Ghost of Yotei: Your Complete Guide to the Unrevealed Secrets

Ghost of Yotei presents a stunning world brimming with exploration opportunities. With resource gathering, vendor visits, outfit collections, and a compelling main narrative, discovering everything this game offers can seem daunting. For those seeking guidance on bounty quests, gear upgrades, or hidden activities, this essential guide will reveal the secrets Ghost of Yotei doesn’t explicitly impart. 

Maximizing Your Experience: 15 Hidden Tips

Within Yotei’s lush fields of white flowers, you gain a temporary speed increase for your horse by riding through them. Even small patches can be beneficial. Jumping obstacles and collecting natural items like Bamboo and Mushrooms will extend this effect. If you set markers while facing a specific direction, the guiding wind will propel you forward.

Adjust your horse’s camera view by clicking R3, cycling through three modes dubbed “Ezo Wilds”: a widescreen view with cinematic bars, one without bars, and a close-up for quicker camera spins.

Efficient Collection on Horseback

While riding, you can gather most items, including plants, sake, and bounty notices from message boards—larger chests are the only exception. Look for trees adorned with blue ribbons and scarves; they house material sacks that you can shoot down with your bow.

Navigating Your Path with Map Fragments

Vendors and NPCs offer map fragments unveiling altars, new techniques, and other points of interest, crucial for leveling up and acquiring new abilities. Don’t worry about where to place a fragment; the game will guide you after a brief pause.

Map fragments refresh with vendors upon exploration, so revisit new areas for updated maps. Consider saving Coin by buying maps, capturing screenshots of their locations, and then loading an earlier save to retrieve your money.

Quest Navigation: Follow the Gold

Your map doubles as a quest log, offering color-coded cards for ease of access:

• Revenge (Gold Cards): Main story quests.
• Sensei (Blue Cards): Weapon quests providing upgrades or songs.
• Tales (Grey Cards): Side quests from character interactions.
• Bounties (Mugshot Cards): Accepted contracts with highlighted objectives.
• Unfinished Business (Red Cards): Hunts for disruptive individuals.
• Myths (Black Cards): Lore-based quests reward new gear.

Sensei quests focus on combat, letting you develop melee techniques without early pressure from formidable foes.

Earning Through Bounties

Early bounty missions are an excellent source of income and materials. Shadow Inn or map hover reveals new opportunities. Your own bounty doubles as a Spirit replenisher, aiding in both combat and techniques like Heavenly Slash.

Camping for Quick Travel and Perks

Your last camp acts as a fast travel node, allowing for respite activities including cooking and socializing. Fish grant major perks per in-game day; mushrooms offer minor benefits. These enhancements often boost combat performance or stealth.

Crafting ammo and meals is exclusive to your camp. To start camping, stand near your horse until “Camp” pops up, achievable by pressing and holding left on the D-Pad. Ensure your horse is present and the terrain is level.

Discovering Hidden Secrets

Yellow birds lead to hidden challenges and hot spots like shrines. Foxes guide you to charms. Each activity has distinctive markers:

• Fox Dens: Located under red butterfly-laden trees.
• Sumi-e Paintings: Near tall rocks adorned with yellow vines.
• Memory Quests: Close to short, yellow trees.
• Wolf Dens: Marked by a lone tree on a low rock.

Tall white smoke signals events like hot springs or NPCs, while black smoke denotes enemy territories for liberation exercises.

Curate Gear Loadouts

Create multiple gear configurations by pressing Square in the menu, with R2 held down to view detailed stats. These loadouts facilitate rapid shifts between stealth, combat, or exploration gears. Expand loadout slots by collecting new armor.

Enhancing Weapons and Charms

Gather materials around Yotei to upgrade weapons and gear, indicated on your map. A gold diamond highlights ready-to-upgrade weapons. Charms may have challenges—defeat specific foes to elevate the Charm of Fearful Strike.

Social Opportunities at Campsites

Visit others’ campsites marked by white smoke for merchants or valuable interactions without immersion in hostile encounters. Some vendors transitioning to shops offer occasional intel or loot.

Looting Recommendations

In the Occupied Territories, loot fallen enemies before concluding the battle since corpses and their possessions vanish post-liberation. These raids might yield Coins and crafting supplies, depending on the encampment.

Post-liberation, reward caches at main entrances or Altars of Reflection await thanks.

Exploring with a Spyglass

The Spyglass (Up on the D-Pad) aids in exploration. Hovering over distant places reveals them if discoverable, with controllers vibrating for assurance. Use it from vantage points for better results; many discoveries link to combat or Sensei missions.

Inventory Management Tips

Resources cap at 999, so spend or sell excess materials to free space. Prioritize:

• Flowers: For armor dyes and weapon designs.
• Precious Woods: For upgrading bow capacities.
• Food: Provides temporary bonuses and perks.
• Metal: Crucial for weapon and armor upgrades.

Maintain enough inventory for crafting without becoming restricted, optimizing Ghost of Yotei’s vast content. 

Facing Challenges Strategically

Struggling with story bosses? Use the “Abandon Tale” option in Settings, which saves progress, letting you upgrade equipment or techniques before resuming.