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The Witness |OT|
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Straight away, The Witness has already won an award for how long I've deliberated over getting a game. I finally caved in last night.
I started playing around midnight for an hour or so and finished 47 puzzles after stating I would just do the first few to get a feel of things. This game definitely cultivates curiosity.
The was one instance where I managed to solve a puzzle for a door which led to nothing but a pedestal, and another with an electric gate behind the starting area with a harder-than-average puzzle that eventually served as a shortcut to the start.
Both fine examples of how you think your intelligence has the better of the game, then it abruptly brings you back down to earth.
I started playing around midnight for an hour or so and finished 47 puzzles after stating I would just do the first few to get a feel of things. This game definitely cultivates curiosity.
The was one instance where I managed to solve a puzzle for a door which led to nothing but a pedestal, and another with an electric gate behind the starting area with a harder-than-average puzzle that eventually served as a shortcut to the start.
Both fine examples of how you think your intelligence has the better of the game, then it abruptly brings you back down to earth.
Select "Load Game".
The straight piece is not rotated correctly.
Hispanic! At the Disco
Member
Showed this to my wife and she's considering buying it to play on my brother's PS4 when we visit.
i cant check specs right now but the last game i played on my pc was dead space 3 but that barely ran on my pc. should it be able to run The Witness?
i cant check specs right now but the last game i played on my pc was dead space 3 but that barely ran on my pc. should it be able to run The Witness?
I know I made the broken line trying to take the pic, ignore that cause the other part doesn't work either
Again Regarding the Tetris again. I'm in the keep doing the floors. I don't get why this solution doesn't work (ignore the random green line at bottom, made that when I tried to take picture)
http://imgur.com/a/xbLhR
Edited my post.
You have to abide by the rotation of the tetris pieces.
Ok gotcha
Remembrance
Member
To reconfirm, we are talking about the green panel with a big L, a 1x3, and a pair of 1x2s?
If so, the pair of 1x2s must be spaced apart by two.
Oh sorry, this panel is definitely orange.
I think you mean a previous tutorial, which was certainly tricky but I managed to do it. (
The one with two 2x1 in the same block
Remembrance
Member
To the swamp I go then. Thanks.
Regarding that
if the pieces are rotated ~45 degrees does that mean they can be rotated any direction?
Rotated - yes
Flipped/mirrored - no
Flipped/mirrored - no
Yeah, figured that one out before I saw your reply. Now on the first step of the green path, jeez!
cpp_is_king
Member
Look at the outline of the shape drawn. In that shape, you can fit 2 1x3s and 1 4x1. That's all that matters. Where they go inside that shape is irrelevant.
Remembrance
Member
Oh sorry, this panel is definitely orange.
Is it with one big L, one single square and two T-pieces missing their middles?
Otherwise that means there are even more tutorials after where I am now...
cpp_is_king
Member
What do the +'s mean? Just looked and I'm +4. Only thing I can think of is that it's the number of black pillar puzzles you've solved?
Struggling with a
in the bamboo forest.
bird puzzle
I got the first few easy enough by listening to the pitch etc. but got to one where it just doesn't match up with the panel. Is there something else at play that I am missing? Do the sounds other than the birds have any relevance or are they just to put you off?
Wozzer
Member
Surprised by the sheer amount of players looking for support and ultimately solutions for the puzzles throughout the game here on GAF. Given the game is designed with discoverability being its forefront pleasure, and GAF is typically quite a hardcore bunch, I wonder if the non-GAF gaming mass will look for guides and instruction en-mass too and how that'll impact the games reception/enjoyment.
WordsintheWater
Member
Man I have never been more frustrated at a game and love it at the same time. I keep going back to it, can't put it down and now I see mazes even when i'm not playing. Some of them are getting ridiculously hard. I started doing tetris puzzles before even encountering the tutorial, took a lot out of me to figure out the nuances without the help. I think I am at 177 puzzles completed, but some of these have me absolutely stuck, I hope I can figure enough of them out to at least complete the game.
Yes, this one. Two broken T-pieces and one big L. And a single 1x1 piece on the top.
Oh, I'm sure.
Remembrance
Member
Two things:
The big L must go in a corner.
The T pieces must interlock with each other.
The T pieces must interlock with each other.
Otherwise it's impossible to draw a line.
WordsintheWater
Member
A small hint.
There's two wires hanging from that panel, try to get a solution to go towards the other wire.
NumberThree
Member
Yes it does.
If you still want/need a hint
...think of something you can do in tetris that the other puzzles don't let you do
No there isn't? Are we talking about the same panel? It's a white going in and a currently blank wire going out.
WordsintheWater
Member
I believe we are talking about the same one
Gotta get the blank one to the right to become white in order to progress. There's two possible solutions to that puzzle.
Belgian Dude
Member
My god, just found a puzzle that I missed because it was in the back of an entryway, lmao. It WAS obvious
Yes. So I complete the puzzle, there's a kachunk and nothing happens.
Quit yesterday at 75 panels. This game will consume me for days to come, I love it to bits.
I have a question about the maze puzzles I'm doing right now.
I have a question about the maze puzzles I'm doing right now.
I did the 4 regular puzzles, which unlocks the church tower, and now I have to do the big one. The logical solution here would be to connect the 4 paths of the previous puzzles, into 1 big path, but I can't seem to do that. I can only connect 3 mazes, a 4th seems impossible. Am I missing something? Because I'm thinking now that connecting the 4 maybe isn't the solution to this one.
Remembrance
Member
You're doing the right thing. Double-check everything.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
The gamma sign stuff is super easy, people's impressions made it seem tough .
WordsintheWater
Member
Both wires can't be white, you're hearing a kachunk because the platform is already attached. There's another solution that will blank out the left wire and make the right wire white which will move you to the yellow platform to the right of you so you can cross.
Family Fry
Member
So who's been down to the
Also It blew my mind,
Projecter room and watched an absolutely crazy FMV? WTF?
when I found an environment puzzle in the FMV!
Snarfington
Member
If you mean the
hedge mazes
glass tile mazes
Hint for the latter, if you are still stuck:
Leave the black dot to the left, start with the one above.
Trickster
Member
Could someone explain the
Well I did that, drew it paint, tried to use route on the panel, apparently that was wrong.
edit - isn't it possible to zoom out somehow? think i saw someone do it in a video for the game once?
pillar/moss puzzle in the village area for me?
I figured that you had to map the path where there is no moss growing on the ground.
edit - isn't it possible to zoom out somehow? think i saw someone do it in a video for the game once?
Stopping for the night. I'm at 358 +41 and am just about to finish a 9th area. Actually I basically did a 10th as well, but I can't seem to find where to finish it off at/activate the laser...
Progress is really coming along now that I believe I have every basic concept and symbol taught to me. Doing the town was immensely satisfying. Discovered a couple new things about the island that are pretty interesting as well.
Progress is really coming along now that I believe I have every basic concept and symbol taught to me. Doing the town was immensely satisfying. Discovered a couple new things about the island that are pretty interesting as well.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
Okay... I'm definitely missing something fundamental on this one:
This game is so strange... I'll sometimes look at a puzzle and immediately understand the solution. Other times it looks so simple yet my brain fails to see it.
This game is so strange... I'll sometimes look at a puzzle and immediately understand the solution. Other times it looks so simple yet my brain fails to see it.
Family Fry
Member
Yuplol i watched the first one
I think mines was the 3rd panel, it was so god damn strange and it lasted about 5 mins.