Please stop using MR gear when joining low rank hunts...

[Sanquin]

I thought this wasn't that much of a problem any more, but apparently people still do it.

Started a new save for fun a few days ago. And playing with at least 1 other person is more fun for me, so I generally send out an SoS. But today...ugh. 4 hunts in a row, the people that joined were wearing MR endgame gear. The hunts were over within seconds. So yea I decided to go solo after that.

Is it really that difficult to just craft some low rank gear and use that? For players like me, it robs all the fun out of the game when the other person/people kill the monster in like 20 seconds. And for new players, they won't learn a damn about how to deal with monsters that way. It's probably not fun for them either.

EDIT:
Should have known... 90% of the replies boil down to "It's your own fault for using SoS! Other players are allowed to ruin your hunt by killing the monster in seconds!" God this game has a lot of egotistical ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Just because the game's rules allow you to do something doesn't mean it's morally right.

[stealthdriver]

It's not going to stop, no matter how many steam posts are started. There are too many LR players that gush over a MR player joining their hunt and destroying the monster in 30 seconds. I suggest not sending out sos flares. Join a discord or get a group of LR players in session to play together.

[Crusader]

Simple solution: don’t use sos flares.

I actually highly recommend beating both world and iceborne’s story solo in fact before doing any kind of multiplayer (that is up to shara ishvalda).

But yeah sos flares are for when a) you want to hunt with other people because you find solo hunting dull (like me) or b) when you’re stuck and you just want someone to beat something for you (lol) or c) you need help on one of the endgame fights such as fatalis or alatreon.

Ps: don’t yell at me for spoilers for mentioning the names of 3 monsters, I haven’t even described what they look like I just gave you 3 names. I’m giving you this disclaimer, a lot of people that come here don’t realize this but, because we already played through the whole game and we’re here to give tips. We can’t really do that without spoiling something.

[Smaugi]

If you dont like when someone kills a monster for you then instead of doing SOS get some friends.
Also some pepole want the achivment for helping low/high rank players while being in master rank , why would they have to force themselves to waste more time using low rank/high rank gear?

[Shang Tsung]

What is the problem?

[Dan Niton]

Its low rank hunts, every single low rank hunts can be soloed very easily without the help of other players.

[Sanquin]

Originally posted by Dan Niton:

Its low rank hunts, every single low rank hunts can be soloed very easily without the help of other players.

Of course they can for experienced players. Heck I can almost solo the entire game and expansion at this point without too much difficulty. New players might have some difficulty though. But that's not the point. I'm not sending out SoS to get help. I'm doing it to have more fun hunting.

Originally posted by Lord Gwyn:

If you dont like when someone kills a monster for you then instead of doing SOS get some friends.

I had some friends that played. Not any more. The friends I do have that still play play on PS4. (if only they added cross-play)

Originally posted by Crusader:

Simple solution: don’t use sos flares.

I actually highly recommend beating both world and iceborne’s story solo in fact before doing any kind of multiplayer (that is up to shara ishvalda).

But yeah sos flares are for when a) you want to hunt with other people because you find solo hunting dull (like me) or b) when you’re stuck and you just want someone to beat something for you (lol) or c) you need help on one of the endgame fights such as fatalis or alatreon.

The solution to "I want to hunt with others because it's more fun" isn't "don't use SoS flares".

I did beat all but like 2~3 monsters solo when I encountered them the first time. My main save is at endgame. Like I said, new save for fun.

And for me it's option A. Which gets ruined by a fatalis wearing MR player killing the monster in seconds.

[River Victor]

Since CAPCOM gives people incentives in helping any players with lower ranks than you, this won't stop. The dev designed the game this way. Sorry, boo.

[roadrunner77]

The game gives rewards for doing it - how would you like to stop it?

[lexilogo]

When people shoot up an SOS the assumption is those people want to be carried.

It's not always a correct assumption, but that's usually the default. I personally use my regular builds but deliberately become a corner dooter, hanging back and using healing items with the attempted objective of keeping the player alive and helping them learn.


Now, if someone starts killing the monster before the host even reaches it? Now THAT is a ♥♥♥♥ move that has completely crossed the line. Even if they wanted to be carried they probably wanted to actually participate and get materials.


What I would recommend is seeking out Discord groups and the like for hunters who want to play LR/HR sessions without MR equipment. This way you should be able to link up with other like-minded players.

[DLOZanma]

If you wanted to "play with others because it's more fun" then join rooms and play with the people there. SOS is strictly for asking help. Your logic doesn't really work because that's how the game is.
There is a whole system for playing with people on your level and you're chastising the people using system 2 because those using system 1 don't use system 1.
If you want non-Fatalis users to come end your hunt in 20 seconds make a low rank room "beginners welcome" and play there, don't use the HELP ME PLEASE feature. The games starts everytime asking you if you want to make or join a room, there's literally no excuse to attack MR players for helping you.
This whole argument makes 0 sense.

[r∞l]

Originally posted by DLOZanma:

SOS is strictly for asking help

While sos in the real world is a way to ask for help.
For the game it has a completely different meaning, the lack of servers and rooms makes the sos feature the best way of quickly setting up a co-op hunt and trying to set up a lobby for LR/HR hunts will take a long time to get people, if any join at all. Heck even for MR it's incredibly hard to get a full lobby going by a single player.

@OP
If I remember correctly you can check people's gear before they join by checking the player list, so use the manual setting instead of the auto-join. Don't know why it became a trend to go into LR/HR with endgame MR sets to ruin the fun for the host.

[Nerevar]

only got yourself to blame here tc. seriously. youre asking people to gimp themselfs cause YOU want it that way. and that is after you used SOS FLARE. aka RANDOM PLAY. you get what you get and have to deal with it or kick them. end of story. what youre asking for here is unrealistic and stupid especially now that the game is no longer new.

[mewlynx]

Base game had end-game HR hunters decimating LR SOS, same story now. Not sure why you're acting like this is just now a problem.

[Henrique87]

Another one of those threads... "PeOPle ARen'T PLAyiNg tHe GaME thE WaY i WaNt It whaaaaaaammmmmm"

This community... *sigh*

[heronumber00]

Originally posted by 𝓛𝓾𝓶𝓲𝓴𝓪:

Don't know why it became a trend to go into LR/HR with endgame MR sets to ruin the fun for the host.

Uhm, many people in this post already explain that. People are not going "into LR/HR with endgame MR sets to ruin the fun for the host".
When there is an SOS, people (MR) just assume that the one sent SOS need help, and the game set up certain rewards for helping out lower rank hunters. So that's just what people do. And people won't waste their time in LR/HR quest by put on lower gears, they don't know the intention of OP.

SOS get you RANDOM people, you don't know what you get if you want to use it that way.
So find a way to set up your multiplayer hunts to get what you want, instead of unreasonably blaming random players who join your SOS.