How to defeat the Apex Slaughterspine in Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

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The Burning Shores expansion has brought a bunch of new content to Guerrilla Games' open-world action-role-playing title Horizon Forbidden West. The changes include a fresh area for you to explore, new weapons to unlock, quests to undertake, and some really terrifying new machines — such as Horus, the Metal Devil.

While the recently added machines like Bilegut and Stingspawnare are the highlights of Burning Shores, this expansion is also home to some returning mechanical monsters from the base game. One example in this regard is the Slaughterspine that Aloy will have to go up against as part of the DLC's main story quest.

This foe is easily among the most powerful machines in Horizon Forbidden West and a very challenging enemy in the base game. While the Slaughterspine that you fight in the base title is the standard variant of that machine, the one in this DLC is a much more powerful Apex variant.

Here's a comprehensive guide to help you easily and efficiently defeat that version of the Slaughterspine in Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores, including tips on how to avoid its most damaging attacks, elemental weaknesses to exploit, and more.

You come face-to-face against the Apex Slaughterspine in the main story mission For His Amusement, where this machine serves as a final boss encounter. Much like any other Apex machine variant, this entity comes at a much higher level (64), which makes it one of the toughest enemy foes in the DLC — only second to Horus, the Metal Devil.

While the moveset of the Apex Sluaghterspine is basically the same as its standard variant, this more powerful version is much more aggressive and uses its most damaging attacks (plasma projectiles) way more often. The Apex Slaughterspine has the