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[PLASTICA-MAN]

I've also seen foxes, raccoons, Canada geese, and fish.

Could anyone please take some pics of the animals you mentioned? It is kinda unique and rare to seem animals in a world where fauna is supposed to be extinct or non existent (similar to seeing real animals in Pokemon world (like real fishes)).

 

[RiverKwai]

Should I be conserving shards, or can I always go farm more? I realized I'm blowing through money like in Yakuza 0, and maybe that's not such a great idea?

 

[CarbonFire]

Rappelling down is still fine with bare hands though, probably asbestos skin

That asbestos skin certainly helps when Aloy survives being hit by a several hundred pound Robot Dinosaur designed to chew through hardened metal.

 

[Darryl M R]

It is a pain to find raccoon's skin or fish's bones.

I need a sawtooth heart. But i can't see sawtooths on my map. Can someone please tell me where to find one.

When you are at the merchant you can make looking for the parts an errand by pressing square I believe. If you do that then it should be highlighted on your map when you make it your active quest.

 

[silva1991]

Last thing I did tonight was getting killed by Storm bird. Not mad at all.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Should I be conserving shards, or can I always go farm more? I realized I'm blowing through money like in Yakuza 0, and maybe that's not such a great idea?

I'm doing the same and it's fun so I haven't thought about later. Maybe good idea to start conserving

 

[Exquisik]

I've also seen foxes, raccoons, Canada geese, and fish.

Don't forget rats. They're the first animal you come across in the game. There are different kind of fishes as well. The only other animal I can think of is rabbit.

 

[BeeDog]

My biggest pet peeves so far:

- No way to compare gear in the menu. I think this is the biggest issue so far.
- No map/stat legends. Not a big deal since it's easy to discern what the icons are for, but still.
- Minor graphical glitches like the aforementioned physics spazzing each time the camera readjusts and lack of water effects.
- Minor quest oversight (early-ish spoilers):

Spoiler

After waking up in the mountain after the attack, you can enter a vent and find a power cell. If you actually read the quest log for the quest that gets activated, it pre-emptively spoils the robo-armor you can unlock with power cells.

Not a big deal, but still stupid.

 

[JJShadow]

I'm fucking impressed by the amount of side-dialogues there are in this game, you can talk with every NPC about 5 or 6 optional topics and most of them include really interesting and useful information about the world, lore and characters. Some Witcher 3 levels of excellence over here

 

[CarbonFire]

Could anyone please take some pics of the animals you mentioned? It is kinda unique and rare to seem animals in a world where fauna is supposed to be extinct or non existent (similar to seeing real animals in Pokemon world (like real fishes)).

Who said fauna was supposed to be extinct?

And so far I've seen

Turkeys, Geese, Other unnamed birds, Boars, Rabbits, Foxes, Rats, Fish, Racoons. Most in plentiful supply depending on location.

 

[RustyNails]

Man this game. I played 2 hours I think. And all I'm doing is taking photos lol. I really need to get gud with combat and do all the cool stuff people do in videos.

The story really drives the game. I love the whole setting. Really want to learn about the earpiece Aloy wears.

 

[TsuWave]

not even past tutorial and i'm already loving this.

shame i got spoiled pretty hard in the "are we witnessing the birth of a main female Sony character (Aloy)?" thread. but oh well

 

[Carbonox]

Oh man the dynamic HUD makes a WORLD of difference in this. So good.

 

[black070]

Wahey, got another one of my casual gaming friends to buy Horizon.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Wahey, got another one of my casual gaming friends to buy Horizon.

Nice!

I noticed Horizon is temporarily out of stock on Amazon. Must be burning though that shipment.

 

[hbkdx12]

Is there any reason to use harvest arrows rather than tear arrows other than tear arrows having a bit of AOE? It just seems redundant to me

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Should I be conserving shards, or can I always go farm more? I realized I'm blowing through money like in Yakuza 0, and maybe that's not such a great idea?

I wonder about this too.

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[MaKTaiL]

Is there any reason to use harvest arrows rather than tear arrows other than tear arrows having a bit of AOE? It just seems redundant to me

Harvest arrows will drop more resources off the enemy you are shooting. The canisters for instance. If you take one cannisters out of a scrapper you get 1 cannister as loot. If you shoot it with the harvest arrow you will get 6 instead out of a single cannister drop.

 

[CHC]

Goddammit I spent the whole day playing this game. I even cut class for no other good reason at all. Not OK... haha

 

[black070]

Nice!

I noticed Horizon is temporarily out of stock on Amazon. Must be burning though that shipment.

I'm under the impression this games been a massive seller within this first week, looking forward to this coming PAL chart.

 

[theifofdreams]

Is there any real secrets to be found that aren't points of interest on the map? I don't want any spoilers, a yes or know works just fine, but it seems that any place that's important is just on the map. Including metal age stuff.

I also bought on a whim the maps to see what they would do, thinking it would lead to maybe 1 item each because they were so cheap, that I didn't know it would reveal all of them. Unfortunately you can't drop or destroy them, so now my map is filled with icons.

Basically in hoping that there is more adventuring to be found organically than just going to points on the map.

 

[phantasmic_glaive]

This game is huge..I'm still early and put around 10 hours into it. The trials are kinda hard and it's got me not wanting to leave the area until I beat them all.

This has to be a benchmark in game graphics, nothing compares. I hope they let 3rd parties use the decima engine for exclusives, man. I would love to see a new final fantasy using it, for example.

How do you convert your photos into 4K?

 

[DriftingSpirit]

I'm under the impression this games been a massive seller within this first week, looking forward to this coming PAL chart.

Yep, will be quite interesting.

 

[SlimySnake]

It is a pain to find raccoon's skin or fish's bones.



When you are at the merchant you can make looking for the parts an errand by pressing square I believe. If you do that then it should be highlighted on your map when you make it your active quest.

U r awesome. Thanks man

 

[Primethius]

The sidequest into the first stalker fight.

Holy shit. This game.

 

[Geist-]

what I came across while exploring, quest later? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C58kda2WYAAWOXg.jpg:orig

 

[Nesotenso]

It is a pain to find raccoon's skin or fish's bones.



When you are at the merchant you can make looking for the parts an errand by pressing square I believe. If you do that then it should be highlighted on your map when you make it your active quest.

it really is

 

[Jawbreaker]

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Just used a fire arrow for the first time and hit the canister. I was like, "oh...well, that was anticli....*KABOOM*" lol

 

[silva1991]

The sidequest into the first stalker fight.

Holy shit. This game.

What of the best enemies in this game.

Just used a fire arrow for the first time and hit the canister. I was like, "oh...well, that was anticli....*KABOOM*" lol

lol yup.

 

[RedlineRonin]

U r awesome. Thanks man

I think that's the "create job" function. You don't need to be at a merchant to do it; I think you can just do it from the menu anywhere.

I'm not sure if it's some film grain or the fact that it's a bit darker, but this one looks very realistic. Almost like it's out of a CG movie. Like it a lot.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

It won't last for long when Zelda is stocked but it is really good to see demand is at least on par with Zelda.

 

[black070]

Yup, wouldn't be surprised if an official sales PR isn't posted in the near future.

 

[hbkdx12]

Harvest arrows will drop more resources off the enemy you are shooting. The canisters for instance. If you take one cannisters out of a scrapper you get 1 cannister as loot. If you shoot it with the harvest arrow you will get 6 instead out of a single cannister drop.

Ah ok sweet thanks

 

[draughn101]

It won't last for long when Zelda is stocked but it is really good to see demand is at least on par with Zelda.

You don't think Horizon will stay in front with the massive PS4 install base, and Nintendo's inability to get hardware to market? (Just curious, no shade)

 

[Jawbreaker]

It won't last for long when Zelda is stocked but it is really good to see demand is at least on par with Zelda.

To be fair, Horizon is currently out of stock, as well.

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

It is a pain to find raccoon's skin or fish's bones.
.

Seriously. Raccoon's bone does not drop at all for me. I even managed to get a couple of fish bones but not a single raccoon dropped its bone.

I'm not sure if it's some film grain or the fact that it's a bit darker, but this one looks very realistic. Almost like it's out of a CG movie. Like it a lot.

There's definitely some slight touches done by Suhni.

 

[benny_a]

They heard the complaint of using bare hands and added some metal tool to use. Nice touch.

It's always been a visual glitch, it always had the metal sound associated with it.

 

[Strike]

Fuuuuuuuuuck. That looks so good.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

You don't think Horizon will stay in front with the massive PS4 install base, and Nintendo's inability to get hardware to market? (Just curious, no shade)

I just say that because Zelda was ahead of Horizon all the way up to when its stock depleted. I imagine Nintendo will eventually get the stock situation sorted.

I imagine both will have great legs.

To be fair, Horizon is currently out of stock, as well.

That just happened though. Zelda has been out for much longer.

 

[ajanke]

what I came across while exploring, quest later? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C58kda2WYAAWOXg.jpg:orig

Yep

 

[Stuart444]

If you die and are sent back to your last save point, is any information saved?

I'm asking because I was under the impression that it was like a reload where you lose all progress however after dying to a

Spoiler

fire bellowback

I was sent back to a save point however the tutorial: sling which I completed against it remained completed.

 

[benny_a]

Just did the first cauldron, so awesome

Question now: Do I pick an outfit for perks or do I pick what looks cool? The stealth outfit seems like the most useful for my playstyle but the rare ice one looks really cool (even if I haven't even experienced freeze damage yet)

You can use the outfits as an additional difficulty modifier. If you think the game is too easy, then just use the one that is most visually appealing.

If you think it's too hard then I think those DLC ones are very strong.

 

[Ricker]

Just did my first bandit camp...this game is so much a mix of Far Cry Primal,Witcher and the Tomb Raider reboot,its not funny but I love it...and again those graphics are incredible.

 

[theifofdreams]

If you die and are sent back to your last save point, is any information saved?

I'm asking because I was under the impression that it was like a reload where you lose all progress however after dying to a

Spoiler

fire bellowback

I was sent back to a save point however the tutorial: sling which I completed against it remained completed.

Yeah it saves it.

 

[Jakartalado]

Wow.... The difficulty just escalated way to quickly.

I found some new big dudes with horns and said.... OK let's do this, fighting against 3 of them, suddenly 5 bird guys came and fucked me...

And I'm not mad at all. But I'm pretty sure I could kill them if the sandstorm wasn't so strong. Missed a lot of shots.

This game is so good.

 

[silva1991]

Long time no see Stuart444(good old Digimon story days)

I hope you're having fun with this game.

 

[hbkdx12]

The heavy ropecaster is amazing.

Just took down a stormbird with no trouble at all.

 

[Papacheeks]

Am I the only one after putting a good 10 hours into it feels this game should be higher on metacritic?

I mean the presentation alone is amazing. The only pet peeves so far I'v had has been the way tutorials are presented and the menu is really convoluted.

Like there's a lot.

But me coming from playing the witcher I'm use to it.