Getting back out the North Lomei maze proved to be a new challenge. You start at about -672 and need to go up to +300 or so. Just over a 1000 units to travel up through a narrow tunnel. That's too far for a triple fan assisted rocket boost balloon. The balloon despawns and then you have to climb further. I didn't have any stamina food prepared, still too far to climb out.
I tried adding rockets, put them in the basket as cargo to use more boosts along the way. However when you use ultra-hand in a balloon, it starts shifting instead of continuing to go straight up. Also unlike earlier adding a rocket to the side affected the course pushing it into a wall. The difference with my first 'escape' is that that didn't have any helper fans, just single rockets added in flight. Then it kept going straight up despite the rocket being on the side. Here I ended up on the wall and the geometry of this entrance is that it narrows into a smaller square tunnel at the roof of the Depths, thus creates a perfect trap to get stuck while ascending.
Waiting to deploy the additional rockets until in the smaller tunnel didn't work either. The extra weight slows the balloon down, and I could only set off 2 rocket boosts ion the narrower tunnel before the balloon despawned, even further to climb up than not taking any additional rockets. I didn't try taking them out mid flight this time as it was such a pita first time.
Instead I quickly confirmed that using a control stick is pointless. You can't add while operating a control stick and you can't see where you are going and there's always some drift, so I ended up stuck on the wall long before reaching the narrower tunnel. Easiest solution was double up on the fans. 6 fan powered rocket boosted balloon to get 1000 units straight up, plus a large zonai charge to recharge my maxed battery 70% of the way up. This balloon time limit is challenging!
Then I noticed the master sword was flying over while going for the most NW shrine, so I went to grab that. Unfortunately picking that up teleports you to great sky island (for no reason) so then I had to fly all the way back again. How rude. But now I could grab the rest of the Yiga armor and picked up another memory along the way, pretty much completed the end of the story but still missing most of the earlier memories, getting everything backwards lol. So far still more to find when back tracking.
Currently in the sky again, another copy-paste zone with some small differences. Routine busy work.
Meanwhile Hyrule engineering keeps finding new ways to push the build engine
https://www.reddit.com/r/HyruleEngineering/comments/15dqwkn/floating_rotation_lazer_weapons/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=whitespace&embed_host_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eurogamer.net%2Fzelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-players-use-quantum-linking-to-make-impressive-builds (dunno how to embed this)
https://www.eurogamer.net/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-players-use-quantum-linking-to-make-impressive-builds
