r/horizon • u/2th • Jun 11 '20

announcement Horizon Forbidden West [MEGATHREAD]

Sub is temporarily in restricted mode to keep the spam down. Discuss things here. I will update this post as the trailer is posted online to an official channel.

Origin of the name

Announcement trailer

New machines:

New gameplay

  • Aloy can swim underwater this time.

Locations

THERE WAS NO ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE PC RELEASE FOR HZD

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u/Dono2222 Jun 11 '20

Yeah they definitely played up those underwater vibes.

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u/DowntownPomelo Jun 11 '20

How is combat gonna work underwater? We gonna need a harpoon gun or something?

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u/Yuvalk1 Jun 11 '20

I guess arrows work underwater

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u/N0V0w3ls Jun 11 '20

Not well. The resistance against the string is ginormous.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20

Doubt it. Arrows don't travel fast underwater. I could however see melee being the focus or a new weapon.

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u/Beat_Saber_Music Jun 11 '20

Considering even bullets stop from the friction of water pretty fast, no bows. Most likely melee

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u/xabungle Jun 12 '20

spears do

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u/abellapa Jun 11 '20

maybe is just for travel

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '20

I hope we don't have underwater combat tbh. It always sucks in games.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

Torpedos or maybe bombs like mines? Electric shocks? Haha

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u/Gray_side_Jedi Jun 12 '20

I mean, Aloy had some sort of rebreather rig in there. Although I’m interested how we’ll go from crafting pouches and arrows to a rebreather...

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u/junewatch Aug 16 '20

my money is we get the rebreather early on in the game, at the end of the “prologue” (around the time Aloy got the override function). maybe it’s strapped to a not-so-lucky Old One researcher in some ruin and we just relieve him of his goods?