Outer Wilds

Dev time for this game was absurdly long considering that they already had the base game down.

God I'm really sad this gem of a game got bogged down by the awful branding around Epic.

If this was released anywhere else it would have gotten instant cult status and might have had the potential to influence other devs to create game settings that's this interesting to explore.

The demo did have quite a following on here for a while. Shit was pretty damn good back in the day.

>but the problem is that it feels like nothing more than a graphically enhanced version of the Alpha from 6 years ago
You just described every video game released in the last decade.

I know which is why I'm still fucking baffled by the entire shitshow that revolved around their kickstarter when they took the Epic deal. I don't know if the devs lost confidence in their game after being stuck in development hell on it for so long or what.

They probably recognized that their game is incredibly niche and they thought that the free moniez from Epic would help. Obviously the game isn't doing too hot when even the Epic shills aren't bragging about having it. It is definitely a shame, but what the fuck could have put this game into a development hell?

I played it a little yesterday on game pass and am I retarded or missing something? I was enjoying it and I decided to jump down into the geyser in your hometown and I drowned, they game completely restarted which wasn't so bad because I had only done a little bit. Then I played more and even got to the part where the statue turns and looks at you and shows you your memories which seemed like it was a save spot. Then I went into space and went to the moon and as I was translating the hieroglyphics up there the sun went supernova and blew up destroying completely everything in seconds. And the game restarted all over again. why the fuck does it restart if you die? That is really annoying am I missing something to stop it from restarting every time?

Anyone got to the Southern Observatory? Followed the tunnels from the gravity shaft and can't find it

It's part of the game and I think there is a lore explanation for it. The game's description on Steam even states that the solar system is "trapped in an endless time loop".

It's groundhog day in space dude. Your characters even talk about that, pay attention.

The game is great. I love how you get nothing but information and you still can get to new areas you never would have been able to get to before.

The only problem I've had is the Ash Twin. It's annoying as fuck waiting for the sand to lower after you mess up something simple.

Ah so I am retarded, thanks lads. Still a shame though that they chose to make it that way, I just want to have fun exploring planets and flying around space and this game was doing exactly that for me until the supernova. Seems like a waste of time to keep going at it just to restart over and over, even if there is a point where my guy fixes the time loop I just don't have the patience to get invested in it.

>I just want to have fun exploring planets
There's probably a trainer you can download to stop that, or will be. Regardless, things change so you need the day to reset. The hourglass planets do their thing, the hollow planet gets destroyed, actually those are really the only two things that change.

I forgot to mention, there's only five planets, so it's not like it should take you forever to actually explore.

I tried finding the quantum rock in the north pole of Ember Twin mentioned in the notes but all I found at the bottom of the valley was a dead end?

You will need to make use of a teleporter if I recall correctly which will get you into a weird zone surrounded by masks of the naomi or whatever their names are

Thanks for the info, I will give it another shot and if I find anything to suck me into the game before I die in my next run then great but if not then I will just uninstall.

Sounds like it gets you inside of Ash Twin so I'll leave it until the end then

No skin off my bone if you don't like it, the game is free after all

For the lazy bums
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I have a feeling it wasn't on the developer, but the publisher Annapurna Interactive who picked up their game. Just about all Annapurna-published games have become EGS exclusives

Does the game run like ass from anyone else?

Not total ass but every time I respawn I immediately notice a frame rate issue. It seems to go away when I get into space. Some planets the frames drop again.

Runs fine for me but I have pretty high specs except for my shitty 1060

Has anyone tried taking off and then waiting the 20 min time limit off on timber hearth to see if the villagers do anything in response to the supernova?
Its running barely tolerable for me but I assume its because I'm playing it on a low-mid-tier laptop

>to see if the villagers do anything in response
They die

The ending is literally just "lol, everyone died, nothing you can do to stop it, nothing you did matters. At least you're not stuck in a loop any more! :)"

There are several endings though

I mean do they panic or say anything about it or what?

No, I have waited until the sun was pretty much engulfing the planet in size (not yet supernovae) and they don't acknowledge it. There are some NPCs that acknowledge the time loop but that's about it

>no name game
>no one cared about it
>suddenly shilled on Yea Forums non stop just because a pirate copy got leaked

smells like shills.

Way to out yourself m8. The alpha demo was pretty popular here years ago

>enter dark bramble
>delete system 32
I can’t do it. I know there’s something in there I need to find but I’m so fucking nervous

None that change the overall ending.
There's one where the Nomadi guy you find on the moon joins you.
Everyone still dies and everything you do is still pointless.

I literally tell people in the OP to pirate it and not buy it.

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I just play it on game pass because I already paid for it

I'm going to need a small tip for the Quantum Moon and Black Forge. I think I have all the pieces, went to the relevant places in Brittle Hollow but fuck me I can't figure it out.

Fair enough, though I think people are still discovering endings. There's one where you literally break time and space but that does destroy everything like you said.
Dark Bramble is no problem until you get further in, then it becomes a bit of a problem but basically
>Use your frequency tool to find who you want to find
>Use minimal thrusters to just float to where you need to go
The fish are blind, they react to sound, but they react hard
Epic already paid for it

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I feel you.

I went there on my first loop, sent a probe, and then proceded to stay the fuck out of this place.

yeah I missed that half a month apparently

>try to land on sun station
>line up perfectly
>leave cockpit
>get tossed around ship like a prison wife
>finally able to reach the exit
>get catapulted miles away from sun station doomed to float off into space

What am I doing wrong?

You're doing it the hard way is what you're doing wrong.

You're supposed to teleport there, not land on it.

Also your personal thrusters make a lot less noise than your ship's. I was able to use them about 30m away from a angler fish without it noticing me.

At least when you find the frozen jellyfish you can go right back to the survivor guy's camp. I found a red machine that was surrounded by anglerfishes on the way to the Shuttle too, this one is going to be a pain.

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If you got to the actual end (and it is a dead end), there is some writing there. Its a puzzle, and an important thing to solve to understand a mechanic for some of the last puzzles in the game. If you solve it, you will escape the dead end without dying.

Anyone figured out the controls for the alien ships? The one with the ball you can roll three ways. You can launch with the first, warp bac kwith the second but the third doesn't seem to do anything.

No shit. I want the achievement

>Drifting towards The Vessel
>About to enter the seed that takes you to it
>Drift is severely off will overshoot badly
>Engage thrusters and hear a thousand loud roars
My asshole puckered.

Quality>Quantity
These devs learned from the mistake of Nu-males Sky and Turdbound that just because your in space doesn't mean you have to see everything because procedural generation is way too primitive to ever make everything unique and not samey cpmpared to hand crafted worlds.

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Reverse at same speed as forward propulsion

>Quality > quantity
But the quality wasn't improved and the quantity is still the same. I don't want infinite planets, but would it have been too much to ask for even a couple more??

The fuck do you mean it's condensed into one solar system full of hand crafted planets and event locations.

Seriously help. Sending probes do nothing. Don't tell me I need to go to Dark Brambles.

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>The fuck do you mean
Are you confused? The solar system is tiny as fuck, the planets are tiny as fuck, the game is basically what it was 6 years ago.
>Moon
Take a picture and land slowly. Do not use landing camera.

I probably got lost then, I just ended up at a dead end where the rock spikes block the end, but nothing in the game is designed for just a dead end with nothing like that hence why I wanted to check

I've gone to every planet and read tons of alien bullshit but I have no idea what's going on or what I have to do because I didn't take any of it in.
Can someone push me in the right direction or am I just unimaginably retarded?

Did you find the dark secrets of the brambles? Did you land on the sun station? Did you find the secrets of the twins?

The log on the ship will provide a summary of each topic pretty well.

i would but the game runs like total shit for me. how is ti running for others?

It's unity, it ran fine for me, but, Unity always runs kinda like shit when you ask it to do anything beyond basic stuff.

Found what you were talking about thanks. Feels like this game would be hell if you can't ask people when you're stuck on certain things

Various NPCs will drop hints about stuff.
But, it means a wild goose chase to find which NPC talks about the specific topic you want to know about.

Am I missing something? Where is this game free?

lol, it runs great for me and I have an amd phenom

Pirate bay.
Epic already paid for your copy.

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There's a magnet link in this very thread

Word up.
I thought Epic was actually giving it away lol

They did pay for it. So have at it.

what settings are you on?

Can you use the white hole end to travel back?

The Black Forge was kind of disappointing To get to the black forge: first Go to the hanging city second floor and raise the forge with the control second: go to ash twin and teleport from there. There's a trick to using that specific teleporter that relates to where your teleporting

max, lol

I didn't even know you could get there from the Ash Twin. I just fly my ship at it, and stuck it to the roof.

Why would I play yet another game from the makers of the dullest RPG of all time? Each attempt Obsidian makes to create their own universe rather than simply deconstruct a setting made by others, has been more disastrous than the last. Aside from the outdated gameplay and lifeless cities, Pillars of Eternity's only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of combat mechanics, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Sawyer vetoed the idea of making anything at all innovative or original; he made sure the game would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable nostalgia pandering to ageing Baldur's Gate fans. Pillars of Eternity might be anti-casual(or not), but it’s certainly the anti-Divinity series in its refusal of spontaneity, fun and excitement.

>a-at least the writing was good though

"No!"

The writing is dreadful; the narrative was terrible. As I played, I noticed that every time I engaged in dialogue with an NPC the game presented me with a Wiki-page style infodump instead of anything resembling actual human conversation.

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time this was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Sawyer's mind is so governed by obsession with pointless minutiae of the lore that he has no other style of writing.

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Pillars of Eternity by the same David Gaider. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kiddies are playing Obsidian games at 17 or 18, then when they get older they will go on to enjoy Dragon Age II." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you play "Pillars of Eternity" you are, in fact, trained to shill for Bioware.

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I've been playing it but it honestly feels really tedious. I can't go more than an hour or two at a time without burning out.

You need to EVA into the tower floating around.

Nigger are you stupid? Your pasta isn't even in the right thread you stupid namefag.

If you're at Brittle Hollow I assume you have learned about teleporting from white hole station. Before going to ash twin, explore ember twin first is my recommendation if you haven't already.

Look for the alien space station

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I've already beat the game. I figured it out eventually, but, I didn't do it to get to the black hole forge.

Outer Wilds != Outer Worlds

my first time falling into a black hole I was desperately trying to get out of it(didn't know you just teleport) with the jetpack and ended up smacking myself against some rock and died

As in I'm teleporting between Ash Twin and Brittle Hollow but how am I supposed to get back to my ship on Ash Twin from there

They work both ways, yeah. Same method. Though I would just seppuku.

Reminder to talk to the guy on the Giant's Deep island to get a useful "tool"

How do I land on the sun building? It's orbiting too fast.

Feels like cheating doing it that way

Figure out how to use Ash Twin

I was stuck on the Ash Twin part wondering where the fuck was the control command. Why the hell was it on the second floor, fuck.

The station was specifically put so you could teleport back if you fell into the Black Hole.

>decide to check out the destroyed space station that always explodes when you wake up
>fail to land on it and fall into the gas giant
>tornadoes every where spook me
>try to land on what seems to be the ground
>spooked again as I fall into the "ground"
>everything is dark but I see two giant squids in the distance

Then the game crashed. Unity saved me from shitting my pants. Thanks, Unity!

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>Squids
No worries lad, there are no squids. Just peaceful jellies.

the guy playing the wind instrument? I talked to him and he didn't give me shit.

He gives you the ability to meditate so you don't have to wait for the sun to blow up

One of his dialog gives you the ability to start another loop right away, which is very useful if you're stuck somewhere

I guess I missed this. I'll go talk to him again.

So in the end, what was The Eye?

Also, I think I liked the alpha more, less handholding

Don't go too deep if you don't like tentacles