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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: March 21, 2018, 07:37:42 PM »

So it's more or less the same, but packaged in such a way where it makes working with code easier to read and more efficient to work through. In all honesty, i'd probably have it figured out by now (working with sublime that is) if I just didn't procrastinate it off.

As you said, after a day of work, last thing you want to do is more work. I wanted to work on stuff monday, but...two doctors appointments plus errends...there's 10 hours of my day gone right there.

I'll get to it eventually, I'm basically dipping my toes in very slowly, but as soon as my foot is in the water, the learning should come more rapidly. It's something i've wanted to do for a long time now, and it even has the carrot on the stick of "if you learn me, I am an employable skilll..ooooo!!!!" which is a bonus, but secondary to me just wanting to learn it for the sake of learning it.

I may drag this discussion onto another thread whenever I make one, whenever I get more into this to where I have something to talk about. Could be next week...could be next month...

*edit*

another factor to me being lazy is i've been trying to be away from my pc since I know now that it's the cause of my back problems...so looking into a laptop so i can take some basic computing into the living room and a place where I have better posture.

Any recommendations? Kinda wish netbooks didn't turn into tablet's with keyboards attached to them, because I liked the small form factor they offered, but maybe with 2018 preformance that should be able to handle anything that came out pre 2010.

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: March 20, 2018, 12:14:53 PM »

I think the big difference between monster hunter and diablo in the loot sense is you can do a greater rift or normal rift in a short time with speed builds (which is the majority of peoples farming), monster hunter, it's a bit longer, you fight one thing, and have a few chances to get a .0000003% drop.

I forget what season it was, I may or may not have posted it here, not even sure. But I played one season, got a crusader up to competitive grifts, then got a witchdoctor to REALLY competitive grifts (like 1-2 levels outside the top 1000), full ancients best in slot gear that really only needed minor tweeks and good rng in the rift.

Both of those took me less time than it took me to get a guard up gem in monster hunter. I think I put over 120 hours that season, I got around 201 in monster hunter. I got full best in slot ancients for my witchdoctor in that time....that guard up gem I said I got one in 200 hours...I didn't, because I don't have it...and I never will. I don't even need it, I just want it.

Yeah, it's a great language to get started with. Free, available on pretty much every platform, doesn't require compilation, etc. Most importantly, it forces you to practice proper indentation style, and that latter point will stick with you even if you move on to a different language.

Which editor did you end up going with?

Considering my knowledge is VERY DAMN NEAR non existant, I went with whats popular, sublime text. Still have no goddamn idea what I'm doing, fuddling around with hello world and whatever new people do. Managing the text editor, a shell, and an open python file I can edit, I don't really understand it. If I can have my test.py(file I use as a sandbox to type things and see if stuff works) open, and code in that, what use is sublime to me? I'm not really that far at all in this book(we're talking i open the book and invest 10 minutes into piddling with the keyboard here) and it's introducing the wild world of VARIABLES, I try that shit in sublime, errors and shit, open my test.py file in whatever generic interface that gives me, shit works fine.

I'll probably start investing more and more time as I obtain more knowledge, it kinda reminds me of working out. The first few weeks suck, you don't feel good, you're sore, and don't know what you're doing. Therefore, it's hard to get going because every time you try, it's a chore, not fun, and you don't want to do it...so you push it off a few weeks...months...years, whenever you get past that hurdle though, it's fine. I feel the same way with programming, I've invested very little time into this book and If I just worked on it two weeks ago instead of putting it off, I'd be damn near done with it by now.

I'm more or less done with monster hunter till DLC (which I'll consume in a short amount of time before shelving the game till the next farther off DLC), so I got the free time...it's just A struggle with something and get frustrated for a bit, or B find next vidya I'll sink my teeth into. I can do both, and I will do both, but I really should at least get a few chapters done in this fucker before I pop in next 100 hour jrpg I'm contemplating playing.

Dat procrastination lifestyle.

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: March 15, 2018, 08:56:15 PM »

Investigations do sound like something that would make me switch off after a while. It's sounds a lot like primal (or even ancient) hunting in Diablo 3 seasons. When I get to the point of having zero forward progress in 4-5 hours I typically abandon that character.

I'd say it's worse than ancient hunting (I quit before primals were introduced), I think I mentioned earlier, there are quite a few decorations I HAVE YET TO SEE IN TWO HUNDRED HOURS. The RNG is straight up horseshit, I can't defend it. HOWEVER, any piece of gear you want, you can get, so it's probably more similar to hunting zod runes or other rare runesin diablo 2, you'll probably never see them in 1000 hours of gameplay, but they theoretically exist. To note, I have probably put over 1k hours into d2, and have never seen a zod rune, or even other less rare runes like jah and a few others. So maybe...not as rare as those, but hundreds of hours to get one, yeah.

That being said, the fact that they threw augments in does seem like it would ease the grind a bit. By how you describe it, it sounds like if you do a bunch of hunts you're typically going to walk away with at least some sort of stat improvement. Is that fairly accurate?

Not exactly, you're getting monster parts and whatnot, and more rarely gems (rare crafting materials basically), but for the most part if you go "i want those gloves, or that weapon" a few runs on whatever monster it is, you'll have it. The farm isn't so much for gear since it's fairly painless to get, but the end game stuff augmentation stones and decorations is the real hell. But like if you're me, and play lance, then decide "man I kinda wanna try heavy bowgun, might craft 2-3 top end bowguns and get a set of gear to play it" you can kinda just do that, and either you already have the mats, or they won't take too long to obtain. It's real easy to switch to different sets/weapons in this game.

Also playing low rank and high rank, totally different games. Low rank is pretty linear, mostly shoehorned into story missions. High rank is where the game opens up into a more open ended experience, still story missions to do to progress, but you can kinda tackle it as you please. Post story completion (aka watch the credits) the game introduces you to the third portion which is still high rank, but tempered monsters, which has a few missions to it, before the actual end game grind starts. So you may get your fill of the game before you even hit that point, because it could be either hour 80 or hour 120 before you hit that point. I would not consider the end game RNG bullshit as a con against playing the game, mainly because it occurs so late.

Also, insert obligatory "yay, Python!" comment here.

Figured if I am to try and get myself to learn programming, it's a pretty solid first choice language. Slow goings right now though, installing a programming language was a bit more complicated than I had thought, and getting everything all set up with a text editor...it's a lot of common sense stuff that I just don't have, having never really bothered to learn before now.

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: March 14, 2018, 07:25:23 PM »

I've literally played a story mission to get the cutscene, abandoned the mission so I could do it multiplayer. It's something they'll need to address whenever they make the "monster hunter world ULTIMATE" edition whenever they do that, since it seems to be how they pump those out. Not sure I have it in me to play something this taxing and time consuming every year though, or even every other year, I got other things to do than spend a month and a half each year addicted to one game.

Can't speak much on dual blades other than if you enjoy a hit and run playstyle, a lot of weapons do that, great sword and hammer come to mind as two of the best examples for that playstyle.

Sword and shield is great though, 95% of my playtime is lance, and the other two weapons I put the most time into are sns and heavy bowgun. Sword and shield feels like a goddamn racecar compared to lance, ohh no I gotta sheathe myOHH WAIT THEY SHEATHE BASICALLY INSTANTLY VROOM VROOM MOTHERFUCKER. Good at sticking to monsters like glue (a feature I enjoy about lance, more on that later) however lack of range makes hitting certain weakpoints hard, albeit this isnt an issue specific to the weapon, lance just has...fantastic reach which I do miss when trying other weapons. It's got a reputation for being a new player friendly weapon, but I honestly think it's one of the more intricate weapons in the game.

Lance doe, I gotta pimp my weapon. Out of the 14 weapons in the game, it's rank 13 in terms of use ahead of hunting horn. I don't know why it's not popular, I've probably seen less than 10 other lancers in my over 500 hunts..and it's not a bad weapon (spoilers, there are no bad weapons). It's like, you have this huge monstrosity who is 50 feet tall charging up some mega attack, all other weapons would react "ohh shit gotta get out of the way", lance just says "hold my beer" and counters that shit. This weapon don't give a fuck about no monster roar, counter, no monster beam, counter, no monster hipcheCOUNTER. It took a lot of practice, but I don't even put guard on my lance gear anymore, with proper timing you can counter the fuck out of anything and it feels great. Seeing your team mates cower in fear after a monster roars, when I'm just countering through it using it as an opportunity for more pokes, it's delicious. I always liked lance in the other games, but it feels so good in this game due to how great counter (and a broke as fuck power guard which allows 360 degree blocking with a power counter attack afterwards). You know the whole "class fantasy" you play great sword you get the biggest numbers in the game, you play hammer you bash heads and stun monsters like nobody else, you play sword and shield for one of the most versatile kits in the game, you play lance to not give any fucks about no monster attacks because you gon keep attacking while everyone else is running around dodging. Low ish damage, but your uptime is higher than any other weapon, so while they are running around doing no damage, you are poking doing damage while they aint...unless you're fighting a flyer...then yknow......yknow...bring your flashbombs...yknow...be a good hunter and bring the proper equipment for the hunt.

tldr I love lance in this game, just wish I knew why nobody else does. But hey, I'm having fun with it.

Ohh and DevilJho however you spell it is next week? So i'll defs pop back on to give that a whirl. In the meantime I'm looking for another game to play and...learning python on the side whenever I'm not lazy...I got my text editor running...and I got python working in it...and I can type things and they will work properly...so might not have got much done but I AM STARTING, might be a while before I have the attention span to put many hours into learning that at one time.

*forgot about investigations*

It's kind of a dumb system. Not a fan. Monsters leave tracks, after X amount of tracks (not listed for the player to see) you get an investigation, might be something you want, might not. They have X amount of uses then they're gone, pass or fail they will get used up. Tempered tracks give you a CHANCE to get a tempered investigation, but not guaranteed...it's kinda really horseshit since the end game augment items for the tier 8 weapons (good news, tier 6, and 7 weapons are just as viable as the tier 8, really just depends on the weapon type and or what build you're using) ONLY DROP FROM TEMPERED ELDER DRAGONS, ONLY, AND THEY ARE STUPID RARE. I think I got 5? Hammer, Lance (thank god), Greatsword (and longsword, each stone works with two weapons), Switch Axe (charge blade), and Sword and shield (and duals). I think it's a 2% or less droprate, Ive gone a week and a half only doing tempered elders and haven't seen one stone, not even a common stone, just nothing, the rng for endgame is kinda horrible. So I'm guessing here but I wanna say I've been on the tempered elder train since hour 130-140? AFIAK? With that, 5 stones in 70-80 hours...it's gross, horrible, not good. At least the tier 6-7 stones are more common, and available in tier 2 tempered investigations (elders being tier 3, little wee bop enemies like pukei pukei and tobi kadachi being tier 1), so you can always switch weapons for the augment bonuses if that's what you're feeling. Lance wise, I don't even use the highest damage lance, and that's a tier 7 weapon, not even a tier 8.

I guess since im tldring all over I'll explain augments right quick. It's a system you flat out wont see unless you put 80-120 hours into the game, but after you do t2 or t3 tempered investigations and you get lucky enough to get a drop, you got warriors and heroes streamstones. 7 stones for 14 weapons, used on t6-8 weapons. At the end of your weapon upgrade tree, end of the line for upgrades, if said weapon is tier 6, you get 3 augment slots, each requires one warriors stone and some other rare stuff. If tier 7, you get two slots, each requires TWO warriors stones. If tier 8, you get one augment slot, requires one HEROES stone. It's like the "more powerful" weapons got less aug slots, and the "less powerful" got more, which is a cool way to balance things I think. I think that covers it...

However as dumb and fucking insane as the rng is at the endgame, you can make every piece of gear in the game quite easily. Any armor or weapon doesn't really take that much work, it's augmenting the weapons which takes a shit ton of RNG, it's augmenting the armor that takes a shit ton of $$$ and spheres (do your bounties bro, you'll need spheres), it's less..but still a lot of RNG for those decorations, some of which I literally haven't seen in 200 hours of play...yeah......rng...yeah...BUT HEY, any armor or weapon I want, I either have it, or can easily get it, and that's the stuff you're looking at on your character, so I guess at least the big stuff is easy, it's the modifications that's hard.

It's dumb, but apparently it's fun enough to where I engaged with that system for over 80 hours, so credit where credit is due.

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: March 13, 2018, 07:46:01 PM »

I think I'm more or less done with the game, still going to casually play, just not obsessively anymore. I managed some 200 hours on my save, and I will be back for DLC.

I can do other things now! YEssssssssss

Glad you are having good first impressions, they added a TON of quality of life stuff to make getting into missions and killing big monsters something you do more than dicking around picking flowers and killing wee bop enemies. Most of the bigger issues stem from the end game and how investigations work, but you won't hit that problem before you're past hour 100 most likely. How they handle story missions is a bit dumb as well, say we both want to play a mission, MOST of the missions early on are story missions, and you have to solo them until you watch a cutscene. So like, enter mission, get to big scary monster, watch cutscene THEN you can fire off an SoS flare...as said monster is about to hit you for 50% of your life...it's a horrible system to be frank.

And the end game stuff with tempered monsters, that's all investigations, which you get randomly on quests after collecting tracks (for tempered monsters, tempered tracks, and you arent guaranteed a tempered investigation either), and these things are limited use at that. You want to do some tempered Teostra with me, but neither of us have the investigation for it, either A we farm for those investigations and get one at random, or we both just don't play with each other and use the search for SoS feature refreshing 10, 20, sometimes like 40 times to find an investigation...and you can't group join, so yeah we'd be running separate.

It's a fantastic game, but there are still annoying things I should be critical about.

What weapon are you using/planning on using? I hope it's none of those pleb longswords or double pleb bows.

And lastly, we got family videos up here, got one in town, and I know of a few more within an hour of here.

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Random Chat / Re: BEER

« on: March 13, 2018, 07:17:21 PM »

Well there goes $50.

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Random Chat / Re: BEER

« on: March 10, 2018, 08:32:12 PM »

Those super high ABV beers ain't meant to gulp anyway. I typically prefer to sip them over the course of an hour or two. Even like chimay blue, I think I spent around 4 hours drinking that beer alone, albeit it was a bomber.

Meant to be savored and enjoyed over a longer period of time. Anyone who chugs them down is just throwing away money, there's far cheaper ways to get drunk than fancy crafts, lol.

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: March 10, 2018, 08:25:34 PM »

So...I...beat...EVERYTHING...in this game...

I went from getting killed to easy shit in low rank, to beasting the final mission without even being close to death. My skills have improved.

~192 or so hours



ALL QUESTS complete



And my "lol I couldn't die if I tried" super safe build. Damage ain't great, but id take a longer mission over a failed one.



Here is an example of how much I like this game. My back is bad, for the past 3 or 4 years I have had regular back pain, every single work shift I finish, I have 3-4 hours of not fun back pain that happens every time I stand up from a sitting position. I now know it's because of my horrible posture on my COMPUTER CHAIR, because I've been away from my pc for over a month and a half, and my back pain is minor at best now, I haven't had that sharp pain from standing up in damn near a month now, and I know it's because I've been on the recliner in the living room on my ps4, and not on this pc I'm only on to make this post before...back to the ps4 for monster hunter...

This is a really really really good game guys. Even sales wise it's smashing records over at capcom, and I'm almost 200 hours in, all missions complete, and I want nothing more than to play more to make a new set to try a new weapon or mess around with a new build.

I don't rate games with a score, but this is a 10/10 game if I ever seen one. I seen the damn credits at hour 82 or whatever and I'm sitting on hour 195...still playing every single day...

The game ain't perfect, but any cons are vastly outshined by the pros.

And yeah, I literally only turned on my pc to jizz on about this game, before turning off the pc to go back to playing it...yep.

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: February 23, 2018, 08:46:48 PM »

It's a grindey game, but it doesn't really "feel" like a grindey game. Like, to me it feels like an open world game in the sense that after low rank, the game opens up and you can kinda tackle whatever you want whenever you want, and the farther you get, the more open it gets.

When I log on, I typically have some sort of goal in mind, like right now I want to complete...all of the quests in the game, so yknow, I try to knock a few out each day. Having those goals, like "I want to try HAMMER, let's see what I need and go about acquiring the materials to make that stuff", it IS a grind, but so are like many many many many other games. It's not everybodys cup of tea, but I'm sitting here with over 117 hours played...and I've yet to be bored.

I've abandoned my pc for the time being, like all month. I am a person who is on the computer all the damn time, and I've probably been on my pc less than 2 hours this month because of this damn game.

As for the camera, default camera is kinda not great, but you can adjust it to your own preferences. I had to muck with it a little bit to get it how I like it, but I have settled on my own settings and I have minimal problems. Not perfect, but LEAGUES ahead of the portable games, which after this games release, those games are unplayable anymore due to horrible controls.

&t

And I'll end this post with that. Players are rated by a "hunter rank" in this game and 1-15 is like the main story, then you get capped till you complete the final story mission, then you get locked at 29? till you complete some horseshit ass bullshit that I don't want to do again mission, which raises your cap to 49, and then you have to fight this asshole who can die for eternity in the flames of evil, and beating this pony fucker whos skin shall be rended by my spear will unlock your cap to infinity as far as I am aware, which in turn lets you fight tempered elder dragons which is the end game real shit for the best loots.

I don't know if I made that look easy, but that fucker can kill you dead in one hit, hit him ANYWHERE but the head and your weapon will bounce AND HE MAY KILL YOU OUTRIGHT IN THE STUN YOU RECEIVE FROM SAID BOUNCE, he can put autokill bullshit under you from any range, and he can blight you which causes any lightning to just stun you, and from stun you can die.

fuck kirin, I am glad I did 0 deaths on my second attempt where I decided to tryhard. HE IS LITERALLY THE REASON I QUIT THE PSP GAME AND MY 90 HOUR SAVE, IM GLAD TO HAVE MY REVENGE! fought him once, said FUUUUUUUUUUUCK THAT, and outright quit cold turkey.

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: February 09, 2018, 07:28:23 PM »

Yeah that's kinda right on the small amount of active users thing...forums kinda died a long time ago. Reddit is fine, but it's like less personal than a forum. There's no place I can go and feel like Cheers anymore.

Shame on the pc release though, I have no intent on getting it now because by time that rolls out, I'll have derived all I wanted out of the ps4 release. It's a fantastic game, but I ain't going to reroll on another platform. 2018 still isn't the multiplatform multiplayer future yet.

Control wise though, there's no camera or control issues anymore. You're on a real mans controller now, and the default camera settings are kinda shit...but you can change them a little bit and they work fine for me without issue. I think that's the big kicker, it was kind of an unwieldy game on portable releases, but it's a non issue for this one.

As for missing, there's camera lock on, but no "lock on" lock on, so yknow, player skill comes in there. However with as much as is fixed, it's still monster hunter, so it may convert people who had issues on the camera/control front, but not those who just didn't like the game.

ANDDDD the last point. It's just frustrating being into videogames, and having damn near nobody to talk game with. Yeah more people than ever like games now than ever before, but ain't the stuff I play. I am super big into fighting games, and not online, not irl have I really anyone to discuss with or even play. I need a local gathering or something, instead of having people over for dungeons and dragons I'll have people over for tekken or street fighter, or virtua fighter or something. Only issue with that, I've been hitting up people for a decade and no takers. Figure I live close to a major state university, a community college, and my local town has an arty college that neil degrasse tyson made an appearance at, THERE'S GOTTA BE SOMEBODY OVER THERE WHO WANTS TO THROW DOWN WITH BOBBY FLAY!

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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter

« on: February 08, 2018, 08:51:02 PM »

I knew I was going to enjoy the game because I put over 120 hours into the psp games only doing local wireless co-op, and I dabbled in monster hunter 4 on 3ds. If I can get past tiny screens, horrible controls, and a worse camera in those games, and this game fixes all 3 of those things...no brainer for me.

Combat is the main appeal, and it's not for everyone. I feel like that animation priority is what makes it, if you're trying to play god of war in here, you ain't going to have a good time. It's meant for you to think more about what you're doing, and if you fuck up, you fuck up, try and learn from it and git gud. Changing it would totally 100% ruin the game imo, and piss off the entire fanbase who's supporting the game at the same time. They already made this game a lot easier than all of the past entries. I entered high rank in ~30 hours in this game, and in freedom unite it took me...80...90? So it's the most accessible game in the series already. I'm not even good/bragging, I'm actually kinda bad at the game, but yknow, the series is really damn hard and I don't think people really talk about that. Freedom unite is 100 times harder than dark souls, yet, dark souls is way more known for being a hard game than freedom unite is. To keep on the tangent I like to make this comparison a lot. Super mario brothers 3 doesn't have a reputation for being a hard game, and the original nes contra does. I firmly beleive smb3 is a harder game than contra, I can beat contra, and I have beaten it multiple times. I always die in world 8 in smb3, never beat it even with warps.  But yeah tangent aside, it's an easier game, just need to find a weapon you like and put a little bit of time into learning it.

Comparisons to dark souls are kinda legit though, but I think it needs to be flip flopped, dark souls should have been compared to monster hunter. Because Monster Hunter essentially is a game entirely of bosses, and bosses of which are a lot harder and more time consuming than those in Dark souls (only beat the first game, so my comparison only applies to dark souls 1).

Second though is gear, so you already know if you're in for that or not.

I think it's a mediocre/ok game to play solo, and a fantastic time eating game to play with friends.

There's not really anything like it, it's kind of it's own thing and that's really cool. Maybe god eater is similar, but i've never looked into them to really know that for certain. I like it, over 50 hours in so far and still having a blast. I'm not going to try and convince nay sayers, but I mean, that clip I posted up there was A PRETTY COOL MOMENT YOU GOTTA ADMIT.

It's not a fighting game so I assumed someone here would play it, maybe I'm just not into the hip popular games anymore? I swear this game was blowing up all over the place. I can hardly talk videogames to people in person because it's pubg this, league that, dota this, fortenite that, destiny this, minecraft that. If I don't shooter, or moba, I may as well not be a gamer I guess.

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Gaming / Monster Hunter

« on: February 04, 2018, 07:16:18 PM »

8:30

I was enjoying street fighter 5 arcade edition then this hit...other than catching the hell bug that has America sick aint nothing stopping me from playing this bitch

video crack

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Random Chat / Re: BEER

« on: January 13, 2018, 05:38:57 PM »

BOUT FUCKING TIME I GET SOME



#michiganbeerisawesome

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Random Chat / Drive'n Ramble?

« on: January 06, 2018, 06:47:44 PM »

I was coming home from work and decided, fuck it, im gonna talk to the internets.

&feature=youtu.be

thoughts?

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Gaming / Re: Space Sims

« on: January 04, 2018, 12:58:48 AM »

I had two beers and read your comment Zephlar...I AM SEVEN FIDDY POORER BECAUSE IMPULSE

Now I'll talk in 2-4 years when I install the fucker...it's one thing to impulse buy a steam game, it's another all together to play it.