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Outer Wilds |OT| Life, the universe, and everything else all in 20 minutes!
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Thanks I never wouldve thought to
grab the distress signal for one of the other 2 pods
There's an AMAZING easter egg ending I just got.
Involves the black/white hole experiment
When you flip the power and show that your drone actually comes out of the white hole before even entering the black hole, you can shoot your drone, then quickly pick up the black hole slab to remove it and create a second drone. You break the universe and get a hilarious credit roll with different music.
WTF is this game?
Spent 30 minutes wondering around, finally got in the space ship. Launch into orbit. Autopilot to another planet. Something smashes into my ship that sends me flying a billion kilometers away from anything and 7 minutes later I die from no oxygen?
Spent 30 minutes wondering around, finally got in the space ship. Launch into orbit. Autopilot to another planet. Something smashes into my ship that sends me flying a billion kilometers away from anything and 7 minutes later I die from no oxygen?
Is there usually another way around
, or do you eventually find a way to get rid of it?
So many barriers right now cause of them.
ghost matter
So many barriers right now cause of them.
There is basically always another way around it, often via jet pack and a higher or lower pathway. Also, be sure to check your ship log to actually confirm that there is more to find. There are a few locations where your gut will tell you there's more there, but you've actually finished exploring the area just fine.
I'm in the
interloper
Guess I'll keep exploring other ways then. Wasn't sure if I needed to come back later
Game has been pretty fun so far. My first stop was
the hollow planet. I'm kind of dying a lot, missing jumps, in general knocking my face against the floor at high velocity. It's been a little annoying, as I think I just made it to the hanging city, but then tried to take a shortcut and got sucked out into the black hole for the 400th time.
How do you know when you're done in an area, or is not that kind of game? I keep finding new stuff, but I'd like to see other areas, so maybe just head off in another direction?
How do you know when you're done in an area, or is not that kind of game? I keep finding new stuff, but I'd like to see other areas, so maybe just head off in another direction?
You gotta love when the best game so far of the year just stealth releases out of no where. This is such a wonderful experience, enhanced by discovering it with friends who are also playing it.
My favorite feeling from games is when they make me think "what the hell is this game?" When they make it feel like you have no idea what is around the next corner, what the game is capable of. It's so rare for a game to do that once, let alone numerous times. I've still not beaten this but it's made me feel that awe and wonder numerous times and that's damn amazing.
My favorite feeling from games is when they make me think "what the hell is this game?" When they make it feel like you have no idea what is around the next corner, what the game is capable of. It's so rare for a game to do that once, let alone numerous times. I've still not beaten this but it's made me feel that awe and wonder numerous times and that's damn amazing.
The Ship's Log will always tell you when you have more in an area with orange text + an orange symbol.
That said, I have a few outstanding areas with "more to see" that I thought I scoured pretty well my first or second times through, and I'm really not looking forward to finding my way back to them and nosing around. Especially some of the time-sensitive stuff.
Hey, can one of you guys help me out with something on Ember Twin. I think I can beat the game now, but I have one location with that "more to see" note on it, and it's on Ember Twin. Also, I am concerned that it's a bug (which is why I'm asking for help/hints.)
Okay, so I recalled the frozen shuttle from the gravity cannon. I went inside and read the audio recording that is there. When I go back to my ship, it says there's more to find in the frozen shuttle. But for the life of me, I can't figure out what that would be. I've even tried blasting off into space in it (just for kicks), but nothing! Oh, and I read through all the pages of the audio log that's there.
I even found a link on Reddit that had a picture of all the info your computer tells you from the shuttle, and it seems to be all the damn stuff I read in the audio file on there. (About the two aliens that went to explore and never came back.) Help!
I even found a link on Reddit that had a picture of all the info your computer tells you from the shuttle, and it seems to be all the damn stuff I read in the audio file on there. (About the two aliens that went to explore and never came back.) Help!
Interesting. The more-to-see is on the shuttle, not the comet. And I explored the comet! I found their bodies, I found the recording, etc. Do I have to do those in order? Maybe I have to go back to the comet and see them again? For clarity, I did the interloper before I recalled the shuttle.
hm. That's weird. Did you find the recording outside the shuttle in the comet, too?
There's one in the shuttle, one just outside the shuttle where it was on the comet and the one where the bodies are.
Well, damn. I never even saw the shuttle at the comet. Where is it? Is it on the surface somewhere? I am 99% sure I went into every tunnel that didn't have ghost death waiting. (Also, it froze over while I was down there, and I ran out of time, so there's that.)
Also, thanks, for the replies, you guys. This was driving me bonkers.
Also, thanks, for the replies, you guys. This was driving me bonkers.
it's in the tail side of the comet where the ice peaks are. There's a snow spot you can land on and it's right there.
It's at the back in the middle of the icicle spikes.
You might be able to just track it now and go the interloper ASAP to see it.
You might be able to just track it now and go the interloper ASAP to see it.
Finally beat this! Amazing game. One of the best surprises in gaming imo.
No character progression, no combat, no gaining abilities or items, no spoken dialogue; yet by the creativity of the story telling and artistry alone, through pure exploration and adventure, I went on an immense and personal journey that will be unique to myself in how the events unfolded.
The game took me places I could only go in gaming and its the reason I play games and couldn't have asked for a better space exploration game.
No character progression, no combat, no gaining abilities or items, no spoken dialogue; yet by the creativity of the story telling and artistry alone, through pure exploration and adventure, I went on an immense and personal journey that will be unique to myself in how the events unfolded.
The game took me places I could only go in gaming and its the reason I play games and couldn't have asked for a better space exploration game.
Thanks.
I had that thought but didn't follow it through because the door is lower than the cacti so I thought they'd already be uncovered. Oh wait, is that not the case? I'll go see now, I thought that door went through to stairs, but I might have just been thinking it was higher because of the higher level you can see from above.
Thanks again, guys! After my last post, I got the idea to try to mark it on the hud and just ran around and lucked up and saw it. Whew!
All I have left to do in the game now is
go power up the Vessel and fly away. Unfortunately, I don't have the archaeologist achievement, but nothing else in the game tells me it's got more to see, so I'll just have to live with it.
Can someone tell me what to do with
Scrolls? I found one, picked it up, I assumed you could take it back to your ship to save it for next time but seems that's not the point of it, I assume since you can pick it up that it has a use but can't figure it out (this was on Timber Hearth).
The main theme is such a killer jam.
I might have posted this before but it's so good I don't care! It must be known!!
I might have posted this before but it's so good I don't care! It must be known!!
Scrolls work on any wall where writing shows up. You can take them out of a wall to put that in.
Ah, so basically
If there's a scroll already in a wall there's no point in taking it out? Only do that when you want to put a new one in to read it?
I'm also having a lot of problems with this area, specifically the gravity crystals. There are sometimes large gaps between them. How are you supposed to get through the gaps? If I try to jetpack to the next crystal, I just lose the gravity effect, get all disoriented, and fall.
Hahaha im achievement hunting and going for the one where you
and suddenly the entire game and ending made complete sense to me!
fly 30,000km away from the sun
I remember the guy on ember twin telling me hes seeing multiple supernovas in the distance in just a few min. As I'm back out im actually seeing a supernova every few seconds!
The eye of the universe project never worked and they settled with a pilgrimage instead. Their equipment stayed on however long after they all died until the end of the universe when all the stars started to die and the natural explosion from the one they tried blowing up started the cycle. A concious observer was just able to see what the eye saw, which was all of the stars dying (in the forest) and then you became the catalyst for life in the new universe when you jump into the formless void.
The eye of the universe project never worked and they settled with a pilgrimage instead. Their equipment stayed on however long after they all died until the end of the universe when all the stars started to die and the natural explosion from the one they tried blowing up started the cycle. A concious observer was just able to see what the eye saw, which was all of the stars dying (in the forest) and then you became the catalyst for life in the new universe when you jump into the formless void.
I wish I could give you better advice. For the most part, I just walk to a spot where I lose the gravity pull of the nearest crystal, hold my breath, and pray to whoever is listening on the way down while holding down the button for the jetpack. It... sometimes works. Sometimes.
The first piece of advice is to be patient and thorough. Sometimes the crystals aren't in the most obvious of places. The other thing to consider, especially on Brittle Hollow is:
Brittle Hollow is falling apart, and pathways literally vanish into the black hole as the metors hit it. So, you may want to make a bee line to the place you're trying to get to.
So just started the game.
Done the tutorial bit, blasted off. Hit the first planet with only minor damage. Left the craft and...died.
Forgot to suit up.
Tried again. Got some serious exploring done. Learned about mysterious signals. Then fell into a black hole. Hit hard against the shell of a weird space thing. Managed to find a way back or so it said. Entered black hole to return and... reset.
Oh. This is going to be a journey.
Done the tutorial bit, blasted off. Hit the first planet with only minor damage. Left the craft and...died.
Forgot to suit up.
Tried again. Got some serious exploring done. Learned about mysterious signals. Then fell into a black hole. Hit hard against the shell of a weird space thing. Managed to find a way back or so it said. Entered black hole to return and... reset.
Oh. This is going to be a journey.
I just spent most of a cycle staring at the ceiling before realising there was something else i had to do.
How did you do it? I cant, for the life of me, enter. I suposse is there a way to enter " underground" because there is no way to do it in the surface ( I saw various signals about South Observatory but thats all of it)
I don't know the answer on getting into it exactly, as I'm still attempting to do so (keep getting distracted by other things on Brittle Hollow). But if you get to the south observatory, you should find a clue as to how to get into it another way.
"Instantly uninstalls"
Tell me there isn't a bit where you have to go down a hill in a bath tub at least?
In all seriousness, i really respect this game, but i didn't have any fun playing it. It just made me very aware of the fact that i cant waste time, and that's not what i want in video games. Its why i stopped Majora's Mask on 3DS a couple of years back. If i had someone to play it with i think i would be fine with it, but solo it just feels like a massive anxiety attack.
Hi there,
I am trying to avoid spoilers like the plague, and I love this game, but I'm a bit stuck on several fronts and I need a bit of inspiration/pointing to keep me going.
Would anyone who's completed the game mind giving me some vague hints on certain things? I don't need a detailed step by step guide to complete the game - but just pointers for certain areas:-
I am trying to avoid spoilers like the plague, and I love this game, but I'm a bit stuck on several fronts and I need a bit of inspiration/pointing to keep me going.
Would anyone who's completed the game mind giving me some vague hints on certain things? I don't need a detailed step by step guide to complete the game - but just pointers for certain areas:-
I feel like I've explored the game very broadly, I've seen quite a lot on most planets, but I'm struggling to "finish" and/or get everything out of any one planet.
I don't need answers for all of these, but one or more might give me inspiration to keep going. I feel stuck on like 19 fronts at the moment!
Specifically - on brittle planet - how do I get up to the tower of quantum knowledge? do I wait for the chunk to get knocked through the blackhole so I can just float up to it? The gravity-inducing paving is broken and on the floor.
Also on brittle - I've got into the hanging city but can't figure out a way to the "top" level where the black hole forge is..I got through the eye temple part but couldn't see a way up from there
I don't think I've found the southern observatory at all yet!? I find the gravity tubes hard to navigate so I just fly my ship around inside brittle
On the interloper - do I use my probe to work out which tunnel in each section is poisonous? I found a wide one that looked clear but then as you go through it you have a series of left/right decisions to make?
On the "filling up" planet, i can get there quick and got through to the high energy lab. I read all the scrolls, and used black/white holes in the test chamber to send the probe through and see the time delay...but my map says there is more to explore there. Any vague hints?
There are others too, but on all of them, I'm not sure if I should persevere and brute force my way through somehow...or that I've not found a clue somewhere else and so I need to complete one of the other bits first before trying that "bit"
I don't need answers for all of these, but one or more might give me inspiration to keep going. I feel stuck on like 19 fronts at the moment!
Specifically - on brittle planet - how do I get up to the tower of quantum knowledge? do I wait for the chunk to get knocked through the blackhole so I can just float up to it? The gravity-inducing paving is broken and on the floor.
Also on brittle - I've got into the hanging city but can't figure out a way to the "top" level where the black hole forge is..I got through the eye temple part but couldn't see a way up from there
I don't think I've found the southern observatory at all yet!? I find the gravity tubes hard to navigate so I just fly my ship around inside brittle
On the interloper - do I use my probe to work out which tunnel in each section is poisonous? I found a wide one that looked clear but then as you go through it you have a series of left/right decisions to make?
On the "filling up" planet, i can get there quick and got through to the high energy lab. I read all the scrolls, and used black/white holes in the test chamber to send the probe through and see the time delay...but my map says there is more to explore there. Any vague hints?
There are others too, but on all of them, I'm not sure if I should persevere and brute force my way through somehow...or that I've not found a clue somewhere else and so I need to complete one of the other bits first before trying that "bit"
Not sure I agree with your reasoning. Being it's on a 20 minute loop, I see it as having all the time in the world to discover and learn. If I hit the end of the loop, I just travel back and skip pass everything I already learned.
If not for the loop, then yes, the fear of wasting time would be real. 😃
You are on he right track for almost every one, except black hole forge
Which actually requires
going to another planet after the forge is moved
Maaaaaan, figuring out the
Quantum Moon's 6th location was so satisfying. Seeing the environment change with each orbit was so cool.
Ok thanks!
I guess that makes sense as I spotted the transmat station on the "roof" of the black hole forge area....now you've got me thinking...the white hole station has two activation slots you can put the power ball in...i've always wondered why there were two..could all be a red herring though. Looks like another 20 minute investment to find out!
Edit - although you said planet - maybe I need to figure out the towers on the ember/ash twin...no idea how those power up!
Edit - although you said planet - maybe I need to figure out the towers on the ember/ash twin...no idea how those power up!
I'm probably near the end of the game from the perspective of "critical path" stuff, I think?
Basically spent most of the weekend playing.
Without going into too much detail, am I on the right track in terms of completing?
I've found the Probe module at the bottom of Giant's Deep, found the Vessel in Dark Bramble, and established that I need to get an advanced warp core from Ash Twin. I haven't figured out the sequence of events I need to do though. I've been to the BHF as well... I thought I needed to go there to get the warp core but I guess not.
Stuff I still haven't done:
- Quantum Moon
- Tower of Quantum Knowledge
- Sun Station
- Haven't figured out what the 6th warp station on Ash Twin does, the one that has a broken tower.
Stuff I still haven't done:
- Quantum Moon
- Tower of Quantum Knowledge
- Sun Station
- Haven't figured out what the 6th warp station on Ash Twin does, the one that has a broken tower.
Basically spent most of the weekend playing.
Without going into too much detail, am I on the right track in terms of completing?
Hint
If you went to the SO on the surface, you should have found a recording down the stairs, at the door that won't open. Your guess to get there underground is correct.
If you have found the bridge or the Tower of Quantum knowledge underground, you will have seen little sign posts. They tell you the name of the place, a direction, and distance. So you can find one near the Tower that says to go south. They wouldn't have put the signpost there if you couldn't just head in that cardinal direction. Now, if you take a look around, you'll see there aren't a lot of options here. You're going to have to start jumping to those rocks/platforms you can see south of you.
If you are on the surface, at the gravity canon, go to the base, on the side opposite of the mouth of the canon. (It is leaning to the side a little, not straight up and down, so the side away from the top of the canon. There you can see some crumbled rocks that sort of look like a little landslide happened. On top of those rocks is a backdoor/shortcut into the Sunken City that takes you down to the base of the Tower. That's also where one of the other astronauts from your home hangs out.
Hah, yeah, you are doing great. You did some things that are sort of in a funny order to me, but this game has no linear path.
A little hint and info about the QM, just because I think I would have liked to have known this:
You don't have to do anything, really, before taking the core to the Vessel. So you could totally skip the QM. If you do this, it changes the endgame in a way that I think would be quite a bit less satisfying.
OH good lord I think I got a joke ending by accident and it scared the shit out of me.
Lmao I am shoook
I removed the black hole as the scout exited early through the other hole but hadn't entered the black hole yet, which duplicated the scout. Then suddenly there was loud noises and black bramble spreading everywhere. Suddenly, "You destroyed the fabric of spacetime appeared" and I got credits with Kazoo music and got sent back to the main menu
Lmao I am shoook