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Outer Wilds |OT| Life, the universe, and everything else all in 20 minutes!
- Thread starter Jawmuncher
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Does it run well? I'm 99% sure I'm going to buy it tonight, just need to hear someone say it's fine performance-wise :D
(And this is just because I vaguely remember reading about it running poorly on Xbox, but now I'm seeing comments in this thread saying it's fine even on regular One, so I guess there's nothing to fear :D)
Aaaaand bought!
...in a minute, when I get back to my laptop with the Outer Wilds PS Store page opened and ready to go xD
Thanks!
Not really, framerate is quite is choppy even on PS4 pro, and in my first couple of hours I already had some pretty weird stuff happening.
First I had to repair my ship due to some rough landing and after repairing it, the thing flies away into outer space leaving me stranded.
Then, while I was exploring the underground of Brittle Hollow, suddenly I see the whole crust of the planet collapsing and then I'm teleported into space and end up like 20 kilometers away from my previous location and my ship.
Just, WTF is up with this game?
Neither of the two thing you mentioned are bugs or problems with the game. Only read if you want to be spoiled about mechanics: The first: was probably just a quirk with how the games gravity mechanics work, depends on where you landed and how and if it was actually stable. The second: the planet falls apart randomly based on volcanic meteors from it's moon that land on it, and you got teleported away because there's a black hole in the center
My recommendation: Just play the game, read the stuff it presents you and follow the narrative threads. The game is crafted very specifically to draw you from place to place, everything that happens happens for a reason. So just explore and pay attention.
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Well, I kept pushing and got stuck at the "Tower of Quantum Knowledge". I spent almost a whole loop trying to find an entrance, then the supernova hits and now I'm supposed to travel all the way back...
... yeah, this game is just not for me :( shame, because the first 2 hours were really interesting. Thanks anyway for the encouraging words.
I still wanna try Return of the Obra Dinn this friday though, since I usually enjoy mistery stuff. How does it compare to the Outer Wilds?
... yeah, this game is just not for me :( shame, because the first 2 hours were really interesting. Thanks anyway for the encouraging words.
I still wanna try Return of the Obra Dinn this friday though, since I usually enjoy mistery stuff. How does it compare to the Outer Wilds?
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I'm extremely jealous of everyone getting to experience this for the first time this week
Without major spoilers
You definitely did NOT just sit there until the sun went Nova trying to waltz up the tower. It is specifically a timed puzzle, and once the time hits it should be pretty obvious.
The tower falls into the black hole after 10-15 minutes into the loop, and ends up floating in space. You just float into it then.
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If you get stuck in the game, I'd advise just doing a different part of the puzzle. It really doesn't work if you try and solve everything linearly.
The answers to the earlier problems often become obvious as you understand how the world works.
A lot of the game is going "what the fuck was that all about", then realising about 2 hours later "oh, the aliens are talking about that thing that made no sense before!"
I haven't solved the tower of quantum knowledge yet, or worked out how dark bramble works. But I've found out a lot about dark bramble from other areas, which gives me some good ideas for when I go back. I'm also stuck on the missing moon problem, but I've found out enough about it that I think I'll know what to do when I get to the right location. There's a problem involving a piece of the moon on another planet, which gives me some big clues.
Sun station spoiler (fairly mild):
The answers to the earlier problems often become obvious as you understand how the world works.
A lot of the game is going "what the fuck was that all about", then realising about 2 hours later "oh, the aliens are talking about that thing that made no sense before!"
I haven't solved the tower of quantum knowledge yet, or worked out how dark bramble works. But I've found out a lot about dark bramble from other areas, which gives me some good ideas for when I go back. I'm also stuck on the missing moon problem, but I've found out enough about it that I think I'll know what to do when I get to the right location. There's a problem involving a piece of the moon on another planet, which gives me some big clues.
Sun station spoiler (fairly mild):
I reached this "the proper way" but did something stupid and died. Rather than jumping through the various hoops to get there again, I had a go at just crash landing the spaceship into it and got really close. It made me wonder if it's possible, and apparently it is - and you even get an achievement for it.
I've only noticed a very occasional drop in frames when things are particularly busy, but nowt to write home about. Bear in mind that my threshold for this sort of thing is much higher than the average ERA member 😂
Not inherently, no. There are a few areas with tense moments but there's nothing horror about this game.
Spoiler: You do not get any kind of capability upgrades. Everything is based on knowledge
Not on its surface but it captures the existential terror of space better than you might expect from the aesthetic
Oh cool if it just intense atmosphere then i dig it. Thanks for awensering.
So, the non-(potentially)spoilery explanation is that it saves after a certain event that you cannot possibly miss. You will know what I'm talking about., you just have to keep going.
The (potential) spoiler version is:
After every time-loop resets.
Thanks. Got it.
Any good non spoilery beginner tips? Rightnow it's charming but it's like "me, fucking up and stumbling around: the game"
Hard to discuss specific tips without spoiling. The spoiler that the person above posted is only the most minor of spoilers - it's the main mechanic of the game.
I would say generally, just wander around and start to piece together WHAT you might want to do, early on you get a bit of guidance from npcs but it's just suggestions, it's all nonlinear, but it may feel a bit more directed if you listen to them.
When you hear/read/learn about something, it will show up in your ship's log on your ship, and THAT always persists and will track what you've heard, what you've done, and when you've completely exhausted a location of new information. The ship log is the best single place to look if you ever want to figure out somewhere to go.
This game is so damn cool, it's just a bit of a shame that it can be so enormously frustrating at the same time when loops are wasted because of one small fuckup. If I fall into that black hole one more time I might lose my mind. I know it lets you warp back but it wastes so much time that it's not even worth it. The Ember Twin has been similarly irritating at times with its even shorter time limit compared to the rest of the game. Ultimately, the annoyances are a relatively minor price to pay for how brilliantly the mysteries unravel and how fun it is to stumble upon new discoveries. Hopefully it remains that engrossing all the way through to the end.
Also, holy shit that first voyage into Dark Bramble scared the fuck out of me. I found Feldspar the 2nd time but I'm dreading having to go back to find out what's up with the Vessel and 3rd pod.
Also, holy shit that first voyage into Dark Bramble scared the fuck out of me. I found Feldspar the 2nd time but I'm dreading having to go back to find out what's up with the Vessel and 3rd pod.
the game isn't super punishing per se because you can get anywhere quite fast and the progress is always saved and tells you where there's more stuff to do, but i am really surprised i saw so many glowing reviews for this game when it really does make you deal with funky controls and questionable geometry (stairs are an enemy) and the fact that you die very easily and often out of the blue. it's surprising to me that everyone i saw wasn't complaining about this pissing them off
i'm enjoying it and enjoying my sci fi narrative experience and hope i can do some cool stuff soon, and i am simultaneously impressed with and angered by how each planet has its own way of enraging me
fuck these in particular
i'm enjoying it and enjoying my sci fi narrative experience and hope i can do some cool stuff soon, and i am simultaneously impressed with and angered by how each planet has its own way of enraging me
fuck these in particular
Because it's really easy to learn not to die to the same stuff repeatedly. If you are, you are probably doing something incorrectly and need to learn more about it :)
Not sure about the control comment, I feel like it's one of the easiest 'space' control systems I've ever used, and autopilot does almost everything unless it's gonna drive you into the sun (just look at the path though and that's easy to figure out). Is there a specific type of movement you're finding difficult? We can probably help, but yeah once I was in the ship it felt smooth as butter, and walking around is just bog standard walking.
The game gives you some very basic objectives with the device that lets you hear the music from other people. Start with that. Go find one and explore the area, then go somewherelse. Start reading everything you can find and then review what you've found on your ship computer. Then just take it from there. Stuff will lead you from place to place and the game will tell you when there's more to find in a given location. Don't try to beat your head against stuff, if you can't figur it out it's probable you don't have the knowledge yet to do it. Just follow the narrative threads the game presents to you.
Beat the game a few hrs ago on PS4. I know recency bias and all, but holy shit this is a game I'll always remember, straight art. Has absolutely no replay value, but the reason is because you never aquire items, but knowledge. There's something so much more rewarding to spending an hour getting somewhere and be given information that changes how you thought of the games mechanics, rather than some mcguffin that lets you progress.
Also kinda ran like shit on PS4. 10/10
Also kinda ran like shit on PS4. 10/10
Why are ps4 players not talking more about this game? Even with all the hype and praise the game got in here it still completely took me by surprise. I don't know how they do it but the exploration is amazing, I can't stop thinking about the game when I'm not playing it. It's probably something to do with how easy it is to get around and discover new stuff to do. It helps that even basic the world is charming as hell, and the music is so so good.
I'm right here (and trying to avoid spoilers). I'll be raving about it once I'm finished, unless it veers dramatically into a big pile of poo.
Just finished it and holy shit that finale was something else. Absolutely loved the entire experience. Favorite game of the year, probably even one of my all time favorites. Didn't think I'd get that emotional in the end.
Couldn't believe it when I read Masi Oka in the credits.
Couldn't believe it when I read Masi Oka in the credits.
I think you might be misunderstanding the nature of the solar system you're in.
Help, I really wanna get into the game, but I feel so aimless. I love exploring games, but the writing is so obtuse and the exploring is so clunky.
I think I've played like 20 loops and filled the ship log a lot already. It just feels so unfulfilling.
I think I've played like 20 loops and filled the ship log a lot already. It just feels so unfulfilling.
beat the game
game is great
only downside to me is that a lot of the cool stuff is totally pointless (for beating the game) to go see and all the stuff that's required is prettymuch only blocked off by kinda random patience/awareness checks which kind of threw me because sometimes i was left thinking i had to solve riddles or travel to other places but the truth was way more simple, and that made me feel kinda eh
game is great
only downside to me is that a lot of the cool stuff is totally pointless (for beating the game) to go see and all the stuff that's required is prettymuch only blocked off by kinda random patience/awareness checks which kind of threw me because sometimes i was left thinking i had to solve riddles or travel to other places but the truth was way more simple, and that made me feel kinda eh
I would hardly say it's pointless? I mean, if you don't see and read that stuff how you would ever decipher HOW to beat the game? The only major optional content
The Quantum Moon, actually does change the ending if you complete it too
This is my GOTY for 2019. Is there any consensus in the community about this game being terrifying? Dread was always looming in my mind for the better part of it.
I should really return to this at some point, because I bounced pretty hard off this game at one point (it had to do with finding some ancient settlement deeper within a thing and having to do this ridiculous platforming exercise that I obviously died in and having all that progress reset). Everybody seems to love it so much, though, so I'm hoping to discover the thing I'm missing about the game's appeal.
I think the one obvious thing is pretty terrifying, otherwise I found it serene more than anything.
I will say Giant's Deep also gets to me but that's not really horror so much as me hating the ocean.
The thing that gets me about Giant's Deep - and a lot of things in the game like the sand pillar or getting stuck in space without my ship - is how small and inconsequential I feel in comparison to everything. They all trigger my existential dread something fierce. 😂
Finished it. I had to rely on some walkthroughs near the end but what a game. I'll let it sink a bit but easy in my top 5. I will come back for the missing trophies and definitely re-visit these worlds and journey down the road.
Bravo Mobius. Annapurna, you're on a roll.
Bravo Mobius. Annapurna, you're on a roll.