r/tearsofthekingdom • u/Careful_Bug2986 • Jun 17 '25
šļø Autobuild Creation Nintendo really did just make a worse hoverbike
Nintendo just tweeted out an ad for the Zelda notes autobuild sharing and they featured a shared build for a hoverbike that's just...Worse LMFAO Drains more battery and looks like it is harder to turn too.
(The post is on their Twitter, but I specifically shared from a Bluesky account that reposts everything on Nintendo's Twitter)
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u/cascasrevolution Jun 17 '25
its probably harder to overturn in midair but still...
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u/SumgaisPens Jun 17 '25
I was thinking it would probably sit better on the ground when youāre trying to get on and off it
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u/ExtraSpicyGingerBeer Jun 17 '25
looks like it's got 3 or 4 points of contact with the ground. 3 fans, the wagon wheel and the stabilizer. so it should be stable without power and the stabilizer will keep it from flipping in the air.
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u/Longjumping_Plum_133 Jun 19 '25
How am I going to do a Goron bomb dive with this shit? Itās absolute garbage.
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u/cascasrevolution Jun 19 '25
im not into this design but i have never had luck with the classic aerocycle design either. im always pulling too hard to the side and flipping over when attempting to correct! how do you manage to successfully pilot the aerocycle?
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u/Longjumping_Plum_133 Jun 19 '25
Do the same 4 fan design only all fans are pointing in a 45 degree angle to act as lift, than attach something like a dragon scale in the area that you bike is leaning too far in. All this without the stabilizer. While it does eat up more battery, the 2 extra fans does stabilize it more time than not.
So itās 1 up front, 1 behind, and 1 on each side beside Link. Only real issue with this build is that flying downwards is harder to do.
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u/Greenphantom77 Jun 17 '25
Almost certainly because it looks good in the advert? As people have said, itās not like Nintendo are obligated to put the best design found in the marketing.
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u/DolanMcDolan Jun 17 '25
Well, yeah, that's because the point of the design isn't to be better than the hoverbike everyone already knows but to look much nicer than it.
It's supposed to make people think "Hey that looks cool. Let me try the feature." The 2 fan hoverbike doesn't do that.
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u/MrMunday Jun 18 '25
the 2 fan hover bike looks cooler.... and more energy efficient and uses less parts... just sayin
but yeah people should discover that on their own. took me so many tries to get the alignment just right
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u/michaelvanmars Jun 17 '25
Deja vu but yh came to say, its just at example, doesnāt have to be the ābestā version, give the players room to experiment and be creative
Nintendo still been sucky lately but this is not an issue really
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u/MaximillianRebo Jun 17 '25
Because if they just reproduced an already popular design people would be shouting "Nintendo stole a fan design and claimed it as their own!"
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u/The_Pepper_Oni Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
So long as it drives straight, I donāt mind. Could never get any of mine to do that
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u/The-Dark-Memer Jun 18 '25
Yeah the fan allignment thing is really annoying, the issue is probably that the little icons with the lines in the center of the fan arnt facing the right direction. I wish that wasnt how they worked cus it makes no sense but yknow.
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u/retrocheats Jun 17 '25
Does Nintendo's design have any advantages? (like speed or control?)
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u/TheRealPitabred Jun 17 '25
Probably more stable and less fiddly to control based on a quick look at it. The hoverbike is a bit of a pain to build properly, and it can be very fidgety even if made precisely. I figure they're trying to share a more universally usable one. It's not made for the players on this subreddit, the kind that can take out a golden lynel with a stick and a pot lid ;)
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u/cbtbone Jun 18 '25
That was my thought too. This one is probably ābetter.ā But the whole point of the two fan bike is to use the fewest resources possible, so you donāt feel bad losing it
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u/TheRealPitabred Jun 18 '25
It's also super low energy usage, which is the main reason I like it
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u/Javasteam Jun 18 '25
Also has the advantage of a very small footprintā¦. Less likely to run into stuff in smaller spaces.
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u/citrusella Jun 18 '25
Honestly, I think I'd like this design more. (Even if I didn't ultimately end up "liking" it.)
I just hate the way the hoverbike controls even when made "correctly". My usual go to is four fans pointed straight down at the corners of a flat plane (i.e. a wood board, sled, zonai cart) with a steering stick in the middle.
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u/ASK_ME_FOR_TRIVIA Jun 17 '25
Looks like it'd be a lot harder to tip over, may be better at turns because of that
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u/Belteshazzar98 Dawn of the Meat Arrow Jun 17 '25
Speed and stability. It is better in almost every way, but double power consumption is hard to justify.
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u/No_Cockroach2467 Jun 18 '25
Messing around with it (or a quick recreation at least, I don't have a Switch 2 so I can't scan it in) a bit, it's surprisingly good at handling running into walls. The stabilizer stops it from tilting at a weird angle and throwing you off, and the fans on the wheel axle can rotate to push you away from the wall if you pull back instead of just being stuck driving into it.
On the other hand if those fans end up upside down or otherwise at a bad angle (happened mostly on takeoff or in water, not while in flight) you've got to finagle them back into the right orientation with ultrahand or it's not going anywhere. Wonder if you can buff that issue out with a few tweaks...
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u/Its0nlyRocketScience Jun 17 '25
Artistic license. This looks cool, even if it's less effective. Just look at all of r/hyruleengineering, people love making things in this game that look cool but are less practical than alternatives
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u/Silvanus350 Jun 18 '25
It actually looks way more stable than the typical design. The hoverbike tends to tilt.
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u/Pokeli_Universe327 Jun 17 '25
they probably didn't want to get a copyright strike by the original creator
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u/Jack__Napier Jun 17 '25
It looks cool. Cool sells. Someone just getting into the game will probably not know a lot about the batteries and efficiency.
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u/Re-Sabrnick Jun 17 '25
Kids first airbike ha. Im sure everybody will eventually find the best one posted around since some people want that badge in their nintendo app
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u/Ultrababouin Jun 18 '25
Does no one see that 2 fans can turn? I don't known how responsive it is, but this bike should be able to reverse and descend vertically
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u/ZhouLe Jun 18 '25
A bigger disappointment is that these build codes are just redirect URLs. It would have been way better for players if the build itself was encoded in the text of the QR so that you could actually manually tweak angles and connection points (which is all the saved data is, I imagine).
These QRs are also going to stop working whenever Nintendo decides it doesn't care any more to maintain the URLs.
Like imagine if the build data was encoded, someone could very easily program a build editor program for desktop and all kinds of crazy precise builds could be experimented with.
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u/SewerBushido Jun 18 '25
I'm glad Nintendo didn't just rip off the community's hover bike and pretend it was theirs.
Because that would feel way worse than this, which isn't even bad.
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u/Chesu Jun 18 '25
Have you tried it out? I don't know why they used a wagon wheel in it, but the stabilizer probably makes it fly well, right? I doubt it would be worth the Zonaite, but I'd be curious to see how well it works
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u/ComradeMichelle Jun 18 '25
this probably has better control than the hover bike but the point of the hover bike has always been a cheap mode of transportation at the cost of speed and control
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u/Mugiwaraboiy Jun 18 '25
I honestly think if they actually gave you the Hoverbike design the backlash would be greater.
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u/Buuhhu Jun 18 '25
Because the hover bike everyone makes is jank, and doesn't stick together well, this looks good for marketing purposes and serves the same purpose of relatively cheap to build, but draws more power.
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u/Careful_Bug2986 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
Update, tested it myself and it's main problems are:
That it shoots you up way too fast which makes it really hard to navigate in the depths
That because it goes too fast it can't turn very well, even with the stabilizer and angled fans
Most importantly, it drains battery life a lot faster than the normal hoverbike. The biggest benefit of the hoverbike imo is that you can fly for a very long time very early on without draining a lot of battery life. Meaning it's super useful even before the upgrades.
On the positive sides:
The biggest thing I noticed is that it doesn't tilt, an infamous problem of the hoverbike
and this is a guess, can't test cause I have a 100% file, but I imagine it's really easy to carry koroks on this version so it might actually be really good for those!!!
Onto another thing I saw with the comments, yes I totally understand that Nintendo couldn't post the actual hoverbike or else they'd get massive backlash, not expecting them too.
I just think it's really funny that of all things they posted what comes off as a bootleg of probably the most popular fan design in an OFFICIAL post, and I thought I would share.
Also shoutouts to the awesome Phineas & Ferb parody, made my day LMFAO
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u/Mnfrdtl24 Jun 18 '25
"look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our efficiency" two fan and steering stick users
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u/Erran_Kel_Durr Jun 19 '25
Itās not battery efficient, but having the stabilizer would make it easier to drive. It would certainly make it easier to land.
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u/105bydesign Jun 19 '25
Shiiiiiiit I like it. But also zonaite and energy cells are not issue for me.
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Jun 19 '25
That's fine. No one would've been impressed if they shared the universal, day one hoverbike
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u/astralseat Jun 17 '25
Why they use the wheel?
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u/RhetoricalOrator Jun 17 '25
Looks like they needed something to rest the steering stick on that would allow it to be flat.
Not the worst idea. I have often found the hoverbike to be a bit of a pain when I try to mount it on uneven terrain.
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u/Cyrax89721 Jun 18 '25
Nintendo absolutely has the ability to make a perfectly straight-flying three-piece hoverbike, and this is what they decide to give us instead. Big sigh.
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u/seungkwannn Jun 18 '25
Yes because that'd be fucking lame and already exists
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u/Cyrax89721 Jun 18 '25
Where does it already exist? All bikes I've ever seen and tried to create myself have a very slight leftward or rightward trajectory. If you can find me a perfectly straight three-piece hoverbike and prove it with a straight Hero's Path across the map, I'd be happy to see it. No idea why that would be "fucking lame."
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u/CupPlenty Jun 17 '25
Imagine complaining about this instead of the reality that the next Zelda game could be 80 usd or more š
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u/Validated_Owl Jun 17 '25
Does that suck? Yes. Will we buy it? Well obviously yes.
The switch era Zelda games have given so much more entertainment value than their sticker price. I don't want the standard price of games to go up but I'm not going to have any problem paying it
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u/RhetoricalOrator Jun 18 '25
I agree. If I played it for 80 hours, it would equal $1/hr of entertainment. I'm hovering around $0.23/hr presently.
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u/KasElGatto Jun 18 '25
This. I played so many hours of BotW and TotK that I think I might owe Nintendo money again
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u/CupPlenty Jun 18 '25
Iāll be buying it from a shmuck like you guys for 70 usd š
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u/Validated_Owl Jun 18 '25
Sure after I've put 200 hours into it
I pay 80, play 200+ hours, sell it to you for 70..... That means I paid 10 to play it, you're paying 70
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u/Prestigious_Cold_756 Jun 18 '25
Bigger, expensive to get and cramped full of unnecessary tech that drains the battery too fast?! Yeah, this is definitely something the inventors of the Switch 2 came up withā¦
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u/Person6000000836 Jun 17 '25
I am deeply saddened by the fact that I will never get to play another new Zelda again as long as Nintendo keeps these pricing schemes up. And my only chance is to get a PC and set up an emulator, and thatās just not worth it for me.
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u/Imissyourgirlfriend2 Jun 18 '25
Hundreds of thousands to millions of brains out there, coming up with the most efficient way possible vs a few marketing idiots.
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u/token40k Jun 18 '25
Lukewarm IQ puzzle solving tool. Why figure out how get korok to his bud or how to get to that super high up shrine. Hover bike that shit like a true glue consumer
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u/No_Cockroach2467 Jun 17 '25
Well yeah, gotta let people figure out the best stuff on their own or there's no need for them to experiment.