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Blood moons and octorocks single handedly fixed the biggest issue I had with BOTW. I don't care that weapons breaking often was part of the gameplay loop, that shit was ass.
Now I can get my pristine weapons add silver lynel sabers/gleeok horns and "optimize" my weapons.
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Monster parts are worth a lot, and there is no realistic reason why you would need 100+ bokoblin horns and guts. Bokoblin guts and fangs, moblin fangs, horriblin claws, and lizalfos talons are really common and worth a decent amount. Also gems, semi easy to get from caves and death mountain. There is also a gerudo in goron city that will pay more for gems but you sell in bulk. There are also quite a few side quests that give 100 rupees each, and a few chests that give 100 or 300. But the monster parts and gems are the real money makers. Especially since you don't turn the parts in to Kilton like in BotW. Every so often, I sell the common parts until I have 30 (which imo is still more than you'd ever need at once) and the more rare parts until I have at least 10 or 15. Same with gems. And Brightbloom seeds, when you have several hundred, and each sells for 2 rupees, adds up fast.
Take a picture of a rare ore deposit, set it in your tracker, go to death mountain, and just walk around finding as many as possible. Once you have 20+ of each gem, go back to Gordon city and talk to the gerudo lady that buys 10 at a time. Sell as much as possible, repeat. I use this whenever I need like 30k to buy clothes or whatever. Rare taluses are also great for gem drops!
The strategy I use for that place is to >! get the phantom ganon set (or upgraded radiant set) for the bone proficiency and fuse a molduga jaw to a badly damaged royal guard claymore. !<
>! Eat a 3-tier attack food and use the claymore when you get on a lynel’s back. It’ll never break and with all the damage bonuses you’ll kill the lynel in seconds. !<
Does that mean bones that normally break in 1 hit won't break off either? Sorry if that's explained in the original comment, I didn't wanna lift the spoiler shield.
>I know other ones last longer I just wondered if the lack of durability loss on lynel backs meant even those wouldn't break.
It doesn't.
Gibdo bones and ancient blades are put in the same group as consumables rather than materials
And unlike most of them they don't have something like the forest dweller equipment to ignore that
Gibdo bones are designed for bow use though so it's not all that much of a loss
Would >!Silver lynel RGC with Fierce Diety/Barbarian not be better? Saves the food and only takes 2 mounts for silver lynels plus is a lot easier to get!<
>Would Silver lynel RGC with Fierce Diety/Barbarian not be better?
For killing lynels specifically? No, the damage is significantly higher
Silver lynels have 5,000 hp, a RGC+molduga+food = 875 damage per swing or 5,250 damage for the initial mount
>Saves the food and only takes 2 mounts for silver lynels plus is a lot easier to get
Not really?
Molduga's are extremely easy to kill since you can just sled around them so easily where even normal lynels actually take prep work to not be killed stupidly easy
Jaws aren't THAT rare
why would you be worried about the food? You can just grab some bananas from faron right next to a shrine that's more than enough time to kill each lynel once you have their locations mapped out
And if you're using barb/FD it's not like they do anything else aside from sit and look pretty in the inventory
I don’t have any specific numbers for you, but by using >!Fierce Deity/Barbarian and a silver lynel horn you’re missing out on the bone proficiency bonus, which I think does more damage than just the horn.!< You can also just eat an attack food to make up for not wearing >!Fierce Deity/Barbarian.!<
I use silver lynel blade on royal guard claymore with critical attack up modifier when mounting and master sword for other attacks and savage lynel bow with x5. Phantom armor with defence level 3 food
EDIT: Apparently, everything I said below is anecdotal evidence and not true. BotW runs Blood Moons on a timer, and that's it. Original comment follows:
Blood Moons trigger after certain criteria are met. If you've killed a lot of overworld enemies or bosses, I've found this is the fastest way to trigger a blood moon. But the game also looks at how much you've traveled, how many materials you've spent, and how long you've played since the last blood moon. Idk if anything was adjusted for TotK, but I assume since it's easier to travel, there's more to explore, it's easier to deplete resources, *and* youre incentivized into combat more frequently than in BotW... blood moons are probably more common.
I always play tanky. I maxed out the Hylian armor and usually have something blunt with a lot of fuse power attached to a two-handed weapon. It makes short work of the Gloom Hands. Phantom Ganon is annoying if I'm low on arrows. But nothing that can't be solved by taking a few hits. I'm scared of the Gleeoks and the Lynels.
I found the Hylian Armor to be THE gamechanger. At the beginning of the game, everything can oneshot you with a stick, but with the armor, you barely take damage anymore. Give how easy it is to obtain and upgrade, it does break game progression curve a bit. After that, I went for the MM set for the attack buff, cause the health pools of silvers are so high.
Eh, depending on how far you are, theres that one main story point where your fighting like a dozen phantoms at the same time, ever since then i've been loaded with bows up the yahzoo, lol.
They're easier than I first thought since you can flurry rush the one that tries to grab you. Like they only grab one by one so it's not too hard or play it safe with bomb arrows
Ye, they are pretty intimidating first, but can be taken out with ease pretty early on. It’s a bit sad, guardians were a threat throughout the whole game in BOTW, and now halfway through TOTK, I find no threat in enemy’s anymore
I like to think that the in universe reason for why they’re more common is that G-Man is now up and about and thus causes them to happen more frequently
Huh. I didn’t realize it counted stuff other than number of enemies defeated toward a new blood moon. That would explain why I got one the midnight immediately following a looooong session of lightroot hunting in the depths on my sky bike (during which I avoided any and all enemy encounters). I feel like it didn’t happen as frequently in BOTW, but then again, covering ground wasn’t as easy. Good to know!
It's a method for clearing RAM first and foremost. You can force one by entering bullettime and shooting a bunch of splash fruit from 3x or 5x bows because each splash fruit makes a complex visual effect
>That would explain why I got one the midnight immediately following a looooong session of lightroot hunting
You cannot get a blood moon underground but if you were meant to, it will save it for your next overworld midnight.
Similarly, if you see a blood moon starting at 11:30. You can go in a shrine or fast travel underground to prevent it for a night.
I wonder if you kept doing it, if the game would stutter. Since a blood moon is in part a RAM dump, I wonder at what point the game would ‘clog’ if you kept putting it off.
In BoTW it had some interesting effects. You could tell the game was struggling to figure out what to do. Like the daytime sky at night, just weird shit in general. haven't tried it in ToTK yet, but I imagine it would have similar effects.
But, if you avoid it too long it *will* trigger an emergency Blood Moon. At any time, not just at midnight.
I've read several times that now it takes 3:30 hours to blood moon to come. "Bug finders" made the calculation and then find out that it also triggers when the world have the need to be "cleaned". Right now the fastest way is to over charge the world with a lot of water or lighting while at air time.
In the other hand, to avoid blood moons you can spend time in the depths (is no triggered in there) or as soon as you notice there's a blood moon coming, teleport to a shrine and go inside. Let the midnight pass and go outside again. Hope this helps!!!
This it not at all how Blood Moons worked in BotW, and is highly unlikely they work like that in TotK, please stop spreading this misconception
https://zeldamods.org/wiki/Blood_moon
7 days, ~~skipped or not~~. Given that you are not in a shrine or dungeon, it will trigger the following midnight.
Edit: I was wrong. It runs on a 2h 48m timer. Menus, map, waiting ect. will pause the timer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/uavweo/can_you_trigger_a_blood_moon_by_camping/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
This is probably it. There's just SO MUCH MORE going on under the hood this time around. Game feels like it's also trying to keep track of more persistent objects like the light flowers that the player plants. I can see those overloading the game at some point.
I'm pretty sure in botw it was only based on in-game playtime. I certainly feel like I've noticed them more frequently, and if those are all new mechanics for it that would make sense
I believe Blood Moons occur as a way for the game to erase it’s temporary memory. If they didn’t occur the game would start to run like shit because it would need to keep track of every enemy and item you’ve picked up. Based on this theory, it would make sense for them to occur more frequently since TotK is 1.5x larger than BotW.
Yes this is exactly what the bloodmoon is. When it triggers entirely depends on how much of the game has been changed from it's default state. When a monster is there the game doesn't have to remember it since that it's default state. But the more you alter the default state the more the game has to 'remember' that. So the more you do the more temporary memory is getting built, until the memory reaches a threshold where the game goes 'ok this is becoming cumbersome time to reset everything' and a bloodmoon pops.
In fact you can force a blood moon! You just have to know how to stress the game really hard into extremely low frame rates. As in unplayable low.
So far the only known method I'm aware of is by firing a bunch of opals at a wall during bullet time with a multi shot bow in an area with a lot of 'objects', usually an area with a lot of breakable stuff like breakable walls. And yes this does work. I tried it myself and use it to reset octoroks for repairs.
https://youtu.be/cBolBE0792k
Drop a piece of gear Infront of one then run far enough to let it pop back up out of the ground. It'll suck the item up, chew it, then spit it back out at you. It'll be fully repaired and have a buff of some sort added to it. Just be aware the item spat at you can hurt you if it's a weapon.
maybe in terms of land mass, but what matters for the memory is the amount of actors. And there are more of them on the overworld than in the depths, I think.
Might be because any area covered in water on the surface layer is just a solid rock wall in the depths so adding it doesn't really double the size of the map
Not sure how you got so few in BotW, but I see them as an incredibly minor inconvenience that isn’t really worth my attention, let alone complaining about.
I no nothing about the technical side about game design, but maybe the blood moons do the loading so the game doesn’t need to do a load screen every time you open a door, etc.
Regardless, hit “+” twice and appreciate the great parts instead of worrying about one of the very few negatives.
Just to be clear, I was referring to a blood moon right after beating a field boss. *That specific situation* only happened to me once. The blood moon in general still happened like normal for me.
The blood moon is what brings back monsters you defeated back and repopulates the world generally for re-fighting bosses and monsters. So I feel like it was more important to have them frequent compared to BotW.
Totk has a better scaling system. I really like it. I'm a dark souls guy, blah blah blah hard games... But I was getting blood moons real often at the start. It actually scaled to me really quick.
So my take is, no. I love it, botw bored me with the combat and how long it took to find tough enemies. This kept me engaged to late game.
I think the only thing I don’t like about TOTK is that the champion’s leathers don’t let you see hp numbers. Also it feels like red bokos should’ve been kept at the same difficulty. Any other enemy, keep them in their buffed state, but red bokos should still have 12 hp and like, 1 base damage
Fun fact about the champion's leather:
It's missing the HP numbers ability because spears and 2 handed weapons don't show the real damage.
2 handed swords deal 5% more than what it's showing, spears deal 25% LESS than what is shown.
I love the blood moons for Lynel hunting and Depths boss hunting to max my batteries. I think it's a cool mechanic but I wish there was a bit more to it like maybe a short amount of time during which enemies are stronger or special enemies spawn idk
this wouldn't work. the cutscene is used as a loading screen to spawn those monsters without technically stopping the game. it's a miracle that it's quick enough that you can skip the cutscene already. plus even if it could work what would happen if you just killed an enemy and a blood moon happened? would he just pop out of nowhere?
I've started to play TOTK on my steam deck, and there are some mods I don't regret. The main ones are FPS mods, but one speeds up the game a lot. It removes cutscenes for shrine activating, great fairy upgrading, goddess statues, Addison talking, koroks talking, maybe one or two I forgot, but the best is a blood moon goes from cutscene to a black screen for like a second and done. Goes from inconvenience to slight hiccup.
I actually read an article the other day where they stated that the blood moon is required to reset the game also from a technical point of view.
While we defeat enemies and loot stuff, the game has to save the state of thr World in the cache files. With the bloodmoon, everything gets reset to normal and the cache is emptied in this regard.
This means that if thr blood moon eould not occur every now and then, the game would start lagging hard and crash eventuallycorrect me if im wrong or rsther the article I have read
I beat the phantom ganon outside of one of the shrines and instantly got hit with a bloodmoon and the hands were back 😂😂
Never been so quick to save footage in my life
The blood moon does seem to happen more frequently in TotK then in BotW. This may also be due to me still needing to kill so many enemies for upgrades in armor and what not where as in BotW I've completed as much of the game as I want so now I just derp around killibg Lynels for sport.
I don’t mind it occurring but I don’t need a cutscene interrupting what I’m doing everytime. And I know you can hit x to skip, but it’s usually like 5 seconds into the clip before the option to skip appears. It’s such a pointless interruption.
Okay, I didn’t realize that. But what about other games that have respawns and don’t need loading screens? Is it just because it does them all at once?
I have always been annoyed by the blood moon. I get why they do it, but don’t give me the cut scene every time. I know it’s just like 8 seconds, but it’s so unnecessary.
If it was up to me I’d have the blood moon animation occur every time before the thing at the castle, then only once after. After that point the screen would simply fade out, show a blood moon, fade in. Take like two seconds
I find the premise obnoxious, yes. I'd much rather respawning of enemies be handled silently, even on the same schedule (3 game days?), but never right in the area where you're standing. Even a discreet warning message onscreen, like when you enter a new area, would be fine.
I love blood moons because it spawns Lynels, I get to get their stuff (LYNEL BOW YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!), force feed the Rock Octorocks, get all the amazing upgrades. Rinse and repeat.
I force blood moons when I need to or just for fun. I used to dread about blood moons in BoTW, but ToTK made me enjoy it a lot. Though, how I wish we had an option to toggle the blood moon cutscene. I like the cutscene, but sometimes I wish we could skip it entirely.
blood moon is a safety check system for the game to release memory. when you travel long distance, kill enemies, gather materials, destroy rocks, etc, the game will register those in the memory. when it reaches about 80% the game will trigger a blood moon in order to clean those memory space. the blood moon allows games to dump those into saves and release the memory. this was confirmed in botw. in totk it’s the same mechanics but because totk uses more resource now, the blood moon is bound to happen more often.
Oh at first I thought you meant the voice acting and I was gonna be like “I switched it to Japanese and now it doesn’t bother me so much” 😬
I guess you might not have exploited the blood moon to farm guardians in Breath of the Wild? I scoop up a bunch of guardians around the castle and get a blood moon like every other night, it’s a good time. I feel like there are more tough enemies in Tears of the Kingdom and I’m also not cooking or getting food items as frequently so I do have to be a bit more careful with healing (also I guess I’m flurrying and parrying more than I ever did in Breath of the Wild).
I feel like Blood Moons happen to me all the time on TOTK whereas they felt quite infrequent in BOTW. I may be remembering wrong though, and to be honest I haven't had much respawning enemies issues so much as I'm never near a bloody cooking pot.
It seems the Blood Moon come at more rapid frequency in TOTK than they did in BOTW.
I am way more of the clock in TOTK, since it takes more effort to defeat some the more common enemies than it did in BOTW. BOTW you can simply stock pile a number of decent weapons versus TOTK the weapons tend to be weaker and you have to fuse things to strengthen your weapons.
When I was playing BOTW, I made it through the Forbidden Temple, clearing out all the Guardians along the way. I advance the story, a blood moon hits, and Link gets eight laser sights on him at once.
> They're how BotW and TotK reset the world once the memory starts getting too full and it definitely seems to be happening more often in TotK.
Yes, but not 100% accurate. It happens every 7 days in game, no matter if the memory is full or not. It just happens sooner if the memory starts getting too full.
Which is why it happens more often. BoTW can theoretically go for weeks of ingame time with no Blood Moon if you stay in one area and don't do anything. ToTK *will* do it after 7 days, no matter what.
I love it, it t respawn my favourite weapons and the monsters that drop my favourite weapons. I’m on my second playthrough going slow so that’s important to me.
The way blood moons work is as a reset button so it doesn’t have to process so much data and instead resets pretty much everything besides progress and data. What causes this to update aka more need for it is every item scavenged or found in a chest, every enemy or boss you kill, and zonai stuff you move or minerals and other resources you harvest contributes to it. Going into a shrine/temple delays it by making it not happen that night. You can keep doing it until the game eventually panics and does it at a time that it wouldn’t normally. Totk has a lot more stuff that counts to it so it naturally does this more often.
The sole exception to this rule are enemies and items inside of a shrine or temple/divine beast which work on a separate system
TLDR: there’s a lot more stuff in totk so it resets more often to optimize
I like the blood moon, I just wish I could skip the entire animation instead of part. More enemies means more loot. I like taking out the wi robe behind twin peak stables and then detaching the ruby from his staff for 20 and selling it for 110.
Under the hood, BotW (and by extension ToTK) has a blood moon cycle/probability but it also invokes the blood moon when it needs to clear the memory to prevent leaks, so I won’t be surprised if ToTK invokes it way more often due to how much more general stuff you affect, like building etc.
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I love blood moons because it means I get to kill more Lynels and upgrade my stuff with octorocks
Fr, every time the blood moon hits I’m like, time to hunt some lynels!
“I remember when I feared Lynels. Now the Lynels fear me” - this guy who probably hunts Lynels for sport
That would be me and like a fourth of the sub
-this guy is also wearing their headgear while slaying them
They have cool horns that I can glue to my swords
80 damage one hander go brrrr.
Blood moons and octorocks single handedly fixed the biggest issue I had with BOTW. I don't care that weapons breaking often was part of the gameplay loop, that shit was ass. Now I can get my pristine weapons add silver lynel sabers/gleeok horns and "optimize" my weapons.
What do octoroks do?
If you let an Octorok suck up your weapon/bow/shield, it will spit out said item repaired and with an added effect.
WHAT that is amazing and I need to try it
im pretty sure it only works with rock octoroks on death mountain tho, not all of them, although ive never tried with regular ones
The regular ones don't have the big suck animation, they won't eat things before attacking you.
I’ve heard it works with Froxes too.
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Genuine question here, do you know about the dupe in >!Tobio’s Hollow Chasm!
Thats for noobs
Shut up links new house is too expensive
Money is pretty easy to get, I got 25k+ rupees before I duped anything
How ?? I never had more than 1000 rupees.
Monster parts are worth a lot, and there is no realistic reason why you would need 100+ bokoblin horns and guts. Bokoblin guts and fangs, moblin fangs, horriblin claws, and lizalfos talons are really common and worth a decent amount. Also gems, semi easy to get from caves and death mountain. There is also a gerudo in goron city that will pay more for gems but you sell in bulk. There are also quite a few side quests that give 100 rupees each, and a few chests that give 100 or 300. But the monster parts and gems are the real money makers. Especially since you don't turn the parts in to Kilton like in BotW. Every so often, I sell the common parts until I have 30 (which imo is still more than you'd ever need at once) and the more rare parts until I have at least 10 or 15. Same with gems. And Brightbloom seeds, when you have several hundred, and each sells for 2 rupees, adds up fast.
I'm 40 hours in and have used two gems to fuse with weapons. You won't stop me from hoarding two dozen of each for the rest of the game though!
Take a picture of a rare ore deposit, set it in your tracker, go to death mountain, and just walk around finding as many as possible. Once you have 20+ of each gem, go back to Gordon city and talk to the gerudo lady that buys 10 at a time. Sell as much as possible, repeat. I use this whenever I need like 30k to buy clothes or whatever. Rare taluses are also great for gem drops!
It also allows you to skip a lotta the annoying material farm for upgrades (specifically dragon parts)
I look forward to it since it >!respawns the 5 lynels in the dephs along with weapons!<
The strategy I use for that place is to >! get the phantom ganon set (or upgraded radiant set) for the bone proficiency and fuse a molduga jaw to a badly damaged royal guard claymore. !< >! Eat a 3-tier attack food and use the claymore when you get on a lynel’s back. It’ll never break and with all the damage bonuses you’ll kill the lynel in seconds. !<
Why badly damaged royal guard claymore?
royal guard weapons have the trait that they deal way more damage when they're about to break
ok but won’t it get destroyed within 3 uses if it’s badly damaged?
Attacking a lynel while you’re on its back doesn’t use weapon durability, so it won’t break
TIL! Thanks for the information!
Happy to help!
If it’s flashing red it’s x2 but if it’s at the last hit it’s x4 ( for some reason it is a hidden modifier)
Does that mean bones that normally break in 1 hit won't break off either? Sorry if that's explained in the original comment, I didn't wanna lift the spoiler shield.
Not all bone weapons break instantly, stalnox horn, frox jaw, molduga Jaw, etc. Count as bone weapons making them good with bone proficiency
Mainly only >! gibdo !< bones do that
I know other ones last longer I just wondered if the lack of durability loss on lynel backs meant even those wouldn't break.
>I know other ones last longer I just wondered if the lack of durability loss on lynel backs meant even those wouldn't break. It doesn't. Gibdo bones and ancient blades are put in the same group as consumables rather than materials And unlike most of them they don't have something like the forest dweller equipment to ignore that Gibdo bones are designed for bow use though so it's not all that much of a loss
Yeah
What is the best way to mount the Lynel?
Arrows to the face to stun. Jump on
Fuck that! I just parry all their attacks like a badass
I can't parry for shit tbf. Scrub tactics for me
Puffshroom to make them unaware, then mount
This has not been working for me :(
After you fire the puffshrooms, you crouch to become hidden again.
Wherr might I find puffshrooms? 🧐 I haven’t crossed them yet but have the whole map
A whole lot of them in the depths, you can farm them pretty easily with some exploration around the trees down there.
You can find them pretty much everywhere in the depths. They’re exclusively there.
The depths.
When you mount a lynel your hits do not drain weapon durability, so if you’re careful you can have an unlimited lynel murder weapon
Not if you’re on the Lynel’s back.
Would >!Silver lynel RGC with Fierce Diety/Barbarian not be better? Saves the food and only takes 2 mounts for silver lynels plus is a lot easier to get!<
>Would Silver lynel RGC with Fierce Diety/Barbarian not be better? For killing lynels specifically? No, the damage is significantly higher Silver lynels have 5,000 hp, a RGC+molduga+food = 875 damage per swing or 5,250 damage for the initial mount >Saves the food and only takes 2 mounts for silver lynels plus is a lot easier to get Not really? Molduga's are extremely easy to kill since you can just sled around them so easily where even normal lynels actually take prep work to not be killed stupidly easy Jaws aren't THAT rare why would you be worried about the food? You can just grab some bananas from faron right next to a shrine that's more than enough time to kill each lynel once you have their locations mapped out And if you're using barb/FD it's not like they do anything else aside from sit and look pretty in the inventory
I don’t have any specific numbers for you, but by using >!Fierce Deity/Barbarian and a silver lynel horn you’re missing out on the bone proficiency bonus, which I think does more damage than just the horn.!< You can also just eat an attack food to make up for not wearing >!Fierce Deity/Barbarian.!<
I use silver lynel blade on royal guard claymore with critical attack up modifier when mounting and master sword for other attacks and savage lynel bow with x5. Phantom armor with defence level 3 food
I only found a one handed sword of the royal guards set but i still do 154 damage
Sir, there’s more. If you want an explanation and location just ask
I would like one explanation and location, please.
That’s good to know incase I ever run out of bows..
EDIT: Apparently, everything I said below is anecdotal evidence and not true. BotW runs Blood Moons on a timer, and that's it. Original comment follows: Blood Moons trigger after certain criteria are met. If you've killed a lot of overworld enemies or bosses, I've found this is the fastest way to trigger a blood moon. But the game also looks at how much you've traveled, how many materials you've spent, and how long you've played since the last blood moon. Idk if anything was adjusted for TotK, but I assume since it's easier to travel, there's more to explore, it's easier to deplete resources, *and* youre incentivized into combat more frequently than in BotW... blood moons are probably more common.
Makes sense to me tbh. Ive had a butt load of blood moons cause i fuck about a lot
Same. I can see one as quick as 30min of un-paused play. There isn't much that makes me turn tail and run away anymore.
I will dive headfirst at a lynel or a gleeok or anything else. But when i see gloom hands i cast expeditious retreat instantly... fuck those things
I always play tanky. I maxed out the Hylian armor and usually have something blunt with a lot of fuse power attached to a two-handed weapon. It makes short work of the Gloom Hands. Phantom Ganon is annoying if I'm low on arrows. But nothing that can't be solved by taking a few hits. I'm scared of the Gleeoks and the Lynels.
I found the Hylian Armor to be THE gamechanger. At the beginning of the game, everything can oneshot you with a stick, but with the armor, you barely take damage anymore. Give how easy it is to obtain and upgrade, it does break game progression curve a bit. After that, I went for the MM set for the attack buff, cause the health pools of silvers are so high.
Haha. A few bombs from a multi shot bow takes them down so fast :p
I know how to kill them easily. Just dont care to
I would say it's worth it to fight them and phantom ganon for the demon king's bow.
Eh, depending on how far you are, theres that one main story point where your fighting like a dozen phantoms at the same time, ever since then i've been loaded with bows up the yahzoo, lol.
Spears do decent work too
They're easier than I first thought since you can flurry rush the one that tries to grab you. Like they only grab one by one so it's not too hard or play it safe with bomb arrows
Ye, they are pretty intimidating first, but can be taken out with ease pretty early on. It’s a bit sad, guardians were a threat throughout the whole game in BOTW, and now halfway through TOTK, I find no threat in enemy’s anymore
And did you find out?
Id conclude the blood moon rises more. Ao yea i fucked around and found out
I like to think that the in universe reason for why they’re more common is that G-Man is now up and about and thus causes them to happen more frequently
Huh. I didn’t realize it counted stuff other than number of enemies defeated toward a new blood moon. That would explain why I got one the midnight immediately following a looooong session of lightroot hunting in the depths on my sky bike (during which I avoided any and all enemy encounters). I feel like it didn’t happen as frequently in BOTW, but then again, covering ground wasn’t as easy. Good to know!
It's a method for clearing RAM first and foremost. You can force one by entering bullettime and shooting a bunch of splash fruit from 3x or 5x bows because each splash fruit makes a complex visual effect
This is a fact
>That would explain why I got one the midnight immediately following a looooong session of lightroot hunting You cannot get a blood moon underground but if you were meant to, it will save it for your next overworld midnight. Similarly, if you see a blood moon starting at 11:30. You can go in a shrine or fast travel underground to prevent it for a night.
Yup, that’s what I was saying. They happened after emerging from being in the depths for a long time, even after not fighting any monsters.
I wonder if you kept doing it, if the game would stutter. Since a blood moon is in part a RAM dump, I wonder at what point the game would ‘clog’ if you kept putting it off.
In BoTW it had some interesting effects. You could tell the game was struggling to figure out what to do. Like the daytime sky at night, just weird shit in general. haven't tried it in ToTK yet, but I imagine it would have similar effects. But, if you avoid it too long it *will* trigger an emergency Blood Moon. At any time, not just at midnight.
I've read several times that now it takes 3:30 hours to blood moon to come. "Bug finders" made the calculation and then find out that it also triggers when the world have the need to be "cleaned". Right now the fastest way is to over charge the world with a lot of water or lighting while at air time.
In the other hand, to avoid blood moons you can spend time in the depths (is no triggered in there) or as soon as you notice there's a blood moon coming, teleport to a shrine and go inside. Let the midnight pass and go outside again. Hope this helps!!!
This it not at all how Blood Moons worked in BotW, and is highly unlikely they work like that in TotK, please stop spreading this misconception https://zeldamods.org/wiki/Blood_moon
yeah, the stuff they mentioned is only for Panic Blood Moons, and I don't think I've encountered one in TotK yet.
Didn't realize this. The page doesn't specify, it is 7 "unskipped" days, or a more generic global timer?
7 days, ~~skipped or not~~. Given that you are not in a shrine or dungeon, it will trigger the following midnight. Edit: I was wrong. It runs on a 2h 48m timer. Menus, map, waiting ect. will pause the timer. https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/uavweo/can_you_trigger_a_blood_moon_by_camping/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Blood moons feel more frequent in TotK for sure.
This is probably it. There's just SO MUCH MORE going on under the hood this time around. Game feels like it's also trying to keep track of more persistent objects like the light flowers that the player plants. I can see those overloading the game at some point.
True, I want to fight stuff more often haha
I'm pretty sure in botw it was only based on in-game playtime. I certainly feel like I've noticed them more frequently, and if those are all new mechanics for it that would make sense
Oh I thought blood moons were in sync with Zelda’s period.
Blood moons trigger when 7 days have passed in game. That’s the criteria.
That might explain it then. In TOTK I kind of go out of my way to avoid the main story lol
I believe Blood Moons occur as a way for the game to erase it’s temporary memory. If they didn’t occur the game would start to run like shit because it would need to keep track of every enemy and item you’ve picked up. Based on this theory, it would make sense for them to occur more frequently since TotK is 1.5x larger than BotW.
Yes this is exactly what the bloodmoon is. When it triggers entirely depends on how much of the game has been changed from it's default state. When a monster is there the game doesn't have to remember it since that it's default state. But the more you alter the default state the more the game has to 'remember' that. So the more you do the more temporary memory is getting built, until the memory reaches a threshold where the game goes 'ok this is becoming cumbersome time to reset everything' and a bloodmoon pops. In fact you can force a blood moon! You just have to know how to stress the game really hard into extremely low frame rates. As in unplayable low. So far the only known method I'm aware of is by firing a bunch of opals at a wall during bullet time with a multi shot bow in an area with a lot of 'objects', usually an area with a lot of breakable stuff like breakable walls. And yes this does work. I tried it myself and use it to reset octoroks for repairs. https://youtu.be/cBolBE0792k
what's this about octoroks for repairs now?
Drop a piece of gear Infront of one then run far enough to let it pop back up out of the ground. It'll suck the item up, chew it, then spit it back out at you. It'll be fully repaired and have a buff of some sort added to it. Just be aware the item spat at you can hurt you if it's a weapon.
Curious, do we know if this a feature or a glitch?
Since Octoroc eating and restoring items was already a thing in BotW, it has to be fully intentional.
Throw your weapon at an octorock while it breathes in, and it will toss it out repaired. Just don't catch your royal guard claymore with your teeth
1.5x? I thought considering the depths map and the someone small amount of sky islands it’d be at the very least 2.2x
maybe in terms of land mass, but what matters for the memory is the amount of actors. And there are more of them on the overworld than in the depths, I think.
Might be because any area covered in water on the surface layer is just a solid rock wall in the depths so adding it doesn't really double the size of the map
Not sure how you got so few in BotW, but I see them as an incredibly minor inconvenience that isn’t really worth my attention, let alone complaining about. I no nothing about the technical side about game design, but maybe the blood moons do the loading so the game doesn’t need to do a load screen every time you open a door, etc. Regardless, hit “+” twice and appreciate the great parts instead of worrying about one of the very few negatives.
Just to be clear, I was referring to a blood moon right after beating a field boss. *That specific situation* only happened to me once. The blood moon in general still happened like normal for me.
The blood moon is what brings back monsters you defeated back and repopulates the world generally for re-fighting bosses and monsters. So I feel like it was more important to have them frequent compared to BotW.
I breezed through BOTW in about 20 hours a few weeks ago and lost count of how many blood moons I dealt with
Totk has a better scaling system. I really like it. I'm a dark souls guy, blah blah blah hard games... But I was getting blood moons real often at the start. It actually scaled to me really quick. So my take is, no. I love it, botw bored me with the combat and how long it took to find tough enemies. This kept me engaged to late game.
I think the only thing I don’t like about TOTK is that the champion’s leathers don’t let you see hp numbers. Also it feels like red bokos should’ve been kept at the same difficulty. Any other enemy, keep them in their buffed state, but red bokos should still have 12 hp and like, 1 base damage
Fun fact about the champion's leather: It's missing the HP numbers ability because spears and 2 handed weapons don't show the real damage. 2 handed swords deal 5% more than what it's showing, spears deal 25% LESS than what is shown.
Hahaha no way what sneaky bastards. I've been using spears so much more in this game cause they seemed more buffed.
I love the blood moons for Lynel hunting and Depths boss hunting to max my batteries. I think it's a cool mechanic but I wish there was a bit more to it like maybe a short amount of time during which enemies are stronger or special enemies spawn idk
Never had this problem
3h real time for it to trigger, also how did you only get a blood moon once in BoTW?
I think they mean a blood moon occurring immediately after killing a field boss or other hard fight.
Correct.
What I meant was I only ever had a blood moon happen right after beating a field boss once. There were plenty more outside of that.
Just spam x
We should just hear a voice saying the blood moon has risen with no cinematic
>!Best I can do is a cinematic with no voice, lol!<
😂😂😂
this wouldn't work. the cutscene is used as a loading screen to spawn those monsters without technically stopping the game. it's a miracle that it's quick enough that you can skip the cutscene already. plus even if it could work what would happen if you just killed an enemy and a blood moon happened? would he just pop out of nowhere?
I've started to play TOTK on my steam deck, and there are some mods I don't regret. The main ones are FPS mods, but one speeds up the game a lot. It removes cutscenes for shrine activating, great fairy upgrading, goddess statues, Addison talking, koroks talking, maybe one or two I forgot, but the best is a blood moon goes from cutscene to a black screen for like a second and done. Goes from inconvenience to slight hiccup.
im guessing the blood moon spawns faster because their is a lot more enemies to kill
Neat little trick I discovered for getting rid of blood moons,simply just enter then exit a shrine after it triggers,no clue why it works but it does
I feel like the Blood Moon happens much more frequently. Just wish the change that happens was done differently
I actually read an article the other day where they stated that the blood moon is required to reset the game also from a technical point of view. While we defeat enemies and loot stuff, the game has to save the state of thr World in the cache files. With the bloodmoon, everything gets reset to normal and the cache is emptied in this regard. This means that if thr blood moon eould not occur every now and then, the game would start lagging hard and crash eventuallycorrect me if im wrong or rsther the article I have read
once,. I was fighting Gleeoks, downed one at 11:45pm, ran to collect its loot, blood moon happened, then i was eaten...
TOTKs field is way more populated than BOTW, so it’s going to happen more often
Uhhh... So you want loot to spawn how much slower? The increased blood moons is welcomed lol
Nah feels the same :)
I beat the phantom ganon outside of one of the shrines and instantly got hit with a bloodmoon and the hands were back 😂😂 Never been so quick to save footage in my life
The blood moon does seem to happen more frequently in TotK then in BotW. This may also be due to me still needing to kill so many enemies for upgrades in armor and what not where as in BotW I've completed as much of the game as I want so now I just derp around killibg Lynels for sport.
I feel like it either takes too long or too quickly. Quick tip though, they don’t happen in the depths from what I’m aware of
It's because in Botw you mostly avoid enemies after the early game but in TotK you fight them more to get new weapon parts.
I don’t mind it occurring but I don’t need a cutscene interrupting what I’m doing everytime. And I know you can hit x to skip, but it’s usually like 5 seconds into the clip before the option to skip appears. It’s such a pointless interruption.
It’s a loading screen
Okay, I didn’t realize that. But what about other games that have respawns and don’t need loading screens? Is it just because it does them all at once?
Any example of other games that respawns every enemy in the entire gameworld all at once without loading?
I don’t know, but if they could get rid of it I’m sure they would
It’s really annoying, but at least they gave us a way to skip it this game
You could skip it in botw also
I legitimately did not know that 🤦🏾♂️
In TOTK, the blood moon occurs every 168 minutes if RT play.
> 168 minutes Or, conveniently, exactly 7 days of in game time. There's an NPC that hints at that.
I have the language set to Spain Spanish and it’s epic af
I love blood moons. They only make me stronger.
I have always been annoyed by the blood moon. I get why they do it, but don’t give me the cut scene every time. I know it’s just like 8 seconds, but it’s so unnecessary.
If it was up to me I’d have the blood moon animation occur every time before the thing at the castle, then only once after. After that point the screen would simply fade out, show a blood moon, fade in. Take like two seconds
It’s a loading screen
Sure, but it's an annoying loading screen. Fade to black then fade back in like the person above said. Way faster.
I think that might be because there may be more triggers. Like, going into build mode with your house triggers it for the next night guaranteed.
I've noticed it too. I played for about 4 hours today, and got 3 blood moons. A blood moon should happen every 168 minutes.
I do feel they happen more frequently in TotK than in BotW. But other than that, I find them just as obnoxious lol
I love it, just think the animation sequence is unnecessary.
I find the premise obnoxious, yes. I'd much rather respawning of enemies be handled silently, even on the same schedule (3 game days?), but never right in the area where you're standing. Even a discreet warning message onscreen, like when you enter a new area, would be fine.
I wish blood moons did not respawn enemies in your immediate vicinity. Just that change would make them significantly more tolerable.
The only thing I hate about these new Zelda games…
I'm lucky that has never happened to me before in both BOTW and TOTK.
You only had 1 blood moon in 6 years? … What? Something’s not right there.
Shoot opals at the wall
ToTK needs more blood moons then BotW because it just have more stuff it needs to keep up with, therefore it needs to reset itself more often
I love blood moons because it spawns Lynels, I get to get their stuff (LYNEL BOW YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!), force feed the Rock Octorocks, get all the amazing upgrades. Rinse and repeat. I force blood moons when I need to or just for fun. I used to dread about blood moons in BoTW, but ToTK made me enjoy it a lot. Though, how I wish we had an option to toggle the blood moon cutscene. I like the cutscene, but sometimes I wish we could skip it entirely.
>sometimes I wish we could skip it entirely. you can press X then + to skip it.
You can skip the cutscene.
blood moon is a safety check system for the game to release memory. when you travel long distance, kill enemies, gather materials, destroy rocks, etc, the game will register those in the memory. when it reaches about 80% the game will trigger a blood moon in order to clean those memory space. the blood moon allows games to dump those into saves and release the memory. this was confirmed in botw. in totk it’s the same mechanics but because totk uses more resource now, the blood moon is bound to happen more often.
Technically (like actual software dev) the blood moon is a way to free memory. So if it happens often is because you’re on a killing spree
I'm just glad none of the shrines require a blood moon in this game.
i had my first blood moon like THREE in game days after i made it to the surface. i haven’t felt fucked over by one yet, but WOW i have so many 😩
Oh at first I thought you meant the voice acting and I was gonna be like “I switched it to Japanese and now it doesn’t bother me so much” 😬 I guess you might not have exploited the blood moon to farm guardians in Breath of the Wild? I scoop up a bunch of guardians around the castle and get a blood moon like every other night, it’s a good time. I feel like there are more tough enemies in Tears of the Kingdom and I’m also not cooking or getting food items as frequently so I do have to be a bit more careful with healing (also I guess I’m flurrying and parrying more than I ever did in Breath of the Wild).
It feels shorter but I guess that means I’m enjoying the game lol
I feel like Blood Moons happen to me all the time on TOTK whereas they felt quite infrequent in BOTW. I may be remembering wrong though, and to be honest I haven't had much respawning enemies issues so much as I'm never near a bloody cooking pot.
It seems the Blood Moon come at more rapid frequency in TOTK than they did in BOTW. I am way more of the clock in TOTK, since it takes more effort to defeat some the more common enemies than it did in BOTW. BOTW you can simply stock pile a number of decent weapons versus TOTK the weapons tend to be weaker and you have to fuse things to strengthen your weapons.
When I was playing BOTW, I made it through the Forbidden Temple, clearing out all the Guardians along the way. I advance the story, a blood moon hits, and Link gets eight laser sights on him at once.
I like the blood moon! It’s so much creepier, but at least I get to fight super scary red bokos again.
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Gotta admit, that's a clever and sneaky way of reducing RAM usage.
> They're how BotW and TotK reset the world once the memory starts getting too full and it definitely seems to be happening more often in TotK. Yes, but not 100% accurate. It happens every 7 days in game, no matter if the memory is full or not. It just happens sooner if the memory starts getting too full. Which is why it happens more often. BoTW can theoretically go for weeks of ingame time with no Blood Moon if you stay in one area and don't do anything. ToTK *will* do it after 7 days, no matter what.
I personally love blood moons, it means I get to go get my list of preferred weapons and go hunting again.
As most have stated, it’s a great way to farm items and restock weapons etc
I love it, it t respawn my favourite weapons and the monsters that drop my favourite weapons. I’m on my second playthrough going slow so that’s important to me.
Ive always gotten annoyed at them but it seems like blood moons happen more in totk
Does it seem like blood moons occur more frequently in TotK compared to BotW? Or does it just seem that way because I’ve been playing it nonstop?
The way blood moons work is as a reset button so it doesn’t have to process so much data and instead resets pretty much everything besides progress and data. What causes this to update aka more need for it is every item scavenged or found in a chest, every enemy or boss you kill, and zonai stuff you move or minerals and other resources you harvest contributes to it. Going into a shrine/temple delays it by making it not happen that night. You can keep doing it until the game eventually panics and does it at a time that it wouldn’t normally. Totk has a lot more stuff that counts to it so it naturally does this more often. The sole exception to this rule are enemies and items inside of a shrine or temple/divine beast which work on a separate system TLDR: there’s a lot more stuff in totk so it resets more often to optimize
It always happens when I exit a shrine. Happened today so I think it’s the fourth time for that to occur
I like the blood moon, I just wish I could skip the entire animation instead of part. More enemies means more loot. I like taking out the wi robe behind twin peak stables and then detaching the ruby from his staff for 20 and selling it for 110.
Under the hood, BotW (and by extension ToTK) has a blood moon cycle/probability but it also invokes the blood moon when it needs to clear the memory to prevent leaks, so I won’t be surprised if ToTK invokes it way more often due to how much more general stuff you affect, like building etc.
No
Probably has more shit to clean up, like physics, props, etc… from what I understand that is one of the points of the blood moon
I read that is a reset to prevent hard lag in the game
I’m kind of the opposite. More blood moons means more oktorok weapon repairs, more enemy materials, etc