Monster Hunter: World

Chysamere said:

What weapon did you settle on?

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Longsword and Bow I enjoyed the most

I'm always IG or SnS. I like being the status effect guy.

Story? Ahaha.

The older games have literally no joining story. The only game that actually had a decent story in and of itself was 4, which was the Frenzy Virus driving all of the monsters batshit crazy that was spread by Gore Magala and its evolved form Shagaru Magala. You traveled with a caravan of people to different locations, but those characters had almost no backstory and were just some standard archetypes.

For World, the general story is the place your character is going the "New World" has a strange event, where every 10 years a bunch of Elder Dragons migrate to the island in the "Elder Crossing". Every time this happens the Guild (people in charge of assigning hunters to go kill shit) sends an expedition to research whats going on. Your character is part of the fifth expedition. You wind up meeting people from the other 4 expeditions while you find shit out on the island. It looks like the mystery of this game won't be fully revealed until the very end, as the guy I've been watching is up to 7 Star quests and they still have no idea why the Elder Dragons migrate to the island.

Chysamere said:

See? There's some story there. I want to learn about the Frenzy Virus, Gore Magala and Shagaru Magala, what the New World is, what the Elder Dragons are and who have attacked in the past, what the guild is, what happened in the other 4 expeditions, and what the "Island" is. I'm coming into world with literally 0 idea about anything that's happened before.

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My reply was more of a inside joke with the MH community about the story being vague, even the story about the frenzy virus is quite vague but there is definitely some story. It is nice that MHW is throwing together more story and including some past things. It'll definitely help Western fans feel more connected.

Fedor said:

digital foundry

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So, things to get from that. Game features an uncapped framerate

Regular PS: Averages around 30, with dips below 30 and almost going to 40 in some areas. 1080p

PS pro framerate option: Averages around 45ish. Rarely / if ever reaching 60. 1080p. Graphical options similar to the regular PS.

PS pro visuals option: Didn't see a FPS part for that, but assume similar to the framerate option? 1080p. Graphical option less popins and longer LOD.

PS pro resolution option: Around 35fps, but never dips below. 3200*1800. Graphics are sharper.

Conspiracy theory time: Capcom are aware of the framerate issues. Can make them better, but don't. While Destiny 2 didn't have retention, what they did see is a large portion of people double dipping for the PC port due to 60fps with all bells and whistles on.

With the long gap between ports, people who want the game will buy the PS4 version first. Then even if they invest a large amount of time on the PS4 version, the PC version will give quite a significant increase of the flow of the game and combat (which is what this game is all about) by simply having a steady 60+fps.

If the PC version only had pure graphical things like godrays and DX11-12 fancyness, that doesn't really change anything about the gameplay, and would only matter to people with top tier rigs. But with every console option being below 60 no matter the setting, being able to adjust the graphics on the PC to match your PC to get 60fps and have that impact the flow of the game and such your enjoyment of it will cause people to double dip.

So, Capcom has figured out that people will by the console version regardless since PC version is probably quite some months off. By leaving FPS unoptimized, more people will double dip when the PC version is released. #profit

Too much conspiracy for my taste. MH has never been concerned with such things so why change now? Its the same engine essentially so it makes sense that it follows suit with the previous games.

While I know Capcom has made questionable decisions with some of its games such as Street Fighter, it's negative influence on Monster Hunter has been little to none. Regardless, if you're coming into MH worrying about framerate and graphics, you're gonna get backlash because it's never been about that. As long as I don't have actual frame drops where I am teleporting (which I did in very specific situations in the beta) then I'll be happy regardless of the FPS.

Edit: I should have stated I was getting frame drops on a base PS4 and will be getting a Pro on Friday so hopefully those will be gone.

Intrinsic said:

This has some stuff:

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Intrinsic hello????? Are we about to slay some GD monsters together babe

Gaaaaaaaayyyy