Highlights
- In Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, a player has created a hover bike with a laser barrier made from Zonai devices, turning it into a defensive weapon against Bokoblins.
- The hover bike is created by using Zonai Fans and a Steering Stick, and players can add extra fans and adjust angles for more elaborate designs.
- The player achieved the spinning laser barrier by using stake nudging, a technique that requires patience and creates an invisible connection between objects.
An inventive Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has built a hover bike that features a laser barrier made from Zonai devices. This vehicle takes the standard hover bike that players have created in Tears of the Kingdom and turns it into a defensive weapon capable of killing Bokoblins.
In the second to last trailer that was released for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, fans were fully introduced to the concept of creating vehicles in the game out of Zonai devices. After the game came out, it didn’t take long for players to create the most efficient vehicle to traverse the lands of Hyrule: the hover bike. The standard hover bike can be created using just two Zonai Fans and a Steering Stick. Players can create more elaborate hover bikes by adding more fans and changing the angles of each one. By utilizing the Autobuild feature, players can quickly build a hover bike out of Zonaite and fly around wherever they’d like.
Reddit user divlogue took the concept of the hover bike to a whole new level by adding a barrier made out of Beam Emitter Zonai devices found in Tears of the Kingdom. In the posted video, Link is seen driving around the Tarrey Town Highway in a large hover bike, surrounded by floating Beam Emitters aimed at the ground. As Link drives around, the lasers spin extremely fast, creating a barrier of protection during battle. The video then cuts to Hyrule field, where Link puts his laser barrier to the test by driving right through a group of Bokoblins, killing a few of the weaker ones almost instantly. In the last section of the video, Link is shown flying high up in the air in the middle of a group of enemies, raining down death from above.
Divlogue managed to get the Beam Emitters to spin in the air using a technique called “stake nudging.” Stake nudging in Tears of the Kingdom allows players to create an invisible connection between two or more objects. Stake nudging requires a lot of patience to pull off, with divlogue mentioning that it took about 30 minutes to make this design work correctly.
This hover bike wasn’t the first time divlogue used stake nudging in a viral video. Divlogue is also the Tears of the Kingdom player responsible for the President Hudson hover bike, a vehicle that used stake nudging to float four President Hudson signs around its diagonal axes. As this technique becomes more popular, Tears of the Kingdom fans will surely see some truly incredible designs that they never thought were possible.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available on Nintendo Switch.
Source: Gamerant