Surviving Fimbulwinter
Old Friends
Groa's Secret
The Lost Sanctuary
The Reckoning
The Runaway
Into the Fire
The Word of Fate
Forging Destiny
Unleashing Hel
Reunion
Creatures of Prophecy
Unlocking the Mask
Hunting for Solace
The Summoning
The Realms at War
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Surviving Fimbulwinter Quest Walkthrough
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Surviving Fimbulwinter is the first chapter of God of War Ragnarok's (GoW Ragnarok) main story. Read on for a detailed walkthrough, list of rewards, tips for completion, as well as boss fight strategies!
| Previous Quest | Next Quest |
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| - |
 The Quest for Tyr
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List of Contents
Surviving Fimbulwinter Walkthrough
Surviving Fimbulwinter Objectives
| Objectives | |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Head home▶ On-screen buttom prompts ▶ Binding the Navigation Assist |
| 2 | Track Atreus ▶ Inflicting Frost damage |
| 3 | Defeat Bjorn ▶ Bjorn Boss Guide |
| 4 | Return home with Atreus |
| 5 | Defeat Thor ▶ Thor (First Fight) Boss Guide |
| 6 | Return home to Atreus |
| 7 | Follow Atreus into the forest ▶ Dealing with Frosted Health |
| 8 | Defeat The Huntress ▶ The Huntress Boss Guide |
| 9 | Follow Atreus into the forest ▶ Obtaining Winter's Bite |
| 10 | Return home |
| 11 | Follow Sindri |
1. Keep an Eye Out for Button Prompts
You will encounter events with button prompts as early as the prologue that will require you to push specific buttons within a timeframe.
These can determine the outcome of a fight, like how you gradually lose health against Freya if you miss or took too long to press the correct button, so keep an eye out for these and react quickly!
2. Bind the Navigation Assist on Your Touch Pad
As soon as you're able, pull up the Settings menu and bind the Navigation Assist on your Touch Pad shorcuts. Using it while exploring moves the camera to your next destination, kinda similar to how the Compass works in the previous game.
3. Inflicting Frost Damage
Inflicting Frost damage on enemies slows their movements and make them easier to hit and avoid. Fill up the Frost gauge for a much better and longer lasting effect.
4. Use the Blades of Chaos on Frosted Health
Some enemies have Frosted Health that makes your Leviathan Axe's attacks to be ineffective. Burn them with the Blades of Chaos first to make them vulnerable!
5. Obtain Winter's Bite
You will obtain your first Runic Attack, Winter's Bite, after defeating The Huntress. Runic Attacks are items that can be slotted on your weapons.
Use their unique skills to quickly deal damage and inflict Stun, Burn, or Frost!
Boss Strategy: Bjorn
Parry the Yellow Ring Attacks
Attacks that emit a yellow ring will break your block, but they can be parried. Parrying such attacks, by pressing L1 right as the attack hits, will interrupt them and inflict Stun damage to the enemy.
On the other hand, attacks with a red ring are both unblockable and unparriable, so dodge away with X.
Lock on Using R3
Locking on your enemy by pressing R3 allows you to track their movements and make it easier to aim your attacks. This is especially helpful on boss fights where you need to watch out for their powerful moves.
Boss Strategy: Thor (First Fight)
Use the Pillars
During the fight against Thor on the bridge, you can interact with the small pillars around and swing them at Thor to deal a decent amount of damage.
How to Beat Thor (First Encounter)
Boss Strategy: The Huntress
Throw Your Axe at Her Horns
At some point during The Huntress fight, Atreus will mention that her horns are glowing. These are actually weakpoints that you can exploit by throwing your axe to stagger The Huntress for a few seconds.
Surviving Fimbulwinter Quest Rewards
| Rewards | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 Kratos XP | 250 Atreus XP | ||||
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