What are you looking for

[Monchester]

I'm having a hard time with the portions of the game where you have to type out commands. It's hard to find the right keywords to make something happen. I was at the dolmen and I saw the arrow pointing down, but I can't figure out how to do anything with it. Any help?

[wei270]

that one is actually a bit weird, there are multiple words that works but the one i found is trapped door.

[Monchester]

That is so weird! Like how were you supposed to guess that? Is there a better way to figure out the word? I am stuck in another spot with the same issue.

[billy]

yea i couldn't get it , i would never have guessed trapdoor

[MrFrengLitch]

Thats mostly the point. You're supposed to figure out the puzzle yourself. My favorite thing in the game so far. A lot of games tend to point you towards the clues, but here YOU are the detective and YOU have to find the clues. I love it and I hope theres more stuff like that in the game.

I actually didnt type trapdoor myself so I havent found it yet. I thought I was missing some kind of clue I would find somewhere else in the world. I'll come back to it then.

But basically you're supposed to follow the clues. Investigate the rock, see wood on the floor, see campfire, find the soot on the wall, then the writing, then the arrow pointing the ground, then type "ground" for your character to tap the ground and hear hollow floor. And then you figure out theres something under.

[Monchester]

Other than that I have really enjoyed the game! I don't mind dice rolls for combat and I love the story so far.

[Cat]

This mechanic is really frustrating having to guess what the narrow key words are, I'm stuck on the trail with a spider and got no idea what the developer is looking for to be able to go past it, it honestly makes the game worse having to guess the right words to proceed.

[AngryBun]

Originally posted by Sunricer:

This mechanic is really frustrating having to guess what the narrow key words are, I'm stuck on the trail with a spider and got no idea what the developer is looking for to be able to go past it, it honestly makes the game worse having to guess the right words to proceed.

Try searching for tracks

[Cat]

That's kind of what I mean, even if you find something like footprints, commands like examine, follow or trying to interact with it will just lead to "I don't understand" since they aren't what the developer is looking for, it's annoying to then have to guess what word is the next step to make the character do something with the information.

Early video game era puzzle game logic is less annoying than this.

[wei270]

yeah this one and the status i don't like because there is actually no clud that leads you to the right word. because Arrow pointing down can be a million things.

[RiverKawaRio]

Originally posted by Sunricer:

This mechanic is really frustrating having to guess what the narrow key words are, I'm stuck on the trail with a spider and got no idea what the developer is looking for to be able to go past it, it honestly makes the game worse having to guess the right words to proceed.

I'm fairly convinced there is no solution to that one

[Transientmind]

Yeah, this one annoyed me. I tried every word I could think of that matched what I was looking for, I knew it was there, and even actions that SEEMED like they should do something to give you more clues to the word (eg: type 'tunnel' and you stomp on the floor, which is obviously getting close to the point, but doesn't help. The arrow doesn't mean anything either, because you can't type anything ABOUT the arrow, and it doesn't say what it's pointing at). There's literally just the one word and I would never have thought of it if I hadn't come here.

[Franka_Scythe]

I looked at the script for this section, and while the parser accepts a lot of answers, I would never have typed any of them. Hopefully, this gives you an idea of what kind of answers are expected in these sections.

elif search == "trapdoor" or search == "hatch" or search == "accesshatch" or search == "underthecampfire" or search == "undercampfire" or search == "underthefire" or search == "underfire" or search == "doorinfloor" or search == "doorunderfloor" or search == "doorinsidefloor" or search == "underfirewood" or search == "underwood" or search == "belowthecampfire" or search == "belowcampfire" or search == "belowthefire" or search == "belowfire" or search == "doorbelowfloor" or search == "doorinsidefloor" or search == "belowfirewood" or search == "belowwood" or search == "beneaththecampfire" or search == "beneathcampfire" or search == "beneaththefire" or search == "beneathfire" or search == "doorbeneathfloor" or search == "doorinsidefloor" or search == "beneathfirewood" or search == "beneathwood" or search == "underarrow" or search == "beneatharrow" or search == "beneathsoot" or search == "undersoot":

[Daniel_USA]

i also hate the specific word usage. i'd like to start broad and then help me narrow it down.

you can't just type like investigate and then be like you see X & X & X.

then start typing in stuff like footprints/tracks/marks etc.

[wei270]

Originally posted by Franka_Scythe:

I looked at the script for this section, and while the parser accepts a lot of answers, I would never have typed any of them. Hopefully, this gives you an idea of what kind of answers are expected in these sections.

elif search == "trapdoor" or search == "hatch" or search == "accesshatch" or search == "underthecampfire" or search == "undercampfire" or search == "underthefire" or search == "underfire" or search == "doorinfloor" or search == "doorunderfloor" or search == "doorinsidefloor" or search == "underfirewood" or search == "underwood" or search == "belowthecampfire" or search == "belowcampfire" or search == "belowthefire" or search == "belowfire" or search == "doorbelowfloor" or search == "doorinsidefloor" or search == "belowfirewood" or search == "belowwood" or search == "beneaththecampfire" or search == "beneathcampfire" or search == "beneaththefire" or search == "beneathfire" or search == "doorbeneathfloor" or search == "doorinsidefloor" or search == "beneathfirewood" or search == "beneathwood" or search == "underarrow" or search == "beneatharrow" or search == "beneathsoot" or search == "undersoot":

ok this is really good to know i actually type under camp fire and under the wood but i had space in between it is amount to nothing i was really upset, i think the system need to tell people there should be no space between words

[fiat luxia]

Originally posted by Sunricer:

This mechanic is really frustrating having to guess what the narrow key words are, I'm stuck on the trail with a spider and got no idea what the developer is looking for to be able to go past it, it honestly makes the game worse having to guess the right words to proceed.

What I found to get past this was to Get the monster information from the guard at the Pelt and then go back and I got an option to go poke it with a stick.