There is one
on top of the gate you leave through in the very first area, where you wake up.
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The Witness |OT|
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There is one
Cheesewheel
Member
I've solved a couple of these puzzles but I don't totally understand what it was asking with me.
What does the angled tetris mean? I know what the normal ones mean.
OnionPowder
Member
Cheesewheel
Member
Same. Played a few hours last night and I can't really stop thinking about it. I'm going to head in to another room and get some graph paper to try and figure out a puzzle that had me last night.
Shrike Alvaron
Member
You're in for some shit
My head literally hurts and I'm giving up for the night, but can you or anyone else who's gone down the mountain answer if you can still go back to do puzzles you missed/passed up once you've gotten the ending and all? I figure you can as it'd be kinda weird not to, just want to make sure before I press on any farther.
Even if I'm on the path to the ending, I still feel like there's so much to do. The four other areas I passed in my excitement to see what the ending has in store, plus so many secrets...
Yeah, I got that from hedge maze 1. No idea how 2 works though. For now I just decided to run to another part of the island. I love how you are never truly stuck in this game and you allways can do something else.
Ninja Sharingan
Banned
got stumped for the first time. Had to put the pad down. will come back later
The quick look was great in that regard.
'Yea.. I'm gonna have to go play this game. No I don't wanna know any more'
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Six hours played and I just had my second save-file destroyed by a another crash. Fuck this. Tempted to request a refund because I don't dare to start from square one again because there's a risk that my progress will be destroyed for a third time. The game should always autosave to a new file and keep the latest three files or so, so a crash during an autosave wouldn't wipe your progress.
In town, am I suppose to solve the panel on the door to lower the ramp/stairs? In the building with the blue columns and moss. I've tried
mapping the area to avoid the wooden debris, and to avoid the moss one floor. But I hink there isn't a way through without crossing some moss
OnionPowder
Member
It's going to be a tough game to top. I can't think of many potential games that could even get close to topping it.
GlamFM
Banned
I was like I'm sure the branches were broken off but was to stupid to look at the floor
Yeah, PC. I posted on the Steam Discussions-page about it too. Seems like quite a few people on PC are having problems with their display drivers crashing and/or hard crashes to a black screen. Haven't read about anyone else losing their save though.
I found 3 of them before reaching the first tutorial zone lol
d00d3n
Member
I just love how the game refuses to confirm your theories about how the general puzzle mechanics work, other than approving/rejecting your solutions. Assumptions that are wrong, or only partially true, can seem correct after having a couple of puzzles approved, but a couple of minutes/hours later you will hit a brick wall when the game uses your false assumptions against you.
I am sure this will be topped, but my biggest "aha moment" this far was discovering the true properties of black/white/colored blocks:
A corollary to this great feature is that cheating on even a single puzzle should be a surefire way of sucking the fun out of the game. Just don't do it people!
I am sure this will be topped, but my biggest "aha moment" this far was discovering the true properties of black/white/colored blocks:
I initially assumed that the point was to close vertical and horizontal "line of sight" between differently colored blocks with my lines, which solved a couple of puzzles, but then inexplicably stopped working. After failing to apply my theory to more and more puzzles, I started to doubt my assumptions, and understood that the point was to border off differently colored blocks in separate spaces. This was not enough, though, because I later learned (after banging my head against the wall for almost one hour) that the same color could be bordered off in multiple spaces.
A corollary to this great feature is that cheating on even a single puzzle should be a surefire way of sucking the fun out of the game. Just don't do it people!
OnionPowder
Member
~4 hours in and I just found out that R2 speeds up the panel speed.
A question for you guys who are already playing.
Do you always know what to do next or where to go next?
I basically hate games where can go into every direction, have no sense of where the right way might be and then are wondering around for 30+ minutes until I (maybe) find something where I can progress in the game.
Do you always know what to do next or where to go next?
I basically hate games where can go into every direction, have no sense of where the right way might be and then are wondering around for 30+ minutes until I (maybe) find something where I can progress in the game.
OnionPowder
Member
You don't know and you wander around, but there are tons of places where you can progress
OnionPowder
Member
126 + 11, but we're small fry here. People have over 400 supposedly.
OnionPowder
Member
Pause and then load game
Shrike Alvaron
Member
I lied, I went back and figured out how to do what I was stuck on. The endgame is hard. Very, very hard. I want to say more about it but I won't. Just... Yeah. Hard.
338+33, 7 beacons lit (
), 14 hours played according to Steam. That's it for this first marathon day @_@
I just realized, the game's only been out on Steam about 17 hours... Ah, hah... Hah...
338+33, 7 beacons lit (
Symmetry, Desert, Shadow Forest, Castle, Tree Temple, Swamp, and Treetops
I just realized, the game's only been out on Steam about 17 hours... Ah, hah... Hah...
Yeah but they have like +6.
We're playing the real game, bro !
I swear some of those hidden puzzles are making my head hurt just as much as the panels
stargateheaven
Member
this is the first game ever to make me feel motion sickness.
its not the moving forward.. its turning left and right is like ughhh
its not the moving forward.. its turning left and right is like ughhh
mario_O
Member
It looks like you can play the game in VR.
http://www.theriftarcade.com/how-to-play-the-witness-on-the-oculus-rift/
http://www.theriftarcade.com/how-to-play-the-witness-on-the-oculus-rift/
Smiles and Cries
Member
202 +8 this game is addicting need a break
Wind's Howling
Member
What is this +6 or any number people add next to their puzzle completion? Lasers?
GlamFM
Banned
Load game / look at your save-file.
No. If you really want to know:
Solving lines outside of the panels, just out in the environment. Lots of crazy perspective stuff.
Pause and go to load game. It'll show your count.
Hidden puzzles. Don't want to say more in case you haven't found any yet.