For those not in the know, to put into perspective just how hard Musou Eruzerion is (arguably one of the hardest bosses in gaming, period), it took 6 months after it's debut before someone finally managed to solo kill it.
Fun fact: Howling's first solo was most likely way harder on his release than elze as the first elze kill had a cart and howling was barely possible and because of that despite releasing pre extreme style he's still very strong in endgame due to how strong they made him its honestly probably a miracle they actually soloed howling pre Z
I just want a good MMO I can play with my friends. Blue Protocol has let me down, and many others also. MH is amazing, and I would play the HECK out of a MHMMO. Might very well give MHF a try eventually
So what I have learned is. Frontier is if the already crazy anime fights of Monster Hunter were somehow even more anime. Magnet Spike is G Rank on Easy Mode. and there are still people who say Kai instead of Ki. Great Video.
to be fair to magnet spike, was added specifically to handle musou monsters which for reference are such angry motherfuckers that a zenith 4 (g rank 800) feels like a low rank monster after you get used to their fights
@@robertomacetti7069it wasn't. It was added to handle zenith monsters in the very last version so players could speed through the game before the inevitable shutdown. It never got nerfed and remains an insane overtuned stupid weapon.
Little correction about MHP3RD. It's not a port. Aside from monsters pretty much everything is original in it. Even the locales were redesigned from their tri counterparts, even those without underwater combat. Some weapon moves were also slightly tweaked. It's basically how MHFU is a completely different game than MHDos and MH1.
17:25 No he isn't arguably he literally is the hardest. There has yet to be a confirmed TRUE slay on Burning Freezing with Bow and Hammer. Its to the point Hammer mathematically genuinely cannot kill True Slay BF Eruzerion unless the person using it gets god tier rng with the moves it uses, like if you get it you're probably cheating lol.
Yeah, as someone tolerant to some of its mmo grindy elements that are for sure flaws, my biggest genuine issue is with weapon efficacy in grank, too many weapons either totally fall short in dps and effective and fun moveset design for extreme like bow hammer and hunting horn, and some more mid tier weapons like the 2 lances and bowguns fall victim of a very boring meta playstyle compared to the style, power and skill expression of gs, ls, magnet spike and tonfas. As a devout lance main it was pretty sad seeing that most runs in grank are with super boring guard heavy reflect lance rather than making up for the lackluster extreme style with classic satisfying hop dodges that sadly are less good than mh4us evade lance in a game thats much more demanding in terms of precise and constant usage. Ive succumbed to just using ls and tonfas and i cnat deny that theyre a blast and feel like the true intended experience for grank, it just sucks so many weapons werent balanced as well.
Funny because its the least monster hunter game of all of them :) its mh on overloaded unbalanced crack. Only people who dont understand mh like that one
@@ZombieMorsThe only unbalanced things in frontier is just the endgame. Meanwhile in low rank and high rank everything is pretty tame, like taikun zamuza or espinas.
@@ZombieMors what does that have to do with "not understanding mh"? sounds like you never actually played the game yourself and only saw snippets of endgame content. frontier is the most difficult game in the series but not unfair. majority of frontier is balanced, i would even argue that only the top 1% of fights are "unbalanced" but those are also not meant to be fought solo, it was an mmo afterall. The bad thing imo tho is that once you have Zenith equipment you get too strong for regular Grank monsters, but thats it. Also in terms of content the game is unmatched, from their special event quests & collabs to stuff like mezfest or tournaments. I am slowly getting tired of people trashing on the game while not knowing anything about it.
I remember literally having to sign up for a japanese banking website so I could transfer online bought codes for money just to subscribe to this game in my early teens and trying to find a free vpn to be able to even play it and Dragon's dogma online, really get a hit of nostalgia when I go back to them these days.
I remember my dad hacked my psp around 2008, I was 6 and I stumbled across Monster Hunter Freedom 2. I adored that game and played it for around 3 years along with Freedom Unite. I discovered the wiki and spent my time on it printing monster weaknesses so I can know what element to use against each monster without going on the family pc (we only had 1 and my dad and brother were also gamers). When I finally killed the White Fatalis when I was around 9 I wanted to move on to Portable 3rd. Sadly it was only in Japanese and I wasn't familiar with adding games to my psp. With time I managed to get the game and struggled with the unfamiliar language. When Tri, 3 Ultimate and eventually released, I didn't have a 3ds or a Wii to play those games, but I did have a PS3 and the wiki showed the little [NEW] icon next to Frontier G Genuine. I begged my parents to buy it off of ebay. When it arrived in the mail I was stoked and put it into my PS3. Lets just say I was very sad when I realised I couldn't play it. Now I can though so I am happy, I still have the G Genuine disc to this day. Good times, long live Monster Hunter!
started frontier 2 weeks ago, willing to play GL and run around with extreme style, my plan was to go normal shell full burst all the way. i hit a wall when i needed to upgrade my armor by killing the GR Exotic (legendary) Meriganasu, this was the fight that told me, okay boy, time to quit running around to then shell dash -> swipe -> unleash fullburst in order to stay grounded block -> poke poke poke -> block. especially since this monster agro the highest damage dealing player. so i left behind my furious lance venom to get a g rank spread sleep GL. poking monster -> getting a sleep and as an oldschool player, setting up large barrel bombs and unleashing the most vicious wyvern fire in their head. As a boomstick enjoyer, i'd say i'm not disapointed actually, the fullburst animation is sad, 6 shells, appearing as a single explosion, but wide shelling allow for quicker recovery of wyvern fire, and the animation when u load shells into the wyvern fire to make it even more powerfull is amazing, unleashing nuke into monsters faces and seeing the blue-ish smoke on the part you hit is super satisfying, also being under hyper armor while you wyvern fire is fantastic, even if sometimes cost me a cart haha ! i was a bit sad that he hunter navigation provide armor set that basically let you get through low rank / high rank like a breeze, i mean, even GR can be done with Entora armor pushed to GX.. but as i did want to play with optimal dmg as a fullburst enjoyer, i made my own set, and i'm currently struggling cuz to go to GX i need for 3 of my gears to slay GX legendary monster, my g rank weapon is level 30 and still i struggle, whereas i have all the basic of GL dmg dealing skills, Gunnery god, recoil, better sharpness and less sharpness consumption to maintain a good sharpness while out of heatblade etc~ this game is sick, but if you wanna experience a classic progression where you go for your own stuff, it will be painfull especially if you go alone, for instaace to get to the legendary g rank quest, killing Mi Ru solo, is a wall, that attack that complete destroy your stamina bar will let you in a terrible state to fight XD i had to rely on bringing every stamina boost items to get through it and it took around 40minutes, i also wonder how it's even possible without Halk pots, cuz even at 1500armor, monsters shreds, they almost all have attacks that one shot you, if u survive any, u are forced to heal to the max or u might not survive a second attack, an overall great experience, but damn i wish progression was what we are accostumed to. Hope my lil experience here will motivate some more players to join rain and enjoy the gunlance with me
My love for Monster Hunter Frontier comes in a trifecta of an evolution of 2007 to 2019, having a bevy of monsters I want you to see reintroduced like Espinas, and having my favorite OST in the series. It’s just so.. weird. But in a good way. Sure it’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but knowing that officially it’s gone, even with the private server, makes me feel a sense of fondness towards it. I understand Frontier isn’t everyone’s cup of tea or what they would define as Mobster Hunter, but for an MMO that was originally a port of Dos, seeing its history of over twelve years and its many wonderful ideas like origin species and fantastic Elder Dragons like Guanzorumu and Shantien, gives it a special place in my heart. Rest in Peace Frontier, may you never be forgotten.
Great video, although I prefer the experience up to G9.1 before the compression kicked in, so all of the players by that time liked to play the game for what it was, that endless grind and all, after Z expansion it all went down and that's the experience most of the community had by now... But for those willing to have the experience how it used to be, the server code now have some retro compatibility to run them, I highly recommend playing it without any of those broken courses.
The hunting road rougelike version of monster hunter sounds like it could be a really good dedicated spinoff, I love roguelikes and love monhun. Maybe they'll do something like that again :)
I just realized: the tonfas and magnet spike were likely heavily reworked into the insect glauve and charge blade we now know and love. Think about it, like 80% of those weapons are part of or at least very alike to the ig and cb. And it's not one to one either, there's bits and pieces from each in both.
Dude your story in the beginning of going throught the wiki and wanting to hunt duram and nibelsnarf but having to wait is EXACTLY how I got started too
Been playing on the rain server myself for the last year great community and it really makes me happy to be able to play Frontier. It's truly a special game.
5:49 Actual cartoon reaction holy shit 🤣 Also banger video! I've seen quite a bit of gamplay but mostly had no idea about the actual mechanics and progression system, so this was very informative to watch. Would've like to see some of the more positive sides of Frontier being an MMO, however, like the 16 player Raviente siege and the silly events like the carnival. It definitely has piqued my interest in this game even more, so I might just figure out how to get it running in the future!
I’ve shouted this for years now, last time we had new weapons in MH was in 4 with IG and CB.. I loved the new weapons to learn and smack monsters with. We haven’t had new weapons for 2 generations now when there are magnet spike and tonfas perfectly there that can be implemented with some creativity. I might just be a cranky MH vet though lol
I only rank Eruzerion highly because of the collab quest in Phantasy Star Online 2, which really cemented my love for it, it was such a good collab quest
I have had so much fun playing Frontier on the Rain server for the past year or so. I also tried it when you could somewhat easily access the Taiwanese servers from abroad. There is a massive difference in grind/monetization between that and the Rain server, and it made the game so much more fun. Some fights like Elzelion are just not fun, but the majority of them, even some zeniths, are quite engaging and worth the try.
I have to say no matter what other people say Frontier is a monster hunter with only one issue being the massive power creep. Oh! And hunting road rules.
Frontier is oddly my favorite even after playing alot of other mh games, its fast paced and keeping you on your toes while still being slow and methodical, in my opinion. As much as the MMO aspect of these games get tedious, i never really found myself tired, hell i played from 8am-2am for a whole month straight (i was luckily given the chance to do this) and man the memories it was fun making friends and rising our ranks till we each hit grank and went off on our own. I miss my crew i wish i texted them on discord to keep in touch more often
After finishing the vid, I was just about to hit the sub button then I realized I was already subbed. And I thought I must've miss clicked it at same point, but no. You just hadn't uploaded in 8 months, and I've completely forgotten about this channel! Anyways. Another great vid, man. Best video explaining mh:frontier I've seen so far
Don't forget the quests that upgrade your attack and defense. You have to do that 200 +. Quest would usually involve hunting one monster multiple times just to complete one quest. Iirc, there are tickets you can purchase in the road shop that automatically complete the quest for you when you give them to the guild Master.
Ive been enjoying myself on the Rain server for a while now !! Only Raviente is left and all will be hunted ! Love Frontier but MS pin is deffo the most broken thing ever xD Amazing video
Seeing more and more Frontier content makes me, but what makes me happier is capcom recycling game material from Frontier to newer games (yes rise is not mainline that's why I avoided saying so) Great video dude
Excellent video. I'm in a server to get frontier running as well. I just need to set it up first. Thanks for shedding a light on how grindy the original experience was, it really puts it in a perspective that i'm sure as hell am not going to replicate. I want the best possible experience going in. Extreme switch axe, here I come!
yea the grind is based on the old mh system where you upgrade lowrank gear to highrank ect. obviously a non lowrank monster wont need as much grind but it gets to be like 12 upgrades per half tier it's insane. thankfully you can give yourself mats with the server commands to remove the extra grind. and also let's you get access to kits that were originally paid for gear, some of it is really cool. really helps with having the freedom to try everything out
for shantien and disufiroa fitting in mainline or not, while the visuals are a lot, the actual speed and size of the attacks are fairly in line with sunbreak's endgame and i could definitely see them as expansion final title update monsters like amatsu and fatalis
I'm not entirely sure how or why the algorithm decided to show me this video from a creator with three whole videos, but I'm so glad it did! You hit the nail on the head with the "there are two types of Monster Hunter games." As someone who started with 4U and really fell in love with the series with Generations/XX, it's a concept I have been trying to describe to my friends who have only experienced World and Rise. If I hadn't just happened to be suggested this video, I never would have known that there was a Frontier fan server. So, I'm really excited to try it out for the first time and appreciate that I won't have to experience the bullshit of the vanilla version. So, thank you for this video!
Yooo, I love to see Frontier getting some love on TH-cam! I just hit HR6 and I'm looking forward to hitting G-Rank soon! Fantastic job! I hope Frontier can gain more popularity now that it's so readily available!
I remember trying to play this game back in the day. I was obsessed with MH on the PS2 and needed more. You couldn’t play the JP version because your IP had to be in Japan, and this was before easily accessible VPNs. Next was Korean, which didn’t have an IP block but required you to enter a Korean SSN and after I was on Google seeing if I could get one I realized I was in way too deep and gave up lol
Frontier had a lot of amazing and very fun monsters that were very reasonable tbh The absolutely over the top insane monsters were a lot more far and few It's just that those far and few are actually so over the top they feel like all you actually see from this game
so as you said in the end, what you played before rain server with rebalnce or during, it isnt REALLY frontier at its fullest, and it kind of never was even while it was online, because this "at its fullest" i mean in a basically theoretical way but the real reason why i say this is because the closest thing to this theoretical has been worked on for years, in fact it is being made by mainly the person who started frontier recovery at all (and every fan server is derived from it) and it is getting closer and closer to completion, the main point of it is to rebalance everything and rework the progression and integrate everything in a "what if it wasnt plagued by mmo negatives" way
yep, so I've shifted development of (public) erupe to focus more on supporting older versions instead. that's why people are making servers for forward.5 now, the grind is still in the older versions.
Ive been wanting to try frontier and i never knew that it still exist kinda, mainly i just want to try the tonfa and gravity thingy i might give it a try then thanks for the vids man
i still remember when G rank just came out and i had started to play the month before, to grind hunter ranks i had bought some course i can't remember the name to increase the hunter rank point gains ( duration of a month ) and that very same month was so worth to farm HR points that i literally fought only the best monster to farm those to unlock the next best monster to farm those points. The first monster was a rathian and i had about 240 kills by the time i unlocked the next best quest that was odhibatorasu and i killed that about 350 times.
Quick amendment, frontier DEFINITELY has a story, a very big one at that, but a lot of it got lost as they kept the lore and stuff on their members website. They introduced new bits quite often because it was an MMO and the last thing you'd want is content draught.
its great that they're adding some of the weap moves from frontier but no new weapon like maybe tonfa nor magnet spike, heck maybe prowler mode would be suffice to say the least they can do.
I would like to see black rathian into the main series to see reddit twitter and literally everywhere all over the internet crying about how hard this monster is... and that's only the tip of the iceberg for us who played frontier. Beating mousous took my group and me a while, but god, they are so cool battles. Boosted, but cool.
The idea of Frontier is these guys out there fighting the unknown and they are the reason you haven't met these world enders. All the monsters data guild has, the maps of the world, these guys wrote it in blood. We merely hunters who ate the breadcrumbs lol. (They are like survey corps in AOT) That's why the monsters here looks like old gods or deities that you never find in any gen (yet). Not only the guild just not ready to put these quests for public yet lol, but also if you met them before guild permission, it means the frontier lines are eliminated. All the elder dragons that can erase an entire ecosystem that shows up in any gen means SOMEONE has already encountered them, these guys eat those for breakfast. (I once saw thousand cut white Nargacuga.) You think granpa White Fatalis is old? These Frontiers met his Zenith version.
It would never happen but it would be cool if they rereleased frontier so everyone can play it. Yes I know about community servers it would just be neat to have.
Chill on Zenith Gasura. He’s… fun 😂 (Truth be told, he is a bad matchup for Tonfas and MS-but I, a Switch Axe main, have a field day parrying his AOE claps and stomps in phase 2) Elzelion can be too when you enter a certain flow state parrying his attacks. Unfortunately, that flow state is constantly disrupted by his terrible hitboxes, like when his entire body becomes a hitbox when he’s throwing a projectile or just swiping his claws.
I feel like MH rise treated MH frontier as an idea pot. And I'll say there seems to be plenty of good ideas brewing in the frontier pot. I just don't want monster hunter to turn into a crazy action game. As much fun as the wirebugs were they are a very silly mechanic. I even think that the insect glaive (which I think of as my main weapon and love dearly) is just on the cusp of being too much. So for me if something is more ridiculous than jumping around with a bladed pole vault that let's you redirect by blasting air. It's too much for the PC in my opinion. Rambles bellow: read at your own risk. I also think that the combo-ing of air dash and attacking to fly with the insect glaive was too much in rise but I did like being able to stab into some wall as something that seems reasonable. I will say that I really hope that the kinsect itself gets some love in wilds the poor things have been the same static dolls on your arm for ages. I'd be up for a total redesign of the kinsects upgrades and variety but I get that's probably too much work to be worth it for such a small portion of the community. (I also use hammer and like the idea of the bowguns and bows but only very recently got the HBG to click a bit so can't really use them very well... Aerial hammer was peak silliness and I want to mount and KO and Stun my foes into the floor all while breaking every single part of their body into tiny little peices.)
The only thing i dislike about Frontier, is the lack of an input queue, having the side effect of ignoring your button presses if you turn your character at the same time, or i'm just doing something wrong with my controller.
The road shop shouldn't even have a lot of stuff, they were only there because... yes. Road was also a limited time thing that rotated in and out. But back to my previous points, as an example, there is 0 reason for stuff like musou decos and ravi gems to be in road shop, because guess what, they were not in road shop back then. A big portion of road shop items should be removed because they weren't even originally there and have alternate, more "monster hunter" ways to grind them, but it's not like most servers would care because they specifically want to turn their server into a road simulator and players would lose their minds if they actually had to do some ravi for ravi weapons (whose drops can be buffed so you dont have to grind it for hundreds of hours like in the live servers btw) or actually fight some musou monsters for musou decos (aka play the game).
@@bmahboy Renewal has removed musou decos from road shop and made ravi gems significantly more expensive to incentivize people doing raviente (they buffed the drops tremendously) as well as making a lot of custom quests for items instead of delegating them to be purchased in road as an attempt to divert a bit of the focus of the game from it.
as much as the rain server tries to fix the mmo grind, i didn't quite like how there's always equipment that's better than everything else so you can go straight into g rank and zeniths (like rukidiora equipment, the entora set you're given for free and the orb weapons at the start of g-rank, etc). progression feels too streamlined. i want to feel encouraged to hunt different monsters and craft different armor and weapons. also layered armor is still grindy as hell
A couple weeks ago I watched a multiple hour video that was "disproving all the people who say frontiers sucks." Weird that in that entire video he didnt mention the shop or the road at all. I still want to play it, but now I see why so many people hate it
it's horrible but thankfully, you can use the custom server you make to get past all of that by giving yourself items. it's what we did and made the game so much more enjoyable
@@BaSeGM Yes I know :) Not many people on Rain at least mess with Musous at this point unless they do solo speedruns. At least it's very hard to get people to join up for quests for them
my brother, do you still have a server that I might partake in? My save got deleted from a public server around a year ago (I was G-150 :( ) but I love frontiers and would love to play again.
Monster hunter is an ice cream shop The titles are each flavor. And so far, i am a fat boy celebrating my birthday at the ice cream shop. I am eating all the flavors. I wished i could play frontier :(
New sub we have the same feeling I don't know how will I play this game before and sad that server shutdown and wish I can play it...and I have vita before thank goodness my vista stilll alive... then my friend said you can play in in a private server just join rain server. So glad I join and now playing... the style is really good specially extreme....... lance is my fave then magnet spike.
5:40 it was the most frustrating thing in frontier, when I was in g rank I've spend so much time making the gureadomosu's tonfas for vampirism that by the time i finished it i was gr200+ and had to make a zenith weapon to break zenith parts.
You know, this video actually got me kind of an itch to play the game! Just... Which server do I pick? Just for info, i'm located in EU (Italy to be precise) so I don't know if I should pick a server like Rain (has servers in US if I'm not mistaken?). Any advice anyone? Godspeed to y'all
That's why I like meze, it's a mix of road and farming. As a solo player it's more enjoyable to farm tech decos through hiden armors than road by far 😅
For those not in the know, to put into perspective just how hard Musou Eruzerion is (arguably one of the hardest bosses in gaming, period), it took 6 months after it's debut before someone finally managed to solo kill it.
Put respect on Tomotaka's name!
I did it in a week but ok lol
@@pres002 The true slay quest, no you didn't.
Lying ass @@pres002
Fun fact: Howling's first solo was most likely way harder on his release than elze as the first elze kill had a cart and howling was barely possible and because of that despite releasing pre extreme style he's still very strong in endgame due to how strong they made him its honestly probably a miracle they actually soloed howling pre Z
me when im so down bad for wilds that i have to subject myself to an unhealthy amount of a dead monster hunter mmo from many moons ago
Custom servers are up if you ever want to check it out!
Not dead. Check out the Rain Server. Still active just no of servers anymore.
I just want a good MMO I can play with my friends. Blue Protocol has let me down, and many others also.
MH is amazing, and I would play the HECK out of a MHMMO. Might very well give MHF a try eventually
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@@shinon748that's just one of the many servers hosted by the server software made by the ZeruLight team.
So what I have learned is.
Frontier is if the already crazy anime fights of Monster Hunter were somehow even more anime.
Magnet Spike is G Rank on Easy Mode.
and there are still people who say Kai instead of Ki.
Great Video.
to be fair to magnet spike, was added specifically to handle musou monsters
which for reference
are such angry motherfuckers that a zenith 4 (g rank 800) feels like a low rank monster after you get used to their fights
Hey, reading comprehension doesn't change through the ages 😉
@@robertomacetti7069it wasn't. It was added to handle zenith monsters in the very last version so players could speed through the game before the inevitable shutdown. It never got nerfed and remains an insane overtuned stupid weapon.
@@OrgBrent it was added after almost every zenith
so no, not really true
@@OrgBrentnot even remotely true
Hate it or love it, Frontier's Legacy is undeniable and they will be part of the mainline from now on and ill gonna love it.
Personally I love it. I really hope they bring the Tonfas in at some point
The problem is that you people glaze the hell out of it even though the game was dogshit. Just because it's part of the series doesn't change shit
Little correction about MHP3RD.
It's not a port. Aside from monsters pretty much everything is original in it. Even the locales were redesigned from their tri counterparts, even those without underwater combat.
Some weapon moves were also slightly tweaked.
It's basically how MHFU is a completely different game than MHDos and MH1.
It also had a different hub, didn't it? I remember being able to visit it in Generations
@@SelnathornYes it does! Yukumo village! Such a cool hub. P3RD is awesome.
When I saw longsword’s release move all I could think was “extreme style is so back”
17:25 No he isn't arguably he literally is the hardest. There has yet to be a confirmed TRUE slay on Burning Freezing with Bow and Hammer. Its to the point Hammer mathematically genuinely cannot kill True Slay BF Eruzerion unless the person using it gets god tier rng with the moves it uses, like if you get it you're probably cheating lol.
There is a bow run of elze in the rain discord speedrun channel by someone named Tomo. The video is link-only, but it is there
hbg can't too from what i heard
finally a game where is not clowning on every other weapon
Yeah, as someone tolerant to some of its mmo grindy elements that are for sure flaws, my biggest genuine issue is with weapon efficacy in grank, too many weapons either totally fall short in dps and effective and fun moveset design for extreme like bow hammer and hunting horn, and some more mid tier weapons like the 2 lances and bowguns fall victim of a very boring meta playstyle compared to the style, power and skill expression of gs, ls, magnet spike and tonfas. As a devout lance main it was pretty sad seeing that most runs in grank are with super boring guard heavy reflect lance rather than making up for the lackluster extreme style with classic satisfying hop dodges that sadly are less good than mh4us evade lance in a game thats much more demanding in terms of precise and constant usage. Ive succumbed to just using ls and tonfas and i cnat deny that theyre a blast and feel like the true intended experience for grank, it just sucks so many weapons werent balanced as well.
@@elielayala8412 Was it TRUE slay or the repel cause Im talking about the True Slay cause the Repel is doable with every weapon
@@raditz1101 it's the true slay
Frontier is by far my favorite game in the series. Game is undefeated.
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Thats whatever man idec
Funny because its the least monster hunter game of all of them :) its mh on overloaded unbalanced crack. Only people who dont understand mh like that one
@@ZombieMorsThe only unbalanced things in frontier is just the endgame. Meanwhile in low rank and high rank everything is pretty tame, like taikun zamuza or espinas.
@@ZombieMors what does that have to do with "not understanding mh"? sounds like you never actually played the game yourself and only saw snippets of endgame content. frontier is the most difficult game in the series but not unfair. majority of frontier is balanced, i would even argue that only the top 1% of fights are "unbalanced" but those are also not meant to be fought solo, it was an mmo afterall. The bad thing imo tho is that once you have Zenith equipment you get too strong for regular Grank monsters, but thats it.
Also in terms of content the game is unmatched, from their special event quests & collabs to stuff like mezfest or tournaments.
I am slowly getting tired of people trashing on the game while not knowing anything about it.
I remember literally having to sign up for a japanese banking website so I could transfer online bought codes for money just to subscribe to this game in my early teens and trying to find a free vpn to be able to even play it and Dragon's dogma online, really get a hit of nostalgia when I go back to them these days.
This is a great video going over Frontier! Glad it can get more love and recognition!
I remember my dad hacked my psp around 2008, I was 6 and I stumbled across Monster Hunter Freedom 2. I adored that game and played it for around 3 years along with Freedom Unite. I discovered the wiki and spent my time on it printing monster weaknesses so I can know what element to use against each monster without going on the family pc (we only had 1 and my dad and brother were also gamers). When I finally killed the White Fatalis when I was around 9 I wanted to move on to Portable 3rd. Sadly it was only in Japanese and I wasn't familiar with adding games to my psp. With time I managed to get the game and struggled with the unfamiliar language. When Tri, 3 Ultimate and eventually released, I didn't have a 3ds or a Wii to play those games, but I did have a PS3 and the wiki showed the little [NEW] icon next to Frontier G Genuine. I begged my parents to buy it off of ebay. When it arrived in the mail I was stoked and put it into my PS3. Lets just say I was very sad when I realised I couldn't play it. Now I can though so I am happy, I still have the G Genuine disc to this day. Good times, long live Monster Hunter!
This is THE definitive frontier video on the platform for me now . Fantastic work !!!
started frontier 2 weeks ago, willing to play GL and run around with extreme style, my plan was to go normal shell full burst all the way. i hit a wall when i needed to upgrade my armor by killing the GR Exotic (legendary) Meriganasu, this was the fight that told me, okay boy, time to quit running around to then shell dash -> swipe -> unleash fullburst in order to stay grounded block -> poke poke poke -> block. especially since this monster agro the highest damage dealing player. so i left behind my furious lance venom to get a g rank spread sleep GL. poking monster -> getting a sleep and as an oldschool player, setting up large barrel bombs and unleashing the most vicious wyvern fire in their head.
As a boomstick enjoyer, i'd say i'm not disapointed actually, the fullburst animation is sad, 6 shells, appearing as a single explosion, but wide shelling allow for quicker recovery of wyvern fire, and the animation when u load shells into the wyvern fire to make it even more powerfull is amazing, unleashing nuke into monsters faces and seeing the blue-ish smoke on the part you hit is super satisfying, also being under hyper armor while you wyvern fire is fantastic, even if sometimes cost me a cart haha !
i was a bit sad that he hunter navigation provide armor set that basically let you get through low rank / high rank like a breeze, i mean, even GR can be done with Entora armor pushed to GX.. but as i did want to play with optimal dmg as a fullburst enjoyer, i made my own set, and i'm currently struggling cuz to go to GX i need for 3 of my gears to slay GX legendary monster, my g rank weapon is level 30 and still i struggle, whereas i have all the basic of GL dmg dealing skills, Gunnery god, recoil, better sharpness and less sharpness consumption to maintain a good sharpness while out of heatblade etc~
this game is sick, but if you wanna experience a classic progression where you go for your own stuff, it will be painfull especially if you go alone, for instaace to get to the legendary g rank quest, killing Mi Ru solo, is a wall, that attack that complete destroy your stamina bar will let you in a terrible state to fight XD i had to rely on bringing every stamina boost items to get through it and it took around 40minutes, i also wonder how it's even possible without Halk pots, cuz even at 1500armor, monsters shreds, they almost all have attacks that one shot you, if u survive any, u are forced to heal to the max or u might not survive a second attack, an overall great experience, but damn i wish progression was what we are accostumed to.
Hope my lil experience here will motivate some more players to join rain and enjoy the gunlance with me
My love for Monster Hunter Frontier comes in a trifecta of an evolution of 2007 to 2019, having a bevy of monsters I want you to see reintroduced like Espinas, and having my favorite OST in the series. It’s just so.. weird. But in a good way. Sure it’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but knowing that officially it’s gone, even with the private server, makes me feel a sense of fondness towards it. I understand Frontier isn’t everyone’s cup of tea or what they would define as Mobster Hunter, but for an MMO that was originally a port of Dos, seeing its history of over twelve years and its many wonderful ideas like origin species and fantastic Elder Dragons like Guanzorumu and Shantien, gives it a special place in my heart. Rest in Peace Frontier, may you never be forgotten.
Great video, although I prefer the experience up to G9.1 before the compression kicked in, so all of the players by that time liked to play the game for what it was, that endless grind and all, after Z expansion it all went down and that's the experience most of the community had by now... But for those willing to have the experience how it used to be, the server code now have some retro compatibility to run them, I highly recommend playing it without any of those broken courses.
The hunting road rougelike version of monster hunter sounds like it could be a really good dedicated spinoff, I love roguelikes and love monhun. Maybe they'll do something like that again :)
Mas this actually got me wanting to play Frontier since now I know about the english patch and Rain server
I just realized: the tonfas and magnet spike were likely heavily reworked into the insect glauve and charge blade we now know and love. Think about it, like 80% of those weapons are part of or at least very alike to the ig and cb. And it's not one to one either, there's bits and pieces from each in both.
Wasnt Magne Spike added to Frontier after IG and CB were added in MH4?
i dunno man, tonfa released in the same year as 4u
magnet spike came after world
@@SuperRitz44 Magnet spike was added after Generations came out.
Dude your story in the beginning of going throught the wiki and wanting to hunt duram and nibelsnarf but having to wait is EXACTLY how I got started too
Been playing on the rain server myself for the last year great community and it really makes me happy to be able to play Frontier. It's truly a special game.
5:49 Actual cartoon reaction holy shit 🤣
Also banger video! I've seen quite a bit of gamplay but mostly had no idea about the actual mechanics and progression system, so this was very informative to watch. Would've like to see some of the more positive sides of Frontier being an MMO, however, like the 16 player Raviente siege and the silly events like the carnival. It definitely has piqued my interest in this game even more, so I might just figure out how to get it running in the future!
I’ve shouted this for years now, last time we had new weapons in MH was in 4 with IG and CB.. I loved the new weapons to learn and smack monsters with. We haven’t had new weapons for 2 generations now when there are magnet spike and tonfas perfectly there that can be implemented with some creativity. I might just be a cranky MH vet though lol
I only rank Eruzerion highly because of the collab quest in Phantasy Star Online 2, which really cemented my love for it, it was such a good collab quest
I have had so much fun playing Frontier on the Rain server for the past year or so. I also tried it when you could somewhat easily access the Taiwanese servers from abroad. There is a massive difference in grind/monetization between that and the Rain server, and it made the game so much more fun. Some fights like Elzelion are just not fun, but the majority of them, even some zeniths, are quite engaging and worth the try.
Played Frontier when it was still online. Very underrated MMO. Genuinely great content. Love the endgame.
I have to say no matter what other people say Frontier is a monster hunter with only one issue being the massive power creep. Oh! And hunting road rules.
Frontier is oddly my favorite even after playing alot of other mh games, its fast paced and keeping you on your toes while still being slow and methodical, in my opinion. As much as the MMO aspect of these games get tedious, i never really found myself tired, hell i played from 8am-2am for a whole month straight (i was luckily given the chance to do this) and man the memories it was fun making friends and rising our ranks till we each hit grank and went off on our own. I miss my crew i wish i texted them on discord to keep in touch more often
Really good video! i was curious about this one, never got to play it as a kid maybe I'll try now
Subscriber earned, I kept hearing about the predation but nobody seemed to go in as deep with it as you did here
After finishing the vid, I was just about to hit the sub button then I realized I was already subbed. And I thought I must've miss clicked it at same point, but no. You just hadn't uploaded in 8 months, and I've completely forgotten about this channel!
Anyways. Another great vid, man. Best video explaining mh:frontier I've seen so far
I genuinely feel like monster hunter should go all out, i always loved the crazy designs
Don't forget the quests that upgrade your attack and defense. You have to do that 200 +. Quest would usually involve hunting one monster multiple times just to complete one quest. Iirc, there are tickets you can purchase in the road shop that automatically complete the quest for you when you give them to the guild Master.
Ive been enjoying myself on the Rain server for a while now !! Only Raviente is left and all will be hunted ! Love Frontier but MS pin is deffo the most broken thing ever xD Amazing video
I never played frontiers but the tonfa gameplay makes me really want it
Played on rain before Sunbreak went live and I had a blast with the game. I was thrilled to see Espinas on a main title.
Seeing more and more Frontier content makes me, but what makes me happier is capcom recycling game material from Frontier to newer games (yes rise is not mainline that's why I avoided saying so)
Great video dude
Excellent video. I'm in a server to get frontier running as well. I just need to set it up first. Thanks for shedding a light on how grindy the original experience was, it really puts it in a perspective that i'm sure as hell am not going to replicate. I want the best possible experience going in. Extreme switch axe, here I come!
yea the grind is based on the old mh system where you upgrade lowrank gear to highrank ect. obviously a non lowrank monster wont need as much grind but it gets to be like 12 upgrades per half tier it's insane.
thankfully you can give yourself mats with the server commands to remove the extra grind. and also let's you get access to kits that were originally paid for gear, some of it is really cool. really helps with having the freedom to try everything out
for shantien and disufiroa fitting in mainline or not, while the visuals are a lot, the actual speed and size of the attacks are fairly in line with sunbreak's endgame and i could definitely see them as expansion final title update monsters like amatsu and fatalis
I'm not entirely sure how or why the algorithm decided to show me this video from a creator with three whole videos, but I'm so glad it did! You hit the nail on the head with the "there are two types of Monster Hunter games." As someone who started with 4U and really fell in love with the series with Generations/XX, it's a concept I have been trying to describe to my friends who have only experienced World and Rise. If I hadn't just happened to be suggested this video, I never would have known that there was a Frontier fan server. So, I'm really excited to try it out for the first time and appreciate that I won't have to experience the bullshit of the vanilla version. So, thank you for this video!
Hey, great video, thank you
This IS the BEST video i ever see of Frontier
Love the vids man, keep up the good work!
Yooo, I love to see Frontier getting some love on TH-cam! I just hit HR6 and I'm looking forward to hitting G-Rank soon! Fantastic job! I hope Frontier can gain more popularity now that it's so readily available!
Just hit HR6? God rest your soul, you're not coming out of that alive.
Hr5 and 6 is a nightmare
I remember trying to play this game back in the day. I was obsessed with MH on the PS2 and needed more. You couldn’t play the JP version because your IP had to be in Japan, and this was before easily accessible VPNs. Next was Korean, which didn’t have an IP block but required you to enter a Korean SSN and after I was on Google seeing if I could get one I realized I was in way too deep and gave up lol
pretty cool video man, hope to see more from you c:
Great video m8, I'm surprised you don't even have 1000subs yet That's crazy.
Man, I LOVE your videos
You deserve way way more visibility in the monster hunter community, I hope you'll stick around doing videos for a long time!
Damn I knew it was grindy, but this is too much. I'm no longer sad for missing out on Frontier.
I like the stylized roar look from these games.
Amazing video thanks man, subscribed
Frontier had a lot of amazing and very fun monsters that were very reasonable tbh
The absolutely over the top insane monsters were a lot more far and few
It's just that those far and few are actually so over the top they feel like all you actually see from this game
so as you said in the end, what you played before rain server with rebalnce or during, it isnt REALLY frontier at its fullest, and it kind of never was even while it was online, because this "at its fullest" i mean in a basically theoretical way
but the real reason why i say this is because the closest thing to this theoretical has been worked on for years, in fact it is being made by mainly the person who started frontier recovery at all (and every fan server is derived from it) and it is getting closer and closer to completion, the main point of it is to rebalance everything and rework the progression and integrate everything in a "what if it wasnt plagued by mmo negatives" way
yep, so I've shifted development of (public) erupe to focus more on supporting older versions instead. that's why people are making servers for forward.5 now, the grind is still in the older versions.
Who is making this version of Frontier that you're referencing?
frontier is absolutely amazing, everybody should try it
Every time I hear about the weapons on Frontier I want to see them on the mainline as well as some more monsters and blights including the zenith.
Ive been wanting to try frontier and i never knew that it still exist kinda, mainly i just want to try the tonfa and gravity thingy i might give it a try then thanks for the vids man
now we need a video on the other monster hunter mmo
One day I want to play frontier it looks just so cool
Again this made me realise I like a bit more grounded MH games x,) I noticed it with Generations and Rise...tho I still play both lol
Now I'm gonna play this insane game.
9:26 LMAO
that enormous dash dude
i still remember when G rank just came out and i had started to play the month before, to grind hunter ranks i had bought some course i can't remember the name to increase the hunter rank point gains ( duration of a month ) and that very same month was so worth to farm HR points that i literally fought only the best monster to farm those to unlock the next best monster to farm those points. The first monster was a rathian and i had about 240 kills by the time i unlocked the next best quest that was odhibatorasu and i killed that about 350 times.
Quick amendment, frontier DEFINITELY has a story, a very big one at that, but a lot of it got lost as they kept the lore and stuff on their members website. They introduced new bits quite often because it was an MMO and the last thing you'd want is content draught.
its great that they're adding some of the weap moves from frontier but no new weapon like maybe tonfa nor magnet spike, heck maybe prowler mode would be suffice to say the least they can do.
I would like to see black rathian into the main series to see reddit twitter and literally everywhere all over the internet crying about how hard this monster is... and that's only the tip of the iceberg for us who played frontier. Beating mousous took my group and me a while, but god, they are so cool battles. Boosted, but cool.
The idea of Frontier is these guys out there fighting the unknown and they are the reason you haven't met these world enders. All the monsters data guild has, the maps of the world, these guys wrote it in blood. We merely hunters who ate the breadcrumbs lol.
(They are like survey corps in AOT)
That's why the monsters here looks like old gods or deities that you never find in any gen (yet). Not only the guild just not ready to put these quests for public yet lol, but also if you met them before guild permission, it means the frontier lines are eliminated.
All the elder dragons that can erase an entire ecosystem that shows up in any gen means SOMEONE has already encountered them, these guys eat those for breakfast.
(I once saw thousand cut white Nargacuga.)
You think granpa White Fatalis is old? These Frontiers met his Zenith version.
I consider Magnet Spike to be more the cousin of the Switch Axe than the Charge Blade.
Don’t you dare talk down on my wittle nibblesnarf he’s doing his best!
Shout out to you for using the GU dlc-download-page-music. One of my favorite MH tracks of all time.
Great content, I NEED more
It would never happen but it would be cool if they rereleased frontier so everyone can play it. Yes I know about community servers it would just be neat to have.
Great stuff.... I nearly asked what's your main weapon. .....BUT WHAT WILL BE YOUR SECOND?
Chill on Zenith Gasura. He’s… fun 😂 (Truth be told, he is a bad matchup for Tonfas and MS-but I, a Switch Axe main, have a field day parrying his AOE claps and stomps in phase 2)
Elzelion can be too when you enter a certain flow state parrying his attacks. Unfortunately, that flow state is constantly disrupted by his terrible hitboxes, like when his entire body becomes a hitbox when he’s throwing a projectile or just swiping his claws.
CAPCOM, GIVE US FRONTIER'S EXCLUSIVE WEAPONS, AND MY LIVE IS YOURS!
Extreme style is still the best it ever was, frontier had some of the most fun moves for weapons period
Imagine they combine gobul and nibblesnarf in wilds
great video bro, you should make a monster hunter online video
Great Video 😁👍
I feel like MH rise treated MH frontier as an idea pot. And I'll say there seems to be plenty of good ideas brewing in the frontier pot. I just don't want monster hunter to turn into a crazy action game.
As much fun as the wirebugs were they are a very silly mechanic. I even think that the insect glaive (which I think of as my main weapon and love dearly) is just on the cusp of being too much.
So for me if something is more ridiculous than jumping around with a bladed pole vault that let's you redirect by blasting air. It's too much for the PC in my opinion.
Rambles bellow: read at your own risk.
I also think that the combo-ing of air dash and attacking to fly with the insect glaive was too much in rise but I did like being able to stab into some wall as something that seems reasonable.
I will say that I really hope that the kinsect itself gets some love in wilds the poor things have been the same static dolls on your arm for ages. I'd be up for a total redesign of the kinsects upgrades and variety but I get that's probably too much work to be worth it for such a small portion of the community.
(I also use hammer and like the idea of the bowguns and bows but only very recently got the HBG to click a bit so can't really use them very well... Aerial hammer was peak silliness and I want to mount and KO and Stun my foes into the floor all while breaking every single part of their body into tiny little peices.)
MAKE MORE VIDEOS AND MAKE THEM NOW! I LOVE YOUR CONTENT AND NEED MORE
I miss this game so much 🥺
The only thing i dislike about Frontier, is the lack of an input queue, having the side effect of ignoring your button presses if you turn your character at the same time, or i'm just doing something wrong with my controller.
This game definitely gave me the best and worst moments of my life simultaneously (dying/beating musou elze)
The road shop shouldn't even have a lot of stuff, they were only there because... yes. Road was also a limited time thing that rotated in and out. But back to my previous points, as an example, there is 0 reason for stuff like musou decos and ravi gems to be in road shop, because guess what, they were not in road shop back then. A big portion of road shop items should be removed because they weren't even originally there and have alternate, more "monster hunter" ways to grind them, but it's not like most servers would care because they specifically want to turn their server into a road simulator and players would lose their minds if they actually had to do some ravi for ravi weapons (whose drops can be buffed so you dont have to grind it for hundreds of hours like in the live servers btw) or actually fight some musou monsters for musou decos (aka play the game).
Do you know which servers actually make it so you don't just play road and have to fight Musous?
@@bmahboy Renewal has removed musou decos from road shop and made ravi gems significantly more expensive to incentivize people doing raviente (they buffed the drops tremendously) as well as making a lot of custom quests for items instead of delegating them to be purchased in road as an attempt to divert a bit of the focus of the game from it.
Nice content, u need more subscribers
You know its asian mmo when it feels like a 9 to 5 grindy work with ofcourse added gambling😂
the deal with frontier is that it's awesome
as much as the rain server tries to fix the mmo grind, i didn't quite like how there's always equipment that's better than everything else so you can go straight into g rank and zeniths (like rukidiora equipment, the entora set you're given for free and the orb weapons at the start of g-rank, etc). progression feels too streamlined. i want to feel encouraged to hunt different monsters and craft different armor and weapons.
also layered armor is still grindy as hell
A couple weeks ago I watched a multiple hour video that was "disproving all the people who say frontiers sucks."
Weird that in that entire video he didnt mention the shop or the road at all. I still want to play it, but now I see why so many people hate it
it's horrible but thankfully, you can use the custom server you make to get past all of that by giving yourself items. it's what we did and made the game so much more enjoyable
@petercottantail7850 thats cool. Is it hard or expensive to set a server up? Id like to do that, but just dont know how. Any good videos about it?
Seeing this video make me want to play it, but I don't know where I have to search to play the private server
Search rain server frontier
I have played frontier for the last year and I don't place Elzelion anywhere because he dies in 10 seconds during Road runs
Try doing the musou road elze is easy af.
That's regular elzelion. Musou elzelion is one of if not the most difficult fight. Some of the weapons literally cannot true slay a musou elzelion
@@BaSeGM Yes I know :) Not many people on Rain at least mess with Musous at this point unless they do solo speedruns. At least it's very hard to get people to join up for quests for them
my brother, do you still have a server that I might partake in? My save got deleted from a public server around a year ago (I was G-150 :( ) but I love frontiers and would love to play again.
5:44 Wait, that smithy is the same from the Soaratorium in GU!
Oh dont worry Elzelion is also the monster mainline only people use to trash on Frontier without researching it beyond seeing its design lol.
Monster hunter is an ice cream shop
The titles are each flavor. And so far, i am a fat boy celebrating my birthday at the ice cream shop. I am eating all the flavors. I wished i could play frontier :(
Great video, the goocoo is pleased
New sub we have the same feeling I don't know how will I play this game before and sad that server shutdown and wish I can play it...and I have vita before thank goodness my vista stilll alive... then my friend said you can play in in a private server just join rain server. So glad I join and now playing... the style is really good specially extreme....... lance is my fave then magnet spike.
I've never had the courage to tackle frontier.
I want great jaggi back :(
5:40 it was the most frustrating thing in frontier, when I was in g rank I've spend so much time making the gureadomosu's tonfas for vampirism that by the time i finished it i was gr200+ and had to make a zenith weapon to break zenith parts.
Idc bring back the magnet spike in wilds PLEASE
You know, this video actually got me kind of an itch to play the game! Just... Which server do I pick? Just for info, i'm located in EU (Italy to be precise) so I don't know if I should pick a server like Rain (has servers in US if I'm not mistaken?). Any advice anyone? Godspeed to y'all
Rain has routing to EU and JP. The current MHF launcher shows a lists of servers to choose from as well.
@Shadowlet ok, thx for the info m8
Try renewal, Rain has it's own issues such as the road shop
That's why I like meze, it's a mix of road and farming. As a solo player it's more enjoyable to farm tech decos through hiden armors than road by far 😅