Topic: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

@Lazz Ohhhh, I see now. A sage can only be upgraded once. Well that simplifies things for me. Thanks @Lazz!

@jedgamesguy I hear you, I am one of those that loved the freedom . Also - I felt that the higher enemy difficulty enhanced the exploration, and I had more fun using the environment and abilities planning my attacks. Exploration was easier, but the vehicles did allow me to reach more places that I otherwise would have likely skipped. I prefer the TOTK world/abilities - but I understand why others will prefer BOTW.
@WoomyNNYes Happy to help

GDC has now released the TOTK presentation by Nintendo

https://gdcvault.com/play/1034667/Tunes-of-the-Kingdom-Evolving

Dropping this here for people that want to look into the nitty gritty of the game’s mechanics and programming. I wrote a comment a few weeks ago saying that I wanted to see it and now I have, it’s brilliant. Do give it a watch.

@jedgamesguy Thanks for the link! Was looking forward to catching the full stream.

@jedgamesguy Ah, man, I wish that GDC TOTK developers video was on youtube so I could watch it on a tv. Thanks for sharing the link!

@Ulysses @WoomyNNYes you’re very welcome, I hope this can start a new wave of appreciation for the absolute technical genius that went into making this game. I have my opinions about the game’s story and the sameness of she open world but the innovations in sound and physics cannot be ignored.

@Lazz way I see it with the world’s unique levelling system with regard to enemy colour, the game will always get laughably easy at a certain point, no matter how dynamic and entirely player driven the mechanic is. Fuse changes the game though, I went back to BOTW and appreciated how simple the mechanics were by comparison, picking up a sword and using it rather than using Fuse to make a weapon on the fly. It’s why the experiences in each game is fundamentally different.

@jedgamesguy I agree completely. The fuse system makes it an entirely different experience. I really enjoyed it, and it led to more creativity on my end. However, I do wish that there was an option to create an unbreakable weapon. It would change the game, maybe make it too easy, but including an option (maybe after all shrines were completed) to make the master sword stay whole, even if the fuses can break, was something that I was hoping for. Yes, the master sword regenerates, but it's not the same. To your point, the games are very different.

Honestly some of the better segments of this game for me are the ones that seemingly over-rely on breakable rocks blocking your way. The most basic exploration of an underground area that just keeps going is really cool, and the handful of times they do that and it feels like you really end up traveling a distance are awesome.

I am here to ask for help, but PLEASE don't spoil me on this game.
Are there any early-game Rupee dupe glitches??

@CaleBoi25 I don’t know about rupees, but as far as I know there’s glitches to duplicate items that can be done at any point in the game. Ideally you’d clone valuable ones and sell them.

@CaleBoi25 You can't duplicate rupees. If you get expensive items, like gems, you can duplicate them and sell them. A diamond is the most expensive. You can get 500 rupees for a diamond. But if you get a ruby, or sapphire, topaz you can duplicate them and sell them - they can get like 100, 150, 250 rupees.

It was easier to duplicate items in the early version of the game, which is why I disabled automatic updates on my switch, so I can keep my 1.1.1 version of TOTK. You can still dupe in current versions, but it's a more complicated process.(too complicated?)

I think the easiest way to make money in TOTK without duplication is to cook meat skewers and sell them. Cook 4-5 raw prime meat, or gourmet meat, and when you sell them you can get up to 250 rupees. Gourment meat will fetch the most money - you can regularly get them if you kill deer and rinos near the horse stable in that northern winter region. There are other areas in the game that can yield the higher quality meat, but I don't know them off hand. If you get lower quality meat from deer, you can still make decent money. I think cooking 4-5 bird leg meat can also still fetch like 50+ rupees.

Are you asking about making rupees in TOTK because the stealth suit armor in kakariko village is crazy expensive? In the beginning of TOTK, one piece of the stealth suit is like an insane 5000 rupees. You can get the price reduced to something normal if you can cook a certain meal and give it to someone in kakariko village.

Austin John Plays covers it. While I don't think the video has spoilers, I'll just paste the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF2FxQ-qKsg

@WoomyNNYes I did complete the quest to lower the price, but I still didn;t have enough for that AND the Snowquill set, hence why I wanted to dupe my $$$

@CaleBoi25 hey buddy i have a video u could use!

hopefully this is helpful, cheers

@CaleBoi25 Instead of spending time and effort getting glitches to work, you can always do a quick google on lucrative mining runs. There's a great mining run starting at the Kisinona Shrine while making your way Northwest.

Dang it. What is the deal with quest, Riju of Gerudo Town? I've used like 100 arrows shooting gibdos, they never stop comming, and there doesn't appear to be any progress. What the hell? I talk to the characters in the quest and they've got nothing helpful to say. This is ridiculous that I have to go look up the quest on youtube. This is my second time playing this quest.I ended up in the same situation last time. Am I missing some obvious instruction in this mission? I shouldn't have to look this up on youtube

@WoomyNNYes try going for the source of the problem

@WoomyNNYes You'll just need to use arrows with Riju's lightning to take out the Gibdo, and then hit the center of the hive with a final blow when prompted. If you run out of arrows, one of the nearby Gerudo warriors will provide you with some more.

Welp I was trying to be more cryptic, but I might as well add that you can also use the cannon to destroy one of the hives (depends on where you place it)

@Eel @ThatZeldaNerd Yeah, I took the riju's directions a bit literally, to "protect" riju and her people. Thankfully the game let me load a previous save to start over. The fight finished pretty quickly after I figured out what was needed - I think I used maybe 20 arrows total. XD

EDIT: So, I completed the Gerudo temple. It was pretty cool. That was the last of the four regional phenomena. I look forward to what comes next. The game told me to go to lookout landing next, I'm guessing to talk to Pura.