[Horizon Zero Dawn] Devil's Thirst Bandit Camp | Stealth 

Tomás Sanz Cuevas Glad you think so. Horizon is very cool and deserves positive attention. There's a lot you can do in this game so hopefully I bring that to people's awareness. More coming as I keep playing.

You're most welcome!

BritishJam Thanks kindly! Feel free to check out my Horizon playlist, and my "All Bandit Camps" video :D What did you think of Horizon? It's basically one of my favorite games ever made.

It's the best game I've ever seen (not yet played it but I definitely will be doing) and I don't think that it can ever be topped.

As a lover of games, I'm hoping it *will* one day be topped by something. I think that's unlikely to happen for quite a while, though, until the state of the industry evolves a bunch more. All of the elements just work incredibly well and there's barely anything that I found annoying or negative about it. I shit on a *lot* of games and I tend to be pretty critical of them, so for me to say that is pretty rare.

Leo K as the gaming industry is indeed evolving fairly quickly it will eventually be topped by something, but as you said not for a while. Also, I only have one negative remark; the waypoints can be a bit annoying as they don't go straight to where you're going, and for it to update you have to go to where every specific waypoint is along the way. (Hope that makes sense xD)

I don't find that a negative because it's optional. Just go into the Menu and turn off that setting. The waypoints will then just be placed on the Ending Point/Final Destination like in any other open world game. I did this from the beginning of my playthrough. I didn't enjoy the stuttered-waypointing so it was one of the first things I changed. My rule of thumb is anything that the player has control over to make better/fix is not a flaw. :P

Thank you. ^___^ I had a lot, a LOT of fun with this game.

Leo K [Rogue] oh my bad, I just realized the second dude is your 'assistant' Nil 😂 still looked pretty funny to me at the time!

That's okay, Nil is a special boy. And a murderous and creepy one -- but he MEANS WELL~

Scum Bagel It's pretty legit, yeah. Combined with my freaking +40 STEALTH armor I'm basically a horror movie monster that keeps on killing.

Lol i have completed the game and i have 57 now. Hehehehe

Yup! As an RPG first and a Stealth game second, Horizon can be easily broken by a player with high enough Stealth stats. I am that player. From the beginning I basically set out to go nuts in this game and play with fire, getting as close to and as absurd with the AI as I could.

Ohh I don't have this game yet but I am going to buy it this week. Any recommendations for a noob like myself? I like to go guns blazing too but also stealth kills..

Stealth is crazy powerful in this game for getting Materials and XP early on. I'd recommend getting the Silent Strike Skill and the Lure Call Skill from your Skills menu. I'd also recommend getting Concentration, which lets you slow down time for a moment, making for easier headshots or weakpoint shots on Machines. Those three skills are a good starter, and you can't really go wrong with them. Everything else is up to you, realistically. Also, you're meant to use all the weapons. There's not going to be one that you just like more than the others, each one has uses in different situations. Freezing an enemy (max out the Circle through repeated Freeze Bombs, etc) increases all incoming Damage on them. If an enemy Machine is giving you trouble, Freeze it first then shoot the hell out of it. Holding the Bow/Shoot button doesn't affect Damage, only accuracy. At close range you can spam/mash R2 without any worries.

Yeah T_T

Hugh Mungus HEROISM

I hear you. Machine AI is fine, because there's an easier suspension of disbelief there, and getting Stealth Attacks on Machines doesn't guarantee an instant-kill on the tougher and bigger ones. But Human AI is absolutely idiotic, and as for the Stealth Gear, you're 100% on that too. Right now I have the best Stealth Outfit in the entire game, along with the Silent Sprint skill, and I'm not exaggerating or being hyperbolic at all when I tell you that I can *literally* Sprint right in front of Machines and their Detection Meter won't even hit Yellow State. They can tell they're looking at something but they've got no idea what. It's... Pretty wild. The way I managed to get myself to calm down about it all is by reminding myself that this game is an RPG above all else, so being able to "break" it that way is par for the course when it comes to this genre. The most recent example other than this that I remember is Fallout 4, which legitimately lets you crouch and become completely invisible to a swarm of hostiles who were just shooting at you a second ago, provided your build is advanced enough. RPGs gonna RPG, I'm just glad that this one abstains from doing most of the things that really annoy me about the entire genre. I'm generally happy with the Stealth mechanics, though at this point in the game I've become so rigged up in terms of Stealth that I am like unto a god when it comes to staying unseen. In a perverse way I'm excited to see what kind of mad bullshit I can come up with using that fact.

Yeah in the end I agree with you, breaking rpgs is a long and proud tradition for me as well, going back all the way to the first few Might and Magic games on apple2.

Not as far as I'm aware.

It is, yeah. :)

imnotmike I actually haven't but I noticed a lot of my vids aren't embeddable now. Not sure how to revert that or allow it again. Any advice? I'd LOVE to have embedding be totally okay, I've never had anything against it.

In youtube creator studio, click on your video and go to the advanced settings tab, then find distribution options and put a check mark in the allow embedding box. It's strange that it was not checked. That's usually the default setting. I tried embedding another one of your videos and it worked just fine, so you must have just accidentally unchecked the embedding option for this video.

...or maybe there's some option somewhere that allows you to change what the default settings for your videos would be - but I don't know where to find that right off the top of my head if that's the case.

You're absolutely right xD As for why it's being received so positively, few reasons, I imagine, and all *very* unrelated to that. 1. It's not a Stealth game. It's an Action RPG with lite-Stealth elements. The Stealth is some of the most functional and best-feeling for an RPG I've ever played, and I'm a Stealth gamer primarily. The RPG stuff feels legitimately great, it doesn't get in my way, and it doesn't feel like a slog. These are all issues I have with RPGs in general. 2. I'm wearing some of the best Stealth armor in the game and am Skilled up for Stealth over anything else. Even Machines don't know who I am when I sprint right past them, let alone humans, though Machines do react a little more intelligently. This is mostly fine because Stealth is largely used for getting around without being harassed by enemies all the time. With decent enough Stealth gear you get to choose when you want to fight, instead of having to be Reactive all the time. This is a welcome feeling, it lets you actually explore the world. There's plenty of incentive to fight, as most of your XP, Crafting Materials and Money will come from slain Machines. 3. The story of Horizon is quite intense and awesome, especially if you're into apocalyptic or cyberpunk stories like The Matrix, or Terminator, and maybe a little bit of Ghost in the Shell. It also gets pretty feelsy at times, which I liked a bunch. 4. Most of the game just... Feels, good, and the level of polish at this point is quite high. It's capped at 30fps, sure, but when using Menus, Weapon Wheel, Crafting, Inventory, whatever, it jumps up to 60fps just for those menus. That's the first time I've seen that in a console game, and I appreciate it a lot. Devs obviously knew what they wanted to do. They were pushing fidelity of visual image more than framerate (and make no mistake, running on a nice TV Horizon does look pretty) but they still know the importance of smooth operation, *at least* when a player is messing around in menus. Combat is intrinsically satisfying and not something to just get through en route to the next objective; which is an issue I have with a lot of RPGs. The controls are generally pretty responsive and once my brain got used to them I almost never had issues with the game misinterpreting my intentions. I could list a lot of things in this game's defense but at the end of the day, it's just really, really fun. I shit on a lot of games because I've played so, so many to-date that it's very hard for a game to legit impress me and make me *love* it. I love Horizon. Maybe it just hits all the things I personally want from a game, and does it in a decisive manner, and I grant that some people might not like this game. But I'd wager a huuuuge number of people would, and do. ... That said, yeah, the human AI *is fucking hilarious though* and I'm glad I could break it in this regard.

Have you considered doing reviews? Very salient points!

Joshua Cavalier I've done talky videos about games, sure! Check out my [Leo Talks] vids ru-vid.com/group/PL36oulzyfYiNQsas6yJofGYGN1o3jVJc_

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