[not a bug] simplex communication brane co (somewhat spoilery)

[Bad--Kitty]

On day one, quest "set up a simplex communcation with brane co". Attached the jumpers to tr6-tr7 and tr7-tr2. Quick fill bar with antenna icon etc shows up but quest is not completed. :c
Man this game's title makes it difficult to look up information on the internet :')

[micuzzu]

Hi Bad--Kitty, sorry for the late reply. Did you active the task by checking it in the mainframe?

[Bad--Kitty]

Hi micuzzu, It is marked active.

[peevishdave]

Hi Bad--Kitty, probably you just set the jumpers in the reverse order (e.g. row <---> column).

[Bad--Kitty]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2027381494

[peevishdave]

Yeah, it's reversed. You just unlocked the reverse direction. Just switch columns and rows.

[Bad--Kitty]

Thank you very much!

[Miral]

It's one of those things that's either reversed or not depending on your perspective.

The way the game wants you to think of it is connecting the "output" of the first device to the "input" of the second device. This produces the expected result.

But what I (and Bad--Kitty, and probably others) first thought of is that we needed to connect the "input" of the junction box to the first device and the "output" of the junction to the second device, which is the reverse of what the game wants.

The diagram in the manual does make it clear which way around the game wants it, but it can be hard to break that mental link and switch it around.