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I freed my first guardian, Ruta, last night. I forgot the boss battle there is genuinely tricky. It takes a few goes to nail the timing of attacks and they pack a punch when you only have 5 hearts. I must have died 5 or 6 times, even with the use of heart-extending meals. It was good fun though. I went for that Lynel, too. That was trickier, mostly because it could wipe me out in a single hit, but I have the timing down for that. I just can't remember the windows for mounting the thing. I also failed miserably at using the fire attacks to launch myself into the air with the glider, but they're genuinely great battles. Does anybody know if the master mode bonus chests refill eith each blood moon? I mean the ones you sometimes get on floating platforms. It's not like I am running out of weapons to use, but I burned through 3 of them on a single Lynel, and that was the weakest of its kind. |
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DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI found myself on Eventide Island the other evening. Japes ensued when attempting to down a Hinox with a rusty sword and a spear… -
dingdon 4 posts
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Registered 8 months agoUsing magnesis and a metal rock does loads of damage to a hinox, there's a few of them on eventide. Just scrape it against him for a bit. -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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Registered 11 years agoYeah if you get it right you can magnesis him to death pretty quick. It's just the pesky add-ons that occasionally fuck you up. -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoHmm… I ran up the hill and found the rocks I could have pushed down on it: a little too late when it had followed me up. -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI'm sure there's a metal panel around there too or maybe I'm mixing it up with somewhere else -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThat's the next hill up, IIRC. I tried to hide under a barrel but the moblins saw through my disguise and I was quickly overwhelmed. -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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Registered 5 years agoSpeaking of magnesis and metal rocks... I was trying to shift a boulder into one of those giant holes. You know, the golf-like Korok seed puzzles. Most of them are simple rock boulders plants on hill tops that you need to roll down in the right way in order to get them in the hole. This one, however, was on flat land and there was a river in the way. I had 3 attempts at using statis and a hammer to finally get the boulder over the river and into the hole before realising the boulder was metal and I could carry it over.
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Nemesis 20,312 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThought it was time I went back to this and I can’t remember half of it.
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dingdon 4 posts
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Registered 8 months agoOn a similar theme there's a rock at the bottom of a hollow log in Deya Lake. The hollow log goes up towards a large tree stump on the hill and it looks like some kind of Korok puzzle, but it's not. I've stasis hit the rock all the way up the log, even managing to land it in the stump once and nothing. It's like there was a plan for a puzzle there but they abandoned it. -
Salaman 24,162 posts
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Registered 17 years agoKay wrote:
Same. I googled it when it was mentioned earlier on this page. Sounds dead handy! I just never realized.
askew wrote:
That was actually the only one I kept on, as it often made scaling cliffs a breeze (pun intended). I thought the others removed too much of the challenge.
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DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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Registered 5 years agoOh man. They randomised the timing of the Guardian's beams in Master Mode! Nintendo, you cheeky beggars.
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Is that for every single guardian? Jeez, that's tough. They're hard enough as it is.
In fact, you know when you hear iconic noises in games? Like, if I ever hear the sergeants growl from doom, it's instantly recognisable. It's the same for that noise when I guardian spots you. Terrifying!
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DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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Registered 5 years agoYeah, it affects standing and grounded Guardians at least. The lock-on timing seems to be consistent. The red line of sight appears and the charge up remains the same, but the actual firing of the shot (when the eye turns white before the beam of light fires out), that bit is random. In one instance a guardians eye had gone white for a full second before firing its shot, so I had time to parry 3 or 4 times in a panic.
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Mmm, that's tricky. My only fairly successful tactic is using the master sword and utilising the environment, but it's not always easy.
I'm really going to have to get back on this.
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ghearoid 3,758 posts
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Registered 19 years agoHere's how I handle guardians in master mode. Stasis the fucker, smack it around with an ancient weapon or the master sword, freeze with ice arrow, wait for stasis to recharge, then repeat. Works a treat. -
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That sounds effective - with the ice arrow and stasis combined, it effectively can't get a look in then? Constantly stasis'd or frozen? -
ghearoid 3,758 posts
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Yes, I wait until stasis ends before shooting the ice arrow. Don't touch them once frozen as that unfreezes them, stasis should then recharge by the time they unfreeze. They barely touch me. Very handy with those major shrine tests. -
ukaskew37 334 posts
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Registered 2 years agoStasis + chop the legs off. You get additional Guardian bits for each leg that drop separately from the final parts drop upon its death.
Once 3 legs are off you're pretty safe. Once the final leg has been chopped off it usually flips over and is completely unable to defend itself. -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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Registered 11 years agoghearoid wrote:
Ooo yeah, that's handy, definitely.
@quadfather
Yes, I wait until stasis ends before shooting the ice arrow. Don't touch them once frozen as that unfreezes them, stasis should then recharge by the time they unfreeze. They barely touch me. Very handy with those major shrine tests.
I've managed to get the major shrines down now, but it's still a hell of a slog, and I can't do it until I have about a zillion yellow hearts backing me up! -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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Registered 11 years agoukaskew37 wrote:
Yeah, that's my tactics for the fully functioning ones too
Stasis + chop the legs off. You get additional Guardian bits for each leg that drop separately from the final parts drop upon its death.
Once 3 legs are off you're pretty safe. Once the final leg has been chopped off it usually flips over and is completely unable to defend itself. -
DangerousDave_87 7,074 posts
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Registered 5 years agoquadfather wrote:does it still only let you have 1 save?
You get one save for the regular mode and 2 save slots for Master Mode, I believe. It does tell you when you first start Master Mode, but I have only needed the one save. -
ukaskew37 334 posts
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Registered 2 years agoquadfather wrote:
I struggled through it, watched YT videos for more than a few shrines, then taught my 6 year old how to play it during lockdown...and last weekend he completed the game on Master Mode with zero help.
Ooo yeah, that's handy, definitely.
I've managed to get the major shrines down now, but it's still a hell of a slog, and I can't do it until I have about a zillion yellow hearts backing me up!
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Kay 21,321 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBtw, you all know about the sneak attack kill trick right? It's extremely handy for some of the bigger enemies in master mode. Sneak behind an enemy, perform the context sensitive sneak attack, and when they turn to face you, circle behind them and do the sneak attack again, and so on. -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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Registered 11 years agoDangerousDave_87 wrote:
Ah dammit, I wish it was the other way round! I'm crap at harder difficulty settings.
quadfather wrote:does it still only let you have 1 save?
You get one save for the regular mode and 2 save slots for Master Mode, I believe. It does tell you when you first start Master Mode, but I have only needed the one save.
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quadfather 39,069 posts
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Registered 11 years agoukaskew37 wrote:
Haha, heard so many similar stories.
quadfather wrote:
I struggled through it, watched YT videos for more than a few shrines, then taught my 6 year old how to play it during lockdown...and last weekend he completed the game on Master Mode with zero help.
Ooo yeah, that's handy, definitely.
I've managed to get the major shrines down now, but it's still a hell of a slog, and I can't do it until I have about a zillion yellow hearts backing me up!
As a guy who has played games for 32 years I suddenly feel very inadequate!
Tch, it's easy though nowadays. Lets see em compete with 3 lives!
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Kay wrote:
Shit man, didn't know this. Still learning!
Btw, you all know about the sneak attack kill trick right? It's extremely handy for some of the bigger enemies in master mode. Sneak behind an enemy, perform the context sensitive sneak attack, and when they turn to face you, circle behind them and do the sneak attack again, and so on.
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