Hint for "Spring 1935 Roots"

[Valkyria]

Can someone give me a hint on how to figure out the numbers of the sacrifices?

Like not just tell me, but just give a little hint? I just dont get it :/

[Comrade St. Nikolai]

Are you trying to figure out the numbers for the box with the picture of a set of scales at the top?

[Valkyria]

yes, kinda. i figured it out by now though. :0
i still dont understand the concept of the scales weights thought. i just took the 2 weights that were written on the pictures and figured it from there... :/

[Comrade St. Nikolai]

Yeah, the weights really aren't a very good puzzle.

[kazerniel]

This level makes no sense. Even with the walkthrough video. In the video they put the eye jars on 1. Confirm that letter S belongs to the eye jar. Then set the number next S to 5 ???

(Same with tears being on a 4 pedestal with the box number set to 2, and blood being set on a 2 pedestal with the box number set to 4...)

[Dimonium]

It makes all the sence and is very logical in fact :D
It's weighting puzzle and not the first in the series. But this one has the twist: you must think about what these numbers on pedestals mean?

[kazerniel]

Care to explain? The weighing puzzle in that alchemical chapter made sense, as it was the classic puzzle of each object having a certain weight that the player has to figure out. But here there was no such logic that I could see.

[Dimonium]

It's been three years since topic was started so i think Valkirya had figured this out so it's okay to spoil the solution.

There are two weights on each column. One is body part, second is it's pedestal with number saying how heavy it is.
So if you have tongue which weights 1 (hint in the main hall) on pedestal with 3 and some body part on pedestal with 2 and these two are on the same level it means that you have equation 1 + 3 = ? + 2 which is easy to solve

[Valkyria]

omg it's been three years. that's kinda wild. time flies.

[Doing My Best]

I'll do you one better - 2 years further on and im still looking up hints for this puzzle. I dont want to just copy a solution but the guys explanation above makes no sense as far as hints go. Do not understand the logic lol

[kazerniel]

Nguyên văn bởi Doing My Best:

I'll do you one better - 2 years further on and im still looking up hints for this puzzle. I dont want to just copy a solution but the guys explanation above makes no sense as far as hints go. Do not understand the logic lol

There is no logic. Sadly Rusty Lake games are often not very player-friendly.

[Dimonium]

Nguyên văn bởi Doing My Best:

I'll do you one better - 2 years further on and im still looking up hints for this puzzle. I dont want to just copy a solution but the guys explanation above makes no sense as far as hints go. Do not understand the logic lol

The logic is simple - you have 10 scales. You have to put them all on the same level to progress further.

On each plate already stands pedestal with given weight from 1 to 5 units. You have collection of body parts with unknown weight of each of them so you must compare them to find out how heavy is each one keeping in mind that each plate already has pedestal with its' individual weight. While doing so you must also figure out what is the sum of masses (mass of pedestal + mass of body part) that should be put on each plate so all of them should have equal weight. But how to find EXACT weight of each part?

Now I'll return to images in a hall which also serve as hints to first part of puzzle. Each portrait has painted in red body part. Two of them - piece of hair and tongue have numbers. This is clue telling you the mass of tongue and hair - 1 and 3 units (don't ask me why the hell hair is heavier, it just is). With that knowledge you have to find mass of each other body part while solving puzzle above.

When mass of each body part is known you have to look on portraits, compare letters with painted body parts and put next to each letter value of it's body part. That's it.

If you have any questions left - feel free to ask

Truth to be told there are plenty of puzzles with weight in these games and this one is different only by making you to realize that there are in fact two objects pushing scales down

[Eren Hinger]

Know this is from a while ago, but I wanted to clarify because there is a discrepancy here.

Using the hints of Frank=3 and James=1, you are supposed to just balance the rest out by trial and error. However, the game wants you to find the wight of the objects. Each pedestal + the weight of the sacrifice = 6. For example, for example, Leonard's foot and Rose's blood are on scales marked 2. 6 - 2 = 4, so L and R are both 4.

The problem is that it only tells you that the combined weight of the pedestal and sacrifice are equal to 6 inside this box, meaning you'd have to open the box in order to get the number to know how to open the box.