Playing Wilds some more, basically reached the endgame. This game feels empty, like I'm playing with nothing but bots. It's not just the fights being lacking in challenge, even for high rank, it's this weird silence and lack of interactivity other players have. In Rise, GU, and even World you'd have banter with the randoms you hunt with and they'd actually respond back, sometimes even have small conversations and build or fashion advice to give, jokes about events in the hunts, if not that you'd have some back and forth emoting and similar voice-less interaction. This game? Nothing. Everyone feels strangely antisocial. Most people haven't even modified their auto-shoutouts either, and not one person has talked to me. I can count on one hand the times I've had emote-based interactions with randoms too. This feels awful and I miss Rise gathering hubs and how friendly they were. Why the fuck did they remove the gathering hub from the game only to patch it in later? Already got two builds I wanted to made, well, made too, so now I'm just farming money for upgrades and parts for random fashion. I keep playing out of some vain hope I'll find the magic, y'know, but it just ain't there.
I'm also suffering from how badly they mangled Heavy Bowgun. No multiple ammo levels, no shrapnel ammo, guns are super limited with their secondary ammos, no recoil difference between bowguns, no recoil or deviation mod control (I don't even think there's a deviation stat at all?), new secondary ammo types are worthless and you're still better off going with Wyvernheart and the totally-not-wyverfine-ammo shitty offset attack, no crouching fire or charged fire. It all combines to make it feel like a massive downgrade even from GU, a HUGE downgrade from Rise, and even a notable downgrade from world. I'd take crafting and fast menuing any day over this dumbed-down over-simplified bullshit reminiscent of FF14's butcheries in recent years. Gunlance is still an improvement, at least... people are also saying it's meta now? That's hard to believe, gunlance the constantly shit on weapon now being near the top? Feels like bizarro world.
At least we're still getting cool monster girl art. Much better than that annoying handler and that blacksmith the internet cums over for some reason.
>>1080314
Never played the original. Sorry man. How is it, by the way?