gating guiding lands by mr rank so you cant join your friends is worst part of the game

[INC3NSUS]

hope they figure out how to make it so regardless of tier you can group or will not be as interested in the new one. I play it to play with friends and their time and interest vary, and it varies a lot more now they are gated out of things I can do.

[SMM Emperor Lucifer]

What are you talking about? Higher MR players are able to join lower MR players just fine.

[NoRa_G]

noone I know who plays ever wants to do grinding lands, including me once I got lifesteal augs for my main weapons, that's wild, but how have they not beat shara yet that ♥♥♥♥'s a walkover and such a cool cinematic fight

[Kackstift]

Originally posted by KeziA:

noone I know who plays ever wants to do grinding lands, including me once I got lifesteal augs for my main weapons, that's wild, but how have they not beat shara yet that ♥♥♥♥'s a walkover and such a cool cinematic fight

guiding lands are great, i hunt for 2-4h straight and try to kill as many high threat monster as possible.

[Omnicide]

I can pretty much go Guiding Lands and just switch my brain off while I do hunt after hunt. I'd play that game mode for free, still wish the map were better though. It's so plain.

[Tiom]

Originally posted by INC3NSUS:

hope they figure out how to make it so regardless of tier you can group or will not be as interested in the new one. I play it to play with friends and their time and interest vary, and it varies a lot more now they are gated out of things I can do.

The game is 5 years old and no longer receiving updates. Unfortunately your very good suggestion isn't going to happen in this game. I hear that MH:Rise multiplayer is much better and i assume MH:Wilds will be improved upon that even.

[Greb]

There's a reason for it though, and that reason is so you can't acquire augment materials too early by fighting Tempered monsters and things. I don't remember the breakpoints anymore, but aren't Tempered Elder Dragons the MR 100 cutoff point? Once you unlock those, you've pretty much got access to every augment for your weapons in the game and you can meld their materials down into lesser materials too. It's a suitable reward for reaching the top.

It doesn't take long to reach MR 100. Anything you obtain while getting there will be useful when you finally get there, too.

I will say that the MR rank stuff was a mess in Iceborne though. You needed MR 100 to meet Ruiner Nergigante, but you could fight Alatreon and Fatalis at MR 24? Well done, Capcom! That almost makes me inclined to agree with you and that the Grinding Lands shouldn't even have an MR gate anymore because it makes no sense - although I'd rather they had put some suitable MR requirements on things instead.

Also yeah, your friends can group with you if you host your lower unlocked Grinding Lands, so you're not blocked from playing with your friends - just have them join you until you rank up.

[SMM Emperor Lucifer]

Originally posted by Greb:

Also yeah, your friends can group with you if you host your lower unlocked Grinding Lands, so you're not blocked from playing with your friends - just have them join you until you rank up.

Yep, the same way it works for all quests in all MH games. You need to at least have the quest unlocked in order to join it. People with higher MR are able to join the quests that lower MR people are at, but obviously a lower MR player who hasn't even unlocked the stuff shouldn't be allowed to join the game of someone who's further ahead. Not just Monster Hunter, I can't think of any co-op games, especially action adventure RPGs focused around gear progression, where such an extreme exploit would be a part of normal gameplay.

[SMM Emperor Lucifer]

Originally posted by Tiom:

Originally posted by INC3NSUS:

hope they figure out how to make it so regardless of tier you can group or will not be as interested in the new one. I play it to play with friends and their time and interest vary, and it varies a lot more now they are gated out of things I can do.

The game is 5 years old and no longer receiving updates. Unfortunately your very good suggestion isn't going to happen in this game. I hear that MH:Rise multiplayer is much better and i assume MH:Wilds will be improved upon that even.

I can assure you that Rise has the exact same issue. You aren't allowed to join in multiplayer quests if you haven't advanced to a point where that quest is playable in your game. And I'm sure Wilds will still have the exact same issue. His "very good suggestion" will be sumarily ignored because no games Capcom has ever released have ever worked like that.

If I wanted to join up with someone in Resident Evil Revelations 2, I can't just join up with end game players on an end game mission on the highest difficulty. I'm only able to join up with people who are playing missions that I've unlocked. End game players are able to join up with earlier players, because they already unlocked the earlier missions. Same goes for Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Bloodborne, Nioh, Borderlands, Path of Exile, Final Fantasy 14, and I could keep on listing games where this has been the norm for forever, but I think by this point, everyone already gets the point and doesn't need me to drill it home any further.

[Bobucles]

guiding lands is split into separate searches for every single MR gate. If it sounds kinda dumb that's because it is.