Although nearly 1 year has passed since the release of the NS version, and many fans of the series have definitely already tasted it on the NS platform, the PC version of Monster Hunter Rise is undoubtedly still one of the most noteworthy events in the game circle in January 2022, and the official version of the game will be unlocked on January 13, with the price of the normal version 396 yuan and the deluxe version 463.3 yuan (discounted price).
▲ Pre-order bonus appearance of tooth hound and Ailu
Pre-order players will receive exclusive rewards such as "Transformation Retriever" (Rogue Tooth Hound Appearance Equipment), "Transformation into Forest Cat" (Companion Airlu Appearance Equipment), and the early game practical equipment "Novice Stone Protector", which is the same as the original NS version of the pre-order bonus. Deluxe Edition comes with additional in-game items including the "Divine Fire Samurai" series of exterior armor, tooth hound and Ailu appearance equipment, 4 jumping moves, and character postures, paintings, hairstyles, and this expansion pack costs 99 RMB separately.
Like the October 2021 PC demo, Campfire also received the official qualification to experience the version a few days in advance from Capcom, which is of course only a fraction of the game time compared to the huge content of Monster Hunter Rises, but it is still very intuitive to feel some of the changes after the game came to the PC platform.
A little tip for pure novices who are new to the first contact
Monster Hunter Rise is the latest orthodox sequel to the well-known action game series Monster Hunter with a history of nearly 20 years, and most of the previous main line works in the series were exclusive to the console, first PS2, PSP, and then with Nintendo's console for several years, landing on the platform mainly Wii and 3DS.
▲ Monster Hunter: World and the expansion pack Icefield gave Capcom a taste of sweetness
Launched in August 2018, Monster Hunter: World is the first legitimate sequel in the series to land on a PC platform, and before that, the officially developed Monster Hunter was played on PC, and only the now-defunct online game Monster Hunter Frontier Online was available.
Monster Hunter: World sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, not only the best in the series, but also the best-selling game in the entire Kapcom since its inception. Of course, developers who have tasted the sweetness will not let go of the important platform of PC, so "Monster Hunter Rise" announced the plan for the PC version early, which is actually less than 1 year after the NS version, which is within the acceptable range.
▲ The Japanese characteristics of "Monster Hunter Rise" are extremely prominent
In addition, for Nintendo, "Rise" is also an important work of the series to return to its own platform after 4 years (the Japanese wind theme is also a feature of the handheld platform monster hunt), combined with the NS console complex function and user group characteristics, this work does have a certain compromise in the difficulty of the game, pure novice players recommend starting from the village mission step by step to familiarize themselves with weapon operations, prop systems, map structures and monster characteristics, one of the biggest features of the entire series "high difficulty" in fact, in the early stage almost no embodiment, 4 50 hours of gameplay time is enough to open up the village's single-player main story mission.
If you are still interested in the refreshing action experience of the game after this, you can go to the rally to enjoy online fun. Of course, the monsters in the guild hall generally have 2 to 3 times the health of the village mission, which is a good place to further familiarize yourself with the characteristics of weapons and the functions of the items.
▲ Challenge a variety of super difficult activities to mission one of the main funs of the game later in the game
Finally, if the difficulty of the rally house can no longer meet your needs, then the official also prepared a lot of difficult activity tasks for players to download, these monsters test more extreme operation ability, top equipment in such a task does not play a big role, all rely on technology to win.
If you just want to fully experience the basic content of the game, about 100 hours is enough, but for players who have requirements for monster fighting efficiency, equipment collection, and achievements, the time needed to spend may be several times that of 100 hours, although many people complain that the game content is not much, but it is only based on the average level of the orthodox sequel of Monster Hunter, compared with ordinary action games, the liver degree of Monster Hunter Rise is still guaranteed.
Image quality improvement and game content
First of all, the detailed description of the picture quality part, the operation feel, the specific effect of the frame rate improvement, you can refer to the demo brief review we released in October last year, although the demo playable part of the content is very small, only a few fixed teaching and large monster battles, but many pictures, picture quality options and this official version is not different, so in this official version of the introduction article will not be repeated.
The machine used for testing is still last year's 10th generation i7 + public version RTX 3080 + SSD test machine, the monitor is still only 1080P and 60Hz, so it is impossible to test the game screen performance under 2K or even 4K picture quality, but the previous test article has also mentioned that the PC version of "Monster Hunter Rise" is only a high-definition replica version that improves clarity, texture quality and frame count rather than a remake from scratch, if it is only compared with the NS version of the picture, of course, it is amazing. The production team did add as many special effects as possible that needed to be supported by high-end PC hardware under the premise of the engine, and also optimized the details such as character faces and map visions, which looked much clearer than the NS version and gave people a very refreshing look. In particular, a lot of effort has been put into the quality of the character's face modeling, which seems to have improved significantly compared with the original good quality NS version, and it is also the closest to the next generation of graphics in the whole game.
However, the PC version of the picture still can not withstand a closer look, the number of polygons used in modeling is not much different from the NS version, and there is still a strong NS smell after drawing closer to the picture. Character shadows due to lack of expression and the lack of some scenes, so that the characters have a sense of floating when walking, a lot of details are not particularly obvious on the small screen of NS, or because of the imposition of some functional-saving blur, fog effect is not so eye-catching, then the game to this unobstructed PC version, you must accept a lot of PC players who have not touched NS, just out of curiosity about the "Monster Hunter" IP to test or provoke.
This is somewhat different from the situation of the PC version of "Monster Hunter: World" at that time, after all, the hardware base is a serious home console, compared with the composite host that must take into account the free switching between a variety of use scenarios, compared with the composite host that must take into account the free switching between a variety of use scenarios, the advantages in performance and optimization are very obvious, so after the release of the PC version of "World", I personally did not feel a particularly obvious picture gap, I believe that the production team is more handy than "Monster Hunter Rise" when porting and hd.
Everyone is starting from scratch
As for the specific game content that many players care about, the first thing to point out is that the PC version of "Monster Hunter Rise" does not support the inheritance and transfer of the NS version of the archive data at least at the current stage, which is clearly prompted by the official, so it is natural not to support cross-platform online and other high-end features, PC version of the player will have their own online system and ecology, NS old players can only start their own adventures in the fire village from scratch.
In the more than a year since the NS version was launched, the official has released more than 40 active missions, from the version in our hands, after entering the game, you can directly get 36 of them, the latest one is the "Invasion!" launched in mid-December. Big Tengu and Little Tengu", after this, the 4 activity missions "Like Flames, Strong Survival", "Overlord Fire Dragon Riot", "Teeth in the Snow", and "Difficulty: Parents of Our Paradise" did not appear in the list, of course, it does not rule out the possibility of instant updates in the form of patches after the official release.
In addition, a series of milestone rewards and compensation items previously launched after the release of the NS version of the game will also be given to players at the beginning of the game, including about 200,000 yuan (sold 20 golden eggs in exchange) and some rare materials, although it is far from the point of peace of mind, but at least for a long time after the start of the game.
Of course, the material related to the monster still has to honestly fight the monster to advance, such as the capture of the anesthesia ball and other practical props of the blending material also have to go to the entourage square to find a trading ship to change, the process of cultivating The Elu cat and the toothhound is really bald, but there is no way, the process of slowly cultivating and accumulating materials is also one of the core fun of "Monster Hunter".
summary
As an important work in the series from Monster Hunter: World to the Nintendo platform, the overall performance of Monster Hunter: Rise is obviously controversial, whether it is the difficulty of the village mission is too close to the people or the relatively unforgiving amount of content, and the addition of the mutant tower defense mode "Dragon Night Walk" that forced players to participate, many old players felt very uncomfortable at the beginning of the game's release.
There are no new weapons, but the cool action and amazing effect of the wire worm technique has made a lot of changes in the use of many weapons, mainly because the degree of operation and the sense of rhythm are very different from before, some are easy to learn and difficult to master, and the use of great power, such as the sledgehammer's surface strike is called the successor of the courage knife; some are more brainless, such as the sledgehammer's rotation music and so on.
▲I look forward to this expansion pack to bring new vitality to the game
However, the "Monster Hunter" series has always had the statement that the expansion pack is the main body, the "Rise" expansion pack "Dawn" plans to land on the NS and PC platforms in the summer of 2022, and the calculation time is almost enough to start from the "Rise" New players to consume the game content almost, everyone will take the PC version of "Monster Hunter: Rise" as a warm-up exercise for the expansion pack, then there will be a lot of new monsters and newly increased "MASTER" difficulty to test everyone's training results.
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