solanum watching as some frog she found on the nice grassy planet runs full tilt up to her during her quantum pilgrimage with the most important object her clan owns, speaks a completely unintelligible language, then vanishes into the sky
Imagine being the prisoner. After being locked away for over 200000 years, you are met by some weird creature you've never seen before, who says something unintelligible before turning right back around and leaving you alone once again.
There's something nice about a challenge run that still involves sitting and watching the solar system go by for a minute. Very in theme for Outer Wilds.
Imagine you wake up one day and your friends see you starting to do all sorts of complicated and incoherent things that will lead you to the greatest secret in the universe.
your commentary was so warm & friendly and made me smile the whole time! wonderful video and very fun challenge. your excitement & curiosity about all this game's details reminds me a lot of the nomai, which made watching this feel extra special. thank you :-]
11:30 I did some napkin math once. A hurricane-force wind through a large garage door is 100 to 200 cubic metres of air per second. The Stranger's interior is more than ten million cubic metres. It would take fifty whole loops to drain.
I think even with the Stranger's gravity, the pressure differential is enough to send all of the Stranger's air shooting out into space. In the game, you can even kinda hear the air whooshing out through the hole, so it seems the developers accounted for this, too!
The fact that this is so crazy and yet you did it with seemingly so little urgency for most of the run is awesome and really feels very fun and explorative. As somebody who gave up when I found out I had to navigate the bramble on a shorter timer because it was too scary, I salute the hell out of you.
Haha, thanks! Yeah, once I realized that this particular route should give me just enough time to finish everything, then I was able to take it (relatively) slow and steady. That said, I'm sure I was a bit more panicked than the video makes it seem, haha.
Amazing achievement! And of course, even though it's a mostly-sped-up tutorial playthrough, the ending still gives me those goosebumps and moist eyes. Sigh.
Initially there was nothing in the vault in the real world; after the first few people brute forced the codes the devs actually went back and patched the prisoner in, with the lantern on/off detail. That and that there were even possible codes to begin with is absolutly staggering. Love this game to pieces
This is a great tutorial! FYI, the supernova actually turns that funny orange color right at 22 minutes (I guess that’s when it has peak energy generation for the ATP) and then it’s another 8 seconds before it pops.
That makes sense! I'm still not sure whether the game accounts for the time delay you'd expect to see while watching the Sun explode from such a distance, but sounds like probably not, in that case.
@@dalorleon just back of the eveloping here. as you note, you get about 30 seconds before the supernova destroys you in dark bramble. but the first paticle from the nova should up, I dunno, maybe 10 seconds before that? lets say those are moving at a reasonable fraction of ~c_OW (the speed of light in outer wilds, whatever that may be.) now roughest estimate is, based on the apparent size of the sun in the sky at the eye compared to elsewhere (small, but still visibly a circle [in it's red giant phase]) the eye is maybe....10-30 times farther away? so, the time is like, minimum (30-10)*5=100 seconds, if c_OW were finite. that, plus other reasons, as well as stated above, doesn't really make sense based on observation, so, evidence that c_OW is infinite? which raises the question how would black holes work? just spitballin randomly, don't mind me
Wonderful video! Outer Wilds is my favorite game and I had no idea that this was possible nor did I know about the prisoner's corpse. Thank you so much for posting ::)
You've distilled the best of the game's content and spirit to give us this wonderful gem of a video. It's classy and smells like bravery, wonder, possibilities, and inevitability. I call it Eau de Outer Wilds. Thanks! ;;)
I was confused by that at first, but it's because the spot where I jumped into the water to wake up from the Dreamworld was within range of the alarms. You can see (and just barely hear) them start to go off at 10:52 as I'm jumping in the water.
Just want to add to all the comments - wonderful video. I mean, the achievement itself was amazing, but the warm commentary and four-eyed smiley faces made a cool speedrun into a beautiful experience. Thank you! ::)
amazing!!! I might have to try this myself! BTW you can jam the ship under the bridge of the hourglass twins towers so you dont have to land ur ship so far.
I wander what story would you tell to the prisoner, when he gives you the staff? Like... "My story was that i tried to make eye's signal be heard by the univerce and got in jail for that for last gazilion of years.. you?" You: "Bro, i just woke up idk..."
Ha, someone else was just wondering that, but I'm pretty sure the vision torch video that plays is unchanged! It would be funny if they had coded it to play a much more confused version, lol.
@@dalorleon I recall reading (I never actually tested it myself, and it's been years since I played the game now) that the vision torch video actually *does* change based on what you've discovered so far. I'd imagine the game checks for the same flags that you set when you unlock the entries in the ship computer, and has particular things it'll add to the video if you've unlocked certain things? You'd get a pretty barebones version if you've unlocked nothing IIRC, since you haven't "discovered" anything in the game yet.
I love this video ! ❤ It is the first time I see someone attempting this. I did something similar on my very first time finishing the game. It was not the first loop, but I wanted to see Solanum and the Prisoner on the same loop I would end the universe ! I also wanted more interaction with them, I used the "you" and "me" stones with Solanum, and I went through the entire Prisoner cutscenes. But I could save time by using the ship to find the Stranger and the Vessel In order, I went : #1 Quantum moon (leave the ship around Brittle Hollow, I felt it is the better combination of easy to retrieve the ship and fast access to the 6th location) #2 Stranger (I slept at the stranger's fire actually, not sure which is better. It seems slower in the real world but makes up for it in the dream world) #3 ATP #4 Dark Bramble This loop was very tight, I trained running it for hours before I executed it for real. Remember it was my first time finishing the game so this felt like the "canon" end of my universe ! I trained by doing everything except I would leave the warp core in the ATP I'm very happy I found a video running through this, there are definitely some ideas I could implement for this "golden loop" to be easier even with the prisoner cutscenes. Notably the "leaving the Ship behind" part really surprised me ! Thanks for making this ! ❤
That's awesome! Yeah, whether it's your first loop or not, it seems fitting to go visit Solanum and the Prisoner one more time before you head to the Eye and beat the game. Your route makes a lot of sense - and it's nice that you were able to do more than a simple hello & goodbye!
welp that explained to me what happens when you fly up from solanum - when I played, i got to him with like 15 minutes passed and had to read through everything - once i did I was like "I could fly up or I could chill with the new homie"
Always wonderd, if you would have used the vision torch does it show the same video as normally? Like do we tell him things about the nomai their extinction etc if we don't even know it yet? 🤔
That's a good question, and I believe the answer is yes! But I can't remember if I believe that because I tested it myself or saw someone else do it, ha... I think the contents of the vision are technically vague enough to be things the Protagonist learned as a kid, not necessarily on his journeys. (E.g. just by visiting the museum he'd already know that the Nomai existed and went extinct, regardless of whether he knew *how* they went extinct.)
@@doughboysp Thanks for clarifying this -- I read the wiki, and you're absolutely right! Turns out the vision torch cutscene does change based on the info you've acquired. The reason I thought it stayed the same was because the cutscene I watched when I tested this on loop #1 was actually the same cutscene I saw when I beat the DLC -- because I beat it on a new savefile that didn't have all the info I had acquired when I beat the base game. I'm actually really excited to go back and see what the cutscene looks like once I've filled my ship log with all the info about the Nomai! I even said this was my favorite part of the game -- but I didn't realize I hadn't watched the full thing yet! Wow!
Thanks for clarifying both of you :) Didn't expect it to reveal there is outer wilds content you dont know yet 😅 It was one of my favorite parts of the dlc so go ahead and enjoy! :D
the first time i wnet to the 3 anglerfish node i went directly to the vessel node accidentaly without havig a scout track it some howi just accidently went in the corect derection
You can probably get to the Stranger without going to the DSS if you know just where to fly. IIRC it's pretty much straight ahead, maybe 1 or 2 o'clock from where you launch if you take a shallow trajectory Edit: you mentioned this lol
fun fact, getting the warp core allows like, 2ish more minutes to the time limit, so you do indeed have enough time to do everything especially after getting the warp core! i used that trick in order to get to one of the vault things because the tower falls right as End Times begins, and I wanted the owlks to dissipate so i could get to the thing without dealing with them but 30 seconds is not near enough time to do anything without a run button or lucid dreaming made for a pleasant backing track tbh, it's one of my favorite things about going into Dark Bramble or the Dream World, it muffles the track :] edit: my mistake i thnik it's only for if staying on the stranger since i just watched the sun blow up in the video fr (unless it's an eye-specific scene idk) but uhhh still a fun fact anyway bAHA
Ah yeah, sounds like that would only be for the Stranger. Removing the core ends the loop, so I guess you get a bit more time. But that would technically be a "game over" condition, right? I forget if any new info you acquire during that loop would still be stored in your ship's log when you launch the game again. And I agree about the music!
Ha -- there's a chance that, with an insanely optimized route, that might actually be possible! But my guess is probably not... At least not glitchless.
@@dalorleon You could probably do that if you hit them all up barring Feldspar first, followed by guessing/memorizing the strangers location and heading there after. You do spend time waiting at the satellite after all. It might even be worth it to do the quantum moon whenever it happens to show up; optimizing for luck, as it were.
@@doughboyspIf I can figure out a consistent way to pinpoint the Stranger's location, I may have to try this challenge next... It does sound theoretically possible.
Why put spoilers in the title / thumbnail? Got randomly recommended this vid and I feel it gave away too much... Especially if you know about Solanum but not the DLC contents.
amazing run i love the double eyed emoticons ::D and personally i call the green mode in the owelk sim "debug mode" since i assume the owelks used it for that purpose
solanum watching as some frog she found on the nice grassy planet runs full tilt up to her during her quantum pilgrimage with the most important object her clan owns, speaks a completely unintelligible language, then vanishes into the sky
real
17:06 "Why do I feel like a frog just walked over my grave?"
- *whistle* *whistle* *whistle* What an exciting pilgrimage!
*Jetpack thrusters*
- Wha- What's that??
- Glug
*Flies away*
- Wtf was that
Imagine being the prisoner. After being locked away for over 200000 years, you are met by some weird creature you've never seen before, who says something unintelligible before turning right back around and leaving you alone once again.
and then the universe ends
- HOW DARE YOU COME HERE AFTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO M- Oh, um. Who are you?
- Glub glug
*Leaves*
- ...huh?
No wonder he… extinguished his flame.
There's something nice about a challenge run that still involves sitting and watching the solar system go by for a minute. Very in theme for Outer Wilds.
i love how you do the smiley faces with four eyes like the hearthians ::)
Imagine you wake up one day and your friends see you starting to do all sorts of complicated and incoherent things that will lead you to the greatest secret in the universe.
In the NPC's views that's just the normal game
Besides Gabbro
your commentary was so warm & friendly and made me smile the whole time! wonderful video and very fun challenge. your excitement & curiosity about all this game's details reminds me a lot of the nomai, which made watching this feel extra special. thank you :-]
That's very kind! ::)
The four-eyed smileys melted my heart ❤
No matter how many times I watch the ending, it's still as beautiful as the first time I saw it. You've done well
11:30 I did some napkin math once. A hurricane-force wind through a large garage door is 100 to 200 cubic metres of air per second. The Stranger's interior is more than ten million cubic metres. It would take fifty whole loops to drain.
Haha, awesome. I'm glad somebody did the math!
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would it lose it's air? I kinda assumed the air and oxygen would mostly stick around because of the strager's own gravitational pull
I think even with the Stranger's gravity, the pressure differential is enough to send all of the Stranger's air shooting out into space.
In the game, you can even kinda hear the air whooshing out through the hole, so it seems the developers accounted for this, too!
The fact that this is so crazy and yet you did it with seemingly so little urgency for most of the run is awesome and really feels very fun and explorative. As somebody who gave up when I found out I had to navigate the bramble on a shorter timer because it was too scary, I salute the hell out of you.
Haha, thanks! Yeah, once I realized that this particular route should give me just enough time to finish everything, then I was able to take it (relatively) slow and steady.
That said, I'm sure I was a bit more panicked than the video makes it seem, haha.
Amazing achievement! And of course, even though it's a mostly-sped-up tutorial playthrough, the ending still gives me those goosebumps and moist eyes. Sigh.
Agreed, it's a very powerful ending!
"What time loop?" - Gabbro, probably
Coolest revelation for me is that you can see the supernova from the Eye. This game is so cool.
Wow the secret detail of the Prisoner blew my mind, especially with the on/off lantern. I absolutely expected there to be nothing
Almost makes you wonder if there was originally supposed to be a way to figure the codes out in game.
Initially there was nothing in the vault in the real world; after the first few people brute forced the codes the devs actually went back and patched the prisoner in, with the lantern on/off detail. That and that there were even possible codes to begin with is absolutly staggering. Love this game to pieces
This has got to be one of the best vidoes Ive seen on YT in a minute. Please continue to create.
Woah! I had no idea you could do all this in one loop! Super cool!
0:33 Gentlemen, synchronize your death watches
This is a great tutorial! FYI, the supernova actually turns that funny orange color right at 22 minutes (I guess that’s when it has peak energy generation for the ATP) and then it’s another 8 seconds before it pops.
That makes sense! I'm still not sure whether the game accounts for the time delay you'd expect to see while watching the Sun explode from such a distance, but sounds like probably not, in that case.
@@dalorleon just back of the eveloping here. as you note, you get about 30 seconds before the supernova destroys you in dark bramble. but the first paticle from the nova should up, I dunno, maybe 10 seconds before that? lets say those are moving at a reasonable fraction of ~c_OW (the speed of light in outer wilds, whatever that may be.) now roughest estimate is, based on the apparent size of the sun in the sky at the eye compared to elsewhere (small, but still visibly a circle [in it's red giant phase]) the eye is maybe....10-30 times farther away? so, the time is like, minimum (30-10)*5=100 seconds, if c_OW were finite. that, plus other reasons, as well as stated above, doesn't really make sense based on observation, so, evidence that c_OW is infinite? which raises the question how would black holes work?
just spitballin randomly, don't mind me
@@dalorleonI wonder how long the light would even take to travel to the eye. It might be barely noticeable if it's in miliseconds.
Wonderful video! Outer Wilds is my favorite game and I had no idea that this was possible nor did I know about the prisoner's corpse. Thank you so much for posting ::)
You've distilled the best of the game's content and spirit to give us this wonderful gem of a video. It's classy and smells like bravery, wonder, possibilities, and inevitability. I call it Eau de Outer Wilds. Thanks! ;;)
Weird that the alarm bells were ringing when you woke up from the Dreamworld.
I was confused by that at first, but it's because the spot where I jumped into the water to wake up from the Dreamworld was within range of the alarms.
You can see (and just barely hear) them start to go off at 10:52 as I'm jumping in the water.
thank you for not speeding up the part next to the satellite, the vibes are immaculate
Very nice video ! Always amazed to see what is achievable in just 22 min
I loved the detail of the supernova and how the light hadn’t reached you yet. Great video! ::)
wait, would it be because of the distance, or because the teleportation sends you back in time a little bit? both? :O
Just want to add to all the comments - wonderful video.
I mean, the achievement itself was amazing, but the warm commentary and four-eyed smiley faces made a cool speedrun into a beautiful experience. Thank you! ::)
amazing!!! I might have to try this myself! BTW you can jam the ship under the bridge of the hourglass twins towers so you dont have to land ur ship so far.
Ah right, I've seen some people do that! That would definitely save some time.
Great playthrough with nice commentary and added visuals, thanks for all the work!
I wander what story would you tell to the prisoner, when he gives you the staff? Like... "My story was that i tried to make eye's signal be heard by the univerce and got in jail for that for last gazilion of years.. you?" You: "Bro, i just woke up idk..."
Ha, someone else was just wondering that, but I'm pretty sure the vision torch video that plays is unchanged! It would be funny if they had coded it to play a much more confused version, lol.
@@dalorleon I recall reading (I never actually tested it myself, and it's been years since I played the game now) that the vision torch video actually *does* change based on what you've discovered so far. I'd imagine the game checks for the same flags that you set when you unlock the entries in the ship computer, and has particular things it'll add to the video if you've unlocked certain things? You'd get a pretty barebones version if you've unlocked nothing IIRC, since you haven't "discovered" anything in the game yet.
@@Zenonyra You're correct! I was mistaken about this.
I just pinned the other comment thread where I came to this realization ::D
The anglerfish jumpscare got me even at 30x
Other then that, amazing work. I really was doubting but you had an amazing route
I love this video ! ❤
It is the first time I see someone attempting this. I did something similar on my very first time finishing the game. It was not the first loop, but I wanted to see Solanum and the Prisoner on the same loop I would end the universe !
I also wanted more interaction with them, I used the "you" and "me" stones with Solanum, and I went through the entire Prisoner cutscenes. But I could save time by using the ship to find the Stranger and the Vessel
In order, I went :
#1 Quantum moon (leave the ship around Brittle Hollow, I felt it is the better combination of easy to retrieve the ship and fast access to the 6th location)
#2 Stranger (I slept at the stranger's fire actually, not sure which is better. It seems slower in the real world but makes up for it in the dream world)
#3 ATP
#4 Dark Bramble
This loop was very tight, I trained running it for hours before I executed it for real. Remember it was my first time finishing the game so this felt like the "canon" end of my universe ! I trained by doing everything except I would leave the warp core in the ATP
I'm very happy I found a video running through this, there are definitely some ideas I could implement for this "golden loop" to be easier even with the prisoner cutscenes. Notably the "leaving the Ship behind" part really surprised me !
Thanks for making this ! ❤
That's awesome! Yeah, whether it's your first loop or not, it seems fitting to go visit Solanum and the Prisoner one more time before you head to the Eye and beat the game. Your route makes a lot of sense - and it's nice that you were able to do more than a simple hello & goodbye!
The 4-eyed emoticons are amazing lol
Eloquent, succinct map of countless trial and error moves. You deserve the impressive number of hits.
such a cool run! loved the commentary too ::]
This is really cool what a great idea and super well pulled off.
welp that explained to me what happens when you fly up from solanum - when I played, i got to him with like 15 minutes passed and had to read through everything - once i did I was like "I could fly up or I could chill with the new homie"
Great video, loved the captioning ::)
I was waiting for someone to do it. Imagined it was gonna be called "friends%"
The ending being sped up was quite funny to me :D
thanks for this video, I had a great time
I appreciate the extra eyes on your smiley faces
Wow, great job!
Love this game and you 💜
Very nice video, surprised i watched all of it, as i normally am not a fan of watching gameplays.
Friendship% ::)
i am BEGGING you to change the title in case some poor unfortunate soul stumbles across this and gets spoiled
Always wonderd, if you would have used the vision torch does it show the same video as normally?
Like do we tell him things about the nomai their extinction etc if we don't even know it yet? 🤔
That's a good question, and I believe the answer is yes! But I can't remember if I believe that because I tested it myself or saw someone else do it, ha...
I think the contents of the vision are technically vague enough to be things the Protagonist learned as a kid, not necessarily on his journeys. (E.g. just by visiting the museum he'd already know that the Nomai existed and went extinct, regardless of whether he knew *how* they went extinct.)
@@dalorleon It only shows things you know, so in your case the sequence is quite short.
@@doughboysp Thanks for clarifying this -- I read the wiki, and you're absolutely right! Turns out the vision torch cutscene does change based on the info you've acquired.
The reason I thought it stayed the same was because the cutscene I watched when I tested this on loop #1 was actually the same cutscene I saw when I beat the DLC -- because I beat it on a new savefile that didn't have all the info I had acquired when I beat the base game.
I'm actually really excited to go back and see what the cutscene looks like once I've filled my ship log with all the info about the Nomai! I even said this was my favorite part of the game -- but I didn't realize I hadn't watched the full thing yet! Wow!
Thanks for clarifying both of you :)
Didn't expect it to reveal there is outer wilds content you dont know yet 😅
It was one of my favorite parts of the dlc so go ahead and enjoy! :D
@ No problem, I won't spoil what you need, but try to get as much as possible, preferably the entire log if you can.
amazing!
the first time i wnet to the 3 anglerfish node i went directly to the vessel node accidentaly without havig a scout track it some howi just accidently went in the corect derection
You can probably get to the Stranger without going to the DSS if you know just where to fly. IIRC it's pretty much straight ahead, maybe 1 or 2 o'clock from where you launch if you take a shallow trajectory
Edit: you mentioned this lol
Yup, that's definitely possible! But it's difficult, because the Stranger is a relatively small target - at least compared to the vastness of space!
fun fact, getting the warp core allows like, 2ish more minutes to the time limit, so you do indeed have enough time to do everything especially after getting the warp core!
i used that trick in order to get to one of the vault things because the tower falls right as End Times begins, and I wanted the owlks to dissipate so i could get to the thing without dealing with them but 30 seconds is not near enough time to do anything without a run button or lucid dreaming
made for a pleasant backing track tbh, it's one of my favorite things about going into Dark Bramble or the Dream World, it muffles the track :]
edit: my mistake i thnik it's only for if staying on the stranger since i just watched the sun blow up in the video fr (unless it's an eye-specific scene idk) but uhhh still a fun fact anyway bAHA
Ah yeah, sounds like that would only be for the Stranger. Removing the core ends the loop, so I guess you get a bit more time.
But that would technically be a "game over" condition, right? I forget if any new info you acquire during that loop would still be stored in your ship's log when you launch the game again.
And I agree about the music!
Insane.
Thnak you !
what about the sac?
I played this on PlayStation and have every trophy, but never met the prisoner
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@@dalorleon It took me some time to figure out why you'd use two semicolons for your smiley, really nice detail, cheers ::)
@@lilonnarondeleux4518 heh, welcome to the Outer Wilds community
Madman ;;)
this is the cannon ending
((well not exactly but i think this is the best way to finish outter wilds))
Man will spacewalk ::v
Is this a mod?
No mods, this is the DLC. Highly recommend playing it!
@ i didnt know abt the prisoner this is sick! Sweet vid fr
Ok but now you should to codec mod too
Now meet all the Travellers :p
Ha -- there's a chance that, with an insanely optimized route, that might actually be possible!
But my guess is probably not... At least not glitchless.
@@dalorleon You could probably do that if you hit them all up barring Feldspar first, followed by guessing/memorizing the strangers location and heading there after. You do spend time waiting at the satellite after all. It might even be worth it to do the quantum moon whenever it happens to show up; optimizing for luck, as it were.
@@doughboyspIf I can figure out a consistent way to pinpoint the Stranger's location, I may have to try this challenge next... It does sound theoretically possible.
Why put spoilers in the title / thumbnail? Got randomly recommended this vid and I feel it gave away too much... Especially if you know about Solanum but not the DLC contents.
::P
::]
"we don’t have time for yapping", "we're going to spend a good chunk of time [...] waiting"
sorry hal, gotta wait faster
...I didn't think about that, lmao. I guess I had time for a leisurely conversation after all!
amazing run
i love the double eyed emoticons ::D
and personally i call the green mode in the owelk sim "debug mode" since i assume the owelks used it for that purpose
Yeah, that makes sense! Besides "Matrix mode," sometimes I call it "developer mode" in my head.
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