![]() As soon as a fight becomes tedious and starts ruining my experience, I just use a "kill" console command. ![]() I say this as someone who regularly kill-commands their way through combat in Elder Scrolls games. I have to agree with Moon of Termina here: it's a single-player game, and if playing a certain way makes it more fun for you, then go for it it's not like you're ruining anyone's fun by doing so. If you have more fun finding a perfect (or near-perfect) victory in each battle, then go for it. That being said, I play largely for immersion, and that's certainly shaped my perspective. That way, you still lose whatever food and arrows you used in the first attempt, your weapons and shields are still worn down, and you have to put thought and strategy into making your escape. To my mind, if you want to redo a fight, you should actually make a strategic retreat, regroup, and attack again. But the difference may not be as significant as you think.īut to answer your question, yes, your way feels like cheating. You're probably a better fighter than your friend is. The food functions as a sort of buffer, making it easier to fix your mistakes. Thus there's still a motivation to fight carefully the better you perform in combat, the less of a burden it is on your inventory. And replacing the massive stock of food you ate is time-consuming and tedious, and you're liable to attacked again during your scavenging. If you try to brute force your through combat, you'll burn though your food supplies with surprising haste, and once its gone, you may find yourself in a fight you simply aren't equipped to win. ![]() I think you have a somewhat warped perspective of the alternative. The timing on perfect dodge/parry is really tricky and even with lots of practice I can only do it consistently against slow things with obvious telegraphs like moblins, and the game certainly does seem to encourage relying on healing items. (Also just to say I wouldn't judge anyone who wanted or needed to do it differently. Is it wrong to save and reload to try and get through fights without much damage? Does it seems like cheating? If so it is worse than relying on a massive stack of healing items? I'm not going to change my approach either way, because like I said it just seems wrong to me to play in a way which means I don't need to try to get better at combat, but I am curious about other opinions. Without really trying I've picked up hundreds of fruits and mushrooms which don't heal much individually but all together could keep me alive for a very long time.) (Especially since raw materials could be used to heal and there's no limit on holding those. it would be really easy to stack up so many healing items that I've got basically infinite health and then I could just hammer my way through fights (literally, if I have a hammer) with no attempt at tactics, making no attempt to dodge or block anything because I'm basically unkillable. Not cheating, but like deliberately playing badly. I'm familiar with the term save scumming but I've only ever heard it applied to things like saving before opening a chest so you can 'reroll' for the item you want. When I mentioned this to a friend he called it 'save scumming' and claimed it's the equivalent of cheating and I should just keep going, using however many healing items I need to get through the fight because that's how the game is designed. I only recently discovered you can actually have more than 1 'screen' of cooked food') (Which means I'm never carrying much food, and most of it is stamina boosts. If I have to heal more than once during a fight or if something takes a lot of health away which I think I should have avoided I'll reload a saved game and try it again rather than healing and carrying on. I don't have any specific rules but I tend to save attack/defense boosts for 'boss' fights like tests of strength, lynels or maybe hinox and I only use other food to heal occasionally after a fight. I seem to have fallen into a habit with BotW where I don't like using much food (or any fairies) unless it's really necessary. I'd like some more opinions on an argument with a friend.
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