Frag Waffles
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alright thanks. I'll keep exploring
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The Witness |OT|
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Dangansona
Member
This game came out at such a good time. Cool that so many journalists and gamers here are checking it out.
Some of yall are checking it out too much. All puzzles completed already O_O?
Some of yall are checking it out too much. All puzzles completed already O_O?
GatticusFinch
Member
Because I thought the lack of music was stupid? I was buying it on Steam until I saw the option menu. When they put out the FOV and resolution fix, I had planned to still buy it until I read people were still getting motion sick, but I can force a reticle on my monitor, so that's not a big deal.
But god damn, if that's really the "story" surrounding this game, the Paste article nailed it and I have no desire to deal with a freshman philosophy major, as they put it. Mark my words, the story in this game will be savaged on here, just like Bioshock Infinite was, a few months from now, if that's accurate.
I've calm down a bit on this issue. I think that it is interesting that from a design perceptive that Blow is breaking down puzzle logic to core elements and reverse things on top of that.
Zomba13
Member
Played about 2 hours so far and I'm enjoying it. Had a few "oh shit" moments when I figured out how things worked and to some other stuff. The game does, for the most part, a good job of teaching you how to do stuff with the puzzles at first being easy then harder and harder but I've found some puzzles I just don't get and I don't know if I have the knowledge to do them yet or not.
Like (very vauge explanation) there is one which I think uses shadow for the solution but I'm not sure if it's just that or if there is something else or if I have the solution but am putting it in wrong?
I guess I should just stop with the ones I don't get yet and move to a different part of the island. It's just I've managed to do the rocky mesa part pretty much in just "one go" so I'm unsure if every area is supposed to be like that or if I need to travel a bit to learn more.
I'm enjoying it though. Love the style and the bright colours and some of the... "story"? Or, voiced bits or whatever, I dunno, are interesting. Only issue is it does seem to be making me feel a little motion sick after 2 hours straight. I dunno what it is. Most games I'm super fine with, I can play CoD or Titanfall or Battlefront or field or Counter Strike or TF2 for hours and hours and hours at a time with no issue but some of these slower paced first person games tend to make my tummy feel funny after playing a while. Same thing happened with Grow Home.
Also, I'm taking screenshots like a motherfucker. Anything that looks interesting, out of place or like a solution to something I snap and save for later. Much easier than taking notes and trying to draw these things out.
Like (very vauge explanation) there is one which I think uses shadow for the solution but I'm not sure if it's just that or if there is something else or if I have the solution but am putting it in wrong?
I guess I should just stop with the ones I don't get yet and move to a different part of the island. It's just I've managed to do the rocky mesa part pretty much in just "one go" so I'm unsure if every area is supposed to be like that or if I need to travel a bit to learn more.
I'm enjoying it though. Love the style and the bright colours and some of the... "story"? Or, voiced bits or whatever, I dunno, are interesting. Only issue is it does seem to be making me feel a little motion sick after 2 hours straight. I dunno what it is. Most games I'm super fine with, I can play CoD or Titanfall or Battlefront or field or Counter Strike or TF2 for hours and hours and hours at a time with no issue but some of these slower paced first person games tend to make my tummy feel funny after playing a while. Same thing happened with Grow Home.
Also, I'm taking screenshots like a motherfucker. Anything that looks interesting, out of place or like a solution to something I snap and save for later. Much easier than taking notes and trying to draw these things out.
I feel like you are just dead-set against hating it for no real good reasons.
You literally have to delve into spoilers to justify it for yourself.
Fancy Clown
Member
I think it's just a
story clue. Someone else must have recently been on the island, because next to the fence is a knife with the branch and apple that was missing from the last tree. And then the drawings are all pinned with tree branches, and the drawings themselves are all nerves and veins, which look like the tree branches. Basically a whole bunch of line imagery, which obviously may be connected to the line puzzles themselves
That's what I got from it though. And I'm not much further than you at all, so I'm not spoiling anything, just a hypothesis.
Yeah that's what I thought of it as well thanks.
Is that a gated area?
If so think back to what happened after completing the previous puzzle.
Same here. I can't for the life of me figure this one out.
johnnydrama
Banned
This game, man. This game.
I hadn't been enjoying games for months and then this comes out. Been playing all day.
I hadn't been enjoying games for months and then this comes out. Been playing all day.
GatticusFinch
Member
The Wired and Paste reviews already spoiled what was on the tapes, so I figured that's what he was referencing, and he was. http://www.wired.com/2016/01/the-witness-review/
I had no reason to hate it. The only things I disliked were the lack of music being a cop out and the lack of PC options being bullshit.
Knowing what the "story" is now makes me hate it though. There's nothing worse than hamfisted intellectualism in video games.
cr_blah_blah
Member
What is the response you would like now?
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Dude, we get it. You don't need to keep telling us about how much you're not going to buy the game. Move on with your life.
I felt so damn smart during the tutorials. 20 minutes later, and I'm calling it a night.
Belgian Dude
Member
Try going back to the first ones and think about HOW you're passing them without getting it. You'll probably notice that you're failing them momentarily.
Did anyone go from the jungle to the monastery? Can't figure out the shortcut back, and already got the
honeycomb
E: NEVERMIND THAT WAS SO GOOD
Discotheque
Banned
wow this game is so therapeutic. i love how no explanations are given too. i'm just like wtf at some of the puzzles (within the first half hour lmao) but then after a little messing around i get the jist of it.
no text displays or hints or anything. it's great. played for a couple hours, the tranquil and colorful visual design are really helping too.
god damn this dude, he managed to make something so simple...complex. great game so far.
no text displays or hints or anything. it's great. played for a couple hours, the tranquil and colorful visual design are really helping too.
god damn this dude, he managed to make something so simple...complex. great game so far.
Just started playing, about an hour in, so I didn't get that far. My only question is where do you see the puzzle count?
I'm on PS4, and the pause menu only gives me the options to invert axis, subtitles and a slider for something or other. What do I press to see stats?
To comment on the game itself, I like it so far, but there are already a few puzzles that stumped me for a bit, so I'm worried it will kick my ass later on. And I probably am not looking and exploring properly, because all I found so far was one audio log. Well, maybe I'll tend to explore more the less I am capable to solve puzzles
I'm on PS4, and the pause menu only gives me the options to invert axis, subtitles and a slider for something or other. What do I press to see stats?
To comment on the game itself, I like it so far, but there are already a few puzzles that stumped me for a bit, so I'm worried it will kick my ass later on. And I probably am not looking and exploring properly, because all I found so far was one audio log. Well, maybe I'll tend to explore more the less I am capable to solve puzzles
you hate a game you havent played.
cool.
why are you still in that thread? you must lead a very boring life.
150 panels done, havent hit a wall yet. this game is good at making me feel like a genius.
Hit loadJust started playing, about an hour in, so I didn't get that far. My only question is where do you see the puzzle count?
I'm on PS4, and the pause menu only gives me the options to invert axis, subtitles and a slider for something or other. What do I press to see stats?
To comment on the game itself, I like it so far, but there are already a few puzzles that stumped me for a bit, so I'm worried it will kick my ass later on. And I probably am not looking and exploring properly, because all I found so far was one audio log. Well, maybe I'll tend to explore more the less I am capable to solve puzzles
Not a solution, just my thinking process:
Up till then the game has taught you to follow the light path that is already on the panel. After that you have to use the path on the orange board next to the panel to find the correct path on the dark parts of the panel.
This puzzle however is doing several things that are throwing me for a loop: 1. Two possible starting points. 2. Two possible paths, one on the tree and one on the orange board. 3. No obvious way to align either path (or both) with the panel, especially if you still follow the rule about first filling the light parts that are already on the panel.
Hope I can figure this out with some more thinking...
This puzzle however is doing several things that are throwing me for a loop: 1. Two possible starting points. 2. Two possible paths, one on the tree and one on the orange board. 3. No obvious way to align either path (or both) with the panel, especially if you still follow the rule about first filling the light parts that are already on the panel.
Hope I can figure this out with some more thinking...
thebigmachine
Member
120 puzzles in in 2 hours. Cleared the orange forest and the zone with double
It took a little bit but has grabbed me real good.
snakes at once
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Alright, I had a pretty good start. Cleared out three areas, the
This game is great
bunker, color swamp, and the mirror bluff thing
This game is great
Thanks. I was afraid I'll mess up my progress if I do.
A hint:
The light is skewed a bit. You don't start where you think you start.
More definite answer:
The light matches up with the circle on the right, not the left.
http://i.imgur.com/FXa58v5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FXa58v5.jpg
Belgian Dude
Member
This game is just so fun. I have found a decent amount of the environment puzzles as well. Some very unique ideas for those ones. Finished the Desert Ruin earlier. Was a great section.
In need of some help if anyone would like with the quarry area...
In need of some help if anyone would like with the quarry area...
the quarry area puzzles with the "thee line symbol"...I understand the concept of the symbol eliminating an extra item left with it...but this 5th red/green puzzle with that symbol is killing me...stumped.
Dangansona
Member
Can someone tell me what the rules are of the puzzles you start with and are on the first bunker door? Because I feel like I solved it the exact way the solution I looked up was.
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obviously you separate the black and white pieces, but I'm not certain about the rules about enclosing lines of black dots
LiquidSword
Member
So if you stand on top of the desert ruin
the sun shines off the medallion things on the ground and you can solve it if you look at it just right. It made all these symbols appear on the black monolith thing. Edit: You can solve the front of the ruin too, two different ways. These aren't adding to my puzzles solved though. Weird.
just make sure all the dots have been hit. You also don't need to just spilt the black and white into two groups, there can be more than that so long as there are not whites grouped with blacks.
If you go to the shack a little further up ahead, there are panels which teach you how to solve the black dot on the line puzzles.
I did, but I sort of reached of a culmination of too spooked, too tired, too late and too few learnings to try and deal with that right now. Good night.
March of the Crabs
Member
Was cruising around in the boat and discovered the
Later I climbed the mountain and
Not sure what either of those two did when I solved them but it blew my mind! This game is insane.
line puzzle on the side of the mountain that you need to solve while riding by in the boat and utilizing your changing perspective.
found the one in the stream.
I'm stuck on this one and it's driving me crazy.
Pretty sure it's the last animal sound puzzle in the forest.
Any help is appreciated!
Pretty sure it's the last animal sound puzzle in the forest.
Any help is appreciated!
Dangansona
Member
Yeah I got all of that, including doing the tutorial section which I largely breezed through. It just felt like I was doing exactly what I needed to for the bunker puzzle, which is why I ended up looking that one up. And then looking at the solution I asked myself "did I not draw that exact path?" so I don't know what went wrong in the end. We'll see if that puzzle element screws me up in the future, it probably won't though.
TetraGenesis
Member
About to start the game, came in on GAF to pass the last 30 minutes before getting home, see the statham 900p thread.
lol
Playing on PC though thanks to a generous person
Statham still fight in' the good fight, huh?
Those should be what the "+11" (or whatever number you have) is next to puzzles solved when you go to load. Those are the ones you have on the monoliths.