In an official post by PlayStation on it’s blog site featuring comments from Blake Politeski (principal machine designer) and Maxim Fleury (asset art lead), the developers at Guerrilla Games confirmed some details of the upcoming enemies from everybody’s favourite dinocybaurg hunting series… Actually, if you’ll let me indulge my inner CJ The X, I’d pay good money to see a Cyborg Transhumanist (not about trans humans, though transhumanism has been added to the pride flag this year) reading of the Horizon series. I’m only a little ways in, so can’t comment too much, but the infusing of the natural resources with mechanical beings shtick sounds like there’s a lot of philosophical meat to chew over on that. And who knows, maybe I’ll do it myself, maybe I’ll make a 5-hour long documentary on Hedy Lamar The Ultimate Girlboss! Maybe I’ll become so famous that I could afford to follow up Endgame with F**KING DOCTOR DOLITTLE!

Blake and Maxim confirmed some returning enemies from Horizon Zero Dawn, specifically, the Watcher and the Snapmaw. They’ll appear alongside Forbidden West’s new enemies, Clawstriders and Tremortusks aplenty which you can see in the Horizon Forbidden West gameplay trailer here.

“It was interesting to figure out what type of machines would live in different ecological zones, and how they would interact with each other, their environment, and, of course, humans” – Blake Politeski.

The game’s development has involved a lot of careful consideration about interesting scenarios players can find themselves in when fighting monsters. For a breakdown of the primary traversal and combat tools, click here. I’m talking grappling hooks, resonator blasts and gliding-galore! Pullcasters, stab-masters, spike launchers and more!

“We recommend using traps, as well as the Pullcaster. Though slow, they can reach a speed that will easily trample Aloy, so get ready to dodge” – Politeski and Fleury on combating the Tremortusk, based on the use of war elephants in real life history.

Because not everything from Horizon Zero Dawn’s concept art could make it to the game, Politeski also confirmed that some of the new enemies would be adapted from those past extra art pieces, so if any of you managed to get your hands on the Complete Edition (which you probably did since we sold out of it), scroll over the enemy designs there, you may find something that’ll come up in the next big trailer or gameplay reveal. And while we may not have Horizon Zero Dawn or Horizon Forbidden West (at time of writing), in the spirit of all things Horizon themed, have a butcher’s hook at… *checks notes* Horizon Shift for Nintendo Switch… Sometimes you just gotta lean into the awkwardness of an advert to pay the bills-

Horizon Zero Dawn had a whopping 25 different enemy types, so needless to say, the devs at Guerrilla Games seem very attentive to the idea of making multiple unique enemies leading to combat encounters that put new spins on Horizon gameplay.

Horizon Forbidden West is set to drop February 18, 2022, for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

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Amazon‘s foray into the world of gaming with New World has been off to a Rocky start!

First it’s removing character customization from full in-game servers, then gear clipping woes, a bug for kicking off players via messages, reducing number of players and more! Patches have fixed most of the main issues, including the most recent glitch, a method of invincibility received by moving the window of the game during play.This sparked a conversation from some (and by some, I mean Reddit and Twitter discourse) questioning whether the exploit was intentional due to Amazon being ‘client authoritative’, which isn’t exactly the most likely presumption. I watched CJ The X’s multi-hour long heavily cited deep dive into Jeff Bezos and reading Bo Burnham’s soul for filth, one of the big takeaways from that video is essentially “say what you will, but Bezos loves the customer the way a Fujoshi loves yaoi paddles“… I’m exaggerating, but not by much!

While you’re here, I’ve heard some compare New World to a ‘Colonialism simulator’, so if you want a story-based gaming experience that definitely touches on a perspective on colonialist takeover, have a butcher’s at our store for our special edition PS5 and PS4 versions of Greedfall.

On Friday, Amazon stated in an official forum site for New World that the game is ‘not client authoritative’. The statement then goes on to read as:

 ‘New World is entirely server based. At a high level the model is this: clients dispatch controller inputs to the server, and the server then checks that input for limits that might invalidate it, then if accepted uses it as an input to a character (“actor” is our internal name) within server memory’.

This ‘server based’ claim was also supported by community manager Luxendra, stating: ‘we do full physics detail for all such actions. Upon receiving the outcome, either hit or miss, the client will adjust its visual display to match what the server has determined. There are some client side tricks we use here to ‘stretch’ the animation while the client is waiting for the server answer, but the outcome is always based only on the server answer’… In lay terms ‘we do lots of checking and managing to make sure things run smoothly in-game, but at the end of the day, the server’s own analysis and outcome is king’. So, oddly enough, THANK GOD the machine didn’t pick up an issue this time round, because again, CJ’s infinite droves of galaxy-brained genius incoming, but it’s a very real possibility that cyborg transhumanism will indeed become a thing (and to a degree already is). Even Stephen Hawking and a bunch of other big-name scientists signed the Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence that essentially boiled down to “don’t fiddle too hard with Artificial Intelligence, or it may fiddle you back”… I’m exaggerating, but not by much!

As of yet, around 8% of New World players have reached max level and the game is sitting comfortably as one of Steam‘s Top 3 most played games.

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