Cool, another Outer Wilds playthrough to binge watch.

Congrats on reaching the core of the Ash Twin Project! Many different outcomes are now at your clawtips...

1:20:34 very interesting ambition they have there...

58:44 just convince them to come with you and bring them near a Nomai memory head statue, then they'll have all the time they want! ...In 22 minute increments...

40:05 you landed your ship's landing gear _on top of_ the projection stone so you couldn't find it XD

You took the projection stone from White Hole Station to some completely random scroll wall lol, it's not supposed to be blank, most players use White Whole Station to warp to Brittle Hollow while holding the projection stone and put it in the scroll wall reader near that warp destination. It's not obvious I guess but the projection stones record conversations separately per scroll wall, I suppose the idea is that they record what's spoken while people are using the projection pool so it logs the conversation. It just happens that you normally always put the projection stones in the correct scroll wall reader by happenstance and you almost never notice that it's per-location, since none of the projection stones have multiple logs saved. You taking the projection stone to some incredibly difficult to reach scroll wall is not what the devs had in mind XD

New microphone setup is interesting, I think the volume levels need adjustment though, your voice is quieter than previously so it should probably be bumped up.

Taking a break for marshmallows XD love the tension break 25:30

27:54 did you take the projection stone and put it into a wall reader slot?

17:15 you made them so happy!

1:07:00 it's funny seeing people not know what to do with the Starlit Cove forbidden knowledge, some people legitimately just think at first that it's a lore explanation for why there are still people in the dream world, not something they can act on. Many of us are so used to avoiding fire that we don't even think about why. Though I once saw someone use the dream world fire to exit and still not know for a while what to do XD

59:00 it only says the _connection_ between the craft and the Stranger is broken, not the craft itself

48:28 WOW! I don't know how you managed to survive that, normally their lunges are final, very nicely done!

46:58 into the oubliette with you! Working exactly as intended lol. Good thing you did Endless Canyon first so you could see the layout of this room and avoid this.

40:50 indeed, it's intentionally designed to force you to lure them out and circle around them

27:15 and you should have that last ship log now :) it's not a re-created burned structure, it was someone's home or outpost before later being burned. 27:37 a fantastic addition that wasn't in the original release.

24:55 because it needs light to see you. Remember you still look the same to others with or without your artifact. The slide reel shows the inhabitants concealing the light of their artifacts. 26:36 exactly like that :) (Can't tell if you were acting or just forgot)

18:37 it is actually possible, albeit difficult, to use this elevator and a few others. However, it's not intended to do so, and you only get one chance per loop anyway, making it far from ideal. It is interesting to explore their homes though, to see the small areas they spend thousands of years pacing back and forth inside of. Kind of sad.

17:32 oh I didn't realize this was where you had gotten stuck. The slide reel shows the bell totem, as well as how to get past it. There's actually two bell totems in the slide reel, since there's two in the upper areas of Starlit Cove, and the slide reel shows how to get past both of them.

1:30:46 ah I see, you didn't find the downstairs area under the hands, that's missed by many people and they changed the layout in patches to make it more obvious but people still miss it

1:29:39 why move away from the fire now when you're already in the dream world? Worried you'll fall into a world that is darker yet darker still?

Starlit Cove is by far the most difficult area IMO. The design/layout is confusing (though they did improve it a bit with patches), and there is no stealth bypass puzzle to solve, you just have to learn the stealth mechanics (and they made this more difficult with patches). It does seem like you forgot what you saw in the slide reel from the slide burning room though.

1:06:11 actually you _can_ get back up by jumping on one of the rocks that sticks out on the left, though it is slightly finicky. Similarly, you can jump up to the slide reel shelves in the first forbidden archive.

48:00 they gambled everything on this voyage... :(

40:04 🧠

28:56 o_o

15:30 I think there wasn't a ledge there in the initial release, but they added the ledge later to stop players from leaving the area without finding the stairs

1:04:17 XD I imagine Riebeck would feel especially inadequate if they knew your launch was that day, since currently they seem to assume you've just been out and about without them having known.

51:24 yeah I've actually seen a couple people notice that before finding the Nomai writing about it :)

38:21 yeah, this is one of the places where you can notice that Nomai children have bugger "handwriting" than the adults. You can even see both sizes in the same scroll where the teacher added a comment to the student's report. Quite an interesting detail.

1:23:55 Huh, so the game gave you that despite you never discovering it, just because you launched your scout into the actual seed, definitely seems like a bug/oversight

1:09:50 I'm not sure what you're even trying to do lol, I just thought you were trying to explore the various nodes that aren't normally visited by players so you could try and find the one that is a secret egg reference to another game. If you're trying to specifically find The Vessel there's a much easier way than what you've been doing so far...

56:36 you are certainly discovering a lot of new tidbits today XD

53:24 I'm glad you mentioned Star Trek because I was about to...

51:44 I didn't know that could happen either!

39:58 LOL I've never seen that before XD the sound was amazing too, I think that's just a natural effect of how the game applies the doppler effect to sounds

35:15 It's a jellyfish, but you called it a squid, so... 36:30 Squid Log Updated

Gonna try and keep this as a single comment this time... 13:37 not gonna tell them about any new discoveries? 23:23 usually I see people walk into them themself, you're the first I've seen use the scout to test heh. 27:29 good timing to have Giant's Deep visible through the window in the background just as you're reading about it! 28:58 this is one of the interesting things they changed in a patch for Echoes of the Eye. Originally, it would put out numerous Eye orbitals at once, constantly adding and removing them. The devs stated the original idea was that they were "too close" to the Eye so the signal was coming from everywhere at once. The Nomai computer next to this interface also didn't exist before, leaving it rather ambiguous as to what the animation meant. 32:30 I was just looking at that too! Certainly a lot of impressive shader work, though there are imperfections (especially related to the ship's tractor beam when overlapping with other effects, sorta like how Minecraft for a long time had issues with stained glass and water). 39:06 positive outlook on life XD 50:25 oh dear! It appears slow caution has its downsides in the oxygen department... I forgot about that while watching too... 52:04 :'( 1:03:45 XD 1:07:54 a lot of people, upon seeing a third activated statue and correlating it with the third activated mask, assume there must be a third person linked with it and wandering around somewhere... 1:11:29 109 minus 54 equals 55, divide that by your 16 episodes for an average of 3~4 loops per episode :)

Love the beat, and the ethereal vibe the higher synth gives. So spacey and also coveys a sense of wonder. It feels like a soundtrack to an underground style space race game, or played at club on the edge of the galaxy.

1:28:27 just in time to be disappointed, that was close!

1:27:46 congrats on finally learning you can put down the artifact and walk away from it! Kidding of course XD

1:22:22 OH NO

1:19:00 haha, funnily enough most players just assume there must be another invisible bridge there, and are pressured to test that theory due to the threat of the inhabitant behind them. That inhabitant almost never gets anyone so I'm pretty sure the devs just put them there to encourage players to test the invisible bridge theory. Though I have seen a few players end up trying to check behind where the inhabitant came from, thinking it's where they need to go, but that just leads to some secret shenanigans. The devs changed the design of the room to reduce the amount of frustration in that regard.

1:18:15 glad you figured out where the sweet spot was heh. This isn't the intended way to get to the Forbidden Archive the first time though, but it is intended for subsequent revisits, since you would only know about this invisible bridge after learning what's in the Forbidden Archive. If you don't already know the intended solution for the first time, you can either try to figure it out yourself or I can explain it if you want (or it will be explained in the Andrew Cunningham video I mentioned in the other comment).

1:12:19 this section used to be much more interesting as there used to be two inhabitants here and if one saw you they'd call out and communicate with the other and they would perform a pincer maneuver on you. Really cool AI interaction. Unfortunately when the devs saw that a majority of players thought the stealth approach was the only viable path, they redesigned this area and removed one of the inhabitants, removing that interaction entirely, so as to try and make this approach easier. Stealth wasn't intended to be a good solution but I suppose they preferred reducing player frustration over encouraging the actual intended solution. Though, there is some debate about the devs' intended solutions in this regard and why they made the changes they did. Andrew Cunningham made an interesting video about it all that you might like after you've finished playing.

1:08:18 hahaha... about that... 1:11:18 :) Fun fact, if you put the artifact on that bridge and then turn out the lights, it kicks you out of the simulation (as it does with any structure you can remove when your artifact is placed on it) but you'd still hear the spooky horn call out in the real world (maybe patched now but it did used to happen)

1:01:43 definitely worth finding all ship logs related to the Vessel and the Interloper before you go opening pandora's box. Unless you don't mind repeat openings, I suppose.

44:00 yeah it is annoying that the game only lets you put things down when the player is firmly standing on the ground in gravity, and even then you can't put things down in the ship. Makes for some tedious routing when trying to bring certain objects to certain unusual places...

41:20 I can't remember if you learned how to measure the integrity of the dam

2:02 Hearthians haven't developed color picture technology yet, that's why all the cameras and scouts they use take grayscale photos