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staygold wrote:

New DLC is out TODAY!!!!!!

Sometimes love means telling your wife you won't pilot her spaceship until after she's finished her exam.

Seriously looking forward to a date night with this one. Last year my wife bought Outer Wilds but couldn't manage to fly the ship, so she drafted me to be her pilot and we sat on the couch and explored it together. I think we enjoyed that at least as much as we did playing the Old Republic MMO at launch, and we put LEGO versions of our characters from that on our wedding cake.

I've started Echoes Of The Eye & man am I rusty at Outer Wilds. I'd forgotten how to properly use the signalscope & the jetpack. I'm back into the groove of using them both but I'm having a frustrating time getting EOTE started.

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I made it to the radio tower on Timber Hearth after going to the observatory & seeing the new exhibit. I read through the stuff on the tape about the new satellite taking pictures of the planets from all the different angles & that something had showed up. I thought it was too obvious from the 4 photos that the small circular shadow covering the top of the sun was the thing Hornfel was talking about but from looking it up that was it.

Now my signalscope skills are rusty to say the least. I got it out at the radio tower & honed in on the singal there. I literally had no idea what to do afterwards, I'd forgotten there can be multiple signals on the same frequency, which I found out after going to a guide. Ok my next spot was the satellite which supposedly should be marked on my map after pointing the signalscope towards it or getting the signal at the radio tower but nope.

On the bit after you find that very first location to start EOTE:

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Ok so I jump in my ship & head out towards where the signalscope is leading me to on the 'deep space radio' frequency. I get close to this satellite & it just fly's across to the other side, I turn follow it, same thing once I get too close it hurtles past me the opposite direction. I tried a couple more runs with the same thing happening, even when I autopilot towards it & go out in my space suit towards it myself. I actually got directly in the way of the satellite once & it hit into the ship at speed, which I actually got a trophy for. I'm at a loss of what to do. I've watched a YouTube video & the satellite doesn't move for the player who was doing the walkthrough so I've no idea what I'm doing different.

Frustrating to say the least, anyone else started this & can possibly enlighten me?

Spikeout wrote:

I've started Echoes Of The Eye & man am I rusty at Outer Wilds. I'd forgotten how to properly use the signalscope & the jetpack. I'm back into the groove of using them both but I'm having a frustrating time getting EOTE started.

Frustrating to say the least, anyone else started this & can possibly enlighten me?

I'll record a quick video and update here. The key for me has been a combination of autopilot and "match velocity". Haven't missed it once.

Brilliant thanks! Does it stay still for you?

Yeah, I just started this yesterday as well. Locking on and matching velocity is the key for sure. Make sure you are actually locked onto the thing and not some random planet because you'll match velocity to whatever you're locked onto.

One thing to make this way easier if you're still having trouble:

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If you head to your ship right after reviving and check your map, the satellite should be in a position that lets you lock onto it directly from the map. That should easily allow you to auto pilot very close to it and match velocity from there.

There's one planet... I want to say Dark Bramble but I might be misremembering... anyway, if you start a loop, launch right away, and try to autopilot there it'll fly you right into the sun. It's just a quirk of how everything lines up. But other than that autopilot tends to work really well.

Dyni wrote:

Yeah, I just started this yesterday as well. Locking on and matching velocity is the key for sure. Make sure you are actually locked onto the thing and not some random planet because you'll match velocity to whatever you're locked onto.

One thing to make this way easier if you're still having trouble:

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If you head to your ship right after reviving and check your map, the satellite should be in a position that lets you lock onto it directly from the map. That should easily allow you to auto pilot very close to it and match velocity from there.

I'm an idiot, it turns out I was flying past

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the satellite

at such speed that it made it look like it was the one making the moves & not me. Matching velocity! I had forgot how important that aspect was when approaching planets.

I made it to the

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black hole which turns out is a huge spaceship, with an Inception style 360° huge river that runs in the style of a wheel on the inside of it. There's land, huts & different buildings littered off to the sides at various points. Incredible to experience it for the first time. I've seen pictures in a couple of different locations of a character with antlers on its head, I hope to find out more. The game ended up crashing on me though, damn!

Cheers for the help again folks!

My game crashed again in the new area specifically

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where you find the building with the big mark on the door that's locked (with the mechanism that you need to put the right symbols in). I go down the stairs just past it & there's a room you can throw your scout launcher into. I'm near certain this is where it crashed last time

A bit of a bummer to say the least. Has anyone else had any issues with their game crashing?

Ah, sorry to hear that Spikeout. I've only had time to put in a couple hours so far, but no crashes yet. Then again, I don't think the base game ever crashed for me either. What platform are you playing on? I'm on Xbox.

I can't remember the base game crashing on me either, I played that on PS4. Echoes Of The Eye is on PS5. Gonna try another run tonight if I get a chance.

I played 4 full loops today, no crashes. I went to the exact area you described crashing at too. Maybe the PlayStation versions are just having some stability issues that need fixed.

I'm really enjoying the expansion so far, but I don't know what exactly to talk about yet since all the discovery is done in such a piecemeal fashion. I'll spoiler tag my findings thus far just in case. Read at your own peril.

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I finally noticed what causes the gigantic wave and increased water level on my first loop today. Now I'm finding myself nervously checking the dam as I'm exploring to figure out when it's going to burst. I also noticed a loud mechanical sound a few minutes after landing on the Stranger, but I'm not sure what's causing it yet. It sounds like a giant door closing.

I've viewed 3 of the 4 slide decks for the alien species and 2 of the 3 slides for the overlapping circle symbols. I discovered two secret entrances from paintings you need to illuminate from lanterns, one under the large tower and one under the giant tomb looking structure.

I also discovered usable artifacts that have claw hands on the end of them, but I'm not quite sure what to do with them yet.

There is a more ominous tone to some of the discoveries in this new area compared to the main game. It has me really curious about where the story is heading.

I just finished the DLC and my mind is just absolutely blown. Just blown. Loved it so much. I got mildly stuck in a few places, but I had wonderful viewers who gave me just the right amount of nudging. It's hard to talk about it without spoiling, but it fits just perfectly into the world. I wonder if anyone else wrapped it up?

I was scrolling back and interestingly enough, I didn't have too much trouble getting started, even though the game tells you to check out the new exhibit when you launch it for the first time after installing the DLC. Even though I didn't do any of that and just launched straight out, like I've been conditioned to do. Really had a blast.

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Instead of checking out the exhibit, I launched straight out and floated around in the system. Didn't know what to do, so I thought I'd listen to the music, took my signalscope and was like... "what's this new band?" Found a red blip, went towards it, it was poor old Spacey, and I immediately crashed into him. It was hilarious. :D

My wife and I played through the DLC recently and we had a great time. I love how it really leaned into a few player verbs that were kind of secondary in the main game.

I really need to go back and practice my

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end-game Dark Bramble

runs so we can see how the DLC changes things there.

It DOES change things there, which I thankfully YouTube'd because it has been long enough that my memory on it is fuzzy.
You can easily find the video, I dare not post it here, because it would be quite spoilerish.

I've hovered over the play button on some of those videos, but haven't clicked. Maybe it's stubborn pride. Maybe it's wanting the experience the bit after the tough bit again. Maybe I don't trust YouTube to show me exactly what our situation would see, as I've read that there are several variations.

I haven't played in a week or so now but was stuck on what to do next. I think I've found all the slides, & explored most of the new area.

I still have no idea what to do with the

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artifact, that you can open & close, the room with the green flame, how to find the combination for the second set of symbols in the building down near the dam

I'm loving it but my stubborn attitude to not want to look anything up is stopping my progress.

It so easy to run into spoilers when your looking up the walkthrough for any Outer Wilds content. I'm gonna just have to be careful & not read too far ahead.

Spikeout wrote:

I still have no idea what to do with the

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artifact, that you can open & close, the room with the green flame, how to find the combination for the second set of symbols in the building down near the dam

I'm loving it but my stubborn attitude to not want to look anything up is stopping my progress.

If you want a very vague hint:

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I already gave it to you about 4 posts up, not in a spoiler.

I'll get a run or two in tomorrow night. Is the use of

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light what your talking about, like the way it controls the rafts in the water, opens those doors with the symbols that rotate around etc

Vargen?

No, not that one. There's something else you can do that wasn't strictly required for the base game. Two similar somethings that I found, in fact, though you only need to find one of them.

There's a slideshow that involves the

Spikeout wrote:
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artifact, that you can open & close, the room with the green flame

that you may or may not have found. If you have found it, look at it again and pay attention to the specific order in which things happen. If you haven't found it, keep poking around until you do. It's not locked behind anything, though it is behind something locked.

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You've got to look around to find it but once you do there's a locked door that you can open to quickly get back to a viewing room.

I'll have to give the slides a watch again. I'm near sure I've unlocked that door to get back quickly into the viewing room.

I decided to complete FIST - Forged In Shadow Torch so I'll not get back to Echoes Of The Eye until Friday now as I'm away the next few days. If I need help I'll ask in here, it's good that I can get nudged in the right direction without getting anything ruined for me story/discovery wise.

Definitely ask here rather than getting spoiled. Like I mentioned, I got a few nudges from my viewers, in two places, but they were very light touches and just perfect, didn't spoil anything.

And for the record... No, you haven't explored most of the new area. Yet.

I can't erase my memory and discover the game again, so the next best thing is to try and work out the minimal amount of hinting necessary to help someone else. After all, I can't live vicariously through someone else's discovery if I ruin it.

Just to give an update on my progress (I've been playing EOTE a lot):

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The big reveal that I had completely overlooked, or blanked on was slide that showed the explosion on the outside of the ship. Once I got into the testing chambers then it became clear how to properly use the artifact

I've been to each of the

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dream locations, the one in the tower, the one at the hidden gorge & the one in that underwater structure. I've been along the raft, going past the high cliff, right to the end where the big dome room is. I've been to the housing area in the cliffs themselves where the creature is watching the projection screen, such a cool touch just seeing the shadow of its head when your upstairs looking down, or in the garden area looking in. It's freaky when you shine your artifact light on the screen, it turns off as the creature realises there's someone here that shouldn't be & let's out something akin to a roar.

I did have to look up the solution for the

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secret room in the tower. I was going over with the artifact putting it on the exact spot on the chest, I even waited until the initial tidal wave came & knocked over the tower so I could get in without the lantern going out. I just wasn't getting anywhere after trying to replicate what I seen in the vision or slide. Did anyone actually figure this solution out by themselves? I thought it was extremely vague, even though the creature pointed to the picture of the tower with the moon/planet above it. I now know that it signified the tower in the dream world but to go there & put all the candles out to then go back to the reality version (as it were) to find entrance were the picture was, I thought that was a fairly tough solution to land on.

Other things I've figured out

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were the 3 hidden areas. The first behind the trees/thick branches after you first enter into the huge nature like area on the inside of the strangers ship, it's a sight to behold. The secret lake was the area that I had already discovered & then the hidden gorge had that tall building were the bird cage elevator went up & down. I went to the top, let the elevator go down itself after shining a light onto the dial, then found the secret room in the middle after some light platforming.

Now I've actively started to take screenshots & videos to remember what the hell some of the

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slides & visions have shown, which has helped me out a good bit. I don't know how you'd remember every detail of the slides (especially the ones in the aforementioned 3 secret locations) that show you very specific actions or pathways you need to take

The bit I'm on right now is

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the Endless Canyon. I spoke about seeing the creature watching the projection screen. I've explored all that area, used the hand statues to transport across to buildings that would be unreachable otherwise. I've brought bridges into existence & when I got to the outside area with all the seats around the little wooden gazebo, I tried what it showed in the slide. I got between the two candles facing out onto the water far below & the huge gap across to the far side. I started walking out on the invisible pathway, it was amazing, I wasn't sure it was actually going to work. I got across & extinguished part of the big building I had been previously exploring. My goodness the scream from the creatures & the mood of that area went from creepy to full on horror. I went across the bridge & could hear the creatures now moving about, it's complete darkness bar the light from the artifact. I quickly ran into one, it rushed towards me grabbed me & blew out my green flame sending me back to the ritual room. It's scary stuff.

I've since went back to that area 3 or 4 times but am finding it tough to navigate it with those conditions in place. Anyone else on the same boat when you were at that same part?

I'm absolutely blown away by the layers & world building of Echoes Of The Eye, it's my sole goal to complete it before I write my GOTY list.

I did figure out that solution you asked about. We were in the actual place where you have to interact with things; I think we were there to try something my wife wanted to try. Then I realized how things lined up with the corresponding other place and we tried it and it worked.

I have some advice about the scary stuff. Might be a general spoiler so...

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There's actually a really neat way to puzzle your way past a lot of the scariest parts, including the specific bit mentioned above. You might find it if you experiment with stuff. There's also a slide reel that will show you. And for the scary parts that you can't puzzle past, you can puzzle your way into a lot of tactical intel before you confront the situation.

Fair play on the puzzle, my mind wasn't working that way at that point regarding those two places.

Ok I'll play around a bit with the mechanic & exploration in that area to see what I can do. Thanks

Spikeout wrote:

I'll play around a bit with the mechanic

To clarify, the mechanic I was referring to in my advice isn't one that I think you've mentioned. Don't want to inadvertently cause you to spend too much time down a dead end.

Vargen wrote:
Spikeout wrote:

I'll play around a bit with the mechanic

To clarify, the mechanic I was referring to in my advice isn't one that I think you've mentioned. Don't want to inadvertently cause you to spend too much time down a dead end.

Oh your ok, I was referring to the

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door/wall like structure you look through to bring a building, bridge etc into existence or extinguish them away.

Ok finally got to play a bit more. I've now seemingly completed

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Endless Canyon. I ended to looking up what to do even though I had a good idea that you needed to get to that bottom room & go through the picture of the big tree. The thing I was getting wrong was not realizing I had to go through the darkness & look through the hole in the door to bring the bridge back to get across & down to that bottom room (with the picture of the big tree). I always done that when the place was lit up. In the darkness it's tense, I still got caught once & nearly a second time while getting back to that exact point.

It's amazing the revelation that something is right under your nose & always has been there

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with the mechanic of leaving the artifact down & walking far enough away from it that it brings you into this matrix style alternate reality. Such an amazing concept & the way it's executed is perfect.

Quick question on the

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Forbidden Archives, I've opened the panel across the bridge, I take it that's effected something permanent in the world & I don't need to redo that each time?

On your first spoiler block, I see you did that one the hard way.

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I thoroughly scouted the area in the "Matrix View" and found a route that didn't involve going back to re-light the interior bridge. I got an awful lot of mileage out of setting down the artifact and scouting out everywhere I could.

If you want to know more of what I'm talking about, go back to the start of the area in your first spoiler block and experiment with the technique described in your second...

I'm afraid I've forgotten which area you're referring to by name in the third spoiler. I will say that nothing you physically do persists from one loop to the next. However, the more involved sequences are all about learning things, so once you know the secrets behind them you do not have to re-do them to "complete" the DLC.

Vargen wrote:

On your first spoiler block, I see you did that one the hard way.

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I thoroughly scouted the area in the "Matrix View" and found a route that didn't involve going back to re-light the interior bridge. I got an awful lot of mileage out of setting down the artifact and scouting out everywhere I could.

If you want to know more of what I'm talking about, go back to the start of the area in your first spoiler block and experiment with the technique described in your second...

I'm afraid I've forgotten which area you're referring to by name in the third spoiler. I will say that nothing you physically do persists from one loop to the next. However, the more involved sequences are all about learning things, so once you know the secrets behind them you do not have to re-do them to "complete" the DLC.

Ahhh right, I'll definitely go back & try stuff in the referenced area using that mechanic. I'm glad you said that.

On my third spoiler the

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Forbidden Archives, it's the area that you get to once you go through the picture of the big tree in the big cabin building in the Endless Canyon. You walk across the invisible bridge, go down the elevator & it's a sort of library of reels. You learn through one of those reels about setting down the artifact & walking out of its range. The panel I'm talking about is in that exact area, over the two bridges (that only appear in the matrix mode) you literally open it & inside it even looks like all the code from the matrix but nothing happens. That's why I was wondering does something carry across to a new run.