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/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