[SPOILERS] Kotallo's new arm is so bad..

[LumenPsycho]

Arm has no animation (rigid & fingers not moving), not much tought put into the matter of "usability in battle". They even wrote him not to wear it majority of the time.

All this technology but the devs decided to give him a metal stick as a new arm.. It's worse than the prostethics we have today. I'm disappointed in you developers. The dude deserves much more. The new arm should have been a weapon of mass destruction. It should be something that makes him a stronger opponent not the other way around.

I honestly want to slap whoever decided to put zero effort into Kotallo's new arm.

[TheAspieFox]

"It's worse than the prostethics we have today" ; Hmmmm.... it's almost as if the overwhelming majority of people in the Horizon world's Earth are primitive-esque tribalists who think something as (to us) regular/mediocre as Augmented Reality is a magical "Second Vision", and who believe machined built into mountains are gods/goddesses; whose weapons only get so advanced as ripping off weapons from larger machines and using them, rather than attempting to reverse-engineer them -- and the ONLY reason Kotallo was even able to make any kind of prosthetic at all was because of the help of a super advanced AI providing some guidance (but even if you give schematics to someone not trained at all in the craft, doesn't mean they'll be able to exactly replicate it).

We could argue that Aloy or others could help with his new arm, to give it more functionality, but given how irregularly Kotallo even intends to use the arm it seems like it could be a bit of a waste.

Also, it's only the first iteration of the device. Stands to reason, likely in the next game, we'll see that arm improved -- mayhap even incorporating Far Zenith tech and looks since Aloy and company now have access to both their base on Earth and their colony ship in orbit.

[metal spider]

thing is its already far zenith tech but from a millennia ago.
i was also expecting it to look better then it did in the end

[n9ne_x]

I done this quest because I like Kotallo and wanted him to be in his top shape for any battles we have coming... So imagine my surprise when the MASSIVE BATTLE AGAINST REGALLA, WHERE WE'RE ALL THREATENED, HE DOESN'T USE IT.

Lazy asf writing from the Devs, they couldn't be assed to redo animation's for the new arm in cutscenes and didn't want to adapt the story for those who did and those who didn't do his quest line, so bad.

[Evilsod]

Yeah the way they handled this was extremely disappointing, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was because of a publisher decision. It screams "running out of time so cut corners".

The arm model itself was kinda disappointing for something that's supposed to have come out of mid-21st century tech.
The way Kotallo treated it was also kinda ridiculous. Maybe I'm just being narrow-minded, but I find it hard to believe that anyone would willingly not use their prosthetic arm if it was advanced enough to supplement a real one. Like, do people actually do that?
And it not being there during key battles was also ridiculous.

Most of all though, I found Kotallo climbing the cliff to the lab to be the funniest part. Dude free solo'd something on-site in the freezing cold with only one arm. Maybe it's one of those things that comes with being a climber irl, but that kinda thing really sticks out to me.
I was at least expecting Aloy to top-rope him and Kotallo to grudgingly accept being hauled up like a slab of meat.

[Sinophile]

Originally posted by Evilsod:

Yeah the way they handled this was extremely disappointing, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was because of a publisher decision. It screams "running out of time so cut corners".

The whole arm thing is an optional quest. Although if memory serves he did have it in a couple of later cutscenes tied to the main story.

The way Kotallo treated it was also kinda ridiculous. Maybe I'm just being narrow-minded, but I find it hard to believe that anyone would willingly not use their prosthetic arm if it was advanced enough to supplement a real one. Like, do people actually do that?
And it not being there during key battles was also ridiculous.

I've known a couple amputees rl, One of which hates wearing her prosethic legs. However, I think continuity for those who didn't do the quest makes the most sense.

[Evilsod]

Originally posted by Sinophile:

I've known a couple amputees rl, One of which hates wearing her prosethic legs. However, I think continuity for those who didn't do the quest makes the most sense.

But that's the kind of thing I'd attribute to something like discomfort/irritation from the prosthetic, or from knowing that they're still kinda awkward to use when you can just settle with something like wheelchair and get by just fine.

The way the game justified it felt off.

[Potato Child]

I actually skipped that part and finished the game and he did not have his arm. I was curious if he would have it. I know he had it on the PS5 version since I did do the quest there

[SmegAu]

I was expecting something like Cable from the x-men, winter soldier given all the techno organic robots running around. Instead got a stump on a stick with fingers like some third world prosthetist' effort. Ottobock and other currently available prosthetics arguably look better than this sad "high tech zenith" fabrication effort.

[Alcator]

The only part they found in the NINMAH facility was the joint that transmits signals from brain to the elbow/fingers; it makes sense that "medieval" smiths were not able to build plastic fingers (or a rocket launcher /s) into his arm, or why his fingers look like sharp claws and that's it.