The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvG-37yBKCg

what's happening in this exactly?

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...

wow!!

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.

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).

i've seen the bullet-time bounce trick before, but how are they doing that hop-in-place-and-get-higher thing?

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"

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.

it IS insane, and I love it

i've seen the bullet-time bounce trick before, but how are they doing that hop-in-place-and-get-higher thing?

― stet, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 8:48 AM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

is called moon jump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1q3TseThXQ

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

I guess it's possible the hitbox for instant Guardian kills is wider when you're that far away

that's amazing, thanks. also not going to bork my game but this is v. cool

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 hours ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcOd82Q6-oU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dDDJeTIOw

will report back if there's more

― 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”

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.

revali > mipha > big charge attack > shield thing

you can do a lot w/shield thing that i didn't realize for the longest time

yeah tbh i don't think i really know how to use it, it kinda kicks in accidentally for me.

shield thing helps a lot vs. guardians

kinda feel like the divine beast powers are "too much", "cheating"

You should start with all the powers and have to sacrifice each one to beat the corresponding beast

I like that they disable 'em in the shrines at least.

You should start with all the powers and have to sacrifice each one to beat the corresponding beast

Legit a great idea

Hire me Miyamoto-san

I mean ...

https://www.polygon.com/2021/2/3/22264390/botw-breath-of-the-wild-zelda-nintendo-switch-speedrun-100-percent-damageless-joedun

When he finally pulled it off, his chat erupted in a sea of “EZ Clap” messages.

thinking about that trick shot vid. i want to see a version where they shoot Link with an ancient arrow

You mean like, he flies into his own arrow somehow? I wonder if the physcs even allow for that to do anything ha.

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

Buried somewhere in canyon east of Tabantha

Which, the one in the forgotten temple?

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

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.

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

I definitely resorted to maps for the last 10 or so. No regerts, happy to 100% it. Should actually play the DLC someday though

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

master mode is kinda dumb imo its not that much harder you just end up avoiding fighting more

it basically just makes it really hard to fight a bunch of guys at once because of the life regeneration

im playing this for the first time now

Omg all this time we were heckling Josh and you held out like two full years longer.

I'm about a month in to my first playthrough, 75 or so shrines down. The DLC is worth picking up, right?

Yes. I held off getting it until I had virtually finished the main game and feel like that was the wrong way to go.

okay, good to know, thanks

I finished the game first and then got the DLC so it was easier to spot the differences. You can start the DLC from the last save game before completion, you don't need to start the whole game again.

(Either way is fine though!)

I'd say it's inessential in the sense that the main game is enough, but the DLC adds about 20 or so new shrines which are all slightly harder than average. (Sometimes too hard - one shrine I was stuck on for about six months.)

But it's essential 'cause its MORE BOTW.