Horizon Zero Dawn

Scougar · 23 Apr 2021 at 18:19

Ravenger said:
I really hope the sequel comes to PC.

I really hope so as well. I hope PC sales were good enough for Sony to consider doing PC as well. They supported it through all the bugs on PC, and was a good experience. It is a game I wanted to play since I heard about it coming for the Playstation, but I wasn't going to buy a PS just for one game, and I already had an xbox.

One thing that I wished was off by default was auto-aim. At first I though I was just amazing at at headshots, until a few hours in I realized something was amiss. I turned it off as I just don't want that with keyboard and mouse, it felt like cheating. Definitely made the game a lot harder.

krooton said:
32" 1440p does the job
They better call the sequel Horizon Second Dawn

Forbidden West is the next game, although I'm not sure that is '2' as such.

Captain_Bosh · 13 Jun 2021 at 11:02

Anyone got any tips for getting around a crash/restart on launch of this game with a Gigabyte 3070 Vision OC and i7 7700 build?

Weird thing is I ran it OK with the same GPU on a Ryzen 3800XT I was building for a friend fine but getting this crash now I've moved it to my personal build.

I'm not running any overclock software as on a relativly new install and not got round to installing any yet.

Kelt · 13 Jun 2021 at 11:12

Captain_Bosh said:
Anyone got any tips for getting around a crash/restart on launch of this game with a Gigabyte 3070 Vision OC and i7 7700 build?

Weird thing is I ran it OK with the same GPU on a Ryzen 3800XT I was building for a friend fine but getting this crash now I've moved it to my personal build.

I'm not running any overclock software as on a relativly new install and not got round to installing any yet.

I would try a reinstallation of the game first just to rule that out.

Then I would do a DDU and reinstall graphics drivers (I know some people here don't like DDU but I've used it a few times with no problems).

Captain_Bosh · 13 Jun 2021 at 11:14

Kelt said:
I would try a reinstallation of the game first just to rule that out.

Then I would do a DDU and reinstall graphics drivers (I know some people here don't like DDU but I've used it a few times with no problems).

I've verified the files and actually copied the files to the Ryzen build to save downloading again so doubt its that. Also already used DDU before installing the drivers.

Forgot to add the game launched fine with my old 1080Ti, only got this issue since installing the 3070. Other games appear to work OK.

Kelt · 13 Jun 2021 at 11:20

Captain_Bosh said:
I've verified the files and actually copied the files to the Ryzen build to save downloading again so doubt its that. Also already used DDU before installing the drivers.

Forgot to add the game launched fine with my old 1080Ti, only got this issue since installing the 3070. Other games appear to work OK.

Tried using event viewer to look at the application logs?

Weird that it happens with the 3070 and not the 1080Ti, does google throw up any similar issues with the 3070?

StephenJ · 15 Jun 2021 at 09:46

Captain_Bosh said:
I've verified the files and actually copied the files to the Ryzen build to save downloading again so doubt its that. Also already used DDU before installing the drivers.

Forgot to add the game launched fine with my old 1080Ti, only got this issue since installing the 3070. Other games appear to work OK.

Maybe try delete game and full reinstall ?

Captain_Bosh · 15 Jun 2021 at 09:56

Thanks for the advice guys. Not sure what I did but it randomly started working again. I did delete the user file but was still getting the crash afterwards, then it just randonly worked the following day.

UTmaniac · 21 Jun 2021 at 23:09

Got notified earlier this was on Steam promo price of £23.99 for Complete Edition, so just bought it for my better half, who loves Zelda.

jonneymendoza · 22 Jun 2021 at 07:46

UTmaniac said:
Got notified earlier this was on Steam promo price of £23.99 for Complete Edition, so just bought it for my better half, who loves Zelda.

Zelda is a completely different game than this?

Quartz · 23 Jun 2021 at 19:56

I'm late to the party and just started playing HZD. But HZD seems to be having a problem with my multi-monitor configuration. Specifically it seems to get confused between my portrait 4k monitor and my landscape monitor. Naturally I want to play on the latter, but it seems to like starting up thinking the former is the latter.

Mr_Clark1000 · 25 Jun 2021 at 12:48

Just picked this up after trying to get back into gaming again, recently picked up a few other games like Days Gone and RE Village, Wanted a bit of Zombie killing but now realised I'm a little scared of Zombies so saw this and thought it looked great for £23. Only played a few hours so far but my god, seems to be one of the best, instant reward, fun and pretty games I have played for many years, really just seems to pull off that pretty look whilst having a good feel to the dynamics and pacing.

Also, play it with controller which at first thought was a bit buggy as the deadzone was so huge, turns out on Steam you have to calibrate the Xbox controller as by default it has a deadzone set to the size of a small SUV.

Really impressed so far and plays really well on my new rigs at max settings, remarkable as it is such a lush looking environment (75+ FPS at Ultra on G15 and 100+ FPS at ultra on 3080 Big Rig).

Anyone on the fence, definitely recommend. Also, this is a very different game to Control, which like others have mentioned here, gets very monotonous after a few hours, and feels dull and enclosed...

UTmaniac · 27 Jun 2021 at 00:50

jonneymendoza said:
Zelda is a completely different game than this?

HZD was mentioned in a positive way several times in the recent "games like Zelda" thread.

It's been a bit of a hit over the past few days, for the first time in a while I'm now regularly asked to stop browsing the web or playing Rocket League on the gaming PC, so she can play HZD.

Aegis · 27 Jun 2021 at 00:56

I think I may actually hate this game

It's gorgeous, well acted, the character models are great and the combat and skill systems are really nice BUT... the constant respawning of enemies is total ********. Every time I have what feels like an epic boss fight, 2 minutes later the thing I just killed is back again - OR - the game spawns multiples of them - it's like nothing you actually accomplish in the game matters in the slightest.

I'm currently fighting the boss creature in the 2nd Cauldron and seriously - that thing can die in a fire - it's HUGE, in a tiny arena, the ropecaster does next to nothing against it - and even if you can topple it, the thing is so big you never get to crit it as the button prompt never appears - and the worst thing is I know that even if I beat the damn thing I'm gonna walk out of the vault and there's gonna be two more of 'em just wandering around saying **** you!

I'll probably see it through to the end of the story but I've got no interest in playing the DLC. Hopefully Forbidden West will be more of a game and less of a masochism simulator :rolleyes:

ic1male · 27 Jun 2021 at 10:43

Aegis said:
I'm currently fighting the boss creature in the 2nd Cauldron and seriously - that thing can die in a fire - it's HUGE, in a tiny arena, the ropecaster does next to nothing against it

That's one thing I liked about the game, there are usually multiple ways of doing things. You can use your focus to identify critical spots and use your bow. Or you can lay a load of tripwires. Or plonk down a load of bombs. Or whack things with your spear. Or hack them and make machines fight for you.

Aegis · 27 Jun 2021 at 10:49

I laid 12 tripcaster traps, 6 proximity bombs, 12 of the pouch traps (fire/explosive), pumped around 20 bombs into him and still had to finish him with the bow.

And, as expected, I got outside the Cauldron and there was one of these ******** just across the river - what was the point?

Disco_P · 27 Jun 2021 at 13:53

Aegis said:
I laid 12 tripcaster traps, 6 proximity bombs, 12 of the pouch traps (fire/explosive), pumped around 20 bombs into him and still had to finish him with the bow.

And, as expected, I got outside the Cauldron and there was one of these ******** just across the river - what was the point?

What was the machine?

Aegis · 27 Jun 2021 at 18:10

Disco_P said:
What was the machine?

Thunderjaw I think (T-Rex thing) - at least I can tame them now - although the big monsters aren't much use so far as I can see - they won't follow you when you tame them so it's not like you can pull them into an epic battle. I did use one to kill a pack of Glinthawks though.

V F · 27 Jun 2021 at 22:30

Aegis said:
Thunderjaw I think (T-Rex thing) - at least I can tame them now - although the big monsters aren't much use so far as I can see - they won't follow you when you tame them so it's not like you can pull them into an epic battle. I did use one to kill a pack of Glinthawks though.

Ahhhh, that was a fun one. The Stalkers before entering. I used the ropecaster to pin it down, kept using the tear arrows and the slingshot. Rope, slingshot and it went down.

Aegis said:
I'll probably see it through to the end of the story but I've got no interest in playing the DLC. Hopefully Forbidden West will be more of a game and less of a masochism simulator

There was a nasty machine in the DLC. Worse than the Thunderjaw. It can be on top of you 100ft away before you know what has happened. I remember entering an area of a grassy field with two of them.

Disco_P · 28 Jun 2021 at 01:35

Aegis said:
Thunderjaw I think (T-Rex thing) - at least I can tame them now - although the big monsters aren't much use so far as I can see - they won't follow you when you tame them so it's not like you can pull them into an epic battle. I did use one to kill a pack of Glinthawks though.

It's a bit late now but they are trivial if you shoot their weapons off with the tearblast arrows and use them against it.

V F said:
Ahhhh, that was a fun one. The Stalkers before entering. I used the ropecaster to pin it down, kept using the tear arrows and the slingshot. Rope, slingshot and it went down.

There was a nasty machine in the DLC. Worse than the Thunderjaw. It can be on top of you 100ft away before you know what has happened. I remember entering an area of a grassy field with two of them.

Frostclaws, fireclaws and scorchers made the main game seem like a cake walk. Every fight with them is challenging. I love it.

skiersteve123 · 28 Jun 2021 at 09:39

Completed main game on hard and doing the dlc, the main story i really enjoyed, most of the side quests were pretty **** imo, doing the dlc now, maybe I should have played on very hard but my main complaint with this game is how easy it is, with the long dash talent that is all you need is that too avoid everything and then just spam ice bomb til vulnerable then mash normal arrows into your target and it dies without 0 effort