Side Quest with Secret Ending - Horizon Zero Dawn

hello everyone elk here so recently i've been doing a lot of 100 speed runs of horizon zero dawn where i've talked about a new time save on the sidequest called fatal inheritance involving a secret ending and it appears that a lot of people including myself until recently don't seem to know about this secret ending on the quest so i thought i made a video covering it because again i looked around on youtube nobody really seems to have been covering this before and most people don't seem to be aware of this ending's existence it is listed on the horizon wiki but again not a lot of people seems to be aware of it so i thought i'd cover it here so it started out a couple of months ago where a guy named jeffrey chen posted a comment on one of my 100 speed runs here on youtube where he said there was a secret ending on the quest and he thought it could save a lot of time so i tested it out and he turned out to be right the secret ending does exist and it saves a lot of time in 100 speed run about a minute and a half i would say so it's a really good time save so i just thought i wanted to show it off right here you find the fatal inheritance side quest right here in meridian village just south of meridian i'll just zoom out so you get an idea right here now since it's probably been a while since a lot of you have played the game i'll just start off here by showing you the intro to the quest and then of course afterwards the normal ending of the quest just so you kind of remember what this quest is normally about my family might still be alive and you're going to stand here and do nothing tell me what happened to your family maybe i can help you're that nora who saved the sun king you'd help my family oh but it may be too late by the sun i fear they are all dead by now i barely escaped alive machines vicious machines attacked my family's estate father sent me to get help what kind of machines where did they come from a ravager by the sun how we cut down those guards and a pack of watchers came with it the sun king warned us that he could no longer protect freeholds beyond the valley but her father never saw this coming tell me more about the estate my father owns a dozen quarries and he's put his spoils into the estate fine tapestries custom woodwork silver fixtures but what about the people there of course their lives are all that matter my father and sister plus a dozen guards and servants i hope they survived see what i can do about the estate you will oh thank you oh please be careful those machines are deadly here at the estate after you have killed the first group of machines here you obviously get the key into the workshop and then you find the lore which is lowering the machines here then you can head inside the state where you find doradi locked in the closet and this is part of the normal ending hello oh thank you i didn't really believe anyone was coming for me i think everyone else is dead i found a lure i think someone might have put it here deliberately to draw on the machines did your father have enemies oh no brannam and my brother at first there was gambling then stealing then extortion he swore vengeance when we kicked him out it was ronamon who begged me to come he needed the machines cleared out to claim the property that murderous snake we can't let him can't let me do what sister claim my inheritance we shared a crash murderer have you no honor i guess not but i will have this estate when you meet father in the next life tell him i'm enjoying his money as for you this little device will summon more machines a lot easier than killing me myself [Music] okay all right then we have to fight these uh glen hawks here there are three of them so i'll just use my trusty ice rail here to finish them off and where's the last guy he's right here good shooting once all of them is dead all of them are dead you can head back to the state here where the roddy will appear and then when you talk to her you finish the quest and this is the normal ending of it i'm glad there are good people like you in the world it helps to make hot for scum like my brother my father was always generous in his gratitude a family tradition i would like to continue take this i hope it will help you in your travels that finishes the quest and notice here you get a remarkable reward box and you also get 3750 xp pay attention to that because the reward is different when you do the secret ending now let's have a look at that secret ending shall we the intro to the quest where you talk to ramanan back in meridian village is exactly the same no matter what ending you do so i won't show that again but in order to get the secret ending once you arrive here at the estate there will be a ravager and two watchers that you have to kill must be ronnamon's family estate so let's quickly take those out here one down onto the watchers and once they are dead pay attention to when the west objective updates in the left corner once to kill the machines is crossed out you can then return to ramanand back in meridian village where you first met him and finish the quest this will give you the secret ending but one thing i just want to point out as you know the key to the workshop isn't this guy that is lying right over here you can pick up this key and still get the secret ending but if you enter the workshop and find the lore you will not be able to get the secret ending same if you go in there and free daradi from the closet now so what you need to do now is do your best to ignore the screams for help coming from the closet and simply head back to meridian village here and once you're back here in meridian village simply go back to him and talk to him and you will achieve the secret ending you're back did you get rid of the machines on my estate any survivors the machines are gone but i didn't find anyone left uh that's terrible i need to go back take stock of the place and of course lay my family to rest please take this you deserve it i won't be needing it now as i've just earned my inheritance thank you so that is the secret ending and if you notice right here you only get 2500 xp from this ending so you actually get less and also let's ignore the fact that aloy is apparently deaf and did not heal the cries for help so just ignore that and you can also talk to him here and he just gives an extra line of dialogue soon i'll go back to the estate and take stock of things after i let my family to rest of course so yeah that's the secret ending i will cover a few more things here just in case depending on how you do the quest differently but do remember that in order to get this ending all you have to do is go to the state kill off the three machines and then do nothing more you can still pick up the key if you want but do not enter the workshop or free doradi if you do other those things you will not be able to get the secret ending now since we have the key you can actually go back to the estate here and use the key so i just quickly want to show that off it doesn't really do anything but i thought i would might as well just cover everything that is with this ending and this quest since we're making a video about it anyway so once you're back here since we have the key this is of course again after the bad inning we can open the door into the workshop but again notice there is no lure right here so the lure is gone but you were able to enter the workshop and also what happens if you go inside the estate after the bad ending here well not really much has changed except the closet will still be closed and doradi is presumably dead so you can also consider this the bad ending normally the body of her father would also be here but the body is gone even though no cleanup has happened so that's interesting also the bodies outside are missing so the closet is still locked as you can see and even if you open the focus you cannot see the body through the door so presumably the roddy died of starvation or in the closet or ramanan returned and finished the job who knows nonetheless this is a very much a bad ending anyway let me uh just show you a couple more things here before i end so what happens if you go here kill the machines and then find the lore in the workshop and then return so this is what happens after you have killed the machine you have collected the key and you want to head inside the workshop here i need to get in there and look at that thing i just want to show what the difference is if you actually go inside the workshop and find the lower here again remember if you do this you will not get the secret ending that device is sending out a signal could be what attracted the machines okay that should cut the signal so once that's done we'll head back to meridian villager without freeing dharati from the closet so once you're back here you can then talk to him and you won't get a secret ending but you will get some different dialogue of eloy being suspicious you're back did you find any survivors on my estate not yet but i did find a lure someone put it there to attract the machines did your father have any enemies no not that i know of can i go back now i need to take stock of the place and of course lay my family to rest not just yet i need to get to the bottom of this so as you can see there the quest does not finish because a lawyer is now is now suspicious and you can then return and finish off the quest and you will get the normal ending now what happens if you free the girl and then return here so this is during the quest where i've just killed the machines outside and freed the girl from the closet i haven't went to the workshop yet because if i do that that would of course trigger the ending of the quest but here's what happened if you return to meridian village after saving her so when you return to meridian village right here you will notice that ramanan is gone and you can therefore not talk to him so the only option you have if you have saved the girl and you return is to go back to the estate and finish off the rest of the quest which will give you the normal ending so if you want to get the secret ending or bad ending or easter egg ending call it what you will you have to um go to the state after starting the quest kill the three machines there and then return to ramanand talk to him and that will give you the secret ending of course you could pick up the key but do not enter the workshop that will give you the different dialogue and you have to return and get the normal ending um so that's about it i wanted to cover with this so in the 100 speed run i'm definitely going to be doing this as if you probably saw my recent 100 record i used the strat and it does save like a minute and a half so that's kind of cool even though you get kind of a bad ending on the quest but oh well that speed running for you so i hope you found this interesting and hopefully you learned something new but do let me know if you actually knew about this because it appears that most people that have played the game did not know about this ending because like again i was only made aware of it recently thanks to jeffrey chin in a youtube comment and i've talked to a lot of people on my stream about it and they don't seem to know about it plus um plus as i said there doesn't seem to be any youtube videos covering it the only place i could find evidence of people knowing about it was on the horizon wiki if you go to the fatal inheritance page it will list that there is a secret ending on it but other than that i have not seen anyone talk about it so yeah i hope you enjoyed this little video covering this uh fun little easter egg or whatever you want to call it and as always a like and a comment on the video helps me out greatly so i would very much appreciate that and if you're interested in seeing me doing speed runs or challenge runs of horizon zero dawn consider checking out my stream there will be a link on it link to that stream on the screen right now as well as a link to it in the description below where you can hang out with me and my community while we do some cool speed runs other than that i hope you have a great day and take care

Channel: Elkjaer TV

Views: 352,852

Keywords: elkjaer, elkjaertv, hzd, horizon zero dawn, side quest, serect ending, easter egg, bad ending, alternate ending, fatal, inheritance, ps4, pro, ps5, playstation, pc, aloy

Id: 7dnBwqJPvvY

Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 25 2021