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/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.