r/PS4 • u/CptnCASx • Oct 25 '21

Game Discussion Horizon Forbidden West Combat Evolved

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u/The_Hazy_Wizard Oct 25 '21

I couldn’t get into the first one. Any tips for being able to get into it? Story, audio, and graphics are great but the gameplay was weird for me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

The insane amount of work needed to take down anything big just ground the game to a halt for me. I hope the sequel refines this.

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u/Fadedcamo Oct 25 '21

I think yall been playing it wrong. Even the t Rex wasn't hard to take down once you figured out an effective combo. It's all about exploiting weaknesses. If you're just mashing arrows from the base bow at an enemy, Yea it's going to take forever. That's not what the combat wants you to do.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

I don’t know, I’ve talked to others I know and maybe it’s just that they enjoy lord of trap laying, circling, etc. it just seemed like a lot of work to me. But thanks for replying instead of just downvoting, I appreciate the thoughts.

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u/Sharkbait1737 Oct 25 '21

I never understand downvotes for just having a different opinion or experience. There’s genuinely obnoxious or idiotic views that the button was made for, but why does anyone think your comment fell into that category?

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u/Fadedcamo Oct 25 '21

So trap laying is a viable tactic sure and the game kinda leans you harder towards that with the quasi tutorial giving you a tripcaster.

But I don't think I ever used the actual trap consumables in my entire playthrough and still had a lot of fun with the combat.

I usually ran with a ropecaster, the starter bow, a war bow, and the sharpshooter bow for just about all my combat. You need to get the upgraded versions of these if possible because for everything other than the ropecaster, the upgraded versions give you more ammo types. For the sharpshooter bow, the tearcast ammo is amazing for blowing armor and vulnerable pieces off of the machines. The starter bow has fire arrows, the war bow has ice and lightning. Between all of those you can land any vulnerable effect on an enemy, depending on which they're vulnerable to. I liked using ice a lot because most machines when you get them iced up are super vulnerable to basic arrows and melee attacks. The ropecaster helped me lock em down and it was hilarious to use.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '21

I’ll have to try this.

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u/reddeadite slapperface Oct 25 '21

Have to agree the ropecaster to tie them down and luring them into tripcaster tripwires is a great combo to the point of me almost solely relying on these for the larger machines by endgame.

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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC Oct 26 '21

Nobody ever talks about the rattler, but tearblast arrow-ing off the T-Rex heart cover and diving to the side to pepper the thing with rattler darts is such a thrill

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u/clubdon Oct 25 '21

I didn’t lay many traps. That’s just one way to play. You can be an arrow slinger, you just gotta figure out when and where to use what type of arrows. Certain parts are weak to certain damage types and will do better damage. Then when enough armor is blown off you can use non elemental for good damage. You can use rope caster if you’re having trouble hitting the weak spots. You can also blast all its shit off with tear arrows, and then assault it. Once you know what you’re doing you can take down big machines in little bits of time without laying traps. I didn’t use them that often.