Educate me on the multiplayer

[Kapitein Koffie Munch Munch]

On facebook , whenever this game comes on my page I click on it to see what the comments are for the game. To my dissapointment , I always see people complaining about the multiplayer.

I would only buy this game to play it together with a friend.

If me and a friend start from scratch. And we want to do every mission together how would that go? We don't have the desire to play the game when one of us is not available.

Would it be a disaster or is it well implemented?

[AlbinoFrog]

You can do something called link-parties. Each player has to do the actual story beats individually in cut scenes and dialogue. However, all of the actual hunts and gameplay can be done in multiplayer. The way link-parties work is that once you both finish your story moments (Talking to NPC's, pre-rendered cut scenes, etc.) it will automatically invite one of you to join the other for their hunts. The story will still progress for both of you regardless of who is the host. The catch is that both of you have to be at the EXACT same point in the story. If you plan on only playing with your friend then this will be a non-issue. Worst case scenario, you set up a private lobby and every time you guys start a quest you walk over to the NPC that gives quests and one of you will just have to manually click the "Lobby Quests" button. It's a little annoying, but it is 100% manageable. Every single story quest is possible in multiplayer, excluding the tutorial hunt at the very start of the game. Any quests that are non-story related you guys can just join together in a party and start hunting immediately.

The reason so many people are complaining about the multiplayer is that it is not explained in game at all. And while the way multiplayer is handled is pretty par for the course for Monster Hunter at this point, players new to the franchise have no way of knowing that and it makes no sense to them. At the end of the day its a single player game masquerading as an online multiplayer game, so there will be a little jank to it.

[DJukor]

The initial 15 hour low rank story is somewhat easy and monsters die fast so even if you are not at the same point in the story its incredibly easy to chach up.
High rank is whare the core game starts and where you just hunt monsters however you like.
Whit a rare occasional story every 10 ranks or so most of which are just dialogue no cut-scenes.
I have 45 hours in the game so far meaning i spent 30 hours in high rank after finishing the low rank story.
Low rank is borderline like a tutorial.

[Col. Hathi]

Originally posted by DJukor:

High rank is whare the core game starts and where you just hunt monsters however you like.

When you say "however you like" does that mean that there aren't the usual plethora of missions that the game makes you do, like in World or Rise?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by SophiaBella:

Educate me on the multiplayer
On facebook , whenever this game comes on my page I click on it to see what the comments are for the game. To my dissapointment , I always see people complaining about the multiplayer.

I would only buy this game to play it together with a friend.

If me and a friend start from scratch. And we want to do every mission together how would that go? We don't have the desire to play the game when one of us is not available.

Would it be a disaster or is it well implemented?

You would play Monster Hunter Rise instead
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1446780/MONSTER_HUNTER_RISE/