Wind's Howling
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Sure.
Spoiler tagged it.
I understand fuck all about that entire puzzle strategy.
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Sure.
Spoiler tagged it.
I understand fuck all about that entire puzzle strategy.
Woodchipper
Member
Thanks!!!
MarineMountie
Member
Only have one beacon on and I'm happy as hell I even got that far!
So I moved on to the colorful trees area that have tree looking lines on the panel. I've done the first 3 just by trial and error. Is there a way for me to figure out what to do here? I've looked at all the trees around but I'm not seeing any correlation.
So I moved on to the colorful trees area that have tree looking lines on the panel. I've done the first 3 just by trial and error. Is there a way for me to figure out what to do here? I've looked at all the trees around but I'm not seeing any correlation.
Listen to me, your going to have fun with the third maze.
Salty Hippo
Member
I'm on the same boat. I actually don't really understand what that symbol is supposed to mean at all. I got through the first set of tutorials downstairs by
isolating it with one dot, but I don't even know if that's what you're supposed to do. lol
TheSlySoul
Member
Just finished
and I enjoyed it. Was not fustrating like the last area. Helped that I found the tutorials for
For those confused by the Y symbol,
the quarry
color splash which is accessible by boat.
it removes one puzzle item
It's
negating one error of any kind. Or to say it better... It demands one error.
So, leave one dot with it, or put it in a pack with one square of the wrong color etc...
So, leave one dot with it, or put it in a pack with one square of the wrong color etc...
The Witness does a couple of conceptual things really well. The first is, there's a palpable feeling that there's much more going on that what I currently understand. Like, everywhere I look I'm starting to see things arranged in very deliberate ways, and I can tell I don't get it yet, but I'm slowly building up a vocabulary to make sense of it. I have this strong feeling of anticipation, because at some point I know things are going to click, and that keeps me going.
The other is in questioning what I've actually learned. A couple times now I've done tutorial panels, then worked through a main area, and then gotten stuck. But when I went back and really scrutinized the earlier puzzles, there was more than one thing going on with them. I had picked up on a surface lesson (early area spoilers), such as
This has me questioning not only what I'm seeing, but what I'm learning, to make sure there's not another level what I'm supposed to learn. And sometimes, there is.
At any rate, I cleared my first major area, the rocky area by the water, and lit the
. Now I'm working through the line of panels along the water's edge,
I'm guessing the answer is either in finding a new perspective to view from, or from a lesson provided in the other two panels that I didn't pick up on. I'll go back to it tonight. (Not asking for a hint, just noting where I'm at.)
The other is in questioning what I've actually learned. A couple times now I've done tutorial panels, then worked through a main area, and then gotten stuck. But when I went back and really scrutinized the earlier puzzles, there was more than one thing going on with them. I had picked up on a surface lesson (early area spoilers), such as
separate black from white dots. But the actual lesson was, separate all black dots from all the other white dots.
At any rate, I cleared my first major area, the rocky area by the water, and lit the
symmetry beam
where the first two you trace out the stone columns that are in the background. And the third in that sequence has me stumped, since there's just one column but tracing it doesn't seem to work.
Wind's Howling
Member
Damn, I feel cool for figuring it out a little, haha. Thanks man
Let me know when you get to the one after this, as I've been stuck on it too 👀 My hint for you would bethe Y lets you make a mistake with one block, so figure out a way to separate, but still make one single mistake.
Edit: ayyyyy top of the page! What up, y'all? I dreamt of lines and grids all night.
That still does not get me anywhere because I seemingly can not seem to find a pattern that doesn't end up me making a mistake twice.
zer0blivion
Member
Don't brute force them. Vague hint:
Look at the first one you solved. Something nearby correlates to the panel.
A few hints more hints increasing in specificity:
One of these things is not like the other.
The corresponding tree is a different colour.
One of these branches is not like the other.
The correct branch is the one with the apple.
This is a straight spoiler about the puzzle:
You need to trap one of the green ones+all the red together with the icon. The rest needs to be left outside.
seperate the colors, except for one wrong which will be converted by the icon. The icon needs to be used and turn/ignore one block to get an OK on the puzzle.
Just started and I think this is amazing... Just amazing. I just did the
You'll all mock me now for this, but somewhere around the 30th or 40 th panel there were tears running down my face. I don't even have an explanation for this, just happened. It happened when I solved the
Then I instinctly solved the symmetry puzzle
. Then I decided I was loving this too much and had to take a break. Goddamn this is so incredible already
seperation puzzles, then the symmetry ones.
symmetry panel that wasn't finished properly and drips off, I just loved that touch.
by tracing the outline of the rocks in the sea
Well I'll take those hints into consideration for that one puzzle. I was starting to draw several patterns and combining/substracing peices of it lol. I'm still not sure what to do, hopefully the answer jumps out.
I think the game has a problem with how it teaches you how the patterns work. There's this one puzzle in the middle of some water that is like the "final" puzzle and nothing the game has taught me up to that point has worked. Apparently I never really learned the patterns for this area.
I think the game has a problem with how it teaches you how the patterns work. There's this one puzzle in the middle of some water that is like the "final" puzzle and nothing the game has taught me up to that point has worked. Apparently I never really learned the patterns for this area.
Gotta give it to you, that's some pretty good spoiler tagging!
I think the game has a problem with how it teaches you how the patterns work. There's this one puzzle in the middle of some water that is like the "final" puzzle and nothing the game has taught me up to that point has worked. Apparently I never really learned the patterns for this area.
You are not supposed to be able to clear most areas in one go, you need to explore more!
NumberThree
Member
Sure, entire tetris ruleset from what I figured after doing the area two hours ago:
1. Every piece must be contained by lines in an area of its exact shape. The exavt location of the area doesn't matter except that it needs to contain the piece.
2. One area can contain multiple pieces if they fill it exactly without overlapping.
3. If the piece rotates it can fill the area at any rotation (rotated, not mirrored/flipped), otherwise only in the shown rotation.
4. Hollow pieces remove their exact shape of blocks by overlapping with regular pieces. Removed area can be filled by another piece.
5. Hollow pieces must always remove their entire shapes' worth of blocks.
2. One area can contain multiple pieces if they fill it exactly without overlapping.
3. If the piece rotates it can fill the area at any rotation (rotated, not mirrored/flipped), otherwise only in the shown rotation.
4. Hollow pieces remove their exact shape of blocks by overlapping with regular pieces. Removed area can be filled by another piece.
5. Hollow pieces must always remove their entire shapes' worth of blocks.
I hope I didn't forget anything. It was definitely entirely consistent as I played through it.
These damn tetris pieces! Can someone explain why this one is invalid (from the swamp)
http://i.imgur.com/X0klSqy.jpg
My amazing touchpad paint skills,I colored the first block what it's x's represent
My amazing touchpad paint skills,I colored the first block what it's x's represent
Wind's Howling
Member
Judging by your logic I should have failed the previous one's as well, because I did not lock all of those up.
My understanding was is that I need to trap all the green one's + 1 red so that red one can be "changed". That worked before, but it doesn't anymore. So weird.
Stuck in the basement area of the desert temple.
Think I only have one or two more panels to solve. I just turned on a light that shows an unusual rectangular panel that is 2x5. I know I need to use the water levels to see the correct mirrored path to take, but can only catch just one glimpse of the corner. Anything else I need to do to solve this one?
Belgian Dude
Member
Yup.
You'll have one group of 3 greens, one group of 1 green, and a group with all the reds+1 green.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Okay so I didn't stop and backtracked to the hedge mazes and so far so good.
Man this damn game is like bloodborne that feeling you get when you figure it out.
zer0blivion
Member
Thanks! I don't want to just give out the solution, but at the same time I want to be as helpful as possible.
Shrike Alvaron
Member
That's what I woke up too this morning, don't want to give too much away but
realize that it's literally impossible to draw each shape individually. The symmetry won't allow that. However, tetris shapes can be grouped together, right? Work from that thought.
NumberThree
Member
That one got me too.
The piece with empty space has two blocks' worth of empty rather than one.
Remembrance
Member
Go past the desert and past the industrial-looking area beyond it. There's a series of puzzles in an area full of trees that you should be able to get into very easily from the industrial area.
It generally doesn't matter if you change the red's or the green's.
Remember that you don't have to catch all of one color in the same line, but that they can't be inside of the area you are working with
Fractology
Member
There are two tetris piece puzzles that have me getting seriously frustrated over the past two days! They happened to be among the first puzzles I discovered when I booted up the game. I "figured out" most of the logic (or so I think...) but there's two that, for the goddamn life of me, I cannot figure out. I just don't get it. I keep leaving to do other things but every time I go back to this area I get anxiety. It's kinda awesome.
But what is REALLY scaring me is that there's like 50 more of these goddamn puzzles off in the distance. If I can't get these two, I'm fucked.
Details for those who are wondering which I'm talking about:
Driving me nuts!! I don't really want help but I think I need someone to help refocus my brain so I can approach these again without immediately getting pissed.
But what is REALLY scaring me is that there's like 50 more of these goddamn puzzles off in the distance. If I can't get these two, I'm fucked.
Details for those who are wondering which I'm talking about:
Swamp area, over the first raft bridge, and up the stairs. Theres a row of four panels on the right. I can't solve the 3rd one that has a a single square tetris piece, a double and a four-long piece. How the hell am I supposed to isolate that center cube?? The other one I cannot figure out is the 2nd panel on the gate behind these. I can't isolate the tall piece.
Driving me nuts!! I don't really want help but I think I need someone to help refocus my brain so I can approach these again without immediately getting pissed.
No, sorry. I left and went to the shady trees instead. I couldn't figure it out.
Try failing the puzzle before it, there may be multiple ways to tackle the problem.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
And now I'm stuck again
Yeah rage quit for sure this time. I'm completely lost on where to go since everywhere has things on them which I don't understand to do.
I've been beaten.
Yeah rage quit for sure this time. I'm completely lost on where to go since everywhere has things on them which I don't understand to do.
I've been beaten.
Squall5042
Member
Ack I'm stuck on a
bird noise puzzle, I just can't make out the pitch because it goes so fast.
Wind's Howling
Member
My mind is trying to grasp the situation here.......
The line I create forms some sort of 'box' in which lights are trapped and the one's outside the line are blocked, right?
More_Badass
Member
Hint:
you don't have to isolate pieces.
QuantumSquid
Member
I don't think this game is for me, unfortunately. The world is stunningly beautiful but the game does nothing with it, it's just a backdrop for puzzles that seem straight out of a free/cheap iOS puzzle game. The puzzles are fine for what they are, and I'm not super far into it at this point, but so far I'm not seeing where the $40 price tag came from.
oh, i did listen
Nice work, haha. I felt so smart after that one.
Can you give me some tips for
the red/green puzzle that's located right next to the two platform switches? It's killing me! It's the one with 4 red squares in the middle and green on the top and right side of the grid, with the Y in the bottom left corner.
Shrike Alvaron
Member
This is a minor hint of the discovery IGN's reviewer Chloi made today - probably one of the people in the world farthest along in the game:You can spot differences in the island when you load an early game save and compare it to a late game one. Your puzzle-solving presence there is making changes, slowly over time, that are not immediately apparent.
There are (at least) two things on the island that are important that no one realizes are important yet, and at least one door that I think literally no one has opened
I was checking Justin's posts to see if he's alluded to anything about a new game following the ending, and this... This...
This fucking game.
I wish I wasn't at work and could look around more now that I've beaten the endgame. I want to go alllll the way down the rabbit hole.
Belgian Dude
Member
I went to check all of them and the town is at 0%. Glad to be part of that zero, haha!
Guys, this game. This game!! There are sooooo many more secrets and mysteries than people realize. It truly is layers of an onion -
- Solving the puzzles.
- Piecing together the story.
- Finding the "collectible" puzzle panels.
(Spoiler for something most have discovered by now)- Finding the vaults that contain the hexagon papers for use in the- Finding all the drawn lines in the island itself.theater.
...until this morning, I thought that was "it." And I thought that was MORE than enough mystery for any one game. But... it's puzzles all the way down. I genuinely believe, in my heart of hearts, that it will be over a month until everything has been solved.
This is a minor hint of the discovery IGN's reviewer Chloi made today - probably one of the people in the world farthest along in the game:You can spot differences in the island when you load an early game save and compare it to a late game one. Your puzzle-solving presence there is making changes, slowly over time, that are not immediately apparent.
There are (at least) two things on the island that are important that no one realizes are important yet, and at least one door that I think literally no one has opened
I want to beat the maingame soon because I know for a fact there's a
system of tunnels that I found, but that all 4/5 entrances were locked to.