Alien Artifact Story

[Masterclif]

Does anyone know how many artifacts you need to pick up to finish that part of the story? Not the main story line, just the one with the dialog between ada and whoever it is.

Thanks for your time.

[Wolfgang]

Not sure about the amount of artifacts you need but there are 27 communications related to you picking them up. After that it stops.

[dj8472]

I think it might be slightly random, i once picked up a sphere and got a message, reloaded a save and picked up the same sphere and got no message until one or two spheres later

[Kylnoffey]

Hello, not idea if it is fixed value and I may have got a very few more since the last ADA line but in my game it was around 68 spheres and 29 somersloops

[TH3R4BB!T]

It stops kind of early, also kind of suddenly, like there was more but.... lost in space. I am now on 150+ spheres and around 60 sloops, but nothing..... no more narratives. Think I will focus on the elevator stuff and stop exploring. The map deserves more exploring, but if there is nothing left to plow through the enemies for, why bother

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by TH3R4BB!T:

It stops kind of early, also kind of suddenly, like there was more but.... lost in space. I am now on 150+ spheres and around 60 sloops, but nothing..... no more narratives. Think I will focus on the elevator stuff and stop exploring. The map deserves more exploring, but if there is nothing left to plow through the enemies for, why bother

Tbf, the last commuinication says that ADA establishes a better way for communication which leads me to believe that ADA and that voice can now communicate without the need of the pioneer.

[TH3R4BB!T]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by TH3R4BB!T:

It stops kind of early, also kind of suddenly, like there was more but.... lost in space. I am now on 150+ spheres and around 60 sloops, but nothing..... no more narratives. Think I will focus on the elevator stuff and stop exploring. The map deserves more exploring, but if there is nothing left to plow through the enemies for, why bother

Tbf, the last commuinication says that ADA establishes a better way for communication which leads me to believe that ADA and that voice can now communicate without the need of the pioneer.

Kind of cheap, but that is what I meant with that it stops suddenly. There could be so much more, seeing how many spheres and sloops that are hidden on the map

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by TH3R4BB!T:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Tbf, the last commuinication says that ADA establishes a better way for communication which leads me to believe that ADA and that voice can now communicate without the need of the pioneer.

Kind of cheap, but that is what I meant with that it stops suddenly. There could be so much more, seeing how many spheres and sloops that are hidden on the map

I fully agree. More story with these would be nice.

[Masterclif]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by TH3R4BB!T:

It stops kind of early, also kind of suddenly, like there was more but.... lost in space. I am now on 150+ spheres and around 60 sloops, but nothing..... no more narratives. Think I will focus on the elevator stuff and stop exploring. The map deserves more exploring, but if there is nothing left to plow through the enemies for, why bother

Tbf, the last commuinication says that ADA establishes a better way for communication which leads me to believe that ADA and that voice can now communicate without the need of the pioneer.

Dang, it's done then. Feels bad to finish there.

[ThemePark]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Not sure about the amount of artifacts you need but there are 27 communications related to you picking them up. After that it stops.

Is that really all there is to the story? The way the alien talks about windows and what not, it always sounded to me, like we were supposed to find a specific location on the map, somewhere in a cave, maybe even do something, and the story would continue.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by ThemePark:

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Not sure about the amount of artifacts you need but there are 27 communications related to you picking them up. After that it stops.

Is that really all there is to the story? The way the alien talks about windows and what not, it always sounded to me, like we were supposed to find a specific location on the map, somewhere in a cave, maybe even do something, and the story would continue.

At least tied directly to picking up artifacts, yes.
However, the communication from that voice seems to not be taken directly for understanding what it says. E.g. "singing" seems to translate to "talking", since the voice states that ADA sings despite ADA questioning that. So there is some translation to do if you want to dig deeper into it.

[ThemePark]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Originally posted by ThemePark:

Is that really all there is to the story? The way the alien talks about windows and what not, it always sounded to me, like we were supposed to find a specific location on the map, somewhere in a cave, maybe even do something, and the story would continue.

At least tied directly to picking up artifacts, yes.
However, the communication from that voice seems to not be taken directly for understanding what it says. E.g. "singing" seems to translate to "talking", since the voice states that ADA sings despite ADA questioning that. So there is some translation to do if you want to dig deeper into it.

Yeah, but I was thinking they were clues for us to decipher to find out where the alien voice is coming from, or something like that. I.e. that there were more to the conversations between ADA and the alien than just them being...conversations.

[Lawn-Mower]

My interpretation is that the Entity exists in dimension(s) we do not, and once Ada figures out how, it shifts there to communicate/learn/evolve further. A Pioneer is just a tool for Ada to perform a programmed function. Pioneers are certainly irrelevant to it's evolution. Ada even withholds information from Pinoneers as it realises information plays a critical role in its ability to manipulate a Pioneer - Plato's cave and all that.

[Mighty Joe Young]

Originally posted by Lawn-Mower:

My interpretation is that the Entity exists in dimensions we do not, and once Ada figures out how, it shifts there to communicate/learn/evolve further. A Pioneer is just a tool for Ada to perform a programmed function. Pioneers are certainly irrelevant to it's evolution. Ada even withholds information from Pinoneers as it realises information plays a critical role in its ability to manipulate a Pioneer - Plato's cave and all that.

i agree. i took that thought when i finished.

[Lawn-Mower]

It's the Ada story arc..
The main story arc is the Pioneer story arc.

The Ada story arc complements the Pioneer story arc quite well.

I agree things could've been done better or improved, but I also think what's there fits quite nicely.

[Kylnoffey]

Originally posted by Lawn-Mower:

It's the Ada story arc..
The main story arc is the Pioneer story arc.

The Ada story arc complements the Pioneer story arc quite well.

I agree things could've been done better or improved, but I also think what's there fits quite nicely.

It fits but imo it's the fact it's quite short as secondary plot (and pretty much the one that could seem to be the focus while the elevator is a much longer main mission). And overall how it ends, it's litterally they saying oh well they go talk somewhere else and it's done without any conclusion or whatever, only you up to guess ADA is now having fun somewhere.
And to be honest about main plot of the elevator, (spoiling game's end!) the fact it doesn't gives much more conclusion or real big end either is making the whole story side feel quite sad. It's good, just it doesn't go anywhere and I wish it would to encourage and reward going that far