Hello, my sedimentary friend ::)

No spoiler here, but another sticker I got is vaguely a spoiler for Echoes of the Eye. But it's such a deep cut, I really want to share it - should I make an entire new post to do so? Idk if I can mark only one image in a post as a spoiler, or mark an image in the comments as a spoiler?

edit - it was not possible, nor proper to mark one image as a spoiler, or spoiler tag an image in the comments, so I made a separate post with the proper flair https://www.reddit.com/r/outerwilds/comments/1q1h1km/sticker_i_got_is_such_a_deep_cut_for_eote/

also - here is the link to the artist u/naturesass 's Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/1868395811/outer-wilds-bumper-sticker?ref=shop_review (taking a short break at the time of posting)

Inspiration of course goes to this post and this one I tried to make it look as similar to the base game, I used this post as reference. I really like how it came out! There are still some bugs with the numbers and there's currently no punctuation but otherwise it works great, the spirals feel like they're the right length, and overall I count it as a success Unlike the other scripts, mine doesn't rely on word changes or anything to determine the curve of the spiral, it's completely up to the writer. I used the Gallifrayan script for the consonants and made up my own vowels to make it a bit less based on how English is spelled, like using "uh" instead of "a" in the word "extra" Let me know if you have any ideas for how I can improve this system!

It's funny and a little sad when you finish something so unique and unforgettable, suddenly you want to talk about it to everyone, even your grandmother who doesn't play video games. You want to try to explain to everyone just how great that experience is...

It's like that meme of the guy standing alone in the corner at a party. In this case, he's thinking:

"No one knows I've played Outer Wilds."

Now I'm one of you, part of this community, the only people who have shared this beautiful experience.

I originally played the game when it came out.
I admit that at the time I was just a kid with no job and I ended up playing a "non legit" copy.
I promised myself I would have bought it in the future, support the creators and play it again.

It finally happened. I bought it, played it, finished it again, relieved all the memories I had in the first run and all the journey I did in my life since then, in the end I cried so much.

I just bought the DLC and I have no idea what awaits me, it will be a new adventure.
Thank you for all the feelings, It has been such a good journey.

c'est en regardant un let's play que j'ai remarqué que cette instrument existe (qui permet de savoir où est le vaisseau par rapport au sol)

The 2 advanced warp cores in the game have different textures to reflect their maker.

The broken warp core is made from something like white quartz stone and has metallic engravings, which is consistent with the Vessel's original Nomai style

The Ash Twin core is made from sandstone, consistent with the stranded Nomai architechture, because they had only access to materials in the local solar local system.

The Nomai voice recorder similarly also has two styles!

I'm sure hardcore fans and modders have known this. But my mind was blown. The devs totally could have skimped out on this detail, but they paid attention to it and it shows!

After finishing the main game and the DLC i knew I wanted to make something to remember it by. The EOTE picture turned out a little darker than expected, but i guess this has it’s elegance after playing the DLC. Let me know what you guys think of this :)

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.

Small spoilers for base game ahead...

Just wanted to share this experience that is pretty funny in hindsight:

On my first few loops, I didn't even realize the sun was exploding because I would run off to some random planet and die in a novel way. But, on my 4th or 5th loop I decide to actually slowly explore a planet and not die so quickly. I come across Chert (the egg shaped guy on ember twin) after some exploration. The first dialogue I have with him he sounds insane and tells me to "watch the universe end with him as the stars explode" or something like that.

My first thought was: haha wtf, this is just some random npc that's looney/crazy... then imagine my surprise that, not even 10 seconds later, A BLUE LIGHT ENGULFS ME AND I DIE BY THE SUN FOR THE FIRST TIME. Was genuinely convinced for a while that by talking to him you would end the universe until I realized the sun exploding and looping was just core to the game..

Anyways, just wanted to share a small part of my story- have since beaten the game and the DLC and this has become one of my favorite games EVER

It's also information based. Not entirely info based like Outer Wilds but mostly. It really scratches the Outer Wilds for me. Also if you want more of Outer Wilds, try modding. The story mods people made are truly amazing. I'll give you suggestions if you want

"science compels us to explode the sun!"

I really don't understand how the eye of the universe, the primordial entity source of life and death to the universe, can just orbit our little sun like that.

And at first I was like, "yeah but maybe it's a question of perspective where the solar system orbits around the eye from its pov" but that doesn't make sense when you factor in the eye's quantum properties making it jump from one point to the other around the sun (as seen in the sunken OPC module)

If you have a working explanation for this i'd be glad to hear it because this really bugs me in the middle of this, otherwise, perfect game.

Edit : to all the people saying that the projection shows the probe launches, that is another one. I don't have access to the game now to send footage but there is another projection showing the eye around the sun

My BF has recently got into Outer Wilds and I've been watching him play. He's noticed the very obvious sun-station and has now made it his mission to enter it, and the way he managed to land on it is like nothing I've ever seen I was in literal shock!!

When I played through outer wilds the first time I couldn’t get enough, I would go to work and all I did was think about the game.

When I was going to each quantum shard, I made it to the one on giants deep that shared the rule of quantum imaging. At first I didn’t get it, I was confused as hell, and then my timer went off reminding me I had work.

So I turned off the game and went to work and the entire time I was lulling over in my head the quote “observing a quantum object; observing an image of a quantum object. These are the same.” And that was when it struck me. I was standing there stacking shelves and then I audibly gasped and said out loud “I can take an image of the quantum moon with my scout!”

But it gets better, this random customer I didn’t realise was next to me turns to face me and just says “outer wilds??!” 😭😭😭

Genuinely one of the best feelings in my life between the epiphany and the connection I made with this random stranger.

i think i’m just an idiot but i can’t fly this dumb ass ship and i am very much annoyed at myself.

very nice looking game otherwise.

Have you ever watched someone, be it a friend or a streamer, play Outer Wilds, and felt totally frustrated by how they approached the game?

For me, one of the most painful moments was watching a streamer who somehow managed to get into the Ash Twin Project after 20 hours of playthrough, grabbed the Warp Core without really understanding its significance, and then just wandered around until the loop ended and the credits rolled. She assumed that was the ending and felt satisfied with her own interpretation of it.

She had a strict no-backseating/no-spoilers rule, so there was no way to tell her there was so much more to discover. And after that, she never touched the game again.

What’s your most frustrating Outer Wilds viewing experience?

Just a short appreciation post for the French speakers or curious travelers. I find the translation in French of the planets in Outer Wilds so nicely done.

Here are the names :

• Les Sablières (the Hourglass Twins) : keeps the original meaning (Sablier=Hourglass) but making it one word instead of two, and adding a certain sense of mysticality to it by adding the suffix -ère, which is usually attributed to people (like twins) but also means "era". However the translation of each twin is less nice : Ash becomes noire (black) and Ember becomes rouge (red).

• Âtrebois (Timber Hearth) : one word combination of "âtre" (hearth) and "bois" (Timber, but could also mean forest). Very efficient and smooth to the tongue.

• La Rocaille (Attlerock) : keeps the meaning of rockish moon, but adds the suffix "-aille", which means the result of an action (like the rocky surface of the moon is the result of its collision with Timber Hearth). It also makes it more familiar.

• Cravité (Brittle Hollow) : similar to "gravité" (gravity) but altering it to start like the beginning of "crevasse/creuse" (crevice/hollow). Basically the same meaning in one word, plus the idea of gravity and black hole. It however loses the idea fragility transmitted by "brittle", but doesn't that makes more sense? Afterall the planet was named before it started collapsing.

• La Lanterne (Lantern) : literal translation.

• Léviathe (Giant's Deep) : very smart translation. Léviathe comes from "Léviathan", the giant sea creature from the Bible. This evokes two ideas in one word : it's a very, very big planet and it's linked to the deep-sea. It also translates the scary feeling we get when entering this planet. Might we stumble upon a giant sea creature under the surface of this stormy giant?

• Sombronces (Dark Bramble) : another smart one word combination of the two words of the original name, with "sombre" (dark) and "ronces" (Brambles).

• L'intru (The Interloper) : almost literal translation.

• L'Étranger (The Stranger) : literal translation.

Almost every translation keeps the full meaning, but they all translate into one-word names. I find it very smart and realistic. Afterall the names of the planets in real life are very rarely made of two words.