How to get Shield-Weaver Early - Horizon Zero Dawn

hello everyone elk here so in this video i wanted to show you guys something interesting just how fast you can actually get the shield reaver armor in horizon zero dawn now as you probably know if you played this game normally that there's five power cells you need to collect during the ancient armor request in order to get access to the shield reaver armor and all these power cells are located in places where the main quest takes place so that basically means that normally you have to go and complete parts of the main quest in order to get all of them and some of these are pretty fine to the game especially the last one you get access to is the one at gaia prime which is basically towards the very end of the game but what if i told you that you can access all of these power cells a lot earlier that is what i want to show you here of course you got to be willing to do a few exploits to get access to that so if you're not willing to do that then it's fair but if you are interested and just want to see that it's possible then check this out because you can see right here i already have the shield ream armor on but let me just show you here in terms of main quest you can see i have not even completed the warchief's trial or a seeker at the gates yet yet i have the shield reeve armor i've only completed the quest the six main quest that takes place inside the embrace and i have the armor so i want to show you guys you know how that's possible so what you want to do of course if you want to do it yourself is uh start a new game playthrough so you know go out there and do that and then i'll show you step by step how to get each of the power cells with a few exploits so hopefully you guys will enjoy this and uh yeah i'll talk to you guys after you've started your new playthrough and gotten through the childhood section enjoy the video guys alright so you started your playthrough here and you've gotten through the childhood section and you have talked to rust here at the very beginning which then gives you access to room the embrace now in the embrace we'll find the first power cell which is going to be inside the runes down here inside the embrace this power cell you can get whenever you want but we might as well get it out of the way now since the goal of this is to get the shield reader as quick as possible so let's head over to the runes so over here by the ruins the power soul is obviously inside so i'm just quickly going to show where it is you want to drop down this hole on the right side here so you land on the top step and not fall through the floor you can still get it if you fall all the way down i just feel like it's easier when you land on the right side there so you stay on top i haven't been here in years and you certainly want to run through this room go to the left hand and then there's the stairs down get down the stairs and you want to go through the store which you can now because you have a spear compared to when you were in the childhood section then continue straight through the room and up the stairs there and then on the right hand side here when you come through the door there's this thing you just need to break and then the power saw is right here on the table that is the first power cell done the next power cell we'll get is right after the proving so what you want to do now is play through the main story until you have beaten the proving once you're at the end of the proving here where you finish it by going ahead and looting the leader here you can skip the two cutscenes here or watch them if you want this cutscene can't be skipped immediately so you have to wait a sec then you will be inside all my mountain here where the next power cell is what you want to do here is walk forward and to the right there's going to be another cutscene in this room skip through that and then open the two doors straight ahead i don't see my boat normally you have to go left here to pick up all your stuff but the power cell is in the room on the right here so simply go for in here and go through the vent it looks like the ruins and then in the back room here when you get to the end of it is the power cell right here on the ground now you can get that this power cell later in the game but i recommend picking it up now if you want the shield reaver as early as possible now what you want to do from here now that you have the two power cells inside the embrace the last three is outside the embrace so finish off this quest called the womb of the mountain so you get access to the rest of the world map alright so now that you have left the embrace and gotten access to the world map after getting a mount here the first place we are going to go is to the grave horn now the grave horde has the next power cell which is located all the way up here to the north right next to the entrance to the frozen walls so you want to head all the way up there and then when you get there we'll talk about how you get inside the grave hold early so now that you've reached the entrance here to graveford you can see that it's kind of blocked by these big icicles as you're not supposed to enter or get in before the quest is active or board so the way you want to get in is you want to hit on top of these icicles is that that's the way or up here there's a way to get into it early you see there's these icicles on top and over here in the corner here there's this big gap here that aloy can actually squeeze through when she does a certain animation but in order to get that you have to stand over here on the flat ground and then you want to walk forward at full speed towards the hole over here and then as soon as you go above the hole you want to let go of your analog stick or w key depending on if you're playing with controller or uh keyboard so you want to walk forward here at full speed so hold the control uh analog on the controller all the way forward and if you're on mouse and keyboard just hold w down you don't want to sprint just walking speed so walk towards it and then when you go above the hole you want to let go now this trick is not a hundred percent consistent i haven't personally found a way to make it consistent and maybe you can find a way to make it a bit more consistent but um you can see it's probably going to take you a couple of tries to get it so simply just continue to walk forward and then let go want you above the hole sometimes it can take a little while to get sometimes you i have gotten it on first try and other times it has taken me upwards of five minutes to get it well just keep trying until you get it here just simply walk forward and then let go once you're above the hole i'm sure there's a bit of timing to when exactly you want to let go in order to get through which is probably pretty hard to hit and why it's not consistent but as long as you keep attempting it also make sure you're right above the hole when you get there you can see there is some rocks here that can push you from side to side a little bit when you walk across them you just want to try and line it up as best as you can so you get there and there we go you see right there i fell through it might take you a lot longer to get that uh because like i said it's not consistent but just keep trying at it and make sure you walk in a straight line uh and go straight over the hole and then let go of um whatever you're holding down to uh move forward when you get above the hole and remember only walking speed as far as i'm aware sprinting does not work because alloy won't have the specific animation required to squeeze through the hole now once you're inside grave hold here there's some things you can do but obviously we're just here for the power saw so you want to hit down the zip line here and then go through the gap right here then to the left and then head down the second zip line here now a cool thing when you're inside these places early is that all the doors that are normally locked are actually unlocked now so you might remember when you played that this quest that this door is normally oh sorry this door is normally locked and you have to go in there to um do some puzzles in order to unlock it but since you're in here early all the doors are already unlocked and right there on the ground is the power cell now an important thing with the parcel in grave horde is that it can spawn in three locations this is the first place it spawns and it will always spawn here but if you don't pick it up here and continue ahead it will spawn in the ravine for the head and if you ignore that spot it will then spawn in this last location in the room where you and silence talk about the earth not being flat but of course we just want to get the power armor early so let's pick up the puzzle right here keep fighting and then we can move on one thing i do want to say now that you're inside careerboard feel free to do some exploring now that you're in here early isn't a whole lot to do but you can just kind of see all the places here without any soldiers around one important thing though if you do go exploring here at greenford if you go too far into graveyard you can't fast travel out of there for example if you go into the arena where you normally fight the deathbringer uh if you go in there the game won't allow you to fast roll out of here so you would have to reload a save file and then get the power cell again if you do so so keep that in mind but since we picked up the parcel in this location right here we are allowed to fast roll out of here and leave i'll recommend you go back to a campfire close to a mother's crown right here because the next place where you're gonna go is of course the last two power souls which are up here at gaia prime and the last one over here at makers in now you might notice that those two power cells are in the cardia territory and you would normally have to complete the seeker at the gates where you clear the two corrupted zones and go to day tower in order to cross into the cardia territory but there's a way to cross the border without completing that quest which you can do up here by the northern gate so we're gonna hit that get there and i'll show you how you cross into the cartridge territory without completing the quest uh that you normally had to do at daytower so uh fast roll back here or ride all the way if you want to you have to fast real to get out of greyhord to my knowledge there's no way of getting out without fast rallying so uh fast trail out of here and then head over here to the northern gate into the cardia territory once you reach dawn sentinel or the northern cardinal border gate as i prefer to call it then you'll notice that the gate is obviously closed because again you haven't completed a secret at the gates which gives you access to the carja land but there's a way to cross the border like i said without completing it so you can get the shield armor as early as possible so what you want to do is head back here and then you want to get on top of the cliff that is on the right or left side whatever you want to call it i guess southern side of the gate simply climb up here and then we can jump around in order to um get into the cardio territory early because right here normally there's an invisible wall you can see i'm kind of jumping against it here but it turns out this invisible wall is not sticking out that far so if you just jump around it like this then you have made passage into the cartridge territory then just make sure you get down safely without losing too much health or dying and voila now you're inside the character territory without having completed the quest required to unlock it of course you could just complete the quest if you wanted to if you feel like that's easier but crossing into the cognitory territory like this is super easy as you just saw all you had to do is jump around that little invisible wall and you're in here now feel free to do some exploring in the cargo territory now that you are in here before you should be but in terms of getting the next power cell we are going to head up here to the gaia prime and make sure you go all the way up to the entrance of gaia prime and then i'll talk to you when you get there so now that you reach the entrance here of gaia prime all you want to do is head up the normal climbing path here and then at the very end of the climbing path you will notice that the ladder is missing the ladder only spawns here when the quest is active but we have a way to get around it without using the ladder as you will see here just continue up the path to normal way and then there's a specific thing you have to do when you get up here in order to scale the wall without the ladder and go around here and right here you can see yeah there's no ladder ladder is only here when the quest is active so what you want to do in order to scale this wall without the ladder if you want to be on this platform right here you want to stand on that do be careful here because as you can see it is the very edge of it so if you go too far on the right hand side here you will fall off and die and most likely your last checkpoint is pretty far away from here so uh be careful then what you want to do next is make sure you're crouched and you want to be crowds the entire way all the way until you're at the top then you want to point your camera down or up comparing depending on what you call it but make sure the camera is pointed upwards so you can't see alloy at all and then what you want to do here is jump up the slightly right hand side of this cliff path so all these things keep them in mind when you do it stand on this very edge be crouched the entire way and point the camera upwards and keep the camera pointing upwards um for the entire duration of this and then simply what you want to do now is jump up the right slightly on the right hand side here it might take you a few attempts to get this down and a little bit of practice but if you do it correctly you can make it look as simple as that it is a little bit tricky when you first try it so like i said make sure you practice a bit and it might take you a few attempts don't get discouraged you should be able to get it as long as you remember the things like i said that you are crouched on the very edge and that you point the camera all the way down and then jump up the slightly right hand side so remember all those things and you should eventually be able to get it down now once you're up here or you will once again notice that when you're inside guy prime early just like graveford the door is unlocked so you can simply head through then of course head down the elevator shaft here because that's when you get to the main area of gaia prime down the hallway and then on the right then you're inside the main area here then the parcel is going to be on the left hand side here simply roll down here make sure you don't fall all the way down or die so do be careful and then you want to jump in here and then in the back room right here is where the power cell is located right here on the shelf now right here i have already picked it up because it took me a few attempts to record this but it will be on the shelf right here i promise you that so i already picked it up but it will be right here for you now feel free to explore once again gaia prime while you're inside here early maybe you find some cool stuff that would be awesome but now there's only one power cell left so what you want to do is of course fast trail out of here and then hit all the way over here to the north uh west part of the map and where makers end is located and then i'll talk to you when you get there all right so we have reached the last possible here at maker's end and i'm starting outside makers in because it's important to show exactly the route you need to take in and you want to have a mount here because the mount is actually the key to this trick in order to get inside the tower early because as you know the power soul is at the very top of the map of the pharaoh tower and in order to access that you have to have the quest active but with a mount there are some unique abilities you can do so simply head through this path here that you see me taking there are some enemies here but they shouldn't give you trouble if they do just kill them and then when you get to you can see there's that pile of rubble right in towards the center of the screen you want to write your mount up that rubble on kind of the kind of at an angle you'll see me do it here it's pretty easy so you should be able to do it and like i said if enemies give you trouble here you can easily kill them and then try the trick without them being here so you simply want to ride up it's going to feel kind of like the mount doesn't want to but he will eventually get up here then simply get down here and then you want to ride to the back here and then up this path because that's um the tower that is right in front of us here that would be fascinating if they weren't looking for me then the thing i'm quickly going to show you here is um right here is the entrance to the tower i'm going to leave my mount here make sure you have a mount here otherwise it will not work is you can see these branches on the path here and you can see the inside of the towers just on the other side of these branches now eloy can't go through here on her own but a unique ability in this game that you might have seen in speed runs in a few places is that when a mount is inside a location that it's not supposed to be it can ignore hitboxes or go through walls basically so since the mount is now inside an area it's not supposed to you can climb up here with the mount and the mount will simply walk through and now you're inside the tower it is that easy you just gotta make sure you have a mount here and then all that's left is simply climb up to the top of the tower and grab yourself that power saw i'm of course going to show you the path here assembly head up here i prefer taking the right side of the elevator because it's faster and as you know i like to speed run so i go in the right to the right here in the first elevator path and simply head up here you can cut this corner if you want to by going through that little gap there then climb up the side of the wall climb up here and another wall gap here or wall to climb here then head down here turn around and then there's another shaft here to go through and then in the second elevator shaft here the faster way is the fastest way to get up if you care about that is to stay on or to stay in the elevator and not go to the right here and then simply climb all the way up and once again of course feel free to explore inside makers and while you're here early if you feel like it and of course if you find something cool inside these places early let me know in the comments below i like to hear what you think or like to hear what you found if you discover something cool now we made it to the office and then all that's left is climb up the path here in the back side of the office that is going to lead all the way up to the power cell which now means we have all five and that means that the last thing that's left to do is simply head back to where the armor is located and then grab ourselves the sweet sweet armor and you're better then have achieved the armor as early as currently possible with the knowledge we have in terms of what is possible with glitches or glitches i don't know if you want to call most of this glitches some of it could be called exploits but now that you have the parcel here on top all there is to you is head all the way back here to uh sorry there's the right quest to hn armory which is all the way back here towards the beginning so just fast roll back to this campfire and then we'll head in and grab ourselves an armor alright so now that you have all the parcels all this left to do is head back here to where the ruins with the power armor is which is very close to the embrace here as you can see then simply you want to head down into this hole and you can go over here and jump safely down or if you want to show off a little bit you can head over here on the right and take the jump from a lot further up i don't know why i needed to show that but you guys know me i like to show off a little bit then all there's left to do is head in here and plug in the power cells one thing i can say about it is uh the passwords here are always the same so if you already know the password you don't need to scan the clue in order to get it and as i'm plugging in these power cells and using the codes of course you can always pause the video if you don't remember what the codes are i'll have to find power cells to get these to work but what i want to say here is currently this is the earliest you can get the shield re-bomber now the thing that's currently preventing you from getting the shield revolver even earlier is that we don't have a way to get inside the maker's end tower without the mount like i showed in the video there are ways to get all the other power cells earlier but we are missing that one thing that allows us to get the power cell at maker's end without without the use of a mount so if one of you guys find a way to get inside the mega centaur without a mount feel free to share it and then i can probably make an updated video showing you yet that you can get it even faster but for now this is the earliest you can get it which is right after you leave the embrace because that's when you get your mount and now that you have plugged in all the power cells all this left to do is go up here and grab it and then inside your inventory there will be a box here where the shield reaver is and then him simply head to the outfits and equip it and there you go you now have the shield reaver armor which could be a great help to you if you're on your an early playthrough and you know just want a little help or maybe you just found this thing interesting to see how early you can actually get it when you're willing to you know use a few exploits in the game and just again here to show you can see as for main quest i've only completed the main quest inside the embrace all the other quests outside the embrace none of them have been completed yet yet i still have the armor so i appreciate you all watching this video i hope you find it interesting and as always a like and a comment on the video helps me out a lot and hey consider stopping by my stream sometimes there's a link to it in the description below where i do speed runs and challenge runs of horizon zero on there's been a lot of new people joining there lately so that means a lot to me and i would like to see you guys there as well so without anything else really left to say i hope you guys have a great day so take care everyone

Channel: Elkjaer TV

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Length: 23min 20sec (1400 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021