Topic: Horizon Forbidden West

Erend listening to Concrete Beach Party is probably my favourite part of the game so far.

@velio84 Well done, you are the second today then it seems 👍. Impressive that you got it done in 64 hours as well. I'm probably going to be closer to 100 hours 😅

@render 100 hours. Those are rookie numbers. I finished the first one in 120 hours so Forbidden West will easily be higher than that. Plus I'm not using fast travel for this game, going for the authentic adventure experience!

@velio84 Congratulations! That's an efficient platinum trophy time.

I've currently played a total of 63 hours with 46% of the game complete. The longer I play it, the more I love it. The story has ramped up a notch too.

So, drill spikes are pretty awesome.

@MightyDemon82 I guess that's another testament to the quality of the side quests that you're around 40 hours and not that much further than me story wise. I started the Death's Door quest tonight since it was well under my level now and will likely do more side stuff after that.

I finished the first one twice in roughly 120 hours, but I skipped over a decent amount of side stuff the first time I played it. One reason I wanted to replay it a couple of months ago. That and to refresh my memory on the story since it had been a while since i beat it. I think I liked it even better the second time around since I played in on Easy just to enjoy the story and not get frustrated by any of the big machines.

“Aloy will not mention her stash quite as often as before” best fix ever

@Voltan Ha ha yeah I must hear that at least once a minute.

I think I've seen this one a few times:

Fixed several unintentional loading screens/black screens that would trigger in specific points.

I'll just be wondering around and all of a sudden the screen goes black for a second and then everything comes back again a moment later. It's not caused any problems as such but just happens at weird times but if it happened when I was in a fight then it might be a bit more annoying.

Just goes to show how going from a team of internal testers to millions of people playing the game throws up the really weird bugs that weren't noticed before e.g.

Fixed an issue where the player would lose control of Aloy if sprinting and sliding into the water at a specific spot in the ruins north of Landfall.

@render I've heard of the random loading screens people encountered during the review period but personally I've maybe seen it once.

@Voltan I've seen people complain about the black screen coming up while they were trying to do the melee pits, so maybe this fixed that too. I dunno, as I've yet to try to do any of the melee pit stuff since most of it requires you to have specific skills.

@Voltan I’ve had the black screens and Aloy going on about her bloody stash so that’s good to hear 😂

Just finished the main story and that final mission is so Marvel! A really epic finale… loved it 🥰. It’s a 9 outta 10 every day of the week for me and twice on Sundays.

@colonelkilgore Damn everyone is finishing the main story really quickly. Good to hear that everyone says it's great though. Aloy will be in her 30's by the time she makes it to the end, the way I'm playing 😂

Fun fact: after the patch (not sure if related), the game loaded at a different campfire than the one I saved at
Same general area but I saved inside a former rebel outpost and it loaded at another one, about 60 👣 away

@MightyDemon82 as long as you’re enjoying it mate… there’s no rush. That final mission is something to look forward to for sure though, so cool!

@colonelkilgore I'm having a blast, just did the bleeding mark sidequest and I'll start heading towards the direction of my next main mission, will no doubt be side tracked once again though.

@RogerRoger You always kill the mood anytime we see your name.

Seriously though, it's not a big deal. Not everybody is going to love the same games as much as I or somebody else does. Obviously it's nice to see a game you highly enjoy get plenty of love, but it is what it is.

I'm glad you are enjoying it a lot more than you were before though. I'm also glad my expectations can't be raised any higher than they were leading up to the release since if what to come for me is a lot better than what I've experienced (obviously it would be, but you get the idea), then I'd probably be left speechless.

@RogerRoger Good to see it’s getting better for you. I do feel confident that I’ll love the game one day. Just not sure when that will be. 😄

@lolwhatno Love random things like that. HFW has just a few of those so far but can you remember how many we had from Cyberpunk 1 week after release, the internet was flooded with them 😂

Was showing the game to a friend, and I ran into two Ravagers, a bunch of fire deer, a Thunderjaw and a Behemoth. Didn't end well.

The Thunderjaw spawn was fixed, I guess I got really unlucky with the Ravager spawn next to it.