Being an open-world action-gamble championship, Horizon Zero Dawn is full of weapons and armor for Aloy to utilize. The majority take their own upgraded versions that slightly alter their advent, stats, and modification slots. Once New Game+ was introduced, however, Horizon also incentivized players to continue playing the game, including various corrective rewards to modify Aloy'south appearance.

While nearly of these corrective rewards weren't present in the original release of the game, a handful could be obtained before New Game+ was introduced. Nonetheless, they were much easier to obtain at the time, even on greater difficulties.

Updated on July 21st, by Kim Dailey: Journeying through Horizon Aught Dawn on the harder difficulties is a long and rather arduous adventure. But throngs of players are taking on the awe-inspiring feat of beating the new mode on the hardest difficulty, in part to unlock all of those striking new cosmetic rewards introduced with New Game+. With so many players undertaking this tedious chore, our commodity has been flushed out to meet the rising needs of adventurers everywhere and help them make up one's mind which cosmetics to set their sights on.

How To Unlock Face Paint

The main cosmetic rewards that players tin obtain in Horizon Zero Dawn are the various face paints that they tin utilize on Aloy and these were one of two corrective additions brought in with New Game+. These face up paints are all unlocked by completing the game in a New Game+ style, though each increasing level of difficulty will unlock an additional prepare of face paints to equip.

For the well-nigh part, the confront paint patterns are inspired by the diverse tribes plant in Horizon, with most of them existence based on the Nora, Carja, and Banuk tribes. Due to their rejection of tribal civilisation and accent on advancing technology, there are no face paint options associated with the Oseram. However, this is fitting with the NPC designs of nearly Oseram characters.

There's a lot to choose from, so nosotros've sorted them all out for you according to the difficulty level y'all'll need to beat New Game+ on in order to obtain them.

Hard

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  1. Nora Sentry
  2. Carja Noble
  3. Banuk Aspirant
  4. Nora Seeker

Very Difficult

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  1. Nora Brave
  2. Carja Champion
  3. Banuk Survivor
  4. Banuk Shaman

Ultra Hard

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  1. Nora Deathseeker
  2. Carja Hawk
  3. Carja Stalker
  4. Banuk Chieftan
  5. Utaru Plainswalker

Although finishing the game on Hard or Very Hard difficulty will result in unlocking several face paints for the Nora, Carja, and Banuk tribes, if yous finish the game on Ultra Hard, the highest difficulty, yous will too unlock a unique face paint associated with the Utaru tribe, a splinter of the Banuk with few members in Horizon Zilch Dawn, only who make the Forbidden West their dwelling and are likely to announced more prominently in Horizon Forbidden W as a result.

Unlocking Focus Effects

Although the Focus is fairly innocuous and is often well hidden unless it is existence used, there are a handful of skins that can be unlocked to change the colour and advent of the Focus. For the near part, they are unproblematic pallet swaps of the base of operations Focus, but on closer inspection, there seems to be more than going on with the design of the hologram.

To unlock each new Focus effect, you will need to complete the game in New Game+ on Hard difficulty or higher, simply like with the face paints, though you lot volition only unlock one Focus upshot per difficulty level rather than the four or five face paints unlocked. However, similar the face paints, y'all can beat the game on New Game+ in Ultra Difficult style just one time to unlock all of the corrective rewards. Permit'southward have a wait at the Focus' dissimilar hologram effects beneath.

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  • Default - Blueish, no-notch
  • Difficult - Light Blue, one-notch variant
  • Very Hard - Red, two-notch variant
  • Ultra Difficult - Gold, 3-notch variant

Each Focus upshot also has a small-scale additional notch above the main hologram that can't hands exist seen outside of photo way. The light-blue Focus consequence has one notch, the carmine effect has two, while the gold effect has iii in the shape of the Cauldron doors. This is 1 of the simply other times in Horizon where this shape appears and, considering the link to the Utaru color and their face pigment's link to Horizon Forbidden West, it will likely concord more significance for the series in future titles.

Unlocking Hunting Club Weapons

The original cosmetic rewards obtained in Horizon Zero Dawn, the Hunting Lodge weapons are reskinned versions of "The Weapons of The Club" quest rewards, which are too known to be some of the all-time weapons in the game. The Hunting Lodge reskins these weapons with a aureate artful, which may too link back to the Utaru in the future, given the tribe'due south association with the colour in Horizon Zero Dawn.

Yous will need to complete the Hunting Trials scattered beyond the map (This excludes trials plant in the Frozen Wilds DLC) and earn a certain ranking Sun from each in order to be rewarded with these esteemed weapons, respectively. ​​​​​​

Weapon Suns/Rank
Carja State of war Bow 15 Half Suns
Blast Sling fifteen Full Suns
Ropecaster 15 Blazing Suns

While some of these trials can be specially difficult, the weapons gained by completing the Weapons of the Lodge side quest are actually benign in those said trials, making repeat attempts on New Game+ runs easier.

If these weapons are obtained in New Game+, you volition still get the Lodge variations of the Carja War Bow, Blast Sling, and Ropecaster. The difference is that they will instead be Proficient-level weapons and have an additional modification slot. Unfortunately, this doesn't carry over to the other Hunter Lodge weapon, the Tearblaster, which has no modification slots, to begin with, and, therefore, doesn't receive the Adept upgrade on subsequent New Game+ runs.

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