If for R3 Chinese characters, one of my frens also complaining hard to play using monitor.  Myself using 23" monitor only, seating 1.5 or 2 meters away, English text/words are fine.

yesterday reach 70 hrs. to plat some says 1000 hrs lol

Welcome to HR. Time to change/upgrade armor

Mega potion only??? 
For me, armorskin, demondrugs are kinda must, while mega nutrient, stamina drinks are helpful.

Craft them! don't be stingy with your mats/harvest early on, else you'll end up with lots of unused mats in later game, and asking yourself, what am I hoarding them for?

mega potion buddies! hahahah. i just beat Legiana last night with bow + mega potion + health stick thingie

no idea how to craft other crap yet i just go straight and whack je!

Toss flash to their face when they flying, they will fall down, this shorten your hunting time alot

Flashbug  and you can harvest flashbag too.

you skip tutorial??  Square to equip the Flash Pod and use L2 to aim and R2 to shoot. 

you skip tutorial??  Square to equip the Flash Pod and use L2 to aim and R2 to shoot. 

Flash Pod is item that u can equip like Capture Net, Fishing Rod or Pod (Slinger Pod, Redpit etc.).
Just fire the flash pod out like u fire slinger or redpit.
Check on ur crafting list under support, Flash Pod is one of the earlier stage item

boss, if u are suffering means u are still noob.

there's a time limit on how long a monster will stay in a map during expedition, but not sure about actual limit tho, I think should be around 30mins
it's to prevent you cheesing the stronger monster to death

That Barroth is not the same Barroth you fought earlier, it will have full health

investigation is the best way to farm for parts if that's what you're looking for

Normally won't try to hunt / capture a monster in (at your own pace) expedition mode, the monster will leave the map after a while ... at any one time, they say only 3 big monsters are in the map; one leave, another enter.

Select Optional (can be repeated), or Investigation Quests (don't worry about the seemingly limited number, new ones will keep appearing until you've to delete less rewarding ones) if you really wanna slay or capture the monster ... if just testing without hoping to get the monster, up to you which quest mode lor.

(btw, after you proceed to high rank, on some storyline quests to research monsters' tracks, don't be like me and go on expedition mode thinking that the tracks should be easier to find without time limit, will waste time only  .... in actuality, Investigation Quests mode is better, even if you didn't find any tracks, the research progress will increase bit by bit when you completed the quests.)