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Outer Wilds |OT| Life, the universe, and everything else all in 20 minutes!
- Thread starter Jawmuncher
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:'( I wish I could help. This game is so wonderful.
Unfortunately, that doesn't help us fix your issue. Maybe you need to do a reinstall?
Well, i'm thinking maybe i did something wrong. Last week i changed the fan of the One S cause it made a very disturbing noise, i replaced it with one i had here. pretty simple installation, nothing went wrong.
I'm thinking maybe the fan isn't positioned right or spinning fast enough, which makes the temp to go up and reduce the clock speeds, causing the stutter.
Air is very hot coming directly from the top of the fan, so it's doing its job but now i'm starting to doubt my job.
Oh, interesting. I've never replaced any parts on my consoles. I had a One S for a while, and I don't remember the air coming out to ever be all that hot. Just kind of warm. Maybe that's the issue?
Have you been playing any other games in the meantime? Are they running okay?
Me too. I only have the one that Gabbro is lounging. One is about a statue but the recent patch made it so that one isn't needed for the achievement. No idea how to get the other two. Went ahead and got every other log as well as beat the game but still can't get those two.
Yeah you need to talk with him before the first loop, and right after the first and second one.
I gave up on the sun achievement. Fuck it. Actually love the flying in that game, but holy shit trying to land on that station is the pits.
It's not really that hard, I made it after a couple of attempts. Watch some video on YouTube on how to do it.
Aw dang, well now I have to. Also, I played this game like crazy at launch, and back then there was basically zero info online about this game. I'll check out youtube.
Played this for probably 5-6 hours over the long weekend. Basically at the point where I know how to beat the game (I'm pretty sure) but trying to explore a few more areas to fill out the log. Really haven't been grabbed by a game this way in awhile, definitely one of my favorites of all time.
No game I've played does exploration so well, except maybe Metroid Prime. Realized this game scratches a lot of the same itches as a great metroidvania, except rather than finding power-ups to navigate the world you gain knowledge about how things work and things start to make more and more sense as you explore the world and lore.
No game I've played does exploration so well, except maybe Metroid Prime. Realized this game scratches a lot of the same itches as a great metroidvania, except rather than finding power-ups to navigate the world you gain knowledge about how things work and things start to make more and more sense as you explore the world and lore.
Just finished the game the other night, such an incredible experience. It all just worked so well and felt like I was genuinely solving all these mysteries, and those 'aha!' moments when you finally put something together and figure out something you saw many hours earlier are great.
Only a couple of things I struggled with and looked up that i'm guessing quite a few others did.
Will be very surprised if something dethrones this as GOTY for me.
Only a couple of things I struggled with and looked up that i'm guessing quite a few others did.
Getting into the Ash Twin core. I totally understood the warps, and had seen the text about the six warps / five celestial bodies, but I was convinced that had something to with the Quantum Moon even after i'd been there and fully explored it. I was hanging around on the Ash Twin until all the ash had drained away waiting to find a gap or a low down entrance. Not sure what they could do to help with this that doesn't make it overly obvious as it's clearly one of the last places you're supposed to end up in.
Activating the warp on The Vessel - that just didn't seem very intuitive compared to how other mechanisms in the game worked. Maybe just have a separate wee tower to the side with a label on it?
Activating the warp on The Vessel - that just didn't seem very intuitive compared to how other mechanisms in the game worked. Maybe just have a separate wee tower to the side with a label on it?
Will be very surprised if something dethrones this as GOTY for me.
The way the story all comes together is pretty nuts. Really the only bit that disappointed me a little was
how little you learn really at the quantum moon. Heck lot to get there... Don't really learn much.
Popping in to say I started this game earlier in the week and I'm absolutely enthralled. Only a few hours into it but I can't stop thinking about it... so far I've been able to progress pretty naturally on my own but I just worry about getting to a point where I don't know what to do and having to Google it! Haha
I played this game for an hour and man, it seems incredible but I'm scared shitless. Space is just terrifying to me.
Game is unnerving as fuck. Honestly idk if I can keep playing, I think I just have a phobia of being stranded alone in the void. Same reason I didn't play subnautica.
I wanted to look for the ruins on the moon but I was scared because it was too dark, even with my flashlight. So I went back to the original planet, and happened to land where the harmonica signal was coming from a weird tomato looking thing. I shot a scout drone inside it, and there's a fucking giant anglerfish in there.
Game is unnerving as fuck. Honestly idk if I can keep playing, I think I just have a phobia of being stranded alone in the void. Same reason I didn't play subnautica.
You still have your knowledge, though, which is a huge part of the game. You lose access to the unlocks on the ship logs, but you should know how to hit the major beats if you want to fill that out again.
Thanks for this reassurance, I thought I wouldn't immediately be able to do this again:
Land on the Quantum Moon
But after a few tries I was able to do so again :)
OK, I've refrained from spoilers all along but could use a little clarification on one part:
After going to the Twin Ash planet and
, I keep crashing and dying when
I use my jetpack to slow down, but it doesn't help --- the fall is too much everytime. Resetting the game to get to this point again takes so long and it is getting frustrating.
Can someone confirm that this is not the right way? That I must do something else to
and that it's not just as simple as slowing down enough during the fall?
No need to tell me what to actually do ; I'd rather discover that on my own ; but if my current approach is wrong, it would be great to know so that I stop wasting 10-15 minute chunks of gameplay at a time.....
After going to the Twin Ash planet and
using the teleporter to go to Brittle Hollow
I try to enter the Black Forge by walking up the small stairs, inverting and then falling.
Can someone confirm that this is not the right way? That I must do something else to
enter the Black Forge
No need to tell me what to actually do ; I'd rather discover that on my own ; but if my current approach is wrong, it would be great to know so that I stop wasting 10-15 minute chunks of gameplay at a time.....
I recommend you keep exploring The Hanging City.
I think it's possible technically possible to do it the way you're doing it now but it's a lot more difficult and I certainly didn't do it that way.
I'd love to see a summary of all the text and design changes. Since I already finished the game it'd be tough to go back now.
There's a two-hour interview with a couple of the creators on the No Cartridge podcast, goes into lots of details about about the development of the story and the creation of the game (obviously, don't listen to this if you haven't finished the game yet!): https://redcircle.com/shows/no-cartridge-audio (episode 135)
Hey guys, I recently started playing the game and I've got a question about Ash Twin.
So the way to the tower that launches you towards the Sun Station is completely surrounded by those spiky bushes. Am I really expected to fly through that room without puncturing my suit, or is there another way in?
Fly to that planet fast and pay attention to the way the sand gets sucked to Ember twin
Specifically go to the sun building, it is shaped like the sun and pokes through the sand first stick around it and watch for any openings you can get in.
as the sand goes down a door will open up and you can run in over the spikey things before the sand gets lower and exposes them its la bit of a maze but pretty easy to figure out if you enter doorway as soon as its open enough for you to fit
So I am rapidly approaching the end, I believe, and ran into a strange snag:
Is something screwed up? Is the
turned off now that I've discovered
?
I managed to discover the 3rd escape pod and the Vessel within Dark Bramble by using the signalscope and locking on to the escape pod's distress signal. I also managed to enter Ash Twin core and retrieve the warp core. However, on a subsequent playthrough, when I retrieved the warp core and proceeded to Dark Bramble to find the Vessel, I couldn't find a distress signal! I entered Dark Bramble, headed towards the red light, floated to the red egg center, and when I equipped my signalscope and switched to the distress beacon mode, I couldn't find a signal, no matter which direction I turned.
Is something screwed up? Is the
3rd escape pod's distress beacon
the vessel
The Dark Bramble isn't the same every time. You need to use the signalscope every time from the outside.
Thanks! Just beat the game ; what an amazing ending and journey. I need a sequel right now
I just beat this last night. What an amazing game! I was skeptical of the many "This is the best thing I've played all year" articles in the first few hours, but once this game clicks, man does it click. The way things unfolded reminded me a lot of the amazement and wonder I felt playing through Fez for the first time and discovering many of the deeper secrets that were hidden throughout the world. If anything, my only complaint is games like this make me sad because that wondrous feeling only really comes out your first time through the game, and on your second pass you're already fully aware of what the game has in store for you so it can never hit in the same way again.
Incredible, just absolutely incredible though. I think this probably hit my top 10 games ever list, or at the very least my top 10 list of why the video game medium is so fantastic. It's not a perfect game per se; I certainly ran into moments of 'indie jank' where I'd clip through the environment or spin out of control for no reason or the environment would bug out for a bit, occasionally I'd hit a puzzle that left me scratching my head that I just had to Google (though in those cases I probably would have figured it out eventually regardless), and some of the puzzles require some waiting around that can be annoying, but despite all this I think this game does do what it intends to perfectly. It enthralls you with its world, using every inch of the universe with purpose. It keeps you hungry to chase down just one more clue until you reach the finale. It connects you to characters you barely even talk to, or who you've never even met and have been dead for ages. I can't gush about it enough.
I'm also surprised at how few people have heard about this game. I'm sure the EGS kerfuffle had a bit to do with it, and the Outer Wilds/World confusion probably isn't doing it any favors, but I really hope it picks up more steam when, uh, it releases on Steam. This game needs to be played!!
Incredible, just absolutely incredible though. I think this probably hit my top 10 games ever list, or at the very least my top 10 list of why the video game medium is so fantastic. It's not a perfect game per se; I certainly ran into moments of 'indie jank' where I'd clip through the environment or spin out of control for no reason or the environment would bug out for a bit, occasionally I'd hit a puzzle that left me scratching my head that I just had to Google (though in those cases I probably would have figured it out eventually regardless), and some of the puzzles require some waiting around that can be annoying, but despite all this I think this game does do what it intends to perfectly. It enthralls you with its world, using every inch of the universe with purpose. It keeps you hungry to chase down just one more clue until you reach the finale. It connects you to characters you barely even talk to, or who you've never even met and have been dead for ages. I can't gush about it enough.
I'm also surprised at how few people have heard about this game. I'm sure the EGS kerfuffle had a bit to do with it, and the Outer Wilds/World confusion probably isn't doing it any favors, but I really hope it picks up more steam when, uh, it releases on Steam. This game needs to be played!!
God that last bit at that ending got me so hard, i was waiting for it the whole game and when it happened it was perfect.
getting the band back and playing the song together
For sure. I'm only a small way into the game but I'm already deeply impressed. It is a truly amazing experience.
Guys I just started this for the first time and it's unnerving and intimidating all at once. Do I just keep blowing it until something clicks?
is this one of those games where I explore a planet and then have to backtrack once something is revealed on a different planet?
is this one of those games where I explore a planet and then have to backtrack once something is revealed on a different planet?
How far in are you? How do you enjoy your journey so far?
There's definitely scary things you see on different planets, so the unnerving feeling will likely stay with you.
The game definitely needs you to visit and try a lot of things, sometimes over several visits. I guess you can call it backtracking, but the amount needed depends on your way of exploring things. You'll get better with that over time. There's a ship log that keeps track of your discoveries so far, and will point you to places that still hold secrets.
I just booted it up for first time yesterday. Having a hard time controlling the ship much less land on a planet. Managed to land on two different planets one with the sand storm orbiting around it and the other with a giant fish that lives in the center. Died 5 mins on each after landing. All I'm doing is dying really.
I'd recommend flying to The Attlerock, the moon of your home planet first. It has much less ways to die than all the other places you can explore so is a good place to get used to the traversal. Also, an essential part of the game is dying, I probably died 100s of times before getting to the end of the game so don't beat yourself up too much about that. Just take your time and translate everything you can find; that will add information to your ship's log that maps everything out which makes it easier to identify the important facts.
No problem! Best of luck getting started - I hope it clicks with you!
Remember to press A or whichever keyboard key it is to match speed and align your ship with whatever you are approaching, it will help greatly with landing.
Hold the right shoulder button and use R stick to rotate your ship.
The game has a anti-gravity tutorial in one of the caves on Timber Hearth, but it never tells you that most of the controls you learn there also work when on your ship.
And yeah, flying the ship feels a bit wonky, the Hearthians space program is not exactly the most advanced in the universe. :D
Oh. My god guys. Things finally clicking. First main planet I've been exploring is greater deep.
I really don't have the patience for this game, unfortunately, so I've decided to just leave it be. All my fault as I tend to get stressed really easily when I don't really know what to do and I don't want to do the game a disservice by looking up a guide for every step. It's a shame as I loved the original demo but, now that the game has an actual ending and more goals and puzzles to achieve, I'm simply not enjoying it :(
Finally wrapped it up, and this game was phenomenal; still have questions though.. spoilers, obv, so masked as no one should be spoiled on this amazing game:
- Is the interloper responsible for destroying the sun in an accelerated fashion?
- The journey through the game indicates that the Nomai believe the universe is ending. Their computers and sensors show readouts that the Hearthian star is at the natural end of it's life cycle.
- Yet, when you begin the game the sun appears to be quite stable, yellow and not a red giant, and the Hearthian scientists believe that while their star will nova one day, it is in the far distant future.
- The end begins when the Interloper crashes into the sun. We know that the Interloper is full of ghost matter, at least enough to blanket the entire solar system.
- But, the interloper is not new. It has been there a long time, long enough it is on the paper star charts along with all of the other planets.
- Was it crashed into the sun deliberately by the Ash Twin project to begin the supernova? Or was the sun already naturally dying and its larger size and altered gravity account for the Interlopers course change, causing it to impact the sun unrelated to causing the star to collapse?
- What killed the Nomai?
- The stories happened so long ago, that it seems like you should believe they simply went extinct, or maybe even that they had found a way to leave the system and join the nomads.
- Yet. everywhere you go, all over the ruins, dead Nomai are everywhere. Laying in beds. Sitting at tables or workbenches. Floating in space suits. It's like some calamity struck them all down at once, unexpectedly.
- Who had the third Nomai mask in the Ash Twin core?
- Most masks are dark, but 3 are lit:
- One for the player.
- One for Gabbro on Giants Deep.
- One for...? I used to think it was Solanum. But, she is neither alive nor dead, in a place without time? I suppose there is no one else it could be, but it seems like it doesn't quite fit.
- Most masks are dark, but 3 are lit:
- Is the interloper responsible for destroying the sun in an accelerated fashion?
- The Nomai tried to blow up the Sun and trigger the Ash Twin Project using the Sun Station but it was a failure. The Interloper arrived shortly after this (which I'll get to below).
- The Interloper actually has nothing to do with the supernova the Sun has just gotten older and is dying. In fact all the stars in the solar system are dying and if you talk to (I think?) Chert later in a loop he will tell you that he can see stars dying and you can tell him the Sun is dying as well. This will make him very sad and he won't talk to you again in that loop. The Sun is actually growing and becoming a darker red throughout each loop and you're right that it becomes large enough to alter the path of the Interloper.
- What killed the Nomai?
- The Nomai were killed when the object containing the ghost matter exploded in the Interloper and spread ghost matter across the solar system. It's implied the Hearthians survived because they were still aquatic creatures at the time and ghost matter isn't able to penetrate water.
- Who had the third Nomai mask in the Ash Twin core?
- The third mask is for the probe that sends the location of the Eye back after each loop.
I love this game so so much.
Quick question though I seem to have a clock that counts down every time I restart and there is a big whooshing noise and lots of rumble and I die. I'm assuming there is no way to avoid that right?
Quick question though I seem to have a clock that counts down every time I restart and there is a big whooshing noise and lots of rumble and I die. I'm assuming there is no way to avoid that right?
You will probably soon find out how your question ties into all the other mysteries. For now just keep an eye on the clock and your surrounding, until you have a better idea of why this happens.
Thanks.
I'm kind of knocked on my ass with how amazing this game is