Monster Hunter World Update Out On PS4 And Xbox One; Here Are The Patch Notes

@proceeder:

Wait, so I gave two examples where lack of thoughtful balancing made games worse experiences, but I'm the one undermining my credibility?

And where did I say I don't use other weapons? I DO use other weapons. In fact I mostly play Bow, GS, and GL. I have only trotted out the bowguns for a total of maybe 2 hours out of about 140 hours of playtime, and they were boring for two reasons: one, slicing made the game too easy. Since damage is done entirely after the shot lands, so crit distance is irrelevant, making it the safest shot type in the entire game. And that's entirely besides the point that the damage on it is crazy, and outclasses every other weapon type. The second reason the bowguns were boring to me is the other meat-and-potato ranged ammo types (normal, pierce, element) weren't very good, and were generally outclassed by all the other weapon types. The nukes like cluster, and spread shots seemed fine, but those are situational.

Now that this patch has balanced the terrible shot types to be less terrible, and the OP one to be slightly less OP, I'm much more inclined to use bowgun. As other positive knock-on effects, I don't have the thought in the back of my mind when grinding equipment that I COULD be doing this faster with the boring OP weapon, instead of one that's fun to play. I am also more likely to be able to go online to play with randoms, and find games that don't have two slice gunners in them.

I'm not "encouraging forced choices". I'm reveling in the fact that there IS a choice now as far as "most effective weapon" is concerned, because they buffed the bad ammos and nerfed the OP one a bit. I still can't comprehend why you like having a single thing that's overwhelmingly better than everything else, rather than having multiple competitive top-tier options. But then you say at the bottom of your post that you can't wait for the PC version so you can hack/cheat, so I guess maybe you're just not interested in being challenged at all.

And I have no idea what you're about with your "new ammo type which happens to be called "slicing ammo"" is coming from. For the third time, it is still the best ammo in the game, and it behaves the same way, just with slightly smaller numbers.

By "more vulnerable" with bowguns, I think you mean less armor, but you're not really "more vulnerable". It's a tradeoff for being able to do damage at range. You should hardly ever be getting hit with LBG in particular, since it's so mobile, and slicing compounds that by not needing to be in critical distance while still doing 80+ damage per shot against weakpoints.

Gunlance explosions may be more powerful per shell, but slicing does multiple hits per shot that add up to more than any Gunlance shell can do, with the exception of charged long-type shots. And, you can't fire charged shells with GL nearly as fast, and you have to sit stationary and helpless within melee range to use them. Biiiiiig difference.

To play the game unpatched, all you need to do is delete your game data (not your "save game data", your game data). That will bring it back to version 1.0, what's on the disc. Then you can just cancel any updates that happen to pop up. If you bought it digital, I'm not sure if they update the executable that's in the store or not as new versions are released, but you could try deleting game data and then re-downloading, and canceling any patch download that initiates at the same time.