Hogwarts Legacy - I Wish I Had Known This Sooner... (Tips & Tricks)

In this video, I walk you through and review and an early-access gameplay preview of Hogwarts Legacy including lots of new things you need to know about Hogwarts Legacy Gameplay, with lots of Tips & Tricks to help you get the most out of Hogwarts Legacy when you play. Hogwarts Legacy releases on February 10th.

*Thank you:* Thanks to the amazing @HogwartsLegacy team who invited me to play the game in early access as well as meet the wonderful dev team to ask them questions about their game! My additional thanks to Josh at Warner Bros PR UK.

*Disclaimer:* All footage and topics discussed in this video have been officially shared with me by Warner Brothers Games, Avalanche Software & Hogwarts Legacy. All gameplay captured and footage shown adheres to the parameters set by Warner Bros UK in line with the UK embargo guidelines (6th of February).

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Hogwarts Legacy is scheduled to launch worldwide for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on February 10, PlayStation®4 and Xbox One will launch on April 4 and Nintendo Switch on July 25.

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Warner Bros. Games and Avalanche Software released today the Hogwarts Legacy launch trailer ahead of the open-world, action role-playing-game’s worldwide launch for PlayStation®5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on February 10, 2023.

In the stunning new trailer, fans are welcomed to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where they will become part of the magic and live out their dreams as a student.

Hogwarts Legacy invites players to embark on an epic journey as a fifth-year student at Hogwarts, gifted with a rare ability to tap into ancient, powerful magic. Guided by the Wizard's Field Guide and unique instruction from professors and other characters, fans will uncover a compelling storyline filled with thrilling challenges and mysteries.

Faced with perilous dangers, players will defend Hogwarts against deadly enemies and uncover the secrets of the wizarding world's forgotten past.

Beginning as a fifth year, players will embark on a journey through new and familiar locations, explore and discover magical beasts, craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents and customize their character to become the witch or wizard they want to be.

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00:00 | Intro
00:21 | 10 - World Restrictions - Hogwarts Legacy
01:12 | 9 - How to unlock Flying & Mounts - Hogwarts Legacy
02:23 | 8 - Arithmancy Doors (How to unlock them) - Hogwarts Legacy
03:43 | 7 - Room of Requirement Tips - Hogwarts Legacy
05:20 | 6 - Stealth Tips & Secrets - Hogwarts Legacy
06:36 | 5 - Ancient Magic Hotspots - Hogwarts Legacy
07:16 | 4 - Infamous Foes & Combat Tips - Hogwarts Legacy
08:14 | 3 - Talents to get first - Hogwarts Legacy
09:15 | 2 - Unforgivable Curses (How to get them) - Hogwarts Legacy
10:13 | 1 - Important Main & UI Settings - Hogwarts Legacy
11:47 | ☕ | Thanks Reloads Club

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[AndyReloads]

I hope this guide helps you out & what are you looking forward to most? would love to hear your thoughts down below 👍🏻

[FinanceMan]

This game was hyped as all get out and it’s even better than I expected. What a win for this game team and Harry Potter fans

[XenoZbornak]

So much for "gammers don't want single player games anymore." I'm loving this so much! It's like the good old days again. Back in 2007.

[TheBrotatoPatch]

Also with the Arithmancy doors, the frame of the door has the correct animals from left to right, being 0-9. So you don't need to have cheat sheet next to you.

[chillax]

Spending one talent point into the Revelio spell upgrade is also a big help. It makes it's range faaar bigger.

[ZoggFromBetelgeuse]

I played about 50 hours, solved a lot of Merlin trials and Ancient magic puzzled and wondered why I don't get a bigger inventory and more ancient magic slots - only to discover that I need to 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦 completed challenges in the challenge menu.

[Kyle-lybt]

Handy tip for the door. You don't actually need to keep an image of the cheat sheet. If you look at the door, all the animals around the "arch" are in order of their numbers 0 to 9 (going clockwise). Starting with the Demiguise on the bottom left (zero), ending with the 9-headed hydra on the bottom right (nine).

[DiustheZ]

Pro tip, a black flag on a location either in hogwarts local map or next to the map name up the top means there's a side quest or main quest event there. If you're looking for side quests check to see if there's a flag posted up.

[Diaz]

I'm 25 hours in and I've passed up so many disillusionment chests because i didnt know how to open them 😪 Thanks for this!!

[dismembered_chicago]

I wish they added Draco Malfoy's "Serpensortia spell" from Chamber of Secrets. Would be awesome to summon snakes to attack your enemy, especially if you're a Slytherin.

[warreng]

One thing I hope they add in dlc is a companion magical beast option so you can have a Niffler running around with you which guides you to nearby treasures etc and the ability to use the beasts you capture for this and mounts

[parthin]

To break the colored shields, cast the same color spell at the enemy.

[tonexx]

They did a fantastic job with this game. It's been way too long for us to be given a complete game at launch that can satisfy us without requiring a group of friends and a bunch of anxiety. This game is HUGE ... the video should give insight. I have played for 8 hours and just now unlocked traits and flying.

[orimiel]

You don't need a cheat sheet if you look closely, the respective numbers are reflected in the creature pictures ... 😏
(I took one look at it and was like, there has to be a way to figure this out, and there is ... guess I'll sort myself into Ravenclaw now)

Demiguise - nothing
Unicorn - 1 horn
Graphorn - 2 horns
Runespoor - 3 heads
Fwooper - 4 tails
??? - 5 legs
Salamander - 6 "appendages" (legs, head, tail)
??? - body looks like a 7
Spider - 8 legs (duh)
Hydra - 9 heads

Tadaaa! 😎

[EvilCloud]

I have to disagree a bit about the plant pots, yes you can grow anything in the larger ones but being able to grow 5 of each small item is actually fairly useful if you are brewing a lot of potions. Not to mention that growing items in the larger pots, sadly, does not increase how many you get back. Example: No matter what sized pot you use for Dittany leaves, you will always get back 5 leaves. (6 if you use fertilizer). On the subject of fertilizer, it's better to use it on Mandrakes, Tentaculas, or Chomping Cabbages since they only produce 1 per growth normally. Sadly it's not as useful on other plants since it only adds 1 in return.

[Axaerys]

One of the best tips I can give you regarding killing a character with high HP (like Trolls) with ease, is that to cast Imperio (mind-control curse) on them, they won't attack you back anymore. You can achieve 70+ combo streak with this so feel free to use ancient magic on them too.

[Hades_Phoenix]

Those puzzle with the 2 locks for each door. I
simply set one lock on one imagine and then cycle through the other lock checking the door after each switch. If none work, I got to the first lock and change it to the next image and repeat the process on the second light cycling through them. There’s only so many combinations and it’s a pretty quick process.

[Instrulnomical]

@AndyReloads

If You Go To The Accessibility Options And Turn On “High Contrast Gameplay”, You Can Have An Easier Time Finding Interactable Things Around The World Especially After Casting Revelio.

Red = Enemies

Green = Interactive NPCs

Yellow = Objects, Items, And Non Harm-able Creatures

Blue = Your Character

Sky Blue = Objects That Require Spells Or Items To Interact With

[Balila_balbal_loki]

Here are my tips which no youtuber seems to be talking about:

1. In settings there is an option to enable audio visualizer, have this on it's extremely helpful when you use revelio the ringing of pages gets a bell symbol that you can follow and get the pages easily and it's handy for other things questing or even while fighting you basically get a prompt that tells you someone teleported behind you for example.

2. Damage buffs: The traits ambush and unforgivable are the highest damage buffers in game but there is a catch for both. Ambush does the most but it needs you to attack from stealth luckily an invisibility potion makes it on always and you can curse an enemy before attacking to do the most damage possible, unforgivable gives you a high damage buff when something is cursed however ambush is better it also applies to plants and well as petrificus totallus and that matters because you only half hp a troll that is petrified but with ambush it gets one shotted. Ambush lets you play like a skyrim sneak archer you spells are one shotting enemies in stealth. Plants like cabbage do 1k+ damage per bite if you threw them while in stealth.

3. Broom quest from weekes shop in hogsmead do this as early as possible your broom will become super fast but it costs a lot of gold luckily capturing animals lets you sell each for 120 gold so getting around 15, 000 for the broom is not only east but super worth it since there are places with no nearby fast travel like hen something hideout that has a bunch of quest related to it. Also get all the foo flames by flying around the map so that it's fully colored this also lets you know were are the secondary activities are and the dens of creatures.

4. There are ways to more easily kill enemies and that's abusing stuns if you freeze a target you can walk up to it and petrify it to one shot it. You can't petrify if other enemies see you unless they are also stunned so you can aresto 1 enemy, glacius 1 enemy, transform 1 enemy, imperio 1 enemy, crucio 1 enemy and avada 1 enemy so you basically can clear any room easily by abusing them. Descendo on the transformed enemy one shots it you can magic throw to kill 2 with 1 spell. So because of this if you bombarda the enemies next to each other and one shot them, confrigo and kill other enemies if they spot you, you can use these to kill them off easily.

5. You should have a pair of all 12 animals and you will only have 1 phoenix. You need the animals because what they give you as a drop is used to upgrade your gear and you want to upgrades as early as possible. You should have 4 breeders always pumping out animals because it gives a ton of XP and 4 creatures sold is 600 gold.

6. Unlock all the spells as soon as possible as well as grab all the demiguise to get alohamora rank 3 fast to unlock the third difficulty locks because many legendary chests or rooms filled with loot are behind that and this makes you op. I recommend you attend the class that teaches you how to take care of pets and then you get the sack to start catching pets early on because that's the best money making method in game which lets you buy things from vendors and that lets you finish the assignments faster so you get all the spells faster.

7. READ usually there is a secret that not even revelio lets you know about unless you read whatever note there is and those give you loot!

8. Revelio upgrade is the first thing you should get imo it also gets a longer range when you are on a mount!

[NilCookie]

This is the best spoiler-free-ish beginners guide I've seen so far. Thanks!