Horizon II: Forbidden West (PS5/PS4) | PC - March 21, 2024

[Malithar]

You can change it in options so that climbing points are visible at all times, pinging constantly can go to hell.

Oh shit, I'll be rechecking the options to find that then.

Constrained inventory system, you say? Phew. I was worried they might have actually improved one of the most aggravating things about the first game.

How are the haptic controls and that stuff? I think simply better performance is enough for me to wait to play this on PS5 anyway, but I'd been curious how well they implemented that for this.

The inventory is actually much improved, just slightly annoying. My mention about constrained inventory was totally aimed at the first game. Your bag can only hold x amount of whatever material, but anything looted over that amount gets thrown into your stash which you access in settlements/towns. You can just hold square once you open it and it'll auto fill your inventory with the max amount of everything. So far for me, it's only really come into play when I got about half a dozen weapons to upgrade and needed to go refill after fully upgrading like 5 of them. Beyond that, you can happily loot thousands (I assume? I've got like 900 in the stash) of drift wood without worrying that you've clogged your inventory.

One area that seems to have taken a big step back concerning inventory is potions. You can only hold 4 total potions, not 4 of each, just 4 period. It can be upgraded, but idk how far. I'm at 5 right now, I'd assume maybe 8-10 total? Still annoying to have to pick if you want all health potions, or if you wanna eat up those valuable slots with situational status potions. Elemental stuff seems a lot more fleshed out, so maybe the mid to late potion game is also fleshed out. Right now, my choices are a weak health potion, one that bumps overdraw damage (dunno what that is), and one that clears elemental effects and gives you resistance for like 30 seconds.

Haptics aren't ground breaking, but they're fine. You can feel the notching/full pull of a bow, different resistances depending on the weapon, and you get some decent feedback when you're in the stealth grass. It's not Astro's Playroom levels of immersion, but it's par for the course. The controller's speaker gets a full work out though, they did good with it, with all sorts of effects being echoed or enhanced through it.

[Vil]

Oh cool. The stash thing sounds like a good step. By midway through the first game I got to be pretty active about making space in inventory before setting out to do things. Nice to know that wouldn't be so necessary, at least not frequently.

[Laugana]

Quick question, if you’ve completed the first game does having a save file help you at all, or do you start from scratch regardless?

[NynJa]

Anyone else get crazy lag fighting the first Tideripper on ps5?

edit: killed the machine and restarted my ps5 and the problem went away. The post-fight NPC's were in the wrong spot and wound up moving when I restarted the game. Weird.

[Gokulo]

Quick question, if you’ve completed the first game does having a save file help you at all, or do you start from scratch regardless?

There's no save transfer

[Souj]

Quick question, if you’ve completed the first game does having a save file help you at all, or do you start from scratch regardless?

"I lost all my gear."
Literally the line they throw in at the beginning of the game.

[Gokulo]

Well, they released a patch, so will check out later today if it fixes any problems I've been having

[6souls]

Well, they released a patch

v1.05

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KNOWN ISSUES

We are currently looking into several issues reported by the community:

• The team is investigating with high priority, several graphical issues reported by players regarding shimmering, sharpening and screen saturation when moving the camera.
• Some players are experiencing an issue with infinite loading screens when attempting to load into Melee Pits.
• Some players are experiencing an issue where Aloy’s outfit appears blurry in Photo Mode.
• Some players are experiencing an issue in main quest ‘Reach for the Stars’ where Aloy can’t interact with a machine carcass, blocking progression.

FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS

• Main Quests
  
  • Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Reach for the Stars’ where reloading a certain auto-save after completing the first quest could block progression.
  • Fixed an issue during interlude ‘The Eye of the Earth’ where Aloy could fall out of the world after skipping a cinematic.
  • Fixed an issue in main quest ‘Cradle of Echoes’ where Varl would wander off on a reload from save.
  • Fixed an issue in main quest ‘The Sea of Sands’ affecting several grapple points.
• Side Quests and Errands
  
  • Fixed an issue in side quest ‘Blood Choke’ where Atekka would appear to fall out of the sky.
  • Fixed a progression issue in side quest ‘In The Fog’ related to fast travel during the quest.
  • Fixed an issue in errand quest ‘Night of Lights’ where a pullable box could get stuck and block the quest progression.
• World activities
  
  • Fixed an issue where Relic Ruin: The Daunt could not be started in certain circumstances.
  • Fixed an issue in salvage contract The Greenswell: Plowhorn and the Plants where an optional objective could not be completed if the required item was sent to the player stash.
  • A rogue Tallneck near The Stand of the Sentinels that would sometimes change the direction of its route has been disciplined.
• Gameplay fixes
  
  • The Second Chance skill should now work correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where the camera had an unintended position when using certain weapon techniques.
• General fixes
  
  • Image oversharpening in HDR mode has been corrected.
  • Fixed an issue where some settlements would stream in, then stream out in certain circumstances.
  • Fixed an issue where the HUD would flicker when the player performs a loot action.
  • Fixed an issue where rapidly opening and closing the map could cause graphical anomalies.
  • Fixed an issue where Aloy's animation would sometimes jitter rapidly when climbing after picking up a plant has been fixed.
  • Fixed a global issue where the direction of Aloy's gaze, or that of certain NPCs, was incorrect.
  • Fixed several instances where Aloy, NPCs or enemies could get stuck in geometry.
  • Fixed an issue where roads and icons on the map would sometimes appear with a delay.
  • Fixed several streaming issues and unintended loading screens.
  • NPCs that seemed to suffer from insomnia and would gather in large groups at night in settlements should act more naturally now.
  • Petra will no longer teleport into her seat inside the Chainscrape brewery if followed immediately after the initial conversation with her.
• Crash fixes
  
  • Fixed several crashes.
• Other
  
  • Various performance improvements.
  • Various other minor fixes and cosmetic improvements.

[Gokulo]

Well, I got stuck trying to climb a wall 2 min after patching the game, so that was hilarious. Didn't have any visual issues yet

[Souj]

“NPCs that seemed to suffer from insomnia and would gather in large groups at night in settlements should act more naturally now.“
Sounds spooky lol
Also sounds like this was a really broken game and I got lucky I hadn’t run into any game-ending bugs.

[Malithar]

There's so many that get released in far worse shape to call this "really broken" IMO.

[Cantih]

Yeah, calling it broken is nowhere close to reality.

[Souj]

I read at least two progression-ending bugs in the prologue. Not the greatest, certainly.

Glad I turned on the climbing guiding stuff without needing to ping. So much better.

[Gokulo]

Marathoned this hard to get to Elden Ring asap, doing most side quests (not sure if I missed some, never got any trophy for that but didn't check if there's one), took me 58 hours. The locations are simply breathtaking at times. I enjoyed the story for what it was, I remember reviewers complaining it got too hard on s-f, but I didn't mind that.

[Souj]

So far- and I’m not very far- the normal gameplay is very easy. But bosses are a pain in the ass.

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Regalla’s side kick who challenges you wasn’t terrible, but the next boss I fought was the Eclipse dude with the cat and I died three times to him despite clearing out the entire camp with absolutely no trouble. Then I did the Mu core, which again, I took everything out easy peasy, until I got to the double Widemaws who killed me 4 times. Shit. If I didn’t have the explosive spear thing, I don’t want to think about how many more times I’d have died.

Also, if I have one phobia, it’s a fear of big open vast bodies of water. Not like looking at them of on a boat on them, but imagining myself being in the deep darkness without any clue what’s around me and those underwater sections really get me anxious lol

[NynJa]

Also, if I have one phobia, it’s a fear of big open vast bodies of water. Not like looking at them of on a boat on them, but imagining myself being in the deep darkness without any clue what’s around me and those underwater sections really get me anxious lol

You're not gonna like one of the story missions then.

[Malithar]

So far- and I’m not very far- the normal gameplay is very easy. But bosses are a pain in the ass.

(...) I don’t want to think about how many more times I’d have died.

Can you sell me on those spears? I've tried them, but they just felt underwhelming IMO, really slow and not much damage. Them and the shredder gauntlets feel like cool additions, but I just don't get their benefits when compared to the bows or slings.

Enemy aggression is cranked to 11. I think I died once to that boss cause the guy shot me and the ravager pounced me during the hit stun. Around that point, I began using status effects on just about every enemy beyond the basic ones just for the 5~10 second stun effect. Acid and fire tend to be my go tos because I've got bows with really high build up on them.

[Gokulo]

While I didn't use them that much, explosive spears were great to remove armor late in the game. Especially after apply acid.

[Souj]

Can you sell me on those spears? I've tried them, but they just felt underwhelming IMO, really slow and not much damage. Them and the shredder gauntlets feel like cool additions, but I just don't get their benefits when compared to the bows or slings.

Maybe because I’m still early game, but those explosive spears are doing a lot of damage for me, especially for those widemaws, who stand still and open their mouths- with their weak spot inside. For fast moving enemies it’s not that great, like for cult boy and dog, it was less effective on the dog than the guy who moved slow. I hit him with a few of those and it just annihilated his armor. Honestly, I’m a huge fan so far. I’d use it more if ammo resource for it wasn’t so scares atm (also of it didn’t destroy materials on the machines) so I just use it for boss fights or a really tough enemy.

[Melena]

Currently downloading the game now finally. And Jesus, Regalla edition box was much bigger than I expected

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