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So if you're a normal person, then online play is tons of fun. If you're literally just there to die, fail the hunt for everyone, and then act surprised that people don't like that, then stay away. That's not elitest; that's common sense.
The actual in game community is very silent.
Party play has its advantages but at the same time the interaction between the players on a quest is pretty low most of the times.
Like the others said - if dont play with the goal of carting X number of times or ruining a quest the online playerbase is fine.
The only time I see people frustrated with other people online is when they are literally in the end of the game, fighting some of the most difficult fights in multiplayer, and they still meet people who seemingly have no idea what they are doing, make basic mistakes, and die to thing they should never die to.
Which is perfectly understandable, after what must be a hundred hours of gameplay and getting through everything thus far to make it to those end game fights, it's entirely fair to expect that people joining those quests have a degree of competence that is high enough to be able to contribute and play cooperatively with others. So, when they see people joining those quests and it's obvious by their behavior that they have no business being there, people will get frustrated.
That is not elitism, that is reasonable human behavior. Imagine if in any other cooperative multiplayer game you join some kind of hard content (like a rain in an MMO) only to proceed to fail and drag everybody down with you, you will get the exact same reaction everywhere.
I just had a HR999 MR999 ♥♥♥♥♥ at me at Muscle Monkey Madness for spamming pods on the poor, near dead (2nd) Monkey. Apparently because i "wasnt using them correctly".
That was kinda the first actual elitist i have seen so far. Aside from that just stuff like someone carting on MR Kulve within 2mins and someone bailing on the quest as a response (kinda understandable)
Granted, havent done Alatreon SOS yet... Those will probably be fun.
Responding to OP though, it's mostly just these forums specifically. Reddit can be elitist depending on how cliquey the MH subreddit you're on, but in-game and on larger forums people are pretty chill. Steam discussions specifically just seem to invite some nasty people.
About the mistakes part, it really depends on the situation. It's not an issue if the content in question is easy or somewhat challenging. The issue starts when people are dying to stupid and avoidable situations in the endgame quests repeatedly. At that point, you can expect at least some disappointment and maybe anger from your party members. Your best bet is learning monster movesets alone, then jumping into coop. That's what I did for all content, and I never had any problems since I was prepared, at least in terms of knowledge. Knowledge is half of the hunt, after all.
Older titles used to be far more suitable for elitism due to lack of proper communication and hidden mechanics, I'd say. Surely, you can't tell someone what the problem is when it takes an entire minute to write half a sentence, especially with limited character allowance in the chatbox. So you just kick them to make space for potentially more knowledgeable people. We only somewhat have this issue here. The chat has limited characters, but at least you can type fast to tell people what's wrong.
Personally, I just try to nudge people towards the right direction if I see them doing something wrong. Usually when it comes to their builds, though. I rarely bother more than 2 or 3 times if someone is trying to get carried and/or borderline plays bad on purpose. If they can't even manage to survive when facing a monster, they are probably not ready for the content in question to begin with.
Yeah, I very rarely even hear those stories, and inside the game I have never personally experienced anything of this kind. Actually, I had a few completely opposite experiences. The most recent one I remember is a guy who was using dragon element dual blades against silver rathalos, I pointed out to him that the monster is immune to dragon and he should use water instead since that's the weakness. The guy got angry because I dared point it out to him, told me to eff off and not tell him how to play a game he paid for...
What do you even call this behavior, what is the opposite of Elitism? Peasantry?
most aren't ever using chat at all.
That depends a lot on how you play multiplayer. If you do SOS flares then yeah, people rarely interact and just send stickers. But if you join lobbies directly people are way more interactive. The more social hunters definitely prefer to hang in lobbies instead of SOS.
Well... i actually joined a lobby for the monkeys. We were only 2 and filled the rest with SOS.
We also did 1 hunt only as 2 to see if its faster... he said "2 is fine and 4 ideal - only 3 is bad" so i responded "Thats why its called THE THIRD WHEEL AHAHAHA"
(slow clap)
But of course they are some "unicorn" out there that may or may not be super toxic for no real reason to make thing "interesting", so never let your guard down eh?