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Got my Horizon Zero Platinum. On to Gravity Rush 2 now I think.

Also Horizon Zero Dawn. Amazing fun. Want more!

That was such a goooood game. Just need to knock over the dummies for the platinum.

Yeah found it, noticed I can trade it in for a "mysterious box" from the "mystery box" seller in Meridian. No idea if I should though, or if I just hang on to it and see if it is used for some as yet to be released content...

I only just realised that one of the random items I picked up is a Death Stranding Easter egg...

My main issue with the flowers and the mugs is that the reward for collecting them all is garbage.

I actually enjoyed the trials. Except for the stealth one. Which was not too difficult, but also not too fun. On the subject of busy work, I'm onto flowers and sculptures now.

Past the cracked mountain.

Good point, I really need a Goose skin for a pouch upgrade and some other bits of animal to buy a Shadow Rattler. I'm just past that bit. Gonna do the hunting trials and score the lodge weapons, then finish collecting all the flowers and vantage points, then finish the story. I scored the ancient armour which is OP af. Gonna be sad when this game is done.

I just completed that section. FWIW it's not so much a "point of no return" as a point of "no deviation for quite some time". I don't *think* there are any missable side quests to worry about.

The processed blocks are indeed a lootable item Dean. I got the impression Apocashitstorm logs were just some rando grunt. Not watched them all yet though. I guess what I'm saying is that up to that mission the story of what happened is more suggested and drip fed, then in that mission you suddenly get this massive info dump. That said, they do lampshade it somewhat by Sylens saying that you found out more in a few minutes than he has in a long time of searching, and as Goh points out, it does make sense where the things are found.

That's where I am too. Quite liking the way the story unfolds generally, but the last two missions with Sylens have been a bit of an exposition fest.

Indeed, came across my first Behemoth yesterday. Was being escorted by a longleg. I overrode the longleg before taking on the behmoth, annoyingly the longleg stole the kill. Next time I'll take em both out. Noticed a fun thing with shell walkers the other day as well, if you shoot the bracket holding the container so it falls off, once the shell walker is done looking for you it will pick the container back up and hold it on its head using its lightning gun arm. This serves 2 purposes. 1 it is funny watching him walk off like he is holding a hat on his head and 2. it makes it way easier to attack them.

I thought a behemoth was something else... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE6WRQdm9BY

To be fair, you go around a real galaxy and it's going to be mostly iron and carbon that you are digging up. Also, it would truly suck balls to have to warp back to an old system just to get some of a particular element that you now need that you didn't before.

Can you tie it down? Would that help? What worked for you? I find rockbreakers manageable once limbless, but while they can tunnel they are absolute bastards. I've only just got the ropecaster, so learning the... ropes on that tool. Seems very effective though.

Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't. I think it's great that the game is getting so much post launch support. I kinda want to pick it up again and drive a Mako. Ooooh, there's a hover craft thing? And a sand crawler?!

I was wondering the same thing re: adamantium.

Standard rockbreakers are fairly annoying. I can't begin to imagine how awful corrupted ones are.

I think the combination of sound stealth and visual stealth make it feel huntery. Sneaking up on a boar is a combo of using cover and not stomping around. Feels more nuanced than just avoiding a cone of vision. No idea if Far Cry does the same. Might spend some time gathering materials for crafting this lunch time actually. My GF doesn't like me shooting the animals... :/

I thought that was a feature too! Edit: I will never get over the fact that these toys are gone even though they would be the perfect partner to HZD.

It's the fact that there always seem to be ~3 of them that is my issue here.

I'm finding crocodiles most troublesome, largely because there always seems to be several of them at once.