Blackleg-sanji1
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Holy..I need to read more lol
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Horizon Zero Dawn |OT| The Land After Time
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WordsintheWater
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The battles in this become absolutely insane, whatever you do in the beginning is nothing compared to what you deal with later. Have barely touched the story because of all this other side stuff.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
My the Goddess protect you
Damn, here I am beating 3 cauldrons and I haven't even purchased an item with an ice attack.
FlutterPuffs
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Yeah, get the slingshot quickly if you can. The ice bomb is what saved me a lot in the early areas of the game.
Also I'm glad I invested in the disarm traps skill. I've always been the type that dislike wasting my ammo away, so having the ability to pepper an area with traps and being able to pick them up if it's unused is a godsend.
Also I'm glad I invested in the disarm traps skill. I've always been the type that dislike wasting my ammo away, so having the ability to pepper an area with traps and being able to pick them up if it's unused is a godsend.
Citizen_Insane
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It's honestly distracting! You'll be in a cutscene or going through dialogue and not pay attention because you're looking at the graphics lmao
It really wasn't that bad. I was underleveled when I fought it.
The game rewards you for using your tools; setting up ambushes, traps etc..
HDZ reminds me a lot of Bioshock 2 in that respect. I beat the Thunderjaw without using a single melee attack.
Ahh so that's what that is. I didn't put two and two together when I was reading the description to realize it meant your own traps. Thought it meant other traps? And I was thinking I haven't seen any enemy ones so it seemed useless haha. Definitely going to get that skill then because there's been many times my shock traps don't get triggered in fights.
What's wonderful that i feel has never really been seen in a game in my experience is that it really nails the ideology of "everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth"
When shit hits the fan against the robots, it really hits the fan and it's just an all out war until someone dies. You need to be super quick on your feet and just constantly adjusting on the fly.
psynergylover
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You mean I can't ride a sawtooth???
Game is 0/10
Game is 0/10
One of my pet peeves is when a game's scenario says something is deadly or valuable or rare -- e.g., "don't face that dinosaur, he's super dangerous" or "that watcher lens is really rare!", but in gameplay terms these things aren't true.
If a character tells me a watcher lens is rare, it should be rare. It shouldn't be a common drop off an easy and common enemy. If a character tells me to prepare carefully and watch myself because a dinosaur is really dangerous, then it shouldn't be a trivial fight where I don't really have to prepare or even think.
It's a common thing for games to be guilty of -- But Horizon has been doing it quite a bit
If a character tells me a watcher lens is rare, it should be rare. It shouldn't be a common drop off an easy and common enemy. If a character tells me to prepare carefully and watch myself because a dinosaur is really dangerous, then it shouldn't be a trivial fight where I don't really have to prepare or even think.
It's a common thing for games to be guilty of -- But Horizon has been doing it quite a bit
WordsintheWater
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Yup, that's what makes each fight exhilarating especially when you're dealing with 5 or 6 different types
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Just to be clear..Am I supposed to be able to take out that big ass bird the first time I see it in the dessert...
HeWhoWalks
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The smoothness of the gameplay is truly what makes this game so special! The visuals just remind me that, no matter what people said about 'underpower", this is what the current gen is all about. And it's leaps and bounds above last gen's Open World titles.
Elitist1945
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It's probably because I'm shit at video games but I'm playing on Easy and I'm still having a hard time with boss fights.
HeWhoWalks
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Perhaps the best use of this type of lighting I've seen in a game, yet.
MegaSackman
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Old and early gameplay from me but just wanted to ask what do you use for high quality gifs? This is the best I got.
Snowybreak
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Study your enemy's weakness. Scan them to get info and then check it in the bestiary. After that, equip yourself with what you need and use your full arsenal. Lay traps around the area, tripwires or whatever, use your ropecaster to bring the big guys down to your level, and don't rely entirely on the bow. The early war bow shoots electric arrows, which easily debilitate most enemies, allowing for an easy critical with your spear.
Been looking around for an ancient vessel (first time doing this) for like ten minutes now, this is ridiculous. Literally have no idea what I'm even looking out for. Think I might start avoid these collectible types as their feeling like a waste of time right now.
Edit: This is the Arches one by Devil's Canyon, finally found it after looking at a YouTube video. I'll keep trying them in hopes that they aren't all this difficult to locate.
Edit: This is the Arches one by Devil's Canyon, finally found it after looking at a YouTube video. I'll keep trying them in hopes that they aren't all this difficult to locate.
gow3isben
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Hey guys can you override multiple machines at the same time? In the impressions thread I was under the impression that many machines fight each other which makes combat encounters incredibly hectic, but so far all I have experienced is them teaming up against me and the one machine I can override. I am still early on, just beat Sigma.
Gradly
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I avoided it and continue the story
Look for wastepiles with a purple loot icon.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
I can now override a thunderjaw....Muhahaha I recall seeing two together in the desert..It's time
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buy the map
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Not a word and it's probably the first time this entire gen I'm sad about no dlc
Beat one earlier on very hard, took forever to bait into my trap and then when I did it was still at half hp with most its armor blown off. Getting rid of that disc launcher on top is key of survival as that thing is insanely powerful even when you have the advantage, one mistake and your dead.
I mean, I'm at the site and [thought] I explored the entire shaded area. Apparently this one wasn't
in the ruin where you'd think it would be.
Prodigal Son
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I trust you Gaf. I'm not a fan of big Ubisofty open worlds that are just collection-fests and a bunch of capturable outposts. In fact, aimless walking around usually makes me motion sick for some reason. I'm usually into this sorta stuff for the story.
Should I bother with this?
Should I bother with this?
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Deleted member 752119
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This game. This fucking game. So good.
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MeisaMcCaffrey
You actually need the quest to be active.
Coming into this I was expecting cauldrons to be similar scope and size as the tombs in the new Tomb Raider games. I couldn't be more happy to be completely wrong.
I have done exactly one tutorial for that reason. What the hell were they thinking?
I have done exactly one tutorial for that reason. What the hell were they thinking?
flipswitch
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Hold down L1 if they're assigned to a slot.
I'm mostly doing story missions, and it's amazing.
well damn. i guess they're saving all the good ideas for horizon 2
gotcha. i haven't done any searching for those yet, but decided to buy the all those maps from a trader. hopefully they'll come in handy later
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MeisaMcCaffrey
Lol thanks welp.
Have you played any open world game where you didn't get motion sickness? You have to move and dodge a lot in this game.
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