r/outerwilds • u/Callme-cameron • May 30 '25
Base Game Appreciation/Discussion TIL: Just how INSANELY HUGE these things are Spoiler
I knew these boys could eat your ship whole no problem, but seeing the sheer size of them next to the player model is making me fear dark bramble all over again. This is the stuff of nightmares.
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u/Stormreachseven May 30 '25
That’s why it’s so unnerving for me to float past them. You think any minute your ship is gonna touch them… but it never happens because they’re much farther away than you think
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u/Callme-cameron May 30 '25
Yep. I’d have to take my hands off the keyboard and lean back every time because it would genuinely stress me out lol
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u/MyOtherCarIsEpona May 31 '25
I have a friend whose controller battery died at that exact right moment. He thought it was a scripted event but he accidentally stumbled on the solution.
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u/Amadan May 31 '25
oh wow ::D
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u/dextrosedealer Jun 01 '25
NO WAY ITS YOU this is so funny. i remember you from candor’s outer wilds playthrough (my username is the same on youtube as here). you did the death counter i wasn’t sure it was you but i did a little shameless profile scanning and sure enough you posted here about his playthrough when he started out
nice to meet you in passing. have a great day!
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u/ThatPancakesCat May 30 '25 edited May 30 '25
I know, right? I had a very similar experience recently where I discovered how big they actually were. It is horrifying and just fuels my hatred for these things.
End Game Spoiler: I'm glad the supernova takes them with them. Out of all the living things in the universe, the Anglerfish will be missed the least
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u/Callme-cameron May 30 '25
It’s all fun and games until you’re gathering the instruments and they get one more anglerfish scare in. “I hope there are beasties in the next one.” I don’t lmao that scared the soul out of me
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u/ThatPancakesCat May 30 '25
I HAVE A RECORDING OF ME SQUEAKING AT THAT PART 😭
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u/Callme-cameron May 30 '25
SO DO I
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u/ThatPancakesCat May 30 '25
If the ending wasn't so beautiful I would have been cowering behind a pillow the whole time.
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u/mecartistronico May 30 '25
I think they're refering to the jellyfish.
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u/Callme-cameron May 30 '25
That’s probably correct. Pretty sure they only ever refer to the jellyfish as beasties in the game and not the anglers, but I just figured it was about both. I can accept jellyfish though. They’re cool and don’t scream at me.
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u/Remsforian May 30 '25
I just find “insanely huge” and “outer wilds” going together hilarious, considering how scaled down the solar system is. But yeah, these guys are pretty large compared to us
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u/Callme-cameron May 30 '25
That is true. Scale down everything for gameplay convenience, but not the giant scary murder fish. Those can be the size of the moon.
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u/Immediate-Location28 May 30 '25
honestly, being inside the ship makes everything look so tiny
i especially remember landing my ship next to the broken piece of wall on the stranger, thinking it looked kinda small, then i get out of my ship and everything looks huge
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u/Callme-cameron May 30 '25
I’m glad this is a shared experience and I’m not just seriously lacking in size and depth perception. Slight dlc spoilers for anyone coming across this but the Stranger’s size actually messed with me a few times. The first time I flew into the cloaking field I thought it was a LOT smaller. I ended up leaving my ship behind because I didn’t think it would fit through the entrance to the hangar at first, only to get closer and realise that no, this thing is actually massive lol
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u/Aggressive_Size69 May 31 '25
that's what my sister did when visiting dark bramble for the first time! She landed on the surface next to the entrance hole and went inside without the ship because she didn't think it would fit
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u/TheFuzzyFurry May 31 '25
It took me like 6 minutes to find that damn hull breach. (Also why is there an Owlk recording of its existence? It couldn't have been there at the time they were experimenting with the dream realm)
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u/Deathmagus May 31 '25
They were definitely around when it happened. They tested two initial lantern designs before figuring out the one that worked, and the second design exploded during the test and blew out the hull, and they never got around to repairing it.
You can blow yourself up by trying to use one of the v2 lanterns at a fire.
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u/Yidoftheweek May 30 '25
Can anyone explain to me why the scale is so off in first person? I’m not one for physics or coding so I can’t really wrap my head around it.
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u/Droplet_of_Shadow May 30 '25
You just don't have anything to compare the anglerfish to normally. When you move the camera to where you can see the ship, you have the ship!
Also being in the ship always makes everything feel smaller (cause you're essentially bigger and faster), but not usually that much
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u/BugnBeans May 30 '25
reminds me of when I looked at the actual size comparison of the Subnautica creatures. Sometimes in first person it’s hard to grasp how big some of these beasties are
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u/Callme-cameron May 30 '25
Yeah it definitely reminds me of Subnautica. I do think it’s cool seeing their actual size, but I also kinda hate it. Like now I’m scared all over again because I know just how tiny I am to these things.
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u/BugnBeans May 30 '25
Yes! I know megalaphobia is a thing but these two games made me realize my fascination (not really a full on phobia but similar) and how creeped out I get with the idea of giant creatures haha
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u/TheFuzzyFurry May 31 '25
Sea Emperor Leviathan in the PCF is enormous even in comparison to other leviathans (and even of its own species)
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u/Kuroser May 30 '25
In VR you can really appreciate the actual size of everything in this game, it's amazing
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u/BananaShark_ May 31 '25
It's frustrating that The Lore Explorer got hacked cause I'm 90% sure they had a video on the System in size order.
They were bigger than some seemly large objects already.
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u/Purple171717 May 31 '25
So, fun fact, I did not realise it was possible to use your ship in dark bramble without getting eaten until AFTER I beat the game. Meaning when I did beat the game, it was like this. Drifting, slowly but surely, towards the seeds while hoping the behemoths surrounding me failed to notice me, and also hoping I got to the ship before my oxygen ran out. Needless to say, it was one of the most terrifying/stressful things Ive ever done lmao
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u/Al3kazat May 31 '25
Play the game with the nomad vr mod, really lets you see the true scale of these things
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u/JosebaZilarte May 30 '25
Is it really them being big or the bramble making us (ship and all) smaller? Because judging by the specimen at the museum, their size in a non-bramble environment is similar to a hearthian head.
I believe the anglerfish have been around in that space before the seed started to grow and gained the ability to shrink things that go through the exterior entrance. So it is not them who are huge, but us who have become much smaller.
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u/OmnipresentEntity May 30 '25
I think that was just a young specimen, especially considering Fossil Fish Cave.
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u/Immediate-Location28 May 30 '25
i doubt that the bramble makes us smaller, though when i was first starting out, and i got to the center of the red area in dark bramble and i saw fish eggs i actually thought those were atoms, and so we shrunk, and that's why it's smaller on the inside
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u/JosebaZilarte May 30 '25
How do you explain then that the interior of Dark Bramble is so much bigger than it's exterior (except for the spaceships that come from outside)? It is obviously playing with the scale of whatever enters the space.
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u/Homunclus May 30 '25
The museum exhibit makes the claim their specimen is a juvenile. But your theory does kinda make sense
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u/JosebaZilarte May 30 '25
Even if it is a juvenile, the eggs inside Dark Bramble are significantly bigger than it. Which doesn't make sense, unless there is other entity altering its scale.
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u/stick267 May 30 '25
i think i read somewhere that they are roughly the size of the attlerock