Using cracked versions of games infringes on the copyright laws of the game developers and publishers. Guerrilla Games, the developer of Horizon Zero Dawn, and Sony Interactive Entertainment, the publisher, invest significant resources into the development and protection of their intellectual property.
If you are playing through the entire story, v1.11 is rock-solid. You will miss only minor bug fixes related to frozen snow deformation and HDR calibration—negligible for most players.
: This is the file extension, indicating that the file is a RAR archive. RAR is a proprietary archive file format used for data compression and archiving. Users would need software capable of extracting RAR files, such as WinRAR, to open and access the contents.