Tag: Horizon Forbidden West

Anyone hoping for more Horizon will be happy to hear that a third entry in the series is likely in the works.

Before continuing, know that the following details may slightly spoil Horizon Forbidden West. Nothing significant, but be wary all the same!

During an interview with VG247, Guerrilla Games creative director Mathijs de Jonge spoke briefly about where the Horizon series might be heading. Everyone that’s played through Horizon Forbidden West knows the ending is a cliffhanger of sorts, and apparently, that was quite intentional. 

“Horizon is really about mystery; each of our stories has been about uncovering mysteries in both the old world and the present day, when [Forbidden West] takes place,” de Jonge said. “Indeed, there is plenty of backstory that we can tap into to develop new storylines and create new mysteries from what we’ve already established. And, indeed, [Forbidden West] ends with another big cliffhanger, where we’re setting up some things for the next game once again.”

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“There is a conclusion to the story in the first game — in Horizon Zero Dawn — but Aloy doesn’t solve all the problems that are basically set up in the story,” de Jonge continues. “And at that point, there’s still a terraform system that needs repairing. So that was really a starting point for the story of this game [Forbidden West]. We knew that we wanted to move to a new location, and we already mentioned in the first game about the Forbidden West.”

“We thought that was a very interesting, mysterious, and dangerous-sounding location. So that’s really the reason why we wanted to go there – and knowing that the terraform system still needed repairing, that was a starting point to start forming the story,” de Jonge concludes.

It might be a while before there’s another mainline series entry, but going off of these comments, Guerrilla Games seems confident in its narrative approach.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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For the most part, Horizon Forbidden West came out with relatively few bugs, but Guerilla is still squashing glitches left and right.

Patch 1.08 for Horizon Forbidden West features a laundry list of technical improvements, which you can find below.

Horizon Forbidden West Patch Notes 1.08

Main Quests

• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘To The Brink’ where using Silent Strike on a quest-specific Bristleback would teleport the player to Chainscrape.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Dying Lands’ where Varl and Zo would sometimes idle outside of Plainsong and block progression.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Dying Lands’ where Aloy’s companions would not lead the way after restarting from a specific save.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Broken Sky’ where reloading a certain save could sometimes disable fast travel unintentionally.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Cradle of Echoes’ where loading a save created on the previous patch would cause Aloy to be stuck in the Base.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Thebes’ where Aloy’s breathing sounds were playing during a cinematic sequence.
• Fixed an issue in main quest ‘All That Remains’ where restarting from a certain save would cause Aloy to spawn in the Base and unable to leave.

Side Quests

• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘The Bristlebacks’ where Ulvund didn’t get the memo and stuck around in Chainscrape after the quest was completed.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘What Was Lost’ where Kotallo would sometimes become unresponsive when reloading from a specific save.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘Blood For Blood’ where Kavvoh and Arokkeh could not be interacted with in specific circumstances, blocking progression.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘Forbidden Legacy’ where fast traveling during the Slitherfang encounter would cause the machine to not respawn, thus blocking progression.
• Fixed an issue in side quest ‘The Roots that Bind’ where the quest objective “Go to the Drumroot” would not complete after damaging the Widemaws from a large distance.
• Fixed an issue in errand quest ‘Call And Response’ where killing the enemies before receiving the objective to do so could block progression.

Patch 1.08 for Horizon Forbidden West has launched! Our team has been hard at work to address some of the issues you reported, and will continue to look into issues and feedback from our community.

📝 Please find the patch notes and known issues here: https://t.co/u8PrqMoUz8 pic.twitter.com/gnIz3MyEnk

— Guerrilla (@Guerrilla) March 16, 2022

World Activities

• Fixed an issue in Gauntlet Run, where passing the finish line in last place would result in a win in specific circumstances.
• Fixed several issues with specific Firegleam and Metal Flower icons not being displayed on the map.
• Fixed an issue where Firegleam icons would not be correctly removed from the map once the related activity was completed.
• Fixed an issue where fast travel would be disabled in specific circumstances when loading a save made while playing Machine Strike.

UI/UX

• Fixed an issue where the Machine Strike UI would briefly flicker at the end of a game.

Graphics

• Fixed an issue where Aloy wouldn’t appear wet anymore after being in water.
• Multiple graphics fixes and improvements in cinematics.
• Multiple visual improvements in shadows and clouds.
• Fixed an issue where Photo Mode controls would be frozen when initiating Photo Mode during a swan dive.

Performance and Stability

• Multiple crash fixes.
• Multiple performance and streaming improvements in cinematics.
• Removed multiple unintentional loading screens and black screens.
• Fixed multiple instances of streaming and visual popping.

Other

• Made several improvements to the NPCs’ movement and animations in settlements.
• Made it easier to tag individual components when using motion aiming and scanning machines.
• When picking up potions or tools that don’t fit in your toolbelt anymore they are now moved to the stash.
• Several balancing changes to weapons and enemies.
• Fixed several instances where Aloy could get stuck in geometry.
• Fixed an issue where the ‘All Machine Types Scanned’ trophy could be easily missed during the final main quest ‘Singularity’.
• Fix for the mount call sometimes causing the flying mount to be spawned in undesirable positions and in rare cases be unreachable.
• Several datapoints that are located in areas that the player could not return to are now automatically unlocked upon the player leaving that space.
• Fixed multiple instances of specific music tracks getting stuck and repeating.

Anyone will galavanting about the wilds in Horizon Forbidden West should check out GLHF’s guides, such as how to level up fast and traverse the long coast relic ruins.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Horizon Forbidden West features a rich RPG element to explore and master, and you’ll need to stay on top of it if you don’t want to get annihilated by your robo-enemies. It isn’t exactly on the difficulty scale of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring, also releasing in February, but asks you to earn lots of XP to prepare for story missions’ level requirements. No worries, we’re here to help you get there quickly – just keep reading to learn some tricks to put together experience points and level up fast in Horizon Forbidden West.

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What content you shouldn’t focus on

Horizon Forbidden West includes plenty of mission types, some of them being more challenging and longer than others. Side missions are complex and often kickstart other missions once completed, offering entire narrative arcs just like main quests, and Errands similarly task you with bringing down giant beasts every now and then. These side activities are amazing and well-crafted, actually much better than Zero Dawn’s, but they’re definitely not your best choice if you want to level up fast in Forbidden West – they are pretty long and often offer rewards that don’t match the effort put in.

How to level up fast in Horizon Forbidden West

On the other hand, you have side activities that are quick to complete and quite straightforward, as they don’t require much combat. Among these, you’ll find Cauldrons, which offer fun and rewarding platform sections. Also, Relic Ruins are puzzles you need to complete using your mind more than brute force, and carefully studying the environment. These are easily the best side activity in the game, as you can read in our Horizon Forbidden West review. 

Since it doesn’t feature combat, and it’s quicker and offers better rewards compared to the effort required for completion, this kind of non-violent activity is the best way to gather experience points as you progress through the main story – Relic Ruins put 5,000 XP on the table, Cauldrons are in at around 8-15,000 XP and also allow you to Override bigger and meaner machines. It’s also important to note that you shouldn’t always skip combat during traversal or when offered the ability to stealth kill enemies, as these encounters are a good way to gather XP, too.

Story mission level requirements

It’s worth mentioning that we were able to proceed through the main quest with no particular issue while even 3 or 4 levels below those missions’ requirements. This means that experience points and levels are important in the latest game from Guerrilla Games, for sure, but also that you don’t have to worry too much it so long as you’re reasonably close to the requirement. Should this prove too tough for you, don’t forget to read our Horizon Forbidden West tips and tricks.

Written by Paolo Sirio on behalf of GLHF.

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Let’s step into The Long Coast and complete one of the trickier puzzles in Horizon Forbidden West. This Relic Ruin will test your patience, but we’re here to ease the burden. 

Head into the ruins and up the stairs. Grab the energy cell from up top and carry it down to the empty slot below before it loses charge. You have to be quick, but there’s ample time if you don’t dawdle. 

Head into the elevator and use your Pullcaster to tear off the grate inside, opening up a hole in the top. You’ll need this later. 

Next, head outside and hook onto the nearby anchor point to the right of the elevator. Head to the edge and climb your way up the outside of the shaft. 

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Once up top, you can jump and glide into the next section of the ruin, where you’ll find a crate. 

Ignite the Firegleam behind you and push the crate back to the elevator. Send the elevator up, pull the crate out, then send the elevator back down. From here you can push the crate onto the top of the elevator. But you still need another crate. 

Head back to the other section of the ruin again, where you found the crate. At the far side of the room, you’ll find a switch that controls what used to be stage lighting. Ignore that for now. 

Climb up the nearby walkway in the left corner of the room and clamber along the handholds up there. You’ll drop down next to ta Firegleam wall. Blow it up. Now, from the other side of the wall, use your Pullcaster to pull the switch from a distance, through the gap in the wall. 

Immediately hook onto the stage lighting that appears above, then back eject onto the walkway nearby. Here’s another crate. 

Push the crate to the elevator, using your Pullcaster to pull it out when it drops in the water, and place it so you can climb on top and up through the hole you made earlier. 

With the elevator on the top floor, you should now be free to climb the inside of the shaft to get the ornament from The Long Coast Relic Ruin. 

Written by Kirk McKeand on behalf of GLHF.

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If you’re looking to complete all the relic ruins in Horizon Forbidden West, this guide will get you a step closer by walking you through Restless Weald. 

Look around the ruins and you’ll find a ladder that you can shoot to lower. Climb up the broken pillar nearby, back eject, and shimmy across the handholds to reach it after you’ve lowered it. Up here you’ll find the Construction Year datapoint. This tells you that the year the building was constructed is daubed somewhere on the building itself. Pocket that knowledge for now. 

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Drop down and search the ruins for another datapoint called Thanks Again, which tells you the password has been set to the year of the construction. But you still need a key. 

Next, head outside of the building and look for a railcart. Use your Pullcaster to pull it towards you. Then head to where it was and switch the tracks. Pull the cart back and then pull it along in the new direction. 

Pull it all the way along and then climb on top, get onto the yellow handhold, and jump to the wire walk. Grab the key module. 

If you check the side of the building, you’ll see it was built in 1623. Except that’s not a 6 – it’s an upside-down 9. Go back to the console and enter the code: 1923.  

Take a running jump and grab the wire to slide down into the next room. Ignite the Firegleam to blow up the wall. Head back outside, switch the tracks, and pull the cart back along through the hole. 

Once it’s in place, climb on top and use the handholds to climb around to grab the Ornament. That’s Restless Weald complete. 

Written by Kirk McKeand on behalf of GLHF. 

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