Pretty much a point and shoot mechanic, if you are close enough to anything – including other large monsters – your quarry will collide with it dealing a decent chunk of damage to it.įashion hunter is in full effect with layering available for all the armour sets allowing you to look as amazing as you wish. My personal favourite comes in when you grapple onto the head of the monster, while it is not enraged you can control it to a degree. Depending on the location and your weapon type there will be a few different effects, from weakening the armour of the monster to dropping slinger ammo. The biggest change, in my opinion, is the addition of the Clutch claw, a tool that lets you grapple onto the monster from a safe(ish) distance and damage it. Expanded move sets add to every weapon gives everyone something new to learn about their favorite damaging implement. The additions provided allow you to use any of the three bases as your main base, all of them providing similar facilities for your day to day hunting needs. Quite clearly the more aesthetically appealing base. Prep your hot drinks everyone or plan on a dip in the hot springs around the map.īesides the new areas, we saw the addition of some quality of life adjustments made to the alternate base in Astera, the Third fleet ship base. As the name suggests we head over to Hoarfrost Reach, the new cold region of The New World. This basically opened up the grinding of Hunter Rank until now: the new Master Rank unlocks a continuation of the story and new areas, monsters and challenges to boot. The story of the New World is far from done, at the end of Monster Hunter World the Fifth fleet decides to stay on in Astera to keep investigating and learning (and hunting) in the New World. These checkpoint quests are auto-completed so nothing prevents you from collecting anything from the base game once you begin Iceborne content. These are checkpoint hunts that you have to complete to raise your hunter rank further.
Anyone who is familiar with the Hunter Rank system will know about the milestone quests that are available once you complete the story.