How to Kill Rockbreakers | Horizon Zero Dawn 2022 | Master Machine Hunting Guide
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Welcome to my Horizon Zero Dawn Master Machine Hunting series in 2022! In this episode we'll learn the best way to kill Rockbreakers. With the HZD sequel Forbidden West coming out soon, I know there's going to be a lot of people re-playing Zero Dawn or playing it for the first time. In this series, we're going to cover the most effective tactics for taking down all the toughest machines in the game. If you want to learn how to take down every machine and become a master machine hunter, this is the series for you!
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⏱️Video Chapters⏱️
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Rockbreaker Overview
1:18 - Strategy
3:42 - Gear & Skills
5:27 - Live Combat
8:59 - Summary
9:24 - Extra Tips
11:19 - Wrapping Up
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Music Credit: Landscape by Jarico ( / landscape )
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CPU: i7-9700k (OC at 5.2GHz all core)
GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 SC Gaming (Core OC: 2075MHz, Mem OC: 5275MHz)
RAM: 16GB G.Skill TridentZ 3866MHz CL16
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SSD: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 512GB
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Alright! Imma watch the vid and then see if any of the tips I have are relevant afterwards.
Curious to hear your tips @Sam Green
Okay, idk if this matters, but I play on UH. I would actually suggest (for anyone on this kind of stage in the game going one-on-one with a Rockbreaker) to knock its arms off. If you remove its means for surprise attacks, it becomes much less of a challenge to deal with. Against two, I think that your strategy is best because it is keeping the fight one-on-one, but against a singular Rockbreaker, I think the arms are a focus for the beginning. A melee resisting suit is also basically a must because they hit like literal trucks (I mean, look at them. Giant metal moles from hell). I would suggest tearblast arrows (since you're using the shadow bow) for the arms. Another way to tell that they're about to attack is the controller vibration. It'll vibrate really hard and then they'll attack. After you've knocked off all the arms, then you can pick away at any weak part of it without the threat of a surprise attack or ranged attacks. Freezing it will give you a small window of immobilization animation (like with the Scorchers). That's how I'd do it if you don't have endgame equipment. If you do have endgame equipment, simply freeze them and hit the exhaust port with triple Hardpoint arrows and reap the rewards.
Two miscellaneous tips:
1. When a Rockbreaker is underground ANY noise you make can be heard, but above ground, they're deaf.
2. If you shoot an arrow on the ground while a Rockbreaker is underground, all Rockbreakers will pounce where the arrow hit, letting you set them up for traps (same with rocks but without a leaping jump).
Sorry for the letter vomit.
@Sam Green, thanks for all these extra tips! I’ll pin this so people can find it easily. I think you’re right that you do want to destroy the claws for a 1-on-1 fight (so basically all the quests where you have to deal with Rockbreakers). I also hadn’t ever thought about baiting them out at a specific location by shooting an arrow/throwing a rock. That’s really clever! I’ll have to experiment with that. I play on UH as well, just doing Very Hard for these videos so people can see the health bar (plus I don’t think most people play on UH or anything close to it :) ). I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more Rockbreakers in FW. If so, I’ll definitely do an updated guide.
@@ArktixOfficial I wonder if Rockbreakers will get any kind of new attacks... It would be really cool to learn the new attack patterns and how to react to them.
Sir,
I am playing this game after 2-3 years and having a far different experience this time around. In the Northwest I got ambushed by 4 ravagers and a random flock of longlegs. 2-3 years ago that would have been death in 30 seconds. But because of your videos, I wasn't trapped with them...they were trapped with me. Kudos.
Awesome! Glad to hear the videos helped you out, and thank you for all your kind comments!
I first fought this at the quarry mission. I hid behind a shed and kept knocking off his components. When I finally killed him, he was in a dive animation and he died going underground. So I never got to loot him.
Oh no! Yeah that's a tough fight. Hopefully this video helps you take down some more Rockbreakers so you can look them this time.
This comment gave me depression
Bro your videos are the absolute best guides for these game(s). I can honestly say that watching your videos has made me appreciate Zero Dawn a lot more, and have more fun playing. Thanks.
Hey thanks! Glad you’re finding them helpful 😁 I have tons more content for Forbidden West when you get there!
Thanks so much! I had so much trouble with the one in The Frozen Wilds, I wasn't really sure how to dodge its attacks. Thanks to this turoial I took it down without much problem. Great video, I'll definitely watch more c:
my man comin in hot with the solution.
I was having huge issues with a corrupted zone with two of those. I died over and over till i watched your video. They then went down the very next try! thanks!
Just want to say how much I love your tutorials! You explain things excellently. It has really helped me! Thank you so much!
Hey thanks! Glad you're finding my videos helpful 😁 Thanks for your comment 🙏🏼
Your videos are amazingly helpful! Just had an easy time killing the rock breakers! If Forbidden West comes to PC I’ll be using your help for sure.
Thank you! Glad you’re finding my video helpful 😄 Yeah I really hope it comes to PC soon. I’m a PC gamer at heart 😁
This helped a lot. Killed my first rocbreaker in literally under 2 minutes after watching (normal difficulty).
Nice! Glad this helped!
I’ve been watching your videos since I have been playing horizon zero dawn for the first time end of 2022, beginning of 2023 and I just beat this rock breaker easily. I normally default to fire damage but this video made me use the phrase damage and that fight in the rock quarry was super easy. Thanks love the videos.
Aweseom! Glad to hear you found these tips helpful!
you made this look so easy. im almost at end game for ultra hard for 2nd playthrough. i think my problem is having weapons i dont really need when dealing with annoying machines like this. this is another guide you put together so thoughtfully that should help me for NG+ Thank you!
Thanks! Yeah the dual Rockbreakers are tough. Hope these tips help you take them down! 👍
Killed the first two rockbreakers I came across thanks to your video! So freakin helpful!
Awesome! Glad to hear it was helpful!
Besides the Kena series you did, all ur vids are horizon zero dawn vids, and very helpful! The youtubers that aren't that popular makes the best content, continue on :D
Thank you! I certainly will 👍
This was so helpful. Thank you. I tried many times and after watching your guide I got the Rockbreaker in the quarry first try. Thank you for creating and sharing your content.
Hey thanks! Glad you found this helpful 😄 Nice job on that quarry Rockbreaker!👍
@@ArktixOfficial haha yes. After that I had fun with the two in that corruption zone. No problem because of your guide 🤟
I think these guys are the hardest machine in the base game by far, the level 32 corrupted zone with 2 of them was a nightmare for me on very hard, I couldn't imagine it on ultra hard.
Yes they’re very tough! That corrupted zone is a real challenge. I hope these tips help!
You could take care of them in just 2 minutes.
Great tips, many thanks !
This was helpful, like the other videos. One thing I also learned is that if you knock of their claws with tearblast arrows, they cant dig anymore. But doesnt seems like that is needed much if you do it like this.
Found these for the first time on a corrupted area. Had a hard time, but some snapmaws started attacking them with ice. Really helped.
First time I found these (the other day in fact), I gave them a couple of tries and then decided to move on. Then today, I found a Corruption site with a pair of Corrupted Rockbreakers. At this point, I had decided to buy the Shadow Sling and in one attempt, I tried to lay down a bunch of Proximity Bombs and also the proximity Blast Traps and attempted to bait at least one into this. Unfortunately it did not work as well as I had hoped. I will be sure to try and apply this in my next attempt, so thank you for these tips :)
Very good tips for me, lol. The first Rockbreaker I encountered at the Cut-Cliffs, I basically just hid in a small shack and kept shooting it...of course I lost most health...
Glad it was helpful! Yeah it’s pretty crazy the first time you encounter one!
These videos are really helpful thank you. I'm going to subscribe to you right now.
good strategy.
also u can stand on some rocks nearby and be immune to its ground based attacks...
if u got cover u can be safe from its ranged attacks too. im sure some of them are big enough to give u good cover when u need to. probably near the edge of their territory.
with maxed gear...u can kill a rockbreaker with a SINGLE triple shot of precision arrows on its exhaust when its frozen!
@cobrazax Totally! Yeah thanks for sharing these tips! And yeah you can basically one-shot them with the Banuk bows lol
i dont know how much to thank you the freeze-exhaust tactic worked so well that i killed it in 45 seconds after trying to kill it for like 30 minutes lol
Man I first found this brute in a side mission in a quarry 😂. At first it literally beat the shit out of me but once I realised it’s weak point I hid inside a shed and first disabled it’s digging capabilities to make it stay on ground . Once done, I ran to the top of the quarry and used my Shadow Sharpshooter on its one major component which was mounted on its back and surprisingly the poor animal could not hit me while I stayed well covered on top of the quarry 😅😂
thanks man, I was having a hard time with both corrupted
This and the thunderjaws are definitely cases where I really should've been using that ropecaster more. I neglected it hard and just about only used it in farming materials with harvest arrows (which is nice! you can get like 36 blazes from one grazer with that combo. It was how I refueled the obscene amount of blast tripwires I was using on everything!)
You can also hide behind the Y formed tree (in the back in minute 1:32 in the video) near the plains you fought on. Takes care of their ranged attacks and they cant follow you up there, since it is rock. Will cost you a bunch of arrows, but i still got them down, pretty low level (early game).
@Geo van Gestel Good tip! I think I'm probably a little too impatient to play that stealthy myself 😅 But it definitely sounds like a good strategy!
@@ArktixOfficial yeah I had to play it really chill. When I got there I hadn’t discovered the dodge functionality yet. So Ives’s always very wary before engaging. Luckily not much later discovered the button. 😅
@Geo can Gestel Ah good! Dodging is very important!
Rockbreakers seem to be based on creatures in the movie Tremors with Kevin Bacon. They just don’t swallow you up and devour you like the creatures in that movie and those weren’t machines or look anything like Rockbreakers, either really. The burrowing underground and sensing seismic vibrations from your movements, though, and they were enormous like Rockbreakers.
This is super helpful! Going to try these strategies on the Rockbreakers at the Corrupted site. Which brings a question: Do you think it's more worth it to detonate the fuel sac on the corrupted variant of the Rockbreaker, since being corrupted gives it a weakness to fire damage that the standard variant doesn't have? Or is it negligible in comparison to freezing it and going for shots on the exhaust port?
This guy is right, prioritize 2 arrows and 3 arrows skill, it will help u a lot.
I just hid in the tall grass and used pebbles to lure them out. Takes a little bit of patience, but once the whole body is out I just aim for the blaze compartment and rockbreaker is broken, lol pun intended
Honestly my go to method for dealing with big tank machines is to freeze them and then just spam the bolt caster 😂
good strategy but I use fire instead of freeze, I use the ropecaster to tie them, then go for their blaze sacs, 1-2 blast bombs from blast sling will destroy their blaze sacs, which will tale out it's 40-50% health. it has 2 sacs. repeat it two times it will be left with 20-30% health. then spray your hardpoint arrows on its weak spot he'll be dead in seconds. mine works just as effectively
Nice! Yeah that sounds like a good strategy too!
I honestly thought they were pretty easy because during my gameplay, I've only encountered them at a distance. I stay behind a little bump of sand. I look, shoot, shoot, hide and repeat.
They never approach me so I can easily dodge their rocks.
Have you seen the blast wire trap + arrow to bait technique? It honestly blows this out of the water!
Ah yeah I have seen that. I don't personally like playing with traps or wires, so I generally don't so those strats in my videos, but they certainly can work!
For my first fight, I tied them down, shot the claws off and then did what you did. This helped me because it is just so hard to dodge them sometimes.
Is the one in the side quest stronger? I think I fought a corrupted version too at some point
Nice work! And the site actually has two corrupted ones when you first discover it. That was probably it.
I wish i could use hunter reflexes as well as you do. Its worthless to me because i can never aim and shoot in time.
Been watching your vids, and they are helpful. Only problem is that every one of them so far relies on having that special rope caster. And I can't get one because I can't get a trapmaw heart.
I've killed at least a dozen of them, but they never give me a heart!?!?
Thanks! Glad you're finding them helpful. Sorry you're not able to get that rope caster. Snapmaw hearts have about a 10% chance to drop, so you've probably just been a bit unlucky trying to get one. Kill a few more and you should get one. You may also be able to buy one from a vendor in Meridian. Good luck!
man i might actually swap the tripcaster for the Ropecaster it seems more usful in getting control of the situation
Yes! I would say a ropecaster is definitely more useful than a tripcaster.
Can never get them to stay still long enough to finish a rope. They burrow as soon as the bar is full.
Man no matter how many times and which rockbreaker site i try, the ropecaster strat just doesn't work for me. They always dive underground and i have tried with the shadow ropecaster with 3 60 to 50% handling mods.
I ran out of rope resource to keep trying.
The only strat that i consistently get it to work is to shock them and remove their claws with the tearblaster which gets rid of their entire gimmick.
Sorry for this but when i try to rope the rockbreaker idk why he go under before get stock, im using the golden ropecaster with 3 purple hanty mods (i dont remember the name of the ropecaster i think is the one from the hunters in meridian)
So if they dive underground before you get them fully tied down the ropes will break. You need to get enough ropes on them to fully tie them down before they dive. I hope that helps!
honestly, if you want to hit those rockbreakers on easy-mode, the easiest way I found was just to walk over to the nearby Ravager site, use tearblast arrows to knock off their cannons, kill the Ravagers, and then schlep the cannons back to near the Rockbreaker site. Once you start shooting the Rockbreakers with the cannon they stay above-ground, so you can just unload on both of them from a relatively safe distance.
Of course, that's kinda cheating if the purpose was to learn how to fight them effectively :/
i hit a rock breaker 7 times with the lodge ropecaster and it still went back underground...what gives?
Hey, um I notice you used banuk bows on the ending, I was wondering, I have an adept war bow and a shadow hunter bow. Will this have the same offect? Just wanted to know so I can farm rockbreakers...
Oh those will totally work too. I just prefer the Banuk bows over the others, but the those are strong too. Good luck!
@@ArktixOfficial Thanks, I only have the shadow, I haven't went into the Frozen Wilds DLC yet, I am planning to soon though :D
Cool! Yeah definitely head to the Frozen Wilds. If you have shadow gear you should be good to go. I went to the Frozen wilds my first time at level 12, which was probably a little early lol 😂
And also, I've fought a lot more rockbreakers with confidence recently, and I think your strategy is very nice! It works so well I now have around 3 rockbreaker hearts! This is now my main machine for farming shards, and before that, my main was the thunderjaw in the site where 2 spawns with a ton of lancehorns. Thanks so much, this is so much more fun expanding my machine mastering knowledge. Thanks so much and keep up the good work! Our thanks is beyond what can be put into words :D
You’re very welcome! Glad you found this helpful 😄
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I guess I really cheated on this, I used 'Armor Weave' and just stood on a rock and blasted away, zero personal damage of course and they're pretty easy to track with the icon. Anyway I'm a rookie so Just wanted get the job done
Haha nice! That will do it!
It's so weird to hear this old Ark voice 😅
I shot the claws off & hid behind the rocks.
I see others tear claws then rockbreaker can go undergarund
All the claws have to be removed to disable burrowing.
I used ravanger laser to kill this worms
This is actually the first of your guides, that just doesn't work for me. It is almost impossible to tie them down, because just when they're about to be tied down, they dive and rip all ropes. And yes, i use heavy ropes and three handling mods for fast shooting.
so wait let me get this straight with myself cause i do not believe myself right now.
so ur trying to me, my whole problem with trying killing this machine was my WEAPONS!?!?! no bloody wonder it never stayed tided down or took any decent amount of damage!?!?! how stupid could i have been? i seriously thought it was my choice of mods BUT I GUESS NOT!! 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ i am so annoyed with myself right now but it’s so funny🤣🤣
I hope you found this helpful to take down some Rockbreakers Min zy!
I freeze him when ho burrus I shoot the exsat with 3 sharp shot arrows
You make it look too easy.
Haha thanks. Lots of practice!
Great tips buddy,still hard work how ever you kill them tho.
Thanks! And yeah they’re definitely tough.
how do i dodge the rock spray attack
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