Video game lessons learned the hard way

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

• The game goes out of its way to warn you that the entirety of the Eldin region averts Convection, Schmonvection, even noting that your wooden shields/bows/weapons will combust if you try to carry them in the heat with you. This applies to most of your items, so with that in mind... don't use Bomb Arrows, dumbass! You don't even have time to react to your face blowing up.

edited 16th Mar '17 11:45:24 AM by NesClassic

Everyone Loves Breath of the Wild

• If your shield breaks while Shield Surfing, you'll wipe out and eat shit. If you're on a steep hill this is really bad, since...
• ...when rolling down hills, either from getting thwacked by a Moblin or the aforementioned consumption of fecal matter, you will take a quarter heart of damage for every second you're tumbling down a hill. Yes, you can die from scraping your elbow something fierce!

Everyone DOES love Breath Of The Wild;

• Deflecting a Guardian's eye beam sends it right back at them For Massive Damage. Lynel's fireballs do not work this way and you'll just wear out your shield.
• Packing only special effect foods in your inventory sounds clever at first, but not so much anymore when you really just want to recover hearts and not nullify your triple attack boost.
• Catching bugs, lizards and other potion material critters is a pain... Unless you just wear a full ninja costume. Then you can just jog up to them no problem. Animals and monsters still hear you coming though.
• Boomerangs seem to avoid the ground when you throw them, which is good. They can also knock monsters in the back of their heads on the way back, which is better! They can also hit a wall on the way back, or you can mess up the catch if there are any other items near you, which is bad.

Mass Effect: Andromeda:

1. Kett Ascendants can one shot kill you at close range
2. Biotic charging an Ascendant puts you at close range.

Dark Souls III. If you're in a covenant that automatically summons you, make sure to unequip it while fighting a strong enemy. If you damage the enemy but get summoned before killing them, they'll be back at full health when you return, but you won't get back your estus.

Everybody haaates BOTW~

• The basic moveset for Lynels all have counters to them: The running swing can be parried, the charge can be Flurry Dodged, and you can shoot them in the head while they set up a fireball volley to stun them.
  • This helps beat them. It does not guarantee success at all.

Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit:

• Beware the Atlantica canal area. Slightly scraping those pillars will send you into them.
• Overtaking room is more scarce than you think it is.

The Legending of The Zeldaning; The Breathing of The Wild Things;

• Your food/elixir inventory is limited. Better not overstock on an effect you'll seldom use.
• Effects from elixirs and foods will be cnacelled if a new one is applied. Careful of what order you chow it down when near death.
• Meals cooked in a pot and elixirs take up a slot each, even if identical. Foods roasted on an open fire will only heal hearts, but they can stack on the same inventory slot! Took me until now to fucking notice... Ergo, keep some seared meat or baked fruit of choice around at all times!
• If you see a suspicious landmark, better take a pic. Sometimes it can save you the trouble of running back and forth for a quest!
• People sometimes ask for the weirdest things, so carrying 10 bugs, lizards, rocks or berries in your hyper-void-fanny-pack can pay off.

Zelda's Mythical Tale, The Feral's Exhaled Air.... and no, I don't care if I'm driving this joke to the ground.

Remember, you are gliding when farming pieces of Naydra. Here's what I said when I got frozen by one of its ice attacks:

"Oh, I'm frozen... oh crap! OH CRAP!" Link slams into the ground "Thanks Mipha, I love you..."

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild:

The (Silver) Lynels with the Great Swords have a different timing for Perfect Dodges and Parries than the ones with the "normal", one-handed swords

Fish waifu saves laifu

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The Legend of Z.....amtrios:

Don't assume always that subspecies will behave similarly, let alone identically, to their original counterparts. I double-carted against both Tigerstripe Zamtrios and Tidal Najarala and spent 45-48 minutes with each of them because they're something else entirely in comparison to the original Zamtrios and Najarala.

And just as I went on to challenge Seregios for the Urgent Quest to access the G2 chapter, my 3DS's battery passed away. I had suspected that my brother had gifted me an used system, and this confirms it.

Legend of Cell-da: Breath of the Shading

• The Gerudo cross-dressing garb won't protect you against the heat in all areas of the desert. This includes the areas where the Moldugas lurk, so if you're low on health while fighting them and suddenly drop dead for no explicable reason? Yeah, the heat killed you.
• The trick to stunning the Moldugas is NOT to merely detonate the bomb in their path while they're still in the sand, but instead to make them surface to eat the bomb FIRST. Also, they're sensitive to noise and movement: take advantage of this by throwing a bomb in a direction away from you while standing still, and watch as the sucker charges and eats that instead of you.
• Oh, and try not to fight the Molduga at night. Last thing you want is some goddamn annoying electric keese stunning and killing you from behind while you're focused on observing the Molduga's movements.

Who doesn't love The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild? Jim Sterling

• I tried fighting a stationary guardian in a new game. It is possible to stay behind its turret all the time, however I ran out of melee weapons halfway through its lifebar.
• Don't "accidentally" jump on top of a dragon, you'll just bounce off backwards until you fall off its tail.
• The diving animation can ruin gliding attempts. All the time.
• Crouch-hop to catch them insects, lizards and fairies more quickly. It doesn't seem to work with regards to sneaking up on hunted animals though.
• Sword Lynels have two melee attacks that have only slightly different telegraphs: the relatively quick sword swing, and the slower pincer move. Attempting to dodge the former when the Lynel does the latter results in massive damage to Link as he lands from the backhop.
• While we're on the topic of Monster Hunter "crossovers", Lynels can be mounted from the side/rear and backstabbed repeatedly, and it's so funny...
• And finally, if you're tired of fighting Lynels just give them a Guardian Arrow to the face.

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For the life of me I can't dodge the charge for some reason, so I dodge the running swing and parry the charge instead. Parrying the charge results in above mounting attempt though, so the reward is similar to flurry rush.

edited 22nd Mar '17 7:36:27 PM by Malco

Today on Wolf Link needs to catch his breath:

So, a lesson; fighting silvers lynels naked in a thunderstorm can be described as "a bad idea." Apparently, lightning moves faster than Link's bullet time arrow attacks. Again, I love you Mipha.

Puzzle of Empires:

Pay attention to attack power of each warlords upon facing Son Ken, Toga Heihachiro and especially Maria Theresia. Their skills aims the person with highest base attack without regard of actual numbers.

The Legend of Zelda: Snake Eater

• Evertide Isle is hard until you mine one of the rocks for a flint. Then you can make your precious Hearty Meals and Mighty Banana buffs and go naked ham

Valkyria Chronicles: Initially deploying a team of Scouts and then swapping them out for heavier/slower or more specialized units (Shocktroopers, Snipers, Lancers, or Engineers) at a conquered enemy base is totally a thing you can do, and is probably a good idea depending on how a certain map might be set up.

Breath of the Wild's HIDDEN AGENDA? The Truth Will Shock You!

• Standing close to an enemy while you attack them using electricity-based attacks, such that you're borderline physically touching them, will electrocute you as well and even cause you to drop your own weapon.

Crysis: you might be a super-soldier, but you're not invulnerable. The mooks can and will kill you if you decide the best way is to charge a group.

Well, that depends on how good you are and how you charge them. That being said, I am generally a Predator in the game. Stealth mode to a good ambush spot, kill a few enemies as they pass by and you recharge, then ghost along to the next one. IF I can get away with it, I leave the enemies alive and just avoid them seeing me.

That is the fun of playing Crysis in Post-Human difficulties, you must become The Predator if you want to live.

Which is kinda why the Bow is a game breaking weapon in Crysis 3 if you manage to recover the arrows, it doesn't break stealth but if you time the decloak-shoot-cloak sequence with a suppressed weapon and go for headshots, any gun is just as good as the bow.

Stellaris: For some reason, Synthetics can die in alien plague outbreaks.

Computers get viruses too, you know.

As for why there's a computer virus and a biological one at the same time...maybe the native lifeforms are cyborgs or something?

Hearts of Iron IV:

You know those instant codes you like so much? The ones for instant construction, research, and national focuses? Yeah, when they're on they're on for everybody. You go in thinking "I'm going to get a leg up on everybody!" Cue Poland forming a Baltic defense faction and the Soviets going Cold War Era expansion on everybody. If you're going to use them, keep the game paused, get what you need done pronto, and turn them off. The AI doesn't do instant so much as "one day time limit." You're good as long as you turn them off before you start playing.

ETA: Addendum: When you're looking up codes, read the full entry. "Affects AI" means what it says, dummy.

edited 26th Mar '17 7:40:58 PM by Journeyman