found all the shrines. i’m happy i did, getting link’s ocarina/majora outfit was a surprisingly emotional moment for me. now i’m inventing tasks for myself to procrastinate fighting ganon.
“uhh, i need to make sure all the champions’ items are reforged and in my possession before i face ganon.”
“need to update my wild armor, better start collecting dragon scales”
“am i seriously gonna fight the calamity with such a small shield stash? better get some more korok seeds just in case!”
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 December 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
yesterday i grabbed a cucco in hateno village, carried it halfway across the map, and threw it in a lake
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Thursday, 24 December 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
lol
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 24 December 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
I threw a Cucco in Hateno, just to watch it flap
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Thursday, 24 December 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
playing enough that i'm starting to hear traces of popular songs in the botw soundtrack
korok forest - always think of usher's "yeah," i'm sorryzora domain - the system - "don't disturb this groove" (the part right before it loops back to the beginning of the theme)
will report back if there's more
― shabbat bloody shabbat (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
Holy shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvG-37yBKCg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 January 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
what's happening in this exactly?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 04:35 (three years ago) link
speedrunners found a way to boost across the map using that slow time effect when you're about to land on an enemy's head. For some reason it launches you. Other exploit trick stuff happens later but that's the first one. The rapid hover thing is suspect however...
― Evan, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 04:49 (three years ago) link
wow!!
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 08:19 (three years ago) link
That's pretty wild. I'm still waiting for enough time to elapse that I've forgotten most of the world layout before replaying this, though I reckon the sequel will be out by then.
― american primitive stylophone (zchyrs), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
The specific awesome thing happening in that clip is that they/link fire an arrow into the distance, apparently at nothing, then hops/hacks a way to follow it to its destination, which turns out to be a guardian, which he takes out. Or maybe described best thusly:
After jumping from the balcony of the Temple of Time near the beginning of the game, Neko fires an Ancient Arrow into the sky seemingly at random. It’s only by following that arrow across a vast distance (and more than one loading zone) with a “bullet time bounce” that Neko is able to show the projectile’s destination: an unsuspecting Guardian, which is soon reduced to a pile of smoke and rubble.Neko says the Guardian is over 1,400 meters away from their starting position, but that’s not a number they guessed at. By combining the Bird Man Research Study mini-game (which measures how far you can travel with Link’s para-glider) with a couple of glitches, Neko is able to come up with a fairly accurate distance for their sniper shot. It’s all explained in the video (make sure to enable English subtitles if you can’t read Japanese).
Neko says the Guardian is over 1,400 meters away from their starting position, but that’s not a number they guessed at. By combining the Bird Man Research Study mini-game (which measures how far you can travel with Link’s para-glider) with a couple of glitches, Neko is able to come up with a fairly accurate distance for their sniper shot. It’s all explained in the video (make sure to enable English subtitles if you can’t read Japanese).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
i've seen the bullet-time bounce trick before, but how are they doing that hop-in-place-and-get-higher thing?
― stet, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:48 (three years ago) link
Hahaha it's like "here's a trick shot that is near-impossible, blink and you'll miss it tho" followed by "now, here is an unspeakably complicated method of measuring the distance of this trick shot"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
That's totally the insane speed run mentality though, isn't it? They can practically play blind. "Two steps, pause, swing, pause, jump jump, now fire an arrow into this one spot and initiate the glitch, now arm with sword, then drop the sword, then pick up a rock and the sword at the same time and you bounce three frames to the right, which will save you a half-second on your run." Etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:15 (three years ago) link
it IS insane, and I love it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:19 (three years ago) link
― stet, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 8:48 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
is called moon jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1q3TseThXQ
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
they don't just hit the Guardian from 1400m, they hit it in the eye, otherwise it wouldn't die instantly
the hop-in-the-air glitch is activated in the mounted archery camp minigame IIRC — you have to hop off your horse onto another, wild horse, and make sure the horse is still trying to buck you off at the time the minigame ends. I've never tried it because I don't want to bork my game
xp
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
I guess it's possible the hitbox for instant Guardian kills is wider when you're that far away
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
that's amazing, thanks. also not going to bork my game but this is v. cool
― stet, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:15 (three hours ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcOd82Q6-oU
― Evan, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dDDJeTIOw
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 18:16 (three years ago) link
― shabbat bloody shabbat (voodoo chili), Monday, December 28, 2020 7:55 PM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
mipha’s theme sounds like costello’s “almost blue”
― voodoo chili, Monday, 25 January 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
Got the switch versh of this just afore xmas for no raisin, thought I'd give it a replay. Ive done in a week what took months to do first time round.
I'm finding getting Revalis Gale first (rather than Mipha's Grace) has made a LOT of early game shit much easier. And I can navigate so much of the map from memory now haha /lolsad.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
revali > mipha > big charge attack > shield thing
― adam, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
you can do a lot w/shield thing that i didn't realize for the longest time
― real muthaphuckkin jeez (crüt), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
yeah tbh i don't think i really know how to use it, it kinda kicks in accidentally for me.
― adam, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
shield thing helps a lot vs. guardians
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link
kinda feel like the divine beast powers are "too much", "cheating"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
You should start with all the powers and have to sacrifice each one to beat the corresponding beast
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 01:51 (three years ago) link
I like that they disable 'em in the shrines at least.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 02:17 (three years ago) link
Legit a great idea
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 27 January 2021 04:11 (three years ago) link
Hire me Miyamoto-san
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 04:19 (three years ago) link
I mean ...
https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/3/22264390/botw-breath-of-the-wild-zelda-nintendo-switch-speedrun-100-percent-damageless-joedun
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 February 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
When he finally pulled it off, his chat erupted in a sea of “EZ Clap” messages.
― trouble with a capital T / big pimpin on B-L-A-D's (crüt), Saturday, 6 February 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
thinking about that trick shot vid. i want to see a version where they shoot Link with an ancient arrow
― eisimpleir (crüt), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
You mean like, he flies into his own arrow somehow? I wonder if the physcs even allow for that to do anything ha.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
While playing the DLC, wandering around doing nothing, I found an original-game shrine for the first time since 2018 or 19, and my heart went a-flutter
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
Buried somewhere in canyon east of Tabantha
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
Which, the one in the forgotten temple?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
Man, I love this game
i didn't find the south akkala stable until a dlc side quest pointed me there, that's after playing the game without dlc for 150+ hours
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
It was almost at the bottom of a canyon on the way to Rito village. Rito was my first divine beast on my first playthrough. I'm sure I would've heard the radar ping, but I wouldn't have had the endurance to climb up and down to find it back then.
And I'm sure there's still a bunch of impossible-to-find shrines under the snow in the NW section of the map.
Haven't played for a while but it's still the best game! I never feel like I've wasted my time playing it, even when I'm up till 2am and feel like crap the next day.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
even when resorting to maps the last few shrines were a real bastard to find. Even on the second playthrough there were some I struggled to find again
― stet, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
I definitely resorted to maps for the last 10 or so. No regerts, happy to 100% it. Should actually play the DLC someday though
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
i started playing on master mode got maybe half way through then just devoted myself to killing taluses and now i have so many gems
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
master mode is kinda dumb imo its not that much harder you just end up avoiding fighting more
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
it basically just makes it really hard to fight a bunch of guys at once because of the life regeneration
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
im playing this for the first time now
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 06:08 (three years ago) link
Omg all this time we were heckling Josh and you held out like two full years longer.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 07:15 (three years ago) link
I'm about a month in to my first playthrough, 75 or so shrines down. The DLC is worth picking up, right?
― Sven Vath's scary carpet (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 09:59 (three years ago) link