Horizon Forbidden West

Hey there! Looking for information about the new Horizon Forbidden West update? Then you’ve come to the right place because we’ll show you the changelog.

Guerrilla Games has released the new update 1.18 for “Horizon Forbidden West”. We’ll tell you what’s new in the patch notes from August 31st.

The new Horizon Forbidden West Update 1.18 is now available for download for PS4 and PS5. File size is 831MB on PS5.

There is another very extensive correction loop and you get a new face painting, but see for yourself, here are the release notes.

Horizon Forbidden West Patch Notes 1.18

NEW FEATURES

Introducing the Pride Flag Face Paint “Mark of Pride”.

Aloy wears the Mark of Pride face paint.

FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS – Update 1.18

Main Quests

Fixed an issue in the Tomb of Faro main quest where the Hunter Merchant could be missing in Thebes.
Fixed floating weapons in the cinematic after the mission objective “Speak to the Tenakth Marshal” of the main quest “The Embassy”.
Fixed an issue in The Kulrut main quest where Hekarro was practicing his pantomime skills and was getting blocked behind an invisible wall.
Fixed issues related to players being unable to enter or exit the base.
Fixed an issue where a Kotallo callout could be played in The Base without Kotallo being present.

Side Quests

We now keep the Riverhymn settlement icon on the map after completing The Connecting Roots side quest.
Fixed an issue where Porguf did not offer an option to start the Broken Locks errand quest.
Fixed an issue in the Deluge side quest that allowed players to ride their ground mount through a lake.
Fixed an issue in the side quest “Signal Spire” where the player was unable to progress after the objective “Search the canyon for the source of the signal”.
Fixed an issue in Chainscrape where the Herbalist would have an icon over his head but not be interactable before completing The Bristlebacks side quest.

World Activities Horizon Forbidden West

Fixed an issue in Mine Launcher salvage contracts where progress could become blocked if the player set custom difficulty settings for Easy Loot.
Fixed an issue where the player could receive the Oseram Artificer outfit twice after completing all Salvage Contracts in New Game Plus.
Fixed an issue in the Devil’s Grasp Rebel Camp where the objective “Search the Command Center” could become blocked after rebooting from save.
Fixed an issue in The Hive Rebel Encampment where the objective “Destroy the Weapon Caches” would not update after all caches were destroyed.
Fixed an issue in the Breached Rock Rebel Camp where the Rebel Champion would not have the Bunker Key in their loot if the player exited the camp after killing the Rebels.
Fixed an issue in Cauldron CHI where a puzzle room was having distracting shadow flickering.
Fixed an issue in Machine Strike where the health of a part with the Sweep ability could drop to 255 instead of dying.
Fixed an issue that resulted in players getting stuck at 99.42% completion after completing all Rebel Camps.
We won’t explode again! Fixed an issue in Gauntlet Run Cliffs of the Cry where the player would shoot into the sky after completing the race.
Fixed an issue where the player was unable to complete Relics from Ruins in New Game+ because they already had the Return of the Ancestors weapon from a previous playthrough.
Fixed an issue in The Shining Wastes sunken cave that resulted in the player getting stuck when examining an Oseram corpse while swimming.
Fixed an inaccessible supply depot in Las Vegas being placed underground.
Fixed an inaccessible supply depot northeast of the Stillsands South rebel outpost being placed underground.

Data Points

Fixed an issue where audio data points would be cut off on certain player actions.
Fixed an issue where audio data point 37 could not be captured due to Veter not being interactive.

What else is new on the Update 1.18 of Horizon Forbidden West?

Machinery

arrows ready? We’ve made Dreadwing more likely to attack when fighting in a wooded area.
Added VFX for Tremortusk’s Shatter Swing and Thunderjaw’s Laser Blast attacks.
Fixed an issue near Fall’s Edge where a non-functional, low-res Thunderjaw could spawn.
Fixed an issue where the “Stalker Primary Nerve” was listed as loot for the Ravager’s antenna.
Fixed an issue where setting a job for the Stalker’s primary nerve placed the waypoint in Ravager areas instead of Stalker areas.
Fixed an issue where Behemoth and Apex Behemoth would list “Bellowback Primary Nerve” as loot instead of “Behemoth Primary Nerve”.
Fixed an area in Sheerside Climb where the player could not fly away on a flying mount.
Fixed an issue where Apex Shellsnapper Hearts were listed under “Valuables to Sell” despite being used for upgrades.
Fixed an issue where the job system would not direct the player to Apex machine parts.

Weapons

Fixed a camera issue where aiming a Blastsling weapon and rotating the camera would cause the projectile parabola to shake.
Fixed a camera issue where activating focus zoom during a normal zoom would cause a jerky snap back.
Fixed an issue where the Hunter Bow could not be updated in New Game+.
Fixed an issue for level 4 Carja’s Bane light arrows having an incorrect amount of tear damage.
Fixed an issue where the Warrior Bow’s Rain of Sparks level 3 upgrade would toggle the perks from Critical Chance to Multiple Enemy Damage, then back to Critical Chance at level 4.

Capabilities

Fixed an issue where the player couldn’t use melee after fast travel from a crawl area.
At level 3 of the Toughened Valor Surge, melee damage resistance has been reduced from 50% to 35%.
Plant Gatherer now works on Medicinal Waterweed.

Patch Notes 1.18 Horizon Forbidden West – Hot new stuff

UI/UX

Fixed an issue where “Pickup Animation” would reset to “On” in Settings when the “Reset” action was pressed.
Fixed an issue where the job description in the job menu in the quest log always showed level 1, regardless of the job’s actual level.
Fixed an issue where the custom marker was not visible in 3D space when the waypoint was marked in the place of an inactive quest.
Fixed an issue where the subtitles in the opening title sequence were out of sync.
Fixed an issue in the machine catalog where non-scanned machines can be displayed when they are next to scanned machines.

Performance & Stability at Horizon Forbidden West

Made improvements to TAA for PS5 Resolution Mode and PS4.
Fixed several cases where Aloy’s armor model would shake when playing in balanced mode.
Fixed an issue where geometry was displayed in low resolution when skipping the opening title sequence.

Photo Mode

Introducing the Pride Flag Face Paint “Mark of Pride”.

Miscellaneous

Fixed an issue where starting the game from activity cards could start a new game in New Game Plus instead of starting the selected activity.
Fixed an issue where the Auto Heal setting would not fully heal Aloy after leaving combat for a short time.
Fixed issues where the player would end up under terrain or get stuck in geometry.