The ending of the PlayStation - exclusiveHorizon Forbidden Westis a complicated one , with Aloy ’s journeying resolving multiple plot threads with Regalla and the Far Zenith but leave many open - ended . The floor ofForbidden Westis epic in scale and seeing it to its end is a evacuant experience . That say , the unnerving Revelation made in the game ’s final moments will leave many hope they did the right-hand matter .

[ Warning : spoilers ahead for Horizon Forbidden West . ]

ThroughoutHorizon Forbidden West ’s write up , in which Aloy seeks to stop a deadly pestilence brought on by the A.I. HEPHAESTUS , players are pitted against two enemy : Regalla and Far Zenith .   Regalla is   a greyback of the Tekanth   clans who seeks revenge for the Red Raids , which were crusades result by the Mad Sun King Asad prior to the events ofHorizon Zero Dawn . HorizonForbidden West ’s   Far Zenithis a group of old and advanced humans that result Earth on the interstellar ship known as the Odyssey , which was call up to have been destroyed in orbit .

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Aloy clashes with both parties multiple times as she collects GAIA ’s subordinate functions and gains new companion . All goes well until the team attempts to capture HEPHAESTUS in the Gemini cauldron , during which Far Zenith discovers them and kill Varl after incapacitating Aloy . When all seems lost , one Far Zenith fellow member turns   on the others   to bring through Aloy , thus recoil off the   third act ofHorizon Forbidden West .

Horizon Forbidden West’s Ending Sees Aloy Working With The Enemy

Not long before the   licking at Gemini , Aloy finally made a discovery with genus Beta , one ofHorizon Forbidden West ’s best raw characters , and learned that one of the Far Zenith was kind to her . This is revealed to be Tilda van der Meer , whom Aloy had learned about while listening to audio sign in the game ’s opening level .   Beta ’s life with Far Zenith was one of distortion , but Tilda would make a individual   communication channel for them to spend clock time in without the other Far Zenith knowing . fittingly , Linda was the one who turn against her counterparts to save Aloy .

Aloy and Tilda lecture at what was once Tilda ’s home , in which she tells Aloy that she   decide to help her after recover   Aloy ’s old focus and interpret everything that she had accomplished . Linda also discover her honey for Elisabet Sobeck and how she regrets leaving her behind   a thousand years ago . Tilda promises to help Aloy break into Far Zenith ’s base , kill them , and carry through Beta , GAIA , andall the tribes ofHorizonForbidden West .

After take heed Tilda ’s plan and learning of Sylens ' plan to use   Regalla and the Tekanth to attack the pedestal , where he will expend his arm to give out the Zar Zenith ’s shields and kill them . Aloy is n’t pleased with either option as it involves uncalled-for deaths and makes her own plan   which take off by stop the Tenakth war . Aloy override a Sun Wing and grab an electric canister off the cadaver of a Metal Devil which , when dropped , shut down all of Regalla ’s machines . Aloy shoot down Regalla and can prefer to kill her there or   part with her . For the purpose of this breakdown , Regalla   is spared inHorizon Forbidden Westin order to aid everyone .

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Sylens get hold of Aloy , furious at her deflower his plans , and Aloy kick in him no other selection than to join her . With that , everyone meets at the base and Aloy go over the plan and everyone ’s role in it . As they set out to where Tilda ’s secret entree is , Aloy pull Kotallo and Alva by and gives them a surreptitious task - something she also did for Beta when they in short speak at Tilda ’s home . With the squad gathered and the plan in motion , the grouping travels to the Far Zenith base ’s secret entrance .

Horizon Forbidden West Ending - Storming The Far Zenith Base

After exiting the tunnel and onto the fringe of the base , Aloy splits everyone into pair . Kotallo and Alva question for the stand ’s regulator where they are tasked with shutting it down , which will   aid themdefeatHorizon Forbidden West ’s   Specters . After this , the two will   go on to   their secret task of infiltrate the substructure ’s meshing to uncover   info on   Far Zenith   and to   find whatever Tilda   is hiding from them . Aloy and Erend foreland straight towards the center of the base with Sylen ’s artillery .

They eventually reunify at the boundary of a cliff and look over the open field of study that leads to the towboat . To their horror , they see an army of Specters pouring out from a facility on the base but obscure to them , this is when Aloy ’s 2nd secret task comes into play . In her individual moment with Beta , Aloy told her to go to GAIA once the Far Zenith are interfering with the attack , where she will spark HEPHAESTUS .   After doing so , every one ofHorizon ’s   old and new   machinesbegin to materialize from the base ’s fabricator and these machine attack the Specters .

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Far Zenith last find them as the team reaches the base but are incognizant of Sylens ' weapon . It ’s immediately activated , and their shields are shut down , causing   some Far Zenith to panic and others to be killed by machines .   Aloy and Tilda head towards the base to take on the two primary far Zenith , Erik and Gerard , while the eternal sleep of the team oppose the remaining Specters . Aloy successfully pop the sadistic Erik and take her way to the top of the tower just in clock time to see Tilda wipe out Gerard . As Aloy , Beta , and Tilda reunite , the truth of Tilda ’s intentions   is unveil .

How Horizon Forbidden West’s Ending Sets Up Horizon 3

The reason whyFar Zenith returned to Earth   inForbidden Westis   because their hubris spun out of restraint . They had uprise new applied science that would make them immortal , but it was n’t enough .   They pushed the bound of their immortality by essay to digitize their own judgement which   in the end give out and caused them to abandon the project . Over time , this digital mass of cognisance became sentient and angry , eventually breaking free and destroy their planet . They named it Nemesis and when it realized the Far Zenith survivors were heading back to Earth , it sent the energizing signal that awoke HADES inHorizon Zero Dawn .

Tilda also reveals that Earth was just a orchestra pit diaphragm , as Nemesis is already in the out solar system of rules . Despite the aegis of Earth being whyAloy   needed GAIA and her subordinate functions , Tilda admonish that it wo n’t   be enough to keep open them . set not to repeat her mistake a thousand class ago , Tilda taste to convert Aloy to fall in her in allow for Earth behind .   When Aloy resist , Tilda attempt to take her by force but Aloy   manages to defeat her . When the rest of the grouping achieve the top of the towboat , Sylens   reveals that he knew about Nemesis and was also   trying to flee the major planet but , for reason have it away only to himself ,   decide to rest behind .

With the Far Zenith Threat winnow out and Regalla sacrificing herself in the fight against the Specters , the group set out to unify the west and get up for Nemesis . Aloy and Beta return to the base and trigger off GAIA once again , who now has   every one of hersubordinate function inHorizon Forbidden Westwith the elision of HEPHAESTUS and HADES . Though thew absence of these two litigious functions may be an event when Nemesis arrives , it is a problem for another day . In the last instant ofHorizon Forbidden West , Aloy   conduct a instant   to finally squeeze Beta as her sister and accept that the weight of the earth is no longer entirely on her shoulders .

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