It's definitely not too late to get a refund now.
Many players have already taken action.
However, they aren't refunding 'Monster Hunter', but 'Fear of the Wolf'.
From the moment Dream Weaver started streaming and You Guagua performed the Rising Dragon Slash in front of global players, the million sales of 'Fear of the Wolf' began a slow decline.
The number of refund orders is higher than the number of new orders!
When Xu Meng announced the pre-order launch of 'Monster Hunter', the gap between the two data points widened several times.
Now, players are asking in Dream Weaver's stream: "Is it still too late to get a refund?"
In the live stream, a group of hunters are being brutally beaten by the BOSS, and the Palicoes are running so fast with stretchers that their legs are almost smoking.
Everyone just laughs it off and doesn't take it to heart.
After all—
The streamer being bad doesn't mean the players are bad.
You being bad doesn't mean I'm bad.
We haven't even played the game yet, so the difficulty is just an illusion.
Especially since Xu Meng has been leisurely playing the flute, and doesn't even bother to swing that hammer-like Hunting Horn, it's obvious he's slacking off.
The people who rush up to fight also interfere with each other.
They often get hit by their teammates, interrupting their combos, which greatly affects their output and dodging rhythm.
It can almost be said that one-third of the combat difficulty comes from teammates.
Players watching this scene will naturally come to several conclusions:
"As long as my teammates don't slack off..."
"As long as my teammates don't interfere with me..."
"As long as I hunt alone..."
"It will definitely be much easier!!"
Even now, some people are complaining in the chat:
"Is Boss Xu really not messing with his teammates' mentality?"
"Are you actually a teammate of the monster?"
"Too many people, purely adding difficulty."
……
To some extent, these complaints are actually correct.
After half of the 14-person hunting team died, the previously one-sided battle situation stabilized.
The bold and reckless hunters have all been wiped out.
The remaining hunters are naturally more cautious and methodical.
The Long Sword user, You Guagua, killed two teammates with a single Rising Dragon Slash, and barely survived himself.
He apologized repeatedly to the stretchers, and then cautiously stayed on the periphery for a while, restoring his health to the healthy range before rejoining the battle.
This time, he finally learned to be cautious and cooperate.
When attacking, he pays attention to his moves to avoid accidentally injuring his teammates.
Once the Stygian Zinogre's body glows, no matter where it glows, he stays away immediately.
Although this is not as cool and the damage is not very high.
But it's at least better than dying immediately after a round of burst damage.
The Tempered Stygian Zinogre is still ferocious, and its desire to fight is extremely high.
Crimson lightning wraps around its body, charging left and right on the open ice surface.
Pounce, bite, jump, tail whip.
Electric floating cannons, large-scale lightning strikes, 360-degree spins.
A combination of ferocity and magnificence, both the combat experience and the visual effects are extremely oppressive!
The originally solid ice surface is smashed into ice caves.
The battlefield has also become dangerous.
Qi Huahua, with her super high defense, was holding up a large shield, originally thinking she could stand her ground.
But after the BOSS went berserk, her proud thick armor was like paper, and she was left with only a sliver of health after being hit by two combos.
Just as she was about to be struck to death by the Stygian Zinogre's lightning, the spirit of the Jagras suddenly appeared in the air, blocking a bolt of lightning for her.
—Originally, the spirits in Xu Meng's vision only had two uses in the game world: "viewing" and "special effects", and were just an extra.
But after the Spirit Project Team designed the shapes of the spirits at different ages, they talked to him about many "armorization" ideas, and felt that it was too wasteful to only be able to see them and not use them.
So the entire project team held a meeting to discuss adding [Spirits] to the battle, making it a part of character development.
However, the internal beta test was too short, and spirit development was very time-consuming.
Now, only Qi Huahua in the team is particularly interested in spirits and has spent a lot of time and energy raising them, so she can barely exert a little effect.
But this little effect is sometimes very critical.
Just like now, the little bit of time that the Jagras spirit bought for her allowed Dragon City Flying General to grab her arm, rotate his body like throwing a shot put, and throw her far away.
Xiao Meng also followed up, giving the Stygian Zinogre's front paw a heavy hammer blow, preventing the BOSS from chasing.
This is the third time that Xiao Meng and Dragon City Flying General have rescued a teammate.
Dragon City Flying General has been testing the Dream Weaver machine for the longest time, and is very familiar with Xiao Meng, so the cooperation is the easiest.
Under their repeated rescues and connections, the remaining hunters also slowly began to cooperate, covering each other and creating opportunities.
So the situation quickly improved, and the battle became more exciting—
Qi Huahua held up a large shield to block long-range lightning attacks for her Heavy Bowgun teammate.
Xiao Meng swung his hammer with great force, interrupting the Stygian Zinogre's combos.
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You Guagua held up his Long Sword…
Okay, forget about the Long Sword user.
It would be a great help if the Long Sword user stayed away from his teammates and didn't cut them.
The Dragon City Flying General's Pylon was originally designed as a relatively "solo" weapon.
In addition to basic moves such as "punch", "heavy punch", and "uppercut", there are also special states—[Steam Burst], and special moves [Sky Cannon].
The former can overload the Pylon, causing a steam explosion with every punch that hits the target, causing additional high-temperature impact damage.
The latter can charge up and deliver a powerful "cannon shot" with excellent flinch effect.
But Dragon City Flying General did not use it to deal damage, but instead used this move to send his teammates into the sky.
Instead, this ultimate move became an assist skill.
Dream Weaver designed high-altitude attack actions for all weapons, even the Light Bowgun has "aerial combos".
The damage may not be very high, but the style points are all maxed out!
It's cool and fun to play.
You Guagua simply loved it, and almost hugged Dragon City Flying General's leg and called him daddy on the spot.
In this way, the hunters covered and cooperated with each other, and fought back and forth with the Stygian Zinogre.
After the Stygian Zinogre went berserk, it kept running around the field, and the ultimate moves never stopped, and the lightning effects hardly stopped.
But the hunters were able to withstand this berserk attack and fight the BOSS head-on, and also performed various cool and gorgeous moves.
The audience in the live stream watched this passionate confrontation with full visual effects, and their hearts were swayed.
They no longer mentioned anything about "refunds".
The barrage also changed from "Mom, I don't want to play anymore" back to "Mom, I want to play too"!
Even while the battle was still in progress, video clips of some wonderful moments had already begun to spread on Bit Biting People, Pilipili, and various player communities.
Pushing the already amazing popularity of the live stream to continue to climb higher!
……
The fierce battle lasted for nearly 40 minutes before the player team finally defeated this Tempered Stygian Zinogre at the cost of 11 deaths.
Almost all the main damage dealers were knocked down by the enraged BOSS due to excessive aggro, and were carried away by the Palicoes on stretchers.
Even Xiao Meng was sticking out his tongue, lying on a stretcher and being carried away by the Palicoes.
In the end, only the thick-skinned, low-attack-desire Qi Huahua was left.
Luo Ye Qiqiu, who charged 128 times, succeeded 73 times, and hit 1 time throughout the entire fight.
And Xu Meng, who slacked off from beginning to end, and only swung his Hunting Horn a dozen times in the last 20 minutes when his mouth was a little tired.
The slacking trio looked at each other in silence as the Stygian Zinogre slowly fell.
Many people in the live stream burst out laughing when they saw this result.
But when they saw the spirits slowly dissipating and condensing on the Stygian Zinogre's corpse, everyone was full of question marks and repeatedly asked what this was in the live stream.
Xu Meng shook his head, did not answer the question about the spirit, but began to say the closing remarks:
"What a wonderful battle!"
"With the sincere cooperation and all-out struggle of all the hunters, the Tempered Stygian Zinogre - Hunting Success!"
"Let us thank all the hunters for their wonderful performance!"
"I believe that after watching this live stream, everyone has a better understanding of the gameplay of 'Monster Hunter'."
"Finally, I would like to add a few more pieces of information to everyone:"
"First, this area is a high-level area, and the difficulty of this BOSS far exceeds the current equipment level of more than a dozen hunters. When players actually face it in the game, the difficulty will be much lower than in the live stream."
"Second, the gameplay of 'Monster Hunter' is far more than just hunting. The types and depth of monsters are far more than what is currently shown. Everyone can look forward to the depth of the game's content!"
"Third, after 'Monster Hunter' is officially released in two days, we will unlock more game world and Sprawling Metropolis linkage, and [Sky Arena] will usher in a new era. Please look forward to it!"
