I'm starting to feel like I should've waited for this to be $10. There doesn't seem to be any Fez-like zeitgeist around the game beyond puzzle solutions, and I've got a feeling I'm gonna have to look up the answers to most of these any way. It's not deep, it's just hard, But there aren't any FAQs up yet, so I'm just banging my head around this obtuse, nonsensical puzzles with no idea of what to do.
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Disaster Nebraska
Banned
Probably was distracted by the ambient noise of my children, then. I'll play with headphones and that should help. Lol
goldsoundz
Member
Made it through 17 puzzles before I had to turn the game off from motion sickness. Edited FOV prior to playing and that didn't help. My head is killing me. Half-Life 1&2 are the only other games to have this effect on me.
Gold_Loot
Member
... About that...
Dusktildawn48
Member
This game is crazy fun. just wish i could turn up the sensitivity on the controller
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
What's your resolution and what did you change it to?
Yeesh. Try the Steam forum. There's a dedicated tech support subform and the developers are pretty active: http://steamcommunity.com/app/210970/discussions/3/
Is the controller sensitivity way too low on consoles as well? Takes ages for your character to turn around in the PC version. I just use the mouse.
-MD-
Member
What's the deal with this puzzle? Is the answer in the area or elsewhere? I did all the other ones in that area but I can't figure this one out, and it looks incredibly simple.
cr_blah_blah
Member
It's so you can't brute force an answer. Well you can but the punishment is you have to input the answer for the last one repeatedly too.
Shiiiiit. I did a puzzle by accident.
Spoilers for a building full of plants:
Seen here. What was I supposed to actually do there? It can just be spelled out to me since I got through it already.
Yes, sensitivity is super low on PS4 and it can't be altered.
Spoilers for a building full of plants:
If you've been here you know all the color based puzzles, which I got through...but I messed up at the part with the elevator. As I rose up the different floors, one of them has the wire cut in half which stops you from moving up, and I wasn't sure what to do there yet. I tried to just do the other floors answers but ended up doing one that put me on the floor above the cut wire.
Seen here. What was I supposed to actually do there? It can just be spelled out to me since I got through it already.
Yes, sensitivity is super low on PS4 and it can't be altered.
Belgian Dude
Member
It's harder than it looks because it begins to go beyond the panel. Take a look at the whole panel, stand and all
That one took me a while. Each floor has different lighting and changes the colors on the panel; the floor right below the cut wire is blue/green and you can see through the ceiling that the floor of the cut wire is entirely green. So your solution is to get the colors of the blue floor and see which will turn white in green lighting. (Color subtraction and all)
That's the answer - the stand of the panel is tilted towards the rock, as if the panel was forcefully changed.
I used the rock grouping to the right as a reference, and that worked.
arts&crafts
Member
I spent half an hour on this puzzle and I think I know what to do but it doesnt seem to work.
There is a house with a tree inside and 4 panels. Once you turn the panels on I used the branches to show me where the line should go. The first 2 that worked fine but the 3rd I am looking into the branches in EVERY possible angle and there is no route!
LordAmused
Member
A second (?) patch has downloaded on my Steam.
Can anybody confirm?
Can anybody confirm?
I've resorted to using my ipad to solve invisible line puzzles :lol
https://twitter.com/TheFlandy/status/692140580109950976
https://twitter.com/TheFlandy/status/692140580109950976
therealminime
Member
This game is going to make everyone look crazy. I've just started drawing things out too. Looking forward to seeing what things are like in 40 hours.
Vigilant Walrus
Member
If I've not played Portal 1 and 2, and The Talos Principle, and Antichamber should I play those before I play The Witness?
You got stuck on the trees man haha. Not sure you can really talk.
Belgian Dude
Member
Instead of looking for a path, one of the joints of the branches will look like a circle that you can start from. I'm stuck on the very next one because I can't find a proper path, haha.
Their 'training grounds' is in the swamp area
TheChewyWaffles
Member
There's a problem with the sound. Disable 3rd party sound apps or, if you have 7.1 enabled, dumb it down to 5.1.
Speaking of which, does anyone know what the Steam patch just now was for?
yes
TheSlySoul
Member
Ok, I found a huge thing that can help with Tetrimeno puzzles.
You can flip the pieces
Belgian Dude
Member
arts&crafts
Member
haha thanks! its always right there...and I just miss it
TheSlySoul
Member
Yeah and
if you share space,the order of pieces do not matter
More_Badass
Member
So anyone else get slight Condemned vibes? I'm always half-expecting those statues to move when I look away
LiquidSword
Member
Early find in the first area
Anyone else found the audio log on top of the gate you open in the first area? Just wondering because I feel like a lot of people probably missed this one. Edit: the energy gate thing I mean. But there is also an audiolog on top of the roof after you go outside the tunnel.
Disaster Nebraska
Banned
I am playing on PS4.
Yep I found this one. It seems a lot of the guides missed it so far.
Some of the early panels only exist to teach you a concept which can then be applied to other panels.
Shrike Alvaron
Member
Secret about the windmill:
Anyways, after that I wandered into the village and promptly got my head blown off by not understanding absolutely any off the panels there. I sort of got how the tetris pieces work down at least. Then I wandered over to the forest and the puzzles there are fun, and then stumbled upon the boat from the trailer. Where will I go next, who knows!
Not the thing UNDER the windmill, but the windmill itself: So yes, it's one of those hidden puzzles. THREE of them actually! Getting all three was a pain in the butt and I think the way I got them may have actually been a glitch, but man looking for those hidden puzzles is fun and I wonder if there'll be any other that move like with the windmill.
Anyways, after that I wandered into the village and promptly got my head blown off by not understanding absolutely any off the panels there. I sort of got how the tetris pieces work down at least. Then I wandered over to the forest and the puzzles there are fun, and then stumbled upon the boat from the trailer. Where will I go next, who knows!
-MD-
Member
Press pause/escape and click load a game, it'll display it.
d00d3n
Member
Thanks
PedroLumpy
Member
I have a sudden urge to dig up the old 'Connections' TV series. Loved that when I was younger.
Yes but I guessed it. Had the last part ok I just couldn't figure out the first part - too fast for me.
Some of the perspective stuff is just awful.
Currently in the second basement level of the temple, with the raising and lowering water levels. Some of the panels are just frustrating to find out where they reflect. Slowly raising the water levels over and over wandering around the room trying to find the one spot where the screen reflects. I know what to do, it's just frustrating bullshit.