9 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Horizon Forbidden West

Horizon Forbidden West is a sprawling game with loads to see and do. In this video, Lucy James breaks down nine tips to help you get started. Everything from skill tree upgrades to combat techniques, these tips will help you begin your journey into the forbidden west.

Horizon Forbidden West is the long-awaited sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, and throws Aloy into a beautiful but dying world full of powerful machines, as she tries to discover why the world is ending. The game gives you a lot of tricks up your sleeve to stop the apocalypse… again, but it’s a lot to get your head around, so here are nine things I wish I knew before playing Horizon Forbidden West.

Timestamps:
00:23 - Watch A Prequel Recap
01:05 - Tweak Your Settings
02:16 - Embrace Your Skill Trees
03:26 - Valor Surges
04:18 - Traps Are OP
05:12 - Use Your Focus Everywhere
06:13 - Switch It Up!
07:02 - Selling Stuff
07:35 - Side Quests

[DH-rtfk]

There's also a trophy for scanning all machine types and some bosses are one off encounters that you can miss. Always scan

[heikosiebert]

And use the hunter's training grounds. They're not only good for some nice rewards but let you try out playstyles and combat mechanics you'd probably ignore otherwise, yet they help a lot with those big beasts. :)

[mrbastos]

glad to see traps are just as good as before. Anytime I was about to finish a cauldron I'd spread them out all over the place, and they helped a ton.

[dwirtz]

Great Video! I would add "USE YOUR ENVIRONMENT!" Meaning in this new Horizon the landscape is often peppered with environmental objects you can use to your advantage in or even right before a battle. (Rock piles, log stores, random telephone pole things) 😎👏

[pacman]

Great tips!
Alot of these you mentioned I didn't even know about. Since I was going in blind. Luckily I'm only level 7 so I'll be sure to remember every tip mentioned. Thank you!

[williamholbert]

Great video Lucy. Always such outstanding work. Thank you.

[ragerbsp]

solid video, starting in 5 minutes cant wait wooo!

[OSB]

Big hyped to play and this vid really helps 😤😩😮👏🏽

[glasgowjohn]

dont forget you can also buy back anything you've sold from any vendor

[filmetiquette]

I just played the whole game over again and the dlc really was a great refresher

[hyphymovement]

If you changed your controller settings in anyway and are having trouble dropping from ledges at certain points literally change it back to default settings and it should work. It's a weird issue that you'll only come across if you change square and O around tho

[tomislavpazitka]

Thnx for video. I wanna ask you something. Which Valor surge you like to use the most often, which one u prefer for for most situations???🤔

[magdabrownis]

I just played Zero Dawn for the first time in January so it workout perfect

[make.one.studio]

Use traps more. Got it. Can’t wait for tonight!

[mr.shneeblie]

I don’t need to watch a story recap cause I’ve been replaying the game. In fact, for the past few days I’ve been saving the final story mission so I can complete it tonight right before FW.

[davidlawton]

I don't know if it's meant to happen or mine is broke but when I upgrade the resource pouch the medicinal berries should be on 36 but I'm still only holding 24.

[intelligentfoxx]

I 100% agree with using your traps a lot, and though I have not played forbidden west yet I have been replaying zero dawn and the traps have absolutely carried my. Don't get me wrong they diffidently are not that necessary in some parts, like I was usually 5 and above levels for the recommended level so I was usually fine even on hard mode. But still laying 6 traps in one spot and instantly dealing 1 third or some times even a half of that thunder jaws health is an amazing feeling. And as a mentioned a don't know particularly if things changed so I will be going off zero dawn. DO NOT UNDER UNDER ESTIMATE THE ROPE CASTER. Though the trap life style is resource expensive if you can plant loads of traps including the trip caster then you can instantly do lots of damage then tie them down and plant a bunch more bombs and traps but beware though obviously this strategy is not as effective when there is multiple enemys.

[Lari_A]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there any way to delete autosave files on the PS5? My game is over 100GB now because I have 14 autosaves in my game and no way to delete them, so I can only have my manual save. Anyone know what to do?

[chuckrichardson]

I was the opposite I used a lot of traps in zero Dawn but when it comes to forbidden wash I don't like the traps nor do I like the truck system so I don't use them at all like ever except for when it's required to do so like that one trial in the hunting grounds for example. Horizon forbidden West completely nerfed the Trapper skill

[nicowilson]

Question. Did they bring back the whistling to lure the robots to you like the first one?