Specter is a Machine (Monster) that you can scan and fight in Horizon Forbidden West.
Type: Combat, Midweight
Characteristics: A highly advanced, mobile combat drone. Its gold armor-like plates can morph into highly lethal weapons and can gravitationally reattach when torn off.
Overrides: Not available
Locations:
- Specters are only found during Main Quest 5: Death’s Door, Main Quest 10: Cradle of Echoes, Main Quest 17: Singularity. Alternatively, you get another chance in Side Quests “Valley of the Fallen” and “What Was Lost” for more Specters. Scanning this Machine is MISSABLE! It doesn’t spawn anywhere else outside of these quests (also doesn’t appear in the Arena or Hunting Grounds). It has no spawn location in the open world. If you just finished the story and forgot to scan it, see if you still have an autosave from the last story mission, to reload and potentially still scan the machine. It also counts if you scan it in New Game+ in case you forgot it during the first playthrough.
- In the Burning Shores DLC you encounter Specters during Main Quest: For His Amusement (optional objective to defeat them). So if missed during the main game you get another chance there.
Weak Against:
- Acid Damage
- Plasma Damage
Strong Against:
- Fire Damage
- Shock Damage
- Purgewater Damage
Body Parts:
- Body
- Pulse Cannon
- Shock Unit
- Resource Depository
- Regeneration Unit
- Vector Thrusters
- Plasma Unit
- Nano Plate
- Control Nexus
Loot:
- Glowblast
- Sparker
- Blastpaste
- Metal Shards
- Crystal Braiding
- Piercing Spike
- Machine Muscle
- Braided Wire
- Metal Bone
- Sturdy Hardplate
- Useable Weapon (detach Pulse Cannon on top of it)
- Volatile Sludge (detach Resource depository)
- Luminous Brainstem (detach Resource depository)
Variants:
- Specter (no variants)
For all other machines, check out the Horizon Forbidden West All Machines Database.
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