In Horizon: Zero Dawn, players will be able to upgrade Aloy’s spear after completing the “In Her Mother’s Footsteps” quest. Some of these upgrades can increase a spear’s permanent damage and have other benefits deepening on the upgrade rarity.
After some initial upgrades, players will be able to unlock talents that can further enhance the spear. Some of these talents can increase the base damage, while others might help take off armor from machines more easily. Regardless of which upgrade players choose, they will benefit from these upgrades in the long run, especially in DLC expansions.
How To Upgrade Aloy’s Spear in Horizon: Zero Dawn
Three spear upgrades can be unlocked in Horizon: Zero Dawn and its DLCs: Damage Upgrade, Overriding Mods, and Coil Modifications. These upgrades can increase the spear’s damage potential or give it special abilities.
Completing the quest In Her Mother’s Footsteps will reward Aloy with a boost to the spear’s damage, turning it into a “Rare” weapon. In addition, when Aloy rescues Arana, her father; Thok, will upgrade Aloy’s spear when she comments on his late wife’s crafting performance on Arana’s spear.
When Aloy defeats the first corruptor in Horizon: Zero Dawn, she will scavenge an override module that she can attach to the base of the spear. Using this module, Aloy can override machines to make them an ally for a short period or permanently, depending on her skill upgrades. Completing cauldrons and underground machine manufacturing facilities will allow Aloy to override more types of machines.
Even if the ability to override a specific species is unlocked, Aloy cannot override the corrupted version.
To make Coil Modifications, players will need to have purchased The Frozen Wilds DLC for Horizon: Zero Dawn. When Aloy finishes the A Secret Shared errand, the ability to modify her melee weapons will be unlocked. Kamut, the shaman, will compliment Aloy’s spear and instructs her to take parts from a “metal bird” in the Drone Hangar to modify it and Sylen’s Lance. Special coils can be used in the modification slot to increase her spear’s damage.
Now that Aloy’s spear can reach its maximum potential in Horizon: Zero Dawn, players can quickly dispatch machines and humans alike to help Aloy solve the mystery of her existence and prevent corruption from changing the world as she knows it.
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Horizon Zero Dawn
- Franchise:
- Horizon
- Platform:
- Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
- Released:
- 2017-02-28
- Developer:
- Guerrilla Games
- Publisher:
- Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Genre:
- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
- ESRB:
- T
- Summary:
- From the creators of the Killzone franchise comes Horizon Zero Dawn, an action-adventure game set in a semi-futuristic period where humanity has regressed to early tribal days sans technology – except cybernetic creatures now roam and dominate the earth. Aloy, the game’s protagonist, was cast out from her tribe at birth for reasons unknown to her, and she is raised by a kind and strong hunter known as Rost. Rost prepares her for “proving” a ceremonial set of trials that will finally allow her to be recognized, but the world has other plans. When mysterious cultists attack the participants, Aloy is sent out on a journey to find out who they are. Armed with a mysterious technological device that allows her to see the ins and outs of her cybernetic foes, Aloy will journey out into the world to find the assailants and the truth of the world she thought was once so small. Players are armed with slings and bows with different arrow types as they set traps and target weak points against massive hulking robotic dinosaurs and other creatures. Horizon Zero Dawn was released on the PlayStation 4 on 28 February 2017 and had a sequel released, Horizon Forbidden West, in 2022.
- How Long To Beat:
- 29 Hours
- Expansion Packs :
- The Frozen Wilds
- Sequel:
- Horizon Forbidden West
