Horizon Forbidden West PS5-Exclusive Patch 1.21 Adds Accessibility Features and Preps Burning Shore DLC

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Hi everyone! We're very happy to announce that our team is releasing Patch 1.21 for Horizon Forbidden West today. Patch 1.21 sets up the game for the release of Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores. It also brings additional Accessibility Features. Patch 1.21 is exclusive to PlayStation 5 users. Do note that Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores content will be playable from April 19th onwards.

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores launches April 19 on PS5! This expansion sees Aloy pursue a sinister threat in the untamed wilds of Los Angeles, now a treacherous volcanic archipelago. Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores takes Aloy to the ruins of Los Angeles. The past millennia has seen the metropolis wracked by tectonic and volcanic activity. The result: a dangerous archipelago populated by deadly machines. Among these islands, a large settlement of Quen fight to survive.



NEW FEATURES
Introduced new accessibility features, including:

• Enlarging Subtitles
• Auto-Pickup
• Color Blindness settings
• Auto camera
• Navigation assist in Focus Mode
• Thalassophobia mode
• Additional accessibility features

Support for Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores expansion has been added.

Please continue to inform us of any issues via the Support Form. We kindly ask you to use this as your primary form of sending in your issues; the team is unable to use the comments of this post or mentions or DMs on social media as an efficient way of sourcing issues. Thank you for your understanding!

See you in the Burning Shores!
Guerilla

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[lexluthermiester]

Patch 1.21 is exclusive to PlayStation 5 users.

Um, news flash, TPU is generally a PC tech site... Seriously with articles like this?

 

[Dr. Dro]

I hope Guerrilla releases this game on PC soon. I'm dying to play it.

 

[ir_cow]

Um, news flash, TPU is generally a PC tech site... Seriously with articles like this?

It's kinda written like TPU is the publisher too.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I hope Guerrilla releases this game on PC soon. I'm dying to play it.

You mean the DLC? The main game is already on PC.

Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

EARTH IS OURS NO MORE Experience Aloy’s entire legendary quest to unravel the mysterie

www.gog.com

This includes the Frozen Wilds expansion. I would love to see the Forbidden West expansion on PC as well!

It's kinda written like TPU is the publisher too.

Which is weird!

 

[evelynharthbrooke]

You mean the DLC? The main game is already on PC.

Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition

EARTH IS OURS NO MORE Experience Aloy’s entire legendary quest to unravel the mysterie

www.gog.com

This includes the Frozen Wilds expansion. I would love to see the Forbidden West expansion on PC as well!

Forbidden West (FW) isn't an expansion - it's a standalone game and the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn. FW is exclusive to PlayStation players right now, with the expansions for FW being exclusive to the PlayStation 5. Here's hoping that FW comes to PC soon though, hopefully within the next year or two.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Forbidden West (FW) isn't an expansion - it's a standalone game and the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn.

I may have misunderstood that. Thought it was an expansion.

@Sony/Guerrilla
Seriously?!? EVERYONE is tired of this exclusives crap. It's not going to motivate us to buy a PS5. It just going to disappoint and piss us off! Get a damn clue people! EDIT: And before anyone says it, no I don't play on Xbox either. FPS type games are a crap experience on a controller. Keyboard and Mouse ONLY! Which means PC mofo's!

 

[Minus Infinity]

I hope Guerrilla releases this game on PC soon. I'm dying to play it.

the word is it'll be about 12 months after initial PS5 release. Cannot wait either, a significant upgrade over HZD and much harder, especially human combat.

 

[Dr. Dro]

the word is it'll be about 12 months after initial PS5 release. Cannot wait either, a significant upgrade over HZD and much harder, especially human combat.

Day one pre-order for me.

Zero Dawn was one of the best games I've ever played, despite feeling an important portion of character development was missing, specifically I've missed a design element that Bethesda loves to add to their games - and imo why they are so successful - which was giving Aloy the option to forge friendships, relationships and join factions according to the player's will, but instead there were very few instances where she was given any meaningful choice.

They tried to keep the game PG too much, turns out the terraformed apocalypse is a pristine place and there was no possible way for Aloy to use her looks and charm to get her way with influencing people...

Thankfully the fan artists and writers on Twitter cover up much of that denied fan service.

 

[Chrispy_]

Zero Dawn was one of the best games I've ever played, despite feeling an important portion of character development was missing, specifically I've missed a design element that Bethesda loves to add to their games - and imo why they are so successful - which was giving Aloy the option to forge friendships, relationships and join factions according to the player's will, but instead there were very few instances where she was given any meaningful choice.

It wasn't that good, but I definitely enjoyed my playthrough so I'm looking forward to Forbidden West when it arrives on PC.
I'm curious what the death of Lance Reddick will do for Silus' character. AFAIK there's another game coming after Forbidden West and Silus' plot arc isn't complete yet.

 

[trsttte]

giving Aloy the option to forge friendships, relationships and join factions according to the player's will, but instead there were very few instances where she was given any meaningful choice.

They tried to keep the game PG too much, turns out the terraformed apocalypse is a pristine place and there was no possible way for Aloy to use her looks and charm to get her way with influencing people...

That would have been cool, even more so in Forbidden West (sorry to dissapoint..) where the world is much bigger and there's a bit more variety regarding the groups you meet. But I can also see how that could have felt a bit out of place given the type of game Horizon is, the threat in the main plot is so overwhelming it doesn't make sense for them to pick sides, they need everyone they can get.

I think the story of Forbidden West, or better yet, the way the game interconnects everything was not particularly well made, Zero Dawn was much better in that regard even if it becomes much more linear, but you'll get to see a bunch of growing in Alloy's part. Some of it is a bit lazily written character flaws but I still found it enjoyable.