ShemhazaiX
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Sort of story spoilers:
If you don't kill him then he appears later on in the main story line in a small role.
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Horizon Zero Dawn |OT| The Land After Time
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whatever6352
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Haha I was thinking the same thing.
whatever6352
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That's a bummer that you didn't like it, but not all games are for everyone. Myself personally I couldn't get into metal gear solid 5 even though everyone tells me I'm wrong lol.
Aaronology
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Aye, the Lodge Warbow is godly for the freeze arrows with coils. Triple notched arrows that I can fire farther and faster than the sling and more ammo to boot.
Hidden One
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I'm like level 46 and the main quest mission I'm on is a level 16 one. Been too busy doing all the hunts, tutorials and side quest lol.
MegaSackman
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I always forgot to use dual and triple arrow, one of the latest skills I learned. :/
Would have been useful here:
Twilight Gap
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So i'm not the only one who crouched and used my focus the whole time while walking through the ruins right?
Hidden One
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Why would you do that? Scared of the wilds?
Only part of the map that creeps me out is that deeper forest map that has stalkers. I fuckin hate the stalkers.
Twilight Gap
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Scared of rounding the corner and being ambushed.
whatever6352
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I crouched thru all the cauldrons and ruins. Wasn't about to get ambushed or miss any data points.
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Hold L2. Press R1.
Hidden One
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The rockbreakers are seriously the worst designed monsters I've fought in a long time.
Anyway, beat the two corrupted bastards on very hard without cheat armor.
I used the boulder cheese and beat those corrupted bastards.
Zantetsuken
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I was just strolling about down there and I saw the stalker cloak. It had me shook. I noped out of there.
Aim and press R1
specifically aim and press R1 for 2 arrows, press R1 again for 3 arrows (if you have both skills). The thing is, you can do this "out of combat", youll notice that the arrow indicator on the bottom of the screen will go from 1/18 or whatever or 2/18 or 3/18. You can walk around with 3 arrows ready for your next shot.
You can also switch to other weapons on your weapon wheel and pre-nock arrows for them. So you can walk around with 3 hardpoint on your Hunter and 3 frost on your Warbow.
Thanks for that tip!
MegaSackman
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When you don't use the disc launcher the Thunderjaws battles are pretty amazing. (I don't know how easy to kill is with the disc launcher, I actually never used it but people says it's op).
Edit: So many wires haha the other Sawtooth surprised you though, it almost got you.
its when it went from "I dunno about this" to "oh ok this is actually awesome"
im trying to train my brain to always be loading arrows now, all the time.
even better!
Also, I dunno about you guys, but I use all the devices as much if not more so (actually thats not true, but as much!) as the bows. I use the trap gun all the time (people shat on the skill to pick up traps but its great for me), im using bombs more now too and even the rope, the rope is great!
I usually dont really use a variety of weapons avaialble on games but this one I find myself really into it all the gadgets.
SolidChamp
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You're not wrong though. ;P
Horizon Zero Dawn does a lot of what MGSV does, does it better, and looks a million times better while doing it, and also has a compelling story with a main character who actually, you know, speaks and thinks for herself. Oh and the story has an ending.
Bloodborne
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I like to take a stroll through the forest at night.
JadedWriter
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Yeah I beat it, but well...it took a bit. Didn't help on my part that I forgot to scan for all the weak points. I kind of expected the 20 fucking trip wires I threw on the ground to do the job...I was wrong.
I was expecting the Sawtooth to walk through the same door as the other one and just get fucking nuked, didn't notice him on the other side till the last minute. These things aren't exactly stupid, which is great...still got fucked up by the wires on the ground.
facetheslayer92
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This fucking game man. This fucking game. Horizon has no business being this good. Zero. Like its got a Naughty Dog level of polish to it. Honestly, I thought Colin was being hyperbolic when he said this was his second favorite Playstation game behind only TLOU, but I'm starting to see why. I can't think of the last game I played where the environments were this diverse. The design of this game is straight up jawdropping. No wonder this game was in the oven for 7 years. Man Guerrilla is someone to watch, they've got some fine developers over there in Amsterdam. And this game only costs $60? Surprised it didn't review a few points higher.
Yabberwocky
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What would y'all recommend mod wise for the Shadow Rattler? I didn't know whether to go to town with purple damage mods, or purple ice/shock mods. I know I can change and specialize as needed, but I was curious what other people defaulted to.
I cheered out loud when I finally got another fox skin for the Shadow Rattler. I can't remember what I wasted the other ones on, d'oh.
I cheered out loud when I finally got another fox skin for the Shadow Rattler. I can't remember what I wasted the other ones on, d'oh.
Berserker976
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I like this post a lot.
Primethius
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I'd probably go for damage and handling mods and use it as my go to for killing humans. I think for elemental stuff, there are better alternative weapons available to use.
MegaSackman
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DangerMouse
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I like to take a stroll through the forest at night.
Yeah, it's so beautiful.
wapplew
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I like to take a stroll through the forest at night.
Something fishy about that over bright moon...
Yabberwocky
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That's a good point, bow or bombs would be more efficient for elemental application. The Rattler does seem to chew through resources quickly, too. Damage/handling sounds sensible, will do!
I always think the same, like "oh shit is the light from some beasties?" but no...it never is >_>
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Apparently not, for trophy purposes.
KINGofCRA5H
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for the trophy "7 types of machine overridden"
do I need to override every machine? I've done all the cauldrons and according to https://psnprofiles.com/trophy/5879-horizon-zero-dawn/7-7-types-of-machine-overridden you only have to complete the cauldrons unless I am not understanding correctly.
do I need to override every machine? I've done all the cauldrons and according to https://psnprofiles.com/trophy/5879-horizon-zero-dawn/7-7-types-of-machine-overridden you only have to complete the cauldrons unless I am not understanding correctly.
whatever6352
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You need to sneak up on a machine or tie them down/stun them then override them. You only need to do it on 7 of the 26 machines. I picked all the easy ones.
WHAT?
You can override them if they are tied down? I thought you couldnt do it if they were aleted to your presence?
Thats a gamechanger if true.
also if you knock them down with your heavy melee attacks
edit: at least with the bigger guys, I dunno if you can do it with smaller ones. I definitely did it with ravagers and stalkers
whatever6352
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Yeah the only thing is if other enemies are nearby they can still attack you and will interrupt you so they need to be isolated.
Some of those animations look really cool. Like when she rolls onto her back and jumps to a different spot. Hard to explain the movement lol
firehawk12
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So having finished the game, I think I'm mostly positive on it. I'm a sucker for the terrible Ubiworld design of an open world that is basically just an excuse to collect things, since they basically fill that RPG treadmill but with a suitable conclusion. The fact that you can basically hit max level and grind gear before even touching the main story is appreciated, because that's basically how I played the AssCreed games.
The combat itself is good, except for the times when enemies rush you and you basically have no real options because the bow aiming is terrible. This is particularly bad during Stormbird or Rockjaw fights where they are constantly rushing you at unexpected angles.
My big "complaint" is a strange one, since I enjoyed the story for the most part (it's an amalgamation of so many video game science fiction stories that it's kind of funny). The presentation just felt so "last gen", particularly because it was basically like playing a BioWare game. All the conversations were static two shots of people just standing around doing nothing while you just "x" through the dialog-exposition trees.
I'm not saying I want boring Uncharted-like cutscenes either, but even BioWare "fixed" this problem by Mass Effect 3 by showing conversations between characters while they are walking together. Considering a lot of the game is based on these types of conversations, it makes the game feel very "last gen", like it came out 10 years ago with Alpha Protocol, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.
A more minor complaint is that the sense of scale in the world also feels a bit off, since there are maybe a couple hundred or so NPCs in the entire world? It just doesn't seem like a bustling civilization. Meridian should feel like a huge metropolis compared to the Nora towns, but for me anyway, it just looks like an overblown village.
A even more minor story complain with spoilers -
I'm glad I took the time to play through the game though. I enjoyed my time with it.
The combat itself is good, except for the times when enemies rush you and you basically have no real options because the bow aiming is terrible. This is particularly bad during Stormbird or Rockjaw fights where they are constantly rushing you at unexpected angles.
My big "complaint" is a strange one, since I enjoyed the story for the most part (it's an amalgamation of so many video game science fiction stories that it's kind of funny). The presentation just felt so "last gen", particularly because it was basically like playing a BioWare game. All the conversations were static two shots of people just standing around doing nothing while you just "x" through the dialog-exposition trees.
I'm not saying I want boring Uncharted-like cutscenes either, but even BioWare "fixed" this problem by Mass Effect 3 by showing conversations between characters while they are walking together. Considering a lot of the game is based on these types of conversations, it makes the game feel very "last gen", like it came out 10 years ago with Alpha Protocol, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.
A more minor complaint is that the sense of scale in the world also feels a bit off, since there are maybe a couple hundred or so NPCs in the entire world? It just doesn't seem like a bustling civilization. Meridian should feel like a huge metropolis compared to the Nora towns, but for me anyway, it just looks like an overblown village.
A even more minor story complain with spoilers -
I wish the sequel hook was about the humans who left Earth as opposed to Sylens capturing Hades to presumably start over. Of course, they blew up the Odyssey in an text entry, so that possibility is dead, but they could have made another game with ties to this world without having to rely on a direct sequel.
I'm glad I took the time to play through the game though. I enjoyed my time with it.
WhiskerFrisker
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Broooooo, Thunderjaw is fucking huge up close holy moly.
JadedWriter
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Yeah, once that thing is on you it's a pain, spent half my time spin dashing away from it.
texhnolyze
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For me, Meridian looks gorgeous from afar, but underwhelming from inside. Quite disappointed with it, tbh.
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