One eagle-eyed player made a startling engineering discovery inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomafter managing to find evidence that one of Link’s allies can affect the integrity of custom-built vehicles. This find could potentially impact many a playstyle, much like theinnovativeTears of the Kingdomair brake systemthat surfaced online earlier this week.
Warning! Mid-game gameplay spoilers ahead.WhileBreath of the Wildrewards players with champions abilities for beating its Divine Beasts, the dungeon-like temples in its sequel give out actual champions, whose avatars can now accompany Link on his adventures throughout Hyrule. Besides being able to engage enemies,everyTears of the Kingdomcompanion also has a unique abilitythat’s comparable toBreath of the Wild’schampion powers. One of those allies is Yunobo, whose avatar can curl into a ball in order to smash through enemies and destructible objects. Once players unlock him, Yunobo will also automatically act as a makeshift canon on any vehicle Link ends up piloting.
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Given how the companion avatars are presented as apparitions thatTears of the Kingdomplayers can run through, it is not too big of a leap to assume that they are weightless. However, Reddit user RandomWordsRhino recently proved that is not the case with a video that depicts his minimalist hoverbike getting imbalanced whenever Yunobo is mounted at the front. Firing him in the air immediately straightens the aircraft, which the player successfully demonstrated three times in a row over the course of the 29-second clip.
An alternative explanation for the surprising results of this experiment is that the added weight doesn’t come from Yunobo himself, but from the Stone Smasher on his back. While his weapon is rendered with the same translucent filter encompassing its wielder, theTears of the Kingdomengine still spawns it as a separate entity, which is confirmed by the fact that the Purah Pad’s camera recognizes it as a Hyrule Compendium entry if the player takes a picture of Yunobo.
Regardless of the actual mechanics responsible for the phenomenon, the main takeaway from this discovery is that players making frequent use of lightweight vehicles would do well to disable Yunobo whenever they find themselves hurting for more mobility. Doing so requires interacting with the Solemn vow of Yunobo in the inventory’s Key Items section. Players who already found enoughSage’s Wills inTears of the Kingdomto make Yunobo too useful to permanently drop can always re-enable him just as easily whenever they leave their pilotable machines.
The risk of Yunobo affecting the integrity of smaller vehicles isn’t the only problem arising from the companion mechanic; shortly after the latestZeldagame hit the market, someTears of the Kingdomplayers started calling for a simple UI changethat would make companion abilities accessible at all times and replace the often-frustrating press-A system that’s currently in use.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available on Nintendo Switch.
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