Horizon Forbidden West accessibility options include Easy Loot and remappable controls

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Don't stress about machine loot if you don't want to

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Horizon Forbidden West accessibility settings are further proof that when games are easier to access for anybody, everybody benefits.

A new post on the PlayStation Blog from Guerrilla Games principal designer Brian Roberts lays out Horizon Forbidden West's accessibility features, broken down by broader categories such as controller and gameplay assist settings. One of the broadest ways to shape your play experiences remains the good old difficulty option, with 5 standard settings from the combat-light Story Mode to the extra-demanding Very Hard - but you can also choose custom difficulty if you want to individually tweak how much damage Aloy dishes out and receives.

Playing on Story and Easy difficulties will also automatically enable Easy Loot, which will add any machine parts you don't detach during combat to the fallen robo-beast's loot pool - thus taking a lot of the pressure to perform just the right attacks at the right time out of combat - and you can also turn it on with custom difficulty if you prefer.

It looks like another long-awaited feature is coming to Horizon Forbidden West, judging by a recent leak. 

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.