GlamFM
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Legos FTW!
80s Bad Guy
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I'm the type of person that tends to get stuck on a puzzle and refuses to move on or go to a different area and come back later, too damn stubborn. I've been stuck for a few hours on one and I'm going to have to break this habit, it's killing me. No help!
I think this game is going to keep me hooked for a long time, but I'm going to need to take breaks with other games.
I think this game is going to keep me hooked for a long time, but I'm going to need to take breaks with other games.
TheWorthyEdge
Member
God among men.
Remembrance
Member
1) Open the load game menu.
2) I don't know about the deeper secrets yet, but as a general rule you can't do anything with ordinary scenery around the island.
3) The usual mouse/controller button you use for cancel will immediately remove the entire line you've drawn.
4) You should keep an eye on the ground and generally look around at conspicuous dead ends. There is no order to the audio logs, though.
The swamp
puzzles are probably the hardest, but once you eliminate what's impossible they become a lot easier. For example, a
More generally,
it took me a while to realize that.
Tetris
tetromino that isn't close enough to a wall to be attached to it must be combined with another tetromino and not be in its original location.
More generally,
walls are the ONLY way to cordon off a tetromino group.
Ghostmaster
Member
So where is the tutorial for those star dots puzzles, I'm close to finishing the quarry but i have no idea what to do with these puzzles.
Out of interest, how did it go? Or is there another post in here where you said?
I'm wondering if my parents might like it. Not that I'm sure I can figure out a way to play it at their's - not really a big fan of taking a PS4 on a plane! - but still, it'll be worth keeping an open mind.
Remembrance
Member
You had to look at the light color on the floor above you, and imagine what that would do given the true colors you know are on the panel.
I'll be honest, I guessed and got lucky the first time.
I'll be honest, I guessed and got lucky the first time.
This is the most important advice I would give for the whole game, but especialy there. Solutions come much more easily when you start by eliminating the impossible.
TimeEffect
Member
That was seen in the trailer for the game, so I dont think it was meant to be hidden.
Thanks.
Also, hearing that you guys are using professional software like Photoshop makes me incredibly worried.
I dont know how to use that. I may just have to use ordinary graph paper or something. Sonds like some of these puzzles get insane
I went to three separate stores last night looking for a little notebook/sketchpad with graph paper (finally found one at Dick Blick, they had a whole rack of different sizes). There was another guy at Target looking for one when I was there, and Target was actually out of them. I'm just gonna chalk that up to The Witness effect.
Shadowcreep
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Shadowcreep
Member
The thing I did in photoshop could easily be done with graph paper or even just regular paper and scissors, I just had photoshop and no graph paper.
Accidental double post sorry.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Question for the swamp:
This is one of those moments where it just feels poorly explained.
I'm at the final puzzle on the row of four. It's the puzzle with the block that's like 2 vertical squares on top of each other, with a gap in between. I'm assuming that means there has to be two vertical squares on each side of the screen? It's this puzzle: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZ0kuifWAAA4fun.jpg:large
This is one of those moments where it just feels poorly explained.
OrbitalBeard
Member
You had to look at the light color on the floor above you, and imagine what that would do given the true colors you know are on the panel.
I'll be honest, I guessed and got lucky the first time.
I got lucky as well. I knew it had to do with the
lighting on each floor
LegendofLex
Member
markhimself46
Member
To clarify, are there tutorial panels for each puzzle type? Struggling to find some of them if there are.
I really do want to figure out the Tetris ones on my own, so I'll just ask for this one hint:
- In what area do I get what some might consider the "first" Tetris tutorial, meaning its most basic puzzle?
I'm currently in the area right near the beginning (that you get a good view of right when you leave the first area). It's near water with some tall lighthouse-like buildings, and there are 5 panels, first one has a tilted tetris piece with black dots.
Is that the right introduction area or should I look elsewhere?
- In what area do I get what some might consider the "first" Tetris tutorial, meaning its most basic puzzle?
I'm currently in the area right near the beginning (that you get a good view of right when you leave the first area). It's near water with some tall lighthouse-like buildings, and there are 5 panels, first one has a tilted tetris piece with black dots.
Is that the right introduction area or should I look elsewhere?
Hot Coldman
Banned
Four. A square of four, to be precise.
Ghostmaster
Member
It's a combination of the two methods you've been using so far to solve the puzzles in the area.
It's like with the monastery where you had to complete those four puzzles around the tree, you didn't use the same method for all four.
Remembrance
Member
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Elsewhere. Near the mountain
LegendofLex
Member
Exactly.
So,
you need to make sure that whatever shape you draw includes those two columns of two, with that much space in between them
Hot Coldman
Banned
OK, so I'm still stuck and I know I'm not thinking about it wrong
fuck
edit: EHHHHHH there we go, got it.
Visualante2
Member
I agree. Also that
gap looks quite big, don't you think? Like maybe there are two spaces in between.
Zomba13
Member
295, +72 at the moment. I admit, I had to look up the solution for two of the Jungle puzzles
and one of the Desert ones
.
pitch detection isn't a thing I have any skill at)
the third puzzle in the water room. I could not find a glare anywhere and was getting annoyed with the slow speed of the water
TimeEffect
Member
LegendofLex
Member
Yeah, I've noticed that it's easy to make small miscalculations even if your thinking is correct.
Remembrance
Member
You have to connect to two at a time, to be precise (there is no other way). And once you connect with those, take your line back out to the edge and draw a single square for each of the two others.
There are only two possible ways to do this.
I was actually giving a hint - sorry if that was unclear.
Visualante2
Member
you have to find it, not some key press
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yup its this. Took me a while to figure out also
Salty Hippo
Member
These sound puzzles are driving me insane. What is the general logic behind them? The rules change completely every 3 panels.
I'm currently on the red dot tutorial. Passed the first two panels on pure luck and am stuck on the third.
Read my earlier post.
You should have enough info on each prior floor and the ground floor puzzles.
if you can work out the colours of each square, then you can predict what they'll appear as under green light (red and blue will be dark, green will be bright green, and any colour hat contains green will be mid tone - something like that anyway)
This puzzle is my archnemesis.
http://i.imgur.com/vxFO9hu.jpg
Been stuck here since last night. I even made paper cutouts of the pieces to make it easier to visualize it! Nope. Can't find a way to make everything fit in that spread.
Fuck the tetris blocks.
Oh I think I know what puzzle you mean, here's a hint.
http://i.imgur.com/vxFO9hu.jpg
Been stuck here since last night. I even made paper cutouts of the pieces to make it easier to visualize it! Nope. Can't find a way to make everything fit in that spread.
Fuck the tetris blocks.
Oh I think I know what puzzle you mean, here's a hint.
zer0blivion
Member
You must have activated the bridge to get to where you are right?
Perfect, thanks. I don't feel like a total idiot now!
markhimself46
Member
So I found the map, but I'm unsure of how to read exactly where the tutorial panels (or the most basic iteration of a puzzle type) would be. Is it just the
symbol of the puzzle type? i.e. for the dessert area located at the top left corner of the map, is it the symbol right above it?
Thanks. That's a little obtuse because of the broken platform the
dual connection wasn't clear
Remembrance
Member
That's not that hard.
the two tetrominos on the side interlock.
Visualante2
Member
Yeah you're on the right track. I think there are probably some exceptions to that rule. You can learn things in different places. But it should be a good starting point.
Mister Negative
Member
So I just finished an area, the
and it seemed way too short and easy. Am I missing something? I'm now
castle? monastery? I don't know what people want to call it, the one with the hedge mazes
and it seemed way too short and easy. Am I missing something? I'm now
5/7 of the way through my lasers.
I'm the same way. I had to walk away from two difficult puzzles last night, and go to a new area. I'll revisit the ones I got stuck at daily until I figure them out.