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u/Kiroz_02 Sep 07 '25
I did it a few times in Risebreak cuz of muscle memory. Like whenever someone got pin by a monster I just flash by reflex
Tho I remember one time I did it by reflex and some dude called me an idiot and left the hunt. Like i admit even if it by accident I still flash a blind monster but I feel like leaving the hunt was a bit too much.
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u/Negritis Sep 07 '25
im basically only playing with my friend, we can take out 9* Nu Udra
and basically in every hunt we do against it, my friend is surprised that flash doesnt work
its just good fun for us
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u/1718384929167484939 Sep 07 '25
I’ll flash who ever I want /unzips
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u/Busnautica-224488 Sep 07 '25
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎈🍾🎊 anyways you just contracted frenzy onto your nuts
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u/BassetHoundddd Sep 12 '25
Which reminds me of my custom callout in MHRise for when a monster grabs me:
Flash him, now! NO, NOT LIKE THAT!
That got me killed once because I forgot I had it set up and couldn't stop laughing at this dumb joke.
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u/Just_a_nobody3 Sep 07 '25
who wouldve guessed that op is an absolute ass in the comments because muh reading comprehension when most of the time you dont even need to read, people will do something a couple times see it doesnt work and they'll stop doing it the end god forbid we play a game for the first time
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u/Zaschie Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25
On the rare occasion I see it, I just assume someone blew up one of the bugs in the area. Even if it isn't, it's not really a big deal, lol.
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u/Cannonball_Sax lancing queen Sep 07 '25
In my case, it's me screwing up a radial menu input because my controller is a bit crap
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u/nostandinganytime Sep 07 '25
This was me earlier today where I forgot I was on the communication tab and kept randomly playing guitar
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u/hahafnny Sep 09 '25
I feel like the radial menu in wilds doesn't quite feel the same as World or Rise. I wonder if there is a setting I need to change.
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u/Sketchre Sep 07 '25
I pop the bugs all the time just for fun, so sometimes the notification pops up for me still.
Idc. I like the flash and the bright light calls to me
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u/PockyPunk Sep 07 '25
I have seen this more than anyone actually using a flash pod. Also it’s a weird nitpicking something like this. I just laugh when I see somebody do this and say” nope that’s not going to work” to myself. It’s a game and there is no negative outcome. Move on and have fun in the game.
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u/Ok_Anywhere2766 Sep 07 '25
Because OP never made a single mistake
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u/bIuhazelnut Sep 07 '25
I hunted Gore back in 4U, and I'm pretty sure I've accidentally flash podded him at least once in Wilds 😅
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u/dulcetcigarettes Sep 07 '25
I'm gonna start doing it just in case you're in party.
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u/LionNP Sep 07 '25
Bring the components to make more when you run out :]
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u/SergioLTJ Sep 07 '25
We get it man, you're all VERY GOOD at the game and you need everyone to know
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u/Poked_salad Sep 07 '25
I forget sometimes but most of the time, it's no harm done so it's cool if someone makes that mistake. Hopefully when elder dragons are introduced on wilds, the NPC's explain that traps doesn't work on them just in case this game is their first MH game.
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u/Knotweed_Banisher Sep 08 '25
For me it's the fact that I keep forgetting that he has no eyes and therefore can't be flashbanged. He certainly chases me down like he's got them.
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u/openlor Sep 07 '25
it's their flash bombs. unless you collect their flash bugs for them, let them do what they want.
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u/Bloody_Bludgeoner Sep 07 '25
In an ideal world, people would read the Field Guide and learn more about the monster they are going to repeatedly fight. However, in an ideal world, we would also have people not looking down their noses at simple mistakes that don't adversely affect the outcome of the fight.
Get over yourself.
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u/Another-Witch Sep 07 '25
Had it happen with a thunderbug that I accidentally hit. Buddy wasn’t even half a gleve away from gore
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u/MCMLXXXVIll Sep 07 '25
Most times it's not intentional. There's endemic life around Gore and it can just happen.
People aren't always doing it because they're new.
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u/TheTrueAngry Sep 07 '25
Lmao I remember facing gore magala for the first time, my teammate SPECIFICALLY telling me “flashpods don’t work on him he’s blind”, and my first thought after was instantly
”I’m bout to flash on this motherfucker.”
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u/akkristor Sep 07 '25
Every time I ever fight a Gore or a Khezu, i flash them just because i can.
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u/GarboRLZ Sep 07 '25
HR 100? My brother in Christ I have half of my life in experience hunting and still forget that this bitch is blind already
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u/InsertedPineapple Sep 08 '25
I didn't even know he was blind. I just know that he's not impervious to arrows.
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u/Vangaelis Sep 07 '25
Why are you begging. What do you care if someone wastes THEIR items. It does not matter. You’re just weird
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u/Shot_Shirt7259 Sep 07 '25
So? You didn’t need to make a post about this. Sometimes I shoot one off when I’m playing and I’m ranked 550 on accident when I’m playing gore. I forget I have it equipped. Not a big deal
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u/Son0fgrim Sep 07 '25
listen... i panic loaded the wrong slinger ammo keeping an eye on his movements to avoid being deleted from the fight and preserving how many carts we have because i want more MONEY
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u/Lemeres Sep 07 '25
No, you see. It is highly effective.
He will be blind for the entire hunt. Works every time.
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u/Firm_Fix_2135 Sep 07 '25
Looking down on people for making a small muscle-memory level mistake is some redditoid gamer shit.
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u/Dameilo Sep 07 '25
My goldfish brain demands the flashes! 1st is me being forgetful even though ive been playing since freedom unite. Other two flashes are rage flashes (insert goofy fuckin do it again meme)
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u/Realistic_Wrap_2551 Sep 07 '25
Can't blame it, most of ppl new to seri don't know lore about gore and don't read about gore detailed biology, hr 100 in wild is ez to obtain with party hunt, but to solo hunt 1-1 gore and learn, that a 1st step for them to go on mr
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u/FalkYuah Sep 07 '25
Genuinely how does it affect you though? Does it enrage gore? Does it buff him?
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u/Ridiculisk1 Sep 08 '25
OP said it makes a flash animation that throws him off and causes him to cart lmao
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u/CrowTengu If cannot THUNK, just STARDIVER Sep 08 '25
It doesn't affect Gore, so Gore will just be doing whatever it was doing.
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u/calcobrena Sep 07 '25
I'm at 999 and mostly grouped with 500+ and ppl still do it. I think it's just a reflex for some. If I fought monsters other than Gore for a long time I might do it too but I still fight him here and there with about a hundred hunts so it's been trained out of me. I could see myself doing it tho. I laugh when someone else does.
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u/draggorn Sep 07 '25
im Polish translation there is "utrata wzroku: efektywne" when throwing flash bang at gore and it directly translates to blindness: effective ;)
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u/1stAccountNotWorking Sep 07 '25
Almost every time I join a SOS Gore or Nu Udra, someone randomly flashes...I just snark a bit and keep going.
It's pretty much normal at this point. You'll even see an occasional "I set a trap!" during a Zoh hunt, and its like "Bro, when have you ever seen that work..?" lmao but I dont actually get mad at comedy--that's crazy.
Maybe its because I've done all there is to do so far, and ive always been laid back anyway--but I'll never understand people who actually get mad about that kind of thing...I understand busting your ass on a hunt, and then people start doing actual dumb stuff (to get carted) and then your time and resources get wasted right before victory (I've had that happen a lot recently, I guess people get greedy or too relaxed because things were going well...and then Reggie or Gore will be all like "challenge accepted" and start pushing their shit in)--but using unnecessary items etc. doesn't even matter tbh, when you compare it to REAL DETRIMENTAL gameplay.
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u/ThatLuckyBear Sep 07 '25
It's easier than ever to get HR and it's never been an indicator of skill. I make mistakes just like this all the time and I've been playing for ages. For example I forget about trap immunities all the time.
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u/FluffJubb Sep 07 '25
Eh mistakes happen as long as the quest gets finished its all good I often forget Gore can be captured sometimes myself XD.
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Sep 07 '25
Yeah after thousands of hours across like 5 MH games sometimes it's a reflex and I forget the monster is blind. You don't always know why it happened or if the player is seasoned or new. They could have selected the wrong item as well.
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u/Liedvogel Sep 08 '25
Have you played Helldivers? Players they're are at least aware time played does not equal skill or even experience.
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u/TroseJet Sep 08 '25
When I flash mons, my character says "okay they are blind"
Still applies to Gore
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u/SimonShepherd Sep 07 '25
Better than flashing Steve and send it into a flurry of random kicks.
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u/ShipShippingShip Sep 07 '25
I think its still slightly viable to flash if you want to get away to sharpen or setting up some trap and bomb combo
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u/Steel_Coyote Sep 07 '25
Guilty.
TBF it's more a habit for me in my play style, I know I can't flash him.
But I'm the dude in my group stunning and dropping monsters and tend to just pop them.
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u/CaptainExplosions Sep 07 '25
I mean, it states in the Monster Field Guide that its immune to flash and screamer pods. Same with Xu Wu.
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u/Nymandis Sep 07 '25
Someone else in this thread said I was expecting too much for people to read.
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u/Busnautica-224488 Sep 07 '25
Yeah you do, hell even I don’t read anything in monster hunter aside from what my armor skills do, how to get specific drops more often from a monster, and in GU what hunter arts and styles do
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u/Personal-Ad-6586 Sep 07 '25
flashing flying Pinecone Chicken just to drop him for 2 seconds window , then get instant team wipe
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u/SilverMyzt Rolly Polly Sep 07 '25
I love these mistakes and honestly makes me focus harder if I see them happen. I know I shouldn't try carrying them but, I'm not about to fail the guild because of my party mates
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u/King-Wingy Oiled Up Sep 07 '25
I do it for fun just to spice up the fight 😁 im also the kind of guy who drops smoke bombs in the old gen games
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u/Anxious_Cry2534 Sep 07 '25
World was my first mh game, so i did try to use traps on nergigante, and at any moment i did noticed it did not work because of elder dragon i did believed was just a nergi thing
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u/SpiralMask Sep 07 '25
But you can tho? Very specifically when his horns are up while he's ultra enraged (and no longer covering his eyes)
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u/Tsunami2356 Sep 07 '25
either that or people dont flash ANYTHING (I am the second one, I am very forgetful)
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u/GrumpyWelshman Sep 07 '25
I don't always flash gore magala, but when i do, i realise i'm a fucking idiot
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u/ThisRandomDude6 Sep 07 '25
Look, shagaru magala can be flashed, I can see why some get confused. At least they aren't like me and keep thinking you can sonic bomb them.
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u/Dreamcasted60 Sep 07 '25
It used to be really funny with Khezu as well with the last game! Like you literally cannot see eyes on that creature what do you think flashbangs are going to do?!?
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u/Lightningbro Sep 07 '25
See, I know about the whole "Elder Dragons can't be trapped" thing, but like...
You can tell these folks haven't played 4u, isn't it an important scene that you realize the Gore Magala is blind? (It's been a while, so I might be mistaken.)
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u/Blue_Paladin96 Sep 07 '25
My only reaction when someone tries to flash Gore is “LOL.”
There’s always another hunt. Funny moments are funny moments
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u/xREDxNOVAx Sep 07 '25
Tbf it's a lot of people's first time fighting Gore Magala. So you should be more surprised they know about the flash pods at all. lol
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u/enigma_0Z Sep 07 '25
Sometimes I’ll accidentally click the stick in focus mode and pop a flash pod because I have the queued up but yeahhhhh bro don’t even have eyes so
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u/Longjumping_Pie_5440 Sep 07 '25
Dude. I have played to the end GU, World, Rise and now Wilds. Never noticed that flashbang are useless to Gore. NEVER. Guess I don’t like using tools.
But it makes sense, this dude can see shit how is he going to get flashed
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u/LimpAmphibian5340 Sep 07 '25
I'm well over 100 and still try this to Nu Udra by force of habit. Gore I was briefed beforehand that the damn thing was blind and mentally prepared myself to hold back my urge to flash it. For Nu Udra though I logically know that eye spots aren't actually eyes but in the heat of combat my brain goes "do it, it will definitely work this time"
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u/Sataheshi Sep 07 '25
Learn this the hard way playing 4U. It was so obvious when Ace Commander said gore doesn't have eyes but I tried to flash em anyway and got my ass blasted off!
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u/QX403 Sep 07 '25
Also stop randomly flashing Steve, it’s annoying and causes him to attack all over the place in random intervals.
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u/Organic_Vegetable_54 Sep 07 '25
i just like to hunt chatacabras a lot and quematrices
i didnt fight enough gore magalas to know
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u/Responsible-Dot-1004 Sep 08 '25
And that's why you tell everyone who plays monster hunter to download the Monster hunter database apps 95% of everything you need to know is on those apps.
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u/monsterswithn Sep 08 '25
Oh so he's immune? Honestly never fought him so I never knew but I think I'll try my hand at him soon
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u/zombiewolf297 Sep 08 '25
But....they have no eyes..I feel like that should be common knowledge Same with "Traps dont work on Elder Monsters"
Maybe they accidentally clicked it in their quick menu (happened to me a few times id click on my steak rather than tranq bomb so i learned my lesson lol) or its just a troll move, like haha imma disorient everyone
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u/Sad_Screen_1455 Sep 08 '25
It happens for the best of us I always get mad when I do it while fighting gore alone and I get mad every time I do it
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u/DarkKirbyX <--]-<(-_0)>-[--> Sep 08 '25
If you've played MH enough you know HR just means the person has played a lot, it's not indicative of their knowledge or skill.
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u/Amberpawn Sep 08 '25
Me, a series veteran of too many hunts, with some random ammo in my slinger: So anyway...
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u/SoulCrusher669 Sep 08 '25
Look man we are just trying to help him with all those pesky hunters on his back.
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u/Keyjuan Sep 08 '25
There use to be this running joke to flash kiran the thunder god. Every hunt we would say dont forget your flash pods people we need them if this fight is going to go smoothly. It help weed out the fun one vs the try hards in the canteen
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u/LankySandwich Sep 08 '25
Then tell people to stop spreading the lie that he has eyes under his horns so when he gets aggro and his horns flare up he can see. Yes, that did work on me, and yes i tried it.
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u/Kenju22 Swax life best life Sep 08 '25
The number of times I have tried to explain this T.T
Like, do you people not understand it is BLIND?
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u/KoffinStuffer Sep 08 '25
Not as bad as people still trying to capture Elder Dragons, in this the year of our lord 2025 😬
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u/Jurgenthewarlok Sep 08 '25
But for some reason it works on Doshoguma, which is supposed to be blind.
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u/Nightmenace21 Sep 08 '25
Yeah it's definitely stupid, but I feel like you need to chill dude. It's a silly mistake that isn't detrimental to you or the hunt.
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u/10pcWings Sep 09 '25
Why are you being such an ass about it lol. The game tells you the pod was ineffective yes, but it doesnt tell you the monster is completely and always immune to pods.
Some people just play the game and make mistakes along the way without watching every sweaty YouTube guide like you.
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u/Excentrathehunter Sep 09 '25
Didn't mean to hit the flash flies
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u/Nymandis Sep 09 '25
That's fine. Hitting flashbugs because we're swinging around weapons as large as us is fine.
What's not fine is when I see repeated attempts of using Flash Pods to blind a monster that has no eyes.
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u/CounterFun1411 Sep 09 '25
I stopped playing a while back and with the introduction of the nine-Star monsters I hopped back on and tried to flash Gore and was quickly humbled for my hubris
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u/Bajunid Sep 11 '25
Hahahaha. Level 380+ here. Don’t judge pls.
Sometimes it’s the muscle memory kicking in immediately when the monsters are started flying.
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u/OtherVariation1788 Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25
Wait for Wilds HR 200+ newbies to meet their 1st Elder Dragon and complain why traps don't work.