{"id":19173,"date":"2023-05-26T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=19173"},"modified":"2023-05-26T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:05:00","slug":"20230526-19173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230526-19173\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of the Kingdom: Shield surfing using Icy Meat has unexpected benefits\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Players have been continuing their research on what can be combined with a shield using Fuse to make useful items in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.<\/strong> One of these items is Icy Meat, which might actually be a more convenient item to use for shield surfing than Mine Carts. Please note that this article contains actual examples of the usage of the Fuse ability.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an action-adventure game currently available for Nintendo Switch. It is the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In the new game, the land of Hyrule is suddenly struck by unusual natural disasters \u2013 castles rise into the air and mysterious ruins rain down from the sky. In a world with an expanded earth and sky, Link, possessing new powers in his right hand, confronts the catastrophes in Hyrule. The game sold over 10 million units<\/a> within the first three days of release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Tears of the Kingdom comes with many new features, much of the gameplay mechanics have been retained from the previous title, including shield surfing. In Breath of the Wild, Link was able to jump onto his shield and slide down sloped surfaces on it. Besides looking cool, it can also be used to achieve considerable speeds.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Furthermore, in Tears of the Kingdom, shield surfing has evolved: The newly introduced Fuse ability lets you combine your shield with various items to make changes to how surfing works. For example, when combined with a Mine Cart, the shield becomes a wheeled skateboard (Related article<\/a>). This allows you to glide more smoothly against various surfaces, such as grass, snow fields, sand and other surfaces which offer more resistance.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently an unexpected item is attracting the attention of players who like to modify their shields. Apparently, fusing your shield with Icy Meat to make an Icy Meat shield has great benefits, which are demonstrated in the post below by Max Blumenthal of GameSpot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unironically? Ice meat might be shield surf meta. Way easier regularly get than carts, and way more durable than ice shields. There even seems to be a tier list of different ice meats, chicken is 100% D tier \ud83e\udd23 pic.twitter.com\/hjGRP7Wsa6<\/a><\/p>— Max Blumenthal (@RinHara5aki) May 25, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>