Main Quests only solo ?

[Xidius]

Hey everyone.

With some friends, we were happy to discover the Monster Hunter series with this one and we love to play coop, but it seems that we can't play multiplayer when it comes to the principal missions, the one you have to do to go further in the story and the regions.

Are we really bad or is it just the game that want you to play solo on that parts ?

[Evil Tactician]

You can do it co-op after you completed them once. I fully agree this is a huge oversight and one of the reasons I may not continue playing. I too bought it with the premise of playing it in co-op with my wife and unfortunately so far it has mostly been a single player experience, which I have no interest in.

[Kerberos]

you have to watch the intial cutscene for the assignment before other can join you. basicly wait for the "you can now use your sos flare" before others can you and this apiles for everyone who hasn't completed the assignment.

[TVMAN]

Only the cutscenes are solo. Once all of the cutscenes in a hunt have been watched, other hunters will be able to join yours. Normally you'll get a notice about being able to use SoS flares when the hunt reaches that point.

Mind you, your co-op partners will need to watch the cutscenes themselves before they can join that particular hunt.

Originally posted by Evil Tactician:

I too bought it with the premise of playing it in co-op with my wife and unfortunately so far it has mostly been a single player experience, which I have no interest in.

The problem largely goes away once you get out of Low Rank. Even then, only story missions are affected. Optional quests and Investigations don't have this problem because those missions don't have cutscenes.

[Zane19]

You can join other people's story mission through SOS and still get credit or have people join your story mission whenever you are able to SOS.

[kyoryu]

It's annoying. If you have two people that need to do a story quest, the process is:

1) Both go into separate story quests.
2) Wait til both people have seen the cutscene
3) One person quits
4) The other person fires an SOS flare, and the first person joins that.

Also, at step 3, you can have both people quit and then reform the quest, at which point both people can join.

If you just have one person that needs to do the quest, they can start it, and others can join once they've done the cutscenes.

[Tsukichild]

Are expediton linked quests do-able? I did mine earlier, and have a friend now playing and saying they cannot use SOS to let me join. It's the first expediton mission with setting up the second camp, and the surprise monster to reduce spoilers.

[Bombardiro Crocodilo]

git gud and beat the game yourself scrub

[Bakinda]

Originally posted by Voltain:

git gud and beat the game yourself scrub

The game isn't fun enough to do single player.

[[YeOlde] PhillipJokar 38]

Rush out of the first few story missions and then stop rushing through them.
There's tons of bounties and stuff to do together once you get the first couple ranks.

[Xidius]

Thanks for the tip, i know i could count on you guys.
And yeah, the game is way more fun with other team mates ! Thanks again !