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.
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.
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:
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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 still have no idea what to do with the
Spoiler: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:
I already gave it to you about 4 posts up, not in a spoiler.
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
Spoiler: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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
On your first spoiler block, I see you did that one the hard way.
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.
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