Server Room logic question

[Elihu Aran]

I brute forced the server room because I couldn't figure out why the solution was the way it was. Can somebody ELI5 the solution to this puzzle?

[Freezman]

Once you start the hack at the end of the room the screen near the door should reveal the puzzle hint.
It has 4 rows of colored shapes plus their value 1 to 4. Bottom of the screen it says "pull from lowest point value to highest"
Every switch has 3 colors and the same shape sequence below them. Add up all the values on the individual switches.
Then you turn them off from lowest value to highest value.

Thanks for playing.

[Elihu Aran]

Sweet Merciful Zeus, thank you so much
Even with the hint the game gives that I read after the fact, I kept thinking that the override protocol sheet was just giving totals instead of the actual solution

[Lizzy]

i dont get it pls help, i do a brute force so the level is finde but i dont get the logic

[Jester]

I was doing this room and looked at the hint the second time I went through, after i brute forced the solution the first time. The hint says "blue square, blue triangle, and red circle equals 7, but should it not equal 8?

[ソアピ-ちゃん]

Originally posted by Freezman:

Once you start the hack at the end of the room the screen near the door should reveal the puzzle hint.
It has 4 rows of colored shapes plus their value 1 to 4. Bottom of the screen it says "pull from lowest point value to highest"
Every switch has 3 colors and the same shape sequence below them. Add up all the values on the individual switches.
Then you turn them off from lowest value to highest value.

Thanks for playing.

Sorry this is a nonsense answer. We get HOW it's supposed to work, but there is no indications on how to arrive to the values at all. Not even the hints help.

There must be a way to find out what values the red ones have e.g. and the game doesn't give you any clues on how.

[ソアピ-ちゃん]

Originally posted by Jester:

I was doing this room and looked at the hint the second time I went through, after i brute forced the solution the first time. The hint says "blue square, blue triangle, and red circle equals 7, but should it not equal 8?

My buddy found that out as well.

[ソアピ-ちゃん]

Originally posted by Freezman:

Once you start the hack at the end of the room the screen near the door should reveal the puzzle hint.
It has 4 rows of colored shapes plus their value 1 to 4. Bottom of the screen it says "pull from lowest point value to highest"
Every switch has 3 colors and the same shape sequence below them. Add up all the values on the individual switches.
Then you turn them off from lowest value to highest value.

Thanks for playing.

Ok we solved it now and WHEN you know it, it makes sense. But I don't know how you would come to it. With the correct hint, the result being 8, you can find it out.

To anyone who wants to know: Each shape and color in their respective row have this value, i.e. Red Square, Blue Triangle and White Circle have 1 as value each, and so on. Then it's easy of course.

[AMDman18]

Originally posted by Soapy-kun:

Originally posted by Freezman:

Once you start the hack at the end of the room the screen near the door should reveal the puzzle hint.
It has 4 rows of colored shapes plus their value 1 to 4. Bottom of the screen it says "pull from lowest point value to highest"
Every switch has 3 colors and the same shape sequence below them. Add up all the values on the individual switches.
Then you turn them off from lowest value to highest value.

Thanks for playing.

Ok we solved it now and WHEN you know it, it makes sense. But I don't know how you would come to it. With the correct hint, the result being 8, you can find it out.

To anyone who wants to know: Each shape and color in their respective row have this value, i.e. Red Square, Blue Triangle and White Circle have 1 as value each, and so on. Then it's easy of course. [/quote]

There is a screen right by the entrance to that room that shows the value for each colored shape. As Freezman mentioned in another thread, need to make sure you're running the game with the day 1 update or else that image may not show. They said it was a known bug fixed with the day 1 patch.

[ソアピ-ちゃん]

Originally posted by AMDman18:

Originally posted by Soapy-kun:

Ok we solved it now and WHEN you know it, it makes sense. But I don't know how you would come to it. With the correct hint, the result being 8, you can find it out.

To anyone who wants to know: Each shape and color in their respective row have this value, i.e. Red Square, Blue Triangle and White Circle have 1 as value each, and so on. Then it's easy of course. [/quote]

There is a screen right by the entrance to that room that shows the value for each colored shape. As Freezman mentioned in another thread, need to make sure you're running the game with the day 1 update or else that image may not show. They said it was a known bug fixed with the day 1 patch. [/quote] [/quote]

Do you mean the picture that just has 1 to 4 and then the shapes behind it that I just referenced? Or something else?
I am running the current version on game pass.

[AMDman18]

Originally posted by Soapy-kun:

Originally posted by AMDman18:

There is a screen right by the entrance to that room that shows the value for each colored shape. As Freezman mentioned in another thread, need to make sure you're running the game with the day 1 update or else that image may not show. They said it was a known bug fixed with the day 1 patch.

Do you mean the picture that just has 1 to 4 and then the shapes behind it that I just referenced? Or something else?
I am running the current version on game pass. [/quote]

Yes, that image. That 1-4 tells you the value of each of the colored shapes. I spent a couple minutes at that room fumbling around but then realized what they meant by hitting the switches in order of smallest total to largest total. Thanks to pause also pausing the timer I was able to take pictures of both sides of the wall and do some simple math to figure out which order to hit them in with like 30s left lol

[ソアピ-ちゃん]

Originally posted by AMDman18:

Originally posted by Soapy-kun:

Do you mean the picture that just has 1 to 4 and then the shapes behind it that I just referenced? Or something else?
I am running the current version on game pass.

Yes, that image. That 1-4 tells you the value of each of the colored shapes. I spent a couple minutes at that room fumbling around but then realized what they meant by hitting the switches in order of smallest total to largest total. Thanks to pause also pausing the timer I was able to take pictures of both sides of the wall and do some simple math to figure out which order to hit them in with like 30s left lol [/quote]

Ok so you then don't understand what I am saying.

[joridiculous]

That puzzle is a typical overthink puzzle. I got really confused to what the mechanics where, and when i randomly hit a switch and it stayed open i couldn't tell why. So hit another random and both turned off.
After a couple tries i figured it was a typical "pull levers out of order" puzzle, so i bruted it from there and it was quicker than running around counting the shapes-values even after i saw what the interned solution was..

There are quite a few puzzle i didn't get the logic of and just hit random thing to see wth was happening.

[AMDman18]

Originally posted by Soapy-kun:

Originally posted by AMDman18:

Do you mean the picture that just has 1 to 4 and then the shapes behind it that I just referenced? Or something else?
I am running the current version on game pass.

Yes, that image. That 1-4 tells you the value of each of the colored shapes. I spent a couple minutes at that room fumbling around but then realized what they meant by hitting the switches in order of smallest total to largest total. Thanks to pause also pausing the timer I was able to take pictures of both sides of the wall and do some simple math to figure out which order to hit them in with like 30s left lol

Ok so you then don't understand what I am saying. [/quote]

I guess I don't. This was your comment:

"there is no indications on how to arrive to the values at all. Not even the hints help.

There must be a way to find out what values the red ones have e.g. and the game doesn't give you any clues on how."

This comment leads me to believe that you actually DON'T know what that image with the numbers and the shapes means. That's the key. That comment is why I thought you were maybe playing the bugged version of the game without the image. I think once you understand what that image is saying, you'll be kicking yourself lol

[ソアピ-ちゃん]

Originally posted by AMDman18:

I guess I don't. This was your comment:

"there is no indications on how to arrive to the values at all. Not even the hints help.

There must be a way to find out what values the red ones have e.g. and the game doesn't give you any clues on how."

This comment leads me to believe that you actually DON'T know what that image with the numbers and the shapes means. That's the key. That comment is why I thought you were maybe playing the bugged version of the game without the image. I think once you understand what that image is saying, you'll be kicking yourself lol

Yes, OBVIOUSLY I don't know what the image means with the numbers and the shapes mean. THAT was the POINT of what I said.

Yes, I am kicking myself and the developer, because once you know the solution, it's obvious that the shapes have the respective number each of the coloms they are in. But there is no indication that this is the case. Numbered Rows can mean anything, and when you pull the levers, it doesn't help you either to understand it.

[FitzFarseer]

What I don't understand about this puzzle is my friend and I easily figured out what you were supposed to do. Then we took a second to consider 8 switches, each with 3 values, we'd have to look at the board to determine those values and figure them all out to know the proper order...how is doing this puzzle the "correct" way not 20x slower than just brute forcing it??? Even with knowing how to do the puzzle properly I cannot fathom why you would bother.