Part of Ted Faro's whole spiel of being a psychotic, despotic narcissist and why he chose to live and die in a pyramid... the tomb of an emporer figure... is because his name is homophonic with "Pharaoh." Do you think he might have been a better person if he didn't have name to lend itself to (false) prophecy? Likewise, I fully expect he ran around his little compound in an egyptian themed bathrobe all the time.

Got a couple of lore theories I wanted to share:

1. Aloy and Beta will never see old age due to being clones. No one really talks about this, but clones tend to live shortened lifespans due to the DNA used to create them being subject to aging. This is complicated and I can't even begin to explain how it works (telameres and all that), but I know that Aloy and Beta have maybe forty to fifty good years to live from their "birth";
2. The first generation of humans weren't clones, but zygotes taken from fertility clinics. As stated above, clones live far shorter lives than the original. The Alphas would know this and choose to use zygotes from fertility clinics instead. Well, that and the fact that it would be easier to get access given the "war".
3. Ted Faro is a little bitch who overcompensates due to certain insecurities.
4. Tilda and Elisabet never had a romantic relationship, instead Tilda was an obsessed stalker who abused her influence to stalk Elisabet. Given how Tilda is an expert hacker and software engineer (likely one of the best), Elisabet was forced to turn to Travis for help. This would better explain Tilda's obsession with Aloy, how she got the DNA to create Beta and how uncomfortable Elisabet feels when she's forced to deal with her.
5. Fuck Ted Faro.

Hello,

Any Fans of Horizon and D&D want to check out my TTRPG prototype?

I'm Warren, a professional game designer and life long fan of Horizon. I couldn't help but notice that the world of Horizon would make an amazing campaign setting so I created a prototype in 5e that I think would be really fun for any fan of either. After a few years of sitting on it, I decided to share it with the world. I'd love to know the community's thoughts! Here's a link to the google doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mr5QH7K4ZW2qlSGrRyhDiDmPS7JUU1mpnyyzW0PPU88/edit?usp=sharing

I’m a bit worried about Sony’s decision to stop bringing its exclusive games to PC; it’s the only way I can play Sony exclusives without spending a fortune on a console. Where I live, the price of the console is exorbitantly high, and I don’t want to miss the chance to play the next game in my favorite franchise. I wonder if Guerrilla might somehow create a PC port on their own.

Sorry for my bad English, I'm writing this with the help of Google Translate.

AI goes rogue, escaping and hacking into another company.

Starting a new play through where I hit all the bandit camps, tall necks, corrupted zones and cauldrons as a priority over the quests. Honestly- I would just love a game with dozens of bandit camps.

I have an issue with both *Horizon* games. I’ve always wanted to play them and I actually own them, but the sheer number of quests always puts me off—like arriving at a village and finding six quests waiting for me (especially since I’m a bit of a "perfectionist" with RPG quests and feel like I’ll end up underpowered if I don't do them all). Do you guys have any tips for dealing with this?

So i have a beyond frustrating problem. My wifes facebook account was hacked. My Horizon account was linked through her account. I have a few hundred dollars of games on there. I went through the steps... removed my account as prompted, went to log back in, and then it somehow assumed i was a child and forced me into a flow that wanted me to add a parent managed account. No option to do anything else. It wanted my childs birthdate and nothing else. No option to say im an adult. Support said logon and add ID to verify age. Cant do that because the linked account was hacked. Its a simple solution with no way to give them the info they need.

Hi, I've retrieved the last two black boxes, but I can't buy the items I want, or even the ones I haven't bought yet.

It only lets me buy a “Cobra Rock Crusher” and a “Tracker Diffuser,” but in my bag I have:

- a Tracker Diffuser;

- a large machine core;

- an alabestia metal fang;

- luminous marrow;

- a mastiff scanner ear;

- a mammoth fang

The ones I don't currently have in my bag, but that I took directly from the machines:

- claw ice spreader;

- Claw ice bag cover;

- Wave Breaker tail fin;

- Cobra rock crusher;

- thunderjail tail.

I don't have it in my bag, and I need it as an upgrade, but I can't get it from the vending machines:

- Storm Cannon from Stormwatch

What should I do?

Wish I could have done the composition better, Aloy feels a bit shoehorned in. I am very happy with how the tall grass ended up though!

I genuinely think Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West have ruined every other game for me.

I’ve been trying so hard to find something that gives me that same feeling, but nothing seems to click. I even started New Game+ in Horizon Zero Dawn, but it’s just way too easy. I melt every machine without much effort, and honestly, part of me is afraid that replaying it too much will make it feel less special. I’d rather preserve how incredible those first playthroughs were.

Games I’ve played and absolutely loved (or at least came close):

Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Forbidden West
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Ghost of Tsushima (and Ghost of Yōtei)
Astro Bot
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Hogwarts Legacy
Elden Ring (didn’t finish it, but I might go back)

Games I’ve tried but just can’t get into:
The Last of Us
Red Dead Redemption 2
The Witcher 3
Returnal
Cyberpunk 2077 (I’ve tried FOUR different times because everyone says it’s a masterpiece, but every time I end up bored. I’m honestly jealous that so many people love it because I wish I did.)

At this point I feel like I’m in a PS5 gaming depression. I don’t even know what I’m looking for anymore. I just want that feeling of becoming completely obsessed with a game again, thinking about it at work, rushing home to play, exploring every corner of the world…

But every game ends up being compared to Horizon in my head, and none of them scratch that same itch.

Has anyone else gone through this after finishing a really good game? If so… what finally pulled you out of it? I’m open to literally any recommendation at this point.

When i start any of the 3 trails im unable to release any arrows, the r2 button wont work at all, and the zoom in focus also is bugging out. I tried restarting game like 8+ times and tried each trail like 5+ times each, and i also tried dropping all weapon inventory a few times., ive even tried shooting arrows in every corner/area possible in the valleymeet hunting grounds but it wont let me shoot arrows at all.

So I even canceled the trails, restarted the game and went to the valleymeet hunting grounds as free roam and not part of the trails and I cant even shoot arrows or do any melee attacks both r1 and r2 on ps5 at all still. Its like the moment I pass an invisible line and cross over into the valleymeet grounds it cancels out all attacks, ive tries firing every possible weapon, and ive tried entering the hunting grounds from every possible direction and still nothing. I cant even be out side of it and shoot arrows into it either.

I have to be far out of the hunting grounds in order for my weapons and both melee attacks to work again

Anyone know whats the issue and if this is a known bug and how to fix it? This has been gling on for over 2+ days now. Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated.

Im also level 17, am i too early to try these hunting grounds trails or something?

[SOLVED]

I've been reverse-engineering the Pangea Figurine notebook entries from Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores.

Four of the five "Unique ID" values are exact SHA-256 hashes for the following words (it creates a quote from jurassic park):

Life
finds
a
way

The remaining Green Raptor hash: 6d34606904d3bc92beb8eb89f51a044737ba0fd8c88e2314dcf02acb2a605ae9
does not correspond to "uh" or any common variant despite occupying the expected position in
"Life, uh, finds a way."
(the exact quote from the film - where they're discussing an all-female colony "finding a way to breed")

I've confirmed:
The current PC build and launch PC build (20 Mar 2024) contain identical package.00.01.core files

the hash is stored as a literal string in the localization resource
there is no hidden field or alternate digest nearby

The code from the dimophodon notebook entry - all the dino's have them, including the green raptor and all of them, as stated, translate to words (from the quote) except the green raptor

The question:
Does anyone have access to the original PS5 Burning Shores 1.21/1.22 assets (April 2023) and could you please check whether the Green Raptor notebook used the same Unique ID?

My current theory I have is either it was a mistake from the start (maybe the wrong word was hashed or the hash wasn't copied correctly) OR when it ported to PC something was edited/went wrong and the hash got mangled. I suspect it's the former rather than the latter but I'd love to be able to rule it out either way.

Many thanks in advance for jumping down this rabbit hole with/for me, I just always wondered what the strings were for/referring to or if they were indeed random - turns out they're not or at least, not all of them are random!

Edit: SOLVED by u/BearborgOne :

I think I've figured it out! 6d34606904d3bc92beb8eb89f51a044737ba0fd8c88e2314dcf02acb2a605ae9 matches the string ", uh,".

So the full sequence is:
Life
, uh,
finds
a
way

Great find btw, this is a super neat Easter egg!

thank you for all your help + attention!

I'm playing on hard, and story-wise, I just unlocked the 'base'. However, I sunk way too many hours into sidequests/exploration - I'm Lv 35, I've unlocked all tallnecks except the west-most one, and all cauldrons except KAPPA. I've also visited Thornmarsh and Bulwark.

I've been playing this game like a kid though - I exclusively use hunter bow arrows, triple nock them, and fire at weak spots. That's it. I want to expand my weapon usage, and hopefully get a new armor piece while I'm at it.

I currently use the Sun Touched bow (upgrade to 3) and the Shadow Carja (upgraded to 4).

Do you guys have recommendations on what weapons/outfits I should get?

TL;DR - if you loot and the try to move forward after closing the looting screen, the first input won't work until you stop pressing any directional input. If you just pause any action after closing the looting screen for a brief second, it'll work fine.

Was a fix for this ever found?

I finished one of my most challenging models—a highly accurate, high-poly "Tallneck" model from the "Horizon" game series! The hardest part was the number of details and ensuring the model looked as much like the robot from the game as possible.

Nolan's Odyssey reminded me of the Zenith's ship and I came across this datapoint from Londra from the Burning Shores... There's a parallel with Odesseus that I didn't realize in my playthrough years ago in that Londra was coming back to earth to "reunite" with (in this case find a replacement) his wife Evelyn.

I just had this Idea about an RTS horizon game set in the red raids in the style of supreme commander or C&C like we have multiple campaigns for different tribes

For example a Carja campaign can begin with we being Helis for three missions attacking Multiple tribes then we play as Kadaman for one or two missions then we play as Carja rebels either Ersa or Avad as they take meridian

Like so for every tribe that we know of

Hey All,

So I’ve been wanting a challenge so i switched to Very Hard difficulty about 2 hours into the game.

I dont know if its my settings or not but very hard isnt very hard at all? Especially the bandits - they just sit around waiting for me to kill them. I’m also not finding machines too difficult either.

Is there another setting im missing?

Thank you!

I've tried the reloading areas I've tried night time, I'm getting nothing nowhere and fast, I primarily need this for the final level of my armor (Artificer armor)

EDIT: I got an Apex Slaughterspine to spawn thank you all!!

As the title says,

Anyone ever find it ironic how Hank Shaw managed to get caught with his hand in the "cookie jar" by Travis Tate and yet he managed to write a Clearance level higher than that of every major member of the Zero Dawn Team with Travis Tate being nonethewiser?

Also, where do you guys think Hades got his Reverse Engineering intel from (knowing how to circumvent the Z-nuts shileds)?

Did Nemesis impart that when it made Hades sentient or becoming sentient gave it a trait of its original creator (Travis Tate)

Honorable mention to Hep and its ability to evolve (hacking itself in the process and removing access)

Cheers :)

I have the base game and i noticed that its only 4 players, I was wondering if buying any of the expansions would allow more players to play at the same time.
Would i be able to just have another player if i had more pieces or is the game set as just for 4 people.

Firstly apologies if this has been explained before but how precise was faro plague's ability to eat organic materials as in could it eat single-celled organism like bacteria and viruses?

if yes, GAIA had to recreate a lot of bacteria and et cetera, so did she recreate viruses and bacteria that cause diseases? if not, that means currently there are no diseases in horizon.

Edit: also wouldn't bacteria and other micro-organisms like it survive in the Zero Dawn facilities and bunkers like Thebes because of them being sealed from the outside world?