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The Tripcaster is a stealth weapon type in Horizon Forbidden West.
Description[]
The Tripcaster remotely places Tripwire traps between two horizontal points, either shocking them, burning them, priming for a plasma blast, or dealing explosive damage when detonated. This weapon is more useful on larger machines, narrow spaces or tightly clustered groups of smaller enemies. Certain Tripcasters are capable of deploying shields, creating a portable cover from projectile attacks.
Unlike in Horizon Zero Dawn, Aloy can now trip her own tripwires and thus take damage and status effect buildup from them. This can be reduced with the Resilient Trapper skill. The total number of tripwires has also been reduced, with a max of two placed at default though it can be increased through the Trap Limit skill. In addition, tripwires take a brief moment to arm and will break if an enemy goes over it while it arms.
As none of the tripwires are capable of Tear damage, they can only destroy components instead of removing them.
Weapon Techniques[]
- Quick Wire: Quickly launches a tripwire of the selected type with a preset length. Wire explodes or deactivates after a limited time.
Ammo[]
- Advanced Explosive Tripwire: A more powerful version of the Explosive Tripwire.
- Elemental Tripwire: A tripwire that deals elemental damage and buildup when triggered, and briefly leaves behind a pool of elemental residue.
- Explosive Tripwire: A tripwire that explodes when tripped.
- Shieldwire: A wire that deploys a shield between the two points, blocking ranged attacks and will explode when enough damage is taken.
- Staggerbeam: A tripwire that deploys a laser between the two points, continuously dealing damage to whatever is in between them.
Variants[]
Uncommon[]
Rare[]
Very Rare[]
Legendary[]
Trivia[]
- Unlike in Horizon Zero Dawn, human enemies that have become aware of Aloy can avoid placed tripwires by jumping over them.