Seikret ruined the game

[Brondy]

I really tried to like the Seikret and I'll admit the riding mechanics are better compared to the Palamute in Rise. But honestly, I feel the Seikret has ruined the game.

From my experience with the beta, the gameplay seems to be:

-Open the map and select monster X as your target.
-Hop on the Seikret, which automatically guides you to monster X.
-Defeat monster X and collect rewards.
-Select the next monster X on the map and repeat.

Where exactly is the exploration in all this? The Seikret does all the traveling for you.
Want to gather resources? You can do it with the grappling hook while the Seikret guides you.

Part of Monster Hunter's charm was actively tracking the monsters, studying their behavior, and savoring each hunt as a unique experience. Automating everything, from travel to hunting, makes it feel too linear and less immersive.

The game has turned into what many new-generation players wanted: an arena style monster battle rather than a true monster hunting simulator.

And now, if the monster escapes, all you have to do is hop back on the Seikret, which will automatically follow it 😢.

EDIT WARNING:
Anyone commenting "you can disable auto-guide" or "you can also walk on foot," please stop, you’re making yourself look ridiculous. It’s already been explained a thousand times why it doesn’t make sense to do that. Furthemore, there is no need to repeat the same thing over and over again because everyone knows how to turn off the auto-guide and how works.

[Dyvawn]

It's optional, my SOS teammates always running on seikret while I'm on feet most of the time, people can help me kill my target while I'm getting rid of my cardio.

[Brondy]

Publicado originalmente por Dyvawn:

It's optional, my SOS teammates always running on seikret while I'm on feet most of the time, people can help me kill my target while I'm getting rid of my cardio.

The large map, without loading area, doesn’t allow for this style of exploration. You’re simply too slow.

Even if it did work, it would still be a suboptimal option that goes unused.

[Abamus]

You can travel on your feet.................

[Fresh]

me see monster me destroy. Gamers lack patience. Look at all the new games, they are just button smashers. I want real games back, that took months to defeat monsters, learn their ways, tactics... all of it.

now everything is a shooter lol lame

[Gearwar]

Publicado originalmente por Abamus:

You can travel on your feet.................

Cause thats what people do... not use the features provided to em? right?

Its the same mentality with those SL1 souls runs or whatever (no item runs etc.).

Ofc you can always take away from what the games gives you to make it "harder", but the line of reference gets so blurred that unless you know exactly what you want to use and won't, its derives all meaning of the experience.

It should be added that these runs are also usually reserved for a second playthrough, and make no mistake, just from playing the beta, you can already tell that if you do not use the little raptor to traverse, you will add a big big chunk of hours of just mindlessly running around to the whole gaming experience, in a game, that quite frankly has no problems wasting your time with mundane stuff as it is.

[Popcorn]

This one seems more "needed" for big maps like Wilds.

Dont like the auto either, but, meh, the gameplay and monsters are what I'm looking more forward to after playing for a while

[Nihrahk]

You can move the Seikret manually. You don't need to use the auto pilot if you don't want to. I know I went manual all the way, because more exploration and perhaps you might find some secret stuff. It can be lore, or some rare item. I know I found some weird coins in the dunes while fighting Rey Dau.

[LexAnimex]

So far I like Palamutes more. At least you could jump with them

[Nihrahk]

Publicado originalmente por LexAnimex:

So far I like Palamutes more. At least you could jump with them

Yeah, I like the Seikret more than Palamutes overall, (I just like birds a whole lot more than dogs to the point that it's not even a contest) but it sucks that you can't jump or even customize them.

[Artey]

Seikret auto run needs to be removed.
I want to play the game and not have the game played for me. MH has already been simplified too much for the current generation of gamers that have zero skill or patience anymore.

[Echorion]

Publicado originalmente por Brondy:

Publicado originalmente por Dyvawn:

It's optional, my SOS teammates always running on seikret while I'm on feet most of the time, people can help me kill my target while I'm getting rid of my cardio.

The large map, without loading area, doesn’t allow for this style of exploration. You’re simply too slow.

Even if it did work, it would still be a suboptimal option that goes unused.

I think that is why they have them. The map is big, like realistically big, so you needed something to traverse that.

You can get on and off it.

Honestly with how big and fast some of these creatures should be, it makes more sense you wouldn't be able to keep up with them on foot; but we couldn't have larger maps back then hardware didn't allow it yet.

The auto follow I don't like however, but you can just manually steer you don't have to use that. I kinda get it too though, it's so you can set to follow while you figure out your items, prep for the actual conflict you're going to, etc without having to steer.

[Travis Touchdown]

While I think riding around on the Seikret wire snatching things from the environment is pretty fun, I do wish that learning about where a monster is or where it goes was brought back to the series. It's kind of baffling given that they even brought back Paintballs in some form (Paint pods), but the monster is always visible, becomes marked when the quest starts, and Seikret's autorun towards them by default.

My fingers are crossed that monsters being visible at all times is a progression thing, like when you leveled up monster knowledge in World, and not the default. It would be nice if it was something you had to build toward. I understand why it was a pain in older games with the disconnected areas where a monster's location could be a crapshoot that didn't align with where it went visually, but now that they've gone pseudo-open world with the huge wide open areas where you can physically see the monster from hundreds of meters out and see it physically traverse the world, it seems unnecessary to have its location available via map at all times.

Seikret autorun should also be off by default, in my opinion. I turned it off immediately and so many friends found it frustrating that they were being dragged towards the monster on a theme park ride. I'm hoping that's just because the build we're playing was a demo build and when you have a 15 - 30 minute demo at conventions, it's better to just sit players down on the bird and have it run them through the pretty areas and straight to the monster for the gameplay.

[tomwithtime]

Life sounds hard for people who feel compelled to chase the meta instead of having fun

[Sephrinx]

Yeah feel like this whole "Auto play" garbage belongs in korean mobile games, not here.

[Shruxilo]

Publicado originalmente por Artey:

Seikret auto run needs to be removed.
I want to play the game and not have the game played for me. MH has already been simplified too much for the current generation of gamers that have zero skill or patience anymore.

You can disable the autorun as an option, agreed it is frustrating that this is a default option.
Having to disable a few settings to get it to play "normally"