Horizon Forbidden West: Aloys new skills and tools explained

In this guide to Horizon Forbidden West you will learn:

• Vertical fall against flying opponents
• Focus effectively use against enemies
• Courage-Stoss: Especially powerful skills in Horizon Forbidden West
• In melee on combos sets
• Energetised opponents switch off quickly
• Bearing box for collective players
• More climbing fun thanks to shield wings
• thinks of the train launcher
• Change the daytime
• Huge underwater worlds

• What it has with the courageous
• Why you should eneretize your encouragement enemy
• How to effectively use the new tools shield wings and drawstrings

Horizon Forbidden West uses about half a year after the events of Horizon Zero Dawn and leads the adventure of Aloy consistently - including new machine monsters, opponents and territories.

So that you can cross the forbidden and dangerous west of the game world without prejudice, the developers Guerrilla Games of their Hero's Aloy spend some fresh skills and tools and expand known tools with practical functions.

In the following guide, we will tell you what is particularly useful and what to pay attention to.

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Vertical fall against flying opponents

In Horizon Forbidden West you get it here and there in the game world also with flying adversaries. In the direct confrontation here are of course arrow and bow as well as the different sting gaffers effective, as melee attacks are only possible as soon as the aircraft lands.

However, if you want to turn off the monsters of the air secretly, then Horizon Forbidden West offers vertical fall as tools that your unlocks the adventure .

These basically work exactly as the soil counterpart, but the stream does not go into the area around them, but up .

Accordingly, release as soon as a robot bird flies over it. Then this is made, for example, from a electric shock and crashes to the ground , so you can then strike.

As with all weapons and fall, it also applies to the vertical traps to first scan the opponent to identify its vulnerabilities .

Focus effectively use against enemies

Speaking of Scanning: The focus that aloy uses to find such vulnerabilities or analyze other things in the game world has received in Horzon Forbidden West Helpful Update .

If you scan a machine with a focus, then you can now switch the different parts of the adversary comfortably with the D-Pad and so mark the parts that you want to attack.

The simplifies the targeted attack deliberately to attack enormously and such vulnerable parts, also causes most damage.

Courage-Stoss: Especially powerful skills in Horizon Forbidden West

Anyone opening the skills overview in Horizon Forbidden West for the first time, which is one immediately: The Aloy's skills are divided into different categories such as warrior, hunter and so on. Accordingly, the skills in the individual skill trees are also to be assigned to a certain example .

Within the different skill trees, there are always two "larger," the so-called courageous shocks in addition to the standard skills. You can acquire them, Once you've gained enough regular skills - good to recognize at the lines that lead there.

A courage of courage is a particularly powerful ability and therefore you can only activate one **, even if you have released several. Therefore, you should think well, which is best beneficial to your playing way, because they can also be upgraded twice.

But what does the courage shot and how does he work? The benefit depends on it, in which skill-tree he is . Under Warrior, for example, there is one that enormously increases the chance for as well as the damage in critical hits or one who screws the melee damage significantly in height.

If you still render them, then Aloy in melee combat with courageous shocks suddenly double or triple damage , which can rotate some dispute.

So if you have a courageous activated, then you can activate it with the combination L1 and R1 in the fight. Prerequisite for this is that you have collected enough courage, which shows you the purple bar next to the weapon display right. If this bar is filled, it triggers the courageous with said button combination in the fight.

Incidentally, courage also collects in the fight for almost every successful action aloys or killed opponents.

In melee on combos sets

Especially in the warrior skill tree there are plenty of skills, which practical melee combo unlock , for example to break the block of an opponent and so on.

So if you are less secretive in Horizon Forbidden West, but rather offensive and can not handle the bow well, then you should preferably unlock these combos.

Energetised opponents switch off quickly

Another practical ability in Aloy's combat repertoire is to energize opponents. It attacks your adversary in melee with the spear until it starts to light blue.

This indicates that the weapon is charged with energy. At that moment, her R2 must tap to energize your counterparty.

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If you have done that, your opponent also has a blue luminous spot. You have to meet you with arrow and bow - is using the focus of the focus here by pressing the right stick, causing a short slow motion.

If you meet the point with the arc in time, then this causes tremendous damage .

Bearing box for collective players

Every adversary you do, loses Loot and also on the wayside you will find tons of wood for arrows, halets and other things.

Collect everything you can go here, which you can find. Because although Aloy's inventory, so your backpack is limited, the things are not lost. Is aloy's bag full, Send Horizon Forbidden West to the collected Loot automatically on Aloy's stock box , which can be found in any camp and in each city to get needed resources.

By the way: Also the quick access bag of Aloy has limited capacity. For example, if you go out in combat, for example, the hilaries, but you can easily refill the quick access by pressing the up button on the D-Pad as long as you still have berries in the inventory.

Skillful wild animator can improve the different bags for healthborners, arrows and co. But also improve , so they provide more space, as you can read more in our entry-level tips to Horizon Forbidden West.

More climbing fun thanks to shield wings

The game world in Horizon Zero Dawn was more limited for climbing max. But Horizon Forbidden West allows you to explore your environment vertically much extinguished , be it because your rock walls can climb up or because certain house walls are inaccessible.

Wherever you can climb, this shows you Horizon Forbidden West with yellow lines and points when you triggre the focus scan - or you activate this display permanently in the options menu, but we do not recommend.

The detailed exploration of the game world in this way often leads you to interesting and rare loot. And since Aloy gets the shield wing as equipment as equipment right early in Horizon Forbidden West, you do not have to be afraid that the descent could be annoying.

Even from the highest mountain you can just jump into the depth and activate the glider (press the quadrangle). Gliding consumes no energy or endurance , so that you can relax relax again.

thinks of the train launcher

Another new toy in Aloy's toolbox is the trainward. This is a winch of winch, with which their boxes trim, certain brittle walls tears or activates mechanisms or climbing aids for such puzzles.

But the train launcher is also helpful if you discover a Loot Crate in the game world of Horizon Forbidden West, but does not know how to reach you. In many cases, you can then see the box with the drawer and use them , instead of having to think about hours as you take care of climbing sections and the like.

Change the daytime

The game world of Horizon Forbidden West has a realistic day and night change. Although this conjures some wonderful panoramas on the screen, but can bring disadvantages.

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So if you do not want to look for a mission for a mission in puppies, or if you want to take a group of machines secretly and therefore dear in the dark, you can easily change the daytime.

In any camp you will find somewhere a chair, on the Aloy Rast make can n. There you have the choice, if you can rest until the morning, for the evening, at night and so on and then Aloy's adventure goes accordingly to this Next time.

Huge underwater worlds

Although the game world of Horizon Forbidden West is already immense and offers plenty of places, caves and so on to explore. But developer Guerrilla Games has also designed huge underwater worlds.

Accordingly, you should not see a lake or similar as an obstacle, but be aware that there is still much to discover under the water surface.

However, Aloy at the beginning of the campaign can only be quite short of dive before you go out the puff and drown it. Therefore best tells you, where you discovered exciting underwater areas . Later, it turns a tool free, with which Aloy can breathe under water and from then also extensive dives are nothing in the way. Other guides to Horizon Forbidden West on Forbidden West: * Horizon Forbidden West: All trophies at a glance * Horizon Forbidden West: 8 tips for optimal entry * Horizon Forbidden West: All relic truins puzzles and how to solve it Visits us Facebook and Instagram and discuss with us about your favorite games!