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Tosyn_88 · Mar 16, 2017

The eyes on the characters are amazing. Not many open world games can have this level of detail on the characters. I even found weird angles to zoom in to see if the character models would lose detail and it wasn't the case. The detail is the same both in game and in cutscene which was very very impressive work. Seeing Horizon and then seeing Mass Effect, it just makes you wonder because from what i have seen, Horizon face models make Mass Effect look far behind.

I also remember i saw a dragonfly by a pond when i was trying to fish, the game does have a lot of nice detail that smacks you in the face. I also love looking at the Sunset or Moonlight, very beautiful

Xeteh · Mar 16, 2017

Not sure if it was mentioned but on the machines' armor there are little icons for the cauldron where they were built which is also where Aloy would learn to override that specific machine.

Miniature Kaiju · Mar 16, 2017

When Aloy is running up a very steep incline she will, sometimes, use her hands to help her, climbing on all fours.

PLASTICA-MAN · Mar 16, 2017

Xeteh said:
Not sure if it was mentioned but on the machines' armor there are little icons for the cauldron where they were built which is also where Aloy would learn to override that specific machine.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=231864695&postcount=126

PLASTICA-MAN · Mar 16, 2017

PLASTICA-MAN said:
Snapmaws will roll to loose themselves if you try to tie them up while swimming . They'll do a very fitting crocodile deathroll and break the cables to free themselves.

We need someone to verify that and post a gif.

I asked SunhiLegend and he did it:

SunhiLegend said:

AtkO said:
I'm amazed by the little details, like the wire still attached and dangling around the Snapmaw!

joesiv · Mar 16, 2017

pixelbox said:
Funny this is explosions moves all foliage. Use the tear blast ammo.

That would be an area effect, you can add area affects, but specifically moving a single branch is different, as that is a collision. Maybe next gen

Nesotenso · Mar 16, 2017

this games is incredibly well polished and an amazing achievement. Some of the lip syncing when talking with NPCs can be improved but otherwise just stellar to look at and play.

bigboss370 · Mar 16, 2017

PLASTICA-MAN said:
Horizon Zero Dawn Is Not Maxing Out PS4 Pro's Power – Guerrilla Games

Of course it doesn't. they just started using the PRO. Now imagine if the game was built from the groud up on PS4 PRO. We would see unimaginable results.
I hope they start doing so with future games like TLOU2 and Death stranding (which I bet they are).

okay now they're just showing off. stop it Guerrilla, stop it.

don't ever stop

Venture · Mar 17, 2017

If you follow some of the people carrying crates around Meridian you can see them take it all the way out of the city, set it down on a stack of crates, picked up a new one from another stack and carry it back into the city.

pixelation · Mar 17, 2017

Wow... O_O

pixelation · Mar 17, 2017

ZoddGutts said:
When it comes to little details, Zelda has it beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVPXKdSEGNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGWtyJAkO0

He's banned now but... SMFH.

EDIT: Aaaand SMFH @ me for double posting.

Venture · Mar 17, 2017

Tosyn_88 said:
The eyes on the characters are amazing. Not many open world games can have this level of detail on the characters. I even found weird angles to zoom in to see if the character models would lose detail and it wasn't the case. The detail is the same both in game and in cutscene which was very very impressive work. Seeing Horizon and then seeing Mass Effect, it just makes you wonder because from what i have seen, Horizon face models make Mass Effect look far behind.

I also remember i saw a dragonfly by a pond when i was trying to fish, the game does have a lot of nice detail that smacks you in the face. I also love looking at the Sunset or Moonlight, very beautiful

Yeah, there's so much going on with the eyes besides a painted on texture. The reflections really add a lot.

Also just noticed Aloy has a scar on her neck from being attacked at the proving.

The overall level of detail is just astounding.

laxu · Mar 17, 2017

Water interaction when Aloy is swimming is the only thing I can complain about visually.

Cool thread, did not even notice many of the things mentioned.

PLASTICA-MAN · Mar 18, 2017

Most Bandit Camps are real-world ruins

Twilight Gap · Mar 18, 2017

PLASTICA-MAN said:
Most Bandit Camps are real-world ruins

I actually hated this. I'd turn the corner and see the facade of a really cool old world ruin, and then you enter it and there's wood stakes everywhere. It got repetitive really fast and ruined the spectacle of the world for me. There should have been far less humans in the game.

wenaldy · Mar 18, 2017

Some cutscenes have interesting facial animations.

Sorry for lazy screencaps on mobile:

Venture · Mar 18, 2017

Going back to inverse kinematics, I was goofing around last night, trying to jump onto a statue and this happened:

She actually tries to straddle the two figures.

I was expecting she would just kind of magically stand in the middle of them. It's a bit glitchy (looks like she broke her ankle in the second pic) but pretty impressive.

PLASTICA-MAN · Mar 19, 2017

When hanging for long time on a ledge, Aloy releases one of its hands and shakes it to ease her cramps:

SunhiLegend said:

Keen · Mar 20, 2017

X-post from main thread, by request.

SunhiLegend said:

Holy...wow!

The little things in this is amazing! During

The mountain that fell, I think,

I was climbing over a big drop and Aloy goes "don't look down!" I looked down and she responded with something like "damn!"

67 hours in, just got the super armour (holy shit that thing kicks ass), and running around cleaning up collectibles and side quests.

That armor is something else. During the "last" corrupted zone

with the two rockbreakers

, I was getting hit with stuff constantly that would've killed me 100 times over. They did eventually get me tho, at it again tomorrow.

Berserker976 · Mar 20, 2017

Just noticed this while fooling around post game:

If you stick a grenade to a piece of armor on a machine and then blow it off (I used a tearblast arrow) the grenade will still be stuck to the armor piece that flew off.

vivekTO · Mar 20, 2017

PLASTICA-MAN said:
When hanging for long time on a ledge, Aloy releases one of its hands and shakes it to ease her cramps:

This is amazing!! Now this is called little details.

Adree · Mar 20, 2017

Keen said:
X-post from main thread, by request.

Holy...wow!

The little things in this is amazing! During

The mountain that fell, I think,

I was climbing over a big drop and Aloy goes "don't look down!" I looked down and she responded with something like "damn!"

67 hours in, just got the super armour (holy shit that thing kicks ass), and running around cleaning up collectibles and side quests.

That armor is something else. During the "last" corrupted zone

with the two rockbreakers

, I was getting hit with stuff constantly that would've killed me 100 times over. They did eventually get me tho, at it again tomorrow.

That's exactly how I dealt with them. That fight was too much of a nightmare to do without it. I don't like fighting even normal versions of them.

GlamFM · Mar 20, 2017

Xeteh said:
Not sure if it was mentioned but on the machines' armor there are little icons for the cauldron where they were built which is also where Aloy would learn to override that specific machine.

Mind - blown

PLASTICA-MAN · Mar 20, 2017

NXGamer highlighted one of the most amazing details ever made in video games:

The dynamic weather system brings snow or rainstorms which create puddles that evaporate gradually when the sun comes back:

I am so amazed. I have never seen such detail occuring real time in any video game before. I expected Kojima San to do such detail in MGS5 since he is fond of such details but he didn't. Now he has no reason not to do it since he uses this same outstanding engine.

Also the puddles directy exposed to the sun disappear faster than those in the shades.

It reminds me of a detail I just discovered in MGS2 where ice cubes from the bucket melt, and the ones next to each others melt slower than those separated.
Now Kojima San can do wonders with this engine.

Theslammer · Mar 20, 2017

I like how conversations change depending on what quests you've done so most characters aren't telling you to do things you've already done.

I also like the rain dripping from people's beards and soaking their clothes. It's very cool to see during conversation scenes.

Triggerhappytel · Mar 28, 2017

I noticed tonight, and I'm pretty certain this is correct, that more plants grow beside a river than elsewhere. I've spent a lot of time looking around outside of Meridian and I'm sure this is true.

PLASTICA-MAN said:
When hanging for long time on a ledge, Aloy releases one of its hands and shakes it to ease her cramps:

PLASTICA-MAN said:
NXGamer highlighted one of the most amazing details ever made in video games:

The dynamic weather system brings snow or rainstorms which create puddles that evaporate gradually when the sun comes back:

I am so amazed. I have never seen such detail occuring real time in any video game before. I expected Kojima San to do such detail in MGS5 since he is fond of such details but he didn't. Now he has no reason not to do it since he uses this same outstanding engine.

Also the puddles directy exposed to the sun disappear faster than those in the shades.

It reminds me of a detail I just discovered in MGS2 where ice cubes from the bucket melt, and the ones next to each others melt slower than those separated.
Now Kojima San can do wonders with this engine.

Wow, this is amazing. The attention to detail is second to none!

Angst · Mar 29, 2017

Triggerhappytel said:
I noticed tonight, and I'm pretty certain this is correct, that more plants grow beside a river than elsewhere. I've spent a lot of time looking around outside of Meridian and I'm sure this is true.

The way plants, trees and other vegetation is placed logically is probably a parameter in the procedural generation of the map. They where really quite clever with the engine and spent a lot of time making it look real (hyper-real).

DanceLeaf · Mar 29, 2017

If you call a mount and you start running it will follow you at the same speed so you can ride it.
Also if you jump from a high place to the mount you'll perfect straddle it.

badcrumble · Mar 29, 2017

The poetry inside the metal flowers makes me think they're somehow a glitchy remnant of

Apollo

, which to me is just an achingly beautiful idea.

PLASTICA-MAN · Apr 6, 2017

Aloy covers her ears when an explosion happens next to her :

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