If you keep roping the stormbird to the ground so it can't fly and drop stuff on you, then it's fairly easy to kill. Was pretty hard before I started doing this ropecasting thing though...
Of the 3 Zeta machines, for being challenging easier-tough, it goes Thunderjaw, then Stormbird (Ropecaster makes short work of these guys), and then the Rockbreaker since it seems "smart" since it burrows underground to dodge and then hits you with that boulder barrage
@@aigiszero2699 true it's because Storm bird has the Aerial advantage and those Shock blast it does also that shock attack when it walks towards you with open arms.
I met the bird when I was level 19 . never had a chance. I thought I'll get the ancient armour then kick his $$$. But with this method ... that's smart. I saw the thunder jaw video too. nice tips.
This video might be 3 years old, but for a new player playing on PC like me these videos of HZD on your channel very helpful for me. Thanks man, another sub for you!
thank god there are smart ones like you out there, I myself attacked this one like some rambo, it was a mess and was looking for alternatives.. this beats shooting weakpoints and rolling around like it's dark souls.. i'm gonna do this too haha
Smart? I think this takes the entire fun of the game... I like using tripwires by putting them in the way of machines paths and making clever traps, but this is just. Well. Overkill. Boring as hell. Also, Stormbird is easy to rambo. Use freeze Arrows, after its frozen, spamm sharpshoot arrows. Kills it so fckn fast. This works for pretty much every machine that is not strong against freeze. Also, fighting machines different ways, learning how they move, finding new better ways, improving against them. That is what this game is about. But well, just set a 15 bombs trap and one shot them.. if that is fun to you. I think if you do that, you dont have to play the game at all. Because youre not getting the full experience anyways.
There's a location mid west that has two stormbirds within a short running distance of each other. It's a mining frenzy jumping between the two. Also, a solid freeze and 6 precision arrows on a lodge does it too. 👍👍
My first time fighting one of these I also had to fight off 6 longlegs too. Was down to barely any health and no medicine. Needless to say it was a very long drawn out fight.. and I won but now I think I'll use this method
@@lilshrimp3104 Fireclaws are the most annoyingly strong robots I'm facing no matter how much I level up it's still hard to kill them even after being at 53 level lol
Sir you just helped me at 2 am. I had no rope to make arrows and i searched for a way to farm arrows to YT only to stumble into yo vid. Didnt have the call so i had to improvise and it worked. Thank you
Wow, you think watchers are bad? You must be terrible at the game. I play at the highest difficulty and dont have problems with either stormbirds or thunderjaws. And I dont even use those cheesestrats. It doesnt even work anymore as tripcaster dmg got nerved. even with 130% dmg boost from mods you dont reach 500 anymore. Still, just use Ice arrows to feeze them. Than use the sharpshot bow. That way you deal MASSIVE dmg to every machine. I oneshot Longlegs, 2 shot sawthooths and take slightly under a minute for thunderjaws and stormbirds that way. Though after I freeze the stormbird I always rope it to the ground so it stays down. But just layingthis trap and luring them into it... kinda takes all the fun away. Theyre not even that difficult to beat. When I read through this comments here I get the feeling that everyone is pretty bad at this game. Or I am just really good at it. One of those
Also +CHIEF CHICO Yeah, when one finds you 5 follow, I packed my Hunters Bow full with fire dmg mods just because those Glinthawks are weak to fire xD Thatll teach them.
I know your post is old, but if you've moved on to the latest upgrade and play the game on NG+ Ultra Hard the glint hawks are harder to take down with just fire arrows. I hit them with triple arrow sharp shot first to weaken them then bring them down with fire arrows.
1:36 lol the same thing happen to my brother. My brother last hit it with sling and it went far. He fought it at the mountain. He want to go to it but can't find it. He's pissed
Duckpo988 15 tripcaster wires all set up for the thunderjaw. Watcher comes. Boom Aw fuck now the thunderjaw knows im here and i just wasted so much resources. I WOULD LMAO SO HARD
nah cause then the watcher would activate one or two but not all of them i set up as many wires as i could then when the thunderjaw went to it it killed it but a couple of wires remained
I tried to kill this thing when you first find it in the game and succeded but it was a pain in the ass, in retrospective that probably was the way the game was telling that sometimes is ok to run away, but I had just completed dark souls 3 and sekiro so when I saw that thing I thought "Oh! That thing is on my way so I definetly have to kill it!" it was a very long fight, now I'm coming back to kill it with this method just for fun
I put out less tripwires like 7 or 8 then I lay down blast traps (the kind that explode when they take damage) all along the tripwire. usually 4 or 5 does it. For good measure I plant a shock trap by wear I stand incase the mob actually gets past it will hit the shock trap and give me time to react.
Methinks something about these "instant kill" strategies has been patched. Tried this. First of all, since I'm not quite at 500 dmg, just 460, I tried to go for 20 wires. I actually could put down 20, so no 15 max anymore? However, I couldn't whistle to get it to come down. I had to shoot a random arrow to make him descend A BIT, and then a rock to position him over the wires. Then Ropecaster, but one rope wasn't enough to pull him down to the wires, I had to actually fully tie it down. And then boom they went, sure. ALL OF THEM. It might be that since I'm not at 500 dmg I needed exactly 20, but the Rockbreaker strategy gave me problems too, so I'm thinking it's more likely that now all wires explode, even if they go over max hp.
Thank you very much for this useful guide. Unfortunately in my game there are two sawtooths right near this location. They always attack me, when the stormbird is dying -.-
You can easily get rid of the sawtooths with fire arrows. Hunter bow, 2-3 fire mods and one double arrow shot makes it burn right away. If you hide in the bushes while you shoot it won't even know what hit it. Rinse and repeat one or two times (2 on very hard).
After taking on the hunting Trial that involves a few Ravagers and a Thunderjaw a few times, I have a surplus of high level damage mods. I'll be applying them to my tripcaster and using strategies like this when I get home tonight. REKT! Indeed. Muahahahahahahahaha 0____0
There's something up with my game, or they've made major changes to it via updates, 'cause my 550 damage tripwires barely take stormbirds and thunderjaws to half HP. Also, it takes me so many attempts to get purple damage mods, let alone purple stealth mods (only had one the whole time I've been playing). Something feels really off. Thanks for the video though.
thejmeister To farm mods I simply kill Thunderjaws. All you need is 80% Tear from mods and triple arrow to knock out the saw launcher in one hit. (Not really required, but makes like easy) Pick it up then kill it with them.
I've seen that too and if you don't have the wires absolutely just right then you'll trip some of them like the ones that get touched first. You also want to use wire that can be set off by explosions, there is a wire that can't be triggered by other wires. I'm at work and can't remember the name but that was my mistake.
i use frost to freeze it then tie it down, then just wail on it, the bird never gets a shot off and as long as im on my toes i can kill it, i will try this though, looks fun lol
This isn't on max difficulty is it? I tried the exact same thing and it only brought it to 25%. I do have my tripcaster damage upgraded as well with the best damage mods I could find. Purple Tier.
I laughed for real. That stormbird flew all the way to Mother's Heart
Lol
Hahahahahahaha
LOL
it got Blessed ..Brave Strombird
same my storm bird go alot back hes like no items for u!
thunderjaw look stronger but i think it's harder to kill stormbird because they can fly
Leotia Kovacevic true
If you keep roping the stormbird to the ground so it can't fly and drop stuff on you, then it's fairly easy to kill. Was pretty hard before I started doing this ropecasting thing though...
Of the 3 Zeta machines, for being challenging easier-tough, it goes Thunderjaw, then Stormbird (Ropecaster makes short work of these guys), and then the Rockbreaker since it seems "smart" since it burrows underground to dodge and then hits you with that boulder barrage
I killed Thunderjaw on my very first try (Very Hard Difficulty), but died when facing Stormbird.
@@aigiszero2699 true it's because Storm bird has the Aerial advantage and those Shock blast it does also that shock attack when it walks towards you with open arms.
I saw this done in another video and the Stormbird was blown so far way that you could barely see it!! Spectacular!!!!
LMMFAO!! That confused head shuffle he did tho!!
I know right
I met the bird when I was level 19 . never had a chance. I thought I'll get the ancient armour then kick his $$$. But with this method ... that's smart. I saw the thunder jaw video too. nice tips.
This video might be 3 years old, but for a new player playing on PC like me these videos of HZD on your channel very helpful for me. Thanks man, another sub for you!
Wait wait wait... before I watch the whole video. Let me guess, stacking a shit ton of explosive tripwire trap right?
Well, your not wrong :)
TheInstantgib you're*
You are though
wouldnt have it any other way :P
Welcome to horizon boring dawn. Ofc it's the same shit, as this game have a closed gameplay mechanics
@@iM7SnaKe I never used Tripwires in the game. Its much more enjoyable to use the different weapons
Thank you so much for this because out of all the machines I usually struggle the most when fighting a stormbird, Scorcher and FireClaw/FrostClaw
Wat in all tarnation is a schocher and fireclaw and frost claw or is this something to do with da froze wilds?
@@munirazam6280 you don't have frozen wilds ?
Stop jumping on the poor dead bird. That's disrespectful. LOL
hahaha xD
AGschool taydgf6g ycyg
I like when it shook its head like “w-w-whaaa?”
thank god there are smart ones like you out there, I myself attacked this one like some rambo, it was a mess and was looking for alternatives.. this beats shooting weakpoints and rolling around like it's dark souls.. i'm gonna do this too haha
Smart? I think this takes the entire fun of the game... I like using tripwires by putting them in the way of machines paths and making clever traps, but this is just. Well. Overkill. Boring as hell.
Also, Stormbird is easy to rambo. Use freeze Arrows, after its frozen, spamm sharpshoot arrows. Kills it so fckn fast. This works for pretty much every machine that is not strong against freeze.
Also, fighting machines different ways, learning how they move, finding new better ways, improving against them. That is what this game is about. But well, just set a 15 bombs trap and one shot them.. if that is fun to you. I think if you do that, you dont have to play the game at all. Because youre not getting the full experience anyways.
Damn I played Horizon, then I played Dark Souls 3. Picking up Horizon again, I found the game TOO damn easy! IT"S BECAUSE I'VE MASTERED THE ROLL!!!
My dumb ass tried to take one on at level 24 LOL needless to say I died a most gruesome death!!!!!
Epic comment
@@clau_goddess I recently took one on at lvl 22 the Shame 😔😔
There's a location mid west that has two stormbirds within a short running distance of each other. It's a mining frenzy jumping between the two.
Also, a solid freeze and 6 precision arrows on a lodge does it too. 👍👍
1:29 when my dad tells me to eat veggie
this has been by far the funniest how to video on a storm bird I've Sean thank you lmao
He was so confused I thought it would crash lol
I was half expecting to see it have a memory fail error lol
All these vids are "use 15 trip casters!" Lol
Overkill philosophy he had quite a few traps left after the kill
I think op is american.
Yeah, and you need a lot of wires to do that! And I don't have that many wires!
@@deusexmachina9743 If he was American he would rope cast and rain fire on it non stop. Using hella traps is a very Vietnamese kinda thing.
never thought teipcaster would work on that flying fortress... tnx dude!
My first time fighting one of these I also had to fight off 6 longlegs too. Was down to barely any health and no medicine. Needless to say it was a very long drawn out fight.. and I won but now I think I'll use this method
Stormbird: WHO THE HELL TRYN TO GRAB ME DOWN OH SH*T RADEE VON PLACE TRIPCASTERS **tries to fly away**
Playing this again before I buy the new one....oh how these stormbirds kept me awake at night.....thanks for the tip 👍
Stormbirds are smart. They know when u set a trap so it's hard to get them to step into it on thr hardest difficulty. Now I know how. 😃
Rock breakers are the most annoying enemy btw who else wishes there was more content after end game 😭
Alejandro Reynoso I do but why don’t you just try the frozen wilds
@@lilshrimp3104 Fireclaws are the most annoyingly strong robots I'm facing no matter how much I level up it's still hard to kill them even after being at 53 level lol
Frozen wilds buddy 10/10
@@beastmotoz Get max level bows and then it's an easy task
1:35 oh please i had a stormbird blown away long enough that it took me over two minutes of running to get to it
now THAT was confusing as hell
I guess it stormed out.
Neat trick! Storm bird is one of the greatest pain. Thanks for posting.
Sir you just helped me at 2 am. I had no rope to make arrows and i searched for a way to farm arrows to YT only to stumble into yo vid. Didnt have the call so i had to improvise and it worked. Thank you
1:25 - 1:31 min. Paranoia Bird 😂
This is so underrated!
Wow, that was epic...
I was stunned by how well that worked
lol I love this guide. Those fucking birds are the worst!
Other Barry I actually find glinthawks to be more annoying than stormbirds. Fuckers always attack in groups! 😆
Wow, you think watchers are bad? You must be terrible at the game. I play at the highest difficulty and dont have problems with either stormbirds or thunderjaws. And I dont even use those cheesestrats. It doesnt even work anymore as tripcaster dmg got nerved. even with 130% dmg boost from mods you dont reach 500 anymore.
Still, just use Ice arrows to feeze them. Than use the sharpshot bow. That way you deal MASSIVE dmg to every machine. I oneshot Longlegs, 2 shot sawthooths and take slightly under a minute for thunderjaws and stormbirds that way. Though after I freeze the stormbird I always rope it to the ground so it stays down.
But just layingthis trap and luring them into it... kinda takes all the fun away. Theyre not even that difficult to beat. When I read through this comments here I get the feeling that everyone is pretty bad at this game. Or I am just
really good at it. One of those
Also +CHIEF CHICO
Yeah, when one finds you 5 follow, I packed my Hunters Bow full with fire dmg mods just because those Glinthawks are weak to fire xD
Thatll teach them.
Bruh... just do your focus shot into the eyeball for the Watchers. Easy money.
I know your post is old, but if you've moved on to the latest upgrade and play the game on NG+ Ultra Hard the glint hawks are harder to take down with just fire arrows. I hit them with triple arrow sharp shot first to weaken them then bring them down with fire arrows.
Nice kill !! I used the same technic for the thunderjaw in the zêta cauldron with 32 maxed damaged explosives ropes = instant kill !
Lol. soo funny, love the tripcaster too. Wonderful weapon.
1:28 I died
This is great! I spent too many bombs resources and I need to collect more, this will totally help, then I'll get back to the normal way
I did this for the death from the skies quest..worked like a charm...Thanks!
that's my only encounter with one so far and it was a pain, i had to keep freezing the mf just to do anything, gonna have to try this
great guides bro will try this in my next encounter with the bird!
omj that's ace that took care of that pesky critter thanks
Great method. I like using the corruption arrows from a distance and finish the mobs off after they beat the hell out of each other.
These are probably my favorite machine to override
damn which cauldron unlock this damn bird?
Pretty cool. Just killed my first Stormbird today using the "traditional" methode - Ice Arrowing it until frozen then pluck his weak points...
Pretty sure you can't lure call that one anymore with the range nerf.
Kaynos just throw rocks... worked for me
Dope AF! Thanks for the tip, i'm finally getting a chance to finish the game. Will use this asap.
It worked! Congratulations, excelent video.
Man you helped me a lot. I am mine it. I had stack in one level because i couldn't kill it
Thanks 🙏
After all of the set up, I whistle but the bird refuse to come down :)
LMAO amazing. I'm learning new ways how to kill machines as well. I love this game.
This is Awesome. My first one got hit by 2 tear blasters and 30 precision arrows maybe lol. Good thing I'm a hoarder.
I killed my first one last night and it took me 5 deaths and half my resources. This one is cheese fight. Thanks
you are the master of tripcaster
That was exactly my face when it was blown off xD
Oh, you are master, i love you, hihi, i had spend lots of time to take her down, but this will helps, thanks much
1:36 lol the same thing happen to my brother. My brother last hit it with sling and it went far. He fought it at the mountain. He want to go to it but can't find it. He's pissed
I hope this is not how you kill watchers... lol
Duckpo988
15 tripcaster wires all set up for the thunderjaw.
Watcher comes.
Boom
Aw fuck now the thunderjaw knows im here and i just wasted so much resources.
I WOULD LMAO SO HARD
nah cause then the watcher would activate one or two but not all of them
i set up as many wires as i could then when the thunderjaw went to it it killed it but a couple of wires remained
Bruh, ohh shit that bird got sent!! Im def gana do this bcuz on my gizmo mission the stirmbird is fukn is a bullet sponge! Thanks good edit
I feel the five minute setup should really be in the title
I tried to kill this thing when you first find it in the game and succeded but it was a pain in the ass, in retrospective that probably was the way the game was telling that sometimes is ok to run away, but I had just completed dark souls 3 and sekiro so when I saw that thing I thought "Oh! That thing is on my way so I definetly have to kill it!" it was a very long fight, now I'm coming back to kill it with this method just for fun
I put out less tripwires like 7 or 8 then I lay down blast traps (the kind that explode when they take damage) all along the tripwire. usually 4 or 5 does it. For good measure I plant a shock trap by wear I stand incase the mob actually gets past it will hit the shock trap and give me time to react.
WHOA. THATS REALLY FAST!
Damn, this weapon is so awesome, and I havent used it in my NG+ run, I'll use this method to farm mods
Why cant we fly these birds??
Or those humongous dinosaurs?
in real life nobody ride a giant bird even there is or no records about human riding a dinosaurs
@@muhammadziqry6022 that isnt reason but ok
Because the HDD in PS4 cannot render that fast
Methinks something about these "instant kill" strategies has been patched.
Tried this. First of all, since I'm not quite at 500 dmg, just 460, I tried to go for 20 wires. I actually could put down 20, so no 15 max anymore?
However, I couldn't whistle to get it to come down. I had to shoot a random arrow to make him descend A BIT, and then a rock to position him over the wires. Then Ropecaster, but one rope wasn't enough to pull him down to the wires, I had to actually fully tie it down.
And then boom they went, sure. ALL OF THEM. It might be that since I'm not at 500 dmg I needed exactly 20, but the Rockbreaker strategy gave me problems too, so I'm thinking it's more likely that now all wires explode, even if they go over max hp.
scraper: you alright bro?
Never thought about using a lure call on a stormbird...
Dayum. Mine flew far as hell. By the time I got to it it disappeared.
This just happened to me!! 😂 Maybe I will use enough bombs to bring it to barely any health so it won’t be blasted from here to Mother’s Cradle, 😅
How to onepunch Bigbird
real question is if i can instakill a stormbird, why do i need modifications?
Thank you very much for this useful guide. Unfortunately in my game there are two sawtooths right near this location. They always attack me, when the stormbird is dying -.-
You can easily get rid of the sawtooths with fire arrows. Hunter bow, 2-3 fire mods and one double arrow shot makes it burn right away. If you hide in the bushes while you shoot it won't even know what hit it. Rinse and repeat one or two times (2 on very hard).
Bruh I was dying when you put reeeeekt hahaha
Good video, but the real fun comes on when you really fight these tall flying motherf**kers and finally kill them!
wow man, last time i fought a stormbird it was like 45 minutes lol
When he was looking around like wtf is going on
How are you able to lay trip casters on the ground I thought you needed to shoot them at rock and trees in order to for them to stick
when video ends storm bird says peek a bo im back
That shit was too funny! I hate those fuckers. Spent over 10 minutes fighting one yesterday. I'll be putting this technique to use. Thanks!
Stormbird is not harmed, due to this video.
awesome video man! even in 2020 ;)
please before you said ,oh my resources "complaining"., remember, is a INSTANT KILL!!!😁
Pretty cool technique
This was sooooo good :)
After taking on the hunting Trial that involves a few Ravagers and a Thunderjaw a few times, I have a surplus of high level damage mods. I'll be applying them to my tripcaster and using strategies like this when I get home tonight.
REKT! Indeed. Muahahahahahahahaha 0____0
Wait, if you reset from last save, wont you loose the mods you just looted?
Poor bird 🐦😢
stormbird be like hahaha a little human hey whats tha.......BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you get your pouch so that you can hold 15 tripcaster bombs? Mine only does 12
Awesome. Thanks dude
There's something up with my game, or they've made major changes to it via updates, 'cause my 550 damage tripwires barely take stormbirds and thunderjaws to half HP. Also, it takes me so many attempts to get purple damage mods, let alone purple stealth mods (only had one the whole time I've been playing). Something feels really off.
Thanks for the video though.
really?? mine still work as usual. Maybe you play on different difficulty?because each difficulty change your tripcaster damage drastically.
i tried all three today with 700+, works fine that way^^ and after my 7th attempt i got the same knockback too^^
thejmeister
To farm mods I simply kill Thunderjaws. All you need is 80% Tear from mods and triple arrow to knock out the saw launcher in one hit. (Not really required, but makes like easy) Pick it up then kill it with them.
I've seen that too and if you don't have the wires absolutely just right then you'll trip some of them like the ones that get touched first. You also want to use wire that can be set off by explosions, there is a wire that can't be triggered by other wires. I'm at work and can't remember the name but that was my mistake.
Purple stealth mods are very easy to get. You get them from the machines that turn invisible (forget what they're called).
I shouldve bought the ropecaster before i went hunting for the powercells really early in the game
i use frost to freeze it then tie it down, then just wail on it, the bird never gets a shot off and as long as im on my toes i can kill it, i will try this though, looks fun lol
When he got confused lmao
where did you farm your 40% damage modification?
What difficulty were you on?
15 Tripcasters ... dude you still had some left over .. THAT'S NUTS O______o?
Holy shit, that was awesome
IGN 7/10 -- Too much water. (crossing a stream)
This isn't on max difficulty is it? I tried the exact same thing and it only brought it to 25%. I do have my tripcaster damage upgraded as well with the best damage mods I could find. Purple Tier.
Taizo010 try placing more tripcaster?
Just because it's purple doesn't mean it's great. Try for a very high damage % mod.
My stormbirdwouldnt get close enough to lure and when i killed it the normal way i think it disapeared or whent through the map
More like Stormbir instant YEET guide😁
Whoa! That's genius!
I like watching these videos but its less boring when you actually try to kill it instead of using the same thing to kill different things
Just freeze and blast it for easy kill, same goes for thunderjaw.....
You stole my chicken nuggets,innit?
what mod and what resources?