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Horizon Zero Dawn SPOILERS Thread

They have different variations of the same armor, light, medium, heavy or something similar. That will change the look a bit, but mods don't change the look.

Disappointing.

I like being able to customise the look of my character. That's literally the deal breaker for me.

Fashions Souls RIP.
 
Shits gotten better now that things have opened up. There's now Corrupted Zones marked on the map that house stronger enemies. You beat a zone, you get a shitload of XP plus goodies.

Beat my first. 5000xp and a trophy
 
Shits gotten better now that things have opened up. There's now Corrupted Zones marked on the map that house stronger enemies. You beat a zone, you get a shitload of XP plus goodies.

Beat my first. 5000xp and a trophy
Have you noted a difference in regular machine and corrupted machine behavior/attacks?
 

yunbuns

Member
Holy shit.

Matriarch Teersa (one of the powerful tribe elders and the only one that likes Aloy lol) just revealed to me where Aloy came from.

Major story spoilers.

She says that Aloy has no mother. She was born of the sacred mountain/of the Goddess/All-Mother (the deity they worship) and where she inhabits. She was born the day All-Mother slew the Metal Devil, the king of the machines back in the time where there was a Great War between the machines and the faithful humans that refused to be ruled by them (and allied with All-Mother). Teersa found Aloy here, but the other matriarchs believed a dark power placed her there, and thought of her as cursed from then on.

I entered the room where she found Aloy, and Aloy approached the door beyond which the Goddess was supposed to inhabit. A synthetic computer voice tried to scan my body but told my identity couldn't be verified. Teersa says I need to clear the "corruption" within for the mountain to let me open the door.

Meanwhile people just tried to assassinate me and I look like a woman wearing more normalish clothing that I have no idea why.

I have no idea what the fuck is going on but this is cool as fuck

Only 16% in

Hmmm sounds like good shit. I'm not sure if I'm going to buy this Day 1 but this info has definitely peaked my interested level from 0% to at least 40/50%. Excited to read where this goes next.
 
Reposting my question from the spoiler free thread.


How much of an RPG is this game really? I've heard that it's more RPG than Fallout 4. Is it obvious that the New Vegas devs helped with the game?

How "twitchy" is the gameplay too?
 

Dekuboy

Neo Member
Holy shit.

Matriarch Teersa (one of the powerful tribe elders and the only one that likes Aloy lol) just revealed to me where Aloy came from.

Major story spoilers.

She says that Aloy has no mother. She was born of the sacred mountain/of the Goddess/All-Mother (the deity they worship) and where she inhabits. She was born the day All-Mother slew the Metal Devil, the king of the machines back in the time where there was a Great War between the machines and the faithful humans that refused to be ruled by them (and allied with All-Mother). Teersa found Aloy here, but the other matriarchs believed a dark power placed her there, and thought of her as cursed from then on.

I entered the room where she found Aloy, and Aloy approached the door beyond which the Goddess was supposed to inhabit. A synthetic computer voice tried to scan my body but told my identity couldn't be verified. Teersa says I need to clear the "corruption" within for the mountain to let me open the door.

Meanwhile people just tried to assassinate me and I look like a woman wearing more normalish clothing that I have no idea why.

I have no idea what the fuck is going on but this is cool as fuck

Only 16% in


this literally sounds like a 4chan leak, where somebody claimed the protagonist is a new age jesus.

- (mother) T(h)eer(e)sa
- You were born from the goddess. (no actual mother)
 
http://imgur.com/a/nut7j


http://imgur.com/pZRzDJX

https://twitter.com/Hurricane4343/status/832746957970034688/photo/1

https://twitter.com/Hurricane4343/status/832745704787410944/photo/1

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BigEmil

Junior Member
Those are brilliant shots especially the first Imgur gallery has some gorgeous ones

I was the first to notice this detail since the trailer: and some claimed this detail can't happen ingame, but at most in the (pre-rendered) cinematics: http://pressa2join.com/news/horizon-zero-dawn-incredible-detail-showcased-in-screenshots-on-ps4-pro
Ants carrying leaves on trees very cool detail
 
Posting this here to link to the other thread


I'm going to spoiler tag all of this just in case people are super sensitive but nothing here is stuff that hasnt been shown.


These are regular PS4

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So this is the fog everyone is talking about. This changes depending on time of day, weather and so on so I will give a few examples.

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I dont care for how rain is handled in this game. First it feels like a filter comes over the screen and things get grey, this happens like a second or two before the rain starts. It always looks the same, I never see like sunny rain or anything. And its not a subtle change, its like someone turned on the water.


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But this is basically what the game looks like most of the time.

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This here is an invisible wall, I climed a mountain and hit this point and I just cant go further. Its weird cause I see items to gather in the area I cant get too.

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And some pretty stuff

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These photos...

Still can't believe an open world game looks this damn good. Also, those are probably the most impressive looking volumetric clouds I've ever seen in a game.
 
Does the game use the all the DualShock 4 features from changing colors of lightbar, sounds from monospeaker, trackpad, motion controls?
 

BigEmil

Junior Member
These photos...

Still can't believe an open world game looks this damn good. Also, those are probably the most impressive looking volumetric clouds I've ever seen in a game.
Indeed the clouds are really great it stands out, I saw some WIP tech videos and info detailing their clouds in this game Guerrilla shared before I need to look it up again
 

chozen

Member
First off, the game looks just omg. Like the colors pop my eyes dude. So good.

But about the impressions, I just hope its legit and not people in the honeymoon phase of it being a new game.

I remember the early impressions on FFXV and other games that turn out okay or meh,

hope its not the case.
 

Mubrik

Member
Posting this here to link to the other thread



So this is the fog everyone is talking about. This changes depending on time of day, weather and so on so I will give a few examples.

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I dont care for how rain is handled in this game. First it feels like a filter comes over the screen and things get grey, this happens like a second or two before the rain starts. It always looks the same, I never see like sunny rain or anything. And its not a subtle change, its like someone turned on the water.


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the rain reminds me of KZSF. lol
come on GG rain again?
they should be able to fix this easily
it seems the weather stuff is really jarring
fix this shit GG
 

Chamber

love on your sleeve
First off, the game looks just omg. Like the colors pop my eyes dude. So good.

But about the impressions, I just hope its legit and not people in the honeymoon phase of it being a new game.

I remember the early impressions on FFXV and other games that turn out okay or meh,

hope its not the case.

FFXV was awesome though. :/
 

Socivol

Member
It really really really wasn't. I'm so bitter about how terrible everything but the combat, animations and music is.

That's the thing different folks different opinions. I was one in the impressions thread that got it early I loved it and I still love it. I've never played a Final Fantasy game so long (130 hours currently), it was my first platinum trophy., loved the characters. With all things regardless of what others say your enjoyment will depend on if the game just clicks for you or not.
 

Mifec

Member
That's the thing different folks different opinions. I was one in the impressions thread that got it early I loved it and I still love it. I've never played a Final Fantasy game so long (130 hours currently), it was my first platinum trophy., loved the characters. With all things regardless of what others say your enjoyment will depend on if the game just clicks for you or not.

I'll do a big thread on why I think it's a bad game outside of the parts I mentioned when I stop being lazy. The characters are pretty meh and I couldn't get invested into them because well they have no real arcs or no real development to speak of, every single main char just exists to be an extension of Noctis except maybe Gladio who has Iris on the side. Just terrible writing. The world itself is also incredibly boring, the only cool looking things(as in final fantasy levels of cool) are the meteor while Titan is still holding it up and Altissia and the little bit of Insomnia, everything else is just eh whatever.

Hmm...these kinds of visuals in an open world RPG...The faces look better than Shadowfall. In fact the game looks better in pretty much every way than Shadowfall and it is open world...Really impressive effort.

Yeah finally an open world game that might dethrone Unity in the visual department.
 

vivekTO

Member
How interesting!

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So there are 12 vantage points in all, How much of story did the uncover ?? Is there any mission structured around it or how do you get to one?

nice night stuff.

the rain reminds me of KZSF. lol
come on GG rain again?
they should be able to fix this easily
it seems the weather stuff is really jarring
fix this shit GG

I think they run out of budget with transparency texture , you can see compromises in water textures , it looks simple mesh with moving textures.
I know it is too much to ask , but could have done something simillar to DAYS GONE Rain.
 
the rain reminds me of KZSF. lol
come on GG rain again?
they should be able to fix this easily
it seems the weather stuff is really jarring
fix this shit GG

Rain tends to be effects that are put in after most of the hardware's power is spent, I imagine Guerrilla spent most of their power limitations on the folliage and robots. The PS4 is rendering something ludicrous at any given moment so while it's a shame that this part of the game probably isn't as convincing as say MGS2, Days Gone or Zelda BoTW it's not really core to the experience.
 
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