Cut Content/Datapoints

"We live in a world of fallen cities and vanished tribes." This article or section refers to content that was removed or changed from the final product. The canonicity of this content is unclear, although is likely non-canon.

This page contains a list of all cut datapoints, as well as other notable changes that some in the final game went through during the development of the Horizon series.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Cut Datapoints

Koreas announce provisional reunification plan

The localization files for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition contain a cut datapoint containing a news item detailing plans for North and South Korea to attempt reunification.

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North and South Korea announce plans for Provisional Reunification Zone

SEOUL – October 15, 2062 – After more than a century of hostility, North and South Korea are testing the waters of reunification. Today, before an audience of international reporters, South Korean president Baek Ji-un announced plans to reclassify the demilitarized zone that runs the length of both countries' borders as the "Provisional Reunification Zone."

Construction of Sejong City, a proposed jointly-governed residential area within the PRZ, is set to begin next month. Baek's announcement comes just two weeks after the completion of a twenty-five-year project which saw the two Koreas cooperating to restore sites of cultural significance threatened by rising sea levels along the peninsula's southern coast.

Interview 2: Cpt. Okilo

"God, demon, machine. Whatever you want to call it." The subject in this article or section has no known official name, the title currently in use is a fan designation based on known information about it.

The localization files for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition contain the text of a cut datapoint that would've been located within the Zero Dawn Project Facility depicting Ayomide Okilo's second interview, following on from Interview: Cpt. Okilo. However, no further details about it are known.

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Captain Okilo: "There is much to think about."

Selection Counselor: "Yes?"

Captain Okilo: "I was right all along… No way to deactivate the swarm before it destroys us."

Selection Counselor: "It’s true that the immediate future is bleak."

Captain Okilo: "Can you truly remember a time when the immediate future was not bleak? "

Captain Okilo: "All these conflicts between nations, between combines—always the concern was immediate, always they gained nothing."

Captain Okilo: "We fought fiercely though we knew we could never win. There was no victory, only losing a little less."

Captain Okilo: "How foolish it all seems now. That people of all nations are united only when faced with the certainty of death. "

Captain Okilo: "But you tell me there is a way to bring life back. I accept. Indeed, it will be an honor."

Selection Counselor: "It would be ours as well, Captain. Doctor Sobeck would like you to guide the MINERVA sub-function--"

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds

Cut Datapoints

Avoid the Frozen Wilds!

Avoid the Frozen Wilds!
General Information
Description	An announcement etched with fine glyph-work, bearing the royal seal.

The localization files for Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition contain a cut datapoint written by Respectful Tashadi that was intended to deter those in the Sundom from venturing to the Cut.

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A WARNING FROM THE SUN-COURT

On the dangers inherent in travel to the Banuk wilderness.

Citizens of the Sundom,

Since the bonds of peace were renewed with the Banuk, many have sought to hunt for metal and exotic furs in their lands known as the Cut.

These wilds, beyond the ancient ruins in the north-eastern mountains, are now a source of great concern to us. Perhaps you have heard rumors concerning carnivorous machines, unknown killers in the snow, even of a great Daemon that shakes the mountains.

Truly, the Banuk are a superstitious folk, who lack the clarity of the Sun’s light. But it is also true that the wilds of the Cut have become uncommonly dangerous of late, with or without this so-called Daemonic influence.

We ask that you consider your welfare and that of your families. Do not venture to the frozen wilds! Remain within the Sundom’s protection until further notice.

Respectful Tashadi, court envoy

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

Others

Datapoint in the Launch Trailer

A Friend in the Dark as seen in the Launch Trailer, note the datapoint to the left of Aloy.

The Launch Trailer for the DLC shows a datapoint during a scene taken from an early version of A Friend in the Dark, where a datapoint which isn't present in the final game can be seen on the countertop to the left of the door that leads to Olvar's body. Whether this is the datapoint For Ron (which is the only datapoint in this room in the final game) in an different location before being moved across the room later in development or if this is a cut datapoint is unknown.

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