Horizon Zero Dawn: Maker's End.

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It's been a long time since I last played this game and since I last talked about this game. And after finishing another mission, now I understand what I was missing.

Today, I would like to talk about a chapter of Horizon Zero Dawn which is called Maker's End.

You may watch the video above to see the gameplay yourself and I bet you won't regret watching the gameplay.

Maker's End
Aloy seeks to learn more about the mysterious woman who looks like her among the crumbling ruins of an ancient city.
Now my objective was to go to Maker's End which is a place and search for the clues to the unknown woman's identity as who she was.

This mission starts right where Revenge of the Nora ended and its time for Aloy to seek for her destiny what what was in her destiny.

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After collecting some medicinal plants on the way, I went to the Striker site and I overridden a Striker. It was nighttime and its cool for the Striker to have headlight as well that we don't get from real horses.

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After riding the Strider for sometimes, I've found two women at a field and at first I thought they were enemy but later I've found out that they were not attacking me so I take them as friends.

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And there was this site of Charger. Chargers looks exactly like Strider but they has bigger horns which makes them look cooler. I overridden a Charger from there and started riding it abandoning the Strider.

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Now I had two objectives.

  1. I needed to loot the Equipment Stash from the way that was stashed by someone and someone hinted me about that through my focus and this is an optional objective.
  2. I needed to go to the Ruins to start the main quest.

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After looting the equipment stash from the way, I headed further towards the ruins and there were obstacles on the way. There were corrupted Watchers and also cultists. I needed to fight them and my Charger helped me fighting them.

Then I destroyed the Charger in order to loot what it offers and then I started moving on foot.

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This place now looked empty although it was full of Cultists a moments before and I could fight them silently if I didn't ride with the Charger and if I could come silently.

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As I moved forward, there was a place full of Cultists, corrupted watchers and I could see a Corruptor as well. I kind of saved myself and escaped from there first.

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Then after destroying some corrupted Watchers on the outside, I went back and I killed the Cultists one by one silently.

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Then I reached the Ruins where I was introduced to a new and big machine called Deathbringer. Deathbringer has machine guns all over its body and my objective was to kill all the Cultists there who has been operating/helping the Deathbringer and then I had to destroy the Deathbringer as well.

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After killing every Cultists and a corrupted Watcher, the Deathbringer was next in my target but it somehow got aware of my existence there so it started searching for me and I couldn't get close to it.

I climbed up some rocks so I could get close shot and it started shooting me. In cover, I kept shooting the machine by my arrows.

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And at last the Deathbringer was destroyed and I looted it as well. Now I had to loot the Eclipse officer.

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Got this focus after looting the Eclipse officer. When Aloy was about to interact with the focus, there was this malfunction and a voice from someone named Hades and Hades seemed surprised knowing Aloy is alive and probably Hades was comparing Aloy with someone else.

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And the focus was destroyed itself. Then Aloy was talking to the stranger man who has been with her though the focus but there was not reply from the stranger.

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There was a rubble inside the ruins and I needed to investigate it. After I squeezed through, there was a cinematic.

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And we've found another gate that we noticed before Aloy became a Seeker.

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The gate started scanning Aloy and there was 99.47 % match with the woman whom Aloy was looking for. And Aloy was about to leave the place thinking it won't open this time as well.

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But wait, it opened. The synthetic voice welcomed Aloy thinking her as Dr. Sobeck who is probably the woman Aloy was looking for who looks like Aloy.

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So now Aloy has access to get inside where no peoples went though probably for centuries. When the gate is opened, it looks like a door to a spaceship.

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I was inside and I got a good feedback from the synthetic voice about Dr. Sobeck. The synthetic voice was referring that Dr. Sobeck was three hundred and fifty-five thousand, five hundred and ten days overdue for her meeting with Mr. Faro. Which means, Dr. Sobeck is long gone and can't be the mother of Aloy in any way as Dr. Sobeck lived long lone long ago.

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Now I needed to go to Ted Faro's office. And I started following the indications to reach the destination.

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I was outside in the open after running and jumping inside for quite sometimes in order to get to Ted Faro's office. And it looked like I was already above the cloud.

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Well, I've found Ted Faro's office at last and there was this machine where a synthetic voice was saying that all data has been erase from the device but it also asked Aloy thinking her as Dr. Sobeck if she wishes to deploy Alpha privileges to recover purged data. And Aloy replied, "Oh yes, I believe I do".

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And there were 3 recovered data. All of them showed holographic footage of Dr. Sobeck talking to Ted Faro.

From the conversation, I understood that Ted Faro was the man behind building the machines that we see in the wild and somehow the project was malfunctioned and the machines started learning to evolve themselves where no humanity can exist so Dr. Sobeck did something that prevent the machines to kill every living being from the earth and so we see living peoples around the game.

After listening the discussions, I had the option to leave the place but I wished to explore the place more.

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There was this option to climb further above and I got this fantastic view from up above.

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It's snowy out there and it looked great from above the clouds, isn't it?

When I was about to leave the place, there was the strangers voice in my focus and Aloy dared him to show himself.

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There was this man, I mean a holographic version of this man who was hacking through the focus somehow and came Infront of Aloy.

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I had to option to ask him questions or I could just live it be but I started asking him all the questions to know what's going on.

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And the quest was completed at that point. Then I repelled down from there at first and then I started going down which was much easier than going up.

The next chapter will be coming soon.
Screenshots are my take from the game and there's a logo that I used on the thumbnail picture.

SEE YOU.



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