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[ReyVGM]

Sounds good. Guess I will fire it up this weekend and give it a spin.

You're going to find so many weapons that you are going to want them to break so you can pick fresh ones.

 

[TheCongressman1]

Shit, I never liked it in English and was relieved that they didn't appear to be present in the Japanese version at all. Oh well.

Uhg, same here. I'd love an option to toggle these off.

 

[SolidChamp]

It feels like they reduced the resolution/reduced the draw distance/downgraded the shadows.

Wat?

 

[Kolx]

The game would be stupidly easy if nothing broke.

You could literally just rush to Hyrule Castle, sneak around for 5 minutes, warp out and completely destroy the entire game with unbreakable late game weapons

At least make the weapons and shields repairable. The stronger the weapon the harder it's to fix it.

 

[wild wild rice]

Did they ever fix the weapon durabilty issues? I have yet to start this game.waiting to play it in its ultimate form.

No but they did fix the issue with the open world. It's more like a traditional Zelda now with dungeons and stuff.

 

[LotusHD]

Did they ever fix the weapon durabilty issues? I have yet to start this game.waiting to play it in its ultimate form.

Lol, uhh...

 

[SinCityAssassin]

At least make the weapons and shields repairable. The stronger the weapon the harder it's to fix it.

By the time you're at a level where you're finding all the stronger weapons, you can just find replacements from treasure chests that much easier.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Isn't this just the DLC patch?

 

[Kolx]

By the time you're at a level where you're finding all the stronger weapons, you can just find replacements from treasure chests that much easier.

What about the gear you get after beating every dungeon? I never found a replacement for these and they look cool *_*

 

[Charamiwa]

Isn't this just the DLC patch?

I don't have the DLC and it fixed the missing dialogues for me so I guess there's more.

 

[TheCongressman1]

What about the gear you get after beating every dungeon? I never found a replacement for these and they look cool *_*

Spoiler

There is a person in each village that will make you a new one if you lose it.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

They need to fix the 1-3 second pauses when killing some of the giant moblins

 

[TheMoon]

At least make the weapons and shields repairable. The stronger the weapon the harder it's to fix it.

I guess you don't know about Octoroks...

 

[Kolx]

Spoiler

There is a person in each village that will make you a new one if you lose it.

Fuck I never knew that. I need to make that

Spoiler

Daybreaker Shield

NOW.

 

[Cuningas de Häme]

You're going to find so many weapons that you are going to want them to break so you can pick fresh ones.

Yeah, this. I get neat stuff all the time and have to throw away perfectly good weapons. I can't find that fat dancing guy anywhere, the one who gives you slot upgrades. I got so many poo seeds already...

I love playing the game in Pro mode, it feels so nice. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do but that doesn't matter. I climb the highest peaks and take all the fruits and mushrooms I can find. Then I spend an hour cooking them all. So many recipes!

 

[SinCityAssassin]

Fuck I never knew that. I need to make that

Spoiler

Daybreaker Shield

NOW.

I mean they tell you.

 

[Bronetta]

All these people complaining about breaking weapons whereas I had the opposite problem: too many weapons. I was getting so many weapons that I always had to stop to throw away the weaker ones to make space.

 

[giancarlo123x]

Wow it's 60fps now

 

[ShadowFox08]

I mean they tell you.

Spoiler

only hero weapons though

 

[Stiler]

Regarding weapon breaking, imo the

Spoiler

Master sword

should definitely NOT break.

I mean come on....it should be like the end game reward getting that and then you have a weapon that you can depend on and not have to worry about breaking.

 

[DeceptiveAlarm]

Regarding weapon breaking, imo the

Spoiler

Master sword

should definitely NOT break.

I mean come on....it should be like the end game reward getting that and then you have a weapon that you can depend on and not have to worry about breaking.

It doesn't break....

 

[Mohasus]

I guess you don't know about Octoroks...

They don't repair weapons.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

is this patch for Wii U as well?

 

[ShadowFox08]

Regarding weapon breaking, imo the

Spoiler

Master sword

should definitely NOT break.

I mean come on....it should be like the end game reward getting that and then you have a weapon that you can depend on and not have to worry about breaking.

There wouldn't be much reason to use the breakable weapons you collect and would make things too easy and boring imo.. When you play the game long enough you'll have weapons with a lot of duration that will take a while to break also and kind of defeats the purpose of what much of the game is about.

The only weapons I wouldn't mind see being unbreakable are some of the bows because arrows are limited. Like a phenric bow that does like 20-30 damage would be nice.

 

[Chorazin]

Regarding weapon breaking, imo the

Spoiler

Master sword

should definitely NOT break.

I mean come on....it should be like the end game reward getting that and then you have a weapon that you can depend on and not have to worry about breaking.

And then every other weapon across the width and breadth of the game becomes worthless to the player, no matter how much time you spend playing after you obtain it.

 

[SinCityAssassin]

is this patch for Wii U as well?

Considering it's also a patch to allow the DLC pack, yes.

 

[Gotdatmoney]

Regarding weapon breaking, imo the

Spoiler

Master sword

should definitely NOT break.

I mean come on....it should be like the end game reward getting that and then you have a weapon that you can depend on and not have to worry about breaking.

It's pointless to use other weapons if it didn't break.

This game doesn't work design wise if weapons don't break. I dunno why this is such a crazy thing to accept. Why would you use any other weapon?

 

[TheMoon]

Wow it's 60fps now

pls don't joke about this. some innocent fool will think you're serious.

 

[talkingood]

Regarding weapon breaking, imo the

Spoiler

Master sword

should definitely NOT break.

I mean come on....it should be like the end game reward getting that and then you have a weapon that you can depend on and not have to worry about breaking.

Its power diminishes and needs a cooldown although it doesn't break, but honestly I agree with you—though I doubt many others will. The master sword should be qualitatively different from other weapons, and it would be a cool way of doing it. I would still use other weapons since it only has 30 damage normally and by the time you get it, finding better weapons is trivial. But it would have been a way to make the master sword a real "sword of legend" in a world where everything breaks down so easily.

 

[Nitpicker_Red]

I guess you don't know about Octoroks...

Octoroks don't repair durability, I'm told. They change Rusty weapons into other weapons of the same class, but they just spit out normal weapons back without any change.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Its power diminishes and needs a cooldown although it doesn't break, but honestly I agree with you—though I doubt many others will. The master sword should be qualitatively different from other weapons, and it would be a cool way of doing it. I would still use other weapons since it only has 30 damage normally and by the time you get it, finding better weapons is trivial. But it would have been a way to make the master sword a real "sword of legend" in a world where everything breaks down so easily.

It is. It recovers, it's throw is a beam, and it's power changes depending on where you are/what you're fighting. You guys just aren't satisfied with those differences, but that doesn't negate them

 

[family_guy]

And then every other weapon across the width and breadth of the game becomes worthless to the player, no matter how much time you spend playing after you obtain it.

Don't see the problem with that. Not like you needed a bunch of different weapons in the old Zelda games.

 

[phanphare]

Don't see the problem with that. Not like you needed a bunch of different weapons in the old Zelda games.

this game was consciously deviating from the standard 3D Zelda mold so that's not really a relevant point to bring up

 

[talkingood]

It is. It recovers, it's throw is a beam, and it's power changes depending on where you are/what you're fighting. You guys just aren't satisfied with those differences, but that doesn't negate them

That's true. There are certainly differences already. But I guess I'm just not sold on the degradation system in general, even though it works fine for what it is. I just thought it would be cool if part of your reward for finding the master sword was not having to deal with degradation.

 

[Gospel]

I don't recall being able to switch weapons with the ZL and ZR before, this might be new. Maybe.

 

[ScaryShark]

New Switch owner here, do updates automatically download or do I have to manually start them? When I downloaded Zelda yesterday I had to also initialize the update myself after. Thanks!

 

[Shin-Ra]

pls don't joke about this. some innocent fool will think you're serious.

If you squeeze the camera between a wall and Link and look closely at his face, he blinks at 6fps.

 

[Stiler]

I seriously don't get how some people think having one unbreakable weapon would somehow diminish the game.

What does having breakable weapons do aside from forcing the player to constantly switch/try new weapons?

By the time you get the Master Sword you will have tried a ton of different weapons/types.

Being able to use one weapon that didn't break isn't going to suddenly break the game.

You can't even sell weapons or anything so no exploit/money thing, the only thing is let you use the weapon and not have to constantly switch weapons, which is more of a player choice then anything game breaking.

 

[tim1138]

Can't even boot the game up on Wii U after downloading the DOC, it tells me I need to download a system update, only the system update option tells me my system is up to date. Great.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Can't even boot the game up on Wii U after downloading the DOC, it tells me I need to download a system update, only the system update option tells me my system is up to date. Great.

I would try a hard reset. That usually fixes things

 

[off duty ninja]

Wow it's 60fps now

What?! They took our beloved Zelda and turned it into an FPS? 60 of them?!

Preorder cancelled...

 

[TheMoon]

New Switch owner here, do updates automatically download or do I have to manually start them? When I downloaded Zelda yesterday I had to also initialize the update myself after. Thanks!

They do download automatically. But I don't know what the interval is set to for the Switch to check if anything's new. Might be quicker to just check manually when it's a hotly anticipated update like this.

I seriously don't get how some people think having one unbreakable weapon would somehow diminish the game.

What does having breakable weapons do aside from forcing the player to constantly switch/try new weapons?

By the time you get the Master Sword you will have tried a ton of different weapons/types.

Being able to use one weapon that didn't break isn't going to suddenly break the game.

You can't even sell weapons or anything so no exploit/money thing, the only thing is let you use the weapon and not have to constantly switch weapons, which is more of a player choice then anything game breaking.

You have one unbreakable weapon.

 

[Human Trashcan]

They toned down the placebo effect and upped the confirmation bias.

uhm actually it was the other way around, check again

 

[MUnited83]

Did they ever fix the weapon durabilty issues? I have yet to start this game.waiting to play it in its ultimate form.

Play the Wii U version, you can edit saves and put higher durability on your weapons.

 

[Sanjay]

The grass is 4D now, great patch.

 

[ScaryShark]

They do download automatically. But I don't know what the interval is set to for the Switch to check if anything's new. Might be quicker to just check manually when it's a hotly anticipated update like this.

Thanks for the answer!

 

[SuitedforGaming]

Play the Wii U version, you can edit saves and put higher durability on your weapons.

Thanks. This is pertinent info since that is the version I own. I'll look into this if the durabilty becomes an annoyance.

 

[scitek]

Wow it's 60fps now

!!!!!

 

[mclem]

yeah that's part of the game

you gotta throw them when they're about to break, they do good damage that way

They do the same damage on the shattering hit if you just keep meleeing, I believe.

 

[spannicus]

Seriously what did the patch do?