Chapter 3 Fountain puzzle is bugged / incorrect.

[Tamaster]

What the inscription says is not correct and if you try to place the corresponding activities as it says, the puzzle will not work.

The inscription says:

Gold diggers in the east
Shipping from the south
Hunters in the north
And apple tree field harvested in the west

If you use this combination, and the gold letters on the fountain to see where North, south etc are, it will NOT work.

After 1 hour of this I really got tired and googled it. Turns out the real combination was:

North: Apple harvesting
East: Shipping
West: Hunting
South: Gold digging.

This doesn't make any sense! The plaque on the fountain says a completely different thing than this. How are people supposed to figure this puzzle out when what the plaque says is wrong?

This needs to be fixed.

[RinDragooN_MK.IV]

I think it's meant to be something to distract you from the real solution rather than a bug. You see, the map in the plaque tells you that the fort is north. So, all you have to do is to check the pictures near the combinations. The picture with the fort IS the north, and that's exactly where the plaque says the north is. And from there it was easy to see where everything was.

Confusing, but not really a bug.

[Tamaster]

Originally posted by Snake Hands:

I think it's meant to be something to distract you from the real solution rather than a bug. You see, the map in the plaque tells you that the fort is north. So, all you have to do is to check the pictures near the combinations. The picture with the fort IS the north, and that's exactly where the plaque says the north is. And from there it was easy to see where everything was.

Confusing, but not really a bug.

For me this doesn't make any sense.

If the developers used the logic you are saying then i really cannot understand the logic process behind it.

Or maybe it's a bug, who knows, maybe some dev will answer.

[RinDragooN_MK.IV]

I'll be honest, it didn't make any sense to me either until I saw the pictures, and it made me wonder why the plaque points at one place and the pictures correspond to a completely different place.

I think someone got confused in the process and this is what we got. Yes, I hope a dev appears to answer this.

[Diego]

There is no bug, like Snake Hands said, if you see the map North is where Fort Vermilion is.
One of the plates on the wall says Fort Vermilion, so you now know that thats the north.
You are assuming that the north is the one near the entrance of the park which is not

Not my best english (lol) but the point is, there is no bug

[Tamaster]

Originally posted by Diego:

There is no bug, like Snake Hands said, if you see the map North is where Fort Vermilion is.
One of the plates on the wall says Fort Vermilion, so you now know that thats the north.
You are assuming that the north is the one near the entrance of the park which is not

Not my best english (lol) but the point is, there is no bug

Alright

[Invader Studios]

No bug guys. You have first to understand where is the North in the area, following the info get from the metal map, and later just follow the other instructions about S, E and W strting from the point that you recognize as the N. Not extremely easy but not a bug for sure ;) ;)

[Underdog]

I got confused on this one, too. Fact is there is an N designation on the note itself, but that is wrong. We aren't just assuming the entrance is North for no reason. The cardinal directions are on the note and they aren't accurate. It's a tricky one, but I'm not even sure it makes complete sense... if it wasn't for online things I don't think I ever would have figured it out. I've done everything on my own up to this point so I'm not completely dumb. But besides putting the wrong cardinal directions on the statue, the fact we have to put shipping on the picture with the fox and apples on the picture with an army makes no sense from a pratical standpoint either... I don't know where you guys were going with this puzzle but it's a big dud. Enjoying the game outside of it

[Mr. No_Effs_Given]

It was a weird puzzle for sure. But i had way more trouble with the morse code one, had to search that one up.

[Invader Studios]

Originally posted by MVP:

I got confused on this one, too. Fact is there is an N designation on the note itself, but that is wrong. We aren't just assuming the entrance is North for no reason. The cardinal directions are on the note and they aren't accurate. It's a tricky one, but I'm not even sure it makes complete sense... if it wasn't for online things I don't think I ever would have figured it out. I've done everything on my own up to this point so I'm not completely dumb. But besides putting the wrong cardinal directions on the statue, the fact we have to put shipping on the picture with the fox and apples on the picture with an army makes no sense from a pratical standpoint either... I don't know where you guys were going with this puzzle but it's a big dud. Enjoying the game outside of it

Thank you so much for the feedback and happy you managed to pass it and complete the game anyway <3 <3

[Dendy]

Originally posted by Invader Studios:

You have first to understand where is the North in the area

No guys, you screwed up here, this puzzle is buggy and your explanation does not work because of a simple reason: there is a giant compass mounted next to the fountain pointing to the North. So whoever is using the sane logic to figure out where is the North will end up with the same answer. This North also matches the map direction attached to the wrist.

You could easily fix this in various ways:

1. Replace the giant stone compass with the map on the wall.

2. Make giant compass cracked down and lying around not pointing particularly anywhere. The pillar for it should be located in a place from which one cannot figure out the original direction.

[Seifer Leonheart]

I don't get the complaints on this one, I too assumed the entrance was north, but I 've noticed that the map points north as one of the locations shown on the left of the map. From there, easy...

The morse code one though... damn, lol.

[Underdog]

Originally posted by Seifer Leonheart:

I don't get the complaints on this one, I too assumed the entrance was north, but I 've noticed that the map points north as one of the locations shown on the left of the map. From there, easy...

The morse code one though... damn, lol.

Ironically the morse code puzzle was beaten in my first try, with maybe 5 or so minutes going back and forth... that one is a lot more intuitive than the fountain puzzle

[Grumple Stiltskin]

Though I hate to necro an old post, I'd rather put my feedback here than make a new post. I can see the logic in this puzzle, but I was thrown off because I started by looking for the riverbed and not the fort.

This means I placed gold digging at the river picture because the hint mentioned a riverbed, and the picture is someone collecting from a river with a pan, and figured this direction must be west. This also meant that north would then be hunting which went with the deer picture.

This left me confused since I couldn't figure out why the apples would go with the fort, or why shipping would go with the soldiers. After trying a few other things, I just looked it up.

I'm not sure if this was just coincidental, or if it was intentionally made with a misdirection like that. It doesn't make it a BAD puzzle, it does make it more complex that a puzzle in a game like this should be. If this were a point and click or dungeon-crawler RPG (it'd fit perfectly in a first person dungeon blobber, actually) or something like that, I feel it would fit a lot better. I've always felt games with a heavy emphasis on survival, action, or horror shouldn't detract from the mood too much with particularly complex puzzles, but I fully understand that's more just my preference than how it should be or anything like that.

[Twinblade]

This was actually one of my favorite puzzles, it felt like something I would expect to see in a old school RE game.

[Invader Studios]

Originally posted by Twinblade:

This was actually one of my favorite puzzles, it felt like something I would expect to see in a old school RE game.

Thanks you so much that's what we wanted <3 <3