VAULT OF THE FORMLESS PUZZLE SOLUTION

[Scapegoat]

How do you open the big door with the red lights in the flooded corridor? i have explored the entire map and have come up empty.

[Arngrim]

Is it the door that needs a glyph key? If so I needed to stay in one of those rotating room to locate the passage to the key.

[Taddy Mason]

Originally posted by Scapegoat:

How do you open the big door with the red lights in the flooded corridor? i have explored the entire map and have come up empty.

you have to lower the water level. unfortunately, there's no indication given that it's on a timer and the water will come back after a bit. even more unfortunate, i died in there and can't get the terminal i used to lower the water in the first place to let me interact with it again. by all indications, i should be able to but the prompt never shows. i wonder if you only get one shot at it. that would be stupid.

[Taddy Mason]

i don't know how to post pictures in here, but i uploaded a screenshot of the terminal in question and found your thread while searching the forums before making my own trying to find out why the terminal isn't working.

[FurthestBen]

Originally posted by Taddy Mason:

Originally posted by Scapegoat:

How do you open the big door with the red lights in the flooded corridor? i have explored the entire map and have come up empty.

you have to lower the water level. unfortunately, there's no indication given that it's on a timer and the water will come back after a bit. even more unfortunate, i died in there and can't get the terminal i used to lower the water in the first place to let me interact with it again. by all indications, i should be able to but the prompt never shows. i wonder if you only get one shot at it. that would be stupid.

It is sadly a one shot thing.
When I was trying it, I tried to grab both purples in there but my character was so immersed in attempting to climb a ladder, I died.

[Taddy Mason]

Originally posted by FurthestBen:

Originally posted by Taddy Mason:

you have to lower the water level. unfortunately, there's no indication given that it's on a timer and the water will come back after a bit. even more unfortunate, i died in there and can't get the terminal i used to lower the water in the first place to let me interact with it again. by all indications, i should be able to but the prompt never shows. i wonder if you only get one shot at it. that would be stupid.

It is sadly a one shot thing.
When I was trying it, I tried to grab both purples in there but my character was so immersed in attempting to climb a ladder, I died.

that seems like another bad design choice. i already missed out on the locked doors in the hatchery cause i didn't know to trick the little robot miniboss into the hallway with them so they'd open up. why so many one shot puzzles? i know they let you reroll the campaigns, but i don't want to have to reroll my entire campaign to get some side trinket they could just let me try again to nab.

[rollin340]

The fact that it is a 1 time thing is absolutely stupid. You used a console to drain the water, and it even lights up when you go near it again. But you can no longer interact with it. Miss 1 item, and that is it.

Personally, it feels like bad design. There is no clear indication that it is on a timer, nor that it is a 1-time thing. The first 2 items are on the same level, so you need to rush them both, and the third item on the upper area is on 1 path, so taking the other means you miss it.

[TadNeurotic]

Originally posted by rollin340:

The fact that it is a 1 time thing is absolutely stupid. You used a console to drain the water, and it even lights up when you go near it again. But you can no longer interact with it. Miss 1 item, and that is it.

Personally, it feels like bad design. There is no clear indication that it is on a timer, nor that it is a 1-time thing. The first 2 items are on the same level, so you need to rush them both, and the third item on the upper area is on 1 path, so taking the other means you miss it.

seems like a replayability thing to me. just re-roll the world and try again. the content isnt meant to be completed in one run, nor is it possible to do so.

[Xaelon]

Originally posted by TadNeurotic:

seems like a replayability thing to me. just re-roll the world and try again. the content isnt meant to be completed in one run, nor is it possible to do so.

Why are you replying to a thread that's been inactive for 5 months?

Don't be a necromancer. No one likes necromancers.

[Yandy]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.