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[ronaldthump]

Speaking of purples, is there a tier higher than very rare?

no

 

[NoctisVsStar]

hahah. Never tried to override a stormbird.

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I know its not in the game but they should implement it in the sequel where you can ride a stormbird. I feel like its the one big missing thing from HZD, a flight mechanism

For sure, would be basically the "airship" of the game. Another thing for the sequel is that each enemy should drop a unique weapon. For instance, the sawtooth could drop its fangs so you got another melee option.

 

[therealminime]

Oh wow, 40 hours in and just found my first vantage collectible. Those are really, really cool.

I am have so much fun just very slowly wandering the world post main quest completion. There are so many beautiful sights to behold.

I am so hopelessly in love with this game.

 

[xZoneHunter]

i wasn't a big fan of Shadow fall, but gg really out did themselves with Horizon. Fun as fuck and the game itself is just gorgeous.

 

[Orochinagis]

So any recommended or esential skill I should Invest? I got the stealth assassination branch, the gatherer branch full.

 

[Grisby]

Is there an easier way to shooting those surplus tanks off the spider bot enemy types? Like can you just one shot it off and with what weapon?Takes forever with a bow.

i wasn't a big fan of Shadow fall, but gg really out did themselves with Horizon. Fun as fuck and the game itself is just gorgeous.

This is their best game by far. They changed up their game skills dramatically.

 

[Immortal Technique]

Whoa,

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Cauldron Sigma

is an incredibly awesome place. Game just keeps getting better.

 

[NoctisVsStar]

So any recommended or esential skill I should Invest? I got the stealth assassination branch, the gatherer branch full.

Concentration, fast reload , disarm traps and tinker

 

[The Jazz Cabbage Master]

If I was to try and really sum up my feelings for this game so far it'd be this.

It is quite simply one of the most novel gaming experiences I've had in a long time. This reminds me to be mindful of just how awesome this first experience is. This is nostalgia in the making.

 

[ronaldthump]

Is there an easier way to shooting those surplus tanks off the spider bot enemy types? Like can you just one shot it off and with what weapon?Takes forever with a bow.
y.

its pretty easy to shoot it off. You shoot it off the back where their weak spot is. - the band

 

[Neverfade]

Is there a way to upgrade the Carja Hunting Bow to do any decent damage? Even tossing a 43% damage coil in it barely ticks the meter up. I know the Carja Sharpshooter Bow is a nice bump, but I like the dirt cheap arrows for the hunting bow.

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

First I thought that weas low res flickering shadow then I noticed the shadow was marrying the reliefs of the snow. Just WOW!

 

[burgerdog]

So first cave with power cells - how can you tell where to turn the holo locks? I don't see / can't figure out the clue.

 

[Strakt]

the soundtrack is amazing.. 80 tracks 4 cds.. almost every single song is nuts..

 

[Metroidvania]

So first cave with power cells - how can you tell where to turn the holo locks? I don't see / can't figure out the clue.

Look at the

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Times on the 'clock' on the right - they correspond to an analog clock position

In other news, I must have the absolute worst luck with animal skins. Come on, Aloy, it's literally an arrow into their neck, you should be able to skin them no problem

 

[A Serious Man]

Did I just have the Hunter's Lodge story spoiled for me by a glyph in this game? The glyph is right beside one of the characters you have to talk to, it's sort of hard not to scan it.

 

[Smiley90]

The one thing I feel like it's missing is bigger variety in quest rewards.... always feels rather bland

 

[Wagram]

After about 30 hours I think i'm going to mostly just push forward with the major story/side quest content. Exploring endlessly just isn't fun for me in open world titles when there isn't much beneath the surface. It's just another vista to look at. As great as Horizon is it still suffers from the pitfalls of the open world genre.

 

[burgerdog]

Look at the

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Times on the 'clock' on the right - they correspond to an analog clock position

In other news, I must have the absolute worst luck with animal skins. Come on, Aloy, it's literally an arrow into their neck, you should be able to skin them no problem

Ahh it's the first thing I noticed and then ignored it. Thanks!

 

[darkwing]

just finished the Proving, I said wow

 

[LastMinuteHero]

i wasn't a big fan of Shadow fall, but gg really out did themselves with Horizon. Fun as fuck and the game itself is just gorgeous.

You know I think it's best we don't judge a dev by their last game, considering the fact that they were rushing for the ps4's launch and the staff and staff count are pretty much different. Dev time is also another factor

Look at the

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Times on the 'clock' on the right - they correspond to an analog clock position

In other news, I must have the absolute worst luck with animal skins. Come on, Aloy, it's literally an arrow into their neck, you should be able to skin them no problem

I think someone mentioned that hitting them with precision arrows nets a higher droprate; seems to work for me or could just be a placebo effect haha

 

[hydruxo]

I wandered around and saw that whole area way down below the

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cliffs of Meridian

and at first didn't think I'd be able to actually go down there, but then I realized you could rappel all the way down. I messed around in the jungle there for a while and made my way to the

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Meridian Docks

and then took an elevator wondering where it'd take me, only for it to take me all the way back up to

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Meridian.

I guess I'm just so used to open world games where everything is kind of on a mostly flat map with a few hills and mountains, but the combination of the sense of scale and seamlessness of the world in Horizon is just blowing my mind every time I play.

 

[fastmower]

I wandered around and saw that whole area way down below the

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cliffs of Meridian

and at first didn't think I'd be able to actually go down there, but then I realized you could rappel all the way down. I messed around in the jungle there for a while and made my way to the

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Meridian Docks

and then took an elevator wondering where it'd take me, only for it to take me all the way back up to

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Meridian.

I guess I'm just so used to open world games where everything is kind of on a mostly flat map with a few hills and mountains, but the combination of the sense of scale and seamlessness of the world in Horizon is just blowing my mind every time I play.

Yep. This game is a mind blowing accomplishment.

 

[zkorejo]

I keep running out of Wire. I have tons of all the other resources but idk why the game is not giving me more wire.

 

[texhnolyze]

The one thing I feel like it's missing is bigger variety in quest rewards.... always feels rather bland

After 20+ hours, I feel like the variety in quests design is also lacking, tbh.

I keep running out of Wire. I have tons of all the other resources but idk why the game is not giving me more wire.

Yeah, I have the same problem. It's the only resource that I run out constantly.

And I never use reload at all. I always craft them when it's totally run out of arrows.

I somewhat preserve their use nowadays as I have a quite good regular bow with tear.

 

[More_Badass]

The lore book in the Hunter's Lodge completely spoils the Hunter's Lodge storyline before you do it. Absolutely hilarious.

Are people still thinking this? It's clear that

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the story is where Rost got Aloy's name from

. The devs arent willingly spoiling a quest for you, that doesnt even make sense

 

[matrixman92]

so disappointed right now. I just killed the

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giant stormbird

in front of

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GAIA prime

and its body flew up into the stratosphere for some reason and fell down onto a super tall mountain i cant get to

 

[Kyoufu]

so disappointed right now. I just killed the

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giant stormbird

in front of

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GAIA prime

and its body flew up into the stratosphere for some reason and fell down onto a super tall mountain i cant get to

Haha, almost had the same thing happen to me. You can fight plenty more of them in other areas at least.

 

[B.O.O.M]

I can't ever imagine any 'tower' mechanic topping the Tallnecks... what an amazing view dang

 

[therealminime]

Are people still thinking this? It's clear that

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the story is where Rost got Aloy's name from

. The devs arent willingly spoiling a quest for you, that doesnt even make sense

But it is, I'm almost positive. It mentions numerous details of the quest and characters by name.

 

[Tubie]

I'm level 21 and almost 14 hours in and my main quest is still level 14 lol.

And it feels like I still have a million side stuff to complete.

 

[Incendiary]

I can't ever imagine any 'tower' mechanic topping the Tallnecks... what an amazing view dang

I found my first one of these tonight - it was pretty awesome and I took a few cool pictures.

I keep trying to do main quest storylines and end up distracted doing all sorts of odds and ends. Exploring and just taking down creatures is just too fun in this game.

 

[ronaldthump]

I keep running out of Wire. I have tons of all the other resources but idk why the game is not giving me more wire.

if you need wires find the easy pack of grazers and striders. Loaded with them


also on higher difficulties, materials are rarer.

 

[zkorejo]

Yeah, I have the same problem. It's the only resource that I run out constantly.

And I never use reload at all. I always craft them when it's totally run out of arrows.

I somewhat preserve their use nowadays as I have a quite good regular bow with tear.

I wonder if you get more wire if you kill an enemy machines in a certain way.

if you need wires find the easy pack of grazers and striders. Loaded with them


also on higher difficulties, materials are rarer.

I killed around 20 striders and 10-15 grazers in my session last night and I was still lacking wire. One of the grazers gave me 12 Wires so that was cool. How do you kill them?

 

[GravityInsanity]

I can't ever imagine any 'tower' mechanic topping the Tallnecks... what an amazing view dang

Agreed. They're one of the highlights for me in this game. Each one just gets better and better.

 

[shiba5]

Aw, the Grazers scratch their heads with their back foot. The animations are just amazing. I sat on a hill and just watched two Thunderjaws for awhile (mostly trying to figure out how to get the metal flower some joker put right between them.)

 

[texhnolyze]

also on higher difficulties, materials are rarer.

And I have expressed my concern regarding difficulties in Horizon pre-release.

Rarer materials in higher difficulties is time-wasting, not making the game harder.

 

[Phediuk]

You know that thing where people play a new game, and it retroactively "ruins" other games?

Well, every game looks ugly as fuck after playing Horizon.

 

[tmac456]

And I have expressed my concern regarding difficulties in Horizon pre-release.

Rarer materials in higher difficulties is time-wasting, not making the game harder.

buy it?

Aw, the Grazers scratch their heads with their back foot. The animations are just amazing. I sat on a hill and just watched two Thunderjaws for awhile (mostly trying to figure out how to get the metal flower some joker put right between them.)

i'm sure those thunderjaws wouldn't mind you running in there to grab it. have at it

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

The IQ of this game is splendid. This confirms the pre-release screens were real. The age of bullshots should end with this game.

 

[wig]

My playtime is currently at around 20 hours with ~30% completed so far. The game is exceeding my expectations. Bravo GG!

My only major complaint at the moment is how quickly the enemies respawn. Like, I'll kill a group of watchers and walk away for a minute only to return to the same damn group of watchers I just finished killing. It's really annoying. It's such an odd design choice.

 

[Auto_aim1]

no

That's disappointing.

Also buying 1 wire at a time from vendors kinda sucks.

 

[NoctisVsStar]

Aw, the Grazers scratch their heads with their back foot. The animations are just amazing. I sat on a hill and just watched two Thunderjaws for awhile (mostly trying to figure out how to get the metal flower some joker put right between them.)

Had a cool moment where a thunderjaw was practically exposed cause I removed all the armor plate, I did a critical hit and he would run away wimpiring in pain.

 

[Kalentan]

Does anyone else wish that GG would follow FF15 and make a online co-op DLC?

I know, I know. People may not want multiplayer but I feel like the Hunting Lodge literally gives itself to a co-op mode. It would be awesome to either create or pick a pre-made character and go on hunts with friends with new variants of monsters and harder.

Would be so cool.

 

[Muzicfreq]

I keep getting trapped in rocks

 

[therealminime]

Does anyone else wish that GG would follow FF15 and make a online co-op DLC?

I know, I know. People may not want multiplayer but I feel like the Hunting Lodge literally gives itself to a co-op mode. It would be awesome to either create or pick a pre-made character and go on hunts with friends with new variants of monsters and harder.

Would be so cool.

Imagine co-op Witcher-style monster contracts ala Redmaw? More legendary machines. Hunting them with a friend. That'd be mega awesome.

 

[NoctisVsStar]

You know that thing where people play a new game, and it retroactively "ruins" other games?

Well, every game looks ugly as fuck after playing Horizon.

XV looks super ugly now to me, it wasn't a looker to begin with but certain lighting on the characters made it look great at times.

 

[kyser73]

That's disappointing.

Also buying 1 wire at a time from vendors kinda sucks.

Can't you just use square to open up the quantity slider the same as when you're selling?

 

[shiba5]

buy it?



i'm sure those thunderjaws wouldn't mind you running in there to grab it. have at it

One of them literally tracks a very small circle right beside it. Some dev obviously thought this was quite funny.
I left them alone tonight, but I'll be back to get that flower tomorrow.

 

[LiK]

Interactions with water is my least favorite. Doesn't look good and physics feel off. A minor quibble.

I also found two NPCs I love. They bicker and argue so much and it's hilarious.