Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Update Now Live (Version 1.2.0), Here Are The Full Patch Notes

The only thing that really matters is if they messed with the duplication glitches again?

The game is way too darn grindy without them, so I hope those remain possible.
Not that it matters for me, I'm gonna stick with 1.1.2 for as long as possible ^_^

Hmmm, is that a first for a game? Bottling in from a news article for items? I remember Splatoon 3 used qr codes, maybe due to the same engine they will improve the system over there.

My game is still on 1.1.1 😌

@Bluelink45 Nah they did a lot for Breath of the Wild. The director would “talk about” cooking recipes and then say “here, make it yourself with these ingredients!”

Hmm, I wonder if I had the glitch preventing me from proceeding on Ring Ruins, or if there's just something else I need to do first before it will trigger to let me continue.

Don't tell me the answer, I'll find out soon enough when I update.

I just tested, this does NOT allow players without the paraglider to access the thing in Dragonhead Island.

@Dreamcaster-X
Wow dude you're so cool

As always, there’s contention about whether or not exploits have been patched. I don’t take advantage of exploits, but when it comes to single player games I also don’t care if others do. It doesn’t affect my experience, so update or don’t…

It’s really none of my business. 🐸🍵

@Bluelink45 They did it in Splatoon 2 as well

@Bluelink45 No, they did it BOTW too

When people say it's grindy I don't know what it is that they're grinding. I haven't had any trouble getting necessary materials.

I don't know why anyone would want to use a duplication glitch. BotW and TotK are both light survival games. A survival game makes absolutely no sense if you can cheat- duplicate materials.

I'm glad I already got enough of the hardest-to-get materials, but it would be nice to know if the last known duplication trick still works, since you need hundreds of certain slightly common items (amber, luminous stones and opal) to fully upgrade all armors.

@Dreamcaster-X
"guess it’s a baby mode for some"

You were doing ok till you resorted to childish insults. Grow up.

I was considering using a duplication glitch to finish off my armor upgrades, but hadn't yet (still working on other things). I was always more interested in exploration and puzzle solving than combat, so I need more monster parts. Also star fragments.

Guess I'll wait and see whether the previous one works or keep working on it until the next one is found.

@Purgatorium it can be grindy, especially for Lynel guts and dragon parts to upgrade gear. And at the start, rupees are hard to come by to buy the specialised sets of armour. I used the duplication glitch to get 31 diamonds just for the rupees, then realised I wasn’t playing the game as it was intended so updated the patch that fixed that particular glitch.

I don't see Kass's existence among those fixes. Where is Kass, damn it!?

And here in the comments it’s again all about weird duplication glitches, of which 95% of all players never have heard of and 99% never have tried. My main question is: Did the patch improve frame rates or resolutions?

I ran into a bug during the quest A Trip through History in Kakariko Village. If you go around and read all the Stone Slabs and then talk to Bugut to start the quest. The game will let you tell Bugut what they say all at once. If you do this then Bugut won't actually give you the quest and you can't ever complete it because you already told him what they said. So he will have the quest icon forever. I has to reload an earlier save to fix it. So I would talk to him before reading the Stone Slabs or if you read them before talking to him. Make you stop talking to him before telling him what they say so that you a given the quest.

what are those gameplay experience changes?! hope they made yunobo not apply weight to vehicles, wings not expire so fast, and fixed how you trigger sage abilities.

@BoyfriendOfDeath I forgot all about Kass! You’re right, where is he!?

But can you now craft a shrubbery?

My link is seemingly constantly wet and dripping when he’s talking to people, even when indoors.

Looks daft, hope that’s fixed.

@Dreamcaster-X @Purgatorium

lol this. People here make it out like game is impossible to play without unintended exploits which is laughably false.

@Arawn93 who's making it out like it's impossible? I see people saying they'd rather not grind, which I think is valid. But no one is saying that the game is unplayable without the glitch

Some people want to play by the rules, some want to break the game.
Let people play how they want, it shouldn’t bother you how people decide to play.

@Arawn93

Not impossible, just a chore once you get to the point of upgrading a lot of stuff to max and go deep into the whole building thing, which is a game in itself.
That's when lack of materials starts to rear its ugly head. And I'm a OCD item hoarder in games, so yeah...

I didn't use the glitch for most of my playthrough, but it did alleviate the grinding aspect of a game that imo, really suffers from being way too big for its own good.

Also, it's kinda pointless to argue about whether or not the glitch and the people that are using it is good or bad in a game that literally has the design philosopy of "play the game however the hell you want".

@Purgatorium I can maybe understand it if you’re going for 100% completion with all upgrades. Just playing through shouldn’t require any grind.

Hopefully the duplication glitches still exist with this update because this game is the grindiest I’ve played in the past years if you want to upgrade equipment. That’s why it’s only an 8/10 in my book. Modern singleplayer games shouldn’t have equipment locked behind that level of grind. Bleh.

I also don't understand why Nintendo fixed the glitches in the first place... In gaming history, Devs implemented Cheat codes which no one ever would guess like up, down, down, a, b, x, up whatever and published them in magazines so people could use it.
If I would be a director of a game, I would insist on implementing cheats or glitches in an offline single player game.

There should be a setting for these “glitches”.

Not everyone is good at combat games, or is interested in it. I prefer the puzzling and exploration more. I love being able to finish a king gleeok with only several multi-shots from above.

Nintendo may want to implement difficulty settings from the get go to broaden the appeal of the game and series.

I’d argue that good glitches keep a game going well past its lifespan. Look at BOTW and Inventory slot transfer. It’s so fun to break the game and it creates a community.

If it is like BotW and the redeemable items will mainly be ingredients, chances are I won't bother redeeming them unless the ingredients are those that increase max stamina/HP (Enduring/Hearty).

That and my cookbook is near 100% complete already (save for Rock-Hard/Dubious Food and a few other seared/frozen ingredients.

If the duplication glitch was still in the game I would have barely explored as much as I did now. If it's too grindy then play something else.

Beat the game and never had to grind a single thing. The comments here are laughable. If anything the game is designed so well that you aren't forced into doing something a specific way.

@NinjaSyao I'm about 75 hours in and haven't felt the grind at all yet and picking up new items at a steady cadence. Maybe I'll feel it if I ever try to 100% it but for now I'd prefer to take the updates and have the most stable experience.

@ZealMajin I also don't agree with every comment, however to everyone their own. No need to calls others opinions laughable. Each should enjoy the game in their way. Especially since BotW we know there is no right or wrong for this Zelda generation.

I see that gatekeeping is still alive and well. Not everyone plays the same and if someone wants to break the game and play glitched on a single player game then leave them be. It affects you in absolutely no way. If you enjoy playing clean then have at it. You're no better than anyone else. Serioudly, people need to get over this nonsense already.

Why are people crying over how someone plays a game? Personally, I don't have hours to sit and play games so anything that makes it quicker/easier, I'm all for it. I don't get why some kids are insulting others just because they want something in game that doesn't affect anyone else's game. I'd understand if it was multiplayer but a single player game is much better with glitches/exploits/cheats.

I've already finished Zelda with no duping glitches used, but I do like the ability to mess around with games once I've finished with them.
I don't really care what Nintendo patches though - once development of the game finishes entirely, that's when I'll pay attention to all the silly bugs and glitches that are still leftover in the game.
I mean, just have a look at the craziness that's still possible in Breath of the Wild's final patch!

@mazzel They are laughable though. Every update the game gets is filled with comments from the same group of users bad mouthing the game because their hacks have been taken away.

Download it today

Not gonna happen no not gonna happen

@luckyseven,

You Maverick... you.

I don't know how people can say the game isn't grindy. At this moment, I need, among other things, about a dozen Lynel Guts, about 20 Hinox Guts, 20 Smotherwing Butterflies, 24 Swift Violets, 21 Gibdo Bones, 15 Ice Keese Wings, a dozen or so Fire-Breath Lizalfos Tails, a dozen or so Gibdo Wings, 9 Bladed Stag Beetles (which I've never even seen) and that's just what I remember off the top of my head. None of those things are in quantities I'm likely to find naturally without grinding for them. Maybe the Gibdo Bones.

@ZealMajin - You realise that the article mentions the glitches being fixed in a previous update and so the comments are relevant. Nintendolife keeps fanning the flames

I never grinded and easily finished the game with maxed out gear. Having rupees matter made me have to make choices on how to approach problems, which makes the game much more interesting.

At the same time, the game might be too hard for some people, so nothing wrong with them exploiting since it is a single player game. Also nothing wrong with Nintendo fixing their game.

There is a difference between hard and tedious which is where my issues have been. I completed the game easily enough as like others I explored while playing through but it’s the post game I’m suffering.

It’s not a good solution when I have to leave the game open and watch Netflix while I wait for a 10 minute in game timer to complete. Can’t do anything else in the game as you have to stay where you are.

In BOTW I could spend an hour grinding the specific material I wanted and then on to the next thing I wanted to do.

Nintendo is doing this more now. I used to love Animal crossing. I’d put it on fish some sharks and have a good chill session. Now it’s all about okay do it for a bit but then you need to go and grind these materials to build a new rod. It makes the game last longer but not as much fun.

@Purgatorium

I was just about to post this myself, I have no idea what are they talking about. You find most needed resources through a normal exploration.

@Guybrush-Threepwood I think the people who complain are the ones who want to max out everything, which is not necessary to beat the game. but if you want to have 8 Batteries for example, I doubt that you can find enough Sonau Chrystal's by normal Exploration...

When I need about 80 Star fragments and about 40,000-50,000 rupees in total to fully upgrade all my armor … hell yes to the glitches… grindy Zelda is the worst. I did it after finishing the 4 “temples” and exploring most of the world though

Aww, man, I have to reboot the game again!?!?!
Why can't it just stay loaded indefinitely!!?!?!

@Purgatorium I glitched lizalfos tails to upgrade a few armours. I couldn't be bothered to hunt 300 lizalfos of each type with ridiculously low drop rate. I wouldn't have glitched if they had a normal drop rate.

@mazzel I got 16 batteries with normal exploration pretty quickly, it's quite easy

This is a real piece of work. I didn’t even know this game had bugs, it runs like a dream. It’s wild to me how much I’ve enjoyed this one, as breath of the wild didn’t hold my attention nearly as long, in fact I put it down for nearly a year before completing it. One thing I had hoped they would patch in was petting the little shepherd dogs at the stable.

TBH I would really ike a sandbox mode added to the game, allow you to create what you wish with from an infinite number of selectable parts.

My favorite fairy farming location stopped spawning them, I was down to one and several blood moon phases (and many, many game hours) had passed. I thought maybe I progressed to a point where the game eliminated them to make it more difficult. Hopefully this is the fix mentioned in the update!

@mazzel

That's true of course but in that case you should expect some grinding. I don't think you can 100% any bigger game without some grinding or busywork but I personally enjoy grinding in TotK and would like to have more of it actually.

@Rhaoulos absolutely. This was the worst thing to farm and also used it. I have better things to do than wasting hours farming for those.

@Bluelink45 No, I saw an article that gave you extra lives in Captain Toad.

I use the dupe glitch happily and with a good conscience.. I never updated my game and I have well over 200 hours in it.. so yeah, I’ll glide off a small rock 20 or 30 times, hold 5 items and double them so what.. didn’t mess up the fun at all for me and I honestly haven’t cheated like this in a game since Vice City

@Purgatorium

It's grindy if you want to max out your gear and actively hunt down certain enemies. Of course, this is a game where you really don't need to max anything out. But the grindy systems and collectibles are still embedded into the experience, so you can easily fall into the grind loop if you're not careful. I'm not a completionist at all but even so, due to how the game is designed, I'm compelled to do little minor acts of grinding (from Korok seeds I'm not interested in to Hudson signs I may not be in the mood for) just because they're right there so I might as well do them. Thankfully, the game has so many different loops and vibes that you can move in and out of — from surprisingly involved sidequests that can take hours (currently in the eye-quest under the Great Plateau) to exploring the Depths, doing shrines (all of which feel way more bespoke than the Breath ones), or just following the critical path (which is far more engaging this time around) — that you can always snap out of the grind loop if you're stuck in it. But the grind loop is definitely there, dragging you down like swamp water.

@RubyCarbuncle I'm curious what you and the other commenter mean by "grindy". Do you mean takes too long to complete? Do you mean it takes a lot of time to get certain items?

@RubyCarbuncle FFXVI only causes the PS5 to overheat in Graphics mode. If you play in Performance mode your PS5 will be just fine.

It might be a while (if ever) before SE patches this.

@Picola-Wicola I haven't had any trouble getting enough rupees. You can duplicate diamonds and sell them, I guess, or you can sell the hundreds of other mundane stuff you pick up. I bought my first armor set selling the hundreds of lightbloom seeds I picked up. They aren't worth much but they're everywhere and you pick up hundreds of them just walking around the Depths in the first few hours.

@SpoonySpoons Yeah, this is what I'm thinking. A lot of people think you need to get the best stuff and complete all the things and the way a game gets you to do that is core gameplay. It really isn't.

@Rhaoulos So far I have not found a need for 300 lizalfos tails. Upgrading armor I assume?

@Beaucine Absolutely you *can grind in TotK if you want the stuff and sure it definitely entices you to do it. But I personally have tons of armor, rupees and upgrades and all I've done is explore. I haven't actively hunted monsters for materials or gone out of my way to collect something.

But I will say that upgrading armor is fairly essential. I mean, you can play without it if you're good (I am not), but as you go some of those average monsters hit hard and tougher armor is a lifesaver. You can't completely dismiss grinding for better armor by saying you don't need better armor. That said, so far I haven't had to do that though.

@Purgatorium

Yeah, better armor helps. But the game includes a lot of other alternative systems — from your ghost buddies to hearts and status-effect meals and potions — to help you out. So you don't necessarily have to grind for high-level gear like in other games. Like you, I'm near the end of the game (completed the four or, um, "five" dungeons, and now just have to face Ganondorf) and haven't really felt the need to grind for anything. (I did do one round of armor upgrades, tho, but I already had all the necessary items.) Even rupees: if you naturally explore caves you'll get plenty of gems to sell.

It's just that grind loops and systems are there, definitely, and you can get sucked into them. I think that's where the complaints are coming from.

I always love patches that the game play like the developers intended. Obvious bug fixes are absolutely necessary for immersion.

@Clammy noticed that too, he's always dripping wet.

I Just wish they add the option to delete or make favourite a food recipe !! Maybe i am a minority but i spend some time for cooking and testing new recipies in game

@ZealMajin https://tenor.com/view/fan-average-yelling-british-argument-gif-20849454

If they fixed the dupe glitch, then they need to make quest items more available. When I take out 2 dozen Lizalfos, and not one of them drops a tail, something’s wrong.

What articles are we talking about here? I haven’t seen any on the news channel.

@Purgatorium yeah you just pick up items as you run past them. Eventually you have so much that you don't know what to do with them all.

@Zeroo
If you can get all the gear upgrades by duplicating, it's too easy to get overpowered too early.

Then people who do this suddenly claim the game is too easy. All I can say no ***** sherlock.

Am I the only one who likes scouring the world for the items necessary to upgrade my equipment? I love tracking something down, photographing it for the compendium and then using the sensor to locate more. The thrill of the hunt is a good time.

To add my two cents; this game is the first Zelda I have played that finally gave me a reason to grind for components, lol.

That was one of the first things I noticed, and applauded the game design for. typically in Zelda games, you're swimming in resources. bombs, arrows, rupees... my inventory is always at max. in this game, i am constantly bout of bomb flowers, arrows rupees, zonai charges, you name it! and it gives me a reason to go find some, which I think is rad personally. on top of the fact that it's not always preferable to sell your gemstones, as they are super valuable for fusions, I'm all about the tighter economy in this game.

But I do understand wanting to be able to exploit for zonai parts, for those of you who are building-fanatics! I have personally been more than okay with just having around 20-30 of each part at a time, and replenishing whenever I need to, but I'm not building actual functioning combustion engines so.... y'know.

@NinjaSyao and im still at 1.1 ;D

@RubyCarbuncle Yeah, I would have said as much but, as you say, it's obvious that I'm not.

Eventually, I probably will work on maxing out my armor but that would be *choosing to grind. I honestly cannot wrap my head around the complaint that the game is grindy because people are choosing to grind. Rarely have I seen completionists complain that completing everything is hard and takes time. Isn't that what completionism is? It feels like a speedrunner complaining they can't finish a game quickly.

@RubyCarbuncle For sure, enemies hit harder and upgrading armor is pretty close to necessary.

And I agree, it's very inconsistent. I beat a temple boss just last night and took 1 1/2 hearts of damage the whole fight. And that was only because I was taking a selfie with it. Earlier in the temple I got one-shotted by a construct with the wooden club. It makes no sense lol.