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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |OT3| Your Free Time is Badly Damaged
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Naked Snake
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Why does most of my armor show "???" under Necessary Materials for upgrades?
FloweryMarston
Member
there are levels of upgrade and you can only upgrade to a new level after finding more great fairies
sazzy
Member
You need to find another Great Fairy to unlock that ??? upgrade.
Etrian Oddity
Member
Did anyone else find the first Naydra encounter super creepy?
170 hours in. Playing without a guide, any hints or any sensors.
These were my discoveries tonight:
There were a bunch of other moments and shrines but the above stood out aside from the normal stuff.
The more I play the more I realize this is the GOAT until its sequel arrives.
DLC RELATED
Am I pipedreaming in thinking the DLC is going to be very substantial? With all the rumors prior to release talking about a delay, I'm thinking the team may have refocused and cut stuff in order to make the deadline.
These were my discoveries tonight:
- Lord of the Mountain's pool (and that seriously creepy atmosphere that develops out of nowhere - cool af moment)
- Deer hunting minigame
- Alternate Stalhorse locations
- There's a bottom to the Flight Range
- Random spy NPC in Hateno
- Hebra Hiking Path
- Deer hunting minigame
- Alternate Stalhorse locations
- There's a bottom to the Flight Range
- Random spy NPC in Hateno
- Hebra Hiking Path
There were a bunch of other moments and shrines but the above stood out aside from the normal stuff.
The more I play the more I realize this is the GOAT until its sequel arrives.
DLC RELATED
Am I pipedreaming in thinking the DLC is going to be very substantial? With all the rumors prior to release talking about a delay, I'm thinking the team may have refocused and cut stuff in order to make the deadline.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
I first approached the location from behind and was so confused to what it was.
Naked Snake
Member
I'm surprised to learn that climbing gear doesn't allow you to climb farther, it just makes you climb faster, but to reach a certain height takes the same amount of stamina​ as without the gear.
https://youtu.be/fe0tgCBh1Kk
So it's only a "quality of life" improvement, but it won't make climbing easier or allow you to reach higher places.
https://youtu.be/fe0tgCBh1Kk
So it's only a "quality of life" improvement, but it won't make climbing easier or allow you to reach higher places.
Yes, but the always visible nuts are a different pattern. I've found one spinning wheel Korok, where only two nuts were being thrown in an arch over the treetops. At quite a distance. They didn't make any sound whatsoever and visually, it was rather hard to notice them.
SuperEpicMan
Banned
Rather off topic, but is there a Switch OT?, I tried searching but couldn't find anything. I just bought one and I have a few hardware related questions, but I am not sure where is the best place to ask them.
Just got my switch and started zelda. It's pretty overwhelming to begin with - thinking of all the possibilities and it reminds me a lot of the witcher 3 when I started that. I just don't want to miss out on anything!
One thing I was wondering was when in portable mode, do you have headphones on? How good is the sounds and music?
Thanks all
One thing I was wondering was when in portable mode, do you have headphones on? How good is the sounds and music?
Thanks all
Patrick Bateman
Member
When I'm not alone I use my iPhone-headphones and I must say that even with those the quality of sound and music is still great.
The climbing gear shines when you have the full set and you level it up to at least 2 stars for the extra bonus. The jumping while climbing takes one third of the stamina you need and it makes you climb farther.
Nintendo's handhelds tend to be weak on sound, and the Switch is no exception. Wear headphones unless you're playing in a completely silent room.
Yes. I got goosebumps. I actually looked over my shoulder because it made me so uncomfortable and paranoid. The size of it, the music that plays, the way it's so huge that it messes with your depth perception and when you think it's right on you it just keeps getting closer, closer...
It was a unique experience.
sazzy
Member
I remember not enjoying the Naydra encounter at all.
I did it fairly early on in the game, was still not used to the bow-and-arrow motion controls, kept worrying about breaking my bow, or running out of arrows, or running out the timer on the cold-resist buff, since I had only 1 cold-resist armor piece at the time.
In general, I've found the dragons to be fairly annoying and needlessly cumbersome to interact with.
I'm trying to save Hyrule - STOP ELECTROCUTING ME FAROSH
I did it fairly early on in the game, was still not used to the bow-and-arrow motion controls, kept worrying about breaking my bow, or running out of arrows, or running out the timer on the cold-resist buff, since I had only 1 cold-resist armor piece at the time.
In general, I've found the dragons to be fairly annoying and needlessly cumbersome to interact with.
I'm trying to save Hyrule - STOP ELECTROCUTING ME FAROSH
Naked Snake
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There was a launch thread and it was very active but was locked recently. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1349176&page=100000
Sucks that it was locked with no replacement thread. I'm sure there are plenty of new owners with little hardware questions and it wouldn't make sense to make new threads for every little question.
Thanks I'll look for that.
I only play in portable mode, in the beginning I used headphones for a while but then kind of noticed that they didn't really sound much better than the built in speakers when playing in a quiet room, so I stopped using headphones. Then after more than 100 hours of Zelda, I recently started using a bluetooth portable speaker (connected by wire to the headphone jack) and now I think it's hard for me to go back to playing with the built-in speakers. The external amplified speaker makes the sound and music sound so much deeper, richer and louder. I almost feel bad for not using it from the beginning.
I have the whole set and have it upgraded for the bonus, and I use the jumps all the time when climbing... it's great, I love it. But if your goal is to conserve stamina/reach as high as you can, then your best bet is not to use the jumps at all, in which case the climbing gear doesn't help you climb farther.
And with the set bonus it takes half, not third, of stamina to jump.
QuantumSquid
Member
so, nobody knows how to increase the chances of getting a blood moon?
JoeyJungle
Banned
So I just got this game the other day and remember people recommending one first Guardian over the one the game nudges you to. Without spoilers, just which part of the map do I want to head to? Northeast or south?
Naked Snake
Member
I read in this thread someone say to kill a bunch of the world bosses (Hinox, Talus, etc). He said the game doesn't like many of its world bosses to be dead at the same time, so it triggers a blood moon.
Here's a map of their locations if you need more help: https://rankedboost.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild/mini-boss/#central
Earlier I read someone say staying in the same area for a long time triggers it, which seems to correlate with my experience.
Ive seen different recommendations, basically avoid south west and north east guardians.
However my sister who rarely games went to the south west one first and it was super easy, the thing died so fast and people say its the hardest one. When I fought that one the battle was way longer but I didnt do it as my first so some sort of scaling took place there.
The north west one is great for exploration btw so do try to beat it early. I believe the game expects you to arrive there with some money at hand so dont rush there, take some time to mine/collect things on the way.
Dont: just skip days, the blood moon wont trigger that way.
Do: Defeat bosses, mine resources, clear camps the blood moon will trigger to restore those.
Naked Snake
Member
Yesterday I had a blood moon while sleeping in Link's house. As soon as I selected "Sleep until morning" and the screen went black, the blood moon cutscene played, then I woke up in the morning.
That surprised me.
Yes you sometimes can get a blood moon if the game was going to trigger one that night. But if you already got one and try to skip days to get a new one you wont get any afaik
I whish we knew how exactly the game handles blood moons, is it a chance depending of the resources/enemies cleared? or its always after a certain amount? That would make things easier.
Pretty sure it's dependent on enemies killed. If you kill a handful of world bosses you should spawn one on the next full moon. That's how I got that shrine done.
Tacorona72
Member
Anyone know where I can find some Fire/Meteor Wizzrobes?
Yeah Im sure it depends on bosses, but how exactly, beating at least 5 = blood moon and anything less does nothing, or its lets say 10% chance for each boss you killed.
bender
What time is it?
Crenel Hills maybe?
Well, I'm at 135 hours. Got 120 shrines last night (256 Korok Seeds) and mopped up all of the remaining side quests this morning. I think it's time for to for the final fight.
Southern tower has a couple around it.
With 150+ in it and with everything done but still around 130 Korok seeds left to go for all the inventory slots (and the bridle and saddle from the fucking mounted archery track unclaimed) it was pretty much shit or get off the pot time for me, so I went and finally got the Hylian shield and finished the game. One of the best Zelda games I've ever played though it came at the expense of the story. If the next one can keep this gameplay and have an impactful, memorable story they may never want to make another game for the series again and just go out on top.
Tacorona72
Member
Naked Snake
Member
Is there a reward for completing the compendium? That seems like something I won't bother to do, unless there's a pretty good reward for it.
Crenel Hills has all the Wizzrobes together. If you want to farm rods go there.
This is the game that gives you gold shit for getting all seeds.
Of course there is a reward. Of course it isnt good, imagine if they locked something good behind that, eff that.
For those who have completed the main story, have you continued playing the game?
I've done all of the beasts and collected all of the memories
, but I'm a bit worried about putting the game down once I've finished the story...
I never went back to MGSV after completing the story, but I'm hoping this will be different.
I've done all of the beasts and collected all of the memories
(including the 13th)
I never went back to MGSV after completing the story, but I'm hoping this will be different.
breadtruck
Member
"Beat" the game today.
What a great experience. I wish I could spend more time with it, but I dont own one of the Nintendo systems I need. I was only able to play it because a coworker-friend borrowed me his Wii-U to play it. Because of this, I mostly main-lined the game, so theres a ton of things I never bothered with. Maybe if the Switch becomes worth purchase to me, I can go back to BotW and do the things I skipped out on.
That 3rd phase was enough of a pain that it convinced me to
What a great experience. I wish I could spend more time with it, but I dont own one of the Nintendo systems I need. I was only able to play it because a coworker-friend borrowed me his Wii-U to play it. Because of this, I mostly main-lined the game, so theres a ton of things I never bothered with. Maybe if the Switch becomes worth purchase to me, I can go back to BotW and do the things I skipped out on.
I personally feel he was
the hardest boss I fought in this game, including end boss.
leave the Beast and find Rubber armor.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
QuantumSquid
Member
I didn't think any of the blights were challenging.
MrPhiliasfrog
Member
sazzy
Member
Hmm..
Is the cherry blossom/pond on the top of Satori Mountain a kind of a memorial to Satoru Iwata?
The little area is gorgeous, so I looked up what "satori" means, on wikipedia:
Is the cherry blossom/pond on the top of Satori Mountain a kind of a memorial to Satoru Iwata?
The little area is gorgeous, so I looked up what "satori" means, on wikipedia:
Satori (悟り?) (Chinese: 悟; pinyin: wù; Korean: 오 o; Vietnamese: ngộis a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding".[1] It is derived from the Japanese verb satoru.[2]
Does an official clean version of this song exist anywhere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw47_q9wbBE
Is it even in the game?
It's assumed that this is an homage to Iwata. There is an NPC that tells you about Satori mountain who looks a lot like Iwata.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw47_q9wbBE
Is it even in the game?
It's assumed that this is an homage to Iwata. There is an NPC that tells you about Satori mountain who looks a lot like Iwata.
Exentryk
Member
First shrine gameplay spoilers:
I went to the first shrine in BotW
, and spent about 15 mins trying to figure out how to
I went to the first shrine in BotW
(magnesis one)
get that lone treasure chest high above. Kept trying to stack blocks and slates in various ways, but no dice. Until finally I just happened to hit the chest and drop it from the ledge. And then I realized that I can just move the chest itself.
Naked Snake
Member
Around the same time that I found it. Wasn't a surprise though as it was my first time in that region.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Hey, at least you saw it.First shrine gameplay spoilers:
I went to the first shrine in BotW, and spent about 15 mins trying to figure out how to(magnesis one)get that lone treasure chest high above. Kept trying to stack blocks and slates in various ways, but no dice. Until finally I just happened to hit the chest and drop it from the ledge. And then I realized that I can just move the chest itself.
spazchicken
Member
90 hours before I decided enough was enough and finished it. This game was great.
I would kill for a remake of the first Zelda with this engine.
I would kill for a remake of the first Zelda with this engine.
I hadn't been there either that much, though I had explored all around it. I was mostly surprised since you can see the nearby shrine so well from the tower and I somehow missed that.
Dear Sakurai...(Not final boss spoilers but don't click it until you've beaten the game)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_QgNp3WAAAa8qO.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_QgNp3WAAAa8qO.jpg
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