Zore posted:

You also can't separate anything you built with auto-build (unless you're using parts in the area). Anything it generates out of Zonaite is stuck as one piece.

Harriet Carker posted:

You’ll all be very pleased to know I got the glider today and am having a lovely time.

Are there any other “you REALLY should do X before wandering off into the world” type things? I hope after this I can avoid guides and spoilers and just explore.

Pirate Radar posted:

You get explicitly pointed there after you do a temple, but you can always go do it. It’s also not until you’ve done a temple that Robbie offers to unlock a few extra utilities like the radar, so I guess the “optimal” path is to go get the glider and the camera and then do a temple straight after, then start loving around doing whatever.

Gnossiennes posted:

i don't know what i did differently, but i couldn't get robbie to gently caress off back to hateno until i'd gotten the depths quest finished with josha. i had 3 temples done before then, so i don't think it's based off of finishing a temple. and yes i was checking after every temple

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Bismack Billabongo posted:

The traversal power is cool but I’m wondering if I can turn it off so I don’t always have the ghost bird following me around.

Bismack Billabongo posted:

The traversal power is cool but I’m wondering if I can turn it off so I don’t always have the ghost bird following me around.

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

I'd agree with this more if they put a control stick somewhere on or shortly after the tutorial island-- it felt exceptionally dumb to be in the explicitly nuts and bolts game with "pieces of a wood car" sitting every 10 feet, but you can go for hours without the ability to actually control a car (and actively dissuaded me from making one in the first place) if you don't happen to go to the right gumball machine in the sky. This game is 95% brilliance and 5% "I honestly don't understand why you did it that way, especially when I can immediately identify a better way of doing it", it's really wild

Bismack Billabongo posted:

Played a little more today and finished up the Rito area plot line. A few thoughts on that and a couple of minor things I’ve found

The wind temple boss was super easy but also super cool conceptually. It was nice that there are two different ways to kill it but maybe they should have just stuck with one (dive bombing) or made it take a lot more arrows or whatever to kill it from underneath. Anyway, it was very cool. The traversal power is cool but I’m wondering if I can turn it off so I don’t always have the ghost bird following me around.

Met some dorks who got me started on a quest to locate the Fierce Deity gear from majoras mask. My Chemical Link lookin rear end deity IMO but that sounds fun.

I met a lady in a well who gave me a quest to locate all the wells. I’m down for this but this is probably the first thing between this game and BOTW that felt like Ubisoft “find all these bafmodads” filler. I like the wells and will happily pop into them but talk about filler.

I have not attempted to build a single non-raft vehicle yet. I want to try and make a hovercraft. I am not a mechanically inclined sort so it’s gonna be difficult

Khanstant posted:

Naw, it's still a great design and decision, thematically and mechanically. Great designs can't be for everybody all the time, inherently gonna run some folks the wrong way by pushing further in any given direction.

The first good purpose it serves is a check if you're paying attention, and to signpost for people assuming it's just more BotW that hey -- hey this isn't BotW where you get every cool toy out the gate, and that where you choose to go and when actually kind of matters. You can still go gently caress off or whatever other habit or wild hair you have, but just letting you know this isn't a "go anywhere because it's all the same and doesn't matter" game.

Second, once you hit the ground, you don't have immediate access to the old "climb up and glide somewhere" easy way of scooting around. Climbing is often not the best way up, and paragliding is comparatively slow compared to new options.

Third, you're never without a glider in the game, as they introduce and give you gliders from the getgo, which are faster than paragliding and can go so far so efficiently they had to just beef them by making them delete themselves after a minute, otherwise you could cross the entire nap with one glider, or stay permanently afloat with fanglider.

Third, it gives the most obstinate player both the opportunity to have to be clever using other tools sans paraglider, and for the player who becomes annoyed at lack of glider because of their own choices, it provides an incentive for them to go do the classic Zelda game Nintendo put in here.

Carlosologist posted:

Question: about how many stamina rings do you need to tame the giant horse on Hateno Beach? I have nearly two full ones but that wasn’t enough

Khanstant posted:

He's a chump! A free loot balloon reward after dealing with the awful hands. You just have to be brave and tank a little bit of gloom at first. Every time you him the gloom around him shrinks and he seems to take more damage and stagger more. You basically just need to get up in his rear end ASAP and start smacking. His attacks all have really long telegraphs that make them easy to flip into a flurry rush or just dodge or block. Just smack him around until he starts winding up, dodge and repeat cycle and he goes down fast. Do not give him space or panic and run around or try to use a bow or anything fancy. It's a classic sword vs sword deal, like fighting a stalfos but it doesn't really block.

The weapons he drops are amazing for wiping bosses very quickly, single phase in some cases. Especially on the surface where the gloom drawback doesn't matter.

John Wick of Dogs posted:

You can't autobuild a usable weapon

Khanstant posted:

My 5% are all "activating sage when I don't want to" or the opposite, not finding them when I need them. Definitely could've been a doad thing or some sort of choose ability rather than cluttering up with the whole goon squad. They're nice for picking off weak enemies or distracting mobs but nothing in this game has bothered me at all besides how goddamn often I accidentally activate bird, who probably should even spawn if I'm on foot, followed by blowing something up. Thunder is 2 step and Sidon is never anywhere to be seen.

YoshiOfYellow posted:

Decide I wanna spend some more time in The Depths and I'm exploring in the southwest...

Why the gently caress is a Coldera down here just a whole rear end dungeon boss excuse me????

Argue posted:

The reason nobody remembers Link is most of them never met him. Canonical Link is stasis-happy 1:25:48 All Dungeons% speedrunner Link.

Pirate Radar posted:

You can dismiss your spirit pals and resummon them again whenever you want (just use their key item in the menu)

I think every dungeon boss also appears at least twice in the Depths as optional bosses after you’ve beaten their temple. They may be simplified versions—the Fire Temple boss is phase 1 only for instance. They’re guarding cool loot and also drop good fusable parts.

Zore posted:

I feel like I'm having a really different experience because a lot of people definitely know Link, or at least know of him if they don't know him personally. Most of the Sheikah, Gerudo, Zora, Rito and Goron definitely at least recognize him and do a little double take and there are like half a dozen NPCs I've run into who talk about the famous Swordsman Link without realizing you're him.

Heck the Gazette sidequest is structured around Traci hiding your identity from the Rito guy you're partnered with.


The big sources of people who don't seem to know who you are are the Lurelin diaspora, almost everyone in the stables and bizarrely Hateno considering you have a house there. And honestly Hateno is the real odd one out because the entire village except Symin seems to both know Zelda and have no idea who Link is, which is bizarre considering he's supposedly been her shadow since the Calamity and almost everyone else who recognizes him automatically assumes he's with Zelda when they first run into him because they seemingly always travel together.

Blaziken386 posted:

maybe you can't.
https://twitter.com/liccnuke/status/1657720211255222273

(ive already posted this but it deserves to get posted again because its genuinely )

Atoramos posted:

Ahhhh that resolves all those neat item dupe ideas

Onean posted:

If you don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a burner account (or use your own account), and you've got a phone or something else that can connect to WiFi and has a camera, you can go to the Switch's Album and, after selecting an image/video, one of the share options will just straight up let you download it through a couple QR codes. It'll create and connect to a temporary WiFi connection first, then link to a temporary webpage where you download the images/videos.

Khanstant posted:

There's nothing special about the Tunic of Memories is there, no bonus or anything? Doesn't seem worth the 400 souls.