Nearly five years after the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, players are still figuring out how to do stuff that they weren't really meant to do, with the help of the game's surprisingly robust physics mechanics.
We already knew about the usefulness of Octo Balloons — a material dropped from Octoroks — which can be used to make things temporarily float. Attach them to bombs, then use the Korok Leaf to blow the bombs towards something, or attach them to rafts to create a sky-ship; or, like this player (named "Yeef" on YouTube) did, use them to make a log fly vertically.
You can then climb up to the top of the log, and as long as you have more Octo Balloons, you can just keep going up, adjusting the number of Octo Balloons to attain the height you need.
And what else would you do with a floating vertical log? Go and find bird-shaped Divine Beast, Vah Medoh, earlier than you're supposed to, of course!
Except, as Yeef says: The game developers weren't ready for this technique. After all that preparation, you'll get up to Vah Medoh, and... fall through. There's no collision detection on the bird, it seems, so it's not possible to land.
Trying to approach other Divine Beasts before you're supposed to has similar effects: Vah Ruta flings you away with a shield, Vah Naboris shoots lightning at you, Vah Rudania blows you away from the volcano (and even if you get past it, there's an invisible wall at the end), and if you try to climb the pillar in Rito Village before you're supposed to, you'll be attacked by chickens.
Perhaps the developers were ready after all, and the bird's defences are simply "cease to exist".
[source reddit.com]
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The divine beast are separate maps. They won’t load in until the story cutscene is triggered, or you quick travel to them.
It's not a skip. It's been well documented for years that this divine beast has no collision if you reach it early. This is pure clickbait
As you approach the Divine Beast, a Sheikah monk speaks to you...
"O hero, you have done well to break this game... but know that even open world games have their limits."
The player didn't fail! They, uh... fell with style.
I like the 'attack by chickens' bit, classic Zelda! 😁
I actually always assumed it would do the shield thing that Ruta does. I had no idea it would just have no collision lol
That's pretty cool. I also like that the Vah Medoh shows up on the map afterwards as an unvisited landmark.
Tsk, tsk. Complete lack of foresight by the developers.
Even they couldn't anticipate just how open their world was!
@Scapetti that's not what clickbait is. I'm sorry if you already knew this but I (and others!) didn't, and it's still a fun video
@KateGray I meant because you said they found a skip (they didn't) and because you said they failed (they also didn't because it's literally just programmed this way). The curb your enthusiasm reference is fine though. It just irked me a little because I expected to see someone find something new that actually had the potential to be a skip, and then fail at it in some hilarious way (but it was just due to lack of collision). It was not what I expected, hence why I called it clickbait. It's fine, I just didn't like the headline
@Scapetti That's fair — I did change the headline so it didn't reference skips, at least!
I don't think this is clickbait, I can understand why one might be annoyed by the title I suppose. As long as it isn't categorized as news, a funny video article can be just a funny video article, even if some have seen it before.
There are NO chickens in the Zelda games!
I was thinking of trying to do something like this, expecting Medoh to attack me in some way like Naboris. Ah well...
I also tried landing on Ruta before doing the cutscene/fight thing, that was fun. lol
This is just cucco.
I'm glad. Getting tired of all the cheaters. Just play the game and try to beat it like it was intended to be beaten.
The Japanese youtuber DrillCalamary (ドリルカラマリ) literally did this exact thing almost 5 years ago on April 10, 2017, a month after the game’s release: https://youtu.be/3BLr8LlK8K4
@darkzero1People who exploit game mechanics are not "cheating". Especially in this game, the developers obviously wanted people to experiment and do things their own way. Even glitches can make the game even more fun for some people (myself included). It's fun to figure out how the game works through the games glitches.
People play games in their own unique ways. Some like to rush through, some like to play as normal, some like to find all of the secrets, som like to get creative, some like to find glitches, the list goes on and on. Nobody can play any game "wrong". You can't govern how other people enjoy the game.
No hard feelings, I've just been frustrated with people who have said similar things in the past and had a lot to say. Have a good day!
I love how the devs put up protection around all the other beasts but thought “nah, they’ll never reach the bird… right?” But alas. Five years later, the community is still trying to break everything 😂
@darkzero1 You're glad? People can play games however they want to. This is someone getting creative with the tools provided in the game.
I was really hoping the video would end with the Curb theme 🤣
I once saw someone do the same with the flying machine minecart glitch
They flew over the Divine Beast and fell right through
@KateGray
You're doing great, but you can't please everyone. I enjoyed the post!
Well, that was at least a pretty cool idea.
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