SvennoJ said:
It was raining all day today so I pushed on through Zelda and completed my survey of the Depths! That is, the connected parts, there are still 4 light roots that are only accessible from Hyrule and another 5 I need heat protection gear for since they're in the middle of the lava fields in the Depths.
Final tally from exploring the depths, 11,178 Zonaite, 638 large Zonaite, 3,528 crystalized charges (which I just turned into 35 energy wells), 10,638 poes, over 400 bomb flowers and muddle buds, over 500 puff shrooms, 999 arrows, 33 Yiga schematics, 8 Schema stones, 862 Bokoblin fangs, the most common spawn. Bloated game lol. And btw the enemies never reset while I was in the Depths. Camps around where I explored first were still abandoned, just the Zonaite came back. Maybe it will repopulate now I left the Depths and trigger a blood moon.
Leaving the Depths took an hour of trial and error but I finally managed without resorting to fast travel or walking all the way around the river walls to an ascend tower. I went back to where I entered for the initial photo quest to find everyone had left, including the balloon that was sitting there. I auto build my rocket balloon to get back to the surface but nope, it doesn't last long enough. Just enough for the game to load the surface, then the balloon disappears and the game hangs for 10 seconds while loading the Depths again.
I tried adding a fan to the balloon but with just the one battery I still had, doesn't make it either. I tried launching from higher up, yet that's a bit to the side and then it got really frustrating with how bad the build system is. Doing any sort of precision aiming is off the table, adding a steering stick just makes it too heavy and the annoying snap feature means I can't position stuff in the right place to make it work. Using the ceiling as a funnel works except the dumb physics engine launches the wood fire out of the balloon when the rockets boost it into the vaulted ceiling.
So back down I tried a Yiga dirigible with two balloons and fixed torches. Adding rockets and fans to make it go faster but that also didn't make it. I tried to use a platform with a stake, auto build and stick it to the wall was my plan. Then use that as a platform to build a new balloon halfway up. Didn't work, auto build and it just falls down, no chance grabbing it. So I tried adding rockets in flight which I got from the one Gacha machine in the Depths. That's when the build system really started to piss me off. It's either can't place here or watch it fall down straight away. Why can't I effing place it instead of it randomly dropping somewhere around you or have it in my hand after selecting it.
After well over a dozen attempts I finally found the right pixel to stand on and the right direction to face in to have the rocket fall inside the balloon. Then some awkward ultra hand manoevering to get it attached to the balloon and set it off. Finally with 4 rockets to launch, wood fire glued to the balloon (doesn't make sense but at least it doesn't fly out with the physics engine) and 3 times a rocket added in flight, made it to the surface before the balloon disappeared again! Oof it's bright up there.
Dunno why the build system gets all the praise, the more I use it, the more I dislike it. It's clunky to use with comedy physics and stuff disappears after a minute of use if you want to go anywhere. BotW was very do-able without fast travel, yet TotK relies way to heavily on teleportation. Anyway I should have enough battery power now to fan all the way up to the surface before the timer runs out. Next to work on stamina :/
First I'm gonna fill in the last parts of the Depths and complete the Khoga quest (is in one of the disconnected parts). Hyrule chasm here I come. Oh and not an ounce of recognition for my efforts. Ok I got 5 Zonaite for my efforts of mapping the entire Depths for them :p Not that I can tell them, thanks for the picture, I wonder what else is there. I could tell you but I guess I'll wait until your quest advances to the next stage lol.
Ah, got the blood moon straight away, first night out of the Depths. All reset :/
Hmm is there a way to reset the weather? I decided to climb to the top of Hyrule castle before diving back down, but it started raining halfway up, stuck now :/ |
