Horizon: Zero Dawn

Finished the game, completed all side quests but one, cleared all camps, have all collectables.

But you think I can find a fucking raccoon?

Nope, still cant max out my bags.
If you see a raccoon in this game, Drop everything you are doing and focus on that critter.

Yep, getting two raccoon skins took way too long, and the goose skin sucked too.

To be fair, raccoons aren't that much more rare than foxes, and there's probably areas where they spawn in decent quantity if you pay attention (or check reddit/gamefaqs/etc). I had all the boar, turkey, fox, fish, etc. skins I needed without even trying since you need to farm meat for heal pots. Was just raccoon and goose that I ignored and then paid the price when I suddenly had to go spend time specifically hunting for them.

Vorph said:

To be fair, raccoons aren't that much more rare than foxes, and there's probably areas where they spawn in decent quantity if you pay attention (or check reddit/gamefaqs/etc). I had all the boar, turkey, fox, fish, etc. skins I needed without even trying since you need to farm meat for heal pots. Was just raccoon and goose that I ignored and then paid the price when I suddenly had to go spend time specifically hunting for them.

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The biggest problem is the animals are nearly invisible in all the underbrush unless you are constantly going super slow in scanning mode. So you wind up passing by tons of stuff you probably need because you simply never notice it. That and when you are scanning its sometimes hard to tell if you can hit it directly or not and so you wind up basically blind firing through underbrush.

Sticky bombs take 2 blaze each (3 if you don't have Ammo Crafter unlocked), that's where all of mine goes. I've been making an effort to freeze everything first though, so I'm wasting a lot less bombs than I used to. Spending 2-3 chillwater to save a dozen blaze is a no-brainer.

Nester said:

Finished the game, completed all side quests but one, cleared all camps, have all collectables.

But you think I can find a fucking raccoon?

Nope, still cant max out my bags.
If you see a raccoon in this game, Drop everything you are doing and focus on that critter.

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Don't know if you did this already, but you can select what components you are in need of and the game will create a quest for you so you know where to go. Just highlight the raccoon skins, create quest, and the game will tell you where you can find them.

spronk said:

the one thing that I feel kinda bad about not doing is ever actually riding a dino, i just find walking fine. The map is so insanely huge though, I don't even have half of it uncovered yet and I feel like this is the biggest world I have played in to date. Maybe witcher 3 was bigger but it was split into a lot of zones and this world feels way more seamless and organic

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Riding a dino in this game is highly overrated and unnecessary. The only benefit is getting from point A to point B quicker, but there are sooooo many campfires in this game it is far easier to just quick travel.

As far as map size, I don't find this one to be particularly large. The gameworld is big, but not as big as advertised, imo. It doesn't take that long to walk from quest to quest, especially if you aren't stopping to pick flowers or kill dinos. I think Skyrim is a much larger map for example.....it took a longer time to walk from one end of the world to the other. It's more along the size of Fallout 4. Hard to compare to Witcher 3 because you had all those stupid islands that took forever to reach by boat or swimming.....but I would say the mainland part of Witcher 3 is smaller than Horizon.

What really sucks is being in a major fight and suddenly realizing that your supply of wood, the stuff that you had collected far too much of early on in the game and therefore ignored for the past several days, is now gone and you can no longer make any arrows.

Thankfully my supply of wire had replenished itself and I was able to get really creative with tripping ridiculously large dinos. I have still not managed to get a trampler heart and thus have been unable to score a Warbow. Especially frustrating since the primary location I know for tramplers is stupidly close to a bunch of Glinthawks and a Tbird.