Need an End Game hint (Spoilers)

[Cryten]

So Ive explored everything I can find, no mysteries remain other than one of the big ones. What is setting off the sun to go through from stable orange to supernova in 22 minutes. Ive found the vessel, visited sun station, finally cracked the high energy facility and the ash twin project. Now I am stuck.

On the computer I have investigated everything indicated excluding ash twins tower is showing there is more to explore. But for the love of god I cannot find anything either at the teleport points or in any of the towers. Additionally I cannot enter the interloper as there seems to be no crack. Just a seem running along its sides. It does seem to be the final catalyst for the super nova but the sun still seems to be rapidly ageing even without the collision. Everything else is explored and registered as complete.

To be honest there only seems to be one action left to me and that is to disable the ash twins project and take the advanced warp core to the vessel. I only dont because as far as I can work out the Ash Twins project is the only thing stopping the solar system from ending. So I wanted to to find a way to return the solar system to normal speed sun and galaxy growth before disabling ash twins. I have not encountered any hints that would indicate the vessel going to the eye would some how save the solar system but the thought has ocured to me.

So now I need hints, preferably without spoilers to the finale just pointing me in the way I should head. Do you know why ash towers would be incomplete despite visiting all the towers, going through the teleporters and reading everything I can find? Am I looking for a solution where there is none? What is next?

[Nert]

Sounds like you've done well!

The interloper, you learn from notes left by the trio that landed there, has a large fissure on it's sunward-facing side (basically the front). I'd say spend some time checking it out

Not sure why the towers would show as incomplete, I'm pretty sure they only have two entries, one you get from visiting them, the other you either learn from the High Energy Lab or from taking the projection stone from the White Hole Station back with you to the ruins on Brittle Hollow next to the warp and reading it there

For the first and third paragraph, go over again what you read on the sun station and the vessel itself, also you can check in with Chert. There is something you.. may need to come to terms with.

Also I'm presuming you've visited the 6th Location? That would have left you with an open ended question

[Cryten]

Hmm well I got into the interloper so I now know it somehow killed the Naomi but not us. I still cant get the second entry for the Ash Twin towers. I did both versions of what you suggested. Neither gave an entry for it and I had read that material before. It was just material relating to the time bending power of the white holes but did not complete the entry.

I had done the 6th location, found the naomi ghost. The eye is quantum and the question is what does witnessing it do? Well Im not sure, all seems very philosophical. Is it trying to imply that the observer shapes the eye? Anyway im sure there will be a little more on that in the end.

Originally posted by Nert:

There is something you.. may need to come to terms with.

Are you infering that there is nothing to do in the game other then break the loop? I had figured it would be an option but that would be quite disappointing. Because that would fail to address the elephant in the room. Why is time for all the solar system all of a sudden accelerating event at hundreds of years per second geologically? I was really hoping there would be a path to helping events.

Anyway since I have now done the interloper is the breaking of the loop the last thing for me to do? Because Ive done the quantum, done the vessel, explored the towers, found the easter egg on the precursors to our species, that was cute, and exhausted all the suggestions and discoveries from the outer wilds members.

I quite enjoyed the quantum puzzle. It was clever and the learning felt like it really used the world. Where as the rest has mostly been finding nooks and crannies to get to in time.

*edit* I was slightly disappointed I couldnt jam a core into the broken core in the vessel to power it but I figure thats what the advanced core in Ash Twins core is about.

[Cryten]

Whelp I went and done it. I see what the game was going for. I had hoped things could go a different way but that does not change it from being quite a good game in my opinion. Even at the end though I dont know whats up with everything accelerating at a few billion years every few minutes. Nor was the interloper really explained past disaster.

[Nert]

Originally posted by Cryten:

Why is time for all the solar system all of a sudden accelerating event at hundreds of years per second geologically?

In short, it isn't.. you've got three independent astrologists of that universe all stating that this is entirely natural, and it isn't just this solar system, it's every star in every galaxy, we were just born at the end of the Universe..

There are some theories that we just experience time differently being a miniature solar system but I think it's just this is how it works here, big boom more dramatic

Originally posted by Cryten:

*edit* I was slightly disappointed I couldnt jam a core into the broken core in the vessel to power it but I figure thats what the advanced core in Ash Twins core is about.

Because I love the lore:

The HEL said they'd need a much more advanced warp core than a normal one for the ATP, then in the Hanging City they discuss that the Vessel uses one. They then debate trying to retrieve it, or build a new one, the architect of the AWC was in this clan but passed away before the two survivor tribes could reunite.. No one alive knew how to do it. Everyone pinned their hopes on his apprentice, Poke, who was born here and has never seen a warp core before, only theories passed down!

TLDR: Hearthian duct tape and wood approach won't cut it, this was expert level even for Nomai

But yep, sounds like that's all you have left. Solanum asks what would happen if a conscious observer were to enter the Eye. Might be time to find out!

[CrazyJayBe]

Originally posted by Cryten:

So I wanted to to find a way to return the solar system to normal speed sun and galaxy growth before disabling ash twins.

THIS is what makes this THE indie game of the year/ALL TIME!! So many people approach from so many different directions!

So much better than the rest of the junk out there.

[FlynnTheFearless]

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[tuxdelux]

The interloper, you learn from notes left by the trio that landed there, has a large fissure on it's sunward-facing side (basically the front). I'd say spend some time checking it out

Can I get a hint on how to get into the interloper fissure? I have been walking around on the sun-ward side for a half hour and found nothing.

[✯ El Juancho]

Originally posted by tuxdelux:

The interloper, you learn from notes left by the trio that landed there, has a large fissure on it's sunward-facing side (basically the front). I'd say spend some time checking it out

Can I get a hint on how to get into the interloper fissure? I have been walking around on the sun-ward side for a half hour and found nothing.

Hint: Some parts of the interloper unfreeze when youre REALLY close to the sun :)

[Fear Ghoul]

You can get to the sixth location? I just beat the game and assumed the sixth location had to do with the end of the game, but when I checked my ship's computer it still had question marks, so then I assumed that it was just meant to never fill in, like the end of the game was supposed to tell you. Can someone give me a hint how to find this since I'd really like to see it?

[OxYmoron]

Originally posted by Fear Ghoul:

You can get to the sixth location? I just beat the game and assumed the sixth location had to do with the end of the game, but when I checked my ship's computer it still had question marks, so then I assumed that it was just meant to never fill in, like the end of the game was supposed to tell you. Can someone give me a hint how to find this since I'd really like to see it?

Yes, you can. I trust you have been to the Quantum Moon.

If you have been:
The Nomai notes tell you that the shrine they built on it has to be on the North Pole of the moon in order to reach the six location.

So you have to get it appearing there, by using what you learned about the quantum attributes.

[Nert]

Originally posted by Fear Ghoul:

You can get to the sixth location? I just beat the game and assumed the sixth location had to do with the end of the game, but when I checked my ship's computer it still had question marks, so then I assumed that it was just meant to never fill in, like the end of the game was supposed to tell you. Can someone give me a hint how to find this since I'd really like to see it?

That's a shame! I'd advise redoing the ending after having visited the 6th location

The three Quantum Rules are all you need to make the pilgrimage, to both the Moon and it's 6th Location. All found by following the sounds of Quantum Shards

1: Tower of Quantum Trials (Giant's Deep)
2: Lakebed Cave (Ember Twin)
3: Tower of Quantum Knowledge (Brittle Hollow)

If it's only the 6th location that still has a ? for you then you would have all of these, yell if it's the putting them to use part that you're stuck on!

[Fear Ghoul]

Thanks for the hints. I knew it must have been tied to the Quantum Moon but I couldn't figure out how to get there, so that's what I meant when I said I figured it had to do with the end of the game. I was going about it the wrong way for a while. I thought I was supposed to teleport to the Quantum Moon with a hidden teleporter pad, but then after reading the hints I realized my idea of using the scout to look at it and keep it fixed on a location so that I could land on it was probably it, and I was right. After that it just took a few more trips there to figure out the puzzle.