Looking for tips on finding keys?

[Moosef]

Does anyone know if there's a strategy or rhyme or reason for the location of the small silver keys that some of the levels have? I've been looking for a couple of them FOREVER and I cannot for the life of me find them... but I don't want to cheat and look them up. Any ideas on how to look or if there's any logic behind their locations??

[Latharion]

Are you referring to the keyring? If so, then they are located in the "levels" they are used in.

If you are in a hub area and need a key... the best advice (without giving away the answer) is to think outside the box.

[[M] Private Buttface]

I think shes referring to the ones just outside the puzzles. Liike in level 2or3 (in building A) theres a locked room just outside the puzzles. Im assuming getting inside will get a jammer to get the star. Yet where do you find the key?

[Moosef]

private buttface is correct - i'm talking about the ones in the hub areas - where you spawn within each numbered level from inside the buildings. In some of those areas I've found places where a key is needed to unlock them but can't ever seem to find the keys and I just don't see any logic or reason behind their location. (I've found only one so far). Obviously I get it's a challenge but I feel like scouring every inch of the map for something small and shiny is missing the point... like you said I think they want you to think outside the box or something, I just can't seem to get on that wavelength apparently...

[Latharion]

@Moosef

"Thinking outside the box" was a subtle hint at how to approach Talos Principle as a whole. As a good example, try this. In the 4th hub in World A, a solution to one of the puzzles can also be used in several of the other puzzles. Or to spoil it, there is a pillar with a beam link on top of it. This can be used in several of the puzzles, not just the singular one it is found in. Give it a try and see for yourself.

Apply that sort of "out of the box" thinking to many of the puzzles in this game and it's DLC and you may find the game far more enjoyable and less frustrating. Just don't let your experience be defined by assumptions.

[Eauxps I. Fourgott]

The hub areas' keys are deliberately hidden more obscurely than those in the puzzles - since they're linked to the optional star puzzles.

Usually either careful combing kd the area or creative ways to get around puzzle boundaries are needed to get them. I can think of one specific instance right now - for that one, the keys ARE hidden elsewhere in the hub area, but because it's so big and intricate, you really need to scour carefully or you'll miss them.

[Moosef]

thanks for the ideas! those are helpful. I'll definitely try both approaches. I'm just down to the last two stars to complete it and I probably need to step back and re-approach from a different angle like you were saying cause it's just driving me crazy! haha. I'm a girl who's fairly new to gaming so maybe I just need more gaming experience in general, lol. I'll get it eventually!