Horizon Forbidden West (PS4/5) & Burning Shores DLC Out Now! Complete Edition - 10/6, PC - Feb 2024
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I finally finished the game yesterday. The story was interesting in the beginning, but I lost interest in the end. The gameplay is ok, but I really don’t like the upgrade system. Having to kill Apex machines and NOT get the part is so annoying, but that’s what I get for playing on the most difficult setting. At least the graphics are beautiful.
So glad I didn't buy the DLC.
So glad I didn't buy the DLC.
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the final boss in the DLC is more fun than the final boss in the base game. its worth checkin outI finally finished the game yesterday. The story was interesting in the beginning, but I lost interest in the end. The gameplay is ok, but I really don’t like the upgrade system. Having to kill Apex machines and NOT get the part is so annoying, but that’s what I get for playing on the most difficult setting. At least the graphics are beautiful.
So glad I didn't buy the DLC.
the final boss in the DLC is more fun than the final boss in the base game. its worth checkin out
Yeah, that last boss was very underwhelming. So glad I had I had explosives and plasma weapons. The boss I remember facing was the Slitherfang, it was quite good and challenging.
If the gameplay is improved in the DLC and it's on sale, I'll get it.
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I truly hated that shyt... Nothing more boring in a game than fast traveling all over the map, killing the same shyt over and over...I finally finished the game yesterday. The story was interesting in the beginning, but I lost interest in the end. The gameplay is ok, but I really don’t like the upgrade system. Having to kill Apex machines and NOT get the part is so annoying, but that’s what I get for playing on the most difficult setting. At least the graphics are beautiful.
So glad I didn't buy the DLC.
Oh I just got this legendary bow... Now I just got to collect 30 random parts, 5 times each, to fully upgrade it
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Horizon Forbidden West
GAMES, MOTION, FACE, CHARACTER19.07.2023.
Guerrilla has outdone itself yet again with the last “Horizon Forbidden West,” released in February 2022. This second game in the series is considered a triumphant combination of enthralling combat with the top-tier creature and character designs that together form a captivating open world populated with astonishing tribes. The 3Lateral team, alongside our friends from Cubic Motion, were thrilled to be a part of this masterpiece by helping bring the characters to life.
The attention to detail on each of the game's characters, on top of the incredibly rich world design, provides a level of immersion that envelops players in the story. Each tribe is distinct from one another and the costume design on display throughout the game is breathtaking. To accomplish such quality and consistency, the project required a vast pool of game characters of different descent, age and demography.
Guerrilla was an early adopter of the technology that contributed to the creation of MetaHuman Creator, and for this sequel, they generated 168 unique characters utilizing MetaHuman core tech. 20 people were scanned in order to create the “hero” characters, while additional talent was scanned to produce a “data gene pool” that was used as a statistical back-end to generate another 67 characters via MetaHuman core tech. Each of these characters uses the same LOD design, which is supported by the MetaHuman assets, enabling them to be used to deliver content for marketing materials, cinematics and within the gameplay set in the open world of “Horizon Forbidden West.” There is more to come with the Horizon franchise, and we're happy to share that our teams continued their collaboration throughout the production of "Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores," creating additional characters for the DLC.
Guerrilla knows that a cutting-edge asset creation pipeline needs an animation process of equal fidelity. Our animation team was commissioned to capture facial animation data across the full range of “Horizon Forbidden West’s” cast of characters, and in the end, we delivered more than seven hours of footage to be used across their characters. The optimal approach to performance analysis and solving allows for flexibility and scalability via pixel-accurate machine vision tracking of an actor’s face and then combining that with a complex mapping of the actor’s performance data to a facial asset.
Guerrilla completed the casting of a large number of actors, who were captured in various locations across the globe. For instances where a single actor could play multiple roles, but the actor needed to be captured in different locations using a variety of cameras, our team delivered a solver solution capable of securing consistency across performances. Streamlined by our experienced service team, this pipeline enabled Guerrilla to maintain a high-quality bar across such a massive game.
The DNA file format paired with Rig Logic from MetaHumans was also used in the “Horizon Forbidden West” project. This DNA file structure is becoming recognized as a data standard for the representation of digital humans in AAA projects and interactive entertainment in general. RigLogic secured run-time performance for facial rigs and enabled optimization of both the rig evaluation speed and memory footprint for the character asset. In terms of memory optimization, RigLogic does not require baking the rig elements per frame (e.g. joints, blend shapes, or wrinkle maps), and instead only requires baking the head rig control animation, which is memory light
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Horizon Forbidden West developer almost cut flying due to PS4 support
The Horizon Forbidden West team considered cutting flying from the game, because it wasn't sure the PlayStation 4 hardw…
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I wish they add another new DLC
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its crazy how the more time passes this gen the better this game looks lol
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Hopeofmypeople
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Decima is fire.
Gizmo_Duck
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Decima is fire.
I can’t wait to see how Kojima crushes buildings with DS2
I just got the ability to fly. How close am I to being done?
You got three more missions to go.