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Horizon Zero Dawn Full Map "Leaked" Spoilers Main Location
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Inkvoterad
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I instantly thought this. Foresty area is at the same area of falkreath, barren mountain-y stuff to the west with a town that seems to be going into the mountain. The eastern part has some northern snow mountain stuff that kinda creates a wall between the eastern part of the map and the rest of the game, like in Skyrim.
This was all just coincidence but kinda funny.
I think the E3 2016 demo takes place here the one I circle with red.
didn't look like the map is that big imo, the entire e3 2016 demo takes around 8 minutes long including travel and combat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xx3MdqdgM&t=30s
the distance between Aloy and corrupted zone can be reach in around 1 minute with a mount.
Nice analysis!
I think your red zone one the larger map is a little small though - the zoomed in map from the demo has the northern shore of the second water feature at the bottom left which is just to the left and down a bit from he ringed zone on the big map.
I think the demo area is all of that region bounded by mountains on three sides.
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Also you can see there are some location icon and campfire Icon in the mountains. so yeah you can access them , they are not there just to act as a wall.
FloweryMarston
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I think the map works like red dead, where there is roads, you can get to, which in these mountains areas there are paths for you to get to. I don't think you will be able to get to the top of every mountain though, as they act like natural borders of the world.
Jawbreaker
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Mountains are accessible.
Callibretto
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the one that is covered with black lines in the game map is probably inaccessible, but there are still quite a few bit of mountain not covered with black lines that you can probably go.
FloweryMarston
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Yes, that's what i think too. the world seems very good too, will be fun to explore it
Jawbreaker
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But there are icons and roads under the black lines, unless I'm not reading your reply correctly.
Possumowner
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This makes me happy,not as big as expected.Im slightly tired of me wandering huuuuuuge maps
HassanJamal
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I think the E3 2016 demo takes place here the one I circle with red.
didn't look like the map is that big imo, the entire e3 2016 demo takes around 8 minutes long including travel and combat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xx3MdqdgM&t=30s
the distance between Aloy and corrupted zone can be reach in around 1 minute with a mount.
Tried adjusting and matching zoomed in and out parts of the map and this is a pretty gigantic map, right? Unless I did something wrong.
Aloy is the lil red spot on the image.
Yup you are right, its a big map , its just because there is only a single island or land mass , and no ocean at sides or in between , it is looking somewhat compact.
Angel Chay
Banned
Thats literally a straight rip of skyrim including mountain splittin up middle to right area
yup , i have some insider source too that they used the heightmap from the skyrim.
Good job.
I wonder how they'll manage the world boundaries. I love testing the limits.
Hooks
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I'm glad I'm not the only one haha
I think by using Mountains or hill, as there is not Ocean or that sort of bodies around the map.
At the moment it's impossible to do that. We don't know the dimensions of this map yet.
This is my best attempt at calculating the map size. There is a TON of human error in here so take it with a grain of salt. I would say the actual area is somewhere from 10km^2 to 15km^2. The red border is my best guess at where the world ends based on gameplay videos. I'll refine it further once I find that one gif of the in game map (the one with the fog of war and black border).
Aloy rides a mount at around 8m/s meaning the total travel time from one end to the other is about 11.5 minutes in a straight line.
Meridian Village looks like it is this:
I'm really excited to visit Meridian Village. Towns/cities are in general my favorite places in RPGs. I hope it's fairly big (even though its referred to as a village), life-like and fully explorable.
It doesn't look as natural as something like Velen in Witcher 3
Here's a huge forest area on the left and almost nothing else, then a rocky area in the middle and almost nothing else, and a snowy area on the right and some forest.
Like they took 3 different ecosystems and plopped them next to one another. At least the contrast of colors make the map look cool.
It should've been a bunch of forests, meadows, lakes, dilapidated buildings sprinkled all over the map, and maybe a huge-ass mountain in a corner. Done.
But maybe a more video gamey map will be more fun to explore. I know I grew tired of the Witcher 3 world at points.
Here's a huge forest area on the left and almost nothing else, then a rocky area in the middle and almost nothing else, and a snowy area on the right and some forest.
Like they took 3 different ecosystems and plopped them next to one another. At least the contrast of colors make the map look cool.
It should've been a bunch of forests, meadows, lakes, dilapidated buildings sprinkled all over the map, and maybe a huge-ass mountain in a corner. Done.
But maybe a more video gamey map will be more fun to explore. I know I grew tired of the Witcher 3 world at points.
Exactly , and still need to take verticality into account .
This is my best attempt at calculating the map size. There is a TON of human error in here so take it with a grain of salt. I would say the actual area is somewhere from 10km^2 to 15km^2. The red border is my best guess at where the world ends based on gameplay videos. I'll refine it further once I find that one gif of the in game map (the one with the fog of war and black border).
Aloy rides a mount at around 8m/s meaning the total travel time from one end to the other is about 11.5 minutes in a straight line.
How did you get those distances though? Were we given a scale somewhere?
I think that works well with this game's themes though, doesn't it?
There's a subtle uneasiness in the inorganic nature of this world; that the biomes feel sort of artificially structured plays into this feeling.
Making it look natural means they have to pad out some transition area , which will only have some traversal aspect. I think making it somewhat artificial but visually distinctive is the right call here.
I think its some marker distance and guestimate of walking speed to calculate the size, its really very tricky and a lot of assumptions.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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edit: beaten with better analysis
all previews began in Mother's Heart if im not mistaken
all previews began in Mother's Heart if im not mistaken
Yes , an that is 1/5th of the total land mass, i think.
I looked at one of the gameplay videos that had a clear distance marker, and then saw where the marker and he was on the map and then found that spot on this map. It's obviously not exact, but it is enough to give us an idea of the size.
Ah, got it! Good, that means we should be able to accurately guage this once its playable.
Gudji
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No point in comparing these maps. They've changed it since E3, I guess it was an older build to begin with. Mother's rise (that village where Aloy found the corruptor) used to be left of Mother's Crown, not the case anymore.
The map used to be huge according to the previews and they scaled it back (still big, but not as big).
Kingpin Rogers
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Bigger or smaller than Zelda's map?
This is the best estimate for BOTW at the moment:
Analyzing BOTW Map Size: CAD Approach + Google Earth File!
~62 km^2
Horizon is estimated at ~10-15 km^2 based on in-game distance measurements (quest marker offers distance in meters).
Both are reasonable approaches to measurement, but are relying on assumptions that can be more accurately gauged once the games are played.
40 seconds into this vid, I feel I get the best read of the map size
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLzP-4_Tqlk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLzP-4_Tqlk
Oh wow, the map is 3D. Nice touch.
And this does not seem as big or open as W3, but still very large. Significantly so considering what we've seen so far is quite dense rather than making it big for bigness sakes.
I'm replaying W3 at the moment and as great as this map is, I don't think I could do it again. It verges on too big and with how dense and lush Horizon looks to be I feel it's a decent tradeoff.
Neoleo2143
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It's pretty filled with content it seems. There's a lot of variety in the encounter design as well.
sublimit
Banned
Yeah i have read/heard that too.
That was mentioned in the leak , which suppose to be fake.I think its just a guestimate.
Masterspeed
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Where's the destroyed buildings from all the trailers? I can't seem to find anything of the sort on the map.
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