New Horizon Forbidden West Patch Tackles Progression Blocks, Visual Shimmering, And More

Guerilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West Patch 1.13 has been released. It addresses numerous side and main quest progressions blocks as well as ongoing issues regarding strange visual shimmering effects in-game. 

Live today, Patch 1.13 brings with it a ton of fixes not just to quests, but to general things like the game’s UI and some of Aloy’s animations, as well as improvements to the game’s performance and stability. The biggest problem is the visual shimmering. This has been an issue since launch. 

For those who don’t know, shimmering refers to a glitter-like effect on objects and robots in Horizon Forbidden West. It makes things in-game look shinier than intended and in most patches since the game’s release, Guerrilla Games has addressed it. Considering it’s still listed under Patch 1.13’s “known issues,” it sounds like the problem persists today. 

“We are currently looking into several issues reported by the community,” the patch notes read. “Please note that these issues are not yet fixed in this patch, but our teams are aware of them and they’re being investigated.” 

These are the most common issues.: 

• The game continues to be improved by the team with an aim to decrease visual shimmering.
• Players have reported an issue in Handa’s Contract “Ancient Relics”, where the mission progression will be stuck on “2/3 Gather Ancient Relics”, or “Go to the Northern Ancient Machine Site” if the player leaves the area.
• Dark shadows from inventory may cover outfits.

Below, we’ll post the rest of the patch notes but if you haven’t yet completed the main story of Horizon Forbidden West, be wary as there are some campaign-related spoilers within: 

FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS

The Main Quest

• Fixed an issue with Main Quest “Reach for the Stars” where progression did not update after restarting the “Clear the rubble with the pullcaster” objective.
• Fixed an issue with Main Quest “To the Brink” where Belna would sometimes not spawn after objective “Clear the Daunt: Kill the Machines”.
• Fixed an issue with Main Quest “Death’s Door” where progression is blocked after using a “Leaplasher Spark Coil” in an upgrade before the “Gather Resources for the Igniter” objective is active.
• Fixed multiple issues with Main Quest “Singularity” where unexpected character behavior might lead to progression blockers.

Side Quests

• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “The Bristlebacks” where progression did not update after examining the Bristleback carcass prior to talking to the Carja Magistrate.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “The Bristlebacks” where progression might be blocked due to objective “Kill the Bristlebacks” not updating in the mine.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “Drowned Hopes” where the progression is blocked if using an alternate route to get to the pryable rocks.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “Lofty Ambitions” where the Stormbird might get stuck in the terrain, blocking progression.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “Lofty Ambitions” where the merchant Abadund will not have his prompt after quest completion.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “Signal Spike” where progression did not update due to interacting with NPCs in Side Quest “The Wound in the Sand”.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “Signal Spike” where Aloy can get stuck underwater during the “Go to the Source of the Signal” objective.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “A Soldier’s March” where objective “Scan for Penttoh’s Tracks” will not trigger if players arrive on a Sunwing nearby marker for objective “Climb the Mountain”.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “A Soldier’s March” where objective “Kill the Frostclaw” would not update and block progression.
• Fixed multiple issues with Side Quest “The Blood Choke” where Atekka would get stuck or disappear.
• Fixed multiple issues with Side Quest “In the Fog” where progression did not update after killing the Clawstrider.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “In the Fog” where progression did not update after following Garokkah to the Memorial with alerted machines.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “Forbidden Legacy” where progression did not update due to Alva being unresponsive on the ”Follow Alva to the Atbay Headquarters” objective.
• Fixed an issue with Side Quest “Forbidden Legacy” where a gap between two buildings was blocking progression.

Activities around the World

• Fixed an issue in Cauldron IOTA where the objective “Override the Tallneck” would not update on completion.
• CauldronCHI fixed an issue that overridden machines could be hostile towards Aloy.
• Fixed an issue in Contracts “Property Retrieval” where progression was blocked upon reloading the activity with all Relics found.
• Fixed an issue in Contracts “Alarm Antennas” where the objective would not update if Aloy has three Antennas before completing the “Gather Scrounger Alarm Antennas” objective.
• Fixed an issue in Contracts “Rollerback Salvage” where an additional Shellsnapper might spawn.
• Fixed an issue in Rebel Camp “Breached Rock” where progression is blocked when killing Rebel leader before objective “Enter the Bunker” is complete.
• Melee Pits issue where NPCs wore the incorrect armor was fixed
• An issue was fixed where Aloy got stuck close to the Arrowhand entrance.
• Black Box: Isle of Spires signal issue fixed. The box will still be active even after being picked up.
• Signal Tower was able to fix an issue where players experienced difficulties picking up Signal Lens.
• This issue was fixed where saving with items that were previously saved could cause a crash.

Machines

• Problem fixed where Tideripper could get his Water Hose Sweep Attack interrupted.
• Resolved an issue that prevented machines from reacting to the death of an ally.
• Apex Grimhorn has been added to spawn outside of missions.

UI/UX

• For multiple Coils and Weaves, fixed icons
• There are still more Metal Flowers icons on the map.
• Combat Statistics: Fixed Silent Strikes are counted twice
• Multiple seams were fixed on the World Map.

Performance and Stability

• Multiple streaming solutions in video and cinematic.
• Numerous crash fix options.

Andere

• Fixed an issue where Aloy’s shadow might be dimmed when melee attacking or using her Focus.
• Fixed an issue where “Fiberzest” and “Vigorstem” can not be obtained after the pouch is full.
• Fixed multiple locations where “Install Vine Cutter Module” Icons were not appearing.
• Numerous audio improvements and fixes.
• Multiple fixes to Aloy’s animations.
• Multilingual subtitles fix and improvement.
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• Many improvements and fixes to the body and facial animations of cinematics.

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