A full watcher guide

This is a comprehensive guide on how to complete watchers campaign, This obviously contains spoilers.

The beginning

THE BEGINNING
(IMPORTANT NOTE: most watcher games have seeds and can vary from each other)
(If there are not watcher maps soon enough, I will make some because im feeling friendly)

So, you begin the campaign, spawning in a sub-region called Hydroponics. As of the time im writing this there are no maps for this area. Anyway, going to the right side should lead you out into industrial, From there make your way to chimney canopy as if you were going to five pebbles. However, you will see the pipe that takes you on the large beam to five pebbles and the one that takes you to sky islands are blocked off by rot, so you collect the echo. Upon doing so, you will be placed back in Hydroponics, but things have changed a bit. Now, make your way to industrial and go to the shaded citadel. Here you will want to collect the echo. It will place you in hydroponics again, this time come down from hydroponics into industrial complex and go through outskirts to farm arrays, to get the echo, now (or once) you have enough echoes, a thing that ressembles a black hole will swallow ya up and teleport ya!

Pre-Second ability

Now, youve been teleported to a new region. For me this was coral caves, but it could be random. You should of also obtained your ability, invisibilty. Holding C will allow you to go invisible, it lasts until that bar of fog over your food runs out. You will also notice your karma is locked to a singular yellow status.

THE OBJECTIVE

In these regions there are 2 things you should be looking for currently:

-Echoes

-Portals

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Echoes will increase your max karma aswell as send you to another new region, portals will send you to another new region but not increase your karma, with portals you can go back and forward.

Some regions have echoes and some dont, but an echo is the main thing you are looking for.

Make sure to explore every nook and cranny, once your sure there is no echo look for a portal and hop into the next region.

PROCEED TO THE NEXT SECTION ONCE THE SECOND ABILITY IS OBTAINED

Second ability unlocked

You've finnaly got enough karma to unlock your second ability.

Here's the requirements to use it, and how it works:

Requirements
-Requires karma flower buff to be active

-In a suitable room (some rooms will not let you)

How to use
-Hold your up direction key and special, it will create a portal and warp you to a random region.
-Will consume a karma flower buff.

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Now you understand that, your back to the echo searching grind! Use your new found knowledge to search for those echoes.

The endgame

You've come to one of the final echoes, for me it was in the pink radio tower place but I dont know if its the same for everyone, as watcher games seem to be randomly generated.

You know your there when the echo seems broken, like it was torn into pieces.

Simply do your special ability (Its invis i think but it might not be) and it will trigger the dialogue, before sending you on your way.

After that its easy: Look for the final echoes in the city, and finish the game!

Hope this helped.

[Five Pebbles]

its still not working :(

[Landl0cked]

The second ending does not force you to reset unlike the other characters. Honestly, it sucked doing the requirements for the second ending. It took 12 hours *with* dev tools. Good luck if you want to do it honestly some areas are downright malicious and dying means having to find another karma flower or gambling on the corrupt tp. Corrupt fetid glen and corrupt tunnels are the worst. Corrupt badlands is pretty bad. If you endure through to the throne, you can "stock" up on karma flowers. Eat one and tp with however many you can gather.
Maybe there is another ending. No evidence except for speculation but being able to return suggests another one. Every other slugcat could be ascended. Maybe lore prevents it.

[gr4y]

am i stuck if i went to shaded citadel first, since i accidentally found sc's echo... (I have no idea where any of them are at tbh, only droplets and grain)

[william]

oh cool thanks, I was stuck at 2 echoes and i didnt know you needed a third

[fishydids]

4) there is an additional ending which revolves around the corruption, specifically:
a) there is a subregion for outer rim called "The Throne" in it's western side. While it is mostly linear, there are some side rooms that open up as more regions become corrupted, where you are intended to open portals
b) (according to the video) you can spread the corruption by creating portals between regions and hibernating in regions with open connections to corrupted regions (corrupted regions have a purple border on the map)
c) once every corruptible region has been corrupted (a few of the late regions for the primary ending can't be corrupted), returning to the top of the throne will give you the ending

[fishydids]

Some additional information (primarily taken from Sorbet Cafe's video:)
1) using the portal creation ability without a karma flower active will seemingly teleport you to a corrupted (heavily purple rottified) version of one of the vanilla regions
2) unveiling the echo when it's fragmented requires you to use the invisibility ability with the maximum possible karma (specifically the variant of the ability where all other creatures are hidden/intangible)
3) additionally, using the maximum karma invisibility in one of the circular pulse room supposedly brings you to the region which has the fragmented echo
(continued in another comment due to 1k character limit)

[mav6]

Understandable, thanks for the guide any way it gave me purpose to continue exploring.
Since my comment i managed to find one echo in Aether Ridge (windy world with moth), here is how I've got there

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1488252424859219390/aether-ridige-echo

[Kiwi]

@mango tbf Im not sure if Ive even seen them, what region are they in?

[Kiwi]

@Five Pebbles I think U just gotta go near it and use the ability, I dont know if its invis or what, you could try and get the karma flower buff before trying again, hope this helps!

[Kiwi]

@mav6 There arent maps for the new regions, and although I can make a guide like this, mapping the new areas out and listing the location of the echoes is wayyy to hard for me, so my apologies but I cant. The only advice I can give is just to keep searching and make sure to look at every room.