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@MrBean cool pic of stuff. What's that link near the ganondorf statue? Looks bobblehead ish. Cute.

I do not remember dying so much in combat. Quite a few one smack down especially if I am missing a part of a heart. Enemies with a fused weapon have way more power than I do with a fused weapon. The Skeletal arm 20 is the most powerful I have come across and it only last a few whacks. Not to mention lightening, Everything off most of the time as it doesn't seem to not rain.

I loved BOTW and am Happy to have more of it, I am not sure about the building aspect. But I will trust Nintey and the process. One puzzle I am sure I didnt complete the way they wanted, after trying many complex ways that should work but Nintendo wont let, I said F it and made a super duper long walkway screw dem wheels and such. LOL

It's easy to cheese a lot of shrines using any movable platform, ultrahand and recall. Instant moving platforms and elevators.

One of the shrines had rails with a ball that had to go down the rails to the next area. I tried building some sort of sled to fuse the ball to, but it kept falling so I...

It certainly was NOT what the developers had in mind, but I was so giddy that it worked.

bonham2 wrote:


There's another shrine where this is what they want you to do.

Yeah, I did that one the same way, by making a makeshift hook. My favorite shrines to cheese are the ones where you don't even need to use the stuff in the dungeon. There's one where you're supposed to knock a ball into a couple of targets (one for the treasure), but you can just fire bomb arrows at them instead. I struggled with one where I couldn't figure out how to get a minecart to the blessing. Then I noticed I had a rocket shield and just used that to propel myself into the air, and then paraglided to the exit.

Can we just take a second to appreciate how awesome it is that you just noticed you had a ROCKET SHIELD? How awesome is that? A freakin rocket shield. I thought a fortified pumpkin would just make my shield stronger, so I fused one. It made a pumpkin shield. A shield with a pumpkin attached to it. No matter how stupid the contraption, the game allows it. It's amazing what we can do in this game.

Rocket Shield? The Dragon Face one? I use that as a weapon, you want a piece of Link come get some.

Groo wrote:

If you mean the one that spews out fire, that's a different shield.

Are you really stuck buying all the different climate clothes other than cold (warming effect) pants? That is thousands of rupees. I only have 800 after 20+ hours of play. Is there anything that is safe to sell? Like expensive items that aren't used for anything else?

Just gave this game to my daughter as a high school graduation gift (she graduates tomorrow). Just watching her play right now. Seems pretty cool so far.

KCPenguins wrote:


So obviously not for everyone, but came across a simple duping glitch while searching for the best ways to get rupees in TotK. This will undoubtedly get patched out, but it takes maybe 15 seconds to duplicate anything that can be attached to an arrow, including diamonds. Do not click If you don't want the temptation.

Amiibo time! I still dont have the paraglider! Hope I didnt fall off the islands to quickly LOL. I was in the Balloon and she said dont worry about her she can handle it just for me to paraglide down. I was stuck so I broke the balloon apart her eyes after the fall

Plus I found a tower and climbed it I see for no reason. I really need to pay more attention when people speak to me.

I'm enjoying the game so far. Started this week. Played for around 2 hours. I like those

Took me a while to figure out how to use them. After trying various combinations of

, with no success, I finally found a way to use them effectively. And I like how you can steer them. Very cool.

Its 1AM but I got that glider, LOL. I rode all around there, sometimes running for my life. I blame that I was playing in handheld and couldn't quite see everything. Last playtime was on the TV. I didnt play BOTW Handheld much but if it was like TOTK then the camera is set up well for it. Wish it would zoom out some on TV.

nonamesleft wrote:

Yeah, that was from Windwaker. I also have a Mario, Samus, and Starfox bobblehead from that era too.

I got it ages ago when I had a buddy that was a manager at GameStop. I don't remember how/why they got them, but he gave me one for helping him with some eBay stuff back in the day.

-edit: ooofff, man, didn't realize till looking at the pic, poor dude has taken some abuse and dust over the years!

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10 million sold in first 3 days:

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1658819...

MrBean wrote:

Buddy The Elf in your Zelda collection?

KCPenguins wrote:

My son found this glitch online last night and was so excited about it. I'm probably going to dupe some diamonds before it gets patched. This game is incredibly stingy with money, it's ridiculous. I won't be able to afford those climate clothes until I'm so far through the game that it really doesn't help me anymore anyway.

There are mini-games to play where you can make money. There is one by Rito Village where you have to catch thrown boulders and place them on a platform. You get 100 rupees every time you get X number of points. I gained a few hundred rupees. Admittedly, it is not easy and takes a bit of time to really make money. In BOTW, my main source of income was selling meat sticks (cook 5 gourmet meats and get something like 400-500 rupees, although again that takes time and arrows to collect the meat. I basically kill every animal I come across, especially the bigger animals. My other biggest source of income was selling gems and luminous stones. They are worth 20 each and very easy to find in the depths. I don't know if they are worth saving for any reason...obviously we should not be selling gems anymore.

On one hand, the resources are WAY more plentiful than they were in BOTW. On the other hand, they are much more practical and usable, so it's not as easy to sell them off.

Scott wrote:


I duped 20 diamonds to buy the snow and lava armor sets, and the heat (voe) head band. Probably around 65% success rate once I figured it out.

@bonham2 Are you saying we should keep them to fuse to weapons or is there another use for gems that I'm missing? Either way, I haven't come across anything that requires one to use a gem just yet, so I still sell them off. I'm sure I'll need to fuse them or something eventually, but I've barely fused anything myself so far. I just use the weapons I find along the way or take off enemies. There are some nice ones to be found underground.

I don't know if it bothers anyone else but I sorta can't stand looking at Link with an obnoxiously big weapon on his back. I obviously use them if I have them and it doesn't ACTUALLY take anything away from the game, but I do kinda miss just having the classic "sword and shield" look as I play through a Zelda game.

theJaw wrote:

While I'm only a few hours in, this drove me nuts when fusing with a stone ... looks absolutely stupid.

MrBean wrote:
He's standing on a game cube. Sweet. :)

theJaw wrote:

I would like to know this as well.


Agreed. Some of the fusions look really cool, but a lot of them look completely ridiculous. What's worse though is when you have something fused to your shield. A giant rock stuck to Link's back looks so bad.

My daughter was shocked to find that she still has all of her old horses from her original Zelda BotW game!

KCPenguins wrote:

I've been playing around with it a bit. I haven't played a ton, so unfortunately, I don't have any diamonds yet, so I'm duping sapphires. Hopefully I can find a diamond to dupe before they patch this. I'd say I'm getting about a 65% success rate on it too.

theJaw wrote:

As far as I know, it's just for fusing. The sapphires and rubies are the best fuses. They'll make anything an elemental weapon. I think diamonds make things really strong, but I haven't found any diamonds yet.

Scott wrote:


I had 2 diamonds before duping, but I only remember getting 1. I rapid fire pick up all gems. I took down a talus fortress, might be where I got it.

How do I rotate things so that they stand straight up? After clicking R, rotation only goes in 4 directions, not a 360. So unless I pick something up perfectly, it's slanted. My raft wouldn't raft very well, barely moved. I had to make a new one. (My first raft was great, but after I placed it in the water it sailed off too quickly for me to jump on. I watched it float away 😅😭)

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nonamesleft wrote:

You just need to get used to using a combination of movement holding R, and not holding R.

It took me a little bit to get used to as well. It didn't really click with me until a couple of hours outside of that initial Sky Island.

@nonamesleft if you were to detach that sail from the log by toggling the right stick while grabbing it with Ultrahand, you’d then hold R, and press left twice then down, and it’d be upright. Then you’d stop holding R and get it to the center of the raft.

It’s hard to explain in words, you just have to sorta feel it out. Takes a bit of getting used to.

Rotate the part using the d-pad so an up or down rotation gets you where you need to be. As someone who uses CAD (computer aided modeling) it's second nature. Good on Nintendo for introducing this to gamers. The ultra hand is a very basic modeling program. Microsoft has 3d builder for free which is a more advanced version of this (yet still very basic).

citizen_zane wrote:

Same. I used an Amiibo to summon Epona, and when I brought it to the stable, the stablemaster said something like "Oh, I see you've stabled with me before." And I was like dog WE JUST MET

Renaissance2K wrote:


I haven't used an Amiibo, and I have Epona stabled by default. Maybe that's what they're referring to?

KCPenguins wrote:
Simpler said than done. Because if I picked up an item that is already in a slanted position, I couldn't seem to get it out of being slanted. But between what you said and what @theJaw said I figured it out. I rotated something so that the slanted part is directly facing link, then rotated it forward. That uprighted it.

Thanks.

Link hums snippets of tunes from the series as food is cooking :)

I listened several times to be sure. Definitely heard a piece from Lost Woods and a piece of from I think Ocarina of Time.

I'm enjoying the game so far. This is really tricky. I have other things to do. Can't just be spending 2 hours now playing this. Well, I could. But I shouldn't. But I probably will... 😅

I duped 100 diamonds. Should be good on money for a while.