IGN's Iceborne Review: 9.0

[CourtesyFlush09]

Unsurprising. We all knew it was gonna be great. But this part bothered me, and it's exactly what I feared after seeing all the previews:

"I want to be clear about how much I enjoyed fighting Iceborne’s monsters, how creative and exciting they are, because I do have one bone to pick – but it’s a complaint veteran Monster Hunter fans might not have as much of a problem with. It’s that Iceborne relies too heavily on Subspecies and Variants of existing monsters. About half of the roughly two-dozen monsters added in the expansion fall under these categories, essentially acting as reworked remixes of existing ones.

Again, this could be an issue long-time Monster Hunter players won’t care about because their expectations for expansions are different. The series has a long history of filling out its expansions with an influx of Subspecies – but as one of the roughly nine million players who likely started with World, it was a touch disappointing to see Iceborne’s campaign rely so heavily on familiar faces rather than new ones, no matter how fun they were to fight."

Disappointing in that regard. But oh well. I'm sure the rest will be excellent!

[Corona Scurrae]

ign being ign. spineless, generic and dull.
“This beautifully implemented port is a perfect PC introduction to the joys of Monster Hunter”

[Tamerlein]

I think monster diversity will correct itself by the next game, the issue is they have to remodel all the monsters now instead of just porting them.
As for IGN they are well IGN. Not really worth listening to imo as with most game journalist sites.

[cruste]

as expected
at armor is total useless, when the basic armors already start with an armorlevel around 114(not upgraded)

no new infos about unreleased monster...

[Seamus]

引用自 cruste：

as expected
at armor is total useless, when the basic armors already start with an armorlevel around 114(not upgraded)

no new infos about unreleased monster...

There's plenty of info about unseen monsters. Some French place broke street date and people have been streaming the game.

[cruste]

引用自 Seamus：

引用自 cruste：

as expected
at armor is total useless, when the basic armors already start with an armorlevel around 114(not upgraded)

no new infos about unreleased monster...

There's plenty of info about unseen monsters. Some French place broke street date and people have been streaming the game.

where is the link to that dirty infos??

[Seamus]

引用自 cruste：

引用自 Seamus：

There's plenty of info about unseen monsters. Some French place broke street date and people have been streaming the game.

where is the link to that dirty infos??

The streams keep getting shut down. I don't have the latest one. Some fun gifs floating around from it, though.
https://i.imgur.com/FMmsj2u.mp4

[cruste]

引用自 Seamus：

引用自 cruste：

where is the link to that dirty infos??

The streams keep getting shut down. I don't have the latest one. Some fun gifs floating around from it, though.
https://i.imgur.com/FMmsj2u.mp4

it is the new bazelgeuse right?
awful quality

[Seamus]

引用自 cruste：

引用自 Seamus：

The streams keep getting shut down. I don't have the latest one. Some fun gifs floating around from it, though.
https://i.imgur.com/FMmsj2u.mp4

it is the new bazelgeuse right?
awful quality

Yeah. Subspecies with a room sized nuke attack. Should be amusing to deal with.

[Greb]

I'd trust Steam meme reviews over anything IGN says. I've never known their reputation to be higher than tarnished, lol.

Regardless though the subspecies thing began to really worry me after they started being shown one after the other. If that's all we're getting, and everything else that's "new" has been popped via trailers and teasers then, wow. Wow indeed.

I hope the Everwyrm is interesting, at least. lol.

[Seamus]

引用自 Greb：

I'd trust Steam meme reviews over anything IGN says. I've never known their reputation to be higher than tarnished, lol.

They ARE the ones who gave God Hand a 3/10 for being too hard after all.

[Remi]

Literally the entire game except very few missing pieces are revealed as of now. We know the endgame as well. Only specific info like armour skills and monster fights are still to be made public. But, we can see the set bonus on each of the armour showcases and therefore get a vague idea. Glavenus 3pc bonus is Max Might secret for example

[cruste]

引用自 Remi：

Literally the entire game except very few missing pieces are revealed as of now. We know the endgame as well. Only specific info like armour skills and monster fights are still to be made public. But, we can see the set bonus on each of the armour showcases and therefore get a vague idea. Glavenus 3pc bonus is Max Might secret for example

What is the endgame?
i doubt velkhana is the everwym or is it? Namielle is also only a normal dragon elder or is this the everwyrm

sadly all the official streamers and so called journalist stay strict to capcoms orders.
iam missing that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who are digging in the trash and release stuff against capcoms will

[Grisnir]

引用自 cruste：

引用自 Remi：

Literally the entire game except very few missing pieces are revealed as of now. We know the endgame as well. Only specific info like armour skills and monster fights are still to be made public. But, we can see the set bonus on each of the armour showcases and therefore get a vague idea. Glavenus 3pc bonus is Max Might secret for example

What is the endgame?
i doubt velkhana is the everwym or is it? Namielle is also only a normal dragon elder or is this the everwyrm

sadly all the official streamers and so called journalist stay strict to capcoms orders.
iam missing that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who are digging in the trash and release stuff against capcoms will

There is a leaked image from the final endboss floating around reddit

Btw so it is confirmed that consoles dont have full transmog?

[Remi]

引用自 cruste：

引用自 Remi：

Literally the entire game except very few missing pieces are revealed as of now. We know the endgame as well. Only specific info like armour skills and monster fights are still to be made public. But, we can see the set bonus on each of the armour showcases and therefore get a vague idea. Glavenus 3pc bonus is Max Might secret for example

What is the endgame?
i doubt velkhana is the everwym or is it? Namielle is also only a normal dragon elder or is this the everwyrm

big boy spoilers below

Old Everwyrm = Shara Ishvalda, a monster covered in rock in 1st phase and sheds the rocks in 2nd phase, uses sonic attacks, his armour is weakest to ice.
Monsters killed in the Guiding Lands drop unique mats, same with tempered monster. Those mats are used for the improved augmentations system, which features an element/status up augment.
Some endgame monsters will only show up after you researched them enough and cleared a special assignment, this seems to be tied with locale levels.
Non unique weapons can exchange parts with other non unique weapons for customization, unique weapons cannot but feature better innate stats.

Hybrid decos will be hella rng farming, farming for weapon augmentations is more forgiving it seems. Increased skill caps tied to monster's set bonus e.g. Zorah 3pc is Artillery secret for Artillery 5. Namielle's bonus seems to be elemental repeat offender, Seething Bazels bonus is "Stehvermögen" which might be Rocksteady from previous games? Savage Jho bonus is Stamina Thief Secret and so on. The final boss' set bonus is a 4pc and a 5pc called "Gaia Veil" and "True Gaia Veil" respecitvely, so no info there.
It seems highly possible there's Raging Brachy or some Tigrex variant/sub in postgame after some quest chains or prerequisites, maybe HR.

[Remi]

引用自 Grisnir：

引用自 cruste：

What is the endgame?
i doubt velkhana is the everwym or is it? Namielle is also only a normal dragon elder or is this the everwyrm

sadly all the official streamers and so called journalist stay strict to capcoms orders.
iam missing that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who are digging in the trash and release stuff against capcoms will

There is a leaked image from the final endboss floating around reddit

Btw so it is confirmed that consoles dont have full transmog?

Transmog has been deconfirmed by MH community managers on a Twitch stream some time ago.