Following a Wandering Echo

[CindyK_JA]

I do not understand this task. It moves around and I chase it but never can click on it. Sometimes it stops at a puzzle, other times bounces back and forth between objects. Despite following it around, my count is zero so I am obviously doing this incorrectly.
Would someone be so kind as to explain what you have to do for the task "Follow a wandering echo?" Thanks in advance...

[Pogo]

When you touch it and it moves, follow and touch it at each new stop (no clicking needed at all). Each one has a predetermined set of "stops" and when you touch it at the final location it'll count as "solved" and turn gold. If you take too long meeting up with it at any given stop, it'll warp back to its starting location & you can try again.

[CindyK_JA]

Thanks... I finally got both of them at the match3 area but it seemed very random and I was not sure what I did that worked!

[The Sojourner]

Interesting considering that following a Wandering Echo is literally the very first puzzle the player solves.

[CascadeHush]

Originally posted by The Sojourner:

Interesting considering that following a Wandering Echo is literally the very first puzzle the player solves.

It's funny how we forget. Apparently there was something about V.A.T.S in the Fallout 4 tutorial but I completely missed it and played 20 hours before somebody pointed out I was playing the game wrong.

But to OP's original question, it's literally just chase the ball. Like any puzzle, some of them are very easy and forgiving, and some are very tricky and require jumping and flying and precise platforming. I don't think the controls in this game are good enough for what some of them want us to do. If I see that the echo is wanting me to land on tricky platforms, I just walk away. Supposedly none of the puzzles in this game are random, so somebody made the path they take. They just show up randomly like most other open world puzzles.

[CindyK_JA]

In my defense :-) The first wandering echo was simple. The second one I encountered kept going back and forth between two points with me running back and forth. Did not make a lot of sense. When I came back to it later, I must have been faster because it went back and forth and then moved on.

[CascadeHush]

Well what is obvious to one person may not be obvious to another. Since it's not a combat game I figure if something moves, you chase it. I also completely forgot about the tutorial staring out that way. And as I said some of them are easy and some extremely hard and it probably depends on which you encounter first as to how your experience is. It is even possible to encounter puzzles like this that you can't even do early game because you don't have the double jump or the wings. It's just the nature of the open world.

[CindyK_JA]

It's all good! Meanwhile, back at the Islands...

[Mommson]

What also made wandering echoes hard for me in the beginning was that I did not know there was a toggle to run. Some of them are (nearly) impossible without running.