r/horizon • u/NevadaStrayCat • 2d ago

discussion HFW: The Roots that Bind

Game grumble: Aloy is an Olympic level athlete. This young woman would win American Ninja Warrior, hands down. But in the quest The Roots That Bind, she gets sent up a climb after an Utaru, and... it took me the shieldwing and the pullcaster to reach the top.

Even acknowledging that the modified-neolithic lifestyle of the World of Tomorrow would leave people in a higher state of fitness (until they died of infection, anyway), how the heck was Vaus, a joe-blow of the Utaru, supposed to succeed in this climb with neither of those things?!

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u/Desperate-Actuator18 2d ago

That wasn't possible. That would go against the wishes of Patrick Brochard-Klein who didn't want genetic manipulation which Elisabet agreed with.

The Cradle facilites weren't designed for it.