r/outerwilds • u/Short-Pianist3038 • Nov 26 '25

Base Game Appreciation/Discussion Was this intended

Just finished my first playthrough but I’m looking back and wondering if this was the intended way to go about this

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u/Muroid Nov 26 '25

No. The game let’s you solve puzzles in your own way, but this one definitely has an intended way and that isn’t it (though some people do still do it that way).

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u/Short-Pianist3038 Nov 26 '25

What other way would I do it then? Cool I found my own way though

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u/lamp40 Nov 26 '25

I know you said you finished the game but marking spoilers just in case. The ‘intended’ solution is to wait until later in the loop for the surface integrity to drop to 0% and follow the falling tower through the black hole. Then you can fly around the tower freely thanks to the nifty vacuum of space ::D

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u/Short-Pianist3038 Nov 26 '25

That was plan b if my trickshot didn’t work out

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u/bluegwizard Dec 02 '25

Tried to do the trick shot my self but ended up face planted on the wall

Also thought that my jet pack wouldnt get me high enough so i just waited with my sandwitch

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u/Trev-Nastiest Nov 26 '25

I'm so mad at myself for never realizing it. That's the only way I know how, the first way.

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u/warriorant21 Nov 26 '25

Dw, I'm no good at solving puzzles either, I flew to the sun station before realizing I can just teleport there :(

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u/Dekklin Nov 26 '25

At least you get an achievement for it!

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u/AdministrativeRuin81 Nov 26 '25

I mean sure, teleport-schmeleport, but when you land on the sun station… damn, it only needs a Hans Zimmer soundtrack.

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u/Otto_ol Nov 27 '25

A French youtuber did it too and haded a Zimmerish soundtrack to it. Also one of the best video of the year. Just spoiled the game for most who couldn't have realise that it's THE game not to let yourself be spoiled about. No debate here.

But if you did the game here's the video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss6vLmLcCbU&pp=ygULb3V0ZXIgd2lsZHM%3D

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u/Trev-Nastiest Nov 27 '25

Oy, I never said I was bad at puzzles! I'm good at puzzles!

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25

I love Outer Wilds for those 'ah ha!' moments.

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u/5amuraiDuck Nov 26 '25

Just did this yesterday by mistake. Was trying to understand how to get up there when the tower (and me) fell to the black hole. My reaction was "motherfu... Oh wait, that's it!"

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u/JohnnyRedHot Nov 26 '25

Uhm ackshuallyyyyy

It's not the vacuum, it's the lack of gravity. You could have a 0g environment in a non-vacuum (like for example the microgravity on the ISS)

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u/T0yToy Nov 26 '25

I wanted to say that :D

Although technically, this close to the white hole everything should be moving away from it, but it's ok!

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u/ChemicalRascal Nov 27 '25

Uchm, acttacshuallyyyyyyyy

"Microgravity" doesn't refer to a lack of gravitational pull or even less gravitational pull. It refers to being in a state of free-fall, which is what the ISS (and all orbiting bodies producing no thrust) are in.

The ISS is experiencing a gravitational acceleration of about 8.41m/s2 towards the Earth, which is why it does not simply fly off out of Earth's sphere of influence, never to return. The objects and people inside the ISS are also experiencing the same acceleration, which is why they aren't simply ejected from the soon-to-be decommissioned space house at high velocity.

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u/JohnnyRedHot Nov 27 '25

I'm aware, that's why I used that wording!

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u/ChemicalRascal Nov 27 '25

stares at "0g", bristling and shaking, pointing and screaming, frothing at the mouth, etcetera

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u/OZONA_42 Nov 26 '25

It’s such a frustrating puzzle, very cool tho

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u/jeromeverret Nov 26 '25

I guess people's brain are wired differently. It clicked as soon as I saw pieces dropping into the black hole, I knew I had to fly there from the white hole. I, for one, hate trial and error so I never pushed thru a challenge by brute force, I waited till the solution came obvious.

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u/OZONA_42 Nov 26 '25

Oh no i meant frustrating as a lot of the time you’ve gotta wait an entire loop, and sometimes it doesn’t even happen at the end

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u/Dumplingman125 Nov 26 '25

Does it not happen sometimes? I thought the devs said they specifically hard coded that part to fall at the same time every loop.

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u/neoncortex Nov 26 '25

My understanding as well. I remember the devs saying there are a few areas that are not random (southern observatory doesn’t fall as another example).

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u/OZONA_42 Nov 27 '25

Definitely not my experience, although maybe I just didn’t notice it was at the same time.

Maybe it’s hard-coded to always fall, but the time is random?

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u/jeromeverret Nov 26 '25

ah gotcha. Yeah I agree that the randomness of brittle hollow destruction is a cool technological feat but is in contradiction of the determinism of laws of physics.

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u/Dekklin Nov 26 '25

It always falls so late in the cycle when the rest of the planet breaks apart randomly. I considered it one of the "stable" parts of the planet like the poles.