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Peephole Problem: Mission Impossible—Game-breaker? [thankfully Solved by Mastan]
The first puzzle—how to use a jammer—was simplicity itself to fugure out. The second puzzle, however—get the Peephole sigil—I find impossible. I did everything I could think of to get a jammer through a portal field, but nothing worked. I can use the jammer (the second jammer encountered in the non-DLC game) on one of the two exploding drones visible through the "window" in the wall.

The third jammer I found in the game is needed to immobilize the second drone, but I found it absolutely WORTHLESS, as it's behind a field through which the machine cannot pass, and the fenced and walled area it's in is an inescapable trap if you happen to be trying to port off the needed jammer—which is useless if you're aiming at a drone through the fence's bars. THAT jammer¹ can be used ONLY to jam the field from INSIDE the enclosure…but the only REASON one would wish to enter the enclosure is to TAKE the jammer…which is literally impossible.

So, only ONE drone is immobilized, and the mobile (third drone encountered in the game) one kills you.

¹And yes, I googled the problem. The video I found was bullcrap. It showed a player pick up that useless jammer and carry it through that forcefield. He was obviously cheating somehow. There are no hints or clues how to proceed, and I could use someone's help so I may proceed WITHOUT cheating.

Otherwise, I've wasted my money on this game. There's GOT to be something I've missed. Maybe I'm not holding my damned tongue right or something.
Last edited by Jurassic Fart 1; May 17, 2017 @ 1:30pm
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MASTAN May 14, 2017 @ 2:17pm 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL4FT0ELobM

Which exactly part of this video you consider impossible?
At 0:04 player jams the forcefield that's already jammed by another jammer and that allows to move the latter out.
Jurassic Fart 1 May 14, 2017 @ 2:25pm 
Originally posted by MASTAN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL4FT0ELobM

Which exactly part of this video you consider impossible?
At 0:04 player jams the forcefield that's already jammed by another jammer and that allows to move the latter out.
Different video. Thanks. I'm going to try using the first Peephole jammer to free the second. Don't know WHY yours truly didn't think of that.

Edit: Thanks, Mastan. A bit tlater I thought I was in trouble again, but then I figured out how to use two devices to neutralize three threats.
Last edited by Jurassic Fart 1; May 14, 2017 @ 2:51pm
Alcator May 15, 2017 @ 7:24am 
Please edit the title of your thread to read "[RESOLVED]". Furthermore, perhaps less sensationalist title would be more appropriate (in general, saying that an early puzzle in a game which was completed by hundreds of thousands of players is... bold?)
Jurassic Fart 1 May 17, 2017 @ 1:29pm 
@Alcator: Two things:
1) Sorry about not following through on the resolution notice; you've made a valid point.
2) You need to reacquaint yourself with the definition of the word "sensationalist." I suggest also looking up "hyperbole" and "exaggeration," none of which may be accurately applied to the topic title for this specific and unassailable (read: inarguable) reason:

Note the question mark [in the title] indicating that I might be mistaken (as I was!), and the very real possibility that if the question was not satisfactorily reloved that that its putative lack of solution would be an almost literal game-breaker; had the kind commentor not offered his or her advice (I didn't look up the profile), I actually would not have been able to progress. As those are the FACTS in this case, your accusation of overdramatization is DENIED.
Seamus May 17, 2017 @ 1:44pm 
Originally posted by IDGAF:
literally impossible.
Originally posted by IDGAF:
your accusation of overdramatization is DENIED.
Right.
GreenHouse! May 18, 2017 @ 7:42am 
If you don't know how to resolve a basic one, then you'll be 1 hour per test in the future. And then you'll do more posts saying that you can't do it without cheating and that you wasted your money.
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Date Posted: May 14, 2017 @ 2:09pm
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