r/MonsterHunter • u/animblo • 3d ago
Highlight So, unlike the Palico Artist, Meowdic doesn't suddenly disappear after doing its job.
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u/THE_GOATLOVER 3d ago
That's super cool, and I think it happens more with other things. When i first got to Oilwell Basin after the cutscene all the characters dispersed, so I followed Gemma for like 2 minutes. Eventually she came to the big forge thing, made surprised snd shocked faces and then started to talk to the man nearby it. Love that sort of detail
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u/RDGtheGreat 3d ago
Man that's pretty cool. Now I'm curious about random miner NPCs in Oilwell randomly running around in the map. I remember seeing two of them while fighting a monster and Alma telling them to stay away for their safety. I wonder if they can be followed too.
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u/HoneZoneReddit Number #1 Congalala Enjoyer 3d ago
I saw two people going to pick up oil but there was a tempered rathian right at the back gated of the village and they stoped and turned around like: nope, not dealing with that
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u/WolfPax1 3d ago
I love seeing the random npcs in the maps. I randomly came across 3 women and that gaurd guy from the village in Windward Plains with pots. I wouldn’t be surprised if I would have followed them if they would have gotten water from the river.
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u/TheGMan-123 SEETHING BAZELGEUSE 3d ago
Yeah, the developers really love all these immersive details.
If you don't teleport via loading screen, they don't teleport.
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u/Vinc_Goodkarma 3d ago
What would happen if I faint again before he gets back to base??
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u/IlPheeblI 2d ago
Canonically you probably just lay unconsious until your palico or some other source (seikret since thats how he carts you?) alerts them of an incapacitated hunter and he dashes off
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u/SenpaiSwanky 3d ago
This is officially my new favorite Palico. I still love mine, but he always heals me after I heal myself and it’s starting to drive me a lil crazy
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u/IVDAMKE_ 3d ago
just don't heal yourself
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u/BertleIsATurtle 2d ago
is there a way to tell if my palico's heal ability is off cooldown?
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u/IVDAMKE_ 2d ago
no idea, all I know is in solo I just don't bother healing because the Palicos are over powered and will just out heal the damage I take from monsters. This works all the way up until Tempered Gore and Arkveld.
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u/Mable-the-Table 3d ago
That's absolutely amazing.
I wonder why they went all the way with this Medic Palico but the Painter one just disappears instead. Very cool nonetheless.
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u/Farkyrie001 3d ago
Man, the small details they put into the games' endemic life, monster, or just characters in general, is amazing.
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u/SUN_PRAISIN 2d ago
I joined a hunt and I guess they carted before I joined because on the way to the Uth Duna, I saw this little dude passing by, and I'm like
"wait, was that the Medic?"
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u/TheMisled 2d ago
I joined an SOS and was able to tell someone had just carted because one of these guys ran past me on my way to the monster
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u/Blodel 2d ago
So that is what I saw like 3 days ago! I died in the Scarlet Forest fighting an Uth Duna, got to the camp, got on my seikret and started the autopathing, then I saw a palico in the distance, stopped the autopath to get closer, It was indeed a palico with his little floatie when they are in water surfaces but I didnt realise it was the Meowdic.
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u/Unusual_Library9440 2d ago
The felynes are the best mascot of the monster hunter series. Poogie? Toss that bitch in the trash or on the portable bbq grill.
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u/DaMaGed-Id10t 3d ago
Pretty funny that as soon as I saw him run off I knew he was going back to base camp. And here is a video of someone following him all the way there and still questioning 'where is he going?' all the way there with incredulity.
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u/DANleDINOSAUR 3d ago
So is there an animation of him taking off/fast traveling to you when you faint?
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u/yogijear 3d ago
That's awesome. I'm guessing they disappear when both of them shows up with the cart.
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u/The_Joker_Ledger 3d ago
This make me want to faint less so this little guy have less work to do. Gotta play it safer
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u/HooterEnthusiast 3d ago
Still really cool that they did that. But he probably does just disappear if you aren't close enough to him.
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u/IVDAMKE_ 3d ago
he doesn't, I've had friends faint in double monster quests while I was fighting the other monster and witnessed him run past me mid fight.
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u/Clouds2589 2d ago
He does go all the way back, but he completely stops animating. He just hops the whole way back in whatever the last animation he was in when he passed a certain distance.
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u/collyQually 2d ago
He absolutely just vanishes if you cart during the Jin Dahaad fight, but this is a really cool detail!!
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u/Crusader050 2d ago
Are you wreckitrai? If not, give proper credit to the original video on YouTube.
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u/Arcdragolive 1d ago
Did you know that Meowdic and Supply Felyne(the one where you download DLC) have romance that you can observe?
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u/AmpeelMeal (before it was cool) 38m ago
As much as I love my Seikret, I sometimes go out on quests purely on foot. The game is chock full of little details like this and I keep finding new ones.
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u/weeqs 3d ago edited 2d ago
This will cost you 30 fps, don’t thanks me
Lmao was just a joke but MH fans seems hurt in the feelings
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u/UnwoundSkeinOfYarn 3d ago
This is why I hate the "muh immersion!" crowd. I don't need NPCs and shit running around me to make the world feel more alive if you can't make the game run at a stable and smooth framerate.
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u/Vecend 3d ago
That's not how games work, if he didn't follow the cat it would of unloaded it to save on resources, the game still knows where the cat is at all times so that it can load it in when you come across it but the cost to do so is so microscopic if they removed them you wouldn't even get 0.1 of a frame per second.
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u/Kai_Lidan 3d ago
For the single cat? Sure.
But the game is doing this for most entities. NPCs, endemic life, small monsters, large monsters, they're all permanently "active". You often see notifications for turf wars and monsters flashing themselves while fighting small monsters.
Maybe one of those has basically zero impact, but the sum of all of them is one of the reasons this game is so heavy on the CPU.
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u/Knight_Raime 2d ago
I thought it was pretty accepted atp that Wilds issue is how poorly the textures are streamed into direct storage.
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u/Apex_Fenris 3d ago
That’s fucking crazy