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This guide explains the various setting available for Horizon Forbidden West (HFW). Read on to learn about the best Settings for a more enjoyable gaming experience, as well as a list of all standard settings.
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Best Settings |
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With Guided Mode enabled, it is easy to find the location of selected quests, making completing them much easier.
It also prevents you from getting lost during your quests, as well as helps you avoid enemies that might be too strong for you.
Turning on Climbing Annotations help point out places you can climb on, which helps cut down the amount of time you spend wandering.
Not having to use your Focus also helps maintains the pace of the game.
Increasing the slowdown speed of the Weapon Wheel not only helps you pick the right weapon for the situation, but also helps you maintain focus during combat.
Hitting Certain parts off of enemies, as well as hitting other specific targets, is made easier with Aim Assist. Use to save on time and arrows when using a bow.
Controlling your Mount while attempting to use your bow is made easier with this function. It 's also recommended if you often use mounts to get to waypoints faster.
Setting | Purpose |
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Text Language | Choose the language for in-game text. |
Speech and Movie Language | Choose the language for in-game spoken dialogue. |
Setting | Purpose |
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Difficulty | Story difficulty eases combat experience, allowing you to focus on exploration and narrative. |
Quest Pathfinding | Explorer Mode: Explore the world with minimal guidance. Guided Mode: Receive markers on screen to help you reach your quest destination. |
Waypoint Pathfinding | Dynamically places markers to help you navigate through the world to the waypoint location. |
HUD Visibility | Adjust the Level of on-screen information displayed. |
Contextual Reminders | Choose Whether to display reminders on how to use abilities, weapons, engage enemies, and more. |
Stand By Screen Mode | Informative: wait unitl the hint text has been displayed for the required amount of time before automatically continuing in the game.
Immediate: Automatically start the game when ready. |
Setting | Purpose |
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Weapon Wheel Slowdown | Adjust how much time slows down when the Weapon Wheel is activated. |
Concentration Duration | Adjusts how long Concentration mode lasts. |
Auto Concentration | Choose whether Concentration automatically activates while aiming. |
Auto Heal | Choose Whether you automatically consume Medical Berries form you Medical Pouch when below 50%. |
Auto Shieldwing | Choose whether you automatically deploy your Shadowing when falling. |
Setting | Purpose |
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Gauntlet Runs Quick Time Events | Adjust the controls of quick time events. |
Mount Follows Road | Choose whether mounts follow the road without guidance. |
Co-Pilot | turn this feature on to use a second controller with mirrored controls. |
Except for Voice and Text Settings, you can access and change any of your current settings by selecting Settings from the menu. Even Difficulty Settings can be adjusted at any time during gameplay.
Voice and Text settings can only be changed on the title screen. You can still change the language settings for each of these, but you'll need to leave the game and return to the title screen once to do so.
Best Settings and List of Settings
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I would like a setting that helps me read the text on the screen - it is so small even on large text mode. Any ideas?