Wait, people DON'T use Tearblast arrows? I nearly always open with them against larger machines. Blowing components off is so satisfying, and I love the animation and sound effect too. And killing a machine with its own weapons is just fun

I've always played at ultra hard, where tearblast arrows are really ineffective. Ropes are usually better than tearblast arrows early game. If you tie down a machine, once the ropes are torn off, they deal loads of tear damage. Because they deal no damage before being torn off, you can tie down a machine, then tie each body part down, then if you use a single spear attack, all ropes and the body parts will get torn off at once. It's quite spectacular to see an entire machine get torn to shreds with a single spear hit.

I have watched each of your Masterclasses, @Arktix. I'm really impressed with your thorough explanation of methodology. You have a great, calm speaking style too, which really helps. I look forward to viewing more of these (in particular the Stalkers, which can be a real problem when they're in packs!). Keep up the good work, and I hope these videos do well for you...

Tearblast all its weapons: Disc Launcher > Lasers > Tails, then tie him down. Once it's tied down, tearblast his batteries out, that'll deal high damage on him. You can also pick up its disc launchers while its tied down and blast him with it, preferably while tied down.

I remember my first thunderjaw. I don’t remember exactly what quest I was on, but I had to pass through a creek area. On the creek was a thunderjaw. I know I wasn’t too late in the game because I had JUST gotten tear last arrows. I was both streaming and in a VC so I was willing to spend hours to kill that thing. I kept throwing myself at it over and over and through trial and error slowly began improving. I adopted my makeshift strategy of tearblasting the cannons off, running for my life to the cannons, and grabbing them. Through this fight I learned that because of how big and bulky the thunderjaw is, you can dodge through its legs for most attacks or just under its head. Anyways, I grabbed that cannon and focused first on spamming down its head to expose its weak point and remove its guns, then blast its side to expose its heart. Then I booked it to the other disk launcher and did that same thing. Around this point it would get knocked to the ground, and at this point I would just try my best to shoot that heart. I don’t quite remember if I knew about the freeze canisters at this point, but if I did, I shot them. I also learned the little divots in the ground can be nice safe spots, and that I could call my strider in as death fodder and a tad bit of chip damage. Eventually- the beast fell

Just finished the Stormbird video, and now this. Thanks again for making these! They are very helpful!

This guide was SO helpful! I was able to take one down in minutes with this strategy. Thank you!!

Great tutorial. Also, this particular TJaw is beside some small ruins on the road - you can cheese the geography a bit and skip the ropes, the ruins will kinda do that part for you, as the beast won’t follow you down the left fork in the road. Then tearblast, freeze, precision, etc, as you described for the takedown. Furthermore, some random Carja troops came by and joined in, nice touch. Really loving this game so far, the combat feels fun and interesting. Nice that it came with Frozen Wilds, and that there’s a sequel to get right after.

awesome. great commentary as well. this was nicely done.

Dude thank you! What a great video series this is.

you are amazing! this is significant going to improve my next horizon gameplay. thank you! ❤

Killed this thunderjaw with tearblast arrows (dismantled it like a LEGO!) and precision arrows. I didn't know about freezing or the ropes. It went like "tearblast arrow on disc launchers, run and hide, wait, back and repeat until opening the heart, then precision arrows and run and hide again, always on the high ground. Took a lot of time but worked! Now I have the full arsenal and it's tearblast-ropes-freeze-stickybombs!

Thanks for the guide. I'm a noob at the game and I'm just playing at Normal Difficulty. I will not follow your step by step guide on how to defeat Thunderjaw BUT I have learned a lot of info about the machine and the various weapons at Aloy's disposal. I will use what I've learned from your guide and try to come up with my own way to beat it. It will probably be way less effective than your strategy but I like to do it my way. Thanks very much again!

Thanks to you my first time playing hzd was a lot easyier bc i died alot before i found your channel

The thunderjaw is HUGE. I used to use 1 tearblast arrow in a location in the middle, where it hits the 2 disc launchers and the 2 cylinders near the tail. As soon as I do that, I hit the 2 guns on the head. I can take both of them off with 2 well placed arrows. Then I take off the armor plates that covers the heart and grab a freeze arrow or bomb. After that, I take a disc launcher and fire on the head, or the eye. It usually finishes it quite quickly

Thank you so much as the helped me defeat my first thunderjaw❤

Love your tips and tricks. Can you do a machine hunting guide for Ravagers as well? Thanks.

Really loving your guides.

Since I saw a comment describing their first thunderjaw experience, I think I should share mine. I was level 33, and I needed purple mods so I went to the exact same site as arktix. I tore off its cannons using tearblast arrows, tied it down, froze it and used the disc launcher on its heart. It took both launchers to kill it. By that point, I already had oseram arrow breaker heavy, shadow rope caster, shadow sharp shot, shadow hunter and shadow sling. So it was quite easy. I wouldn’t recommend fighting the thunderjaw until you’re above level 33. Otherwise, you will tend to struggle. If you’re planning to take down the thunderjaw early on, at least buy the shadow ropecaster so it’ll take 3-4 shots to tie it down and it will stay tied down for 90 seconds

On my way to Meridian for the first time trying to find a sawtooth for a component, I bumped into this guy instead. Thought "Eh, what the heck, I can take him!" _I could not._

thank you. I play almost exclusively stealth (because thats just whats fun. hiding and watching the monsters fall into long convoluted traps I lay out and watching it all work) but I went into some weird underground room, something called zera cauldron, where I couldnt do any of that and went through all my healing and only took 1/4 its health off, then died. I dont have the rope weapon so Ill def get that and maybe be able to kill it now!

Daaaamn. Ropecaster is a thing? Hahaha no wonder I can't hit my slingshots the range is too short. Thanks for this informative and well made video.

Thanks

Daemonic Thunderjaw (I suppose it is the only one you will encounter, in the frozen wilds), I like to do shock damage to his tail canister, so he you be stunned for some good time, since he is immune to frozen. Anyway tho, UH thunderjaw requires 4 TB arrows to knock off disc launchers, so you can preload 3 arrows and shot one right after to do so.

It still seems a massive battle, you are very quick at switching from one weapon to another and dodging at the same time … don’t think I’ll ever be that adept.

Hello there, I watched the whole series and it's awesome, you really put the work to help new players. This strategy is awesome but the kill time is a little to much for me, if I want to use the same strategy and make it faster what gear I need or maybe in what direction I can go to upgrade the gear to make this a little faster?

the trick with the disk launcher is to use the time he is tied down to get some distance.

You can pick up the cannons that Thunderjaw drops and just bombard it with them. It will take down the machine faster than any arrows or bombs player can possess.

dude the 1st time i saw that thunderjaw on my to Meridian my jaw dropped no pun intended

Well, the way i kill a Tjaw is set a bunch of blast wires and insta kill it.. Rinse and repeat to get infinite shards.. Dunno if it still works on FW though...

Very cool. Wouldn't ammo be a problem though? You shot a ton of ropes and bombs at that thing.

I remember when I first encountered a thunder jaw it was during the Frozen wild DLC and it was the Demonic version yeah lot of dying and cursing fun times

Tearblast cannon off, freeze or tie down, use cannon.

Thunderjaws are my absolute favorite machine to fight in the whole game (haven't done Frozen Wilds yet and (perhaps obviously) haven't played Forbidden West yet). Once I learned the specific nuances of the dodge, Tjaws became *_SO_* fun to fight. I fight every one I pass because I enjoy it so much. I'm currently working on finishing the game for the first time. Stuff no one asked for: I made a tierlist of my favorites (excluding Frozen Wilds and Tallnecks because you don't fight them), with Tjaws at the top followed by Rockbreakers and Sawtooths. Everything else is in a lower tier, being based on both fun and challenge, and Glinthawks are at the very bottom, the only one in the worst tier. I *_HATE_* fighting Glinthawks. They're not per se hard, they're just so unbelievably annoying, specifically since they fly way above and directly over your head almost constantly, making it nigh-impossible to shoot them. Other than that, everything is at least slightly fun or a decent or better challenge, so yeah.

I actually killed the first thunderjaw I saw. I don't know how but I did it with shadow hunter and sharpshot bow on hard difficulty

I like Thunder jaw

Is this guide also good for HFW?

I feel like it would be better if you first tied down the thunderjaw, froze it then shot off its disc launchers to do a good amount of damage. Or, use tearblast arrows to tear of its disc launchers, tue it down, freeze it and use the disc launchers on its heart. Tie it down again, freeze it. If you empty both the launchers, it should be enough to kill it.

I recognize that is an enemy, and a machine.. in a video game.. But I still kinda felt bad for the Tussie for how bad you bullied him.

Total noob here but I feel like this also takes up alot of resources

Hey bro i know im 1 year late for this series but can you please do one for tramplers

I play the game in easy mode, but it doesn't seem easy. Took me the same amount of ammo to take down Thunderjaw.

We need thunderjaw guidance in FORBIDDEN WEST. this beast is really difficult to kill😢

2024 here I just killed my first one. But the heart cover is already on there. Had to bust it open. So the info might be outdated or it depends on your story progress.

Song name please?

does this strategy still work in FW? Thunderjaws are now strong against frost. Even with a good frost arrow, it takes forever to freeze it.

i killed thunderjaw glitch/ cheating hiding in the water, took a long time tho 😂😂

I just run up to that MF and freeze the sheeeet out with the icerail and notch some tear moded sharpshot to reveal the heart then its just a game of jumping and spamming arrows at its heart.

Me skipping all the other bosses to avoid spoiling what they look like. I wish they would just show clips of the enemy you are searching for.

only the stalker doesnt evolve and never has any armor. the game does teach about the ropecaster...but only if u bother watching the video about them in the shop. they are however available from very early on, and players who care about weapons would check them out. still...the whole elemental and rope mechanics that u need to fill the bar...is not explained at all. if a player thinks about it more seriously, he can understand it quickly though. freeze bombs have only the advantage of leaving freeze on the ground which can help freeze targets faster by passively applying it. freezing multiplies damage X3, but only for damage arrows and not for bombs. for bombs its only X1.25. also it seems the effect doesnt stack perfectly with major weakspots like the heart of brain...but it still stacks in a significant way. i think the white circle around the rope icon is bugged and u need to stop shooting them at him for it to appear. no need to waste a ton of ropes till it appears.

okay

Well tha way I take him down is only using my Arrows and focusing nothing else no bombs no freezing bombs nothing else u was using in ur video

Bạn hướng dẫn rất hay nhưng bạn chiến đấu khi bạn đang ở level cao. Nếu bạn ở level thấp thì mọi chuyện không đơn giản như vậy.

Can't you kill easily without 2 disc launchers..😅😅

I HATE THEM

Is this guide also good for HFW?

Is this guide also good for HFW?

Is this guide also good for HFW?