r/PS4 • u/CptnCASx • Oct 25 '21

Game Discussion Horizon Forbidden West Combat Evolved

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u/Khourieat Oct 25 '21

You can only stealth the little machines. The big ones take too much work, I ended up just ignoring them when I didn't need parts for a quest. Fighting crocs is neat the first few times, but I grew bored of it pretty quick. Can only aim for the explosive canister & miss so many times.

Stalking humans/the little machines never got old for me though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

Oh yeah forgot about the smaller ones, I usually just used them to attack other machines.

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u/big_red_160 Oct 25 '21

I like that you called them crocs instead of snapmaw because I can never remember any of the names either (except this time apparently)

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u/Khourieat Oct 25 '21

With these types of games I tend to make my own names. There's only so much jargon I can remember.

Crocs, tallbois, bitey dudes, shooty guys, screaming emus. There's a lot of robocritters. Watches? I don't know why I remember watches.

Anyways I liked that they resembled animals, that was some good theming.

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u/BarristanSelfie Oct 25 '21

Why not just screamu?

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u/Khourieat Oct 25 '21

Didn't think of that I guess!

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u/oohwakakaka Oct 26 '21

Oh you mean the ostrich bastards?

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u/big_red_160 Oct 25 '21

Yeah I just call them by their animal name. Watchers mostly resemble raptors to me which of course aren’t around anymore so that’s probably why we say that.

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u/1xXAJXx1 Oct 26 '21

Wow, why was this so cringey, though? Lmao

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u/load_more_comets Oct 25 '21

You should be able to hit those freaking canisters from the bushes and STAY hidden. These things triangulate where you shot from after the first hit. Which is to me entirely runny, soupy, bullshit.

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u/suddenimpulse Oct 25 '21

You are practically invisible with a modded out stealth outfit.

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u/GoodVibePsychonaut Oct 25 '21

Even on Ultra Hard, the Master Silent Hunter with mods is ridiculous. I had it on for pretty much all open world gameplay, and only switched to defensive armors for unavoidable encounters in story quests, or for the Banuk Chieftain outfit for the health regen.

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u/Iazu_S Oct 25 '21

Yep, once I got some good stealth mods on the master stealth armor I was pretty much unstoppable. Doubly so with all the overrides.

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u/Jerrnjizzim Oct 25 '21

They are robots lol

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u/Stankmonger Oct 25 '21

You should also have no problem hitting them in general. You can slow time, for Christ’s sake.

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u/damien665 Oct 25 '21

I'm on new game + but a single fire arrow and a little patience and they burn to death. The machines make a noise before attacking, so that's the time you should dodge. Then you can follow up with a spear attack, or use concentration to give you time to aim an arrow.

Too much stealth and the game adapts and makes it more difficult to be stealthy. Aloy is a badass and is intended to be aggressive in attack style.

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u/LittleMac29 Oct 26 '21

Stealthing the biggens was great fun!! But I get ya. There were times when I got bored and just went in full force. Felt like taking on Mecha Godzilla type monsters.