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FEZ | Spreadsheet Version OT |
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As far as I know, the text on the purple slab has always been in the form of tetrominos; you having gotten the artifact didn't change that. To solve this you need to decode what is written on that purple slab. For this you need to have found the game's equivalent of a 'Rosetta stone'.
It's really a shame, but I feel like I'll never solve this game. Which sucks, seeing that pretty much everyone else has gotten WAY further than me. I must have brain damage or something.
I think you're not giving yourself enough credit here. Some of the stuff really is some next level shit. It's a matter of having it click at some point or having a eureka moment of sorts. You also need to have all the pieces to the puzzle, like with that hall of rooms section, to be able to see the greater picture and solve it. The game does give a lot of hints, but you actively need to explore and find them.
What I did was just go by all rooms that aren't golden yet and see if I can figure it out yet and move on until I'm only left with the ones that I can't. At that point there should be a thread between the type of things you can't solve yet and you can look for things that may clue you in on what you now know you need to understand to progress.
The game is a complete enigma at first, but as you go on and you're piecing its logic together through exploration at some point you just go HOLY CRAP I CAN SEE FOREVER and go back to all that stuff that was there for the taking until you knew how to look at it.
I created a program to select a desired TimerResolution but there is a problem: every time a running application sets a Timer Resolution another application only can increase the Timer Resolution (lowering the value) from that point. So I can set 15 ms resolution without running aplications. Steam itself set the resolution to 1 ms. Although I managed to keep FEZ started without steam, FEZ also set the resolution to 1 ms so I only can go to 0.5 ms but not to 2 ms.
I've tested ArtMoney to modify FEZ variables into memory but after a lot of blind test I can't find any correct value to fix the problem.
I have a 2700K. The important thing here is that FEZ has judder on any computer in the world because the framerate never reaches 60 fps.
CambriaRising
Member
Causes stuttering.
Benefit? No benefit, only problems. 58 fps is the result of bad programming into FEZ.
I think it already has been patched on Steam, maybe multiple times.
Unfortunately, since it's Steam, no one besides Valve ever updates the patch history anymore so you have to dig through forums or the like to figure out what actually changed.
The problem is I already visited all those places, and couldn't solve them. I don't see how I will be able to despite now being on New Game+. And there are a couple of rooms that appear on the map, but I couldn't even find how to enter, so they are unexplored. I also haven't reached
the Gameboy room
because of the secret alphabet
I don't know, seeing so many making so much progress while I'm stuck with only 5 stupid anti-cubes and 27 yellow cubes really brings me down.
The room you can't reach (and which you saw my screenshots for) isn't really a secret area though. That entire "themed" area is quite large and contains quite a few normal yellow cubes, so it wouldn't have make sense to have such a large number of yellow cubes "gated" behind a difficult to access area.
I think you're not looking hard enough to find the entrance. To be fair, the entrance is a bit unusual (but still in plain sight and not requiring unusual means to access).
Here's a fairly non-spoilerish clue on what the entrance looks like.
Is the last cube bit really well hidden behind a secret or something? There are a few rooms gated by a puzzle I can't get by but otherwise I'm sitting at 31 cubes and 7 bits.
Trying to figure out the crypt puzzle with the four treasure maps which is all I have left of those. Guessing I need to figure out
Trying to figure out the crypt puzzle with the four treasure maps which is all I have left of those. Guessing I need to figure out
the alphabet to proceed? I think I've cleared all the tetromino ones now.
Are the artifacts (I'm missing one, I have the green, red and book) supposed to help aid with translation somehow? I can't seem to find a rosetta stone for numbers/letters or I'm clearly missing something right in front of me.
Are the artifacts (I'm missing one, I have the green, red and book) supposed to help aid with translation somehow? I can't seem to find a rosetta stone for numbers/letters or I'm clearly missing something right in front of me.
ComputerMKII
Banned
Do you have to find ALL the cubes to finish the game? I feel like it's gonna be super hard.
You may want to revisit the room where you got the Writing Cube for the "Rosetta stone" for the alphabet...
Same here.
I also have the entire world explored except for some areas that I can't access, but while spinning around, I could have sworn I saw some things underwater, even though Gomez seemingly can't dive. Also, that one area with the the big waterfall seems to have a lot of secrets, and there's plainly a door behind the waterfall, but it can't be entered for some reason.
Shit, is that the green one or the book? Because I cannot remember where I picked up the green cube if so...
This is an early on question in the first few hours. What determines if you can open the doors with two staggered blocks on them, like this (* for padding)?
I think
Code:
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it might have to do with how many cube bits I have in an area, but I'm almost certain that having more than 2 isn't enough. Do you need all 8?
What determines being able to open those is finding the other door it leads to, as they're special warp doors.
Go back to the waterfall and go in to the door on the very top of it, inside the small tree.
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Deleted member 125677
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Phils Fishs twitter said:
lol. He is the Jim Morrison of gaming.
https://twitter.com/PHIL_FISH/status/330387980458000384
That's good to hear. So are all the technical issues done away with?
Found it but the slab with 4 different messages is racking my head.
Probably gonna try the numbers/counting one first but I'm looking at the room and I can't really deduce much
I assume the symbols correlate to the die, except they are flipped, so they have to have a different value to them depending on how they are aligned? Doesn't seem to be clear since two sides, one is a cross and one is empty, so orientation might not be the case?
I keep saying some weird 3 symbol equation = the square with a cross in it, not sure what it means right now. If it's numbers it doesn't seem to make much sense either.
There is that planetary model a room back, the planet and moon and star and the other thing all have what I assume are numbers written on them, but the planet (earthlike one) seems to have different ones on different faces, maybe the same with the sun when I looked at it.
I did go back to the classroom that had the counting artifact laid out flat, though I can't see the connection just yet
I keep saying some weird 3 symbol equation = the square with a cross in it, not sure what it means right now. If it's numbers it doesn't seem to make much sense either.
There is that planetary model a room back, the planet and moon and star and the other thing all have what I assume are numbers written on them, but the planet (earthlike one) seems to have different ones on different faces, maybe the same with the sun when I looked at it.
I did go back to the classroom that had the counting artifact laid out flat, though I can't see the connection just yet
Not quite sure where to go from there just yet.
SolidsnackooFoxhound
Banned
This is the OT. I'm gonna delete this cause i dont want to shit this thread up. Sorry.
No, I've still had problem. I'm just saying some stuff could have been fixed and unfortunately I have no idea what since it's either on a forum somewhere or not announced.
You can test this workaround to avoid judder in FEZ
http://maldotex.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/smoother-fez.html
http://maldotex.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/smoother-fez.html
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I guess I don't have a
translator yet because I can't read the strange wording yet. Also I haven't deciphered the Tetrominos either.
I did get 32 cubes and saw the ending. I started a New Game + from my game file and it started me out with all my collected cubes but no abilities until I did the tutorial again and regained the rotate ability as well as the first person mode. I guess I can keep playing this same game until I get all 64? What would have happened if I just picked New Game instead of + after seeing the credits? Would I have still started with the 32 I had?
First Person mode is weird. The view is fisheyed and the world stops when you enter it. Shame it can't keep running. Even if you can't move, it'd be nice if everyone else did.
I did get 32 cubes and saw the ending. I started a New Game + from my game file and it started me out with all my collected cubes but no abilities until I did the tutorial again and regained the rotate ability as well as the first person mode. I guess I can keep playing this same game until I get all 64? What would have happened if I just picked New Game instead of + after seeing the credits? Would I have still started with the 32 I had?
First Person mode is weird. The view is fisheyed and the world stops when you enter it. Shame it can't keep running. Even if you can't move, it'd be nice if everyone else did.
Don't speak for all of us.
Here's a few things I will point out that will help with the alphabet decryption:
-The Writing Cube is like that for a specific reason. I think you have an inkling of what it might mean, but see if you can find the connection between it and the markings on the column in that room, as well as other places with the language.
-I wasn't kidding about that room having the Rosetta stone, but there's something else about it that is just as important as the "stone" itself that will uncover the whole mystery.
-I wasn't kidding about that room having the Rosetta stone, but there's something else about it that is just as important as the "stone" itself that will uncover the whole mystery.
You're definitely on the right track for the numbers, so I'll offer just one hint for them:
the Counting Cube does not go from 1-6 like a normal die.
CruelTott has created a more awesome fix to judder in FEZ
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224760/discussions/0/828937546146648542/#p4
http://steamcommunity.com/app/224760/discussions/0/828937546146648542/#p4
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I still haven't figured out one last secret in Fez's village. The one in the
What do I do in there? It's the only non-gold room in the village.
boiler room with all the Tetris pieces on the walls.
Does it change when I figure out how to translate them?
Works for me! Thanks much.
Yes, but there's also another aspect of that room that you'll need to take into consideration.
if this don't break the game we got another humiliated developer, a customer in just one day fixing what the dev couldn't in months.
edit: wait, the "fix" bumped CPU usage from 7% to 75%... hope we get a fix for the fix! lol
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Another aspect? I'm looking and it seems to kind of be a key.
Each drawing seems to have a tetromino on it and a symbol. There's also a giant diagram of the big cube that exploded and what looks to be a skull with three eyes I believe I saw somewhere in the world. As well as a lot of other random sketches and a big "word" on one wall that has a symbol that the tetromino's don't have. (A 3x3 square with a hole in the center.)
the book and the red cube.
all the doors in a grid on four sides of a giant cube. But I do have treasure maps that do seem to signifyt I should go back there and actually do something.
The symbol by the Tetrominos is what I'm referring to, as it has something to do with how to organize them.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I am seeing that same "word", the one with the 3x3 square, the equal sign, the 3 and then 2 and then the 1, in this big room with
the giant cube and all the doors.
HoodWinked
Member
try using 1280x720
Are you using Vsync on right? Otherwise the game will run too fast and your cpu will be stressed.
You do have to translate an aspect of the game's language to make sense of it. In this case, it's not letters you need to figure out...
ChoklitReign
Member
Now that I've figured out the alphabet and directions
I'm getting the hang of this. I'm currently stuck in the big throne room.
thanks to IGN
I can see while flipping the directions on the wall. I thought it's RT 3x and LT 5x but it doesn't do anything.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Fantastic. Doesn't fix the stutter 100% but it makes it 10x less obvious. Now you really look at the background carefully to see it.
Here's what I'll say about that one:
There's another throne room, with a similar set of symbols, that will help you solve the puzzle for both rooms...
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Numbers!? So what is that 8,3,3,3,2,1 or something? (I already exited the game so I probably got that wrong.) I uh, don't get how that's helpful?
A couple where I had to make leaps of faith to find invisible floors.
that big room with the cube and all the doors. I tried going in the doors marked on the maps and then just random doors but nothing ever happens except I teleport to another door.
The purple ones require translation of one set of the symbols you see laying about. Don't worry about the other ones until NG+, but they do operate under the same principle.
I figured out the tetrimino stuff, the other symbols I have not figured out yet. I am already in NG+, I am only missing 10 anti-cubes to complete the game.
Maybe a hint about which world/section I should be scraping for ideas on how to translate the other symbols.
diffusionx
Gold Member
I don't.
Every time I think about buying the game, I hop online and see this dumbass jerk shit that he is doing and back away. This is seriously like the fourth time this has happened. Phil, if you're reading this, just shut the fuck up and let the game sell itself.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
Just buy the damn game. Who cares what the creator does. Notch did some stupid shit a few times too and people still buy Minecraft. Don't let the actions of the designers determine whether you want to have fun with a game or not. The game is amazing.
Oh, OK, I can be more specific then:
-Purple totems do require the translation of the tetriminos, but there's a little bit more work required to get those codes to work. Look very carefully at the orientation of the tetriminos on the larger blocks, and you should be able to work out the correct combination to input.
-The white totems work much the same way, but they don't have the larger blocks giving away to translate from. The combination is somewhere nearby them, so use all of your resources to see where they're at *HINT* *HINT*
-The white totems work much the same way, but they don't have the larger blocks giving away to translate from. The combination is somewhere nearby them, so use all of your resources to see where they're at *HINT* *HINT*