It made Jim Sterling change his opinion about weapon breaking.Patch brought the game back up to a 98?
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Zelda BOTW Patch 1.1.2 released
- Thread starter chaobreaker
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I was wondering about that, the precious stones you mine are just for selling or can be used for other stuff later?
No spoilers please just an answer if I should keep them all or some of them, thanks.
Keep the sapphires. Edit: On second thought, you might need others as well. Keep a few around, though you can mine them quite easily if you lack some. At some point you can use them for a specific purpose (SPOILER of the purpose)
namely to upgrade some of your gear, specifically the circlets.
D.Lo
Member
From what I can tell, keep only diamonds?
But the first time I needed a cash boost I had like 100 rubies and multiple hundreds of other stones so didn't even need to sell them all.
Gems are all used for other things. Depending on what you will do in the game you might need them a lot, or not at all.
BTW, almost everything that isn't eatable are used for other purposes somewhere in the game. Even some of the eatable resources are also required for things outside cooking.
Cheezeman3000
Member
I heard that, aside from minor glitch fixes, the loading times are also shorter now? Anyone verify that?
mavericktopgun
Member
Seemed shorter on 1.1.1 too
polyh3dron
Banned
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Guys I think they downgraded a few things. The game now looks like this for me:
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Am I seeing things or should we ask Digital Foundry?
That was too much effort for a terrible joke.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
I gotta admit, I laughed more at your post than I did at that joke lol.
Patch Note 1.1.3：
Removed the hidden shrine introduced in 1.1.2. Have you found that suckers.
gingerbeardman
Member
Cue...
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
They probably feel like we don't need them. Not saying it's correct, but Nintendo is weird.
I laughed.
wild wild rice
Member
I've been selling half of everything I find except diamonds and luminous stones. I haven't figured out what to use anything for, but arrows and armor don't buy themselves so I gotta sell them shits.
frankie_baby
Member
Luminous stones are mega plentiful, can sell most of them no issues
wild wild rice
Member
Good to know. I thought I came across
someone somewhere that made Guardian proof armor out of the luminous stones
Anyways, time to go cash in, thanks!
What is the best way to mine stones?
Right now I just wander around the lava lake in Eldin looking for them.
Queue
jim2point0
Banned
Huh? Did they downgrade stuff before this?
I don't think they like talking about technical things in too much detail, they don't want players thinking about those things. People like us think about stuff like the framerate, and we'll notice the difference if it's improved, but a lot of people don't really do that (maybe in the K
orok
orest
Basically, some people may not have noticed that the framerate drops at times or if there's some bug they fixed some people may not have encountered it, and Nintendo would rather those people be oblivious to the fact there was a problem to begin with.
Not saying it's a good thing BTW, just making an educated guess on how they might be thinking.
No, they didn't.
Diablohead
Member
from regular on foot archers you can usually get 5 arrows before the rest break on impact.
Gamecocks625
Member
Here is a gem selling price list courtesy of Fuzzy in the OT:
Amber 30
Opal 60
Luminous Stone 70
Topaz 180
Ruby 210
Sapphire 260
Diamond 500
Mining stones: optimiss, you have the best method for doing so right now. But, do you have the Sheikah Slate feature of
the Hyrule Compendium?
photograph
target it with your sensor.
Also, (mild enemy type spoilers)
as you become stronger in the game, you will meet silver Bokos. These fellows drop rare ore, and are often easier to come across than rare ore deposits.
The spoiler-tagged method above is my preferred method for getting rare gems. Get some high level weapons, kick some powerful butt, and you will be able to utilize that method regularly. The
silver Bokos are easy to defeat if you keep wailing on them. They're powerful but if you don't let them getting a fighting word in you will prevail with most any weapon.
Regarding the gem-buying (mild spoilers)
Gerudo in Goron City who buys gems 10 at a time and pays extra, it appeared for us she did not show up in the City until we completed the Divine Beast in that area. I'm not sure if she was there and we just didn't notice or if beating the Divine Beast triggered her appearance. She gives you a decent sum of rupees above what you would normally get. For example, for 10 diamonds you get an extra 500 rupees.
With that said, your other gems are going to give you an immense amount of rupees. One additional tip about her, once she asks for a kind of gem she wants it appears she won't change her mind until you sell that type to her. I read somewhere that if you sell her an item, make a save before you talk to her again so you can reload the save repeatedly until she offers to buy the kind of gem you next want her to buy. Unfortunately we learned this *after* she asked for ten more diamonds after it took us forever to get her the first ten diamonds.
With that said, your other gems are going to give you an immense amount of rupees. One additional tip about her, once she asks for a kind of gem she wants it appears she won't change her mind until you sell that type to her. I read somewhere that if you sell her an item, make a save before you talk to her again so you can reload the save repeatedly until she offers to buy the kind of gem you next want her to buy. Unfortunately we learned this *after* she asked for ten more diamonds after it took us forever to get her the first ten diamonds.
Additionally, I don't know if like us you were using bombs exclusively on ore, but a poster in here recently kindly mentioned you can use some types of weapons on ore as well. The benefit to this which we didn't immediately realize is that the ore will not going flying as it does with bombs. So if you use this method on cliffside ore, you will have a higher likelihood of being able to retrieve its contents.
BTW, you will definitely want to hold on to at least one spare diamond for a specific purpose. (moderate spoilers)
There is a weapon in the game that you can repair when fully broken, using multiple materials including a single diamond.
Edit: and judging by some posts on this page, there will potentially be another reason for you to hold onto diamonds besides this. So I wouldn't sell any of your diamonds yet until you know you do or don't want them for this purpose (unsure how many diamonds you will need for both these things, but since you can get a lot of rupees with other existing gems I would just hold on to them for now).
Hmm, we only ever seem to get 3. Maybe we're not paying sufficient attention though. With that said, arrow Bokos when defeated seem to leave 5 arrow bundles 25% of the time. And the Lizalfos at the
Ridgeland
jim2point0
Banned
Well I sure as shit still hate it. Luckily we can get around it in CEMU.
So good. (5K screenshot of Korok Woods)
I made it a link.... of Link... in the woods.
You may want to spoiler-tag this. People are quite sensitive about BOTW spoilers.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Which glitch is that?
gingerbeardman
Member
This should be in the OP.
Naked Snake
Member
I want to pet foxes. I was surprised how close they let me walk up to them today, basically within arms reach. They look at me being all totes adorbs before scurrying​ away. I legit wanted to pet it.
Where the hell are you mining? I explore pretty freely / often, and I've never had more than 10 gems at a time.
Regginator
Member
Breath of the Wild has spoilers?!?! Jeez thanks for the spoiler warning...
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Jesus fuck. I might need to do my second playthrough in CEMU.
tonyh24613
Member
All chests in Eventide island still respawn after teleport/load save.
One could say the notes were not pleasant to read.
jim2point0
Banned
I guess. I haven't been there yet, but I saw a screenshot of that place in the PC screenshot thread. The only thing that was spoiled to me is that it's pretty. But I'm sure when I see it in person, a screenshot will not compare.
UnemployedVillain
Member
A certain GAF armchair "programmer" said it was impossible for them to improve performance without downgrades this soon
Wuuut????? :O
frankie_baby
Member
Cant remember what that needs off the top of my head as i aint got round to buying that yet but they are so plentiful, and easy to mine at night as the rocks containing them glow
Barry Burton
Member
psychotron
Member
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Are you talking about the armor in the
Secret Gerudo Club
Guardian Armor from the other research lab
Muffin Awesome
Member
This drives me up the fracking wall!!! I hate when fighting lizfalos and the big moblins that the came freezes when I land the third combo hit that send them flying. Almost every time...
LordOcidax
Member
Same.. is not going to get any better.