Monster Hunter: World

Dom said:

Is there a better way to see when an attack's animation is over so you can reorient yourself before attacking again, other than trying to stare at your character in a chaotic fight?

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As pointed out not really, and animations often have a "backswing" like in dota where if you don't input anything else they take longer but if you do input another command that part of the animation is removed to combo into the other, making it more annoying to try to wait.

There are skills that let you reorient however and generally it's better to try to combo into that to reorient yourself. A bunch of the new slingshot attacks can be used to reorient yourself for example I think, provided you have ammo, and if it's dropped ammo they will also flinch the monsters so it's virtually free. Also dodge rolling can help, or if you're on a weapon with no roll, doing a side hop can help you realign. If you're just in a really shitty position, there's nothing wrong with sheathing and running back to a better spot. The fights in this game will often have "breaks" where it's better to just run around and find a better angle and timing to attack than just try to constantly mash. Part of that is due to aggro being divided between your palico(or other players) and you.

That said you will whiff attacks, I still whiff a bunch myself, it's not a big deal, even really good players will sometimes do the weeb jump on longsword and then miss the attack wasting a full bar of ressources and like 5seconds of animation lock. As you get more experienced you get a better feel for the reach of your weapon but mostly of the behaviour of the monsters so you can compensate. Also some monsters are naturally a lot more annoying to hit than others so you're kinda expected to miss a bunch of attacks on them.

As for the weapons I use and reorienting examples, HH I just sheath or run around between hits anyway it's a slow weapon and the goal is to always hit the head so it's like, hit once, then run around to wait for another opening and so on, so it's not an issue. The songs and encore moves also allow 4 directional input so it's generally easy to hit.

Lance has hops which allow "strafing" and you're allowed very slight directional adjustments every 3 hits inbetween the combos if you do hops, and during longer combos you can adjust directions with the charge attacks that you use inbetween instead otherwise power guard will let you attack in any given direction so overall it's pretty easy to switch directions if you need to.

Switch Axe there's side hops too but in sword form they're absolute shit, other than that it's just the slingshot attack that lets you reorient, but the attacks tend to be fairly wide so you don't miss that often although you'll be hitting hard parts and shit so that's not great. In sword form especially you'll often have to just stop attacking and sheath/switch back to axe since mobility is ass, both directions but also just moving anywhere.

Charge Blade as far as I remember one of the better ways was using the sliding attack to reposition and reorient at the same time when in sword form, as for axe form I haven't played the new stuff so not too sure back then you were mostly only using SAED so it was just waiting for the right opening and letting it rip.

Long sword you adjust with the fade slashes(sideways especially) and the new Iai thing lets you adjust directions from what I've seen so it should be pretty easy.

Sword and shield there's a move that lets you reorient entirely although I forgot which but it's part of the main combo so you can literally spam constantly regardless of where the monster moves if you master it properly. The jumping attack shit kinda lock you in a direction though, it's high risk high reward kind of thing.

Insect Glaive there wasn't a good way to reorient other than stopping the combo but you can use the Kinsect launch to animation cancel shit faster so you can stop and switch that way better.

Greatsword you can slightly adjust on each step of the True Great Strike during the charging part.

If you watch good players play you'll see the sort of small adjustment they make, but a lot of it generally just positonning properly in the first place so that the monster ends up in front of you as you're attacking.

Vorph said:

Ugh, hbg is still best-ish? I hate that shit, trying to force myself to use it is about 80% of why I quit playing vanilla so early.

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Well currently the best speedrun weapon I think is the weird as fuck PS4 only LBG from Horizon Zero Dawn, it puts you at 1hp but does ridiculous damage if you keep the right timing. But that's really just speed running though. Even in the original HBG wasn't necessary, it made farming Kushala a lot easier for me but past that and pierce on Xeno when I was bored I barely used it. Used some LBG on Kulve too but yeah it was very specific, rest of the time I just used any weapon I felt like.

Where you fuckers at on Steam? Need to hook up with me and Hatorade .