User blog comment:PitchBlack696/Blog: Admins Board/@comment-969093-20120328140144/@comment-969093-20120329224748

A little progress report and some (perhaps) interesting facts and impressions about MHFO:

I am currently HR58 and already did my HR100 Solo a Rathian urgent. So until HR200, I am now set. I made some pretty good DS and I'm liking the added mechanics it offers a lot now. I will explain how some of the new attacks of weapons work based off a PS2 Controller (I use a PS3 Controller as gamepad and it works great).

Random Stuff


 * You can hold up to 250 of each item in your box before it will override a single item slot.


 * Map Delivery Gathering Quests, unlike regular quests, allow you to gather at every single spot extremely more than ever before. You can get up to 20 mines at a mining spot for instance. A regular maximum is 10 gathers at most.


 * Once you have upgraded your house for a second time, you can reskin it by spending GDP (Guild Donation Points, obtained through hunting with your Rasta or by trading P with the Maiden at My Tore, a Kitten/Poogie Farm).


 * Halks apparently have a skill which allows them to drop Large Barrel Bombs. Definitely not a bad skill but when you're combo'ing mad during a hunt and forget the little bugger is right behind you it sometimes happens that (like it did to me a few times today) you hit the bomb as soon as he drops them and blow yourself and everyone near up. lol hilarious. The guy is actually useful though. It does a reasonable amount of damage and you actually notice it growing stronger. Guy swept Fatalis out of the air for me a few times.

New Basic Weapon Moves


 * Great Sword: By unsheathing your GS you will perform a spinning attack when not sprinting, instead of the usual downswing. The latter is performed when unsheating while you do sprint. After a downswing, hitting triangle against will do a 2-hit combo which is a jab followed by an overhead backward upswing. The attack doesn't launch other players as far as I know. Hitting circle after performing a spinning attack will chain it with a second horizontal swing towards the left. Lastly, after a regular upswing, hitting the triangle/circle attack again will perform an another version of the usual downswing. Note: You can't chain any attacks after performing 1 of these 3 actions.


 * Long Sword: You can perform a stab instantly after each roll. It now works like a roll attack like SnS/DS have. Pretty useful to keep on chaining attacks while evading at the same time. They also gain another attack which is performed by hitting R to perform a wide-swing and then hit analog either to the left or right and pressing circle. This will make you dash in the said direction and perform a downswing. This can also be done during the 1st and 2 Spirit Attack and basically form an alternative for the old follow-up attack after a spirit slash.


 * Sword and Shield: Not much has been changed for non SR SnS users. The shield bash that precedes the downslash at the 3rd attack input of the regular combo doesn't only deal impact damage but can also KO monsters now. There is 1 new attack and that's a sliding upslash which is performed after a leaping attack by pressing triangle/circle again. It can be chained into the old combo from there on just like the leap attack has always done.


 * Dual Blades: There is only 1 new animation for non SR Dual Blades and that's an "instant sharpen". In my setup, I perform it by pressing L3. My equivalent of select (stupid setup -_-). You can perform it after certain attacks. These attacks are the first downswing when hitting triangle, the revolution slice (circle), the dashing X-slash (triangle/circle) and double skyward slash (downslash follow-up attack). It allows you to infinite combo outside of demon mode and has another nice effect to it. It grants ESP as long as the chain is going. Oh, to summarize the last sentence. You can perform an instant sharpen with each combo starter attack and every first follow-up. Lastly, there's 1 minor detail changed in demon mode. You can't chain a revolution slice into a Demon Dance by hitting circle like you can in mhfu, you must actually hit triangle/circle for it.

That's it for now. I have more to tell but this post is getting huge.