Monster Hunter Frontier is an online MMORPG on the PC and Xbox 360 with a great amount of new weapons, quests, armor, and monsters. The game will continue to expand with new content added through patches. There is currently a Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Taiwan and Macau) version of Frontier. The game has a built-in IP blocker that prevents IP addresses outside of Japan from connecting to the server, but it is still possible for residents in other countries to connect. The Korean Frontier requires a KSSN (Korean Social Security Number) in order to play but it does not carry the same monthly fee as the Japanese version.
Monster Hunter Frontier Online (モンスターハンター フロンティア オンライン, Monsutāhantā Furontia Onrain), later renamed as Monster Hunter Frontier Z, was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, the first spin-off in the Monster Hunter franchise to appear on the platform. Monster Hunter Frontier was released on the Xbox 360 in Japan on June 24, 2010, where it sold 93,000 copies during its initial launch week.[1] It was continually updated through expansion packs known as Seasons and Forwards, which introduced new locations, armor sets, and new monsters. All Monster Hunter Frontier online services ended on December 18, 2019.[2][3]
Capcom announced Monster Hunter Frontier G on September 2, 2012, as a major update to Monster Hunter Frontier Online for the PC and Xbox 360.[5] The new update would include 10 new monsters, upgrade 21 current monsters to G-rank, over 150 G class weapons and armor sets, 30 new skills, 4 new elementals, and new actions for 11 weapon types.[6] It was also later announced that it would be released as a standalone game for the PlayStation 3 and Wii U around the end of 2013.
It was a MMORPG for Monster Hunter that has been going around for a long while, added a bunch of monsters through updates, had 2 new weapons and all of it was only available only to Japanese players right? as in there was no western release?
New guild features.Hunter Rank increased.The game will have a new dedicated community.Regular updates / patches.AI of Monsters is improved.New town big enough to hold mass numbers of players.Players will now be able to customize their own home, by purchasing and making ornaments and furniture to display.New weapons/armors improvement paths.New monsters, including the Espinas, a giant plant like wyvern, Akura Vushima, a crystal scorpion like monster which appears in the desert and the newest addition to the game, Berukuros, a thunder phoenix like monster which appears in a new sandy mountains like map.Due to this being an online game, Capcom has enlisted the use of nProtects' GameGuard to stop hack tools and cheating.
A new hunting experience awaitsMonster Hunter Frontier is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Spin-Off of the Monster Hunter franchise, instead of being released for consoles it was released for computers, employing a monthly fee to play it. The game puts a higher emphasis on multiplayer, opting to go for a full online experience requiring online servers entirely to play. Using Monster Hunter 2 (dos) as its base, it nonetheless goes in a very different direction, starting from having no story or plot and taking place entirely within the Mezeporta Square, a Hub City where more than 30 hunters can gather and have fun, prepare for quests or do other social activities together. The original version (Season 1.0) was released in June 21, 2007 for Japan, August 2008 for South Korea and June 24, 2010 in China (though it was released there for the Xbox 360).
Unlike most other games in the franchise, Frontier did not receive a traditional Updated Re-release but instead received Expansion Pack patches (known as "Seasons") that expanded the game's content with new monsters, weapons, maps, mechanics and more. In April 17, 2013 the game received an Expansion Pack that changed its name to Monster Hunter Frontier G and introduced the G-Rank quests, monsters, weapons, armor, materials, etc. It was also given releases on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Play Station Vita and Wii U the same year in the following months, the game allowed for crossplay between all the platforms except for the Wii U which had its own servers. Another expansion was released in April 23, 2014, renaming the game G Genuine and introducing a new weapon type: The Battle Tonfas, which had the special ability of switching between cutting and impact damage.
In November 9, 2016 Frontier G Genuine was updated into Frontier Z (later Z Zenith) which introduced the Zenith species as their main feature, which are stronger versions of existing monsters with whole slews of new powers and abilities, a year later the game celebrated it's tenth anniversary. In September 26, 2018 Frontier Z was renamed Frontier Z Zenith and given its last update, introducing the Magnet Spike, a weapon that works differently from all others and is based on switching between cutting and impact damage as well as employing magnetism to move around in the air and get close to monsters to fight. The game's servers were ultimately shut down in the year of 2019 due to the developers not having much ideas left anymore and simply finding the second generation's engine too difficult to use anymore, wanting to move on to the newer technologies of the more recent generations. As such, December 18, 2019 marked the last day of Frontier.
The game does not have a "true" flagship monster, though its many seasons have their own flagship each. The most recognizable out of the flagships and even the monsters is perhaps the Flying Wyvern Espinas, introduced in Season 3.0 and had multiple reappearances as the flagship of future seasons thanks to its subspecies, rare species, and Zenith species. The monster made its first mainline appearance in Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak.The game employs examples of the following tropes:
On July 5, the Monster Hunter Frontier official Twitter account made a tweet about what would have been the 15th anniversary of the game, with an illustration from an original designer on the game that featured standout NPCs and monsters. The tweets also invited others to share their memories and fanart with a hashtag campaign.
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