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There just wasn't an 'Aha!' moment when you beat the stealth sections, it was closer to a 'Thank god.'. This would suggest staying still while darkened, but this gains you nothing - guards barely patrol more than a few feet back and forth inside a choke point, and you can barely even tell that's the case without going digital (which requires completing a stealth segment) because the guards patrol without their lamp on (for reasons I can't fathom), and often with their glowing eyes facing away from you. The environment itself is awful to navigate while your light is off, and still pretty rough when you aren't focusing the beam - total darkness (no silhouettes, no lit candles, barely any visible waypoints) just gives you nothing to work with.

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None of these are utilised to give you a hint about how to sneak past elks.Īnd to top it all off, the stealth flat-out sucks, mechanically. Outer Wilds generally makes sure that every jump you might have to make in the game is aided by hints, models, narrative, the rumour log and so on. And those tips and tricks that exist are very counter-intuitive (since when can you outrun the monster chasing you in a stealth game?). The problem is, there isn't any tips and tricks given to you by the game on how to out-stealth an elk (without the knowledge you gain after stealth-ing by them). This lends itself incredibly well to horror elements, because the more an encounter scares you, the player, the more you have real motivation to find a way to avoid this encounter. While the Bramble Anglerfish twist didn't really come as a surprise to most people the core concept of the encounter was a classic Outer Wilds one - use your knowledge of the world around you to navigate a hazard. I liked the idea of a tense horror stealth segment - a la Dark Bramble - in theory, but the execution felt poor to me.

I don't think that EoTE did stealth well. I think from a thematic perspective, you might have something going.įrom a gameplay perspective though.eh. Only the mansion lower floor guy came close to me, but I closed my flame and ducked past easily enough. I waited for the lowlands owls to be washed away before entering the woods (took a while to find the tunnel though).Īnd, in the end, I managed to prevent them from blowing out my lamp at all through my play-through. Thankfully I was in the cove at the time, and was testing ways to get past the alarms (which I thought summoned the bird-brains). I discovered the death glitch because of my cat (thanks Tommy). Just sat it down and walked through a relatively well lit area, nearly shit myself when it changed. I discovered the texture glitch on my own through curiosity. I pulled every trick out of my ass to avoid those birdy bastards, namely avoiding going near them until I figured stuff out on my own. So, I didn’t approach the owls unless I had no choice.

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Took me a full hour (paused and unpaused) just to leave the shrine building in the lowlands the first time I got there.

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