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Young Beginnings
Horizon: Steel Frontiers

Young Beginnings

Learn how to get the Focus and complete Rost's training in Horizon: Steel Frontiers' 'A Gift From The Past' and 'Lessons of the Wild' quests.

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Learn how to get the Focus and complete Rost's training in Horizon: Steel Frontiers' 'A Gift From The Past' and 'Lessons of the Wild' quests.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Enjoy the initial cutscenes depicting Rost's climb and Aloy's early struggles.
  2. 2
    After falling into a cave, take either tunnel to a gap partially blocked by stalactites.
  3. 3
    Use crouch to move through the opening into an old-world lab.
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    Continue left down stairs and through a vault door.
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    Proceed through the next room and up stairs to a spotlighted corpse.
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    Drop down and interact with the corpse to obtain the Focus.
  7. 7
    Toggle the Focus on and off by pressing Focus button. The Focus is an instrumental device that will allow you to see things others can't.
  8. 8
    Go upstairs to a closed door. Use the Focus and look right, following pipes, to see a Code Nexus and a Holo Lock control terminal.
  9. 9
    Circle back to the room with controls and approach the Holo Lock. Match the circle on the Holo Lock to the circle on the Code Nexus to unlock the door.
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    Head through the now-open door. Scan the datapoint on the left wall and press interact to play [AD08] For Director Evans.
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    Continue through the next door and down stairs.
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    Head forward to find a corpse with another datapoint. Scan it for a cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically) and [HD01] Happy Birthday Isaac!.
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    Squeeze through the gap at the back of the room.
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    Before continuing up stairs, head right and grab [AD06] Log: Connor Chasson off the desk.
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    Continue past the desk to the next room and find [AD07] Full Stop on a corpse in the corner.
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    Backtrack to the stairs and continue up to a barracks room.
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    Find the following datapoints in the barracks: [AD01] Log: Connor Chasson (left), [AD02] Log: Skylar Rivera (bunk to the right), [AD05] Log: Mia Sayied (up short steps to the left), [AD03] Log: Ella Pontes (back of the room in a bunk), and [AD04] Log: Jackson Frye (on the couch on the right side).
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    Continue through the next door and follow Rost's voice to an opening and climb out for a cutscene.
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    Follow Rost to a Slavebrush plant and gather it using gather button.
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    Press heal button to heal yourself with medicine.
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    Collect any herbs you find to fill your medicine gauge.
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    Follow Rost until he stops and crouches. Use crouch button to crouch with him and follow him into the tall grass.
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    Follow Rost through the bushes as he sneaks past the Watchers.
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    Follow Rost to prompt a cutscene with Teb.
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    Follow Rost down to the herd of Striders and gather three stones off the ground when instructed.
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    Follow Rost up to a ledge for a cutscene.
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    Wait for Rost's signal and press and hold aim button to take aim with a rock. Throw it in the proper area.
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    Jump down and move through the tall grass to rejoin Rost.
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    Hold harvest button to harvest the dead Watcher.
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    Gather from the three Ridgewood trees and open the weapon wheel with weapon wheel button.
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    Use select button to select Hunter Arrow.
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    Hold craft button twice to craft 20 Hunter Arrows.
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    Follow Rost into the tall grass near the Striders.
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    Use your Focus to scan the Strider and highlight the canister weak point on its back.
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    Take aim with aim button at the canister and hold draw arrow button to draw and fire an arrow.
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    Keep firing, try to score a direct hit on its eye, until the Strider goes down. Remember to dodge with dodge button if it charges you.
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    Follow Rost to prompt another cutscene where Teb falls from the cliffside.
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    Jump down into the tall grass to rescue Teb.
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    Activate your Focus and use tag button to tag the Watcher.
Tips
  • The Focus is an instrumental device that will allow you to see things others can't.
  • There are several types of datapoints in Horizon Zero Dawn: Audio Datapoints, Hologram Datapoints, Text Datapoints, and Scanned Glyphs.
  • The amount of health you will gain (orange bar in the upper left screen) is directly related to the amount of medicine you have (green bar directly underneath the orange bar).
  • After you scan an enemy for the first time, an entry will appear in Aloy's Notebook detailing the enemy's weak points along with an specific elemental weakness the enemy has (Tear, Fire, etc.).

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