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Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak
Time: 200 hrs +
100% Clear: 400 hrs +
Difficulty: 7.5/10
The Monster Hunter franchise returns with the previously Nintendo exclusive finally getting its release on PlayStation. Prepare for one long, grindy and fulfilling ride collecting monster crowns all over again. This guide will now include the massive Sunbreak DLC complete with new monsters and better end game gear to make your platinum or 100% completion more efficient.
Trophy Guide
Powerpyx Trophy Guide for Monster Hunter Rise
Powerpyx Trophy Guide for Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak
Full credit to Powerpyx for the guides.
Wiki Guides
https://game8.co/games/Monster-Hunter-Rise
https://monsterhunterrise.wiki.fextralife.com/Monster+Hunter+Rise+Wiki
Credit to Game8 and Fextralife for the excellent wikis. Game8 has the more comprehensive guide complete with locations on where to farm certain items, along with equipment builds and other very useful information. Best to choose one of those builds as your base and swap out armors and skills along the way to find the build perfect for you. Fextralife has a more tabulated approach on the info that helps you get a quick glance on what you are looking for with lesser clicks but may have only concise information compared to Game8. For example, If you are looking for an item drop from a small monster, Fextralife will show you drop rates and which map to visit for your hunt. Game8 will give you a little more and show you the areas in the map where these small monsters are located.
Intro
If you're a beginner to the game or the series in general, the beginning sections and tutorials will naturally be quite overwhelming. Take things one step at a time, find a weapon that fits your play style best and enjoy the ride until you get a decent amount of monster hunts in to familiarize yourself with the game.
There will be tons of things to tweak and learn about on this game and no single article can give justice to the complexities of how to fully optimize your experience so additional research is recommended. Treat this article as a supplementary guide.
Efficiency Tips
Enjoy the story and progress through the main quest line as soon and as often as you can. The reason for this is as you progress through the story and your hunter rank increases, more equipment upgrades will be available to you along with the ability to upgrade the base defense of your gear further which unlocks incrementally as you increase in rank. The more defense you have means the more hits you can take and less healing items you consume which you can spend learning the monsters moves and hitting it.
Work on the 🏆 Beat-up Construction Kit as soon as possible and unlock all camp site locations on each map so you can fast travel conveniently closer to your target's location.
Materials List and Locations can be found here on Game8 to search for your gear and quest requirements. Browse it or simply drop the item you are looking for on the search bar.
Blights and Status Ailments Explained and their Cures is explained best in GadgetGabe's Top Voted answer from this GameFAQs forum. Use this wisely to cure yourself ASAP and stay at tip top shape for your fight. You can eventually customize your item load outs when hunting particular monsters.
Register an inventory and radial menu layout that is best for your hunt and tweak it accordingly if you are working on a solo hunt or are in a group. You can set up your action bar (the bar that uses the left and right d-pad) too.
Learn about monster elemental and ailment weaknesses, weak points and parts that you can sever to improve your success rate in a fight. E.g. Flash bombs work well on monsters in flight. Severing a Pukei-pukei's tail makes the monster incapable of it's wide poison gas attack.
Monster Elemental and Ailment Weaknesses and Immunities credit to Pro Game Guides. Monster Hunter Rise explains monster elemental weaknesses well but does not give too much of a description of what elements the monster utilizes against you. To learn that and build the right resistances, refer to the Fextralife MHR Wiki.
As you progress through your hunts, make sure to pick up any hunting helpers and golden/gilded spiribugs along the way. You will need 500 and 1000 respectively for the trophies 🏆 Hunting Helpers Plate and 🏆 Golden Spiribug Plate. If you want to farm Spiribugs exclusively, this video shows an excellent route while displaying some skills on speedy map traversal.
When you are in town, there will be times when you will be prompted that a sale is ongoing from the two merchants. Always take action on this prompt and participate in the lottery that is only available during this sale to progress towards the 12 room decorations you need to win as part of the 🏆 Sturdy Padlock. If the grand prize of the lottery is a room decoration, you have to roll a Jackpot (different from a Bingo) to win it. Even if the grand prize is not a room decoration, you are given a required room decoration for winning 100 items in the lottery.
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🏆 Extravagant Cashbox
Awarded for earning 1,000,000 Zenny. The fastest method to earn zenny is by participating in the 2 Star Low Rank Event Quest - Gotta Hoard Fast!. It can be done with a group in 1 minute and rewards you with a Golden Egg which you can sell to the merchant for 20,000z. Use whenever you are short on money. This is also the best quest to use if you want to trigger merchant sales quickly and roll on the lottery.
Using your silk bind/aerial moves to deliver mount damage (indicated by a blue cloud background on the damage inflicted) is a good tactic to learn and master. Arekkz Gaming's Monster Riding Tutorial video explains this well. You can also scout the area where you mount the monster and bump him into special areas on the map that will deal extra damage.
High Rank Quests
An Armorcharm and Powercharm will now be available to purchase from the two item merchants. These work as permanent stat increases as long as you have them in your Item Pouch. When you reach HR7, you will eventually be able to upgrade these charms into Armortalon and Powertalon. These stack and you may repurchase Armorcharm and Powercharm and hold all four items in your Item Pouch.
Decorations will unlock from the Smithy and the Melding Pot will unlock from the item merchants. This would be a good time to study the skills you have available in conjunction with your armor skills and start creating defensive/offensive load outs based on what you are up against.
For talisman crafting via the Melding Pot, craft out the desired skill you need and use accordingly. Once you have your talisman of choice, always roll with Melding - Wisp of Mystery and Melding - Rebirth (unlocks last on a higher HR). They will cost more materials to craft, but will also have better chances of a Rarity 7 Talisman with more skills and better decoration slots.
Prepare status resistances/immunities depending on the monsters you are up against and build up defense, elemental defense and even add elemental attack against them as well. Take note that elemental attack increases on skills only increases an existing element on weapons (or elemental ammo for bowguns) and can not create an element from a non-elemental weapon source.
For more on elemental damage and elemental resistances, see Fextralife's articles linked accordingly.
Armorskin and Demondrug and their corresponding Mega version are items consumed once and will last until you faint or complete the quest. Invest in them as soon as you have the zenny to afford them. You will need to farm Pale Extract from the monster Khezu or purchased as a rare find in the Argosy to craft the mega drugs. You may also choose to deploy the meowcenaries to fight a Khezu to increase your item farm.
Master Rank Quests and Sunbreak Content
With Sunbreak comes a whole new base map and two new locations to explore. Like the base game, there are a number of trophies that involve you interacting with the townsfolk and the goods and services they have to offer. Refer to this video guide for a checklist of what you need to be doing after every quest to cover the trophies 🏆 Snowy Cohoot Minipouch, 🏆 Secret Honey Jar, 🏆 Unbreakable Bag, 🏆 Solid Padlock, 🏆Polychrome Acorn and 🏆 Sojourn Necklace.
🏆 Solid Padlock requires another set of items you need to win in the lottery but take note that the Gargolda Statue only starts appearing after you take a picture of it. Take a daytime expedition for a photo of the creature. Gamer Guru's video shows you how to do it.
Refer to Game8's Eurekacorn article for more ways on farming Eurekacorns for your Polychrome Acorn trophy. Efficiency Tip: Target an expedition with a Herb Node in the Frost Islands together with a Khezu Node for both Eurekacorns and Pale Extracts.
For efficient map traversal, unlock the alternative camp sites on the two new Sunbreak areas along with the new buddy recon points. You will have to unlock 2 recon points per map, for a total of 12 for 🏆 Buddy Whistle. Darcblade has an excellent video guide to cover this.
Crown Hunting
🏆 Mini Crown Plaque and 🏆 Gold Crown Plaque will most likely be the last trophies you will get in the game as these are very grindy to obtain. These entail slaying or capturing the smallest and largest versions of each monster, awarding you a gold crown on your Hunter's Notes. An alternative grouped view of all your crowns can be found in OPT -> Multiplayer -> Guild Cards -> View -> L1 for Hunting Log. Unlike MH World, Rise does not include a crown notification in the points reward section after a hunt. You will have to check your Hunter Notes manually. You do get a prompt of "Monster Size Updated" right after the kill or capture though as your best indicator of a possible crown.
Crown Hunting Tips and Drop Rates explained by Luke Albigés of TrueAchievements
Efficient Strategy
You will want to clear out all the crowns you can possibly obtain from the quests with the 100% chance or boosted crown rate quests. For everything else, learn how to crown snipe to save time and not waste too much time on normal sized targets. If your are sure that your target monster is not a crown size, abort your quest and start a new one. Take note that you need to capture/kill 10 monsters of each type for their respective monster scroll to progress on your 🏆 Sturdy Padlock so anything close to a perceived small or large crown would be worth the kill. The Sunbreak Expansion and Master Rank buffs up the crown monsters appearance rate to as high as 10% for large and 6% for minis. You are best saving the crown hunt for last as you have to tackle Anomaly Investigations for the Sunbreak 🏆 Bahari's Hand Wound Birdie, which entails you earning and spending 3000 Investigation Coins as rewards for these type of quests along with clearing out every single Master Rank quest for the 🏆 Record of Utmost Valor - Master and clearing out 1-4 star anomaly quests for the 🏆 Painting - Crimson Nightmare. There are a total of 7 1-star anomaly quests to unlock and 8 quests for 2-4 stars. There is a good chance that you will be earning majority of these crowns along your progression towards these three trophies with minimal crown cleanup.
Videos for Monster Measurements
As of this writing, there seems to be a lack of content on Large and Mini Gold Crowns for MH Rise. Below is video clips to give some clues on how these monster sizes will look when you encounter them. Monster sizes with 100% chance drop quests will be excluded from this segment.
Kiranico has an excellent large monster guide which also displays the recommended quest to participate in with corresponding crown percentages.
Anomaly Investigation quest monsters have fixed sizes and will never yield any crowns. The normal Anomaly Quests will share the same 6% small and 10% large crown chance as the MR quests.
Base Game Crowns
Anjanath Mini Gold Crown
Barioth Large Gold Crown
Barioth Mini Gold Crown
Barroth Mini Gold Crown
Chameleos Large Gold Crown
Chameleos Mini Gold Crown
Great Izuchi Large Gold Crown
Great Izuchi Mini Gold Crown
Ku-Lu-Yaku Large Gold Crown
Ku-Lu-Yaku Mini Gold Crown
Kushala Daora Mini Gold Crown
Lagombi Large Gold Crown
Rakna-Kadaki Large Gold Crown
Rathalos Mini Gold Crown
Royal Ludroth Large Gold Crown
Teostra Large Gold Crown
Teostra Mini Gold Crown
Sunbreak Crowns
There are only 16 additional monsters tied up to the crown trophies for Sunbreak which are the monsters that were available at the original release of the game. You will need these 16 monsters along with all the base game crowns for the 🏆 Miniature Crown Shield and 🏆 Gold Crown Shield to unlock. Refer to the Gold Crown Shield segment of Powerpyx's guide for the full list.
Astalos Large Gold Crown
Aurora Somnacanth Mini Gold Crown
Gore Magala Large Gold Crown
Malzeno Large Gold Crown
Pyre Rakna-Kadaki Large Gold Crown
Scorned Magnamalo Large Gold Crown
Miscellaneous Grind
🏆 Antique Bookmark
Achieved by collecting all 60 Relics scattered over the 5 available maps. Powerpyx's guide for all Relic Locations shows these well. There is a correction to the linked article however, as it is mentioned there that the Rampage Relics unlock after collecting all 10 other Relics per map but is incorrect (unsure what triggers rampage Relic availability but I had access to them at 5 star quest availability on Village and Hub quests). To track the relics you have collected already, go to OPT -> Info -> Hunter Notes -> Notebook.
Gaming with Abyss has good Monster Hunter trophy content and shows locations of each relic per map clearly on his videos.
Shrine Ruins
Frost Islands
Flooded Forest
Sandy Plains
Lava Caverns
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Other Useful Information
Affinity vs Raw Damage is discussed well on this steamcommunity forum.
The difference between KO/Stun and Trip is explained will in this article. Note that KO and Stun status are the same (in game and articles call it one or the other so this can be confusing) but Trip status is different.
Critical Boost at level 1 raises damage dealt by critical hits by 5%. Your critical hits are already at a base amplified damage of 25% (not mentioned in-game). This could be deceiving due to the in-game skill definition.
Palamutes and Palicos you bring on the hunt increase your ease and efficiency and are best slotted with the best gear for your playstyle. Game8 has an excellent buddy guide that discusses end game builds.
Use the Basic behavior if you are running a melee focused buddy and Follow if you are using a ranged buddy. This is discussed thoroughly by CheaterMcCheat.
On solo hunts, don't let the common combo of 1 Palico and 1 Palamute mold you to run with that as there are several builds that utilize 2 Palicos or 2 Palamutes in one hunt. For example, you may want to use a double Palamute with C Jelly Travel Bag X weapon on the Best Equipment For Sunbreak (Ranged)segment. Accompanied with the Palamute Silkbinder, this build can provide excellent monster control.
Ordering Motley Mixes in the canteen nets you dango tickets as a reward. Claim it from the chef after some orders and use the tickets with hopping skewers on your harder hunts.
Latent Power skill is triggered by an internal timer upon monster encounter and attack animations and is explained here on Fextralife's wiki.
Auto-shoutouts are useful for your party and even yourself. You can program these auto shoutouts via OPT -> Multiplayer -> Chat Menu -> Triangle and click on the field under Text to program what you want to shout-out, choose the box under speech timing to choose the condition. These conditions aren't fixed and you have more to choose from. The most useful ones are the auto shoutouts for "When you set a trap" and "When a monster is limping" where the monster enters the blue icon state and is capturable if it is not an elder, apex or afflicted monster.
Weapon Specific Notes
Light Bowgun
Light Bowgun Basic Moves and Ammo Types credit to Phemeto
Pay attention to the color of your reticle. An orange reticle tells you that your ammo type is in its ideal range and will deal its intended damage. A yellow reticle means your shots will hit, but will be significantly weaker.
The Fanning Vault Silkbind skill is best used with your Wyvernblast special ammo. Press circle while you are directly under the monster to plant a bomb directly on it. You will be replacing this with the Switch Skill Fanning Maneuver for end game builds.
Ammo Details can be found by going to Items and Equipment (opt button) -> Equipment Info -> Ammo Details (square)
You will normally run out of your full magazine of your most desired ammo. To minimize returning to camp, bring the materials you need to craft that ammo and set it on your radial menu. Also, avoid bringing the ammo type you never use to keep your ammo menu as decluttered as possible for efficient ammo switching. It is encouraged to bind the ammo you use and their craft commands in your radial menu as well.
Recoil is the delay between firing shots (different from Reload delay). Lower recoil = Faster Attack Speed
Deviation is the drift of the bullets when you fire. If you have a weapon with deviation, it will travel center for a medium distance then swerve to the L or R depending on the strength of the deviation. Targeting "No deviation" is ideal.
Decorations can be crafted to reduce Reload, Recoil and Deviation.
Light Bowgun Weapon & Armor Skills
Bombardier skill does not work with any ammos, including sticky, cluster, or wyvernblast.
Normal/Rapid Up skill improves Normal Ammo damage by 5%/10%/20% and stacks with the skill
Rapid Fire Up which enhances rapid fire damage also by 5%/10%/20%
Great Sword
Recommended Switch Skills are Tackle, Rage Slash (RS), and Adamant Charged Slash (ACS). All three can tank monster attacks (no knockbacks) and negates roar effects. Tackle is the bread and butter during roars and quick monster attacks since its easy to trigger, You can use Adamant Charged Slash for positioning, and Rage Slash to land your last charged attack on your desired direction, which True Charged Slash Skill cant do.
How to Unlock:
Adamant Charged Slash - Unlocked by crafting/upgrading 8 different Greatswords, no duplicates. Replaces the Hunting Edge skill.
Rage Slash - Unlocked by completing the quest "Grasp the Greatsword" (HR5 Quest). Replaces the True Charged Slash skill.
Low Rank Entry GS - Crit Eye Build
Low Rank GS - Crit Draw Build - 80% Affinity on Overhead and Charged Slash
High Rank GS Build - 90% Affinity on Weakpoints + Focus 3
Several members of the PSTHPH team contributed to the making of this guide.
There is an ongoing issue with this article preventing further edits. Please check the comments for more.

Gone through a lot of iterations with this one. It only works with articulated trains, but it can still handle about 5000 guests an hour in a busy park.

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I feel I need to post this, since many keep asking the same questions - so the info seems not to have gone through to everybody yet:
One of the things they promised in town hall was the ability to switch between 3 different models/versions. Together with further clarification after re-asking, these 3 versions are as follows:
a) the current model: This model will always get the latest LLM updates. (Whether it will get full ERP too, nobody knows...)
b) the January 2023 model: This is the model legacy users now have, but it will also be updated with new LLMs - but only after a certain time when they have proved to be stable.
c) the December 2022 model: This is the model from Dec 2022 (the old 0.7B model), and it will stay forever that way - no LLM updates. (Best EQ, but quite dumb)
And, we will be able to switch back and forth between these models anytime.
Besides, the models are something completely different from the rest, so updates on avatars, clothing, voice calls & Replika room will be independent of the model you're running.
Currently the switch for legacy users is in the settings, I believe the upcoming model switch will also be there:
version toggle on web interface

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Gateway Command is a Magento payment gateway component that takes the payload required by a specific payment provider and sends, receives, and processes the provider’s response. A separate gateway command is added for each operation (authorization, capture, etc.) of a specific payment provider.
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Gateway commands were introduced in Magento 2 to deal with payment gateways, but they can be used in other ways as well such as calling external APIs and processing their response in magento 2 applications.
Let’s take a look at how a Gateway Command actually works.
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There are 5 main components of a Gateway command. They are as follows:

• Request Builder
• Transfer Factory
• Gateway Client
• Response Handler
• Response Validator
  ExternalApiAuthTokenRequest Vendor\Module\Gateway\Http\TransferFactory Vendor\Module\Gateway\Http\Client\TransactionSale ExternalApiAuthTokenHandler Vendor\Module\Gateway\Validator\ResponseValidator
  

Let’s dive into each of the above points separately.

Request Builder

Request Builder is the component of the gateway command that is responsible for building a request from several parts. It enables the implementation of complex, yet atomic and testable, building strategies. Each builder can contain builder composites or have simple logic.
This is the component which gathers the information from different sources and creates the request payload for the API call.

Basic interface

The basic interface for a request builder is
\Magento\Payment\Gateway\Request\BuilderInterface. Our class should always implement the above interface. The BuilderInterface has a method called “build” which takes a parameter called “buildSubject” which is of type array and returns an array as a result which contains the data which you need to have in the request payload.
The parameter “buildSubject” contains the data which has been passed to the API call at the time of call from any class.

Builder composite

\Magento\Payment\Gateway\Request\BuilderComposite is a container for a list of \Magento\Payment\Gateway\Request\BuilderInterface implementations. It gets a list of classes, or types, or virtual type names, and performs a lazy instantiation on an actual BuilderComposite::build([]) call. As a result, you can have as many objects as you need, but only those required for a request for your API call are instantiated.
BuilderComposite implements the composite design pattern.
The concatenation strategy is defined in the BuilderComposite::merge() method. If you need to change the strategy, you must include your custom Builder Composite implementation.
Adding a builder composite
Dependency injection is used in di.xml to add builder composites. A builder composite may include both simple builders as well as other builder composites.
Below is an example of adding request builders through BuilderComposite class.

   Vendor\Module\Gateway\Request\CustomerDataBuilder Vendor\Module\Gateway\Request\AuthDataBuilder    

Transfer Factory

Transfer Factory enables the creation of transfer objects with all data from request builders. Gateway Client then uses this object to send requests to the gateway processor.
Transfer Builder is used by Transfer Factory to set the required request parameters.
The basic Transfer Factory interface is Magento\Payment\Gateway\Http\TransferFactoryInterface.
The TransferFactoryInterface has a method called “create” which accepts an array parameter which has all the request data merged and sets the data as body of the API call and returns the created object for the gateway client to transfer.
Below is an example of the above method:

public function create(array $request) { return $this->transferBuilder ->setBody($request) ->build(); } 

In this example, the transfer factory simply sets request data with Transfer Builder and returns the created object
Below is an example of a more complicated behavior. Here transfer factory sets all required data to process requests using API URL and all data is sent in JSON format.

public function create(array $request) { return $this->transferBuilder ->setMethod(Curl::POST) ->setHeaders(['Content-Type' => 'application/json']) ->setBody(json_encode($request, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES)) ->setUri($this->getUrl()) ->build(); } 

Gateway Client

Gateway Client is a component of the Magento Gateway Command that transfers the payload to the gateway provider and gets the response.

Basic interface

The basic interface for a gateway client is Magento\Payment\Gateway\Http\ClientInterface.
A gateway client receives a called Transfer object. The client can be configured with a response converter using dependency injection via di.xml.

Default implementations

The below gateway client implementations can be used out-of-the-box:
\Magento\Payment\Gateway\Http\Client\Zend
\Magento\Payment\Gateway\Http\Client\Soap
Example
Below is an example of how a Zend client can be added in di.xml:

...   Vendor\Module\Gateway\Http\Converter\JsonConverter CustomLogger   ... 

The above Converter class must implement “Magento\Payment\Gateway\Http\ConverterInterface” interface which has a method called “convert”. We can implement that method in our custom converter class and process the data and convert to the desired form.

Response Handler

Response Handler is the component of Magento Gateway Command, that processes gateway provider response. In other words, it is used to process the response received from the API. The handler class can be used to perform any type of processing on the received response data. Some of the operations may be as follows:

• Use the API response as source of data to provide response to an internal API call.
• Save information that was provided in the response in database.
• Use the information as data for a new request.

Interface

Basic interface for a response handler is Magento\Payment\Gateway\Response\HandlerInterface

Useful implementations

\Magento\Payment\Gateway\Response\HandlerChain might be used as a basic container of response handlers,
The following is an example of Response Handler class:

public function handle(array $handlingSubject, array $response) { $cacheData = []; $oauthTokenObject = $this->oauthTokenInterfaceFactory->create(); $this->dataObjectHelper->populateWithArray( $oauthTokenObject, $response, Vendor\Module\Api\Data\OauthTokenInterface' ); $cacheData[OauthTokenInterface::EXPIRE_TIME] = $expiresTime; $cacheData[OauthTokenInterface::BEARER_TOKEN] = $oauthTokenObject->getAccessToken(); $this->cache->save( $this->jsonEncoder->encode($cacheData), self::CACHE_ID, [\Magento\Framework\App\Cache\Type\Config::CACHE_TAG] ); } 

The above method is getting the oAuth token data in response and as part of the operation, it is storing the latest token in cache for further usage of the APIs.

Response Validator

Response Validator is a component of the Magento Gateway Command that performs gateway response verification. This may include low-level data formatting, security verification, and even the execution of some store-specific business logic.
The Response Validator returns a Result object with the validation result as a Boolean value and the error description as a list of Phrase.

Interfaces

Response Validator must implement Magento\Payment\Gateway\Validator\ValidatorInterface
Result class must implement Magento\Payment\Gateway\Validator\ResultInterface
An external API integration can have multiple response validators, which should be added to the provider’s validator pool using dependency injection via di.xml.

Useful implementations

• \Magento\Payment\Gateway\Validator\AbstractValidator: an abstract class with ability to create a Result object. Specific response validator implementations can inherit from this.
• \Magento\Payment\Gateway\Validator\ValidatorComposite: a chain of Validator objects, which are executed one by one, and the results are aggregated into a single Result object.This chain can be set to terminate when certain validators fail.
• \Magento\Payment\Gateway\Validator\Result: base class for Result object. You can still create your own Result, but the default one covers the majority of cases.

The following is an example of Response Validator:

public function validate(array $validationSubject) { $isValid = false; $failedExceptionMessage = []; if (isset($validationSubject['response']['error'])) { $failedExceptionMessage = [$validationSubject['response']['message']]; } else { $isValid = true; } return $this->createResult($isValid, $failedExceptionMessage); } 

The above class is extending the \Magento\Payment\Gateway\Validator\AbstractValidator class which has the “createResult” method that returns a ResultInterface as the response of the method.
To summarize the above operations, we have used Magento’s Gateway command feature which was initially developed for implementing payment gateways and utilized it for a custom API call to an external system from our Magento application. We used virtualType and type in di.xml to define the CommandPool which defined our set of commands, GatewayCommand which was the actual API command, RequestBuilder which created the request payload for the API, TransferFactory which merged all the request data and sent to gateway client, the we used the Zend Client to convert the data to JSON format. Response handler, which was used to save the response data in the cache for further use. Response Validator, to check the data received for integrity.
Below is an example of the source of the API call where the API call starts its procedure:

public function execute(array $commandSubject) { /** * Setting a default request_type if not present * * @var string */ $requestType = (isset($commandSubject['request_type'])) ? $commandSubject['request_type'] : \Zend_Http_Client::GET; /** * Setting no extra headers if none defined * * @var array */ $headers = (isset($commandSubject['headers'])) ? $commandSubject['headers'] : []; $auth = (isset($commandSubject['auth'])) ? $commandSubject['auth'] : []; $transfer = $this->transferFactory->create( $this->requestBuilder->build($commandSubject), $commandSubject['url'], $requestType, [], $headers, [], $auth ); $response = $this->client->placeRequest($transfer); $this->setResponse($response); if ($this->validator !== null) { $result = $this->validator->validate( array_merge($commandSubject, ['response' => $response]) ); if (!$result->isValid()) { $this->logExceptions($result->getFailsDescription()); // throw actual error response $errorMessage = $result->getFailsDescription(); throw new CommandException( __(reset($errorMessage)) ); } } if ($this->handler) { $this->handler->handle( $commandSubject, $response ); } return $this; } 

All the classes required for a Gateway command to work need to be present in the Gateway Folder in your module. E.g: Vendor\Module\Gateway\. The folder structure can be as below:

• Vendor\Module\Gateway\Command\: The base class for the command resides in this folder.
• Vendor\Module\Gateway\Http\: The classes for TransferFactory and Client resides in this folder.
• Vendor\Module\Gateway\Request\: The classes for RequestBuilder resides in this folder.
• Vendor\Module\Gateway\Response\: The classes for ResponseHandlers resides in this folder.
• Vendor\Module\Gateway\Validator\: The classes for Validators resides in this folder.

The above process can be used to call any external or internal API for that matter. This method is alot more structured way of calling an external API and it uses curl as the base as well.
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Despite the game’s inherent silliness, I think it’s worth considering some realistic advantages and disadvantages Kansen would provide.
I want to specifically focus on things I think are overlooked. More obvious things like that Kansen are small targets are fairly self-explanatory.

Capabilities:

Manpower:
To me this is their single greatest advantage. A ship may require anywhere from a few dozen crew, such as on a U-boat, to thousands on Battleships and Carriers. A Kansen requires only one person, reducing the considerable operating expense and possible bottleneck on trained personnel associated.
Something Something, Decisive Battle:
To put it simply, a Kansen is more portable than a comparable warship. Depending on interpretation one may be able to transport them by air with little difficulty. For some reason I do not think this is currently SOP in the USN. This Strategic mobility allows for one to very quickly concentrate forces to contest an enemy’s sea control or generally respond to situations in a timely manner, amplifying certain elements of power-projection.
Data Fusion:
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, smells like a duck, tastes like a duck, and you conclude it is, in fact, a duck, you are utilizing data fusion. A Kansen could utilize similar principles with radar, optics, and other sources. A real WWII warship could do this, the key being it takes time. A Kansen could do this far quicker, employing a shorter cycle OODA loop when responding to threats as they have a direct connection between the observation, decision, and action portions of the ship.
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A diagram of the OODA loop.
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Signature reduction:
Most low frequency (L band and lower in IEEE) will generally struggle to pick out a Kansen from the clutter of even small waves due to their small size. This isn’t without limitations and a high-frequency radar, say in the X-band could be expected to pick a Kansen out to a reasonable range (This is why most surface-search radars are high frequency), provided you have a competent operator and suitably advanced filtering system.

Limitations:

These elements here aren’t to say Kansen are worse than their comparative ships, they are better, but there are some striking limitations that they may face that are consistently overlooked by people.
They’re short, even FDG:
Unless the fluoridation (PBF/POE) has been reprogramming my mind, I’m fairly certain we live on a roughly spherical planet. Regardless of potential Communist infiltration and subversion (I mean seriously, have you ever seen a Commie drink water?), this has the annoying effect of limiting line of sight to a distance largely dependent on the height of the sensor, be it the Mk1 Eyeball or an AN/SPY-6 Phased Array. Now radars can see a bit past this visual horizon due to refraction and some other complicated physics like Ground Wave Propagation that I really don’t feel inclined nor qualified to try to explain here. Still, the height of the sensor largely dictates the detection range for low altitude objects like ships or sea-skimming missiles. With a Kansen this range is somewhere between short and “Jack Shit” with a theoretical range for radar visibility of around 17-18 nautical miles for a particularly tall Pagoda mast.
This isn’t to say a surface-search radar on a Kansen would be useless but it would be limited by the horizon and probably, more importantly, by the clutter produced by a Kansen bobbing up and down in waves as tall as them (I will get to this later). Some radars like the SG may not see much, if any, limitation on range against conventional ships because the tall objects stick up above the horizon and they are relatively short range (about 15 nautical miles), but filter settings may reduce this to well below the maximum depending on sea-state. Additionally, higher frequency radars like the SG see little if no refraction though again, this really depends on many variables beyond the scope of this post.
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A basic diagram of how curvature effects radar detection.
Seakeeping:
On a flat calm your average speedboat or RHIB will easily exceed the speed of most naval vessels. However, this changes once you get into rough conditions. With a low displacement Kansen are bound by these same limitations. Their excellent strategic mobility is detracted by, if not poor, limited, tactical mobility.
Where a full-sized ship can cut or just bash their way through waves, a Kansen is liable to catch air and smash into the next wave, killing forward momentum. This makes sustained endurance, as may be the case when trying to catch an enemy, incredibly hard. However, Kansen do seem to be very maneuverable, which does compensate to a great degree, but this is almost exclusively a defensive advantage and can’t be applied in offense to the same degree as speed.
Generally, Kansen operations in rough weather seem somewhere between pointless and purposefully inflicted misery. It would be slow going, completely miserable, and good luck spotting things when you have a wave over your head half the time and kiss being a stable gun platform goodbye.
A useful chart for sea conditions. keep in mind these are general rules and can vary heavily.
Station Keeping:
Kansen on their own cannot reasonably perform long-endurance missions. Where a ship can post watches 24/7, a Kansen can’t. This isn’t an insurmountable obstacle, indeed assigning a fast transport or light warship to act as a Kansen tender would be very easy, it simply requires consideration.
Steam Sucks:
Most of the ships in AL use Steam Turbines and boilers for power. This is not great.
In case you didn’t know, with steam turbines it takes hours, sometimes even days before the systems can reach full power or they risk damaging the pipes. Time to build up steam pressure could easily invalidate the advantages in portability that a Kansen has
This gets to the second element of this. Kansen, even if they can summon their rigging on land, would face a power issue. Steam systems require condensers. These use relatively cold sea water to turn the steam back into liquid so it can be used again. Without this process the steam turbine sees back pressure build up and will generally cease to function.
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A diagram of a Steam Condenser.
To Illustrate how much of a problem this is, let's look at USS New Jersey. Generally ship’s power used an octet of smaller steam turbines that drew from the steam of her main power plant. These generated around 1.25 Megawatts of Ship’s Power each, depending on surrounding environmental temperature. She also had a pair of diesel generators. These generated a total of 500 kilowatts. That’s not good.
Let's look at the power requirements for one of her turrets. Training was handled by a 300 horsepower (220 kW) motor, each gun had a 60 hp (45 kW) motor for elevation, three sets of rammers of 60 hp (45 kW), three shell elevators of 75 hp (56 kW), three powder hoists (100 hp/ 75 kW), and two motors for her shell rings with a power of 40 hp (30 kW) a piece. This is a total of around 940 kilowatts per turret, almost double her non-steam ship’s power. You can also kiss using radars on land goodbye because of these limitations.
Paralysis by Analysis:
To what degree a Kansen can process and respond to multiple threats is unknown. Still, I think it is fair to assume that tunnel vision that may not occur on a conventional ship, is far more likely to happen to a Kansen. There is a reason why one-man tanks are not a thing and the comparison to tank warfare is apt because in many ways Kansen perform more like tanks than traditional warships. Even if one is incredibly perceptive, individuals are generally inclined to distractions, and this could have “suboptimal” consequences.
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Are there any advantages/disadvantages you could see Kansen having in an operational setting?

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