WeekapaugGroove wrote:Ron Swanson wrote:BoTW update:
Yeah, it's really fun. Predictably hating the weapon durability element though. Did they at least nerf it (as in, make it less penalizing) in Tears of the Kingdom?
You can now fuse monster parts or other **** to weapons and they seem more durable but I don't know for sure on that.
I felt like the durability got in my head early in BoTW and I would save my good weapons to the point I never ended up really using some. But weapons are pretty abundant so just use your best ones. You can also mark out some spots to grab or farm new ones every blood moon.
Was listening to Vidjya Game Apocalypse podcast, and they had a really good discussion about the weapon durability and how it's really tough to sometimes even think about the absolute myriad of ways to perform combat in this game. We are so trained to go guns blazing, just melee everything, but this game literally allows you to build death machines that just demolish enemies in an instant. Fuze things you didn't even think of to a sword to just dominate enemies.
In BOTW, I agree that it was kind of nerfed because even the bomb power and abilities didn't do a lot of damage to enemies. But in this one, most importantly, it is constantly telling you "we are providing you with all the weapons you'll ever need, don't get attached to any of them. If you want weapons to be durable, fuse them before they break or use them against the "right" type of enemies. Examine your environment and you will see that we are giving you literally dozens of weapons".
There is a shrine that almost is screaming this at you and I completely missed it. It's one of the "stripping you of your weapons, got to defeat all the enemies" ones. They give you little Zonai drones to use, but around the shrine are spikes, cannons, lasers, etc. It literally never occurred to me to fuse these things to the drones. Instead, I tried to just hammer my way through like 10 times. I eventually did it, but when I heard the podcast talk about it, I kind of was dumbfounded.