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Episode 5: The Cave of Wonders New plan: Rush
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Finding the shortcut at the gravity cannon early is pretty nice. I went through the crash site caves so many times... Getting to the shuttle trajectory conversation the first time you're down there is pretty unusual too, I think.
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Sep 30, 2023 00:58
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Staltran posted:Finding the shortcut at the gravity cannon early is pretty nice. I went through the crash site caves so many times... Getting to the shuttle trajectory conversation the first time you're down there is pretty unusual too, I think. Some of it always depends on where people happen to be looking and what they're thinking about, but I appreciate that the gravity cannon is the topmost door so, like these guys did, players can get funneled that direction as the sand rises.
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Sep 30, 2023 01:07
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I wonder if that tower you guys were trying to climb on Brittle Hollow might only be accessible super early as well, before it starts getting pelted. One of the chunks of gravity wall had become dislodged when you guys were there the first time, it might still be affixed if you got there fast enough.
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Sep 30, 2023 05:58
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An astute observation was made in this last video. The game would really rather have you go and explore elsewhere, instead of tediously banging your head against a problem that might require going through a whole loop for every attempt . Of course, it can't really force the player into an alternate course. I think it does decently well at giving hints about the other locations that might well make one curious to go in some other direction when stuck. But if a player is determined to focus on only one thing it a time, it would make for a more frustrating game.
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Oct 1, 2023 05:49
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Yeah, one of the best things about Outer Wilds is the way that if a puzzle has you stumped you can just gently caress off to the other side of the solar system on your next run to find a completely different way to have space murder the poo poo out of you
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Oct 1, 2023 12:13
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It would be pretty cool to see the sun implode all the way from the farthest planet and see how long it takes for the shockwave to reach you
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Oct 1, 2023 15:32
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Episode 6: Error: Duplicate Signal We are unsettled.
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Oct 4, 2023 00:36
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The really neat thing about Dark Bramble's space fuckery is that all the anglerfish could well be the same size as that little guy in the Timber Hearth museum. You've got no way to know.
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Oct 4, 2023 00:45
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Dark Bramble is so cool. Also good timing to finish up with Feldspar just in time to not have to worry about getting back out again!
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Oct 4, 2023 01:07
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Hwurmp posted:The really neat thing about Dark Bramble's space fuckery is that all the anglerfish could well be the same size as that little guy in the Timber Hearth museum. You've got no way to know. 
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Oct 4, 2023 01:26
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It could even be the same one inside the museum! 
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Oct 4, 2023 01:35
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Hwurmp posted:The really neat thing about Dark Bramble's space fuckery is that all the anglerfish could well be the same size as that little guy in the Timber Hearth museum. You've got no way to know. Well, there is the skeleton in the Ember (or was it Ash?) Twin cave.
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Oct 4, 2023 18:13
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Ember Twin. But theoretically that anglerfish could be from a different species that the present day anglerfish descend from. But that would also require that you shrink when entering Dark Bramble, but the anglerfish stay the same size when leaving it.
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Oct 4, 2023 22:27
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Episode 7: Calamitous cannon conclusions Once again we get distracted but I think we're making progress???
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Oct 6, 2023 21:18
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It's an interesting experience watching you repeatedly put in the projection stone, notice that it starts doing something, and immediately run away. Gotta watch out for those ancient Nomai proximity mines I guess. I do really love that the probe launch is the first thing you see in the entire game.
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Oct 6, 2023 22:05
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It's kind of funny that you so naturally figure out the signalscope zoom, and using the Scout camera without launching it - things most players miss for ages - but struggle so hard to figure out the projection stones!
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Oct 6, 2023 22:09
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First time watching this playthrough I felt actually angry. Keep up the good work.
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Oct 6, 2023 22:54
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"I can't tell if it's an x-axis or y-axis or z-axis or whatever"—wrong coordinate system, none of those would be in degrees. And any loop where you got new information is one where you made progress.
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Oct 6, 2023 23:02
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I think I was assuming that it was trying to do or form something, so I was stepping back to let it do the thing only to have it stop working, which then made me draw the conclusion that it wasn't working or that I had the wrong configuration. If it makes anyone feel better, I think we figure it out in the next episode by exploring another area, though we don't return to this location yet. (It's on our to-do list) 
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Oct 7, 2023 00:53
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You are not the first to make this mistake
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Oct 7, 2023 00:59
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That was deeply upsetting to watch (but that is part of the beauty of blind runs)
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Oct 7, 2023 02:09
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The absolute worst part is when PW said "can you try staying" and everyone collectively either didn't notice or immediately forgot.
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Oct 7, 2023 04:04
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"Oh we're professional Outer Wilds watchers. We've seen it all, we can handle it" FPzero: "Challenge Accepted."
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Oct 7, 2023 05:17
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I feel your one loop per episode paradigm might be making you a little to cautious about stuff that logically has a decent chance of killing you
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Oct 7, 2023 07:05
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Here's something that occurred to me, don't the Zonai also have three eyes?
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Oct 7, 2023 07:30
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Bruceski posted:"Oh we're professional Outer Wilds watchers. We've seen it all, we can handle it" 
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Oct 7, 2023 09:35
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Brutal Garcon posted:I feel your one loop per episode paradigm might be making you a little to cautious about stuff that logically has a decent chance of killing you That'll get broken soon enough, I'm sure. Being functionally immortal is a great way to get people to throw caution to the wind and do things they normally wouldn't do otherwise, even in a video game.
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Oct 7, 2023 10:30
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SirSamVimes posted:That was deeply upsetting to watch (but that is part of the beauty of blind runs) The projection stone has been mentioned, but how about that unidentified signal they didn't feel like identifying?
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Oct 7, 2023 15:11
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OW is such an amazing game I genuinely wish I could erase it from my memory just so I can play it again for the first time. It's just incredible.  Watching someone else play it blind is the next best thing so thank you for doing it. 
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Oct 7, 2023 19:06
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FPzero posted:I think I was assuming that it was trying to do or form something, so I was stepping back to let it do the thing only to have it stop working, which then made me draw the conclusion that it wasn't working or that I had the wrong configuration. If it makes anyone feel better, I think we figure it out in the next episode by exploring another area, though we don't return to this location yet. (It's on our to-do list) I was so glad to see you figured that out. Also you happened to use the best "What the ever loving gently caress" projection stone when you did finally see what those do.
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Oct 8, 2023 17:36
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if the ship only has one hole, it's a cloaca
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Oct 8, 2023 19:02
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Episode 8: Thalassophobia We've been out and about exploring far and wide, but we haven't really just flown around home. Let's change that. ----- Also the above couple of posts are comments on this update even before I posted it here. That's because I actually have all my recent videos scheduled to go public at noon EST, and then I just post the thread updates whenever I'm available to do so.
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Oct 8, 2023 21:39
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Hwurmp posted:if the ship only has one hole, it's a cloaca That ship has a bunch of holes, though. Maybe it was intended to be a cloaca.
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Oct 8, 2023 22:47
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a bunch of cloacas
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Oct 8, 2023 22:59
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note that despite the Nomai's attempts to leave some metal ore on Timber Hearth, the Hearthians still have to make all their spaceships out of wood
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Oct 9, 2023 02:26
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Hwurmp posted:note that despite the Nomai's attempts to leave some metal ore on Timber Hearth, the Hearthians still have to make all their spaceships out of wood
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Oct 9, 2023 04:38
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They do mine the stuff, as shown by the zero-g training space.
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Oct 9, 2023 05:25
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Nihilarian posted:personally I think they just like the aesthetic I think it's less "like" and more "the Hearthians are absolute risk-crazy maniacs who think nothing of hurling themselves into space in a barely-functioning deathtrap that even a Kerbal would run screaming from"
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Oct 10, 2023 09:11
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Whybird posted:I think it's less "like" and more "the Hearthians are absolute risk-crazy maniacs who think nothing of hurling themselves into space in a barely-functioning deathtrap that even a Kerbal would run screaming from" I mean if your spaceships crash a lot, it just makes sense to make them from a renewable resource, and trees are gonna be renewable until the sun ex...
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