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 Welcome to Outer Wilds! This is a game I've attempted to play a couple of times in the past but never gotten far in despite it totally being a good fit with the kinds of games I enjoy. Having just finished up an LP of The Curse of the Golden Idol on Artix's youtube channel (Excellent game, go watch his videos on it!) , we were looking around for something similar that we could LP next. This LP is that game. I hope you'll come along and explore the vastness of space with us. The Outer Wilds is a game about being an astronaut in a fledgling space program, just trying to help your planet's community map out the surrounding planets of your solar system, and solving some mysteries about the ancient advanced civilization that came millennia before you. Anything beyond that is entering spoiler territory so I'll just leave it at that for now. Our intrepid space crew consists of myself, Artix, Poorlywritten, and our friend Tanz. All four of us really enjoy a good mystery game so hopefully we'll be able to put a few of our brain cells together by the end of this series and beat it! None of them have played this game and only some of them know the basic premise. Since I've barely played it either, it's safe to say that  this is a blind LP. Please do not post spoilers about things we have yet to see or do! A huge part of any good mystery is the discovery and connecting the dots and none of us want those eureka moments taken away from us. If you have never played either and are following along, you may post your own thoughts and ideas about what's going on, but otherwise just sit back and enjoy the LP! Episode 1: Wake up and smell the marshmallows Episode 2: Dark side of the tiny moon Episode 3: Space station at the end of the universe Episode 4: My jetpack runs on beans Episode 5: The Cave of Wonders Episode 6: Error: Duplicate Signal Episode 7: Calamitous cannon conclusions Episode 8: Thalassophobia Episode 9: I hope we have space insurance Episode 10: Incredible feats of parking Episode 11: 🌴 Relaxing Cyclonewave Beats 🌊 to Explore a Time Loop to ⏳ Episode 12: I'm so full of quantum knowledge now Episode 13: Interloping Episode 14: My prog rock band, "Anglerfish Experiment" Episode 15: This is the way the universe ends Episode 16: Thalassophobia, Part 2 Episode 17: The Hanging City and the Old Settlement Episode 18: I hope I remembered to feed the meter Episode 19: A warped understanding Episode 20: Learning old knowledge Episode 21: The Moon Landing Episode 22: Expiration Date Episode 23: Secrets of the Sun Station Episode 24: Listening to Tanz Episode 25: WE ARE DEAD Episode 26: Dark Bramble's Red Light Dimension Episode 27: The Vessel Episode 28: Solanum Episode 29: Orchestrating the end Episode 30: Close your eyes and smell the cinders FPzero fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 17:11
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I'm already aware that the audio balance is a little off for PW and Tanz but I couldn't really fix it due to using a single combined audio track for everything. I'll be adjusting our audio setup once we start next recording session, I just didn't feel like setting up voicemeeter again right as we were about to hit record.
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Sep 13, 2023 17:20
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I'd love to post something on the ground floor and I'll do it as soon as I think of something to say that isn't somehow a spoiler
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Sep 13, 2023 18:09
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I'm impressed you found four people who are almost completely blind on this. Most of the blind LPs are one person flailing alone and trying to figure out how much of a nudge to ask for is enough but not too much, while here you've got people to talk to and bounce things off of.
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Sep 13, 2023 18:13
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Outer Wilds whips and everyone should play it
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Sep 13, 2023 19:26
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Yay, more Outer Wilds! The DLC is interesting in that it does integrate into the main game, but it's actually very unlikely for someone to find it without intentionally looking for it. And my recommendation is usually to play it right before beating the main game rather than after, but it's not really a big deal either way. arteliad fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 19:33
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arteliad posted:Yay, more Outer Wilds! Yeah, the main reason I'd say "don't get it yet" as a newbie is just that if you *do* find the breadcrumbs leading that way you might not recognize that and get confused when trying to fit things together. On the other hand, from the outside the idea of that happening to someone sounds fascinating. Also because if you finish this game and love it, the best thing that can happen is a chance to do some more.
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Sep 13, 2023 19:42
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God I fuckin' love blind Outer Wilds LPs (not like there's really any other kind. Why? Why can't I wipe this game from my memory and start fresh again?)
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Sep 13, 2023 21:12
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I will never get tired of watching blind LPs of Outer Wilds. This has got to be at least my fifth. Such an excellent game that you can only really experience once.
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Sep 13, 2023 21:17
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There are experiences that you can only ever have once, and it'll never be the same again afterwards. Outer Wilds is one of those, and it'd be one of my first choices to abuse a theoretical memory wiping machine for. Upside is, you can still sort of experience it fresh again through the eyes of other people, so thank you for bringing us another opportunity.
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Sep 14, 2023 05:44
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Oh this should be fun!... and the perfect excuse to finally go play this game myself to avoid spoilers!
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Sep 14, 2023 06:03
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People kept telling me that this was just a stripped-down Fallout in space, but I'm not seeing it.
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Sep 14, 2023 14:51
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I'm always game for watching new people play the best game this century
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Sep 14, 2023 17:23
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Interesting to see a group of blind people play this game. Most times I've seen multiple people play this game it's a player who is blind and commentators who can nudge if need be.
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Sep 14, 2023 22:09
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FPzero posted:Having just finished up an LP of The Curse of the Golden Idol on Artix's youtube channel (Excellent game, go watch his videos on it!) This is a really awesome playthrough. I just binged it in a day. I loved how Artix started as the expert, until he was able to guess along with the others for the first DLC. And then for the second one the expert of the first DLC was able to enjoy it blindly. Looking forward to the final videos there.
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Sep 15, 2023 17:40
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I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying it so far. Having four people all more or less blind on it does make playing the game a lot more interesting but I'm sure we'll be fine in the long run. Plenty to see and do before we put all the pieces together after all. Episode 2: Dark side of the tiny moon That statue looked at us pretty weird...I'm sure it was nothing! Let's go blast off and explore the moon!
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Sep 16, 2023 21:10
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Perfect introduction to Brittle Hollow  . Ending was great too.
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Sep 16, 2023 21:21
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Bruceski posted:Yeah, the main reason I'd say "don't get it yet" as a newbie is just that if you *do* find the breadcrumbs leading that way you might not recognize that and get confused when trying to fit things together. On the other hand, from the outside the idea of that happening to someone sounds fascinating. I would honestly get it. Just fill your solar system with mystery.
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Sep 16, 2023 21:31
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Hell of a way to end your first loop!
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Sep 17, 2023 00:25
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I love Brittle Hollow as an environment conceit, it's just the most comedically inhospitable planet. gently caress temperature, radiation or toxic hazards; here's a fragile shell with caves in it, wrapped around a loving black hole, that exists under constant natural artillery bombardment from the moon. Welcome to space, motherfuckers.
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Sep 17, 2023 01:59
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Fedule posted:I love Brittle Hollow as an environment conceit, it's just the most comedically inhospitable planet. gently caress temperature, radiation or toxic hazards; here's a fragile shell with caves in it, wrapped around a loving black hole, that exists under constant natural artillery bombardment from the moon. Welcome to space, motherfuckers. This game manages to have space-exploration-weird-planet gimmicks that feel right at home but surprisingly haven't been done before. Or if they have, I want to read that book/play that game because DUDE.
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Sep 17, 2023 02:45
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Brittle Hollow is Mario Galaxy as gently caress, a statement I suspect I will be saying more than a few times as the game goes on.
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Sep 17, 2023 03:11
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Artix posted:Brittle Hollow is Mario Galaxy as gently caress, a statement I suspect I will be saying more than a few times as the game goes on. The real Mario Galaxy moment is if you go too fast on Attlerock and accidently jump to Timber Hearth without a ship.
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Sep 17, 2023 05:28
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I've never seen a more perfect introduction to Brittle Hollow
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Sep 17, 2023 17:38
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Loving the "is it me or does the Sun looks different now?" comment towards the end there.
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Sep 18, 2023 20:11
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FPzero posted:I'm already aware that the audio balance is a little off for PW and Tanz but I couldn't really fix it due to using a single combined audio track for everything. I'll be adjusting our audio setup once we start next recording session, I just didn't feel like setting up voicemeeter again right as we were about to hit record. How dare you ruin such a beautiful and melodic voice with poor audio balancing. I shake my fist at you!
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Sep 19, 2023 19:56
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I’ve never played this but I’ve heard spoilers about it, or The Outer Worlds and I’m mistaken, so I might as well watch it and find out.
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Sep 19, 2023 20:42
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White Coke posted:I’ve never played this but I’ve heard spoilers about it, or The Outer Worlds and I’m mistaken, so I might as well watch it and find out.
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Sep 20, 2023 02:23
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If it's Fallout in space it's Outer Worlds. If you fall out into space it's Outer Wilds.
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Sep 20, 2023 03:08
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 you don't have to shove the marshmallow into the fire; you can hold it nearby and it'll slowly brownunless you like them crispy of course
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Sep 20, 2023 04:20
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Episode 3: Space station at the end of the universe The universe appears to be trapped in a time loop and the sun's going supernova. I guess we'd better do our best to figure out why these things are happening! edit: Next episode will be up sometime next week, we didn't get to record this weekend because I was sick so I have nothing else ready to go yet. FPzero fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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Sep 20, 2023 21:21
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One fun thing about Outer Wilds LPs is that the loop timer makes for great episode breaks.
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Sep 20, 2023 21:44
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It was nice of the Nomai to provide a simple solution for minor work hazards like falling the entire radius of a planet and landing in a black hole. As a minor quality of life thing I think if you pull out the signalscope while you're very close to an unidentified signal it'll label it?
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Sep 20, 2023 22:21
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I played this game for a bit few years ago and the whole gimmick was completely lost on me 'cause I kept dying pretty quickly lol. I never finished it cause I became fed up with the spaceship controls..nice to follow along now and see what I missed!
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Sep 21, 2023 18:01
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Qrr posted:As a minor quality of life thing I think if you pull out the signalscope while you're very close to an unidentified signal it'll label it? Yes, and it gets rid of the "unidentified signal nearby" text too.
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Sep 21, 2023 18:53
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So, I noticed that flash at the start of the loop was different from the flash after reset at the end of the video. As we are in the time loop, they should be the same. Can we investigate what's doing that?
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Sep 21, 2023 21:55
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Episode 4: My jetpack runs on beans We're back and we're off to the Ember Twin today to see if we can find the High Energy Lab mentioned at the White Hole Station's logs.
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Sep 26, 2023 21:05
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You know, I think you're the first blind playthrough of this I've seen to notice the signalscope has a zoom function and use it to look at things.
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Sep 26, 2023 21:06
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Congratulations on finding another door you can't go through! I appreciate them as indicators that people actually lived these places, you have to take who knows what path to get there but they probably did not.
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Tenebrais posted:You know, I think you're the first blind playthrough of this I've seen to notice the signalscope has a zoom function and use it to look at things. Yeah it's really useful, and also really neat that it can be used to zoom in on stuff so far away with great clarity. Update on next page >>>
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