One of the legendary bows has an arrow type you can shoot to mark a target for an overridden machine to attack

@Junaid stormbird yes... glinthawk tho? It’s like one of the weakest machines in the whole game tho it would still have been nice to have a different option I suppose.

@@SkullFusion I don't think the sunwing will attack regardless. At least I haven't seen it do so, even with those arrows. I could be wrong though

@@itsme-mj9ic You can mount Stormbird? It's MOUNTABLE?

@@fdk12 no you can’t, sorry I was replying to junaid saying he wished we could mount a stormbird and glinthawk. And I was agreeing with mounting a stormbird but not a glinthawk that’s all. It’s unlikely we would be able to ever mount a stormbird even in dlc sadly.

You can actually grapple hook on to it to get some distance, it's quite useful specially when overwhelmed by machines

@@ricardosantos6770 I'm still on the eastern side of the map so I haven't even come across any big time machines yet, except the slitherfang in the beginning. Looks like I have alot to look forward to

He's your own personal cheerleader!!

“Yeah girl!!! Shoot it right on the belly cmon do it do it now Omg it’s charging again!!”

Facts

its just unfortunate that this got released close to elden rings release lol

I don't think people understand how bugged this game is.

They do, someone even discovered her nipps.

@@tapsiwapsi horizon is gonna age well

Yeah and the dualsense controller vibrates like crazy when the music picks up

I think it’s the only machine with a sort of dedicated sound track

What I find interesting is that most people don't realize you can I-frame the Plasma explosion effect. If you time a dodge or slide right, you can be immune to the Plasma detonation.

I do believe the soundtrack name is "Built to Kill" I think more Apexes have this soundtrack to them too but yes, it was clearly set for the Slaughterspine. The timing with is charging is perfect and terrifying...

@@karinelanglois1956 i try my level best to avoid apex machines but I only make an exception for the slaughter spine because the animation is soo life like. Hence i never really focused on the soundtrack of other apex machines

These guys are easy: freeze and then high volley shots with hunter bow and aim it onto the back spines and adjacent weapons

@@kasaitenma5546 they are not easy, quit drugs and quit easy mode

@@Jason-..- alternate explaination: you're bad at the game lol. I beat the game on hard on my 1st playthrough and I've gotten the games platinum trophy. Considering that only 1.6% of players have it and you're struggling with a apex slaughterspine, I highly doubt that you have that trophy too.

@@kasaitenma5546 i played on VERY hard on my 1st playthrough and i also have the platinum. And i had 400 hours in zero dawn. Difficulty usually is a subjective thing but slaughter spines are not easy let alone an apex one. I bet you are one of those guys that cheeses everything all the time and then bitching that it was an easy fight lol. Better luck next time weirdo

@@Jason-..- vertical traps

Fr. Shellsnapper is the bane of my existance tho. I can deal with the other two but that thing is just annoying.

@@zuhayrhanief9530 Yeah, the Shellsnapper was one of the bigger ones that sucks to fight. The upside they're pretty hard to come across

my deepest fear is apex fireclaw. this thing is unkillable

@@latawieclatajacy9053 Ropecaster, freeze boltblast relentless burst in that order, make sure to freeze at armor plates so it doesn't break the ropes. Should die in two or three rotations IF you use a valor surge such as ranged master or crit boost.

You’re breathtaking

Fuck someone else took that line

I don't play the game but I've watched playthroughs and the tremortusk is my favourite

The turtle and Loch Ness are awesome and the hippo . Tough.

Now I wonder how corruptors gon' fight these machines if they ever go to war with one another

Definately me everytime i come across any new machine lol

@@ThePeaceofWildThings I remember standing there thinking the same thing and got jumped on. Needless to say it killed me the first time and I haven't went back yet lol

First time I saw it was doing one of the missions to go to the mine on the island and I was like “oh, a thunder jaw?!? EASY!” And then it was much bigger and killed me almost instantly and destroyed walls and stuff and I was like WHAT IS THIS THINGGGGG!!?????” I had to run like a pussy and hide underwater.

@@vantagepoint9270 That’s just too much lol

I was wandering around and saw "Unknown Slaughterspine Site" and went to check it out. I was curious as to what it was, but "Mecha Godzilla" wasn't my first guess. I promptly turned tail and noped out of there.

On ps4 it’s pretty good but watching this I saw so many cool effects and great fps that I never saw on ps4 because it’s not as good

@@invadeandraid im on ps5

@@enriquetheboy cool

It's amazing, buy it immediately!

@@ScentSense Ikr, I’m playing it right now!

That was my first thought too lol. The machine's name already made me think "oh damn this is going to be strong", and then I actually saw it (I was behind some trees when I scanned it). Your description of "the true evolution of the thunderjaw" has to be the best description for the looks and combat for the machine

@@epRivera it's not related to a thunderjaw tho... Thunderjaw is based off a Trex while sluaghterspine is based off a spinosaurus

@@skrunklyOwO I know it's not _related_ to the thunderjaw by dinosaur standards, but it's definitely meant to be an upgraded thunderjaw boss in the game

Out in the open I actually prefer the Slaughterspine. The Thunderjaw is very aggressive and will ruin your day if you can't take the weapons down quickly.

The best thing about it is that the Slaughterspine was the last machine from the OG concept art of Horizon to be added, all machines from the concept art were in HZD but this one wasn’t so it was great to see it in the sequel

Tlou 2 is just as good, in sound design and graphics, both amazing.

@@crazybabuskaman3923 yeah, both games, as different as they are, are amazing and those graphics *chef's kiss

@@crazybabuskaman3923 Ps studios don't miss with their games

@@niharshastri3519 Ikr? Add to that Ghost of Tsushima and God of War, seriously sometimes i feel bad for Xbox

@@crazybabuskaman3923 whats tlou2 ? 😭

would be incredible if they design a king kong machine and have a reenactment of 2005 king vs v-rex lol

Yeah spinos are my fav dinosaur too.

Guerilla hired a Brazilian studio to design most of the robots. In this second game the machine designs are even better.

@@corruptionman1585 Do you know the name of the studio?

Wonder where Aloy will go next? 😮

It definitely isnt a 10/10 game, but it's very good and pretty

I still dislike the leveling in the game, but everything else is pretty much a 10/10.

9.5/10 Dont care to much for the RPG weapon leveling system felt useless in the beginning, also had to bump the difficulty down from Hard to Normal for Rockbreakers which screwed my Hard playthru.

*gets hit by a machine and is stunned for 3 whole seconds* **finally stands up and gets hit and stunned again immediately for another 3 seconds*** ^repeat.

@@wallacesousuke1433 you are right, its a 11/10

Maybe if aloy had an overrided one 😯

hmmm sounds oddly familiar, indominus rex’s death

Jurassic world 1 reference

Would be cool to see them fight my money is on the slaughterspine

@@Franbrage26 *1

We are getting DLCS, don't worry about the third one yet lol. That shit is A LONG way away. I'm hyped af to see where we go in the DLC.

@@crazybabuskaman3923 can't wait to see what the dlcs are like, but it's never too early to start speculating about where horizon 3 will go. Forbidden West was wilder than even the craziest fan theories.

@Clau Clau I'm pretty sure it is yeah... they did kind of leak something about a DLC. It will probably be coming in Summer or Winter.

@Clau Clau it isn't confirmed but there is a data point that mentions an area that isn't present in the current game and it would be an awesome name for a DLC.

@Clau Clau idk, I saw people talking about it on Reddit. To make an even stronger argument, it also mentions a character from the Frozen Wilds.

I just got there, the thunderjaw is level 30 normally, level 48, as an apex, the slaughterspine at normal is level 45, I have not encountered an apex varient

@@simpleviewer1334 it has to be a level 40, even thought it is way less dangerous than a apex thunder jaw. if it was possible, i’d give it a level 55

@@valeriomastroeni8454 no its fact, I found one near the pacific

@@simpleviewer1334 U have to face an apex variant in a mission XD

HEPHAESTUS' doing. but nevermind that Rampant machine forging SUBMIND. this NEMESIS threat is even going to be full on SKYSHOCK-like alert.

There have been techniques found that you can get into the thousands of damage and even 1 shot many machines, crazy stuff, this game is super detailed

@@skie6282 Talking about damage taken here, not dealt

@@CooperStation01 oh right lol, yeah machines stronk

Why are you spoiling for yourself

Wow you went full nerd then

There's a guy that died exactly that. Though it's only on HZD right now since HFW isn't on PC yet. I think the channel is Horizon Arena, HZD Arena.. something like one of those two names.

@Game Dude Lol true

Let the Slayer got this monster!!

Like a cross of barioth and duramboros/dobolbek

Almost reminds me of a brute tigrex fight lol

This looks more like an oversized Baryonix tbh

I have been playing for hours and I didn't even know you could ride those hahah.

@@CousinOfCurze It's unlockable through story progression only. You can't just go to the cauldron to unlock the override like the other machines.

you can ride a velociraptor also. one of the reasons why i got the game

This game feels like a holiday trip after the dark depressing world in Elden Ring

He did and it didn't do any dmg

@@Bcap222 ur kinda blind

@@Bcap222 you blind m8?

@@uwhu5215 no you are

@@jebaited2449 no you are

I aay the Shellsnapper, Slaughterspine and Specter are way more dangerous than those. The Slitherfang is by far the coolest though.

Thunderjaw? Sure, but a fireclaw? Not sure about that.

@@milmi-24attackhelicopter4 Are you sure about that ???, I Think You Haven't Played This Game Yet, Slaughterspine Is Really Hard To Beat It Has Plasma Powers That Can Hit You And After Few Seconds It Will Explode In You're Body That Makes A High Damage And Fireclaw Only Have Fire Powers But Slaughterspine Have Plasma Powers

@@razaahmed9241 The fireclaw doesn't even have a weakness to plasma damage so plasma damage really doesn't matter very much and will take ages for the plasma to even built up and take effect and already has one of the highest damage outputs in game without even using its elemental attacks and dishes it out a tad bit faster, the slaughter spine doesn't care about fire damage, so it all comes don't to who can dish out damage and how fast they can do it which is why I think the fireclaw would either win or at least heavily damage the slaughter spine. But no one has pitted them up against each other yet.

@@milmi-24attackhelicopter4 And Fire Is Fireclaw Strength So If We Blew Its Fire Tanks And It Makes A High Damage To Him So Why Not Plasma ??

The skykiller is a beast of a weapon. Used that to take down Erik in no time.

@@ThrashersUnite can confirm: very effective!

Yeah, can't tell if it's intentional or not

Is it not because it’s the Apex variant? So technically it’s not a gonna call for anything else to help it lol

i panicked dyring one side quest when i had to fight a tremor tusk and a thunderjaw at the same time, i still have no idea how i survived that, i think i got lucky i did some massive damage to the tremor tusk before the thunderjaw noticed and joined the fight

thunderjaw r a walk in the park if u pick the one spawn in the 2nd tall neck(locked) area. u can abuse the shit out of the terrain.

No, this game is bugged AF, has incredibly stupid story and characters. It also has a lot of gamedesign mistakes.

@@Higurashika why the fuck are you on a video about the game then you cuck?

@@Higurashika We don't care about your opinion. You are everywhere in this comment section bashing the game. Go back to playing your sword slashing over and over games or go play your stupid fucking assasins creed with a story worse than GOT season 8...

I can’t wait to kill that monster Iwith one hit lol 😂

A fully upgraded Skykiller (legendary spike thrower) can take down an Apex Slaughterspine in something like 5 throws if you use the ranged damage boosting valor surge with the right coils.

No early Gomes enfrentar essas coisas é osso Mas depois de bufado você fica um monstro

@@hardwarefailure Watch me do it with my eyes closed 😂

@@CheshireDCat hahahah bet you can’t

If you have a certain type of hunter arrow you can mark a target for overridden machines, but I agree that I wish they would improve the functions of machine overrides

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Yep, Soulsgame difficulty for sure. But I would say it's more like 2 hits until you're dead, the first hit will drop your health down extremely low but the 2nd one will finish you off. That's how it was like for HZD so I'm imagining it's like that here too. That's why legendary armor and legendary weapons are the way to go.

I beat it on VH. After dying over 15 times

@@cowenhames9404 currently on it, dying over 9000 times. Its not that its generally hard, it's just that the balancing is pretty weird because some encounters are just brutal.

No, this game is bugged AF, has incredibly stupid story and characters. It also has a lot of gamedesign mistakes.

@@Higurashika lol maybe ur playing a different game.. cnt b horizon

@@emmanuelmartindale8309 no, I play exactly the game that it is - average boring open world with a lot of grinding. Maybe you're too much a fanboy?

@@Higurashika maybe I just love playing games. And u cant tell me what the game is... that's ur opinion.. but I love it and so far it's the best I've played

@@emmanuelmartindale8309 your love for the game doesn't make this game good. You'll understand this when grow up.

The fireclaws were so annoying esp in HZD where you had to fight 3 at the same time

You can cheese Slaughterspines.

@@nightdriver7216 exactly, the main reason why i think Slaughterspines are easier is because you can actually hit them. They're plagued with the problem that all big machines have is that they make big targets, and a machine i can hit consistently is a dead machine. BUT what makes fireclaws/frostclaws so bad is that they hit like big machines but are rather small as far as large machines go and they are fast and erratic. Making them hard targets to consistently hit. Usually they only give you about a 1 second at most chance to get a good hit on them before attempting to RKO you. And the only moves they do that lock them in place for more than a second necessitate extensive dodging. So yeah IMO fire/frostclaws are still the kings of the wild

@Game Dude precisely there was this comment i got on a different video of a guy claiming he believed that deathbringers, stormbirds, and thunderjaw where harder to kill than fireclaws and i just couldn't make sense of any of it at all. Fireclaws have been deadly for the reason you listed above and because its hard to shut them down. With a thunderjaw you can remove its disk launchers and laser cannons with relative ease, and same with deathbringers just expose their heat vents and you can practically one shot them with a super upgraded icerail. Stormbirds are jokes too just knock off their lighting gun and they cant do much to you. But fireclaws and to a lesser extent frostclaws have armored weakpoints which they rarely ever expose to you. They're small, and hard to hit because they're constantly moving plus even if you do manage to destroy them it just stops them from adding fire/frost effects to their attacks but they still have the attacks at large to destroy you with. If you knock off a thunderjaws weapons or a storm bird they have to resort to predictable melee attacks but. Frost/fire claws thrive off being in your face and have countermeasures to prevent you from camping in the distance ie (lava/stalactites) or just running to you in less than a few seconds.

It really doesn't need that long lol. No idea what you're talking about, you can 100% the game in well under 100 hours and part of the fun is earning your way to being a bad ass at the end. Go play the first game so you can understand the story, if you want to jump straight to being overpowered then maybe go buy some gold on an MMO lol

@@ScentSense hes probably just not used to nowadays gaming, that's normal

Guerilla ditched the story to satisfy combat junkies. Playing Horizon ZD second is misleading, it has a much better grip on the story and far better upgrade paths than having to grind away with pidlly weak weapons to avoid destroying components in Forbidden West

@@bertbox69 I agree upgrading the equipments are way harder now (and annoying, takes too long if you wanna max out a legendary item) but I really like the mechanism of taking specific parts from specific machines, they could keep this system but make it easier in the next game

They should. It isnt supposed to be easy

@@Nobodysurvivesevenonebit No I meant in terms of it's beauty and gameplay I'm glad it's a challenging game lol

Glad you like it my friend I got addicted to it too hahaha

Eh the fireclaw wasnt that bad too kill if you had the bluegleam fire armor with decent weaves, made them do much less damage. And after destroying the belly you can freeze them then just apam triple arrows from hunter bow

@@Vaultyboi22 thats the point aloy was given better tools to specify take them out during that dlc. But if you take one on using all purpose armor they can still deal out so punishment. All I'll say is that given that we had more op stuff in HZD ive died many more to a fireclaw than ive ever died to a Slaughterspine. I liked where they where going with it an upgraded plasma thunderjaw but ive yet to die to a Slaughterspine

I do think the fireclaws were worse in HZD than they are in FB, but I still wasn't amused when I hit an area where there was a frost claw, killed it, and just as I was about to loot and celebrate..ANOTHER frost claw showed up...and I didn't have the ammo to take it on, so I had to run, and leave the loot.

No wtf are u on

Lmfao

It’s ether normal or hard I think but even in normal it does that much damage this thing is not to fuck with if you don’t know what your doing 🤣

I played it on normal, and it did A LOT of damage. I had lucked out cause I found a lot of healing just before I ran into it..otherwise, I'd have been effed. As it is, it took like three tries to take it down. I almost had it my second time, but at just a moment where I tried to put distance between me and it, it did the satellite lasers, and killed me. The third time was the charm. At that point, I knew its patterns enough to keep decent distance and reduce how much damage I was taking by using hills/dunes to my advantage.

You can target the shoulder sacs and still get the component. Use ice bombs Then power shots valour surge and braced shots with precision bow. Even on harder difficulties you can melt their health bar

Yeah I now have enough lovely gear that with the right valor surge I can melt them pretty fast - but still not as fast as the Slaughterspines. My main issue with slaughterspines is detaching their kidney storage boxes because they move around so much; if I just want to bring it down, there are so many weakspots that take up so much of its body - it's *much* easier than a Fireclaw

Fireclaws are b*STDs. If it wasn't for the proxy sack webbing you keep needing, I'd just put the thing out of its misery with explosive traps and spikes

Yep, first thing I do when hunting apex for parts is to track its path then set elite traps. Then I hide and when it activates a trap I shoot at its weak points for a bit then I smoke bomb the hell outa there and hide again till it goes back to yellow alert and shoot at weak points again. Just rinse & repeat.

@@Zagatho yeah, thats a solid tactic, though I like to face it head on at some point, otherwise it can get repetitive and kinda on a cheesing side for me , but yeah, that smoke bomb - saved my ass many times , also using specials is good in critical moments - since You are invincible for the moment animation runs :D

@@marowak87 Yep, smoke bomb is op. 😂

Facts

Thank you! I'm honestly not trying to go for speed or skill, just playing for the thrill of it!

To each their own

Hate to be "that girl" but taking down machines that big isn't difficult even on higher difficulty levels. With the legendary sureshot bow, extra bow damage valour and braced shot on a weak point it does a massive amount of damage on all difficulty levels. I'm not going to dig at the guy, he's playing for his own enjoyment but wailing on a machines armour doesn't do much damage. You don't need to put it on easier difficulties to take down large machines you just need to plan your approach. There are trap builds that let you take down things like that in seconds.

@@avalineriley6809 That's true. Elite Acid Traps and Power Shot combined with Splitting Spike would wreck an Apex Slaughterspine very quickly. Not the best way to farm it though.