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Reminds me of the desert section of the Guiding Lands. There was definitely some strange spacing and such fighting there, so I get ya.

I was already 1000% on board with the Gurren Lagann intro.

Another idea turn guard thrust into a chargeable stance that allows the lance to spin and “drill” into the monster, building toward an injured/tenderized spot on the monster and accumulating Agro as well.

Longsword main here, got focus mode but none of those special attacks. I'm cool with that though as they've extended the combos and made it even more fluid. Had a great time in the Wilds beta.

*ahem* "GET GOOD"

Nice video, very good points! It feels like maybe this dynamic spacing is kind of the "gimmick" for this entry, coupled with focus mode. Cause dynamic distance is a built in thing for range weapons for example. And now melee weapons also get this aiming aspect to them. This coupled with the more realistic environments feels in line with the direction the game is going into. The more variables come into play, the more advanced hunting can be and the more opportunities they have to expand on in future games. They'll likely polish it some more for the full release but like each games gimmick it will be a bit janky until the g rank DLC or the next game. Side note, this also feels like the problem we had with underwater, gauging distance and aiming was tougher. If they figure it out with this game I would more likely expect underwater to return...

Me being a gunner, I'm always in a Focus Mode, so i hardly knew the difference

3:15 Lance main here. Definitely agree that the lance is rising in popularity because they added a bunch of heafty attack and ease the learning curve to utilize the guard. I think these are good thing. However, its not a good thing if they diminish the weapon's existing toolkit and characteristics. Lance since gen 1 has been a weapon about 1.precise positioning 2.rapid unrelenting attack 3.guard. 4.precise counters (since 3rd gen) Some of the changes they made here has made lance imprecise, more sluggish, and does not give enough rewards to precise counters (perfect guard in wilds terminology)

I completely agree, but I think this is ENTIRELY why Focus Mode exists now. They want to make a game with dynamic environments instead of the flat maps they've been doing? Changes were needed to make that possible. Let's see how it works out.

I fell in love with gunlance all over again in wilds...I still can't believe how much fun it was.

You should be looking at your environment. I'm glad it's not flat. I don't even like the term imperfection in this case. Secondly we have control of our hunters in the air now if you noticed. I never agreed with people complaining about ledges. It's like why the hell aren't you looking at your environment.

Truthfully I don't think a majority of the playerbase is going to consider mixed terrain that heavily. It does impact the game in certain significant instances, but most people somewhat "intuitively" know how to deal with all this terrain variation. There were definitely instances where I noticed the terrain was making my job a lot harder, but not in a frustrating way, and not in a way I couldn't compensate for as a hunter. "Fighting at the apex of this dune is making things a little difficult, lets coax Balahara down into the bowl of the dunes instead." Which is also probably why stuff like luring pods exist now, to micromanage where you can choose to fight. The fact that monsters can also even alter the terrain quite massively too with attacks also makes it even more important. I think it's a very neat aspect that makes me think about my environment more than ever before, to a point it no longer feels like a separate aspect to the monster. The two felt distinctly separated before in a very gamey way, and that's no longer the case now. Finally it's all fully combined seamlessly together, monster, items, weapons, locale, all working together tightly in unison.

The slopes are awfull yee, but honestly the Wilds map has been better than 80% of Worlds roster of maps Ive been playing since the first game, and while Monhun moved away from this 1o1 with the monster in a pre-designed arena to a living and breathing world where you fight a monster, i think it works. Ive found myself using focusmode for almost 90% of the time in wilds and that helped a lot, especially with slow weapons, to hit the monster. But damn i still hate the desert, and hate is even an understatement. Its worse than ancient forest in the 2 desert areas due to the slopes.

I feel like there's a lot of minor details off about wilds. Not having played the beta it seems a bit worrying. I hope this isn't a slip from the MH team.

Great video. I think something I noticed is the hunter animations, especially when you get hit on a slope. feels like the hunter gets up slower and covers less ground. I also noticed new animations like rolling on your side when you get up. Not sure if its new but these hunter animations feel much more slower. its like there's a variety of them rather than just 2.

Short reach weapons will be a pain to play, gunners weapon will be a pain to aim and longsword users will be obvious to the issues due to their long reach and gaslight anyone complaining about the terrain... Yeah, I can already feel it happening. Mainline game have gone this direction for a long time. Whelp, let's hope the portable team keep the flat terrain on their side of thing, like they did in Rise. They're always the one who bring the fun concept to the series, while the main team mainly bring frustrating ones. Underwater in gen 3, terrible maps in gen 4, clutch claw in Iceborne, it has become a trend.

Any gunlance mains here to bump fists with?

I see big monster, I hit him, I feel good

Serious Did you forget underwater fight in Gen3 already made the fight happen in 3D space?!! Isn’t that obvious enough? Spacing in a 2D plane was a bygone long after Gen2 ended, even Tonfa in MHF was a aerial weapon and required spacial coordination

I think some of how I feel about wilds has to do with the reliance on frame gen and FSR. The game is a blurry mess, with a bit more input lag than I'm used to.

you look like the divorced dad guy

It feels like the main line become portable feels that I don't much feel the weapons. I really hate the SNS helm splitter it's like tearing a paper that I don't feel each hits downward and GS don't have that "BOOMB!!" experience when landing TCS.

Focus Mode is your friend here. Enemy on a slope? Aim up/down. Slope making it hard to deal with an enemy attack, start thinking about the ways Focus Mode increases your mobility. Just wait til we get things like Evade Extender or whatever mobility enhancing skills they come up with this time around. I don't think we've even scratched the surface of Focus Mode yet and I think that all of the issues you outline here will be largely addressed by the mode and its interactions with other systems.

Omg, I'm not the only one who felt that way. All my friends said I was just rusty, but I knew that Combat didn't felt like in Worlds and something was off. Great video man!

People trashing on Insect glaive is so weird. It's probably flashier than it has ever been, although the controls are clunky. You can use triple extract to do badass moves, and using focus mode lets you seamlessly use kinsects. If they really liked the aerial IG, they should play rise. I love aerial IG there.

As someone who started in Tri, I feel like the series has been moving in that direction with each game, with regards to increasing terrain complexity. Third Gen had underwater combat, which was fully controlled 3D movement. Fourth Gen started adding very intentional and very obvious hills to do mounting attacks. Fifth Gen the whole maps could become more vertical, on the macro scale. Now I'm sixth gen we get it in the micro scale too. Honestly, I have liked all of these changes. For as long as I have been playing, there has been varied terrain. In 3U, there were spots where dual swords couldn't reach a large Brachidios's tail, and other spots where it could more easily reach the tail. Also, the rough caves and rolling dunes felt much more authentic, at least to me. I noticed this the most when I was fighting Ray Dau. When using both Lance and Hunting Horn, I realized that I had to be more aware of my positioning, and not just my spacing. Once you adapt, flat terrain will feel like child's play. This game is going to make you be more cognizant of your surroundings, especially on inclines. Come at it again with an open mind, and you'll likely find that you enjoy it. After all, Monster Hunter isn't a hack and slash, it's a monster hunting simulator.

Same for me, wild is great but feels weird, something off about the hitting, the feedback is off and I don't understand why the savage axe needs to hold down to apply the effect

A problem i had was with my beloved Hunting horn, the focus strike needs a rework. haven't seen much of other weapons but i suspect IG has the same problem, where the focus strike keeps the monster from doing anything for a few seconds. in multiplayer, once good builds are made that are able to cause wounds more often, being able to gang up on a monster regardless of it's enraged or not, feels like a lite magnet spike. other weapons like greatsword have focus strikes that last maybe 1-2 seconds. idk, being able to use pseudo pin attacks on monsters many times my size just doesn't sit right with me.

You are so right. While I was playing wilds I was getting so frustrated with not connecting with the monster when that same move would have worked in world. I just couldn’t figure it out. This will be cool to adapt to when the full thing comes out this February.

The difference between you and I is that I can tell you something feels off about Wilds, but I couldn't tell you what it is. You make a 20 minute video explaining in detail exactly what you're talking about. Also why does your top look like a bathrobe?

I have always said the worst mechanics in monster hunter were all introduced in 4. slopes, ledges and mounting. none of them benefit the fight. they are at best style points at worst constant hazards. the amount of time where I started sliding when I just wanted to reposition is sicking. "fucking ledges!" is practically my catchphrase. mounts in single player are just a short minigame that dose almost no damage and rewards you with a damage window so small that by the time your character stands up the monster is too. in multi player someone mounting cause the monster to flail erratically or worse fly out of reach. which means nobody gets to play for 2 minutes.

Spiting fucking fire honestly, like 4 days only of one map and 4 of the same monsters in a beta, isn't enough to get used to the big changes to combat as a whole. I'm over a thosand hours in world and I just fell in love with DB. I believe that every weapon can be enjoyed by almost anyone, given enough time and experience. Also this is a BETA test, some weapons did change a bit from the demo to the beta so I'm sure capcom will adjust and fix weapons if they feel like it is for the better of the weapon.

18:55 god how I wish I had an attack cool enough to merit a full screen covering name drop!

10:30 So if I got things right theoratically the truth is one object that is objective, however the different drives, cultures, civilisations .etc make it subjective by there own sensiblity and understanding, is that correct?

Best video on Lance I've seen in a while, haven't been this jazzed since Herny's vid on "why you should play lance" in Iceborne - which is why I picked it up in the first place. It's by and large the most subtly nuanced weapon in the series... at least from the main 14 I know about, haven't touched Magnet Spikes or Tonfas - but hopefully one day I'll put some time into Frontier Z. Getting back to Rise and Sunbreak, I think the former tainted my view about it's evolution up to that point. I had only played Lance in Iceborne prior at the time, and right now I've been going through the old games but as a dedicated lance main with my friend who is a hammer bro - he's only played World so it was my opportunity to show him the older games. So having these Ariel options like Twin Vines in Rise and Skyward Thrust in Sunbreak really didn't gel with me, but if I had ever tried Lance in Cross/Double Cross I would have seen similar things in the Ariel style being toyed with - among getting a parry in other styles that I'm assuming is better insta-guard (We are at the end of MH4U so I'm not sure about that yet). I knew about insta-guard being able to do just about anything out of successfully landing it back when it's frame window was like... 1-2 frames for a "strong" counter that was super weak - you had to treat it like Fox's shine from melee to do interesting things with it outside of it's intended counter. But I'm glad you talked twin-vines up more - I really need to get back into Sunbreak so I can do more with it and get comfortable changing my defense into offense in more lateral ways than the triple poke, reposition, or strong attack mindset. Lance is a great weapon and it warms my heart to see niche MH content creators give it love even if Longsword has kind of grabbed the multitudes as Lance sits with Gunlance in the least of all time picked category (though it has been a while since I've looked at polling for Sunbreak weapon popularity).

Why is this tutorial so fucking epic? You don't have to sell me Lance, I already love it anyway.

5:30 dope guide this is as far as I needed to watch I’m Gonna go try a new weapon ! 🎉

I like how the Hololive girls just created actual Japanese lyrics when singing along to this 😂

I have two sides: One is focused on slipping and sliding around a monster's attacks while chipping away at their feet with Dual Blades The other is a wall, standing there while countering the monster with Lance. Both are immensely satisfying lol

took me like 4 videos to realize we are both german.... my brain didnt even realize the german inputs in training mode together with the english voice.... XD

3:54 the heck did i just watch? xD is this a thing? rathalos in a fun mode in smash?

As a bow main I just want more cool ranged options. The bow guns are nice but are just guns at the end of the day. I always imagined a sling could be a cool new ranged weapon so we could get a blunt ranged. Or maybe a giant flail that is good at melee but you can charge it up like a hammer and throw the ball to deal blunt damage and pull yourself around the hunting area. Or we could get something like thrown weapons like a javelin/hand axe/throwing knives. Just something capcom, something new.

Thank you for this spectacular guide, as informative as it was entertaining! Lance mains, piece the heavens!

Never charge. Charge meh

I don’t comment often, but your lance guide is filled with love.