I don't think so, the fact that there's a flamethrower shield attachment would suggest you still need items/resources to make a fire.
Light could also refer to the other meaning, weight-wise. Assuming that's how languages work which may not be the case.
This sequence made me so happy when I saw it in the trailer just because we didn’t have confirmation of the seemless transition yet and I’m giessing it was probably overlooked by a lot of fans. I’m not sure if I will be truly sure until I see Link fall all the way to the surface but these shots pretty much confirm no loading screens.
I did think about that, but not in this case.
I lIke this idea and I would take it a step further being able to harvest the malice and use it as a weapon or even shoot it onto a metal wall and have eat through or melt objects. Why should Ganondorf have all the fun. Plus look what it did to the Mastersword, imagine what it would do to anything that’s not infused with the Sacred flames.
Do not apologize! I love a good lesson in etymology!
Could be hinting at more abilities that we haven’t seen using just the hand via what ever rune on the hand is showing like below: Maybe we can rotate the symbol of what’s on the hand from the UI to give us different abilities, kind of like the Champion abilities.
Where as the full arm ability act more like our Rune abilities type thing.r/totklang absolutely eating up all these new runes
Yeah this one looks more clearly like "wind" 風.
We examined the history of 'time' and 'see' kanji in this thread before. The history of 'wind' doesn't really give us any new insight ...
... cause it just looks like the original symbols attempted to draw a bird or dragon and changed a lot.
So the powers we know for sure are:
- telekinesis (possibly only for Zonai objects, or maybe for any object in a certain radius)
- momentum reversal a.k.a. rewind - and we think this is what the time kanji is representing
- surface phasing
Unconfirmed and guessing based on runes are:
- "light" or "vision" - maybe a lens of truth, but I believe Zelda's shiekah slate will gain that ability now, so I'm guessing Link's arm could be used to 'light' i.e. illuminate objects in dark areas, idk
- wind - perhaps a permanent korok leaf / gust bellows attached to Link's arm, or maybe a permanent Revali's gale for updrafts, or both depending on upgrade status
I've been thinking about what powers these devices (there has to be some limitation to them) and I've come up with the idea that it's quite probably our vials, acting through the arm. I think we may also be able to provide additional power sources (which may be the large green barrel thing on the car) that helps run them for longer periods of timeSo.. If we are flying around really high up in our Quad drone are we going to be able to just bail off of it at will when we see something interesting from below? And if so, what happens to our Quad drone will it continue flying on its own? Cause that’s going suck landing on the ground and think to yourself “Oh shit, I left the engine running as you watch it randomly flying around high up in sky, and no way to get back on it.”
Wait is that a tree? I thought it was like, a tuft of grass or somethingOne of the Elephants in the room I feel as far as Island structures we have seen in the trailer comes from our Quad Drone scene:
You might be thinking its obviously the Death Star in front us., and you would be correct, But to me perspective of size is hard to figure out when looking at these islands and the objects and structures on them in the scenes from the trailers we have seen so far.
This is a Massive tower to the left of us with what I thought at first looked like an average sized Pillar with one of the Lotus Flower/ Pine-cone lamps on top depending on which camp you are in: As we zoom into it with Link in foreground, it almost looks like it gets smaller some how and still looks like an averaged size Pillar.
Unless you look at the bottom portion of the sky Island and compare the size and realize Its actually equal to or larger than the entire bottom portion of the Island. When looking at it on its own, the scale becomes more apparent compared to the Circle of the Tree.
That Orb type structure on top is likely the size of a very large building or something like the Temple of Time in size and scale. So I can see why some think or have been saying that the islands look bare and uninteresting to a point, but upon closer inspection up close we are going to find many crazy things all over the place that will give us plenty of "wtf is that moments" in this game.
So to me its not surprising they aren't showing us any of the islands up close as well as most of the surface Hyrule. And if I take the opposite approach of what they feel they can show us up close which is two or three scenes of Hyrule in the daytime, it means everything else has probably changed in some way as we get closer to it and that could be part of the big surprise in exploration.
I would say it's grass, no?
I'd be stoked if the game looks like the press kit screenshots - seems like they've been filing off BotW's rough edges. The pixel staircase on the planks in the TotK screenshot makes me hopeful that it's not a bullshot. However, the glider screenshots from the Twitter account seem to be because they're so much sharper - or they've implemented a proper dynamic resolution scaler this time around. (BotW only had a few resolutions it cycled between IIRC.)I tried to see if I could compare directly with BotW press kit screenshots but the compression made it difficult, I couldn't immediately tell how much better the edges were. When Link is close to the camera, it looks the same for both TotK and BotW. When Link is further away, TotK appears to look better. LoD and texture detail were the bigger standouts.
So I wanted to see if I could do a comparison myself but Switch screenshot compression and resolution means it's unfair for BotW. So take this for all it's worth, I'm posting it anyway cause I didn't my effort of switching Wi-Fi networks to pull a screenshot off my Switch to go to waste
But even when seeing it on my television screen, TotK appears to have better detail in the far distance. And not just in this area.
It's a tree, it's actually a bit further back than it looks tho. You can see the scale of the tower better in the extended footage:
I'm also really interested in what kind of effects the weather will have on us this time, really really curious about that huge tornado too. I keep thinking about all the possibilities all day at work lol
Yeah, the fact that they haven't shown aerial combat is obvious that they are hiding a lot of stuff, glad that we saw it in patents. Speaking of, the phasing through was no show once again and so was time rewind. The next trailer will literally go all in.Aerial combat has to be an important part of the gameplay; I'm surprised nothing about that has been shown yet. For some reason, they kept showing Link free falling direct after direct. What are your expectations for aerial combat? Personally, I want some tough flying enemies; that 3 headed dragon has wings, so it looks like it can fly too, could make for an awesome from the ground to the sky type of battle
Oh yeah, that new phasing mechanic too. All the more reason for me to think there will be either a 15-20 minute long direct or a big overview trailer in the next month. I think they comfirm/explain more about some of the stuff they teased in all the teasers and trailers. At least that's what I'm hoping for.
Given the Zelda team's dedication to details, I can already see myself experimenting, letting Link falling to his death in different armours to see what happens
I'm very curious about aerial combat, especially because BotW didn't have that many flying enemies (Skywatchers and Sentries are probably gone or replaced). The new one looks cool and will likely have a few variants, any guesses what it could be?
Something completely new or based on an old enemy like a Vire? It's the closest resemblance I can find from the existing ones:
Artwork from Oracle of Ages/Seasons
Makes me hope for more, though. Aeralfos are an obvious one but I hope there are others.
They are definitely not done with it. In BOTW trailers Link was in Gerudo with champions tunic and he appeared just fine, while in game it's completely different. I think it's just a trailer thing.
That’s kind of the point I’m getting at as well, I had to go frame by frame in zoom mode in that section because I kind of thought the same thing at first glance, it’s definitely a yellow Ginko tree it’s just placed further back like @Mango suggested as well. So that in itself is odd as well, you make an entire island and place a massive stone structure on it with one tree? This makes it nearly impossible to tell how large it is until you slowly get closer and closer to it.
I want.
I think it actually works better if those are completely gone. Maybe not bombs since that's a Zelda staple, but regular stasis, magnesis and cryonis. It will make exploration more fresh and treacherous, which is I believe exactly what they're going for here. I really think the ground level will be treated as extremely dangerous and hostile to life, with the sky being a bit of a respite zone and the underground amping up the danger to 11.
the Switch is pretty damn close to the Wii U, in handheld mode at least. with Docked being a higher resolution version of that, I'd say that the Switch was maxed out damn near day one. that's the price one pays to onboard Wii U games almost immediately
I agree, those ribbons at the end of our new paraglider might mean the direction of the wind can help or hinder us when we're gliding through the air, like WW sailing but not as influential.
I believe the new abilities are going to substitute the old ones.
Thats what i was talking from the start. Som expected a huge jump because "botw was a rushed launche port, they had 6 years, it has to look leagues above"... Ignoring that botw was everything but a rushed job. They knew the architecture perfectly well, had close help from nvidia, pushed the launch of both back, and ignoring that expansion of the map and systems would eat up resources to.
I expect some refinement, but 1080 with all the other improvements seem utopic. I expect them to aim at the same resolution (dynamic 900p), maybe theyll try some AA as with Xenoblade 3.
Jesus Christ did I just go through a time portal back to the early 2000s.
