Horizon Forbidden West stealth tips – How to sneak past machines undetected

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Stealth is a key part of Horizon Forbidden West’s gameplay. Given how dangerous the game’s post-apocalyptic setting is, Aloy regularly has to rely on staying unseen if she is to survive her journey west. Thankfully, she’s got quite a few tools to help her evade enemies.

The game’s machines are deadly, but they’re also quite easy to figure out. Here are some tactics that we found useful when sneaking past these metal menaces in Horizon Forbidden West.

Aloy’s Focus is probably your best tool for sneaking through groups of enemies. To activate it, press in on the right analog stick and hold it until a blue field appears around Aloy. You’ll then be able to scan anything around Aloy, including enemy machines. When scanning machines, you can view information about them, such as what their weak spots are, and also tag them to keep track of their positions; the latter feature is especially useful for maintaining situational awareness while sneaking around.

You can also use the Focus to highlight a machine’s routes using the R1 button, which will you tell you where it will travel, provided it doesn’t notice you. This feature is especially useful if you want to get up to some mischief by planting traps along a machine’s path.

If you stand out in the open, chances are a machine is going to notice you. To greatly mitigate this risk, try hiding in tall grass whenever possible. You can do this by crouching while standing in tall grass. You’ll be rendered nigh-invisible to machines if they haven’t spotted you yet. For every unaware machine you come across, we recommend finding a nice patch of grass to plot out your strategy from.

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