Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (2025)

Welcome to the Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide! This is a fun and quick platinum that only requires ~50% game completion. You will have to beat the main story, most of the open world activities, find 1 of each type of collectible (not all of them), and play a few specific side quests tied to trophies (not all side quests). You must also scan and kill one of every type of machine (only one variant per machine needed). The only potential missableis scanning the machines Specter and Specter Prime (final story boss) because they are quest-related and don’t have open world spawns, and quests cannot be replayed. Other than that everything is still doable after the story in free-roam. All other machines have open world spawns and you can still do all side activities and side quests after the story. You also get a flying mountat the end of the story, which makes it easy to reach any place quickly. Feel free to do as many or as few side tasks as you like while playing through the game, enjoy it any way you want.If you focus on strictly what is mandatory for trophies you canplatinum it in about 30 hours on story difficulty. It can take an extra 10-20 hours longer if playing onhigher difficultiesor when doing more side tasks than needed.

Focus on playing through the story. At the end of the story you unlock theFlying Mountwhich makes it much easierto reach Collectibles and get around the world quickly. You can already work on any side tasks you like, but it’s more time-efficient to do them after the story using the Flying Mount. Some trophy-related Side Quests also require story progress, after the story you will have access to everything.

Clean up any of the Points of Interest you have left. You can still do all of them after the story in free-roam. It’s best to do Tallnecks first to unfog more map icons, and the Arena second to unlock the Legendary Hunter Bow “Death-Seeker’s Shadow”. This is one of the best weapons and will make the remaining tasks faster to complete. Here’s everything you need to doin the recommended order:

From the Main Collectibles you need one of each type forHorizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (1)Recovered 5 Different Collectablesand 3 Relic Ruins forHorizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (2)Completed 3 Relic Ruins.

Only a few specific Side Quests are needed for trophy purposes. They are all still available after the story in free-roam. The below quests are the ones tied to trophies, everything else can be ignored:

At this point you might still be missing a few quick trophies, such as gliding for 60 seconds in one try, or overriding 10 types of machines. By now you will have everything you need to get any trophy quickly. Clean up whatever you have left, this should only take an hour or less at this point.

Save Transfer only works from PS4 to PS5 (not from PS5 to PS4). If you platinum the game on PS4 first, you can autopop all trophies on PS5 instantly by importing your platinum save game. With the PS5 version in the title screen or pause menu, click “Import Game from PlayStation 4” to import the save file. You can copy your PS4 save to PS5 via PlayStation Plus Cloud or via USB. When you have the PS4 save on the console it will get automatically detected by the PS5 version. Select the most recent save and it will automatically unlock all trophies from that save, including the platinum itself.

While DLCs are not needed for the Platinum, they are needed for 100% trophy completion. For DLCs refer to their dedicated trophy guides below:

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (3)All Trophies Obtained
Obtained all Horizon Forbidden West trophies.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (4)Earn all other trophies in Horizon Forbidden West to unlock Platinum (DLC not required).Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (5)Reached Level 20
Reached player level 20.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (6)See Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (7)Reached Level 50.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (8)Reached Level 30
Reached player level 30.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (9)See Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (10)Reached Level 50.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (11)Reached Level 50
Reached player level 50.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (12)You should reach Player Level 50 naturally while working on all other trophies. So don’t worry about this, you shouldn’t have to grind any XP for this.

The story alone will get you to about Level 25-30. You will easily gain the remaining level-ups from the trophy-related points of interest and side quests. If you want to reach Level 50 earlier, you can fast travel between two large machines that give a lot of XP, for example Tremortusk. Play on Story difficulty to defeat it in a few hits, fast travel to a campfire at another machine site (big combat machines give the msot XP) and repeat. Doing this at night is even better, because at night Apex variants spawn more often and those give more XP. You can advance time at any Shelter.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (13)Reached the Daunt
Arrived at the Daunt seeking passage into the Forbidden West.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (14)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 2nd Main Quest “The Point of the Lance”.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (15)Secured Passage to the Embassy
Cleared the way to the Embassy and reopened the Daunt.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (16)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 3rd Main Quest “To The Brink”.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (17)Attended the Embassy
Survived the ambush at the Embassy and gained passage into the Forbidden West.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (18)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 4th Main Quest “The Embassy”.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (19)Established the Base
Secured a base of operations and rebooted GAIA.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (20)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksduring7th Main Quest “The Eye of the Earth”, after talking to GAIA and deciding whether to first go to AETHER or POSEIDON or DEMETER (when you get the objective: Exit the Base Through the West Door).Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (21)Recovered AETHER
Defended the Kulrut and recovered AETHER.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (22)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 9th Main Quest “The Kulrut” (alternatively, can also do POSEIDON or DEMETER first).Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (23)Recovered POSEIDON
Drained Las Vegas and recovered POSEIDON.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (24)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 11th Main Quest “The Sea of Sands” (alternatively, can also doAETHER or DEMETER first).Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (25)Recovered DEMETER
Encountered the Quen and recovered DEMETER.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (26)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 12th Main Quest “Seeds of the Past” (alternatively, can also do AETHER or POSEIDONfirst).Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (27)Recovered Beta
Followed Beta’s distress signal and brought her back to base.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (28)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 10th Main Quest “Cradle of Echoes” (alternatively, can also do POSEIDON or DEMETER first).Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (29)Discovered Faro’s Fate
Survived Thebes and befriended the Quen.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (30)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 13th Main Quest “Faro’s Tomb”.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (31)Flew on the Wings of the Ten
Flew into battle and vanquished Regalla.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (32)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocksafter 16th Main Quest “The Wings of the Ten”.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (33)Discovered Nemesis
Put an end to the Zenith threat and discovered Nemesis.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (34)Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. This is for beating the main story. Unlocksafter 17th Main Quest “Singularity”, which is the final story quest. Your dialogue choices throughout the story don’tmatter for it. Make sure you scan the machines “Specter” if you haven’t already, and “Specter Prime” (final boss). This is the only chance to encounter Specter Prime,it doesn’t spawn in the open world and the final story area cannot be replayed.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (35)Chose a Desert Commander
Aided both Drakka and Yarra and chose the better candidate.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (36)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (37)

This is for completing the following 3 side quests, starting in Arrowhand settlement:

  1. Thirst for The Hunt
  2. The Wound in The Sand
  3. The Gate of the Vanquished
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (38)Saved the Daunt
Resolved all of the problems troubling the Daunt.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (39)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (40)

The Daunt is the starting area in north-east of the map, reached duringMain Mission 3: To The Brink. It consists of two larger towns “Chainscrape” and “Barren Light”. You must complete 4 specific side quests from those two towns to unlock the trophy:

  1. Shadow from the Past
  2. Shadowin the West
  3. The Twilight Path
  4. The Bristlebacks

There are many other side quests and errands in this region but those aren’t needed, only those specific four. You can skip the other quests in the area.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (41)Aided Kotallo
Helped Kotallo build and test a mechanized arm.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (42)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (43)

This comes from completing 1 specific Side Quest for Kotallo:

  • What Was Lost
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (44)Healed the Land-gods
Helped Zo reboot the land-gods to save Plainsong.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (45)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (46)

This comes from completing 1 specific Side Quest for Zo:

  • The Second Verse
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (47)Recovered Alva’s Data
Helped Alva retrieve data to help the Quen.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (48)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (49)

This comes from completing 1 specific Side Quest for Alva:

  • Forbidden Legacy
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (50)First Tallneck Overridden
Reached the top of a Tallneck and accessed its information.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (51)»Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (52)All Tallnecks Overridden
Reached the top of every Tallneck and accessed their information.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (53)»Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (54)First Rebel Camp Completed
Completed key objectives in 1 Rebel Camp.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (55)»Horizon Forbidden West – AllRebel Camp LocationsHorizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (56)Defeated Asera
Investigated all Rebel Camps and helped Erend defeat Asera.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (57)»Horizon Forbidden West – AllRebel Camp LocationsHorizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (58)First Core Overridden
Reached the Core of a Cauldron and accessed its information.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (59)»Horizon Forbidden West – AllCauldron Locations

The story-related Cauldron’s don’t count for this trophy, it only unlocks after doing one of the non-story ones in open world.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (60)All Cores Overridden
Reached the Core of every Cauldron and accessed their information.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (61)»Horizon Forbidden West – AllCauldron LocationsHorizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (62)Obtained 3 Stripes at a Hunting Ground
Earned at least a Quarter Stripe mark in all three trials at one Hunting Ground.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (63)»Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (64)Obtained 3 Stripes at All Hunting Grounds
Earned at least a Quarter Stripe mark in all three trials at all Hunting Grounds.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (65)»

For this you only need the lowest grade “Quarter Stripes” (Bronze) in all 12 Hunting Ground Trials across the 4 different Hunting Ground Locations. Full Stripes (Gold) is not needed.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (66)All Acquisition Machines Killed
Killed at least one of every type of Acquisition machine.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (67)There are 18 types of Acquisition Machines. You must defeat one of each type. You don’t need to defeat every sub-variant of these machines, defeating only one of their variants is enough for the trophy. You can keep track of which ones you killed under: Notebook > Statistics > Machines Killed.

In order of in-game Machine Catalogue, click link for machine page with locations:

  1. Grazer
  2. Scrounger
  3. Scrapper
  4. Spikesnout
  5. Plowhorn
  6. Charger
  7. Lancehorn
  8. Bristleback
  9. Fanghorn
  10. Widemaw
  11. Glinthawk
  12. Snapmaw
  13. Sunwing
  14. Clamberjaw
  15. Rockbreaker
  16. Tideripper
  17. Frostclaw
  18. Fireclaw

For all Machine Locations, see below guide:
»Horizon Forbidden West –All Machine Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (68)All Recon Machines Killed
Killed at least one of every type of Reconnaissance machine.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (69)There are5types of Recon Machines. You must defeat one of each type, except Tallnecks which cannot be killed (only the first 4 are needed for the trophy). You don’t need to defeat every sub-variant of these machines, defeating only one of their variants is enough for the trophy. You can keep track of which ones you killed under: Notebook > Statistics > Machines Killed.

In order of in-game Machine Catalogue, click link for machine page with locations:

  1. Burrower
  2. Skydrifter
  3. Longleg
  4. Redeye Watcher
  5. Tallneck(cannot be killed)

For all Machine Locations, see below guide:
»Horizon Forbidden West –All Machine Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (70)All Combat Machines Killed
Killed at least one of every type of Combat machine.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (71)There are15 types of Combat Machines. You must defeat one of each type. You don’t need to defeat every sub-variant of these machines, defeating only one of their variants is enough for the trophy. You can keep track of which ones you killed under: Notebook > Statistics > Machines Killed. This trophy may actually unlock early at only 13/15 combat machines defeated.

In order of in-game Machine Catalogue, click link for machine page with locations:

  1. Clawstrider
  2. Corruptor
  3. Stalker
  4. Grimhorn
  5. Ravager
  6. Dreadwing
  7. Shellsnapper
  8. Stormbird
  9. Thunderjaw
  10. Scorcher
  11. Slitherfang
  12. Tremortusk
  13. Slaughterspine
  14. Specter
  15. Specter Prime

For all Machine Locations, see below guide:
»Horizon Forbidden West –All Machine Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (72)All Transport Machines Killed
Killed at least one of every type of Transport machine.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (73)There are5 types of Transport Machines. You must defeat one of each type. You don’t need to defeat every sub-variant of these machines, defeating only one of their variants is enough for the trophy. You can keep track of which ones you killed under: Notebook > Statistics > Machines Killed.

In order of in-game Machine Catalogue, click link for machine page with locations:

  1. Leaplasher
  2. Bellowback
  3. Shell-Walker
  4. Rollerback
  5. Behemoth

For all Machine Locations, see below guide:
»Horizon Forbidden West –All Machine Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (74)Rode All Regular Mounts
Rode a Charger, Bristleback, and Clawstrider.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (75)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (76)

Charger,BristlebackandClawstriderare the 3 rideable ground-based mounts (the flying mount “Sunwing” isn’t needed for this). You must first unlock their overrides, then you can walk up to them and hold Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (77) to override the machine and Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (78) to ride it. You just need to mount it for a moment, then you can move on to overriding the next machine.

Charger: override unlocked from the start. Spawn location below:

Bristleback: override unlocked fromTAU Cauldron, you complete this Cauldron as part ofMain Quest 6: The Dying Lands. Spawn location below:

Clawstrider: override unlocked fromIOTA Cauldron. See Cauldron location & Spawn location below:

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (83)All Machine Types Scanned
Encountered and Focus scanned every type of machine.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (84)*MISSABLE* –Specter&Specter Primeare missable scans, they only spawn during quests (not replayable) and don’t have open world spawns. Both can be found in the final main story quest “Singularity“. *As of Patch 1.08 “Specter Prime” now gets added to database automatically after story if missed. “Specter” is still missable but as of Patch 1.16 can be scanned in New Game+ if missed.

There are 43 machines in Horizon Forbidden West. You must scan ALL 43 of them. For the trophy you need only ONE variant of each machine. Most machines have multiple sub-variants, e.g. Burrower has “Tracker Burrower” or “Apex Burrower” sub-variants. You only need one single variant scanned per machine, doesn’t matter if you scan the normal variant or Apex variant or whatever other variants.You can keep track of your scans under Notebook > Machine Catalogue. All 43 machines must have an icon there for the trophy to unlock.

»Horizon Forbidden West –All Machine Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (85)Completed a Long Glide
Glided uninterrupted for 60 seconds.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (86)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (87)

This is easiest to do after getting the flying mount, automatically unlockednear the end of the storyinMain Quest 16: The Wings of the Ten. Use the flying Mount to fly as high up as the game lets you, then dismount by pressing Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (88) and immediately hold Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (89) to open the Glider. Glide all the way down to the ground and you should easily stay in the air for 60+ seconds.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (90)Completed 2 Flying Mount Quests
Completed 2 quests that required a flying mount.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (91)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (92)

There are a total of 4 Flying Mount Quests. You only need to complete 2 of them for the trophy. The flying mount is unlocked automatically near the end of the storyinMain Quest 16: The Wings of the Ten.

  • Shining Example
  • First to Fly
  • The Way Home
  • Tides of Justice
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (93)Won 2 Gauntlet Runs
Won first place in two different Gauntlet Runs.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (94)Gauntlet runs are races using your mount. There are 4 of them but you only need 2 for the trophy. They must be done in a specific order. The first one starts in the valley south-west of The Base:

Go there, win the race, then it will add the other ones to your quest log. From there you can track them to see their locations on the map.

»Horizon Forbidden West –All Gauntlet Run Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (97)Completed a Set of Salvage Contracts
Completed all contracts at a Salvage Contractor.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (98)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (99)

Salvage Contractors are marked by “blue pages” icons on the map. The first one is found 300 meters south-west of Barren Light. There are a total of 4Salvage Contractors in the game (Barren Light, The Greenswell, The Stillsands, The Raintrace). For this trophy you must complete all the quests of one single Salvage Contractor.

Here’s where you find the Barren Light Salvage Contractor:

Talk to him and do all his quests. You can track these in the Menu under Quests > Salvage Contracts. His 4 quests are:

  1. Convoy Ambush
  2. Scavengers
  3. Alarm Antennas
  4. Elusive Fanghorn

After those 4 quests the trophy will unlock.

»Horizon Forbidden West –AllSalvage Contractor Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (102)Completed 4 Rebel Outposts
Defeated the outpost leader and recovered the tags from 4 Rebel Outposts.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (103)There are a total of 17 Rebel Outposts. Rebel Outposts are the smaller versions of Rebel Camps.You must kill the leader in the camp, loot their body, and leave the area. For this trophy you only need to do this for 4 of 17 Outposts. They get marked by blue skull icons on the map when discovered. Can also track them under Quests > Rebel Outposts. You can trade in the Tags atThe Arenafor crafting materials but that’s not needed for the trophy.

»Horizon Forbidden West –AllRebel Outpost Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (104)Completed 3 Relic Ruins
Discovered and completed 3 Relic Ruins.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (105)»Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (106)Completed Arena Challenge Set
Completed 1 Arena challenge set.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (107)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (108)

The Arena becomes available afterMain Quest 9: The Kulrut. It is found near the center of the map, called “The Maw of the Arena” on the map. It’s directly north of “The Memorial Grove”, a story-related settlement you visit automatically. Here’s the location:

Approach the Arena Master outside the Arena to get the side quest “Opening the Arena”. Complete this side quest and then talk to the arena master again to play the arena challenges. For this trophy you only need to complete the 4 fights in the “easy” playlist. Simply kill the machines within the time limit. If you put the game on story difficulty this shouldn’t give you any trouble. A quick way to kill machines is with a Spike Thrower weapon. It is recommended to play a few more challenges for more Arena Medals until you can afford the Legendary Hunter Bow “Death-Seeker’s Shadow”, it’s one of the best weapons in the game and makes other side activities easier and faster. You can trade the Arena Medals at the vendor in front of the arena entrance.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (110)Defeated Machine Strike Challengers
Won a match against 2 different Machine Strike challengers.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (111)Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (112)

Machine Strike is board game / minigame. It’s marked by a “blue cube” icon on the map, found at all big settlements. For trophy purposes you only need to beat any 2 opponents. So head to 2 different Machine Strike icons on the map and defeat the opponent on one board.

You should play the Machine Strike in Chainscrape first, inside the tavern. It gives you a tutorial how this minigame works and you are given your first set of match pieces there. For trophy purposes it’s enough to play the first challenge “Beginner’s Practice: Easy”.

Then head to the second opponent found in Barren Light, just south of Chainscrape and defeat him on his first board, the trophy will unlock after that:

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (117)Obtained All Weapon Classes
Obtained 1 weapon from every weapon class.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (118)There are 8 weapon classes in total:
  1. Hunter Bow
  2. Warrior Bow
  3. Sharpshot Bow
  4. Blastslings
  5. Tripcaster
  6. Ropecaster
  7. Shredder Gauntlet
  8. Spike Thrower
  9. Boltblaster

The easiest option is to simply buy one of each from Hunter Merchants, found at almost every settlement. They usually have 3 different weapons for sale, visit a few different ones and you will find one of every weapon in their inventories. For all weapon locations see the below guide:

»Horizon Forbidden West –AllWeapon Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (119)Used all Elemental States
Inflicted every elemental state on an enemy at least once.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (120)You can find a list of all Elemental States under Weapons > Inventory. You can keep track of which elemental states you applied under Notebook > Statistics > Combat.

To get this trophy you have two options: The first is to shoot the weak points on machines, usually some canisters, until those weak spots explode and cause an elemental chain reaction. The second option is to use weapons with an elemental effect and shoot an enemy repeatedly until the element has fully built up (element icon on enemy filling up with each hit). You can see your weapon elements in the weapon wheel, it varies for each weapon variant and ammo type used. You will quite certainly get this through natural gameplay will working on the other trophies, without having to go out of your way for this. As you kill machines you will eventually hit their weak spots and cause elemental effects with that. Another quick way is to play the last challenge in each Arena Set which gives you a predefined set of weapons with various elemental effects.

All Elemental Effects:

  • Frost
  • Acid
  • Shock
  • Fire
  • Purgewater
  • Plasma

For an overview of all weapons, their locations and their elemental effects see the below guide:

»Horizon Forbidden West –AllWeapon Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (122)Performed 3 Melee Combos
Successfully performed 3 different unlockable melee combos.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (123)In the Menu under Skills > Warrior you must buy 3 melee combos from the Warrior Skill Tree. For example: Block Breaker, Nora Warrior, Spinning Scythe, The Destroyer, Energy Surge. Then use the 3 different combos on enemies (has to hit enemies or else it doesn’t count). You will get this trophy automatically while completing allMelee Challengesin theMelee Pits.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (124)Stealth Killed 10 Machines
Performed a stealth kill on 10 machines.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (125)For this you must sneak up to a machine unseen and press Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (126) to perform a silent strike takedown. Stay crouched ( Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (127) ) to make less noise. Only small machines can be instant-killed with a stealth takedown. For example, Chargers work well for this (can be found south of Chainscrape settlement). Playing on Story Difficulty helps to kill them in a single hit.

Doing silent strike Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (128) takedowns on enemies that have been alerted does NOT count. They have to be proper stealth kills, without alerting any machines. An easy method is to keep fast traveling between groups of small machines, sneak up from behind, do stealth takedowns on as many as you can, then fast travel to another group and repeat until the trophy pops. If you use stealth from time to time you should get it naturally over the course of the story.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (129)Tore off 100 Components
Detached 100 components from machines.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (130)Every machine has some weak points you can shoot off, such as the sparkers (batteries) on their backs. Shoot off a total of 100 detachable parts throughout the game. This will unlock naturally while working towards other trophies, don’t worry about this. Whenever you fight a machine you will likely shoot off a few parts.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (131)Picked up 5 Heavy Weapons
Picked up 5 different heavy weapons.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (132)This trophy doesn’t count weapons you find lying around on the floor or held by human enemies. It onlycounts heavy weapons from machines that you detach yourself.

Heavy Weapons are dropped by certain large combat-type machines when shooting off their weapon parts. Then you can pick up their weapon and use it against them. They usually carry those weapons on their back.

  1. Stalker(Stalker Dart Gun)
  2. Grimhorn(Grimhorn Cluster Launcher)
  3. Ravager(Ravager Cannon)
  4. Dreadwing(Dreadwing Bomb Launcher)
  5. Shellsnapper(Shellsnapper Frost Blaster)
  6. Thunderjaw(Thunderjaw Disc Launcher)
  7. Scorcher(Scorcher Mine Launcher)
  8. Slitherfang(Slitherfang Shock Orb)
  9. Tremortusk(Tremortusk Shock Cannon+ Tremortusk Plasma Cannon)
  10. Slaughterspine(Slaughterspine Plasma Spine Launcher)
  11. Specter/Specter Prime(Specter Pulse Cannon)
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (133)10 Types of Machine Overridden
Unlocked and used the overrides for 10 different types of machine.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (134)You unlock the overrides for machines by completing the Cauldrons. The best way to go about this is to do all Cauldrons first, then override machines by approaching them in stealth and holding Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (135) .

»Horizon Forbidden West All Cauldron Locations

Some machines require crafting their Override at the Fabrication Terminal of the Base in addition to completing the Cauldrons. The base is visited automatically as part ofMain Quest 7: The Eye of the Earth.

To see if you have the Override for a machine unlocked, check under Notebook > Machine Catalogue > click Machine > left site “Cauldron” > Overrides. If it says “Unlocked” you can override it. If it says “Partially unlocked” it means you must craft the override at The Base first. If it says “Cannot override” there is no way to ever override it. None of the Apex Variants of machines can be overridden!

Machines for which you have unlocked the override can be overridden by approaching them in stealth and holding Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (139) when close to them. If they turn hostile they can’t be overridden, but you can leave the area and come back to try again. Overridden machines will become your allies and fight for you and follow you.The following machines are the easiest, they can be overridden by just completing all Cauldrons, no need to craft their overrides at The Base.
»Horizon Forbidden West AllMachine Locations

  1. Grazer
  2. Burrower(except Apex)
  3. Scrounger(except Apex)
  4. Leaplasher(except Apex)
  5. Charger
  6. Lancehorn
  7. Longleg(except Apex)
  8. Bristleback(except Apex)
  9. Redeye Watcher(except Apex)
  10. Clawstrider(except Apex)
  11. Glinthawk(except Apex)
  12. Shell-Walker(except Apex)
  13. Sunwing(override unlocked in 2nd last story quest)
  14. Clamberjaw(except Apex)
  15. Rockbreaker(except Apex)
  16. Behemoth(except Apex)
  17. Tideripper(except Apex)
  18. Stormbird(except Apex)
  19. Tremortusk(except Apex)
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (140)Defeated the Enduring
Defeated the Tenakth melee master known as the Enduring.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (141)Complete all 4 Melee Pits, then you can track the quest “The Enduring” to challenge the Melee Master. To play all Melee Pit challenges you must have all melee skills unlocked from the “Warrior” skill tree.You get skill points fromside quests, errands, completing points of interest in the open world, or leveling up.

»Horizon Forbidden West AllMelee Pit Locations

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (142)Fully Upgraded a Valor Surge
Upgraded a Valor Surge to its maximum level.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (143)Valor Surges are the equippable passive perksin the skill trees menu. They are the circular icons in the middle of the skill trees that have other skills connected to them. You must first buy the connected skills. Then on the Valor Surge you can press Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (144) to equip it and hold Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (145) to upgrade it. You must upgrade it to level 3 to unlock the trophy. This costs skill points, which you get automatically from leveling up.

Here’s an example of a fully upgraded Valor Surge from the Trapper skill tree (costs 13 skill points to buy connected skills and fully upgrade Valor Surge):

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (147)Upgraded 3 Weapons
Fully upgraded 3 weapons.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (148)This is best done by upgrading 3 green rarity (uncommon) weapons. They only have 3 upgrades each and require common materials. You can upgrade your gear at any workbench, for example in Chainscrape, the town in the north-east of the map. The merchant (Hunter) in Chainscrape also sell low-grade green weapons that are easy to upgrade. Most large settlements have a Workbench. If you are missing some crafting materials, click :triangle “Create Job” in the upgrade menu at the Workbench, this creates a quest marker on the map leading you to the materials you need. The easiest option is to simply collect everything you find and do this later after the story,by that point you should have enough materials. You can scroll over each upgrade slot beforehand to see if you have all the needed materials.

For a list of all weapons and their locations:

»Horizon Forbidden West AllWeapons

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (149)Upgraded 3 Outfits
Fully upgraded 3 different outfits.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (150)This is best done by upgrading 3 green rarity (uncommon) outfits. They only have 3 upgrades each and require common materials. You can upgrade your gear at any workbench, for example in Chainscrape, the town in the north-east of the map. The merchant (Stitcher) in Chainscrape also sell low-grade greenoutfits that are easy to upgrade. Most large settlements have a Workbench. If you are missing some crafting materials, click :triangle “Create Job” in the upgrade menu at the Workbench, this creates a quest marker on the map leading you to the materials you need. The easiest option is to simply collect everything you find and do this later after the story,by that pointyou should have enough materials. You can scroll over each upgrade slot beforehand to see if you have all the needed materials.

For a list of alloutfits and their locations:

»Horizon Forbidden West All Outfits

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (151)Upgraded Every Pouch Type
Upgraded the Food Pouch, Potion Pouch, Resource Pouch, Trap Pouch, and any ammo pouch at least once.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (152)You can upgrade Pouches at any Workbench. You find a Workbench at every big settlement and every shelter location. If you are missing the upgrade materials, simply press Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (153) “Create Job” while in the upgrade menu at the workbench. This will create a quest marker on the map leading you to whatever materials you need.
  1. Food Pouch = Buy Food (e.g. Local Stew) from any Cook (Food) Merchant at any large settlement. Every large town has a Cook Vendor. For example, at “Chainscrape” (but must do Errand for him first), or at “Plainsong” or “Scalding Spear” or “The Bulwark”. Once you bought your first food item the pouch will become available for upgrade at any workbench.
  2. Potion Pouch = Buy a Potion from any Herbalist (Remedies) vendor, found at any large settlement.
  3. Resource Pouch = Automatically available from the beginning
  4. Trap Pouch = Automatically available from the beginning
  5. Ammo Pouch = Automatically available from the beginning, there’s one pouch for each weapon type. For example, the “Hunter Bow Quiver” is unlocked from the start, but can also upgrade any other type of ammo pouch of any other weapon.
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (154)Enhanced Weapon with Coils
Equipped a weapon of any tier with 2 coils.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (155)For this you need a Rare (blue) weapon or better. Uncommon (green) weapons only have 1 Coil Slot. Rare (Blue) and Very Rare (Purple) weapons start out with 1 Coil Slot but can be upgraded to 2 Slots at the Workbench. Legendary (Yellow) weapons start out with 3 slots and can be upgraded to 5 slots.

You can see how many coil slots a weapon has by going to Inventory > scroll over a weapon > check “Coils” in bottom right. If it shows a “lock icon” on a coil slot, it means you must go to a Workbench and upgrade the weapon first. Workbenches are found at almost every big town and get marked on the map when nearby. For example, in Chainscrape which is the first big town you visit. Alternatively, just wait until you have a Legendary rarity weapon.

Coils are frequentlyobtained throughout the game but can also be bought from any Hunter Merchant, there’s one at almost every big town. They are like “weapon runes” that give your weapon a bonus effect, such as higher critical hit chance.

Once you have a weapon with enough coil slots, go to Inventory > click Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (156) on the weapon to edit Coils. Insert any two coils into it. It doesn’t matter what rarity level the coils have (can be the lowest green rarity). As soon as you have 2 coils slotted to the same weapon it will unlock the trophy.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (157)Unlocked 3 Weapon Techniques
Unlocked a Weapon Technique for 3 different weapon classes.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (158)Weapon Techniques are found in the skill tree, the medium-sized icons on the side of each skill tree that say “Weapon Technique” when scrolling over them. These are the active skills that unlock new weapon combos. Each skill tree has techniques for different weapons. The Melee Skills fromWarrior Skill Tree don’t count as they are Melee Skills and not Weapon Skills.

The important thing is you must unlock at least one technique for 3 DIFFERENT weapons, not 3 techniques for the same weapon! For example, 1 skill for the Ropecaster, 1 for Hunter Bow, 1 for Bolt Blaster. You get plenty of skill points from every quest, from level ups, and from completing locations marked on the map.

  • Warrior = Warrior Bow
  • Trapper Skill Tree = Tripcaster / Ropecaster
  • Hunter Skill Tree = Hunter Bow / Boltblaster
  • Survivor Skill Tree = Blastsling / Shredder Gauntlet
  • Infiltrator Skill Tree = Sharpshot Bow
  • Machine Master Skill Tree = Spike Thrower
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (159)Skill Tree Learned
Learned all available skills on one tree.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (160)For an overview of all skills, see:HorizonForbidden West All Skills List.

For this trophy you must buy all skills and upgrades in 1 of the 6 available skill trees.

These are the6 available skills trees:

  • Warrior (31 skills)
  • Trapper (20 skills)
  • Hunter (29 skills)
  • Survivor (29 skills)
  • Infiltrator (27 skills)
  • Machine Master (26 skills)

The cheapest one is “Trapper” because it has the fewest skills. Buying all skills and upgrades for Trappercosts 40 Skill Points total. If you save your skill points you should be able to do this by the time you reach Level 20.

Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (161)Recovered 5 Different Collectables
Completed 1 Survey Drone, 1 Black Box, 1 Relic Ruin, 1 Vista Point, and 1 Signal Tower.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (162)For this you must get 1 of every type of collectible:
  • Relic Ruins
  • Signal Towers
  • Black Boxes
  • Vista Points
  • Survey Drones
Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (163)Used Dye Flowers
Used dye flowers to unlock and apply a new dye.Horizon Forbidden West Trophy Guide & Roadmap (164)Dyers are special merchants, there are only3 of them in the game. These allow you to change the color of your clothes. This requires what the trophy description calls “flowers”, but they are called “blooms” in-game. You find these everywhere along mountain walls, must climb up to reach the blooms. Go to any mountainside and climb the walls to look for these. Each dye requires different blooms, just go to some mountainsides and collect whatever blooms you come across.

Here’sa mountain wall where you can find plenty, and what the flowers look like:

Dyer #1: Plainsong

Dyer #2: Scalding Spear

Dyer #3: Thornmarsh

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