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I've played the game three times now on the base assumption that "high number good, low number bad" and it works ok in practice.
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^^^ Pretty much, shields with higher defense also have higher durability It's at least consistent that this number is a shield's defense power, just like its equivalent with weapons is their attack power. It's only the staggering effect that's not obvious. Kassad fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 11, 2020 16:27
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Bust Rodd posted:It’s just frankly insane that it wouldn’t just be “the shield’s durability”. If you hadn’t posted that I’d have gone to my grave just assuming that’s what it was. I mean, that's most of what it is, except enemies also react more strongly to more durable shields.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:28
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Cardiovorax posted:Not sure why that needs an explanation video. That's what I took away just from enemy reactions and from how quickly stuff breaks as you use it. You're literally the only one who got that then. I think everyone just went "big number hard metal" and that was it
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Mar 11, 2020 16:42
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Maybe it's just because I've been playing a lot of Dark Souls and kind of intuitively equated it to Stability, stat-wise, which does basically the same thing. It seems obvious in retrospect, but I guess I was kind of halfway pulling out of my rear end at the time.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:06
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I got the dirtbike, should I farm up all the spirit stones for max hearts before I go try the other DLC?
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Nah, just eat a meal made with 5 hearty durians, and then a meal made with 4 attack (or defense if you prefer) boosting things and a dragon horn in front of the sword. Then save and beat your head against it until you beat it. There's not generally enough health-restoring food in the trials themselves to warrant continuously topping yourself off. It's not awful on normal mode, but the first trial is the worst of the lot for most people, including me. Set your sheikah sensor to treasure chests and when you hit a rest zone immediately crouch to walk and get the fairy(ies).
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Mar 11, 2020 20:59
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yall use shields to block??? i thought they were only good for surfing
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Mar 11, 2020 21:01
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Shields are made solely for parrying lasers, imo. I will be happy if BotW2 primarily involves lasers firing at you at all times.
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Mar 11, 2020 21:09
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Agean90 posted:yall use shields to block??? i thought they were only good for surfing
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Captain Hygiene posted:Shields are made solely for parrying lasers, imo. I will be happy if BotW2 primarily involves lasers firing at you at all times. Katherine Zeta Jones, she dips beneath laserrrrrrrssssssssssssss
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Captain Hygiene posted:Shields are made solely for parrying lasers, imo. I will be happy if BotW2 primarily involves lasers firing at you at all times. Ideally one could dual-shield, parrying lasers while doing sick surfing jumps and spins. Most of what I do in BotW these days is para-shield-surfing from mountaintop shrines.
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I like to shield surf out of Hateno village. And frankly all other villages. Sometimes I like to shield surf into a lake or some dumb bullshit. There’s also a good spot in the desert somewhere too
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Mar 13, 2020 03:44
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But, like, the rocky part of the desert.
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Agreed on shield surfing being cool and all, but alsoAmppelix posted:I have never managed to remember shield surfing exists during a moment where it would actually be cool or useful I don't think I used it a single time in my full playthrough aside from the dlc quest that features it.
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Mar 13, 2020 03:46
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I do it literally every time I am going down a hill literally every time
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Captain Hygiene posted:Agreed on shield surfing being cool and all, but also the gently caress is this get the hell out of here
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It's far enough outside the regular moveset I just forget about it 
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You climb yourself up a big ol' mountain and you learn what this game is really about, mister.
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MokBa posted:You climb yourself up a big ol' mountain and you learn what this game is really about, mister.
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Quantum Toast posted:Gliding? Hyrule Castle is for gliding off. Mountains are for sliding down.
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do you ride your horse or your shield - the great botw question
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Mar 13, 2020 12:58
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"Come back with your shield, or on it" has a far cheerier implication for Link than its historical use
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Something relaxing about shield surfing down a grassy hill in the rain.
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I always forget Urbosa's Fury and Revali's Gale exist because I put off doing those beasts until like eighty hours into my game.
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Mameluke posted:"Come back with your shield, or on it" has a far cheerier implication for Link than its historical use 
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I'm replaying botw after 2 years, and I think i've finally waited long enough and i'm really enjoying it again. Here goes another 300 hours of my life. Also connected my TV to a good sound system for some home theater audio to sweeten the experience.
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ChocNitty posted:I'm replaying botw after 2 years, and I think i've finally waited long enough and i'm really enjoying it again. Here goes another 300 hours of my life. Salut
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Mar 13, 2020 18:11
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The best thing about the Ancient Shield is that it's a hoverboard. It moves smoothly on nearly all types of terrain, and its durability is depleted the most slowly by shield surfing out of all shield types.
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Tokelau All Star posted:I always forget Urbosa's Fury and Revali's Gale exist because I put off doing those beasts until like eighty hours into my game. I had no idea about any of the guardian powers until after I got my first one and it immediately inspired me to go and conquer all 4 beasts before exploring the map properly.
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I forgot about them (except for the passive ones) the first couple times I tried to play through, and it was a million times more fun after folks here reminded me to use them last time around. The DLC is worthwhile just to get faster recharges.
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Mar 13, 2020 18:48
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Hey kid, you ever want to leave the atmosphere and go into space? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLB8Hb_bpQE (Turn english subs on for the tutorial) Edit: there is a link after the video where this same guy figured out measurements for the world and it's wild GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Mar 14, 2020 |
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Hey kid, you ever want to leave the atmosphere and go into space? Translated subtitles refused to work for me, but I did enjoy the Wind Waker ocean music as Link was shield surfing down from low earth orbit
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Basically it's the horse glitch but once every 3-4 times the horse starts to float and if you restart the target game and let the horse keep floating, you can leave it be and come back a few hours later and sometimes you'll have floated out of the atmosphere. It's a chance though that you can get stuck in something.
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I don’t understand anything about how that was done, even with the subtitles but I did find this hilarious
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Positioning glitch, would be my guess. I think I remember there being a similar glitch in an old Castlevania game, which basically made you pop out at the top of the map and fall down and slightly to the right until you hit an actual existing room again. It was one of the ways to get 100+% map completion.
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This is kind of off topic, but it seems like the best place to post it. I've been trying to play through every Zelda game, like, ever. The Game and Watch game (Not hard to find, but Zelda Gamewatch has been a bitch to track down, because every place I asks thinks I'm looking for the Game and Watch), the CD-I games, whatever is possible to play and is even loosely connected to Zelda I'll play. So the other day I found out about this game "The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls"  Not a Zelda game, never intended to be a Zelda game, but the engine was later used as the basis for Link's Awakening. Playing through it was neat because there was so much in it that reminded me of Link's Awakening. Sprites, music that at times sounds nearly identical, etc. The biggest similarity is the character Richard, a prince who gets turned into a frog along with his army. Hes the same guy as the Richard in Link's Awakening who has a villa full of frogs. At the end of the game he heads out to sea with his soldiers for adventure I guess  I like to think that this means they're a part of the same universe, and the place this game takes place on is just another island far from Hyrule like Holodrum or Labrynna. And while Richard was at sea he got mixed up in the Wind Fish's dream the same way Link did. I know that's not intended, but it's a fun connection to make. Does anyone know of any other games that have any weird connections to the Zelda series like this that I may not have heard of? Because really I thought I knew everything about Zelda but I had never heard of this game until just a couple days ago. Of course there's the tingle games and other modern spinoffs, there's stuff like Link showing up in Mario RPG, but anything connected to the Zelda series in a really weird way like this game?
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BrainDance posted:The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls I don't have anything big to add but I appreciate that one, it blew my mind when I found out about it years after I first played LA. I still love the weird conglomeration of outside stuff in that game, that plus the writing really made it a huge leap forward in character & style compared to the previous games.
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BrainDance posted:This is kind of off topic, but it seems like the best place to post it. I don't have anything for you but thanks for your cool post
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Cardiovorax posted:Positioning glitch, would be my guess. I think I remember there being a similar glitch in an old Castlevania game, which basically made you pop out at the top of the map and fall down and slightly to the right until you hit an actual existing room again. It was one of the ways to get 100+% map completion. Similar thing with mammoths in Skyrim. If you can glitch the game into changing your race to mammoth and also bird (because they spawn at altitude) you can really enjoy the sights.
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