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The Lure ability sounds like a real boring way to handle combat scenarios.

I will say a few things from my limited time with the game:

There is actually quite alot of variety and complexity in the combat once you understand it a little more. The combat never felt fun and the story wasn't really grabbing me, until a few things started to click. I'm 20 hours in and felt exactly the same way you did until recently. There are also melee attacks, overrides, and stealth kills, which are all effective combat options in their own ways, but I didn't rely on that stuff as much as just shooting and blowing everyone up. And there's obviously fast travel to expediently get to places you've visited before. You can also ride a machine to travel faster and outrun almost anything. While traversing the world map, I often avoided enemies. My basic one-two punch was to hit an enemy's elemental weakness to get them distracted/injured, then pulverize them with a tripleshot bow or explosive slingshot. I kept at least one weapon loaded and specialized to deliver each type of elemental damage, so I was always ready for anything. Often you can disable enemies and buy yourself some time this way. It's also very effective to exploit enemies' elemental weaknesses. Any time I wanted sheer DPS, that thing came through for me better than anything else.

Horizon zero dawn map icons list mods#

I simply stacked all of my best straight damage mods on it.

One of my most effective weapons overall was the explosive slingshot. I found this especially useful in enclosed combat arenas where combat options were more constrained than in the open world. If you have the skill that lets you recollect deployed traps, you can place them liberally and just gather up any remaining unused traps after the smoke clears. Placing traps before agro-ing enemies can be extremely effective. And seemingly every path to every objective is littered with these encounters. I'm just fed up with the swings between no challenge and no hope on every machine encounter. Go.' Neither of these are fun - I'm either sitting in grass whistling and hitting R1, or running around like an idiot mashing on the health potion button while praying my last arrow that will hit a machine's weakness connects instead of being knocked off course because I'm hit by three of his friends while he spits fire at me and oops I'm dead.įor those of you who enjoyed the game: What the fuck am I missing? I think my equipment is upgraded and I've used my points to try to be more survivable/get more bang for my buck in crafting ammo. The second scenario is 'Here's a mix of two to three types of enemies, multiple machines of each type, and they're all going to swarm you as soon as you make any offensive move. I'm running into two combat scenarios: hide in grass and lure Watchers over to silent strike them one by one is the first. The only commonality between the three is that I'm hating everything about the combat, and I don't remember that from before. I completed the cauldron, I finished the war party quest, and now I'm on my long hike. I also still had my first cauldron to explore.

Part of this is obviously my fault for walking away for 4 months, but the bits of story I remembered and had in my quest log were to help a Nora war party take revenge on some cultists and to trek halfway across the map to some big city. Having wrapped that up, I was really excited to get back to Horizon and I'm really not enjoying much of it at all. I decided to set this aside and played a ton of Zelda, then eventually set that aside to play (and finish) Persona 5. I started playing this at launch, enjoyed it quite a bit, but realized when Zelda came out I had to stop playing one of the two games because I was getting my buttons crossed up. The thread title is the question I've been asking myself for about a week now.