Nah. If a species hangs out in the Vale long enough to forge a symbiotic relationship with whatever makes the flesh-eating gas down there, then its wings would have atrophied and vanished a long time ago.
It's not a species, it's the same dragon. It's Gollum.
I didn't know I could kill and carve Tempered Gollum 150+ times while I grinded for decos.
I always interpreted it (both in world and previous games) as one but not the only one in existance. For example, Nergigante is the same Nergigante through all of World's story but that doesn't mean it's the only one in existance. It is a species, they are just rare to the point of being borderline mythology. Game mechanics are the only reason we see so many.
That makes sense. Vaal could absolutely be one of a kind. It's hard to imagine one living anywhere but the Vale.
I've never heard of that. Bandit mantle drops are gold instead of white, but that's because they're trade-in items instead of mats.
When you kill a Vaal the corpse comes back as two Vaals. So we created a species by farming them.
Well, it's a variant and we can't fight the original, so I interpreted it as being the same one but infested by the effluvia moss.
Don't worry, in April you'll get the vanilla Vaal in master rank.
I'm already aware. I meant in the context of the game's plot.
Vaal's jaw design is based on real life deep sea fish, the stoplight loosejaw.
I don't see why it's impossible to enjoy that gameplay loop while still appreciating the clear creative effort that went into the worldbuilding.
That is awesome, I did not know that was the basis on its non-jaw. Very cool, the designers never cease to amaze me.Vaal's jaw design is based on real life deep sea fish, the stoplight loosejaw.
The Rotten Vale in general is designed to be the deep sea to the Coral Highland's shallows; the way corpses rain down from above to nourish the Veil below is akin to real life "marine snow" of feces and carcasses sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
I just don't give the lore terribly much precedence over anything else. It's cool that they go the extra mile when other hunting games begin and end at "well, we gave it boobs this time," but I'm not going to lose sleep over something like Vaal having wings when it doesn't fly, or why cats are making food that can make you carve just one more time.
lol, if you are having a good time who gives a shit. There are much higher SOS crimes than people not immediately going for a head smash the instant the opportunity presents itself. Weakening parts or making good slinger ammo, depending on what weapon you use, is the clutch claw thing in multiplayer I see people neglecting far more, personally.
Yeah and it's fascinating. There's a lot of thought put into how each monster "works" as a living creature.
Just kill any bird wyvern and wait for it to eventually drop as a reward.
The "backhop-bomb" also known as pepega move is there though
I do want to learn how to do it. I tried and got bucked off immediately. Tried again, same thing. Then I told myself I'll look it up properly and just never did. There's always someone that can do it so I've been alright. I gotta learn it for ME, though.
Sorry, should have mentioned it. This stuff becomes second nature after a while.
You're not that bad. I hardly ever grapple monsters into walls either. I probably would've ignored the CC altogether if it wasn't baked into the Hammer's moveset as much as it is.
This is true, but having to fight Zorah another two or three times will weigh heavily on your conscience all the same.
I love these so much. How many "takes" do you need to do before you get them right?
I'm a 90% HBG user. The QoL changes made for guns in mhw compared to the old games is just so huge, it's so much more enjoyable to use now.
For sure, I'll try to get it down next couple sessions or so. Thanks!
I'll definitely try to get the wall bang down.
I do feel like the damage I can do in the time it takes to wall bang won't be too much different, which is why I've kinda let myself not figure out how to do it. But it's nice to get some damage off with the monster being distracted and not really swinging at you.
While playing solo, there may even be an argument not to wallbang, depending on weapon and monster matchup, but in multiplayer the math changes too much.
