Jim_Cacher
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Zelda: Breath of the Wild "OMG I didn't know you could do that!" thread [SPOILERS]
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Oh my god, I need to try this.
Naked Snake
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I did that quest, but don't remember being told about it.
Actually not sure if it's the same quest, but I did one where you're given a bow and a sword and you're forced to use them and nothing else.
Edit: Actually not sure if that trial gave me the bow, might have been only Sword and sheild? But I did have the x3 Korok bow at some point.
TheMoon
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shield, jump, A
That was my first multi bow. The Korok tells you, iirc. Either he or the tool tip.
Naked Snake
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I guess I didn't read the tip when you first pick it up... I thought that was always the same as the description. Strange to put that info on a message that only appears once and you can't see it again for that weapon.
TheMoon
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Leaning more towards the Korok telling you, would make more sense. I just remember "something" informed me about that bit and I was all "whaaa???"
I wonder how far they'd follow you
Refreshment.01
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These 2 posts has been updated with most non repeated contributions up untill page 20:
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http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=235864375
This one has been updated with some details:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=234939046
Here's the new ones:
The entire Hateno village reacts to the Blue flame. They all have new lines of dialogue making reference to it.
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=235641214
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=235864375
This one has been updated with some details:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=234939046
Here's the new ones:
- Giant Horse. Raming enemies with this horse does more damage than a normal one. The Horse Gear doesn't work on this mount so is not possible to customize it.
- First Time Animations. This are some animations that happen 1 time in the game: 1) Opening the Sheika Map. 2) Using the Sheika Scope. 3) Link getting spooked when using a Shrine Elevator.
- Link's Eating Animations: There's various animations depending of food type: 1) Ingredients, 2) Fairies, 3) Drinks, 4) Cooked Food, 4) Food Skewers, 5) Dubious Food and 6) Rock Hard Food.
- Cryonis. Some subtle details programmed into these pillars: Some objects skid on top of it's surface for example chests or boxes. Most enemy projectiles can be blocked with an ice pillar from a Guardian Laser to a Lynel Fire Breath attack. A Cryonis Pillar can shield the wind but not the rain.
If the player trains itself to quickly lay and jump between pillars it can be close to swiming in terms of speed but with the advanatage minimal stamina consumtion and there's no speed lost when going against a water cuarrent, which heavily affects normal swiming.. - Quiver. The max ammount of visible arrows inside a quiver is 7. A nice attention to detail is that when the amount of arrows goes down 6 the quiver will visibly reflect the remaining number in the inventory.
- Chikaloo Nuts. This rare item can be found in some trees. However, the sure way to get them is to kill an sparrow, those small little birds that spook easily and tend to gather in groups. The most efficient way to quickly gather these nuts is to fire a bomb arrow or flinging a bomb with the deku leaf to a group or enter bow concentration mode to pick them up 1 by 1.
- Resting Birds. A bird perching of a tree is a good indicator that eggs might on top of it.
- Wizrobes.Within the same element the apperance of this creature changes depending of the level of rod it uses. They can summon elemental Kesses and Chus, high level Wizrobes are able to summon big Chus.
With a dance they can summon Fire Storms, Thunder Storms and Blizards, when this happens it generates a micro weather causing the climate to change in the nearby area and it even cancels the "natural" weather before the summon. For example, a Fire storm will cancel rain. During a Fire Storm temperatures raises upto 121 F envolving the area in a heat haze. During a Blizzard it goes to -17F and the visibility around drops. Getting out of the micro Blizzard will make it raining briefly due to the sudden temperature change. In all cases Link takes enviromental damage if not clothed properly.
- Wooden Elevators. Not very useful but interesting. Instead of dragging a counter weight to the opposite platform to gain lift is possible to use an Octo Ballon to ascend.
- Anche. Start a campfire, use a Fire Rod or enter the Gerudo Ice House with a torch.
- Olkin the hypocrite. At night when he wife is not around to watch over the Plum garden he will call Link's attention if he sees him runing over there. Like with Mellie you can destroy the Plums and have a reaction from him. If you keep following him during his training, one can see Olkin stepping all over Steen carrots, if you catch him doing this there's an extra conversation to witness.
- Sheika the waterproof people. Maybe not so obvious? Upon entering this village during a rainy day, one can notice they are the only people that stay outside in the rain instead of runing for cover like in other towns. The reason for this is learned through NPC conversations.
- Revali's Gale Fun. This is like having a portable turbine at all times since you can activate it by pressing and holding the jump button (X) but can abort it's use by pressing B. Only limitation is that the wind always goes up so it can't be used in the sail boat. One can float small objects way up like: Apples in trees, bombs, pots, flags or any dangling object like cloths. It works for heavier objects by attaching an Octo ballon and using the wind to quickly propel it up.
- Lighting Ore. Is possible to light a fire by throwing the wood near an ore deposit and hitting it with a metal weapon. Not for everyday use but it saves some flint.
- Meeting Zidon. There's an alternate way to meet Zidon. If one avoids talking to him near Lanayru Tower and goes straight to King Doraphen and alternate cutscene will play. Nintendo taught this one out thoroughly.
Really nice one.
The entire Hateno village reacts to the Blue flame. They all have new lines of dialogue making reference to it.
TheMoon
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Whoops, wrong thread haha.
I thought I was in the main spoiler thread for whatever reason.
Refreshment.01
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Actually this was brought up before. It even sparkled a conversation about updrafts creation. The person that mentioned this before used Fire Jelly and a peper much quicker this way instead of using a camp fire. Other person mentioned using 3 stacks of wood to create the updraft, but more accuratly without any other burning material 4 stacks of wood are needed. The cool thing is that those 4 stacks create a permanent updraft as long as the fire is alive.
Something that hasn't been brought up in the thread but is probably known. The dialog of the village elders changes to some extent depending if Link has the Master Sword or not at that point. It was interesting to see how the NPCs kept talking about it since i never bothered to take it from the pedestal after i found it. Know noticing the changes after doing another run with it.
freethoughtbubble
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Seems like this was found but it's new to me! Very cool.
Naked Snake
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Hitting flint/wood with your weapon doesn't affect its durability. For the longest time I didn't want to start fires with my weapons for that reason until I noticed lighting flint doesn't degrade your weapon.
I'm guessing it's the same with chuchu jelly, but it's probably not smart to hit that with a melee weapon.
I'm guessing it's the same with chuchu jelly, but it's probably not smart to hit that with a melee weapon.
I learned early on not to hit my red chu jelly with melee.
thrillho88
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Pardon me if this has been posted already. But this blew my mind.
Yesterday I realised I could deal with those big heavy slabs over holes and secrets a different way than I had been.
Previously I would use Stasis and wail on them until they budged off. That was, until I realised I could just place a few Octo Balloons on it and watch it float peacefully away.
Until they pop that is, so watch out!
Yesterday I realised I could deal with those big heavy slabs over holes and secrets a different way than I had been.
Previously I would use Stasis and wail on them until they budged off. That was, until I realised I could just place a few Octo Balloons on it and watch it float peacefully away.
Until they pop that is, so watch out!
If you somehow manage to drop the master sword, the sword will float back to the forest and a special message is displayed
The player here basically does it via memory overloading and confusing the game which weapon is currently held.
I know failsaves are done everywhere by developers, but having a unique animation and text is quite amazing.
The player here basically does it via memory overloading and confusing the game which weapon is currently held.
I know failsaves are done everywhere by developers, but having a unique animation and text is quite amazing.
Naked Snake
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If you shoot the Master Sword laser over grass it cuts it even without contact. So if you shoot it in a straight line you get a nice long "landing strip" with one shot. Might be the fastest way to mow the lawn.
Version 3.0
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That's cool they thought of that, but I don't understand what's going on in any part of that video.
Each of the themes for the Divine Beasts contains Morse Code that spells out S-O-S. I collected some examples here.
There's some other Morse in there but no one is sure what it means. Reddit is trying to figure it out.
There's some other Morse in there but no one is sure what it means. Reddit is trying to figure it out.
KLoWn
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That is really cool.
Refreshment.01
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Wonder how much dialogue this game has? It's pleasing to get these surprises every once i a while.
Will getting shocked cause you to drop the master sword? That would suck if it floated away and you couldn't pick it up again, =). (Haven't watched the video yet to see the animation)
TheFuzz
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This game blows me away.
The Master Sword can't be dropped whatsoever, attempting to throw it just shoots sword beams. The person in the video glitched the game to access unused code where the sword would've returned to the forest - thankfully Nintendo chose not to use that.
You couldn't be more vague. Golden "thing"? Which snow mountain?
RedBaron17
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Maybe that's a star fragment?
Also, I just noticed that enemies avoid bodies of water when there is a thunderstorm. Oktorocs will float over the water and will not attack and lizalfos will stay on the shore but will not go in the water. Lizalfos will still attack though.
A YouTuber reached the portal the dragons come out of. https://youtu.be/_gSb909-ovo
Refreshment.01
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Is there a place to see this or a way to replicate?
i' ve seen Octoroks floating but i can't recall right now if it was thunderstorm related.
TheMoon
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they sometimes randomly float above the water because they're bored as hell waiting for some random fallen hero to shoot at.
Refreshment.01
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Haha... Like i said i' ve seen Octos doing that. At first i thought this was at noon because of the raising temperature making the inner guts fill with hot air, but then i saw this behavior at other times of day.
im particullary curious about the "enemies avoiding the water during a thunderstorm" claim. i mean Bokos and Mobs will always do so since they can't swim. So that would leave only non electric Lizalfos avoiding the water because although all varieties of them can swim only the elctric ones are resistant to shock.
So i wonder if it's indeed a game feature or the player is seen things that aren't there in this case. ???
On a some what related note, serious props to the game on how good it is at taking the enviromental conditions and making them part of emergent gameplay. An electric lizalfos is a completely different type of enemy near shallow puddles of water and the same i would say about an electric Keeze during a thunderstorm.
Refreshment.01
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We talked about shield surfing in the thread previously but have confirmed something more or less interesting.
i took a Royal Shield one hit away from braking and then proceeded to shield surf hundreds of times in snow or sand only, and the shield doesn't brake. So i guess we can conclude that these 2 surfaces has 0 shield degradation.
Finally, i ended up trying another "soft" surface i can think of and that was wet grass. The shield instantly broke. So maybe the assertion is correct after all.
i took a Royal Shield one hit away from braking and then proceeded to shield surf hundreds of times in snow or sand only, and the shield doesn't brake. So i guess we can conclude that these 2 surfaces has 0 shield degradation.
Finally, i ended up trying another "soft" surface i can think of and that was wet grass. The shield instantly broke. So maybe the assertion is correct after all.
LordOcidax
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Looks like the red moon doesn't work when you are in the Castle area. When you see the red moon fast travel to the shrine inside the castle area and wait the until 12:00 am.
TheMoon
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I thought that was officially known about snow and sand not damaging your shield? I'm imagining an NPC or tooltip telling me? Maybe?
OminoMichelin
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The shield surf master on mount Hebra mentions this.
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Deleted member 465307
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I'm not sure if it works with every item or just the minecarts. All the videos I've seen involving flying have used minecarts, and I seem to remember all the exploits involving Magnesis originating with the minecarts.
You don't get the animation, but what about the effect? I felt like it triggered when I was in the Castle, but I haven't checked.
In any case, it may not be the best idea to avoid the Blood Moon for too long. I mean, it's basically a cleaning for the game: the game need to track what you have done (who you've killed, what you've destroyed, etc.), and the list only gets bigger with time. Without the Blood Moon to empty the list, you'll have memory and possibly performances issues.
There's definitively a bug with the carts.
If you stack items, and try to use magnesis on one, it fails as soon as you stand on one of the items that are on one you use magnesis on. I've tried this as soon as the first shrine, and was surprised to see it working with carts. I haven't been able to find another combination.
I'm not sure of the reason, the physical simulation probably returns a wrong dependency tree when there's a cart involved, somehow...
TheMoon
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Wouldn't this more likely be because you are supposed to be able to use force to propel mine carts forward on the tracks?
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I'm wondering if perhaps the team encountered a legitimate use case for the carts that required some unusual physics property that in turn broke the typical way they prevented people from exploiting this. That's just a total (likely nonsensical) guess because I'm really surprised Nintendo hasn't patched this yet. There are a lot of very popular videos about this on the internet, and it definitely looks like something that could break the game and how it was designed to be explored.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the carts are already weird with how they work, since it makes no sense that they A) move how they do and B) protect you from the bomb blast. The carts are just one big physics anomaly.
Refreshment.01
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I found this neat trick that will trivialize many encounters (singular enemy encounters)
So, as anybody who played this game would know, sneaking up on an enemy from behind will allow you to preform a "sneak strike" which does 4x (I think) the damage as a normal attack. However when you preform a sneak strike on an enemy and it doesn't kill them, it then alerts them to your presence, right? Wrong. Once you use the sneak strike on an enemy, it will fall down, and then stand up, and turn to face the direction where the sneak strike happened, however it only alerts the foe of your presence if you still standing in its view. So, if you were to, say, run (or walk) to the other side of the foe, it will jump up and turn around, and not notice you, there by allowing you to sneak strike it once again. Rinse and repeat until enemy is dead. Should probably be noted that I was wearing the Shieka Ninja stuff when I did all this.
Here is a little picture (drawn in mspaint) to show what I mean.
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Seems a more likely candidate than a approximate wordplay on Poseidon to me, unless it's more obvious in some languages.
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Riju will fawn over her sand stuffed seals once she thinks you arent looking
Heh, while Im sure some of you know this I just found this out today when talking to paya. The whereabouts of her birthmark are eventually revealed.
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The kids in hateno love the blue flame and will follow you around if you have your torch lit with it
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Do not know if posted before but today made the Rudania mission. Found that if you turn 90 degrees Rudania you can go through the hole on the door ( eye shaped hole). You just need to crouch on the hole and will go inside the room without the need to use a blue flame arrow.
Once inside turn on the terminal and again turn Rudania 90 degrees and go outside, never needed the blue flame.
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Some "new" details:
- Dalia. In Gerudo Town, after completing the "water polution Quest" destroy the wild berry bushes when Dalia is present. See what happens.
- Meeting Zidon. There's an alternate way to meet Zidon. If one avoids talking to him near Lanayru Tower and goes straight to King Doraphen and alternate cutscene will play. Nintendo taught this one out thoroughly.
- Raised in a barn. In any of the busyness that have a counter, if Link is able to climb on top, it would probably elicit a reaction when talking to the NPC. For example, Tarry Town, Hateno Hotel, Hateno's Tech Lab.
- Gerudo Shopping. There are various NPC reactions snd extra lines of dialogue both from sellers and on lookers when buying all the items in a given store.
- Cooking under the spicy moon. While i was compiling the details saw this one mentioned more than once but no one said how one can learn about cooking upgrades. In Gerudo town, inside the coocking school lays 2 recipe books, one of those out of Link's reach. If the player waits for nightfall Ashai finishes her Voe Class and return to this place to impart cooking class. If Link examines the book again at this time, one of the Gerudo students (since Gerudos are tall) offers to read him the book. Among various advices is the red moon tip.
- We don't know cameras but we love Selfies. Kind of puzzling to see people into the "Selfie Culture" in a world were cameras are mostly unknown. When entering the Sheika Slate Selfie Mode NPCs nearby will focus it's attention on the camera. More over, some characters will briefly stop what they are doing to focus on the camera: If casually walking by stop for a brief moment, if leaning the NPC will briefly stand up or in other cases stop an animation.
- When i was checking out about doing the Korok trial without touching the Master Sword. For the stealth mision shrine, i noticed that you can use the paraglider to float above the little Korok and if you know the path you don't have to tail him around and instead go straight to the shrine. This is made easier since the path is sort of marked by the pink flowers but most noticibly a path of Silent Princess set around.
- For the trial of Iron, you don't even need to talk to the Korok. Just navigate with magnesis until you reach the shrine.
- Was fooling around the flying beast and noticed that all switches are reachable without manipulating the beast with the map, there are ways to use the wind drafts in the default beast position. So i guess you can complete it without downloading the map.
- Withouth activating the Towers is possible to populate the map to some degree. Stables, Shrines, Towns and captured Korok seeds are marked when activated. Couple this with the 105 custom stamps and it makes extra playthrougs more interesting to navigate.
- The idle character animation when Link is on top of a horse chanches depending on the numerical value of afinity. One animation for <50 and a more subtle peaceful one for >50.
Alebrije
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Do not know if posted before but today made the Rudania mission. Found that if you turn 90 degrees Rudania you can go through the hole on the door ( eye shaped hole). You just need to crouch on the hole and will go inside the room without the need to use a blue flame arrow.
Once inside turn on the terminal and again turn Rudania 90 degrees and go outside, never needed the blue flame.
Once inside turn on the terminal and again turn Rudania 90 degrees and go outside, never needed the blue flame.
Refreshment.01
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Hmmm... i think a tooltip is out of the question. Since we know the game detects player behavior to suggest tips when loading i think that after expending close to 2 hours shield surfing and loading multiple times would have caused the specific tooltip to appear.
Can you be more specific?
When i was testing Selmie with the dialogs for the different shields and messing around with the ones hanging in her cabin (magnetizing or setting them on fire) i never seen her saying that the the shields take 0 damage from sand or snow. im pretty sure i have explored her dialogues trees thoroughly.
At least is not common knowledge for what i' ve seen. i remember in the " suggest a tweak" thread some people wanting for shields to take even less damage when surfing or none at all. And i didn't see anyone making the observation that they don't take damage in these 2 surfaces.
So excuse me if i was mistaken. But i will surely like to see when or where is this specificaly pointed out in the hame if anyone knows.
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