One Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has created an ingenious remote control tank using a little-known in-game glitch. Since the game's launch back in May 2023, players have been experimenting with Tears of the Kingdom's deep building mechanics. While the game only requires players to build practical devices, fans have been constructing all sorts of seemingly impossible machines and pop culture-inspired creations. One Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player even built Godzilla in the game.

Following up one of the greatest open-world games of all time in Breath of the Wild is no small feat, but The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom blazes its own trail thanks to its astonishing physics and building mechanics. Of course, Tears of the Kingdom doesn't skimp on the exploration either, impressively expanding mightily upon the already massive map. Still, it seems to be the player creativity that has the community returning to one of the best games of 2023 more than six months later.

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Reddit user Ultrababouin has shared a video of the impressive remote control tank they built in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Ultrababouin uses a little-known glitch to pilot the vehicle remotely. The creative Reddit user details this glitch in the comments, which enables players to control whatever sort of vehicles they want, from drones to cars and even tanks from afar. The glitch, commonly referred to as the "fuse entanglement glitch," allows players to remotely trigger Zonai devices after purposely failing to fuse an item. Essentially, after spamming the proper sequence of buttons while attempting to fuse a device, the item will fall on the ground, but the game will think it is fused. Fuse entangling a steering stick to a shield, for example, can allow players to remotely control vehicles from a distance as if they were attached.

Practically speaking, the remote control tank is a great way to clear hordes of enemies without risking health. Built entirely out of Zonai devices, the vehicle can be driven from impressive distances while automatically shooting down enemies with powerful weaponry. While incredibly powerful, however, even with the included batteries, the ingenious gamer claims the devices won't work for much more than a minute. Still, with this sort of destructive power, it probably won't take more than a minute to obliterate most enemies in Tears of the Kingdom.

Because of the incredibly deep mechanics Nintendo has implemented, Tears of the Kingdom is likely one of those games in which players will be discovering new details even years down the line. The building tools are so impressive, in fact, that one college course is using Tears of the Kingdom to teach students engineering.

Whatever the franchise has in store next is still a mystery, but, according to the series' producer Eiji Aonuma, the next Zelda game is unlikely to be a direct sequel to Tears of the Kingdom. With Tears of the Kingdom releasing six years after Breath of the Wild, it's likely going to be a while before fans hear about the next new entry in the Legend of Zelda franchise. This may mean it might finally be time for some long-rumored remakes and remasters to make an appearance – if they truly exist, that is.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the sequel to the beloved open-world adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This installment once again sees Link and Zelda battling to protect Hyrule from falling to Ganondorf. This new adventure takes place in the same land of Hyrule as Breath of the Wild but sees something called the Upheaval, which allows link to travel to Sky Islands, as well as deep into the Depths beneath Hyrule. Players can use special abilities to fuse together weapons, and build items to help them progress through the release.

Platform(s)

Switch

Released

May 12, 2023

Developer(s)

Nintendo

Publisher(s)

Nintendo