Thanks @nintendogamingchannel1007 I never thought about it. I can see some similarities. I hope Elon doesn't kill us all in the near future 🤣

YES

Ted Faro started by doing environmental work (Tesla / FAS Green Robots), claiming the success of his most brillant employees as his own (Space X / Sobeck), became the richest man on Earth which only boosted his immense ego, turning him into an ultra-conservative nutcase. I mean how obvious does it has to be?

Yes everything about screams hopeless tech bro: - The fact that their names are shortened enough to justify saying both the first and last name every time(3-4 syllables). - The fact that all they did was take credit for someone else's work and it made them the richest men on earth. - The fact that they have reputations written to make them seem like some kind of messiah-like figure born on to the world to usher humanity into a brighter future. - The fact that they would never admit that what they sell are horrible pieces of scrap that ultimately got people maimed or killed. (Tesla cars with no manual door handle and can only be opened electronically(no power, no exit), self driving cars that run pedestrians over, cybertrucks that eat people's fingers and slices open their calves)

It apart of why this game is so good. As for ted what haunts me most is that under all that bluster of saving humanity from its past. He deleted Apollo to hide. So that he would not be remembered as the fool he was as the man who killed humanity twice. The first because of his arrogance, and then the second time because of his shame. Story telling like this will be remembered for generations

I love your comment because ultimatly shows what great writing does. Faro... was humanity's savior. For better or worse his breakthroughs pushed humanity from the break of a coalpse into feudalism back into the light. And then the same traits that saved humanity... doomed it. And it drove Faro insane. He's one of the best tradgedies written in motern enteritanment history. On the otherhand, i despize Sobek. She's jesus. Plain and simple. She's flawless to a T, and the only bit of humanization she ever gets is in a post credits scene. It's quite a shame. I would have loved a role reversal. A Faro vs Sobek rivalry, where Faro once succeded, and Sobek failed miserably... and in the end the hubirs of succes being humanity's end while the humility of defeat being the source of hope. But as it stands... man what a missed opportunity with Sobek.

@@TheMajinTrunks we could see that rivalry in the second game. Given the context of ferro, and sobeks history I could see that happening, mybe even giving us the info/recording of what caused sobeks to ultimately leave the country because of the legal issues put on her by the courts

I actually don’t think he did it to hide his own hubris. I think he deleted the Apollo data because he knew that humanity and people like him in the future if corrupted by the information from Apollo might make the same mistakes and be led down the same path. I don’t believe he should have made the decision solo but it wasn’t an entirely shameful decision seen through that light. At the end, I don’t think he valued whether he was remembered poorly by those that would come after, if his actions were ever brought to light.

Were you not listening? She said she would not record what he did if he footed the bill. Apollo would have shown him as a hero, the one who funded giving life another chance, because that is what Liz, who told him no one else would know as long as he paid, promised. We have only been getting the actual truth from Ted and Lizs personal recordings, nothing of public record.

Ikr

Ted is so hatable it's unreal. Destroys the earth, then funds to fix it then wipes Apollo .... Dude screwed us over TWICE

@@EL-ISS more like screwed the world three times...made the chariot lines virtually unhackable...wants to cover up his mistake...purges the APOLLO program...i dont even get it why or how he was involved with the Zero Dawn project.

@@GamerNurseGale Well, someone had to fund it. I wish they had thrown him to his creations and taken his funds after the fact.

@@GamerNurseGale because he and his company funded it. Without his funding the project wouldn’t have been completed that’s why he had the power to destroy Apollo.

It is pointed out that the "glitch" and signal that made Gaia's subordinate functions self-aware came from an unknown source. So it may be possible that someone or something else may be involved in this as well.

Some people think that it's Ted in some kind of why.

He had his own fallout shelter "Thebes"

A Ghost Without a Past the source was called the Masters by Sylens at the end. They’re the reason all this shit blew up and become Aloy’s reason for creation.

Why would Ted want to destroy the world AGAIN? With his knowledege and tech he could live like a god...If he was cryogenically frozen, as one theory suggests.

well it should because all it would take is a simple mistake like making ai controlled robots with the same ability's as the chariot line of robots to wipe us out for real it scares you to the bone because it could actually happen

Is Not Meant

@@ForceInEvHorizon For her yes

I envy her...

U good??

"All-Mother, Liz" fixed it for her lol

just finished it a couple days ago, and I couldn't agree more. This game had the best story of any game i have ever played, bar none. Overall, it is the 2nd best game I've played in recent years, only behind the witcher 3.

I agree the story was very haunting. I had expected some sort of apocalypse story explaining the fall of civilization, but not the near total extinction of life on earth- not just humans, but every plant, insect, bird, mammal, ect, ect. That would be a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. In that way, I think the storyline is much more interesting than The Witcher 3's, however, the Witcher exceeds the writing of Horizon in it's individual characters (not that Horizon's characters are bad, just not on the same level).

CampingforCool41 it wasn’t near total. It was total.

It would be fine if Ted added a backdoor before coding the software for the robots, or a kill switch to shut down the bots before it was too late. But no, he wanted the bots to be unhackable in any way.

And yet the press & DICE just slobbered all over a bad open world game in BotW that year.

Offhand I can think of two other games that do that, oddly both Nintendo... One would be a huge spoiler for its franchise and the other takes a much lighter approach (Splatoon). ... it might be three with Nintendo but I don't know Kirby lore...

He deserved worse.

Yet he still survives thousand years to now, until the time Aloy found him. Least to say that the Quen had burned his legacy to the ground.

More than an inkling unfortunately

Superb game

In the words of Smosh Games, "It's gonna take a lot of writing to make 'cavegirl vs. dinobot' not seem ridiculous."

Man, that's probably why I still have heeby jeebiys after watching this story. All the warnings about evil AI running amok and Ted Faro eignored them all and brought the robot apocalypse anyways.

@@Cerberusballs yeah, it's fun to write backwards. Figure out the setting first, then decide the backstory later.

Yep. Ted Faros was insane on so many levels. Thanks for the comment The Northie

Total narcissist absolutely. Seems similar to a few real life figures 😳

Easiest way to spot a narcissist is lack of empathy. Thats Ted Faro all the way. People like that only deserve whats coming to them.

@@215jmo Any Real Life Persons examples?

@@215jmo I am extremely curious of whose you thinking of?

Imagine that, a little over a year to gather the most intelligent minds in the world, get all those super geniuses on the same page, and THEN and ONLY THEN can you start working on the single most complex and advanced computing system ever devised. Not to mention allotting time to actually set up the mechanical systems, all the cauldrons, the cradles, and the bunkers, all while killer robots are actively hunting you and any other living thing in the world down.

@@jaredknight8838 i guess it was easier because Ted gave his robot factory to create the 'green' robots, they just need create the robot design and its AI

@@gabe_liu9095 so what became of Elysium they talked about a sealed bunker which was used to keep the family members of the workers of ZD?

@@beastmotoz if i had to guess, Faro killed them too

​@@beastmotoz They were running short on time to finish gaia, so all of the zero dawn workers and their families evacuated to elysium while the alphas and elisabet stayed to finish gaia. They would have been able to stay in that facility as well to live out the rest of their lives, but as we know, elisabet sacrificed herself to seal the gap, and our good pal Ted Faro decided fuck you and killed the other 8.

I had a similar thought. That this is the potential next generation.... by Ted's listed birth year, my kid is only a year older. That though is sobering.

Wait what, was it Faro?! :O I never realized

Well, He was born in 2013 and on 2022, He was 9 years old. Happy birthday for him and good luck murdering him

They probably bought less than a month of time, barely enough to finish the bare minimum things needed for the project and for Gaia (with the alphas that had to remain in Gaia Prime instead of going to the refugee with their families), the remaining things were built and finished by Gaia herself

I think the game mentions it only gave them a few days of time, barely enough to get zero dawn operational

@@spaghettiupseti9990 unfortunately yeah. The entire operation was like throwing a bucket of water at a forest fire, as the droids were replicating faster than the combined armies could destroy. There were frighteningly little they all could do to even make the endless horde flinch

Tbf, there was simply no way she could he a daughter of an organic relation. She has 99% of Elisabet's DNA. It was clear from the start she was a clone. Not trying to be rude. It was a cool theory

Let's not get into conspiracy theories. The story is honestly better with the world ending by complete accident via a swarm glorified, self-replicating, weaponized Roombas.

@@TheKain202 Don't denigrate people's ideas by calling them conspiracy theories please. That's extremely rude, and makes me believe you're probably a troll, especially when your account is totally empty. What you think is "better" for the story, has absolutely nothing to do with what the story is, and the story gives tons of clues as to there being more than what it appears to be. There absolutely was a cause to the glitch, it was not merely a glitch that happened accidentally, and this has been alluded to plenty of times.

@@Malamockq Lmao, ever consider that one might make an account here in order to do stuff like be able to create playlists and like stuff to be able to pull that shit up later on a whim? Not everybody on this platform wants to be a content creator, in fact, 99,9% don't, Idiot. They're not trolls, nor is anyone who dismisses your baseless assertations a troll. I was actually going to engage you properly but after that pathetic tirade of you spewing butthurt, stalker'ish behavior(crawling someone's account, likely looking for dirt for ad-hominem, I mean... really???) and projecting like it's a fucking cinema, I ain't gonna bother because if this gem is anything to go by - it's clear from the outset that we're not gonna get anywhere with you acting like a spoiled brat. You're invested in a fictional story, I get it, but don't take it so personally as to go full ad-hominem straight outa' gate against people daring to disagree. Guess what, your headcanon isn't real.

Ted WAS directly responsible for it. It wasn’t a glitch at all; the robots were using the features he had put in place. And he had no way to shut them down because he didn’t include one. The entire usage of the word ‘glitch’ is a way for Faro to shift blame. He built a line of killer robots that did exactly what they were supposed to do. It’s his fault.

@@TheKain202 You're absolutely a troll. That's ok, I don't engage with trolls, especially ones that spout puerile ad hominem attacks because your IQ is too low to formulate a cogent argument.

you can research and roast our real ted faros in the world, like all the oil and biomass fuels ceos

actually ............you might look for faro mission in forbiden west

Well u got ur wish.. In a different way lol

well.......

lol it’s even better….

the writers of the game said that Ted Faro wanted to be the next tony stark of his age but sadly he doomed all of man

@@aizen_world I think the Government should've stopped him and didn't authorised FAS to build such war machines who would consume biomass as fuel

@@beastmotoz he gave the government an offer that they couldn't say no to it, an army of robots that need to repair or fuel, i think the US government of the future could not say no to that kind of offer

@@aizen_world true I have thinking about how Aloy will even rebuild GAIA and ZD facility ? Since Faro purged Apollo and all the data is lost there's no resources or there's still a chance to retrieve the data from Apollo?

@@beastmotoz since she used alpha to bring back lost video calls or her mom and him maybe she can do the samenfor apollo

Given the fact that his ultimate fate was never revealed, I would say there is a very high chance he is alive. He could have found a way to upload himself into a computer or something. The human race was pretty advanced by his time. We know that cloning was a thing thanks to Aloy herself, so he also might have been able to make copies of himself as well but with all memories intact. Considering he also very clearly lost his mind due to his guilty and basically erased the entire history of humanity before the Swarm under the pretence that the knowledge was a curse, its not a stretch to think he might have thought he needed to watch over the new world and erase it if he believed it was going to turn out like the old one. Plus, it really doesn’t seem likely that anyone else could have access or the knowledge to send that original signal that caused Gaia’s programs to go rouge in the first place. We also know that technology was so advanced that genetic locks were a thing, which adds further credibility to the theory that only Ted Faro himself could have issued such a fundamental command. I honestly can’t wait for the next game. I really hope they don’t just drop the story of fixing Gaia and finding out who sent the signal that originally corrupted her programs.

Please Guerilla! If someone from the team is reading this, make it happen!!

@@muchahonra2b Totally. Wouldn't it be satisfying to finally get revenge on that clown and take him down?

@@vinceA3748 Makes no sense. Faro isn't a villain. He's not malicious - his character flaw is recklessness and arrogance. Even his destruction of Apollo ain't a villainous act, in his mind, it's an attempt at atonement, no matter how misguided it really is. One borne out of guilt induced mental breakdown after being locked inside a bunker for months with nothing else to do but think and ponder how it's all his fault. The way his character is written, with all that fatalism he collapsed into after Elisabeth's death, it makes the most sense that he offs himself after killing the Alphas and purging Apollo.

@@TheKain202 I don't agree at all. He IS a villain. He kills the Alpha's and that doesn't make him a bad guy? It sure does. He also tried to destroy Liz Sobek after they had a falling out, in the early years. No, he is a villain. General Zod didn't consider himself a villain either. He just wanted to restore Krypton to greatness, and didn't matter to him if millions of people died in the process.

Exactly, I’ve always wondered if that line indicated something more, or was Liz threatening to make Faro’s name mud.

@@markclagett5959 either seem possible, people finding out who's at fault would be pretty bad for someone who's been heralded as "The Man who saved the world" to be the villian, if it turned out the glitch was somewhat purposeful eg some robots were meant to go rogue and blast up some rival company and that let them break free that would be a lot worse

There are a lot of fan theories out there. I'm led to believe that Deep Silver, the rogue AI, helped Faro design the robots and intentionally created the glitch that severed the chain of command to the humans.

Yeah -Since they were nearly mindless, simply consuming everything. They had no need to personally kioll every human, since they destroyed the ecosphere and atmosphere.

Hell, they even give Skynet a run for their money.

It was humanity who made the world barren in the Matrix, they used nanomachines to cloud the sky to cut off the machines from getting their energy from the sun.

I’ve yet to reach Thebes in the sequel. That comment was a bit of a spoiler.

Fiction isn't realistic. If anything, stuff like this makes people overly paranoid unrealistically which could have a deleterious effect on robot development.

Malamockq Found Ted faro👆

@@Malamockq i dunno. The faro plague happened in 2064. Think of everything that was science fiction 43 years ago (1978) that exists today. Try explaining an iphone to someone in the 70s. Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

@@Stupiddumbmanditoryhandle I don't know what your point is. If your point is that we can't predict future developments, incidents or technology, then how can you predict that robots will go out of control and destroy humanity? The only thing informing you of that possibility is a video game and Hollywood movies.

Thing is, even if most people are reasonable and smart enough to be cautious about this, all it takes is one powerful idiot to develop a potentially apocalyptic AI in order for something like this to happen... it only takes one.

i hope it wont

Holy shit you lowkey predicted his fate in forbidden west

Yea man, he is!

The hells opened up so wide, that they tortured him before he even got there

"And I'm signing off on ALL of it."

Gerald Broflovski

Does side quests reveal more?

​@@zero1188 surprisingly some side quest do I've been doing a second playthrough and some side quest actually reveals some stuff not overly major stuff but still fleshes out the world even more, there's also a achievement for doing certain side quests and getting some NPC's to help you at the final fight at meridian but in short some side quest do have some lore while some just flesh out the characters, aloy and the world more

He did, in a way... He insisted to have a master override installed in GAIA Prime; a decision which ultimately saved humanity. Without this master override, Aloy wouldn't be able to stop HADES from reactivating the Faro Plague.

@@brahmantyoihsan5938 There's a saying. "Even a broken clock is right twice a day." Also, GAIA agreed with him, which is why Elisabet went ahead with it.

@@brahmantyoihsan5938 Probably the only really intelligent thing he ever did.

@@StrongandGrand Of course then he had a master master overide and destroyed APOLLO potentially dooming everyone. Especially after what we found out happens in Sirius.

Could machines like this really end the world?

While I see and like what you mean I think there's some factors that are limiting them for one you're first idea of the unaffected faro bots fight the affected one is much more dangerous and risky as at any moment if they were to do that I think the rogue AI would have already hacked and turned on it's allies. As for the evacuation plan to head to space I think that with the time they have they probably won't be able to build a ship big enough and powerful enough to escape the earth as it would be heavy because of foods, drinking water and other necessities and since rockets usually launch outside that would just be a big target for the swarm and I doubt they don't have land to air missiles or long range artillery and with all the hardware a rocket has having it be hacked is also a possibility. And finally as for the sea colony I think it's also a matter of time since again 15 months would be way too short to build a sea colony one big enough that it could house atleast a country or at best a town plus if they were to go that route the biggest factor for that is it's only a matter of time before the apocalypse happens as it is said in the game the world became so uninhabitable that the only way to go outside is with a suit of armor (the one Liz was wearing and most likely the shield armor you get near the end via side quest) I doubt any filtration system can filter whatever gunk happened to the air and pump it into the colonies but if we do say the filtration system can filter the air into something breathable I doubt it will last long as again it's gonna be filtering very polluted and most likely very toxic air. As such I personally think that Liz did the right choice with zero dawn the only wrong choice was keeping faro alive and given omega access (which he most likely did himself when Liz wasn't available) and ofcourse ending the alpha's and deleting Apollo just to cover his mistakes Edit: as for the EMP one I think that would be a double edge sword that has atleast a chance but it's far too risky as blasting a lot of EMP's would not only disable the bots but also disable a majority of the weapons the military used such as a railgun, tanks, fighter planes and many more even regular vehicles and possibly even some power armor (again the one we see Liz wear and the armor you can get) and who's to say that they'd be actually shut down as I doubt every single machine would be affected plus we could also say that maybe when they made the bots they thought of emp shielding and they're all equipped with shields that are able to withstand a certain amount of EMP blasts

It played out this way cuz its an sjw story and the main theme was always meant to be “man makes very bad decisions” and women fixes the plan. The story is shackled by this since theres no deviation away from it through both games

I doubt Faro would still be alive at that time lol, the unknown signal has to be from Odyssey or maybe from Apollo. I don't think there could be any other source which can do that

@@beastmotoz AI can't make a glitch

Just pointing out two things here: 1) Cloning was very much a thing in ZD's time. Just look at Aloy. 2) Ted had a private bunker with who-knows-what in it.

@@Dramatic_Gaming yep if we See Faro in Part 2 He was maybe cyrogenic Frozen (they Talk about that too) or He cloned himself to. Maybe with a mindcopy from his Last Clones over centuries. The Game has set up to be a Trilogy. So we only know 1/3 so far.

@@Dramatic_Gaming Faro was also completely fatalistic and acted with more than just signs of being borderline suicidal the last time we saw him. He probably had a roman bath after purging Apollo if anything.

We should be very concerned, or even better, shun him completely, but that's easier said than done when a large number of people are absent minded.

GREED

It's all about those benjamins

That was exactly the point. Faro wanted to ensure that his robots would dominate the market; and they did.

@@brahmantyoihsan5938 Oh yeah they absolutely killed the competition!

@@voidedsouls6638 To put it mildly...and literally.

Because he was overcome by the guilt about being the man who wiped out humanity and turned the Earth into Hell. He lost his sanity and believed knowledge from mankind would only push future generations to repeat mistakes. It's true in some ways, there will always be people who will try to use knowledge like weapons, nuclear bombs, slavery, etc, to their advantages. And also because he didn't want to be remembered as the God of Stupidity (because at this point, he is so dumb he reaches godly levels).

Because at that point he no longer cared about that shit. He suffered a very obvious mental breakdown and collapsed into fatalism. In his fatalism he believed that it was human nature at work, and that if given the totality of Mankind's knowledge, Humanity 2.0 would inevitably do the same shit sooner rather than later, but with no ZD safety net this time around.

​@@dikastederook6380koalemus(greek god of stupidity) would be proud of him

I think she meant that Faro’s stupidity caused the glitch because he didn’t put in a backdoor to control the robots. The robots are built on powerful AI; they’re obviously going to self-improve and use the ‘biomass as fuel’ option. Ted screwed up by not including a way to shut them down. It wasn’t really a ‘glitch’ at all. As software engineers say, ‘it’s not a bug, it’s a feature’. Elisabet got him to sign by telling him that she’d reveal it was HIS fault, not some unfortunate and random glitch.

@@sahirkhan846 yup but that still doesn't explain who or what sent the signal that woke Hades up.

@@DDragon1226 True but that’s not what Lis is referring to at least. And imo it makes no sense for Faro to have sent either signal. The first one caused him to destroy the world (ruin his own life as well as everyone else’s). The second one almost destroyed it for good. The subordinate functions (when they work) are supposed to make sure flora+fauna+oceans+atmosphere are restored, the Faro Plague stays deactivated, the humans are established, that education is available, and that HADES doesn’t destroy the world unnecessarily. Its not in Faro’s best interest to disrupt this. Why would he want a destroyed and dead universe? That’s why I think he didn’t send the signal. He has nothing to gain from the subordinate functions going rogue.

@@sahirkhan846 But they already knew that. Elisabet was currently on her way to a meeting with General Harres and the rest of the join chiefs and she told them the specifics. They knew that the robots couldn't be hacked in because of the encryption, they knew that they were self-replicating, they knew that they consumed bio-mass as fuel, they also knew that the glitch severed chain of command. Furthermore, it's not like she could hide that it's the Faro bots that are affected, what with the big fat logo on them pointing out who they belong too. The plague was referred to as "the faro plague" too. Elisabet was threatening him with something else.

@@xHoneybreath No that’s not accurate, there’s no evidence that the generals knew that the ‘glitch’ was actually just the robots doing what they were programmed to do and not having a backdoor. Ted had initially presented it to Lis as something something unfortunate that could have happened to anyone. Lis very quickly saw through this. There’s no evidence that she told anyone else this. General Herres talks about the end of the world and humanity’s role in stopping. He never once blames Faro for causing the end of the world. General Herres seemed to be aware that they couldn’t hack the robots but he didn’t seem to be aware that this was because Faro specifically locked himself out. He knew that the robots had gone rogue but he seemed to believe it was just bad luck. That’s why Lis is able to threaten Faro with the truth.

the travel and natural resources like metals and facilities would have been impossible to carry there...

time was the problem. There was actually colonizing space ship, but i blow up. Another mystery of game

@@DartLuke zero dawn game mentioned odyssey??? Where or when?

They tried,the spaceship was destroyed before it could reach space

Yes...

He's an idiot lol so much smarts yet him and his team made the dumbest mistake.

Also just like in real life. If you build a back door, even if it’s secured people can break in through it. It’s the same reason Apple doesn’t want build one

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. -Jurassic Park

@@migueldiaz3856 There is small difference between mobile phone and self-replicating killer machines

@@migueldiaz3856 every high tech military equipment have backdoor in where only Manufacture have that backdoor key

They are just machines, could they really pose that much of a threat?

There's a corporate memo somewhere in the ruins talking about a PR disaster because a Chariot line was filmed chewing on a pod of porpoises.

You're wrong

You absolutely can blame him for it. You can find lore that even FAS's basic house cleaning bots were filled with faulty programming. And Faro, egotist that he is, was the one specifically demanding the robots be designed the way they are, to be completely unhackable to the highest degree with no backdoor into the OS for emergences, self-repairing, self-replicating and consuming biomass for fuel. He made what is monstrosities that are effectively a cross between the Matrix's Sentinels and Halo's Flood, and he has the audacity to claim it wasn't his fault.

It was a hologram

@@gamerreturns9466 Right... Thanks.

No worries

Yes, her upper body got stuck and attached itself to the table

@@doryaman She was talking from a VTOL, so she was seating in the vehicle and the hologram displayed her on the table. The device she is 'sitting' on is most likely a device for holographic communication

One: the robots were designed to be immune to emps.... or at least that they would only work for a few seconds, two: nuclear was actually proposed but given how far the Swarm had spread they would essentially have to Nuke every continent and over 95% of all inhabited territory.... those that survived would not have lived long

Ted waited too long to ask for help. By the time Elisabet looked at the problem, it was far too widespread to stop with any number of nukes.

They also even tried using nukes as well, but there were too many

Nukes do not tell friend from foe, and even if they worked, the robots would just make more copies of themselves.

She needed teds resources

@@jacobsaunders1092 Have the military assume control of all assets under some fictional emergency forfeiture clause/law and use those resources to fund the project that way.

@@Aurora-313 That would've generated a whole lot of confusion and inefficiency even if they secured control directly, plus mass panic when the word got out, and they only had fifteen months to get Zero Dawn done.

From what I gather from context clues? Extremely shonky, poorly designed programming. Even their basic cleaning drones were haphazardly made.

Princess Wolfy This isn’t the whole story. Play the game. You’ll find out the rest.

Maxwell Headroom I did. I’m just tying to figure out what kinda biomatter that the robots consume

Princess Wolfy All organic matter. ALL of it.

Actually play the game. Zero Dawn and GAIA re populated the Earth, humans, animals, and plants were created from stored embryos and seeds using the subfunction "Eleuthia" and the re population facility in Eleuthia 9 in All Mother Mountain.

Maybe you skipped the cut scenes that's why you didn't know

99.47% makes sense, since she has the same dna as elisabet but mutations in the cells occur over the lifetime, and elisabet was a lot older than aloy, as well as growing up in a different environment, it makes sense that they aren’t the exact same, more like identical twins

I actually love it

Because It's fiction. You don't need to explain EVERYTHING that happens in the story. It would be pointless and tiring.

Maybe parts of fallen Scarabs and Kopeshes are brought back into the closest Horus unit for it to build brand new machines. Even in the post apocalyptic world, machines like Glinthawks and Scavengers do that. I've seen parts of machines being processed in cauldrons. Also, given their massive size, Horuses possibly also carry lots of spare parts and materials into the battlefield.

They may not have the resources to create armies after armies. But we have seen the titans sized robots. Those must have been the main firepower to scour Earth clean of life.

Refined materials were everywhere! Buildings, cars, homes, infrastructure, etc all full of refined metals and electronics they could convert or probably straight up repurpose. Von Neumann machines are scary as hell.

Yesh as others pointed out, materials are everywhere. Furthermore, it is so far into the future that creating a super complex AI only took months, they probably had advanced manufacturing processes.