Horizon Zero Dawn

[arcana75]

Nice easter egg in Frozen Wilds mentioning Singapore.

[BuTTBR41N]

Wow You already finished the main game and platinum?

[arcana75]

Yep. I did quite a fair bit too, 95% completion. Over-leveled and managed to unlock all DLC skills except 3 upon starting DLC. Disappointed to see there were no power-boosting skills, more like convenience skills. Glad to find out that my excess skillpoints were saved and carried over when I installed the DLC. However I don't think I did it fast cuz my game clock is at 60.5hrs, and others have reported faster playthroughs on PST, but I guess they skipped dialogue. I heard all voiced dialogue and exhausted all dialogue. I particularly liked the holovids and recordings of all the Alpha team members when shit went down. Quite sad actually.

BTW I read there is a "true ending". I dunno if I unlocked the true ending already?

Spoiler: CLICK TO SHOW

My ending is Aloy visiting the corpse of Elisabet

The first enemy of Frozen Wilds took me by surprised. But I didn't die the demonic machines are definitely more aggressive, which makes the tripcaster and bombs extra useful now, and the ropecaster not so, seems like demonic machines are more resistant to ropes.

[overhype]

I got the same ending as you. No idea that a true ending exist. But there's another short scene after the credits.

[BuTTBR41N]

same ending here also. never heard of any true ending.

[arcana75]

Shit there's a scene at the end? I skipped the credits!

Edit: wait is the one with Sylens? If so skipping the credits doesn't skip this scene.

[BuTTBR41N]

oh the epilogue ah...

https://youtu.be/3rZRfi4Wni8?t=1h18m21s

[arcana75]

The FW hunting grounds trials, the blazing suns time requirements, set to Story difficulty to retain sanity? I'm playing Normal, and 1st place remains elusive.

EDIT: NVM it seels like later on you can upgrade your new DLC weapons to get more powerful versions. I'll wait till that to redo the trials.

[overhype]

Asia psn flash deal FW $16, Complete ed $36

[BuTTBR41N]

Yeah. Buying fw most probably.

[arcana75]

Lol fark I bought only 2 days ago!

[arcana75]

Quick question. NG+ introduces Adept gear with 4 mod slots. Any point in getting the 3 slot Banuk armour? I lose all my bluegleam in NG+ don't see it in my inventory or is it revealed later after the prologue?

The 60 pt base is nice but thinking shield armour is probably better.

Possible to buy Banuk Adept weapons with bluegleam in NG+? The shock gun is very strong but might not bother if I have to go thru some DLC content to unlock the bluegleam merchant.

[BuTTBR41N]

I din bother. Just breeze through uhng+ with my original 2 slots gear.

Dunno if I'm still trying to get used to the game after some time never play. I find tfw enemies are tough even at normal difficulty. I gotta keep running, rolling and healing.

[arcana75]

Cuz they more aggressive. Esp corrupted scorcher. And no more override and corruption arrow abuse since they are corrupted.

I blazing thru UHNG+ now. Since got the scrap and parts I got the adept weapons, definitely better base stats further boosted by 4 slots. The bluegleam armours not so since shield armour still #1. But since the bluegleam doesn't carry over I bought them anyway. Bought all the TFW new gear and some treasure boxes since I grabbed all the bluegleam available.

See whether I can do it in under 10 hours

[arcana75]

For those wondering, the DLC Banuk weapons are superior to the UHNG+ Adept weapons. Even though the Adept weapons have 4 mod slots, their base values are lower than the Banuk weapons, except for 2 weapons (shit I forgot which 2 but I want to say Shadow Ropecaster and Shadow Sling) which actually have the same values across the board. If same values then having 4 mod slots will of course result in better stats, but for the other weapons, using the mods that I had, I was unable to push the 4 slot weapons past the Banuk and even the Lodge stats.

Are there Banuk Adept weapons? Answer is yes, so they are the top-tier weapons with best base values and 4 mod slots. In case you're wondering yes I bought all the new Adept weapons and outfits. Unfortunately for outfits, Shield Weaver is still the best. Which is a pity. Resist outfits that go past 100 you take no damage from elemental attacks, but almost all elemental attacks come with some melee or ranged damage anyway, which kinda defeats the point of wearing armour, except Shield Weaver.

UHNG+ was surprisingly not that difficult, compared to other max-difficulty games I've played in the past.