When honest and positive-minded people come together, to talk about Monster Hunter, it just makes me happy! 2021 looking good for Monster Hunter fans, especially if the Third Fleet Podcast keeps on going.

If I had a nickel for every wholesome MonHun content creator dad, I'd have 2. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that there are two, and they made a podcast together.

Imagine tigrex running up cliffs chasing you that would be dope

Thrilled to see that the podcast appears to be off to a great start! Hope you guys keep it up!

I forget rurik is in Portugal because he sounds like he’s walking down the street in Worcester Massachusetts

45:00 100% Gaijin, too many hunters complain about mechanics of monsters such as it roaring too much, or they don't like it does status or stuns or tremors a lot. And they don't wanna take skills to deal with their issues because all they know is damage, it's pretty lame.

Please never stop doing these podcasts, they’re so good

That playstyle (fun) topic really hit home for me. In MHGU, I mained aerial GS, and I always get the "U should Valor coz iz stronk, Aerial is trash." And to them i just say, "no," coz it's the most fun i have in MHGU.

Amazing episode. I would really want to see underwater make a comeback in the next gen of monster hunter, simply because there's only so much verticality you can do. It's not like the next MH is going to be Monster hunter Space either. So them taking the risk again and tackling the underwater would be nice. The issues were quite drastic for many weapons and monsters could hit you in very weird angles or parts of their body that they couldn't hit you with on land. But the benefit to underwater was that you had such a large gameplay environment and a gameplay experience that it's totally worth it to try again, even if it isn't perfect. Plus I can't personally think of many other directions to expand the hunting experience. ---- I do agree that during Iceborne especially the conflict about "meta sets" and "casual gamers" became quite troublesome. Oh gosh I would have so much to say about this matter, but it'd be too much to write. Just play how you like to play and try to enjoy it. The MH community has to be the best video-game community or else it wont be worth asking new players to join the community. ---- Kinda weird how little we've seen about Stories 2, but I suppose Capcom is trying to focus on Rise. just hope they give Stories 2 more time inbetween MH games than Stories 1 had with Generation.

I love it

So happy to see a monster hunter podcast, big follower of monster hunter and the souls games! Your content is amazing and thank you

I appreciate speed runners, but things like, "If I hit the head 5 times it triggers a stagger," is meta-gaming; playing the game AS a game. But I play to escape reality, I shouldn't know, and don't want to know, how the mathematical mechanical details of the game function, that really pulls me out of the immersion. So they can have fun doing that, but I'm just gunna follow the tracks, cook some meat, trap the monster, and hunt it so the whole village has another meal on their plate and safety for their borders! etc. To be fair, then doesn't mean I play dumb, strategy is different than meta-gaming. It's still a very in world concept, to work on making useful builds (ie. ear plugs vs a screeching monster, etc)

Speaking of Brachydios, I just discovered the coolest exploit in MH3U: If you get Slimeblighted, wait for Brachy to strike you and then guard it. The monster's attack will detonate the blight (and you will get knocked around) but your guard pose will block the actual slimeblight damage! Now, on the subject of "metagame" builds, especially TDS, remember these are the guys who explored how to achieve the absolutely, mathematically highest single damage number _ever,_ but the original near-40-minute video was primarily focused on the research that went into (1) the build and (2) the actual run. They even gave a thoughtful disclaimer (at least in the Iceborne version of the video) saying how the weapon + armor was optimized _only_ for scoring a high damage number, and for normal hunts you would generally want to have some convenience/utility skills too. As for the "Lagiacrus problem", every time you go fight a monster in the northern half of the Wildspire Waste (especially a quadruped, like Teostra), try paying attention to whether or not their feet are _actually_ touching whatever contour of ground they're standing on. On a personal health note ... I myself am about 80kg, and my main form of exercise is bicycling 1 hour per day ... which is actually just my commute to/from work (measured round trip).

These podcast are great!

You guys, I love this podcast. It is so fun to chill and listen to two friends shoot the breeze over their favorite game. Thanks so much!

@Rurikhan it’s so cool that your son got to play GU for the first time as a prowler! It sounds like he has enthusiasm for the game already... one day he will realize how lucky he is that his daddy is the Rurikhan!

Yessss first new episode of 2021 let’s goooo!!! What a great way to start my day.

I named my MHGU hunter Ironbeard in tribute to that amazing guy.

I was waiting for you guys. Thanks for this video

gaijin, please reduce high insulin foods, like refined carbohydrates. high fructose corn syrup especially has a link to fatty liver as well as general sugar intake. seed oils also appear to be a problem so i recommend avoiding processed foods in general fatty liver is one of the symptoms of metabolic disorder and eventually leads to type 2 diabetes. the exercise is a good start but i recommend looking into to diet as well.

No joke, Pokemon scratches the same itch for me as mainline Monster Hunter games. Picking a team of six and grinding out their stats and moves to get them just right, is the very same feel good I get from picking an armor set of 6 pieces and grinding out their stats and decorations to get them just right.

Khezu was not in 3U. You may be confusing it with Baleful Gigginox, which uses thunder and is red as a reference to Khezu and Red Khezu. Gigginox and Khezu have never been in a game together.

On the topic of Speedrunners and why people like myself dispise them. They think they're better than any other Hunter. In previous games, Speedrunning saw themselves as hunters playing a different way. There was more cooperation with all the hunters. People *loved* bringing new hunters unto the fold. The only exception was the StarKnight armor in 4U. If you had that armor, prepare for a horrible time online. (This experience was The straw that broke the camel's back and stopped me from playing MHG and MHXX online) However with World, it moved from cooperative to competitive. You would see them making terrible remarks at other Hunters. They started going on about how good they are and if you weren't using certain skills, you didn't know what you were doing. When Behemoth armor came out, they would crap on anyone not using it. Meta moved from being optimal sets to the only way to play. Here's a personal experience I had playing MHW on the PS4: Since I started the main the Insect Glaive in Icebourn, I use maximum Flinch Free (because I love the Tripple up buff from older games) and Power prolonger. I was in a hunt with random people and one was complaining I was using too much Flinch Free. That I should put in Challanger instead. No matter which hunt we did, or what I said to him, he kept focusing on DPS. Guess what his playstyle was. Hint: he kept bringing up clear times. I don't have a problem with people who choose to be Speedrunners. I do have a problem when they try to impose this on others and think they're superior to everyone else. The goal should be fun considering its a video game.

Odogaron is pronounced "Clifford" lol

1:22:27 yeah ithink it's generally somthing that originates from any competitive co-op games, in FPS for example where winning or losing is often dictated by an overall team score a single novice player could determine a loss, by not contributing enough to your team's score and making your enemies life esaier. This is true for any game with some kind of performance related winning condition, so having experienced frustration towards a teammate not being "good enough", you don't want others to look down on you the same way . Something like "you don't wanna be THAT dude" Also i guess that never failing can be some form of self-validation. P.S. I think its something that really only happens in World/Iceborne, the Monster hunter comunity from MHG and MHGU is very nice and i haven't seen it happen yet, one can only assume that it's simply because World being so popular introduced some of the "western supercompetitive culture" but i'm not really sure about that.

Guys, I've finished this podcast quite late (we already are playing the MH rise demo), and I gotta confess, I still care to listen to you because I can do it washing the dishes, taking care of other stuff. It's so good to hear you guys chatting that I cound't skip it to the latest one. Please keep it up as long as you guys feel good to do it because people want to hear your opinions and perspectives about Monster Hunter news and also about other games!

Havnt even listened yet, but I gave it a like and I can't wait! Im really looking forward to your guys thoughts on the demo once that comes out too

Yes I'm so happy you guys are gonna keep doing the podcast since the first episode you guys were talking about only doing 4 of these

Happy 2021 Rurikhan and Gaijin! I have enjoyed the podcasts so much and all the episodes have been accompanying me during my daily commutes to work. I hope this can be a long term project and looking forward to more podcasts coming!

Pog

Capcom gonna announce the next Monster Hunter. MONSTER HUNTER: SINK! Loving the podcast guys, always brings a smile and makes me more excited for Rise! :D

To me there's 3 categories, casual play "playing through the game simply", meta speedrunning " damage addict, doesn't care for the story or other mechanics not involving smacking monsters, probably skips the dialogues and cut scenes. And then there's Hardcore gaming, " fully immersifying yourself in the game, completing everything, and enjoying every mechanic ." All three are great ways to enjoy the game, I definitely fit in the hard-core category, world had me hooked, 3000+ hours, now I've been playing freedom unite! So much excitement for rise!

In the earlier MH games I played (MHTri, MHFU, MH3U, MH4U) I never really made unconventional builds because I just wasn't that great at the game and needed the damage boost to not sit in quests for ages. In base World though, I actually started doing non-meta stuff when I got annoyed by meta stuff and my coop experience. I loved the shield bash combo of the Sword and Shield. The feel of it is nice, it looks like you punch the monster in the face like a madman and it was actually pretty powerful too. And when I noticed that, oh man. I actually built a KO punching set around the Great Girros SnS and pretty much threw monsters from punch KOs into paras into mounts. It's probably ultimately the same thing as your usual support SnS, but the fact I could make that one favorite attack really the main draw was awesome.

To me the difference is this: A Set refers to an armor set, and the appropriately called "set bonuses" there of. Alternatively a "set with max earplugs," as a mix of equipment to that gets that bonus. A build is the entirety of your equipment to optimize your weapon and playstyle. "I use a maximized defense+ and earplugs set in all my builds" for example.

i fucking love this podcast

I love the bit about the fact that most girls play Hammer

24:12 - Rurikhan (to his son in a hypothetical future scenario): "I want you to beat me, harder!" Jokes aside, really enjoyable podcast so far! I've come from Gaijinhunter's and listening to a podcast about monster hunter and general life stuff is really satisfying for me where I currently am in my life!

Love this series, keep it going.

Honestly It’s interesting how the speedrun community is getting the steam for the elitism that often forms from within the metagame community (not necessarily a fault of the metagame, but the culture of it that leads to tierlists does generate this type of reaction from people)

i really love your podcasts with Gajinhunter

For me the feeling of being worried that you are "holding your team back" or whatever is an anxiety thing. It is especially prevalent in team based PvP games like League of Legends or Overwatch where if people feel like you aren't pulling your weight they'll often flame you pretty hard. I get anxious if I feel like I'm not completely confident in my ability to do what it is we are doing. It's often bad enough that I rarely play co-op games with other people. I prefer solo play most of the time anyway so it works out, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to do both. I've played 350 hours of world and 60 some odd hours of GU and 99% of that was solo play. I never even did Kulve Taroth or any of those things because co-op was required. I could easily see myself having put in more time if I was more open to co-op play.

Giginoxes Armor and Longsword is the reason for me.

The exhaust on the jagras switch axe CARRIED me thru world base game 🤣

Mental health is a big no to talk about in japanese society right? Oh my god thats so frickingsweet by Yuna. I literally let out a tear hearing that

I mean in English at least, the 5 armor parts make up the the "armor set", so there's a need to differentiate how you dec it out (or build it out, rather) and then that's your "build".

Great podcast 👏

11PM at japan then after that they say Demo is in Jan 8, 2021 JST. (Just assumption) and just like gaijin said, "How are we going to sleep after that?"

In GU prowler is my most played "weapon" followed by heavy bowgun and SnS.

There's no way this man predicted 2020 from a single hunt.

I'm definitely a huge Pokémon fan but can acknowledge when there's plenty of flaws or lackluster in the games for sure lol. I've been playing since Red/Blue and play every generation, but haven't liked them all. I think for a lot of us it comes down to nostalgia tbh. I didn't really like Sun/Moon or Sword/Shield that much but gave them a fair shot and played the story

I resent the Prowler being only for your girlfriend comment (it'd be for my husband who's never played a MH game, though Prowler only runs are very fun) . Me and one of my G friends play monster hunter, she's been since the first one and myself since Tri. My eldest daughter is now getting into it too and loving every second of it (she's a duel blades main in GU and she's only five) Still a great podcast, keep them coming!

Iron beard was the best Greatest ad campaign for Monster Hunter ever!

khezu was not in 3rd gen monhun maybe u are confused about gigginox subspecies yellow gigginox which is thunderelement

In gu my favorite set was a full nerscrella G armor. aerial (IG) with mounting master, airborne, status 2, mechanic with a blunt balance bug Sleep, paralysis, blast Great support No defense

Happy New Years! Stay safe and stay happy

I happened to be able to read Japanese and I used to play the Japanese games more before worldwide release became the standard, so I just pronounced the monsters' name as written in Japanese, as they made it very clear on the pronunciation.

theres also the fact that a lot of new hunters just do not know better, so when they get into the game their constantly being fed that mindset that you got to have the "meta" set or else your wrong and then so they believe that and the mentality just spreads. It is important like you guys mentioned that the beuty of this game is you can mess around with your sets and make whatever you want it and people should not look down on you because of that

Love these, keep it up!

Potential topic for a future podcast: The demand for Hunter Arts/Styles to return? There's a lot of doubt as to *IF* they will ever come back _(I think it's more likely than not they'll remain a Generations specific feature)_ however, I think the constant asking about it indicates a very real demand that's probable to be fufilled: Variation in weapon movesets, so two Switch Axe users won't necessarily have the exact same moveset. There are some weapons that already do this in "soft" ways _(gunlance shelling types, SA and Charge Blade, bowguns in general)_ but do you guys think this demand should be fufilled by some kind of system, and if so, what do you think it should look like? _(On a personal level, I think having a series of moveset changes be implemented as Skills is fully possible. eg. if equipping Glavenus armor gave some moves Sharpness restoring qualities, or if Brachydios armor let you place your own slime with certain attacks)_ Oh, and as a podcast related flex: I have personally beaten Super Hexagon, on Hyper Hexagonest. (68.12 seconds) My record on Hexagon is 276.17 seconds. These records are on PC and I did them with left/right keys, personally can't imagine playing other way.

Holy shit thanks for the psa gaijin I just checked the google play store and MH stories really was on sale for $5

The 100 percent critical without WEX and Teostra technique is the most fun on Lance. Infinite sharpness is the best for Lance or sword and shield.

If you hard-wire your phone or ipad and your ps5 the streaming is flawless. 1080p and HDR to my phone. It looks nicer than on my TV...

i too used the Bullfango/Jaggi set up until G rank in Gen Ultimate, then i got the full Barioth set and used that untill i got the full Valstrax set that i used for the rest of the game and still only use. i never really other with sets much, world has been the only time other than the BullJaggi set that i have bothered (seeing as u need to to survive master rank) seeing as i prefer wearing full sets of armour

Monster Hunter World was my first game in the series. I've been interested in it for years before that game came around, but the stars never aligned. My interest in it was never really high enough to find a way to get into it (usually not having the right platform or not having all the games on my radar.) When you were talking about some players telling others how they should play the game, it struck a cord with me, and I think Capcom somewhat had a negative impact on that issue. What I really hope to never see again in the same form are the siege missions, mainly Kulve, not sure whether Safi was better because I didn't fight it as much. I assume some players liked these, but that doesn't really change my personal feelings. The rewards were random, which in combination with the events only being available at specific times meant there was a lot of grinding involved. That alone wasn't so bad, what I really hated about these events was that they were 4 player difficulty only, and also purely designed as dps encounters. While they were collaborative, for maximum efficiency you had to achieve almost all goals in your own team within the same number of tries as the other teams, actually turning it into something like a race. So everyone was more or less required to do great part break damage, in a short amount of time, while also making sure to never cart (eating for the free revive made that a bit better at least). It was just pure stress for me. As you mentioned, I didn't want to be the guy to ruin it for the rest of the team, and I also didn't want to have it ruined for me after putting in full effort for the entire run. If the encounters had just been a bit more relaxed in their pacing, less random so people could actually get what they wanted with some degree of certainty, or simply designed with single players in mind, I think they would have provided less breeding ground for that kind of elitist thinking (I don't like using the word elitist but can't think of a better one right now.) Since the topic of speedrunners came up during your discussion, I also agree that they're not the problem. One time I just happened to browse a few speedruns and I found one for GS. I saw the monster and the time it took, and because I was very attuned with GS at the time I did some mental math and had no idea how they could have possibly done that. After watching the run, I finally understood. Thinking back on it now, I have to say if you watch that hunt and think "That's how you're supposed to play the game, and I will tell everyone who doesn't that they're wrong" you're insane.

3U didn't have Khezu. He returned in 4 and Giginox only was in third gen MonHuns (P3rd, Tri and 3U)

in 4=3U i mained Hammer, Dual Blades and Long Sword and i loved underwater combat, i want it to return but not in rise, while it would fit in the verticality i just dont think the switch could handle underwater, i think that underwater should be the concept for the 6th generation of games since they will be on the much more powerful next generation of consoles.

I don’t mind people who speed run in any way. I think the beauty of monster hunter is it can be played in many different ways and with many different weapons, this makes a game stand out as true quality to me. You can be META or comfy and get the job done, you can speed run in 2 mins or chill run in 10mins still getting the job done. You can be boring and use SNS 🤪🤪 or a bad lad and use switch axe but either way you will never be a hammer bro! I actually don’t know what gaijin hunters main weapon is where as we all know ruri is a lunatic like Micheal bay who straps explosives on the end of a lance!

I definitely fell into the attack stacking thing in World lol. In older games it was so much harder to stack and customize skills but MHW made it easy with the charm/deco system. Idk what they'll do in Rise, but I want to ease up and go back to my comfy hunt sets that make the hunts just fun

I'm just waiting for all the awesome crossovers like we got with the GU

i own both 3U and 4U on the 3ds but i just can't go back to that small screen after having World and GenU on the much bugger Tv screen, i would be all for them either porting or remaking the older games for the switch though, i love monster hunter 4U because it introduced me to 2 of my favourite things about the series, the Insect Glaive and mounting

The three important things in life..

honestly at this point the only way they can bring back underwater combat, that would be somewhat accepted by the fan-base, would be as a single arena/siege (preferably with a lot of artillery so that everyone that hates it will have alternative) battle but even that doesnt make all that much sense because they will have to add all that codding not only to the monster but for hunters and weapons as well

You say no one uses exhaust..... my first safi switchaxe was built around a sleep switchaxe with exhaust phial. Also had devil jho essence on it as well. I did so much guilding lands grinding with that set. It was literally easy mode.

as a veteran 3rd fleet hunter i can say Prowler is the easiest most broken weapon there is XD, i love prowler beast mode it feels so good killing monsters as a palico, it is unfortunately pre hard to level them up sadly

IMO if Rise has selectable wirebug abilities, then your gear+wirebug = build, just your gear=set

seeing as how they are having a crossover event between the 2 games i would hope that they come out around the same time, i don't want to be waiting months for the crossover stuff considering that by that time i would of probably stopped playing regularly which is what happened with world and iceborne and all of it's updates , skipped over allot of updates because they just came too late for me to care and i was busy playing other games at that time only coming back for bigger events such as alatreon and behemoth. i don't want that to happen with rise, although i will probably come back allot later and pick it up again like i have with all the older portable games and Gen Ultimate.

so what u are saying is that my weight is the reason why i sleep irregularly (i sleep when my body tells me it's time to sleep) and why my dad also has problems with sleeping? im 134 and i think he is around 100 so we are bother considered overweight

Don't think the movie ever came to Denmark. Movie theaters have been shut down for months now, so I don't think it ever had the chance :/

Nobody is defending pokemon guys they don't care about older fans, its just the same game with a graphics update.

´´2021 is all going to be about health, and Monster Hunter of corse´´ #relatable! haha Absolutely loving these podcasts! Hearing them at work as well ˆˆ Edit: Gigginox and Khezu aren´t together in 3 Ultimate, there is no Khezu in that game

So in World every monster had every weapon, but I see things like Great Wroggi only had 3 weapons back in the day, and I wonder if monsters like that will get new weapons for every type, or if we'll be back to the older way of monsters only getting some weapons.

Bro IVs are basically optional but yeah for the towers you need competitive Pokémon, I like story’s and Pokémon I think they are two way different games, I’m not saying they don’t have similarities but they are way different

I personally HATE any kind of CC (crowd control) especially hard CC like stun or a roar. self-imposed CC is really annoying but acceptable since it's the limitations of the game engines/balance/design (one of those 3 usually) so I always run every skill that gives me more control over my character, which is also why i love sword and shield and charge blade the most since I feel like I have great control at all times compared to other weapons. the insect glaive feels good too, but I like being able to block and not only rely on dodging .

1:35:35 The thing which worries me: the MP is locked behind a paywall for switch (unlike 3DS and like for PS4/Xbox) and Capcom may release endgame DLC monsters after launch. If I take World/Iceborne as an example, we might see again MP-forced monsters with meta armor/rewards behind completion. Rurikhan roasted me for complaining about this, but I stand completely to my position: stuff like Behemoth, Ancient Leshen or Safi'jiiva are T. R. A. S. H. Not only they gatekeep players behind the ability or not to play online ($$$) rather than their actual skills, but because they are MP forced, the armors/weapons need to be THE best to keep the sessions alive as long as possible (put some RNG as well to extend the lifespan even more), else early players will do them couple of times before moving on and these MP-forced monsters become unplayable for late players who find nobody to hunt with them. MP-forcing in World/Iceborne not only was a kick in the nuts for players who don't want to pay monthly or simply can't play online, it killed on purpose the relevance of the tree weapons and armors to make the MP-forced monster relevant. Capcom seems to have moved away from this shit after Safi'jiiva with the scaling of Kulve Taroth, Alatreon and Fatalis, so hopefully, we will not see this in Rise. Hopefully.

We build a set

Idk what they'll do in Rise, but in MHW for IG with Flinch Free buffing the bug when u have all 3 extracts, you get earplugs. So I'd put 2 earplugs in my set and 3 Flinch Free, so then full extracts gives me full earplugs and I'm good to go. No idea if that'll be as easy or beneficial in Rise tho.

at least u guys can get PlayStation 5s i have to wait until July to be able to get one, the Series X is fairing much better hear actually getting a constant supply but they are being sold out as soon as the stores get them so i still can't get one

I definitely alienated my friend during her iceborne playthrough by insisting that she understand and use skills properly, but she was using ko on dual blades (I'm a horn user), level one wife range and insisting she was fully healing me, poison attack on water blades etcetera. She was coming from a clan that babied her for whatever reason.

StOp SaYiNg BuIlD

I did the exact same thing, went on a hunt, but I completely destroyed a Kezu for fun ahahah

Can u guys describe how u would go about putting the hunter in smash?

Women love hammer because of the myth of the Piko Piko Hammer . A magic hammer that can only be summoned by a women or feminine identity who is in true danger of loosening her heart to darkness. The myth states its weight is felt worse to those of the male or masculine identity. All of us women can well its pull just a hand away and draws us near.

who wants gigginox. less poison monsters the better

Hey! They said many times that you can only have fun in this game group hunting. I guess a solo hunter like me is really bad in their eyes. Yes I AM just kidding. The only right way to play is whatever makes you feel like you got your money’s worth. Be that fun, a time killer, something you can play with others etc. =D P.S. I missed 3U for personal reasons, but I would have liked to try underwater combat. Great, now the idea of Lance Torpedo is stuck in my head =(

No. Khezu and Giggnox has never been in the same game. If you have one, you don't get the other. I'm tired of Khezu because he's getting too much representation. Edit: It would be great if both was in the game, but that's not the trend.

8:44 me in the act

Demo tommorow

It's definitely the tryhards that are a problem - I've seen these people go as far as to say that the moment you start playing online, you lose the right to play anything other than max DPS sets, otherwise you're just a dead weight.

I got 4200 hours on monster hunter world

Lol, speed runners don't even use their speed running sets on farming hunts