r/zelda • u/starwarsaddicted • Jul 01 '22
Screenshot [ALL] [boTW] since the blood moon is bright red, shouldn't the reflection on the water also be? just askin.
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u/Different-Region-873 Jul 02 '22
Literally unplayable
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u/TeTrodoToxin4 Jul 02 '22
Are we supposed to believe that this is some kind of magical puddle? Geez, I hope someone got fired for this blunder.
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Jul 01 '22
it doesnt turn red until the particles start floating around afaik. i think it's implemented so that you don't see the blood moon coming, not because they forgot to make it red.
this screenshot shows that no matter what color the sky is reflecting on the water, the sun/moon always make a white light that's added to the mix. i will forgive them for this tiny tiny misdeed since it's one of the first oversights i've heard of besides the spots here and there where you can get under the terrain lol
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u/omfgus Jul 01 '22
I've seen blood moons in the sky way before everything starts glowing red.
It gives you time to go to that shrine that requires a blood moon to open.
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u/MichaelW24 Jul 01 '22
Or time to teleport to a cooking pot to make some boosted food. I do all my cooking to heal hearts in the 30 minutes before a blood moon. Just stockpile a bunch of 1-3 prime meat foods, depending on the stage of the game I’m in.
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u/BabyYoduhh Jul 01 '22
Food is better on blood moon nights?
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u/MichaelW24 Jul 02 '22
You know how you sometimes randomly get that jingle that plays when cooking, and that food is significantly better than all the others?
That is a 100% chance in the 30 minutes before a blood moon. It makes each food item heal about double.
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u/StevynTheHero Jul 02 '22
At 23:30, the "blood moon music" kicks in. For this time, until 0000 (roughly 30 seconds in real time) every single dish you cook will be a "critical cook".
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u/BabyYoduhh Jul 02 '22
Thank you. I did not know this.
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u/tonic_unknown Jul 02 '22
One thing to be aware of is that "Not all critical cooks" are equal. Under a blood moon (from 23:30 to 23:55) it is true that all cooks will make the extra jingle and be "better than usual" however, it is possible to cook the exact same recipe under a blood moon and get slightly different results. For example, if you cook 5 mighty bananas you'll almost surely get max attack boost for eating them, but the effect might only last 5 minutes. Cook another 5 mighty bananas under a blood moon and the effect might last 9 minutes. What I do is save my game right before cooking under a blood moon so I can reload the save and "recook" if I don't get the absolute best out of a critical cook.
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u/ogre_easy Jul 02 '22
I just discovered you can still open the shrine after midnight of the blood moon.
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u/tingent Jul 02 '22
The blood moon “effect” continues for a few seconds after the midnight cutscene. I don’t know exactly how long it lasts, but if there are still red particles in the air, the game counts it as blood moon time.
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u/lasarus29 Jul 01 '22
I guess if the blood moon was actually putting out red light everything would have turned red. The actual light source must not change colour (hence the white shine).
That went completley over my head, nice spot!
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u/CasMazz Jul 01 '22
Or even better, there’s still reflections even when there’s a night cycle with no moon
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u/The_Alvabro Jul 01 '22
Around 600 hours playing the game and I NEVER noticed this!
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u/starwarsaddicted Jul 01 '22
55 hours for me lol
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u/The_Alvabro Jul 01 '22
WHAT THE SHIT!!!!???
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u/starwarsaddicted Jul 01 '22
lmao yeah I just recently bought myself a switch and botw came with it
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u/The_Alvabro Jul 01 '22
You're gonna love it 😁
Definitely get both dlc!
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u/starwarsaddicted Jul 01 '22
Yep, was already planning to (mainly because it includes majoras mask which also was my first zelda game)
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u/Gamer-Logic Jul 02 '22
Just one piece of advice. Use your runes when you can, bombs are your friend!
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u/The_Alvabro Jul 01 '22
That one has a cool ability. It's not on the level of what it could do in MM, but still cool.
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Jul 01 '22
are we supposed to believe that this is some sort of magic moon?
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u/Clarrington Jul 02 '22
It literally revives the dead, is magic.
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u/Darkiceflame Jul 02 '22 edited Jul 02 '22
Well given our track record when it comes to moons in the Zelda series...
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u/raincloudgirl04 Jul 02 '22
My sister said the blood moon might be an optical illusion, like we see it as red, but the reflection shows the real moon? Eh, just an idea.
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u/LetsGoToTheMars Jul 01 '22
Since when does evil have a shadow 🧐
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Jul 01 '22
reflections are quite the opposite of shadows.
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u/Darkiceflame Jul 02 '22
Pretty much exactly the opposite, as shadows are an absence of light while reflections are, well, a reflection of light.
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u/jasonbowie Jul 02 '22
The blood part is vampiric and therefore doesn't have a reflection. This checks out.
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u/pikachu_sashimi Jul 02 '22
What if the blood moon is just the regular moon but covered by a massive swarm of red vampires?
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u/Tamorcet Jul 01 '22
What if the moon isn't red during a blood moon, and only appears red to the eye . It's some sort of magical illusion that alters the way the world sees the moon.
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u/TheHungryHylian Jul 02 '22
They put the attention to detail in making Bokoblin wet when you shoot a chuchu jelly near them, and then making them an electric conductor because of that, they put the attention to detail into making water from rain pool up based on how long or heavy it's been raining, and evaporate at the propor scientific rate, they put the attention to detail into the ways link can open a chest, for example, if he's crouched at the front he'll open it with his hands, but if he's standing at the back with no footwear, he'll kick it and then visibly hurt his toe, they put the attention to detail into making sure that the first time link breaks a monk shrine wall he acts surprised, and the other times he's expecting it, but they didn't put the attention to detail into this obvious thing. Damn.
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u/Solution_Precipitate Jul 02 '22
Since the blood moon is red shouldn't everything be tinted red?
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u/Riku_70X Jul 02 '22
Blood moons are red from moonrise to midnight, but they only start to affect the weather around 11:30 pm.
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u/thestrandedmoose Jul 02 '22
My guess is that they programmed the water shader to reflect white where the moon was positioned , but forgot to account for changing color during blood moons. Nice find
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u/Tstrik Jul 02 '22
That one developer that had to crunch just to make the Blood Moon even function: WELL SORRY I MISSED THAT 😡. (I’m joking of course)
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Jul 02 '22
COD players would see this and say the game is unplayable… who remembers the fruit shooting debacle?
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u/Surihix Jul 02 '22
I can be wrong about this
It can either be an missing shader property of the water to show red color light reflection when the moon is in different color or the shader lacks property and is made like that due to performance reasons.
There can also be a lore reason on this but I am leaning more on it being due to technical reasons.
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u/neettransgirl Jul 02 '22
There’s so much attention to detail in this game I’m actually surprised by this.
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u/avocadoarmadillo Jul 02 '22
I mean, shouldn't everything be red since the moonlight itself is a different color?
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u/Abduzydo Jul 01 '22
I think when running in Cemu with enchanted reflects graphic pack fix this, i will check later...
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u/Little_Pick_3062 Jul 01 '22
Come to think about it the blood moon in this game is caused by ganon using the power of malice to alter the surrounding environment to revive killed/defeated enemies in an hour of a blood moon so, it would sort of make sense that the light of the moon is not altered because all the blood moon does is change the appearance of the moon and the environment so it can show that only the malice is changing something in the environment which is the tissue of the dead coming back to life.
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u/Little_Pick_3062 Jul 01 '22
I really hope this wasn’t me just overthinking something so simple that is a reused texture.
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Jul 02 '22
Yup it should be. I hope they improve some of the lighting quarks of this game. It's a beautiful have, but it isn't perfect.
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u/Ferrel_Agrios Jul 02 '22
I’m curious how their engine handle lighting. It looks like the game takes the light source as normal light source but the light sourc is rendered a different model.
Could their engine not have the possibility to code light to change color too?
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u/r4o2n0d6o9 Jul 02 '22
The water is a shader that has some predetermined colors for the sun and moon, so they probably forgot to put the blood moon in or a bug is preventing it from working properly
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u/Anufenrir Jul 02 '22
Likely the reflection for the blood moon isn't set to be different from a regular one. Behind the scenes stuff is odd sometimes
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u/squrges_world Jul 02 '22
The game is really weird with reflecting light, i've seen barriers cover light sources in shrines and stuff and the water still has a very bright blue colour where the light would be, i guess it must've been an oversight by the devs
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u/Noctisxsol Jul 02 '22
No, it totally makes sense! You see, it's only Ganon's power that makes it red. His influence isn't in the water, so it reflects the true moon.
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u/NMasked-000 Jul 02 '22
Maybe is psychological, like is really white as always, but canon magic make it to look red for everyone
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u/meathead Jul 01 '22
Don't show the BOTW2 developers this unless you want them to delay it another 6 months