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A historic moment – the first Monster Hunter Freedom Unite armour database has been completed.

I would like to sincerely thank the members of the MH community who made this possible, namely:

Quickb Shimmer (gamefaqs) Roushy the God (PSU) Sparki (Gamefaqs) Silverhand (Gamefaqs) Cepharoth (Gamefaqs) Draconacticus (Gamefaqs) Psience (Gamefaqs) Hung (Capcom Eur) Mikerockssomuch (gamefaqs) x Junktalk (Gamefaqs) AoNekoAmaru (both Capcoms) Legend_striker of GFAQs OMGFourlol (Gamefaqs) Vengeful Torture (Monster Hunter Playstation Boards ) Ben Shannon BladeBlade. (Xlink Kai and Xbox Live.) awesomesauce13 (Gamefaqs) Master Storm ?? crazylikebull chicken baradekai Zangpakto Brad Tom Bloom nezerat DXBrea SStwotimes (Capcom USA) BloodWolf (Capcom USA) HGM (Minegarde) Me

Missing a couple of names, but I’ve mailed out. Sorry if I missed anyone!

We’re proud to unveil our latest addition to the data section.

We’ve gathered carve data, capture data, drop data and break data for every last monster in the game and now you can witness the awesome power of our fully functional carve guide!

Simply go to the items tab and start typing in the first few letters of the item you need and select it from the drop down box.

As if by magic a table shall appear with the odds of getting that item from all possible sources.

We’ve collated this from 4 differnet sources (big thanks to Minegarde, the mhp2g wiki, the mhf2 carve faq and the mhfu carve faq), corrected a few omissions and cleared up the mystery of why you can’t get certain items from the 1-2* Guild Hall quests.

While the data is the most complete and accurate source online for all your monster carving needs, there are bound to be one or two mistakes (you should see the size of the spreadsheet we had to enter this into, it’s a whopper!) so please let us know if you spot anything peculiar.

Expect more functionality to come later as we play with our data! We’ve some great ideas for handy tools we’re currently working on.

New MHP2G bundles being announced. Enjoy Teo and Luna. Good luck, blazer, convincing your wife that you need one…

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Teo Luna

You can almost smell the excitement in the air!!

I didn’t really know much about the MCM Expo before I left Manchester early Sunday morning and started the long train journey down to London. All I knew is that Capcom were there promoting Monster Hunter Unite and that was good enough reason to me to make the journey.

When I finally got to the Excel Centre in London 5 hours later (damn you British Rail) I learnt a new word, “cosplay”. Maybe I was pretty naïve heading to an expo on manga comics and media, but I really didn’t expect to be surrounded by thousands of pale people dressed in home made cardboard outfits carrying plastic swords. I was a pilgrim in an unholy land.

Still, I ducked and dived my way through the throngs of pale fan boys and fan girls, who were offering free hugs and swine flu, like a ninja dodging nerdy samurai until I reached the Capcom stand. The chill out area was a very welcome sight, a load of bean bag type chairs scattered in a square stand, fenced off from the hoards of plastic wielding fanatics.

Sadly though the promotion of Unite was severely lacking in my opinion, apart from the display boards on the stand the only other display was the running of stock MHFU footage on two crappy plasma screen TVs in poor resolution. Only existing fans of the series seemed to be taking any interest, there was nothing to engage those who’ve yet to discover the pleasures of dispatching nature’s mistakes with unfeasible large weapons.

Given the nature of the show and the large numbers of people in costume I would have expected Capcom to have some cute girls dressed as the Guild Ladies, or a Felyne Fighter wandering about or some of the fun they put into their Japanese promotions. They didn’t even have playable demos of the game unlike the other video game stands, and not a scrap of merchandise. They even ran out of the free t-shirts just as I arrived, how’s that for poor planning?

I stayed and played a few quests with some of the other monster hunters there, cut a tail off a Teo, had my arsed handed to me by white fatalis and then failed miserably as a group as we tried to teach a girl new to monster hunting how to kill dual plesioth.

After a while I decided to have a look around. The Capcom guys were mostly playing quests among themselves, so I took my leave and took in the rest of the show. It was pretty manga intensive with lots of stalls selling plastic Final Fantasy imitation swords for £40 (that’s $65 for non-brits). The highlights for me were the Ford Mustang painted up like Bumblebee for the new Transformers film and meeting Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame.

On the whole I came away a bit disappointed. I really thought Capcom would have made much more of an effort in their promotion of Unite, and of course I was gutted to come away without even a t-shirt to show for the 10 hour round trip.

The only real news I could squeeze out of the guys on the stall is that the planned Gathering Hall opening in London this summer is a trial and other drop-in centres maybe on the cards if it is a success. Though unless Capcom pull their fingers out of their arses and really start to seriously promote the series outside of Japan they might not get the numbers to justify the cost.

A few lame virals really aren’t doing this amazing game justice guys, please put some effort into it!

You will read this, ok? Translated interview with Tsuijimoto (MH producer)

In what may be a tough new move for some series fans to swallow, the number of weapon categories in MH3 have gone down from 12 to only seven — Great Swords, Lances, Hammers, Bowguns, Sword/Shield, Katanas, and the new Slash Axes. “After a great deal of debate, we concluded that we needed to whittle down the weapon categories and concentrate on adding more depth to each individual weapon, Tsujimoto explained.

On 11. March 2004 Monster Hunter for PS2 went on sale in Japan. Five friggin’ years ago.

Happy 5th!

Happy 5th, dear Rathalos.

Ramalos

Well, MHFU edges closer to release, over a year after MHF2, and over half a year after MHP2G.  Does it really take Capcom that long to translate?  Marketing reasons aside, you have to look at MHP2Gs record breaking sales and think “surely some of those are imports”?

Maybe Capcom is over-reacting about poor overseas sales.  Maybe we like the series so much, that we as a collective, import all things Monster Hunter as soon as physically possible.  Does the thought that someone, in a far distant land, is physically able to touch an item that you covet bring you out in a cold sweat?  Perhaps the lack of blood in a European release turns yours cold.  Lets find out shall we?

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MHP2G Hall of Fame

Head here for the beta of the MHFU (MHP2G) Hall Of Fame.

Enter your times and points here.

Finally I can provide you with piece #1 of the new Hall of Fame for MHP2G (upcoming MHFU).

MHP2G Hall of Fame Entry Page

The entry page is open located here.

For MHF2 I used a email adress where you had to sent your entries to. This was a tedious process at least for me and it resulted in a meager one-place-only HoF for the training quests in MHF. No longer.

Once it is up I will present all entries in a ranked hierarchy. You will see the top finisher first and you can click the table to get to the places. You can approve times/points entered there as you can reject them if you think it was cheated. If enough votes are up for a particular entry it is either approved or rejected and deleted. It is all your choice.

This high-score table will be up in one to two weeks. But you can already start entering your time and point records from MHP2G. All you need is a screen- or camshot of the training time and, if you can, a tactic how you did it.

Show the world who is the king of kings, the hunter among noobs. Enter now.

Kushala Daora. He has won the monster battle and he has for sure obliterated more than one newbie hunter who took him to easily. I take it as my personal task to give all those some tools and tips at hand.

Kushala can be encountered on different locations: Snowy Mountains, Jungle, Desert (Night) and in the town. While it is normally not worth mentioning Kusha has some traits in each of those areas which are nice to know. So I will make a tactics guide in several parts with some tips about the areas and most of the information in the general part.

Information which pertains to MHFU are in italics. Read the rest of this entry »