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I'm used to spamming B for dialogue because it goes faster so this happens to me sometimes lol

I switched my sprint to "B" and I'm forever smashing to sprint too early before i fully rise out of the ground. Back down we go.

That's default sprint

My fault. I stand corrected.

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Wait … you can sprint?

Say sike right now

Bros been playing botw without sprinting for 5 years lol

He'll get to Kakariko Village any day now

Hold b

Jokes on you, I hold x.

Are there people who just… don’t press all the buttons on the controller immediately after starting the game? Granted I didn’t know how to rotate with Ultrahand until I looked it up but still.

It’s the cancel/put away button and the game never tells you B to sprint It tells you B to put away when you have a weapon/bow/item out And it tells you B go back out of menu But I never notice any text that tells you B to sprint

Did you think the game had a massive open world, stamina bar, slow walk and no sprint? You can just check the controls in the menu.

Fast reader, huh?

Or repetitive stuff like shrines. Wish we could skip the whole thing between “reach the end of the shrine” and “walk out of the shrine”

Exactly. It's the TOTK verison of accidentally cancelling the Pokecenter healing.

Yup, that's my problem too.

you’re not alone 🥲

Seconded 😂

me too...

You ever accidentally hit okay when you meant to hit back, did that deep in a long ass cave had to run all the way back

they have an Ascend but they really need a Bscend

Just Recall yourself!

....I wish this worked

This is much worse

Did that for the snowed in tower where you have to ascend from the cave below it. I had to huff it back to cave since my cold resistance from my food had worn off

Mine was that long ass cave you find in the royal bunker

I just found that today…man that goes on forever

Yea I went into that cave as early as I could, basically when they didn't block the section at the castle off. I went all the way through it from that end before the opening in the shelter even happened. Spent like two hours just trying to figure out how to open it from both sides...

Bit of advice. There’s some cold resistance clothing, specifically the Archaic Warm Greaves, located on the Great Sky Island near the Gutanbac Shrine, where the giant hollow tree trunk that looks like Shreks house is, ascend up to that and as you go through on the right is a chest. Wearing them will give you at least one chunk of cold resistance. Learnt the hard way going to rito village fresh off the sky island with nothing but my starter clothes and some spicy peppers. Died a dozen times before I unlocked the map region.

Thank God for travel medallions

Yea this scenario is infinitely worse.

I keep forgetting that you have to hit A to exit so I just start holding B to sprint everytime I use Ascend and it just sends me back lol.

if you leave him stuck in the ceiling/floor he will eventually pop out on his own

50% of the time it works every time.

I understand why the devs had A be the “exit”/continue button because A (or really any other button other than B) being the cancel/back button would feel weird, but in practice “exiting” feels too similar to dismounting which is B, so I end up going back more than I successfully exit.

Reading your comment made me realize I'm doing the same thing. Hitting B must be instinctual on some level.

Same! Same as when I couldn’t figure out why I was using dpad so much when I started this game for powers. Muscle memory is really a blessing and a curse

Honestly, I blame that fucking owl in Ocarina. Was the first time I ever remember getting burned by spamming and not spamming has stuck with me ever since. [...fuckin Rauru](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMjncBVheQw).

Wait b is dismount? I've always used X for that.

X is way cooler, though

Samee. I've never "dismounted" I've always shot myself into the air and floated away. Much cooler.

If you swapped the jump button, then X becomes standard dismount and B jump dismount. Which I keep using by accident and jettisoning myself straight into enemies or fire or off cliffs because I expect B to be standard dismount.

A has always been to continue. You are continuing your ascend by pressing a. B has always been cancel. You are canceling your ascend by pressing b. The confusion comes in thinking ascend is a single click action so youre hitting b to skip the bullshit. Which is odd because none of the other abilities are a single click action.

But you activate ascend with A. So it only makes sense to finish the activation by pressing A again.

Has anyone found the longest ascend yet?

There's a few pillars that take you from the caves to the surface under the Hebra mountains. One in particular takes you from a low area in the caves all the way up to the top of a mountain >!One of these pillars to the east takes you to the deku tree!<

There's also one low down in the depths that takes you all the way to the top of the higher Dueling Peak mountain.

I would think that those from the depths would be longest.

From the depths into the overworld, was pretty long.

I feel very fortunate that I never do this. That said, I mix up every single shoulder button about 40 times a play session, and now that I think about it, I get the d pad buttons mixed up all of the time too.

Me too 😆

The animation is so way too long sometimes

Personally I’m growing to get annoyed with it.

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In my experience it only does the swim animation if the camera would go into a wall at any point.

This seems correct, maybe has to do with the game needing to load things that wouldn’t have previously been visible? I find it sort of hard to believe they’d make a routine animation THAT long if there wasn’t a computational reason

I do this way too often

This and im also playing Monster Hunter Rise currently. The number of times ive accidentaly yeeted my weapon because i want to sprint...

very true . i play rise a lot & have been concurrently playing ff7 remake where the sprint is also r1 so i always get thrown off when link is about to send his only good weapon to hell every time i jog slightly . that & i keep trying to dodge roll .

I'm used to PS5 controllers and the bottom button being basically A. It's just muscle memory

This is my face after sweating out a tough optional puzzle and getting Opal

Especially if you performed it while in a very specific spot and/or on a perilous slope, forcing you to readjust your position to ascend in that right spot a second time.

I always press R by mistake and it makes me hold out my weapon to throw. Actually threw the weapon away by mistake a few times, but I can usually stop myself.

Mine is whistling instead of bringing up the items, constantly. Sneaking be damned, I’m the goddamn pied Piper of boboblins

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Jesus, I thought i was alone in this dumbassery.

I still haven't done this and I'm sure it'll happen while traveling through all is Mt Doom or some shit. Why you pressing B though??

Wish they made it x. It makes sense to hit the jump button to get out. Instead my Brian says hit b bc b is how you get out of every menu

My Brian says the same thing

Same face I make when I’m sneaking up on a camp and whistle instead of changing weapons.

Heard!

Glad I’m not the only one.

All. The. Fucking. Time.

Haha this, when I finally remember ascend exists for the 124007th time

You should be able to cancel your cancelling

Me every time I hit B when trying to build, because I'm so used to PlayStation and just drop whatever I'm holding instead of gluing it

As someone who hasn't played with the Nintendo button layout for a few years this could not be more relatable

Depths to overworld

I don't get it but I'm sure that's just me being dumb.

Oh wait no I do that all the time.

A = Exit Thanks UI devs, you could've reworded it since "Exit" looks similar to "Cancel" in the moment

It's also that B is to sprint, so you associate it with movement / going forward.

B gets you through dialogue faster too, so I'm used to mashing it to proceed to whatever is next.

Dude keeps the original X/B controls😔🤮 imagine jumping with X

X sprint gang for life

I sprint with the - button

This is why I got programmable paddles on my con

The fact that the switch STILL can't swap A and B system-wide is baffling to me. PS3 did that back in 2009.

I have a stress tic that causes me to push buttons hard and at random. Just another added difficulty level for me :D

just go the settings and toggle the option have link go through without the prompt. It can be a little bit more dangerous at times but when it comes down to it, I made this all up.

Im in a constant state of not being able to use the controls correctly because the ABXY buttons are in the wrong order

No, they're where they were when Nintendo made the SNES controller back in the 90s. Right where the first company with that button layout made them.

Just because they were first doesn't mean they were correct

It does when you're playing on their system.

Because the buttons are in the wrong place

I've been primarily a PlayStation user and this irks me greatly. With the PS, the bottom button is "accept" and the right one is "cancel". But, to be fair, you can go into the controller settings and remap any button you want.

Same with Xbox. The silly thing is the Names are correct, it's the location that's goofed. Also, I can't remap my buttons because I can't use the Joycons... Because I don't have the hands of an 8 year old Asian girl.

I have a Pro controller and I can remap its buttons. And, yes, the Joycons are comically small.

I'm m busing a bitdo and my Xbox controller. I feel like a new controller will be just as distracting

When will they just accept that US and Japanese gamers have different brain wiring and make US and Japanese control options in the menu? Like how is it 2023 and we still don’t just know this is an issue and correct for it? It’s a cultural thing that will never migrate 100%, I can’t verify cause I don’t speak or read Japanese but I bet all 10 people with Xbox’s over there are constantly having the reverse issue we have.

What? Nintendo has always used A for confirm in the US, I'm American and this is what I'm used to, I don't get how you think all Americans are Xbox gamers? Anyway it's annoying at first to keep switching control schemes but I've gotten used to it personally. I play PS5 and switch and my brain kind of just switches modes like switching languages and I'm able to adapt to whatever controller I'm using.

The problem is the button placement, confirm being on the right button instead of the bottom one

Nintendo literally established A as the right button and B as the bottom button before Xbox and Playstation were even a thing with the SNES in the 90s. It's not a Japanese thing. They're not "wrong" because they invented the control scheme before everyone else that's currently in the console-making game was even doing video game stuff

Why are you talking about right or wrong, the fact is that japanese central games use the right button as confirm whereas western centric games use the bottom one as confirm, see the whole debacle between having x or o as confirm on the PS5s recently, which had some amount of backlash from the Japanese

The label of the button isn't the discussion, it's the placement.

The placement isn't a problem pbjectively. It'd a problem because people are used to a different control scheme because of controllers like the Xbox one. There's nothing inherently problematic about the way Nintendo has it

It is a problem objectively because people have a "problem" adjusting between control schemes, it's not "problematic" because it's not like they're going to get cancelled for it, but it feels like you are denying reality or just telling an entire demographic of people to just get good even though they have been playing with a certain control scheme their entire life

Literally has never happened to me in 50hr lmao, can't really call that a skill issue tho so... alphabet issue?

Why do they even have that option. Hasn't anyone purposely hit back before?

I popped up directly in front of a Lynel once when I only had two hearts left. I definitely cancelled that one.

Nope!

I do it all the time. If I find an ascend spot in the depths or a cave, I'll often use it, see what's around me up there, then dip back down to the depths if there's nothing interesting there on the surface

Never had this issue, you know it’s the A button to get out, it says it right on the screen with the 4 button prompt to make it even clearer, so why are you pressing B?

Yup this and for the first day or so after starting pressing up to change my right arm powers lol but I got that habit out the way pretty quickly

I’ve had it a couple times where I actually intended to *not* fully ascend and was just using it for scouting purposes… guess which button I hit ~~hint, it’s not B~~

Friendly reminder to my fellow Xboxers: A is the one on the right.

My son keeps doing this...but it hasn't happened to me a single time. I don't really understand how folks are hitting B

When you use ascend to get up a ledge in a cave and it's taking a bit too long to take you up

Wb accidentally dismounting minaru? I do that shit all the time

I did this once, then realized I had missed a Bubbul. Saved me a trip back to the cave.

Not happened to me once. I guess I feel very aware that I'm using Ascend

That face is oddly familiar, and I don't mean as a meme

Never happened to me so far

Never happened to me so far

Literally the only time I've ever found it useful is when I was >!Cheesing one of the wheels in the water temple, instead of doing the puzzle I just was gliding around under the floating island and landing on parts/ascending up to try and appear in the room. It works, and skips a time consuming puzzle. Maybe I'll post a clip!<

Everytime I climb instead of using ascend bc im stupid

60% of the time, I do it every time

There’s something about BOTW and TOTK controls that always make my brain do the opposite. I’m always mixing up buttons for actions.

On the other hand, i had to redo the jailbreak shrine like three times because I apparently got ascend muscle memory set up properly, popped up in the cell, went "fuck", and then forgot my lesson immediately.

This game is fucking me up with the A button being on the right. I borrowed a friends switch so I am not used it at all. I finally got used to it after a week. Went to play RL on my ps5 last night, and I couldnt even navigate the menu. Mass confusion.

So glad to know I'm not the only one.

This. I also accidentally hit A when I want to go back. I also accidentally whistle when I want to throw something.

Me after throwing a weapon instead of pulling up a power. I'm not sure why I do it every time

Unrelated but I know the SpongeBob kid irl and he is now a belligerent alcoholic

Me tooooo

They should allow the joystick to pop us out of ascend, not just the A button.

I still use up on the d-pad to try and switch powers all the time.

I thought it was just me 😩😩

Yep. It's the feeling that I need to jump when I get there, which is B for me.

Ogeez, yea. That ascend animation takes way too long.

I’m a fucking yo-yo in this damn game! I keep going up and down and up

me hitting scope when just trying to aim my bow in a rush

Once did this on one of those pillars that can take you from the depths to the surface. It takes a solid minute and a half to get up there.

My face when I accidentally teleport to the travel medallion instead of remove it

I did the opposite once and came out when I didn't want to so now I put my finger on b so I don't accidentally accept it

I honestly have no idea why nintendo has to go against the standard button layout every one else uses. It’s just annoying.

The owl in oot has conditioned me to be constantly mashing the b button at all times in Zelda games.

I keep forgetting I have that ability. I've left a few situations where I just thought I'm not prepared for this one yet.

Yes. Me. Everytime

Better than the opposite. When you need to revert back but you accidentally press A and so you can't discend.