Sorry. I'd like to complete the game with as little help as possible, so I've been avoiding this thread until now.
120 puzzles in exactly 3 hours. So 547 remaining? I love it.
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Sorry. I'd like to complete the game with as little help as possible, so I've been avoiding this thread until now.
120 puzzles in exactly 3 hours. So 547 remaining? I love it.
You didn't line it up properly. Sometimes they don't overlay neatly - that is the puzzle evolving the difficulty as you adjust to it. Introduce the concept, get you familiar, then twist.
Loved the forest area.
Sorry, didn't mean to be snarky
Oh, plus extras
zer0blivion
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captscience
Member
As long as the shapes are "circled," they can be arranged anywhere in the area that you've enclosed, i.e. feel free to "move" the bars from where they're marked.
the light lines on the panel aren't in the correspinding place. Next to the panel is another piece of shadow with light lines. If you slot these with the lines on the panel, you can figure out the correct place.
The perfect Dark
Banned
You didn't line it up properly. Sometimes they don't overlay neatly - that is the puzzle evolving the difficulty as you adjust to it. Introduce the concept, get you familiar, then twist.
Loved the forest area.
Sorry, didn't mean to be snarky
Oh, plus extras
Guys, this is the right path in the picture
And I still don't get why this is the solution ^^
Okay thanks man. I'll head back to that area later. Oh and I just went back to where I was stuck yesterday,
the plant color building behind the mountain
stuck in an elevator.
Hot Coldman
Banned
The town area is by far the most baffling. The two locked doors with the coloured spot puzzle and the L-block/purple spot puzzle are just ridiculous. I did the tutorial bit and that did... something.
This game is obtuse as heck sometimes.
This game is obtuse as heck sometimes.
Guys, this is the right path in the picture
And I still don't get why this is the solution ^^
Look at the light that's lined up with the purple starting point. It should be lined up with the green one (the correct one)
If all the light moved to the right about 6 inches, it would line up and show you the solution
If all the light moved to the right about 6 inches, it would line up and show you the solution
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
What? But I thought the square with the dots showing the shape, has to be included in that shape?
Wind's Howling
Member
Okay, I am going to stop asking questions. The moment I do that the "Aha!!" moment kicks in and I find the solution.
I just played the game for 2 hours in VR. Certainly not a polished VR experience, but the sense of place is fantastic. I knew that e.g. "over there there's that, and if I turn here I should get there". (I've omitted some shots/scenes below due to puzzle spoilers)
following the upwards movement of the device and then naturally tracing the beam by looking back over my shoulder was great.
I could tell how far down this goes.
In this part I ducked because the wooden boards were so low that I thought I'd hit my head.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Oh wow. But how do you know this? Do you guess? And there are still shadows everywhere, lol. I'm too dumb for this puzzle (and the next one)
Lol, this is amazing. I would have never figured out.
These forest puzzles
might be a bit too fucking subtle for me. I solved two by literally guessing but I'm pretty stumped now. :| The fourth
also has me totally blocked. It looks complex as fuck but it just can't be that complicated.
where you have to play with the shadows to solve them
perspective panel (with the branches) inside Red Tree temple
Nope
I just solved this by sheer luck. It made zero sense to me.
The shadow is "off" by two spaces, and goes off the grid on the left.
Treetops is the tutorial for those dots on the doors, it was really useful for me. Although one of the doors is a sneaky fuck and so is the panel after that (you'll love it)
Haha, I mean the light even has a circle to denote a starting point. So there are really only two places it can be lined up. If one starting point doesn't work, just try the other
The perfect Dark
Banned
I can't do the third. It won't let me even though I'm pretty sure I have the right idea (and there is only one correct path, right?)
I'm now in the tutorial area for the -'- symbol type of puzzles and I finished the first set of tutorials with the dots, and now I'm doing the second set of those with the colored blocks. While I managed to progress to the last puzzle, I still don't quite get the rule here - any hints?
Hot Coldman
Banned
I've done treetops - I just can't wrap my head around the one to get inside the church (well, opening the door anyway). It doesn't make any sense - there's one too many red and purple blots.
What's up with the heavy chromatic aberration in the VR mode?
Hot Coldman
Banned
I don't know which other door you mean. I haven't opened any of the doors in town.
I dunno what the bunker is. Is that the door in the desert by the coast?
That's not chromatic aberration, that's chromatic aberration correction. The optics of the HMD introduce chromatic aberration, so the image is pre-corrected in software so as to appear without aberration when looked at in VR.
(Green Forest area)
I think the hint to this one is that the if you look at the panel it is crooked from the base. So you can guess that the shadows might not be lined up properly. It took me forever too.
Oh, I had no idea! That's pretty cool
Belgian Dude
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The tutorial for the tetris isn't on the village. In fact-
-the village seems to be the culmination of every puzzle type and I'd suggest doing it last.
For the Red Tree Temple
the 4th one stumped for a long time - think back to the pink tree puzzles: the tree used to show the solution but something happened to it
That's pretty much it IIRC. There's another one down by the symmetry area which
makes it look like it's pointing to the rock in front, but the base of the stand shows that it was pointing to the formation to the right
I am soo stuck on one puzzle insidethe house with plants and colored blocks. There is a yellow glass
I was banging my head against the wall last night and I can't stop thinking about it...
wall that you see through to simplify the colors and grouping them together. There are to puzzles. Solved the first one, but the second one is freaking impossible to line through.
For the second one, you don't look through the yellow glass.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Anyone? It's really bugging me, I still have the 3 'autosaves' from when I first played yesterday, and it just stopped auto saving( I have to manually go into the load a game screen to save)
Belgian Dude
Member
I just solved this one, was pretty cool. There's more than one glass
Hot Coldman
Banned
Got it. Just entered the shipyard (god that second door took far too long for me to figure out) so I'll let it slide for now
PlatypusDude
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So for the treetops/treehouse area I've
got all the panels down that lead to the house that has a door that operates on the timer as well as the ones that form a bridge to well a bridge. I'm stuck on how to keep the door open for the house. I've notice there is a similar pink panel inside the house through the holes but it doesn't appear there is an angle to open it outside the house and when I try to run to the door from the outside panel it closes before I reach it. Is there an angle close to the house to open either the indoor or outdoor pink panel in order to open the door in time to get inside?
Death Metalist
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Yeah, I agree. That puzzle set was way flexible then what it lead you to believe. It only teaches you one way and it's pretty much the only way to solve all of them until you reach a certain one where you can't do it like you always did. It's bull. Always keep in mind that the rules can and will be reaaaaaaaaallllllyyyyyyyyy fleexxxibbllleeeeeeee.
Woodchipper
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Blow wants one to feel really fucking stupid, doesn't he? So,
Thank you so much in advance!
I'm in the swamp and have done this long tutorial of sorts on the star symbols, and suddenly comes a panel with just one star and a bunch of black and white squares. Can someone please explain what the idea behind these lonely stars are, and the logic in it.
Thank you so much in advance!
There are two doors close to each other with similar symbols on - the church and some house. You need to
do the house first.
Bunker is the
greenhouse thing with all the weird coloured lights
Belgian Dude
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Did you solve all the bridges? You need to rotate them in a way that it makes a quick path. I think you can open it from the inside but it's not the 'main' solution.
That one took me a while too: basically, what you know by now is that Stars always need to be in pairs, and that they can interact with other colors: but there's no other star. So it's teaching you that 'stars always need to be together with something else of the same color' and you have to steal a black square for the star. I think the one right after would be a better tutorial though.
that's dope.
Stuck there too for a while. I was wondering if the
green panels that seem optional might let you see he switch? The only way I can think of is to activate that switch from somewhere else.
Wait, you can
rotate them? How. Will check later
The L shaped block in the top cannot be rotated. It has to look like the one in the picture. Likewise, you can't mirror the block at the bottom-left corner, only rotate (afaik)