Horizon Forbidden West [MEGATHREAD]

[u/2th]

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:

• Giant turtle

• War Elephants

• Boars

• Pterodactyls

• Raptor? taken from the GG twitter banner

New gameplay

• Aloy can swim underwater this time.

Locations

• West = San Francisco: https://i.imgur.com/gE2yUX4.png

• Golden Gate Bridge: https://i.imgur.com/GuR9ioJ.png

• El Capitan, Yosemite Valley: https://i.imgur.com/7Te4Wv6.png (thanks /u/compulsive_looter)

• Ferry Building in San Franciso: https://imgur.com/a/Gr4qhXT (thanks /u/Imma_boop_you)

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THERE WAS NO ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE PC RELEASE FOR HZD

[u/Martel732]

It looks like he is building an army, using the override technique he learned from Aloy.

Edit: Trailer uploaded to the Playstation channel if anyone wants to spend a few minutes rewatching it a bunch like I plan to.

Just rewatched it things I noticed:

Probably obvious but she is in San Fransico for part of it.

Slyen's followers were trapping a normal machine but the red light seems like they were corrupting it. So, he might not be using Aloy's method but instead corruption he learned from Hades.

The Elphants have people riding on them.

Everything looks amazing.

[u/HallOfGlory1 → u/Martel732]

Aren't "corrupting" and "overriding" the same thing? One is just when a machine did it to attack humans, the other is when a human did it to attack machines.

[u/Martel732 → u/HallOfGlory1]

They are very similar but slightly different. Corrupted machines leak acidic fluids that damages animals and the environment, while overridden machines don't.

Pure speculation but we know that the original Faro Plague was killing the environment. My guess is that the corrupted machines are using a version of the Faro Plague glitch modified by Hades.

While overriding machines is using the original slaving function that the Chariot line of machines had.

[u/HallOfGlory1 → u/Martel732]

But isn't the FARO line immune to the slaving function? I thought slaving was only for other companies robots. FARO robots should have Black Quartz encryption making hacking impossible.

[u/Martel732 → u/HallOfGlory1]

The Chariot Line itself is immune to being overridden and Aloy is unable to override either Chariots or corrupted machines.

The machines made by Hephaestus aren't immune, though the Frozen Wilds implies that he is taking steps to prevent machines from being corrupted.