Things I Wish I Knew Earlier In Horizon Forbidden West (Tips & Tricks)

Some Tips & Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier in Horizon Forbidden West!

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[dusbus]

another option that is crucial is to turn pickup animation off. This lets you pickup things like berries and plants on the fly without having to stop. Makes the game so much better

[SirFoxbutt]

My first thought to turning on the climbing annotations was "Oh god, that's must be horribly immersion breaking for everything to be covered in those big yellow lines", but I was pleasently surprised to see that it basically only highlights the climbable areas that are within the range of Aloy, via what the range of her focus pulse would be anyway, not literally everything in the world. So you can't stand on a cliff and look out and marvel at the beauty of the world in the distance and see gross yellow lines on everything. After realising this I was happy to leave them on, it's so much nicer that spamming the pulse constantly.

[matthewduffield]

If you dodge 3 times in a row, Aloy will stumble for a second, so only dodge twice if you can. You only need like a 1 second break after 2 dodges to reset the counter

[pball]

Great tips.

Man.. They really crushed this sequel. I mean - The first game was excellent, leaving big boots to fill. A Franchise actually learned, grew, and launched a finished Surprisingly this is a rarity nowadays

[vicentesalasii]

Another thing that comes in handy is to set the Weapon Wheel Slowdown to "Slowest" from within General Settings. It gives you slightly more time to scroll between weapons mid-combat, especially when your wheel gets really full of weapons.

[SanitisedAnarchy]

Valor surge: Powershot lvl 3 in the Hunter skill tree (ridiculous damage and doesn't consume ammo for 5 shots) + Nora Thunder Armor (passive stealth ranged shot skill+2) from the Arena vendor. Combine that with stealth damage +25% coils and any decent Sharpshot bow (Forgefall maxed out being the best) is amazing.

[DKigid]

Missed the best settings option! Turn off the "Gathering Animation" let's you pick things up without stopping. Waaayyy easier to collect materials and a life saver for tough fights

[jarl]

Some helpful tips in the video and in the comments! After scanning a machine you can highlight the part you want to “farm”. Also, if the part is from a “job” it’ll be marked with a quest diamond in the focus menu so you don’t have to remember the part name your looking for or where it is on the machine.

[Ursusvandraco]

Stealth-Player here: for me, the two Valor surges from the infiltration tree where the only ones I needed and use through the game. With the stealth cover I could sneak up to any enemy (even kill multiple ones one after another on stage 3), and with the electrocute (stage 3) I was able to kill 2-3 mounts plus their riders and one champion at once. So even if stealth failed, run around, let them gather close together and kill them of at once
As for the headhunts with sniping bow, aiming for the head still made a one-shot kill on the enemy archers, for most of the others, it was enough to sneak up and kill them from behind. at last resort, one smoke bomb for distraction and into hiding and again.
Worked for me even on the higher difficulties

[brianegendorf]

The biggest use of the fast travel packs in this game, is a way to get out of areas you get trapped in. I have been trapped under trees where the branches keep you from leaving.. and there is no way to get out from under the tree. The Fast Travel pack saved me from being stuck there forever.

[kevin]

Interesting. Always go through the settings before I start a game. I already had all of those features enabled right at the beginning of the game. You also want to turn on always run for Aloy and your mount as well. This makes getting around quicker and it will really help with the mount run always on when doing the races as well because it ultimately sucks having to smash that X button constantly to get up to speed. Thank you for the upload because these tips and tricks really do help.

[anthonycielava]

Thanks for the video, very helpful! 1 new tip to add in which was just added in recent patch is the ability to make picking up anything instant (no stupid stopping to bend over animation) which can be found in the settings now!!! Saves sooo much time not having to stop your movement to pick up all the plants / single item components on ground.

[brettwalsh]

THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THE CHARGE ATTACK. I could not figure that out how to use that. Now it makes sense. thnx!

[vanntooot]

This game just absolutely floored all expectations and then some. So much so that for all its perfection, the only gripe I have is that I wish they made it so you could switch Valor Surges in real time instead of having to stick with one or dive into the skill tree just to change it. If they could give us that, combat would just be God-tier

[tomsmith]

I agree this is a great game and a good follow-up to Zero Dawn. I love the customization and the different skill sets which can define different ways of playing. I don’t mind the animations at all — they are part of the amazing world. And while it’s cool to ride a machine, I would rather walk or run now and then, to see the world that has been prepared. Games like this — Oblivion, Skyrim, even the Fallout series — are full of wonder and ways to explore. I rejoice in that in all its various details.

[MoonShineMosis]

Another good setting was to show the collectable materials on screen always instead of having to scan every 5 seconds to find some materials on the ground

[Bakemer]

You can knock multiple arrows into multiple bows before a battle, to have a big amount of burst at the beginning of a fight.

[jonbox]

Something they don’t tell you is apex machines spawn at night so time skips are helpful for farming spec parts as well

[crimsonvoo]

I think it would be really cool if the 3rd one was set on far zenith. An alien planet with strange animals and earthling machines mixed with alien like machines and even if it's still set on earth it would be cool to create, build, customize and paint your own machines with a large variety of options

[ms.talmania]

one thing i literally just found out was that you can transmog outfits! i had no idea and love being able to wear lower level armor that i like the look of with high level stats