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The Witness |OT|
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Visualante2
Member
I just did it with
10 lasers and the result was the same. I tried decoding it but didn't have any luck.
Smiles and Cries
Member
AH ok
yeah that and secrets
I see where you are now
I want to finish that area when I wake up later
Smiles and Cries
Member
ok my bad, you did not say easy
I hated the music after hours of getting trolled and my eyes started seeing dots
RepairmanJack
Member
I actually may have to revisit the Myst series after this and see how my wife likes it after loving playing along with The Witness so much.
I'm 200 puzzles in and can't put any additional stats to it. Will I know, when the time comes? Is 200 puzzles solved too many solved with respect how I have no idea what that + is?
Wind's Howling
Member
Now those Greenhouse puzzles I absolutely love.
Amazing.
Amazing.
Don't worry, I think I was over 200 before finding my first + puzzle. Its better if you don't get told and find them for yourself, trust me
TheWorthyEdge
Member
Yesssss! A friend and I went through those. The
bunker
light
Smiles and Cries
Member
nah pretty sure you could get to the credits without seeing a plus
Smiles and Cries
Member
yeah those are my second favorite puzzles
I rank them like this
1) +
2) greenhouse
3) triangles
I don't love the rest for the pain they caused me lol
Quote
Member
I thought
there was 11
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah. :/ I'm 330 puzzles in, and I have no idea what are these plus things you all are talking about.
This looks trivial, and I don't recall having any difficulty with it at the time. I assume you know what the symbols mean, at least; if not, then don't attempt this yet.
Edit: Oops, I'd missed the top row. Yes, that one was a bit tougher, I apologise.
Start with
Planning how to lay out the tetris pieces
* Encompass the entire top row
* Go all the way to the bottom
* Cover exactly two stars
That's a reasonable start point.
Yeah. :/ I'm 330 puzzles in, and I have no idea what are these plus things you all are talking about.
I know the feeling.. I have some +'s on my savefile on PS4. But no idea where they came from.
Smiles and Cries
Member
Yeah. :/ I'm 330 puzzles in, and I have no idea what are these plus things you all are talking about.
GREAT! I am jelly
I think I maxed out
enjoy the hunt! XD
OrbitalBeard
Member
I do know what they all mean but I must be overthinking it.
Wok
Member
Interestingly, I am the opposite way: it took me like 10-15 hours to get the rule of these ones, but once I got it, I would just skim through all of them. I completed the swamp in 2 hours and just did some additional optional ones, but never got stuck too long.
igordennis
Member
What are these pannels on the ground with an orange "arrow" on them supposed to be? I have found and solved a few of them but they didn't really do anything.
Note my edit, I corrected myself - couldn't see the top row on the tint on a small screenshot. It is much harder than I recalled, but there's still ways to reason towards a solution.
A tutorial.
Smiles and Cries
Member
graph paper it since you know the rules already
those stars always make me second guess myself when combined with those others
opticalmace
Member
Think of ways to group the tetris blocks to make simple shapes. You don't need a crazy spiderweb for a solution.
Hippopuncher12
Member
Whelp after trying the "Challenge" about 50 times and getting at the last two puzzles multiple times and running out of time I am about to give up......ugh. Now the music that plays makes me want to punch things.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Thanks for all the help guys, I'll keep at it!
I'm stuck here too. I have no idea what I'm doing, although I did lift that ramp. Did you work it out?
Smiles and Cries
Member
you could always cheat
I like that area a lot so I have tried to refrain from cheating
those puzzles do troll me though
Controls, I felt, were a little oversensitive for those.
Study the first puzzle you mentioned, and try to understand why it worked.
The following indicates something about that puzzle:
Based on what you knew prior to now, it shouldn't have worked!
A further hint:
Notice the black dots. You don't go over them all. Yet the puzzle is valid. Why?
A further hint:
You may notice the 'wrong' black dot blink red briefly - that's standard practice if an element is incorrect - but then it vanishes. Why?
A further hint:
When the incorrect black dot vanishes, so does the new symbol
And an explicit explanation of the rule:
The new symbol rule is as follows: A segment containing the new symbol must contain precisely one mistake
That's the best way tbh, otherwise it's too easy to lose exact positioning and placement from memory alone. Too many times I'd forget a particular shape was overlapping, or a particular thing wasn't properly lined up, till I started using graphs and grids in Photoshop. I just downloaded the relevant grid's and paint bucketed the blank squares accordingly lol.
Wok
Member
When you talk about "Challenge", what is it? I got
, but did not get to see any
. I actually thought doing them would lead me to
, but nothing changed I think.
491(+59) and all the 11 lasers and opened the hidden cave with all the bonus puzzles
randomly generated puzzles from a challenge, except the two before the ending
an alternate ending
Goldrusher
Member
Smiles and Cries
Member
Wok
Member
It never stops! I have had like 10 times where I thought "okay this is obviously the last puzzle before the end of the game".
Smiles and Cries
Member
Suprisingly I got this in less than 5 minutes. Once I had done a bunch with these mechanics it was easy.
I am starting to feel dizzy with all the spinning. Two more to go.
Visualante2
Member
Caught in this middle ground, don't want to go into the spoiler thread because there's a fair bit I don't understand but not sure what to discuss here.
Current status:
432+56
The game was satisfying to play I just don't feel any real.. motivation to continue. Probably says more about me than the game.
Current status:
432+56
11 lasers up, 3 movies, only loose ends I know of are the tankers and the beach door and the stray panels. I know there is something under the windmill to explore and a tonne of hidden +1s
The game was satisfying to play I just don't feel any real.. motivation to continue. Probably says more about me than the game.
I guess the most demoralising part is not knowing how long I will be searching to make a new discovery. It could be 1 hour it could be 30 hours until the next breakthrough
Wok
Member
Remembrance
Member
If you need a place to get started:
there is something at the mountain you haven't activated yet.
RoninChaos
Member
I haven't picked this up yet but I'm interested. Is there a point to all of it? Is there a plot? I could see myself getting super irritated if I finished the game and it had no pay off at all.
Wait, are you saying you only have to solve
two of the triangle puzzles in that shitty maze room? I've given that challenge half a dozen runs and just solved two of them on my last try, and spent my remaining time running around looking for a third one. Figured there was no way they'd let you get out of there with less than three puzzles. Was I supposed to just move on?
I hate that goddamn room. The rest of the challenge feels fair, but that one is just shitty, frustrating guesswork.
On the section before that, where you have two sets of three puzzles and you can solve any one of them to continue: does it feel like only one of them is meant to be solved and the other two are red herrings? I feel like I always flip between the three until I find one that has an obvious solution; usually the other two seem too tricky to solve in the time limit (if they can be solved at all?).
Also I found the podium that looks like it'll have another hex pattern in it but instead has a triangle puzzle sketched out on paper. Should I know what I'm supposed to do with that, or have I missed something?
I hate that goddamn room. The rest of the challenge feels fair, but that one is just shitty, frustrating guesswork.
On the section before that, where you have two sets of three puzzles and you can solve any one of them to continue: does it feel like only one of them is meant to be solved and the other two are red herrings? I feel like I always flip between the three until I find one that has an obvious solution; usually the other two seem too tricky to solve in the time limit (if they can be solved at all?).
Also I found the podium that looks like it'll have another hex pattern in it but instead has a triangle puzzle sketched out on paper. Should I know what I'm supposed to do with that, or have I missed something?
arts&crafts
Member
Question really early game:
Right outside the starting area there is a a little shed with 4 puzzles on it. Is there any point to these puzzles? I did them but nothing happens, I feel like the wooden floor should open up or something.
opticalmace
Member
I haven't done everything but I'd say
you won't be satisfied by this game if you expect a story. It's more of a puzzle game with small bits of fleeting narrative clues.