@Junaid stormbird yes... glinthawk tho? It’s like one of the weakest machines in the whole game tho it would still have been nice to have a different option I suppose.
@@fdk12 no you can’t, sorry I was replying to junaid saying he wished we could mount a stormbird and glinthawk. And I was agreeing with mounting a stormbird but not a glinthawk that’s all. It’s unlikely we would be able to ever mount a stormbird even in dlc sadly.
@@ricardosantos6770 I'm still on the eastern side of the map so I haven't even come across any big time machines yet, except the slitherfang in the beginning. Looks like I have alot to look forward to
I love that the music synchs up when it charges up its plasma. Really adds to the tension and it also acts as an indicator to the player when it gets fully charged.
What I find interesting is that most people don't realize you can I-frame the Plasma explosion effect. If you time a dodge or slide right, you can be immune to the Plasma detonation.
I do believe the soundtrack name is "Built to Kill" I think more Apexes have this soundtrack to them too but yes, it was clearly set for the Slaughterspine. The timing with is charging is perfect and terrifying...
@@karinelanglois1956 i try my level best to avoid apex machines but I only make an exception for the slaughter spine because the animation is soo life like. Hence i never really focused on the soundtrack of other apex machines
The Slaughterspine feels like the true evoloution of the thunderjaw. The Thunderjaw could easily be taken out by shooting off its weapons, crippling its moveset and dealing heavy damage. But with the slaughterspine, there's barely anything. Plus; purple and black look great together. Edit: And The Slaughterspine is one of two legendary machine strike pieces, and I love machine strike. Edit two: Electric Boogaloo: I really don't care if it's easy for you or not. I was just trying to complement my favourite machine.
That was my first thought too lol. The machine's name already made me think "oh damn this is going to be strong", and then I actually saw it (I was behind some trees when I scanned it). Your description of "the true evolution of the thunderjaw" has to be the best description for the looks and combat for the machine
@@skrunklyOwO I know it's not _related_ to the thunderjaw by dinosaur standards, but it's definitely meant to be an upgraded thunderjaw boss in the game
Out in the open I actually prefer the Slaughterspine. The Thunderjaw is very aggressive and will ruin your day if you can't take the weapons down quickly.
The best thing about it is that the Slaughterspine was the last machine from the OG concept art of Horizon to be added, all machines from the concept art were in HZD but this one wasn’t so it was great to see it in the sequel
I even love the name of this machine. I came across my first one randomly while exploring, had a "tf is that" moment, it one hit nearly all my health and I noped out of there
@@ThePeaceofWildThings I remember standing there thinking the same thing and got jumped on. Needless to say it killed me the first time and I haven't went back yet lol
First time I saw it was doing one of the missions to go to the mine on the island and I was like “oh, a thunder jaw?!? EASY!” And then it was much bigger and killed me almost instantly and destroyed walls and stuff and I was like WHAT IS THIS THINGGGGG!!?????” I had to run like a pussy and hide underwater.
I was wandering around and saw "Unknown Slaughterspine Site" and went to check it out. I was curious as to what it was, but "Mecha Godzilla" wasn't my first guess. I promptly turned tail and noped out of there.
@@Jason-..- alternate explaination: you're bad at the game lol. I beat the game on hard on my 1st playthrough and I've gotten the games platinum trophy. Considering that only 1.6% of players have it and you're struggling with a apex slaughterspine, I highly doubt that you have that trophy too.
@@kasaitenma5546 i played on VERY hard on my 1st playthrough and i also have the platinum. And i had 400 hours in zero dawn. Difficulty usually is a subjective thing but slaughter spines are not easy let alone an apex one. I bet you are one of those guys that cheeses everything all the time and then bitching that it was an easy fight lol. Better luck next time weirdo
I seriously think Guerilla is one of the most creative game studios ever. This is such an amazing design for a machine. I am also biased, my favorite dinosaur was the Spinosaurus. I hope in the future, Guerilla adds the ability to ride more machines. To ride a dreadwing (the big bat) or one of these most likely wont happen, but a man can dream!
That’s Mecha Shin Godzilla right there Edit: I don’t think the size of the machine invalidates the claim, unless you really want to engage in a debate about proper scale in a game where I can make it from Vegas to San Francisco in a few minutes of hard robo-pig riding
I fought one of these for the first time last night, and it takes a RIDICULOUS amount of damage. Seriously the hardest thing I've fought in the game. I came out it with a hair of health, and almost no ammo and resources left. If I didn't get it in the next few arrows, I was toast..
@@crazybabuskaman3923 can't wait to see what the dlcs are like, but it's never too early to start speculating about where horizon 3 will go. Forbidden West was wilder than even the craziest fan theories.
@Clau Clau it isn't confirmed but there is a data point that mentions an area that isn't present in the current game and it would be an awesome name for a DLC.
9.5/10 Dont care to much for the RPG weapon leveling system felt useless in the beginning, also had to bump the difficulty down from Hard to Normal for Rockbreakers which screwed my Hard playthru.
*gets hit by a machine and is stunned for 3 whole seconds* **finally stands up and gets hit and stunned again immediately for another 3 seconds*** ^repeat.
And I thought the color palette couldn't get too much more pleasing than HZD. Gorgeous. Also, that tail hitbox was very precise, impressive. Can't wait to play this soon
It's like they put all the deadliest features of a fireclaw together with all the deadliest features of a thunderjaw...then made everything into plasma beams. I'm already worried about having to face such a thing in its normal variant, I don't wanna come within a mile of an Apex.
I just got there, the thunderjaw is level 30 normally, level 48, as an apex, the slaughterspine at normal is level 45, I have not encountered an apex varient
This machine massively reminds me of Mecha Godzilla! It even has the same charged up plasma charge sound and spits atomic breath at you!! I can defo see where the inspiration for it came from! It’s real cool, but damn it one shot me last night!
Holy God! This game is completely crazy, I think it deserves its own movie, without a doubt the Slaughterspine is a very lethal machine, inspired by Spinosaurus himself, my question is, who would win in a fight between the Slaughterspine and the legendary and feared Thunderjaw, I I think that would be one of the most spectacular fights in the world of science fiction video games, and I'm not exaggerating, these 2 giant metal beasts have a lot of weapons and attacks, wow, just imagining that battle I'm freaking out; the Slaughterspine launching his most powerful attack which is that purple plasma beam and the Thunderjaw also launching his most powerful attack which is that orange multiple beam which he shoots out of his mouth (apart from the blue laser machine gun, that also bursts). PS: Other machine fights that would be completely crazy are: Garriraptors vs. Demodelor, Sawtooth and Longlegs. Terramamut or the Triceratops robot vs Behemoth. I wish someone on UA-cam would do all these fights looting the machines, they would make me very happy...XD.
There's a guy that died exactly that. Though it's only on HZD right now since HFW isn't on PC yet. I think the channel is Horizon Arena, HZD Arena.. something like one of those two names.
I killed this thing on hard in like 30 seconds without taking damage, however it should be worth mentioning that I was already level 50 with a rare rated spike thrower that I bought in the lowlands - has it fully upgraded 4 times, and had coils enhancing explosive damage by 22%, Tear by 15%, and Impact damage by 15%. Took literally 7 throws to put him down.
A fully upgraded Skykiller (legendary spike thrower) can take down an Apex Slaughterspine in something like 5 throws if you use the ranged damage boosting valor surge with the right coils.
If u knock off his tail parts, u can use those as weapons. He also have his spine part as weapons u can use. Does very good damage to it. Just in case u didn't know
Next game definitely needs to have ability to coordinate attack with overiden machines. And maybe improve more on climbing and smooth our terrain. Many times a character stuck on a small crack on the ground, movement is still clunky on moving while in combat with large machines
If you have a certain type of hunter arrow you can mark a target for overridden machines, but I agree that I wish they would improve the functions of machine overrides
OMG the graphics of this game !! I'm playing the first Horizon on PC (absolutely maxxed out) and it doesn't look nowhere as good as this. When Aloy is running she even kicks up some sand. This is amazing attention to detail. Can't wait for this to come to PC.
The monster hunter influences are obvious, this fight looked like a more involved and dangerous version of a brute wyvern hunt, id honestly love a brute wyvern based on Spinosaurus, its my favourite dinosaur
When I first saw a slaughterspine I thought it was going to be the size of a bellowback Then I really saw it shat my pants, and ran in the other direction.
Idk i still think the original fireclaws gave me the most trouble. Dont get me wrong the Slaughterspine is tough but the what made the fireclaws soo horrific was how hard they hit combined with their tremendous mobility, which made it incredibly hard to actually land shots on them despite their size. I revisited HZD a few days before HFW came out and booted up my two time NG+ aloy with all my super coiled up banuk weapons and ice rail not to mention the OG shield weaver and i still got my ass handedto me twice before killing it. So me being more equipped plus a non nerfed version of tripple notch, and I still died to it twice before succeeding. Whereas i know it might be my experience but i killed the Slaughterspine on my first attempt. I'll say its worse than a thunderjaw, but on par with the fireclaws in the HFW, and still easier than HZD's version of the technological terror. (id still like to see OG daemon fireclaw from HZD verses an apex Slaughter spine in an AI battle)
@@nightdriver7216 exactly, the main reason why i think Slaughterspines are easier is because you can actually hit them. They're plagued with the problem that all big machines have is that they make big targets, and a machine i can hit consistently is a dead machine. BUT what makes fireclaws/frostclaws so bad is that they hit like big machines but are rather small as far as large machines go and they are fast and erratic. Making them hard targets to consistently hit. Usually they only give you about a 1 second at most chance to get a good hit on them before attempting to RKO you. And the only moves they do that lock them in place for more than a second necessitate extensive dodging. So yeah IMO fire/frostclaws are still the kings of the wild
@Game Dude precisely there was this comment i got on a different video of a guy claiming he believed that deathbringers, stormbirds, and thunderjaw where harder to kill than fireclaws and i just couldn't make sense of any of it at all. Fireclaws have been deadly for the reason you listed above and because its hard to shut them down. With a thunderjaw you can remove its disk launchers and laser cannons with relative ease, and same with deathbringers just expose their heat vents and you can practically one shot them with a super upgraded icerail. Stormbirds are jokes too just knock off their lighting gun and they cant do much to you. But fireclaws and to a lesser extent frostclaws have armored weakpoints which they rarely ever expose to you. They're small, and hard to hit because they're constantly moving plus even if you do manage to destroy them it just stops them from adding fire/frost effects to their attacks but they still have the attacks at large to destroy you with. If you knock off a thunderjaws weapons or a storm bird they have to resort to predictable melee attacks but. Frost/fire claws thrive off being in your face and have countermeasures to prevent you from camping in the distance ie (lava/stalactites) or just running to you in less than a few seconds.
Dudasourus just out on the beach chilling and minding his own business then out of nowhere this woman coming up throwing javelins and arrows at him. I'd be pissed too.
i panicked dyring one side quest when i had to fight a tremor tusk and a thunderjaw at the same time, i still have no idea how i survived that, i think i got lucky i did some massive damage to the tremor tusk before the thunderjaw noticed and joined the fight
You know, the Slaughterspine reminds me of the Berserk Fury from Zoids New Century! A robotic, theropod with the ability to shoot lasers from its mouth! Wonder if the game designers took some inspiration from that series.
@@KreamyKakes Are you sure about that ???, I Think You Haven't Played This Game Yet, Slaughterspine Is Really Hard To Beat It Has Plasma Powers That Can Hit You And After Few Seconds It Will Explode In You're Body That Makes A High Damage And Fireclaw Only Have Fire Powers But Slaughterspine Have Plasma Powers
@@razaahmed9241 The fireclaw doesn't even have a weakness to plasma damage so plasma damage really doesn't matter very much and will take ages for the plasma to even built up and take effect and already has one of the highest damage outputs in game without even using its elemental attacks and dishes it out a tad bit faster, the slaughter spine doesn't care about fire damage, so it all comes don't to who can dish out damage and how fast they can do it which is why I think the fireclaw would either win or at least heavily damage the slaughter spine. But no one has pitted them up against each other yet.
Did you notice that there's a bug where the thunderjaw, bellowback among others doesn't have the antenna component? it was supposed to be another weak point of the machine, it even appears in the diary but the machine doesn't have
This was cool cause it feels so cinematic. Makes me feel almost bad for how I always just find some high ground just out of reach and snipe them with the long distance bow.
This thing is a worthy successor to the Thunderjaw. Not only is it a delight to look at, but it can also fuck you up worse than polio if you aren’t careful, making the process of fighting it absolutely enthralling. You’re basically just screaming “HOLY FUCK” on repeat inside your head while you try to find a way to kill the thing.
Man, your way is so complicated. The key is frost arrows and explosive spikes. The sequence is 3 frost arrow, activate second stance from hunter tree and spam explosive spikes. My record is only 4 spikes under stance state. 15 seconds and it's done.
to be honest i think the original fireclaw was worse. you blasted out all the weakpoints and the goddamn hellspawn was still at 80% hp or maybe i just sucked, thats an option too, that thing ate so much ressources to kill speaking of the first game, anyone know if shadow carja armor makes you immune to sound effect like it did in the first?
Eh the fireclaw wasnt that bad too kill if you had the bluegleam fire armor with decent weaves, made them do much less damage. And after destroying the belly you can freeze them then just apam triple arrows from hunter bow
@@Vaultyboi22 thats the point aloy was given better tools to specify take them out during that dlc. But if you take one on using all purpose armor they can still deal out so punishment. All I'll say is that given that we had more op stuff in HZD ive died many more to a fireclaw than ive ever died to a Slaughterspine. I liked where they where going with it an upgraded plasma thunderjaw but ive yet to die to a Slaughterspine
I do think the fireclaws were worse in HZD than they are in FB, but I still wasn't amused when I hit an area where there was a frost claw, killed it, and just as I was about to loot and celebrate..ANOTHER frost claw showed up...and I didn't have the ammo to take it on, so I had to run, and leave the loot.
I didnt play the game yet or have seen any gameplay so when first watched this I thought that you edited the video to put the music, it's so smooth and well done that I didnt even thought it was actually from the game, the soundtrack sounds so awesome.
i would say try to use traps, the explosive disc, and powershots to the weak points like the sides. All is all, this game is so dope. Hope they expand it to more
Slaughterspines and Tremortusks are my favourite machines to fight in this game since the battle music makes it exhilarating on another level. Gives me the chills while fighting these beasts.
Easy take down for this guy: shock, critical strike, rinse and repeat. Goes down before you know it. The game is phenomenal!! I don't understand why there are some out there that say not to purchase because Guerilla didn't update some of the moves (like falling from a grappling hook) or some of the scenery art (grassy areas and such), but come on... they kept to the theme of the game and added in all the new machines and expanded on an existing storyline. That's what I love about this franchise so far and I'm already existed about the 3rd one that will come out. Not going to spoil anything for those playing, but you get clues later in the story about the potential for a 3rd game. Guerilla even said they were doing multiples for Aloy and her friends, so I'm excited for their future.
@@Higurashika We don't care about your opinion. You are everywhere in this comment section bashing the game. Go back to playing your sword slashing over and over games or go play your stupid fucking assasins creed with a story worse than GOT season 8...
I completely agree with this title! I can easily kill apex thunderjaws and stormbirds but the slaughterspine is in another level. It's the only machine that killed me sometimes and against whom I had really hard earned victories
Yep, Soulsgame difficulty for sure. But I would say it's more like 2 hits until you're dead, the first hit will drop your health down extremely low but the 2nd one will finish you off. That's how it was like for HZD so I'm imagining it's like that here too. That's why legendary armor and legendary weapons are the way to go.
@@cowenhames9404 currently on it, dying over 9000 times. Its not that its generally hard, it's just that the balancing is pretty weird because some encounters are just brutal.
it's true. i encountered one tryna find the iridescent crab/lobster shell thingy for my pouch upgrade. first reaction was to take it out and clear the way but realised it's too much work. later on i realised there's a shore nearby which was much safer and had an abudance of what i need.
I can't afford a PS5, but I think it would be the most rewarding thing in my life to play this game. It feels like a fever dream as it combines everything my nostalgia can connect to: dinosaurs, robots, open world and Shadow of The Colossus.
Personally I have a harder time with the fireclaws - especially if you're after their flame-sacs so you have to avoid shooting their only easy-to-hit weak spot. Slaughterspines are much more fun though!
You can target the shoulder sacs and still get the component. Use ice bombs Then power shots valour surge and braced shots with precision bow. Even on harder difficulties you can melt their health bar
Yeah I now have enough lovely gear that with the right valor surge I can melt them pretty fast - but still not as fast as the Slaughterspines. My main issue with slaughterspines is detaching their kidney storage boxes because they move around so much; if I just want to bring it down, there are so many weakspots that take up so much of its body - it's *much* easier than a Fireclaw
Fireclaws are b*STDs. If it wasn't for the proxy sack webbing you keep needing, I'd just put the thing out of its misery with explosive traps and spikes
@@Higurashika maybe I just love playing games. And u cant tell me what the game is... that's ur opinion.. but I love it and so far it's the best I've played
When I fought this when capturing Hephaestus, I felt like I was fighting Godzilla which was awesome and the cutscene for the final mission was amazing.
Fun fact about plasma burst, if you time a roll or a slide correctly when it procs you can the damage. Very handy when fighting these guys. Dipping into the water will also purge the plasma effect entirely.
This game is so satisfying and yes I saw this and it spoiled it for me but you know what I’m OK with it because I enjoy this damn game so much. Keep on keepin on buddy
You really make this fight tougher for yourself by not sliding and just rolling, also not using any traps, barely using concentration for more precise arrow shots, same goes for the special attack choice. You could really end this fight in half the time by being more effective in hitting those weak spots
Yep, first thing I do when hunting apex for parts is to track its path then set elite traps. Then I hide and when it activates a trap I shoot at its weak points for a bit then I smoke bomb the hell outa there and hide again till it goes back to yellow alert and shoot at weak points again. Just rinse & repeat.
@@Zagatho yeah, thats a solid tactic, though I like to face it head on at some point, otherwise it can get repetitive and kinda on a cheesing side for me , but yeah, that smoke bomb - saved my ass many times , also using specials is good in critical moments - since You are invincible for the moment animation runs :D
My preferred method of fighting these guys is turning their spinal weapons into pincushions. They’re pretty easy targets and there’s so many you’re going to hit one almost every time until they start falling off. Also, shooting and closing all the charging ports when it’s charging up makes it plasma itself when it finishes
there are numerous things you could’ve done to make the fight easier stealth damage boost (smoke bombs) low hp boost (both of these can be boosted even more with certain outfits and weaves) frost (increases the amount of damage you do whilst in its elemental state by a ton) use a sharpshot bow instead unlike zero dawn, the hunter bows in this game deal very little damage and aren’t good at all against big machines like this. advanced/elite sharpshot arrows combined with the frost brittle state, low hp and stealth boost, along with valor surges such as ranged boost, powershots or critical boost can deal thousands of damage with one single shot. the focused technique with sharpshot bows helps a lot as well, and make sure to shoot components (use your focus to make them highlight yellow) instead of just shooting random parts of the machine *tldr:* use frost’s brittle state along with low hp and stealth boosts and damage increasing valor surges with sharpshot bows to deal tons of damage quickly instead of using hunter bows to deal very little damage with each shot. shoot components. there’s also a possibility that you fought this thing earlier than recommended, which can also contribute to its difficulty.
remember seeing this guy for the first time from a distance and thinking to myself, "huh. that's an odd-looking Thunderjaw...." then I got a closer look. and soon regretted getting a closer look.
So spoiler. When I first faced the slaughterspine it was in the main quest. I barely had any wood left to make arrows after all the fighting and I looted all the crates I could. Luckily thou I had a lot and I mean a lot of boom stick ammo. Soooo I cheesed that fight. Booms sticks for the fucking win!! Like those things destroyed it. Maybe it was the main quest that made it a bit easier. I dunno. But imma fight another one and see how it goes. 😅
I played it on normal, and it did A LOT of damage. I had lucked out cause I found a lot of healing just before I ran into it..otherwise, I'd have been effed. As it is, it took like three tries to take it down. I almost had it my second time, but at just a moment where I tried to put distance between me and it, it did the satellite lasers, and killed me. The third time was the charm. At that point, I knew its patterns enough to keep decent distance and reduce how much damage I was taking by using hills/dunes to my advantage.
Nice fight GGs. Nothing compared to this other guy posting videos similar to this. Killing this big machines, trying to look that he is very good. But he is just killing them on easy / story mode XD. Nice video
Hate to be "that girl" but taking down machines that big isn't difficult even on higher difficulty levels. With the legendary sureshot bow, extra bow damage valour and braced shot on a weak point it does a massive amount of damage on all difficulty levels. I'm not going to dig at the guy, he's playing for his own enjoyment but wailing on a machines armour doesn't do much damage. You don't need to put it on easier difficulties to take down large machines you just need to plan your approach. There are trap builds that let you take down things like that in seconds.
@@avalineriley6809 That's true. Elite Acid Traps and Power Shot combined with Splitting Spike would wreck an Apex Slaughterspine very quickly. Not the best way to farm it though.
Excellent showcase of how fantastic this game is, and how excellent the hitboxes are on enemies and such but sheesh man! Headshots? Really? You wasted so much ammo for nothing lol. If this game has taught me nothing else over the past 5 years it HAS taught me headshots are useless 🤣 plates! Scanned weaknesses! This fight could have been over in 2 minutes with that arsenal you have lol!
@@hardwarefailure the kill was sick lol! The battle was sick. The entrance was sick! It was all sick lol! State of Play trailer type sick to be honest lol! I was just saying could have been done quicker lol. Sometimes the enemies get a bit repetitious and quick kills are nice 🤣🤷♂️
Definitely a tricky fight, I still feel that back in the days of the early monster hunter psp days some of the harder monsters make the toughest machines in Horizon look like nothing.
Aloy : “Sunwing! I need air support!”
*Sunwing flying around : “uhm..YOU CAN DO IT ALOY!”
😭😭😭
One of the legendary bows has an arrow type you can shoot to mark a target for an overridden machine to attack
@Junaid stormbird yes... glinthawk tho? It’s like one of the weakest machines in the whole game tho it would still have been nice to have a different option I suppose.
@@SkullFusion I don't think the sunwing will attack regardless. At least I haven't seen it do so, even with those arrows. I could be wrong though
@@itsme-mj9ic You can mount Stormbird? It's MOUNTABLE?
@@fdk12 no you can’t, sorry I was replying to junaid saying he wished we could mount a stormbird and glinthawk. And I was agreeing with mounting a stormbird but not a glinthawk that’s all. It’s unlikely we would be able to ever mount a stormbird even in dlc sadly.
I like how the sunwing is just constantly flying overhead for moral support lol
You can actually grapple hook on to it to get some distance, it's quite useful specially when overwhelmed by machines
@@ricardosantos6770 I'm still on the eastern side of the map so I haven't even come across any big time machines yet, except the slitherfang in the beginning. Looks like I have alot to look forward to
He's your own personal cheerleader!!
“Yeah girl!!! Shoot it right on the belly cmon do it do it now Omg it’s charging again!!”
@@ricardosantos6770 I try to jump twice and I'm on the Sunwing ffs hahaha
I love that the music synchs up when it charges up its plasma. Really adds to the tension and it also acts as an indicator to the player when it gets fully charged.
Yeah and the dualsense controller vibrates like crazy when the music picks up
I think it’s the only machine with a sort of dedicated sound track
What I find interesting is that most people don't realize you can I-frame the Plasma explosion effect. If you time a dodge or slide right, you can be immune to the Plasma detonation.
I do believe the soundtrack name is "Built to Kill" I think more Apexes have this soundtrack to them too but yes, it was clearly set for the Slaughterspine. The timing with is charging is perfect and terrifying...
@@karinelanglois1956 i try my level best to avoid apex machines but I only make an exception for the slaughter spine because the animation is soo life like. Hence i never really focused on the soundtrack of other apex machines
I don't think people understand how beautiful and well detailed this game is.
Facts
its just unfortunate that this got released close to elden rings release lol
I don't think people understand how bugged this game is.
They do, someone even discovered her nipps.
@@tapsiwapsi horizon is gonna age well
The Slaughterspine feels like the true evoloution of the thunderjaw. The Thunderjaw could easily be taken out by shooting off its weapons, crippling its moveset and dealing heavy damage. But with the slaughterspine, there's barely anything. Plus; purple and black look great together. Edit: And The Slaughterspine is one of two legendary machine strike pieces, and I love machine strike.
Edit two: Electric Boogaloo: I really don't care if it's easy for you or not. I was just trying to complement my favourite machine.
That was my first thought too lol. The machine's name already made me think "oh damn this is going to be strong", and then I actually saw it (I was behind some trees when I scanned it). Your description of "the true evolution of the thunderjaw" has to be the best description for the looks and combat for the machine
@@epRivera it's not related to a thunderjaw tho... Thunderjaw is based off a Trex while sluaghterspine is based off a spinosaurus
@@skrunklyOwO I know it's not _related_ to the thunderjaw by dinosaur standards, but it's definitely meant to be an upgraded thunderjaw boss in the game
Out in the open I actually prefer the Slaughterspine. The Thunderjaw is very aggressive and will ruin your day if you can't take the weapons down quickly.
The best thing about it is that the Slaughterspine was the last machine from the OG concept art of Horizon to be added, all machines from the concept art were in HZD but this one wasn’t so it was great to see it in the sequel
I even love the name of this machine. I came across my first one randomly while exploring, had a "tf is that" moment, it one hit nearly all my health and I noped out of there
Definately me everytime i come across any new machine lol
@@ThePeaceofWildThings I remember standing there thinking the same thing and got jumped on. Needless to say it killed me the first time and I haven't went back yet lol
First time I saw it was doing one of the missions to go to the mine on the island and I was like “oh, a thunder jaw?!? EASY!” And then it was much bigger and killed me almost instantly and destroyed walls and stuff and I was like WHAT IS THIS THINGGGGG!!?????” I had to run like a pussy and hide underwater.
@@vantagepoint9270 That’s just too much lol
I was wandering around and saw "Unknown Slaughterspine Site" and went to check it out. I was curious as to what it was, but "Mecha Godzilla" wasn't my first guess. I promptly turned tail and noped out of there.
The new machine designs and concepts are *breathtaking.*
You’re breathtaking
Fuck someone else took that line
I don't play the game but I've watched playthroughs and the tremortusk is my favourite
The turtle and Loch Ness are awesome and the hippo . Tough.
Now I wonder how corruptors gon' fight these machines if they ever go to war with one another
This game has some of the best sound design I've ever heard. Game is a sold 10
Tlou 2 is just as good, in sound design and graphics, both amazing.
@@crazybabuskaman3923 yeah, both games, as different as they are, are amazing and those graphics *chef's kiss
@@crazybabuskaman3923 Ps studios don't miss with their games
@@niharshastri3519 Ikr? Add to that Ghost of Tsushima and God of War, seriously sometimes i feel bad for Xbox
@@crazybabuskaman3923 whats tlou2 ? 😭
What a fight and even the entrance while flying. This game looks absolutely spectacular!
On ps4 it’s pretty good but watching this I saw so many cool effects and great fps that I never saw on ps4 because it’s not as good
@@invadeandraid im on ps5
@@enriquetheboy cool
It's amazing, buy it immediately!
@@ScentSense Ikr, I’m playing it right now!
Me: "Cool, a new machine. Let's go."
Also me, but moments later: "Fuck! Go back!"
These guys are easy: freeze and then high volley shots with hunter bow and aim it onto the back spines and adjacent weapons
@@kasaitenma5546 they are not easy, quit drugs and quit easy mode
@@Jason-..- alternate explaination: you're bad at the game lol. I beat the game on hard on my 1st playthrough and I've gotten the games platinum trophy. Considering that only 1.6% of players have it and you're struggling with a apex slaughterspine, I highly doubt that you have that trophy too.
@@kasaitenma5546 i played on VERY hard on my 1st playthrough and i also have the platinum. And i had 400 hours in zero dawn. Difficulty usually is a subjective thing but slaughter spines are not easy let alone an apex one. I bet you are one of those guys that cheeses everything all the time and then bitching that it was an easy fight lol. Better luck next time weirdo
@@Jason-..- vertical traps
I seriously think Guerilla is one of the most creative game studios ever. This is such an amazing design for a machine. I am also biased, my favorite dinosaur was the Spinosaurus. I hope in the future, Guerilla adds the ability to ride more machines. To ride a dreadwing (the big bat) or one of these most likely wont happen, but a man can dream!
would be incredible if they design a king kong machine and have a reenactment of 2005 king vs v-rex lol
Yeah spinos are my fav dinosaur too.
Guerilla hired a Brazilian studio to design most of the robots. In this second game the machine designs are even better.
@@corruptionman1585 Do you know the name of the studio?
Wonder where Aloy will go next? 😮
At 4:40 when the music swells in time with the valor surge is so perfect. Really adds to the whole “epic boss battle” scene.
imagine if at 7:58 a tide ripper jumped from the water and snatched it down into the depths
Maybe if aloy had an overrided one 😯
hmmm sounds oddly familiar, indominus rex’s death
Jurassic world 1 reference
Would be cool to see them fight my money is on the slaughterspine
@@Franbrage26 *1
HEPHAESTUS really outdid itself with this one...
Hephaestus will create Mechagodzilla in the next Horizon
@@miliba That's literally mechagodzilla my guy
@@HyperAhmedX21 Mechagodzilla would be several times larger than the Slaughterspine
That’s Mecha Shin Godzilla right there
Edit: I don’t think the size of the machine invalidates the claim, unless you really want to engage in a debate about proper scale in a game where I can make it from Vegas to San Francisco in a few minutes of hard robo-pig riding
I fought one of these for the first time last night, and it takes a RIDICULOUS amount of damage. Seriously the hardest thing I've fought in the game. I came out it with a hair of health, and almost no ammo and resources left. If I didn't get it in the next few arrows, I was toast..
Finished this game it’s easily a masterpiece can not wait for the third horizon game
We are getting DLCS, don't worry about the third one yet lol. That shit is A LONG way away. I'm hyped af to see where we go in the DLC.
@@crazybabuskaman3923 can't wait to see what the dlcs are like, but it's never too early to start speculating about where horizon 3 will go. Forbidden West was wilder than even the craziest fan theories.
@Clau Clau I'm pretty sure it is yeah... they did kind of leak something about a DLC. It will probably be coming in Summer or Winter.
@Clau Clau it isn't confirmed but there is a data point that mentions an area that isn't present in the current game and it would be an awesome name for a DLC.
@Clau Clau idk, I saw people talking about it on Reddit. To make an even stronger argument, it also mentions a character from the Frozen Wilds.
Dude how this game isn’t a 10/10 is outrageous. Those who get to play it know how amazing this game is. Endless fun. A true masterpiece
It definitely isnt a 10/10 game, but it's very good and pretty
I still dislike the leveling in the game, but everything else is pretty much a 10/10.
9.5/10 Dont care to much for the RPG weapon leveling system felt useless in the beginning, also had to bump the difficulty down from Hard to Normal for Rockbreakers which screwed my Hard playthru.
*gets hit by a machine and is stunned for 3 whole seconds*
**finally stands up and gets hit and stunned again immediately for another 3 seconds***
^repeat.
@@wallacesousuke1433 you are right, its a 11/10
I love how the music syncs up with its plasma-charging abilities. Great detail.
And I thought the color palette couldn't get too much more pleasing than HZD. Gorgeous. Also, that tail hitbox was very precise, impressive. Can't wait to play this soon
absolutely stunning machine. the amount of work put into this machine must be insane. like when it charges for the plasma attck, that looks realistic!
It's like they put all the deadliest features of a fireclaw together with all the deadliest features of a thunderjaw...then made everything into plasma beams.
I'm already worried about having to face such a thing in its normal variant, I don't wanna come within a mile of an Apex.
I just got there, the thunderjaw is level 30 normally, level 48, as an apex, the slaughterspine at normal is level 45, I have not encountered an apex varient
@@simpleviewer1334 it has to be a level 40, even thought it is way less dangerous than a apex thunder jaw. if it was possible, i’d give it a level 55
@@valeriomastroeni8454 no its fact, I found one near the pacific
@@simpleviewer1334 U have to face an apex variant in a mission XD
HEPHAESTUS' doing.
but nevermind that Rampant machine forging SUBMIND. this NEMESIS threat is even going to be full on SKYSHOCK-like alert.
This machine massively reminds me of Mecha Godzilla! It even has the same charged up plasma charge sound and spits atomic breath at you!! I can defo see where the inspiration for it came from! It’s real cool, but damn it one shot me last night!
4:58 Sunwing Be Like: AH I MIND MY BUSINESS AND YOU MIND YOURS, AHH AIN'T EVEN BOTHER WITH - The Second Line Is Arthur Morgan's Line LOL
3:20 That moment what Aloy got ragged doll by a giant mecha-dinosaur and still lives. Absolutely GOAT!
I came across that yesterday at around level 35 with just a few purple weapons! Didnt end well 😂😂
Holy God! This game is completely crazy, I think it deserves its own movie, without a doubt the Slaughterspine is a very lethal machine, inspired by Spinosaurus himself, my question is, who would win in a fight between the Slaughterspine and the legendary and feared Thunderjaw, I I think that would be one of the most spectacular fights in the world of science fiction video games, and I'm not exaggerating, these 2 giant metal beasts have a lot of weapons and attacks, wow, just imagining that battle I'm freaking out; the Slaughterspine launching his most powerful attack which is that purple plasma beam and the Thunderjaw also launching his most powerful attack which is that orange multiple beam which he shoots out of his mouth (apart from the blue laser machine gun, that also bursts). PS: Other machine fights that would be completely crazy are: Garriraptors vs. Demodelor, Sawtooth and Longlegs. Terramamut or the Triceratops robot vs Behemoth. I wish someone on UA-cam would do all these fights looting the machines, they would make me very happy...XD.
Wow you went full nerd then
There's a guy that died exactly that. Though it's only on HZD right now since HFW isn't on PC yet. I think the channel is Horizon Arena, HZD Arena.. something like one of those two names.
@Game Dude Lol true
Man’s pulled out his BFG 9000
Let the Slayer got this monster!!
The machines in this game are amazing & scary looking.
7:46 almost 600 hit damage, this shit was dope... very well bro! Im in lvl 15 yet, but really love this game
There have been techniques found that you can get into the thousands of damage and even 1 shot many machines, crazy stuff, this game is super detailed
@@skie6282 Talking about damage taken here, not dealt
@@CooperStation01 oh right lol, yeah machines stronk
Why are you spoiling for yourself
Kudos to you for just running and going heads up with it. I always disarm them before going to work 😂
Loving these Apex variants. Slaughterspine my FAV machine in Horizon.
I killed this thing on hard in like 30 seconds without taking damage, however it should be worth mentioning that I was already level 50 with a rare rated spike thrower that I bought in the lowlands - has it fully upgraded 4 times, and had coils enhancing explosive damage by 22%, Tear by 15%, and Impact damage by 15%.
Took literally 7 throws to put him down.
I can’t wait to kill that monster Iwith one hit lol 😂
A fully upgraded Skykiller (legendary spike thrower) can take down an Apex Slaughterspine in something like 5 throws if you use the ranged damage boosting valor surge with the right coils.
No early Gomes enfrentar essas coisas é osso
Mas depois de bufado você fica um monstro
@@hardwarefailure Watch me do it with my eyes closed 😂
@@CheshireDCat hahahah bet you can’t
If u knock off his tail parts, u can use those as weapons. He also have his spine part as weapons u can use. Does very good damage to it. Just in case u didn't know
He did and it didn't do any dmg
@@Bcap222 ur kinda blind
@@Bcap222 you blind m8?
@@uwhu5215 no you are
@@jebaited2449 no you are
Next game definitely needs to have ability to coordinate attack with overiden machines.
And maybe improve more on climbing and smooth our terrain. Many times a character stuck on a small crack on the ground, movement is still clunky on moving while in combat with large machines
If you have a certain type of hunter arrow you can mark a target for overridden machines, but I agree that I wish they would improve the functions of machine overrides
ua-cam.com/video/Fv5En6gqI-U/v-deo.html
Press watch. Opens in flight.
"You can RIDE THOSE?!?" I need this game.
I have been playing for hours and I didn't even know you could ride those hahah.
@@CousinOfCurze It's unlockable through story progression only. You can't just go to the cauldron to unlock the override like the other machines.
you can ride a velociraptor also. one of the reasons why i got the game
Damn, after playing too much in Elden RIng, graphics on Horizon looks majestic, and those animations...
This game feels like a holiday trip after the dark depressing world in Elden Ring
OMG the graphics of this game !! I'm playing the first Horizon on PC (absolutely maxxed out) and it doesn't look nowhere as good as this. When Aloy is running she even kicks up some sand. This is amazing attention to detail. Can't wait for this to come to PC.
The Slaughterspine is the machine that caused me to finally start using traps....it's working out well.
The moment I get to override those I'm just going to fly around like a maniac.
A year later, this fight is still epic as hell
The monster hunter influences are obvious, this fight looked like a more involved and dangerous version of a brute wyvern hunt, id honestly love a brute wyvern based on Spinosaurus, its my favourite dinosaur
Like a cross of barioth and duramboros/dobolbek
Almost reminds me of a brute tigrex fight lol
This looks more like an oversized Baryonix tbh
When I first saw a slaughterspine I thought it was going to be the size of a bellowback Then I really saw it shat my pants, and ran in the other direction.
Idk i still think the original fireclaws gave me the most trouble. Dont get me wrong the Slaughterspine is tough but the what made the fireclaws soo horrific was how hard they hit combined with their tremendous mobility, which made it incredibly hard to actually land shots on them despite their size. I revisited HZD a few days before HFW came out and booted up my two time NG+ aloy with all my super coiled up banuk weapons and ice rail not to mention the OG shield weaver and i still got my ass handedto me twice before killing it.
So me being more equipped plus a non nerfed version of tripple notch, and I still died to it twice before succeeding. Whereas i know it might be my experience but i killed the Slaughterspine on my first attempt. I'll say its worse than a thunderjaw, but on par with the fireclaws in the HFW, and still easier than HZD's version of the technological terror.
(id still like to see OG daemon fireclaw from HZD verses an apex Slaughter spine in an AI battle)
The fireclaws were so annoying esp in HZD where you had to fight 3 at the same time
You can cheese Slaughterspines.
@@nightdriver7216 exactly, the main reason why i think Slaughterspines are easier is because you can actually hit them. They're plagued with the problem that all big machines have is that they make big targets, and a machine i can hit consistently is a dead machine.
BUT what makes fireclaws/frostclaws so bad is that they hit like big machines but are rather small as far as large machines go and they are fast and erratic. Making them hard targets to consistently hit. Usually they only give you about a 1 second at most chance to get a good hit on them before attempting to RKO you. And the only moves they do that lock them in place for more than a second necessitate extensive dodging. So yeah IMO fire/frostclaws are still the kings of the wild
@Game Dude precisely there was this comment i got on a different video of a guy claiming he believed that deathbringers, stormbirds, and thunderjaw where harder to kill than fireclaws and i just couldn't make sense of any of it at all.
Fireclaws have been deadly for the reason you listed above and because its hard to shut them down. With a thunderjaw you can remove its disk launchers and laser cannons with relative ease, and same with deathbringers just expose their heat vents and you can practically one shot them with a super upgraded icerail. Stormbirds are jokes too just knock off their lighting gun and they cant do much to you. But fireclaws and to a lesser extent frostclaws have armored weakpoints which they rarely ever expose to you. They're small, and hard to hit because they're constantly moving plus even if you do manage to destroy them it just stops them from adding fire/frost effects to their attacks but they still have the attacks at large to destroy you with. If you knock off a thunderjaws weapons or a storm bird they have to resort to predictable melee attacks but. Frost/fire claws thrive off being in your face and have countermeasures to prevent you from camping in the distance ie (lava/stalactites) or just running to you in less than a few seconds.
Dudasourus just out on the beach chilling and minding his own business then out of nowhere this woman coming up throwing javelins and arrows at him. I'd be pissed too.
Lmfao
At least you get to fight this dude alone. The first thunderjaw site, it's like 10 different enemies in the area
i panicked dyring one side quest when i had to fight a tremor tusk and a thunderjaw at the same time, i still have no idea how i survived that, i think i got lucky i did some massive damage to the tremor tusk before the thunderjaw noticed and joined the fight
thunderjaw r a walk in the park if u pick the one spawn in the 2nd tall neck(locked) area. u can abuse the shit out of the terrain.
You know, the Slaughterspine reminds me of the Berserk Fury from Zoids New Century! A robotic, theropod with the ability to shoot lasers from its mouth! Wonder if the game designers took some inspiration from that series.
This Thing Beats Thunderjaw And Fireclaw
I aay the Shellsnapper, Slaughterspine and Specter are way more dangerous than those. The Slitherfang is by far the coolest though.
Thunderjaw? Sure, but a fireclaw? Not sure about that.
@@KreamyKakes Are you sure about that ???, I Think You Haven't Played This Game Yet, Slaughterspine Is Really Hard To Beat It Has Plasma Powers That Can Hit You And After Few Seconds It Will Explode In You're Body That Makes A High Damage And Fireclaw Only Have Fire Powers But Slaughterspine Have Plasma Powers
@@razaahmed9241 The fireclaw doesn't even have a weakness to plasma damage so plasma damage really doesn't matter very much and will take ages for the plasma to even built up and take effect and already has one of the highest damage outputs in game without even using its elemental attacks and dishes it out a tad bit faster, the slaughter spine doesn't care about fire damage, so it all comes don't to who can dish out damage and how fast they can do it which is why I think the fireclaw would either win or at least heavily damage the slaughter spine. But no one has pitted them up against each other yet.
@@KreamyKakes And Fire Is Fireclaw Strength So If We Blew Its Fire Tanks And It Makes A High Damage To Him So Why Not Plasma ??
Did you notice that there's a bug where the thunderjaw, bellowback among others doesn't have the antenna component? it was supposed to be another weak point of the machine, it even appears in the diary but the machine doesn't have
Yeah, can't tell if it's intentional or not
Is it not because it’s the Apex variant? So technically it’s not a gonna call for anything else to help it lol
This was cool cause it feels so cinematic. Makes me feel almost bad for how I always just find some high ground just out of reach and snipe them with the long distance bow.
This thing is a worthy successor to the Thunderjaw. Not only is it a delight to look at, but it can also fuck you up worse than polio if you aren’t careful, making the process of fighting it absolutely enthralling. You’re basically just screaming “HOLY FUCK” on repeat inside your head while you try to find a way to kill the thing.
Man, your way is so complicated. The key is frost arrows and explosive spikes. The sequence is 3 frost arrow, activate second stance from hunter tree and spam explosive spikes. My record is only 4 spikes under stance state. 15 seconds and it's done.
I absolutely love it when the concentration kicks in and zooms on the slaughterspine. It's so cinematic and threatening
to be honest i think the original fireclaw was worse. you blasted out all the weakpoints and the goddamn hellspawn was still at 80% hp
or maybe i just sucked, thats an option too, that thing ate so much ressources to kill
speaking of the first game, anyone know if shadow carja armor makes you immune to sound effect like it did in the first?
Eh the fireclaw wasnt that bad too kill if you had the bluegleam fire armor with decent weaves, made them do much less damage. And after destroying the belly you can freeze them then just apam triple arrows from hunter bow
@@Vaultyboi22 thats the point aloy was given better tools to specify take them out during that dlc. But if you take one on using all purpose armor they can still deal out so punishment. All I'll say is that given that we had more op stuff in HZD ive died many more to a fireclaw than ive ever died to a Slaughterspine. I liked where they where going with it an upgraded plasma thunderjaw but ive yet to die to a Slaughterspine
I do think the fireclaws were worse in HZD than they are in FB, but I still wasn't amused when I hit an area where there was a frost claw, killed it, and just as I was about to loot and celebrate..ANOTHER frost claw showed up...and I didn't have the ammo to take it on, so I had to run, and leave the loot.
I didnt play the game yet or have seen any gameplay so when first watched this I thought that you edited the video to put the music, it's so smooth and well done that I didnt even thought it was actually from the game, the soundtrack sounds so awesome.
i would say try to use traps, the explosive disc, and powershots to the weak points like the sides. All is all, this game is so dope. Hope they expand it to more
Slaughterspines and Tremortusks are my favourite machines to fight in this game since the battle music makes it exhilarating on another level. Gives me the chills while fighting these beasts.
I love that calm after each battle 😌
Easy take down for this guy: shock, critical strike, rinse and repeat. Goes down before you know it.
The game is phenomenal!! I don't understand why there are some out there that say not to purchase because Guerilla didn't update some of the moves (like falling from a grappling hook) or some of the scenery art (grassy areas and such), but come on... they kept to the theme of the game and added in all the new machines and expanded on an existing storyline. That's what I love about this franchise so far and I'm already existed about the 3rd one that will come out.
Not going to spoil anything for those playing, but you get clues later in the story about the potential for a 3rd game. Guerilla even said they were doing multiples for Aloy and her friends, so I'm excited for their future.
It seems they got the most known feature from the meanest robots, thunderjaw, both bears, the bellowback charging and possibly, clawstrider agility
First it was Thunderjaws, now Slaughterspines...what in the name of Elisabet Sobeck are we gonna see in Horizion 3?
This is a well developed game 🎯
No, this game is bugged AF, has incredibly stupid story and characters. It also has a lot of gamedesign mistakes.
@@Higurashika why the fuck are you on a video about the game then you cuck?
@@Higurashika We don't care about your opinion. You are everywhere in this comment section bashing the game. Go back to playing your sword slashing over and over games or go play your stupid fucking assasins creed with a story worse than GOT season 8...
I completely agree with this title! I can easily kill apex thunderjaws and stormbirds but the slaughterspine is in another level. It's the only machine that killed me sometimes and against whom I had really hard earned victories
Imagine fighting that thing on very hard mode. 1 hit and you're dead. Basically Soulsgame difficulty.
Yep, Soulsgame difficulty for sure. But I would say it's more like 2 hits until you're dead, the first hit will drop your health down extremely low but the 2nd one will finish you off. That's how it was like for HZD so I'm imagining it's like that here too. That's why legendary armor and legendary weapons are the way to go.
I beat it on VH.
After dying over 15 times
@@cowenhames9404 currently on it, dying over 9000 times.
Its not that its generally hard, it's just that the balancing is pretty weird because some encounters are just brutal.
7:42 "who's near-death now, girl???"
it's true. i encountered one tryna find the iridescent crab/lobster shell thingy for my pouch upgrade. first reaction was to take it out and clear the way but realised it's too much work.
later on i realised there's a shore nearby which was much safer and had an abudance of what i need.
I can't afford a PS5, but I think it would be the most rewarding thing in my life to play this game. It feels like a fever dream as it combines everything my nostalgia can connect to: dinosaurs, robots, open world and Shadow of The Colossus.
I play with health bars and damage numbers off so fighting stuff like this is absolutely scary
At the end of the day, that thing was just minding its business before you went and attacked it.
Personally I have a harder time with the fireclaws - especially if you're after their flame-sacs so you have to avoid shooting their only easy-to-hit weak spot. Slaughterspines are much more fun though!
You can target the shoulder sacs and still get the component.
Use ice bombs
Then power shots valour surge and braced shots with precision bow. Even on harder difficulties you can melt their health bar
Yeah I now have enough lovely gear that with the right valor surge I can melt them pretty fast - but still not as fast as the Slaughterspines. My main issue with slaughterspines is detaching their kidney storage boxes because they move around so much; if I just want to bring it down, there are so many weakspots that take up so much of its body - it's *much* easier than a Fireclaw
Fireclaws are b*STDs. If it wasn't for the proxy sack webbing you keep needing, I'd just put the thing out of its misery with explosive traps and spikes
You can see that that machien took inspiration from Godzilla, not only look also in attacks. And I love it.
This game is a masterpiece
No, this game is bugged AF, has incredibly stupid story and characters. It also has a lot of gamedesign mistakes.
@@Higurashika lol maybe ur playing a different game.. cnt b horizon
@@emmanuelmartindale8309 no, I play exactly the game that it is - average boring open world with a lot of grinding. Maybe you're too much a fanboy?
@@Higurashika maybe I just love playing games. And u cant tell me what the game is... that's ur opinion.. but I love it and so far it's the best I've played
@@emmanuelmartindale8309 your love for the game doesn't make this game good. You'll understand this when grow up.
When I fought this when capturing Hephaestus, I felt like I was fighting Godzilla which was awesome and the cutscene for the final mission was amazing.
As someone who doesn’t play this game, and I play monster hunter…this thing does not fight as nearly terrifyingly as it looks
Fun fact about plasma burst, if you time a roll or a slide correctly when it procs you can the damage. Very handy when fighting these guys. Dipping into the water will also purge the plasma effect entirely.
Bro guerilla didn't have to go this HARD on a game!!😵
They should. It isnt supposed to be easy
@@Nobodysurvivesevenonebit No I meant in terms of it's beauty and gameplay I'm glad it's a challenging game lol
The colors are fucking amazing. I feel like I'm tripping watching this fight
What a absolutely beautiful game.... Stunning!!
2:49 destruction like that is insane idk why more people don't talk about the destruction in this game
This game is so satisfying and yes I saw this and it spoiled it for me but you know what I’m OK with it because I enjoy this damn game so much. Keep on keepin on buddy
Glad you like it my friend I got addicted to it too hahaha
The Slaughterspine is my most favorite machine, because it’s purple beam that it fires from it’s mouth and tail makes me think of Shin Godzilla.
You really make this fight tougher for yourself by not sliding and just rolling, also not using any traps, barely using concentration for more precise arrow shots, same goes for the special attack choice. You could really end this fight in half the time by being more effective in hitting those weak spots
Yep, first thing I do when hunting apex for parts is to track its path then set elite traps. Then I hide and when it activates a trap I shoot at its weak points for a bit then I smoke bomb the hell outa there and hide again till it goes back to yellow alert and shoot at weak points again. Just rinse & repeat.
@@Zagatho yeah, thats a solid tactic, though I like to face it head on at some point, otherwise it can get repetitive and kinda on a cheesing side for me , but yeah, that smoke bomb - saved my ass many times , also using specials is good in critical moments - since You are invincible for the moment animation runs :D
@@marowak87 Yep, smoke bomb is op. 😂
Facts
My preferred method of fighting these guys is turning their spinal weapons into pincushions. They’re pretty easy targets and there’s so many you’re going to hit one almost every time until they start falling off. Also, shooting and closing all the charging ports when it’s charging up makes it plasma itself when it finishes
I would rather fight 10 apex dreadwings than one normal fireclaw.
there are numerous things you could’ve done to make the fight easier
stealth damage boost (smoke bombs)
low hp boost
(both of these can be boosted even more with certain outfits and weaves)
frost (increases the amount of damage you do whilst in its elemental state by a ton)
use a sharpshot bow instead
unlike zero dawn, the hunter bows in this game deal very little damage and aren’t good at all against big machines like this. advanced/elite sharpshot arrows combined with the frost brittle state, low hp and stealth boost, along with valor surges such as ranged boost, powershots or critical boost can deal thousands of damage with one single shot. the focused technique with sharpshot bows helps a lot as well, and make sure to shoot components (use your focus to make them highlight yellow) instead of just shooting random parts of the machine
*tldr:* use frost’s brittle state along with low hp and stealth boosts and damage increasing valor surges with sharpshot bows to deal tons of damage quickly instead of using hunter bows to deal very little damage with each shot. shoot components.
there’s also a possibility that you fought this thing earlier than recommended, which can also contribute to its difficulty.
I love how a lot of machines have ear piercing roars now
remember seeing this guy for the first time from a distance and thinking to myself, "huh. that's an odd-looking Thunderjaw...." then I got a closer look. and soon regretted getting a closer look.
So spoiler.
When I first faced the slaughterspine it was in the main quest. I barely had any wood left to make arrows after all the fighting and I looted all the crates I could. Luckily thou I had a lot and I mean a lot of boom stick ammo. Soooo I cheesed that fight. Booms sticks for the fucking win!! Like those things destroyed it. Maybe it was the main quest that made it a bit easier. I dunno. But imma fight another one and see how it goes. 😅
The details on that robot is frickin insane
for most of the fight you arent focusing components/weak spots. you make this fight harder on yourself.
HOLY F***!!! You can fly in this game!? Hell I'm buying this!!!
That's some impressive dodging skills you got there, But Damn that thing hits HARD....
What difficult level was this on?
It’s ether normal or hard I think but even in normal it does that much damage this thing is not to fuck with if you don’t know what your doing 🤣
I played it on normal, and it did A LOT of damage. I had lucked out cause I found a lot of healing just before I ran into it..otherwise, I'd have been effed. As it is, it took like three tries to take it down. I almost had it my second time, but at just a moment where I tried to put distance between me and it, it did the satellite lasers, and killed me. The third time was the charm. At that point, I knew its patterns enough to keep decent distance and reduce how much damage I was taking by using hills/dunes to my advantage.
2:25 Slide and dodge at the same time to escape those attacks. That’s the most effective tactic to escape a slaughterspire’s attack.
Nice fight GGs. Nothing compared to this other guy posting videos similar to this. Killing this big machines, trying to look that he is very good. But he is just killing them on easy / story mode XD. Nice video
Thank you! I'm honestly not trying to go for speed or skill, just playing for the thrill of it!
To each their own
Hate to be "that girl" but taking down machines that big isn't difficult even on higher difficulty levels.
With the legendary sureshot bow, extra bow damage valour and braced shot on a weak point it does a massive amount of damage on all difficulty levels.
I'm not going to dig at the guy, he's playing for his own enjoyment but wailing on a machines armour doesn't do much damage. You don't need to put it on easier difficulties to take down large machines you just need to plan your approach.
There are trap builds that let you take down things like that in seconds.
@@avalineriley6809 That's true. Elite Acid Traps and Power Shot combined with Splitting Spike would wreck an Apex Slaughterspine very quickly. Not the best way to farm it though.
Something I like about fighting slaughterspines is that they only have a few recourse containers so u can use as many bombs as you want
Excellent showcase of how fantastic this game is, and how excellent the hitboxes are on enemies and such but sheesh man! Headshots? Really? You wasted so much ammo for nothing lol. If this game has taught me nothing else over the past 5 years it HAS taught me headshots are useless 🤣 plates! Scanned weaknesses! This fight could have been over in 2 minutes with that arsenal you have lol!
What do you think about my kill bro? I like to use they’re weapons against them hahahah 😇
@@hardwarefailure the kill was sick lol! The battle was sick. The entrance was sick! It was all sick lol! State of Play trailer type sick to be honest lol! I was just saying could have been done quicker lol. Sometimes the enemies get a bit repetitious and quick kills are nice 🤣🤷♂️
@@Lord_Pistachio_Nut i know I have to hit those weak points more to finish faster.😿
@@Lord_Pistachio_Nut thank you 🙏
So guerrilla games straight up made a monster hunter game. I need to play this now.
What a beautiful game! Never thought they would make it so much better than Zero Dawn.
Definitely a tricky fight, I still feel that back in the days of the early monster hunter psp days some of the harder monsters make the toughest machines in Horizon look like nothing.
The sound when it builds-up its plasma cells gives me goosebumps
The world, this battle, the great gameplay by you. I am enchanted and mesmerised