Telegraph

[Hauptmann Kotsturm]

Are you serious about this? I couldnt even figure out what on earth the game wants from me in translating those codes when there was light. Follow the dots and lines...they are everywhere leading to others without any sense. And now I can't even see anything. It's a p.i.t.a.

[Stoibs]

I don't want the answer spelled out to me but is there a guide or something in helping us understand what it is we're supposed to do when receiving the message back and needing to decrypt it?

I don't understand the chart at all. "Follow the dots and dashes to get to the correct letter", and then there's numbers along the bottom with some circles empty

I'm at a loss as to what the devs want me to do here. Do I need to literally just google morse code and decypher the dots and dashes manually because this in-game chart isn't helping at all.

EDIT: Well that works. I wonder why the chart in-game doesn't just have the morse code alphabet instead. I still don't get it but I suppose I'll just rely on this method instead

[Hauptmann Kotsturm]

Originally posted by Stoibs:

I don't want the answer spelled out to me but is there a guide or something in helping us understand what it is we're supposed to do when receiving the message back and needing to decrypt it?

I don't understand the chart at all. "Follow the dots and dashes to get to the correct letter", and then there's numbers along the bottom with some circles empty :csd2sick:

I'm at a loss as to what the devs want me to do here. Do I need to literally just google morse code and decypher the dots and dashes manually because this in-game chart isn't helping at all.

EDIT: Well that works. I wonder why the chart in-game doesn't just have the morse code alphabet instead. I still don't get it but I suppose I'll just rely on this method instead :conwayshrug:

Same here. Never understood that hints on the chart at all.

[Uggmull]

Only problem I had was that I did not at first realize that there where spaces between the letters in each segment. Other than that, it is an easy but somewhat tedious puzzle.

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by Uggmull:

Only problem I had was that I did not at first realize that there where spaces between the letters in each segment. Other than that, it is an easy but somewhat tedious puzzle.

Can you explain how we're supposed to read the chart they give us in game?
I already finished that quest using the actual morse code alphabet on my tablet device, but out of curiosity (or if we need to use the telegraph again in a later chapter? I'm still playing at the moment..) I'd like to understand how the puzzle was meant to play out.

[Weeb Archer]

I'm on my second playthrough trying to find what I didn't in the first, I did have to look up a guide the first time I tried it though, but second playthrough I worked it out (though I still had to look for the exact words you have to use, the game's a bit stingy with the messages you can send)

looking it up again for your sent messages though helped me work out why that's so difficult, the code actually spells something out shorthand. remember how the devs want everything authentic Italian? yup, it's Italian Morse code, doesn't make much sense when you work out the shorthand for native english speakers

anyway, what I've done in the second playthrough is do most of the questline before the funeral, at day so I can see the translation board easily. you're following lines of either dots or dashes before a space for each letter, gets easier to decode the last few messages once you get used to it

I haven't done the final part finding the cache as of writing as I don't know if giulia will tell me off for trying the boat before the funeral, as I biked my way to the lake and when I reached it the bike softlocked me on a log or something, couldn't move, only had the prompt to get off but couldn't do that either. Giulia is dead, I guess?

[Happy Phantom]

Of all the things you could've simplified for gameplay's sake, you decided to leave this one out... as if running from A to B for the questline wasn't tiring enough. I love the game, but this part drove me crazy. Please, change the mechanics in a future update or at least replace the cryptic chart with a more alphabet. And please block this quest or give a reminder to finish this quest before moving on with the story. I too tried to finish the questline in the dark and was so annoyed you couldn't see anything at all, despite the little lamp.

[Sotomar0]

It's not necessary to finish the game, i mean you can miss the tasks with cut the wires and use the telegraph.

[pax]

Wow. Thats totally killed it for me. Once the game totally WANT you to put the exact words when telling them there is a tank and I can't figure out at all how to translate their answer. Even youtube videos didn't work for me.

Ruined the game for a while for me totally. Makes absolutely no sense to put this in this game.

[neoadorable]

Originally posted by Hauptmann Kotsturm:

Are you serious about this? I couldnt even figure out what on earth the game wants from me in translating those codes when there was light. Follow the dots and lines...they are everywhere leading to others without any sense. And now I can't even see anything. It's a p.i.t.a.

You're right, it's a very poorly designed mechanic. Just avoid it, it's optional.

[withlovenene]

I think the devs should lock the quest once we complete the crypt chapter, since there's no point in following with the spy mission from that point on.

Now on how to complete the telegraph quest itself, just make sure to mention 'tank', 'road', 'near' and 'house' and it should be all fine. Also, the message can be easily decodified by following the chart from top to bottom. If it starts with a dot, then we start on the top left and if it's a dash, then top right. If the letter has a dot again, we move down left, if it's a dash we move down right. Do this for each letter and find the corresponding abreviation on the chart, click on it and so on. It's a fairily straightforward task. The whole walking around and running back and forth is way more difficult, IMO.

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by wannythefanboy:

If it starts with a dot, then we start on the top left and if it's a dash, then top right. If the letter has a dot again, we move down left, if it's a dash we move down right. Do this for each letter and find the corresponding abreviation on the chart, click on it and so on.

Oh wow thanks, after going back and looking at it again this actually makes sense, and is definitely a lot faster. It's just a shame that the game (either via an in-world instruction on the machine itself or just a UI window pane) never tells us *any* of that and expects us to figure out what the devs wanted somehow

I gather a lot of us either googled a morse code sheet and did it slowly one at a time, or outright just found a guide for this part.
Shame, it's actually a cool puzzle in hindsight knowing how the chart works now; just sucks that it lacks the critical information and the overall 'key' needed for solving it unless you look outside the game (Or are blessed with prior knowledge of these devices I guess).

[withlovenene]

Originally posted by Stoibs:

Originally posted by wannythefanboy:

If it starts with a dot, then we start on the top left and if it's a dash, then top right. If the letter has a dot again, we move down left, if it's a dash we move down right. Do this for each letter and find the corresponding abreviation on the chart, click on it and so on.

Oh wow thanks, after going back and looking at it again this actually makes sense, and is definitely a lot faster. It's just a shame that the game (either via an in-world instruction on the machine itself or just a UI window pane) never tells us *any* of that and expects us to figure out what the devs wanted somehow :lunar2020thinkingtiger:

I gather a lot of us either googled a morse code sheet and did it slowly one at a time, or outright just found a guide for this part.
Shame, it's actually a cool puzzle in hindsight knowing how the chart works now; just sucks that it lacks the critical information and the overall 'key' needed for solving it unless you look outside the game (Or are blessed with prior knowledge of these devices I guess).

The interface is a bit confusing! I'm guessing it's because everything was supposed to be realistic, so they went with an actual telegraph layout and since 'daddy taught us how to use it', Giulia doesn't need any tutorials . I confess I tried going from bottom to top at first, but it made no sense, so top to bottom it is. If they jam in a tutorial just like for taking and developing pictures, it should work out fine.

[Moxd]

This part was unbelievably awful lmao, I don't think I've been this angry at a game in awhile. I was inputting what it wanted from me and kept throwing a fit saying I was wrong grrr

[joridiculous]

I HATE this "puzzle" mainly for the diagram doesn't make sense what so ever.
(Dont help i cant even get back into the house to read the freaking map i have looked at every day. on white lady "mission")
TO bad the devs completely forgot we the player have not been trained in telegraph like Giuila is.
Strangely enough they found it necessary to give a full tedious unnecessary photo development tutorial.
Im honestly shocked we didn't have to button press through a "How too bicycle" tutorial too.
Thank god for decoder websites.