Outer Wilds

I played the alpha back in 2013, found it on this very board

all the base concepts are in

except bramble still a WIP concept

its an actual bramble with a misty inside

decide to vibe on the interloper

notice the bramble

its getting closer

interloper's orbit intersects with bramble

you can just imagine how that turned out

must be related to mediation?
maybe one of the multiple ending involving deactivating the atp and then waiting for the supernova, like leaving the solar system or being on the quantum moon?

Not yet, but I've got it installed now. I didn't want it interfering with the base game experience.
I tried it a few years ago, didn't get the hang of the controls and didn't really use the ships log. I'm glad I gave it a second chance, I couldn't ignore the high praise it got. Think it's one of my favorite games now too, I can't really fault it except for [spoiler it's too scary[/spoiler]

the kazoos when you really fuck up

I think I read that on some versions, removing the ATP core and then meditating can soft lock the game, so maybe they patched it out.

Not as scary as fucking up spoiler tags though.

gotta go fast

Yeah the controls are definitely the biggest filter the game has, especially if you are trying to play on a keyboard. But I think having a kind of hard to control ship with the game's physics engine was ultimately the right call. It makes learning the ship SUPER rewarding too.

Did you reach the solar station without teleporting? It's the most fun thing to do in the game desu.

must be related to mediation?

duh
i wanna know if there's a new ending text or something

My fav game by a long mile, can't wait to see what this fuckers make next. After the dlc you should try lorelei and obra dinn if you haven't

Congratulations, OP, you'll never get to play it properly again. I hope you enjoyed your single-use experience properly and didn't go full zoomer and follow a guide.

Did you do the DLC?

It's a decent walking sim but nothing too special.

Got OW on sale two years ago. Knew fuck-all about it and went in blind, and I was blown away. I have played probably a thousand different games, most new games are just variations or some combination of games I have played before, but this one was quite unique.

Honestly a pure 10/10 game that deserves to be recognized as one the greatest games ever made.

holy shit you were right -->

scared of anything space related

Really enjoy the puzzle exploration of Outer Wilds

But also scared of everything black hole/Phantom Moon/Dark Bramble related

It's such a weird feeling where I consider this to be the best puzzle game I have played, but also the scariest horror game. DLC didn't scare me as much though

It's an okay game, but it's just not amazing.
I didn't find it particularly life-changing as some people seem to find it.
You follow the walls of text and they tell you where to go and then you turn off the mcguffin keeping you alive and resetting time and then end the universe whilst some random people play you the song of their people and then you die or whatever.
It's decent, it's a novel way to do a walking sim, but, I'm just not really into games where I walk from exposition dump to exposition dump.

I tried for like an hour and then gave up, I might try it for fun though.
I've played Lorelei but will definitely look at Obra Dinn

Fantastic game. The realization of what you need to do after you reach the ATP really hits like nothing else.
Did you want to talk about anything specific?

What did you think about the game, OP? Did you like it?

Following a guide would be so stupid for this game.
Not yet but I'm going to play it next. The first time a cyclone on Giant's Deep threw me into space really freaked me out.

Had to look up a guide when I played this because I was standing on the wrong pixel when trying to enter atp. It basically confirmed I was right, just misaligned slightly, but still annoys me that I can't say I beat it without looking anything up.

wrong pixel?

FIRST POST. BOOOM RIGHT IN THE COSMOS POST.

How far away is their next game?

They just started hiring people a couple of days ago so who knows

but there's been news about them working on it for months now so they've obviously been at work for a bit already.
got a source for them hiring new people though?

I loved it, 10/10 game experience. The experience can't really exist as anything other than a game which I think is always a sign of something special.

Did you want to talk about anything specific?

Not really, just discussion with other anons who played it.

their twitter. They also got unlimited budget from masi oka, huge sales and being a small team so I hope it's doesnt take them 10 years to release something

all that time and they still didnt know what to do with the ending

I will never understand how there are people that can't figure out the flight controls
They are honest to god the most fun and intuitive flight mechanics I've encountered and after the first 2~3 hours or so it was simply a joy flying for the hell of it
Granted, the tutorial with the mini-spaceship is crap cause you never actually fly your ship in 3rd person
it could be that people can't into landing camera and just till their "head", so to speak, to where they want to go thus crashing, which was the experience I had with a friend who was playing it

the only crime is they still havent fixed the slow thrust on kb/m whereas the final section is easy as piss on controller because you can slow thrust

I got filtered by the game, got lost after a few hours, mostly by the hanging city, the gameplay wasnt my style so I just uninstalled and went and watched a full playthrough. Big regret and do wish I played it. I think one of games's biggest strength is exactly something like Outer wilds where you can create and put yourself in a fictional fantasy where you can space travel and pull it off with full immersion, there should be more like it imo.

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the owlks were a bunch of retards

should've just left and gone elsewhere instead of having autism about one location. thats the games biggest strength and most people dont abuse it and instead quit once they get stuck immediately instead of letting their curiosity take them over and go elsewhere.

Midway the game I thought that the game fucked up by introducing something like eye of the universe because you set your story up for failure when you introduce a mystery like that because its far too large and difficult to pull off with a satisfying ending or conclusion, but the game managed to pull it off nonetheless

we must be very careful to not disturb the system supporting these delicate tadpoles ways of life

but also, lets blow up their sun lmao

What is their problem?

There were loads of texts and hints in the hanging city, thought that there were more to explore in there but kept getting lost so I decided fuck it and went to Giants deep which was amazing but by that point I was too fatigued by Brittle hollow so I just uninstalled, again the gameplay was not really my style

Well they didn't blow up the sun, and even the way they tried it was perfectly safe, so they didn't do anything wrong.

did you play the DLC or have you seen it after u finished the main game? if not i recommend you give that a shot. its a lot less reading and more visual. very kino.

welcome brother, now you wont be able to go back to regular games

I did watch it yeah, enjoyed it a lot also, the prisoner reelswas kino as fuck and gave me goosebumps, I still rewatch it frequently

The sun wouldn't have blown up in the final loop according to the plan. ATP was supposed to be turned off by whoever was standing near a statue as soon as the coordinates were found and sent into the past.

Mfw I opened the sun station door.

Mfw I realized that wasn't end times playing.

Mfw I figured out how to free the prisoner.

Mfw it was time for me to show the prisoner my own vision.

Mfw I saw the literal big bang.

indie slop

Did the game encourage you to transition?

mfw

Question about the ending.
Was it just a coincidence that the universe ended 20 minutes after the probe found the coordinates for the eye of the universe? Or am I a brainlet?

it was kind of spedup when u watch all the galaxies extinguish in the forest after you jump into the eye cause u were hallucinating the whole rebirth of the universe / making it happen somehow by being an observer but yeah the reason the sun exploded in the first place was because the universe was in the process of dying. you can see this by looking out to the other stars in the sky, they're all going supernova as the 22 minutes pass.

French people when an english speaker joins their gmod server

No, the probe is being shot in all of the direction in infinite timelines, basically the Nomai have found a way to literally visit everywhere in the galaxy and physically find the eye. You're just seeing 20 minutes because that's how far they've managed to stretch the "time travel"

The only coincidence is that our sun dies with all the other stars instead of having done so earlier. Otherwise, that's how the project is set up. ATP is dormant until the sun blows up. When it does, naturally or otherwise, it sends the signal to send the first probe 22 minutes into the past, starting the loop.

the final section is easy as piss on controller because you can slow thrust

if only I could hold my thumb still and not twitch all the time
might have taken me 40 tries when I decided I should leave the ship and go suit only so that I won't bump into them
if you read the sun station computers you will realise there have been millennia of attempts that started when the sun blew up
the universe "ended" for unrelated reasons because you jumped into the eye

everywhere in the galaxy

No, just everywhere in a set sphere around the sun. The Eye is orbiting the sun like a distant planet. It's in the system the game takes place in, why is why the Nomai came here in the first place. The fact that it was close enough for the probe to reach it in less than 22 minutes was a gamble.

Yeah, you're right. Everywhere where the eye feasibly could be

So what exactly is the eye of the universe? It's clearly a place, some sort of planet, but you go in some sort of wormhole tornado and then after that everything is unknown. Was it created by some beings to keep the universe going? Is it some sort of natural phenomena? If no one found the eye of the universe, would the universe just end? Or be recreated after a few billion years (again)?

What exactly is the Big Bang? That's the kind of a question you're asking

I have about 10 hours into this game. It's ok, but I don't why so many nigs love it so much.
Maybe I am a brainlet but I dont enjoy doing the same thing over and over and trying to optimize my movements for every day.

If you have to do the same things over and over every loop thats on you my man

Unless there is more info on the DLC which I haven't played yet, I would wager on the Eye being what Solanum says, a manifestation of infinity who's true form cannot be observed since such observation would give it definitive form which by the end of the game we know it to be at least somewhat dependent on the one observing it via jumping in
the physical place, up until you black out in the tornado slide, is in my opinion space being warped by the influence of the Eye which you never actually see as everything beyond this point is most likely a hallucination created by the mind in a fashion similar to how dreams dilate seconds into hours and only exist for some brief waking moments

Playing OW on kbm is like playing a racing game on kbm. It will never work properly. Throttle, brake, pitch, yaw, and roll inputs benefit so heavily from adaptive inputs vs binary inputs.

Anyone who plays this on kbm has absolutely no grounds to complain about anything. It's their own fault & the game even explicitly recommends a controller, and for very good reasons.

The warning to reduce frights for the dlc was more scary than the actual dlc itself. I got tricked into hyping myself into a hysteria based on how spooky the base game could get only for the end result to be less intimidating than standing on ash twin and feeling like the sun's about to scoop you up

Exactly. It's purposely incomprehensible, which is where the game dips its toes in some cosmic horror elements. You are not meant to understand.

I hate dark bramble so much bros

True but I also got spooked when the owls were actual enemies that could "kill" you because I got fooled into the false sense of security that they were all already dead

mfw they announce an Outer Wilds/No Man's Sky crossover

I just want to know if there are jumpscares or if it is some "it's all in your head" kind of thing

No not really since the sun going supernova is what launched the probe and started the time loops.

theres no jumpscares, its pretty clear when u will hear a semi scary sound. once u experience the "scare" once u have seen them all and realise its not that scary. dont bother with the less frights setting.

Outer Wilds is one of the few games that people have gassed up and then it was actually better than I expected.

Fucking love it.

You're just seeing 20 minutes because that's how far they've managed to stretch the "time travel"

Not quite, they specifically ask if a 22 minute interval is possible, so that was clearly the target, not the limit. It's never spelled out, but I assume they just calculated that this was the time needed to scour the entire area of space where the eye could possibly be. They did get the signal at first after all, maybe they could make an educated guess about the radius from which it could have came from

If anyone of you guys have a VR headset and haven't played the DLC yet you're in for a treat

Feldspar would be proud

Is it safeish to assume that every new universe has been observed by a previous universes' inhabitant? That would be a weirdly wholesome passing of the torch act, even if it's unwilling. Although what's not known, and won't ever be known is what happens if there's no observer, does the universe, all universes end?
NTA but I think you're onto something. Since they left some of the materials on Timber Hearth one could argue that if they needed more for the Ash Twin Project, so that it's core could survive an even longer supernova then that material would've been used.

No Mans Sky's story and lore is pretty schizophrenic with a lot of biblical references, but a well done universe spanning puzzle game that thousands of people have to piece together to solve would be cool.

IIRC the signal went out BEFORE the Owlks moved the Eye to its final location. Probably just a minor plothole.

Is it safeish to assume that every new universe has been observed by a previous universes' inhabitant?

I'd argue that it's impossible to draw a definite conclusion based on just the single example we know of.
But I do hope that this is the case, because otherwise that would mean that there's an eventual definite end to existence and I'm personally not a fan of that.

huh?
owls never moved the eye, they flew to it with their ship and then suppressed the signal. The signal Nomai got was the brief one released by the prisoner.

Imagine flying around space in NMS and suddenly End Times starts playing.