Horizon: Zero Dawn - The BEST way to Optimize Weapons for Ultra Hard New Game + (In my opinion.)

Excellent tutorial, On my first play through on hard in late 2023 now and looking forward to forbidden West.
I’m just at the part where I’ve gone back to mother and found out my back story so guess I’m near the end.
I modded all my weapons last night and now need to redo them, I’ve never used handling and now feel educated on the matter 😂
Thank you 😊

Wait you use the harvest arrow on the destroyed machine?

I just don't understand why my tearblast arrows don't work on ultra hard. Why don't the Thunderjaws' disc launchers fall off when I hit them directly with 10 tearblast arrows?

I started using ropecaster to tear off disclaunchers, since ropecasters stun the enemy, giving me ample time to tie down and tear off every component I don't want to deal with.

@Psykko Rants, thanks for amazing overview of all weapons, that's really deep and valuable! One question about Frozen Wilds weapons, I pretty sure they are most powerful, were they intentially missed in the video for those who doesn't have Frozen Wilds DLC or you want to have them in a separate video? Keep up, you're doing amazing videos, really interesting to look and listen 👍

I passed game in Sep 2023 only on hard, mb something changed but I never saw such damage u showing in this video.

What armor setup do you use in this video? I have the Ultra Weave Armor and the Adept Protector Armor but I still get slaughtered on Ultra Hard New Game.

I just started NG+ on Ultra hard, which one you prefer to get first, adept shadow and adept lodge or adept banuk champion?

I understand your point about the Ropecaster but it can be very useful towards the stormbird, makes it easy to shoot the Freeze Canister, and because it has two Freeze Canisters you can take advantage of the free freeze state and kill it

You failed with music my friend, this is not a rave its a goddamn tutorial

great video, is an adept bow other then a shadow bow?

Damn dude, you completely skipped the adept sling.
Well, I guess it doesn't matter, since its best used with the ropecaster anyway.

Rattler is best used on frozen targets. I was wondering why the Rattler seems to melt frozen shit, meanwhile my blast sling seems to need to stack quite a few bombs on things even when they're frozen.

What mods are you using to get 50 frost on the champion bow with only 1 freeze mod?

How do you get that many pristine mods? And how do you get even one? I started playing yesterday

What a good video. I am going to be starting my NG+ UH mode soon and this might have given me some insights. Thanks!

where are we gonna get the weapons at?

Where does the DLC weapons fit here?

This completely vhanged the way I play, thanks.

That (in my opinion) ruins the guide.

I like the rope caster when i feel im being overwhelmed by two machines. There a few instances where you fight two bug machines at the time and i like to tie one down for a while to gebit out of the way.

Playing NG+ on hard and this is very helpful

Im confused as to why everyone always aims for the heart of the thunderjaw??? What's the point of this?

my weopons has three coils, where did i go wrong, do i have to do side quests

I am quite curious, this game has some sort of combat system? I have tried sniping in combat, but it was an utter failure. Targets move in three axes and my arrows have flight time. Reliably hitting anything even in slow mode is beyond me. So I gave up and started arrow spam which... works perfectly. And switched for Ropecaster against bigger enemies. Why waste time on sniping when I can just blow them up?

Hey, thanks for such a great and i formative guide. I am planning to start a ng+ ultra hard but I don't want to grind TFW unique mods by replaying the main game over and over.

Could you please share your latest and perfect save file so that I can use that to create a ng+

Thanks in advance!

I just wanted to ask how do you get perfect weapon coils for example: 67% handling, 50% damage, 30% spear damage ect... Is it from thunderjaws or frost/fireclaw or demonic frost/fireclaw? because I have not yet gotten one

new player here, just got a PS5 and downloaded Zero dawn, My mind has been blows to bits with this tutorial, I will come back to it once I get some progress in the game :)

Don't sleep on the rattler. On a frozen enemy, rattler absolutely decimates.

how to get four slots for modifications in bow

I just finished Horizon Zero Dawn and I want to try to get the 100% achievement award by doing New Game + on Ultra Hard but I dont have these weapons or coil mods. Can I start New Game + on Story Mode and go somewhere to get all of these weapons and mods and then start another new game + on UH mode with these new mods and weapons? Thanks!

IMO the storm slinger was far better prior to its upgrade. Sure it got a DMG buff. but at the cost of killing yourself far too often to merrit using this weapon at all. I quickly went back to the original version.

this was exactly what i needed, i'm replaying the game after years and i'm findin out i've been playing completely wrong lol

I'm on my first playthrough of this game and absolutely love it. I started on hard, but now I'm playing on very hard. I'm 30 hours in and feel like I've barely scratched the surface. Most of my weapons are still in a pretty basic state and I haven't even heard of or seen half the weapons you mention here; I certainly know I can't afford them. I think a mistake I'm making is constantly fighting machines as I journey through the land which is eating up my resources. But I'm having fun and taking my time with it.

My question about ultra hard is the grind. Is the grind for resources a lot more difficult? I find myself constantly grinding for resources on very hard, but perhaps I'm just playing the game wrong.

This video is crazy useful, I don't get how you managed to have all those unique coils... I thought you could have just one per game!
(I hope the answer is not that you completed the game twenty times)

Greetings, I'm new to this game and I am on my first playthrough, should I buy the banuk versions of these weapons or do you recommend waiting for NG+ for the adept ones, any feedback would be appreciated. Great and informative videos are on your channel and I thank you in advance. 💯

nice video :) i loved it

Really gotta call me out like that with the Ropecaster huh? Absoulety right on there though, I rely way too heavily on it and am working on that. Great video!

Late to the party, I just finished HZD initial story line, and starting a new Game +, so I can play with the Adept tier weapons.

How do u get adept weapons?

Was missing for me the info of where to get the weapons from, do they appear later in the game, how much they cost.

Which modifications exactly did you put on them (percentage wise).

Except that, a really interesting video. Thanks!

next time please turn down the music volume, it can't be as loud as your voice. Thanks.

Are the adept weapons better than the banuks from frozen wild?

Just starting a new play through of HZD and this information is gold! Thank you!

Came back here after 3 days of finding this channel and, thank you, i got all the dlc weapons, working on getting shield-wiever armor too and is such a quality of life change, i'm one shotting most medium size machines, thunderjaws and thunderbirds are a cakewalk to defeat, thank you so much

Great video to come across. I'm currently working on ultra hard. Thanks for making this. I love the Banuk weapons but unfortunately haven't been able to get through the upgrades do to The Frozen Wilds haunting me on ultra hard haha. Right on, The Powershot Bow is my favorite bow. The Stormslinger is a great weapon as well, good call. Are harvest arrow beneficial on ultra hard then? Since resources are more expensive at that difficulty.

Hey, i'm doing a ultra hard normal ng gameplay and i'm at the mission where u sneak into the eclipse base and destroy their communication web, but i'm using the inicial bow still, i wanted to save as much shards as possible to get the shadow versions of every weapon, but it's being so hard, the weapons are so pricy, what can i do relieve this weapon problem a bit, using only the first bow isn't holding me back a lot, but i feel that i lack damage for everything

For the "easy" kills on any npc , tripcaster + damage coils = 600 damage , place wires depending on what you fight ( rockbreaker =9 wires) lure them to it....boom ! They your b@tch....!!!!

Hi whats with the “Adept” name in weapons how can I get that?

hey brotha... thank you for the awesome magnificent guide you got a subscriber...! say... question... does the tear coil mods still not affect sharpshooter bows' tear blast arrows... is it still a broken stat or is it fixed now and can i use the bow for tearing in my arsenall.. also what do you think would be an all around best loadout for very hard dificulty... cheers and thanks again!