Lifespan difference

[bloodymonarch]

The difference in lifespans for this version of the game is rough. According to Legendcup, it's minus 100 weeks across the board compared to the PAL/US original games. I find myself looking at the longer lived monsters only now, rather than my favorites or better stat gains.

[Arcade Bumstead]

Is that so? I just thought I had a kinda short lived monster. He barely lived longer than a year.
Well, I suppose I could just refund the game and go back to playing the better version. Some of the choices they made with this port are baffling.

[DART VON FABLE]

The Colt said to me take special care with my gaboo with 1y7m, JUUUUUST 1YEAR AND 7 MONTHS, his lifespawm is near 9 years in classic games......

[bloodymonarch]

My last monster was a Pixie/Kato that is more than 6 years old if anyone is interested in that. It also started with the Bolt tech.

Use this at the shrine:
Song: The Track of the Hunted
Artist: Der Blutharsch

[Baconenigma]

i opted to use a tiger from the market as my first monster. He lived for 3 years until he died after a tournament he lost. A golem crit him and one shot him. My second monster is from a disc and is now 4 years old. He's a jell/something i dont remember. I had saved about 30k from my first monster so on 2nd i used all meat and fed him taffy/mints. He is S rank now with almost max atk and 300 def and life and 600 skill. One shots almost all other monster save a few with 600 def.

I think meat helps a lot with life span

[Arcade Bumstead]

Originally posted by Baconenigma:

i opted to use a tiger from the market as my first monster. He lived for 3 years until he died after a tournament he lost. A golem crit him and one shot him. My second monster is from a disc and is now 4 years old. He's a jell/something i dont remember. I had saved about 30k from my first monster so on 2nd i used all meat and fed him taffy/mints. He is S rank now with almost max atk and 300 def and life and 600 skill. One shots almost all other monster save a few with 600 def.

I think meat helps a lot with life span

I'm under the impression that jells have a pretty long life, but I'm just pulling that from my flawed memory, so take it with a grain of salt.

[AH-1 Cobra]

People need to request that they patch this in. The version most people played is the one with 100 weeks longer lifespan, so that's what people were expecting.

[Tyrant]

Originally posted by Baconenigma:

i opted to use a tiger from the market as my first monster. He lived for 3 years until he died after a tournament he lost. A golem crit him and one shot him. My second monster is from a disc and is now 4 years old. He's a jell/something i dont remember. I had saved about 30k from my first monster so on 2nd i used all meat and fed him taffy/mints. He is S rank now with almost max atk and 300 def and life and 600 skill. One shots almost all other monster save a few with 600 def.

I think meat helps a lot with life span

Meat gives one week.

[bloodymonarch]

Originally posted by Tyrant:

Originally posted by Baconenigma:

i opted to use a tiger from the market as my first monster. He lived for 3 years until he died after a tournament he lost. A golem crit him and one shot him. My second monster is from a disc and is now 4 years old. He's a jell/something i dont remember. I had saved about 30k from my first monster so on 2nd i used all meat and fed him taffy/mints. He is S rank now with almost max atk and 300 def and life and 600 skill. One shots almost all other monster save a few with 600 def.

I think meat helps a lot with life span

Meat gives one week.

That sounds like rumors to me. None of the official sources have said such a thing exists and if it did, it would be incredibly overpowered.

[crowbb]

Been a long time since I played but my first monster lived to 7 (A dino/???) and made it halfway through S rank so that seems a fairly decent age.

[spoonygundam]

Originally posted by bloodymonarch:

Originally posted by Tyrant:

Meat gives one week.

That sounds like rumors to me. None of the official sources have said such a thing exists and if it did, it would be incredibly overpowered.

It does in MR1, but not in MR2.

[em312s0n]

Theres a youtube channel that covers this for MR2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db6GLPa0bCY&list=PLpCoE9Ddbgqg_ZDv5dki3hKTEcCxfdYtj

My playstyle of playing MR2 is mainly raising their stats to be optimal for combining so that I can get a OP version of whatever monster I like regardless of their lifespan

for example one of my favorite monster is Hare/Gali which has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ lifespan of just 380 weeks but I raised my hare/??? and gali/hare so that they combine into an OP hare/gali

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2679974319

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2679974547

The late game fun in MR2 in my opinion is in raising monsters for them to be optimal in combining. If anyone is interested theres an old guide from Gamefaqs that still works

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/197977-monster-rancher-2/faqs/41787

[VexedClown]

stress and ko kills off life span as well

[Vincent]

i mean im not even gonna buy this now tbh, why in the world would they lower lifespans from the original version??? I dont understand it one bit...

[Darxio]

Originally posted by bloodymonarch:

Originally posted by Tyrant:

Meat gives one week.

That sounds like rumors to me. None of the official sources have said such a thing exists and if it did, it would be incredibly overpowered.

In Monster Rancher 1, meat definitely extends life by 1 week.

It's not an infinite cycle since you can only really give it once every 4 weeks but it's the way to go with your future battling monsters.

I have not noticed a shorter lifespan in Monster Rancher 2 yet myself, but I am only just got to year 4 on the Switch version with a Pixie/Plant right now.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by 司馬望:

Is that so? I just thought I had a kinda short lived monster. He barely lived longer than a year.
Well, I suppose I could just refund the game and go back to playing the better version. Some of the choices they made with this port are baffling.

Dying in a year isn't because of the game, you just don't know how to raise the monsters properly.