Horizon Forbidden West: 7 tricks and tips I would like to know before

Horizon Forbidden West for PS4 and PS5 once again offers much more possibilities in combat than the first part. There are also a completely revised skilltree and a number of quality of life improvements that make life easier for us, may not always be seen immediately. We have a handful of tips and tricks summarized to which you should definitely pay attention to the start of the game.

• 1. Find vulnerabilities - Scan machines in front of a fight!
• 2. Get the mighty sting's thrower early in the game
• 3. Weapons upgrade easily: uses the "Task System"
• 4. Skills quickly the first branch of the surviving skilltrees
• 5. Do not forget: A simpler push of a button gives you an "extra life"
• 6. Do not forget to upgrade your bags
• 7. Nevertheless problems in the fight? Take food from the cook

• How good is the game? For upgrade test to Horizon Forbidden West is here
• How long does the story take? In this article we tell you the playing time of Horizon Forbidden West

1. Find vulnerabilities - Scan machines in front of a fight!

This point belongs to the very first place of the Machinery Hunter-Dentein: Before you fall into the fight, every machine scans with the focus, writing behind the ears! This is especially important if you play on the normal degree of difficulty or higher, otherwise you should just cause the larger beasts like the area or thunder pine problems.

How do I scan machines? Hold the R3 stick for a long time and sets up your focus on the respective machine. Aloy scans your respective enemy, then you will see its elementary weaknesses and separable parts.

In addition, you can mark the runway of the respective machine when the focus is activated with R1 , which will then be displayed on the floor. This is especially helpful if your enemies want to handle creeping or attacking behind.

2. Get the mighty sting's thrower early in the game

The sting is a very powerful weapon. Although throwing a throwing peers takes a little longer than the shelse of an arrow, but the spears align properly. You can already get you right at the beginning of the adventure of your first sting lamp, namely the "prototype stinger".

The special thing about the prototype stinger: The weapon consists of five throwing spears that you can throw on your opponents. Especially nice: they explode a few seconds after the impact and judge great damage to your enemies. Already the prototype stinger of the rarity stage "Usually" is quite powerful and should be a blessing for you at the beginning when your hunting makes for larger machines.

How do I get the prototype stinger? Take the order "more wumms" in the Oseram hobbyist in chain scratch. Here you have to collect a zephaple rib and three strikers and bring them to your clients who then build the spear. This is done quickly and rewards you with a mighty toy, which is why you should definitely take this little quest.

3. Weapons upgrade easily: uses the "Task System"

As in the first part, you can upgrade weapons and armor, in which you use different items and machine parts for it. This time the developers make us easier to find the required parts with the task system! And that works as follows:

• Goes to a workbench and chooses the weapon or the outfit from upgrading to upgrade
• At the bottom right of the screen you will find the item "Create task"
• Simply press the triangle key now and you will see the parts required for the upgrade as an enabled quest in Questlog
• Have you activated the task or upgrade quest, then the machines are now marked in yellow on the map that can drop the required part
• Scans the corresponding machine before the fight and you can even mark the part needed for the upgrade. It will then be displayed in purple, so you can easily separate it and cancel it easily

4. Skills quickly the first branch of the surviving skilltrees

In Horizon Forbidden West, it is not only important to put on full attack power but also to have Aloy's healing capabilities. It helped us play immensely to unlock the first skills on the survivor skilltree right early.

So at the beginning of the story, we were able to benefit from an extended medicine bag, faster health regeneration and more, and could struggle a little more relaxed.

We recommend to unlock early:

• Effective medicine : Healing berries do more and faster healing
• Low health regeneration : In critical condition, health is restored faster
• Low Health Defense : Hold more damage in critical condition (health below 25 percent)
• TRANKCHICK : Health drinks cure stronger and Aloy consumes potions faster (you do not even believe how miserably it takes until Aloy takes a healing potion...)
• Medicine capacity : Aloy can stow more healing berries in the medicine bag

5. Do not forget: A simpler push of a button gives you an "extra life"

A little trick she could overlook quickly: Healing berries eat her by pushing up the control cross briefly. In a tough fight, however, it can happen quickly that all your hilaries can be used and then comes to the Bredouille. But no bang: you have an extra extra.

If the berry display is emptied at the bottom left, then simply keep the upper control cruice button pressed and Aloy fills your berry bag back with the berries that are in your inventory or in the raw material bag. However, you always have to make sure that you are suffering enough berries at all.

Therefore, goes regularly to the camp box (preferably before / or after each quest) and fills all your items with the square button again. Storage boxes can be found in settlements or substrate, usually right next to the workbench.

6. Do not forget to upgrade your bags

At the workbench you can not only upgrade weapons and outfits, but also your bags or bags to increase Aloy's wearing capacity for ammunition and items. We keep three bag upgrades for particularly useful:

• TRANK BAG \ - Aloy can wear more potions (eg healing drinks). You have more healing possibilities in the fight
• Raw Material bag \ - Aloy contributes more raw materials to be able to refill "on the fly" ammunition craft or healthberries
• Arrow quiver \ - Aloy can wear and shoot more arrows before you have to craft new crafts in the fight. Quivers are divided into different arms classes, so there are each a quiver for the hunter bow, one for the precision bend, etc.

For bag upgrades, metal shards and raw materials must be used by wild animals (foxes, wild boars and Co.). Corresponding items that you need are displayed in the workbench menu.

By the way: Have our test video seen to Forbidden West? You can find that here:

7. Nevertheless problems in the fight? Take food from the cook

If you still bite your teeth with some machines, then visit a cook / cook. You can find them in every village (easily recognizable at the pot icon on the map). Here you can buy different dishes that can give you short-term buffs and can be climbing.

For example, a favorable regional stew for flap 100 metal shards increases the maximum health for a few minutes. There are also food that enhance your Stealth attacks for a short time and more!