No. Just the only thing that sticks out to me at
maze 3 are the shadows. Been staring at the rocks and hedges for hours and don't notice anything else. Yet.
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No. Just the only thing that sticks out to me at
I'm at the end of a long series of puzzles in the quarry. I thought I had the rules figured out and this last one is really a curveball. Or not! I can't tell.
I feel like either there's a new rule at play, or I never understood the rules in the first place. Could some kind soul gently point out of I'm just not understanding the rules, without giving the solution away?
I'm working the string of eight panels along the upper catwalk. I figured out that the three sided white thingy is what I call a "dot eater" - it needs one unique color grouped with it. And to solve all the other panels, I grouped all of one color in with the dot eater, plus one oddball dot. And it ate the oddball.
The last panel is a 3x3 grid, but it has thee colors on it. And that rule doesn't seem to apply. The groups of 3 and the group of two red dots all don't like to be separated. But nor does grouping the dot eater with all of one color and an oddball work.
The last panel is a 3x3 grid, but it has thee colors on it. And that rule doesn't seem to apply. The groups of 3 and the group of two red dots all don't like to be separated. But nor does grouping the dot eater with all of one color and an oddball work.
Sometimes I find it helpful to close my eyes and walk through a puzzle to get a feel for it.
Shrike Alvaron
Member
You mean the doors behind the
theater
It's a disappointment, honestly, just leads out to the cargo container in the town. However you get to the underground, that's not it.
Your understanding of the upside down Y is wrong. It has but one single, simple rule. Just play around with it more and see how it works...
I've done tutorial panels and im still confused on how the actual ones work. The shape that looks kinda like bird foot is wrecking me. And they just introduced more colors to the panel.
That one messed me up for a long time until someone pointed it out to me.
You're almost there but you're thinking about it the wrong way. It's not a
dot eater
mistake eater.
Try again with that in mind.
There was one panel I found super early on in a broken brick building, it felt almost chapel like, with plant life overgrown a bit on the walls. It had a basic 3x3 grid but no shapes/distinctive features that I could tell. And no discernable clues nearby, does anyone have an inkling?
There's kind of a "shortcut" to that puzzle and a couple other ones;
Count the number of squares the Tetris fill - they fill 28 out of the 30 I believe. Was able to do it in a couple tries when I realized I just need to leave 2 squares on the panel not encompassed by the line.
Also yeah I'm not sure what exactly it did, it's not part of the main swamp stuff and you don't need it to activate the laser.
How come you only have +1? Once you realize the trick it's easy to spot more of those.
Do you know/remember what caused the +1 to appear in the first place?
TropicanaTwista
Member
Any tips for what I think is the last puzzle in the
? It might not actually be the last, but its at least the first one that has a different outline on the panel and is also in the room with
sand temple
water and can move up and down
I rage quit that section.
I really enjoyed those ones. I've got a bit of a
musical background
That tends to happen to me a lot, though.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I had to get my wife to help but we could not for the life of us figure out the last one (at least I hope it is the last one).
Half an hour into staring at this one last, simple panel and yeah, I'm not getting how that symbol worked. What's frustrating is once I figured out what I thought it meant, I solved panel #6, which had stumped me, and #7 with no issue. And going back through, that same rule works for all eight panels with the
colored dots and the y-symbol in the building.
I'll keep at it. One more panel! Nine goddamn squares! And they defeat me, a ass grown man. :lol
I've tried grouping every type of
mistake
"mistake".
Belgian Dude
Member
Welp, just found a clever puzzle
hidden in the starting area. Not an environmental one, an ACTUAL one.
That is one thing I don't like about this game. Sometimes I can't tell if it's my fault or the game's. 99% of games make it pretty clear and I know it's my fault. But after I looked up the solution for the last
bird
what I was hearing
my ears?
March of the Crabs
Member
In my original, one of the L-shapes was flipped. This thread moves fast, I was in a hurry with my drawing.
Can I butt in here and ask
how that is the solution? I was stuck on that same puzzle after solving all of the other panels, except on the others in the series, the tetris shape had to be made in the same position as the picture with one of the squares in the shape being the one with the picture (if my terrible explanation makes sense lol). How come this last one has to be flipped around? Not sure what I am missing
I'm on the last panel of that set and hit a wall. I'm going to bed now. I'm addicted to this game.
CAAAAAAAAAAAW
Member
That's probably the one I was talking about, if it's
the million arrows
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
It
nullifies a single instance of a mistake in the solution. For example, a single mismatched square among a color
Just got my first achievement after finishing up the
puzzles. I managed to
. Took a long time it seems to get an achievement so I was discouraged and felt like all the puzzles I was solving were ones that didn't progress the game. So I was happy to get that first one...
Someone needs to compile some of these spoiler free tips into a spoiler free FAQ. I need to learn to walk away from puzzles I'm stuck on and come back, but by nature I hate leaving stuff unfinished so I'll just keep trying and trying and spend half an hour on some of these puzzles until I figure them out. I just started doing the
and it took me a minute to figure out that one
So far I'm enjoying this game and I'm so in a hurry to piece together the story and what's going on though...
symmetry
luck up on a pattern for the puzzles that activate that tv screen with the guy and the candle. I saw the piece of paper in a room, but didn't know what it was for then. So now I have two
Someone needs to compile some of these spoiler free tips into a spoiler free FAQ. I need to learn to walk away from puzzles I'm stuck on and come back, but by nature I hate leaving stuff unfinished so I'll just keep trying and trying and spend half an hour on some of these puzzles until I figure them out. I just started doing the
tree shadow puzzles
blocked by the door and you have to open it then run and solve it.
Try
to look at the branches from different perspectives from behind or front the pillar. Also the branches should have some sort of circular shape that you should align with the starting circle of the panel.
If I'm thinking of the same one, that's probably the only puzzle in the game where I'm not really sure if I solved it properly. If I did, then it's pretty poorly implemented.
Belgian Dude
Member
Yeah, it's the one.
After solving it, the floor right after the cave entrance changes and I think I need to do something with the flowers.
E: Yup, found it on accident
You have to fail the puzzle
open the indoors window panels from the lone small tree puzzle. Hint the lone tree puzzle has different solutions that affect the panels.
I'm definitely not getting it because I feel like that's a rephrasing of how I thought of it.
One missed / isolated dot, away from the rest of its group, included with the y-symbol. That doesn't work on the last panel, but it worked on every other panel.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
It should as long as
the rest of the panel is still valid. Does the rest of your panel have two colors in the same region? If so, its incorrect
Yeah, that's one of the game's problems. It's quite easy to solve puzzles based on what you think you know and not what is real. Sometimes the game makes that clear by shutting off failed panels and forcing you to solve older ones again. But sometimes it doesn't do that for some reason. But the good thing is that usually the last panel in a row will through a big enough twist at you that you won't be able to get all the way out of it without learning. But it does make learning harder when you went through the initial stages learning things the wrong way. Then you have to unlearn everything and start over.
Anyway, for what you're working on. If you want more details... That symbol is a
mistake eater, which means you need to purposefully make one mistake, use the lines to contain that mistake with the mistake eater. For the colored panels, think back to the black and white panels I'm sure you've seen before. Think of solving one of those wrong, then apply that logic to the colored panels, making sure to solve it "Wrong" so the mistake eater will fix it.
Aces&Eights
Member
Lord, it just hit my brain when I read your explanation. I've been stuck at the Quarry for 2 hours. This game. Holy crap.
Edit: Anyone know why the
Windmill has one of it's arms busted off at the tip?
There's no way this is harder than most of swamp, but I've been stuck here for like 15 min and I feel like such a complete moron.
http://imgur.com/a/Usxtk
Halp.
I know I'm overthinking this so much right now, I just need a push.
http://imgur.com/a/Usxtk
Halp.
I know I'm overthinking this so much right now, I just need a push.
Just give me the solution I don't care! Hah
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The treehouse section is such a specific homage to Myst. Its great
SomeOneInaHat
Member
Tainted
Member
Im guessing it was when I was at the top of the mountain, activated the panel up there and drew the line following the river ? It then activated the closest totem. I've already activated a 2nd laser, and it stayed on +1 so it wasnt that
brickarts295
Member
WTF
What the hell was the point of the green panels
at the
location. I did all of them and all I get are
-_-
Also I hate having to backtrack to a previous panel when you get the current panel wrong.
What the hell was the point of the green panels
with shadow tree branches
pink trees
drawing of hearts and veins
Also I hate having to backtrack to a previous panel when you get the current panel wrong.
These are killing me, especially (slight area puzzle spoilers)
when the bird calls turn to cellphone/cymbal/horn noises, and i have no fucking idea how i'm supposed to be interpreting them.
I'm gonna get back in the game but I'll post this question again in case someone far along sees it;
Should I open up what I assume is the end game right after getting 7 areas done? Will it make a big difference if I wait until after I've done 11?
I'm mainly just worried about stuff like points of no return or missing out on different endings if they exist. No manual saving scares me when it comes to end game. Trying to keep spoiler free as possible.
Should I open up what I assume is the end game right after getting 7 areas done? Will it make a big difference if I wait until after I've done 11?
I'm mainly just worried about stuff like points of no return or missing out on different endings if they exist. No manual saving scares me when it comes to end game. Trying to keep spoiler free as possible.
They must be separated from each other. I think :/
Aces&Eights
Member
I saw the same thing. It looked important so I took a picture of it on my phone. You just know that they are going to throw a puzzle at you that has something to do with those drawings. Also, did you see the
missing apple on the railing?
Woodchipper
Member
Fuck yehehea! I'm starting to get the hang of this, I think, lol! Quarry was a lot of fun! I love this game much, despite being frustrating as shit some times (a lot of times!)