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Derblington 6 Feb 2016 09:39:30 35,161 posts
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A hint about what? Just get back up to the surface and wander around until you find some puzzles.

Deleted user 6 February 2016 10:45:39

Is it not all a puzzle?

Derblington 6 Feb 2016 11:03:16 35,161 posts
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If you can't find the solution to the puzzle from the perspective from the panel itself it's not there. So wander until you find the solution or a new puzzle.

JoelStinty 6 Feb 2016 13:16:43 9,530 posts
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Started this today. Nice and pleasant so far. Havnt done much but just been pottering around in the orchard and boat house.

Also the save screenshot function via share play may come in handy (snapped the bunker map thing)

Telepathic.Geometry 6 Feb 2016 19:55:59 12,422 posts
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Just beat Endgame. It's 5am. I think my mind snapped there at the middle level of the final puzzle area. Seriously. Must, sleep. Challenge trophy can wait for another day, or maybe another week/month.

Telepathic.Geometry 6 Feb 2016 19:57:16 12,422 posts
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Final score was 416, +19.

JoelStinty 6 Feb 2016 20:19:36 9,530 posts
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I'm liking this, I think just for the fact you feel like you are chipping away at something. Starting to open up a bit though and it is like where do I go next!

Phattso 6 Feb 2016 20:21:28 27,426 posts
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@Telepathic.Geometry once you've beaten the endgame is it possible to go back and mop up the remaining puzzles? And whatever this challenge is that you mention?

Telepathic.Geometry 6 Feb 2016 20:46:57 12,422 posts
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Yeah. i had to start a new game, but then it let me load my last save just befoore the ending

Deleted user 6 February 2016 21:39:11

Sat in the pub earlier with my girlfriend and mate and figured out a solution to a puzzle in my head that's been bothering me for ages.. just firing up Steam now.

Fair enough that you don't have time, but that is the game. If you're not spending time on the looking-at-things-right puzzles then you'll be spending time on the other kinds of puzzles that can be equally as.. puzzling. Leave it and come back to it if you feel the urge or have the time.

Phattso 6 Feb 2016 22:57:03 27,426 posts
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Yeah, while I'm sure it is possible to dive in for 20 minute this does rather seem suited to longer sittings. I've found myself wondering how it's 1AM on a number of occasions where I'm on a roll and don't want to stop.

337 +49 and 8 LAZORS right now. Only found two vids and half a dozen audio logs though, so plenty still to discover.

Deleted user 6 February 2016 22:58:45

The Challenge is bloody hard.

Telepathic.Geometry 7 Feb 2016 07:15:33 12,422 posts
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I'm doing the challenge right now. Can someone who is doing it or has finished it just tell me this: Do I need to complete every single puzzle down here? There seems to be tonnes of them...

Gregolution 7 Feb 2016 08:23:57 11,084 posts
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I'm absolutely loving this but embarrassingly my 7 year old son figured out a puzzle I was stuck on in front of the whole family. I should be proud of him..... But I'm just annoyed!

Derblington 7 Feb 2016 08:29:27 35,161 posts
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@Telepathic.Geometry

Nope.

Telepathic.Geometry 7 Feb 2016 09:02:40 12,422 posts
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No worries man, I think I found it. :/

Gregolution 7 Feb 2016 09:41:25 11,084 posts
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Is there anything that tells you how many audio logs you have etc? I just see panels completed.

Telepathic.Geometry 7 Feb 2016 10:15:57 12,422 posts
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Fuck this shit. I just had a puzzle in the challenge stage that was actually impossible. I don't mean that it was very difficult, I mean that it was in fact undoable. It was a simple black square white square separation one (which I love by the way), but one of the white blocks was surrounded on all 4 sides by black ones. Making it impossible. Has anyone else had this on challenge mode?

If anyone dares defy my reasoning, I have a screenshot to prove it. Fuck, I was on a good run too... /pissed off

Derblington 7 Feb 2016 10:29:26 35,161 posts
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Yeah, it's intentional and part of the puzzle. That's part of what makes the Challenge difficult.

Edited by Derblington at 10:30:00 07-02-2016

JoelStinty 7 Feb 2016 21:45:14 9,530 posts
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I've dug down pretty deep into the sun temple. Got to the heart of it ( or at least i think so, you can sort of see the access lift above ground en route. There a puzzle there i can't do yet i think, got me stumped, so left that one for the time being.

Just had a little roam, and doing the maze ones.. one on the boat yard side has got me completely lost, so just gong to try the other route.

Loving the game though.

Edited by JoelStinty at 21:46:15 07-02-2016

Phattso 7 Feb 2016 23:07:43 27,426 posts
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All LAZORZ done and onto the endgame stuff now. Think I found the "hidden" challenge area but the door puzzle solution eludes me for now.

430 +59 and counting...

udat 7 Feb 2016 23:09:31 576 posts
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I'm stuck.

I was in the bamboo forest, with the birds chirping, and I hit a switch that has raised part of the forest floor so I can't go back the way I came.

That left me with just two puzzles accessible. One is the back gate to a monastery looking place, and the other looks like a gate to an underground section. I (eventually) figured out the back gate to the monastery, which got me into a little zen garden and another gate, but this time there's no puzzle panel so I can't open it.

That leaves me with the gate that goes underground that I can't for the life of me figure out. IT looks like it should be easy, a black square on the left, and a white one on the right, with a hexagon I have to go through in the centre, but i can't open it.

It's pissing me off now.

This puzzle: http://www.giantbomb.com/images/1300-2818984

Edited by udat at 23:15:34 07-02-2016

Derblington 7 Feb 2016 23:15:46 35,161 posts
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There's a very specific solution to it that you won't figure out just by standing in front of it. You first encounter this type of puzzle in the temple area, which it sounds like you haven't done yet.

udat 7 Feb 2016 23:32:58 576 posts
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I haven't, I don't think. If the "temple" is the monastery looking thing. But I can't go backwards - the forest floor raised, so this is the only puzzle panel available to me.

Derblington 7 Feb 2016 23:34:59 35,161 posts
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No, it's not. Wander around and find more. Everything is connected, there's never only one way.

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347 +65
i think i could finish the game now but everywhere i turn there's another + puzzle or a panel that i could have a crack at. so good.

udat 7 Feb 2016 23:53:15 576 posts
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@Derblington Thanks dude. I swear I had gone to look at that bloody stream a dozen times before and failed to spot the stones you can use to cross.

Telepathic.Geometry 8 Feb 2016 06:50:44 12,422 posts
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@Derblington Whaaaat!? Blow, you devious motherfucker! ^-^

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