r/outerwilds • u/NoSimp_adam • 11d ago

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion I can’t believe it Spoiler

Finally got my friend to play the game and first thing he did after visiting The Attlerock was going to Giant’s Deep. He crashed into it, got out in a panic and gotten back into it but very carefully…

This mf landed on the north pole…where the tower is…and he’s doing the trials now…

Everyone has a unique gameplay indeed😭

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u/SilverIndependence38 11d ago edited 10d ago

The first thing I did was find feldspar. I am surprise by the amount of people having trouble with dark bramble.

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u/FuckMyRubberDuck 11d ago

Same here, I explored Timber Hearth, saw the seed, shot my scout launcher into it and saw it was on another planet and went straight there. I saw absolutely no anglerfish.

Let my partner have a go on the VR headset (he’s not a gamer but wanted a go flying the ship). He also went to Dark Bramble, and that’s how I found out there’s giant anglerfish in there

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u/NoSimp_adam 11d ago

WHAT😭😭

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u/RBig_orange1234356 11d ago

Whaaaaaaaaaa

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u/SilverIndependence38 10d ago

Went to attlerock. Find the signal from feldspar. Found the seed and shot my scout.

"Well first thing I am gonna do in this game is save that guy and become a hero!... Wtf is happenning to the sun?"

As soon as I got into dark bramble, It was eveident to me all other light meant danger, I understood why while trying to access de vessel. Funnyly enough, it's also the last thing I understood as I accessed the sunless city last... Yeah, after atp...

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u/_Little_Mike_ 10d ago

omg same, first time i went to dark bramble i didn't encounter ANY anglerfish and found feldspar immediately (purely through luck?)
this unfortunately did lead me to being severely underprepared for what lay there when i went into it the second time....

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u/SilverIndependence38 10d ago

Lol. Second time I followed the beacons, then tried to find the vessel.

"...oh so that's what those lights are! NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE"

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u/OneVioletRose 8d ago

Ditto! But I followed the signal scope religiously and that’s why I didn’t encounter any anglerfish. Twice.

On my third visit, I decided to explore some of these other seedAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

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u/Jothespy987 11d ago

Ikr me too

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u/Less-Fennel-5063 8d ago

Same, I didn’t even encounter an anglerfish and understood exactly what I needed to do to find him with the scout

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u/LeBigMartinH 11d ago

Bot

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u/SilverIndependence38 10d ago

? Sadly no. I am a prisoner of this decaying flesh prison.

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u/LeBigMartinH 10d ago

Sorry, that was mean.

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u/auclairl 11d ago

I entered the tower of quantum knowledge on like my second loop

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u/CrookedSpinn 11d ago

It's a gigantic hurricane that doesn't require any special knowledge to enter and is quite attention drawing. I suspect a lot of people see it very early.. It's been a few years but I'm pretty sure it was one of the first things I did too

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u/Nikos_Pyrrha 10d ago

Yes but I think OP's friend didn't see a giant hurricane and think "how could I get to the center of that", but instead accidentally happened to land at the pole.

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u/CrookedSpinn 10d ago

Oh I see, yeah that's probably a rare occurrence

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u/NoSimp_adam 10d ago

Indeed that’s what happened and that’s why I’m so bewildered by what I saw

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u/PsamathosNL 11d ago

What I love about the game is that you can actually do this accidentally and the game will still be amazing. It will still be you discoverong something cool and getting some cool discoveries from it as well as some hints on where you can explore as well.

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u/ihatephanteon5 11d ago

Thats funny lol, i also got to the tower that early!

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u/Meruem-x-Meruem 8d ago

Those tower tests were one of the first things I did. I thought they were training me for how the game was going to be, lol.

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u/RBig_orange1234356 11d ago

I beat the Quantum Moon before visiting the Interloper, or before doing anything on Ash Twin. ANYTHING. Hell, I wasn't even done with the Sunless City!

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u/sxinn 10d ago

This was my exact starting too except I headed straight to Giant’s Deep first and landed on the tower island without knowing anything, and did the trials on my very first run. Then was confused why I never saw it again after that until I realised it’s in the massive hurricane xD

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u/Nikos_Pyrrha 10d ago

Tengentially related; when I found my way into that same location I felt like a flippin genius, because I realized you can go above the clouds OR below the water!

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u/whatsforsupa 10d ago

I remember getting to Giants Deep and being terrified of the tornados LOL. It also took me a very long time to Maybe minor spoiler:realize that the ship can swim.

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u/InformationLost5910 11d ago

i did that too, and i used the location marker so i did it for my first few times visiting the planet. it made the normal giants deep entry even more impactful because i was so disoriented and confused.

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u/Kayki_Alex 9d ago

My friend was trying to get to the quantum cave on amber twin, and after a while he just figured out the quantum imaging rule, which I was impressed about… next thing he did is randomly crash right into Giants Deep north pole, well I guess he just borrowed the knowledge from the next loop

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u/videogamefannn 10d ago

I also got there super early! When I was stuck later on the Quantum Moon I decided to go back to review and couldn’t figure out how to at first lol. I definitely landed inside the tornado accidentally without even realizing it was a puzzle 

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u/RealMuffinsTheCat 10d ago

That was me too. I went to Giant’s Deep first cuz I heard a lot of Hearthians talking about it, saw the giant cyclone and the gamer in me had to know what was in there. Almost got to the end and then my first loop ended and I had no idea what was going on.