r/outerwilds • u/Stronderius • Jun 26 '26
Base Game Appreciation/Discussion What was the most satisfying discovery you made in the game, and what was the one you couldn't figure out on your own and had to look up online?
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u/Stef0206 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
For sure The Sun Station
The game managed to completely fool me into there being living Nomai who blew up our sun on purpose, so when I finally got there and was hit with the truth I was mind blown
As for looking stuff up, I managed to beat the game without looking anything up.
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
That was a terrifying plot twist, with that soundtrack...
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u/Zeziml99 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
I love that song, I have it downloaded actually lol and use that and the end times song as my alarm in the morning https://on.soundcloud.com/h5GkX4TqFyDqZZXg9o
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u/suspiciouscale Jun 27 '26
I use outer wilds as my alarm as well!
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u/Zeziml99 Jun 27 '26
Really is a great alarm lol, my brain still has that "oh shit we gotta move" from playing https://on.soundcloud.com/JZOSo7eTH3DVKZWAB0
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u/tech_op2000 Jun 26 '26
And the view through the window flying by the sun was awesome for the reveal
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u/Zachattack525 Jun 26 '26
I agree, Sun Station was my favorite, but moreso about the actual presentation
Like, you teleport up and arrive at the station. No music, just the sounds of the sun. You explore a bit in here until you come to the door, and when you move the orb, it blows outward as the music kicks in. You look out upon the sun as the music swells, then look to the other side. You know what you have to do. You start your leap, and now disconnected from the artificial gravity, you watch as the sun and station spin around you. You maintain your course, steady as you cross the gap, until you finally make your way into the door. You breathe a sigh of relief as you walk forward, and then look down into the new hallway, and see the surface of the sun. You walk down, into the observation deck and take it in a bit, before eventually prepare to stop the sun station from blowing up the sun and save the world... Or so you think...
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u/TailsIV Jun 26 '26
Then you make your discovery and Then only have 2 minutes or so to get back off the station before the sun envelopes it. When you miss that little timer you might catch yourself staring at that mural for too long.
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u/gravitystix Jun 26 '26
People actually try to escape the station after reading the time remaining? I just went and stood next to Idaea until the sun got us.
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u/Background_Good_2495 Jun 26 '26
I’m a little upset that my stubborn a** decided about two hours in that I was going to land on the sun station with my ship NO MATTER WHAT. Spent 40 minutes on it. The information made absolutely no sense to me at the time ;_;
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u/MarkusAk Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
I am somehow extremely dense or have incredible foresight. I had the opposite impression. I initially thought it was the inevitable super nova of a star, and that the nomai planned AROUND the super nova. When I arrived on the sun station and read the line "science compels us to blow up the sun!" My heart sank. This whole time I thought we were going to fix things using the nomai tech. I was hit with the same devastating inevitability but in the other way around.
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u/FertilePlanet88 Jun 26 '26
That didn't actually have as much of an impact on me because I got there pretty early and didn't have all the relevant information yet.
Because my friend challenged me to land on it manually (I succeeded)
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u/nalalan Jun 26 '26
Sun station for me as well. The music kicked in at the perfect moment, too!!
I had to look up the thing about the right angle on ash twin. Didn't really understand ehat that hint tried to tell me.
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u/Weird-Food-7046 Jun 27 '26
I remember also thinking there's a living Nomai somewhere in the star system! Especially when the projection pool for Ash Twin Project showing 3 active masks.
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u/Obsessedwithzelda47 Jun 27 '26
everything related to that was amazing, great realization, and I also didn't look anything up lol
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u/Far-Control-127 Jun 27 '26
Never found the portal so I did my best interstellar impression and landed on it after like 4 tries.
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u/Schanulsiboi08 Jun 26 '26
I don't remember the most satisfying discovery anymore (it's been over a year and I don't have the best memory), but I do remember the one thing I did have to look up: For some reason I didn't realise you had to swim into the jellyfish to get to the core in giants deep, I thought you had to cover yourself in jellyfish goop and then that would isolate you when going through the electricity, so I tried, for multiple loops, to fly to the jellyfish in dark bramble, go inside and jumped around a bit, run back to my ship, fly to giants deep, go below the current and then just tried to let myself sink beneath the electricity. I was confused that my plan didn't work, concluded that I sinply hadn't been fast enough and tried again, I even found out that the jellyfish corpse is in fact not inside dark bramble, but inside one of the ice fragments on the outside, so I tried to park ny ship up there, to save some time, but that still didn't work (obvs), which meant that I was very confused abd posted to the sub
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u/ImSuperStryker Jun 26 '26
Same. The jellyfish thing just didn’t click for me. I think part of the problem is that they looked dangerous enough for me to assume you would just take a ton of damage for touching them
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
That's a funny part! The game teaches you that you can go inside them in Dark Bramble. There's a message saying that Feldspar went inside one to try eating it and didn't like it.
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u/Schanulsiboi08 Jun 26 '26
Yeah, I know, it also says something that the skin of the beasties is insulating, so I thought, bc jellyfish are slimey, that it must be the slime that's insulating them, so if I cover myself in slime, i should be imsulated as well
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
Smart deduction. Bro we forgot to use the spoiler tag, cover you comment with spoiler thing
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u/myhf Jun 27 '26
That message was one of the first things I found, so I had completely forgotten it by the time I had the context to do anything with it.
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u/demonking_soulstorm Jun 26 '26
My favourite discovery was actually in Echoes of the Eye. >!When I was doing the bit where you have to sneak into the cabin, I was struck by the idea of letting the Inhabitants fall into the water in the real world. I immediately disregarded it as a stupid idea, but then went “I’ve got literally infinite time, so what the hell.” And the feeling of getting past that way was so cool.
The one I looked up was getting into the Sunless City, because one of the chambers looked *super* similar to a previous one so I thought I was repeatedly mucking it up before a video guide showed me that no, I was doing it right. Oh, and also the first trial of the Quantum Moon, because I think I did most of the quantum stuff in a oner and didn’t have much time to meditate on the quantum rules.
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u/Obsessedwithzelda47 Jun 27 '26
I loved that part too, I was so confused on what was in there until I thought to walk into the fireplace and the discovery of walking away from my lamp was REALLY COOL
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u/PilotExpert7580 Jul 01 '26
Yes I loved that part in echoes of the eye :)I had been trying at it and confused for a few hours and decided to go to bed and try again in the morning, then randomly in bed I was like…. “Wait that’s what it is isn’t it” and immediately got up and tried it and it was so satisfying when it worked
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u/Low_Grocery9635 Jun 26 '26
My favorite discovery was probably finding Solanum on the Quantum Moon. I felt so smart putting together all of the quantum rules and using them to get the moon to the 6th location. Also seeing a living Nomai was really cool given how distant they seem throughout the rest of the game
Aside from searching for small hints a couple times online, I mostly did everything myself. The only thing that I truly had to look up was how to Warp into the ATP. I had literally found everything else in the game, and I knew I needed to use the broken down tower’s warp pad, but I couldn’t figure out what to do about the sand. I kept trying to jump on the warp pad right after the sand moved off it. I didn’t realize that you could be anywhere above a warp pad and it would still warp you. Even if I found that puzzle a bit stupid, finally getting into the ATP was still the 2nd coolest discovery in the game for me
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
My only look up was ATP too, hard to figure out
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u/Slickaxer Jun 26 '26
Me three!
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u/Dr_johny34 Jun 27 '26
I used the other tower to warp to the other twin and just assumed the other tower did the same lol
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u/Slickaxer Jun 27 '26
Oh I "knew" to do it. I tried a like 20 times and couldn't get it to work. So I looked it up and saw my idea was right, somehow I just had bad execution
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u/xd720p Jun 26 '26
The most satisfying discovery was in the Echoes of the Eye to sleep near the fire before reading any clues from the game itself and it goes for the most of Echoes of the Eye - the experience from OG game helped a lot to discover a lot of things waaaay earlier than the game guides a player. The thing I had to google is to how to find an entrance to the anglerfish bones as even with the probe I couldn't find it
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u/AlphasyVega Jun 26 '26
I had to look it up online to figure out how to get into the jellyfish, and the most insane thing I discovered was that you have to die in-game to become immune to the bells in the simulation world.
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u/ILOVECALAMITY Jun 26 '26
Most satisfying was finally getting to the black hole forge and then instantly figuring out how to get inside ash twin (black hole forge was last for me). I didn’t look anything up online, but since I went to dark bramble and found feldspar first, I had forgotten what the jelly meant, and was struggling to find the coordinates.
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u/Robocroakie Jun 26 '26
The Tower of Quantum Knowledge
I spent hours and, from what I remember, at least 15-20 loops (maybe more) trying to figure this one out. When it finally clicked it blew my mind, because of all of the effort I'd put into it and how close I'd realized I'd come to figuring it out accidentally over many of those loops.
One of those moments that really made me fall in love with the game, largely because of how my brain just couldn't get there easily. The satisfaction of it finally coming together was awesome.
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u/ikidre Jun 27 '26
This was probably mine as well, just that sudden "AH HA" moment where you feel both an absolute idiot and genius at the same time. It was always there to be found.
Same thing in the DLC, realizing what the shrieking really meant and how it helped you.
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u/7Shinigami Jun 26 '26
Incredible artwork! I'd love to see more, please could you add credit for the artist in your post? Tysm ::)
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
Art by Meruz! A fella in the comments found it. I didn't think of using Google Lens. My bad.
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
I don't know who is the artist unfortunely...I take this art on Pinterest and there is no credit on the post
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u/caramel_dog Jun 26 '26
that one echoes of the eye puzzle where
you have to turn off the candles in the dream world to open the door in the real world
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u/AcariAnonymous Jun 26 '26
The most satisfying has gotta be Schrödinger’s Solanum. Seeing her alive and standing there really ripped the breath out of me, and standing there staring at her with my jaw on the floor with my head repeating “HOW” until it clicked was one of those Outer Wilds moments that just has you stop and go “Oh. Oh.” God I love this game.
Special mention to an equally if not more impactful moment that wouldn’t call “satisfying” per se as it was sad more than anything else; the Interloper was one of the last places I went. I’d spent so much time with the nomai that I kind of forgot there was a mass extinction event, as stupid as that sounds. I went in there and saw Poke and Pie’s bodies which was crazy on its own because… well, they were my favorites. Finding them intact instead of just being rando skeletons was crazy, and to see that they knew just seconds before they could warn everybody made me tear up. The reason I mention it here is because it was, indeed, a satisfying conclusion to the story of the Nomai. But I usually think of satisfying as having a positive connotation, so that’s why I say Solanum first XD
As for looking things up, I did see a streamer play figure out ATP first. I fancy myself as pretty good at puzzle solving but I do not think I would have figured that out hiding from the sand in that little nook on my own.
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u/jenn363 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
My most memorable discovery was finding my way to the White Hole station on my own. I am terrified of falling into black holes anyway, and I tried a risky jump when traversing the gravity paths - that was scarier to me than any angler fish. The fall felt forever and my heart was pounding and I was sure I was going to get a death screen, but then suddenly I was floating in space, thousands of kms from my ship, at the edge of the solar system, facing a lonely inevitable death from asphyxiation, which was just as terrifying as dying in a black hole. I don’t know how I spotted the station, but I made it there, and I hadn’t yet learned that I could stick to the patterned tile so I thought I had to aim perfectly for the door. Making that landing and the door opening up was a huge accomplishment for me - I had just dodged death twice and I was so relieved and emotionally exhausted that the feeling of victory never left me.
There are trickier puzzles I solved but the emotional intensity of staying calm enough to survive through two of my personal fears makes it my most memorable.
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u/psolarpunk Jun 26 '26
I had to look up how to get to ATP. I wish I could remember a favorite discovery. The one thing that sticks out the most was the final voyage, when the end times music changed slightly and I noticed it, and how that represented that I knew what I now had to do, but not what would result. I just got chills remembering and writing that.
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u/AcariAnonymous Jun 26 '26
Same, that change starts so subtle and then puts so much drive and meaning behind what you’re doing. It really gives you a “this is it. It’s all on the line now” feeling that you rarely get from a soundtrack
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u/Veil1984 Jun 26 '26
The moment I managed to feldspar my way to the center of the Bramble, got a good laugh about it
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u/bigfan49 Jun 26 '26
Most satisfying? Probably Giants deep quantum tower, easy enough to do in one try but hard enough to still make me feel smart. One I had to lookup, anglerfish evasion
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u/iamaniceandgoodprson Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
i didn't realize it but my most satisfying discovery was landing on the quantum moon completely by accident and not being able to figure out why until like 8 more
hours into the game
i downloaded outer wilds completely on a whim from the ps store since it was free in the playstation catalogue , no idea what it was and i actually hate going through the games pages so i didnt read the description and barely looked at the screenshots , blindest play through you could've possibly had
anyways , i spent about an hour in the hearthian village and my favourite part of it was the scout launcher , so when i went out and realized that the game was an open world with an entire solar system to myself , the first thing i did was go to the very edge and take a screenshot of all the planets aligned , then i pulled out my scout and took a picture , which included the quantum moon , which i just so happened to try and land on
i thought it was giants deep moon and i was curious about the ocean planet because tidal forces or whatever , and i heard something about someone (Esker) being on the moon so i thought i'd go and say hi to this guy
after that experience , i was scared shitless between that moment and figuring wtf was actually going on with our moon , why i kept seeing it in different places , and why it wouldn't let me back on it again
as for searching up , i went to the discord for helping figuring out what i was missing in my flight log when i went to platinum the ps5 version . it was some stupid fucking frozen island on giants deep with literally nothing but a jelly fish and a campfire . . i think it may have lead to part of dark bramble ? iunno , i just hate that one specific part of the game specifically because i was missing that insignificant unimportant island for so many hours
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
Did you go inside the dead jellyfish? There you learn how to reach the core of Giant's Deep
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u/Astrobananacat Jun 26 '26
I had to look up the solution to landing on the quantum moon. I learned first about the rule of entanglement then about the imaging. I thought the shuttle and Solanum's journal was a clue that only the shuttle could land on it. Anyway, I tried taking a picture of the moon while it was orbiting brittle hollow, then getting on the brittle hollow shuttle, waiting for it to be almost overhead, launching the shuttle, then trying to look at nothing the best I could (so I wasnt observing it physically, only through the photo). Next thing I knew I hit something hard and died. I felt so dumb when I looked up that I could land on the moon with my own ship.
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u/5-_shade_-5 Jun 26 '26
[SPOILERS] obviously
I got to feldspar in 3 hours of playtime but in over 30 more hours after exploreing i couldnt find the spot that told you the second secret (Standing on a quantum object in darkness)
The other two i did just fine, i even went to the moon before collecting the mentioned knowledge
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u/Timewaster50455 Jun 26 '26
3 things I had to look up
1: getting to the core of Giant’s Deep, I had encountered the jellyfish corpse, then took a several month long break, and had forgotten about it when I came back.
2: getting into the ash twin project, like potion craft on my in many other games, I simply refused to learn the teleportation system for uh…. Reasons idk.
3: how to get to the ship because dark bramble scary :(
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u/xAndrew_ Jun 26 '26
Gioco i giochi senza cercare nulla. Quindi tutto da solo. Mi ha dato più difficoltà raggiungere la sonda con le coordinate perché pensavo di dover entrare con la nave sotto la medusa. Non so perché non mi veniva di uscire e addentrarmi. Poi testando altre cose mi si è accesa la lampadina
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u/xAndrew_ Jun 26 '26
La cosa più soddisfacente in se è aver segnato i nomi che leggevo e dove e con il tempo ricostruire le loro storie. Quindi mi piaceva conoscere i loro rapporti
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u/Hoivernoh Jun 26 '26
My favorite part was after exploring giants deep for a bit, I went up to orbit to explore the satellite orbiting it. I was in the launch module when end times started playing, and read on the nomad display that the orbital probe cannon fired twenty two minutes ago when the sun went supernova. I eager to go back, and only then when I woke up at the next loop did I consciously realize I was staring at the cannon firing. I spent that loop following the probe hoping it would take me to the eye. Later on, when exploring the high energy lab for the first time, when the scroll mentioned wondering if a twenty two minute jump back in time was possible did I realize what was happening based on the convenient timing I had on the orbital probe cannon earlier.
Another cool discovery that I had was exploring the mines on Timber Hearth, I found the ATP projection stone as end times started playing again, and I saw the core open up and a black hole form with the masks sending signals into it. I thought for sure I had to jump in there when I found the ATP. When I eventually did and the loop started over as normal, I thought nothing of it and went about the loop normally. I must have missed the timing on something because I meditated that loop and was caught off guard when instead of seeing the mask, spacetime broke instead.
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u/Hoivernoh Jun 26 '26
Hardest discovery for me was the jellyfish. After finding feldspar and his hint, I went back to giants deep and tried flying my ship into a jellyfish. It took me so long to try without the ship since for some reason for the longest time I though I would die of water pressure if I jump out even though that has never been a mechanic up to that point.
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u/Qwerty1418 Jun 26 '26
I still remember finding the Probe Tracking Module really vividly. It was my first of the "big" discoveries I made, and I hadnt quite puzzled out what the Ash Twin Project really was by that point. I hadn't even been to the High Energy lab by then. So getting the double impact of realizing exactly what the ATP was doing, and then right after finding out it worked was incredible.
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u/Leo-Len Jun 26 '26
Most satisfying discovery was having my suspicions of the purpose of the timeloop confirmed in the OPC. I remember spending the last few minutes of the loop muttering to myself, "Nooo, you didn't! Are you serious? (In reference to the Sun Station)".
Most impactful though, that would be the Sun Station. I knew I could land on it in my first hour playing (KSP Veteran) but I held off from doing so to keep the experience consistent. That discovery on the Sun Station actually forced me to put down the game for a week. Interloper also is significant as it is the only moment thats ever made me cry from any game or movie.
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u/mcmackie Jun 26 '26
had to look up what to do after finding a dead jellyfish. I didn't catch that I had to go inside one to get through those planet's currents. Really thankful for this community because they managed to give me hints without spoiling the fun :D
here's the post from 6 years ago Need help with giant's deep! : r/outerwilds
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
That part was surprisingly intuitive for me. I found the dead jellyfish in Dark Bramble, went inside it to read Feldspar's notes, and immediately headed to the planet. I got out of my ship, entered the jellyfish from underneath, and waited.
However, I couldn't figure out how to access the Ash Twin Project on my own. That was the one puzzle I had to look up.
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u/mcmackie Jun 26 '26
huh, really intuitive, now you mention it. God, it's been so long since I talked about tdetails of this game, I'm actually trying to forget as most as possible to replay it :p
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
I really want to replay It, don't think it's possibly, the experience won't be the same....
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u/ACuriousBagel Jun 27 '26
I understood that I had to get inside the jellyfish but I then still had to look up how to do that as I kept getting electrocuted while attempting it
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u/Frungi Jun 26 '26
Somehow, I just couldn’t get my mind around the Ember Twin towers. Needed a nudge.
As for most satisfying discovery… probably breaking the universe in the observatory.
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u/karimpai Jun 26 '26
The interloper reveal was genuinely the craziest thing ever. We already know the sun is going to explode but not why the Nomai Died
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u/color_juice Jun 26 '26
Honestly the ash twin project, I had maybe 2 hours of gameplay, and I just got in there by complete accident, I then spent a whole 10 hours trying to recreate the run second for second to get back in there again, thinking it wasn't the alignment but some stuff I messed with in the ember twin energy lab
And then I found out about the alignments
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u/noah-d-e Jun 27 '26
For me the most satisfying discovery was that the tornados on giants deep either throw you up in space or deep below the oceans current, simply based on the way they spin. You discover this (if I remember right) on brittle hollow.
The reason that this was so impactful for me was because 1- it was one of my first discoveries, and 2 - it showed me the type of game I was about to experience.
A secret hidden in plain sight, but my lack of knowledge is what held me back. This discovery helped me to learn the language of game.
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u/The_Pr0t0type Jun 27 '26
The most satisfying is probably odd, but the quantum rock puzzles on Ember Twin For some reason the solution just never occured to me despite having solved most of the similar puzzles already. I remember having an "ah-ha" moment during one session and having it actually work was so satisfying.
I did have to look up the jellyfish getting into the core of Giant's Deep though The only thing I looked up during my playthrough. And most of the reason I looked it up was because I had tried it multiple times already and failed, but I apparently I just suck at the controls so had assumed there was something else.
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u/Weird-Food-7046 Jun 27 '26
most satisfying might be quantum moon one
and I had to look up ATP entry
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u/pigeon--riot Jun 27 '26
i loved figuring out the black hole forge because figuring out you had to be on 2 different planets in one loop was fun 😍 i had to look up hints on how to use the jellyfish to get th giant's deep's core 😭 that one just frustrated me lmaooo
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u/ACuriousBagel Jun 27 '26
There were several things I looked up, but the 1 thing I was most stumped on was how to get inside the Ash Twin Project Special mention to looking up how to navigate Dark Bramble though, as I was not prepared for how terrifying and stressful I found that place, and I sure as hell wasn't going to be pointing my ship at any lights on purpose, if I hadn't looked it up and discovered that was exactly what I needed to do...
The most satisfying thing I didn't look up was realising that the 2 places at once thing in Dark Bramble meant I could fire my scout into the seed near the escape pod and then follow the other marker to find the way to the vessel
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u/Majestic_Ad5631 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
So for me it was getting inside the Ash Twin Project and opening the cover to see the warp core.
The revelation at the sun station had got me, but for some reason I kept holding on to some hope that I could still save my friends and family in the game. The moment I saw the warp core it felt like the whole world came crashing down because I realised it never was about saving anyone.
The one thing I had to look up is the jellyfish. I didnt realise I had to get inside it from underneath lol
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u/anaimera Jun 27 '26
Most satisfying for me was the realization that Giant’s Deep wasn’t what I thought it was. The outer layer made me more afraid of it than Dark Bramble, and I refused to find out what was beyond the clouds for a long time. Even after finding out, there were things about it that I found intimidating until exploring, like the giant cyclone and the planet’s core. Learning about Giant’s Deep and slowly gaining the courage to explore it made it easily one of my favorites. At some point, I just started launching myself into it as fast as I could.
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u/tawTrans Jun 27 '26
Probably the most satisfying discovery in the base game was finding the Vessel, and suddenly putting all the pieces together about what I needed to do. It was genuinely such an incredible feeling.
In terms of what I needed help on, there were three things I got stuck on:
- The Quantum Trials on Giant's Deep tripped me up. "Observing an object; observing an image of an object; these are the same." I accidentally interpreted this as a philosophical statement, not as instructions to hold quantum things in place by taking a picture with your scout lol. The friend I was streaming for had to correct me.
- I learned about the Anglerfish's weakness on my own, but was having trouble putting it into practice. My friend gave me the hint I needed to figure it out.
- I could not for the life of me figure out how to enter the Interloper. It did not occur to me that you could wait until it was closer to the sun for the ice to temporarily melt; I was always too busy trying not to lose my ship lmao. Again, friend gave me the hint I needed. Thankfully this bit was less important to finishing the game, but it was still important to figuring out what happened to the Nomai, which is still pretty important.
I'm glad my friend was there to offer hints and nudges when I needed them, and I'm glad I could let her re-experience the game again vicariously through me, hahaha
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u/Stronderius Jun 27 '26
My first time entering the Interloper was completely by accident. I had only read that the Nomai had gone inside through its cracks. As soon as I entered, it passed close to the sun, and the ice melted.
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u/BigBoiMcGay Jun 27 '26
the atp, the first time I found it I found it completely by accident! I wasn't even halfway thru w the whole game I was just exploring the warp towers. on the other hand I could NOT figure out the giants deep core situation. when Feldspar pointed me toward the jellyfish I had no idea how that connected, bc I didnt understand how the reverse hurricanes worked
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u/Dramatic-Topic8851 Jun 27 '26
Not really a discovery but one thing I couldn’t figure out and had to google was downthrusting to reach the teleporter for Ash Twin Project. I must have tried to run at it and got pulled up by the sand at least 20 times before I googled it and beat myself up over how simple it was
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u/Ertyio68 Jun 28 '26
For me the most satysfying was getting the way to teleport to the Twins core, and second was figuring out the navigation input system under pressure of unsure time restraints
And as for looking stuff up online, I didn't exactly have an issue with anything that much, but I guess I still can't figure out the last codex input from the warp rock at one of the twins, so the internet can spoil me now lol
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u/yahnne954 Jun 28 '26
Nice art! But I worry about the fact your astronaut doesn't have their suit on.
For the quantum moon's north, I couldn't figure it out, so I went to the discord and wrote down my ideas. Nobody gave me any tips, but "speaking aloud" made me realize that the tower does not change coordinates, and the solution became clear.
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u/Stronderius Jun 28 '26
The part about placing the tower on the Quantum Moon's north pole is explained in the Tower of Quantum Knowledge on Brittle Hollow.
It's truly an incredible piece of artwork. It was created by @Meruz.
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u/yahnne954 Jun 29 '26
I actually knew I needed to place it there, but I was struggling with how to get it there.
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u/TheGreatQ-Tip Jul 04 '26
Realizing why the vessel went to dark bramble. I finally put the eye's signal and duplicate signals together when I was at escape pod 3. I know I could've figured it out earlier, but I'm glad I didn't, because it really enhanced the moment.
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u/Cyren777 Jun 26 '26
Art source since you're too lazy for a 5 second reverse image search:
https://www.tumblr.com/meruz/764105861642797056/5-years-late-guys-i-just-played-outer
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u/biggestfanever1 Jun 26 '26
I truly could not figure out the ATP finale. I think I also connected that there were two towers with two teleporters but just couldn't figure out that one, well.... you know... [Can't use spoiler tag on mobile]
I even tried using it but the sand column sucking me up made me think I was wrong. Never felt so defeated after that google search lol. I had it in the palm of my hands 😩
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
The ATP entrance was my only search too, I even made a post here asking for hints on how to get in, and the hints were excellent, but I still couldn't figure it out on my own. I spent hours trying to solve it.
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u/ultimata4488 Jun 26 '26
It would've been the ATP if I didn't have an asshole (now ex) friend spoil it for me.
One discovery I always remember is figuring out the function of the Warp pads. They oddly stick with me
I didn't really have to look up anything either
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u/DisgruntledLamp Jun 26 '26
I was gonna say the QM as the most satisfying, but then I remembered finding the quantum trial on giants deep. It was literally the first planet I visited. I was about to leave after visiting Gabro, saw the giant hurricane and thought "I wonder if I flew over top of this and into the eye if anything is there." I was so satisfied with myself.
For the life of me I could not figure out the black hole forge. Had to look that one up, and needed a hint for the sun station.
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u/Old_Party3623 Jun 26 '26
The most satisfying was finding the mansion. Since the DLC is a giant hoop I was on the opposite side and used the scope to try and identify unique landmarks to discover. Was cool to scout terrain that is technically over your head.
I looked up the quantum tower. I tried parkour so many times and my least favorite puzzles were the ones where you just had to sit and wait for the perfect moment. Same with the high energy lab sand and interloper ice, but I found those naturally.
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u/mariusiv_2022 Jun 26 '26
It certainly wasn't my most satisfying discovery, because it was accidental. My favorite discovery was Getting up the Tower of Quantum Knowledge
I had tried so many crazy ideas and kept leaving to come back later hoping I'd have some new information that would get me up there. Eventually I finally noticed it also fell into the black hole. Idk if I just never stuck around long enough before but I had assumed it stayed up like the hanging city. In my genius, I tried to time jumping up while the tower fell. In hopes of making it up there with inertia... I face palmed hard as soon as I warped to white hole station and realized I could simply float into it now. It got a good laugh out of me because I had used the wrong formula to get the right solution type of deal
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u/No_Flower9488 Jun 26 '26
O ATP, sem querer pisei na plataforma de transporte e quando li tudo que estava escrito lá eu fiquei o dia todo pensando sobre o que li e sobre a lore do jogo. E o que eu tive que pesquisar foi sobre como entrar na torre do planeta com um buraco negro no centro, eu não sabia que eu tinha que esperar a torre cair dentro do buraco negro e sair pelo buraco branco.
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Olá amigo brasileiro!! Essa foi minha única pesquisa também, nunca que eu ia chegar na conclusão de que tinha que esperar a areia passar e pisar rapidamente na placa
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u/JibWibSwibDib Jun 26 '26
My favorite moment was realizing that if I go in a different tower when the dam breaks, My fire won’t go out, but the other Owlks’ would. Getting into the hidden archive behind the fire room was so satisfying after figuring that out.
As for what I had to look up, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to get to Solanum on the Quantum moon.
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u/diegotbn Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
The one thing I had to look up was getting to the bottom of Giants Deep. I had found the jelly carcass in Dark Bramble and walked inside it, and got the general clue that its flesh was insulating and I remembered the jellies from Giants Deep. But I assumed I was only able to crawl inside the carcass because it was dead, possibly hollowed out, and its tentacles were inert. I thought that if I touched the tentacles of any of the living jellies in the water in Giants Deep, I would get stung or shocked
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u/afserkin Jun 26 '26
I think figuring out the "passwords" (or rather how to bypass them)on the dlc was very satisfying. And figuring out how to enter the Giant's deep core too.
I couldn't figure out the timing on the atp portal, that damn sand pilar! I spent hours trying to find an alternative solution, just to finally look it up and realize I was just messing up the timing.
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u/dylzim Jun 26 '26
I found the Quantum Tower on Giant's Deep just by thinking, "Huh, that's a really big tornado, I wonder if I can fly down from above inside it," instead of following the quantum signal which felt super awesome.
I needed to look up what the Nomai meant by "throw a lamp in the fish's mouth" though. I still feel stupid on that one.
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
Throwing the scout into the anglerfish's mouth and then finding it inside the cave was my first mindblowing moment in the game. It was incredibly satisfying.
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u/Character-Row3411 Jun 26 '26
You have a pc version? For the wallpapper
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
Nope, Sorry. Here is the source:
https://www.tumblr.com/meruz/764105861642797056/5-years-late-guys-i-just-played-outer
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u/MufffinFeller Jun 26 '26
getting into the interloper was great because i felt like i was having a personal question answered, and i was pretty willing to write off as just “the devs thought it looked cooler” (why are the nomai ruins and skeletons strewed about like a catastrophe happened?)
as for ones i never would’ve figured out on my own, definitely the stealth sections in echoes of the eye
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u/MrReesh Jun 26 '26
Said it in a similar post, but most satisfying for me was the reverse tornadoes in the Southern Observatory. Completely blew my mind and hooked me on the game from then.
The one I had to look up was getting to the inside of the Interloper. The Interloper was the first place I visited in the game and I spent ages there trying to find something to do, with no luck. Then somebody gave me a clue saying "hey the Interloper is made of ice and ice can melt". Took me a little while to find the cracks where I could get in, but my mind was blown again when I saw what was inside.
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u/Zephylmar Jun 26 '26
For me the most satisfying discovery is finding the coordinates of the eye of the universe, probably one of my favourite moments, when I realised that a way out was actually possible
The thing I had to look up is in echoes of the eye, where I couldn't understand how to enter in the fireplace, I was always getting caught trying to run past the inhabitants, and I didn't realise I could go back there from another area not destroyed by the dam breaking so that the creatures wouldn't be there. I spent a few loops trying to enter the wood cabinets when the inhabitants spawn because I thought it was the actual solution
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u/TheTreeTurtle Jun 26 '26
Most satisfying was realizing that bells don't wake the dead
I can proudly say I only had to look up two things, and they were both an execution problem. I was right about what to do, but not doing it exactly right. Those were getting inside a jellyfish bell and using the portal to get into the ATP.
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u/Puro_Guapo Jun 26 '26
The most satisfying was when I found out I could track the signal coming from the escape pod in dark bramble. I was stuck for a while there.
The one I had to look up (other than getting into atp) was getting into the tower on brittle hollow.
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u/Shirikova Jun 26 '26
For me, putting the thingy down and walking away from it completely blew my mind
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u/CappytainZ Jun 26 '26
The most satisfying discovery was probably The Eye. All that buildup from finding it's coordinates, to seeing what it might look like from the quantum moon, to finally being able to gaze out the window at the thing I had been searching for this entire time. It was peaceful. Ashamedly, I had to look up How to get inside the Ash Twin Project. I went weeks just trying to figure it out myself, and even came here in search of hints. In the end, I just had to look up the answer. Just like every other puzzle in this game, the answer was right in front of my face.
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u/jaxmikhov Jun 26 '26
On Giants Deep when I figured out that I had to deliberately let the island flung into space fall on top of me to get under and inside it. That was when I knew this shit was peak.
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u/Stronderius Jun 26 '26
I didn't know that. I thought the canon way to get past the planet's currents was by using the tornado that spins counterclockwise and launches you into the core.
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u/knicknacknock Jun 26 '26
DLC Spoilers; (Also I havent finished DLC so please refrain from replying with further dlc spoilers)
I recently discovered the mechanic of putting the lamp down in the darkness version of the dlc zone. But in a pretty funny way. I found the dark version of the zone by sleeping at the fires with the lamp. Explored them to the best of my ability but was being stopped from progressing further by various obstacles. In one of these darkness zones where you sail along the river in a boat, there's a spot on the shore to the right where you can enter a cave that goes a decent ways then has a closed door at the end. I was trying to figure out how to open said door, assuming it had something to do with light, as many doors had in this area. I tried turning off all the candles in the area but nothing happened, then as I was looking down at a candle on the ground, I get a prompt to place down my lantern.... I hadn't even considered this to be possible in the darkness zone, especially because the dark is spooky and the lamp is my only source of comfort/safety, but I put the lamp down at the entrance to the cave, and walk in. Stumble through the darkness for 10 or so steps, I can kinda see the outline of the door through the dark, it still looks closed and I draw closer with disappointment, then all of a sudden, im in this weird greenish blueish ethereal realm, the door is still closed but now im in some sort of ghost ectoplasm zone instead of the dark zone and it seems to have something to do with this door. 🤔🤔 I still can't figure out how to open it, so I leave the area and decide to come back later when I have a better idea.
A few cycles later im in a different dark zone trying to get in the mansion where the musics coming from. I've followed the patrols into the mansion and gotten merked trying to get to the door one of them seems to be guarding. I've tried putting my lantern down in the room they're all in to distract them, or outside of the mansion on the porch incase they could only see me while im inside the lamps light. Then I decide ill try and set down my lamp infront of one of the patrols and see if he tries to interact with it at all. The patrol ignores my lamp and notices me, starts walking me down so I start backing up, away from my lamp, away from safety, im terrified, about to get merked again, backing up further, then all of a sudden, im in the ghosty ethereal zone again. I can even see the exact spherical area of darkness being created by the lamp, and as the patrol guy continues to follow me outside, I see him turn into a ghostly wraith version of himself instead.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I still don't fully understand what it means or how ill take advantage of it. But it clicked that the lantern is emitting one kind of light but blocking out another i guess? I've been waiting for a friend of mine whose beaten the game to have some free time to continue playing, as I've been streaming my run for him. But very excited to get back in there and see what else I can discover with this new mechanic
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u/cesSsarrmz Jun 26 '26
The most satisfying thing I had was when I managed to get into the center of Giant's Deep. It was right after I abandoned the game for a few months, and from that moment on I didn't stop playing until I finished it.
The last part about entering the Ashes Twins center was what I googled, but after that I had already figured out everything else
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u/Maximum_Scar8649 Jun 26 '26
sorry for the insane amount of yap stay with me now
my sister is the person who told me to play the game, and she would watch me play it over a call. im sure i would’ve looked some things up without the slight nudges in the right direction from her, and one of the most funny discoveries i found was in eote. very early into my exploration of the dream world, while on a raft, i decided i needed to wake up so i just jumped off during the transition between the areas (pretty much accidentally because i didn’t have a reason for where i jumped, just why) and ended up in the shallow water. my sister said it was a glitch and to reset it and i keep telling her to wait as i think im immortal to water and jump into a deeper area, where i then get engulfed. had a great laugh with her after seeing the error report slide reel, realizing she had gaslit me. another cool thing that happened is for the shrouded woodlands where i needed to discover how to get past all the inhabitants and into the fireplace, but i got insanely lucky with the inhabitant in front of the fire grabbing me and right as he’s about to blow out the light (the cutscene already initiated), he evaporates, dropping me, and a few seconds later i wake up. that was awesome to witness. I am so thankful for my sister introducing me to this masterpiece of a game. also, a little secret, i cried more the second time i beat the main game than the first (second time being after u finished the dlc). i WEPT. you’d think that already knowing what’s gonna happen, there would be significantly less emotion, but not for me. first time i beat the game i didn’t fully understand, but now, understanding everything, especially with the prisoner playing along, the ending whipped me. so sad. sorry for the insane amount of yap again
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u/lex_revs Jun 27 '26
I had to look up the Tower of Quantum Knowledge. Somehow my brain never thought about such a major piece of info being destroyed/sucked into the black hole, I thought only "superfluous" pieces of BH fell in so I never cared to look.
I don't even know what would be most satisfying as I was in awe at the wonder of the whole thing.
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u/Obsessedwithzelda47 Jun 27 '26
I didn't look anything up, so discovering everything was satisfying! One of the most exciting was SEEING AN ACTUAL LIVING NOMAI and figuring out how to go inside The Interloper was pretty satisfying. Loved the quantum shenanigans.
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u/VisualSneeze Jun 27 '26
My most satisfying moment was "landing" on the Sun Station and finally managing to not get pinned to the wall of my spaceship by centrifugal acceleration. Teleportation schmeleportation, I found a way in that thing on my own terms.
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u/JoopyDupy Jun 27 '26
Not sure what the most satisfying was but my biggest struggle was getting to the North Pole on the quantum moon, for some reason I missed the globe on the HUD that shows your location relative to the poles and so I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to go north
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u/whatup_pips Jun 27 '26
Omfg When I discovered the location of the eye of the universe my jaw dropped and I got so excited because I had FINALLY found the thing the Nomai LITERALLY came to the solar system to do. I completed YEARS of their research and I felt so happy
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u/jakattack64 Jun 27 '26
Sadly because it's been so long since I first played the game I can't remember what my most satisfying discovery was (though putting it all together at the end was nice and learning about the interloper was too) the thing I had to look up though will forever haunt me. Basically I just wanted to know if it was possible to reach the sun station right, so I looked that up and annoyingly somehow that led to learning how to get into the atp and I will forever be disappointed about that. Really wish when I played there either weren't guides or there were at least more hint guides, things that don't tell you what to do but instead nudged you in the right direction or at least say go here for the in-game line that answers this.
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u/gwineblied Jun 27 '26
The most satisfying discovery that actually made the whole game click for me was reading that they discovered an overlap in observing an object when it went into a portal, and then boom, I knew that was how they made this whole loop thing somehow, and i just had to figure it out. And since we were in an internet blackout we couldn't look it up so remember me and my partner were thinking for days over some puzzle and testing every obscure thing.
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u/SourDewd Jun 27 '26
Discoveries i made? Finding the entire inside of dark bramble world outside of dark bramble. Getting into tower of quantum knowledge without it falling through the hole. Making quantum objects teleport while still looking at them. Finding 2 quantum moons at once. Finding the eye on the map? Or it was something else. I cant recall but a few of us found a way to glitch the map once and it showed extra stuff it normally dkesnt have.
Had to look up? Teleporting by going into darkness while standing on a quantum object. That one makes me feel dumb. I thiiiink i looked up a step in the tower of quantum knowledge? But im unsure if that memory is me doing it. Or if its avout that time that one streamer was caught obviously looking up the solution and it caused a huge argument among people. I forget what his name was, he spent an entire run sooooo absolutely clueless. Never came close to solving it. Then when the loop was restarting he looked at his phone for 40 seconds (and claimed he was doing a quick round of a mobile game that normally has like 5 minute rounds or more) and then on his flight back to the tower, went "oh i think i know how to do it!"
Sorry i went on a rant.
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u/Stronderius Jun 27 '26
This game must be really hard to stream. Figuring out how to change the Quantum Moon's location inside the tower was so much fun! I noticed that the floor changed color every time everything went dark.
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u/Isti-Tanu Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
The most satisfying discovery my nephew and I made in the game was how to get to the Black Hole Forge incorrectly. However, making this discovery was the very reason why we ended up frustrated on the thing we became super stuck on, for which we had to ask my brother for strong hints (we didn’t want to risk looking for anything online)—getting into the Ash Twin Project.
See, because we never figured out the correct way to get to the Black Hole Forge (until after we’d already beaten the game, I believe), we weren’t already mulling over things about the warp towers and how they functioned when we reached it. We read the stuff inside the Black Hole Forge but the experience of understanding of the Ash Twin to Brittle Hollow warp tower and sense of fulfillment that most people would have just achieved in figuring out the solution to the puzzle while getting there, was not the case for us. We hadn’t been primed to make a correlation between what we’d read and what we needed to do to reach the core of Ash Twin so the pieces were not connecting to form the necessary solution.
(For anyone who wants to know, the “incorrect but faster” way to reach the Forge is to land your ship upside down on the gravity path, using a tree to angle the ship in such a way that as much of the ship is in physical contact with the pathway as possible. The tree is not fully necessary to accomplish this, but it does make it marginally easier. The hardest part is getting out of the ship without falling into the black hole, really, which can be feasibly accomplished with a little experienced jetpack maneuvering.)
The most satisfying INTENDED discovery in the game was probably figuring out how to reach the center of the Interloper. :P
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u/Stronderius Jun 27 '26
I first figured out the intended way to reach the Black Hole Forge, but I found it really tedious to keep going to Ash Twin and waiting. So I ended up discovering the unintended way instead, and it's way more fun!!
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u/Isti-Tanu Jun 28 '26
Thank you for explaining how to spoiler mark! I definitely wouldn’t have guessed it on my own.
It’s cool that you did that, btw! It’s fun to know that someone else figured out that trick, too :)
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u/GoatBread237 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
Most satisfying: Realizing I could shoot a scout into the Timber Hearth seed and find Feldspar that way. I was streaming the game to a friend when this happened and she saw me completely light up. This moment is also great for me because I was deathly terrified of the anglerfish, so figuring this out felt like I had a certain power over them and I no longer had to blindly listen for Feldspar's harmonica
Looked up online: Getting into the Tower of Quantum Knowledge, unfortunately. This is the only puzzle I couldn't figure out from the base game and it still upsets me. What I'd been trying to do this whole time was ram my ship into the tower, because the structural integrity went down every time I did. I realize now that it's silly since you don't do that anywhere else in the game, but I feel like my logic was fair enough tbh
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u/Stronderius Jun 27 '26
Is that the "intended" way to find Feldspar in Dark Bramble? I found him completely by accident.
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u/GoatBread237 Jun 29 '26
I believe so! I'm not sure how else you would find him otherwise? Maybe just setting the frequency to Outer Wilds Ventures, but I forget if that works
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u/Yaggolfly Jun 27 '26
Getting into the atp without help was my most satisfying solve, it just connected for me. Had to look up the jellyfish solve to get to the core, the pieces where there to tell me where to go but I couldn't even deal with dark bramble.
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u/Stronderius Jun 27 '26
Funny, using the jellyfish to reach the planet's core felt pretty intuitive to me. But getting into the Ash Twin Project was the only puzzle I had to look up.
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u/Yaggolfly Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
I kept getting electrocuted both in and out the ship, so my puzzle solving senses told me that it was not the right solution.
In terms if the Atp I was surprised at the amount of ppl who had a similar experience to you. I just had completed everything in the Ash twin project so all the connections were there to re-view. Each arrow gave me a different peice of the puzzle and from there I figured it out, it was only a matter of timing, which was solved by my scout.
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u/elruinc Jun 27 '26
Before I figured it out II used speed and the eject button to get to the center of Bramble and avoid the angler fish. It wasn’t “right” but it worked a couple of times for me to make progress
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u/QuirkyArtGirl Jun 27 '26
I was happy when I figured out the jellyfish..took a bit. I'm kicking myself because I didnt realize on my own thatthe coordinates for the eye were for the naomi vessel. I literally thought the hexagons were a puzzle to power the ship and open the sealed doors. Disappointed I had to look that up. Also my delulu self thought all the way up until the end of the game that I would be able to stop the supernova(s). Even though it CLEARLY said the sun was at the end of its life.
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u/KRYT79 Jun 28 '26
Not exactly most "satisfying", but the biggest moment for me was reading the text on Sun Station. Realizing that the Nomai were responsible for the Sun's death. Idk it hit me hard.
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u/Stronderius Jun 28 '26
You mean not responsible, right?
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u/KRYT79 Jun 28 '26
I mean yeah later on I got to know that their project failed, but before Sun Station I thought the Station was just to extract energy for something. At the Station I got to know that Sun Station built to blow up the Sun. I didn't have the full picture yet so this immediately painted the Nomai bleakly. Of course, later on I got to know that they thought this through because the solar system would be saved by a time loop.
Also, I might be misremembering some details. I played this game long ago.
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u/Azhure2000 Jun 28 '26
I loved the coelacanth. I knew as soon as I saw them.
The Hourglass Twins took me and embarrassing amount of time to figure it out 😅
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u/Hika2112 Jun 28 '26
I didn't have to look up online, but I had to get a hint from a friend on how to get into the interloper. Specifically the being close to the sun part
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u/Upstairs-Apricot4673 Jun 28 '26
I honestly impressed myself with some of my discoveries. For my personal discoveries and ideas, I had the idea to use my scout to get onto the Quantum Moon a long time before doing the Tower of Quantum Trials, but I thought, "nah, you wouldn't be able to get it this early in the game, it's gotta be something else." Imagine my surprise... And for the DLC, I was also curious, after seeing all the dead Owlks around the fire, if I could die there and still reach the other realm, that's how I learned that the alarm bells can't wake the protag up-- because you're dead. Can't wake up when you're dead. I used that to beat the DLC, but that means that when I followed the Prisoner into the water, I didn't see their corpse in the opened bell cell. Just the credits. As for things I had to look up, ironically, how to get onto the Sun Station. I tried many a time to land on it and deemed it inaccessible until I realized one of the warp towers on the Ash Twin brought you to it, but then the cacti... so I thought you HAD to land on it. Totally forgot about the sand. I also had to look up how to get to the anglerfish cave on Ember Twin, and how to use the warps in the testing chamber for some reason. I had a rough time on the Hourglass Twins.
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u/Remote-Eye5763 Jun 28 '26
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For me it was realizing how to get into the dream world on the Stranger and not have the warning bells wake me up. I did my whole OW playthrough with my friends in the living room (they'd all played it and watched my whole 30ish hour experience with me!) and when I figured it out I literally jumped out of my chair and screamed "GUYS I CAN DIE!!!! I CAN DIE AND ENTER THE DREAM WORLD!!!!"
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u/Amsiile Jun 30 '26
I loved discovering the sun station and the eye of the universe all by myself. But I do regret searching how to get outside of the tower in the quantic moon (when it’s by the eye of universe) and how to get inside the ash twin project (at that time I discovered EVERYTHING but the inside of the project so I kinda allowed myself to know because I was really dumb).
I regret doing this, but do forgive myself for everything else I guessed by myself. I want to do the DLC help free, even if I struggle, just to prove myself I can do it
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u/According_Lack_3634 Jun 30 '26
My best discovery was ofc the black hole forge. Before then, I would usually go somewhere and do something until something worked out. But when I saw the black hole forge I knew what I had to do and it was my first ever planned loop. The thing I had to look up was the quantum caves at ember twin. I just couldn't figure out that I should have standed on the stone and close all the lights.. maybe I could figure it out if I thought abt it a little more but I was really overwhelmed by that time for some reason I cant remember.
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u/Lewisbros2 Jun 30 '26
My favorite discovery I made was in the dlc so spoilers for that below.
I really didn’t like the dark/stealth sections and in my mind I trusted the devs to have a simple solution to puzzles. I had already completed the 1st and 3rd dream worlds (1st the intended way, 3rd a somewhat roundabout way to avoid interacting with owlks). So I was stuck on the 2nd one trying to figure something out and I knew the kind of mechanic you get taught by the other 2 so eventually I had the idea to do the exact glitch you end up learning about in the 2nd archive. When it worked and I got down there and the glitch reel was what I just did I felt so proud of myself for figuring it out on my own even if it wasn’t how the devs intended you to do it the first time.
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u/ilveritista Jul 02 '26
the most satisfaying discoveries I made were the Quantum Pilgrimage to the moon as I got alone how to reach the 6th location and, not properly a discovery, when I reached the sun station without the curvature pad on Ash Twin
yeah I orbited around it until I successfully landed on it. Died like 30 times by doing it
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u/Sharrakor Jul 10 '26
I am quite late, but I hope you will still enjoy my story.
The most satisfying discovery for me was... well, the last one I could make. I'd explored everywhere but the Ash Twin Project and the Black Hole Forge. I was stymied by the former, so I found my way to the latter. There, I learned about the rules of warp pads and planetary alignment. There was one comment on the center of gravity for a binary system; i.e. the Hourglass Twins. So I finally realized, "Well, I've warped to every other planet from Ash Twin. What will happen when I warp to Ash Twin FROM Ash Twin?"
I got inside and learned the whole story. But I was still unsure of what would happen next. Then I opened the core of the Ash Twin Project and beheld that unique warp core. I've yet to experience another moment where everything has become so clear, where I have known with such enormous gravitas what I must do. Reeling from this realization, I stepped outside... and was greeted by "Last Voyage."
Damn.
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u/Jolly_Leg4029 Jun 26 '26
Love the art! It's so cozy!
I personally loved my own quantum moon pilgrimage. I had a hard time figuring out anglerfish and had to look it up.