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[SOLDIER First]

Spoiler: Actually, if you want a bigger inventory, (click to show/hide)

stock up on those Korok seeds. Hestu will gladly improve your weapon, bow and shield stores for one seed apiece... the first time. Every time after that you need another seed (1 to 2, to 3, etc).

Unfortunately, the Food inventory seems static at 60 items, which is already pretty big, so.

[endlessblaze]

I haven't noticed being able to literally grab flying weapons from midair, but picking them up off the ground if you don't have anything equipped is seamless.

You can catch enemy boomerangs that have been thrown.
I did it once, but the enemies that have them tend to prefer walking up to you and hitting you with them.

[Frumple]

Eh, for what it's worth, you can definitely bootstrap yourself up a ways by nabbing a strong weapon and then leveraging it to get more, heh. Just that you actually have to leverage it instead of leaning on it for the rest of the game. Also have to be pretty slick in other ways unless you happen to know where many of the non-combat trials are, or are leaning hella' hard on hearty food. Stuff hits hard in this game and you're pretty flimsy for quite a long while, ehehe.

Though yeah, equipment inventory is actually somewhat easy to expand a fair bit... if you're paying attention, heh. Harder for some than others, ha. Seen reports of folks thirty, forty hours in and having found less than a 20th of the required items, when you can have ~a third of that twentieth before you even leave the plateau

... nice to hear about the 'rangs, though. Kinda' figured that's possible at the least on their return trip, but I haven't seen it happen yet.

[endlessblaze]

So far the only weapons I love more then lizzal rangs and snipeing bows, are the Zora sword (one handed weapon with a design like that? AEWSOME! And the thunder and ice spears.
One handed swords are always high on my list though.

[SOLDIER First]

Boomerangs are basically worthless in tight quarters, though, which sucks. The Giant Boomerang is great. Unless you have the trajectory remembered exactly and you can place it through/around obstacles, that is...

[endlessblaze]

You can still use them as melee weapons.

[SOLDIER First]

but that's what melee weapons are for

[endlessblaze]

And lizzal rangs make great melee weapons when the area is to tight for throwing.

[Greiger]

Still love the game, but a couple annoyances I'm finding that I hope folks have workarounds for.

First off crouching during combat.  It kills me more than most things.  It seems too easy to accidentally crouch when changing directions rapidly, and happens at the worst time.  Particularly during combat, which pretty much means I'm no longer capable of defending myself until I tell Link to stand his ass back up.  Any way to rebind crouch to something else or make that less sensitive?

Second, some bows seem to insist on zooming in.  Which is a massive pita on things like the horse archery test, which seems to be made to destroy all your bows before you even begin to get a reasonable score at it. I can do the horse obstacle course in 1:06:00 but that archery test wrecks me.  Is there any way to zoom back out with those bows or am I stuck with finding crappy bows before every attempt?

[SOLDIER First]

1. I've almost never had this problem. Are you using a Switch or Wii U? I'm on the U and the control sticks are too rounded for me to be able to press them in unless I want to.

2. If a bow zooms, it's zoomed. You have to find ones that don't, unfortunately.

[Greiger]

Yea I'm on the switch, I guess that's a little more sensitive to L3 presses than the PC gamepads I'm used to using. 

Unfortunate about bows.  I assume there's no kind of bank or storage system I can put them away at. unless it's in the northern areas of hyrule I haven't gone to yet.  I guess I'll need to hunt for the big leafface and get more bow slots then. just 3 attempts at that horse archery trial and I'm essentially out of bows.  Wish the test guy sold bows as well as arrows.  I have something like 5000 rupees, I could afford to throw money at him til I finish.

[SOLDIER First]

Spoiler: If you go to Hateno village, way up in the corner past the shrine, (click to show/hide)

you can buy the house there for 3,000 Rupees and 30 bundles of wood. After that, for 100 additional Rupees per upgrade, you can buy three weapon/shield/bow storage racks. Equip desired item, hit A, and bam, it's displayed. (I noticed that, frustratingly, the way the Guardian Spear(+? I forgot) is wielded means it's placed perpendicular to the rack instead of flat on it, displacing it downwards and making it stick out. It's really annoying. ): )

Although I've heard items with special extra properties (like Durability or Attack Up) occasionally lose them when placed on these racks, so be careful.

[Frumple]

Yeah, it's either that or getting your inventory expansion on, and the former doesn't give too terribly much extra space, heh. Thaaat said, it's usually pretty easy to scoot around and find a few monster encampments, jank their bows, and then toodle off into the distance. Might be worth it to mark a few joints near warp points where you notice a goodly number of ranged enemies loitering around, just in case you really feel the need to top off. Lizard places are particularly pretty good for it, from what I've noticed. They tend to have the better of the monster themed kit.

[endlessblaze]

Personally I love the zoomed bows and wish I could find more.
The lack of significant arcing, combined with zoom and range, make them GREAT long range weapons. More like guns than bows, firing straight and true deep into the heart skull of my enemy

[Frumple]

Think your best bet is lizard hunting, iirc, so far as stocking up goes. Seem to recall one of their higher end bows having the zoom. Might have some luck in gerudo, too, if my memory's working. Can't remember where else I've seen the feature.

Definitely not bird land, though. They got a different shtick.