legit way to find the cure?

[katypso]

I've been playing the story and getting along without any issues, the hints were all clear. however, now that I found camp omega (just stumbled over it, is that's how it's intended?) and I'm supposed to find the right ingredient for the cure, I'm at a loss.
I already got spoilered which item I'm supposed to use, but how are we supposed to get to that conclusion the legitimate way? just trial and error with every single item in game? that doesn't seem right...
and honestly, even after knowing what the right item is, I can't say that it's logical to me. especially for those that started the game a while ago and some time has passed since seeing the tutorial.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Yes you're supposed to try differnt things.
You get a clear hint when your hand appars over a jumping animal. You will need some pain killers. blue mushrooms, lilly plantatins for the poison.
Story hasnt changed much other than including some extras due to the SOA 3 DLC now released. I played some of it just recently and was surprised to see new additions to ceramony.
Check the lab room out as there maybe other things you find in fridge and or shelves.
Place tests in here till u see success
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2607872340

[ggty]

I think there was also some hints when you read some of the wall posters that talk about the children getting small amounts of the cure to immunize them from the danger.

[Psyringe]

The clues are there, but they are very, very subtle. There's an audio log that tells you how Higgins was excited about "something" about the tribe's children, and that he was optimistic that this might lead to a cure. Then there is a wall paper that provides information about the children. The importance of the children is also emphasized by the character leading Higgins through his spiritual experiences being a kid. If you put all that in the correct context, you could theoretically deduce the solution, i.e. that injecting the dart frog's poison into the children is what immunizes the tribe against the deadly disease spread by the green mushroom.

That said, I think that for most players, the importance of the clues and the relation between them will only become clear _after_ knowing the solution. Especially since the story progression was very straightforward up to that point - the game usually tells you exactly what you need to progress, you just need to find the location where you can obtain it. The difficulty spike in that final puzzle hits the player in a pretty unexpected way.

Kudos to anyone who was able to deduce the solution without external hints. Personally I wasn't; after trying several things unsuccessfully, I decided that I did not enjoy my trial-and-error approach enough to keep doing it, so I looked it up. For me, that was the right thing to do, because I'm very sure that I wouldn't have found the solution even if I continued the trial-and-error method. I had built lots of storage boxes and and an extensive garden, because I wanted to keep all items available to me in case I needed them at some point. So I would have traveled repeatedly between the science station and my main camp, trying everything from my storage and garden - and I still wouldn't have found the solution, because it involved the one item that I didn't see a reason to obtain.

It's an interesting puzzle with a solution that's very cleverly hidden in plain sight, and I don't blame the devs for designing it that way. But I strongly doubt that I would have been able to solve it by myself. Again, kudos to everyone who did.

[katypso]

Originally posted by Psyringe:

Kudos to anyone who was able to deduce the solution without external hints. Personally I wasn't; after trying several things unsuccessfully, I decided that I did not enjoy my trial-and-error approach enough to keep doing it, so I looked it up. For me, that was the right thing to do, because I'm very sure that I wouldn't have found the solution even if I continued the trial-and-error method. I had built lots of storage boxes and and an extensive garden, because I wanted to keep all items available to me in case I needed them at some point. So I would have traveled repeatedly between the science station and my main camp, trying everything from my storage and garden - and I still wouldn't have found the solution, because it involved the one item that I didn't see a reason to obtain.

exactly this! I tried to figure it out on my own first too, starting to build a garden containing every plantable thing in the game, because I thought it might be a mixture of all the ressources available to the player. I did notice the emphasis on the children and their blood, but honestly that just made me look for any blood samples around the different POI's lol. never would have figured this out! I always thought the fact you can pick up the poison dart frogs was just another trap how to easily die, as you might pick them up if you don't pay attention while collecting ressources. oh well. good thing wikis exist :D

[Pantstron]

There was a pretty big hint in the reading material in the tutorial.

[ProtoTypeRaavyn]

I found the cure legit. It's the only note in the entire game that does have a base game thing to it.
I picked up and cured so much poison from those little guys since the note says they inject the poison daily. I assumed if I picked up one once a day, every day, I would gain immunity. But after I hit the second dry season and no immunity on survival, I knew that note had nothing to do with survival. (You see the note in the tutorial. I did that and went straight to survival after that.) When it came time that I did the story, I was able to figure it out.

[Clean Cocos]

Its a way to force whoever rushed through the game to stop for a second and experience a little of it before ending it. Whether its logical that it would be the poison dart frog Id say its a little illogical based on my subjective opinion of the probability for finding a cure to a virus/bacteria from a nerve poison. However, if thats the point where you draw the logical line I have to ask how you even got to that stage of the game. Seeing as there are tons of other stuff thats alot more basically illogical than that. For starters how do you explain that the tobacco plant helps you against venoms? Nicotine is a poison itself... Just enjoy the game man, youll find ♥♥♥♥ about anything, all I can say is you find a refreshingly small amount in this game compared to others.

[briansaxton]

Originally posted by Stilllickingmyballs:

For starters how do you explain that the tobacco plant helps you against venoms? Nicotine is a poison itself...

According to this medical article:

Stewart GG. A history of the medicinal use of tobacco 1492-1860. Med Hist 1967;11: 228-68

. . . and several others, tobacco plants (applied externally) were shown to successfully treat several conditions, including bites of poisonous reptiles and insects, hysteria, pain/neuralgia, laryngeal spasm, gout, tetanus, and ringworm. The tobacco plant has over 4000 chemicals in it (not just nicotine) and some of them can act as anti-inflammatory agents. Though the plant is obviously toxic, many of our most beneficial medicines have come from toxic sources.

Just FYI.