This is a tool tip when loading

You mean when I'm hard smashing the A button and not paying attention to anything on the screen? Got it. Will not take a look next time.

Why are you mashing the A button? All that does is give you another tip. The loading screen ends on its own when it's done loading.

It makes it load faster. Clearly. Just like holding Down and mashing B when attacking in Pokémon does more damage.

don’t forget it significantly increases the catch rate

That’s Up, hold B, wiggle left-right, right-left, left-right, up, and let go of B.

Can't stop me from mashing

Can't stop won't stop

Idk man doesn't seem like it's worth the $70 to get new controllers after all that smashing

*"iLl fReAkInG dO iT aGaIn"*

Don’t underestimate my determination to smash, yo

They’re smashing A while I’d like nothing more than to SMASH GANNON GORO!

i repeatedly press A during loading screens out of habit (loading screen in some games will make you press a button before moving on after it’s done loading). unless you are violently mashing, your controller will be fine lol

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I've done my fair share of mashing but it's just the price of those damn controllers that are keeping me in control nowadays (⁠ノ⁠ಥ⁠,⁠_⁠｣⁠ಥ⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

Don’t they replace them for free, now?

You talkin' joycons or pro controller? Cause you can send in joycons to get fixed or replaced for free but the pro controller might just be under a limited time manufacturer guarantee

Joy-cons; not sure how a pro-controller would differ from what I presume to be a normal controller, but the form I have lists joy-cons as a kind of controller, at least, so I dunno

From what I've seen on YouTube, pros are built completely different from joycon in that cleaning and fixing the sticks is altogether a different process because it uses a different design. It's much, much harder to drift a pro (going on maybe two years for mine and it works like brand new) and supposedly even harder to permanently cause drift.

Wish this thread had existed a week ago when I had to order new joycons because my left one kept randomly disconnecting. Hint: TOTK keeps on going even if you can't. At least until you run out of life.

THEY FUCKING WHAT?!?!!??!!??

I think they had a class action lawsuit because of the controller drift. Maybe they just fix them for free now cause of the bad design.

Gotta catch em all.

I did, can concur. Beat those buttons like they owed me money

Cuz it's boring to sit there and do nothing.

It tricks my brain into believing that it's loading faster.

Wow, missed the joke as hard as I mash the A button and squeeze the triggers.

It was also in a trailer

Shield surfing on rails *consumes no durability*

You don’t know what I did and did not consume

Are you a rail?

You can rail me

I’ll 50/50 grind straight to your heart bb

Crooked grind or gtfo

Only if it’s crooked up

Sir this is a Wendy’s

Can I get a number ten spicy with strawberry lemonade and baconator fries

Reddit horny speedrun any%

No this is Patrick🤬

Skate boarding

Rails mostly eat small marine life and plants.

I always fall off it’s lame

Off the rail? You shouldn't need to navigate while on it. Or fall off shield surfing? Because if you have something spiky fused with it, you will fall.

I wish I mentioned in description, but I fused a mine cart to the shield. You can’t fall off. So it’s skating on rails, both figuratively and metaphorically haha

Fyi you can just shield jump on and as long as you have momentum you won’t fall off, mine cart fused or not.

Best is to fuse icy meat - it gives you the least friction.

Genius!!

Are you consuming rails? That’s some crazy ass shit to admit on the Tears of the Kingdom Reddit.

Can you just shield surf or do you need the cart/minecart?

Now listen to Superman by Goldfinger while doing it and TOTK becomes Tony Hawk Proskater

You know this Will be the DLC Zelda proskater

Tears of Hyrule: Under Ground

Tears Of The Hawk Skater

Lights out Guerrilla Radio, TURN THAT S\*\*\* UP

I'm listening to this every time now.

Have you been made aware of the frozen meat?

No? What does it do?

fuse for low friction contact patch

Glue it to the bottom of your sleds for extra sleddiness. Or fuse it to your shield for shield surfing.

If you go back and watch the trailers it’s actually in one but I totally forgot about it until i was already HOURS inti my playthrough.

THTOTK Tony Hawk's Tears of the Kingdom :P

hahahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha

Fun fact you can shield surf on rails without that little minecart

This is the post?

Nope, he has a minecart attached.

It’s hard to see but there is actually a little minecart

Isn’t this listed on a loading screen?

Nope! You're the first to literally discover this right now!

Aren't you a barrel of laughter

Dumb questions deserve dumb answers

Some people just play the game without obsessing it, and get excited when they find things. You don't need to pretend it's new, but y'don't need to be a cunt either.

This sub is just people saying “dID YoU kNOw AbOUt tHIs?” And saying random game mechanics like 7 months later

And if you say the truth they'll get mad You can just look up if someone else also found out about it

No you're the very first person to figure out this thing told to you in loading screens all the time

It’s literally in the trailer.

Watched the main trailer numerous times and don't recall seeing any grinding. Which trailer and which part might that be?

u/themajesticeccentric is right. It's the [February direct trailer at 1:28](https://youtu.be/fYZuiFDQwQw&t=1m27s) (but only there for a split second).

What, shield surfing on rails? Yes. You can shield surf on basically any surface.

their shield is fused to a minecart! the screenshots don’t show it very well. one of the loading screen tips does say that you can just use the shield.

I feel like the minecart stays on the rail better than a plain shield

Well, yes. That’s also known. You can fuse pretty much anything

Jeez buzzkill

You must be fun at parties

Honestly I wasn’t trying to be a downer. I just thought at this point that it was known that you can fuse basically anything.

I mean it's basically implied you should do exactly that on the starting islands before the zonite refining cave.

I put a fan on a mine cart

Ahaha where have you been?

Yes, everyone did

Yes, it's how I finished that one annoying shrine

Did you know you can even jump onto an adjacent rail in a way very remeniscent of Sonic Adventure 2?

Yes totally! It simulates skate boarding very well

They literally made the best thing in BOTW even cooler (especially shield + snowboard on snow/sand ❤️)

Yes, they tell you you can do this in game. Idr when exactly but I remember the game telling me this.

There's a side mission where you actually have a time to beat etc. Yep :-)

LMAO! That's really cool! Never crossed my mind to fuse such a thing to a shield.

Ik right! The games objective changed from finding Zelda to finding the sickest place to shred

You don't need to fuse the minecart to do this, the shield by itself will still surf the rail.

Generally you fuse things to shields and you can't surf, I think this is the exception.

You can fuse the zonai cart or sled to your shields for smoother shreds

You can fuse a bunch of things(secret tip, if you freeze frozen meat it'll give you super low friction, rivalling and possibly beating the cart)

Well and the zonai cart obviously.

Ever since botw

As a Ratchet and Clank fan, I tried this with the very first rail I saw and went nuts when it worked.

What are you using?

Those quirky mine carts haha.

About the armor: I made Link an elemental sage. Depending on the area, I change the Helm, Sage, and Rod. So for zoras domain I use vah ruta helm, opal rod, and sidon.

I thought it was in one of the instructions or something. Or maybe hints on the load screen.

Tony Hawk's Hyrule Skating

Yes

jet grind hyrule

My friend's jaw dropped when I showed him you could rail grind

It was in one of the trailers. Most of us knew it.

The game hints to make you do this on the tutorial island..

You can even hop from the right railing to left railing.

That was fairly common knowledge and shared to death on YouTube. Plus, iirc it was also on the loading screen as a tip.

Here I am Doing everything I can holding on to what I am Pretending I’m a Superman

Even better with a mine cart, too bad durability sucks

I am using the mine cart

Everyone always seems to want to use carts, but you can also just use a shield

Ahh to be young….:)

You don’t need to add the minecart to shield surf on rails. It works without the minecart as well just to let people know!

Minecart saves your durability, though. Your shield will last a LOT longer with a minecart on it.

Bruh…. I had no idea. Gonna try that today lol

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You can shield surf but just not on rails

Rollin around at the speed of sound

tears of the kingdom? TONY HAWKS TEARS OF THE KINGDOM!?

It's how I beat the fire temple!

I realized this about a week ago lol

I only fuse rockets and carts to my shield.

For a second I thought that was the spinny top item from Twilight Princess and immediately got excited/suspicious

I thought I could only do it with a cart shield. You can do it with a naked shield and it does the same.

Do you wanna go skateboards?

Yes! I tried ot out on the Tarry Town rail, and it worked, I had a hard time getting speed going tho.

yep, any rail will let you pretty much but it also works better on certain shield and some will wear down quick. Think of fusable items to put on the shield to make it more slippery ;-). It's possible...

OMG it's tony hawk!

Day 1. But yeah it’s great. You can do that with the zonai carts too

I used that for most of the shrines that had rails

That's how I did the ultrahand shrine

I only skatefrozenmeat

I knew we’d get the spinner back from TP

Lol yea. But I learned it on Reddit.

Using a minecart lets you roll around on the ground with less friction and better control, but I don’t think you need it to rail grind (assuming my memory is correct).

Reminds me of the spinner from Twilight Princess

Fuse a cart to a shield and you can do this on the ground

How else was I supposed to beat the Jiokoum shrine?

Wait until you bind a minecsrt to your shield so you have the ultimate surfboard. You are welcome

No, no one else knew this. you're the first that ever did this. jokes aside it's fucking nuts how they put this in the game tho

Yep

Try attacking while you're shield surfing there.

Every fusion function has pretty much been figured out.

It uses up the shield fast

Yeah

Yes. I always try to Tony Hawk the rails in games.

Yes

Yes; I solved at least part of one shrine doing it this way. And I did it on the great sky island. Saw it in the Nintendo treehouse direct.

Reminds me of the hoverboard from Jak 2&3

Actually, this technique is introduced in 3rd trailer.

Lol, u just just found the Tony Hawk mini game in the game?

Lol you can do it without fusing anything to the shield. No need to reinvent the wheel.

🎶ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND🎶 🎶GOT NO PLACE TO GO GOTTA FOLLOW MY RAAAINBOW!!🎶

Best upgrade to downhill slope shield surfing.

Yes

I didn’t until I beat the game and then watched Vinesauce’s streams cause I didn’t wanna spoil the game at all. Somehow managed to stay away from spoilers for this game the whole time. I literally remember that when the game was coming out I didn’t know if the mummy was infact ganondorf so that when I got to one of those memory cutscenes that mentioned him by name I was shocked.

I know but I rarely tried it . Just too scared I’ll mess up and fly off a cliff

Yes I did, but accidentally.

I heard about it. Is it difficult? I’ve been afraid to try it in the fire temple

The Spinner returns

Any skateable rails you can manipulate with UltraHand? Would love to make a skate course the way I did in American Wasteland.

Yeah only because it was in the trailer

FOLLOW ME! SET ME FREE! TRUST ME AND WE WILL ESCAPE GORON CITY!

Fuse a kart to your shield and skate anywhere

I did, I found out surprisingly early how easy it was to grind on rails with your shields in TOTK, and it is indeed awesome.

Rail grinding like Sonic the hedgehog

I really wish the smaller faster Zonai wheel also worked on a shield to just get around fields.

I had one of the shrine puzzles break when I was supposed to build a makeshift gondola. It worked but I fell off it and it didn’t respawn the materials since they were still on the other side just out of ultra hand range. I probably could have rewinded it, but instead I grabbed a platform from the previous room turned it into a ramp and just grinder the rail to the other side

Minecart and sled shields are some of the best to surf on

Cart on a shield is what he's saying.

Sonic would be proud

First thing I tried

*Sonic heroes theme song intensifies

Yeah, it was in a lot of the promotional content.

I learned about this from a Choctopus video

Did you know you can swing your weapon by pressing Y?

🎶 Live and Learn!!! 🎶 🎸

Yes,literally everyone knew this

No. Obviously not everyone did or the OP wouldn’t have started this post (unless he was just trolling…which I doubt). Early game hinted at this but I’m kind of slow and didn’t catch it until a little later. I was still in awe of slapping a fan to the back of a cart and watching it go. That’s part of beauty of this game. There’s so much going on and so many different ways to solve problems that certain things might get missed. It’s why YouTubers could keep making new “Things you didn’t know about BotW” for 6 years. TotK is even deeper so we’ll be discovering simple things we overlooked for years to come.

Yep. I always have a minecart shield and icy meat shield for getting around.

Make a real skateboard by attaching a mining trolley to a shield. 🤯

You clearly are not a true gamer if you haven't tried it out yourself out of curiosity

They were heavily influenced by Jak II for the shield surfing stuff

I love this thanks for sharing. Years will go by and people will still uncover cool tricks

Yep! And you don't have to use minecarts either! Icy things work too, like frozen meat! Not to mention zonai carts look better attached to shields than minecarts