pillowtalk
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For me, it's fighting _______ + 5 glinthawks. It's annoying and wastes time. Rather fight stormbirds, behemoths and thunderjaws with different adds.
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Horizon Zero Dawn |OT| The Land After Time
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For me, it's fighting _______ + 5 glinthawks. It's annoying and wastes time. Rather fight stormbirds, behemoths and thunderjaws with different adds.
Impressive sir
Persona RS
Member
Go to the Inventory and check your spear. In the description of the weapon you'll see "Overrides Unlocked". Each symbol represents a cauldron and those symbols are on the map.
Vincent Alexander
Member
Agreed. What is amazing is how detailed the story is. Big story spoilers kind-of:
Terminator 2 is one of my favorite movies of all time, but unlike Terminator I feel like Horizon Zero Dawn actually makes me believe that this could have happened. The detail to which they go through the humans coming to understand their fate, and how they are going to survive it through Zero Dawn is so damn well-done.
texhnolyze
Banned
Damn. I've been using the green ropecaster all this time lmao. I never knew that the rope itself can be upgraded. I'll get that one asap then, thanks.
Yabberwocky
Member
I haven't gotten too far into the story yet (just, you know, 18hrs of gameplay later, ha), but I'm extremely impressed with the quality of the data points, whether it's audio logs or text. In Dragon Age/The Witcher/Fallout etc, I often found myself skipping past that sort of thing, as I found them too dry and detached to read for the most part. Horizon's gives you fascinating snippets of the world before, from the political to the mundane to reality bloody television. This is the only time I actually want to collect them all, and of course they don't show up on the world map! I can't wait to see where the story goes, because with the data points alone the set-up is fascinating - and distressingly too close to comfort at times. As Vincent Alexander said above, the voice work on the audio logs I've heard has been superb. Very raw and naturalistic.
Stiler
Member
Well.......I just had the game spoil a major quest/storyline for me. First time I've ever had a game spoil itself, and after googling I see I'm not the only one that it happened to, sigh.
For anyone who goes to the hunting lodge, do NOT, I repeat do NOT read the "Redmaw part 2" Datapoint.
It spoils the ENTIRE hunting lodge quest/storyline for you and it shows up right after you read the first one.
I assume it's not meant to show up until you actually do the questline, but it seems to be bugged and shows up right after you read the first datapoint there.
For anyone who goes to the hunting lodge, do NOT, I repeat do NOT read the "Redmaw part 2" Datapoint.
It spoils the ENTIRE hunting lodge quest/storyline for you and it shows up right after you read the first one.
I assume it's not meant to show up until you actually do the questline, but it seems to be bugged and shows up right after you read the first datapoint there.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
Game comes in tomorrow, is there a consensus on difficulty setting?
I feel like hard is a good challenge without being ridiculous. You can also adjust the difficulty during your playthrough.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
oh god.. OH GOD OH GOD
This actually highlights another of the things I wasn't so fond of. I really hated how much I'd have to dodge in succession at times. It's probably hard to avoid considering the size of some of these enemies, but I do wish I'd not have to roll 5-6 times in a row just to try get some distance.
Yeah, I kinda just skimmed that, and bailed as soon as I saw her name.
Sanctuary
Member
I don't know what the hell was up with that, but I actually read that first (never actually found the first part...) and wondered if it was supposed to actually be what ends up happening in the future, or if it was some random shit that actually already happened in the past, and you're just redoing it without realizing it.
the black pearl
Member
This game is robot Jesus.
Climbed my first tallkneck. Gonna start using fast travel to speed things up. Should I worry about the level suggestions for quests?
Climbed my first tallkneck. Gonna start using fast travel to speed things up. Should I worry about the level suggestions for quests?
travisbickle
Member
Same, my next story quests are 14 and 15 and I'm level 35. Oh well, can't stop won't stop.
Sanctuary
Member
No. And honestly, the hardest thing for me initially was listed as a level 8, when I was already twenty (random trial). A few people said earlier that the level is just supposed to represent enemy difficulty.
It barely does anything. Hold the button, or do two normal rolls instead? I've also found that dodging in general in this game is unreliable if you're trying to dodge away, so I always just roll into an enemy and they always miss.
Not in my experience. It would be different if the camera wasn't horrible in this game and the enemy wasn't off screen most of the time when trying to evade thanks to no lockon. The only enemy where having a longer roll helps to avoid much of anything is a Thunderjaw when it tail swipes or tries to stomp. But you can still just normal roll through it.
Primethius
Banned
Really useful for the bigger enemies.
Callibretto
Member
there's skill that let you roll farther if you hold the roll button. I haven't had the need to do the frequent rolling like that gif even when fighting thundermaw. although I have no idea if frequent rolling is more efficient or not, but I just don't like the look of it, and the more farther roll have been going pretty well for me so far.
of course I haven't fought all the robot types either.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
To an extent. Like I wouldn't want to face a thunderbird at low levels with bad gear. However you can get the mats for good gear at almost any time as long as you know how to kill the required robots. It's more about finding a method of killing them, However a number of skills will help put things in your favor. You'll never outlevel the game either though. You can still die easy with the best gear at high levels. You can probably ignore it for the most part. Just stay well stocked up and get good gear.
It's more of a problem with herds I found, or small groups of very aggressive enemies. Like fighting 2 ravagers at once would result in frequent rolling for me due to the speed and ferocity of them both. Even tracking them could become awkward so I'd end up dodging predicted attacks too. The extended roll helped, but didn't completely remove the problem. Adding in a slide or too helped to switch it up a little at least, but it's easier to get hit.
LastMinuteHero
Member
In my experience, recommended levels don't mean much since you can still get your ass handed ie. the first cauldron. i think it's the tools you use and armor you wear that matter the most
Original Man
Member
any tips for destroying specific body parts?
Sanctuary
Member
Tearblast. If you're trying to find weak points, just do a quick R3 scan on an enemy and they will remain highlighted for a while once you close the Focus.
ChasingComets
Member
Sliding underbelly shot at the machine's weak point is actually a thing in this game. I friggin' love it.
the black pearl
Member
Whats with vantage points? (Probably dumb question)
Kind of...I went back to the starting area after getting to daybreak tower. It seems like it kinda screwed up some conversations back at daybreak. Specifically the quest where the Nora woman wants to kill Zaid.
Sanctuary
Member
Annoying to find, but they give "plot points". Or specifically, history.
Yooo I remember you from D3 gaf. I was recommended hard and I'm glad thats what I stuck with. Perfect balance for me personally. A lot of the fun combat wise is being on your toes or being scared of the machine you are fighting. No trophies attached to difficulty setting, but you shouldn't have to worry about that.
Turn off the waypoints and make the HUD dynamic for the best experience.
I am not good at doing this at all. I really need to try it more.
the black pearl
Member
Part of me definitely wants to turn off waypoints. But I never do. Kind of afraid of getting stuck on something for eternity.
LastMinuteHero
Member
just a dude reminiscing about his life while looking from cool spots. Personally I just want to loot his supply boxes
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Slows them and double damage while frozen.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Wait, doubles their damage taken? With melee aswell? DAMN!!!
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Yeah it's actually one of the stronger elements. I overlooked it for a lot of the game but you can really capitalize on it with some clever timing.
DriftingSpirit
Member
lol
oh god.. OH GOD OH GOD
the black pearl
Member
Use them on real life. I've done it.
syphilosaurus
Member
Wow! Just hit up my first vantage point...
(Easter eggs spoiler)
Do Imgur links auto load? Will post link but don't want to spoil. On mobile.
(Easter eggs spoiler)
H:ZD takes place in the Rigs:MCL universe...
Do Imgur links auto load? Will post link but don't want to spoil. On mobile.
Primethius
Banned
Double or triple notch plus precision or hardpoint arrows is what I do for both damage and to take out armor.
For elemental stuff, I just use the appropriate elemental arrow.
texhnolyze
Banned
There's our clue for the upcoming DLC!
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
The game is on paar with Uncharted 4 graphics and exceeds it in some areas. I don't see why Naughty Dog don't invest back in open world gameplay and games in a Jak And Daxter reboot, next Uncharted or in TLOU2. the same can be said about GOW4 which I think was in development even before Horizon Zero Dawn.
Luckily Death stranding is using this engine and improving it while keeping the open world gameplay.
Luckily Death stranding is using this engine and improving it while keeping the open world gameplay.
Cow Goes Moo
Member
slow mo first
usually once im on target at that point i just spam arrows/not fully drawn bows and it usually ends up hitting those pieces
usually works for me against most things
I don't know how far in you are so you might not want to read this response if you haven't gotten late into the game and found all the vantages, but
the dude's life ends up intersecting with the main storyline in some way eventually, seeing as he apparently works at Faro robotics (or whatever Faro's company was called)
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