Quality of Life Suggestions:

[At@At]

This probably won't do anything, since this is way too late but let's try to ask for some Quality of Life things with the upcoming expansion.

Some of my suggestions:

1. Interactable Astera Map:

Astera has a map that you only pay attention to for the first few hours of the game as u learn the layout of Astera. How about changing the map so that u can now access the services around Astera using the map? That way I don't have to spend my time running around doing minor errands.

1.5 Servant Cat:

If you're going to ignore 1, then please have the servant cat stand outside of your room in Astera so I can send the tailrider (trailraider? tailraider?) teams out without going through a loading screen... U can still make him enter the room like our Palico does.

2. Equipment Icons:

I get that it's expensive to make unique icons for each equipment but it's a pain in the ass to look through and find what I want (since I'm trying to build all equipment). Here's a low budget way to solve this problem. First enlarge the equipment boxes and their icons. Next, take the monster that was used to craft the equipment and slap it right there next to their equipment type icon. Finally just put an alpha, beta, or gamma symbol to finish it off. For event armors just put the ticket/voucher there instead of a monster.

3. Palico equip menu:

Anywhere I can change my equipment should be a place where I can change my Palico's equipment.

4. Investigation menu:

Take that investigation menu and put it right into the board thing. Keep the ability to sort them, add in the ability to favourite stuff as well as the ability to sort by favourites and we get the same thing except I don't have to go back and forth to get investigations.

5. Monster Lookup (my bad if this is already a thing):

There should be a way to jump right to the Monster guide to the monster when I'm looking at said monster. So if I'm at the questboard looking at quests I should be able to just press a button and it'll take me to the Monster guide were only the monsters that are a part of the quest are displayed. I should also be able to do this in the field when I select a monster from the map.

6. Workshop build/upgrade GUI:

Just merge them together. There's not much of a reason to have them separated, especially for weapons. For armor just have a separate build tab and upgrade tab.

[Mhblis]

Just so you know 1.5 and 2 are already done in Iceborne. Not sure if that is going to carry over into Astera as well but definitely for the new camp they showed it off.

I know they talked about a GUI overhaul so that may include 4 and 6.

I dont see 4 happening but I can see why people would like it

[At@At]

Originally posted by Mhblis:

Just so you know 1.5 and 2 are already done in Iceborne. Not sure if that is going to carry over into Astera as well but definitely for the new camp they showed it off.

I know they talked about a GUI overhaul so that may include 4 and 6.

I dont see 4 happening but I can see why people would like it

Didn't know that. I've tried to keep spoilers low so I only know very generalized things. Basically, all I know is that Iceborne has a new map, monsters and move sets.

[lexilogo]

Originally posted by Mhblis:

Just so you know 1.5 and 2 are already done in Iceborne. Not sure if that is going to carry over into Astera as well but definitely for the new camp they showed it off.

Pretty sure it doesn't carry over to Astera, but yes Seliana has the Housekeeper sit outdoors. I'm pretty sure 2 actually isn't in Iceborne seeing as that was a pretty specific suggestion.

I'll give my two cents on some of the other stuff suggested here where I have some specific thoughts and provide some of my own:

Originally posted by mynoduesP:

Astera has a map that you only pay attention to for the first few hours of the game as u learn the layout of Astera. How about changing the map so that u can now access the services around Astera using the map? That way I don't have to spend my time running around doing minor errands.

I personally don't see why considering just placing everything closer together (like Seliana will be doing) will have identical if not better results.

Originally posted by mynoduesP:

Anywhere I can change my equipment should be a place where I can change my Palico's equipment.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this one has actually been confirmed for Iceborne.


As for my own suggestions, I'll give a few:

-An option to have notifications like "Tailrider Safari is finished" have some kind of small constant popup instead of a one-time notification when you enter the hub so you don't forget later

-Botanical Research notifying you when Soft Soil can be used at max efficiency so you know when to return to it

-A "Take Rewards and Repeat" option for Oven Roasting

-Changing Tailrider Safaris so the "Team Select" thing actually means something, because at endgame pretty much every single team will have all 3 stats maxed out anyway

[Malfeasance]

Originally posted by lexilogo:

Originally posted by mynoduesP:

Anywhere I can change my equipment should be a place where I can change my Palico's equipment.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this one has actually been confirmed for Iceborne.

Correct, the change Palico gear option will be right in the same menu our hunter's gear is in.

Originally posted by lexilogo:

-Botanical Research notifying you when Soft Soil can be used at max efficiency so you know when to return to it

There is a way to do this actually: Sync up your Tailraiders with Soft Soil. Send out your cats, use soft soil and empty the box, then when Tailraiders return your remaining Soft Soil quest count will be at 4 and go up to max when you use it.

As for the monster notes, it would be good if they made it so quests that were spawning certain monsters would limit it to only those monsters. For weapons I have been filtering by tree lately, where I was doing rarity before. I find it's more helpful, especially since it puts crafted gear behind Kulve Taroth drops.

[DaetherX]

Originally posted by lexilogo:

Originally posted by mynoduesP:

Anywhere I can change my equipment should be a place where I can change my Palico's equipment.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this one has actually been confirmed for Iceborne.

Thank goodness about #3.
It's really annoying to not be able to change Palico equips after taking a mission, but before leaving. (I play solo generally since I'm still not done with story yet) I usually do a bunch of getting my own equips & items ready in prep, then... oops forgot kitty stuff. Can't go in house at that point. If I've used a ticket thing then I can't really justify cancelling then retaking the quest. Not sure how much their equips even help mechanically, but you know... I love my hunting partner.

What I would love, and PLEASE for the sake of everything good and my sanity tell me if I can already, be able to sort all armors by category without going through and doing it 6 or 7 times for each type. Then going through each individual equip slot and sorting by rarity.
Then I just sort weapons by tree because it does auto sorts it by weapon types together first then also tree.

My gripe with basically all game changes devs make in every game (tabletop RPG's or videogame both), is that that they are done with munchkins who break the game in ways most people don't, and/or ultra-end-game-I-have-everything-and-it's-all-maxed players in mind. No matter what it does to average players. This thread is more QoL stuff, but I had to complain.

[lexilogo]

Originally posted by Malfeasance:

There is a way to do this actually: Sync up your Tailraiders with Soft Soil. Send out your cats, use soft soil and empty the box, then when Tailraiders return your remaining Soft Soil quest count will be at 4 and go up to max when you use it.

I actually already do this, but it's kind of a ghetto way of doing things especially considering that if you forget your Tailrider Safari is done then it'll get desynced easily.

Originally posted by DaetherX:

It's really annoying to not be able to change Palico equips after taking a mission, but before leaving. (I play solo generally since I'm still not done with story yet) I usually do a bunch of getting my own equips & items ready in prep, then... oops forgot kitty stuff. Can't go in house at that point. If I've used a ticket thing then I can't really justify cancelling then retaking the quest. Not sure how much their equips even help mechanically, but you know... I love my hunting partner.

Palico gear honestly doesn't matter that much. The most important thing is definitely the Gadget but it doesn't matter THAT much which you take because they're all very useful. The rest of the equipment is far less important, you could match everything up to the upcoming monster's element but the rewards really aren't great, especially when at least IMO taking Paralysis/Sleep weapons are far better for Palicoes than elemental ones.

Make sure to upgrade it and everything, but you really do not need to min-max it to the monster you're fighting, even if you're using a Palico Rally build.

[lailaamell]

Layered verisons of each amor sets so we can more fashion options