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Do you notice anything odd about the ones you solved?
Requiring you to do a panel from behind in order to see the palm trees across the water
I'm finally stuck.
I'm at the logging site and after finishing one path where I had to follow the shadows, I'm now doing the one where you have to use the gaps in the shadows projected onto nearby objects in order to find the correct path through the maze. I made it to the third one of these but I just can't picture the right path in my head. I think I'll need to get some graph paper and map it out by hand.
Actually, yes. Just.
I assume the tri-pronged shaped has to be contained with all the same colour, except for one!
Direct Spoiler Below:
Number of triangles = how many sides of the square need to be touched with the line.
Doesn't mater what side of the square, just the amount of times it touches.
Doesn't mater what side of the square, just the amount of times it touches.
D
Deleted member 17706
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I'm sure I'm just too dumb for this, but I feel like the Tetris puzzles don't always follow the same rules. Some of them seem to allow for you to rotate the shapes, while others don't.
Take a look at the ones that do allow and the ones that don't.
They are different in a specific way.
You are overlooking something obvious.
I beat the marsh. I beat. The. Marsh.
That last puzzle was amazeballs.
Near-end marsh:
That last puzzle was amazeballs.
Near-end marsh:
My brain just wanted to curl up and die when I saw the piece that was a grid the same size as the entire board. 0_o
Noodled it out on paper and it wasn't so bad, but it took me a few moments to even figure out how to approach it.
Noodled it out on paper and it wasn't so bad, but it took me a few moments to even figure out how to approach it.
Ugh. I solved a puzzle, And I don't understand how...
http://i.imgur.com/ZnKuku8.jpg
Also, based on everything I've just "learnt" I don't understand why this solution wouldn't work...
http://i.imgur.com/1jYtG6Y.jpg
This fucking game man.
http://i.imgur.com/ZnKuku8.jpg
Also, based on everything I've just "learnt" I don't understand why this solution wouldn't work...
http://i.imgur.com/1jYtG6Y.jpg
This fucking game man.
tim_pkmn89
Member
Look at the bottom left corner
Yeah. I missed a dot. But I just completed a load of puzzles in this very room that required that I do exactly that.
Or do purple tri-pronged thingies mean something different from black tri-pronged thingies.
You HAVE to make one mistake, not two like you are in that picture.
At least, in this puzzle. I could give you a better idea of how the mechanics work for this set if you want.
Aaaaaaaaargh!!!!!
If you want an idea of what these puzzles are going for:
For what I've gathered, the weird triangle thing is like a sort of 'activator', it's directly what caused the lifts to move up and down and whatnot. The activator has to be placed with something it can activate, and it can't activate itself. The activator triangle and what needs to be activated cannot be separated by a line. One activator = one thing it can activate.
Them's the basics, they get pretty dastardly as they go on, though.
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Deleted member 17706
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The rule there is that
you can't have the black and white blocks in the same segments, right? No idea what that blue symbol is, though.
SmiteOfHand
Member
I just realized. Right this moment. After dozens of hours. Doing the hardest of the hard puzzles. That holding R2 (not L2 like run) makes the line go fast.
I want to burn everything beautiful to the ground.
I want to burn everything beautiful to the ground.
I can't even imagine not knowing that for some of the late-game stuff, oh man...
SmiteOfHand
Member
I did the challenge without it.
I DID THE CHALLENGE WITHOUT IT.
I DESERVE 2 PLATINUM TROPHIES GODDAMMIT.
Witness Late Game Run
I DID THE CHALLENGE WITHOUT IT.
I DESERVE 2 PLATINUM TROPHIES GODDAMMIT.
Witness Late Game Run
"WITNESS MEEEEEE!!!!!"
If you want an idea of what these puzzles are going for:
For what I've gathered, the weird triangle thing is like a sort of 'activator', it's directly what caused the lifts to move up and down and whatnot. The activator has to be placed with something it can activate, and it can't activate itself. The activator triangle and what needs to be activated cannot be separated by a line. One activator = one thing it can activate.
Them's the basics, they get pretty dastardly as they go on, though.
Thanks guys. I did it. No problem actually, once I realised I could only
make one mistake
But it lead to nothing. Actually, it lead to an elevator that took me somewhere I could alreay go, and a puzzle that I cannot solve. So I took a boat to a place that should be able to teach me the ruleset for said puzzle. And I'm stuck! These stars make no sense!
Edit: Oh shit! Yes they do!
me too, man. i am done with the game and i had no idea r2 makes the line go faster
granted, i used a controller on the pc and i hade the mouse setting for 2d movement speed set to what is probably close to, if not faster than, what you get from holding down r2.
ZeroMaverick
Member
Okay, I need a little more help.
My theory is that
Is this the case? I don't want to be burrowing down the wrong path lol
My theory is that
after taking the Willy Wonka elevator ride the game wants me to find all of the environmental puzzles and complete the black columns.
johnnyquicknives
Member
Holy shit. I literally just platinumed the game so came in here to catch some of the chat and learn this!
That ending honestly isn't really telling you to do anything. Also don't start a new save file, you can get everything on the same save file that you beat the game with (it autosaves before the elevator).
If you want an idea of what these puzzles are going for:
For what I've gathered, the weird triangle thing is like a sort of 'activator', it's directly what caused the lifts to move up and down and whatnot. The activator has to be placed with something it can activate, and it can't activate itself. The activator triangle and what needs to be activated cannot be separated by a line. One activator = one thing it can activate.
Them's the basics, they get pretty dastardly as they go on, though.
That seems somewhat overthinky.
My interpretation:
A segment that contains a propellor must contain exactly one other symbol which errors
Yeah. That's how I got through the area. Took a bit of nudging, but it kinda make sense eventually.
A little guidance. I'm not going to ask for too much, just a nod about whether I'm on the right track, or if not, at least which bit I need to look at.
Shipwreck:
Shipwreck:
I've been delving around with audio editors, slowing down, and things of that ilk. And I think I've broken down the droplets into three distinct sounds, which to my (somewhat ropey ears) sound like:
ML
LHM
HM
(I'm aware this is not necessarily the correct order of droplets, but I wanted to confirm I'd broken them down to tones correctly).
First of all: Are those three correct, and if not, which is wrong?
Please don't say all three!
ML
LHM
HM
(I'm aware this is not necessarily the correct order of droplets, but I wanted to confirm I'd broken them down to tones correctly).
First of all: Are those three correct, and if not, which is wrong?
Please don't say all three!
Yeah I have no idea why the game doesn't prompt you about the sprint button or the speed up cursor button. It's kind of a thoughtless oversight especially considering it prompts you on movement and the button that brings up the cursor in the first room in the game.
Not having vertical and horizontal looking sensitivity is pretty dumb as well.
Not having vertical and horizontal looking sensitivity is pretty dumb as well.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Here's a hint to the general approach of this puzzle, so you don't end up spending 5 hours, like I did.
Don't overthink the interpretation of different sounds. Don't chase information that is not there.
More specifically
When you hear a sound think of it as containing one pitch only. Even though technically a drop sound contains several notes in quick succession, think of it as just one sound with one pitch, which may be high or low in comparison to other drop sounds.
Bigger hint:
The same goes for any other kind of sound you're trying to interpret
Hey guys, sorry if this has been posted already but... any news on a fix for the glitch where you fall of the boat? I got stuck in the water and can't go back to the island. I load the game and the boat is already long gone. It seems to be a common glitch too, since I saw a video and a couple reviews mentioning it.
I know I could just load an earlier save but... I'd just done the
and my last save was from hours ago. I was loving the game but really wouldn't like to redo it all...
I know I could just load an earlier save but... I'd just done the
challenge and lots of enviromental puzzles
ZeroMaverick
Member
Correct.
A spoiler in regards to collecting them;
edit:
Doing all the + puzzles/obelisks doesn't unlock anything, as far as we know.
MegaSackman
Member
The triangle thing cancels one "mistake", in your case a black dot below the lower right red square.
What black dot? If I could see one, I'd understand.
Remembrance
Member
We need to make some kind of memorial for everyone who did the
without
At some point it deserves recognition.
Challenge
holding R2/RT and/or using the maze map.
At some point it deserves recognition.
MegaSackman
Member
Oops, I thought there was one there, It doesn't look like so I don't know what happened.
Remembrance
Member
The puzzle started out with
four black dots bordering the lower sides of the lower red squares.
In that picture
three black dots were crossed and one was missed. The missed one was cancelled out.
ZeroMaverick
Member
Okay. So
I suppose whatever the challenge is, I have not figured out how to access or understand it yet.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Is this what the panel looks like if you undo it?
When you complete a panel successfully, the triangle will do its thing and the panel will look different compared to how it looked before you solved it. If you want all the information you had when you solved it back on the panel you have to start inputting a solution again.
MegaSackman
Member
I didn't use the map, didn't know until I beat the game but I did use the R2 of course.
The Witness Challenge
That fellow that won the challenge with 0 time left, he didn't use R2/RT in the whole challenge, he probably didn't know abou that skill.
Where's the missed one?
Ah. It disappeared because I completed the puzzle? I see. I'm an idiot who should pay more attention.
Remembrance
Member
Actually,
telling you what to do with it would give it away. You will not find the solution until you know what you're supposed to do with it first.
Remembrance
Member
It was
between the lower-right red square and the blank square below it. You can still faintly see it if you look closely.
That's the thing about the quarry puzzles: they make less sense after you finish them because that icon makes things disappear.
That's the thing about the quarry puzzles: they make less sense after you finish them because that icon makes things disappear.
Gotcha. Cheers man.
boredJonathan
Member
Stuck at the same end game floor puzzle, if you wouldn't mind a tad more hinting.
I realized the above two hints already, and I believe I have a solution. But the problem is the solution requires the top right smaller puzzle's answer to be in the 'L' shape. Based on the configuration of that puzzle, I cannot for the life of me see how I can solve that puzzle making that shape.
What I wanted to know, basic hint wise - is if it is possible to make that L shape, or if it is not. I'm guessing that's the trick to the puzzle - that the top right one you can ONLY make that weird three block solution which forces you to come up with some other arrangement of the other pieces I am not seeing. But I keep seeing ways I COULD solve it if I could make that top right puzzle into that L shape.
What I wanted to know, basic hint wise - is if it is possible to make that L shape, or if it is not. I'm guessing that's the trick to the puzzle - that the top right one you can ONLY make that weird three block solution which forces you to come up with some other arrangement of the other pieces I am not seeing. But I keep seeing ways I COULD solve it if I could make that top right puzzle into that L shape.
Appreciate the assist!
EDIT: And of course, as soon as I sat back down I got it. Figures! On ward!
