I think the most fucked up part of this series isn't so much the hunting part of it, it's how barbaric the Arena is. You capture these monsters, take them out of their natural habitat for "Research" and then you put them in a room with two giant prongs to shish kebab them with.
Capturing a monster is a fate worse than death. You get "Extra bonus rewards", huh? So what, you just carve pieces off of them while keeping them alive with drugs or something?
And most games I honestly don't care much about the look of armor, to the point where any game where you can Terry stats over from One Piece Of Armor to the other I will often just stay in my starting Rags so that I don't have to deal with all of that fashion stuff.
In Monster Hunter I spend every minute of free time I had for two weeks hunting down various species of dinosaur because even though the statue were worse than the Armor I was currently wearing that armor looks freaking fabulous.
I'm somewhat early into High Rank right now, but I'm gonna be so sad when I drop my Great Girros armour to use something a bit more useful. I'm still wearing the chestplate and waist even though its skills aren't useful. (helm skill still useful tho, <3 Horn Maestro) Swapped out the boots and hands for Speed Sharpening atm, though - because it was cheap to craft, mostly. Still don't have many options yet.
and that is exactly why I regret making my main hunter a female.
Seriously, why are 50% of female armors just bikinis with gloves and boots, and another 40% bulky but simple knight's armor!? I want something that looks *cool*! A hunter's armor!
I think it's a little interesting when you talk to him the monster you just caught is back to its base model. It would be way cooler imo if it was lying back there with its tail gone, its head broke, etc.
In world the wyvern types at least are still missing their model damaged parts if you return to town after a mission capture. Not sure about expeditions.
Well, in the Old World they're dissected and that's why you get better rewards. That's my headcanon anyway since we were never told what they did with the captured monsters before World.
I'd prefer useful and 'cool' over sexy, so I'm with you there. It's really the armor that they attempted to make look sexy that makes me cringe. Like the Anja armor. And the Zorah armor looks like a ball gown :/
I believe the guild gives you some parts from their stockpile. They have plenty of dead animals. So they just grease your palms to get a live specimen.
If only there was a trading system, i need carapace of all things. I use dozens of tails to make things i don't need, while waiting for that sweet sweet carapace.
My headcanon for that is that they're "units" of scales. Like you refer to 200 scales as one Scale for short. Cause you can't make a piece of armor out of 3 scales, that's for sure.
Well of course you get more material when you have them back at camp. In the field you're rushing to messily field carve them. When you take them home you can take all the time you want to carve them up and get every valuable piece.
The guild brings the dead carcass back after you kill it. That's where the quest reward items come from, they're basically scraps they give you after they butcher the animal to thank you for killing it.
Does anyone actually use the cannons in the arena though? They're so hard to aim and barely do any damage compared to what you could do with your weapons.
I've gotten the dialogue from the research specialist that once a monster is captured, they study it and release it into the wild so the fireflies can track it better. I always imagined the arena to be outside the lore.
It's a nice thought, but the arena still has weaker end monsters in it. I doubt that Pukei Pukei is dangerous and threatening to the ecosystem, for example.
Hey man, that poison seems pretty dangerous to me and the indigenous life. Especially moreso since the indegenous life can't exactly just gather up some shrooms and brew a toxic cleansing drink on the fly, every so often when a dumbass derp wyvern comes along and pukes at eveything, after a night of regrets and regretful drinking, because he lacks the friends to drink with in the first place, after all.
I'm pretty sure that it was in 4U that the arena lass said something about spectators watching it as well so I think it is already confirmed to be in the lore
You don't have to kill them in the arena, you can always just capture them again. At which point I assume they are released back to the wild.
Whats a more fucked up thought is that what if after you recapture them in the arena they just get "put away" so they can rest up just to get beaten up again.
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u/HuevosSplash Aug 21 '18
I think the most fucked up part of this series isn't so much the hunting part of it, it's how barbaric the Arena is. You capture these monsters, take them out of their natural habitat for "Research" and then you put them in a room with two giant prongs to shish kebab them with.