[SPOILER] Dark Bramble surface exploration

[cf.barbossa]

I just managed to find a way to the jellyfish on DB without entering the bramble. The creature is situated almost exactly on the south pole. Getting inside the ice is tricky, because gravity is odd and if you fail to land anywhere, you tend to fall directly into the south pole portal (which, incidentally, leads to a point far from the "entrance hall" angler).

[Perseus]

What way have you found to get there? Every time i've tried getting there without entering Dark Bramble, it was quite difficult. Do you have a specific spot to land on with the ship?
The easiest way to find it is by marking the jellyfish's location from your ship log, if i remember correctly.

[cf.barbossa]

Originally posted by Perseus:

What way have you found to get there? Every time i've tried getting there without entering Dark Bramble, it was quite difficult. Do you have a specific spot to land on with the ship?

As close as possible to the acutal south pole. It's more or less the centre of the largest ice field. Landing there is not difficult. Step outside the ship and look down the numerous cracks. When you spot vines within the ice: that's a good spot to jump down to. Not easy, though, as the ice and parts of the vine have a gravity directed at the centre of DB, parts of the vine and the underside of the ice have none.

It is possible, though even trickier, to climb from just outside the south pole entrance to DB.

Originally posted by Perseus:

The easiest way to find it is by marking the jellyfish's location from your ship log, if i remember correctly.

TBH, I looked for it. I have wondered on earlier occasions what the transition inside the vine meant, when the fog goes away and gravity returns.

What I did was: I went to Feldspar and from there, to the jellyfish, fell off the icy ledge and fell through an icy canyon, into DB, where I died. Next loop, I landed my ship on the largest available surface on outer DB, but could not locate the jellyfish visually.

So I made the usual trip again, set the scout next to the jellyfish and went back outside. Fun fact: you get no signal duplication from the scout that way. In fact, you get no signal at all while still inside DB.

With the beacon in place, it was easier to find an entrance.

[admiral1018]

Definitely possible to do. although I was only able to consistently find it once I already activated the signal for the Jellyfish.

While this isn't really useful at all from a gameplay perspective, it opens some interesting ideas from a story perspective. The Jellyfish not being inside the Bramble but instead at the surface might indicate that they were native to Dark Bramble before it was destroyed. Perhaps the ones we find on Giants Deep only arrived there after the planet exploded. The frozen Jellyfish in the floating bramble there would support that theory.

[Perseus]

You might be interested to know that going to the jellyfish site from the outside of Dark Bramble is done in 100% speedruns.

[cf.barbossa]

Originally posted by Perseus:

You might be interested to know that going to the jellyfish site from the outside of Dark Bramble is done in 100% speedruns.

I didn't even know there were OW speedruns. But if you do a speedrun- whats the point of visiting the jellyfish?

[Songbird]

Originally posted by cf.barbossa:

Originally posted by Perseus:

You might be interested to know that going to the jellyfish site from the outside of Dark Bramble is done in 100% speedruns.

I didn't even know there were OW speedruns. But if you do a speedrun- whats the point of visiting the jellyfish?

The 100% category specifically has to get all ship log entries. Other categories are all about how fast one can zoom. (It turns out it's pretty darn fast! Thanks, physics!)