The low-rank in Wilds is remarkably terrible by series standards. You go from an extremely on rails, guided disney tour of ugly environments and then High Rank is a free form, gorgeous (runs better even) glut of content. It's the worst the split has ever been. - ThreadSky

patstaresat.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The low-rank in Wilds is remarkably terrible by series standards. You go from an extremely on rails, guided disney tour of ugly environments and then High Rank is a free form, gorgeous (runs better even) glut of content. It's the worst the split has ever been.

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I really don't understand this sentiment tbh. I feel like every new game since 4u the community does the same dance, where everyone bemoans how "bad" LR is only to totally be on board for HR. I like they tried something new this time, beats worlds LR by a country mile. That shit was actual ass.

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momoiroakane.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm glad to know it gets better. Tried to play with friends and we constantly chafed against the game's "do your homework first" approach to its main story. Which is also boring and not very compelling. The walk and talk lore dumps basically become boring rail shooters where you grab items

friedmattato.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank God, I finally hear someone else say it. Ever since the announcement trailer, I though Wilds' graphics and aesthetic looked terrible. I thought I was the only one.

dopedanny.bsky.social•2 days ago

Its reverse Dragons Dogma 2. Its starts terrible and gets really good. Which is better in the longrun i guess?

grumace.bsky.social•2 days ago

World’s LR is mediocre but the story stuff can largely be ignored, minus some forced quests and investigations. Wilds’ LR is very guided and you can’t skip it or ignore it. It’s way more intrusive than World’s LR which if you like it is fine, but if you don’t is terrible.

maubpp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Monster Hunter has been on a quest to continue to make itself even more accessible to new players. Their answer this time being to make low rank an actual campaign, while I don't mind, is an odd choice at this point. Veterans are frustrated by the hand-holding but new players are on board seemingly?

maubpp.bsky.social•1 day ago

Which is even more odd considering World (capcom's best-selling game) already had that sauce figured out. World was my first MH and high rank stopped me from dropping the game. Idk if that sentiment is something they considered? All I know is I'm definitely enjoying this low rank more than World

socdeez.bsky.social•2 days ago

As someone new to this series that has bounced off of multiple mh games due to honestly terrible onboarding, this one has actually managed to hook me.

wafflehaus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Low rank is the tutorial, but it being very on rails (guided seikret, camera, etc) makes it feel like it's giving you less freedom. It's weird how much more of the game is in high rank

sidhcreature.com•2 days ago

Saying that it beats World's low rank is wild to me

World LR wasn't good but at least while it was making you explore the environments you could choose to duck off path and get some resource gathering done

Wilds just has you on the bird express for 15 minutes between each 2 minute fight

sidhcreature.com•2 days ago

Also

Wilds didn't have you do a single mandatory capture quest in its main story? It barely even gives you access the resources to make traps or tranqs

And I don't recall seeing a single capture mission in the side quests either?

dateslove.bsky.social•2 days ago

It does but it's in high rank

sidhcreature.com•2 days ago

Sure but we were talking pretty specifically about low rank

rookrycrookry.bsky.social•2 days ago

I respect where you're coming from, but I think 15 minutes is a little bit of an over-estimate, I don't think any of those went much past 5 (based on vibes, didn't time it). It's at least comparable to the amount of time you had to spend trudging around looking for tracks and clues in worlds.

dylanclaymartin.bsky.social•2 days ago

I'm not very good at the series, so I'm really enjoying the low rank difficulty so far. But I do agree that it needs that freedom of high rank in there much quicker!

captainmatthew.bsky.social•2 days ago

I got invested in the story after you beat the Alpha Doshaguma.

But that's also the moment they point at a big sign that says "JURASSIC PARK" and I will never not be a mark for Jurassic Park.

envinyon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wait, how the fuck does high rank run better

rockettpowered.bsky.social•2 days ago

If it is what I think it is its very funny.

imored.bsky.social•2 days ago

Mixture of better weather conditions for performance and possibly better optimized zones

slaughterpuff.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh so low rank is uniquely terrible. I'm still in it right now and have not been feeling the same drive as world and rise gave me. So happy to hear high rank will get better

dopedanny.bsky.social•2 days ago

Basically instead of 1* being the tutorial its now everything up to the first credits then it comes together as its intended to be played and feels like a full monster hunter again not a mmo msq again.

slaughterpuff.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yea that what I feared, I'm definitely coming up to first credits but man it's felt like a slog. I think it wouldn't have been so bad if literally every mission didn't have several cutscenes to it and a walk & talk

dopedanny.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah it was super off putting but then you get the HR zone unlocks and all of a sudden all of it comes together really well. It just gives a bad first impression thats kind of baffling.

peyote.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't think I'd agree that the environments are ugly, but I'm definitely looking forward to finishing the story and reaching a point where I don't need to be guided everywhere and cutscenes are hopefully slightly less prevalent.
It's a neat attempt but I don't think MH benefits from this style.

peyote.bsky.social•2 days ago

The excessive amount of talking also seems to have forced them to remove the MH language, which sucks- I liked that part of the setting, it's been a consistent thing for over 20 years :<

8bitecho.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ugly seems harsh, but compared to High rank its night and day. The story mandates that the enviroments look decrepit and shitty due to plot stuff and then high rank is all bright! and colorful! And healthy! Its quite a visual upgrade even if on a technical level the environment is the same

8bitecho.bsky.social•1 day ago

One of the people Im playing with kept making jokes about how washed out and bland the color palette is until he hit the village on the mountain and then you figure out that that was an intentional visual decision and its like "wait the colors were bad on purpose? Why??"

rookrycrookry.bsky.social•2 days ago

Honestly, that's a good point. Thinking about it, you spend a majority of your time in each zone during a season of fallow/ turbulence in LR and then immediately move when the season of plenty starts. The walk and talk was at least cute at first but did get grating by those those last two areas,,,

rookrycrookry.bsky.social•2 days ago

The fact I do have a big gay ass crush on Olivia, Gemma, and Alma maybe does a little bit of work in wilds' favor.

rookrycrookry.bsky.social•2 days ago

Also at great personal risk of making it Smack Of Gender In Here(tm) I do just always get a lil squinty when people complain about stories that are mostly female led and include a lot of women talking about things they're experts about but that's personal bias.

ganymedeprincess.bsky.social•2 days ago

If it were a man doing the talking at us I would hate it more though.

rookrycrookry.bsky.social•2 days ago

You know what? Your brain is huge, and you are right because I just remembered werner exists, and I do wanna claw my skin off every time he speaks.

patstaresat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah Werner is fucking awful

idontreadmuch.bsky.social•2 days ago

On pod can you please talk about the specifics of what makes the low rank content bad design wise. I’m curious about a real in depth opinion about this cause I’m seeing a lot of critique just being written off as it’s always easy vs if the easy stuff is fun to do

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