I just started this game on Normal difficulty and it feels like I am playing on very hard with how the machines now auto hit you and change direction mid air to hit me if I run or dodge.
@Arktix I think you forgot to mention that when you're playing below Ultra Hard, there is an option to raise the amount of loot and/or chance of dropping the loot from machines you take down, which become unavailable for Ultra Hard. In the early-mid game main missions there are some "boss" machines that can be teared down for very important parts and they have a low % chance of dropping those if you're in Very Hard. This is also extremely useful in the late game, as you require a LOT of farming to get materials to upgrade your weapons and armor to MAX and tear those machine parts from endgame mobs take some time. While i did enjoy the challenge to get those materials off the machines without destroying them while on Very hard, it did become a boring chore after I learned the movesets and how to do it well, mainly because I was using my limited playtime to farm something I felt like I mastered (mastered enough for me, mind you, not comparing to anyone) Forbidden West was one of my first games to platinum after i got a PS5 and I enjoyed it a lot, so watching your channel brings me a lot of nostalgic feelings. Keep up the good work!
Lol at the advice to start at very hard and not ultra hard - I'm playing on normal difficulty and will happily admit that yesterday I turned down to story to get through a quest I was getting fed up with. I'm fine with a bit of challenge, but mainly I want to enjoy myself.
HUGE timesaving tip you are using in the video but forgot to mention: You can disable the plant collection animation in the menu. So if you wanna pick up 10 plants that are close by you can just run through them and spam Y (pickup button) without stopping.
@@ArktixOfficial You need the heart of a top hunter!!! But where is this machine??? This is a snake....that I found. But he is not a top hunter type. I've already looked at everything...
A very important thing you forgot to mention about Ultra Hard: there is NO aim assist. It makes shooting a frustrating mess. You'll also very often get the glitch where you'll see your arrow pass through a machine part and do no damage.
Yup. No aim assist on UH. I have noticed the hit boxes seem a tiny bit off on PC compared to PlayStation sometimes. I'm hoping that's resolved in a patch.
Wait, there is no Aim Assist on UH, in NG+, oh wow, how the hell did I beat it twice? Damn, am I good or is the game easy? Admittedly It took me 15 hours on first try and second around 8 hours including Burning shores, but for the life of me, I just cannot beat them damn Waterwing A-holes that are always in groups on UH. I could only do it once on that side quest and it took me over 2 hours just for this on both UH tries. Still I never knew there is no Aim Assist in UH. Thats news to me.
@@malyman316 ofcourse we are shiet without aim assist! There's no point deny that. I'll take aim assist all that, hell! I'll take autopilot and aim assist all day long so I can go sleep while autopilot play the games I want. Maybe even clean my house, wash my car, go to work and maybe, just maybe breath for me aswell! how's that for you! yeah I suck at everything. Thank God! Aim assist bring it on !! :)
I love this guys videos so much! After 100+ hours into horizon forbidden west I never knew you could crouch while doing the gauntlet races to avoid getting hit
That's all it is in your brain? Can you not understand why some people enjoy playing on higher difficulty or do you think they literally ENJOY being tortured? Actually try to think why it might be fun playing on higher difficulty...
Same here. Used to love to play on hardest difficulty etc. when I was younger... but nowadays I just don't have the patience, and no motivation anymore, to put the required time in to "git gud". When I buy a game at full price, I just want to see its ending (or at least one of them) once. And after that, most of the time, I'd rather go to something else in my near infinite back-catalog.
@@tayo17923 You want my opinion on the real definition of highest difficulty? 1. You can't die. If you die, you need to delete the game. 2. It must be your first play-through. And 3. You can't use cheat to bypass rule #1.
@@condorX2 yeah I'm not trying to start the game over every time I die...I just want a CHALLENGE to overcome because it feels extra rewarding when I take down giant robots with EASE on the highest difficulty because of how good I've gotten at the game... playing on easy mode turns into a snooze fest REAL quick
Admittedly I was playing on Normal, but I did all the Hunting Grounds as I found them on my first playthrough and didn't have too much of a problem. I don't know if it's just me, but I actually found the FW Hunting Grounds significantly easier than the ZD ones. Maybe it's just because I was much more experienced on my first playthrough of FW versus my first playthrough of ZD, but a lot of the Hunting Ground trials in ZD took me multiple tries to get the top rank on, whereas in FW I beat most of them with the top rank on my first try.
Yeah, the hunting grounds feel WAY easier in FW than ZD. I kinda stopped watching the video at this point, feels like it's just clickbait for people who struggle with the game on easy mode.
I mostly play on ultra hard, which is where the hunting grounds are very difficult and not worth your time. As I mentioned in the video, they do not give XP or skill points, so it's not really worth doing them early on UH. On lower difficulties, sure, they're much easier and I would agree many of them are easier than ZD hunting grounds.
I read "FW" as Frozen Wilds. Was confused how the conversation shifted from Horizon Forbidden West to the DLC for the first game. So that was quite the misunderstanding, eh? But yeah, I got it now.
Biggest challenge when playing ultra hard is the one hit deaths even by the first robot you encounter. It's even worse when your dealing with 5 at one time. 😅
Cool tips as always! :) Let me add some in-game cheats: 1. Crafting can be accelerated by setting the Wheel Time delay (or what, sorry, re-translation) to the maximum. 2. To improve gears, we sometimes have to farm resources from big Apex machines. If you struggle with it (especially in early-game), you can change the difficulty to Story Mode, do the fights, then change it back to your difficulty level. 3. … unless you started in Story Mode. It makes sense, too, because you can get the story as a whole, then taking the rest of the contents after-story. 4. BUT don't forget to activate the side quests as you see the green ! marks. There's a soldier in a cell in Barren Light waiting for his execution and if you don't activate it then he'll die because you didn't save him. Half the sidequest's content gets lost for you.
I just started this game on PC and went through this town, does it unlock a bit later because I went all over the town and didn't see or hear a prisoner, currently doing Uldvun side mission with the bristlebacks
@@vahnayasaki6989 -runs out of ammo -tries to craft ammo with muscle memory from HZD -opens quest menu -opens crafting with actual key bind this time but muscle memory from HZD kicks in again -dies fucking hell.
@@dav6758That's sounds rough. Hope they're going to fix that for you PC folks as soon as possible. It reminds me how I've tried Elden ring after spending around 500 hours in HFW, not bothering to look up whether I can change the buttons. Let's just say, pushing L3 is not sprint, but crouch...and crouching doesn't really help you get away from the enemy.
@@siribicidara_orig Haha, well that was the first few hours of playing but I'm getting used to the new buttons now, though I'm gonna have to retrain my muscle memory again if I ever play Zero Dawn again..
First HG emphasizes environmental traps and strategies for using them. These are ZD elements, so the HG is sort of a refresher. Second HG emphasizes pullcaster+shieldwing technique and smoke bomb use. These are newish elements, and I argue, some of the new game elements don’t cement until forced to try them, so this HG is important if you’re underutilizing launch and smoke bombs.
I did Ultra Hard for my first playthrough and I managed to beat it and the DLC, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it. It's pretty doable for the most part, but farming for gear progression gets incredibly tedious late game because you have to farm Apex machine hearts and other stuff from very difficult machines and you have to do it with Purple gear because your Legendary gear isn't upgraded yet. Every fight to get one rare crafting part will be a struggle where you have to use all of your resources just to take down one machine to get one component that you need and sonce Apex machines don't spawn every tome, you migjt jave to save and reload a bunch of times if you die to get another one to spawn. Thankfully, it's actually possible to beat the entore sypry on Ultra Hard with mostly purple rarity gear which is easoer to upgrade and you can do a NG+ on a lower difficulty to farm all the components you need for legendary gear before doing ANOTHER NG+ to go back and stomp all the Ultra Hard machines that were a struggle before.
Hey mate, your tutorial videos are beyond par and so helpful. Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into them. The editing alone must be a headache for you, but the videos you put out are amazingly informative and helpful. Take care!
The 1 thing that makes FW better than ZD, is that you got the stash box that never seems to run out of space so you can put in all outfits and wepons you don't use or rarely use so your inventory is more manageable. Just be sure to return to it after using a lot of heath herbs or ammo, assuming you grab resources even if you are full so you can quickly restock. It is also worth noting that it can be cheaper resource wise to build your ammo at the workbench that takes 1/2 the ammount it does when you make it in the wheel so it's worth building ammo when you vist your stash box.
Love these new vids! It just so happened to time with my latest Forbidden West obsession where I pick it up and can't put it down like three times a year LMAO
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying diving into the game again 😁 Hope you find my videos helpful! We also have plenty of people on my Discord server that love to chat about Horizon. Feel free to drop in any time 🙂 Link is in all my video descriptions.
When I had to select the difficulty I told myself “I played all DS games from FromSoftware, how hard can UH be?!”. Oh boy… was I in for a treat. Now, 60 hours into my UH run I am enjoying this game so much. It is indeed very tough but also very rewarding. I did reach a point where I think I am too slow to kill large machines due to lack of knowledge of in depth game mechanics, BUT this is your 3rd video I’m watching today which I’m sure will enhance my experience with this game. Can’t wait to give shredders another go. Ty for the content
His video will obviously be great, but if you want a quick tip: Find a long expanse of beach, and run up and down it whacking crustaceans with the spear (wearing a stealth outfit helps, but isn't absolutely necessary). If the beach is long enough, they'll respawn by the time you finish going one way. Collect and sell the remains. (In early versions when the game first came out, animal parts didn't sell for much, but one of the updates over the years vastly increased how much they sell for.) You can also use arrows for that, the cheapest ones you have, but whacking them with the spear is satisfying *and* doesn't use any resources other than your time.
The game is beautiful but very frustrating at times. Being stun locked when hit is the worst. Sometimes you can't progress until the game lets you. Its bow action is what keeps me playing, and the robot animals are amazing and fun to fight and ride.
Haha well, they are not all "legit", I have to admit. There is a way to duplicate items that you can then sell for shards, which I did on my PS5 save to fund my Arena grind haha.
@@ArktixOfficialI have a million legit shards, but that's through 6+ playthroughs. :-) (On PS5, obviously. Although I pre-ordered the PC version, I'm finishing up my third playthrough (first PC playthrough) of Cyberpunk 2077 first.)
Definitely good shout about the difficulty. Finished Zero Dawn on ultra hard and was expecting something similar. Boy was I wrong. Almost everything one shots you, some enemies are insane bullet sponges. Good thing you can exploit the AI and cheese a lot of more difficult fights, otherwise it would be even bigger hell than it already is.
Here's a tip for those of you resource hunting from machines, you can go to the options and in the combat section or something like that you can adjust it so that all resources will be available when you KO a machine
I actually somewhat enjoyed machine strike at times, but for those that don't.... It's all about the Slaughterspine. Get 2 Slaughterspine circulators, and you will wreck everybody. It is broken how easy it is to win with just this one piece. I wouldn't buy any other pieces, save your resources and just get the wrecking ball if you are frustrated with some of the opponents.
All the Machine Strike guides recommend Fireclaws and flying units over Slaughterspines. Sure, you can win with lots of different pieces and combos, but if you have to give a singular one size fits all strategy, then use a Fireclaw.
@@dirrdevil I think if you were to ask the people who have over 2k hours into the game., they will disagree.. Regardless of what the "guide" says. The slaughterspine wrecks everything. On top of being the best bank for your buck as far as hitpoints and damage dealt goes. You could put your best list of monsters together and 9 out 10 times I would win with the Slaughter. It's been thoroughly tested. But as a caveat, if you found a list that works for you, run with it. I won't dissuade you from using the monsters you want to use to beat the PVE machine strike sites. The Slaughterspine is just the cheat code.
Volatile Sludge can be found in groups of 5 from Spikesnouts. You can stock up early game in the desert SW of The Base. Kill them port away and cone back to get up to 15 Sludge at a time. You will use 2 of these for stacks of 10 advanced elemental arrows.
To prevent 1 shot death in UH always keep bags stocked with health potions. Early game that's small and medium ones. I also suggest doing all of the Salvage Contracts to get the Artificer armor (best in game).
There are some good tips here. I have been playing for 60 hours and there are several things in this video that I didn't know. But my own advice would be to not focus too much on getting XP. Although at the beginning the skill tree looks huge, you can actually unlock everything pretty easily. And I hate when I still have plenty of things to do in the game but I maxed out all the skills.
I already played a good portion of the game around the point when it came out, but I didn't finish it. I just recently restarted because I just bought a PS5 and I really wanted to play it on that, but you know, bills suck. Bottom line I already know most of what happens, so I know what you're referring to when you say stuff like "special place". I just wanted to tell you that it's really cool of you to just skirt around the spoilers for all the people who haven't played yet. Honestly, I haven't seen any channels or videos execute it so well. Seriously. We'll done. 😁
minor spoilers ahead. i did do ultra hard on my first playtrough. i had like 370 hours on ZD so thaught i was ready... well i was, kinda but it was the true dark souls run. basically beiing one hit on anything for half the playtrough. i am the person to do a lot of sidequests and i did do a lot before the big mission series after getting the base. i was basically leveling harder than the reccomended levels wich helped me, well not die one hit. it is important to study the movements and attack patterns so you can allways be able to dodge them. then you can find gaps to actually damage the machines without getting hit. scanning and knowing wich machines have wich weak points and canisters helps. good things are frost and spark canisters to wombo combo neirly any machine to the shadow realm. something very important tho is to read. i had gotten a shit ton of skill points from the side quests but didnt know what to do with them. if i had read the skill tree, id have known that there are better things than just dumping on stealth and stocking points. things like more berries and new melee combos for the pits. allso, do the contracts when you can. they wherent that hard, just time consuming. they give good loot and if you do all of them a decent armour set wich can carry trough the game. armour is not THAT important, i just basically rocked the basic nora outfit wich gave stealth (the one aloy get at the very start of ZD)
Playing Ultra Hard from scratch and what you've said is on point. YOU WILL DIE from one shots early on (and even on level 50+). Boss fights can be tricky as well. I tried a high level cauldron under-levelled (I don't know what I was thinking) and spent three days just trying to kill the slitherfang boss with 3 medium potions (zero berries) just because I thought the clamberjaws were the bosses given how difficult it was to deal with them.
My first playthrough was on very hard ... and early on, it truly lived up to its designation, especially the fight against Regalla's Champion. Not that it isn't still hard later on, but it's brutal with the gear you can reasonably get through the first area.
Ultra Hard should be named Low Health mode. Making the enemies tough to predict does not mean you have to compromise the health. It just makes having armor pointless.
I never played Zero Dawn or Forbidden West (still on my first playthrough with that one) on anything else but Ultra Hard; really love how tense and challenging combat is one Ultra Hard. During my first playthrough of Zero Dawn, I used the stealth outfit with nothing but extra stealth weaves, so I had no defense whatsoever, yet I somehow made it through both the base game and the Frozen Wilds expansion. On my second playthrough, I used a more defensive outfit and played more aggressively. The extra difficulty in FW is definitely noticeable. Even a pack of low level Scroungers, Burrowers or Scrappers can be very tough on Ultra Hard. Love it though. I recently played FW at a friend's on Easy mode and fought a Thunderjaw. I was shocked at how easy that was... The machine barely attacked me and I killed it in under a minute. Not looking down on Easy mode btw, anyone should play however they want:)
Hey Arktix, I know it's unrelated but I got an interesting suggestions that you could communicate to the developers for the third Horizon game: Make the main story a lot longer as the current amount of main quests is so short that some players like myself can't get enough of this masterpiece of a game. Also, while the side content in HFW was good, I'd just wish they make them less repetitive and more engaging. -Introduce underwater combat with special weapons and unique mechanics. I think that if they improved upon Zero Dawn by allowing us to dive, they could improve once again by allowing us to fight machines and humans underwater. They could introduce ranged, melee and stealth weapons and combat mechanics to the underwater combat. This would be epic but also, not being able to fight underwater in HFW is kinda frustrating when you're trying to explore certain parts of the map so that's a bonus
Soy un chino grinder, solo entre por curiosidad, cuando vi la critica a la caza para conseguir mas espacios decidi pausar y cerrar el video, estoy jugando el Zero Dawn y acabo de salir por primera vez de los territorios de los Nora, dificultad normal (Balance entre gameplay y la historia del juego) soy casi nivel 50 y ya mato atronadores :) cuando jugue Skyrim era nivel 80 antes de ir a ver siquiera a los Barbas Grises. soy un CF o CG (Chino Farmer o Chino Grinder) AMO jugar asi, de hecho estos juegos estan hechos para gente como yo. Ahora me voy a conseguir todas las flores y misiones secundarias antes de seguir avanzando en la campaña, que tengais buen dia desde Europa :)
Me recuerdas exactamente a mí, estuve en Abrazo de Madre hasta llegar a nivel máximo derribado únicamente vigias y chatarreros. Lamentablemente mi partida se borró, yo llegué a obtener bobinas con probabilidades muy altas antes de los parche del juego. Obtuve una bobina de 47% de daño y otra de 67% de manejo. Luego del DLC mis armas llegaron a un nivel ridículamente gracioso de poder hasta para UH.
4:56 - 963202 Metal Shards... excuse me? Anyway. Nice tip with the home location campfire. Also i am playing this on normal and get frustrated with the combat enough, thank you. ;-)
I should have watched your video sooner. It took me 60 hours to discover that transportation from a campfire was free😅Even when I was at one, I'd just open the map directly instead of using the fire for that. I didn't even know you could crouch during the races! (I have only done the first one so far.) It should really help me! Thanks for the tips! 😄
Watched this after completing first PC playthrough on UH, feeling better about myself. :D 100% can say The hunting grounds melee pits and eventually the enduring should be left for end game completionist content, went the entire game without doing any of them until working on 100% completion, almost forgot the arena that too, just wait till the end it will be way easier.
When hunting use concentration slow down to help! And use the focus to spot them and keep a little distance so they don’t get alerted makes hunting much easier
I started on Ultra hard never having played the game. I can just say this, it's super tough because the resources are scarce and skills are only situationally useful. I'd like to watch how you play and what you recommend for a raw start.
I’m streaming tomorrow (Sunday) if you want to drop in and ask some questions! Also welcome to join my discord server. Link in all my video descriptions.
I agree with you on Ultra Hard. I chose Very Hard and I don't regret it one bit, it feels similar to my ultra hard from scratch HZD playthrough beside for the ungodly amount of grind. The farming required to upgrade stuff, especially legendary stuff (plus the components you need to save for NG+ weapons) is too insane even for very hard imo. There's no way I'm doing it in UH, especially with circulators, that aren't guaranteed to drop. I killed 8 Rockbreakers before I got my first Rockbreaker circulator and that's just one example. Do you know what the odds of not dropping a circulator for 7 rockbreakers are? 1 in 4500 for fuck's sake. Imagine if I got that luck in Ultra Hard, I'd be pulling my own hair. Nah, farming is an automatic difficulty drop to story mode because I'm not playing a freaking MMO here. I'm here to have fun, and killing 15 rockbreakers in a row to upgrade a legendary weapon once is not my idea of a good time. If not for the farming issue, I'd totally play a "from scratch Ultra Hard playthrough" and I might still do it one day (with a very specific build in mind, and upgrading only what I need most so that I don't have to spend days farming) but only when I'll know the game enough to make a plan that doesn't require 50 hours of grind. First playthrough though? Very Hard for the game, Story Mode for the farm.
One quick tip for having ALL side quests automatically marked on your Map is to simply save after talking to one of the rumor giving ppl, then reload the save. They will immediately give you a new quest! You can keep doing this til they've told you about every single side quest in the area, so you'll have every single one marked on your map & can go do them at your leisure!
Im struggling on this. My fast travel has been disabled for some reason. I even crafted a few fast travel packs which wont work either. Im on the main quest the eye of the earth. Also, i cant find my way back into the base for some reason.
Just jump and aim : slow motion and hunt all of em down !! it's a skill you unlock in Zero Dawn but get for granted in Forbidden West!! and use Focus to have a clear view of your Animal, thus 2 headshots and Guaranteed death
I'm one of the idiots that cranked it to ultra hard on my first playthrough! One quest that sticks out in my memory was the arrowhand quest where you have to fight two ravagers and a thunderjaw later. I was pretty low level and that ravager fight took me like 50 attempts... I did end up managing to complete the game (arena included), but it took me 150 hours and man was it a struggle 🤣
hey arktix love your video's for not english speaking like me they are great , you explain every thing good and clear , to bad i see you still use your gamepad, was hoping to see how you put the coils and weaves on the gear and weapons, i cant find nowhere how to install them ! do you know how to highlite the emty slots so you can put those things in ?
Another tip(I'm not sure if you said it in the video, I kind of skipped through it): You can use the bow you're starting with for a very long time, so I suggest you upgrade it to the max level early on. It will take some time until the merchants have a good bow on sale that is actually worth it.
Currently 200+ oddish hours on my 1st play through. Been taking my time with it, doing absolutely everything and enduring all hardships. Finally about to platinum/100% the whole game and I'll be starting the dlc soon. Granted I play other games as well but boy it is a challenge on the hardest difficulty
I've even used the Weapon wheel mode to run around a machine a few times and dodge. You can make it slower and also manoeuvrer, jump and dodge while its on.
I came from HZD directly and was expecting UH to be about the same but it's just so much worse. But after 20 hours or so I didnt want to start again so I'm just toughing it out.
Been playing for about three weeks in, first attempt has been in Ultra Hard and I have no regrets. It actually makes me want to come from work and grind a bit. I've just encountered my first real challenge, the Arena Slitherfang one, and that one I'm really sensing that it might be beyond my grasp without online assistance (that's how I came to to this video, doing some research).
I really enjoyed the game it was amazing..I played normal difficulty both for zero dawn and forbidden west... The first game I completed in 3 days The second game in 3 days plus one day for the DLC
I think The Hunting Grounds would be much better if they were like Ikrie's Challenge from the Frozen Wilds DLC in Zero Dawn, instead of being timed events. In Zero Dawn, I didn't bother trying to improve my times on the Spurflints and Spearshafts Hunting Grounds (The Stealth and Control trials respectively) because the kind of thing you're asked to do isn't really meant to be done in a rush. I also didn't even bother doing the Werak Chieftain Trial in The Frozen Wilds. At least in Forbidden West, you do have more places throughout the world where you find things done in the Hunting Trials (In HZD you literally had like 3 places in the entire map with environment traps that you could use on machines outside of the grounds which made the logpile trial pretty pointless, for example) but they're still the Horizon equivalent of Gran Turismo License tests. Then there's the Arena, which takes what's bad in the Hunting Grounds and makes it worse (at least the Hunting Grounds don't cost you shards aside from your ammo)
i'd say its quite important to visit hunting grounds and maybe even the fighting pits early, apart from the rewards that yes, are pretty lame , they offer knowledge on how to do certain combos, when to use it, how to do certain hunting techniques, like tripwires combined with those logs or rocks that are activated by an arrow, it does explain some elements like freeze , plasma etc and how it works so at least try doing them, if you can't, come back later no big deal but i found em quite easy to do when i first discovered the hunting grounds. good luck
Artix tell me, do you know why when i attach the dualsense whit the wire, it automatically switch the entire audio to the controller and even if i have my speakers active there is no sound at all, and i must switch it back from the audio settings and put it back to my speaker to be able to have the audio. It feels like that the dualsense makes some kind of a override.
Happens to me, too. It's a Windows problem. Windows typically will switch the audio output/input to a newly connected device because it assumes you want to use what you just plugged in (headphones for example). You have to switch it back in Windows audio settings, as you have found.
@@ArktixOfficial thanks very much, very happy for this response thanks again for telling me so quickly, and as usual impressive work on your videos, they keep me focused on it till the end. You're a great man. Do you think it will be resolved by nixxess whit future update or it must be microsoft in person?
No problem! I'm not sure Nixxes can't fix that. I think it's a Windows thing, so Microsoft would have to do something about it. I have had it happen in other games, but maybe Nixxes can doing something, not sure.
In the Windows Sound settings, see if you can explicitly set the App audio for HFW to the sound device you want it pinned to, instead of using the default sound device.
fire may have been nerfed but freeze took it's place because holy shit, if you get a strong enough freeze arrow, even the lapras one becomes almost child's play lol
Out of curiosity, does powershots work with weapon techniques like double/triple shot? You fire them the same way as normal shots, so it makes sense it would work.
Got a question for you @Arktix: I can't seem to find a straight answer anywhere. I know coils/weaves can be legitimately duplicated with additional playthroughs. What about weapons? If I have the Carja's Bane, for instance, will new game + offer me a second Carja's Bane?
Good question. No, the game hard locks you into 1 copy of weapons and outfits no matter how many playthroughs you do. I’m sure there’s a PC mod that would allow you to get multiple, but there’s no native way to do it.
@@cdraun1880 If you still have the need, there is an inventory editor you can add another weapon, but it lands in the stash first, you have to get it from there, and you have to upgrade it (mod also has an option in the ini to enable free cafting): www.nexusmods.com/horizonforbiddenwest/mods/50
Once you hide an item from your toolkit, they only reappear if you have subsequently sold them or deposited them from your inventory into your stash. As long as you have one of the item in your inventory, as long as you've marked it hidden from the toolkit, it won't reappear. One exception being meals.
Me getting rekt on UH first time playing this game, and not listening to anything Arktix said, La La La 😂 We will learn the hard way it seems (just finished plainsong Cauldron yesterday, my Aloy is lvl 13) 😅
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I just started this game on Normal difficulty and it feels like I am playing on very hard with how the machines now auto hit you and change direction mid air to hit me if I run or dodge.
@Arktix I think you forgot to mention that when you're playing below Ultra Hard, there is an option to raise the amount of loot and/or chance of dropping the loot from machines you take down, which become unavailable for Ultra Hard.
In the early-mid game main missions there are some "boss" machines that can be teared down for very important parts and they have a low % chance of dropping those if you're in Very Hard.
This is also extremely useful in the late game, as you require a LOT of farming to get materials to upgrade your weapons and armor to MAX and tear those machine parts from endgame mobs take some time.
While i did enjoy the challenge to get those materials off the machines without destroying them while on Very hard, it did become a boring chore after I learned the movesets and how to do it well, mainly because I was using my limited playtime to farm something I felt like I mastered (mastered enough for me, mind you, not comparing to anyone)
Forbidden West was one of my first games to platinum after i got a PS5 and I enjoyed it a lot, so watching your channel brings me a lot of nostalgic feelings. Keep up the good work!
Lol at the advice to start at very hard and not ultra hard - I'm playing on normal difficulty and will happily admit that yesterday I turned down to story to get through a quest I was getting fed up with. I'm fine with a bit of challenge, but mainly I want to enjoy myself.
Same! 😂 I want to be challenged a bit but I also want to enjoy the story, and have fun
Right? isn't that what games are about?
I beat the game on Easy first and after getting all the best gear I did a new game+ playthrough on harder difficulty, it feels more fair that way imo
@@Eesh_thats a good way to do it. I beat it on normal and then kick it up a notch and can easily get new game+ weapons
HUGE timesaving tip you are using in the video but forgot to mention: You can disable the plant collection animation in the menu. So if you wanna pick up 10 plants that are close by you can just run through them and spam Y (pickup button) without stopping.
Today i played for 7 hours straight. Never played this much before. Game is soo good and it is not my first time playing😅
I think I did 18 hrs when burning shores expansion came out. Took a day off for it and next days called in sick to keep playing :D
Nice! Glad you're enjoying another playthrough 😁
@@ArktixOfficial You need the heart of a top hunter!!! But where is this machine??? This is a snake....that I found. But he is not a top hunter type. I've already looked at everything...
You clearly made the comment at a low ebb 😅
amature
A very important thing you forgot to mention about Ultra Hard: there is NO aim assist. It makes shooting a frustrating mess. You'll also very often get the glitch where you'll see your arrow pass through a machine part and do no damage.
Yup. No aim assist on UH. I have noticed the hit boxes seem a tiny bit off on PC compared to PlayStation sometimes. I'm hoping that's resolved in a patch.
i don't think it's frustrating, it actually feels more rewarding to me when i do hit the weak spots
Wait, there is no Aim Assist on UH, in NG+, oh wow, how the hell did I beat it twice? Damn, am I good or is the game easy? Admittedly It took me 15 hours on first try and second around 8 hours including Burning shores, but for the life of me, I just cannot beat them damn Waterwing A-holes that are always in groups on UH. I could only do it once on that side quest and it took me over 2 hours just for this on both UH tries. Still I never knew there is no Aim Assist in UH. Thats news to me.
Finally aim assist abusers realize they are shiet without it
@@malyman316 ofcourse we are shiet without aim assist! There's no point deny that. I'll take aim assist all that, hell! I'll take autopilot and aim assist all day long so I can go sleep while autopilot play the games I want. Maybe even clean my house, wash my car, go to work and maybe, just maybe breath for me aswell! how's that for you! yeah I suck at everything. Thank God! Aim assist bring it on !! :)
I love this guys videos so much! After 100+ hours into horizon forbidden west I never knew you could crouch while doing the gauntlet races to avoid getting hit
Thanks! Glad you're able to pick up some new tips 😁
As I grow older, I realize playing on the highest difficulty ain't a challenge, but a torture test to see how you can endure being humiliated . 😁
Haha yes I would say so 😁
That's all it is in your brain? Can you not understand why some people enjoy playing on higher difficulty or do you think they literally ENJOY being tortured? Actually try to think why it might be fun playing on higher difficulty...
Same here. Used to love to play on hardest difficulty etc. when I was younger... but nowadays I just don't have the patience, and no motivation anymore, to put the required time in to "git gud". When I buy a game at full price, I just want to see its ending (or at least one of them) once. And after that, most of the time, I'd rather go to something else in my near infinite back-catalog.
@@tayo17923 You want my opinion on the real definition of highest difficulty? 1. You can't die. If you die, you need to delete the game. 2. It must be your first play-through. And 3. You can't use cheat to bypass rule #1.
@@condorX2 yeah I'm not trying to start the game over every time I die...I just want a CHALLENGE to overcome because it feels extra rewarding when I take down giant robots with EASE on the highest difficulty because of how good I've gotten at the game... playing on easy mode turns into a snooze fest REAL quick
Admittedly I was playing on Normal, but I did all the Hunting Grounds as I found them on my first playthrough and didn't have too much of a problem. I don't know if it's just me, but I actually found the FW Hunting Grounds significantly easier than the ZD ones. Maybe it's just because I was much more experienced on my first playthrough of FW versus my first playthrough of ZD, but a lot of the Hunting Ground trials in ZD took me multiple tries to get the top rank on, whereas in FW I beat most of them with the top rank on my first try.
Yeah, the hunting grounds feel WAY easier in FW than ZD. I kinda stopped watching the video at this point, feels like it's just clickbait for people who struggle with the game on easy mode.
I mostly play on ultra hard, which is where the hunting grounds are very difficult and not worth your time. As I mentioned in the video, they do not give XP or skill points, so it's not really worth doing them early on UH. On lower difficulties, sure, they're much easier and I would agree many of them are easier than ZD hunting grounds.
He is talking about UH playthru. Yes, these stuffs in FW UH are much tougher than ZD UH.
I read "FW" as Frozen Wilds.
Was confused how the conversation shifted from Horizon Forbidden West to the DLC for the first game.
So that was quite the misunderstanding, eh? But yeah, I got it now.
@destructo08 you know i was doing that not realizing it until i read this comment 😂
Biggest challenge when playing ultra hard is the one hit deaths even by the first robot you encounter. It's even worse when your dealing with 5 at one time. 😅
Robot??? Theyre called machines....
@aiden-5924 I belive they are some times referred to as robots a few times throughout the games
Cool tips as always! :)
Let me add some in-game cheats:
1. Crafting can be accelerated by setting the Wheel Time delay (or what, sorry, re-translation) to the maximum.
2. To improve gears, we sometimes have to farm resources from big Apex machines. If you struggle with it (especially in early-game), you can change the difficulty to Story Mode, do the fights, then change it back to your difficulty level.
3. … unless you started in Story Mode. It makes sense, too, because you can get the story as a whole, then taking the rest of the contents after-story.
4. BUT don't forget to activate the side quests as you see the green ! marks. There's a soldier in a cell in Barren Light waiting for his execution and if you don't activate it then he'll die because you didn't save him. Half the sidequest's content gets lost for you.
I just started this game on PC and went through this town, does it unlock a bit later because I went all over the town and didn't see or hear a prisoner, currently doing Uldvun side mission with the bristlebacks
@@jonathanespinoza4954 Barren Light, sorry, not Chainscrape. Mixing them all the time… 🤦♂
Thanks! And nice additional tips 👍
@@ArktixOfficial Do you know if there is a list or guide that shows where all the side quests are?
@@anthoniG I haven't check it in a while, but Push Square has a good one I think. They added all the Burning Shores ones I believe.
Glad that you're the only person on youtube that I have notifications on for!! Was waiting for this video when you said it was coming out on stream
Haha awesome! Hope you liked it!
@@ArktixOfficial yes I did, thanks for the quality content!
We NEED to be able to craft ammo with LMB (Left Mouse Button)
It messed with the muscle memory from HZD to use the RMB now!!
Not to mention the craft wheel not being able to be bound to TAB
@@vahnayasaki6989 I heard they announced today that they want to make at least that possible in a future update
@@vahnayasaki6989
-runs out of ammo
-tries to craft ammo with muscle memory from HZD
-opens quest menu
-opens crafting with actual key bind this time but muscle memory from HZD kicks in again
-dies
fucking hell.
@@dav6758That's sounds rough. Hope they're going to fix that for you PC folks as soon as possible. It reminds me how I've tried Elden ring after spending around 500 hours in HFW, not bothering to look up whether I can change the buttons. Let's just say, pushing L3 is not sprint, but crouch...and crouching doesn't really help you get away from the enemy.
@@siribicidara_orig Haha, well that was the first few hours of playing but I'm getting used to the new buttons now, though I'm gonna have to retrain my muscle memory again if I ever play Zero Dawn again..
Nice tips thank you, now back to playing the game 😀
Thanks! Glad you found this helpful. Enjoy the game!
Legend, you're videos have been really useful for me since I just got the game on pc.
Thanks! Glad to hear you’ve been finding my videos helpful 😁
First HG emphasizes environmental traps and strategies for using them. These are ZD elements, so the HG is sort of a refresher. Second HG emphasizes pullcaster+shieldwing technique and smoke bomb use. These are newish elements, and I argue, some of the new game elements don’t cement until forced to try them, so this HG is important if you’re underutilizing launch and smoke bombs.
I did Ultra Hard for my first playthrough and I managed to beat it and the DLC, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it. It's pretty doable for the most part, but farming for gear progression gets incredibly tedious late game because you have to farm Apex machine hearts and other stuff from very difficult machines and you have to do it with Purple gear because your Legendary gear isn't upgraded yet. Every fight to get one rare crafting part will be a struggle where you have to use all of your resources just to take down one machine to get one component that you need and sonce Apex machines don't spawn every tome, you migjt jave to save and reload a bunch of times if you die to get another one to spawn. Thankfully, it's actually possible to beat the entore sypry on Ultra Hard with mostly purple rarity gear which is easoer to upgrade and you can do a NG+ on a lower difficulty to farm all the components you need for legendary gear before doing ANOTHER NG+ to go back and stomp all the Ultra Hard machines that were a struggle before.
Hey mate, your tutorial videos are beyond par and so helpful. Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into them. The editing alone must be a headache for you, but the videos you put out are amazingly informative and helpful.
Take care!
Hey thanks! Glad to hear you find them helpful. I appreciate your comment 🙏🏼🙂
The 1 thing that makes FW better than ZD, is that you got the stash box that never seems to run out of space so you can put in all outfits and wepons you don't use or rarely use so your inventory is more manageable. Just be sure to return to it after using a lot of heath herbs or ammo, assuming you grab resources even if you are full so you can quickly restock.
It is also worth noting that it can be cheaper resource wise to build your ammo at the workbench that takes 1/2 the ammount it does when you make it in the wheel so it's worth building ammo when you vist your stash box.
I wanted to try Ultra Hard on my 1st play through - thanks for the advice!
Thank you for the tips and tricks, glad i found your channel.
Welcome! Glad you’ve been finding the tips helpful 😁
Love these new vids! It just so happened to time with my latest Forbidden West obsession where I pick it up and can't put it down like three times a year LMAO
Thanks! Glad you’re enjoying diving into the game again 😁 Hope you find my videos helpful! We also have plenty of people on my Discord server that love to chat about Horizon. Feel free to drop in any time 🙂 Link is in all my video descriptions.
When I had to select the difficulty I told myself “I played all DS games from FromSoftware, how hard can UH be?!”. Oh boy… was I in for a treat. Now, 60 hours into my UH run I am enjoying this game so much. It is indeed very tough but also very rewarding.
I did reach a point where I think I am too slow to kill large machines due to lack of knowledge of in depth game mechanics, BUT this is your 3rd video I’m watching today which I’m sure will enhance my experience with this game. Can’t wait to give shredders another go. Ty for the content
Super useful! I’d love a video on best tips for farming metal shards 🙏🏽
Thank you! Glad you found it useful 😁 Working on a shard farming vid 👍
His video will obviously be great, but if you want a quick tip: Find a long expanse of beach, and run up and down it whacking crustaceans with the spear (wearing a stealth outfit helps, but isn't absolutely necessary). If the beach is long enough, they'll respawn by the time you finish going one way. Collect and sell the remains. (In early versions when the game first came out, animal parts didn't sell for much, but one of the updates over the years vastly increased how much they sell for.)
You can also use arrows for that, the cheapest ones you have, but whacking them with the spear is satisfying *and* doesn't use any resources other than your time.
Yay, you included to mention the free fast travel to the camp. 3:53
Yup! Pretty handy 👍
Dude I f... love your tips! Every single time I search for a tip or guide I end up seeing your face :D
+1 kudos to you
Hey thanks! Glad you find them helpful 😁
The game is beautiful but very frustrating at times. Being stun locked when hit is the worst. Sometimes you can't progress until the game lets you. Its bow action is what keeps me playing, and the robot animals are amazing and fun to fight and ride.
love the casual million shards flex!
Haha well, they are not all "legit", I have to admit. There is a way to duplicate items that you can then sell for shards, which I did on my PS5 save to fund my Arena grind haha.
@@ArktixOfficialI have a million legit shards, but that's through 6+ playthroughs. :-) (On PS5, obviously. Although I pre-ordered the PC version, I'm finishing up my third playthrough (first PC playthrough) of Cyberpunk 2077 first.)
Definitely good shout about the difficulty. Finished Zero Dawn on ultra hard and was expecting something similar. Boy was I wrong. Almost everything one shots you, some enemies are insane bullet sponges. Good thing you can exploit the AI and cheese a lot of more difficult fights, otherwise it would be even bigger hell than it already is.
Here's a tip for those of you resource hunting from machines, you can go to the options and in the combat section or something like that you can adjust it so that all resources will be available when you KO a machine
not only did bro provide hella helpful information but he also plugged at LEAST 6 of his other videos. get yo bag brother ✊🏼
Just finished getting platinum in zero dawn and these videos have been helping me get ready to play forbidden west
Awesome! Hope you enjoy forbidden west!
I actually somewhat enjoyed machine strike at times, but for those that don't.... It's all about the Slaughterspine. Get 2 Slaughterspine circulators, and you will wreck everybody. It is broken how easy it is to win with just this one piece. I wouldn't buy any other pieces, save your resources and just get the wrecking ball if you are frustrated with some of the opponents.
All the Machine Strike guides recommend Fireclaws and flying units over Slaughterspines. Sure, you can win with lots of different pieces and combos, but if you have to give a singular one size fits all strategy, then use a Fireclaw.
@@dirrdevil I think if you were to ask the people who have over 2k hours into the game., they will disagree.. Regardless of what the "guide" says. The slaughterspine wrecks everything. On top of being the best bank for your buck as far as hitpoints and damage dealt goes. You could put your best list of monsters together and 9 out 10 times I would win with the Slaughter. It's been thoroughly tested. But as a caveat, if you found a list that works for you, run with it. I won't dissuade you from using the monsters you want to use to beat the PVE machine strike sites. The Slaughterspine is just the cheat code.
Volatile Sludge can be found in groups of 5 from Spikesnouts. You can stock up early game in the desert SW of The Base. Kill them port away and cone back to get up to 15 Sludge at a time. You will use 2 of these for stacks of 10 advanced elemental arrows.
To prevent 1 shot death in UH always keep bags stocked with health potions. Early game that's small and medium ones. I also suggest doing all of the Salvage Contracts to get the Artificer armor (best in game).
9:45 I spent a good bit of time trying to loot bellowback sac webbing early on to level up one of my bows, this is super helpful!
Man you are the GOAT your tips and tricks videos are the best 🔥
Haha thank you! Glad you find them helpful 😁
There are some good tips here. I have been playing for 60 hours and there are several things in this video that I didn't know. But my own advice would be to not focus too much on getting XP. Although at the beginning the skill tree looks huge, you can actually unlock everything pretty easily. And I hate when I still have plenty of things to do in the game but I maxed out all the skills.
Problem with the Melee pits, THEY’RE BROKEN, especially the “Spinning scythe”. It amazes me that such a mess made it through play testing.
I already played a good portion of the game around the point when it came out, but I didn't finish it. I just recently restarted because I just bought a PS5 and I really wanted to play it on that, but you know, bills suck. Bottom line I already know most of what happens, so I know what you're referring to when you say stuff like "special place". I just wanted to tell you that it's really cool of you to just skirt around the spoilers for all the people who haven't played yet. Honestly, I haven't seen any channels or videos execute it so well. Seriously. We'll done. 😁
Hey thanks! Glad you appreciate the spoiler-free-ness 😁 I do try to keep spoilers out!
5:00 how so many metal shards what. love the tips. thanks for the help
minor spoilers ahead. i did do ultra hard on my first playtrough. i had like 370 hours on ZD so thaught i was ready... well i was, kinda but it was the true dark souls run. basically beiing one hit on anything for half the playtrough. i am the person to do a lot of sidequests and i did do a lot before the big mission series after getting the base. i was basically leveling harder than the reccomended levels wich helped me, well not die one hit. it is important to study the movements and attack patterns so you can allways be able to dodge them. then you can find gaps to actually damage the machines without getting hit. scanning and knowing wich machines have wich weak points and canisters helps. good things are frost and spark canisters to wombo combo neirly any machine to the shadow realm. something very important tho is to read. i had gotten a shit ton of skill points from the side quests but didnt know what to do with them. if i had read the skill tree, id have known that there are better things than just dumping on stealth and stocking points. things like more berries and new melee combos for the pits. allso, do the contracts when you can. they wherent that hard, just time consuming. they give good loot and if you do all of them a decent armour set wich can carry trough the game. armour is not THAT important, i just basically rocked the basic nora outfit wich gave stealth (the one aloy get at the very start of ZD)
Playing Ultra Hard from scratch and what you've said is on point. YOU WILL DIE from one shots early on (and even on level 50+). Boss fights can be tricky as well. I tried a high level cauldron under-levelled (I don't know what I was thinking) and spent three days just trying to kill the slitherfang boss with 3 medium potions (zero berries) just because I thought the clamberjaws were the bosses given how difficult it was to deal with them.
Got over 80 hours since it dropped on PC 😅 also did UH for my first playthrough, it felt so good to finish the game!
My first playthrough was on very hard ... and early on, it truly lived up to its designation, especially the fight against Regalla's Champion. Not that it isn't still hard later on, but it's brutal with the gear you can reasonably get through the first area.
Totally yeah. The higher difficulties are especially hard in the early parts of the game before you can get/upgrade some decent gear.
Ultra Hard should be named Low Health mode. Making the enemies tough to predict does not mean you have to compromise the health. It just makes having armor pointless.
I never played Zero Dawn or Forbidden West (still on my first playthrough with that one) on anything else but Ultra Hard; really love how tense and challenging combat is one Ultra Hard. During my first playthrough of Zero Dawn, I used the stealth outfit with nothing but extra stealth weaves, so I had no defense whatsoever, yet I somehow made it through both the base game and the Frozen Wilds expansion. On my second playthrough, I used a more defensive outfit and played more aggressively.
The extra difficulty in FW is definitely noticeable. Even a pack of low level Scroungers, Burrowers or Scrappers can be very tough on Ultra Hard. Love it though.
I recently played FW at a friend's on Easy mode and fought a Thunderjaw. I was shocked at how easy that was... The machine barely attacked me and I killed it in under a minute. Not looking down on Easy mode btw, anyone should play however they want:)
Nice! Glad you enjoy the challenge of ultra hard. I do, too 😁
You are amazing, bro! Thanks for the great advice.
Thank you! Glad you found this helpful 😁
Just finished the game on ultra hard first play! Very satisfying 😊
Hey Arktix,
I know it's unrelated but I got an interesting suggestions that you could communicate to the developers for the third Horizon game:
Make the main story a lot longer as the current amount of main quests is so short that some players like myself can't get enough of this masterpiece of a game. Also, while the side content in HFW was good, I'd just wish they make them less repetitive and more engaging.
-Introduce underwater combat with special weapons and unique mechanics. I think that if they improved upon Zero Dawn by allowing us to dive, they could improve once again by allowing us to fight machines and humans underwater. They could introduce ranged, melee and stealth weapons and combat mechanics to the underwater combat. This would be epic but also, not being able to fight underwater in HFW is kinda frustrating when you're trying to explore certain parts of the map so that's a bonus
Good job arktix btw tip u can quick draw sharp shot boe by sliding then very quickly going into concentration and hold R2 love ur content
Thanks! And yup that does still work. A little hard for most players to utilize I think, but it does work!
Soy un chino grinder, solo entre por curiosidad, cuando vi la critica a la caza para conseguir mas espacios decidi pausar y cerrar el video, estoy jugando el Zero Dawn y acabo de salir por primera vez de los territorios de los Nora, dificultad normal (Balance entre gameplay y la historia del juego) soy casi nivel 50 y ya mato atronadores :) cuando jugue Skyrim era nivel 80 antes de ir a ver siquiera a los Barbas Grises. soy un CF o CG (Chino Farmer o Chino Grinder) AMO jugar asi, de hecho estos juegos estan hechos para gente como yo. Ahora me voy a conseguir todas las flores y misiones secundarias antes de seguir avanzando en la campaña, que tengais buen dia desde Europa :)
Me recuerdas exactamente a mí, estuve en Abrazo de Madre hasta llegar a nivel máximo derribado únicamente vigias y chatarreros. Lamentablemente mi partida se borró, yo llegué a obtener bobinas con probabilidades muy altas antes de los parche del juego. Obtuve una bobina de 47% de daño y otra de 67% de manejo. Luego del DLC mis armas llegaron a un nivel ridículamente gracioso de poder hasta para UH.
4:56 - 963202 Metal Shards... excuse me? Anyway. Nice tip with the home location campfire. Also i am playing this on normal and get frustrated with the combat enough, thank you. ;-)
In my two play-throughs of Forbidden West, I only used Valor Surge once, by accident. I may use it on my hard mode play-through next year.
I should have watched your video sooner.
It took me 60 hours to discover that transportation from a campfire was free😅Even when I was at one, I'd just open the map directly instead of using the fire for that.
I didn't even know you could crouch during the races! (I have only done the first one so far.) It should really help me!
Thanks for the tips! 😄
Thank you for this. Played it on PS4 now playing the PS5 version.
Watched this after completing first PC playthrough on UH, feeling better about myself. :D 100% can say The hunting grounds melee pits and eventually the enduring should be left for end game completionist content, went the entire game without doing any of them until working on 100% completion, almost forgot the arena that too, just wait till the end it will be way easier.
When hunting use concentration slow down to help! And use the focus to spot them and keep a little distance so they don’t get alerted makes hunting much easier
I started on Ultra hard never having played the game. I can just say this, it's super tough because the resources are scarce and skills are only situationally useful. I'd like to watch how you play and what you recommend for a raw start.
I’m streaming tomorrow (Sunday) if you want to drop in and ask some questions! Also welcome to join my discord server. Link in all my video descriptions.
Awesome, I have it on notify. I’ll tune in
Sounds good! Looking forward to seeing you there 👍
Such a great game that is often overlooked. 1st game was great too
I agree with you on Ultra Hard. I chose Very Hard and I don't regret it one bit, it feels similar to my ultra hard from scratch HZD playthrough beside for the ungodly amount of grind. The farming required to upgrade stuff, especially legendary stuff (plus the components you need to save for NG+ weapons) is too insane even for very hard imo. There's no way I'm doing it in UH, especially with circulators, that aren't guaranteed to drop. I killed 8 Rockbreakers before I got my first Rockbreaker circulator and that's just one example. Do you know what the odds of not dropping a circulator for 7 rockbreakers are? 1 in 4500 for fuck's sake. Imagine if I got that luck in Ultra Hard, I'd be pulling my own hair. Nah, farming is an automatic difficulty drop to story mode because I'm not playing a freaking MMO here. I'm here to have fun, and killing 15 rockbreakers in a row to upgrade a legendary weapon once is not my idea of a good time.
If not for the farming issue, I'd totally play a "from scratch Ultra Hard playthrough" and I might still do it one day (with a very specific build in mind, and upgrading only what I need most so that I don't have to spend days farming) but only when I'll know the game enough to make a plan that doesn't require 50 hours of grind. First playthrough though? Very Hard for the game, Story Mode for the farm.
I don’t do game plus in open world games..
I am very glad I played the game on ultra hard, you really feel accomplished.
One quick tip for having ALL side quests automatically marked on your Map is to simply save after talking to one of the rumor giving ppl, then reload the save. They will immediately give you a new quest! You can keep doing this til they've told you about every single side quest in the area, so you'll have every single one marked on your map & can go do them at your leisure!
Im struggling on this. My fast travel has been disabled for some reason. I even crafted a few fast travel packs which wont work either. Im on the main quest the eye of the earth. Also, i cant find my way back into the base for some reason.
UH in ZD was crazy for me (no ng+) but UH in forbidden west (no ng+) is harder than Elden Ring 🤯
the melee pits are honestly fun if you do have good gear they just get frustrating with how specific they are
The only time I remember being really low on resources is the boss fight in the Burning Shores which gives you the secret weapon if you win
Dropping a comment for the algo, plus your content is amazing.
Hey thanks! I appreciate it 🤝😁
I did ultrahard for my first playthrough. Finished main game 85% and dlc 60%. Still on the new game+ from it, no longer playing on UH.
Just jump and aim : slow motion and hunt all of em down !! it's a skill you unlock in Zero Dawn but get for granted in Forbidden West!! and use Focus to have a clear view of your Animal, thus 2 headshots and Guaranteed death
Where exactly do I find the chest in 3:36? At which special location?
It's hard to miss, just play the main game
I'm one of the idiots that cranked it to ultra hard on my first playthrough!
One quest that sticks out in my memory was the arrowhand quest where you have to fight two ravagers and a thunderjaw later. I was pretty low level and that ravager fight took me like 50 attempts...
I did end up managing to complete the game (arena included), but it took me 150 hours and man was it a struggle 🤣
hey arktix love your video's for not english speaking like me they are great , you explain every thing good and clear , to bad i see you still use your gamepad, was hoping to see how you put the coils and weaves on the gear and weapons, i cant find nowhere how to install them ! do you know how to highlite the emty slots so you can put those things in ?
I did ultra hard on my first playthrough, it was so hard but very worth it.
Another tip(I'm not sure if you said it in the video, I kind of skipped through it): You can use the bow you're starting with for a very long time, so I suggest you upgrade it to the max level early on. It will take some time until the merchants have a good bow on sale that is actually worth it.
Currently 200+ oddish hours on my 1st play through. Been taking my time with it, doing absolutely everything and enduring all hardships. Finally about to platinum/100% the whole game and I'll be starting the dlc soon. Granted I play other games as well but boy it is a challenge on the hardest difficulty
I am now pretty much untouchable and can destroy all machines apex n all. I love this game
I've even used the Weapon wheel mode to run around a machine a few times and dodge.
You can make it slower and also manoeuvrer, jump and dodge while its on.
I came from HZD directly and was expecting UH to be about the same but it's just so much worse. But after 20 hours or so I didnt want to start again so I'm just toughing it out.
Great video and really great tips
Thanks Norma! 😁
Yesterday was the day I FINALLY beaten the Endboss after 2 entire Weeks frust💀💀💀 now on Easy Mode feels like HEAVEN
Can you make a video of Where to aim at The Rebel body parts.Cant even go for headshot nowadays with them head armor
My mistake was never using shredders. I realized how op and resource efficient they can be after my second playthrough.
Been playing for about three weeks in, first attempt has been in Ultra Hard and I have no regrets. It actually makes me want to come from work and grind a bit. I've just encountered my first real challenge, the Arena Slitherfang one, and that one I'm really sensing that it might be beyond my grasp without online assistance (that's how I came to to this video, doing some research).
Glad you’re having fun! I have a guide for the whole Arena if you want some help with that challenge.
@@ArktixOfficial yup, I'm on it already. Excellent job on the content mate.
Thank you! Glad you’re finding it helpful.
Started on very hard, died multiple times. experienced souls and elden ring player.... im used to it... gotta keep pushing... i love the game!
Glad you're enjoying it!
I pretty much did story-mode for first try.
I did ultra hard for new game plus.
that Sylens meme was topnotch lol
sick tips. havent had an issue with anything yet but i can see how it could be hard for some people
I really enjoyed the game it was amazing..I played normal difficulty both for zero dawn and forbidden west...
The first game I completed in 3 days
The second game in 3 days plus one day for the DLC
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think The Hunting Grounds would be much better if they were like Ikrie's Challenge from the Frozen Wilds DLC in Zero Dawn, instead of being timed events.
In Zero Dawn, I didn't bother trying to improve my times on the Spurflints and Spearshafts Hunting Grounds (The Stealth and Control trials respectively) because the kind of thing you're asked to do isn't really meant to be done in a rush. I also didn't even bother doing the Werak Chieftain Trial in The Frozen Wilds.
At least in Forbidden West, you do have more places throughout the world where you find things done in the Hunting Trials (In HZD you literally had like 3 places in the entire map with environment traps that you could use on machines outside of the grounds which made the logpile trial pretty pointless, for example) but they're still the Horizon equivalent of Gran Turismo License tests.
Then there's the Arena, which takes what's bad in the Hunting Grounds and makes it worse (at least the Hunting Grounds don't cost you shards aside from your ammo)
i'd say its quite important to visit hunting grounds and maybe even the fighting pits early, apart from the rewards that yes, are pretty lame , they offer knowledge on how to do certain combos, when to use it, how to do certain hunting techniques, like tripwires combined with those logs or rocks that are activated by an arrow, it does explain some elements like freeze , plasma etc and how it works so at least try doing them, if you can't, come back later no big deal but i found em quite easy to do when i first discovered the hunting grounds. good luck
Artix tell me, do you know why when i attach the dualsense whit the wire, it automatically switch the entire audio to the controller and even if i have my speakers active there is no sound at all, and i must switch it back from the audio settings and put it back to my speaker to be able to have the audio. It feels like that the dualsense makes some kind of a override.
Happens to me, too. It's a Windows problem. Windows typically will switch the audio output/input to a newly connected device because it assumes you want to use what you just plugged in (headphones for example). You have to switch it back in Windows audio settings, as you have found.
@@ArktixOfficial thanks very much, very happy for this response thanks again for telling me so quickly, and as usual impressive work on your videos, they keep me focused on it till the end. You're a great man. Do you think it will be resolved by nixxess whit future update or it must be microsoft in person?
No problem! I'm not sure Nixxes can't fix that. I think it's a Windows thing, so Microsoft would have to do something about it. I have had it happen in other games, but maybe Nixxes can doing something, not sure.
@@ArktixOfficial got it. Thanks
In the Windows Sound settings, see if you can explicitly set the App audio for HFW to the sound device you want it pinned to, instead of using the default sound device.
fire may have been nerfed but freeze took it's place because holy shit, if you get a strong enough freeze arrow, even the lapras one becomes almost child's play lol
1:53 is that a handshake from the Predator movie?
I remember having alot of berries and arrow on my stash cause i always pick and make arrows even if i just used one
I learned not to bother with the trials when I played Zero Dawn.
There is a better spot for Berries at the tall neck near tides reach but there is stalkers there you can get like 100 berries there
Yeah went to ultra hard from the get go, the amount of surprise one shots🤣
Out of curiosity, does powershots work with weapon techniques like double/triple shot? You fire them the same way as normal shots, so it makes sense it would work.
It’s does! I mentioned it briefly in the video, but those are actually the only weapons techniques Powershots works with.
Got a question for you @Arktix: I can't seem to find a straight answer anywhere. I know coils/weaves can be legitimately duplicated with additional playthroughs. What about weapons? If I have the Carja's Bane, for instance, will new game + offer me a second Carja's Bane?
Good question. No, the game hard locks you into 1 copy of weapons and outfits no matter how many playthroughs you do. I’m sure there’s a PC mod that would allow you to get multiple, but there’s no native way to do it.
@@ArktixOfficial Thank you for the swift and thorough response!👍
No problem!
@@cdraun1880 If you still have the need, there is an inventory editor you can add another weapon, but it lands in the stash first, you have to get it from there, and you have to upgrade it (mod also has an option in the ini to enable free cafting): www.nexusmods.com/horizonforbiddenwest/mods/50
@@paristeta5483 One day, maybe, I'll have a PC 😅
Once you hide an item from your toolkit, they only reappear if you have subsequently sold them or deposited them from your inventory into your stash. As long as you have one of the item in your inventory, as long as you've marked it hidden from the toolkit, it won't reappear. One exception being meals.
Ah, yeah thanks aaaarg. Yeah I suppose you don’t actually have to max out the inventory limit.
Me getting rekt on UH first time playing this game, and not listening to anything Arktix said,
La La La 😂
We will learn the hard way it seems (just finished plainsong Cauldron yesterday, my Aloy is lvl 13) 😅
lol MrAR 😂 Don't worry my friend, I'm sure you will get the hang of it and be slaying machines in no time! 😁