another option that is crucial is to turn pickup animation off. This lets you pickup things like berries and plants on the fly without having to stop. Makes the game so much better
My first thought to turning on the climbing annotations was "Oh god, that's must be horribly immersion breaking for everything to be covered in those big yellow lines", but I was pleasently surprised to see that it basically only highlights the climbable areas that are within the range of Aloy, via what the range of her focus pulse would be anyway, not literally everything in the world. So you can't stand on a cliff and look out and marvel at the beauty of the world in the distance and see gross yellow lines on everything. After realising this I was happy to leave them on, it's so much nicer that spamming the pulse constantly.
even before realizing it doesn’t show pass 10m from alloy, I made up my mind pretty quick after pressing pulse every 5 seconds for the first 10 mins of the game.
I appreciate you mentioning that because that was honestly what turned me off from turning that option on but now I might actually consider it since it’s annoying to have to click “R3” every 3-5 seconds lol
To be honest, TECHNICALLY, it's more immersive since that's probably what aloy actually sees. Like she is probably constantly seeing data instead of button mashing the focus like the player does.
Great tips. Man.. They really crushed this sequel. I mean - The first game was excellent, leaving big boots to fill. A Franchise actually learned, grew, and launched a finished product...... Surprisingly this is a rarity nowadays
I don't feel that way at all. The game is incredibly buggy. Tons of clipping, falling through objects, no anti aliasing, worse terrain traveling while mounted than the first game and horrible camera system at times compared to the first game. Being able to fly was very cool, but they introduced it so late that it was almost and afterthought. And this is still after all three patches. I'm still getting random black screen flashing which the last one was supposed to fix.
@@ryancbarrett96 I enjoyed the game but agree, a good portion of the design left me feeling unsatisfied. They added unnecessary complexity throughout and didn’t give you enough playtime for the payoff. I finished the main storyline with about half of it completed. There were so many skills that I still don’t know what most of them do or how to use them. I kept falling into a void and dying when leaving Gaia’s room at the base. One time I tried gliding and it just carried me through the void until I hit the edge of the map and died. Then the game kept freezing in the loading screen so I had to load an earlier save point to keep playing. It wasn’t that it was a bad game as much as it felt like it was abruptly cut short in its development. Maybe they cut corners to beat GoW and Elden Ring to market. If so, it wasn’t worth it because people were waiting for this game regardless of the others.
If you dodge 3 times in a row, Aloy will stumble for a second, so only dodge twice if you can. You only need like a 1 second break after 2 dodges to reset the counter
@Ching Vang That's precisely why they did it, rolling is faster than sprinting so in the first game speedrunners would roll everywhere, apparently the devs took notice lol.
Another thing that comes in handy is to set the Weapon Wheel Slowdown to "Slowest" from within General Settings. It gives you slightly more time to scroll between weapons mid-combat, especially when your wheel gets really full of weapons.
What the hell did they do with that weapon wheel? That shit looks busy as hell? Don't they have a separate toggle for different ammo types? Why the hell all the crap on the main wheel?
@@zZiL341yRj736 Quick Swap can be accessed by tapping L1 between a couple of your last equipped weapons. As far as ammo type quick swapping, I don't think so. The wheel is really busy, true, thus why the increased slowdown can come in handy in the hairier combat situations where you're simply getting flanked left and right.
@@vaiozk1539 Touché with the snobby Souls elitist reference. Considering there's no block or parry aspect to the melee combat mechanics of Horizon games, the twitchy reactionary response time Souls logic doesn't really apply here though.
Valor surge: Powershot lvl 3 in the Hunter skill tree (ridiculous damage and doesn't consume ammo for 5 shots) + Nora Thunder Armor (passive stealth ranged shot skill+2) from the Arena vendor. Combine that with stealth damage +25% coils and any decent Sharpshot bow (Forgefall maxed out being the best) is amazing.
Missed the best settings option! Turn off the "Gathering Animation" let's you pick things up without stopping. Waaayyy easier to collect materials and a life saver for tough fights
Some helpful tips in the video and in the comments! After scanning a machine you can highlight the part you want to “farm”. Also, if the part is from a “job” it’ll be marked with a quest diamond in the focus menu so you don’t have to remember the part name your looking for or where it is on the machine.
Stealth-Player here: for me, the two Valor surges from the infiltration tree where the only ones I needed and use through the game. With the stealth cover I could sneak up to any enemy (even kill multiple ones one after another on stage 3) , and with the electrocute (stage 3) I was able to kill 2-3 mounts plus their riders and one champion at once. So even if stealth failed, run around, let them gather close together and kill them of at once As for the headhunts with sniping bow, aiming for the head still made a one-shot kill on the enemy archers, for most of the others, it was enough to sneak up and kill them from behind. at last resort, one smoke bomb for distraction and into hiding and again. Worked for me even on the higher difficulties
Interesting. Always go through the settings before I start a game. I already had all of those features enabled right at the beginning of the game. You also want to turn on always run for Aloy and your mount as well. This makes getting around quicker and it will really help with the mount run always on when doing the races as well because it ultimately sucks having to smash that X button constantly to get up to speed. Thank you for the upload because these tips and tricks really do help.
The biggest use of the fast travel packs in this game, is a way to get out of areas you get trapped in. I have been trapped under trees where the branches keep you from leaving.. and there is no way to get out from under the tree. The Fast Travel pack saved me from being stuck there forever.
Thanks for the video, very helpful! 1 new tip to add in which was just added in recent patch is the ability to make picking up anything instant (no stupid stopping to bend over animation) which can be found in the settings now!!! Saves sooo much time not having to stop your movement to pick up all the plants / single item components on ground.
Another good setting was to show the collectable materials on screen always instead of having to scan every 5 seconds to find some materials on the ground
I agree this is a great game and a good follow-up to Zero Dawn. I love the customization and the different skill sets which can define different ways of playing. I don’t mind the animations at all - they are part of the amazing world. And while it’s cool to ride a machine, I would rather walk or run now and then, to see the world that has been prepared. Games like this - Oblivion, Skyrim, even the Fallout series - are full of wonder and ways to explore. I rejoice in that in all its various details.
one thing i literally just found out was that you can transmog outfits! i had no idea and love being able to wear lower level armor that i like the look of with high level stats
I think it would be really cool if the 3rd one was set on far zenith. An alien planet with strange animals and earthling machines mixed with alien like machines and even if it's still set on earth it would be cool to create, build ,customize and paint your own machines with a large variety of options
This game just absolutely floored all expectations and then some. So much so that for all its perfection, the only gripe I have is that I wish they made it so you could switch Valor Surges in real time instead of having to stick with one or dive into the skill tree just to change it. If they could give us that, combat would just be God-tier
I mean the game pauses fully when you go into menu so it doesn’t really affect the flow of combat since you still have to build up valor. At any point you are hiding to reset the aggro or whatnot you can jump in for two seconds and swap.
I don't craft them, I buy them. But like you, sometimes I'm too far from a camp, especially when exploring a new area. Sometimes, machines are too close to the camp to save. I've even gotten stuck inside walls twice and the only way out was by a travel pack.
Late to the party but will add some anyway: Have jobs for all weapon/pouch upgrades. Means you can occasionally find yourself near one on the map and highlights when merchants are selling stuff you need for an upgrade. Don't complete quests sequentially. Some jump you around between the main venues, just pick up the bits you need to do for a handful of quests when you end up at those sites.
Also during the arena section just turn the difficulty to story(very easy) and quickly go through it to get the best weapons. It wouldn’t be terrible but they charge you for each attempt and I think that’s bullshit
I discovered you can also make it so loot shows up automatically and you don't have to constantly scan. like how it is in zero dawn. I think it's in the HUD settings iirc
You can also invert R3 so that long press is area scan and quick press is the zoomed in one. Makes scanning machines mid fight much easier and quicker.
@@jaybreezy1616 I switched my settings so both of these are active, and now it feels like I am really am playing a continuation of the first game, with better things going on. Thank you both for the information
I’ve been playing this game since it’s been released and I agree with so much stuff, even working through villages with my weapon, I don’t like. But learnt so much, thanks 🙏
This is probably the best looking game I've ever seen. Also one of the best I've ever played and I loved part one and the DLC so much. I had a lot of issues with the platforming at first but I got used to it and I like to climbing a lot.
I literally hate the climbing haha, I've lost count of the amount of times Aloy has either fallen, jumped the wrong way or just completely missed where I clearly want her to go. For such a modern game, the movement is clunky af
@@davemerritt5949It's the only complaint I have about the game. The number of times Aloy wouldn't climb up a rock face, despite the Focus highlighting that she can, was beyond frustrating. If you then move back down or sideways, just fractionally, then return to the exact same spot you were in seconds before, Aloy continues to climb, no problem. The other really annoying thing about climbing is that Aloy doesn't always jump up/across a gap. Again, moving fractionally away & then back to the same spot again, Aloy will jump up/across, no problem.
Except for those stupid fireclaws…. Good grief I’m so sick of only fighting Apex models of those…. They have an absurd amount of health and trying not to damage their giant sac can be tricky in such a long fight.
@@antylucka Oh that’s not necessary. Ever since gyro aim became a thing, I purposely crank up the difficulty so I feel like I earn every step of progress. Reading my comment after a few months, what I recall is the Apex versions spawn ridiculously more than the regular ones. And the regular ones are really a cinch to pop. I just don’t know why the Apex ones had such a higher spawn rate… they definitely didn’t just spawn at night for me. Maybe it was the difficulty.
For climbing annotations I felt the opposite was true, by the time I was a few hours in I could pretty much tell what was climable just by looking at it. Climable surfaces still look slightly different to non climable this time around.
Yep, it’s something you have to focus onto to be able to tell. Amazing game man GOTY contender AGAIN This and Elden ring are the best for this year without a doubt
@@nashscheber2362 was a deadly combo after having played the last game all maxed out with the shield weaver armor and then starting this not being able to take the risky falls💀
Some tips Stuff that I’d thought I’d bring up is that I think the Nora thunder warrior is a lot more effective. I just prefer range fighting over melee, especially for machines. You can also customize the difficulty. Which you can change the damage taken from easy to very hard. And change enemy health the same way. I usually play normal damage and very hard health just cause I like when fights are longer. Jumping while aiming also very slightly will slow down time, it’s not as helpful as it was in the first game but hey it’s still there.
At 6:50 when you talk about item drops, if you change your difficulty to custom and turn on easy-loot you can get the parts while keeping other difficulty settings higher
1 big tip for any new players in 2023. Play story till you get a choice between 3 mission for finding poseidon and demether. Play these 2 to get the equipment for diving and the metal plants and after this you can explore away. These are high lvl mission but not that hard tbh. You don't even need to finish the poseidon mission for the diving mask.
If you want to get the platina trophy there is 1 big problem.You need to scan like 43 monsters in the game and there is 1 you can miss....the specter.You don't need a scan for the end boss but if you (like me) played every mission and the end boss but you need a specter your screwed in your first playtrough.I started a new game + and played the main story for 2 hrs untill you encounter the first specters in the game.This was my way to go fir my platina throphy ;-) and something i wish u new from the start.You can scan every monster in your end game but make sure you scan the Specters before you defeat the end boss.
I only watched the first 3 minutes and this video is already far more useful then any other "helpful tips and tricks" video I have seen for this game!!
Some good tips. I'm finishing Zero Dawn. I feel like it's always night. You can't see anything. It gets annoying. Glad to see they give you options in the sequel.
I just started this game, and yes I wasn’t happy with any of this new armor, I mean we could have had something that looked like the Shield Weaver armor or I don’t know maybe the Shield Weaver armor to start with. I mean most of us if not all of us watching this video had that armor. Thanks for the great video
Started playing this game a week ago and It wanted to be able to put my weapons away and I could not find a way to do it. I guess it's a pet peeve mine too. Great vid. Thanks.
The most important setting to turn on for me personally was the gyro aiming. It might take a bit to get used to but it's a game changer when trying to shot individual components. Also, since they patched it in: turning of the pick up animation is great.
It’s the only reason right now I’m playing this on the PS5. This is the most fun I’ve ever had in a game. Hard mode, gyro aiming, turn aim assist off. I can shoot birds out of the air and hit crazy long range shots, like picking off the restraining bolts from behemoths holding their giant drum. All done without any aim assist. Unfortunately, looks like this may be the last AAA game for awhile that has it on the PS5. I’ll probably get a Nexus Xim and play fps games on the Xbox from then on. Ironic the system with the best gyro will also be the only system you can’t use the gyro for most games. Just pathetic, Sony.
@@Creshex8 why do you think this will be the last one for a while? And isn't it more an issue of developers not implementing a feature? Sony screws up a lot but besides their own titles it's not on them to implement gyro aiming. 😅
@@VladTaltos01 Sony wouldn’t even support their own Move. It was supported for Infamous 2 and Killzone 2. But in the next killzone and Infamous… gone! Sony has had gyro since the PlayStation 3. And they keep putting gyros in their controllers. You think they really have no part in the lack of gyro support? It was their idea to make it part of their controllers, do you really think it wasn’t their job to encourage developers to use it or try it? Nintendo has a constantly growing gyro library. I had so much fun playing Overwatch on Switch, I’d love to play it on a more powerful system… but nothing… a gyro game where the implementation work HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE on a certain game can’t have it implemented on a different and more powerful system. Incredible and pathetic. I follow gyro news very frequently, and Forbidden West is still one of the only big AAA games with gyro. They implemented it in a grotesque manner on RE 8, where one stick is disabled, and makes the game nearly unplayable. THAT has still not even been fixed. I hope I’m wrong, I really thought Forbidden West was going to open up the floodgates for many more gyro games, but at this point, I can only hope I’m wrong about my gut feeling that it may be the last title for a long while.
There's also a quick pickup option in the settings, so you don't have to wait while picking up berries and other resources. Instead it is done instantly, which makes it soo much better
In response to the comment by dusbus2384, there is also an auto pickup option since the burning shores came out. If you don’t have the burning shores, I believe it will still work. It doesn’t add items to your stash though, just if you have room in the inventory
At least you'll be prepared for Burning Shores. I'm hoping the level cap goes to 60 like in Frozen Wilds, honestly there wasn't much I needed to know before hand. I learn as I go in Open World games, but those Ancient Ruins best to look up the walkthroughs they get tricky.
Thanks for the video tons of useful tips for a beginner! Am I missing something or does Tripple Notch not save your loaded arrows when switching weapons then switching back?
You can customize your button layout although there are parts of the game it can interfere with .. you can just switch lay out to default complete the part then switch back to coustome lay out
@@justinc.242 so there are parts of the game that have pre determined button prompts .. these promps don't show up as conflicts when customizing your button lay out ... if you run into this simply go back into controls and switch from custom. To default lay out complete the task then if you want switch back to the custom layout option
You didn’t have to craft a bunch of fast travel packs in HZD either. Early on merchants sell an unlimited fast travel pack for like 50 shards. I’ve made more fast travel packs in this game than I EVER did in HZD. I probably made like 10 in HZD
Oh... to get the parts you want to drop off monsters there is an easier way. If you know what monster drops it, once you spot one turn the game difficulty down to Story Mode and when you kill it (very, very easily I must say) and then loot it you get every single thing it drops which you would normaly have to shoot off. Then turn the difficulty back up if you so please.
@@Lexterrific Well you don't do it constanstly but just if you don't have any luck getting the item you need for that upgrade you really want to get. :p
Started this game about a week ago , I'm not too far into the story , and it's my first time playing this type of games where you craft things collect items and such , and I feel like such a noob having hard time understanding it lol
Here’s a little trick I learned when level 50 you have 700 health so consume a large health potion that will over heal you to 1138 health (I think) then consume a local stew that will increase your health even more then put the shield valor surge on then you’ll have just over 1600 health
Is there a way to stop the second promp for you to hit Triangle again to "Take All," after using Triangle the first time? I like to punch who ever the fuck came up with this system, just let me take all the first time.
If on PS5, the gyroaiming option really allows for quicker and more precise aiming! Took me a little bit of practice to get used to it, and you can adjust the sensitivity, wether its pitch or yaw or both etc etc - but it really helps alot!
I just got into this game on ps plus never played the first one and honestly i downloaded the game a couple months back and played about 25 min or so and deleted the game it didn't really suck me in and i noticed it on there again the other day and i figured screw it I'll play for a couple hours and if i still don't like it I'll give up on it and about 50 min to an hour in i was hooked it really starts slow but if you get through that the game so far is a gem I'm only about 3 hours in or so but the taking off the pick up animations was a game changer for me. I did turn on the climbable highlight but i don't think that one is a must but the animations one for pick ups is huge and i 100% recomend this game to anyone who hasn't yet played it, it's free on ps plus not sure if i would've bought it at the store or not but for free this is a must play if you own a ps5
I got the 1st new console I could find when the current gen came out and that was an XSX but always intended to get PS5 but I’ve only just finally bought one. I can see why everyone loves this game. Very beautiful and well made. But even though it’s generally subjective I sort of can’t believe the voice of Eloy. Eloi? Our protagonist. She is 50% breath! “HHHHHH I’ll have to find another way up HHHHHHHH” “HHHHHHHHH it’s going to be difficult HHHH but I don’t have a choice HHHHHHHH” It’s kind of terrible and I can’t believe not many people had any problem with it! Spectacularly not good IMO. But anyway it hasn’t stopped me from playing so I needed this video and appreciate your clarity and precision in your presentation. Nice work👍
Good tips! I wish I could’ve predicted the pacing better. I finished the main storyline way to fast. I had so much left to do that I thought the Singlarity quest was a halfway point and it was extremely disappointing when I realized the game was over. I still had a Couldrine to unlock, hadn’t even opened the Arena, didn’t do any hunting lodges, and only a couple malee pit challenges. I haven’t even unlocked all the Tallnecks. Idk, I loved the game but wish they would have made more side quests/milestones part of the main story path so you can’t finish with half the game unplayed. I’ll probably do more quests but it’s not the same once you finish.
in fairness, they give you a recommended level indicator for each mission, story or side. I can't speak for FW as i'm yet to finish it, but for ZD that definitely ensured I finished every side quest before the main storyline, as I could see when I was progressing the story too quickly relative to the recommended levels of my side quests
To me, the motion controls are essential while aiming. That's just too good to not be activated. I've always heard people saying that the Warrior Bow was the best weapon in the game, but I always found it badly, then I decided to apply the instant frost chances into it, and after you add three of them into that, you're done with any machine as long as you're closer to them. That's incredible actually. Now I also think that's the best weapon in the game, but only late game, since the weaves and coils with isntant stuff are expensive and are found in the far west.
As a long time DOOM Eternal player, that quick swap feature saved my life countless times. It should’ve been on by default and tutorialized. I’m baffled that it’s off by default.
I create jobs (without activating) for all the weapons & pouches I want to upgrade. That way when you are at various vendors, the items you need are automatically marked in their inventory. You don't have to try and remember, did I need a rollerback hammer tail or fireclaw sac webbing?
The best valor surge in the game is actually berserk blast including dlcs and then not including dlcs radial blast Severely damages and stuns 😊 Pretty good
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another option that is crucial is to turn pickup animation off. This lets you pickup things like berries and plants on the fly without having to stop. Makes the game so much better
Where can we turn it off ?
Dus Bus you are the best !!! Thank you!!
omg this 1000x. coming from elden ring that animation felt so obtuse
@@Blaze9.58 in the settings
Thank you
My first thought to turning on the climbing annotations was "Oh god, that's must be horribly immersion breaking for everything to be covered in those big yellow lines", but I was pleasently surprised to see that it basically only highlights the climbable areas that are within the range of Aloy, via what the range of her focus pulse would be anyway, not literally everything in the world. So you can't stand on a cliff and look out and marvel at the beauty of the world in the distance and see gross yellow lines on everything. After realising this I was happy to leave them on, it's so much nicer that spamming the pulse constantly.
even before realizing it doesn’t show pass 10m from alloy, I made up my mind pretty quick after pressing pulse every 5 seconds for the first 10 mins of the game.
Agree!
I appreciate you mentioning that because that was honestly what turned me off from turning that option on but now I might actually consider it since it’s annoying to have to click “R3” every 3-5 seconds lol
To be honest, TECHNICALLY, it's more immersive since that's probably what aloy actually sees. Like she is probably constantly seeing data instead of button mashing the focus like the player does.
Great tips.
Man.. They really crushed this sequel. I mean - The first game was excellent, leaving big boots to fill. A Franchise actually learned, grew, and launched a finished product...... Surprisingly this is a rarity nowadays
It's extremely rare and almost non-existent. This is definitely the best sequel to any game I've ever played.
I don't feel that way at all. The game is incredibly buggy. Tons of clipping, falling through objects, no anti aliasing, worse terrain traveling while mounted than the first game and horrible camera system at times compared to the first game. Being able to fly was very cool, but they introduced it so late that it was almost and afterthought. And this is still after all three patches. I'm still getting random black screen flashing which the last one was supposed to fix.
@@ryancbarrett96 I enjoyed the game but agree, a good portion of the design left me feeling unsatisfied. They added unnecessary complexity throughout and didn’t give you enough playtime for the payoff. I finished the main storyline with about half of it completed. There were so many skills that I still don’t know what most of them do or how to use them. I kept falling into a void and dying when leaving Gaia’s room at the base. One time I tried gliding and it just carried me through the void until I hit the edge of the map and died. Then the game kept freezing in the loading screen so I had to load an earlier save point to keep playing. It wasn’t that it was a bad game as much as it felt like it was abruptly cut short in its development. Maybe they cut corners to beat GoW and Elden Ring to market. If so, it wasn’t worth it because people were waiting for this game regardless of the others.
Yes, great game. As for being a finished product... that's because UbiSoft didn't have anything to do with it.
@@CyJobes LOL - GOTTEM.
....It's so true though
If you dodge 3 times in a row, Aloy will stumble for a second, so only dodge twice if you can. You only need like a 1 second break after 2 dodges to reset the counter
@Ching Vang That's precisely why they did it, rolling is faster than sprinting so in the first game speedrunners would roll everywhere, apparently the devs took notice lol.
omg this explains so much!! i was getting so annoyed during big fights
If you find armor with the "evader" perk, you can dodge roll without stumbling!
@@nekogod That's exactly what I did lol. Poor Aloy must have had a constant concussion.
Whaaaaat
Another thing that comes in handy is to set the Weapon Wheel Slowdown to "Slowest" from within General Settings. It gives you slightly more time to scroll between weapons mid-combat, especially when your wheel gets really full of weapons.
What the hell did they do with that weapon wheel? That shit looks busy as hell? Don't they have a separate toggle for different ammo types? Why the hell all the crap on the main wheel?
yes you can do that or otherwise git gud
@@zZiL341yRj736 Quick Swap can be accessed by tapping L1 between a couple of your last equipped weapons. As far as ammo type quick swapping, I don't think so. The wheel is really busy, true, thus why the increased slowdown can come in handy in the hairier combat situations where you're simply getting flanked left and right.
@@vaiozk1539 Touché with the snobby Souls elitist reference. Considering there's no block or parry aspect to the melee combat mechanics of Horizon games, the twitchy reactionary response time Souls logic doesn't really apply here though.
@@vicentesalasii1480 it literally meant to get good and this applies to every game. haven't played a single souls btw.
Valor surge: Powershot lvl 3 in the Hunter skill tree (ridiculous damage and doesn't consume ammo for 5 shots) + Nora Thunder Armor (passive stealth ranged shot skill+2) from the Arena vendor. Combine that with stealth damage +25% coils and any decent Sharpshot bow (Forgefall maxed out being the best) is amazing.
Missed the best settings option! Turn off the "Gathering Animation" let's you pick things up without stopping. Waaayyy easier to collect materials and a life saver for tough fights
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Some helpful tips in the video and in the comments! After scanning a machine you can highlight the part you want to “farm”. Also, if the part is from a “job” it’ll be marked with a quest diamond in the focus menu so you don’t have to remember the part name your looking for or where it is on the machine.
Stealth-Player here: for me, the two Valor surges from the infiltration tree where the only ones I needed and use through the game. With the stealth cover I could sneak up to any enemy (even kill multiple ones one after another on stage 3) , and with the electrocute (stage 3) I was able to kill 2-3 mounts plus their riders and one champion at once. So even if stealth failed, run around, let them gather close together and kill them of at once
As for the headhunts with sniping bow, aiming for the head still made a one-shot kill on the enemy archers, for most of the others, it was enough to sneak up and kill them from behind. at last resort, one smoke bomb for distraction and into hiding and again.
Worked for me even on the higher difficulties
Interesting. Always go through the settings before I start a game. I already had all of those features enabled right at the beginning of the game. You also want to turn on always run for Aloy and your mount as well. This makes getting around quicker and it will really help with the mount run always on when doing the races as well because it ultimately sucks having to smash that X button constantly to get up to speed. Thank you for the upload because these tips and tricks really do help.
You can push the toggle button forward after its up to speed on ps4 and it will stay at that speed
The biggest use of the fast travel packs in this game, is a way to get out of areas you get trapped in. I have been trapped under trees where the branches keep you from leaving.. and there is no way to get out from under the tree. The Fast Travel pack saved me from being stuck there forever.
That happened in Assassin's creed lol not yet here. I have used the same mechanism to get out lol.. I know the struggle
THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING THE CHARGE ATTACK. I could not figure that out how to use that. Now it makes sense. thnx!
You can knock multiple arrows into multiple bows before a battle, to have a big amount of burst at the beginning of a fight.
This is especially useful for quickly getting an elemental effect onto an enemy.
Thanks for the video, very helpful! 1 new tip to add in which was just added in recent patch is the ability to make picking up anything instant (no stupid stopping to bend over animation) which can be found in the settings now!!! Saves sooo much time not having to stop your movement to pick up all the plants / single item components on ground.
How??
@@SteoCroazdell found in the 'general' settings menu, named 'pickup animations'.
Your a little late someone already mentioned that in the comments
Nice tip!
Another good setting was to show the collectable materials on screen always instead of having to scan every 5 seconds to find some materials on the ground
Where is this setting? Im nor finding it. Im on PS4.
@@Derbonic it is under the custom hud settings it's called interaction markers turn it to always on
@@MoonShineMosis thanks man I used to spam scan after battles until my thumb hurt to find all the loot lmao I must have ocd
@@insanezain2 I'm doing that now lol
I agree this is a great game and a good follow-up to Zero Dawn. I love the customization and the different skill sets which can define different ways of playing. I don’t mind the animations at all - they are part of the amazing world. And while it’s cool to ride a machine, I would rather walk or run now and then, to see the world that has been prepared. Games like this - Oblivion, Skyrim, even the Fallout series - are full of wonder and ways to explore. I rejoice in that in all its various details.
This is one of those games you can take it all in like Ghosts of Tsushima.
one thing i literally just found out was that you can transmog outfits! i had no idea and love being able to wear lower level armor that i like the look of with high level stats
I think it would be really cool if the 3rd one was set on far zenith. An alien planet with strange animals and earthling machines mixed with alien like machines and even if it's still set on earth it would be cool to create, build ,customize and paint your own machines with a large variety of options
I like to change the setting that allows longer focus( slows time when pressing L3) to help get a more accurate shots.
This game just absolutely floored all expectations and then some. So much so that for all its perfection, the only gripe I have is that I wish they made it so you could switch Valor Surges in real time instead of having to stick with one or dive into the skill tree just to change it. If they could give us that, combat would just be God-tier
I mean the game pauses fully when you go into menu so it doesn’t really affect the flow of combat since you still have to build up valor. At any point you are hiding to reset the aggro or whatnot you can jump in for two seconds and swap.
L1 and R2 combo for charging your weapon is crazy good! Thanks a lot
I still craft fast travel packs because after certain story moments, you CAN be stuck far from a camp fire
I don't craft them, I buy them. But like you, sometimes I'm too far from a camp, especially when exploring a new area. Sometimes, machines are too close to the camp to save. I've even gotten stuck inside walls twice and the only way out was by a travel pack.
Late to the party but will add some anyway:
Have jobs for all weapon/pouch upgrades. Means you can occasionally find yourself near one on the map and highlights when merchants are selling stuff you need for an upgrade.
Don't complete quests sequentially. Some jump you around between the main venues, just pick up the bits you need to do for a handful of quests when you end up at those sites.
Hands down the best tips and tricks video for this game I have come across. Others were fine.. but I actually got something from yours.
Also during the arena section just turn the difficulty to story(very easy) and quickly go through it to get the best weapons. It wouldn’t be terrible but they charge you for each attempt and I think that’s bullshit
The Perk Points are a good tip. I wasn't sure if there was a cap or not. Thanks!
I discovered you can also make it so loot shows up automatically and you don't have to constantly scan. like how it is in zero dawn. I think it's in the HUD settings iirc
You can also invert R3 so that long press is area scan and quick press is the zoomed in one. Makes scanning machines mid fight much easier and quicker.
@@jaybreezy1616 I switched my settings so both of these are active, and now it feels like I am really am playing a continuation of the first game, with better things going on. Thank you both for the information
I’ve been playing this game since it’s been released and I agree with so much stuff, even working through villages with my weapon, I don’t like. But learnt so much, thanks 🙏
If God Of War comes out this year, Forbidden West is going to be a HARD game to beat for GOTY.
💯
Elden ring is going to right up there too
@@jakeallen476 Haven't been able to play because it's a buggy mess.
GOTY 2022 will be really interesting, unlike last years
@@danieldevito6380 are you on ps4?
This is probably the best looking game I've ever seen. Also one of the best I've ever played and I loved part one and the DLC so much. I had a lot of issues with the platforming at first but I got used to it and I like to climbing a lot.
I literally hate the climbing haha, I've lost count of the amount of times Aloy has either fallen, jumped the wrong way or just completely missed where I clearly want her to go. For such a modern game, the movement is clunky af
@@davemerritt5949It's the only complaint I have about the game. The number of times Aloy wouldn't climb up a rock face, despite the Focus highlighting that she can, was beyond frustrating. If you then move back down or sideways, just fractionally, then return to the exact same spot you were in seconds before, Aloy continues to climb, no problem. The other really annoying thing about climbing is that Aloy doesn't always jump up/across a gap. Again, moving fractionally away & then back to the same spot again, Aloy will jump up/across, no problem.
1 year later but I'm playing it right now and geez... amazing scenario
Dude you ROCK! Thanks for these awesome spoiler free tips. Seriously!
Something they don’t tell you is apex machines spawn at night so time skips are helpful for farming spec parts as well
Except for those stupid fireclaws…. Good grief I’m so sick of only fighting Apex models of those…. They have an absurd amount of health and trying not to damage their giant sac can be tricky in such a long fight.
@@Creshex8 I know this is 4 months old, but I recommend turning on the Story difficulty when you're farming those guys for parts
@@antylucka Oh that’s not necessary. Ever since gyro aim became a thing, I purposely crank up the difficulty so I feel like I earn every step of progress. Reading my comment after a few months, what I recall is the Apex versions spawn ridiculously more than the regular ones. And the regular ones are really a cinch to pop. I just don’t know why the Apex ones had such a higher spawn rate… they definitely didn’t just spawn at night for me. Maybe it was the difficulty.
For climbing annotations I felt the opposite was true, by the time I was a few hours in I could pretty much tell what was climable just by looking at it. Climable surfaces still look slightly different to non climable this time around.
I noticed there is a light film of yellow lichen on most if not all rock surfaces where you can climb.
Yep, it’s something you have to focus onto to be able to tell. Amazing game man GOTY contender AGAIN
This and Elden ring are the best for this year without a doubt
What I love about both Horizon games is you can climb on pretty much anything by just jumping on Ledges.
@@nashscheber2362 was a deadly combo after having played the last game all maxed out with the shield weaver armor and then starting this not being able to take the risky falls💀
Some tips Stuff that I’d thought I’d bring up is that I think the Nora thunder warrior is a lot more effective. I just prefer range fighting over melee, especially for machines.
You can also customize the difficulty. Which you can change the damage taken from easy to very hard. And change enemy health the same way. I usually play normal damage and very hard health just cause I like when fights are longer.
Jumping while aiming also very slightly will slow down time, it’s not as helpful as it was in the first game but hey it’s still there.
Good tips thanxs man!
Nice tips. I was wondering what the best bow was and the option to take off your headgear was a gem 👌🏻
At 6:50 when you talk about item drops, if you change your difficulty to custom and turn on easy-loot you can get the parts while keeping other difficulty settings higher
Great video. Gonna have to use that mount cruise control 👍🏾
Just started Forbidden West, and this is a great starter video. Thank you!
Wow, these are actually SUPER helpful tips! I can't believe I never knew about the quick-swap! That sounds really fun!
1 big tip for any new players in 2023. Play story till you get a choice between 3 mission for finding poseidon and demether. Play these 2 to get the equipment for diving and the metal plants and after this you can explore away. These are high lvl mission but not that hard tbh. You don't even need to finish the poseidon mission for the diving mask.
Thank you! This helped a lot!!! ❤
If you want to get the platina trophy there is 1 big problem.You need to scan like 43 monsters in the game and there is 1 you can miss....the specter.You don't need a scan for the end boss but if you (like me) played every mission and the end boss but you need a specter your screwed in your first playtrough.I started a new game + and played the main story for 2 hrs untill you encounter the first specters in the game.This was my way to go fir my platina throphy ;-) and something i wish u new from the start.You can scan every monster in your end game but make sure you scan the Specters before you defeat the end boss.
I only watched the first 3 minutes and this video is already far more useful then any other "helpful tips and tricks" video I have seen for this game!!
Some good tips. I'm finishing Zero Dawn. I feel like it's always night. You can't see anything. It gets annoying. Glad to see they give you options in the sequel.
Thanks for these tips, very helpful!
This is super helpful! Thank you!
ty for the tips! im only around 12-13% into the game right now and i might consider 100% it !
Thanks for much for the tips bro! I just started the game.
Hey i watch your vids 😂
Karl bhai in every game video comment section I am looking at is the best easter egg ever
@@itsPCSteve thanks!
@@M3sngR I’m glad 🙂
I’m 😅going through😅😅😅u
Thank you for all your tips and I love the tips in the comments too ❤
Great video mate. New sub!
This is the best tips video Good job mate and thank you.
here's a good one for some
Accessibility > Auto Sprint on Foot / Mount
No more clicking the L3 button to sprint.
Thank you very much. I miss most of your tips but as i am only after Latopolis, i don’t have to start over to use all that
I just started this game, and yes I wasn’t happy with any of this new armor, I mean we could have had something that looked like the Shield Weaver armor or I don’t know maybe the Shield Weaver armor to start with. I mean most of us if not all of us watching this video had that armor. Thanks for the great video
Amazing tips. Thank you!
Started playing this game a week ago and It wanted to be able to put my weapons away and I could not find a way to do it. I guess it's a pet peeve mine too.
Great vid. Thanks.
The most important setting to turn on for me personally was the gyro aiming. It might take a bit to get used to but it's a game changer when trying to shot individual components. Also, since they patched it in: turning of the pick up animation is great.
It’s the only reason right now I’m playing this on the PS5. This is the most fun I’ve ever had in a game. Hard mode, gyro aiming, turn aim assist off. I can shoot birds out of the air and hit crazy long range shots, like picking off the restraining bolts from behemoths holding their giant drum. All done without any aim assist.
Unfortunately, looks like this may be the last AAA game for awhile that has it on the PS5. I’ll probably get a Nexus Xim and play fps games on the Xbox from then on. Ironic the system with the best gyro will also be the only system you can’t use the gyro for most games. Just pathetic, Sony.
@@Creshex8 why do you think this will be the last one for a while?
And isn't it more an issue of developers not implementing a feature? Sony screws up a lot but besides their own titles it's not on them to implement gyro aiming. 😅
@@VladTaltos01 Sony wouldn’t even support their own Move. It was supported for Infamous 2 and Killzone 2. But in the next killzone and Infamous… gone! Sony has had gyro since the PlayStation 3. And they keep putting gyros in their controllers. You think they really have no part in the lack of gyro support? It was their idea to make it part of their controllers, do you really think it wasn’t their job to encourage developers to use it or try it? Nintendo has a constantly growing gyro library. I had so much fun playing Overwatch on Switch, I’d love to play it on a more powerful system… but nothing… a gyro game where the implementation work HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE on a certain game can’t have it implemented on a different and more powerful system. Incredible and pathetic.
I follow gyro news very frequently, and Forbidden West is still one of the only big AAA games with gyro. They implemented it in a grotesque manner on RE 8, where one stick is disabled, and makes the game nearly unplayable. THAT has still not even been fixed.
I hope I’m wrong, I really thought Forbidden West was going to open up the floodgates for many more gyro games, but at this point, I can only hope I’m wrong about my gut feeling that it may be the last title for a long while.
What does Gyro aiming do
Damn, I REALLY wish I knew that energizing trick earlier on. So much free damage I’ve missed…
Congrats man, you explain very well, tks for sharing
There's also a quick pickup option in the settings, so you don't have to wait while picking up berries and other resources. Instead it is done instantly, which makes it soo much better
Oy, learning this tip only _after_ recently finishing the game... 😔
Wow man I didn’t know any of this! I just started my second play through and will be doing all of the suggestions 😊
Great vid. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks man just got the game will be using these
You can put the game on custom, put it on hard and select auto loot, then no matter what you always get loot.
You can also just hit the dodge roll button after holding R2 to keep charging your spear quickly, no need to change your settings
Thank you that really did help I appreciate you
In response to the comment by dusbus2384, there is also an auto pickup option since the burning shores came out. If you don’t have the burning shores, I believe it will still work. It doesn’t add items to your stash though, just if you have room in the inventory
At least you'll be prepared for Burning Shores. I'm hoping the level cap goes to 60 like in Frozen Wilds, honestly there wasn't much I needed to know before hand. I learn as I go in Open World games, but those Ancient Ruins best to look up the walkthroughs they get tricky.
Lotsa good info here TYSM!
Better to play at night because Apex machines always spawn at night and it's also easier to scan for rebels at their bases.
Thanks for the video tons of useful tips for a beginner! Am I missing something or does Tripple Notch not save your loaded arrows when switching weapons then switching back?
Quick tip: gathering is everything. I am lvl 35 and I just realised that my biggest problem is lack of arrows.
nice i just got it on my birthday thanks for these
U da 🐐 for this one bro 💪🏾
You can customize your button layout although there are parts of the game it can interfere with .. you can just switch lay out to default complete the part then switch back to coustome lay out
Everyone always says that something exists but doesn't explain where to find it, can you please elaborate?
@@justinc.242 so there are parts of the game that have pre determined button prompts .. these promps don't show up as conflicts when customizing your button lay out ... if you run into this simply go back into controls and switch from custom. To default lay out complete the task then if you want switch back to the custom layout option
You didn’t have to craft a bunch of fast travel packs in HZD either. Early on merchants sell an unlimited fast travel pack for like 50 shards. I’ve made more fast travel packs in this game than I EVER did in HZD. I probably made like 10 in HZD
Same. That golden fast travel pack was the first thing I really did in HZD.
I was really hoping for an unlimited fast travel item in the sequel too...
If you press circle as you are zipping up to a grapple point, you will launch into the air as soon as you reach it, a la Arkham Knight
I just got the platinum yesterday and I'm moving on to other games, so this is the perfect time to watch this Kappa
The way you say "metals" is the cutest thing ever 🖤🤭
Oh... to get the parts you want to drop off monsters there is an easier way. If you know what monster drops it, once you spot one turn the game difficulty down to Story Mode and when you kill it (very, very easily I must say) and then loot it you get every single thing it drops which you would normaly have to shoot off. Then turn the difficulty back up if you so please.
That's not fun at all what the fuck lol
u have skill issue my friend
Eh? Isn't that boring?
@@Lexterrific Well you don't do it constanstly but just if you don't have any luck getting the item you need for that upgrade you really want to get. :p
He says this in the video though...
Started this game about a week ago , I'm not too far into the story , and it's my first time playing this type of games where you craft things collect items and such , and I feel like such a noob having hard time understanding it lol
Here’s a little trick I learned when level 50 you have 700 health so consume a large health potion that will over heal you to 1138 health (I think) then consume a local stew that will increase your health even more then put the shield valor surge on then you’ll have just over 1600 health
Is there a way to stop the second promp for you to hit Triangle again to "Take All," after using Triangle the first time? I like to punch who ever the fuck came up with this system, just let me take all the first time.
@@zZiL341yRj736 I may just be my reading but I’m not sure what your meaning because I’d like to help if I can
thanks done about 10% of the game was struggling a little playing on hardest difficulty, your tips should help. thanks
The braced shot weapon technique with the powershot valor surge makes you almost unstoppable. Eat some fittingfood and you are pretty much unstoppable
If on PS5, the gyroaiming option really allows for quicker and more precise aiming! Took me a little bit of practice to get used to it, and you can adjust the sensitivity, wether its pitch or yaw or both etc etc - but it really helps alot!
its on the ps4 aswell
@@jespermelin1266 ah nice - I wasn’t sure! :)
Turn off aim assist too. The all your kills will be completely due to your own skill.
I just got into this game on ps plus never played the first one and honestly i downloaded the game a couple months back and played about 25 min or so and deleted the game it didn't really suck me in and i noticed it on there again the other day and i figured screw it I'll play for a couple hours and if i still don't like it I'll give up on it and about 50 min to an hour in i was hooked it really starts slow but if you get through that the game so far is a gem I'm only about 3 hours in or so but the taking off the pick up animations was a game changer for me. I did turn on the climbable highlight but i don't think that one is a must but the animations one for pick ups is huge and i 100% recomend this game to anyone who hasn't yet played it, it's free on ps plus not sure if i would've bought it at the store or not but for free this is a must play if you own a ps5
Thanks for the tips 👍
I got the 1st new console I could find when the current gen came out and that was an XSX but always intended to get PS5 but I’ve only just finally bought one.
I can see why everyone loves this game.
Very beautiful and well made.
But even though it’s generally subjective I sort of can’t believe the voice of Eloy. Eloi? Our protagonist.
She is 50% breath!
“HHHHHH I’ll have to find another way up HHHHHHHH”
“HHHHHHHHH it’s going to be difficult HHHH but I don’t have a choice HHHHHHHH”
It’s kind of terrible and I can’t believe not many people had any problem with it!
Spectacularly not good IMO.
But anyway it hasn’t stopped me from playing so I needed this video and appreciate your clarity and precision in your presentation. Nice work👍
thanks bro good tips!
Good tips! I wish I could’ve predicted the pacing better. I finished the main storyline way to fast. I had so much left to do that I thought the Singlarity quest was a halfway point and it was extremely disappointing when I realized the game was over. I still had a Couldrine to unlock, hadn’t even opened the Arena, didn’t do any hunting lodges, and only a couple malee pit challenges. I haven’t even unlocked all the Tallnecks. Idk, I loved the game but wish they would have made more side quests/milestones part of the main story path so you can’t finish with half the game unplayed. I’ll probably do more quests but it’s not the same once you finish.
in fairness, they give you a recommended level indicator for each mission, story or side. I can't speak for FW as i'm yet to finish it, but for ZD that definitely ensured I finished every side quest before the main storyline, as I could see when I was progressing the story too quickly relative to the recommended levels of my side quests
To me, the motion controls are essential while aiming. That's just too good to not be activated.
I've always heard people saying that the Warrior Bow was the best weapon in the game, but I always found it badly, then I decided to apply the instant frost chances into it, and after you add three of them into that, you're done with any machine as long as you're closer to them. That's incredible actually. Now I also think that's the best weapon in the game, but only late game, since the weaves and coils with isntant stuff are expensive and are found in the far west.
I recommend turning pickup animations off so you can grab and go
That melee weapons charge is BIG BRAIN move
Thank you! This help
3:25 I’m the same way and it’s been bothering me lol Now I know how to put my weapon away, finally
Did my first playthrough on very hard can't wait for ultra hard
As a long time DOOM Eternal player, that quick swap feature saved my life countless times. It should’ve been on by default and tutorialized. I’m baffled that it’s off by default.
I create jobs (without activating) for all the weapons & pouches I want to upgrade. That way when you are at various vendors, the items you need are automatically marked in their inventory. You don't have to try and remember, did I need a rollerback hammer tail or fireclaw sac webbing?
recommend turning Auto pickup on in settings
The best valor surge in the game is actually berserk blast including dlcs and then not including dlcs radial blast Severely damages and stuns 😊 Pretty good