[Spoilers] Near Heart Attack (Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye)

...I didn't realize until the very end that the earlier owl-deer was following me the entire time; I didn't make enough distance at the beginning. Terrifying.

[@oofums2705]

That pause when it gets too stressful hits home 😭

[@ghostpants7930]

I had to walk away from my PC when I first got into Giant's Deep's core.

[@bobobsen]

@@ghostpants7930 try the DLC

[@rangonick2005]

@@ghostpants7930 what was so bad about the core?

[@ghostpants7930]

@@rangonick2005 I really dont know tbh, just something about it hit that big thallasaphobia trigger

[@ghostpants7930]

@@bobobsen Oh I did amd it was awful and heckin amazing at the same time.

[@basementdustproductions1069]

There was no feeling in this game like realizing that there was more to this segment. Holy shit the heart drop when I learned that it wasn’t done yet

[@Elioren123]

I ended up waiting for them to get their lights extinguished and BOOKED IT for the finish line (reels)

[@EvanG529]

You could hear the sound cue of the thing following you. I knew he was behind you.

[@mares164]

In this area, I never went down the stair, I jumped on one of the underground elevators as it was going back up and then rode it down, from there I accidentally made the owlks go under the bridges and got trough

[@enoshade]

this is the most unique solution I have seen to this problem, it's amazing that they even let you do that! I was considering it but couldn't find a way to hitch a ride.

[@chara4120]

I completely forgot that I could get away from the lanterns to get the bug, I just lured them in and walked around. For anyone who happens to be playing, if you've blown out the whole house and failed to come back, you can just turn left to get to the elevator.

[@Knim]

Good to see another mink in the wild

[@EMAbreuLucas]

When I went down that big room there was no one guarding. Guess it's cause I was dead

[@SamariumHelium]

Assuming youve completed the game Maybe the dam was broken, or they just happened to always be outside your view

[@jonnyducker]

I believe the guards only descend from their towers when you turn the lights off. If you got past the alarms by being dead, and so never needed to turn the lights off, then the guards won't be down there.

[@herb2110]

@@SamariumHelium the dam breaking only kills the owlks in the wetlands. He was probably dead cus you can get down there without blowing out the lights if you’re dead

[@SamariumHelium]

@@herb2110 ah right the tower falls when those other ones die i forgot thnx

[@CrescentUmbreon]

That's insane... Isn't this the reel that's supposed to hint at that?? I never tried that here, just put on a brave face and suffered

[@finleymorris04]

There’s THREE of them down there!?

[@renamedanglerfishwholivesi3424]

Not since a patch

[@CheradenZakalwe]

I hated and loved this part of the game, sheer terror mixed with elation when i made it.

[@vmpki]

nah ... i got halfway through the echoes of the eye but im quitting if it means im boutta go thru this nahhh i cant handle horror stuff

[@mr.horseshoe2301]

I had to use mods. Turned off the AI and a flashlight mod. Made the DLC much more enjoyable for me.

[@gabrielm5087]

WHHATTTTT ????? YOU CAN CLOSE THE LAMP ??? HOW???? I FINISHED THE DLC WITHOUT CLOSING THE LAMP I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THE BUTTON

[@maxime_627]

you need to find the correct « glitched » carrousel of pictures, one explains that if you put your lamp on the ground and go away you’ll see how the simulation of their planet really looks like

[@babou4010]

Je lai fini hier ❤

[@maxime_627]

alors? ressenti ?

[@bobbinthepirate]

It's a good thing you didn't bump into him without the lantern. Bad things happen when you do that.

[@JMHMellors]

Free Chiropractor session? Seems pretty good to me

[@mallk238]

@@JMHMellors oof ouch my bones

[@MellowMink]

At least the game gives you a pity trophy!

[@PumpkinCake]

Getting that trophy for the first time made me laugh all my fear away

[@Beardieboi173]

Crack

[@ManoredRed]

I don't know how I got past this area. A mixture of dumb luck and panicked jumping over rails.

[@UNOriginalDraw]

i literally just booked it and run straight to the exit lol

[@dexfrancolini4734]

I did it first try when tryna get an achievement and didn’t realise there was 2 owls down there, until every other time I got jump scared so often I almost died 😂

[@T_Moneyzz]

@@dexfrancolini4734 I think there's three

[@Marqan]

same, I never actually figured it out, or know a safe path, I just got really lucky

[@bobobsen]

I lured one on one side and for some reason on the other side he wasn't there anymore so I just booked it

[@messiket616]

I never expected outer wilds to scare me. In the base game i definitely hada couple obscure moments where my heart sunk. But goddamn, even immediately into the DLC, when the stranger first appeared i almost fucking died.

[@Nikola_M]

Yeah. Base game is nothing to DLC. I had to turn on the accesibility setting and it still was almost too much to handle.

[@tumultuousv]

@@Nikola_M idk. The anglerfish area got me to take off my headphones and set my controller down

[@elirias]

​@@Nikola_M giant deep was honestly terrifying for me the first time i went on it

[@abdulrahman9276]

@@elirias Yep, Giant's deep, Ash twins and the supernova were all terrifying for me.

[@lordiblees]

Base game is far scarier. There wasn't a single moment in DLC that scared me, apart from entering the Stranger the first time with that immense scary music. That was awesome and quite terrifying. But from the inside, the Stranger is a lovely area with beautiful villages and from the very first reels you find, there's nothing to suggest the beings of this place are bad. They also look kinda cute. And even when they catch you, they just snuff your flame out (well not always true but still). I think people are just generally scared of dark areas. Because Dark Bramble and Giant's Deep are what really scared me.

[@bradcogan8588]

I didn't even know it could follow you down there lol

[@ThePalePrince]

pretty sure its one of the three guarding the area

[@bradcogan8588]

@@ThePalePrince I think there's only two down there post patch.

[@bobobsen]

@@ThePalePrince there are only 2 guarding it, this is the one from above

[@MarshTheYoutubeChannel]

Hate that they don't always have their lanterns on lmao

[@dudleyvasausage7879]

i had one of the owlks fly up a tree almost 2 stories high just to get me. also one grabbed me thru a moving elevator and I swear my heart pumped 10 years away in a matter of seconds.

[@oakmastermind5862]

TOO close for comfort, I would have walked away from my computer for like 5 minutes to calm my very shot nerves.

[@pralenkaman8105]

This area is made by sadists, after you realize how the upstairs owlks work it's not that hard to get downstairs, but after the tense segment that was getting downstairs, I thought I was in the clear, I was walking with little regard of where I was shining my light until the distortion in the music starts to play and I see an owlk shinning its light directly at me while I was in a corner next to some stairs, I was inches away from the light's radius so I didn't get caught, but my God I was just waiting for the owlk to scream

[@dudleyvasausage7879]

I will never try reduced frights. i love the heart attack feeling

[@The.Reilly]

This is the only part of this entire game I had go look up a guide for because after 20+ attempts of trying to sneak around I could never get past. Turns out th solution was just to run for the lift. 😐

[@almogz9486]

It really isnt the true Solution is Distraction Lure him else Where then go around and get în

[@Cookiekopter]

@@almogz9486 no the true solution is using the death-bell error that you learn from another archive

[@almogz9486]

@@Cookiekopter this Error is completely unhelpful as you learn that error in the archive you are trying to get in to. you learn that error in that archive

[@Cookiekopter]

@@almogz9486 oh yeah sorry forgot that its in there

[@jared-]

@@almogz9486 Technically the solution is to get down the spiral stairs right as the tower tips over. It is stressful to panic-grab all the slides before the ATP sucks you in, but it feels less stressful than brute forcing through the Owlks, lol!

[@eugenebebs7767]

Man I love this game but I just physically can't get myself to finish it like this shit is to much for me

[@deemaske9143]

i remember this sections clearly because at one try the owlk before the stairs noticed me and followed me to the bottom, scarriest thing ever

[@MikelSkater7]

Having serious PTSD while watching this

[@JakeLondonRivers]

this is like the one game i cant handle, of course its one i love so much

[@Walnutty]

omg its the same place i freaked out so fking much! He was right under me and he screamed and charged at me at the last place and both of them came at me. Me screaming like crazy and trying to jump over the fence was just so horrifying

[@Cookiekopter]

whoo im glad that i did all of those puzzles the "smart" way avoiding strangers i would have probably died from a heart attack otherwise

[@bobobsen]

Unless you cheated and already knew about the glitch backdoor, these are the only strangers you literally can not avoid having to sneak past

[@chochtopf8682]

​@@bobobsen I guess by smart, they meant they looked up a guide haha.

[@Dragorosso95]

@@bobobsen I actually did this part "the smart way" without knowing, since I thought you could only access the dream by dying and so I went there without awakening the ghosts

[@oracidrep]

@@bobobsen you can just wait until the tower falls in the water... you don't have to sneak past them then.

[@rhyshoward5094]

@@oracidrep The issue there is that the ending music pretty much starts playing as soon as the tower has finished falling, by the time you get past the guarded areas there probably wouldn't be much time to look around.

[@jbarber7127]

The game bugged for me so that bit at the end had no OwlElks in the room. I was playing with a coop mod.

[@thneed9432]

you sure it wasn't the part when they died? they die at the very end of the loop so you can either run around them or wait it out

[@jbarber7127]

@@thneed9432 I don't think it was towards the end of the loop, I just assumed that since the coop mod is kinda glitchy with eote that it was just the mod. But it's entirely possible that they had died

[@thneed9432]

@@jbarber7127 oh you modded it then yeah it might be that, it's also entirely possible that they either weren't released down there or you got down there without triggering them

[@bluestonecreeper720]

"hello there"

[@jbthekeeper2509]

Way too close

[@notNyxiann]

funny don’t starve pfp (off topic)

[@ThatJay283]

Ive done 100% ship log of DLC but did not know I could turn off the lights in that area lmao. I still got to that archive tho

[@joeygalateo5246]

how did you get to the archive without turning off the lights?

[@ThatJay283]

@@joeygalateo5246 what trick does the archive teach you? i used it there

[@Benthorpy]

@@ThatJay283 Did you accidentally find the trick?

[@ThatJay283]

@@Benthorpy i tried without but couldn't get past the bell so i thought what if i made myself like the dead owlks i was surrounded by and just tried it because why not i was out of options and it worked

[@Milos-mk9pb]

@@joeygalateo5246 omg I just figured it out. When u die, the bell doesn't work so u dont have to turn the lights off

[@Lectorrex]

he might have thought ''dammnit not again'' but it's a time loop so he would just be confused

[@Vox_Essentia]

I was sweating the whole time, holy crap

[@samdrow8268]

0:04 they act goofy and all until five seconds later they come running at you out of nowhere to get your ass and you can't do nothing about it

[@Vzaj-]

why do they sound like a thing from subnautica ?

[@none88261]

TEST

[@superchanneldiablo3]

Hey, turn off a fear reduction option! 😤

[@MrMan-sy4ev]

Spoiler Alert: If you kill yourself at the fire in the real world while holding a lantern, you will still end up in the virtual world. However, since you’re dead, the alarms can’t wake you up. The game kind of already tells you this if you realize that’s why the aliens aren’t awoken by it.

[@Cookiekopter]

ye i like to think of this and the solutions to the other 2 as the "smart way"

[@GreatWightSpark]

You would only know this by trial and error UNLESS you look it up OR already complete this area as intended, with guards. The reel "reward" for this area contains the knowledge of the death simulation.

[@Cookiekopter]

@@GreatWightSpark yea its the only one in witch the only solution without using the knowledge in it is sneaking around the owlks the other 2 locations you can skip by using the raft

[@MrMan-sy4ev]

@@GreatWightSpark True. But if you’re an extra-sharp explorer, you may draw the conclusion that the strangers aren’t woken up because they’re dead. (I’m not extra-sharp. I looked it up. Lol)

[@Olivman7]

@@Cookiekopter You can only access one location with the raft. The forbidden archives all have a trick for bypassing them than you learn once you get in. So the archive that tells you about the raft skip can be accessed with the raft skip, the archive that tells you about the bells is defended by a series of bells, and the archive that tells you about simulation mode can be accessed with a secret bridge you can only see in simulation mode.

[@ThiccBane]

I have 100% this game before the DLC, I love it. I had no idea you could put down the relic and enter the fucking matrix!?

[@ling4217]

you will be told/ discoverd if you play the DLC, dont worried

[@ThiccBane]

@@ling4217 Yeah I think I must have missed that real or not payed enough attention cause I have complete the DLC and still didn't know!

[@Leafar42]

@@ThiccBane How did you pass the invisible bridge in the prisoner chamber?

[@ThiccBane]

@@Leafar42 I input a code after trial and error took me a few cycles and writing down each combination.. I couldn’t work out another way, feel like an idiot now honestly haha.

[@arpitjaiswal9515]

@@ThiccBane dude you played the dlc the worst way possible and shitted on your experience.