoh Shia is a failed attempt at a Guardian Fatalis. They used Fatalis' DNA but had to splice it with other stuff for it to work, resulting in them getting this weird Goo-Wylk hybrid creature, that under that goo is CLEARLY atleast partly Fatalis. Has the dragon lightning, and several shared moves, and in last phase looks like a melted Fatalis kinda, like if Gogmazios sneezed on the fella with the drakesbone oil.

But something the Wyverians DID get right, is the IMMORTALITY of Fatalis being infused with their creation. And its infected the Wylk and Wyrmways to the point of Guardians getting LITTLE GOO CHESTBURSTER THINGS. Theres absolutely a non-zero chance one of those thing, or multiple combine, into a NEW Fatalis/Variant. Which, is horrifying, especially if its enhanced by Wylk/The Dragontorch.

I just don't want AOE spam, DMC combat speed, or dps checks.

The thing that rough is that they cant make the game infinitely difficult off the jump
I think they should aim for keeping the game engaging rather than difficult especially early on

"Base game is easy" Counterpoint, Monster Hunter Generations with the Deviants & Hypers.

And we as players are the ones who are supposed to help new players learn the game. That community is one of the things that made the old games so impactful and great.

I as a vetren, want my niche challenging (not hard, just challenging) from the start games with tons of pre preparation. Not just back loading all of the difficulty to the post game.

I personally believe base game story should be newcomer friendly and there should be more legimate events with unique rewards as well as the dlc should be for veterans. Veterans care less about difficulty as much as differentiating themselves in my opinion