Horizon Forbidden West: Developers add small update that can totally change the way you play

Horizon Forbidden West has been a critical darling, despite being somewhat overshadowed by the release of From Software’s epic RPG Elden Ring.

Nevertheless, it has an immense Metacritic score and will likely go down as one of the very best games released on PS5 when this console generation is over.

Forbidden West has been reviewed 122 times, per the website, and has a score of 88, along with a user score of 8 from 8,359 ratings.

It has been a mightily impressive launch for the game, which charts Aloy’s journey across the Forbidden West, as she bids to unite its various warring tribes and factions.

It is a gorgeous, open-world sandbox that is able to truly harness the potential of the PlayStation Five, offering up gorgeous visuals and genuinely sensational gameplay.

Guerrilla Games have continued to support the game after launch, bringing out a litany of patches to fix the minor inconveniences that players can run into.

In ana open-world game, of course, there are likely to be a number of such problems, but Guerrilla have taken steps to ensure that the game runs as smoothly as possible.

And, per Kotaku, they seem to have added a new feature which is a huge quality of life upgrade that wasn’t actually pointed out in the patch notes.

Trust us when we say that this one is a really, really cool feature that is going to save you tons of time when you’re journeying through the open world.

As per the aforementioned report, you now have the option to turn off the pick-up animation in the general submenu.

It means that whenever you want Aloy to pick something up, she won’t stop and you won’t see the animation of her collecting whatever it is.

This only works for smaller, incidental items; if you get a prompt to press triangle when