Jon Carter
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Those are some crisp, colorful graphics. Geometry and textures obviously come from a different era, but it looks really nice beyond that.
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Monster Hunter XX Demo coming August 10th
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dragonlife
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Thanks. I wouldn't have known about the holding part without you.
Before I read this, I was doing brave Gunlance to see if I could figure stuff out. All I noticed was the blue glow on my shots after the meter filled. Gonna have a lot of reading to do soon. I don't know if being able to continuously fire shots is new to the Gunlance or just a brave style thing, but it was great (especially when the brave meter is active).
Haven't bothered with Valfalk yet. Barioth is my favorite monster, so I've just been warming up with him.
RoboGeorgeForeman
Banned
Man it's been a little while since I last hunted, but that was pretty damn fun. Still getting used to Valphalk, but hammer is every bit as fun as I remember. Gotta try out Hunting Horn, Switch Axe, and a few others sooner or later.
Rapidfire shelling is a brave thing but you need to have a combo going in order to do it so even X,A,A,A,A, will suffice. You also get a guard point on your reload so if you see an attack coming your way, you can reload (R+B) to guard and follow it up with a slam+full burst.
Cosmo Clock 21
Banned
Is there a place that lists brave style moves for every weapon?
Not sure, but Gaijin Hunter has done videos of Brave Style with every weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDR3ta7VqKryVzE-Ouh9XqeNq17Cd9Nd4
Check out Hammer and Charge Blade. Those two are particularly fun to play.
Check out gaijinhunter or arrekz gaming, they have few videos up.
F31 Leopard
Member
I just made this using the Switch screenshot editor. Hope this helps.
White blue blue is defense
White green blue is negate stamina use
White green white is health recovery S
Blue blue green is wind pressure negated
Some other combination is health recovery s+antidote, not that it's needed against these monsters
And of course white white is self-improvement.
Edit: green blue white blue, that's it. For health recovery S+antidote.
This game looks very clean and vibrant on the switch screen.
Also, can we talk more about the HD RUMBLE implementation as it's surprisingly well done! Here's my experience with it:
The first time the rumble triggered for me was when I used the Switch Axe and hit the Great Maccao with the "Trance Slash" Hunter Art and it felt POWERFUL! It was then that I had a very strong urge to use the weapon attack with arguably the most satisfying single hit in all of monster hunter, the level 3 Greatsword charge attack, and to experience it alongside the HD rumble. However, the rumble only triggers when you hit a monster with a Hunter Art but thankfully the Greatsword is equipped with the "Lion's Maw" Art in the demo which powers up your next regular attack.
This is what I felt like when I executed a level 3 charge attack, powered up with the Lion's Maw so it triggers the HD rumble, for the first time:
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I think that HD rumble might be one of the secret best features of the switch version. Be sure to try it out in the demo for yourself!
Also, can we talk more about the HD RUMBLE implementation as it's surprisingly well done! Here's my experience with it:
The first time the rumble triggered for me was when I used the Switch Axe and hit the Great Maccao with the "Trance Slash" Hunter Art and it felt POWERFUL! It was then that I had a very strong urge to use the weapon attack with arguably the most satisfying single hit in all of monster hunter, the level 3 Greatsword charge attack, and to experience it alongside the HD rumble. However, the rumble only triggers when you hit a monster with a Hunter Art but thankfully the Greatsword is equipped with the "Lion's Maw" Art in the demo which powers up your next regular attack.
This is what I felt like when I executed a level 3 charge attack, powered up with the Lion's Maw so it triggers the HD rumble, for the first time:
:
I think that HD rumble might be one of the secret best features of the switch version. Be sure to try it out in the demo for yourself!
This game looks very clean and vibrant on the switch screen.
Also, can we talk more about the HD RUMBLE implementation as it's surprisingly well done! Here's my experience with it:
The first time the rumble triggered for me was when I used the Switch Axe and hit the Great Maccao with the "Trance Slash" Hunter Art and it felt POWERFUL! It was then that I had a very strong urge to use the weapon attack with arguably the most satisfying single hit in all of monster hunter, the level 3 Greatsword charge attack, and to experience it alongside hd rumble. However, the HD rumble only triggers when you hit a monster with a Hunter Art but thankfully the Greatsword is equipped with the "Lion's Maw" Art in the demo which powers up your next regular attack.
This is what I felt like when I executed a level 3 charge attack, powered up with the Lion's Maw so it triggers the HD rumble, for the first time:
:
I think that HD rumble might be one of the secret best features of the switch version. Be sure to try it out in the demo for yourself!
I was actually confused for a second when a monster roared and my "3DS" rumbled.
I miss Bleach.
shoryukens
Member
I wish I could say that I beat the rocket dragon on my first try after 15 months of not touching Generations, proudly announcing that I still got it. But I can't, the time ran out right when we has weak.
This game looks very clean and vibrant on the switch screen.
Also, can we talk more about the HD RUMBLE implementation as it's surprisingly well done! Here's my experience with it:
The first time the rumble triggered for me was when I used the Switch Axe and hit the Great Maccao with the "Trance Slash" Hunter Art and it felt POWERFUL! It was then that I had a very strong urge to use the weapon attack with arguably the most satisfying single hit in all of monster hunter, the level 3 Greatsword charge attack, and to experience it alongside the HD rumble. However, the rumble only triggers when you hit a monster with a Hunter Art but thankfully the Greatsword is equipped with the "Lion's Maw" Art in the demo which powers up your next regular attack.
This is what I felt like when I executed a level 3 charge attack, powered up with the Lion's Maw so it triggers the HD rumble, for the first time:
:
I think that HD rumble might be one of the secret best features of the switch version. Be sure to try it out in the demo for yourself!
I don't think it has HD Rumble, just regular rumble, unless I'm missing something.
Wait, the 3DS has rumble functionality?
The early seasons of Bleach were so good but the quality declined as it progressed. However, even though the series eventually became a mess it still had great moments sprinkled throughout.
R.I.P Bleach.
R.I.P Bleach.
I see. It might just be me but I feel that the joy-cons generally have a nicer, more deeper rumble compared to other standard controllers.
pretty done
Member
Game is a ton of fun. Really wish we had an option to buy it in English but whatever, I guess this demo is better than nothing.
RayCharlizard
Member
Tried the demo earlier but with 0 Japanese comprehension I didn't play very much. I will say it felt like the game was 60 fps when docked (with some hitches/drops ofc) and I was very surprised at how smooth the camera felt. Hope we get a US demo soon.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
It'll have to be announced for the west and close release date for a soon demo unfortunately
I think you mean the Charge Blade. If I remember correctly, you press X+A to generate phials to get rid of your built up charge.
Pretty sure the texts read Charge Axe but yeah, that works. Thanks
Hold R and hit A to deposit your charge into the vials.
It's a little confusing when there's two weapons that switch between an axe and sword: Charge Blade and Switch Axe.
Edit: I got it wrong, read below.
Japanese names and English names differ, Capcom tradition.
No, they're using the charge blade. In Japan the weapon we know as the switch axe is called the slash axe and the weapon we know as the charge blade is called the charge axe.
Woops. I'll fix my post.
It's not in the demo but it's be interesting to see if it's in the full release.
btw, here's a video that might be useful to people. It covers camera speed and map zooming etc. I wonder how we'll be able to switch the lock-on between two monsters in same area.
https://youtu.be/UfDwyV1-o6U
If that's from 4U, some of it is outdated. CB functions were changed in X/XX to not be so powerful, like the GP into AED/SAED combo.
Press + button to open up the menu. From here, the R button will toggle between the normal menu and the song list. This doesn't reset, so if you back out from here with B and then go back in with +, you'll still pull up the song list. It's really nice.
There's nothing like that in the options as far as I can tell. Here are the button mapping options on Page 3, third from bottom:
Type 1: Directional buttons for hunter arts, ZR for chat, ZL for toggling monster target.
Type 2: R+A+B, ZL and ZR for hunter arts, directional buttons for chat and toggling monster target (down direction).
Type 3: ZL+X/A/B for hunter arts, ZR for chat, right stick press for toggling monster target, directional buttons for camera control.
Good video. One extra thing to note: you can swap the - and + buttons (options Page 3, second from bottom) so that it's easier to kick.
Says guild style right there on the sheet
Haunted
Member
I mean, all of this is extremely familiar territory. I haven't touched Monster Hunter since 3U near the WiiU launch and beat the bird with the Longsword loadout in ~8 minutes.
Still torn whether I should just enjoy the demo and play as much as I can or just delete it because it reminds me of the sadness that this won't be coming over before World releases next year.
Still torn whether I should just enjoy the demo and play as much as I can or just delete it because it reminds me of the sadness that this won't be coming over before World releases next year.
I had the opposite impression, I was kind of surprised by how responsive the combat was despite it being locked to 30fps. Then again I haven't touched the 4th Gen games in a long while, I only played emulated MHP3rd over the last six months (needs also to be hardlocked to 30fps, runs at double speed if increased to 60fps), which probably feels sluggish in comparison because the moveset is so much more reduced than it is in MHXX.
Oh I didn't know that they made these for X/XX. Where did you get them from?
ItalianJoe83
Member
What about PS4?
1.7 gb
Think it's 16 CET
This is XX, not World
As a noob in MH, I have no idea what this is. Probably I'll get it once I play around with the demo. Thanks
ItalianJoe83
Member
I see, thanks for the reply