Info: A large primatius sporting pink fur often spotted in the Jungle and swamp zones. Fond of mushrooms, its diet affects its breath, which may be poisonous or flaming. One can predict these traits via the food in its local habitat.

Congalala can be a real pain for newb players and I was no different. But once you learn his moves he’s very easy and pretty slow. Most of the time you wait for him to do a move then strike at him.

Remember to mark him with a paintball to keep track of him.

Weak against: Fire element.

Move List:

• Triple Swipe Combo: Conga will lurch forward and swipe the air three times and he moves forward and on the last swing he will spin 180 degrees and fall flat on his back. I’d keep away from him while he is doing this and attack after he hits the ground. If you go in too soon the quake effect from him hitting the ground will make your character try to keep balance costing you valuable time.
• Belly Flop:  He will jump up and fall down on his belly causing a quake effect which will effect you if you are too close. Feel free to smack him once after he has landed.
• Swipe:  Congalala will do a swipe/swing with one of his arms.
• Charge: Conga will charge at you which can be followed by a swing or another charge.
• Breath Attack: Conga will do a side to side flame like attack. He can breath flames, poison or sleep gas depending on what he eats. You will see him eat before he does a few of these attacks.
• Fart Attack: Conga is a real tool and will fart on you blowing you backwards if you are behind him for too long. You will get a soiled status effect and won’t be able to eat or use any hp potions until it wears off or you use deodorant.
• Dung Hurl: Just when you though he couldn’t get any dirtier, he does. Conga will crouch down and fling dung at you with his tail. He will do a single shot style attack or a triple attack. The triple will all happen at once with the dung breaking into three and hitting the ground in front of him in the shape of a V. This will knock you down and give you the soiled status effect also.
• Stomach Inflate: Conga will sit up straight and inflate his stomach. All your attacks will bounce off his gut. He will do a forward slam after which causes a quake effect in close range. While has his stomach inflated you can attack him in the back.
• Rage Mode: Conga face and butt will go red. He will move slightly faster and all his moves will do a lot more damage, so watch out.

Strategy: Aim for the head as much as you can. A good time to smack his head would be after a triple swipe or a belly flop.

Once he’s taken enough damage he will limp away to go sleep.

What to bring: Deodorant to counter his soiled status effect. Some poisoned or tainted meat. Congalala will stop attacking and go eat any meat you put down. This is a special thing for him since he’s such a glutton.

What you can break: His Fangs, Claws and Hair. You can also break his tail on high ranking quests. For breaking the hair you will get vibrant pelts. For the tail you will get Territorial Dung or Territorial Dung+ which are worth 500 and 2500 pokke points respectively.

Info: A bird-like wyvern with a huge beak and large ears that splay open when it is angered. With its sensitive hearing it dislikes loud noises. It is smaller but faster than other wyverns

Yian is the first Wyvern you will fight and can be hard for newbie hunters. If you’re having trouble with him trying using a different weapon and learn his move set completely!

Remeber to mark him with a paintball to keep track of him.

Weak against: Ice element.

Move List:

• Fireball: YKK will jerk his head back then suddenly he will bring it back down while shooting a fireball in a straight line. It’s pretty easy to dodge and it will vanish after a short distance.
• Tackle:  He will run at you full pelt and then fall to the ground. He can do this from the other side of your current zone. He doesn’t stay down long so be ready for his next attack.
• Peck Attack: YKK will launch at your very fast with his head up and peck at the ground a few times like a chicken. Sometimes he will turn to you and do a second round of pecks.
• Tail Whip: Yian will do a spin and hit you with his tail if your too close to him. Roll away from him and wait till its over.
• Taunt: YKK will scratch at the ground and put his head down whilst growling. This is a opening to attack him or flash bomb him etc. You have about a second or so to get your attacks in before he starts his next move.
• Backward Brush: Yian will fly backwards abit while screaming (the scream won’t affect you). You will be knocked down by the wind gust if your too close. It does this to get distance to launch its next attack on you.
• Multi-Fireball: YKK will launch a many fire balls at intervals on the left and right of him. Try to stay away from his left and right while he does this.
• Rage Mode: Yian will have a hissy fit and jump up and down with fiery and smoke coming out of his mouth. He will become stronger faster and less predictable. So hold back if you’re new to fighting him while this goes on.

Strategy: Aim for the head. Firstly because it will do the most damage and secondly because we want to break his weird looking ears. If you break his ears theres a chance you will get one as a reward. You can use the ears to make decorations which will come in handy later on.

If you find yourself getting hit a lot and fainting it’s because you’re being too greedy with your attacks. The idea is that you make an attack when you see a opening and then roll away. If you hang around him too much you will get hit one way or the other.

When you see his ears fold back on his head (breaking them will look different to this) it will mean that he’s near death and should fly away to sleep. Follow him to where he is sleeping and capture him.

What to bring: Sonic and flash bombs. Don’t overuse them though he’s pretty easy and using bombs a lot is considered a cheap tactic in the MH community.

What you can break: His Ears (You might get a YKK ear as a reward after breaking them)

This info is probably plasted everywhere by now, but still I wanted to make a post about this as it is so awesome!

Capcom have set up a meeting spot for to promote MHFU.  It will be open from 10am to 8pm 6 days a week and 10am to 10pm on Thursday nights. It’s located at Lazarides Gallery.

The gather hall has:

• Three floors of space for room enough to fit a few hundred people
• Comfy Lounge Chairs
• Free soda (rock on!)
• People to play MHFU with!

It will be running from the 3rd of July to the 1st of September. I’d so take a day off work just to go there and get my ad-hoc on!

Here’s some more awesome pics:

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Intro

Having written a MHF2 newbie guide already, I thought I’d update it for MHFU. There is some differences between MHF2 and MHFU such as the addition of Felyne Comrades. I will outline some basic tips for new players to get them started in the awesome world of monster hunter!

If you have any questions about any MHFU info that I haven’t listed here, please leave a comment and I’ll do my best to provide you with a helpful answer.

Weapons

There are a total of eleven weapons to choose from in MHFU. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. Just remember staying alive to finish the fight is the most important thing, so thing’s like damage might not always be that important.

• Sword and Shield (SnS) – Doesn’t do that much damage, but you have the advantage of blocking whilst being highly mobile.
• Dual Swords (Ds) – Have the ability go into a “demonization mode” which constantly drains your stamina. The upside is that wind pressure doesn’t effect you, you striker quicker and your attacks won’t bounce. These are supposed to be hard to use effectively.
• Great Swords (Gs) – A huge slow sword. It does some great damage and a lot of hunters seem to prefer this as their main weapon of choice. Since its a cutting weapon (All swords are) you can do things like cut monsters tails off and the reach of the weapon is a big plus.
• Long Swords (Ls) – is a jack of all trades weapon. It has good speed, raw power and elemental power. Ls will be out classed by a weapon and specialises in any of these fields however.
• Hammers (H) – My favorite weapon. Hammers are impact weapons that do great amounts of damage. They are slow to hit however, but you can charge up attacks and release them when your ready. Unlike the Gs where you have to release the charge once its at 100%.
• Hunting Horns (Hh) – Another type of impact weapon. It’s like a hammer that can play music. The music can do things like giving you an attack or defence boost. Hh are much weaker than hammers because of their ability to give stat boots to the player and his/her group. Hh’s are great for solo and groups.
• Lances (L) – Are the only defensive style weapon in the game. They do both cutting and impact damage. They also have the strongest guard in the game. Sounds like the best weapon right? Only if you an experienced MH player, otherwise you will end up being pretty frustrated at how slow you are.
• Gunlances (GL) – A very limited ranged weapon that does cutting damage. The advantage of this weapon is that you can do combos while you block with it. Which is great for turtling!
• Light Bowguns (Lbg) – More mobile than a Hbg but at the cost of damage. These bowgun weapons are great because you can use different types of status ammo such as poison etc.
• Heavy Bowguns (Hbg) – Pretty much what I said before but slower and does more damage. You should note that both of the bowguns need ammo to be brought for them and that ammo does take up room in your back pack.
• Bows (B) – My second favorite weapon. Bows have unlimited ammo and are highly mobile. They might not do as much damage as a Gs or a H but if you want to avoid a fast moving enemy bows are great.

Items

Items can make the difference between finishing a quest or failing it. You can’t just go out on a quest without proper planning and preparation. Here’s what I suggest you take out on your quests:

• Potions – Pretty obvious. Bring 10 normal potions and some mega potions wouldn’t hurt either. If you’re having trouble with a monster bring 10 normal pots and 10 mega pots with 10 herbs, blue mushrooms and honey so you can make more.
• Well Done Steaks – four or more. Anything else that boosts your stamina would suit also. Trying to fight with red stamina is pretty dam hard, so don’t put yourself in that position by bringing some nom worthy steaks.
• Paintballs – Five or more. I usually keep 40+ in my inventory and just make some more when I get low. Remember to keep marking the monster your fighting as it does wear off after about ten minutes.
• Pitfall/Shock Trap – Bring one of these plus materials to make a second incase you mess up. Some monsters can’t be captured at all and some traps only work on some monsters. Also some traps won’t work in things such as snow etc. Try to read up about the monster you’re fighting so you know what trap to bring. You can also use traps to hold monsters while you attack them, which can be great if you’re getting owned on a regular basis.
• Tranq Bomb – Three should do it (two to throw and one back up), once you have trapped your monster. Capturing monsters is always more rewarding than just killing them.
• Psychoserum – I’d suggest one of these if you haven’t done the quest before. These let you see the location of the monster you are hunting on screen for a few seconds. They basically save time finding the monster. You can also use the wave gesture to wave at the blimp if you see it, this will work the same way as psychoserum. You can only use the blimp once per quest (if its there).
• Whetstones – If you have a weapon that requires sharping, these are a must. You don’t want to be attacking a monster with a dull weapon for the next forty minutes.
• Ammo/Coatings – If you are using a ranged weapon that requires ammo or a bow that use coatings. I tend to use power coatings x50. I also carry x99 empty bottles and x20 Nitroshrooms to make more power coatings.
• Hot/Cool Drinks – If you’re going to the snow have some hot drinks etc. I’d take at least four as you can drink these by accident sometimes. Some maps might have hot and cold area’s such as the desert during the day.
• Power/Armour Charm – You buy these from the guild vendor once you hit 4 star elder quests (might be wrong about this). These will boost your armour and attack power so long as you keep them in your inventory. You can purchase these from the vendor in the gathering hall. Once you beat Lao Sharn you can upgrade these charms for even more power!

You can find a guide here that will show you every possible item combination in the game. Combining items is a lot cheaper than buying an item from the vendors. Books you buy from vendors will record what items you can make after you make a combo once.

Pokke Farm

This is a small farm near the village. The farm is used to well farm items such as different ores, bugs, fish, mushrooms,herbs and you also send a feylne out on his own quest to find rare items. You can upgrade the farm via account items. Upgrading will let you get more and rarer items from the farm such as dragonite ore. Account items can be found during quests by doing such things as mining, gather and hunting animals such as popo. The items will be found randomly such as when you’re mining and you mine a goldstone piece you will get 200 pokke farm points at the end of the quest. You can find a guide here that will show you how much certain account items are worth.

You should visit the Pokke Farm between every quest as you will build up a nice selection of items that you can use to make items, weapons and armour now and later in the game. Just remember not to sell your items as they are worth more too you as resources rather than just cash. If you’re strapped for cash repeat some quests a few times such as Yian Kut-Ku (more advanced players might go after something worth more zenni) which pays out around 2000 zenni. If you need to farm pokke farm points there’s a nice strategy right here.

Feylne Kitchen

You can hire Feylnes to cook your raw meats between missions. The number of Feylne’s depends on how far you have progressed through the game. The Feylnes will also make you meals between quests that you can eat in the kitchen. Depending on what dishes you choose you will either get a boost, nothing at all or a negative effect on your character on your next mission. You can find a guide for all effects here. Eating meals between quests is well worth taking advantage of.

Feylne Comrades

Just like feylne cooks you can now hire feylne comrades. These comrades will go on most of your solo quests with you to help kick some monster butt. The feylne’s come in a range of personality types, picking the right type from the start can make a big difference. If you want a bomber cat your going to be looking for a cat who is a bomb lover and uses bombs only. I’d suggest after you pick the right cat/cats to put them into “growth” training right away, don’t waste any time doing it. Also keep taking the cats on missions with you to level them up and also to train them in different skills.

Theres a guide here. Do be aware that the names are based of the a english patch for the japanese version of MHFU, so there might be some diffrences.

Armour and Weapon Building

This is a area that usually confuses a new player. Weapons and armour can be made from items found in the pokke farm and from killing monsters. To progress through the game will need to make new weapons and armour from monsters you kill or capture. You can also put decorations into certain weapons and armour, I’ll talk about decorations in more detail later.

Some new players will kill a monster such as Yian-Kut-Ku and wonder why only certain parts of the armour set can be made via the armour/weapons creation vendor. Some parts of an armour set require to break certain parts on a monster or get a rare item from that monster. In the case of Yian to make the helmet you need to shred his ears. This can be done hitting his head or shooting his head with a ranged weapon, these items don’t always drop when the area is broken however. Sometimes you will need a certain type of weapon to “break” an area such as breaking blangonga, you will need fire to break his fangs.

This is similar for weapons, you won’t see a weapon on the vendor creation screen until you have at least one of most of the required parts. Weapons can be upgraded via new monster parts and pokke farm items. Each weapon has a different upgrade path. The Hammer for example has a long bone and metal path in which you can take your starter hammer made of either bone or metal and upgrade it to a end game hammer. You have to be careful to pick the right path though. You can find all the upgrade paths for every weapon here.

Decorations and Skills

Once you have a armour set you usually get a bonus such as “Attack up (Small)”. This is because every item in that armour set will be putting your attack skill up. The attack skill itself doesn’t do anything its when you reach a certain number of points in that skill that you gain the effect. Such as “Attack up (Small)”. You can also boost your skills via decorations that fit into slots on your armour and weapons. The number of slots varies can differ from each piece of weapon and armour, even if they are in the same set.

Skills can made a big difference in a fight. The skill earplug skill which gives you High Grade Earplug at 15 points makes you invulnerable to monster screams which would be great for fighting a wyvern such as Tigerx.

A list of Skills can be found here

A list of Decorations can be here

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List of changes for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite from MHF2:

• New Felyne Comrade system.
• Felyne next to Village Elder, giving out G rank quests.
• New subspecies: Desert Blangonga, Emerald Congalala, Plum Daimyo Hermitaur
• Monsters get new attacks.
• New area: the Sea of Trees.
• 1st Generation maps of Jungle, Volcano, Desert and Swamp added.
• New monsters: Nargacuga, Hypnocatrice, Yama Tsukami, Ukanlos, Lavasioth
• New armor sets.
• New Weapons.
• New hairstyles.
• New Starter Clothes.
• Third quest giver wearing yellow in Guild.
• Eight equipment pages instead of six, and possible extend to 10.
• Forest and Hills quests can now be at night.
• Fighting 2 or more different boss monsters is a must in some G-rank quests.
• Dual Swords may now have two separate elements (example: one fire sword and one ice sword).
• Bows: White Coating (increases melee power) and Pink Coating (Paintball)
• Hunting Horns have a new note that works like a Sonic Bomb.
• Crag shots of Bowguns to the head can KO monsters (like Hammers and Hunting Horns).
• New Sharpness superior to white: purple.
  You can now hold up to 99 of each item type in your box.
• You can now store up to 20 equipment sets.
• Buy your items and send it to the Item Box.
• Directly combine items inside the Item Box.
• Media Install System that speeds up loading times.
• Skip animation scenes with SELECT.
• Trenya can now be sent for 1500 Points
• Trenya can be sent to the Sea Of Trees.
• Treasure Quests can be played at the Sea Of Trees.

MHFU Monster Strategy Guides Coming soon! (For real this time!)

It’s finally here! After months of waiting my copy of MHFU arrived via Play Asia. MHFU isn’t really an new game, it’s more of an expansion, but that doesn’t mean its not worth purchasing. It adds so many new things to the game that you won’t know how you did without it before.

The best new feature in MHFU is probably the Felyne Comrade.  I love this because being a solo player quests are harder for me, with no one to distract monsters or do some extra damage.

Newer players will find their Felyne’s are really that helpful aside from distracting monsters when they take a potion etc. They can be really helpful so long as you get the right type of cat and select right skills for them. Right now I’m using a “Small Bomber” Felyne. He’s a bomb only user, I’m currently training up his defence and I’m going to select Guard up Increase, High Grade Ear Plugs and Underground Recover Increase.

G ranked missions are back. I’m told these are super hard and monsters will two hit you when their in rage mode. They have also added in old versions of maps like the desert and swamp which will be interesting to play on.

Another awesome feature is the data install which lets you install part of the game on your memory stick. This speeds up loading times greatly. Now instead of waiting like 20 seconds to load a quest its done in around 4-5. It also makes loading between zones very fast which is great when you want to hunt something and not wait around.

MHFU is probably the longest game on the PSP now with over 500 hours of gameplay. Some people have 1000+ hour saves and the game technically never ends. This is one of the reasons I love MHFU it’s like a little MMO that you can take around with you.

I’ve saved the best new feature for last. The new monsters!

• Nargacuga – Similar to Tigrex in fighting style. This guy is scary looking and fast!
• Hypnocatrice – Like a big Kut-Ku with feathers and some interesting moves!
• Yama Tsukami – A huge flying tentacle monster.  I’m looking forward to taking this guy down!
• Ukanlos – The opposite to Akantor. I haven’t got up to Akantor yet, apparently he earns you the most zenny of any MH quest ever!
• Volcansioth – A Volcanic Wyvern. I’m going to shoot him up a water element bow!
• Alternative monsters  versions : Copper Blangonga, in the ‘Desert’ area, a “Emerald Congalala” in the ‘Jungle’ and in the ‘Swamp’ area, a “Plum Daimyo Hermitaur(As seen above)” in the ‘Desert’ and ‘Jungle’ areas and a Terra S.Ceanataur in the ‘Swamp’ and ‘Volcano’ areas.

As I’ve said before in MHF2 this game is probably suited to hardcore gamers rather than the casual crowd. Because things such as no-lock on and no difficulty settings will probably make casual gamers cry. MHFU can be a hard game but ultimately rewarding such as when you complete an armour set or take down a troublesome monster.

I’m giving Monster Hunter Freedom Unite: 8.5/10 
An awesome edition to the MH series

The Official site is now up and can be found at: http://www.monsterhunter-freedomunite.com/

Edit: http://www.encyclopedia-gigantica.com/ is now also up

Here’s from details from the capcom blog:

As you know from my many Monster Hunter blogs over the past few months, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is heading to the west. Unite packs over 500 hours of gameplay spanning some 400 missions. Above is a few of the brand new monsters, the Nargacuga, the Lavasioth, and the Hypnocatrice. Check out more info about the new monsters, screenshots, and features of the game released at Captivate09 after the jump.

Using the Ad-Hoc connection players can adventure with up to three friends for a savaging multiplayer hunting party. From devising strategies to executing the attack, players will need to work together in order to hunt down the ferocious beasts and progress through the wide range of quests on offer. Players will be rewarded for their use of the deep fighting combat systems, encouraging them to seek out the more experienced hunters and team up in order to learn from their experience.

Even in single player mode Hunters won’t be alone thanks to the introduction of the new AI feature, Felyne Comrades. Accompanying players on quests your furry ally will helping them battle monsters and gather extra resources.

There are five new monsters to the game waiting to challenge gamers in battle. These include the Nargacuga, who inhabits the old forest and attacks at lightning speed, the Lavasioth, a lava-breathing reptile who hides in volcanic areas and the Hypnocatrice, a bird-like monster that wards off hunters with its unique ability to produce sleeping gas.

Features:

• The biggest Monster Hunter title to date with over 500 hours of gameplay
• Huge variety of character customisations including 1400 weapons and over 2000 armor sets
• Players can form a team of up to 4 players through Ad-Hoc play and experience the social gaming phenomenon
• Media Install option where players can save the game to a memory stick, allowing the game to load from the memory stick and UMD simultaneously for faster loading times
• AI Felyne companion who will accompany players on quests and gather extra resources. With the ‘felyne exchange’ feature players can share their companions with other players, transferring data using the PSP’s sleep mode.
• Fans of the series can transfer their data from Monster Hunter Freedom 2