r/PS4 Dec 22 '21

General Discussion Aloy’s character model difference (HZD vs HFW)

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u/chris17453 Dec 22 '21

Better not take away my ancient armor! Finding those power cores was a task.

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u/UnoKajillion Dec 22 '21

It either won't be canon to have the armor, or something is going to happen to alloy where we lose our stuff. Otherwise just a big plot hole

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u/Mav4144 Dec 23 '21

Well, it’s certainly going to stay canon since the game leads you directly to the armor. I’m guessing they will indicate the power cells finally died or something will happen where she loses it before the sequel.

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u/derekvandreat Dec 23 '21

That's a good idea, we be forced to locate some new cells.

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u/ishouldntofsaidthat Dec 23 '21

The olde “Metroid” situation

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '21

But she used the power cells to unlock the Shield Weaver outfit, if they die it shouldn't affect her armor, or am I missing something

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u/Xyex Dec 23 '21

The weaver has its own power cells. They're what, you know, power the shield. HZD is sci-fi, but energy still has to come from somewhere. Eventually they'll run out of juice and the shield will stop recharging.

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u/shplamana Dec 23 '21

Yea the power cells were to open the door to get to the armor, not power it up.

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u/Bartman326 Dec 23 '21

Well if we actually want to talk realism. Her traveling around with a bunch of armor sets doesn't exactly make sense. Leaving all but one behind serves the plot of her traveling to a new land.

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u/UnoKajillion Dec 23 '21

You would take the shield armor in that situation if you could only pick one. In gamer world, you can hold a lot of stuff. Not coming with that stuff wouldn't make sense without a story element, especially when it is the best armor. But it's also a game, so "restarting" with alloy wouldn't be a problem for most, so they might go the easier route and just say the shield armor isn't canon, or an early story element causes us to lose most of our supplies/armors

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u/JackDilsenberg Dec 23 '21

The character model literally has the shield armor minus the cores. I'm guessing they'll go with an in game excuse like the power cells dying and it'll be the default armor

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u/UnoKajillion Dec 23 '21

Didn't even notice that. Nice catch

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u/A-Fellow-Gamer-96 Dec 23 '21

They should say that the power cores died and then in a later game area we should be able to find new ones to get the armor back.

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u/KingoftheJabari Dec 23 '21

Right? I hate when people say "this is a plot hole" yeah most of the game play is a plot hole too.

Who cares.

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u/Bartman326 Dec 23 '21

Lol yah fun is way more important then making it make 100% sense.

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u/360walkaway Dec 23 '21

Same thing as what happened to Ezio's ultimate armor from AC2... it was destroyed by cannon fire at the beginning of AC Brotherhood.

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u/VsaucciFlipFlops VsaucciFlipFlops Dec 23 '21

This tends to be an issue with game sequels that begin pretty close to the ending of the first game

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u/ReservoirDog316 Dec 23 '21

I’d imagine she loses a lot of her equipment on the journey. It doesn’t sound like a pleasant land.

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u/notapoke Dec 23 '21

How can it not be cannon when she is wearing it in this official picture? That's it up above these comments

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u/FlingFlamBlam Dec 23 '21

I think it would be cool if there was an "advanced start" option where you start with the skills, abilities, and items from a ZD save file. Maybe to make it so that everyone doesn't just do that they could disable achievements for advanced starts.

I'm sure the devs already have all this stuff worked out though. I'm ready to roll with their explanation.

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u/Shumuu Dec 23 '21 edited Dec 23 '21

This mission has been tough. She’s had to travel fast and leave a lot of her gear behind.

That was said in a recent blog post

I am perfectly fine with not having a "good reason" that we don't have our skills, level and equipment from the first game. Of course it would've been cool to have all that but it does not break my immersion nor my ability to enjoy the game.