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In Horizon: Zero Dawn, players will be able to upgrade Aloy's spear after completing the "In Her Mother's Footsteps" quest. Some of these upgrades can increase a spear's permanent damage and have other benefits deepening on the upgrade rarity.

After some initial upgrades, players will be able to unlock talents that can further enhance the spear. Some of these talents can increase the base damage, while others might help take off armor from machines more easily. Regardless of which upgrade players choose, they will benefit from these upgrades in the long run, especially in Dlc expansions.

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How To Upgrade Aloy's Spear in Horizon: Zero Dawn

Three spear upgrades can be unlocked in Horizon: Zero Dawn and its DLCs: Damage Upgrade, Overriding Mods, and Coil Modifications. These upgrades can increase the spear’s damage potential or give it special abilities.

María Elena Wood, producer of Turner’s “Mary & Mike,” Joyn’s “Dignity” and now “News of a Kidnapping” for Amazon Studios, is re-launching her own production house, María Wood Producciones.

Shaping up already as a key Latin American production partner for top high-end fiction producers in Europe and the U.S., Maria Wood Producciones will focus, as in past series produced by Wood, on premium scripted drama of substance, with a social or political underbelly and frequent recourse to creative film talent.

“It’s what we’ve always done and know how to do,” Wood told Variety in the run-up to Mipcom. In contrast to the past, however, she said that “rather than talk about villains, despicable people,” Maria Wood Producciones will “cherry pick more luminous, happier content which talks about how we are today.”

First up on Maria Wood Producciones’ slate is “Mujeres Grandes” (Big Women), an original half-hour...

With his new political thriller “Arana” (“Spider”), Chile’s Andres Wood traces the roots of the ultra-nationalist movement that led to Salvador Allende’s downfall and the rise of military dictator General Augusto Pinochet.

He represents Chile at the Best International Feature Oscar race for the third time with “Araña.”

The drama turns on Inés, Justo and Gerardo who belong to an extreme nationalist group that aims to overthrow Allende’s Marxist government in the early 70s. Amid the fervor of this conflict, they get entangled in a love triangle and commit a political crime that separates Gerardo from the other two until he reappears 40 years later, bent on reviving the nationalist cause.

Wood made his stamp on the international festival circuit with a string of hits, including “Machuca,” which premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2004; “La Fiebre del Loco (2001), Official Selection at the a Venice and Toronto Film Festivals...

2019 Cannes and the second half of the year catch Chile in the throes of huge change and a fairly exemplary evolution. Already, new paradigms seem fairly clear.

Chilean cinema is “director-driven, about different conversations” with audiences, says Fabula producer Juan de Dios Larraín.

Marking perhaps the two biggest Chilean titles set to bow over the second half of the year, Pablo Larraín’s “Ema,” with Gael Garcia Bernal, is a dance-spangled melodrama, about new contemporary family dynamics. “Araña,” sold at Cannes by Film Factory Ent. and from Andrés Wood, begins to trace the roots of a new nationalism from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship to the present.

That auteurist focus will remain, and, as the battle for success in an Ott world becomes a battle for talent, see Chile reach out to premium auteurs outside the country. One case in point: Argentine cineast Lucía Puenzo (“The German Doctor”), recruited by Fabula...