Fishing is even more poorly explained than in World?

[Anime]

Like I had to google how fishing works for both World and Wilds, but this seems even worse. Tutorial says "W or S to lure" but in reality, you actually need to repeatedly press W and S, because fish get attracted by the reel animation.
Also, catching big fish tutorial hint is completely useless. At this point, just make the tutorial say "idk just google this ♥♥♥♥ or smth lol"

[shondy]

and now laugh when you realize the net can catch fish, invalidating the fishing rod in many locations. like in the under water sequences you can just pull the net out n back a bunch of fish... or just walk in the one forrest location in plenty season and just net a ton of fish while walking over them because its super shallow water and why not.

The game is filled with redundancies and complexities that are laughable. like you can only have 10 pages of friends but then there's also a "followers" section, both are kind of hidden in a sub tab in the "members" list... Literal complexity for no reason.

Don't even get me started on how they chose to do lobby/squad/the one other thing i forget the name of/ and environment "party" systems....

[Theofratus]

Originally posted by shondy:

and now laugh when you realize the net can catch fish, invalidating the fishing rod in many locations.

You do have to actually hook the fish with the rod to progress the fishing side quest. But for actually getting them, net is the best.

[SandrocK]

i remember back in world I scrapped the whole idea of the "fishing rod" and went with the capture net. I haven't started fishing yet, but does this game not support fishing with "capture net"? ty in advance

[Anime]

Originally posted by shondy:

and now laugh when you realize the net can catch fish, invalidating the fishing rod in many locations. like in the under water sequences you can just pull the net out n back a bunch of fish... or just walk in the one forrest location in plenty season and just net a ton of fish while walking over them because its super shallow water and why not.
The game is filled with redundancies and complexities that are laughable. like you can only have 10 pages of friends but then there's also a "followers" section, both are kind of hidden in a sub tab in the "members" list... Literal complexity for no reason.

Monster hunter is becoming like those old enterprise software (like microsoft office), where they just add and add and add things on top of what has already been there, so some redundancies are bound to happen.

Also, it was possible to catch fish with your net in World as well, but in this game it seems like other fish don't even react to seeing their cousins getting caught by the net, which is just hilarious.

[Kasa]

Ya I tried looking up the diff between Rod vs Net and some folks were like "the rod doesn't scare the fish away".

My dude... the net catches ALL the fish so there is nothing to scare away!

[Anime]

Originally posted by Theofratus:

Originally posted by shondy:

and now laugh when you realize the net can catch fish, invalidating the fishing rod in many locations.

You do have to actually hook the fish with the rod to progress the fishing side quest. But for actually getting them, net is the best.

I haven't tried, but i hope that you can't catch whoppers with a net. Right?

[Theofratus]

You cannot catch whoppers with a net. You also need the specific bait given by the angler in the quest line.

[TyresTyco]

Getting that one whopper for the fkin quest almost killed me. I really hope I dont need to use the rod for the cheevo.

[beussta]

Originally posted by shondy:

and now laugh when you realize the net can catch fish, invalidating the fishing rod in many locations.

ahahah i do the same

[Anime]

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

Getting that one whopper for the fkin quest almost killed me. I really hope I dont need to use the rod for the cheevo.

Most annoying part is when whopper just swims into the rock, which automatically breaks the line. ♥♥♥♥ looks so uncanny and glitchy.

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by shondy:

and now laugh when you realize the net can catch fish, invalidating the fishing rod in many locations. like in the under water sequences you can just pull the net out n back a bunch of fish... or just walk in the one forrest location in plenty season and just net a ton of fish while walking over them because its super shallow water and why not.

The game is filled with redundancies and complexities that are laughable. like you can only have 10 pages of friends but then there's also a "followers" section, both are kind of hidden in a sub tab in the "members" list... Literal complexity for no reason.

Don't even get me started on how they chose to do lobby/squad/the one other thing i forget the name of/ and environment "party" systems....

They are patching this...

[FilthyWeebs]

Fishing by far is one of wilds weakness point, you need to catch the fish with fishing rod in order for questline to activate, you have to 'play' with the fish; bro im here just trying to finish my quest and go back to beating up monsters, not spend hours standing still for fishing one fish because the instruction is poo poo. <been stuck fishing for whopper for the past 3 hours and the mechanic so dogwater>

[Just Juicy]

Like I had to google how fishing works for both World and Wilds ?! Bro what da hell? Clearly skill issue :D