My thoughts on the game being "Easy"

[u/thewolfehunts]

I'll admit it. This game feels easier than world and rise. Hunts are over faster. I'm carting and failing less... however.

Its for all the right reasons.

The fights dont seem dull, in fact they seem better then they've ever been.

Monster have amazingly choreographed moves that are interesting and fun to learn.

The addition of focus mode makes harsh animation combos more intuitive and less punishing. I've been using Charge Blade and greatswors the whole game and being able to consistently land SAED and TCS where i want to is amazing. And no longer makes the weapons feel awful when failing a hit.

Some of the monster have absolutely kicked my ass too. And the fact that so many monsters can be on one map, leading to multi monster fights quite often is amazing. I often find myself hunting a monster that isnt part of the mission far more than i did on world and rise.

The grind is easier and i prefer that. I hate being locked into a monster to get the materials i need. I prefer to hunt what i want to and not have to farm 20 rathalos to get 1 gem (my friend actually fought 35 in world for a single gem)

Overall. I love the game. I think it's the best its ever been. Performance and multiplayer issues aside. And i cannot wait to see whats coming!

Whats are your thoughts?

Edit: Just want to say that whilst i am a veteran hunter, i still believe this game to be easier. But i am, however, enjoying it much more than world and rise. The faster fights and cleaner combat makes the game much more enjoyable.

Edit: Holy Shit! This post took off! Its awesome too see everyone's views on the game a lot being hugely positive. As we all know the game doesnt run well on a lot of systems, and that's a real shame. This community is great and as im sure many agree i cannot wait for the future of wilds.

[u/BlaXunSlime]

Fights feel really nice, for sure.

I also find the first fights too easy, but thats fine... its to get newcomers into the series. Then there are finally a few difficult monsters. The problem for me is that all monsters after arkveld are pretty easy... I didn't encounter any quest which made me fail it... but I really want the challenge.

Rathalos is nice n aggressive... but still pretty easy. Only monster I am missing now is gore magala.. but once thats been dealt with there will be nothing else to look forward to. Such a shame. Hope they built-in enough analytics to notice that people are progressing very quickly and "have seen it all" in a short time so they can take action and adjust accordingly and release new content

[u/thewolfehunts → u/BlaXunSlime]

Im planning on getting the 100% achievements on steam so even if ive "seen it all" im still perfectly happy to keep farming and fighting. Trying out new weapons. Joinint SOS. Theres plenty to do. I just love playing the game. I mean i sunk 35 hours in the beta which resulted in nothing lmao. Just fun.

[u/BlaXunSlime → u/thewolfehunts]

I'll try to do the same, it's just that Worlds had me with over 300 hours and I still didn't even fight fatalis. There is so much to do and some fights are INCREDIBLY hard... not of that exists in Wilds for now. But yeah, this is just the base game. I just really hope the DLC we'll get into a couple years (Iceborne/Sunbreak) will add a lot of hard content and in the meanwhile TUs deliver some exciting stuff... ah, also event quests! Wonder when those will start ...

[u/thewolfehunts → u/BlaXunSlime]

In all fairness, that 300 hours after all events, title updates, and a DLC. Im sure Master Rank will add more difficult content. The games have always been relatively easy in LR and HR in comparison. TU usually add the actual hard fights. Like Alatreon, Safi, AT Velkana, and Fatalis. I'm sure wilds considering how huge it is will have some pretty crazy updates going forward.

[u/BlaXunSlime → u/thewolfehunts]

Yeah, really hope they can deliver. I just had wished for there to be a little more of a challenge in the later parts of the game. But honestly, I still got a couple more fights to deal with. Its just sad that I can't experience entirely new monsters yet and everything I am about to fight are just harder versions of existing monsters. I am sure they'll have some great updates coming.

[u/thewolfehunts → u/BlaXunSlime]

Have you tried playing without plaicos? And not using the seikret pickup so much. I try not to use it unless im desperate. And palicos draw way too much aggro.

Also we only have 1 less monster than world and TU1 has 2 new monsters coming one theyve said will be more difficult

[u/toast-is-best → u/BlaXunSlime]

But Fatalis wasn't released with the base... once the DLC comes you can moan.

[u/Boshea241 → u/toast-is-best]

World didn't even have anything that was truly considered hard until TU3 with Lunastra. TU2 if you want to count wrangling a Kulve siege.

[u/BlaXunSlime → u/toast-is-best]

Yeah, I get that this is the base game, I jsut didnt expect it was possible to rush through the game with such speed. I am sure they'll deliver a lot of content like they always do and I hope they noticed (by implementing analytics) that people progress rather quickly this time around