I know exactly which puzzle you're talking about because I had to do the exact same thing.
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I know exactly which puzzle you're talking about because I had to do the exact same thing.
The one with the (early swamp puzzle)
single dot in the center completely broke my brain. I solved it in about 2 minutes after I had shapes to move around. The realization that you just have to cover each block with a shape, and it doesn't matter which, so long as they are contiguous. My god.
I realize this is exactly what everyone was trying to hard to tell me a couple days ago, and I just couldn't get it. I took one day off the game, and realized what you guys were all but shouting at me, literally while I slept. (Thanks for being patient, I can't believe how obtuse I was.)
This game. This freaking game.
I think sitting back twice my usual playing distance helped me with that, if it's indeed caused by FOV.
Awesome work, thanks for the info!
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
I think the problem I'm having is that I can typically make it through a series of puzzles, but then I keep getting hung up on the final puzzle. So when other people would just go do other puzzles, I feel too invested to just give up.
MegaSackman
Member
Challenge, after seeeeveral attempts I failed the very last remaining cilinder puzzle because the game gave me the worst possible configuration.
Going to sleep now, pissed as fuck.
Edit:
And I had like tree attempts before the music went off.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
lol, I had the same problem actually visualizing the Tetris puzzles. I completed the area with extreme trouble using graph paper and sheer force of will, wish I had thought of legos
SirNinja
Member
I ended up solving one puzzle a very different way. Not sure if what I did was technically cheating, but I just had no clue how to solve it otherwise...
It's one of the
. It was pretty easy until the game threw a very nasty curveball by
.
I don't know if I was just tired or overly stupid or both, but I just couldn't do that puzzle. I tried looking for a pattern in
, and tried to figure it out using
, but nothing worked. I ended up solving it by
and it worked perfectly.
Of course, that wasn't the intended way of solving it, but at the time I was utterly stumped. What likely-obvious thing did I miss?
It's one of the
color puzzles in the building on the side of the mountain. There's several floors, each lit a different color and connected by an elevator. The color of the symbols on the elevator panel change depending on the light, so different solution-line configurations will take you to different floors
having one of the wires broken. On that floor, you can see the room above is lit with a green light, and you're supposed to just figure out what the colors are supposed to be next. A wrong answer takes the elevator all the way back down
I don't know if I was just tired or overly stupid or both, but I just couldn't do that puzzle. I tried looking for a pattern in
the ways all the colors changed between all the different floors
the different colors of the bell peppers (?) growing in the room
taking a screenshot of the panel, pasting it into Photoshop, and lowering the red and blue values of the image until the image was both sufficiently green AND there was a clear, unique combination of colors on the board. I booted the game back up, tried it
Of course, that wasn't the intended way of solving it, but at the time I was utterly stumped. What likely-obvious thing did I miss?
That's actually a cool way of solving it, I wouldn't really consider it cheating.
As far as the actual solution;
You basically do the same thing, but in game. Go back down to the first floor and look at the panels with the blue screen overlaying them and then back up to see through yellow and blue screens to see what the panel looks like under green. Then you can pinpoint together which colors are which on the elevator panel.
You can even go outside the bunker and look through the green window at different flowers to help discern colors/make your conclusion as well.
You can even go outside the bunker and look through the green window at different flowers to help discern colors/make your conclusion as well.
brianmcdoogle
Member
I'm working through the desert area, and I had to bruteforce two panels:
That's the most frustrated I've been so far (outside of some colorblind issues). Decided to take a break after that. I'm really curious once I'm done to see what everyone's favorite areas were, and least favorite areas.
I discovered the trick of noticing the reflections, but the top two panels, outside of the middle third panel, never had a reflection on them no matter where I seems to stand, so I just spent a few minutes brute forcing them. Where the heck was I suppose to stand to see them? Or, was I suppose to notice something else?
That's the most frustrated I've been so far (outside of some colorblind issues). Decided to take a break after that. I'm really curious once I'm done to see what everyone's favorite areas were, and least favorite areas.
Reverend Funk
Comfy Penetration
I beat the game and I'm wondering what this
is? Do I have to get all the
?
challenge
+'s
mullet2000
Member
Cutting out shapes for yourself really is a massive help. I don't think I could have done some of the later puzzles at all without them.
Highly recommended for anyone playing this game to do that. It's pretty fun to do, actually.
You need to
complete every area so that you have all 11 lasers pointing at the mountain. After that check out the statue holding a box on the top of the mountain and go from there.
JHandlebars
Neo Member
Really like this game but it's the first game to ever give me headaches. Kindly explained my situation to Sony and got refunded.
No, you don't. You just have to find it.
I just got in the area myself...holy shit. I was not prepared.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
It took me a while, but you can totally get the reflection on the panels, you just gotta stand in VERY specific spots. You'll need this later on in this area. Keep a keen eye for any sort of glimmer, because they are there. I think the middle one you gotta stand directly under it, and the left one is off to the left side.
Remembrance
Member
So:
Floor 1 is pure red light, floor 3 is pure blue light, and floor 5, which you can't reach, is pure green light. Floor 2 is lit by the mixed red and blue light from above and below, and floor 4 is lit by mixed blue and green light.
On floor 1, one set of squares (call it set A) appears black. On floor 3, another set (set B) appears black. So you know that on floor 5, a third set of squares will appear black.
On floor 2, sets A and B appear to have different colors. On floor 4, set B and another set, set C, appear to have different colors.
So knowing this pattern, on floor 5 you know set C will appear black.
On floor 1, one set of squares (call it set A) appears black. On floor 3, another set (set B) appears black. So you know that on floor 5, a third set of squares will appear black.
On floor 2, sets A and B appear to have different colors. On floor 4, set B and another set, set C, appear to have different colors.
So knowing this pattern, on floor 5 you know set C will appear black.
7 lasers to get to an ending. 11 lasers to unlock the big secrets.
^oh...
weird, people saying this game is like 50 hours for an ending, and im nearly there in under 10?
Yes, fix it. Whatever the hell that means, I sure haven't done it >_<
weird, people saying this game is like 50 hours for an ending, and im nearly there in under 10?
Yes, fix it. Whatever the hell that means, I sure haven't done it >_<
D
Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
Game is fun but man do I not feel rewarded for doing anything. I'll power through an area and do a bunch of puzzles and not really realize what I've opened up, what I've done, what progress was made, etc. Eventually I just wander off into a new area and go through a bunch of dead ends until I find the next puzzle segment. Often I'll see a new puzzle paradigm without tutorial and be confused trying to figure it out
Saw an audio tape and thought that would provide some narrative of what might be going on. After a few minutes I don't even know what I listening to haha. I'm sure this all makes sense in the end but geez I wish the game was making some effort to get me interested in what's going on
Puzzles themselves are smart and intuitive. Wife enjoys figuring them out with me which is a plus. When I get stuck I typically just leave the area.... Hope I'm not making life harder for myself by doing that. Wandering more I realized this area is a a lot bigger than I expected
Saw an audio tape and thought that would provide some narrative of what might be going on. After a few minutes I don't even know what I listening to haha. I'm sure this all makes sense in the end but geez I wish the game was making some effort to get me interested in what's going on
Puzzles themselves are smart and intuitive. Wife enjoys figuring them out with me which is a plus. When I get stuck I typically just leave the area.... Hope I'm not making life harder for myself by doing that. Wandering more I realized this area is a a lot bigger than I expected
mullet2000
Member
That's normal.
Those numbers are coming from people going for
all lasers
Of course, it's a puzzle game, so times will vary wildly.
Yeah, it was actually quite fun. As a kid I used to graph RPG dungeons for utility and fun (still have them laying around somewhere). This was the closest I've come to that in a long while, very old school stuff.
Yeah I guess. I got lucky in some brute forces on a good handful that stumped people bad and just figured out why it worked going backwards.
And yeah it's probably vastly diff for people.
Remembrance
Member
All six have been found, but getting them all will take some doing.
You won't be able to open that hallway, or get all the videos, by looking for them.
You won't be able to open that hallway, or get all the videos, by looking for them.
HeresSomeWeapons
Member
Oh man. THAT puzzle....
I spent forever trying to find a perspective that matched up with the
nearby audio log
s
thebigmachine
Member
Now in post game. Is there a reason why that first metal door right outside the tutorial area was open? I 100% sure I never opened it.
Bought this yesterday because I was really bored and I love logic puzzles. I'm starting to develop a minor OCD about solving all puzzles in any given area before moving on and doing them in a "correct" order. I wish there was a statistics menue or a map that shows you which areas you have cleared and which puzzles you are missing.
Also, am I supposed to figure out what all the symbols on some line puzzles are supposed to mean or is there an area that eases you into the mechanics that I missed?
I stumbled into an area with these symbols or 3+ different colors in the puzzles and I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do.
Also, am I supposed to figure out what all the symbols on some line puzzles are supposed to mean or is there an area that eases you into the mechanics that I missed?
I stumbled into an area with these symbols or 3+ different colors in the puzzles and I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do.
Really? I found that to be one of the better explained ones. :3
Unless you're starting with the sidehouse, don't do that.
Grim Patron
Member
Challenge question
I know you unlock a video pattern here but what happens if you just enter the patters under the windmill without actually unlocking them in game?
I don't really know what you mean by sidehouse. I started in the building on the left as you go down in there. It was pretty easy to figure out the first puzzle
lifted the ramp
toythatkills
Member
I'm stuck here at the moment. I think I'm right at the end but I just can't work out how to see the whole solution for that one with two rows of |/|/|/|/|, I can only see the middle portion. I'm sure I've solved everything else in the room though
Smiles and Cries
Member
it just works
I solved that pretty quickly, but I pretty much just guessed. Probably my least favorite area so far, never felt like I understood how the lights and the colored glass affected the logic of the puzzles.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The first part
you can extrapolate from what you see on the edge of the middle
the last part
I just brute forced though, don't know how you're supposed to do it
PayOffWizard
Member
Im enjoying the game so far but i just finished the sun temple bit and it totally sucked.
I mean once you figure out the whole
trick (which is really cool at first) its only a matter of
Which get really boring after the 9th or 10th time you've done it.
I mean once you figure out the whole
reflection / sunlight
finding the right spot to view the puzzle.
toythatkills
Member
Haha, yeah, I was gonna do this but I thought there must be something to use to figure it out.
ashecitism
Member
When you make the ramp go up with the triangle shaped line puzzle, pay attention what happens on the board. There are 3 black hexagons/dots on it and normally you'd need to go through all of them with a line, but in this case you can't.
Then look at those two results and what do you see? What was there before and what's now? That's the key.
Trojan
Member
Question on post-game:
So I beat the game and unlocked all 11 laser, but now I have no idea what else to do. I've beaten about 430 +55 but obviously there are still a lot of puzzles left for me...I just don't know where they are. I have 5 of the video clips as well and don't know where the 6th one is.
What am I supposed to do at this point?
What am I supposed to do at this point?
HoodWinked
Member
examine what exactly did each laser do on top of the mountain, if 7 did that then what would 11 do?
Can someone further on in the game give me a clarification on a couple of panels that I completed?
1. the very last panel in the white building that first introduces the upside down "Y" is
2. The big tetris panel
.
If these unlocked something and I'm blind, please let me know. If it's related to stuff that's not pertinent right now(I've got 5 lasers up), then I guess that's that.
1. the very last panel in the white building that first introduces the upside down "Y" is
what looks like that grey black/white panel that's on the door of the little stone bunker that's right off the starting path(the map is inside the bunker).
2. The big tetris panel
that's underground in the purple area
If these unlocked something and I'm blind, please let me know. If it's related to stuff that's not pertinent right now(I've got 5 lasers up), then I guess that's that.