Horizon: Forbidden West was the subject of last night’s PlayStation’s State of Play, with the announcement that it was getting a lot of changes in its latest patch including New Game+. Now, the patch notes have been released by Guerrilla, and the list is a hefty one. On top of the new game plus there is also the Ultra Hard difficulty mode and a new trophy set. You can check out the full notes for Horizon Forbidden West 1.14 and 1.15 below.
Horizon Forbidden West 1.14 and 1.15 patch notes
NEW FEATURES
- New Game+
- Ultra Hard difficulty mode when selecting the difficulty for New Game or New Game Plus
- Reset Skills functionality within the menu
- New functionality to apply a different look to Aloy’s armor.
- New Rewards available in New Game+ (Weapons, Dyes and Face Paints)
- A New Trophy Set
FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improved visual fidelity in Performance Mode.
- Multiple crash fixes.
- Fixed an issue in Main Quest “The Sea of Sands” where progression was blocked when trying to open the valve.
- Fixed an issue in Main Quest “The Broken Sky” where the quest would become stuck if the cinematic was skipped too fast.
- Fixed an issue in Main Quest “The Dying Lands” where the quest did not progress after defeating the Grimhorn.
- Fixed an issue in Side Quest “Breaking Even” where the beams that need to be interacted with would not be present.
- Fixed an issue where fast-traveling to Rebel Outpost: High Turning would send Aloy somewhere else.
- Fixed an issue where the campfire in Rebel Camp: Devil’s Grasp would remain unavailable after completing the camp.
- Fixed an issue where an objective would not be completed in Rebel Camp: The Hive
- Fixed an issue in The Arena where the timer would continue counting down after defeating all the machines.
- Oops… Added World Datapoint 63, which can be found somewhere near the Widemaw site on the Isle of Spires.
- Fixed an issue where the Tallneck shockblast would destroy all other machines.
- Fixed an issue where the Fireclaw would not go into the Shocked or Knocked Down State when triggered during certain attacks.
- Fixed an issue where the Behemoth would be able to chain charge attacks in rapid succession.
- Fixed an issue where detached machine parts could fall through the floor.
- Reduced the armor health for the Quen Imperial Guard to be more in line with the other enemies.
- Fixed an issue where the tier 4 Hammerburst Boltblaster would deal less damage than the tier 3 version.
- Fixed an issue where enemies would become suspicious when spotting an active Blast Trap.
- Fixed an issue where some weapons did not give Valor correctly.
- Reduced crafting costs for crafting Traps at a Workbench.
- Rebalanced crafting costs for Elite & Advanced Traps when crafting in the wild.
- Fixed an issue where some weapon perks did not give the correct values.
- Updated the Resilient Trapper skill with new values.
- Fixed an issue where the Braced Shot would become buffed in unintended ways.
- Fixed an issue where canisters would have different rarities.
- Added an option to show or hide grapple icons.Added a “Pry Open” option under the Hold/Toggle Accessibility Settings.
- Added an option for overriding machines to switch to ‘Toggle’ in the Accessibility Settings.
- Updated icons for various machine parts.
- Additional streaming fixes in game
- Additional crash fixes.
- Added Filmgrain to photo mode. Grain scales with intensity: low values have small grain, high values increase the size of the grain, which leaves the higher values especially suited to black and white experimentation.
- Fixed an issue where loot barrels would not get destroyed in one hit.
- Fixed an issue where overheal would not take the higher value when consuming Health Potions and Food at the same time.
- Fixed an issue where civilians would not always respond to rain.
- Fixed an issue where the Motion Aiming did not work for the second controller when using the Co-Pilot feature.
- Fixed an issue where Aloy could still control a mount when in the Shocked State.
- Fixed an issue where Aloy could crawl through a vent while holding a battery.
- Multiple localization and subtitles fixes and improvements.
- Multiple lighting fixes and improvements.
HOTFIX 1.15
- Fixed HUD elements showing simultaneously when starting the game in specific circumstances.
- Fixed an issue where the dialogue with Untalla did not complete the activity after handing in all Black Boxes.
- Fixed an issue where custom difficulty was not restored properly when loading a game that was made with custom difficulty selected.
- Improved The Arena text readability in Arabic.
If you missed the other Horizon announcement last night, then check out all of the details for Horizon VR: Call of the Mountain.
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