OneThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomplayer pushed the Ultrahand ability to its absolute limits by building a flying mech inspired by King Gleeok. They promptly took online to share their achievement, having done so shortly after anotherTears of the Kingdomplayer demonstrated an impressive way to take down a Gleeok.
The latestZeldagame released to universal critical acclaim and fan adoration on May 12. Ever since then, countless players have been rushing online to share their convoluted contraptions built usingTears of the Kingdom’snew Ultrahand ability.
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The latest example of such impressive engineering comes from Reddit user mecataylor, who managed to build a flying mech inspired by King Gleeok. Much like the beast itself, mecataylor’s machine commands an imposing presence, not least because of its three massive heads spitting out ice, fire, and electricity. Its author revealed that they even considered adding a Zonai Hydrant to the mech’s Shock Emitter in order to produce a burst area lightning effect, but ended up dropping the idea after realizing that they reached the game’s component cap. For context,The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomallows players to join up to 21 parts using Ultrahand.
As impressive as this mech inspired byTears of the Kingdom’sKing Gleeokis, the machine is far from practical to use, as it cannot stay airborne for long due to the sheer number of power-hungry Zonai devices it incorporates. Even maxing out Link’s Energy Cell reserves at 16—like mecataylor did—doesn’t allow for much more than 30 seconds of use without wasting Zonai Charges. Its author acknowledged this limitation, saying the machine was built as a “pure fanservice [sic] move.”
Fans interested in more practical flying machinery modeled after one ofTotK’smost dangerous enemies should instead look toward mecataylor’s original Gleeok mech design, which they also shared on Reddit earlier this month. That particular aircraft uses only a single Colossal Fossil head and is much more maneuverable as a result, on top of having enough room to fit an auto-targeting system which leverages a Construct Head to lock onto enemies.
Despite all that tech, the original Gleeok mech design still incorporates fewer Zonai components, meaning it can stay airborne long enough to wreak serious havoc on enemy encampments. Anyone who still finds the idea of piloting such a massive flagship too daunting might instead want to look toward some unmannedattack drones thatTears of the Kingdomplayers have been flaunting onlinein recent weeks.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available now on Nintendo Switch.
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