*My quick thoughts on Age of Calamity: I have tried nearly a dozen of ‘Warriors’ spin-off games throughout the years and this one is* *the first that actually “clicked” for me. I love core Zelda games, but this spin-off is more than simply fan service. Would recommend.* _Boomstick Gaming is the haven for core gamers who value gameplay mechanics and systems, because that's what continues_ _to make anything from 8-bit to 8k, equally enjoyable. Consider sticking around on the channel if you fall into that category! -Alex_
You know the bar that goes down that makes it possible to end them off at once? if you don't manage to break it down by the end of your combo you can shot your arrows on his head to get a few more slashes in :) (Sometimes the headshots doesn't connect though :|) And if you don't have time to dodge you can use one of the runes to make you immune to the attacks (for example Lynels and their Fire balls, if you are in a small area where you can't dodge it, just use the bomb rune and you'll give damage while taking none)
One thing I noticed when playing the game: (If it's already mentioned I'm sorry) If you play as link, you can use arrows right? Well, if you backflip and use the arrows midair, it does a LOT more damage than the normal bow attack! What I like doing is when a weak point gauge appears I spam the backflip and arrow technique, it's incredibly op and deals a whole heck a lot of damage.
You know the bar that goes down that makes it possible to end them off at once? if you don't manage to break it down by the end of your combo you can shot your arrows on his head to get a few more slashes in :)
For the Apple roasting, you can just shield a fire attack instead of taking damage and it will still count as cooking apples even if you didn't take any damage.
One really useful tip for fulfilling sidequests later on is to break destructibles as you play through levels and sidemissions (ie. take a few seconds here and there to break trees, boxes, enemy fortresses, etc.). You will often find that you collected various materials that you later needed, and won’t need to go back and grind for every little item later in the game. Also, extra materials means you have some stuff to sell if you need a few extra rupees here and there too.
I "discovered" 2 "secret combos" that don’t show up on the combo menu of each character, I’m sure there is more of them, but here they are: 1- Mipha : Press repeatedly ZR and a powerful water tornado will rise up. This is slow to set up and makes you vulnerable to attacks, but when executed after a regular combo on the weak point gauge of a strong enemy, it can expose him once again and extend combo even more. 2- Daruk : Perform the Y-Y-X-X combo or any other combo that summons the horizontal rock pillar, then press or maintain X in the direction of that pillar to launch yourself into the air and automatically perform a salto and smash your weapon on the ground to summon another horizontal pillar.
Yeah, mipha teleporting can became a water tornado when repeatedly press zr 5x From there you can extend her air combo yyyx then do the tornado once again. But the stronger enemy tends to knock her off the water sprout if you are not carefulk
@@mr.h5604 This is why I start doing it when the strong enemy almost recovered from his weak point state. This lasts usually long enough for the stasis rune to recharge and lets you extend your combo even more!
I see someone mention stronger enemies will knock her off. This is why you have Mipha play support to Link. This is your best team. When Link has full health with the Master Sword, he can hit enemies from outside their range safely and efficiently. So when he takes damage, heal him with Mipha. The strategy is to go to the map and assign each on to follow the other. You need to have them somewhat close to each other for this to work effectively. While traveling place to place, have Mipha defeat all the minor enemies on the road to charge her special. This is just a back up. Try not to use this special too often. When you arrive at an enemy, just hold your ground and wait for Link. He might take a moment to get there. When he shows up, switch to Link. Now that you're playing with Link, stun your strongest opponent. If you can stun more than one, even better. Switch back to Mipha. Have Mipha aim at the enemy that Link stunned. Link will continue attacking that enemy. Make a water spout thingy with a strong attack directed at the stunned enemies. Spam the button that let's you swim up it. On the fifth successful swim, Mipha will heal all allies her attack touches, including your NPCs. Also, it'll do quite a lot of damage to stunned enemies. You might be able to Weak Point Strike with Mipha. This should also charge your Special just a little. When the enemies recover, switch back to Link. If Link doesn't have full health, keep your distance and use your archery tactics to hold them off. You can bait enemies wherever you want them, since they will usually follow you anywhere. They are now your playthings. If there are too many enemies in one spot, try to split them up. This is how I use Mipha.
From a person who has finished this game, these are good tips. Here's another: Use One-Handed Link's ZR to shoot the following weak spots: Moblin horns, Lynel faces, Hinox eyes, Talus Ores (If ur behind them), Guardian eyes, and Yiga Blade master masks. You can chain a combo into a bow by using Link's 1st and 4th combo.
@@xaoz2362 or play mipha with atk speed up and spam C6 (weird attack where she jumps around spinning her spear with a huge water tornado at the end) and infinite the taluses. The water tornado constantly hits their weak spot and goes away right as you do another C6.
@@xaoz2362 or play mipha with atk speed up and spam C6 (attack where she jumps around spinning her spear with a huge water tornado at the end) and infinite the taluses. The water tornado constantly hits their weak spot and goes away right as you do another C6.
The quick loot item tip item will despawn if they can't reach your character. Just because they are flying towards you doesn't mean they are added to your inventory. You'll officially gather them once they touch your character. So don't just always dash away from them as fast as you can whenever they start flying to you. Just be slow enough to let every item your gathering catch up to you. But fast enough so you can still reach your destination in time
Tip for Link using sprinting strong attacks: from my personal experience, when Link uses the sprinting strong attack with a two handed weapon, he’s actually faster than just running at normal sprinting
Tip: some of link’s two handed weapons ZR combos can absorb damage. (Example: if a ZR combo takes 1/2 hearts off of link, if you’re in the middle of a combo, and an enemy attacks, the damage will be absorbed, meaning you will be able to heal them with link’s x)
Not going to lie, playing Impa is SO friggin cool compared to the other playable characters. I just find her fighting mechanics so unique! She also reminds me of one of my favorite characters in Naruto (may he Rest In Peace).
Impa is cool, but most every character really breaks apart from the usual Warriors stuff in this game. Daruk can set remote detonated charges basically, Zelda has super runes, Mipha can teleport most anywhere into aerial combos, Revali can fly, etc. They did an amazing job at all the characters feeling unique and diverse.
Impa is the fastest way to reach you fps limit 😂 Her yyx combo make her invulnerable for a while. Her yx combo good for escaping to better ground/ to start cloning press zr while in air.
One trick I noticed that's pretty nice is that a lot of the 5/6 y -> x attacks will cause enemies to reveal their weakpoint gauge, this opening is very brief, but using the time stop rune can enable you to forcefully break the gauge I particularly love doing this with Link's two handed swords and the Zr special as it has insane AoE, plus whatever damage you take during the attack is taken as temporary damage that you can heal back, you can even ignore all incoming elemental attacks to just spam down enemies
It is worth noting that between this and a couple Special Gauges it is possible to stun lock most enemies you fight! It is broken. You can special -> weak point damage -> into reset the weak point -> immediately stasis -> break the gauge! I've been able to stun lock Talus using Link with his Sword + Shield combo, 4th hit x2 strong.
Another tip is that you can use the magnesis rune for some I frames (as Link) without it actually using your rune, so theres no recharge time, (as long as no metal boxes around). A good example of this is when a Lynel does his fire all around him attack, you can stay close to him by using magnesis with good timing.
Another good tip if you are trying to save some time. If your weapon is super op don't bother going through the full x or y combo just cancel with b when you killed them all and attack another group
These will be helpful to me - especially the dash attacks. Thanks for the video! I don’t know how often I’ll be setting myself on fire to roast those apples, but it’s nice to know I can. 😆
These were actually great tips not half in game tips and a quarter of obvious tips that are somewhat useful Thank you for this, going to reference this video for awhile
Exploitable: back dash with B+ZR with Link to reuse his aerial bow attack. It rips enemy captains to bits, and even does decent damage to all enemies. Also, it's super useful because it activates slowmo so you can line up weakspot shots to trigger their gauges. Definitely try it next time you fight a Lynel!
I love this game even though I suck at it. I mostly button smash, lol. Already finished the main story, but these tips will come in handy for end game content and/or a second playthrouh
here’s another tip: if you find that a boss has only little bit of it’s weak point left, bombs actually can help remove it. links bombs especially help and will usually remove at least 1 whole triangle
Another trick I learned that if on link you do a backwards doge and then shoot your bow in the half a second your in the air it will shoot twice as fast. Takes some getting used to but makes your gameplay more fluid and fast
Most enemies are vulnerable to one element from a magic rod, where if you use the right element then every piece of their weak point gauge will already cracked, making destroying their weak point gauge tons faster.
One thing to mention about Link’s arrow time: you can activate it from *anything* that put you in the air. Yes, that includes the regular backflip dodge AND EVEN the little hop you do at the start of the shield surf move
Here is an advanced tip, many 4 and 5 hit combos Strong attacks activate the weak point gauge. Which you can immediately Stasis... and some characters with attack speed can hit a tempo where it can near perfect stun lock even the strongest enemies. With 3 Special Gauges it is possible to perfect lock most enemies to death... but you can supplement 1-2 Rod uses. Note: This works off of Link's SECOND 4th Strong Attack with a Sword + Shield. The only characters to my knowledge this doesn't work on are... Daruk, due to being stuck in a Stasis animation unable to dodge out. Revali, because while mechanically cool there is horrible limitations and lag when you go back to flying massively sloweing him. One of the later characters I won't spoil also lacks one... but has an ability to set up attacks to land WHEN the gauge opens.
@@Maxawa0851 Give him a Weapon with a lot of attack speed and time that yyyyx combo with stasis. Makes him the most broken character since you can permalock everything.
here's a tip, complete all or as many map challenges as you can after you unlock them. Will make main missions a lot easier with the xp you gained and all those materials for requests.
All of this was super helpful ! Thanks Best bit was the chest bit in 6:26. I assumed the developers would do it like HW but instead we got Fire Emblem Warriors style of collecting items which saves up a lot of time.
Personally, I send my teammates out to the next goal. So if I need to capture 3 bases, I'll run to one while sending my teammates out to the other two. Then I can rapidly switch from one character to the next to complete each objective.
A couple more for ya: 1: While this isn't usually the most feasible thing to do 90% of the time, try to deplete multiple enemies' Weak Point Gauges at the same time. Even if the animation only appears to trigger on one enemy, a Weak Point Smash will deal the same amount of damage to all currently-stunned enemies, or at least to all within a certain radius. Like I said, this can be more trouble than it's worth in most situations, but definitely useful for when you have to take out multiple boss-level enemies in the late game. 2: Mipha's 4th Strong Attack (Y>Y>Y>X) is by far her most useful and versatile move. It summons a slow-moving set of water spheres that continuously move forwards and damage enemies. It lasts a RIDICULOUS amount of time, can absolutely DEVASTATE Weak Point Gauges, and - something I bet not many people knew - Mipha can actually use her ZR Ability to leap from the central sphere as it's moving! Combine all this with the fact that Mipha can attack while it's active, and that the attack won't cancel if Mipha is stunned or knocked backwards, and this may just be the most versatile single attack in the game (barring the RIDICULOUS combos of a certain archer unlocked in Chapter 5, who I won't spoil for the sake of consistency with the video).
Do it! Or at least download the free demo first. Your demo save carries over to the full game, so you won't have to worry about doing the beginning all over again, but I honestly don't think you'll regret it if your a BOTW fan. I bought the original Hyrule Warriors in anticipation of this, as I'd never really played any Warriors or other muso games since Dynasty Warriors 2 or 3. I like the original Hyrule Warriors well enough, but AOC blows it away. The original was a little clunky and mostly just some fun, but occasionally frustrating fan service. AOC is like a completely different game!
@@pickleshanks oh for real!? I’ll test out the demo then. Because I’m in the same boat as you I never cared for the Dynasty Warrior gameplay because fighting 100s of enemies didn’t seem like that much fun, but I do like BOTW so I’ll take your advice. Thanks for the feedback!
@@En3rgyLee Yeah, the demo is cool, but the real game is actually surprisingly good. I was considering not getting it, but I don't regret getting it at all.
The demo says nothing. Buy it! I guarantee you, you will not regret it, trust me. The game is just epic! The cutscene are like you were watching a movie in cinema and there are a lot of cutscenes. The soundtrack/music is awesome, the story is beautiful even if it's a little short in my opinion, BUT! it IS totally worth buying the game. During some cutscenes i cried tears of joy, the whole story was taking me by surprise, i was laughing, i was crying and the story itself has so much heart to it! If you are a Zelda Botw Fan you Have to buy it. I personally think this game is a must have for Zelda Botw Gamers, because it adds so much more to the whole story/Botw universe. If Zelda Botw 2 comes out, we have a beautiful trilogy lined up and i for myself would regret it, if i didn't buy Age of Calamity a few days ago. You will understand the Botw Universe a lot more and you will be very surprised, trust me. (Hope you understand my english ^^) Also, please don't spoiler yourself on Age of Calamity Cutscenes on YT, because you will regret it.
Tip for dealing with the monsters on the wooden platform bases. Just throw a bomb at the central supporting pillar. This will knock down the structure, defeating all the monsters on it and dropping the treasure chest to the ground. Be aware that this treasure chest is excepted from the rule of "treasure chests open automatically" (as are treasure chest you earn in skull hide outs).
Another tip: I haven't tried them all yet, but I know some characters (Like Link) have attacks that'll put larger enemies into a stagger state, letting you chip at the weak-point gauge. If you can put out enough damage, you might be able to take out the gauge with one stasis, let it charge while you wail on the stunned enemy, then do the weak-point strike. If you let it charge long enough and time your stagger move right, you might be able to catch them in a weak-point attack loop.
Just to note about the chests, they all open except the bokoblin chests after you hit a bokoblin tower or cave(the chest with glowing eyes) . I tested it and they dont open unless you go to it and open manually.
I have another tip that can be useful! While you're in the air after pressing B, you can use your bow (with Link) to deal quite a lot of damage to the enemy's shield. I didn't try with other characters but I use it often It's possible to take away almost half of a silver lynel's shield in 3 shots
If you invest on 60% perfect dodge (4x 10% perfect dodge seal) you can flurry rush every type of attack in the game. While attack speed are good for exposing weak gauge with longer combo, the flurry rush can immediately expose weak point gauge. Example lynel pattern: all of them can be flurry rush including arrow, stomp, sword slash, lynel fire breath, his aoe fire blast. Etc.
So, I'm a little late, but oh well. This one is kinda niche, but if you get good at it, you should be able to apply it to more things. (I found this during my playthrough, not sure how many other people discovered it) Okay, so, Thunderblight Ganon has a move which allows him to split into three. However, if you switch from say, link to impa back to link, those clones will be gone. Thunderblight (there's a certain threshold of health, I think its like 50% or lower), will always try to make the clones. Meaning, what you can do, is that you can hit thunderblight a couple times, then switch to any character, switch back to the character you were attacking with, rinse and repeat until that malice becomes EXP. Oh, and this also works for just dodging attacks. If you switch to a different character (let's say Mipha), right before a character gets hit (ex. Link). The game will flag Link as a NPC, so, in order to prevent A N G U I S H by having impa die right before you finish calamity ganon off because she walked right into that attack, in order to prevent this tragedy from ever becoming reality, NPC's (except for a couple) are placed in a sort of 'Limbo' State. In the Limbo state, they take dramatically less damage (or no damage), and they deal no damage, or at best a dramatically reduced amount compared to if the Player was controlling it. So, Link becomes an NPC, meaning that he's pretty much invulnerable, you wait until the attack is finished, and you control link again like nothing ever happened!
Another trick for link using swords, if you keep pressing x after a special attack, link will do an even stronger attack, some of them will even make enemies back off letting you hit their weak spot
"Tip #1" I have been doing this for a while and when you do it with someone else its even more powerful. The two players have different runes thus they can both use their own sheikah slate. what you can do is use stasis and use it TWICE on the enemy. this really depletes their shield. Also, you can use this when someone uses their special. when using a special their shield shows. when a shield shows use your special. Oh, and when a character uses their stasis short I recommend relying on the other person to break the shield in the short time OR they use their stasis as well. Tip #2: the flaming apple stays on until you eat ALL the apples. So I recommend saving up on those until your really low. Because its hard finding apples (For me at least) and not all levels have enemys with fire attacks. Fire apples are really useful. Elemental Synergies: as soon as you use your selected rod there will be some elemental signs that appear for a bit. test your fire on grass and you will see the fire icon appear upwards. (Sorry i was making this comment throughout the video and I wanted to give some more tips and anyways good video great channel bye!)
While it's all additional hardware cost, I have a DS4, back paddle attachment, and the 8bitdo retro reciever which I use for the sprinting strong attack so I can keep my thumb on the stick.
4:40 This is usually called "Claw Grip". I first noticed myself doing it when playing Dark Souls. It's good for any game that requires a face button input during movement.
Another thing that isn't immediately obvious is that Bombs do a slight amount of weak-point damage even if the enemy isn't in a state where they would take weak-point damage. If they're on the final bit of their bar but you don't quite get it all the way, you can often break it with a bomb rune. How useful this is really depends on each character's bomb move - ones that can hit a single target multiple times do quite well (Link and Zelda notably), ones that toss the bombs in a big area not so much.
I'm still never seeing anyone talk about the differences between characters in when they can dodge-cancel out of combos. Some can only dodge-cancel during regular attacks, and not their strong attacks. Some can dodge-cancel out strong attacks as well. This rule changes from character to character with regard to Sheila Rune attacks as well (which he does talk about in this video). This is one of the most critical mechanics in the game, imo
Cooking apples never really occurred to me. So far I've pretty much played the game on easy so I haven't used my own stock much. However, there are a few other ways. If you're in a Death Mountain stage, I think they automatically cook, just like other food dropped in BotW. I tend to find them already cooked too, but that could be due to an elemental enemy attack burning a box or a lesser enemy by accident that drops it.
![Age of Calamity's COMBAT Mechanics EXPLAINED!! [Introductory Tips/Info!!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/i-zla44XdCs/mqdefault.jpg)
*My quick thoughts on Age of Calamity: I have tried nearly a dozen of ‘Warriors’ spin-off games throughout the years and this one is*
*the first that actually “clicked” for me. I love core Zelda games, but this spin-off is more than simply fan service. Would recommend.*
_Boomstick Gaming is the haven for core gamers who value gameplay mechanics and systems, because that's what continues_
_to make anything from 8-bit to 8k, equally enjoyable. Consider sticking around on the channel if you fall into that category! -Alex_
You know the bar that goes down that makes it possible to end them off at once? if you don't manage to break it down by the end of your combo you can shot your arrows on his head to get a few more slashes in :) (Sometimes the headshots doesn't connect though :|)
And if you don't have time to dodge you can use one of the runes to make you immune to the attacks (for example Lynels and their Fire balls, if you are in a small area where you can't dodge it, just use the bomb rune and you'll give damage while taking none)
You can use the L trigger runes while flurry rushing as Link or other playable character.
@@funnature8679 damn
Hey, can anyone telll me how to get Wood in this game?
@@tahukoks cut down trees
Here another hidden tip: During flurry rush(perfect dodge) in the middle of the combo you can use any rune you want. Very good video !!
Will Stasis extend the time of the fury rush?
@@KeijiMaeda86 No, you go directly to rune, and it cancel it, you can do like 5 hit and then use a rune.
You can’t strong attack during a flurry rush, right? I might just start using bombs instead after a few hits.
I figured that out the other day, after canceling the flurry Rush into a Stasis lock to continue beating on its weak spot gauge.
What's the benefit if it cancels the weak point?
One thing I noticed when playing the game:
(If it's already mentioned I'm sorry)
If you play as link, you can use arrows right? Well, if you backflip and use the arrows midair, it does a LOT more damage than the normal bow attack! What I like doing is when a weak point gauge appears I spam the backflip and arrow technique, it's incredibly op and deals a whole heck a lot of damage.
You know the bar that goes down that makes it possible to end them off at once? if you don't manage to break it down by the end of your combo you can shot your arrows on his head to get a few more slashes in :)
@@xaoz2362 haha yeah that's what I do sometimes
I'll try this
The game says this, that shooting arrows when in the air shoots more arrows. In the loading advices.
@@xaoz2362 you can also throw bombs! if you use the headshot mechanic it has some sort of cooldown, so i reccomend doing both.
For the Apple roasting, you can just shield a fire attack instead of taking damage and it will still count as cooking apples even if you didn't take any damage.
Other channels: stretch to 10 minutes.
BSG: keeps it under 10 minutes to respect your time.
It's 8 minutes now
@@Cuck-Lord yeah lmao kinda contradicts the entire original point
Actually youtube lowered the midroll ad threshold from 10 to 8 minutes a while ago so there's no reason to stretch vids to 10 minutes anymore
One really useful tip for fulfilling sidequests later on is to break destructibles as you play through levels and sidemissions (ie. take a few seconds here and there to break trees, boxes, enemy fortresses, etc.). You will often find that you collected various materials that you later needed, and won’t need to go back and grind for every little item later in the game. Also, extra materials means you have some stuff to sell if you need a few extra rupees here and there too.
Hey, you can guard fire damage, which allows you to char yourself damage free.
Nice tip! I hate going to the hospital when I burn myself alive to cook my apples in real life.
This man loves what he does and it shows. Props man.
I "discovered" 2 "secret combos" that don’t show up on the combo menu of each character, I’m sure there is more of them, but here they are:
1- Mipha :
Press repeatedly ZR and a powerful water tornado will rise up.
This is slow to set up and makes you vulnerable to attacks, but when executed after a regular combo on the weak point gauge of a strong enemy, it can expose him once again and extend combo even more.
2- Daruk :
Perform the Y-Y-X-X combo or any other combo that summons the horizontal rock pillar, then press or maintain X in the direction of that pillar to launch yourself into the air and automatically perform a salto and smash your weapon on the ground to summon another horizontal pillar.
Also, Mipha will gain a bit of health (I think half a heart?) after ZR is pressed 5 times in a row (ie. when the powerful water tornado appears).
@@kage2395
Didn’t notice that!
Yeah, mipha teleporting can became a water tornado when repeatedly press zr 5x
From there you can extend her air combo yyyx then do the tornado once again. But the stronger enemy tends to knock her off the water sprout if you are not carefulk
@@mr.h5604
This is why I start doing it when the strong enemy almost recovered from his weak point state.
This lasts usually long enough for the stasis rune to recharge and lets you extend your combo even more!
I see someone mention stronger enemies will knock her off. This is why you have Mipha play support to Link. This is your best team.
When Link has full health with the Master Sword, he can hit enemies from outside their range safely and efficiently. So when he takes damage, heal him with Mipha.
The strategy is to go to the map and assign each on to follow the other. You need to have them somewhat close to each other for this to work effectively.
While traveling place to place, have Mipha defeat all the minor enemies on the road to charge her special. This is just a back up. Try not to use this special too often.
When you arrive at an enemy, just hold your ground and wait for Link. He might take a moment to get there. When he shows up, switch to Link.
Now that you're playing with Link, stun your strongest opponent. If you can stun more than one, even better. Switch back to Mipha.
Have Mipha aim at the enemy that Link stunned. Link will continue attacking that enemy. Make a water spout thingy with a strong attack directed at the stunned enemies. Spam the button that let's you swim up it. On the fifth successful swim, Mipha will heal all allies her attack touches, including your NPCs. Also, it'll do quite a lot of damage to stunned enemies. You might be able to Weak Point Strike with Mipha. This should also charge your Special just a little. When the enemies recover, switch back to Link.
If Link doesn't have full health, keep your distance and use your archery tactics to hold them off. You can bait enemies wherever you want them, since they will usually follow you anywhere. They are now your playthings.
If there are too many enemies in one spot, try to split them up. This is how I use Mipha.
From a person who has finished this game, these are good tips. Here's another: Use One-Handed Link's ZR to shoot the following weak spots: Moblin horns, Lynel faces, Hinox eyes, Talus Ores (If ur behind them), Guardian eyes, and Yiga Blade master masks. You can chain a combo into a bow by using Link's 1st and 4th combo.
This also works on wizrobe heads
@@Dylan-ln6qt oh yeah, forgot about that. Thanks!
All you need to do to beat the Taluses is dodge the hits, throw bombs, if he falls down, jump on top off him and hit the ore, repeat
@@xaoz2362 or play mipha with atk speed up and spam C6 (weird attack where she jumps around spinning her spear with a huge water tornado at the end) and infinite the taluses. The water tornado constantly hits their weak spot and goes away right as you do another C6.
@@xaoz2362 or play mipha with atk speed up and spam C6 (attack where she jumps around spinning her spear with a huge water tornado at the end) and infinite the taluses. The water tornado constantly hits their weak spot and goes away right as you do another C6.
The quick loot item tip item will despawn if they can't reach your character. Just because they are flying towards you doesn't mean they are added to your inventory. You'll officially gather them once they touch your character. So don't just always dash away from them as fast as you can whenever they start flying to you. Just be slow enough to let every item your gathering catch up to you. But fast enough so you can still reach your destination in time
Great video! Love that you took the time to make your tips match the in-game tip format on the loading screen.
Would gladly watch character-specific videos highlighting little nuances and tricks, if those aren't already coming down the pipe
Yea. That would be cool BUT there are a staggering amount of characters in this game. It would be a huge project to cover even half of them.
@@BoomstickGaming
One character per vid, maybe?
So much info packed in under ten minutes!
Tip for Link using sprinting strong attacks: from my personal experience, when Link uses the sprinting strong attack with a two handed weapon, he’s actually faster than just running at normal sprinting
That’s the case with a large number of dashing strong attacks. They trade damage for movement speed.
Hyah
This game is so great. I just finished all the story missions yesterday and now just doing all the side stuff and end game collecting.
Tip: some of link’s two handed weapons ZR combos can absorb damage.
(Example: if a ZR combo takes 1/2 hearts off of link, if you’re in the middle of a combo, and an enemy attacks, the damage will be absorbed, meaning you will be able to heal them with link’s x)
Not going to lie, playing Impa is SO friggin cool compared to the other playable characters. I just find her fighting mechanics so unique! She also reminds me of one of my favorite characters in Naruto (may he Rest In Peace).
Impa is cool, but most every character really breaks apart from the usual Warriors stuff in this game. Daruk can set remote detonated charges basically, Zelda has super runes, Mipha can teleport most anywhere into aerial combos, Revali can fly, etc.
They did an amazing job at all the characters feeling unique and diverse.
Mipha is pretty cool too, IMO
I find impa overhyped imo.
Impa is the fastest way to reach you fps limit 😂
Her yyx combo make her invulnerable for a while. Her yx combo good for escaping to better ground/ to start cloning press zr while in air.
Not just one, she has elements of Naruto, Jiraiya and the 4th
One trick I noticed that's pretty nice is that a lot of the 5/6 y -> x attacks will cause enemies to reveal their weakpoint gauge, this opening is very brief, but using the time stop rune can enable you to forcefully break the gauge
I particularly love doing this with Link's two handed swords and the Zr special as it has insane AoE, plus whatever damage you take during the attack is taken as temporary damage that you can heal back, you can even ignore all incoming elemental attacks to just spam down enemies
It is worth noting that between this and a couple Special Gauges it is possible to stun lock most enemies you fight! It is broken. You can special -> weak point damage -> into reset the weak point -> immediately stasis -> break the gauge!
I've been able to stun lock Talus using Link with his Sword + Shield combo, 4th hit x2 strong.
first tip I figured out on my own, works really well if you take advantage of the initial hits and pop it at the last second
Another tip is that you can use the magnesis rune for some I frames (as Link) without it actually using your rune, so theres no recharge time, (as long as no metal boxes around). A good example of this is when a Lynel does his fire all around him attack, you can stay close to him by using magnesis with good timing.
Another good tip if you are trying to save some time. If your weapon is super op don't bother going through the full x or y combo just cancel with b when you killed them all and attack another group
These will be helpful to me - especially the dash attacks. Thanks for the video!
I don’t know how often I’ll be setting myself on fire to roast those apples, but it’s nice to know I can. 😆
Thank you so much, I have wanted to see a vid of aoc tips with no spoilers, so thanks! I defiantly didn't know about the rods!
Love how spoiler sensitive you are man, keep up the great work! X
Would not say no to a more in-depth tips-&-tricks vid later in December.
These were actually great tips not half in game tips and a quarter of obvious tips that are somewhat useful
Thank you for this, going to reference this video for awhile
Exploitable: back dash with B+ZR with Link to reuse his aerial bow attack. It rips enemy captains to bits, and even does decent damage to all enemies. Also, it's super useful because it activates slowmo so you can line up weakspot shots to trigger their gauges. Definitely try it next time you fight a Lynel!
Instant stun when the bomb icon shows up, even when not jumping.
yes, easy bullet time is very useful against moblins to
I love this game even though I suck at it. I mostly button smash, lol. Already finished the main story, but these tips will come in handy for end game content and/or a second playthrouh
Man I struggle a lot in the main story how do you do more damage
here’s another tip: if you find that a boss has only little bit of it’s weak point left, bombs actually can help remove it. links bombs especially help and will usually remove at least 1 whole triangle
I've found Link, Teba, and Zelda (sheikah slate v) to be great at offensive bombs
Finally. A tip video that doesn't just fill out 10 minutes of shit that the game already explains in the tutorial. Thank you! These were all useful!
I liked how you didn't waste our time in the video. Thanks!
Welcome
Boomstick ALWAYS comes through!
Your weapon tips and guides are always my favorites. Your God Eater 3 videos were the ones that made me a fan 🤘🏽
I didn’t know the cutscenes would reflect link’s current armor lmao
I've been playing this game a lot, and almost all of these tips were new info to me. Great video
Opposite for me, I already knew all of them🙃 so I just wasted my time
Another trick I learned that if on link you do a backwards doge and then shoot your bow in the half a second your in the air it will shoot twice as fast. Takes some getting used to but makes your gameplay more fluid and fast
Tip, you can bullet time at the jump from a Sheild surf, and backflip into bullet time
Most enemies are vulnerable to one element from a magic rod, where if you use the right element then every piece of their weak point gauge will already cracked, making destroying their weak point gauge tons faster.
One thing to mention about Link’s arrow time: you can activate it from *anything* that put you in the air. Yes, that includes the regular backflip dodge AND EVEN the little hop you do at the start of the shield surf move
Here is an advanced tip, many 4 and 5 hit combos Strong attacks activate the weak point gauge.
Which you can immediately Stasis... and some characters with attack speed can hit a tempo where it can near perfect stun lock even the strongest enemies. With 3 Special Gauges it is possible to perfect lock most enemies to death... but you can supplement 1-2 Rod uses.
Note: This works off of Link's SECOND 4th Strong Attack with a Sword + Shield.
The only characters to my knowledge this doesn't work on are...
Daruk, due to being stuck in a Stasis animation unable to dodge out.
Revali, because while mechanically cool there is horrible limitations and lag when you go back to flying massively sloweing him.
One of the later characters I won't spoil also lacks one... but has an ability to set up attacks to land WHEN the gauge opens.
link can stunlock practically everyone but lynels
@@Maxawa0851 Give him a Weapon with a lot of attack speed and time that yyyyx combo with stasis. Makes him the most broken character since you can permalock everything.
here's a tip, complete all or as many map challenges as you can after you unlock them. Will make main missions a lot easier with the xp you gained and all those materials for requests.
The apple tips were so helpful! Thank you!
All of this was super helpful ! Thanks
Best bit was the chest bit in 6:26.
I assumed the developers would do it like HW but instead we got Fire Emblem Warriors style of collecting items which saves up a lot of time.
Personally, I send my teammates out to the next goal. So if I need to capture 3 bases, I'll run to one while sending my teammates out to the other two. Then I can rapidly switch from one character to the next to complete each objective.
Once I saw the stasis one I was so happy because I thought I was the only one who did that
Its actually how I killed the calamity
Nice!
When using Link's Two Handed Weapons Unique Skill, if an enemy attacks time will slow to give you better reaction time
Note: this only occurs once you get the Enhanced Ability for the weapon.
Thank you I needed this
0:59 "Paper, Rock, Scissors"
Would you believe that was the order it was first introduced to me back in the late 90s?
I know all of that when i started playing it. That help a lot, even in hard mode
A couple more for ya:
1: While this isn't usually the most feasible thing to do 90% of the time, try to deplete multiple enemies' Weak Point Gauges at the same time. Even if the animation only appears to trigger on one enemy, a Weak Point Smash will deal the same amount of damage to all currently-stunned enemies, or at least to all within a certain radius. Like I said, this can be more trouble than it's worth in most situations, but definitely useful for when you have to take out multiple boss-level enemies in the late game.
2: Mipha's 4th Strong Attack (Y>Y>Y>X) is by far her most useful and versatile move. It summons a slow-moving set of water spheres that continuously move forwards and damage enemies. It lasts a RIDICULOUS amount of time, can absolutely DEVASTATE Weak Point Gauges, and - something I bet not many people knew - Mipha can actually use her ZR Ability to leap from the central sphere as it's moving! Combine all this with the fact that Mipha can attack while it's active, and that the attack won't cancel if Mipha is stunned or knocked backwards, and this may just be the most versatile single attack in the game (barring the RIDICULOUS combos of a certain archer unlocked in Chapter 5, who I won't spoil for the sake of consistency with the video).
I haven’t bought this game yet, but let’s see if these crazy tips and tricks change my mind lol
Do it! Or at least download the free demo first. Your demo save carries over to the full game, so you won't have to worry about doing the beginning all over again, but I honestly don't think you'll regret it if your a BOTW fan. I bought the original Hyrule Warriors in anticipation of this, as I'd never really played any Warriors or other muso games since Dynasty Warriors 2 or 3. I like the original Hyrule Warriors well enough, but AOC blows it away. The original was a little clunky and mostly just some fun, but occasionally frustrating fan service. AOC is like a completely different game!
@@pickleshanks oh for real!? I’ll test out the demo then. Because I’m in the same boat as you I never cared for the Dynasty Warrior gameplay because fighting 100s of enemies didn’t seem like that much fun, but I do like BOTW so I’ll take your advice. Thanks for the feedback!
@@En3rgyLee Yeah, the demo is cool, but the real game is actually surprisingly good. I was considering not getting it, but I don't regret getting it at all.
The demo says nothing. Buy it! I guarantee you, you will not regret it, trust me. The game is just epic! The cutscene are like you were watching a movie in cinema and there are a lot of cutscenes. The soundtrack/music is awesome, the story is beautiful even if it's a little short in my opinion, BUT! it IS totally worth buying the game. During some cutscenes i cried tears of joy, the whole story was taking me by surprise, i was laughing, i was crying and the story itself has so much heart to it! If you are a Zelda Botw Fan you Have to buy it. I personally think this game is a must have for Zelda Botw Gamers, because it adds so much more to the whole story/Botw universe. If Zelda Botw 2 comes out, we have a beautiful trilogy lined up and i for myself would regret it, if i didn't buy Age of Calamity a few days ago. You will understand the Botw Universe a lot more and you will be very surprised, trust me. (Hope you understand my english ^^) Also, please don't spoiler yourself on Age of Calamity Cutscenes on YT, because you will regret it.
thanks for the Stasis tip. Those Weak Points gauges were getting in my nerves.
Dude this is magnificent!
very helpful and direct to the point
I'll be using these tips a lot!
Tip for dealing with the monsters on the wooden platform bases. Just throw a bomb at the central supporting pillar. This will knock down the structure, defeating all the monsters on it and dropping the treasure chest to the ground. Be aware that this treasure chest is excepted from the rule of "treasure chests open automatically" (as are treasure chest you earn in skull hide outs).
Another tip: I haven't tried them all yet, but I know some characters (Like Link) have attacks that'll put larger enemies into a stagger state, letting you chip at the weak-point gauge. If you can put out enough damage, you might be able to take out the gauge with one stasis, let it charge while you wail on the stunned enemy, then do the weak-point strike. If you let it charge long enough and time your stagger move right, you might be able to catch them in a weak-point attack loop.
Just to note about the chests, they all open except the bokoblin chests after you hit a bokoblin tower or cave(the chest with glowing eyes) . I tested it and they dont open unless you go to it and open manually.
They open if you defeat the enemies around it i believe
I have another tip that can be useful! While you're in the air after pressing B, you can use your bow (with Link) to deal quite a lot of damage to the enemy's shield. I didn't try with other characters but I use it often
It's possible to take away almost half of a silver lynel's shield in 3 shots
Your channel name and how you sometimes call yourself Deadite! It all hit me like a tonne of bricks. You're an Evil Dead fan!
Cook your apples by lighting yourself on fire... lol That's just GOLD!
Can you make a weapons guide and what Synergizes well with certain units
Enjoyed watching, very helpful Alex! Thanks!
If you invest on 60% perfect dodge (4x 10% perfect dodge seal) you can flurry rush every type of attack in the game. While attack speed are good for exposing weak gauge with longer combo, the flurry rush can immediately expose weak point gauge.
Example lynel pattern: all of them can be flurry rush including arrow, stomp, sword slash, lynel fire breath, his aoe fire blast. Etc.
Favorite TH-camr, hands down, I should comment more
Thanks for clearing up that apple thing !
my fav tip would be if you're struggling to level up or farm money to replay challenge levels on easy
So, I'm a little late, but oh well. This one is kinda niche, but if you get good at it, you should be able to apply it to more things. (I found this during my playthrough, not sure how many other people discovered it)
Okay, so, Thunderblight Ganon has a move which allows him to split into three. However, if you switch from say, link to impa back to link, those clones will be gone. Thunderblight (there's a certain threshold of health, I think its like 50% or lower), will always try to make the clones. Meaning, what you can do, is that you can hit thunderblight a couple times, then switch to any character, switch back to the character you were attacking with, rinse and repeat until that malice becomes EXP.
Oh, and this also works for just dodging attacks. If you switch to a different character (let's say Mipha), right before a character gets hit (ex. Link). The game will flag Link as a NPC, so, in order to prevent A N G U I S H by having impa die right before you finish calamity ganon off because she walked right into that attack, in order to prevent this tragedy from ever becoming reality, NPC's (except for a couple) are placed in a sort of 'Limbo' State. In the Limbo state, they take dramatically less damage (or no damage), and they deal no damage, or at best a dramatically reduced amount compared to if the Player was controlling it.
So, Link becomes an NPC, meaning that he's pretty much invulnerable, you wait until the attack is finished, and you control link again like nothing ever happened!
I love this game
Very well made video. Thank you
Welcome
Seriously this game is so fun so far!
You can parry in the middle of a dodge, so In certain situations, you either get the flurry rush or the parry stun
Nice!
I was wondering why those rods kept expanding at times :)
Thanks!
Learned some cool tricks from this, thank you
Thank you Alex for your amazing tips!
Excellent video dude, very well made 👍
Thanks for making it :)
Warriors games have come a long way..much more nuance in the combat system, in fact Age of Calamity is one of the best musou game I have ever played
Another trick for link using swords, if you keep pressing x after a special attack, link will do an even stronger attack, some of them will even make enemies back off letting you hit their weak spot
I want to replay the game on very hard. Your tips will be very useful for that. Thank You :)
"Tip #1" I have been doing this for a while and when you do it with someone else its even more powerful.
The two players have different runes thus they can both use their own sheikah slate. what you can do is use stasis and use it TWICE on the enemy. this really depletes their shield. Also, you can use this when someone uses their special. when using a special their shield shows. when a shield shows use your special. Oh, and when a character uses their stasis short I recommend relying on the other person to break the shield in the short time OR they use their stasis as well.
Tip #2: the flaming apple stays on until you eat ALL the apples. So I recommend saving up on those until your really low. Because its hard finding apples (For me at least) and not all levels have enemys with fire attacks. Fire apples are really useful.
Elemental Synergies: as soon as you use your selected rod there will be some elemental signs that appear for a bit. test your fire on grass and you will see the fire icon appear upwards.
(Sorry i was making this comment throughout the video and I wanted to give some more tips and anyways good video great channel bye!)
While it's all additional hardware cost, I have a DS4, back paddle attachment, and the 8bitdo retro reciever which I use for the sprinting strong attack so I can keep my thumb on the stick.
I never knew revali poses after stasis also good video
Th is is very helpful. Thank you.
About Daruk, flurry rush and use stasis if you want to build the meter, attempt to experiment if you would like. your choice.
4:40 This is usually called "Claw Grip". I first noticed myself doing it when playing Dark Souls. It's good for any game that requires a face button input during movement.
Dang this was helpful
You can immediately dodge after using stasis to skip auto-animations and attack freely
Except Daruk. His cannot be stopped.
Also cryonis is can be used on water as a backup ice rod
Another thing that isn't immediately obvious is that Bombs do a slight amount of weak-point damage even if the enemy isn't in a state where they would take weak-point damage. If they're on the final bit of their bar but you don't quite get it all the way, you can often break it with a bomb rune. How useful this is really depends on each character's bomb move - ones that can hit a single target multiple times do quite well (Link and Zelda notably), ones that toss the bombs in a big area not so much.
THE LEGENDARY MONSTER HUNTER CLAW GRIP
I seriously misunderstood the roasted apples one because before, I thought the apples would be automatically used up when I take fire damage.
I feel proud of myself for knowing all of these
thank you for the tips!
I'm still never seeing anyone talk about the differences between characters in when they can dodge-cancel out of combos. Some can only dodge-cancel during regular attacks, and not their strong attacks. Some can dodge-cancel out strong attacks as well. This rule changes from character to character with regard to Sheila Rune attacks as well (which he does talk about in this video).
This is one of the most critical mechanics in the game, imo
Great tips. Thanks.
Cooking apples never really occurred to me. So far I've pretty much played the game on easy so I haven't used my own stock much. However, there are a few other ways. If you're in a Death Mountain stage, I think they automatically cook, just like other food dropped in BotW. I tend to find them already cooked too, but that could be due to an elemental enemy attack burning a box or a lesser enemy by accident that drops it.
Impa is the most OP character in the game. Prove me wrong.
Thanks a lot man!!!
Calling the claw grip an awkward hand position brings me back lol
‘Incinerate yourself to cook all of the apples you have on you.’
Well, time to yeet myself into Death Mountain!
Very Well done.