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Outer Wilds |OT| Life, the universe, and everything else all in 20 minutes!
- Thread starter Jawmuncher
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It has a narrative, with an ending. Think in terms of Myst or Obduction. The solar system is one giant interconnected clockwork puzzle
Thanks for the info, it's much appreciated. (And thanks to everyone else who replied too.)
Done three loops. I went into the game not knowing about the loops. Thought WTF when I woke up at the camp again. Cool mechanic though. I'd imagine it might be a little annoying if you're in the middle of something, down a cave maybe, and it resets, but that's not happened yet. My only gripe is the ship controls are awful. It should control like a Descent "six degrees of freedom" ship. That would make it so much simpler. It's really hard to get where you want to on a planet.
I'm getting annoyed by so many factors, I'm glad this is on Xbox Game pass,
Giant's Deep puzzle:
Giant's Deep puzzle:
How do you complete the annoying last step in the "using camera" quantum moving purple gem thing, I can get two purple gems to align, but I couldn't get the 3rd top one to align to the wall, when I had a picture of 2 on the wall I couldn't get an other gems to populate the top, any ideas here?
Yeah, there's an ending. In fact, not only does it exist, it totally floored me.
The game is really built around a few Big Key Mysteries, which interlock in a way that, by halfway or so through the game, you'll understand pretty well. I expected that I'd Do The Thing With the Mcguffin and then be done, but there's actually a really unique and powerful final act.
You need to keep forcing the wall to change by rotating your vision or your camera's position. Anywhere you look away can effectively randomize, so you're not looking to build a permanet perfect wall of crystals, just a pathway one step at a time for you to walk through.
Loving this game so far, but wish I had the ability to roll the spaceship. Yaw would be nice too, but really, most of the time I'm struggling, it would help if I could just roll the craft to level it out the way I want.
I really didn't know what to expect, but this game really has its hooks in me... it's awesome!
On controllers, you can hold LB/L1 (or similar) to activate a "roll" mode while in flight.
On controllers, you can hold LB/L1 (or similar) to activate a "roll" mode while in flight.
And if you're on PC you can hold R I believe to roll. Sounds like you've been playing on hard mode!
Well shit, thanks! That's gonna definitely make it a bit easier.
Holy cow this game is amazing.
This game has hella charm and is just so beautifully designed. It's invitingly mysterious, and I can't help but love it's style.
Very impressed with it so far. Playing it blind is rewarding af.
I went to that stormy planet and had my first encounter with gravity, managing to damage my starboard thrusters after colliding with a cliff. This sent me into a five minute death spiral as I struggled to get the ship out of the ocean, narrowly avoiding a collision with whatever's at the center several times. Thankfully a storm boosted me of the atmosphere (and on my second boost, I actually remembered to get away from the planet's gravity!).
So I'm chilling out above the planet, getting into a stable orbit, thinking "hmm, I'll need to repair my ship. Time to put on the ol' suit and--"
THEN AN ASTEROID OR SOMETHING HIT MY SHIP AND DAMAGED HALF OF IT, OUT OF NOWHERE OMFG. It was a terrifying reminder that space is a lot bigger than just me.
So I boosted away from the planet, got out to repair it, and after I get in... there's just darkness?? I warped away or something??? And then my loop first ended, with me as mystified as ever.
So I'm chilling out above the planet, getting into a stable orbit, thinking "hmm, I'll need to repair my ship. Time to put on the ol' suit and--"
THEN AN ASTEROID OR SOMETHING HIT MY SHIP AND DAMAGED HALF OF IT, OUT OF NOWHERE OMFG. It was a terrifying reminder that space is a lot bigger than just me.
So I boosted away from the planet, got out to repair it, and after I get in... there's just darkness?? I warped away or something??? And then my loop first ended, with me as mystified as ever.
This game has hella charm and is just so beautifully designed. It's invitingly mysterious, and I can't help but love it's style.
Very impressed with it so far. Playing it blind is rewarding af.
Really liking this game with what little I have played. Question though. I quit after playing for about an hour, and it it says start new adventure. How does this game save? Do I have to start everything all over again?
I was on attlerock
I was on attlerock
This game is so damn cool. The amount of weird on the fly situations I've caught myself in are already high, brittlerock had my sketchiest moment yet when I ran out of jetpack fuel.
I can't wait to play more over the weekend.
I had a weird darkness thing too. No idea what happened.
My ship was SUUUUUUPER far away and I had no idea wtf happened, ran low on fuel exploring...fell into the black hole and was lowkey terrified about it. Realized the ship also fell there since that planet is falling apart, and it started using O2 to propel around and I JUST BARELY made it before suffocating. Jesus.
I can't wait to play more over the weekend.
I had a weird darkness thing too. No idea what happened.
I was near the sun, saw that interloper thing going around and locked on, starting going around the sun to autopilot on it and the distances just got really weird and I realized...everything seemed to be gone? It was really weird.
I ended up using the scanner and lined up the instruments and it ended the cycle, but I genuinely have no idea if that was just from the timer or what I did.
I ended up using the scanner and lined up the instruments and it ended the cycle, but I genuinely have no idea if that was just from the timer or what I did.
It saves every loop. When you quit there's a pop-up about it.
Think of it as a roguelike, being run-based or something.
So, without spoiling it too much, how long should this game take to finish? I keep reading about the 20-minute thing but I'm wondering how long will it actually last.
All said took me around 25-30 hours? But that was with zero guides or people to bounce ideas off of, and also a lot of experimenting with end-of-loop gamestate stuff.
Wow
Great adventure game, in the truest sense.
The ending got me real emotional, but then got me angry. Why would I remake a universe for a bunch of sentient preying mantis' to rule a solar system?
Great adventure game, in the truest sense.
Thanks, this sounds great.
It is an exploration game in which you have to figure out parts of the story to solve the time-loop mystery. It is not a puzzle game per se.
I will check the review to understand what they mean.
First stop was twin ash/ember
Holy cow. I'm lost I'm confused. And I'm loving every damn minute. What a beautiful set of words those are
Holy cow. I'm lost I'm confused. And I'm loving every damn minute. What a beautiful set of words those are
I opened up the sunken city area and made it back around to the lab that was locked the other way on the surface. Excited to try and figure out th fish thing? I went to explore what switching that power cable did but went too fast and ran into ghost energy /SPOILER]
Wow this game is excellent. The complexity of the narrative and world design is incredible.
One Q - what do the colors on the rumor board denote? And which color means a particular thread is "complete" - grey, or green?
One Q - what do the colors on the rumor board denote? And which color means a particular thread is "complete" - grey, or green?
Anyone else playing on Xbox, who got the game free through the Mixer promotion, still having the game show up as preordered on the game icon? I've already loaded up the game and played a while, but when I look at my list of installed games, it still has the black "Pre-ordered" bar on it.
Eurogamer recommended:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...iature-solar-system-for-the-laidback-explorer
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...iature-solar-system-for-the-laidback-explorer
Just had an incredible experience.
I didn't catch it in the video, but the setup for it is that I found a landing pad on a planet and managed to get its launch thrusters started, which I then stepped onto and was launched straight at a gas giant I hadn't been to before, arriving with zero boost and half oxygen.
I pretty much knew I was screwed as soon as I landed, but I had the faintest glimmer of hope that maybe I could follow the path and it would lead me to a fuel or oxygen tank. It was such a unique and funny experience to have that hope dashed by such a mundane occurrence, which was that I couldn't cross a tiny gap because my backup oxygen thrusters were too weak to overcome the 2x gravity on this planet.
Coming through the clouds and seeing those tornadoes was wild, and landing in the water was even scarier because I had just moments earlier read some text log entry about some sort of deadly fish (which ultimately ended up being unrelated to this planet, as far as I can tell).
I pretty much knew I was screwed as soon as I landed, but I had the faintest glimmer of hope that maybe I could follow the path and it would lead me to a fuel or oxygen tank. It was such a unique and funny experience to have that hope dashed by such a mundane occurrence, which was that I couldn't cross a tiny gap because my backup oxygen thrusters were too weak to overcome the 2x gravity on this planet.
Coming through the clouds and seeing those tornadoes was wild, and landing in the water was even scarier because I had just moments earlier read some text log entry about some sort of deadly fish (which ultimately ended up being unrelated to this planet, as far as I can tell).
I played a little bit last night, I loved everything about it, except I'm not sure I can play it. I'm terrified by being in deep black in games, for some reason, and this game puts you in some really scary situation in that regard, and my heart genuinely raced to the point I had to stand up and walk all over the flat to decompress. The thing is nothing major happened, but I just can't deal with being in that digital void. Will keep trying though.
I'm in the same boat, but the game's pretty awesome, so I'll definitely get over it in order to complete it.
Exact same thing happened to me. Basically, you didn't play long enough to activate the save states. From the point you activate the statue you have to either die or have the 20 minute loop initiate.
Quick question regarding having to play for a significant chunk of time before it saves - does the suspend mode work reliably in this game? I have played a few games where it always logs the user out and therefore does not allow you to jump back in. Is this one of those?
Performance on PC is brutal, gonna wait for patches
This is incredibly fucking annoying, there should be a manual save or frequent checkpointing like Hades has. Even with the loop mechanic there's no excuse.
This is incredibly fucking annoying, there should be a manual save or frequent checkpointing like Hades has. Even with the loop mechanic there's no excuse.
You can manual save by killing yourself and letting the loop reset before quitting. I've done so by flying into the sun, taking my suit off and jumping out the ship, boosting up high and free falling to my death... There's plenty of ways to end a cycle early if you need to save and quit. Loops are only 20 minutes so there's really no point to having saves within loops.
Thank you. That sucks for me as I was taking my time, but no big deal. I will just do it again tonight. The game is enjoyable enough that I have no issue with that.
It's not that big of a deal since you don't need to go through reading all the text and interacting with everyone. I got back to my rocket it within five minutes or so. Then I proceed to crash into Attlerock, splitting my ship in two. So I was stuck there until....
My pc performance has been fine...
And the save system is totally fine. The loops are so short you'll never lose much. And if you really want to end early just force yourself to run out of oxygen
Try to keep it that way. Discovering things in the game is where the joy is.
Im loving this game, Im gradually uncovering the secrets around the solar system and its increasingly thrilling to discover new clues and hidden spots.
The groundhog day gameplay loop works really well, its just long enough to make meaningful progress without feeling too stressed out.
5 hours in and its already one of my favorite games this year.
The groundhog day gameplay loop works really well, its just long enough to make meaningful progress without feeling too stressed out.
5 hours in and its already one of my favorite games this year.
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