How I Killed Link 2184 Times with 1 Hit in Breath of the Wild

[@StopLegoLord]

BotW's outer space feels creepily realistic. Blisteringly bright sunlight, a blue haze in the atmosphere, a spherical skybox, and a black seemingly starless sky. It's like Link was supposed to travel there at some point in development.

[@coballoon]

There's even concept art of aliens in UFOs invading Hyrule. Makes you wonder what kind of crazy ideas ended up being scrapped.

[@IfaithfullyRecreatedAMetyVideo]

There was even concept art showing aliens invading Hyrule in UFOs. Makes me wonder what kind of crazy ideas got scrapped.

[@IsabruhMoment]

This! The way how the brightness slowly enveloped Link as he fell, the curvature of the terrain…it feels so real

[@thrawn6631]

@@IfaithfullyRecreatedAMetyVideoYoooo it’s Mety!!!

[@squidoodleccc]

@@thrawn6631 no it isn't

[@stungunnotapplicable1953]

Imagine doing all that only to hear, "It is my pleasure." Mipha being the GOAT and saving you from falling from SPAAAAAAAACE.

[@IntegralKing]

yeah, then you end up with 65535 + 5 hearts

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@IntegralKing Well, the 30-heart maximum the game allows for permanent upgrades also applies to yellow bonus hearts, so if you have 26 hearts she would only give you +4 bonus, and with 27, +3 bonus. (This also applies to hearty food.) No idea how this would interact with modding the hp above max, but I'm guessing it would either go up to 30, or all the way back up to 65535, but not above.

[@Enderia2]

Why did I read that last part in a murder drones intro voice

[@Dexuz]

GRAB ME GRAB ME GRAB ME

[@latel4544]

Mipha deserved better than dying in a divine beast fr

[@iohsmdiglomdrn]

funny to think that all that damage would be negated by pressing X a metre off the ground

[@whoknows4780]

At that speed his arms might not survive lol

[@matoiryuko9444]

@@whoknows4780 i think he would already be dead before reaching the ground

[@jruler93]

Or if you exhaust Link's stamina, he automatically pulls out the Paraglider right before hitting the ground if the fall damage would kill you.

[@Lassie23]

@@jruler93 no?

[@jruler93]

@@Lassie23 I'm fairly certain he does, as long as you have the Paraglider, no stamina and no auto-revives (like Mipha's Grace or a Fairy).

[@da_pwo]

I'm suprised that from up there it kinda looks like a model of earth, almost like you were meant to go up there but couldn't due to the accuracy glitch

[@whoknows4780]

*BOTW2 enters the chat*

[@sanderdrack]

Probably just the sky texture, it’s usually a sphere.

[@taker601]

The Y axis always being loaded in explains why I can hear Yigas spawning below me when I'm paragliding hundreds of feet in the air

[@that_one_shiny_eevee]

lmao

[@marioman8942]

Fun fact: The master mode dlc lets you get one-shot by enemies to make it harder.

[@RGC_animation]

Which is what should've happened in the normal game!

[@creeperizak8971]

@@RGC_animation No, one shot protection is important.

[@RGC_animation]

@@creeperizak8971 It's like if you always had the Focus Sash in Pokemon, that would remove a bit of the challenge.

[@creeperizak8971]

@@RGC_animation one shot protection is totally different in turn based combat, having it gives you a pretty big advantage, and if everyone has it it's just flat out annoying.

[@RGC_animation]

@@creeperizak8971 I know, it still makes it more challenging to not have one-shot protection.

[@Soldaraku]

8:11 - For those curious like I was, Link fell at a speed of (202,317 meters per hour/ 202.317 kilometers per hour/ 125.714 miles per hour). At least according to a randomly googled speed calculator. Do with that knowledge as you will.

[@SeeYouInBluffington]

Thanks! This is around the average terminal velocity for a human falling haha

[@KnightSlasher]

Judging by the thumbnail it seems that link likes getting hurt he really is feeling it now

[@lightos_]

if you are in mastermode the one shot protection is turned off. also by using multiple glitches it is actually possible to reach space without using mods great video!

[@professorgreenbeans8275]

According to the doctor, Link’s heartbeat sounds like “a damn chainsaw” with each beat

[@zorinus3340]

Dennis and Link have something in common

[@pacicidal]

So no one is going to talk about how raw of a line, "With that much health, Link wouldn't have to worry about anything. He'd be a god. But even gods can be crushed." is at 6:26, considering the subject of the video?

[@ZilRockbottom]

"I fell for hours!" "Ooh, hours long time!" "Well, at least it seemed like hours. Anyway, I was falling!"

[@Redpoppy80]

This video reminded me of the Mythbusters making Buster do things that were going to kill him again, and again... And again. Those were good times.

[@sonicjason255]

Now I wanna see a full time-lapse of link falling from space

[@williamdrum9899]

At 2:34 I legit thought there was dirt on my screen until Swanky mentioned it was actually in the game

[@jacedawg355]

I feel like link would've hit the ground like an ASTEROID after falling at max speed for that long

[@_thresh_]

Link shaped craters should be all over his save if it was realistic

[@inthefade]

Terminal velocity doesn't allow a given object to accelerate beyond a certain point.

[@Cannon_The_Guy]

Terminal velocity would prevent that, I think

[@Cannon_The_Guy]

@@inthefadeyeah, because the wind resistance would outweigh gravity

[@blazalage8519]

@@Cannon_The_Guy Except he was falling from the thermosphere, where there is no atmosphere to slow link's falling speed, therefore link would build up speed until hitting the atmosphere at god knows what speed, realistically speaking.

[@myarmsrgone]

Breaking News: Hylian attempts 2012 skydive without parachute, turns his bones to dust

[@KeebeThePlush]

It’s kinda funny how the game has a mechanic that allows you to not be one shot that ends up making link very strong

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

Yeah, one-hit protection combined with instant pause menu healing kind of removes the stakes if you're remotely prepared.

[@AdaTheWatcher]

@@Nat_the_Chicken I still die pretty often lmao.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@AdaTheWatcher Hey fair enough, I'm not counting

[@Mr_questionman]

"Remember son, dying is gay, " -Link's father

[@dominicbonogofski]

In the Master Mode DLC, Gold Lynels can kill Link with max defense (minus status effects) with their explosion slam attack. It deals enough damage to kill Link on the spot.

[@beesknees220]

These videos are super entertaining!! Seeing link falling from like 120,000 meters high is so funny

[@cinnamintie]

if you move like 5 meters higher does damage overflow to a point where link just survives the fall, taking no damage?

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I'm guessing the game just rounds down lol

[@_thresh_]

It might underflow to a negative value and heal link instead

[@alexkuhn5188]

Now I want to know what would happen.

[@Blazingflare2000]

Well the damage dealt is stored as a float rather than a 16 bit integer considering fall damage increments by 0.6 damage a meter at first. So it wouldn't over or underflow.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@Blazingflare2000 Are you sure it doesn't just increment by 1 damage every 1.666667 meters?

[@Gasterattack]

Imagine he accidentally pressed x to paraglide at the end

[@simanolastname2399]

Well, this settles it. Breath of the Wild has no air (otherwise, fall damage would stop incrementing at some point due to air resistance).

[@SceptyMakesMusicalMistakes]

I was wondering about terminal velocity...

[@OurHereafter]

No that's wrong. Because he would also need to continue falling faster and faster. Not only would he get hurt more he would be falling stupidly fast

[@simanolastname2399]

@@OurHereafter huh? You do know about terminal velocity, right?

[@OurHereafter]

@@simanolastname2399 do you? you're saying botw has no air. If it had no air link would continue falling faster without limit until he hits the floor. Terminal velocity exists because the object is moving through air. No air, no terminal velocity.

[@simanolastname2399]

@@OurHereafter That's exactly what I'm saying. There is maximum damage value in BOTW for falling, implying that the speed just keeps increasing (therefore no terminal velocity), and as such there is no air.

[@Kaitri]

Id love to see a sm64 challenge where you try to surf on a koopa shell as much as possible. Been a while since we had sm64 content

[@heroofangst]

As always, amazing vid! It’s amazing watching you break these games to their limit. Can’t wait for the next one!

[@jaredbarker9515]

Fall damage is capped on Earth in real life because of maximum velocity.

[@DogsRNice]

It's the same in a lot of other games as well and would be in botw if it used velocity for calculating fall damage rather than distance The issue with using velocity for fall damage is when the physics engine has an issue, anyone who's randomly died in gmod while walking around many spawned props has experienced this, the game propels the player at the ground at incredible speed and kills them (also the amount of damage done in source engine games is different depending on which one it is, the portal games have no fall damage while half life 2 does enough to kill the player at around terminal velocity even at max health, tf2 has a lot less fall damage so falling at terminal velocity doesn't do too much damage) I'm guessing they made the fall damage increase with distance fallen to both prevent physics issues (botw uses the same physics engine (havoc) as source and lots of other games, an updated version of course but it can still get weird) and to prevent people from just jumping from high places without using the paraglider Also for fun another example of the player getting slammed into the ground and instantly dying is some cars in fallout 4 spawning in positions that make them snap to a different position when the player touches them, applying tons of velocity to the player and killing them An even weirder example is from the development of half life 2. Valve actually tried making the player a physics object but because of the way it worked was they had to apply tons of momentum to the player to actually move them and walking into walls became deadly

[@OurHereafter]

"I have been falling for 38 minutes and 56 seconds!!!"

[@someidiotmakingvids]

“We actually placed a platform way up in the sky” *SSBU Main Theme starts playing*

[@perodactyl490]

I like that you explained that 65535 is the max u16(unsigned 16 bit) number.

[@EVPointMaster]

Wrong, he explained that 65535 is the max "unassigned" 16 bit number 😆

[@AquaQuokka]

​@@EVPointMasterNo, it's unsigned.

[@AquaQuokka]

They just wrote the wrong thing.

[@osmiumforge]

The one hit obliterator can deal more damage than that

[@5hardshelltacosfromtacobell]

link's skeleton is now dust, congratulations

[@PyraJya-Luquay]

FREE, FREEFALLIN'! If real world physics were at play, and assuming Link had a spacesuit, he'd burn to vapors before he ever reached Hyrule! XD

[@diaryofanasdkid9752]

That would be a nice suggestion idea if BOTW had realistic physics

[@PyraJya-Luquay]

@diaryofanasdkid9752 Honestly surprised it wasn't a thing in TotK, consider you can actually reach the game's "edge of space" if you fly high enough above the Sky Islands! Trust me, the limit for how high you can actually fly in that game and THEN skydive is hilariously big.

[@Alexander12276]

8:22 OOF i think even Link's descendents felt that one

[@whoknows4780]

So if I fall out of the space station, hurtle towards earth, and die when I hit the ground, I’m as strong as link??

[@watchpointoh3354]

Yes.

[@watchpointoh3354]

Although it would take months or years to eventually leave orbit and fall to Earth, and you'd probably die after a few months without sustain and then burn up in the atmosphere.

[@julesthehylianFP]

For the Urbosa DLC you had to sneak inside their base for an orb and I got one shot by a yiga blade master with 28 hearts

[@TheManofBrisk]

I believe when you sneak through the Yiga Clan hideout (both for the Thunder Helm and later the orb if you have the DLC), the game both turns off the one-shot protection and also maximizes enemy damage. I think enemies also have maximum defense when Link is spotted as well- once when I got caught I managed to hit a blade master a strong weapon and it barely did any damage (later said weapon could kill one in about 8 swings, and a blade master has 400HP IIRC).

[@julesthehylianFP]

@@TheManofBrisk Oh I also I had Mipha’s Grace active and I had 5 fairies

[@tenchimuyo69]

The one damage type that isn't capped is one that technically is somewhat capped irl with variables like terminal velocity.

[@racer927]

6:40 Floating point precision jiggles; it never gets old.

[@stupakoopa_3987]

_Aerosmith's "Dream On" plays_

[@carlhoward4273]

Imagine falling at that hight into a hazard like lave or corruption while also getting hit by a gardien

[@Night_Fire1234]

I was literally about to play breath of the wild when i got the notification for this 😂 lol.

[@BirnieMac1]

Id love to see if velocity affects the damage he takes Like if you artifically increase gravity (i.e. downward acceleration) - does the damage increase? I imagine they may have an effective terminal velocity though? (i..e the max char speed?) As your V-impact is sqrt(2*g*h) and Kinetic energy is 0.5*m*v^2 - the kinetic energy at impact should scale linearly with both height and gravity acceleration - much like the damage does Like sure it's not gonna be identical to reality, but I do kinda love how much their physics engine emulates reality

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

At 6:27, "unassigned" should be "unsigned," meaning there's no "sign bit" allowing numbers to be negative. Signed integers often work weirdly, with different programming languages expecting different data types to be signed vs unsigned, so it's kind of a headache. But the main thing you need to know is that a _signed_ 16-bit integer can go up to 32,767 (2^15 - 1), half as high as unsigned, but it can also go _down_ to -32,767, whereas unsigned integers can't go below 0. It makes sense to use an unsigned integer for hit points or health because if it goes below 0 then that's probably a glitch.

[@marioplumber3378]

nerd.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

@@marioplumber3378 Correct. What masterful deductive skills.

[@that_one_shiny_eevee]

when link can barely see the ground when falling from 131000 meters in the air it honestly makes you start to hold your breath because it feels so surreal and it also looks so much like a sphere from that high

[@omegaquinn3084]

yoo btow map is round i bet flat earthers are pissed now

[@CaiusMiehela]

Diavolo's 17062th death

[@ipway9511]

*casually explains a harvard math course while falling*

[@cherubin7th]

Post the full version of the fall, please.

[@Neridian_]

I frickin love these videos and they are just as good as back when I was younger

[@randomslomo1875]

If the highest point is 1000 and the lowest point is 200, wouldn't the highest fall be 800, not 1000?

[@randomguy5312]

When I went into the yiga clan hideout for the urbosa's song DLC quest with max armour and hearts the yiga blade masters still one shot me not in master mode. I felt like it shouldn't be done without unholy damage numbers

[@_thresh_]

Those dudes take a while to kill with max ancient armour and an ancient battle axe++ with attack up 15 too

[@nobodythegamer2557]

Its weird because the fall damage is not based on metres, but on link's height

[@TurnipBoy666]

Love the video!

[@treyparkerofficial]

Every single video is something I never knew I wanted until I clicked on it.

[@dominicbonogofski]

Man who bursts into flame upon stepping near a volcano doesn't catch fire when dropping out of the stratosphere. Makes sense.

[@BonkedByAScout]

For a good example of what happens when you limit decimals on numbers for game calculations see the Playstation. Textures and models wobbling on that system was due to it not supporting arbitrary decimal precision for it's math calculations, only a somewhat low resolution fixed point.

[@ricerocketrider4243]

If you fell from slightly higher would the binary number overflow and you would actually take very little damage?

[@valentinvas6454]

Me in 2023: Elden Ring and BOTW is not that similar Me after I realise Link takes damage after a 20m fall and 20m is also the limit before instant death in Elden Ring: Okay I yield

[@EVPointMaster]

But in Elden Ring don't you start to take fall damage at 16m and die at 20m? In BotW you need to be much higher before you die from a fall

[@ShadowDragon-cw7wb]

"How much pain do you want, Link?" "HIYYAAAAAA!!!"

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

Totally should have referenced this in relation to the height of the highest free jump a human has performed.

[@alexfrideres1198]

Link took so much damage that He and 2184 of his future reincarnated selves were just wiped from existence

[@Cojosho97]

I’m a little bit disappointed the outcome wasn’t Link spawning in and dying again instantly the 2k+ times but this was super cool to watch regardless.

[@FirestormDDash]

Imagine a sword ground strike from that height. Ganon would even fear.

[@mr.lavander7145]

Swankybox, did you know the slide in the first Bowser level is climbable if you crawl? I didn't know who else to tell this to but I find it interesting.

[@Nesseight]

"Even gods can be crushed." Should have transformed into a goldfish.

[@wtfineedacc]

I've been falling for 38 minutes!!

[@KLightning18]

Yiga Clan Blademaster:

[@JackVice]

Totk really puts these games' engines in perspective

[@keiyakins]

Heh, yeah. though they had to do a bunch of work on it - things kilometers above and below you aren't loaded anymore. (in fact, there's a moment where your vision is totally obscured as you enter the depths... that's so that if loading takes longer than expected they can just hold Link there until it's done)

[@TayoEXE]

6:18 Fun fact: The number 65535 is not random. It is the highest integer value you can hold in a 16-bit unsigned (zero and positive only) integer. In other words, in binary, a bit is one of two values, 0 or 1. If you use 16 bits, such as 1001 0110 0111 0111, you can have a total of 65536 possible values. It's just a way to store a number, but an 8 bit value would have 256 possible values, which would have been plenty as well considering Link cannot possibly get more than a few dozen hearts in total.

[@networkofneurons]

3:57 bro your abacus is jigantanorsdisplishidisly gigantonorsdis

[@networkofneurons]

3:37 totk lore

[@mbcodes18]

I thought you were gonna talk about the yiga clan hideout blademasters

[@peanutsandvich1319]

The experiment has concluded that terminal velocity does not exist in breath of the wild. In other words aerodynamics in Hyrule is not bound by the laws of physics.

[@ShadowMarth121]

655355 Is actually widely used troughout the game. Its the max for durability up and attack up weapons as well as miscellaneous gamedata flags throughout the game. If your interested on how the games map data is structured I can tell you about it sometime

[@williamdrum9899]

Makes sense, that's the max size of a 16-bit number (aka a halfword or unsigned short on the Switch hardware)

[@Da_TboneLife]

Now that's a lot of damage!

[@beastup7up]

#1 forgot about master mode a) forgot about gold lynels #2 the "drop to a quarter of a heart" system functions when the following requirements are met: you were at full health before getting hit, you are not getting hit with an attack that hurts in multiple parts ( like the guardian beam and its explosion that only does so sometimes), and finally you have to be not in master mode.

[@ralphforbes5807]

So uh...I have been playing botw recently, at least on my switch, I can die in one hit, no surviving, albeit these are fights I have no business being in but I swear 😂 regardless I enjoyed the video good stuff 😁

[@Waikuteru]

Nice to see the video is now out! 😃

[@enderguyx2081]

Shockingly this isn’t the first time we’ve sent a major Nintendo character into space on this channel, and I doubt it’ll be the last time, either.

[@VampiricFox37]

I wondered if fall damage would be the source. Nice video.

[@hokie2323]

Please do a video on reclaims in SMM2 (a reclaim is when you jump off of and kick a shell at the same time so that you can get past certain kaizo sections)

[@mitchellginn7730]

rip link’s kneecaps

[@killergamingcoc6578]

The reason it seems random is because it's directly scaled from link's height. I forgot the exact details. Watch croton's video for a better understanding

[@smurfadoodlethewise4584]

“Die 2184 deaths!” -Akuma probably

[@silversabercraft]

Place a tile on a space that does something like explode a lot, with stasis active Then when you trigger it go high enough to make that death How to do it from ground level

[@macaroniturtle9470]

"falling from space killed Link on the spot" idk I'm sure he can recover because he's built different

[@dannydemaria1930]

In swankyboxs mario 64 box carry run i found that granting immunity to every door in big boos haunt and hazy maze cave nets you 7 additional stars for the outlined ruleset due to the jump heights 5 for big boos haunt 1 for hazy maze cave and the metal cap red coins along with the metal cap switch being activated as it is impossible to get big boos balcony and eye to eye in the secret room the only star obtainable in hazy maze cave other than metal cap red coins is swimming beast in the cavern

[@RGC_animation]

You can actually do this experiment without modifying the game at all! By duping thousands of bomb arrows, you can explode yourself into space all in vanilla BoTW.

[@Ceezmemefn08]

Nobody talkin abou how that Guardians leg glitched at 0:50

[@kennycarter5682]

Are you aware of the thermometer in the game? Please. Max it out for both heat and cold, im curious how high and how low it can go.. I don't mean death mountain errors, I mean actual numbers. The higher you go the colder, the lower you go the hotter! I'd appreciate it a lot

[@sodiumfluoridel]

Using some crazy glitches, you can actually get a bokoblin to hold the one hit obliterator.

[@47northm]

He forgot about giving enemies the one hit obliterater

[@Jay_G94]

I came to your page you haven’t done a video on your thoughts on Dr. Salvador how he looks on the remake so far.

[@meliasnahtony2951]

You have now obtained Ganondorf as a subscriber

[@Nadiki]

1:25 I completed the entire game and never noticed they capped the damage to prevent you from getting instakilled. Clearly I’m not too observant 😅

[@nemooceansoul1137]

is anyone else mildly curious to see the full recording of him falling that entire distance?

[@ferrerolovae]

8:22 imagined he accidentally pressed X at the last second 😆

[@ArmorAdv413]

Now you gotta do it in tears of the kingdom from the highest point you can be to the lowest point in the depths while diving at max speed

[@WalnutBun]

You forgot about Revali's Gale - you could've gained a couple additional meters above the 5km platform.

[@_thresh_]

That was definitely a bizarre trip

[@PhillipLarsen]

Funny enough, with the polygons spazzing out, I've seen this similar situation happen quite a few games! Primarily Roblox too! I wonder just what causes this whether it be rendering or just physics in general.

[@skyebirb]

If you still want to know, it's a computer quirk. "Floating-point numbers" are an important concept in computers and games. The key takeaway is that floating-point numbers are very versatile, and can store very precise OR very large numbers, but not both. The larger the value you try to store in floating-point, the less precise it becomes, and very large numbers have almost no precision at all. Eventually if you get enough height, the number storing the height becomes so large that it loses all its precision, and Link can only fall several units at a time which causes that jagged movement.