Loops and Timestamps Total On-Screen Loops: 60 (Loops that were final deaths: 4) Big Bang: 1 Supernova: 18 PRAISE THE SUN!: 7 Anglerfish: 8 Asphyxiation: 6 Cactus: 1 Fall after tornado: 1 Ghost matter: 2 Meditation: 7 Planet smear: 1 Reactor failure: 1 Sand yeet: 1 Self-yeet: 2 Shuttle crash: 1 Ship electrical overload: 1 Station smear: 2 Timestamps: 00:00 Ship log, Echoes talk, to Dark Bramble 04:00 Inspecting DB planet fragments 05:17 Dark Bramble 06:13 Anglerfish escape and ship explosion 07:58 Tracking the distress beacon 09:20 Escape Pod 3 11:45 Loop 46: asphyxiation 12:34 Leaving the system 17:00 Loop 47: supernova 19:15 Nomai Grave 21:21 Scouting & ship log 23:25 Loop 48: anglerfish 26:20 Grappling with parallax 27:00 Loop 49: anglerfish 27:44 "Is there something to make me invisible to the anglerfish please?" 29:00 Loop 50: anglerfish 29:37 Ship log & museum 31:17 Reminiscing about innocent times 33:44 To the Sunless City 35:11 Anglerfish Fossil overlook 36:04 Scout hypothesis & Nomai children notes 37:05 Anglerfish Fossil scouting 38:33 Stepping Stone Cave and Anglerfish Fossil 40:11 Anglerfish noise hypothesis 40:26 Loop 51: asphyxiation 42:00 Full speed hypothesis 42:44 Floating past 43:12 Loop 52: anglerfish 44:15 Lining up 46:23 Loop 53: anglerfish 47:18 "You almost have a fixed speed" 48:05 Anglerfish eggs 48:55 The Vessel 51:41 Vessel bridge 52:30 Warp core and coordinates hypothesis 53:33 Emergency broadcast 54:14 The Disappearance of Escall 57:20 Temporary confusion 59:02 Input device 1:00:40 Eye signal 1:03:06 Loop 54: asphyxiation 1:04:37 "A story about the end of the universe" 1:05:54 Ship log 1:06:12 The Run hypothesis 1:07:50 Ember Twin shard rule hypothesis 1:09:15 ET quantum shard riding 1:11:47 Rule of Quantum Entanglement 1:13:33 Chert conversations 1:14:41 Understanding unlocked 1:16:20 ATP access hypothesis 1:17:30 Gabbro conversations 1:19:36 Loop 55: PRAISE THE SUN! 1:20:34 "All of this stuff is so beautifully connected" 1:21:10 "There's more to explore in the lakebed cave!?" 1:23:10 Side cave confusion 1:29:55 "There's more to explore in the lakebed cave!" 1:31:11 ATP warp fail (picked up by sand) 1:33:00 ATP warp fail 2 1:33:44 Loop 56: sand yeet 1:34:10 Ship log (except for the one relevant log node...) 1:35:00 ATP warp and sand timing hypothesis 1:36:50 ATP warp success 1:37:29 The Ash Twin Project 1:48:30 Taking the core 1:49:10 Final Voyage 🎵 1:49:43 "It's f---ing spectacular" 1:51:33 Anglerfish dodge 1:53:22 Floating past 1:54:40 Return to the Vessel 1:55:14 Inserting the core 1:55:36 Tunnel vision 1:57:16 "I don't know what I have to do here" 1:58:14 "Oh it's … in the bottom of my screen!" 1:58:50 Loop 57: true death: supernova 2:03:00 "Cannot be overstated how f---ing amazing this feels" 2:05:28 uh 2:07:24 Run attempt 2. Er, I mean 1. Yes 1. 2:10:11 Loop 58: true death: anglerfish 2:11:12 Anglerfish dodge 2:12:01 "The baton run of the universe" 2:12:45 Loop 59: true death: anglerfish 2:13:45 The distress beacon way 2:16:36 Eject 2:17:06 Warping the Vessel 2:19:33 Walking to the Eye 2:22:40 Entering the Eye 2:23:10 Museum 2:26:16 Observe 2:26:55 "I'm like trying not to cry. What have I just played?" 2:28:33 Unidentified Signal Nearby 2:29:33 "I like 'em crunchy where I come from" 2:30:06 Esker 2:32:46 Riebeck 2:36:08 Solanum 2:36:44 "AAAAAAOOOOoOoOoohhh noooo" 2:39:10 Chert 2:39:53 Feldspar 2:41:02 Gabbro 2:41:23 Band's back together 2:43:19 Last words 2:44:20 Let's find out together 2:44:42 Loop 60: true death: the end of everything, and also something new 2:45:30 Credits and reaction 2:50:44 14.3 Billion Years Later
I mean the path to Feldspar is anglerfish free, and he correctly used the signal scope to go straight to Feldspar, so I wouldn't expect him to encounter an angler.
I found feldspar very very early. By means of investigating the duplicate scout signal from the seed on timber hearth. Only much later (after forgetting about the anglerfish findings I gained elsewhere) did I have to deal with them, it required a lot of backtracking to re-learn the critical info on handling them.
thank you so much for this series Mapo!! As outer wilds has no replayability us in love with the game absolutely adore fun let's plays of it, and yours is so wonderful because it's very comprehensive and you catch on to things really well! Keep on the great work
This was an incredible playthrough so far. I'm so glad you left the echoes of the eye stuff for post main game. Welcome to the club mapo, you know now.
I'm a scientist, and this game captured so much so well about the scientific process: the thrill of discovery, the commitment to existing evidence, the importance of failure in advancing... Having a form of media celebrate this in such a way that people can experience a taste of those things themselves in a hands-on way is truly amazing. It's been a thrill watching you experience it!
I really like how it blends science with game mechanics. The gravity works almost like in reality. The black hole has amazing lensing - probably the best I have seen in any game or movie. There's a lot of small details that are scientifically accurate. It bends certain things one way or the other to tell a better story and cheats a little here and there to make the game work better but overall it's surprisingly accurate. I really like how momentum works in space. If you know how orbital mechanics work and how to navigate in zero g, it just feels really good in this game. Better than many other that are more focused on these things.
I worry that I’ll never play a game like this again. All I can hope is that the studio manages to launch a new title with similar game design, of course, it may not satisfy as much as the first play through of OW.
I also love the concept of the Nomai dedicating their life's work to a to what seemed to them be a failure, only to have future generations benefit directly from their work. So much of our leading researchers know they'll never experience benefit from their life work, in hopes that future generations will. A truly selfless approach to life.
Something I absolutely love about the Nomai and specifically Solanum is how you actually read text throughout the world originating from when she was a child and then as she grew up. From her going to the fossil fish cave in the sunless city to going to school in brittle hollow to ruminating on the meaning of the eye’s signal as an adult in brittle hollow. You even see the last step of her journey at the tower of quantum knowledge where the nomai congratulate her on visiting the all quantum towers. Then you meet her on the quantum moon and she’s an absolute gem. The details in this game are absolutely insane, there’s so much love here.
I remember noticing Solanum essentially grow up through text, was great to start noticing the names. Then I was deeply saddened to see that Coleus arrived in the solar system in pod 2, lived through to the creation of the ATP as he works in the mines on TimberHearth, which means the Nomai were only there for one generation before the interloper arrived
The poetry of discovering escape pod 3 while ejected from your irreparably damaged ship and low on oxygen... Also remember what Slate told you, breaking his routine, after you found the Stranger. That works for anything in the ship log, anything you want to find but aren't sure where it was but have been to before....
Outer Wilds is THE representation of video games as an art form. No other medium can perform what this game did. It's truly a masterpiece. Also, the way the instruments add up to build the complete song is just an instant way to make me cry. Undertale's Undertale does the very same. It's so beautiful
Every time someone claims video games are evil and only about violence, shooting people etc.,... I show them games like Outer Wilds! Technically video games are already recognized as the 8th art form, it's just that some people prefer to stick with the clichés spread by medias, without even doing a little bit of research on their own. I tend to keep a few names in mind to prove these people they just have to know where to look. Outer Wilds in definitely in the top 3 games I would recommend anyone to play!
Unfortunately TB couldn't play this, I bet this would go straight to his top 3. It wouldn't beat Brothers because of his bond with his son, but maybe it'd beat Deus Ex (but I'm not sure). He always said that mechanics should complement (and in a way respect) the story and vice-versa.
I think my favorite part of the game, is the realization that you can't stop the supernova. In games we're generally led to believe that we're supposed to save things, to fix the problem. But you can't. All you can do is rip off the bandaid, to put the universe out of its misery after having spent some 390 YEARS in a time loop (9.3 million loops * 22 minutes), and to let it all die... holding on only to the hope that there might be something new after.
Time travel philosophizing / side point (does not negate your comment's main point): from the universe's perspective it hasn't spent any time at all in a time loop. The universe trundled along until 22 minutes before your sun explodes, at which point a bunch of Nomai technology receives a burst of 390 years' worth of data from millions of potential futures which haven't happened yet, and now never will happen. Is this paradoxical? Yep, it violates causality. But the entire universe isn't being "reset" by the time loop mechanic, rather, effects (receiving time loop data) proceed their causes (the future happening) and in turn cause those futures not to happen. It'll break your brain if you think about it too much. 😅 Separately though, I agree with everything else about your post, and time travel philosophies make little difference when *you* at least (not the universe per se) *are* experiencing the time loop. So you do have to confront this moment of acceptance, that your actions are not going to save this universe, and that you are going to have to let all things end.
Wow, I knew the loop had been going on for quite some time but I never calculated what the 9.3 million loops would mean in terms of years. Still learning new stuff about this game after all this time!
yeah, i think thats one of this games greatest twists, the music when you enter the sun station to find out that this is the suns natural end, not something you can stop, is suitably dramatic and emotional
@@gabedamien It's really kind of a stretch that the mismatch between info sent and info received does not break spacetime, but since the entire idea of the game relies on that mechanic, we give it a pass.
I only realised watching this playthrough, that all the characters in the game have been through those millions of time loops before the game even starts, and the only thing that breaks the cycle is the memory statues activating which allows the protagonist to retain the knowledge to do something about it. Although I guess its a bit confusing because in all the previous loops the statues would have surely activated at some point as well. I suppose that's where the causality/time loop contradictions come into play.
Another traveller reporting in from the supercut others have mentioned ::) i just wanted to say, you have probably my new favourite let's play of this game, such a perfect blend of being intelligent and observant putting all sorts of pieces together, but also empathetic and emotional connecting with the Nomai and their story as well as the over all message, absolutely fucking S tier play through! I can't wait to binge the fuck out of your other videos! ::)
@@soly7948 It was one of the last things for me as well but Mapo recalled the Rule of Quantum Entanglement without even learning it so watching him struggle to get where is the actual cave was so wild :""
Oh yeah, so what did he miss in the Lakebed from the Ship Log? Isn't there a text somewhere saying about darkness in the first area, because he never actually found anything that gave a hint to that until he'd already teleported to the other rooms. In other words, I can't remember how the game hints you to turn off the flashlight in the first place.
@@Jigsawn2 yeah, he didn't go to lakebed cave where it hints you to turn off your flashlight, and I think the game doesn't teleport you to lakebed cave from the other possible quantum rock locations if you haven't found the clue in the first place (or maybe he was just very unlucky)
I highly recommend the NoClip documentary on this game. It's crazy that this started out as an amalgamation of student project ideas, and how much of the final idea was there in it's earliest stages of creation despite the years of work it would take to realize. Also crazy that the story was written by the sister of the creative director. That's one talented family.
Mapo getting to the escape pod out of fuel and low on oxygen, only able to read about the nomai suffering a similar fate before running out and dying is pretty poetically sad and beautiful.
It’s a strange feeling at the end of this game. Knowing you can never really experience it again. But “I learned a lot by the end of everything. The past is past now, but that’s… you know, that’s ok! It’s never really gone completely.”
@@arpitjaiswal9515 Did they ever say what they are making? the DLC definitely tied up the whole game beautifully and it had the most impressive and imo the best ideas of the whole game.
@@arpitjaiswal9515 I think that anyone who doesn't let their feelings think for themselves will understand that Outer Wilds is on a league of its own. If they, somehow, make a better game it'd be awesome, but I think most of us would understand if it was not as amazing.
I think a game taking an interest in quantum mechanics, and translating the scientific idea of “observing something has an effect on the nature of it” to the very human idea of “just being here to witness this is enough.” Is incredibly beautiful to me.
Saw a supercut of your playthrough by Ellis and had to tell just how pleasant your playthrough was to watch and see your emotions as you uncover new knowledge and make new discoveries and realizations. I will watch Echoes of the eye from your vods now.
I came from the Eelis supercut, definitely picking it up from part 12 here because it needs to last longer. I loved how observant you were in the main game!
I don't know how common this experience is among people who have finished this game but for me my appreciation of Outer Wilds has just kept increasing after I completed it. It's like eating a food that has an aftertaste that keeps developing and evolving for a while. I randomly notice myself thinking about something in the game, I watch other people play it, it comes up in conversations with friends, and I feel like now I'd rate the game even higher than when I finished it.
@@MLynchPhotograpy Oooh, that's an awesome idea for a tattoo. And if anyone asks what it's for, you can boil it down to basically any of the life lessons this game instills.
100% the same for me. When I first beat the game, I enjoyed it, and I had loved my experience with the game prior, but I was overall just kind of content with the ending. Now about 2 months later, I'm in love with the ending, and the story. My mind finished putting together a few small "loose ends" (That weren't actually loose ends if I was paying full attention), and the emotional impact of the game has just continued through my life the past 2 months. Its made me rethink a lot of things, specifically what mattered to me and helped me understand how to heal from things in my past in a way no one or thing has ever done before. I'm practically obsessed with the game now, which is a pretty big change from when I beat the game, and I was merely happy with the experience.
A lot of people who go to the vessel straight after discovering the ash twin project end up panicking. you are far from alone :3 The last loop is such an intense experience
Believe it or not, I have NEVER tried to land my ship on the Vessel. Your playthrough is the first time I have ever heard the Vessel crack while landing on it. It's amazing to be able to discover new things even now, it shows that devs really thought about everything up to the tiniest detail. There's so much love put into it, it's insane! Anyway, good job on figuring out everything on this playthrough, I for one struggled a bit more than you did with the last puzzles. You're lucky to have the DLC without having to wait: I remember being so excited when it was released, I finally had an excuse to jump back in this awesome game, after putting it away for at least a year... I bought the DLC as soon as it was released, and I have no regret whatsoever!
I liked how he did his best to repair his ship or land it neatly so he could get back to it, as if there would be reason to fly out of Dark Bramble instead of restarting the loop.
1:30:06 Since you finish the game this episode ill just say it. You didn't actually go *inside* the lakebed cave. The massive hole around cherts little "island" is where you need to go, the quantum shard you travel on isnt taking you to all the locations because there is another location (the one in the lakebed cave) that is shrouded in light, which stops you from traveling there. Just go down the hole on the northpole and make your way through it at the beginning of a loop to get that last log.
lol this was also the only place i hadnt been when i finished the game. i figured out entanglement on accident and pieced it together like he did this playthrough xd
I was super excited to NOT die on my first attempt with the core. But I also took twice as long as most people take to beat the game, so I had a lot more practice with the ship and anglerfish :) Absolutely an unforgettable experience and I don't think anything else will ever displace it as my number one experience in gaming.
This has definitely been the best playthrough of this game on RUclips. I usually don't leave comments, but this game truly means the world to me. I spent only 16 hours with it, but it is something I doubt will ever leave me, and I am not sure if any other game will ever give me a similar experience. It really made me emotional watching you also experience this masterpiece, and I'm glad it touched you like it did me.
Same, I only had two experiences like this, and both were at the same year. Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium. I can't say which is my favorite, and that's fine, they're both so incredible I can't believe they both came out in the same year. Oh 2019, I didn't appreciate you enough... 2022 was a draught of good releases.
@@meridiasbeacon7669 "Return of the Obra Dinn" might be something you would like to take a look at. It's a different kind of game, but a similarly amazing experience.
@@pirat87pl oh don't you worry I absolutely DID play Obra Dinn and loved it! I still wouldn't put it as high as those two, but it's absolutely fantastic. I also really enjoyed The Painscreek Killings, a game more similar to Obra Dinn than Outer Wilds, really good too tho! (Obra Dinn is better tho)
@@pirat87pl my list of games I REALLY loved (as in, they live rent-free in my head) in the last 3-4 years would probably be: -Outer Wilds -Disco Elysium -Obra Dinn -Darkwood -Signalis (came out a month ago!) -Kingdom Come Deliverence -What Remains of Edith Finch -Before Your Eyes -Darkest Dungeon(ngl, has no right to stick with me like this, but I really liked it's brand of horror. It also came in the exact right time. Only played 1, haven't played 2 yet) -Frostpunk -Lost In Vivo -MOTHERED (and it's many many cryptic sequels and prequels) -Enderal (One of the best games ever made imo, it's actually a Skyrim mod available for free on Steam as a standalone game, but it would be insulting to call it a mod. Skyrim is a mid game in 2022, but Enderal is... something else. It's the second best RPG I've ever played, right after Disco Elysium, and is the single best open world game I've ever played by a longshot unless Outer Wilds is included. It is actually up there for me with OW and DE) -PREY (2017) -Hollow Knight Honorable mention to Far: Lone Sails for inspiring me so much with it's designs and music and immaculate VIBES to make significant changes to the scifi world I'm wiriting myself. There are absolutely more on this list, but these are the ones that pop into my head instently when I think of the words 'games I love', and therefore deserve to be here.
@@meridiasbeacon7669 Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the time you put into this list. There's a few there that I played or that are on my 'to play' list, but there's also some new games I have not seen yet, so definitely gonna check them out.
I am infinitely happier you included your mistakes (and edits over it!) this is a game about failing as much as succeeding, and your playthrough has been great. I hope your time exploring the Stranger proves as inspiring and fruitful!
If it's any consolation, I have yet to see a playthrough were someone sees those coordinates at the bottom of the screen first try, and I've watched a few. The music once you take out the core is made with the sole purpose to make you panic, I'm convinced! Also, for me, those moments are the beauty of playing Outer Wilds. I, for one, am not watching to see a perfect playthrough - how boring would that be - but to get vindication for all the stupid mistakes I made while playing it. :D
I was really pulling for you to nail the ending on the first try, but I’m glad you got to see the “Game Over” ending. I learn something new every time I experience the Outer Wilds, and this time I developed a deep sense of empathy for how conspiracy theories develop: they’re born out of ignorance and a desperate desire for understanding. You’re a smart person but you developed some crazy ideas along this playthrough when you didn’t have all the information, and that’s okay. We’ll never know it all, but we need to always keep learning because that’s the best we can do ❤
Hey we all cried during the end, the game is just so amazing. I cried because of what happened and because I'd never experience it again for the first time. Thank you for completing this, it gave me a chance to some what relive my experience through you
I'm so happy you roasted one last marshmallow!! I did the same each time I've beaten the game. It's important to share the moment with everyone there playing the song
2:19:24 You know what would be super cool? If he could hear the complete Travellers' song reaching him, and as the sun went supernova, the instruments would taper off one by one until there was silence.
You can't receive any signals from the Eye - but if you fly out real far to escape the supernova range the devs actually added exactly that in a post-launch update alongside stuff setting up the dlc! I was really hoping Mapo would pull out his signalscope and chance upon that pretty horrifying discovery when he did that lil fly-far-away journey, but ah well
@@kyle-cs1dl Not quite. He listened to them all overlapping, but if you listen during the supernova you hear them all stop playing 1 by 1, which as far as I can remember, he did not do. He just watched the supernova happen
Don't worry, from the bunch of other people playthroughs that i saw, and including me, literally NOBODY saw coordinates in bottom left on the screen, lol. Most people did screenshots from ship log or just did a photo on the phone. The stress in this moment is actually insane. This game is not just unique, it causing unique emotions to happen, that i feel didn't happened at all in ANY game, to be honest. If i remember correctly(or maybe i'm confusing with something else), in earlier versions of the game if you fail without timeloop, this was actually the end for your ship log, because it's, yeah, very logic and true death of main character. But they changed this in the end, and i'm completely fine with this.
I died to the anglerfish about 5 times before I got to it. Somehow I kept going into the last one with my trajectory to where I bumped one every time, and if I tried to readjust they'd wake up. So the fact that Mapo got there in one piece in the first place, he fared better than I :P
On my playthrough the bit with the coordinates ended up working perfectly because I didn't notice them at first as I was drawing random shapes in the input device and wondering what I was supposed to do, then I had the moment of realization that I needed to draw the coordinates, then I paused the game, thinking that I needed to go find a picture of the shapes, and THEN I noticed the coordinates in the bottom left. That's probably the ideal sequence of events that the devs were aiming for.
@@jasonmoustache1693 the save wipe would have been perfect. You just need the launch code and the eye coordinates, once you know things in ow you can get those very quickly. Although I see that it could have been frustrasting with the anglerfish
@@ricedbanana5322 The anglerfish were actually so bs in my run. Died a couple times on the way because an anglerfish kept spawning facing towards or away from me instead of from the side like they usually do, and it's blocking the fking path directly.
I have been waiting to share my favorite outer wilds quote "How unlucky, to have been born at the end of the universe." the most accurate way to describe this game is it makes you feel an un-explainable feeling. the first end run is full of dread, hope, fear, warmth, pride, loss, and many more feelings, and then when the brick wall of "you are dead" hits it brings all those emotions home in one amazing brush stroke. I honestly think without one true death the game might feel a bit more hollow.
Wow, those anglerfish really got mad that you managed to navigate Dark Bramble without finding any of them on previous occasions! I think their spawns (except the three that guard the entrance to the nest) are kind of random, albeit their numbers probably aren't, as I've seen some people navigate to the vessel after picking up the warp core without much trouble from any fish other than those three, and then I've seen... this... You can actually find the Vessel a bit easier by marking its location on your HUD via the ship's log, saves you from having to go via the Escape Pod every time.
Great job Mapo. Entertaining and moving. I think we all cried with you. A few fun things I'd recommend checking out before you start the DLC: - Try to break the High Energy Lab experiment. - at the end of a run throw yourself into the very core of the Ash Twin project. Afterwards carefuly examine your map and proceed from there.
Now that you've finished the main story line, I strongly encourage you to watch the NoClip doc about the making of this game (you can find it on RUclips). It's relatively short and extremely interesting. (It doesn't contain any spoiler for the DLC.)
This time it was Solanum saying "I'm glad you remembered me" that made me choke up. As for pressure/expectations - a sincere attitude and genuine appreciation of games is what I expect, and it's the reason this is my favourite channel, you have both in abundance. I friggin' love the text-commentary you add as well =P Lastly, I can think of at least 1 interesting thing you missed in the base game (maybe more). Will you be taking hints/guidance in Discord or from your mods to find some of these?
such a fun playthough. there's a few neat things you didn't do or see, like seeing how chert reacts to the solar system dying, learning to fly a nomai shuttle (sorta), catching up with the probe the orbital probe cannon launches (there's nothing to do there though) or getting different bad endings by removing the ash twin core and then surviving somewhere else instead of visiting the eye. you can even destroy the fabric of spacetime if you feel like it, and even if you don't being inside ash twin as it activates during the supernova is pretty cool. I've heard there's some easter egg in dark bramble somewhere too but I've never found it. personally I never played the dlc, so I'm pretty excited to see how that goes for you. looks pretty cool.
The song when the sun is about to go nova is called end times. The song after you leave ash twin with the core is called final end times. And its always so clever how the game essentially trains you to stress and panic when you hear it because by that point you subconciously connect it with running out of time.
Yep, the way this game handles its music is just brilliant. The moment you take out the warp core and the final end times starts playing you just *feel* that shit just got real. Then by the time you get to the ending the travelers theme transforms from a fairly simple campfire tune to a uniquely touching piece that probably stays with us forever.
Oh man, the self-deprecating humor at 1:55:50 really got me. What an amazing finale! Honestly though you solved these puzzles so fluidly I don't think anyone can blame you for choking at the most stressful moment. 99% of this playthrough has been smooth as butter and I enjoyed every moment of it.
This series was great from start to finish, terrible piloting and anglerfish adventures included! Looking forward to Echoes. You still have some minor things left to uncover in the base game, if you're interested, so below are minor hints/spoilers: . . . . . - Unless I missed it, the Sunless City was not thoroughly explored. In particular, there might be some text left to read in the living quarters section of the city that has some background about a certain character. - the lakebed cave is accessed by literally following the directions in the shiplog (must be done very early in the loop). You visited this area just as it became inaccessible in a previous episode. There is nothing crucial here, just an undiscovered cave and some text. (you may also need to simply scan the quantum rock with the signalscope to complete this rumour). - In addition to the "You are dead" ending after disabling the ATP, there are a few variations of "bad" endings. The most amusing one is probably achieved by trying to force the universe to accept two of the same thing (and failing at it).
Welcome to the family Mapo! We do indeed know *exactly* how you feel. It was a fun, frustrating, amazing journey watching you make your way through. Onward to the stranger!
This is definitely the best playthrough I watched from this game, you played so well and so respectful to the discoveries and story, I could relate to a lot of emotions throughout, so glad you didn´t cut the mistakes, because a lot ot them also happened to me, and with this we can all relate, this part of this game I sure could not predict, the fun from watching others players do the same journey...After I finished i though this was one of the best video game experiences Ive ever had, and now I can say that it is the best game ever for me...thank you for the journey, already waiting for the echoes of the eye!
Now.... Now you know. And you know, that you know. And we know, that you know, that you know. And you know, that we know. Let's watch someone else learn, united in knowledge.
It's odd. I had no interest in this game really. But I enjoy you so much that I watched this and ended up loving it. When you got to the end I had emotions to despite not being the one playing it. Beautiful and well done game!
What an amazing playthrough this has been! This game is truly something special. Ps: don't worry about the choke at the end, the panic felt after removing the warp core has happened to so many people, me included!
Hey Mapo! So happy you got to experience this game and loved it as much as you did - you were a spectacular player to watch, and I can't wait to see you discover and puzzle out the dlc. As a warning, it's truly an experience made to rival this game, but it explores a very different vibe and theme to the basegame. Take it at your own pace - it's basically the closest thing to a sequel this game will ever have, and boy does it deliver on that front. Now! I wanted to share a few non-spoiler lore tidbits from the basegame to deepen your appreciation for this story and game that I think are really cool. I've also added some ingame easter eggs at the end you can try to do for fun! It's all very lengthy, so read this when you have some time! - At the Probe Tracking module, the computer drops the staggering reveal of how many loops it took to find the Eye. However, in an adjacent computer, it also tells you the total number of loops accrued - a number that is only slightly higher than the loop that found the Eye. Deducting these two numbers tells you how many loops you have been through since the start of the game, which is pretty cool! But - the other implication of this is that prior to the loop the game actually starts you (the player) on, the one where the probe finally finds the Eye and triggers the statues to activate and 'start the loop' - just like the oblivious npcs that say the same things to you in the game every loop, your player character has actually already spent 9 million loops unaware that they were looping, walking past that statue uneventfully, blasting off into space like they'd dreamed of, only to be cooked by the supernova 22 minutes later... and repeating with no memory. It is only once their memories are synced with the statue and the project sending it back to them, that they finally remember dying the previous loop, and thus gain awareness that they and the universe are trapped in an endless timeloop. - Secondly!! This is a *very* subtle lore fact that only Riebeck will hint at if you share your findings about the Interloper with them; But we know that proto-Hearthians had come into being by the time of the ghost matter extinction event that killed all local Nomai but Solanum(more on her later!).. so how did the Hearthians survive that?? Ghost matter is a seriously insidious and cruel thing. Exploring the planets you will see it infiltrates the deepest caves in Ember Twin, and even somehow inside enclosed buildings. It seems capable of penetrating any wall, and the Nomai truly stood no chance of survival or escape against it, because 1) they were too focused on the Eye to simultaneously pursue the possibility of atleast communicating with the other Nomai clans where they were, much less build a new Vessel to escape the system when they had the chance to and 2) the one weakness of ghost matter is something they literally were not adapted to be capable of taking advantage of, nor could they likely have discovered it. On Giant's Deep, on both Gabbro's island and the bramble island, you are able to find patches of ghost matter. When the islands are plunged back into the ocean after being flung by tornadoes, for a brief second you may be able to experiment by moving into these patches to learn that ghost matter is neutralized temporarily by water. The Nomai are specified in the Hearthian museum to have been adapted exclusively to live on land as a physiological distinction from the Hearthians to disprove their own suspicions of being descendants of the Nomai - while the proto-Hearthians (though shown to be amphibious and capable of going on land) mainly resided in the underground, underwater cave pools and tunnels of Timber Hearth.. And enough of the matter had evaporated by the time that they evolved further that Timber Hearth was safe by then. This is supported again by talking to Riebeck, who is shaken and notes how lucky it is Hearthians hadn't evolved to become land-faring creatures yet at the time. As an aside, it is a popular fan theory that ghost matter is in effect, radiation in the Outer Wilds universe, as it checks quite a lot of boxes in a comparison of its traits: - Burns on contact, rendered less potent/inert by water, invisible, but shows up on/affects photography, and evaporating over a long timeline. - It's later now! You can probably guess on some level that Solanum is basically Schrödinger's cat - she is both alive and dead until observed. But why doesn't she lock the Quantum Moon to orbit the Eye if she's consciously observing the moon? That is moreso some arbitrary rule of quantum stuff in Outer Wilds, but to start, when you cease observing your surroundings and are in contact with a quantum object, you become quantum for that instant until you observe your surroundings again. Solanum for whatever reason, stopped observing her surroundings while in this quantum superposition - and died in 5 states of the moon, in range of the instant, solar-system wide explosion of ghost matter... ...And survived only in the sixth state of the moon orbiting the Eye, far away enough from the explosion. She ceased to be an observer by the universe's rules, and was seemingly frozen in time near the Eye until you observed her after 200K years. And the Eye is confirmed to indeed be so quantum it fucks with time. Upon entering it it seems to fast forward you into the heat death of the universe, visualizing the deaths of all stars and galaxies including your own, before you kickstart the new universe. - Lastly, basegame easter eggs!!!! There are two, three noteworthy alternate/bad endings other than the simple one where you pluck out the Ash Twin Project core and either die, or just.. hightail it outta the system. (Hey, survival is valid) I'll try to be coy and hint only as much as necessary, but they'd be fun detours if you want to take a break before the dlc, or afterwards to end off the series as a whole! 1. One has to do with the experiment at the High Energy Lab, where by superpowering the warp cores with the Sunless City energy you can see that your scout is duplicated for a moment when you fire it in, as it travels out before traveling in. What could you do here to fuck up the law of time travel and introduce a paradox? 2. Another ending is directly linked to what I just explained about how Solanum ended up as a 'quantum ghost' on the Sixth Location. Like the ghost matter explosion, the system is now experiencing an extinction event of a limited range again, i.e the supernova - and if you weren't limited by the timeloop dragging you back, you could theoretically.. 'survive' the supernova going off from the Sixth Location, just like Solanum 'survived'. 3. Lastly. At the end of the loop, if you are inside the ATP you can actually see the advanced warp core activate, opening a black hole for information to be transferred into the past. All holes are meant to be jumped into, right? *Note: This ending is only achieved at the end of the next loop, so don't be shocked if you close the game and forget about it if you leave it hanging. Open your map and try to see what's new after jumping in the hole.
Thanks for the amazing playthrough, this was a pleasure to watch. To quote mad matt lugos, what makes this game so special is that it's a story that's best told through a game. A movie or a book wouldn't deliver the same experience. Looking forward to watching you tackle the DLC!
Funny thing about flying out of the system, when you think about the real earth you are about getting on the surface at around 6000km away from the sun, the sun being the center of the Earth. Which gives a nice impression of how big our planet is and how tiny the Heathian starsystem is.^^
THANK YOU FOR NOT EDITING OUT THE FAILED ATTEMPT! We tune in to watch you play and experience the game(s) for real. It was a much more gripping emotional experience seeing you fail (and then experience with the fish), than if you just edited it. It’s too easy to find streamers doing ‘blind’ playthroughs and acting like they haven’t done it before or got hints for it. Your streams are quality, never end.
This was such an amazing playthrough from start to finish, and now you too have the curse of never being able to play it again! But at least you still have some more to go through, a whole new great experience with the DLC. That final explosion where your screen goes white and your character's helmet cracks as they drift there, accepting the finality of their death and everyone they knew, always gets me choked up. It's such a bittersweet feeling, knowing that everything is ending, but being happy that you got to experience it. This game really does go to show what incredibly unique experiences video games can offer, that movies and shows, and even books alone can't fully do. Truly a treasure, and I'm glad that you got to finally experience it!
What a curse it is, honestly. I've beaten it 3 times now. The first when it released, cried like a baby. The second when Echoes came out before I played it to get back into the game, cried again. The third was after Echoes for a certain event I won't mention, and cried again. Any time I hear that song I tear up and just can't stop
i dont think you truly die but become the new eye of the universe, ready to send out a signal for someone else to come to start life anew at the end of the next universe life cycle, it why the eye was older then the universe itself, but yes it bitter sweet, truly a unique experience
this was one of the best play throughs i’ve seen of this game and i’ve watched a LOT! i was super happy to see you started playing this and it’s been an honor to watch you on this amazing journey. outer wilds really is one of the best video game experiences i’ve ever had
This playthrough has been an absolute joy to behold. Thank you for doing one of the most important games ever made justice, Mapo. If the ending of this game doesn’t choke you up, you’d have to be dead inside.
I've really enjoyed your playthrough of this game. Your sense of curiosity and wonder has been enchanting to see as you've experienced this truly perfect game. Thank you for having us all along for the ride
Someone might have mentioned it in a previous comment, but a fun note: the reason the map is freaking out as you fly away as far as you did at the beginning of the video is likely an issue they mention in the NoClip documentary! Basically, at the start of development, they had the sun set as the origin of the coordinate system in Unity that keeps track of where everything is, which makes sense! It's the fixed point everything moves around. However, because of the distances, the further away from the sun you got, the more things started to glitch out basically because of the size of the numbers causing weird floating-point number errors that mess with the precision of the coordinates. In order to fix this, they made it so the **player** is always the origin of the coordinate system, with everything moving around **them** instead, so anything that might be getting weird is far away from the player at any given time! Of course, this made it so that when you get as far away as you did, the same kinds of errors start to happen, haha.
Youre the only "lets play"-er I have watched in ages, started with your DS1 playthrough and something about you just keeps me coming back. Seeing you play another one of my top 5 was a joy, cant wait for your echoes playthrough, its a whole different beast.
"This is definitely the last thing we're going to do this video because my brain is fried." He says. I look at the time stamp. There's still an hour and 20 minutes left of the video. XD
omg this was heavy.. I didn't expect to think about such a topic in such a vague way- The message here feels like something that I should listen to but I don't want to hear right now. I'll probably need to talk with people now.. Well, if the purpose of art is to evoke emotions in people then by all means this is a masterpiece.
I still get emotional watching the ending! Good job on solving the teleport to Ash Twin puzzle so quickly, it's probably the hardest/most annoying in the game partly because you have to wait each loop and getting ejected by the sand feels like 'oh, I can't do anything here'. I felt your pain on the final runs as well, I got got by the anglerfish on my final run too! What a masterpiece, it's definitely in my top 5 games of all time. Loved this playthrough and look forward to Echoes of the Eye, it is just as good as the main game!
Good job on realizing the ship communications! I wasn't paying enough attention to names and missed this. I've not seen anyone else realize it immediately!
That feeling at the end. The sadness of it being over but the happiness of the journey we have felt it. Welcome to the cult of outer wilds. It’s a sad and happy group. Welcome to your life after where you think about it all the time; and think about all your other games and wish they were more like jt
Haha your text edit at 57:23 is funny, half of the fun of watching outer wilds playthroughs is seeing people theorise what the stories are. Great playthrough, don't need to apologise for anything!
If you want a hint about why it says there's more to explore at the lakebed cave: . . . . . . . . . . . . . You never actually went to the lakebed cave. you went to every other cave on ember twin, but not the lakebed cave at the bottom of the north pole
You understood this game more than most let's players I've seen. Thank you for this series! P.S: During the time loop, Chert suggests using your signalscope to zoom in on distant stars. Something easy to forget among all the many other dialogues in the game.
I've yet to see a single person not absolutely baffled at the Chert instrument. It's such a difficult part of the tool to remember, as you can usually find things easier WITHOUT zooming, and it serves no other function.
@@Potatezoneit's also the single most surreal thing in the entire game. Why would looking at the drums through the signalscope allow you to "gather" them? Is the Hearthian reaching out their hand through the scope somehow? It stretches the normal way the game works pretty far. I do like the symbolism of it, it just does tend to stump people for a bit.
@@dewhi100 Yeah. I always felt it was the Eye interacting with the Hearthian's consciousness, or manifesting a reality the Hearthian can comprehend (à la Contact).
The only time play-throughs are disappointing is when they finish the game without finding Solanum. :( Was a great journey and a pleasure to join you on your adventure. Watching speedruns are fun. There's also video of the devs reacting to one (not the current record holder mind you, but it was one shortly after OW came out). Also, I've you've ever watched Heroes, Masi Oka who plays Hiro Nakamura is the creative director of Outer Wilds and the founder of Mobius Digital.
So you can finish the game without visiting the Quantum Moon? If so, that's crazy. If I recall, Solanum doesn't actually give you any critical info there, does she? But it's wild that 3 big mysteries of quantum theory don't really matter, except I guess you need them for the ending? Or do you?
Alright, yup, I subscribed. At first, I admit I thought I'd just watch you play Outer Wilds and move on, but I loved your takes on this game so much, I want to hear your take on others. Also, must be weird to play Outer Wilds, the most player-intelligence-respecting game out there, and God of War Ragnarok, a game that likes to tell the player how to 'fit the round shape into the round hole' in fear that the player would somehow not figure it out - simultaneously. Makes me appreciate what Outer Wilds did. Can't wait for Echoes of The Eye - you're lucky to have come into this as blind as you did - I only got into the game after watching Jacob Geller's (absolutely fantastic but still) video about it, so I knew some of the stuff. Echoes of The Eye is so good, it somehow made a perfect game (in my eyes) even better, imo.
When I figured out the end run I rehearsed it multiple times until I was sure I would make it. Then there's you, bumbling around with the fate of the universe at stake while repeatedly taking the time to fix your goddamn headlights!!! Inexcusable recklessness. You let yourself down, you let everyone down. Seriously though, well done! It's been fun to watch. Enjoyed shouting at you at every confidently incorrect statement. Looking forward to doing it all over again with the DLC.
Wow, what an end! In my almost 30 years of life experience i just today had my jaw hanging open for the forst time. I'm not even sure if it was in shock, joy or disbelief. Thank you Mapocolops and everyone who suggested this awesome game. BIG thanks to everyone at Mobius Digital for creating this stellar (hehe) game! great gameplay, great story and great ending. (though Im not sure how I feel about this spacefaring and archeology game ending in this manner. I don't know what i expected from the ending and this went sideways somehow... as if the game changed the genre in the last second. It was awesome anyways though!) Now I look forward to watch the Dlc content.
When I first saw your Dark Souls playthroughs I immediately knew this game would be perfect for you. You seem to enjoy piecing together a story from environmental details and have a keen sense of observation. You're one of the few people who solved some of the puzzles a lot faster than most people would, especially when playing it on video.
@@darkjanggo I think Rainworld has a bit too much masochism to it though. The game has a very deep story, but the majority of it is locked behind an NPC that you don't meet unless you luckily explore the correct locations (assuming you manage to survive that long). That's considering that you have to bring specific items to this NPC from specific locations. The hoops that a player needs to jump through to even gain snippets of story information is beyond hardcore. Yes he can piece together what happened based on environmental clues, but the meat of the story is told by this NPC.
@@SadFace201 I played 2-3 hours of Rainworld a few weeks ago. I found it a bit too cryptic and unforgiving, but it did have some interesting mechanics - whatever I could uncover in those hours. I got the hang of some of the movement and so far only know about the hibernation mechanic and how the spots are indicated. It gave me very strong "survival game" vibes, and I found myself anticipating predators and trying to avoid them, than pay attention to specific environmental details. I haven't given up on it though, but I'm trying to resist really hard from biting and looking up some help. It's also the reason I put Antichamber on halt.
@@rohitchaoji Funnily enough you being so focused on surviving and not focusing on anything else around you is part of the core theme of the game. It's just a shame that so many good parts of the game are locked from you until you can get better at just surviving. Honestly the only reason I know so much of the Rainworld story is because I had to look it up. The devs did add in difficulty levels in the form of the Monk and Hunter, but the game is just really unforgiving. Don't get me wrong, I like games where devs don't compromise on their vision---but it's definitely a different target audience to Outerwilds which puts an accessible storyline on its forefront.
I know it’s been 11 months, but one of my favorite parts of finishing Outer Wilds has been watching live streamers like you go on the journey, especially the ending. If you haven’t taken the time to watch other streamers experience it, you should. Especially when you are in the mood for a happy cry.
Hey Mapo, thank you for playing this amazing game. Unfortunately can't wipe my memories so watching people play it blind is as close as it gets and yours was a unique thoughtful experience ::)
If you don't cry at the end of outer wilds... Just do it. It's releving. I can never watch the end of this great game without tearing up, just as I did the first time I played it. Nothing lasts forever... And that's okay...
What a beautiful playthrough, thank you so much Mapo for playing this game and sharing your experience, judging from how you spoke in the ending credits you can already guess what i'm gunna say and how thankful i'm going to be for blessing us with your playthrough and your experience, i'm so glad you enjoyed it!! just as much as i did watching
"What have I just played? What have I experienced these past couple of weeks?" This game is truly my favourite game of all time. Such a great playthrough! Congratulations Mapo and welcome to the club! Looking forward to watching you play Echoes! Jacob Geller has a beautiful video essay on this game! Would love to see your reaction to that.
It's okay man, I reached the inside of the ATP before ever finding out the vessel was still there in dark bramble. My initial thought was you had to just depower the project and accept the end. It wasn't until I saw someone else deep in dark bramble that I immediately rushed back to my own game!
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Loops and Timestamps
Total On-Screen Loops: 60
(Loops that were final deaths: 4)
Big Bang: 1
Supernova: 18
PRAISE THE SUN!: 7
Anglerfish: 8
Asphyxiation: 6
Cactus: 1
Fall after tornado: 1
Ghost matter: 2
Meditation: 7
Planet smear: 1
Reactor failure: 1
Sand yeet: 1
Self-yeet: 2
Shuttle crash: 1
Ship electrical overload: 1
Station smear: 2
Timestamps:
00:00 Ship log, Echoes talk, to Dark Bramble
04:00 Inspecting DB planet fragments
05:17 Dark Bramble
06:13 Anglerfish escape and ship explosion
07:58 Tracking the distress beacon
09:20 Escape Pod 3
11:45 Loop 46: asphyxiation
12:34 Leaving the system
17:00 Loop 47: supernova
19:15 Nomai Grave
21:21 Scouting & ship log
23:25 Loop 48: anglerfish
26:20 Grappling with parallax
27:00 Loop 49: anglerfish
27:44 "Is there something to make me invisible to the anglerfish please?"
29:00 Loop 50: anglerfish
29:37 Ship log & museum
31:17 Reminiscing about innocent times
33:44 To the Sunless City
35:11 Anglerfish Fossil overlook
36:04 Scout hypothesis & Nomai children notes
37:05 Anglerfish Fossil scouting
38:33 Stepping Stone Cave and Anglerfish Fossil
40:11 Anglerfish noise hypothesis
40:26 Loop 51: asphyxiation
42:00 Full speed hypothesis
42:44 Floating past
43:12 Loop 52: anglerfish
44:15 Lining up
46:23 Loop 53: anglerfish
47:18 "You almost have a fixed speed"
48:05 Anglerfish eggs
48:55 The Vessel
51:41 Vessel bridge
52:30 Warp core and coordinates hypothesis
53:33 Emergency broadcast
54:14 The Disappearance of Escall
57:20 Temporary confusion
59:02 Input device
1:00:40 Eye signal
1:03:06 Loop 54: asphyxiation
1:04:37 "A story about the end of the universe"
1:05:54 Ship log
1:06:12 The Run hypothesis
1:07:50 Ember Twin shard rule hypothesis
1:09:15 ET quantum shard riding
1:11:47 Rule of Quantum Entanglement
1:13:33 Chert conversations
1:14:41 Understanding unlocked
1:16:20 ATP access hypothesis
1:17:30 Gabbro conversations
1:19:36 Loop 55: PRAISE THE SUN!
1:20:34 "All of this stuff is so beautifully connected"
1:21:10 "There's more to explore in the lakebed cave!?"
1:23:10 Side cave confusion
1:29:55 "There's more to explore in the lakebed cave!"
1:31:11 ATP warp fail (picked up by sand)
1:33:00 ATP warp fail 2
1:33:44 Loop 56: sand yeet
1:34:10 Ship log (except for the one relevant log node...)
1:35:00 ATP warp and sand timing hypothesis
1:36:50 ATP warp success
1:37:29 The Ash Twin Project
1:48:30 Taking the core
1:49:10 Final Voyage 🎵
1:49:43 "It's f---ing spectacular"
1:51:33 Anglerfish dodge
1:53:22 Floating past
1:54:40 Return to the Vessel
1:55:14 Inserting the core
1:55:36 Tunnel vision
1:57:16 "I don't know what I have to do here"
1:58:14 "Oh it's … in the bottom of my screen!"
1:58:50 Loop 57: true death: supernova
2:03:00 "Cannot be overstated how f---ing amazing this feels"
2:05:28 uh
2:07:24 Run attempt 2. Er, I mean 1. Yes 1.
2:10:11 Loop 58: true death: anglerfish
2:11:12 Anglerfish dodge
2:12:01 "The baton run of the universe"
2:12:45 Loop 59: true death: anglerfish
2:13:45 The distress beacon way
2:16:36 Eject
2:17:06 Warping the Vessel
2:19:33 Walking to the Eye
2:22:40 Entering the Eye
2:23:10 Museum
2:26:16 Observe
2:26:55 "I'm like trying not to cry. What have I just played?"
2:28:33 Unidentified Signal Nearby
2:29:33 "I like 'em crunchy where I come from"
2:30:06 Esker
2:32:46 Riebeck
2:36:08 Solanum
2:36:44 "AAAAAAOOOOoOoOoohhh noooo"
2:39:10 Chert
2:39:53 Feldspar
2:41:02 Gabbro
2:41:23 Band's back together
2:43:19 Last words
2:44:20 Let's find out together
2:44:42 Loop 60: true death: the end of everything, and also something new
2:45:30 Credits and reaction
2:50:44 14.3 Billion Years Later
That 'uh' timestamp killed me
@@NnT042 lmao
I like that you added big bang as a death counter
In this episode, Mapo pays his karma debt to the anglerfish after somehow managing to find Feldspar without encountering a single fish.
His line "is there any way to make myself invisible to the angler fish?" made me chuckle 🎣
I mean the path to Feldspar is anglerfish free, and he correctly used the signal scope to go straight to Feldspar, so I wouldn't expect him to encounter an angler.
I found feldspar very very early. By means of investigating the duplicate scout signal from the seed on timber hearth. Only much later (after forgetting about the anglerfish findings I gained elsewhere) did I have to deal with them, it required a lot of backtracking to re-learn the critical info on handling them.
Rofl
Echoes of the Eye begins next episode. See you then for a new mystery :)
thank you so much for this series Mapo!! As outer wilds has no replayability us in love with the game absolutely adore fun let's plays of it, and yours is so wonderful because it's very comprehensive and you catch on to things really well! Keep on the great work
This was an incredible playthrough so far. I'm so glad you left the echoes of the eye stuff for post main game.
Welcome to the club mapo, you know now.
If you haven’t done so yet, now is a good time to read the list of achievements. 🙃
Thank you for this playthrough. It was a great journey.
Very much looking forward to the DLC run.
Once you finish everything at Echoes, you have to do the Eye of the Universe section again. Small bit extra there afterwards, and way afterwards.
"What have I just played ? What have I experienced for the past two weeks ?"
Welcome to the club, Mapo. So glad to have you here with us. 🙂
I'm a scientist, and this game captured so much so well about the scientific process: the thrill of discovery, the commitment to existing evidence, the importance of failure in advancing... Having a form of media celebrate this in such a way that people can experience a taste of those things themselves in a hands-on way is truly amazing. It's been a thrill watching you experience it!
I really like how it blends science with game mechanics. The gravity works almost like in reality. The black hole has amazing lensing - probably the best I have seen in any game or movie. There's a lot of small details that are scientifically accurate.
It bends certain things one way or the other to tell a better story and cheats a little here and there to make the game work better but overall it's surprisingly accurate.
I really like how momentum works in space. If you know how orbital mechanics work and how to navigate in zero g, it just feels really good in this game. Better than many other that are more focused on these things.
I worry that I’ll never play a game like this again. All I can hope is that the studio manages to launch a new title with similar game design, of course, it may not satisfy as much as the first play through of OW.
I also love the concept of the Nomai dedicating their life's work to a to what seemed to them be a failure, only to have future generations benefit directly from their work. So much of our leading researchers know they'll never experience benefit from their life work, in hopes that future generations will. A truly selfless approach to life.
Something I absolutely love about the Nomai and specifically Solanum is how you actually read text throughout the world originating from when she was a child and then as she grew up. From her going to the fossil fish cave in the sunless city to going to school in brittle hollow to ruminating on the meaning of the eye’s signal as an adult in brittle hollow. You even see the last step of her journey at the tower of quantum knowledge where the nomai congratulate her on visiting the all quantum towers. Then you meet her on the quantum moon and she’s an absolute gem. The details in this game are absolutely insane, there’s so much love here.
I remember noticing Solanum essentially grow up through text, was great to start noticing the names. Then I was deeply saddened to see that Coleus arrived in the solar system in pod 2, lived through to the creation of the ATP as he works in the mines on TimberHearth, which means the Nomai were only there for one generation before the interloper arrived
her handwriting is really bad in the texts when she's a child too ::)
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"I like em crunchy where I'm from..."
>Actively struggling to hold back tears
We got him good lads, haha
The poetry of discovering escape pod 3 while ejected from your irreparably damaged ship and low on oxygen...
Also remember what Slate told you, breaking his routine, after you found the Stranger. That works for anything in the ship log, anything you want to find but aren't sure where it was but have been to before....
Outer Wilds is THE representation of video games as an art form. No other medium can perform what this game did. It's truly a masterpiece.
Also, the way the instruments add up to build the complete song is just an instant way to make me cry. Undertale's Undertale does the very same. It's so beautiful
Truly, it tells its story in a way only a videogame can. A masterpiece of interactive storytelling pushed to its limit.
Every time someone claims video games are evil and only about violence, shooting people etc.,... I show them games like Outer Wilds! Technically video games are already recognized as the 8th art form, it's just that some people prefer to stick with the clichés spread by medias, without even doing a little bit of research on their own. I tend to keep a few names in mind to prove these people they just have to know where to look. Outer Wilds in definitely in the top 3 games I would recommend anyone to play!
Unfortunately TB couldn't play this, I bet this would go straight to his top 3. It wouldn't beat Brothers because of his bond with his son, but maybe it'd beat Deus Ex (but I'm not sure).
He always said that mechanics should complement (and in a way respect) the story and vice-versa.
@@lucasteles3574 TB?
@@zwiebeldogs TotalBiscuit
I think my favorite part of the game, is the realization that you can't stop the supernova. In games we're generally led to believe that we're supposed to save things, to fix the problem. But you can't. All you can do is rip off the bandaid, to put the universe out of its misery after having spent some 390 YEARS in a time loop (9.3 million loops * 22 minutes), and to let it all die... holding on only to the hope that there might be something new after.
Time travel philosophizing / side point (does not negate your comment's main point): from the universe's perspective it hasn't spent any time at all in a time loop. The universe trundled along until 22 minutes before your sun explodes, at which point a bunch of Nomai technology receives a burst of 390 years' worth of data from millions of potential futures which haven't happened yet, and now never will happen. Is this paradoxical? Yep, it violates causality. But the entire universe isn't being "reset" by the time loop mechanic, rather, effects (receiving time loop data) proceed their causes (the future happening) and in turn cause those futures not to happen. It'll break your brain if you think about it too much. 😅 Separately though, I agree with everything else about your post, and time travel philosophies make little difference when *you* at least (not the universe per se) *are* experiencing the time loop. So you do have to confront this moment of acceptance, that your actions are not going to save this universe, and that you are going to have to let all things end.
Wow, I knew the loop had been going on for quite some time but I never calculated what the 9.3 million loops would mean in terms of years. Still learning new stuff about this game after all this time!
yeah, i think thats one of this games greatest twists, the music when you enter the sun station to find out that this is the suns natural end, not something you can stop, is suitably dramatic and emotional
@@gabedamien It's really kind of a stretch that the mismatch between info sent and info received does not break spacetime, but since the entire idea of the game relies on that mechanic, we give it a pass.
I only realised watching this playthrough, that all the characters in the game have been through those millions of time loops before the game even starts, and the only thing that breaks the cycle is the memory statues activating which allows the protagonist to retain the knowledge to do something about it. Although I guess its a bit confusing because in all the previous loops the statues would have surely activated at some point as well. I suppose that's where the causality/time loop contradictions come into play.
Another traveller reporting in from the supercut others have mentioned ::) i just wanted to say, you have probably my new favourite let's play of this game, such a perfect blend of being intelligent and observant putting all sorts of pieces together, but also empathetic and emotional connecting with the Nomai and their story as well as the over all message, absolutely fucking S tier play through! I can't wait to binge the fuck out of your other videos! ::)
1:24:30 It's so awesome watching mapo pursuing OW's last and most impactful mystery .. the meaning of THE BOTTOM OF THE DRY LAKEBED :""
XDDDDD
Really odd how this was the last thing I found as well lmfao
@@soly7948 It was one of the last things for me as well but Mapo recalled the Rule of Quantum Entanglement without even learning it so watching him struggle to get where is the actual cave was so wild :""
Oh yeah, so what did he miss in the Lakebed from the Ship Log? Isn't there a text somewhere saying about darkness in the first area, because he never actually found anything that gave a hint to that until he'd already teleported to the other rooms. In other words, I can't remember how the game hints you to turn off the flashlight in the first place.
@@Jigsawn2 yeah, he didn't go to lakebed cave where it hints you to turn off your flashlight, and I think the game doesn't teleport you to lakebed cave from the other possible quantum rock locations if you haven't found the clue in the first place (or maybe he was just very unlucky)
I highly recommend the NoClip documentary on this game. It's crazy that this started out as an amalgamation of student project ideas, and how much of the final idea was there in it's earliest stages of creation despite the years of work it would take to realize. Also crazy that the story was written by the sister of the creative director. That's one talented family.
Yes! This as well as their Hades documentary are great :)
it also doesn't contain echoes of the eye spoilers :3
The sister (Kelsey Beachum) also has an interesting presentation on de GDC channel about sparking curiosity through the narrative of Outer Wilds.
You know, I never realized until now that Masi Oka founded Mobius Digital. That’s wild
Mapo getting to the escape pod out of fuel and low on oxygen, only able to read about the nomai suffering a similar fate before running out and dying is pretty poetically sad and beautiful.
It’s a strange feeling at the end of this game. Knowing you can never really experience it again. But “I learned a lot by the end of everything. The past is past now, but that’s… you know, that’s ok! It’s never really gone completely.”
Actually really excited for the developer's next project although it will be tough to match the quality of this game.
@@arpitjaiswal9515 Did they ever say what they are making? the DLC definitely tied up the whole game beautifully and it had the most impressive and imo the best ideas of the whole game.
@@HotShame0 not announced yet!
@@HotShame0 no they didn't but they were hiring new people the last time I checked.
@@arpitjaiswal9515 I think that anyone who doesn't let their feelings think for themselves will understand that Outer Wilds is on a league of its own. If they, somehow, make a better game it'd be awesome, but I think most of us would understand if it was not as amazing.
I think a game taking an interest in quantum mechanics, and translating the scientific idea of “observing something has an effect on the nature of it” to the very human idea of “just being here to witness this is enough.” Is incredibly beautiful to me.
Saw a supercut of your playthrough by Ellis and had to tell just how pleasant your playthrough was to watch and see your emotions as you uncover new knowledge and make new discoveries and realizations. I will watch Echoes of the eye from your vods now.
I came from the Eelis supercut, definitely picking it up from part 12 here because it needs to last longer. I loved how observant you were in the main game!
I don't know how common this experience is among people who have finished this game but for me my appreciation of Outer Wilds has just kept increasing after I completed it. It's like eating a food that has an aftertaste that keeps developing and evolving for a while. I randomly notice myself thinking about something in the game, I watch other people play it, it comes up in conversations with friends, and I feel like now I'd rate the game even higher than when I finished it.
Yeah it’s not just you. It built and built for me and now I have a tattoo of the eye symbol :)
@@MLynchPhotograpy Oooh, that's an awesome idea for a tattoo. And if anyone asks what it's for, you can boil it down to basically any of the life lessons this game instills.
100% the same for me.
When I first beat the game, I enjoyed it, and I had loved my experience with the game prior, but I was overall just kind of content with the ending.
Now about 2 months later, I'm in love with the ending, and the story. My mind finished putting together a few small "loose ends" (That weren't actually loose ends if I was paying full attention), and the emotional impact of the game has just continued through my life the past 2 months. Its made me rethink a lot of things, specifically what mattered to me and helped me understand how to heal from things in my past in a way no one or thing has ever done before.
I'm practically obsessed with the game now, which is a pretty big change from when I beat the game, and I was merely happy with the experience.
A lot of people who go to the vessel straight after discovering the ash twin project end up panicking. you are far from alone :3
The last loop is such an intense experience
Believe it or not, I have NEVER tried to land my ship on the Vessel. Your playthrough is the first time I have ever heard the Vessel crack while landing on it. It's amazing to be able to discover new things even now, it shows that devs really thought about everything up to the tiniest detail. There's so much love put into it, it's insane! Anyway, good job on figuring out everything on this playthrough, I for one struggled a bit more than you did with the last puzzles. You're lucky to have the DLC without having to wait: I remember being so excited when it was released, I finally had an excuse to jump back in this awesome game, after putting it away for at least a year... I bought the DLC as soon as it was released, and I have no regret whatsoever!
I liked how he did his best to repair his ship or land it neatly so he could get back to it, as if there would be reason to fly out of Dark Bramble instead of restarting the loop.
2:27:18 "What have I just played? What have I just experienced?"
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Since you finish the game this episode ill just say it. You didn't actually go *inside* the lakebed cave. The massive hole around cherts little "island" is where you need to go, the quantum shard you travel on isnt taking you to all the locations because there is another location (the one in the lakebed cave) that is shrouded in light, which stops you from traveling there.
Just go down the hole on the northpole and make your way through it at the beginning of a loop to get that last log.
lol this was also the only place i hadnt been when i finished the game. i figured out entanglement on accident and pieced it together like he did this playthrough xd
I was super excited to NOT die on my first attempt with the core. But I also took twice as long as most people take to beat the game, so I had a lot more practice with the ship and anglerfish :)
Absolutely an unforgettable experience and I don't think anything else will ever displace it as my number one experience in gaming.
This has definitely been the best playthrough of this game on RUclips. I usually don't leave comments, but this game truly means the world to me. I spent only 16 hours with it, but it is something I doubt will ever leave me, and I am not sure if any other game will ever give me a similar experience. It really made me emotional watching you also experience this masterpiece, and I'm glad it touched you like it did me.
Same, I only had two experiences like this, and both were at the same year. Outer Wilds and Disco Elysium. I can't say which is my favorite, and that's fine, they're both so incredible I can't believe they both came out in the same year. Oh 2019, I didn't appreciate you enough... 2022 was a draught of good releases.
@@meridiasbeacon7669 "Return of the Obra Dinn" might be something you would like to take a look at. It's a different kind of game, but a similarly amazing experience.
@@pirat87pl oh don't you worry I absolutely DID play Obra Dinn and loved it! I still wouldn't put it as high as those two, but it's absolutely fantastic. I also really enjoyed The Painscreek Killings, a game more similar to Obra Dinn than Outer Wilds, really good too tho! (Obra Dinn is better tho)
@@pirat87pl my list of games I REALLY loved (as in, they live rent-free in my head) in the last 3-4 years would probably be:
-Outer Wilds
-Disco Elysium
-Obra Dinn
-Darkwood
-Signalis (came out a month ago!)
-Kingdom Come Deliverence
-What Remains of Edith Finch
-Before Your Eyes
-Darkest Dungeon(ngl, has no right to stick with me like this, but I really liked it's brand of horror. It also came in the exact right time. Only played 1, haven't played 2 yet)
-Frostpunk
-Lost In Vivo
-MOTHERED (and it's many many cryptic sequels and prequels)
-Enderal (One of the best games ever made imo, it's actually a Skyrim mod available for free on Steam as a standalone game, but it would be insulting to call it a mod. Skyrim is a mid game in 2022, but Enderal is... something else. It's the second best RPG I've ever played, right after Disco Elysium, and is the single best open world game I've ever played by a longshot unless Outer Wilds is included. It is actually up there for me with OW and DE)
-PREY (2017)
-Hollow Knight
Honorable mention to Far: Lone Sails for inspiring me so much with it's designs and music and immaculate VIBES to make significant changes to the scifi world I'm wiriting myself.
There are absolutely more on this list, but these are the ones that pop into my head instently when I think of the words 'games I love', and therefore deserve to be here.
@@meridiasbeacon7669 Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the time you put into this list.
There's a few there that I played or that are on my 'to play' list, but there's also some new games I have not seen yet, so definitely gonna check them out.
I am infinitely happier you included your mistakes (and edits over it!) this is a game about failing as much as succeeding, and your playthrough has been great.
I hope your time exploring the Stranger proves as inspiring and fruitful!
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If it's any consolation, I have yet to see a playthrough were someone sees those coordinates at the bottom of the screen first try, and I've watched a few. The music once you take out the core is made with the sole purpose to make you panic, I'm convinced!
Also, for me, those moments are the beauty of playing Outer Wilds. I, for one, am not watching to see a perfect playthrough - how boring would that be - but to get vindication for all the stupid mistakes I made while playing it. :D
I was really pulling for you to nail the ending on the first try, but I’m glad you got to see the “Game Over” ending.
I learn something new every time I experience the Outer Wilds, and this time I developed a deep sense of empathy for how conspiracy theories develop: they’re born out of ignorance and a desperate desire for understanding. You’re a smart person but you developed some crazy ideas along this playthrough when you didn’t have all the information, and that’s okay.
We’ll never know it all, but we need to always keep learning because that’s the best we can do ❤
Another game that does that really vibe well is Firewatch. Recommended.
Hey we all cried during the end, the game is just so amazing. I cried because of what happened and because I'd never experience it again for the first time. Thank you for completing this, it gave me a chance to some what relive my experience through you
2:12:46 A sequence of shock, disbelief, determination and desperation. I felt that to the soul 😭
I'm so happy you roasted one last marshmallow!! I did the same each time I've beaten the game. It's important to share the moment with everyone there playing the song
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You know what would be super cool? If he could hear the complete Travellers' song reaching him, and as the sun went supernova, the instruments would taper off one by one until there was silence.
If you have your signalscope out that does happen if you’re in range
You can't receive any signals from the Eye - but if you fly out real far to escape the supernova range the devs actually added exactly that in a post-launch update alongside stuff setting up the dlc!
I was really hoping Mapo would pull out his signalscope and chance upon that pretty horrifying discovery when he did that lil fly-far-away journey, but ah well
@@atkvin He did actually do that
@@kyle-cs1dl Not quite.
He listened to them all overlapping, but if you listen during the supernova you hear them all stop playing 1 by 1, which as far as I can remember, he did not do. He just watched the supernova happen
Don't worry, from the bunch of other people playthroughs that i saw, and including me, literally NOBODY saw coordinates in bottom left on the screen, lol. Most people did screenshots from ship log or just did a photo on the phone. The stress in this moment is actually insane. This game is not just unique, it causing unique emotions to happen, that i feel didn't happened at all in ANY game, to be honest.
If i remember correctly(or maybe i'm confusing with something else), in earlier versions of the game if you fail without timeloop, this was actually the end for your ship log, because it's, yeah, very logic and true death of main character. But they changed this in the end, and i'm completely fine with this.
The devs were considering doing a save wipe, but eventually decided it was too cruel, haha.
I died to the anglerfish about 5 times before I got to it. Somehow I kept going into the last one with my trajectory to where I bumped one every time, and if I tried to readjust they'd wake up. So the fact that Mapo got there in one piece in the first place, he fared better than I :P
On my playthrough the bit with the coordinates ended up working perfectly because I didn't notice them at first as I was drawing random shapes in the input device and wondering what I was supposed to do, then I had the moment of realization that I needed to draw the coordinates, then I paused the game, thinking that I needed to go find a picture of the shapes, and THEN I noticed the coordinates in the bottom left. That's probably the ideal sequence of events that the devs were aiming for.
@@jasonmoustache1693 the save wipe would have been perfect. You just need the launch code and the eye coordinates, once you know things in ow you can get those very quickly. Although I see that it could have been frustrasting with the anglerfish
@@ricedbanana5322 The anglerfish were actually so bs in my run. Died a couple times on the way because an anglerfish kept spawning facing towards or away from me instead of from the side like they usually do, and it's blocking the fking path directly.
I have been waiting to share my favorite outer wilds quote "How unlucky, to have been born at the end of the universe." the most accurate way to describe this game is it makes you feel an un-explainable feeling. the first end run is full of dread, hope, fear, warmth, pride, loss, and many more feelings, and then when the brick wall of "you are dead" hits it brings all those emotions home in one amazing brush stroke. I honestly think without one true death the game might feel a bit more hollow.
Wow, those anglerfish really got mad that you managed to navigate Dark Bramble without finding any of them on previous occasions! I think their spawns (except the three that guard the entrance to the nest) are kind of random, albeit their numbers probably aren't, as I've seen some people navigate to the vessel after picking up the warp core without much trouble from any fish other than those three, and then I've seen... this...
You can actually find the Vessel a bit easier by marking its location on your HUD via the ship's log, saves you from having to go via the Escape Pod every time.
As far as meeting expectations… you did it perfect as a campfire marshmallow.
Great job Mapo. Entertaining and moving. I think we all cried with you.
A few fun things I'd recommend checking out before you start the DLC:
- Try to break the High Energy Lab experiment.
- at the end of a run throw yourself into the very core of the Ash Twin project. Afterwards carefuly examine your map and proceed from there.
When I saw your Dark Souls 1 playthrough, I decided to subscribe. Your last two episodes of this game have shown me that I chose wisely.
Now that you've finished the main story line, I strongly encourage you to watch the NoClip doc about the making of this game (you can find it on RUclips). It's relatively short and extremely interesting. (It doesn't contain any spoiler for the DLC.)
This time it was Solanum saying "I'm glad you remembered me" that made me choke up.
As for pressure/expectations - a sincere attitude and genuine appreciation of games is what I expect, and it's the reason this is my favourite channel, you have both in abundance.
I friggin' love the text-commentary you add as well =P
Lastly, I can think of at least 1 interesting thing you missed in the base game (maybe more). Will you be taking hints/guidance in Discord or from your mods to find some of these?
This game was an almost spiritual experience. Kinda esoteric, and very sweet indeed
By far one the best lets play of this game I have seen.
My other favourites are Materwelonz and lilindigestion.
such a fun playthough. there's a few neat things you didn't do or see, like seeing how chert reacts to the solar system dying, learning to fly a nomai shuttle (sorta), catching up with the probe the orbital probe cannon launches (there's nothing to do there though) or getting different bad endings by removing the ash twin core and then surviving somewhere else instead of visiting the eye. you can even destroy the fabric of spacetime if you feel like it, and even if you don't being inside ash twin as it activates during the supernova is pretty cool. I've heard there's some easter egg in dark bramble somewhere too but I've never found it.
personally I never played the dlc, so I'm pretty excited to see how that goes for you. looks pretty cool.
In which case, I'd suggest not watching any further and go play it!
The song when the sun is about to go nova is called end times. The song after you leave ash twin with the core is called final end times.
And its always so clever how the game essentially trains you to stress and panic when you hear it because by that point you subconciously connect it with running out of time.
Yep, the way this game handles its music is just brilliant. The moment you take out the warp core and the final end times starts playing you just *feel* that shit just got real. Then by the time you get to the ending the travelers theme transforms from a fairly simple campfire tune to a uniquely touching piece that probably stays with us forever.
It's called "Final Journey" actually (EDIT: oops, it's actually "Final Voyage!"), but that doesn't negate your point. ::-)
IT'S FINAL VOYAGE, EVERYONE. FINAL VOYAGE
@@mot4353 haha thanks for the correction 🤣
It's brilliant. Right in the name(s). Most people already understand the implications of removing the core, but the music really drives it home.
Oh man, the self-deprecating humor at 1:55:50 really got me. What an amazing finale! Honestly though you solved these puzzles so fluidly I don't think anyone can blame you for choking at the most stressful moment. 99% of this playthrough has been smooth as butter and I enjoyed every moment of it.
Mr. M really just said "fuck it, have two and a half episodes in one" and i am ALL for it
This series was great from start to finish, terrible piloting and anglerfish adventures included! Looking forward to Echoes.
You still have some minor things left to uncover in the base game, if you're interested, so below are minor hints/spoilers:
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- Unless I missed it, the Sunless City was not thoroughly explored. In particular, there might be some text left to read in the living quarters section of the city that has some background about a certain character.
- the lakebed cave is accessed by literally following the directions in the shiplog (must be done very early in the loop). You visited this area just as it became inaccessible in a previous episode. There is nothing crucial here, just an undiscovered cave and some text. (you may also need to simply scan the quantum rock with the signalscope to complete this rumour).
- In addition to the "You are dead" ending after disabling the ATP, there are a few variations of "bad" endings. The most amusing one is probably achieved by trying to force the universe to accept two of the same thing (and failing at it).
"THE baton run of the universe" that's so good lmao
And so accurate. 16 billion years later, we see another runner, participating in the race starting so many years before your own time.
Welcome to the family Mapo! We do indeed know *exactly* how you feel. It was a fun, frustrating, amazing journey watching you make your way through. Onward to the stranger!
The pain and suffering of dark bramble has finally caught up to you lol
This is definitely the best playthrough I watched from this game, you played so well and so respectful to the discoveries and story, I could relate to a lot of emotions throughout, so glad you didn´t cut the mistakes, because a lot ot them also happened to me, and with this we can all relate, this part of this game I sure could not predict, the fun from watching others players do the same journey...After I finished i though this was one of the best video game experiences Ive ever had, and now I can say that it is the best game ever for me...thank you for the journey, already waiting for the echoes of the eye!
'there are only so many ways to say goodbye'
Now.... Now you know.
And you know, that you know.
And we know, that you know, that you know.
And you know, that we know.
Let's watch someone else learn, united in knowledge.
It's odd. I had no interest in this game really. But I enjoy you so much that I watched this and ended up loving it. When you got to the end I had emotions to despite not being the one playing it. Beautiful and well done game!
What an amazing playthrough this has been! This game is truly something special.
Ps: don't worry about the choke at the end, the panic felt after removing the warp core has happened to so many people, me included!
Hey Mapo! So happy you got to experience this game and loved it as much as you did - you were a spectacular player to watch, and I can't wait to see you discover and puzzle out the dlc.
As a warning, it's truly an experience made to rival this game, but it explores a very different vibe and theme to the basegame.
Take it at your own pace - it's basically the closest thing to a sequel this game will ever have, and boy does it deliver on that front.
Now! I wanted to share a few non-spoiler lore tidbits from the basegame to deepen your appreciation for this story and game that I think are really cool. I've also added some ingame easter eggs at the end you can try to do for fun!
It's all very lengthy, so read this when you have some time!
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At the Probe Tracking module, the computer drops the staggering reveal of how many loops it took to find the Eye. However, in an adjacent computer, it also tells you the total number of loops accrued - a number that is only slightly higher than the loop that found the Eye.
Deducting these two numbers tells you how many loops you have been through since the start of the game, which is pretty cool!
But - the other implication of this is that prior to the loop the game actually starts you (the player) on, the one where the probe finally finds the Eye and triggers the statues to activate and 'start the loop' - just like the oblivious npcs that say the same things to you in the game every loop, your player character has actually already spent 9 million loops unaware that they were looping, walking past that statue uneventfully, blasting off into space like they'd dreamed of, only to be cooked by the supernova 22 minutes later... and repeating with no memory.
It is only once their memories are synced with the statue and the project sending it back to them, that they finally remember dying the previous loop, and thus gain awareness that they and the universe are trapped in an endless timeloop.
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Secondly!! This is a *very* subtle lore fact that only Riebeck will hint at if you share your findings about the Interloper with them;
But we know that proto-Hearthians had come into being by the time of the ghost matter extinction event that killed all local Nomai but Solanum(more on her later!).. so how did the Hearthians survive that??
Ghost matter is a seriously insidious and cruel thing. Exploring the planets you will see it infiltrates the deepest caves in Ember Twin, and even somehow inside enclosed buildings. It seems capable of penetrating any wall, and the Nomai truly stood no chance of survival or escape against it, because
1) they were too focused on the Eye to simultaneously pursue the possibility of atleast communicating with the other Nomai clans where they were, much less build a new Vessel to escape the system when they had the chance to
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2) the one weakness of ghost matter is something they literally were not adapted to be capable of taking advantage of, nor could they likely have discovered it.
On Giant's Deep, on both Gabbro's island and the bramble island, you are able to find patches of ghost matter. When the islands are plunged back into the ocean after being flung by tornadoes, for a brief second you may be able to experiment by moving into these patches to learn that ghost matter is neutralized temporarily by water.
The Nomai are specified in the Hearthian museum to have been adapted exclusively to live on land as a physiological distinction from the Hearthians to disprove their own suspicions of being descendants of the Nomai - while the proto-Hearthians (though shown to be amphibious and capable of going on land) mainly resided in the underground, underwater cave pools and tunnels of Timber Hearth.. And enough of the matter had evaporated by the time that they evolved further that Timber Hearth was safe by then.
This is supported again by talking to Riebeck, who is shaken and notes how lucky it is Hearthians hadn't evolved to become land-faring creatures yet at the time.
As an aside, it is a popular fan theory that ghost matter is in effect, radiation in the Outer Wilds universe, as it checks quite a lot of boxes in a comparison of its traits:
- Burns on contact, rendered less potent/inert by water, invisible, but shows up on/affects photography, and evaporating over a long timeline.
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It's later now! You can probably guess on some level that Solanum is basically Schrödinger's cat - she is both alive and dead until observed. But why doesn't she lock the Quantum Moon to orbit the Eye if she's consciously observing the moon?
That is moreso some arbitrary rule of quantum stuff in Outer Wilds, but to start, when you cease observing your surroundings and are in contact with a quantum object, you become quantum for that instant until you observe your surroundings again.
Solanum for whatever reason, stopped observing her surroundings while in this quantum superposition - and died in 5 states of the moon, in range of the instant, solar-system wide explosion of ghost matter...
...And survived only in the sixth state of the moon orbiting the Eye, far away enough from the explosion. She ceased to be an observer by the universe's rules, and was seemingly frozen in time near the Eye until you observed her after 200K years.
And the Eye is confirmed to indeed be so quantum it fucks with time. Upon entering it it seems to fast forward you into the heat death of the universe, visualizing the deaths of all stars and galaxies including your own, before you kickstart the new universe.
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Lastly, basegame easter eggs!!!!
There are two, three noteworthy alternate/bad endings other than the simple one where you pluck out the Ash Twin Project core and either die, or just.. hightail it outta the system. (Hey, survival is valid)
I'll try to be coy and hint only as much as necessary, but they'd be fun detours if you want to take a break before the dlc, or afterwards to end off the series as a whole!
1. One has to do with the experiment at the High Energy Lab, where by superpowering the warp cores with the Sunless City energy you can see that your scout is duplicated for a moment when you fire it in, as it travels out before traveling in. What could you do here to fuck up the law of time travel and introduce a paradox?
2. Another ending is directly linked to what I just explained about how Solanum ended up as a 'quantum ghost' on the Sixth Location. Like the ghost matter explosion, the system is now experiencing an extinction event of a limited range again, i.e the supernova - and if you weren't limited by the timeloop dragging you back, you could theoretically.. 'survive' the supernova going off from the Sixth Location, just like Solanum 'survived'.
3. Lastly. At the end of the loop, if you are inside the ATP you can actually see the advanced warp core activate, opening a black hole for information to be transferred into the past.
All holes are meant to be jumped into, right?
*Note: This ending is only achieved at the end of the next loop, so don't be shocked if you close the game and forget about it if you leave it hanging.
Open your map and try to see what's new after jumping in the hole.
Glad you could hear me Mapo, but I wasn't yelling at you, I was cheering you on. Please don't beat yourself up over it. You're a gem my dude.
Thanks for the amazing playthrough, this was a pleasure to watch. To quote mad matt lugos, what makes this game so special is that it's a story that's best told through a game. A movie or a book wouldn't deliver the same experience.
Looking forward to watching you tackle the DLC!
Funny thing about flying out of the system, when you think about the real earth you are about getting on the surface at around 6000km away from the sun, the sun being the center of the Earth. Which gives a nice impression of how big our planet is and how tiny the Heathian starsystem is.^^
THANK YOU FOR NOT EDITING OUT THE FAILED ATTEMPT!
We tune in to watch you play and experience the game(s) for real. It was a much more gripping emotional experience seeing you fail (and then experience with the fish), than if you just edited it.
It’s too easy to find streamers doing ‘blind’ playthroughs and acting like they haven’t done it before or got hints for it. Your streams are quality, never end.
This was such an amazing playthrough from start to finish, and now you too have the curse of never being able to play it again! But at least you still have some more to go through, a whole new great experience with the DLC.
That final explosion where your screen goes white and your character's helmet cracks as they drift there, accepting the finality of their death and everyone they knew, always gets me choked up. It's such a bittersweet feeling, knowing that everything is ending, but being happy that you got to experience it.
This game really does go to show what incredibly unique experiences video games can offer, that movies and shows, and even books alone can't fully do. Truly a treasure, and I'm glad that you got to finally experience it!
What a curse it is, honestly. I've beaten it 3 times now. The first when it released, cried like a baby. The second when Echoes came out before I played it to get back into the game, cried again. The third was after Echoes for a certain event I won't mention, and cried again. Any time I hear that song I tear up and just can't stop
i dont think you truly die but become the new eye of the universe, ready to send out a signal for someone else to come to start life anew at the end of the next universe life cycle, it why the eye was older then the universe itself, but yes it bitter sweet, truly a unique experience
this was one of the best play throughs i’ve seen of this game and i’ve watched a LOT! i was super happy to see you started playing this and it’s been an honor to watch you on this amazing journey. outer wilds really is one of the best video game experiences i’ve ever had
This playthrough has been an absolute joy to behold. Thank you for doing one of the most important games ever made justice, Mapo. If the ending of this game doesn’t choke you up, you’d have to be dead inside.
I've really enjoyed your playthrough of this game. Your sense of curiosity and wonder has been enchanting to see as you've experienced this truly perfect game. Thank you for having us all along for the ride
Someone might have mentioned it in a previous comment, but a fun note: the reason the map is freaking out as you fly away as far as you did at the beginning of the video is likely an issue they mention in the NoClip documentary! Basically, at the start of development, they had the sun set as the origin of the coordinate system in Unity that keeps track of where everything is, which makes sense! It's the fixed point everything moves around. However, because of the distances, the further away from the sun you got, the more things started to glitch out basically because of the size of the numbers causing weird floating-point number errors that mess with the precision of the coordinates. In order to fix this, they made it so the **player** is always the origin of the coordinate system, with everything moving around **them** instead, so anything that might be getting weird is far away from the player at any given time! Of course, this made it so that when you get as far away as you did, the same kinds of errors start to happen, haha.
Youre the only "lets play"-er I have watched in ages, started with your DS1 playthrough and something about you just keeps me coming back. Seeing you play another one of my top 5 was a joy, cant wait for your echoes playthrough, its a whole different beast.
"This is definitely the last thing we're going to do this video because my brain is fried." He says. I look at the time stamp. There's still an hour and 20 minutes left of the video. XD
omg this was heavy.. I didn't expect to think about such a topic in such a vague way- The message here feels like something that I should listen to but I don't want to hear right now. I'll probably need to talk with people now..
Well, if the purpose of art is to evoke emotions in people then by all means this is a masterpiece.
Been watching since Dark Souls 1. I think this might be my favorite lets play you've ever done Mapo. This has been a joy to watch
I still get emotional watching the ending! Good job on solving the teleport to Ash Twin puzzle so quickly, it's probably the hardest/most annoying in the game partly because you have to wait each loop and getting ejected by the sand feels like 'oh, I can't do anything here'. I felt your pain on the final runs as well, I got got by the anglerfish on my final run too! What a masterpiece, it's definitely in my top 5 games of all time. Loved this playthrough and look forward to Echoes of the Eye, it is just as good as the main game!
mapo: roasts marshmallow
big smoke: same things make us laugh make us cry
you aint a real man if you dont cry at the end of outer wilds
Good job on realizing the ship communications! I wasn't paying enough attention to names and missed this. I've not seen anyone else realize it immediately!
This is my favorite youtube playthrough of this game
Bro that killed me when the coordinates to the eye was RIGHT THERE and you were just stressing out for like 10 minutes lol 😂
That feeling at the end. The sadness of it being over but the happiness of the journey we have felt it. Welcome to the cult of outer wilds. It’s a sad and happy group. Welcome to your life after where you think about it all the time; and think about all your other games and wish they were more like jt
Haha your text edit at 57:23 is funny, half of the fun of watching outer wilds playthroughs is seeing people theorise what the stories are. Great playthrough, don't need to apologise for anything!
If you want a hint about why it says there's more to explore at the lakebed cave:
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You never actually went to the lakebed cave. you went to every other cave on ember twin, but not the lakebed cave at the bottom of the north pole
You understood this game more than most let's players I've seen. Thank you for this series!
P.S: During the time loop, Chert suggests using your signalscope to zoom in on distant stars. Something easy to forget among all the many other dialogues in the game.
I've yet to see a single person not absolutely baffled at the Chert instrument. It's such a difficult part of the tool to remember, as you can usually find things easier WITHOUT zooming, and it serves no other function.
@@Potatezoneit's also the single most surreal thing in the entire game. Why would looking at the drums through the signalscope allow you to "gather" them? Is the Hearthian reaching out their hand through the scope somehow? It stretches the normal way the game works pretty far. I do like the symbolism of it, it just does tend to stump people for a bit.
@@gabedamien You just have to accept that nothing makes literal sense after you jump into the Eye vortex. Dream logic all the way.
@@dewhi100 Yeah. I always felt it was the Eye interacting with the Hearthian's consciousness, or manifesting a reality the Hearthian can comprehend (à la Contact).
@@gabedamien And 2001!
The only time play-throughs are disappointing is when they finish the game without finding Solanum. :(
Was a great journey and a pleasure to join you on your adventure. Watching speedruns are fun. There's also video of the devs reacting to one (not the current record holder mind you, but it was one shortly after OW came out).
Also, I've you've ever watched Heroes, Masi Oka who plays Hiro Nakamura is the creative director of Outer Wilds and the founder of Mobius Digital.
So you can finish the game without visiting the Quantum Moon? If so, that's crazy. If I recall, Solanum doesn't actually give you any critical info there, does she? But it's wild that 3 big mysteries of quantum theory don't really matter, except I guess you need them for the ending? Or do you?
@@Jigsawn2You can indeed finish the game without going to the QM. But you need to meet Solanum for her to be included in the ending.
Alright, yup, I subscribed. At first, I admit I thought I'd just watch you play Outer Wilds and move on, but I loved your takes on this game so much, I want to hear your take on others. Also, must be weird to play Outer Wilds, the most player-intelligence-respecting game out there, and God of War Ragnarok, a game that likes to tell the player how to 'fit the round shape into the round hole' in fear that the player would somehow not figure it out - simultaneously. Makes me appreciate what Outer Wilds did. Can't wait for Echoes of The Eye - you're lucky to have come into this as blind as you did - I only got into the game after watching Jacob Geller's (absolutely fantastic but still) video about it, so I knew some of the stuff.
Echoes of The Eye is so good, it somehow made a perfect game (in my eyes) even better, imo.
When I figured out the end run I rehearsed it multiple times until I was sure I would make it. Then there's you, bumbling around with the fate of the universe at stake while repeatedly taking the time to fix your goddamn headlights!!! Inexcusable recklessness. You let yourself down, you let everyone down. Seriously though, well done! It's been fun to watch. Enjoyed shouting at you at every confidently incorrect statement. Looking forward to doing it all over again with the DLC.
Wow, what an end! In my almost 30 years of life experience i just today had my jaw hanging open for the forst time. I'm not even sure if it was in shock, joy or disbelief.
Thank you Mapocolops and everyone who suggested this awesome game. BIG thanks to everyone at Mobius Digital for creating this stellar (hehe) game!
great gameplay, great story and great ending. (though Im not sure how I feel about this spacefaring and archeology game ending in this manner. I don't know what i expected from the ending and this went sideways somehow... as if the game changed the genre in the last second. It was awesome anyways though!)
Now I look forward to watch the Dlc content.
3 hours? Woah, nice. Looking forward to you finishing up the base game and going into Echoes of the Eye next!
When I first saw your Dark Souls playthroughs I immediately knew this game would be perfect for you. You seem to enjoy piecing together a story from environmental details and have a keen sense of observation. You're one of the few people who solved some of the puzzles a lot faster than most people would, especially when playing it on video.
same, got recommended the dark souls 1 playthrough and watching it thought : "hey this dude needs to play Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds"
mhm, this is why i think he would like Rain World as well
@@darkjanggo I think Rainworld has a bit too much masochism to it though. The game has a very deep story, but the majority of it is locked behind an NPC that you don't meet unless you luckily explore the correct locations (assuming you manage to survive that long). That's considering that you have to bring specific items to this NPC from specific locations. The hoops that a player needs to jump through to even gain snippets of story information is beyond hardcore. Yes he can piece together what happened based on environmental clues, but the meat of the story is told by this NPC.
@@SadFace201 I played 2-3 hours of Rainworld a few weeks ago. I found it a bit too cryptic and unforgiving, but it did have some interesting mechanics - whatever I could uncover in those hours. I got the hang of some of the movement and so far only know about the hibernation mechanic and how the spots are indicated. It gave me very strong "survival game" vibes, and I found myself anticipating predators and trying to avoid them, than pay attention to specific environmental details. I haven't given up on it though, but I'm trying to resist really hard from biting and looking up some help. It's also the reason I put Antichamber on halt.
@@rohitchaoji Funnily enough you being so focused on surviving and not focusing on anything else around you is part of the core theme of the game. It's just a shame that so many good parts of the game are locked from you until you can get better at just surviving. Honestly the only reason I know so much of the Rainworld story is because I had to look it up.
The devs did add in difficulty levels in the form of the Monk and Hunter, but the game is just really unforgiving. Don't get me wrong, I like games where devs don't compromise on their vision---but it's definitely a different target audience to Outerwilds which puts an accessible storyline on its forefront.
Beautiful ending. Thanks for playing it with us.
Your play through is my favorite of the ones I’ve seen (now 16) you connected beautifully to it
I know it’s been 11 months, but one of my favorite parts of finishing Outer Wilds has been watching live streamers like you go on the journey, especially the ending. If you haven’t taken the time to watch other streamers experience it, you should. Especially when you are in the mood for a happy cry.
Hey Mapo, thank you for playing this amazing game. Unfortunately can't wipe my memories so watching people play it blind is as close as it gets and yours was a unique thoughtful experience ::)
I cannot wait for the DLC, this is on the list of my favorite games of all time.
Watching him constantly accelerating actually hurts my soul...
Mapo and Momentum, best friends forever
If you don't cry at the end of outer wilds... Just do it. It's releving. I can never watch the end of this great game without tearing up, just as I did the first time I played it. Nothing lasts forever... And that's okay...
This has been my favorite play through of the game, Can’t fuckin wait to watch this
Damn, I'm gonna subscribe to this guy. 😊
Thanks for the playthrough. Loved the journey.
You can’t stop me from crying now sir, this playthrough has been incredible to experience. One of my favourites for sure
What a beautiful playthrough, thank you so much Mapo for playing this game and sharing your experience, judging from how you spoke in the ending credits you can already guess what i'm gunna say and how thankful i'm going to be for blessing us with your playthrough and your experience, i'm so glad you enjoyed it!! just as much as i did watching
Incredible playthrough, thanks man! And no you are in for even more Outer Wilds treats with Echoes of the Eye!
"What have I just played? What have I experienced these past couple of weeks?" This game is truly my favourite game of all time. Such a great playthrough! Congratulations Mapo and welcome to the club! Looking forward to watching you play Echoes!
Jacob Geller has a beautiful video essay on this game! Would love to see your reaction to that.
It's okay man, I reached the inside of the ATP before ever finding out the vessel was still there in dark bramble. My initial thought was you had to just depower the project and accept the end. It wasn't until I saw someone else deep in dark bramble that I immediately rushed back to my own game!
I never realised that some of those messages on the vessel were from present day nomai. That story of the missing vessel makes sense now :D