Young Beginnings

Watch the opening cutscenes of Rost climbing the Sacred Mountain and Aloy's naming ritual, followed by a scene six years later where Aloy is shunned.

Follow the tunnel into the cave and crouch (press ) through the gap into an old-world lab.

Continue left down the stairs and through a vault door.

Proceed through the next room, up the stairs, and drop down to interact with a spotlighted corpse to obtain the Focus.

Toggle the Focus on and off by pressing . The Focus is an instrumental device that will allow you to see things others can't. It is a major component of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered's gameplay.

Go upstairs to a closed door. Use the Focus and look right, following the pipes, to see a Code Nexus and a Holo Lock control terminal.

Circle back to the room with controls, approach the Holo Lock, and match its circle to the circle on the Code Nexus to unlock the door.

Head through the now-open door. Scan the datapoint on the left wall (a small icon next to holograms) and press to play [AD08] For Director Evans.

Continue through the next door and down the stairs.

Head forward to find a corpse with another datapoint. Scan it for a cutscene (a non-interactive cinematic the game plays automatically) and [HD01] Happy Birthday Isaac!.

Squeeze through the gap at the back of the room.

Before continuing up the stairs, head right and grab [AD06] Log: Connor Chasson off the desk.

Continue past the desk to the next room and find [AD07] Full Stop on a corpse in the corner.

Backtrack to the stairs and continue up to a barracks room.

In the barracks, find the following datapoints: [AD01] Log: Connor Chasson (immediately left), [AD02] Log: Skylar Rivera (in a bunk to the right), [AD05] Log: Mia Sayied (up short steps, to the left), [AD03] Log: Ella Pontes (in a bunk at the back), and [AD04] Log: Jackson Frye (on the couch on the right).

Continue through the next door and follow Rost's voice to an opening.

Climb out to trigger a cutscene with Rost and Aloy, initiating the 'Lessons of the Wild' quest.

Follow Rost to a Slavebrush plant and gather it using . Press to heal yourself with medicine.

Collect any herbs you find to fill your medicine gauge.

Follow Rost until he stops and crouches. Crouch with him (press ) and follow him into tall grass.

After the cutscene, follow Rost through bushes, sneaking past Watchers.

Follow Rost to trigger a cutscene with Teb.

Follow Rost to a herd of Striders and gather three stones when instructed.

Follow Rost up to a ledge for a cutscene, then jump down into long grass.

Wait for Rost's signal, then press and hold to take aim with a rock. Throw it to lure a Watcher close enough for Rost to kill.

Jump down and move through the long grass to rejoin Rost.

Hold to harvest the dead Watcher.

Gather Ridgewood from three trees to craft arrows.

Open the weapon wheel (press ), select Hunter Arrow (using ), hold twice to craft 20 Hunter Arrows.

Follow Rost into tall grass near the Striders.

Use your Focus to scan a Strider and highlight the canister weak point on its back. After you scan an enemy for the first time, an entry will appear in Aloy's Notebook detailing the enemy's weak points along with an specific elemental weakness the enemy has (Tear, Fire, etc.). You can access the Notebook entry by pressing when the notification pops up.

Take aim with at the canister weak point and hold to draw and fire an arrow.

Keep firing, aiming for the eye, until the Strider goes down. Dodge with if it charges.

After defeating the Strider, follow Rost to a cutscene where Teb falls.

Jump down into tall grass to rescue Teb.

Activate your Focus and use to tag the enemy.