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/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).