Hello everyone. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend. I have been playing more Balatro and Nightreign, but I spent this morning readying another playthrough of New Vegas that I will be undertaking soon. Have a good week everyone!
Hello everyone. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend. I have been playing more Balatro and Nightreign, but I spent this morning readying another playthrough of New Vegas that I will be undertaking soon. Have a good week everyone!
I finally finished Outer Wilds and I wondered what the echo of the eye was because i missed how to do it during the game and even though I loved most of it i think heart breakingly that i cant be arsed to go back and do the echoes of the eye part. I did the whole base game without looking anything up
i complain a lot and spoiler below. im going to cushion this by saying if you haven’t, go play the game blind. I know people were raving when it came out but it should still be talked about way more than it is all these years later. it’s a great game and deserves more praise.
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except right at the end i was getting fatigued and looked up exactly how to get into the ash twin project because i spent over an hour at the correct spot (the teleporter that gets covered by the sand column) without guessing that i had to hide in the cubby briefly before walking onto it while it was getting sanded. I think it’s an incredible game but i feel like a lot of people just end up looking up some of the puzzles despite all the hints.
I really like the concept of the game but i struggle with some of the execution. Every time I was at the end of a puzzle and got knee capped by the time loop i was so annoyed. Some of the puzzles can be solved by dumb luck but im really hung up on getting into the ash twin. most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious. I don’t know if that’s good or bad but i think this sort of game without the time loop would be my favorite. if i just had unlimited time to bash my face against puzzles id be happier than being under that kind of pressure in a single player game. The writing is intelligent and funny, the movement is great too. Love the planets, love the art style. but i’m really torn about the time loop cap of 22 mins
Honestly I’m not sure how they could give you any more hints about this puzzle without just locking you in a room with essentially a copy of this puzzle and no other way out. The problem is you need to be in a place, and the physics of the Twins prevents you from easily being in that place. So you’ve gotta just figure out that the trick is to get to that place at the right moment before the physics can move you away. It’s a reasonable puzzle imo.
Echoes of the Eye is a really weird DLC that was grafted ungracefully into the game and I honestly wish it was completely separate. You’re lucky you didn’t stumble into it because I’ve seen a new player do that and it’s so confusing when you don’t realize that nothing there has anything to do with anything else in the universe.
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I think they “achieved” this with the quantum rock on ember twin. If you couldn’t figure out what to do with the easier to get to caves i believe the hardest to reach cave (at the bottom of the dried lake) spells out the puzzle even more explicitly than the other hints if i recall correctly. I resisted looking up that one and finally on a particular loop i managed to find the side cave at the bottom of that lake which is technically a stressful timed movement puzzle whereas someone who is better at contextualizing hints would be able to figure out how to teleport with the rock based on the easy caves. Maybe they could’ve hidden the ash twin teleporter differently or stuffed another hint somewhere?
that specific issue with that specific puzzle is a common complaint, I think the devs have said they would have handled it differently if they were to do it again
maybe someday you come back to search for the echo, they really managed to pull off the same feat twice
that alone makes me want to boot up my save
it’s both still outer wilds and also very different, but i think it’s a fantastic followup
Such a great game, one of my all time faves. You should definitely go back and try to find the echoes of the eye. Not exactly the same as the rest of the game, but still super fun! It’s got fun new mechanics to work with.
hint to find echoes
Look around more on timber hearth for some hints
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If you’ve already found the strange satellite photo, try hanging out at the satellite for a whole loop