

Skills cost between 5 (or so) experience points each, and experience is gained from completing quests, fighting enemies, and doing side distractions. Some skills have built in bonuses upon reaching certain stat requirements - incentivizing certain play styles.Ģ018’s God of War still has experience, and still uses that experience to garner new skills and upgrades for Kratos and Atreus.
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Linear upgrade paths, and few choices for player progression besides when you get skills leaves Horizon with a tacked-on system for Aloy’s development, one that does not support much experimentation and leaves players with few real choices for progression. The RPG-system of Horizon is a poorly integrated add-on that does nothing to improve the game or player experience. Pulling the experience-points / level system from Horizon wouldn’t break anything - there aren’t level requirements for weapons or armour, and levels are simply a suggestion on quests. Your character’s “level” is determined not on your character’s “strength” but on how many quests you’ve done. Your health is the only thing that naturally changes from levelling up and all combat stats are tied directly to your weaponry. “Shadow” versions of each weapon is the strongest tier, with little reason to hold onto old weapons.Ĭharacter stats are all but non-existent in Horizon. The green in each weapon’s statistics indicates increases from modifications. Why is the Heavy Lifter skill required to upgrade my Concentration skill, or why do you need the Expert Carver skill to access the Hoarder skill? Some feel useless, others like they should have been available immediately (for example, the Concentration skill - which allows players to briefly slow down time while aiming - feels integral to ranged combat) and the way skill progression works feels arbitrary and linear. The games skill trees, split four-ways are Prowler, Brave, Forager and Traveler (again, based on the game post- The Frozen Wilds) leans heavily on new abilities and expanding your repertoire of combat and support skills ranging from stealth attacks to scavenging more parts and garnering more resources from the world. Along with that, there are some skill points one can garner from completing story quests. Horizon: Zero Dawn has a level cap of 60 (with something called a “ghost level” much higher than that) after the release of The Frozen Wilds, each level you gain increases your maximum health and gives you one skill point to spend in any of the skill trees in game. Aloy faces off against a Stalker in the Horizon: Zero Dawn - Frozen Wilds expansion.
