Highlights
- A skilled Zelda player has created a powerful gunship in Tears of the Kingdom, adding to the collection of impressive aircraft made by fans.
- Reddit user Ultrababouin has proven to be particularly adept at mastering the game and has built various deadly machinery, including killer drones.
- The latest addition to Ultrababouin's creations is their "best gunship yet," utilizing advanced techniques and components to deliver swift aerial destruction. They are also creating a tutorial for others to recreate the design.
One veteran The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player managed to put together an imposing gunship that can mercilessly mow down even the game's most menacing mobs. Their formidable contraption thus adds to the sizable pile of spectacular Tears of the Kingdom aircraft that the Nintendo fandom has managed to build since the new Zelda game hit the store shelves in May.
While countless players tried their hand at mastering Ultrahand in recent months, few have been as tenacious and successful at doing so as Reddit user Ultrababouin. This crafty fan has so far pioneered a varied selection of incredible machinery, including numerous Tears of the Kingdom killer drones, each deadlier than the last.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Fan Builds Incredibly Fast Plane
A crafty Tears of the Kingdom player raises the bar for speedy aircraft with an incredibly fast plane that can surpass 200 miles per hour.
The latest addition to their custom combat aircraft portfolio is what the player dubbed their "best gunship yet." Taking to Reddit, Ultrababouin showcased a convoluted contraption that makes full use of the 21-component limit that Tears of the Kingdom imposes upon players in order to deal rapid death from above. Their design also serves as a microcosm of the current state of the game's building meta, as it leverages multiple advanced techniques for pushing the Ultrahand mechanics to their very limits.
For example, the gunship's cockpit incorporates the guard rail from the Construct Factory in The Depths, which is also the lightest known component in the game that boasts extremely floaty physics and is easy to keep airborne. The actual propulsion is handled by twin propellers plundered from the Gemimik Shrine in eastern Hyrule, connected via a Zonai Big Wheel that helps them rotate even faster than normal. As if that mechanism wasn't sophisticated enough, the propulsion system was joined to the rest of the gunship using stake nudging, a revolutionary Tears of the Kingdom technique for building invisible connections between objects.
Beneath that construction lies an array of Zonai Beam Emitters mounted on a Construct Head, one of only two components in the game that can automatically aim at enemies. The player also incorporated two Zonai Stabilizers into the build, presumably so as to make the aircraft more maneuverable. Overall, the gunship manages to overshadow the Tears of the Kingdom combat drones that Ultrababouin was experimenting with back in June, illustrating how far this prolific creator has gotten in their engineering endeavors.
Players interested in taking this aircraft for a spin should soon be able to do so. Namely, Ultrababouin revealed they're currently working on a detailed tutorial for recreating their latest design.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available now on Nintendo Switch.
