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OrbitalBeard
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Just out of curiosity, is every puzzle required for completion in the town in order to activate its beam? I've been slowly solving them throughout the game and have been enjoying them a lot. They take previous puzzle mechanics to the next level, which I like.
Castle spoilers
Castle spoilers
I was surprised you only had to finish half of the puzzles in this area
arts&crafts
Member
Can someone tell me the solution to this? https://i.imgur.com/uVcBOs5.png
I have tried from a boat 3 different ways both water and not water and from every angle of shore.
liliththepale
Banned
There are a couple in the town that don't go towards the beacon, but most of them absolutely do. There's a tower in the middle of the town with four locked doors on it before you get to the beacon, and you have to solve four different strings of puzzles to unlock each door.
Boat. Move from one side of the dock to the other. Also make sure you've
opened the door on the container
OrbitalBeard
Member
Cool, thanks!
Keyser Soze
Member
I think I am losing my mind...
(7 lasers). I dont even think this is even a puzzle, it is just me being oblivious.
I have no idea what the mountain wants from me after I activate the box and the mountain top puzzle turns on
OrbitalBeard
Member
Are you talking about the one above the
panels you have to walk on
arts&crafts
Member
holy cow that was the hardest puzzle yet lol i just did it ,required some serious boat manuevering
liliththepale
Banned
You have to solve the puzzle on the
ground beneath the two statues
Smiles and Cries
Member
anyone a fan of the black obelisk puzzles?
If you are good at those I would love some help/solution on 2 of them
swamp
#2 mountain
here is an image of the 2 I am looking for
If you are good at those I would love some help/solution on 2 of them
swamp
I think there are 2 puzzles on the rotating bridge using the shadows, clockwise and ccounter-clockwise but I am stumped for the solution
#2 mountain
the Obelisk has 3 grid maze puzzles, for when you draw you path across the glass center room you go under and trace the path got 2 missing the last bottom one
here is an image of the 2 I am looking for
Keyser Soze
Member
I guessed that bit, but I am clueless on what logic the puzzle wants from me. I came from here after dealing with the
Swamp and Treehouse
Yep. I just did not get
rotating the bottom left pieces. I kept trying to follow exactly what I had walked before plus combining sections.
TelemachusD
Member
Is there a point of no return? I'm pretty sure I'm near the end, but I don't want to go forward yet if I can't go back.
baddvision
Member
i only solved 49, other than the first few they've all been a pain
no a fan of guides, to me it feels like cheating, there's no fun in that
liliththepale
Banned
What it wants you to do is not that complicated. Trace from the start to one of the three exits, meanwhile quarantining the blacks and whites respectively. The complicated part is dodging the statues and wires in the way. You just have to keep moving around until you can find a clear vantage point. Each of the three vantage points are very narrow, so you have to be pretty precise.
Yes, kind of. But it doesn't save after the point of no return so you can resume from right before it after "finishing" the game.
The maze and locations of the puzzles is the same as the 4th puzzle of the challenge run, the one on the podium between the first and second rooms.
Keyser Soze
Member
There's blacks!
For whatever reason (my dumb eyes, playing far from my TV, bad brightness settings), I did not notice the black dots. Everything makes sense now!
Thank you.
liliththepale
Banned
You need to take advantage of foreshortening. Each of the locks are solved from their side of the puzzle, more or less.
I have tried every possible angle already.
They're not solvable though, because the statues and wires block the only possible paths.
Remembrance
Member
For two of the solutions, stand so that one statue is in front of another. This allows them to take up as little space on screen as possible.
d00d3n
Member
I can guarantee you that they are, but admittedly that was one of the hardest puzzles in the game for me. Note that the angle isn't enough - you also have to micromanage distance to the puzzle to open up the correct paths.
crap monkey
Member
Can someone explain to me how puzzles with the white and black dot tiles are supposed to be completed?
what are you supposed to do in those kind of puzzles?
I've done a few of them now and they seem to be solvable by isolating the white tiles from the black ones with the line, but it seems like I'm doing that now for some later puzzles and it doesn't work,
liliththepale
Banned
Most of the symbols can be found on the map on the boat. If you need to learn about it, go to the location on the map where the symbol is shown.
Exception for the arrow(s) symbol. That's end game content.
Okay, I finally got it. Thanks a lot.
Quote
Member
When you say dots, do you mean
stars or squares?
A few hints, increasing in specificity:
This is obvious, but are there any other puzzle elements that you also have to incorporate? The most immediate "hard" example of the black-and-white puzzles that comes to mind in the early game also includes other puzzle elements beyond black and white tiles.
How are you separating them? Just making it so that they don't touch isn't sufficient.
The two colors have to be completely enclosed by some combination of your lines and the puzzle boundary. If there's an unobstructed path over the squares that can get from black to white anywhere, you don't have the solution yet.
d00d3n
Member
Devilinthiscity
Member
Enjoyed of what I played so far. I just don't think I can complete this. I feel nauseated after every play through. Which sucks because the game has been amazing so far. It's just not worth going through that every time :/
Icyflamez96
Member
Keyser Soze
Member
I do not know how much this will help, but it might..
Get a small red sticker, and stick it in the middle of the screen (where your crosshairs might be in an FPS)
Like these...
It can be really small (smaller than above), a few millimeters in diameter, but just noticeable enough to give your mind something to focus on, but hopefully without blocking your vision too much.
Once there is something stable in your vision you should not get sick (or as sick as you do get) when playing.
Reverend Funk
Comfy Penetration
Uhh I'm not sure exactly how to do the panel on
? I must have the rules wrong for the
but I'm not sure what they would be.
the door at the beach by the sun temple place
blue squares
Are you playing on PC? If so, try increasing the FOV through the configuration file. That often helps others with motion sickness.
The Witness calculates FOV vertically, not horizontally like most other games, so you might want to use this site: http://www.rjdown.co.uk/projects/bfbc2/fovcalculator.php
RobotsAnger
Member
Nice to hear I'm not the only one getting motion sickness from this game. I'm muscling through though, can't let those puzzles be left unsolved.
MrCompletely
Member
If my wife came into my office and found these sketches on my desk, I might wake up in a rubber room.
Remembrance
Member
Did you get all the way through the
marsh
If so:
Group a yellow piece and a blue piece together, and the blue piece cancels out any same-shaped part of the yellow piece.
They can be tough on their own but my mind melts once I have to start combining them with other puzzle mechanics.
Grinchy
Banned
lol I was just saying the same thing earlier, about how it looks like I'm trying to decipher some alien language on graph paper or something
TropicanaTwista
Member
Ughh this third purple
puzzle is killing me
shadow