OK, I really don't know how to feel about this game.
I really like the exploration and the world design and some of the mechanics, but everything related to combat is ass.
I'm like 14 hours in, and I still can't fight anything other than boboklins or lizalfos, every large enemy kills me in 1 hit with full HP and medium sized enemies like guardian sentinels make me lose my entire arsenal in the battle.
Does this ever changes? or is the game always a struggle in this sense?
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It's not really about combat, just like every single Zelda game, save TP. I understand if it's not your thing. I do agree it is one of the weaker ones when it comes to combat.
Hopefully that is rectified in the upcoming sequel, that is most definitely coming.
the combat is indeed ass but not because it's hard or challenging, just get more hearts so you don't get one shot if that's your problem
I actually appreciate the bare minimum approach, it just went a little too far.
OoT/MM had simplistic combat mechanics but the game design complimented it.
armor greatly helps you take biggers hits
guardians aren't supposed to be dealt with by smacking them with traditional weapons, they have multiple weaknesses
enemies spawn as stronger tiers as you progress through the dungeons, but they also generally spawn with stronger tier weapons where you'll be able to beat things up using less hits with a more durable weapon
>guardian sentinels make me lose my entire arsenal in the battle
>doesn't know how to fight guardians
all you need is a shield to deflect their lasers back at them
shit's easy
I think that's my biggest issue with this game. There is no in between. It's either really difficult or piss easy; either through experience or gear.
Playing through again on master mode and I just 5 shot the wind ganon on the bird divine beast.
Why?
Learn to parry and learn to sneak. You can get strong weapons early on and even right outside of the plateau.
Skeletons are your friends
It all depends if you're smart or not. There is a learning curve but it changes greatly from person to person.
The inbetween is there!
Thanks for the compliment I guess. Maybe it is just me but it's still much more jarring then other Zelda titles, at least in my opinion.
how do i do this? manually parrying or just covering with the shield?
Anyone else think the dodge slow-mo mechanic is a little messed up? For some reason I don't get the slow-mo when I clearly dodge with right timing, but other times I get it for jumping just after an attack or for jumping with proper timing but out of the enemy's range.
>Does this ever changes?
Will your grammar improve?
It really is all up to you.
After 200 hours, no enemy really challenges me any more.
you shouldn't be even fooling around with Guardians if you're still that green.
guardian sentinels, not guardians
>spent the last hour trying to farm Ancient Cores
>none have dropped yet but two Giant Ancient Cores have
>yfw no mipha Waifu to watch the sunset and cuddle with
Actually, you can't get one shot from full health, it will always leave you with one quarter a heart. So as long as you keep your health full you'll never lose unless you get hit hard twice really fast
Good
>dude its easy man
>just parry the fucking laser
how is anyone suppose to figure this out, unless you watched a video? Cause its cryptic as shit.
Guardians all alike. I don't even think of the decayed ones these days.
Don't mess with them.
Yamate!
I fucking hope the final dlc justifies the 20$ "expansion" pass everything so far has been miserable.
Tap A while blocking. If you let the guardian run up to you it stands at a distance so that you can deflect just after you hear his "laser fired" sound effect.
That's because of the huge gap between not knowing anything and knowing it all. There wasn't such a big gap in other Zelda games.
this is factually false and im seriously wondering who told you this, I assume you never played the game.
Bitch, I just got one shot'd by a lynel, on the last hit of his combo.
Care to explain that?
Or when I got stomped by a giant and died at once?
or when a shrine guardian killed me in 1 hit from his ++ spear?
or the boboklin who killed me in 1 hit with his spiked club?
maybe try playing the game before talking shit
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It teaches you how to parry. Surely after getting shot 40 times you thought maybe you could parry it?
Also, it's easy as fuck to parry. Listen to the sound. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEEP *silence* FIRE.
Parry in the moment of silence.
Lynels are hard. I stealth them. Every other enemy you listed braodcasts their attacks so loudly and obviously I think you're just a lout.
Abuse the flurry rush on lynels since they telegraph their swings from a mile away and the charge attack is ez to dodge.
You could tried blocking it, then when you see it deflect off your shield, realized maybe you could parry it right into him?
Don't be such a scared bitch and just try to fight it pal.
armor breaks the game
>tfw lynels do a single heart of damage
>needing armor
>hear how good this game is for the last 3 million months
>give it a try
>it's nothing but running around fighting the occasional goblin looking monster and finding easy AF shrines
>weapons break every time you beat two to three enemies so you have to constantly change weapons and shields
i mean, this game is empty as fuck, there's a shrine every 3km and a monster camp every km and nothing in between, who finds this fun???
And the shrines... oh man, you just know this game was made for 5 year old kids just by playing through the shrines...
Do Ice lynels count for the monster medal quest?
What part of ALL LYNELS did you not understand?
I think you misunderstood my post, I don't have a problem fighting lynels, they're the easiest enemy to flurry rush. I was just calling bs on the guy who said that you cant die with full health because lynels can totally 1 shot you.
My shields break in 1 hit from their laser.
Knight shield takes 5 or 6 hits before breaking.
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I thought it may have been that I only needed to kill the Plain rock ones. That Ice Lynel is the only one I have found yet that was different
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Zelda fans have defended the ocarina formula for 10 fucking years
So why now that they changed it, it's suddenly okay?
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>a static environment
and this proves what exactly?
Look at this fuckin horse tho.
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I got sick of my weapons breaking and quit playing.
>I'm like 14 hours in, and I still can't fight anything other than boboklins or lizalfos, every large enemy kills me in 1 hit with full HP and medium sized enemies like guardian sentinels make me lose my entire arsenal in the battle.
>Does this ever changes? or is the game always a struggle in this sense?
There's a few things you need to consider OP. BotW is designed to buck the trends of previous Zelda games - to take them out of their comfort-zone. So for much of the early the game, the player is on thr backfoot. Walking into fights and mashing buttons won't work. You will get your shit kicked in.
The more shrines you do, the the stronger you become. You more you explore the more koroks you find, so the more you can expand your inventory and carry more weapons. The more items you find, the more you can upgrade your armour. As you defeat each divine beast, the weapons available in the world change you will find more powerful stuff.
It's about player-empowerment through progression. Even stuff like climbing in the rain becomes a non-issue after a while.
You shot lasers back in older Zelda games. Figured you'd be able to do it again here.
Tried the moves available. And it worked.
Of course I tried this on the tiny little fuckers so I could actually afford making mistakes.
Then having determined that it does indeed work on the little buggers. I figured it had to work on the bigger ones too. It did.
Can someone post the webm of the guy icing the spider after luring it into a river?
>mount
Is that to mount the horse, or for the horse to mount link?
I have that webm. But not on me. Sorry.
>Climbing in the rain becomes a non issue.
Do I need to upgrade my climbing gear or something? I suck in the rain.
Depends how long you hold A.
I'll let you find out which does what.
There are no Ice Lynels. It's either regular, blue, white, silver or gold.
Their weapons change depending on the area and they will gain ranks as you progress further into the game. There are two Lynels that will not change, I believe, and they are in fixed locations.
You can upgrade your climbing gear yeah, if you have found all 3 pieces you will get a boost when worn.
But the best thing is to learn the special ability Rivali's Gale, which lets you super-jump. It makes climbing any mountain a cinch and you will barely need to worry about the rain anymore.
Just run away from Guardians for a while. I honestly miss when I still had to do that. Riding my horse through a barrage of lasers to get to the tower close to Hyrule Castle was an amazing moment in the game for me. The Master Sword straight up erases them.
You can't be 1-shot if you have shield hearts. If you're at full health but no shield hearts you can still be 1-shot. Even 1/4th of a shield heart and any attack will always leave you with 1/4 a heart.
lmao just pick up another one nigga they're like everywhere
Did you seriously feel the need to spoiler master sword in a damn zelda game?
Yeah, I remember how much I used to freeze in my tracks when I saw one on the distance and how much I would panic-shit my pants when one spotted me.
After a certain point in the game, when you're powerful, they become totally non-threatening. I was literally running at them and slapping them all the fuck around like they were nothing.
>he didn't find the master sword in Majora's Mask
My impression of you is that you're a morbidly obese loser with no friends or prospects in life.
Use ice and electric arrows in fights. Also find ways to get in the air (fire updrafts or jumping off a horse) for the slow motion bow to kick in.
For guardians just shoot them in the eye with high damage bows or find guardian weapons if you aren't confident enough with parrying. Even then you should practice parrying since it's insanely efficient.
You can always cook attack buff shit if you're running out of weapons and armor buffs or extra hearts if you are getting killed really easily as well.
Yeah same here. First thing I did off the plateau was weaving through the guardians out the front of the castle, trying so hard to avoid their line of sight. Shit was intense. It was such an awesome feeling for me when I was able to just toy with them after that.
I've put about 70 hours into the game but haven't played it in a few months. I'll finish it eventually but the whole "weapons break every 5 minutes" and the insane difficulty on certain things doesn't really make me want to come back that much.
It's funny how we all had the same experience at the start, but when it comes down to it it's all about knowing the enemy.
My first encounter with a complete guardian was in the northeast labyrinth. I think you can guess how I felt when I got there expecting nothing but a regular puzzle and then there was the room below.
>Not just running from guardians.
Seriously I've never fought a single guardian. Serpentine!
Now I have to start fighting them to get gears cause I sold them all early game thinking they were useless.
And man, when they got all their legs all I can do is ride my horse and slash their legs until they're stationary, then slash em to bits.
Shoot em in the eye if they get too rowdy with that laser.
>Ganon's horse escaped the forest temple painting and made a lineage that lasted 10k+ years
The one loose thread BotW tied up.
not him but I came to the same conclusion from my first playthrouh being a 3 heart playthrough
The only guys that could 1 shot me other than a guardian(due to fire) was the big ninja guys
I could combine any two foods it would heal me to full health and it felt like I never got 1 shot if I had full health
maybe all my food gave me a shield heart
>Avoid the guardians from the labyrinth
Sure, you can do that. But then you won't get prizes
I never had an issue with anything being too hard, I just figured that if the enemies were too tough somewhere I probably shouldn't be there. Guardians are obviously meant to be threats you avoid until late game, there's a reason you mostly meet sentries only outside of hyrule field because they're easy to avoid.
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