How to get missing Monster Hunter Stories 2 DLC quests to show up?

[Nynrah]

I'm close to finishing my Monster Hunter Stories 2 playthrough and I'm currently in the post-game. I noticed that despite already having unlocked star 9 permit quests, I only received 6 DLC subquests (from the free DLC updates). Those quests are:
- Dealin' for Dunkers
- Bag Me Some Bugs
- Go Nuts for Donuts
- Ice Phantom (Oroshi Kirin quest)
- Whetting My Appetite
- Throw Me a Bone

The first three DLC quests showed up on the quest board during the course of the story while the latter three showed up after I finished the main story and unlocked star 8 permit quests.

Now here's the problem. From what I understand, there should be more DLC quests that should have showed up after reaching the post-game:
- Find: Very purrecious...
- Find: Purrecious...
- Tantalizing Toe Beans
- Pluck Me Some Shrooms
- A Meaty Proposition
- A Corny Request
- Psychoblaze Black Knight (Hellblade Glavenus)
- Lightning Revolt (Boltreaver Astaloth)
- Heavenly Eye (Soulseer Mizutsune)
- Unconquerable Mountain (Elderfrost Gammoth)
- King Among Kings (Dreadking Rathalos)
- Sky-Rending Roar (Molten Tigrex)
- Full Golden Moon (Gold Rathian)
- Shining Silver Sun (Silver Rathalos)

None of these quests showed up on the quest board, though, while all that I got left to do in the game are the subquests to hunt down Kushala Daora, Velkhana, Bloodbath Diablos and Thunderlord Zinogre, and finish the Elder Lair.

Does anyone know how I can get these quests to show up? I tried to search for an answer online, but to no avail. All I could find is that some people claim that they have similar issues with Dreadking Rathalos and possibly Gold Rathian and Silver Rathalos, too, and that it might be some bug of sorts.

I'm playing on version 1.5.3, by the way.

Post automatically merged: Jul 30, 2024

On a side note, I have tried to reinstall updates 1.5.2 and then 1.5.3 again. Unfortunately doesn't make a difference.

 

[Nynrah]

Alright, so after some investigation and assistance from a friendly fellow over at Reddit I noticed something. With the exception of the Palamute update, all title updates are time-gated. Or rather, they spread their content out over two dates. Take update #5 for example.

The parts in green were unlocked for me simply by installing the nsp file for update 1.5.0+. Everything in red did not unlock. Notice how all green entries belong to October 21 and the red entries to october 28. Although the Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian Monstie itself don't show up in quests or dens, I can use them through a save editor, so the data is certainly there.

Additional Monsters​

[October 21]​

• (High Difficulty) Fatalis
  Note: This is a Co-Op Quest exclusive monster.

[October 28]​

• Silver Rathalos
• Gold Rathian

Additional Co-Op Quests​

[October 21]​

• ★9 (Turn) Fatalis
• ★9 (Explore) Deviant Den

[October 28]​

• ★9 (Explore) Rare/Subspecies Den
• ★9 (Slay) Silver Rathalos
• ★9 (Slay) Gold Rathian
• ★9 (Turn) Yin and Yang

Additional Subquests​

[October 21]​

• ★8 (Special) Whetting My Appetite

[October 28]​

• ★8 Shining Silver Sun
• ★8 Full Golden Moon
• ★8 (Special) A Corny Request

This pattern also applies to the other updates. That explains why I only see a subset of the quests. It doesn't solve the problem, but it does demystifies things a little bit.

The person who tried to help me updated his game to 1.5.3 on OFW and stated the following:
What was strange on my end was that after the initial update & playing a bit, the game wanted me to update yet again after i saved or recieved any kind of reward, but after that one it did not show my anything new.

I tried installing update 1.5.3 twice, but that isn't doing the trick. These updates are two-pronged with the first part of the update being available immediately and the second part being time-gated to become available a week later. Figuring out how to unlock that time-gated part is the key here and I sincerely hope it can be done without requiring Nintendo and Capcom's servers. It would be bad for preservation if it does.

 

[stanlengggg]

i think you need to download a bscat save to unlock some of the quests

 

[Nynrah]

i think you need to download a bscat save to unlock some of the quests

I see. I hadn't thought of bscat/bcat files and was kinda getting ready to start save editing.

I noticed that when I load someone else's save files with all DLC unlocked, it shows up on my Switch as well. And by that I mean just the save slot. Not the system save file, which didn't make a different at all when I tried that.

Now I need to figure out where I can find bcat files...

 

[nguyennam]

Alright, so after some investigation and assistance from a friendly fellow over at Reddit I noticed something. With the exception of the Palamute update, all title updates are time-gated. Or rather, they spread their content out over two dates. Take update #5 for example.

The parts in green were unlocked for me simply by installing the nsp file for update 1.5.0+. Everything in red did not unlock. Notice how all green entries belong to October 21 and the red entries to october 28. Although the Silver Rathalos and Gold Rathian Monstie itself don't show up in quests or dens, I can use them through a save editor, so the data is certainly there.

Additional Monsters​

[October 21]​

• (High Difficulty) Fatalis
  Note: This is a Co-Op Quest exclusive monster.

[October 28]​

• Silver Rathalos
• Gold Rathian

Additional Co-Op Quests​

[October 21]​

• ★9 (Turn) Fatalis
• ★9 (Explore) Deviant Den

[October 28]​

• ★9 (Explore) Rare/Subspecies Den
• ★9 (Slay) Silver Rathalos
• ★9 (Slay) Gold Rathian
• ★9 (Turn) Yin and Yang

Additional Subquests​

[October 21]​

• ★8 (Special) Whetting My Appetite

[October 28]​

• ★8 Shining Silver Sun
• ★8 Full Golden Moon
• ★8 (Special) A Corny Request

This pattern also applies to the other updates. That explains why I only see a subset of the quests. It doesn't solve the problem, but it does demystifies things a little bit.

The person who tried to help me updated his game to 1.5.3 on OFW and stated the following:
What was strange on my end was that after the initial update & playing a bit, the game wanted me to update yet again after i saved or recieved any kind of reward, but after that one it did not show my anything new.

I tried installing update 1.5.3 twice, but that isn't doing the trick. These updates are two-pronged with the first part of the update being available immediately and the second part being time-gated to become available a week later. Figuring out how to unlock that time-gated part is the key here and I sincerely hope it can be done without requiring Nintendo and Capcom's servers. It would be bad for preservation if it does.

Can you show me a more specific way?

 

[Nynrah]

Can you show me a more specific way?

How do you mean? If you're asking for a solution, I don't have one yet. I didn't got much time lately to work on this either.

 

[nguyennam]

How do you mean? If you're asking for a solution, I don't have one yet. I didn't got much time lately to work on this either.

Can you tell me how to edit the save file to get gold rathian, I downloaded it and it seems it doesn't apply to gold rathian, thank you

 

[Nynrah]

Not exactly the topic of this thread, but this save editor that you've already seen does work for getting the gold rathian:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/monster...-modified-version.592628/page-3#post-10476228

You just need to add a Gold Rathian egg or modify one of your monsties into a Gold Rathian. Just make sure you got like update 1.5.0+ installed for your game.