Main Quest Walkthrough – To Curse the Darkness [Horizon Zero Dawn]

This page contains the full walkthrough for the Main Quest To Curse the Darkness , including objectives, enemies encountered and rewards.

March 8, 2017 Taku Bou Horizon Zero Dawn 2

Aloy is instructed by Sylens to infiltrate an Eclipse base that houses one of the organizations key implements in wreaking havoc across the land. You’ll need to proceed with caution as you go deeper into heavily-guarded enemy territory.

Main Quest Walkthrough – To Curse the Darkness

Go to the Location that Sylens Indicated

Follow the Quest Marker to where the Sylens directed you. You’ll need to manage your way up the mountain and along a waterfall, grabbing on to the yellow bars and rocks to reach the top. You’ll also discover a Gate here (Evening’s Sign) for when you need to save.

You will encounter Chargers (which you can mount) as you go deeper and towards the destination indicated by the Marker.

At about 180m from the destination, y0u’ll discover a campfire, so make sure you take time to save if you need to.

Climb the Escarpment / Rest at the Campfire

Further into the path, you’ll need to climb an escarpment and spend the night at the Campfire there.

As you continue on the path to infiltrate the Eclipse’s facility, you’ll come out of the back end of the cave and into a spot of tall grass. Take cover first and examine the area. You’ll need to get past the various corrupted machines ahead which include Watchers and Longlegs. From your position, you can wait for a Watcher to come by and take it out with a Silent Strike. Then move to the next spot of tall grass to your left. From there, you will see another Watcher up ahead. Wait for it to get close to you, then take it out as well.

You can to take out the remaining Watchers lurking about by moving between the tall grass. Soon you’ll come up to an incline in the rocks that leads to another area with some Longlegs. As always, you can try to wait for them as they pass by you position to take them out in stealth, though make sure that there are no other machines nearby that can see you.

After clearing the path of enemies, continue following the Quest Marker. You’ll come to an overlook of grass where you’ll need to drop down to infiltrate the Eclipse base.

Infiltrate the Eclipse Base

Drop down and immediately hide in the grass. You’ll notice that the area has some Corrupted Scrappers. Continue to work your way around the bushes and go for Silent Strikes. Making sure that other machines aren’t noticing you. As with the other areas, you don’t to kill them all, though you’ll miss out on some loot and metal shards if you ignore them.

The path will start to go up as the path begins to become even more guarded by Scrappers. Maintain stealth as before, being patient when you can advance to the next spot of cover ahead.

You will eventually reach another overlook after climbing some rock platforms. You’ll watch another cutscene here.

Search for the Derelict Tallneck

Once you come down to the area below, observe the surroundings. There will be a two Cultist just in front of you and several others scattered in the base. You can try to tag all the enemies in the distance first. Then, take out the first two in front of you, then kill the archer near the lit area a little to you left. You can use the covered cargo to your right as cover and wait for more thugs to see what’s going on. From that vantage point, you can pick them off one by one.

One you’ve removed all nearby Cultists. Proceed towards the Quest Marker and on the bridge ahead. Once you cross the bridge, turn past the cannon but before the hut containing barrels with the torch on the side. You’ll catch sight of a Cultist on guard there as you come out of the corner (the back of the hut). To save arrows, you can go for a Silent Strike to take him out quickly. Then, quickly move towards the side of the hut where the torch is before another Cultist comes and checks out the noise. Go around and then to the front of the hut and catch him from behind with a Silent Strike.

Follow the Quest Marker again and you should come to a what looks like a covered shrine. There will be several Datapoints that you can access here, so take the time to listen to them all.

When you’re ready to proceed, had for the Quest Marker again. You’ll need to push the a log to cross the gap ahead. Once you’ve made it on the other side, follow the path until you come up to a new area with a tower that you can climb.

Crash the Eclipse Focus Network

Climb up the tower up to the very top where the Eclipse Focus Network’s module is. Watch the cutscene that will follow.

Escape the Eclipse Base

After the cutscene, the entire base will go on full alert and will hunt you down. You’ll need to quickly rush through the side of the stone cliff, taking care not to get hit by the weapons being shot at your path. Jump and grab on to the ledges proceed right until you can jump in an opening in the rock. You’ll encounter some more Cultists here, but ignore them and continue your escape towards the Quest Marker.

As you come up to the bridge, you’ll need to drop down from the opening on the side (with a log protruding outward). Rappel down and watch the cutscene.