The Main Quest The Grave Hoard continues Aloy’s search for answers into her mysterious past. The trail takes her to the Grave Hoard, a hidden facility now in ruins, where fragments of what used to be piece themselves together.
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Main Quest Walkthrough – The Grave Hoard
Explore the Grave-Hoard
Once you’ve reached the Grave-Hoard Site, take the time to scan the entire area of the enemies there. There will be a Corrupted Watcher lurking about, and some Cultists on guard or sitting down. Position yourself behind the Corruptor machine rubble near the entrance and pick the Cultists one by one. Then, take out the Corrupted Watcher.
When the enemies have been taken care of, look around for some Datapoints. One is a corpse lying near the machine rubble you took cover from (Comms Log: Sgt Guliyev). Another will be to the right of the area (Comms Log: Cpl. Mills). To the left of the area beside a square block is another Datapoint (Comms Log: Sgt. Wandari).
Afterwards, proceed to the Quest Marker and grab on to the pole above to get to the next area. After you’ve made it across, go forward and head to the room on the right where there will be two more rooms you can enter. Each one allows you to access Datapoints (Reminder. Again. and Just a Little Longer).
Follow the Quest Marker again and you should arrive at another room with more Datapoints.
Continue following the Marker and you will come to a room with a big hole in the floor. There will be a long tube there that you can grab on to slide down the area below. When you get to the bottom, move forward towards the locked door (indicated by the red hologram on its center). You’ll need to find a way to open it by restoring the power.
Examine The Door / Restore Power to the Ancient Door
After examining the door, follow the Quest Marker to the next room. You’ll need to operate three sets of controls. From the platform where you are, head to the right and walk on the plank and jump and grab on to the yellow pole attacked to the next platform ahead. Pull yourself up and operate the controls.
To solve the first control panel puzzle, turn the dials (starting from the left going right) Up, down, left and right.
Once you’ve solved the first set, move to the level below. There will be two sets of controls. The set with the Code Nexus is solved by turning the dials (again from left to right) Up, right, Left, Down.
The last set of controls is solved by turning the dials Up, Up, Down, Down.
Once you’ve solved all the control panel puzzles, head back to the Ancient Door. Inside the door, you’ll loot some 1 Full Health Potion, 34 Ridge-Wood, 5 Wire, 1 Chillwater, 1 Metal Vessel, 7 Metal Shards and 3 Sparker from a supply crate, You can also get some 24% Health and a Power Cell. After you’ve collected the items, follow the Quest Marker again.
Continue Exploring the Grave-Hoard
You’ll soon come up to a set of stairs overlooking an area below. There will be some cultists scattered in the area, both on the lower and upper level (though there are more on the lower area, including a Corrupted Scrapper). You can try to pick off the enemies from the overlook, as you can funnel them through the corridor before the stairs. Just remember to prioritize headshots to make quick work of the Cultists to save you time and ammo.
When all enemies have been dealt with, follow the Quest Marker again. You’ll soon arrive at a big gap where you can walk to the ledge from the plank. Walk to the edge of the plank and jump and grab on to the edge of the next stone platform ahead (marked with a torch). From there, look down onto the gap in the direction of the Quest Marker and you should see a narrow ledge cutaway on the side of the rock slope. Jump down to the area just a little below the ledge cutaway. Upon landing run up and grab on to the ledge cutaway. While still clinging to the ledge, move to your right and manage your way along the ledges, then come up on to the path again and follow the Marker.
In the next area is a corridor. Before heading in the direction of the Quest Marker, go into the first room on your right for Datapoints (Edited and Approved 1 and 2, Unit Status Report, I Believe in You, Please Reply!).
Use the Console
Continue following the Quest Marker. You’ll come to a big room with a hologram palm reader in the middle. Before operating it, access the Datapoint on the table on the side (USRC Deployment Records). There’s also a supply crate for 4 Metal Shards, 5 Metal Vessel, 1 Chillwater, 8 Sparker, 3 Wire, 8 Sparker, 1 Chillwater, 5 Metal Vessel and 4 Metal Shards. After collecting the loot, operate the console.
After viewing the holographic globe, follow the Quest Marker again. You’ll come to a door that you need to activate. Once you’re inside, a cutscene will ensue.
From the cutscene, it’s easy to guess that you’ll need to take down another Deathbringer. Before engaging it, you’ll want to kill as many Cultists as you can from the overlook above. You’ll most likely alert the Deathbringer before you can kill all the Cultists. It will shoot at the platform you’re on and you’ll have no choice but to engage it on the arena below.
Main article: Deathbringer Strategy Guide
Engaging the Deathbringer here is pretty much the same as the one in the Main Quest Maker’s End. It’s worth noting though that you’ll be fighting it in a smaller area with less to take cover from. After defeating the Deathbringer, you should be able to loot from it 206 Metal Shards, +17% Resist ranged attacks Weave, +27% Resist Shock Weave, +44% Damage Coil, 1 Crystal Braiding, 10 Metalburn and 4 Metal Vessel.
Search the War Room
Continue to follow the Quest Marker to the door that goes into the facility again. When you inside, head for the holographic console in the middle of the room again. There are also quite a few Datapoints here, so be sure to access them.
Climb up the Escape Elevator
After accessing the console, follow the Quest Marker to a ladder nearby. This will lead you to the exit.
This concludes the Main Quest Walkthrough The Grave Hoard. Click here to go to the next Main Quest The Field of the Fallen!
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I figured it out. I am truly out of it. You can travel once your on the leg, just not from the platform
LOL. This is probably a pathetic question but after the mission is over and im outside upstairs, it wont let me fast travel and i start down the machine leg but eventually you die that way because of slope. How do i get down?
If I jump off the platform I die. If it shoots me off the platform I die. How the hell do you get to the ground alive to fight this thing?! It’s happened 8 times in a row no matter what I try now
There is a rappel spot at each end of the platform.