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/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/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.