Horizon Zero Dawn

[Hoodedclaw]

i hid from a big stormbird when searching for Lures during a side mission , poking my head out to fire off the off fire arrows and it gave up before i could kill it and the objective just ticked off 

[Uncle Mike]

I was wearing my stealth armour, so just disabled the lures without annoying the Stormbird.

[Chow]

1 hour ago, Hoodedclaw said:

i hid from a big stormbird when searching for Lures during a side mission , poking my head out to fire off the off fire arrows and it gave up before i could kill it and the objective just ticked off 

 

I had already done all the cauldrons by then, so I just did the over-ride. After it had massacred all the other robots in the area, it vanished and the objective ticked off for me as well.

[Gorf King]

I just killed the big fuck. 

[Oz]

the more I play of this the more I enjoy it. every day I try new weapon combinations that make the combat feel new. there are no throw away weapons. all weapons feel different have different advantages and are fun to use in their own right. I think letting you be able to equip only 4 at a time is a good thing to force you to combine things in different ways rather then ending up with a massive wheel that has all your weapons at your disposal for all battles. almost always before I battle I move my mods around and equip weapons and craft gear which is enemy dependent. boss battles are particularly great when you are facing 'big fucks' in arena type battles. feels very dark souls in those spots and it can get fucking hairy. I love it. I still have not finished but this is one of my favourite games of recent years for sure. right up there with witcher/bloodborne in the end. 

[Uncle Mike]

The only one I haven't really gotten any use of is the Tearblaster. I don't use the slings much, but I should.

[Hoodedclaw]

is that the one that emits a vibration and removes their armour ?

[Chow]

4 minutes ago, Captain LeChuck said:

I never even purchased a sling. My favourite weapon is the Sharpshot bow with Tearblast arrows. 

 

Now I've got the disc launcher, motherfucker!

 

Only weapon I regret not giving a try is the shotgun type one. Like the sling, I never bothered buying one. But I can imagine blitzing through bandit camps with it could be fun.

 

The rattler is shite, but the sling is pretty great. The proximity bombs are a good way of laying traps at a bit of range, and the sticky bomb is handy for dealing considerable chunks of damage to an enemy before they even know you're there. They have a 5 second delay for exploding, so you can normally stick 2-3 on a big machine before the first detonates.

 

My weapons of choice were usually triple tearblast arrows followed by triple hardpoint arrows. Have both bows loaded up with all three arrows prior to taking the first shot.

 

Yeah @Hoodedclaw, the tearblast is the one that removes armour/weapons but deals no damage of its own. They'll one hit kill some of the smaller robots because of the number of components that get removed.

[Mr Do 71]

7 minutes ago, Hoodedclaw said:

is that the one that emits a vibration and removes their armour ?

 

Yeah.

[Oz]

holy shit that one is vital! there is no other way to defeat a deathbringer. you need to disable his shit.  also apply enough tear to any enemy and they go down for a critical. 

 

17 minutes ago, Mr Do 71 said:

 

Yeah.

 

25 minutes ago, Hoodedclaw said:

is that the one that emits a vibration and removes their armour ?

 

30 minutes ago, Uncle Mike said:

The only one I haven't really gotten any use of is the Tearblaster. I don't use the slings much, but I should.

 

24 minutes ago, Captain LeChuck said:

I never even purchased a sling. My favourite weapon is the Sharpshot bow with Tearblast arrows. 

 

Now I've got the disc launcher, motherfucker!

 

Only weapon I regret not giving a try is the shotgun type one. Like the sling, I never bothered buying one. But I can imagine blitzing through bandit camps with it could be fun.

I only bought it now for completion sake. and it is fucking brilliant! this is when I realised that all weapons are brilliant. same as you I thought it would be pointless based on their description of it in relation to how I like to play. however it is specially great for rapidly applying an elemental effect to an enemy that's rushing you. because it has no charge time. you can freeze the fuck out of an enemy and get a multiplier damage when you bring your arrows back. and they will get stunned from the cold and you can get your distance back and start fucking them up with arrows. see my video for the use of the sling. 

 

[Uncle Mike]

I use the Rattler, and Tearblast arrows, obvs. Just not that Tearblaster gun.

[Oz]

2 minutes ago, Uncle Mike said:

I use the Rattler, and Tearblast arrows, obvs. Just not that Tearblaster gun.

oh shit. forgive my ignorance I am not even sure I know which one that is. 

[Tezcatlipoca]

Finished the Hunters Lodge quest (not the hunting ground trials) last night. Had a Thunderjaw trophy from Cauldron Zeta, killed a Stormbird for its trophy, and then went off and killed Redmaw.

 

The Stormbird fight took a lot longer than Redmaw.

 

Spoiler

Surely Aloy should be the fucking Sunhawk now, not Talanah? Aloy's the one who killed Redmaw, Talanah did fuck all!

 

 

Not sure why people were complaining about the Hunters Lodge earlier?

 

Gonna finally do Maker's End tonight.

[Gorf King]

Patch 1.04 has dropped, and apparently fixes a lot of bugs affecting quests. There may be spoilers in the patch notes.

[Mr Ben]

Game has opened up a bit now I've been to Meridian, whereas I wasn't that impressed with the story until that point. Glad I took Gorf's advice and ignored everything on the way there now. I usually just walk about doing anything and everything in open world games like this, but I've broken tradition somewhat here so as to actually get some semblance of a story going.

[Oz]

21 minutes ago, Mr Ben said:

Game has opened up a bit now I've been to Meridian, whereas I wasn't that impressed with the story until that point. Glad I took Gorf's advice and ignored everything on the way there now. I usually just walk about doing anything and everything in open world games like this, but I've broken tradition somewhat here so as to actually get some semblance of a story going.

the story specially gets specially great after a mission called:

Spoiler

maker's end

 

3 hours ago, Gorf King said:

Patch 1.04 has dropped, and apparently fixes a lot of bugs affecting quests. There may be spoilers in the patch notes.

do you have that armour from inside the bunker that Kansa broke? is it worth pursuing? 

[Gorf King]

I do have it. It is OP, but you only get it just before the last story mission. You can dive out with it and do as many other activities as you like before starting that last mission though, so maybe it's worth keeping anything vaguely tricky (e.g. some of the hunting grounds) back until then - but I'd done them all by then. Or in fact, you can clean up all that stuff after completing the game, as you're deposited after the credits back at your pre-finale checkpoint save with everything you picked up all the way to the end.

 

So maybe keep stuff back for post-game. I wish I had now, as I kind of miss it but I've nothing left to do except go robo-badger baiting and take photographs of trees and stuff.

[df0]

Pleasantly surprised by the Trophies. Finished the game like I normally would any game of this caliber (do a much as possible without going out of my way to collect 200 silly items) and ended up getting all but 2 Trophies and those are easy enough to get. Good thinking there Guerrilla. 

[deerokus]

Fuck Rockbreaker. 

[df0]

1 hour ago, df0 said:

Pleasantly surprised by the Trophies. Finished the game like I normally would any game of this caliber (do a much as possible without going out of my way to collect 200 silly items) and ended up getting all but 2 Trophies and those are easy enough to get. Good thinking there Guerrilla. 

Done

[MardiganX]

1 hour ago, deerokus said:

Fuck Rockbreaker. 

 

Weird. I found my first encounter with a Rockbreaker pretty easy. The difference most likely is that the encounter was part of a side mission I did right after acquiring the ancient armour so I was able to take a few more hits than I should have. Also, I might have been imagining it but the ancient armour seemed to give me a warning right before the Rockbreaker burst through the ground so I was able to dodge all those attacks. Like a spidey sense noise and flash just before the attack, which made the battle pretty straightforward.

 

Stormbirds are the ones I struggle with the most. The range and speed of movement they have is ridiculous. Until I got a half decent Ropecaster I avoided them like a dog when it sees a hoover!

[deerokus]

I beat it after changing my strategy (tearing off his claws just made him more dangerous to me), but dodging wasn't consistently getting me out of the way. 

 

Fun battle mind. 

[Trumpets]

The guy with the mohawk and the mutton chops should get his own game.

[MardiganX]

15 minutes ago, deerokus said:

I beat it after changing my strategy (tearing off his claws just made him more dangerous to me), but dodging wasn't consistently getting me out of the way. 

 

Fun battle mind. 

 

Do you have the extended roll skill unlocked? Without that I would have died at least 90 more times that I have so far. That extra yard make all the difference with the bigger machines.

[Oz]

51 minutes ago, MardiganX said:

 

Weird. I found my first encounter with a Rockbreaker pretty easy. The difference most likely is that the encounter was part of a side mission I did right after acquiring the ancient armour so I was able to take a few more hits than I should have. Also, I might have been imagining it but the ancient armour seemed to give me a warning right before the Rockbreaker burst through the ground so I was able to dodge all those attacks. Like a spidey sense noise and flash just before the attack, which made the battle pretty straightforward.

 

Stormbirds are the ones I struggle with the most. The range and speed of movement they have is ridiculous. Until I got a half decent Ropecaster I avoided them like a dog when it sees a hoover!

The spider sense you get from the start. Great name for it. Being the level you were if you were that close to finishing the game would have made it miles easier than it probably was for dererokus though.

[Mr Ben]

36 minutes ago, deerokus said:

I beat it after changing my strategy (tearing off his claws just made him more dangerous to me), but dodging wasn't consistently getting me out of the way. 

 

Fun battle mind. 

Fought 2 of them (the one surprised me, so lost a load of health). After you take off its claws so it cant dig, its only attack is the rock throw thing, so I just rolled behind some rocks whenever it threw some stones at me, then bombed it with some freeze bombs and shot it with some of the sniper arrows that do the most damage. They both died pretty quick after that.

[Oz]

8 minutes ago, Mr Ben said:

Fought 2 of them (the one surprised me, so lost a load of health). After you take off its claws so it cant dig, its only attack is the rock throw thing, so I just rolled behind some rocks whenever it threw some stones at me, then bombed it with some freeze bombs and shot it with some of the sniper arrows that do the most damage. They both died pretty quick after that.

I didn't even know you could tear his claws. I dodged and fired bombs with my sling. But actually had an amazing time with the encounter.

[Mr Ben]

54 minutes ago, deerokus said:

I beat it after changing my strategy (tearing off his claws just made him more dangerous to me), but dodging wasn't consistently getting me out of the way. 

 

Fun battle mind. 

I always check the machines in the menu after scanning to see what their weakness is, whether I have enough ammo of the type needed, etc.

 

I have some right stupid deaths in this. Things like falling off a cliff or getting instantly killed by going somewhere I'm not supposed to go in a Cauldron (but mainly the cliffs one). My stand out one though is after I'd taken down a Thunderjaw, and what did me in was stupidly using the disc launcher after the battle to kill a Sawtooth - it lunged at me as I fired, killing myself in the resulting point blank explosion

 

I'd got a good stealth mod off the bloody Thunderjaw as well

 

Oh well

[deerokus]

39 minutes ago, MardiganX said:

 

Do you have the extended roll skill unlocked? Without that I would have died at least 90 more times that I have so far. That extra yard make all the difference with the bigger machines.

I don't, yet! 

[MardiganX]

You know what's better than stories about epic battles and incredible feats of bravery... the wee shitey fights where you get yourself into a place you can't get hit and spam plastic arrows for 30 minutes until the enemy falls  lets hear about them too. The more cowardly and absolutely shameful the better!

 

My first fight with Glinthawks, there were 3 of them perched at the top of a mountain bit, so... after laying every trap and trip rope I had available at the foot of the mountain I climbed back up, skelped one in the beak with a teardrop arrow and ran like fuck toward my trap treasure chest. Eventually, the traps only took out 1 of them and severely injured another as they took ages to land but rather than do the honourable thing and face the 2 that were remaining I waited until they went back to the top of the mountain, climbed up after them and fired more teardrop arrow beak shots before running back down to relative safety in the nearby trees. I repeated this 7 times until there was one left with about 30% health and then stood against it like I was the greatest machine hunter in the land. Back at the pub in Meridian I told the lads how I dodged and weaved facing all 3 at the same time using nothing but the blunt end of a rabbit bone as a weapon. 

 

Of course now when I come across Glinthawks the fights are fantastic and I use all the great moves, but those early encounters are the ones that really build you up