Magic Playthrough

[reef peak]

I have idk probably 10 hours in the game now. It's starting to get to a point where I feel aimless. The only weird part so far I've found is some robot that didn't end up doing anything. But ever since then (probably 7 hours ago in my time now) it's kinda the same old wake up, eat, die, wake up again, die, wake up, eat, finally make it to a different shelter, mixed with sometimes finding a gate. Is the game going to go somewhere eventually, or is that essentially it?

It is cool how huge the world is though. But it's starting to feel like I'm seeing the same thing. Which gets especially annoying and feels like I'm wasting my time when I get caught in a loop (like always having a lizard outside a specific area that I must cross) that takes a few tries and a roll of the dice to escape.

[winter girder]

there is a loose “plot” of sorts, but it’s intertwined with your own personal actions and experience rather than being scripted for you, if that makes any sense. It’s a very immersive ludonarrative game, you’re experiencing your own story entirely as you play

if you want some guidance on where to go from where u are rn, we can offer it to you, but there’s many different ways to go about it. before it all though, this game is about immersing you within the personal experience of a small unknowing animal in an alien world, I’d recommend trying to embrace that first, though it also sounds like you somewhat have already

here’s a little something I wrote a while back that’s just my general advice for new players when it comes to direction and mindset, though you’ve made quite some distance already :)

[winter girder]

might I ask, when you met the blue robot, did you do anything? Is the yellow guy (an overseer) still following and guiding you? (There was no right or wrong answer in what to do here it just provides some helpful context)

[rough fiber]

Just to be clear, there is a storyline, it just has a lot of you wandering in it

[winter girder]

well yeah, that’s what I was getting at though a little more ambiguous I guess lol

[reef peak]

the robot was guiding me to it at first, that was how i found it. But when i found the robot it didn't really want anything to do with me

i tried all the interactions I could and it wasn't making a difference so I basically was like "dueces, i got grapes to eat" and left it there

[winter girder]

and is the yellow guide still with you?

[rough fiber]

There wasn't anything you really could do

[reef peak]

don't want help, suit yourself 😂

[reef peak]

Yeah and sometimes he turns blue but the only thing they guide me to now are the shelters

[winter girder]

it’s less so that they don’t want it, but that u can’t do anything for them :) the little yellow guy wants them to help them, and is trying their best. have u noticed any strange symbols shown by the yellow guy now? like the little white objects that were hovering around the robot

[rough fiber]

does have some things to say in between the shelter signals, occasionally.

[reef peak]

shelter signals and this little prism thing

[winter girder]

can you keep an close eye on the symbols and pictures they show? If you see nothing besides that at all then we can help further, but if the games working correctly you should be seeing some new symbols, like the things u saw above the robot

[reef peak]

yeah those are the only two things it ever shows me

prism and shelter

[rough fiber]

Rain World geoguesser challenge hard mode

My first guess: ||lower CC||

[winter girder]

I agree I was also thinking that haha

[reef peak]

?

[winter girder]

dw, we were just guessing where this screenshot was taken

[reef peak]

nothing is labeled so i give creatures and places my own names

[rough fiber]

Also, don't assume that there's one specific area that you must cross. There might be ways around. They might also be really long and not worth it, but it's always worth a check.

[winter girder]

but that is very strange, I’m wondering if we should show you what you are supposed to be seeing,,, I’m gonna grab an image or gif

[gaunt flame]

all reigons tell you their names at the start of each cycle
self creature naming is extremely based and how it should be done

[reef peak]

sometimes there's not

[rough fiber]

Yeah it's fun like that

I maintain a big chart of all the names people come up with for things, it's great.

[reef peak]

oh yeah i guess. but then you never see it again so nobody gonna remember so i just name it myself

[rough fiber]

Yeah, but you never know, and that knowledge is useful

[reef peak]

if the biome had its name on the map that would be nice

and an encyclopedia of what is what

[gaunt flame]

you can generally tell creatures apart purely by design, so whatever you call them works

[reef peak]

mfw there's that lizard that's waiting right outside my shelter door

[gaunt flame]

not like there's anyone in the world to name everything

[winter girder]

this gif is not the best example, but have u seen this symbol anywhere? or are you perhaps still getting the robot symbol?

[rough fiber]

Most things don't even have official names, learning what's what is part of the challenge.

[winter girder]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1246946667362779170/1268377845823045632/RainWorld_PQtTZLkUMQ.gif

[gaunt flame]

goofy little yellow guy

[rough fiber]

That's also a problem you can solve with more knowledge

[reef peak]

oh yeah i have seen that sometimes. At first i tried to follow the arrow but then after a while it leads to nowhere and/or disappears so

[gaunt flame]

(in general as you talk here you'll just get people calling creatures different things that are more generally agreed on names)

[rough fiber]

You'll get a feel for how to deal with that sort of thing eventually.

[reef peak]

yeah

exit game come back tomorrow

[winter girder]

that’s what you want to follow :) they can be a little unreliable but that’s the direction the story is in

again, that only matters after everything else, like learning and immersing yourself as a little slugcat, but that’s the way indeed

[reef peak]

i'll try to follow them but it's hard because they often want me to go away from where food is and I kinda need that first

[rough fiber]

And it never hurts to explore

[winter girder]

you don’t always need to survive the cycle in order to learn something new :D

[rough fiber]

true

And the learning might help you survive later cycles, so it's a worthwhile trade-off.

[reef peak]

surviving happens less often than dying anyways

someone suggested i try to use keyboard instead of controller tho

i keep nearly quitting the game because the movement mechanics are so bad

[rough fiber]

It doesn't make that much of a difference, I don't think.

[reef peak]

but apparently keyboard makes things better

[winter girder]

best way of looking at it in my opinion is that dying isn’t as punishing as you might feel, it really depends on your mindset, but all dying does is put back your physical location, but it doesn’t change what you’ve learned

[reef peak]

and i mostly die to the game's bad movement mechanics so i just get mad and quit and play something else usually

[rough fiber]

Personally I find controller more intuitive just because I don't have to think as much about exactly which direction I'm pointing in.

[winter girder]

keeping your karma up only matters once u feel ready to move onto a new region and have a goal in mind, before then it’s best to not worry about it

[winter girder]

I’m a keyboard person because most games I play using it, but I know an equal amount of people who prefer controller, you could try both and see how you feel

[reef peak]

i get that but I also would like to not die at all lol. would probably be better for immersion

[gaunt flame]

i use keyboard for nearly everything, but i'm capable of controllering
i'd never swap for RW

[reef peak]

otherwise on first death you uninstall and reinstall the game 😂

[rough fiber]

(You'll also get the hang of the movement over time, it's its own learning curve.)

[winter girder]

dying is an integral part of the rain world experience! it doesn’t have to be nearly as frustrating as you imagine if you shift your mindset a lil

[rough fiber]

You have very little to lose by doing so

[winter girder]

embrace learning and being lost before valuing physical progression

[reef peak]

btw

why is the game limited to 720p

768

[rough fiber]

It might feel a bit weird but it's better to work with your death rather than against it.

[rough fiber]

Weird technical reasons.

[winter girder]

because this game isnt really about typical physical progression anyways :) from the beginning to end, the one who has changed is you and what you’ve learned and how you’ve grown

it’s unconventional, but if you embrace it you will have a much nicer, less frustrating time haha

rain world is quite unique in that regard

[rough fiber]

Most of the scenery is derived from prerendered images, and the maximum aspect ratio is how big the images are.

[reef peak]

hmm

this kinda seems to line up with other issues the game gave me earlier

i thought the game was broken for a long time (and i guess it kinda still is but i found what it didn't like) because it would get locked on the menu

my first hour in rainworld is just me being mad at the menu

[rough fiber]

Plan for failure, so that you can get something out of it and don't get frustrated when it happens

[reef peak]

because apparently the game freaks out and locks up when it sees any controller plugged in that isn't 1) mouse 2) keyboard 3) gamepad

if its anything else it locks up the menu and you can't press anything

[winter girder]

huh,, interesting

[rough fiber]

I use a USB xbox controller to play, the input system is supposed to accept input from anything but for some reason it very rarely decides when you boot it that it'll only listen to keyboard.

[reef peak]

the whole "press any button to get to menu" thing when you first open the game, i couldn't get past that for a while. Clicking on the game would take the game window out of focus. Only way i could get past that part was hitting ALT-TAB while i had the game in the foreground but that still left me locked on the menu

[winter girder]

I have no clue why that is happening but you could always ask in #1019653041982537879 if you wanted, idk lol

[rough fiber]

huh

[reef peak]

i did many times before

but eventually i figured it out by chance when i unplugged my other controllers

for something else unrelated

[winter girder]

maybe trying out keyboard will help with that? otherwise idk

[rough fiber]

(Rain World's artstyle gets very weird technically, which does come with some restrictions)

[winter girder]

I’m gonna go sleep now but I wish you luck in figuring that out (and playing rain world :))

[reef peak]

so when i heard the game has technical issues now i'm sensing a pattern 😂

[rough fiber]

I mean, the game should be stable, the aspect ratio thing isn't, like, a bug or anything. Just a side effect of the rather unusual art direction.

[reef peak]

what i ended up doing was plugging all my sim controllers into a USB hub. Then when i want to play specifically rainworld i just unplug the one hub and then can play it

[rough fiber]

I haven't had that much issue with the input, yikes-

[rough fiber]

(the good side of that trade-off is that the scenery can be really high-detail)

[reef peak]

what's the blue helper do

since theres a yellow and blue one

oh new symbol

[fringe hull]

not much unfortunately
kinda just watches

[reef peak]

the creepy guys dont seem to like them

almost got blown up by their explosive spears as they tried to kill the blue watchers 😂

[fringe hull]

they'll kill the yellow one too actually

best to stay out of their line of fire if you can

[true marlin]

someone called the ||trash worms “curious eye spaghetti”||

didnt mean to ping sorry

[gaunt flame]

[reef peak]

WOAH

I found really really tall bunnies with antlers

and I can ride them

they look like something out of War of the Worlds when they stand all the way up

Magic Playthrough

Also as i was exploring the sky island area some weird shit happened

a couple actually

kinda freaked me out

my shadowplay didn't record it though for some reason even tho i told it to

1. There's sometimes this loud noise that occurs and it seemed to be loudest when i was near the farthest left shelter
2. The whole places shakes and it especially shook when that loud noise happened
3. One time I woke up, the whole place was DEAD. It was like winter happened. It was only certain areas too. I felt fine in it, but it was really spooky and creepy

i was walking around and there were dead bats on the ground

looked like ash was falling to the ground

and there was a lizard that followed me from this brighter and more normal area on the outskirts by one of the pier areas. as soon as he followed me through a tunnel into the dead zone, he died

music creepy too

then the next cycle it was all normal again

oh

and at one point everything turned like a blueish green and it looked like i was about to get sucked into the sky by a blue matrix

lasted for only like 3 seconds

sky islands are fucking weird man

[edgy ridge]

Hmmm

Did you ever try to investigate why it was happening

[reef peak]

why what

there were a lot of things happening

[edgy ridge]

Creatures acting dead seems like a strange occurance

Idk what the loud noises were about either

[reef peak]

they were dead

it was spooky

and i was the only one unaffected apparently

i thought like winter had come overnight or something

it was like in chernobyl on HBO

when they walk outside and birds just fall dead out of the sky

[edgy ridge]

:p

[reef peak]

Oh I'm eating good tonight

[rough fiber]

[slender kite]

[coral bear]

[edgy ridge]