I started playing this with my wife tonight and we had a blast. The only problem is now we want to play the whole thing together and she has way less time than I do for games. And I can't stop thinking about solving more puzzles.
I do love that there is only 2 achievements. That happily turns off a part of my gaming brain I dont enjoy anyway.
The odd thing is that the PS4 version has 14 trophies. I guess Playstation has a minimum number and Steam doesn't.
Depending on if a game has a Platinum or not, each game has one of two "values," and that value must be reached
Usually a game with a full trophy set will have the Platinum, one or two golds or so, a few silvers, and a shit ton of bronze
The Witness forgoes all the bronze trophies and distributes that value among silver and gold, which it has more of than titles that have a ton of bronze
Fuck I am not used to ps4 and may have accidentally uploaded a screenshot of a thing while trying to just keep it for myself.
I apologize sincerely if it actually shared with anyone here and you saw it. I honestly don't know how the sharing stuff works. I tried deleting it and hopefully that worked.
Try to ignore or delete it if it posted. I won't push that button again.
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Played it after the gym until now, my hottest of takes. This game is awesome. The way these things work is just.... goddamn.
Steam probably has an identical number of achievements
When Steam achievements are hidden, they are straight-up unable to be even seen until you get them
You don't even get a hint that there are even other achievements
That's not entirely correct. While hidden achievements aren't listed in your own list, they are shown in the global achievement stats for that game. Although without the description if you haven't unlocked it yourself. And they're always included when Steam says how many achievements there are in total.
Also, it says at the bottom of the list how many hidden achievements you have left. I don't know when that was added, I hadn't seen it before today. It's not just for The Witness, I also have it on Batman Arkham Knight.
I feel like by the time my time with The Witness is over, I'll have looked at hours of a pretty game and seen a bunch of terminals I have no clue how to solve
There's one puzzle that I think is a perspective/shadow thing, and I can't for the fucking life of me get it lined up right, but everything else has been pretty dang fun
If we're talking about the same thing, here's some tiered hints
Consider what roles everything has to play
Move things out of the way that can be moved, ignore what can be ignored
Your own shadow blocks one of the puzzles, take a step back
The doorway in blocks another, go reopen it
Tree branches fail the puzzle, but the iron bars are safe passage
Nah, I got through all of those easily enough. This is in the same general area, but a little higher up.
I've had three or four false, "Oh, I think I get it!" moments on it. It's driving me bananas.
I figured it out. A really dumb bit of needless ambiguity in scale was throwing me off.
These motherFUCKING white triangle puzzles. I solved like 10 of them and have no fucking clue how.
I've solved a couple of puzzles with the Tetris block symbols and I am not at all sure what I did in them
I tried to replicate what I thought I did in later puzzles, but I was apparently way off
Exactly the same with these white triangle puzzles. Thought I had it on lock but nooooooo.
My wife is having an impossible time watching me play (probably because she played some earlier yeah that's the ticket it's not because I suck or anything). I foresee A LOT of "oh my god just fucking go left and then down Jesus Christ I can't stand watching you do this" from her.
I feel like I just don't know enough about how the game works
For example, this puzzle I'm stuck on, I don't even know how to label it for spoilers. Purple puzzle?
There's one of the "separate white and black tiles" puzzles that you have to walk on, but one of the glass panes is out. Is that glass pane something I'll be able to fix? Or am I supposed to be able to solve it without it? Because I don't see how it's possible to separate the black and white tiles on the right side without that pane being there
Bashing my head against this last lambda puzzle upstairs in the warehouse, feel like I have all the concepts but can't get it. The grid is too small for variations, it can't be done!
I'm about at 162 +7, finished the desert and the peninsula and I'm allllmost done with the forest. Have done about half the quarry and some of the tetris area.
Some of the biggest oh shit moments for me so far:
the + puzzles for lack of a better term.
the people I've been comparing notes with and I have just been calling them sparkles. When I was trying to figure out the rock puzzles looking over the lake, saw that big dark circle in the boathouse and thought "hrmm, what if I do..." and then it started to LIGHT UP. Holy shit, so cool.
Underneath the windmill
I was not prepared in the slightest for what would happen when I input the hex code.
and of course, I don't even know how to label this one but
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I do love that there is only 2 achievements. That happily turns off a part of my gaming brain I dont enjoy anyway.
It seems obvious, and I think I know what I'm supposed to do with the last couple of them, but nothing is working.
Time to take a break for the night.
I can't find a notebook in my apartment so I'm gonna grab a tablet of engineering paper from the office instead.
Inside the windmill spoilers
When I did it right and the FMV hit, oh man
Fully onboard
The odd thing is that the PS4 version has 14 trophies. I guess Playstation has a minimum number and Steam doesn't.
Depending on if a game has a Platinum or not, each game has one of two "values," and that value must be reached
Usually a game with a full trophy set will have the Platinum, one or two golds or so, a few silvers, and a shit ton of bronze
The Witness forgoes all the bronze trophies and distributes that value among silver and gold, which it has more of than titles that have a ton of bronze
When Steam achievements are hidden, they are straight-up unable to be even seen until you get them
You don't even get a hint that there are even other achievements
I just found a dog statue and I'm super creeped out.
I apologize sincerely if it actually shared with anyone here and you saw it. I honestly don't know how the sharing stuff works. I tried deleting it and hopefully that worked.
Try to ignore or delete it if it posted. I won't push that button again.
Really? I found that and felt kinda sad.
That's not entirely correct. While hidden achievements aren't listed in your own list, they are shown in the global achievement stats for that game. Although without the description if you haven't unlocked it yourself. And they're always included when Steam says how many achievements there are in total.
Also, it says at the bottom of the list how many hidden achievements you have left. I don't know when that was added, I hadn't seen it before today. It's not just for The Witness, I also have it on Batman Arkham Knight.
This game is so beyond me
I figured it out. A really dumb bit of needless ambiguity in scale was throwing me off.
I've solved a couple of puzzles with the Tetris block symbols and I am not at all sure what I did in them
I tried to replicate what I thought I did in later puzzles, but I was apparently way off
Exactly the same with these white triangle puzzles. Thought I had it on lock but nooooooo.
My wife is having an impossible time watching me play (probably because she played some earlier yeah that's the ticket it's not because I suck or anything). I foresee A LOT of "oh my god just fucking go left and then down Jesus Christ I can't stand watching you do this" from her.
Also, oh my GOD what a gorgeous game.
For example, this puzzle I'm stuck on, I don't even know how to label it for spoilers. Purple puzzle?
This game makes me super anxious
http://www.audioentropy.com/
the second one you can examine the grass to find the most heavily-trafficked path and that's the solution
the third puzzle just has gravel on the ground and i don't see any indications of what the correct path is
http://www.audioentropy.com/
a hint if you want it
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Gave up on that glass pane for now
Also I secretly wish this game had a fast forward button
But i saw a fake koifish and got a laser. 1 laser. No idea what it does, but I have activated a laser. Also im going to town on that 2001 thing.
Some of the biggest oh shit moments for me so far:
the + puzzles for lack of a better term.
Underneath the windmill
and of course, I don't even know how to label this one but
Also regarding your last spoiler
as to your question in the spoiler: nope
I'm going to have nightmares about that lambda puzzle I had to abandon
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
and I don't trust that solitary fucking rain cloud
I KNOW YOU'RE A PART OF A PUZZLE, MISTER
edit edit: also the freakiest thing about this game: your character's shadow is my shadow
my hair's silhouette looks exactly like it, I COULDN'T DEAL when I first saw it
I guess I'll demand this from my brothers for my birthday.