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[Jared]

I suddenly got super addicted to HW again. It's just so packed full of content. Who knew doing something so repetitive could be fun?

Edited by Jared, 27 January 2015 - 09:03 PM.

[Orithan]

Back into Hyrule Warriors and an currently starting out on the Majora's Mask map now that the patch has been live in Australia for a week or so. Here are a few features of the new update I've discovered so far. Spoilers for people who want to be surprised (some of which were discussed in the IRC channel), despite being a couple of days away from the US release:

 

Spoiler

• The Termina map includes several new challenges and item cards:
  • The new map challenges I've discovered so far are Competition challenges. In these, you compete with another force (from which I've seen so far are multiple Dark characters) to achieve an objective. So far I've dealt with the KO variant; which is to kill a certain amount of enemies before your rival force does, and the Collect Rupee variant; where you have a set amount of time to collect more rupees than your rival force does. There is another variant of that challenge, which is about taking keeps, but I haven't run into that yet. This opens up possibility for a PvP mode to be added in on a later update, something which I really want in HW.

     

  • Multiple item cards have been introduced. Of note: Mask of Truth cuts the amount of damage taken in half in one battle, Majora's Mask fills your SP and Magic gauges for one battle, the Deku Mask can be used on a flower on a screen to take you to an adjacent screen, Song of Time (upright Ocarina) can be used to reset the map to normal and the Song of Inverted Time can be used to increase the number of turns before the moon crashes down by 10. There also appears to be icons of the MM bosses' remains on the map, probably to signify where major boss battles are.

     

  • My initial thoughts on the map is that it is a lot harder than the MQ map, though PrincessCelestia over on IRC says she heard that the map eventually gets to be as hard as the TP map offensively though the attack damage doesn't get as insane as in the later levels of the TP map.

     

  • A lot more weapons drop on the MM map. So far, I've gotten up to 2 from a captain though I've heard from PC that you can get up to 6 per captain.

     

  • You only get 3 turns on your first cycle, and then 72 on any subsequent cycles.

 

• Young Link and Tingle:
  • Young Link specializes in maintaining Focus Spirit, where he becomes Fierce Deity and shoots sword beams everywhere. Playing the Ocarina (C1) replenishes your Magic gauge at the cost of Special - a full Special Gauge fills up the Magic gauge completely. If played right, Young Link can maintain his Focus Spirit for most of the map

     

  • Young Link requires Ganondorf, Manhandala, Dinofols and Ganon drops for his badges.

     

  • Tingle... ugh. He looks so much worse in battle than in the character select. I don't know about you, but the camera following him makes him look that much more creepy. Looks like I have my official benchwarmer for the game.
  • Tingle uses Link, Gohma, Icy Big Poe and Hylian Captain drops. Eww...

 

• Other:
  • Lana's Deku Spear has been noticeably buffed, especially her Special. Many of her attacks are greatly buffed and can easily get a lot more kills than before. Ganondorf has also received buffs, of note is that many of his C# attacks fill up his C1 attack bar faster and the C1 attack itself has a faster startup time. I've also heard from PC again that Zant has also been buffed, but I've been to lazy to try him out.

     

  • The new mixtures from the apothecary are sweet. The Rupee Festival mixture costs 1 Rupee and 75 bronze Materials to make and it boosts the amount of Rupees you gain. The Material Master mixture costs 50,000 Rupees and 100 bronze Materials to make, which greatly increases the droprate of rare materials. So far, nearly all captain drops are materials and appear to have like an 80% chance of being their rare materials.

     

  • The loading times are terrible now. It takes 2-3x as long for the maps to load compared to normal and the results screen from a victory also has a noticeable loading time. The game even froze on me once.

 

 

To be updated as I gather more information on the update. Credit to PrincessCelestia over on IRC for providing some information to me.

Edit: Corrected an error.

Edited by Orithan, 03 February 2015 - 02:44 PM.

[Jared]

The American release date is tomorrow! Super excited.

[Moonbread]

Ooh, thanks for bringing that up!  I've been wondering when it'd come around, since I got my season pass a little while back, courtesy of DCEnygma.  Can't wait to try out Young Link and the new map.  The new "costumes" for each character are pretty great/hilarious, as well.

[Orithan]

So the Bosses pack is live in Australia. Like with the MM pack, I will post a few things based on my coverage.

 

Pack spoilers

Both of the two new modes are placed under Challenge Mode.

 

• Boss Rush:
  • This mode sets out to challenge you by throwing you into battles with extra emphasis on Giant Bosses. I have discovered three types of Boss Rush challenges.
  • Kill X amount of enemies: You are plopped into a map with many Giant Bosses present, each belonging to either Enemy or Other forces, and your task is to kill X amount of enemies within 20 minutes. Killing Giant Bosses causes a large number of enemies to spawn, on addition to the small amount of enemies that spawn at first. You are graded based on how much damage you've taken and the amount of time you spent. Once the Level 1 challenge is cleared (Eldin caves: Kill 1,000 enemies and the map is full of Dodongos), you get access to the next type of challenge:
  • Brave Challenge: Like in the "Kill as many enemies you can" missions, you are given a time limit in which you have to kill as many enemies as possible. The twist? A Giant Boss is spawned right in front of you at the start and you must kill it for reinforcements to spawn. This includes multiple Giant Bosses, all of which must be killed to spawn more reinforcements... which includes more Giant Bosses. You are graded based on the number of enemies you kill and how much damage you take. Once you clear the first mission (Skyloft: Kill as many enemies as you can. 1st Giant Boss; Manhandala, 2nd wave of Giant Bosses; 3 Dodongos, 3rd wave of Giant Bosses; 3 Gohmas, etc?), you gain access to the third type of challenge:
  • Survival Challenge: In this challenge, you are pitted against three rounds of "Assassains" in which you must kill enemy captains and Giant Bosses to progress through.. On the third and final round, a  Dark Giant Boss spawns. These Giant Bosses are unique in the manner in which you attack them in - Items and Focus Spirit Special attack don't bring them down into a downed state. Instead, their defense drops when they are in a position when you would normally attack them by using an item and must be defeated in this manner. Unlike in the other challenges, you can not recover any hearts except from those dropped by transport captains. You are graded by how much damage you take and how long you take to clear the challenge.
  • None of these challenges are for weak characters. I took on all of these characters with my strongest character, Lana leveled in the high 80s with a 5-starred Tier 3 Tome, and even the Level 1 challenges gave me a good run for my money though I did not have a major struggle. All three of these modes require you to A-Rank them in order to advance to their next level.
• Ganon:
  • The meat of the new pack. I mean, what is not to love about having a playable Giant Boss? Well, playing as Ganon is exclusive to the second of the new modes. His controls is based off the Ganon which you fight, but with a few more attacks and lays waste to whatever is in his path. He starts off at Level 1 and has no access to the Bazaar or items. Replacing his items are boss essences dropped from Giant Bosses, which give him the ability to use the Giant Boss' respective attacks for the remainder of the battle. Using the Giant Boss attack on a Giant Boss that is weak to it instantly downs that Giant boss, which is the only way to do so other than using Ganon's Special Smash on them. I have discovered two types of challenge:
  • Kill X amount of enemies: Kill X amount of enemies in 60 minutes. Nothing special, except for a few things. More enemy captains spawn and Ghirahim and Zant eventually appear to fight on your side. You are graded based on how much damage you take and how long you take to complete the mission. Once you clear the first Level of this type of challenge, a second type appears. I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, though. Note: How on earth does a high motivation Dark Fi hit a Level 10 Ganon for roughly 20% of his max Hearts per attack in the first level?
  • Like in the other mode, you can only advance to the next level of each challenge type if you A-Rank the challenge.
• The loading time is back to normal now! Thank god.
• The level cap is raised to 255.
• Not much else to note at the moment.

Edited by Orithan, 27 February 2015 - 04:39 AM.

[Shane]

Damn, it's out already? Neat.

 

I've been meaning to pick up Hyrule Warriors again as I still haven't beaten the first Adventure map. ;-;

[TheLegend_njf]

I suddenly got super addicted to HW again. It's just so packed full of content. Who knew doing something so repetitive could be fun?

I must admit. Being a huge fan of the Ninja Gaiden series. Team Ninja sure knows how to make repetitive gameplay fun. Lol

[Fiyaball]

Got this this weekend, all I use is the spinner (spam B for days :3)

[Daniel]

Got a Wii U a few hours ago and this game. My last console was a GameCube and I rectly got a 3DS. For someone who has been out of gaming for about seven years it's not hard to get back into.

I only finished the Castle part so far but this game is great and the game pad is way better than I expected.

[The Satellite]

North America finally gets the new pack and patch tomorrow. Not sure why it took two weeks for us to get it, kind of annoying, I mean a one week wait was bad enough, but... ugh. Well, we finally get it at least. Also is it bad I'm more excited for the loading times being reduced to normal than the rest of the pack itself?

[Haylee]

North America finally gets the new pack and patch tomorrow. Not sure why it took two weeks for us to get it, kind of annoying, I mean a one week wait was bad enough, but... ugh. Well, we finally get it at least. Also is it bad I'm more excited for the loading times being reduced to normal than the rest of the pack itself?

Koei has basically had a history of being biased towards NA, I've noticed. They also tend to love Australia, I've noticed. lol

[The Satellite]

Yeah, well, Koei can suck my Young Link.

 

Actually if they did that they'd go to jail and we wouldn't get anymore content, so never mind.

 

*runs*

[Demonlink]

So... I recently bought the Hero of Hyrule pack and am currently doing the Twilight Map. Things are very brutal in this map, (mainly those stages around some edges and center of the map). Does anybody have quite a few tips on how to beat this map for the A Rank rewards? Wait, I think this may be my fault as well. I jumped straight into the Twilight Map with everybody around... Levels 70, only Zelda and Ganondorf are around Level 90 and Link is at Level 190. Any tips on what level is recommended to be in for this map?

[Orithan]

Your main options are to overlevel your characters and make effective use of the warp squares dotted across the map to do the other, usually more fair, portions of the map and get them done first. There are three really potent grinding spots found in this manner, which help a lot. I hate that map too for it.
Alternatively, you can skip straight to the Termina Map because that place remains fair for characters levelled in the 50s for most of the map.

Edited by Orithan, 12 April 2015 - 10:28 PM.

[Demonlink]

Your main options are to overlevel your characters and make effective use of the warp squares dotted across the map to do the other, usually more fair, portions of the map and get them done first. There are three really potent grinding spots found in this manner, which help a lot.
Alternatively, you can skip straight to the Termina Map because that place remains fair for most of the map.

Awesome! Thanks for the info Orithan!