A Gift From the Past is a quest within the game Horizon Zero Dawn.
A Gift From the Past Guide
Go into the cave
Once you’ve fallen down into the cave, there are two paths you can take, but each one of them leads to the exact same entryway where you’ll need to crouch to get through. The right side will take a smidge longer as you’re kind of looping around, while the straightforward path gets you there faster.
Or maybe it’s the same time both ways; it doesn’t matter.
Once you’ve crouched through to the next area, to the left you’ll see a shaft of light highlighting a doorway you can get through. It’s just hard to see the doorway from where you stand. Head through there and once again there’s another shaft of light highlighting the direction you need to go in order to get to the next area.
It’s on the left side. Again.
This time it’s a main path up the stairs (but before you approach the steps, if you look left when first entering this area, you’ll notice there’s some yellow mechanism in there that you won’t be able to obtain until you’re an adult and come back to this area).
Eventually if you keep heading straight, there’s going to be a shaft of light shining down on a corpse.
Examine the strange object
After approaching, you’ll notice a device on their ear. Interact with it.
Find a way out
If you look ahead, past the small set of steps with the device active, you’ll notice that the power is off for the bunker door, therefore you can’t go that way yet. You’ll need to approach it before the next objective shows up though.
Use the device to scan the room
A little to the right, through the walls, the scanner will show a Code Nexus Holo Lock.
Use the Holo Lock
Head down the hall to the right in order to get into the room with the connecting lock. If you look ahead on the right you’ll notice the lock shows a pink strip on the bottom. Interact with the Holo Lock on the left side and turn it so the pink strip on here is also on the bottom.
Return to the door
Exactly as it says.
The door is no longer locked.
Open the door
Open it!
Find a way out
Once through the door, go right and down the steps. Further ahead will be another corpse on the ground.
Scan the device
Activate the device, then hover over the device on the corpse’s ear to watch a hologram. This will be the first Hologram Datapoint you’ll find.
Find a way out
Past the corpse, there’s a door you can ease your way through. Head straight up the steps. The next room is a bit larger, and to get through to your destination, you’ll either want to take the right path, or straight ahead to go around the right through another doorway.
Eventually, you’ll hear Rost calling and come out in an area seeping sunlight.
Make your way up into a cutscene.
Continue with:
- Lessons of the Wild
