[[SAFE...?-For-Pizza Sasuke Status: iunno?]] WATCHER 1.5 ON SWITCH LETS GOOOOO

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stopped a bullet

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woa 8v found a suuuuper red scav disciple

or templar

passed by ST in.. ST. lol.
but deciding if there's anything i want to do before i go....

i def still need to run into ST in a rotten vanilla region

oh-- and fetid glen. havent met ST in fetid glen yet, was holding off so i could keep ripple 8 for the OR trip

though i guess it turned out I didn't need it! xD

...
how the fuck do i get back to fetid glen from here >->

...
i
could have just gone through salination, huh.
lol.

wtf wheres my OR map D:

...
nothings showing up for my OR map on the sleep screen D:

and it has the watcher unlock as not gotten?

yeah no its just. not in the arena unlock.

what the hey D:

...

DOES
IT NOT
...
DID I GET THAT, THE TIME THAT THE GAME CRASHED

BWAGH

OKAY...

....WELL THATS FINE, I CAN GO BACK...... GUESS I WAS GONNA GO BACK ANYWAY.....

very weird that the OR map isnt there tho >-> i was checking it just now, just cause i was looking to see if i wanted to go back to OR for any mapping reasons

well
guess ill go back there eventually anyway =v=

still gotta go to the vanilla rot regions before i go to AU

...part of me wants to drop off the OR pearl, but...

...torrential is a distance

its the last pearl. i can just hang onto it.

oh! speaking of?

current progress tracker under the cut
(also pearl locations)

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• Torrential Railway
• Pillar Grove
• Aether Ridge
• Coral Caves
• Rusted Wreck
• Desolate Tract
• Sunlit
• Migration Path
• Badlands
• Cold Storage
• Stormy Coast
• Shrouded Stacks
• The Surface
• Signal Spires
• Shattered Terrace
• Verdant Waterways
• Turbulent Pump
• Fractured Gateways
• Fetid Glen (last bit to do!)
• Torrid Desert
• Heat Ducts
• Salination
• Daemon (.....a smidge. maybe theres a screenshot in here. iunno. i was half asleep when i went, lol. and then fell off a ledge soon as i left, lmao.)
• Outer Rim (starcatcher, and.... thats prolly it! oh, and gotta get the watcher arena unlock again >v>;;; )
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bam

HAAHHAHA

I LEFT MY VULTURE MASK IN SALINATION

hELL YES
TIME TO CHEESE EVERYTHING, ONCE AGAIN

short cycle... having to hibernate in the salination shelter i got stuck in during 1.0.....

not nearly in the same situation to be as stuck
but the fear remains
lol

PIPE JUKED A FUCKIN ANGLERFISH

FORGET ANY CONCERN I HAD ABOUT ANGLERFISH GOING THROUGH PIPES, THAT WAS THE CORRECT DECISION

oh, neato...
on the screen directly to the left of the salination portal in fetid, as youre going through the pipe, you see some of those hanging lantern decals

i just noticed them in shattered terrace

OH
OR map is here
...it just has me as like. middle of the sky.

oh, huh.
found a triple-eyerow bone shaker

...in decaying tunnels

which is the only badwarp i ever seem to get sent to |'D

but yeah the triple eyerows are a lil rare, right?

also. bwagh.

out of video space.

annoying

ill have to port that over from the SD card =v= guess ill do that tomorrow

lol, the purple-tinted monster kelp in decaying tunnels......

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...welp

i guess theres just a rotted cyan living in OR now

[winged schooner]

Ohh, yeah, this is a known issue

Though, question, would you want help with knowing if something's super broken in a specific way? I assume you do, because glitchiness like that ain't too fun, but I gotta make sure

More specifics about the OR unlock: Have you ||checked the arena menu to see if you can still play as them there||?

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for my first dial warp, it had crashed when warping to the new region. so, i started from the OR shelter, and raced the spider back to the dial warp spot

...turns out, i didnt get the unlock when i did a dial warp that actually saved xDD

its sorted out now! i went back and unlocked it again, and i can get watcher in arena now
(before, i couldnt)

[winged schooner]

Ohhh like that lol

Yeah, there's also been an issue where the icon's been left blank even after getting the unlock despite Watcher being right there in arena

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also yeah if something sounds like a glitch, totes down for help xD

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i might check the map! o: just to see
day off today, hell yeah
so is watchin time

[winged schooner]

Watchin' time!!!

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....8v
went back to the room where the arena unlock is
cause when i speed ran it to race the spider it didnt save some of my map progress

so im moseyin on along and

question

did you also return to that spot
afterwards

[winged schooner]

Yeah, I did

I have multiple guesses for what thing you may be taking the most note of

But I'm knowledgable on what to expect going back there!

...oh wait, I think I might know exactly what you mean

(but before I guess, uhhh lemme know directly in case I'm wrong and you mean something else)

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the room where the first dial warp happened

i was gonna remap it, but was at max ripple, so i kept dropping my vulture mask while tryna get up there

was like "ehhhh fuck it, im just mapping, ill just pop in and out and--"

....and then dipped to try REALLY REALLY HARD TO GET MY VULTURE MASK

but died to end of cycle

omw back there now xD

[winged schooner]

Yup, knew it

Good luck on the way back there!

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as im running across this parkour... im realizing
in 1.0
i was absolutely meant to have some degree of levitation 8D;;;

ive got a lil animatic on the backburner about tryna get across here

usually i remember the jump I failed 3000 times

but like

also

that first room that opens up into nothingness, where half the time you just yeet yourself forward and barely miss grabbing the pole

i remembered STRUGGLING to get to that last pole xDD
every time i made an attempt at that parkour, i had to have two rocks and a spear, no questions no if ands or buts.

and hope that one of those rocks would ricochet in a way i could use again, for some of the horizontal leaps

mousedrag... was tempting at points. wont lie.

what got me through it was being like
NO
this is the CLOSEST im gonna get to vanilla blind parkour bullshit. making it across something potentially optional just cause i WANT to, damnit!

...and then eventually got across xD was very rewarding, even if i just got sent back to the starcatcher

...omg tho. loading up on eating purple fruit every start of cycle..... that was the suffering though

[winged schooner]

TRUTH
Sometimes, it's more about the challenge than the reward

[winged schooner]

But also this sounds truly painful, wow 🥹

Someday I wanna go do that parkour with no floating myself too

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i feel like some part of the determination came from not even knowing floating was an OPTION xD
later on when i floated unexpectedly i was just like
....SCUSI?

also hm! ....looks like i do have to come back here at max ripple! x'D

got that neat music that i remember hearing in migration path

[winged schooner]

wait huh??

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oh i should check that spot out, too...
but hm, gonna be visiting ST first

oh hm
well maybe not this exact music?

maybe similar

[winged schooner]

I might have to find that, my mind's blanking on what you could might mean

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i think i posted it in here-- ohhhh maybe it was during spoilertag stuff

[winged schooner]

Might've been?

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which, should all be free game in this thread at this point! xD

lesseeeee

[winged schooner]

Yep, seen all the regular regions now, and am mostly ahead of you in terms of story stuff I think

Might be safe!

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mentioned it again here, so hmhm

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first mention of migration path, ill check for the video

oh gosh i forgot bout this

sorry, mean this ons

haha

[winged schooner]

mmm yes, the little doodads, definitely not a visual bug 🥹

I remember that lol

Ohh wait, all that could be fixed now!

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huh, no clip?
im so sure i recorded it...

[winged schooner]

Ohh, that's a different song yeah

"||Pale Currents||"

...wait, uhhh hope you don't mind knowing song names

there, tagged just in case!

[winged schooner]

And that's one's ||Research||

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another highlights then im gonna stop forwarding stuff from the past and return to present messages lol

i dont mind knowing song names, no worries! xD
unless i guess its a title like "the song that plays when IT FUKCIN GETS UUUU!!!1!!"

but
even then
that would be kinda funny

[winged schooner]

True...

Good to know!

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ok ok ok tho
were you there for the context around the WE'RE SO BACK doodle

[winged schooner]

The closest I can imagine to a song like that one in that area of OR would probably be... not even a song, but the ambience in that room maybe

[winged schooner]

hmm, unsure

Actually that does seem familiar, yeah

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[winged schooner]

Yeah I had a whole process with that too, actually!

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ahh, theres the correct timestamp

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(Before flying up there with my squid powers)

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sunk cost fallacy pulled through for me, here

and so did the movement tech channel xD

[winged schooner]

Power of the movementers

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i was tryna blow myself up with a grenade out of desperation, just cause i happened to have one

[winged schooner]

Ohh yeah that's actually incredible

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and then theyre like
"nah lil bruv"
"explosive spears"

there's a link to the movement channel around that message

that has someone else's smooth as butter rendition of this

next to my watcher like. carefully oh so carefully aligning stuff and then BOOM

the lil cheer jump was essential

my partner in the room like
BE NICE TO HIM

(poor watchy took a LOT of thunks to the head in DT xD)

ah dang. dont have those clips on me.

ah yeah, heres the sound cue from migration

def not what im hearing now xD

[winged schooner]

Yup

Been a while since I listened to it, though! It's a cool song

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oh

hello second OR pearl

in the spot where first OR pearl was

[winged schooner]

HUH

Is it, like, the same color, too?

...maybe something happened to the first one at some point?

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lol nope

was in my stomach the whole time

...
welp
i have both now
haha

both are going to torrential

s'what i did last time i ended up with a weird duplicate

last time, it sorted itself out

... scavengers do be scavenging.

maybe not the best shelter to be in for this, but it worked out fine

(wasnt max ripple for the daemon portal, hah)

lol

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...

that wasnt...

.....there before

right

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lol
dropped my pearl in daemon

figured "ah well, it seems like daemon wasnt gonna be the route i wanted to take anyway, since i cant bring the vulture mask. guess ill just hop around and get a smidge more mapping done and..."

....well.
found the pearl on the map.

i fell in an infinite loop
but the pearl didnt
l m a o

well, prolly not leaving OR via daemon, just cause i wanna keep my mask if possible

gonna go see if that thing up by the OG dialwarp does anything when im at max ripple

hm. didnt do anything.

guess ill just dial back to shattered xD

(dang though. woulda been a convenient way to get back to torrential

..hm

i wonder if those ripplespawn eggs respawn >->

8v

new and interesting thing, that i noticed on the dialwarp map
iunno if its there on the other maps yet

not.... feathers.

ok yeah its on the sleep map too

...are ripplespawn eggs finite resources?? >->

[winged schooner]

I dunno if that's a rhetorical question or not lol

[winged schooner]

oh wait, what specifically?

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ah- i asked it in the usual stream-of-consciousness style i tend to do in this thread xD
but also I wouldn't mind getting an answer xD

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a new ???
but dead center

im assuming that's the thing in the tower that wouldnt open, max ripple or not

[winged schooner]

ahh I see

I'm not telling you what that is yet... hehe

Gotta find stuff out!

[winged schooner]

But also I could answer this behind a spoiler tag, maybe!

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would be makin my way over to fetid for last echo... but first i gotta make it to torrential to drop off the double pearl xDD

[winged schooner]

||they seem to come back after a bit! I dunno by what metric, but they're not finite||

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but used my dialwarp on gettin to shattered (coulda used daemon, but i wanted to keep my vulture mask)

ah, ok! maybe ill end up with enough for another dial warp soon xD

me: im gonna go to torrential!
also me: immediately gets halfway through salination before i realize this aint the right direction

mmm. ah well.
i wouldnt be able to use a grapple worm, hold the pearl, AND hold the mask

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i do like that there's reason to take the scenic routes, or even routes you havent taken too often, instead of trying to go the fastest way possible or fasttravel xD

might pick up ripplespawn along the way

...

i could

paint cannister

these invisible mushrooms

.....

damn. wish id grabbed one. lol.

on one hand...
if it werent for this, i wouldnt have noticed this was some kind of quadruple shelter!

but on the other
im very glad I never tried to store anything important here xD

[winged schooner]

Wait I never knew that could even happen 🥹

I stored like 10 billion things while I was there and they never seemed to spill over, but I guess you're never truly safe lol

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woke up next cycle and they were all in a neat, tidy pile in my part of the shelter xD

made it to ST, and got my favorite ST dialogue

time for AU

...uh

...

game crashed

crashed once, and i was like "aight whatever"

crashed a second time, same spot

...right outside the, uh. the shelter i stored the OR pearls in : I

ok
waited a second before walking into the room

same tile

...uhh

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ok maybe its the amount of time spent in the room

[winged schooner]

uh-oh

what shelter was it again?

[winged schooner]

huh

I dunno what's making your game crash there, but hopefully it'll work out eventually

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ok didnt work when i entered from the other side, either...
tried restarting the system
tried sheltering in the region (previously was coming straight here from shattered)

oh

no i have an pretty good idea

guess where the OR pearl(s) are

welp
...
back to torrential, anyway! x'D i guess!

[modest charm]

Wtf

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last time i saw this

wait wrong chat lol

wait, right chat, lol

...

im gonna go in the shelter

im so curious

oh

...
it reset itself

now the only thing in there is the mask I brought, and the bluefruit I brought

....
also no other masks.

...which. fair

those were (unintentionally) duped masks

lmao, could even be that the mask i brought in was deleted, and the mask that was in here is all that remained

this was the shelter I got this mask from xD

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oh, hm
found the spider again while passing through signal spires o:

sorry spider, gon have to wait

got other stuff to do first

holy shit i just saw THE most STRAWBERRY of scavengers

straight up thought it WAS a strawberry

[winged schooner]

absolute 🍓

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more bizarre shelter shenanigans

made it to shrouded

got to my usual go-to shelter

....the duped vulture mask WAS present!

...

outside the shelter

(?????????)

[winged schooner]

ok what in the world is even happening

this is some of the strangest stuff I've heard happen

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broseph, look at this shit

omg

maybe ill make another thread just to document the absolute like. bizarre variety of glitches ive encountered.

"what in the name of ubisoft is wrong with this copy of the game" as someone put it once

[winged schooner]

indeed 🥹

Your copy might be haunted by some mischievous creature

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oh its definitely haunted by at least one pole plant, over in my gourmand save

also
forgot to post this one but

huh.
...
did that pearl, like.
respawn.

...
i mean acrually
i probably did have that one in the shelter, a few rooms further down to the right

which was empty when i got to it

saw paste in pillars!! <3

also a bizarrely minty scav
like, yorkshire mint with the brown chocolate and the green tips

very pretty! only saw em in the dark, but might pass em by in the light

also a SCRUNGLY lil bastard. big ol bobble head tiny body.

separate scav is the scrungly

made it through pillars without a crash, at least!

...though around the point where it would have crashed, had a brand new visual happen 8D;;;

[winged schooner]

ah, always gotta be something lol

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wasnt thinking it was a glitch
but
was very knowingly risking it to take a video. lmao.

psure it was a visual for "yayyy you did it you got a lotta ripple"

[winged schooner]

Still, hige news for another Swtich player I know! Will spread the news in a bit

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oh, that pillars didnt crash? 8o

[winged schooner]

oh wait that one, yeah, that's not a glitch thankfully

(though it's kinda glitchily applied with some objects, but eh)

[winged schooner]

Yup! They had like a dozen crashes there

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oh yeah! absolutely have them give it a shot, maybe there was some kinda patch/update/something

i know something changed up xD even if there isnt an official patch announcement

yeah id always crash like

riiight arounddd

here, if i tried to take the long way around (for some reason????)

to get to the shelter

better have a spear to get up there
(i mean. prolly woulda crashed anyway. but humans are patternfinders and i was hunting for patterns )

or around one of those jumps up there. prolly the one with the lil bridge. usually it was when i got to the top.
i think theres a poleplant around there? def would see it grabbed by a frog frequently

(and around there was a ripplespawn, that was the last one I needed apparently xD so i started mcfreakin g l o w i n g, while i was heavily braced for a crash)

[winged schooner]

I feel like that's both close to the room with ten billion frogs and ten billion melons, makes sense that'd be quite the crash-heavy area

Hooray for that seemingly being fixed! Maybe!

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i heard there was something about like, scavengers trading amongst themselves causing crashes sometimes

def had that happen at the toll in aether once xD

but omg
i had to do such a detour to avoid pillars

i was half considering just like, entirely using dial warp to get back to Torrential every time i wanted to grab a pearl from the stash

maybe i wont have to though! xD

[winged schooner]

yay! You won't have to worry about game-breaking bugs happening while just trying to get around as much as before 🥹

yeah, this is ... quite the situation

The patience of switch players such as you is incredibly impressive to me, full respect for dealing with all that

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...

bWU

...

hEN_LO?_

PERDONAMÉ SCUSI WHAT

[winged schooner]

DID ALL THE SHELTERS JUST GET ILL FROM ALL THE GLITCHINESS AND VOMIT EVERYTHING OUT??????????????????? 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

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I GUESS

...ALSO ALL MY VANILLA PEARLS ARE IN ANOTHER SHELTER IN TORRENTIAL

IM GONNA HAVE TO RUN THERE TOO, L M A O

...

oh geez what if thats what happened with the salination shelter

[winged schooner]

maybe??

Did you say the game crashed while in the room there outside the shelter, or outside that room too?

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no idea, it could be an amount of ways that the dupe pearl could have done it
but also maybe getting vomited out of the shelter could have factored iunno

only happened once i entered the room

[winged schooner]

huh, and after a short delay, too?

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usually had time for a few steps before it crashed
though didnt require me to move at all before crashing

at one point i just sat in the pipe for a few seconds

lol maybe ill take a phone video. lol.
not like i can take a screenshot x'D

[winged schooner]

There's probably some useful info there for figuring this out, but I'm not a figurer-outer in this field of glitchiness

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lol yup

in the meantime
time to gather EVERY COLORED PEARL IN THE GAME (so far, and excluding one)

oh
also found another white pearl, placed default-style

[winged schooner]

Probably time for me to do that myself at some point soon, though I also have other plans before then

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on my way over, back in pillars

[winged schooner]

oh, huh

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thats two so far xD

[winged schooner]

Like, a regular pearl but placed in a specific spot like coloured ones?

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yeah, like this one

...

we uh
we playin number blocks now, or

ah, ah, ah!
two snails!
ah, ah, ah! three squidcadas!

oh geez.
i forgot. that i had broadcast pearls in here.

....well, i know how many uh. colored pearls there are.

....how many broadcast pearls did i have????

...hmmm ok that i can actually find out, prolly. if i go back to earlier posts in this thread.

dang though. uh. guess ill have to stash these in the nearby shelter, not the shelter with the rest of them

dont think id have time to ferry them all

....i wonder if an update like. reset everything's positions?

and with "keep key items" checked.

did somethin. iunno! x'D

...still says theres a lizard and three squidcadas in here. lol.

aight cool, it was 9

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...had a whole lot to say about ambiance and how the sewers in AU are really really good at making you suddenly feel like a lil sewer cat that woke up from a crazy grand dream

still do have a lot to say about that

...
but the game just crashed @v@

i made the wrong choice. and walked to not the shelter.
when i could have saved @v@;;;

and saved rhe map progress i just spent a good hot minute making 8'D

but
for now
..... break time, hungry, lol

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aight, did a smidge more watcherin, callin it for the day xD

got two broadcast pearls to AU (I think those count as white pearls or common pearls, if theyre faded out the way they are?) and the shaded citadel pearl

broadcast pearls were pmuch just a still image
but the shaded pearl was... something @-@

ill prolly post it with the video spoiler'd

(also omg when it crashed the first time, it sent me all the way back to torrential )

[winged schooner]

Very much appreciated! I'll probably get it myself in another playthrough

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grabbed that one pearl in the open sky sewer area in AU, got it to the first shelter under the elevator shaft
....and then game crashed nearly at the reader room x'''D
so, callin it breaktime for now =v=

[sturdy beacon]

np! figured id put all the pearl screenrecordings under spoilertags, even the common ones xD

so far ive only seen three things
(was one of the ones you saw the AU one? o: or did you bring that one from somewhere else?)

[winged schooner]

Yeah, there's a lot of nonlinearity of when someone could see those and in what order, good idea!

[winged schooner]

I also brought another one! Specifically, uhh, lemme check if you've found it

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I can answer this immediately:
yes

lol

[winged schooner]

🥹 indeed

The Fetid Glen one!

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i was holding off on AU til i had all the pearls, specifically xD

goshhhh though
tag me if/when you bring the OR one @-@
iunno when ill be able to get to that one x'''D

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oh fr??? 8v with the ||iterator||?

[winged schooner]

I'll keep that in mind!

[winged schooner]

||That one wasn't the iterator one actually||

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ohhhh
ok yeah i was boutta be like,
i thought that one was gonna be ||the one i just found here|| xD

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mmk : I

within 3 seconds of entering a room, adjacent to where i have pearls stored

counted em on the speed run timer

...game crashes :I;;;

...or at least. this is what happened in the room with the shelter, directly outside of the pearl reading room :I;;;;

i dont want to find this pattern :I;;;;

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turned off key item tracking

made it to the room

no crashes

gonna see if thet works for OR's pearls in salination

but for now
bedtimeeeee

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some illustrated points for the bug reporting thread ive got

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found a few other similar issues

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anyway
i should be back to actual game-playing now, and less bug hunting xD

speaking of bugs arachnids

i wonder if the spider shows up after youve gotten every ripple egg in a region

definitely got every one of them in torrential, then saw the spider appear on the last one

(current plan is, collect enough ripple eggs for a dial warp, nab some pearls from torrential, take torrential's daemon to AU, deposit pearls, and then dialwarp back to torrential. or anywhere adjacent to torrential xD)

i dont think ripple eggs happen in AU? at least, i havent noticed any

so if i wanna warp out, ill need to have some ahead of time

...or a karma flower

but honestly, i forget how manual warps work ._. i never really used em

was too scared of spreading rot in 1.0 xD

do they persist? / are two-way? cause that would be useful ngl

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(non-rhetorical)

[winged schooner]

Oh, yeah, I can answer if you want non-rhetorical answers lol
do they persist: ||no, they become unusable after 5 cycles||
are they two-way: ||yeah, manual warps are two way! Dial warps are probably also meant to be, but every time I've tried going back through one the game softlocked, so uhh, not those. But normal flower warps are good!||

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ohh, ok!
||manual warps persist||, though?

also

[winged schooner]

||manual warps persist for a few cycles before becoming unusable, yeah||

Though since you're talking about AU, should mention ||any portals you create out of there instantly fully disappear, as opposed to stayin open and becoming inactive||

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also holy shit look at this absolute naked mole rat

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lol yup. just figured that out.
thought i could cheese it. but nah.

AU too sacred for this portal bullshit

(or, maybe it's the dream shared by too many sentient / attuned things, to be as affected by portals)
(not so far out on the fringes, like watcher's home reality/dream/whatever)

also, a thought i had. forgot til now.
was thinking about karma scavengers i saw in OR, how i never really get attached to em like i do most regional scavengers
I don't have any "omg this guy from this one region" for them

wonder if its the masks

i dont really see their faces. theyre all kinda anonymous.

....
kinda like the intent of bone masks, originally xD at least, according to that one vanilla pearl

abate the identity. but actually succeeding at it, unlike the benefactors

(abate feels like the wrong word but ill think of a better word later. subvert also feels like the wrong word. but yall know what i mean)

had the thought when i ran into a scav templar with like, RED red fur
and was like
woah
first scav templar/disciple that i can actually recognize / distinguish on sight

then was like. huh.

maybe thats the point o:

[sturdy beacon]

...wait. I don't even need a karma flower.
i can just. get one in daemon. lol.

huh... ok weird and bizarre.
only one pearl is coming with me to daemon, despite holding two

oh. ok.
this time I took two colored pearls instead of two broadcast (one would disappear) or a broadcast and a colored (broadcast would disappear)

both came through

...aight?

...weird.
the dial warp i'd used to leave AU last time was still there
so I tried it out

sent me to shrouded though, not torrential xD

[winged schooner]

what??????????? 🥹

Like, yeah I should mention if I haven't already, dial warps are super broken, but what????

[sturdy beacon]

aaaaand-- still shrouded again xD even has the lil icon for it before i go through

ah well. works for me. shrouded is close to torrential. i was going to just karmawarp somewhere random, but this works too!

maybe when the portal eventually closes, ill re-open another, see if it does anything different

but ay, got the outskirts pearl and the industrial pearl to AU! and one more broadcast pearl

prolly will be taking the broadcast pearls with me via gullet, and carrying colored pearls

which means, next trip i take the gold chimney canopy pearl 👀

...
and a random watcher region pearl

...

it will genuinely be random

ancients love their slightly-2°-of-difference purples

prolly callin it for the night, I got opening shift tomorrow and i should be smart about sleeping xD

[sturdy beacon]

who is she @-@

[sturdy beacon]

spent some time in pillars to get a recent ID for a lizard for someone on the ID-finding server, so they could find the diva

and back to pearl commute!

...
may have made a mistake, though. lol.

dont have enough for a dial warp

and lost my karma flower to the jump before the pearl room

hm

wonder if i can badwarp

anyway, got another broadcast pearl delivered, the chimney canopy gold pearl, and...
....a green one? not OR green. but i forget where I got any of these, tbh xD

huh, badwarped straight to OR! ...Ill take it, lol.

[sturdy beacon]

got the OR pearl(s) out of salination!

took both OG and duplicate to AU. lol.
not that i can tell em apart at this point. or that it matters xD

very pretty green tho <3

twin pearls.

badwarped to OR (man tho, ive GOT to shelter before doin that xI in case i end up below the cliff again >~>;;;), took Daemon back to Sherrace

coulda sworn I had a full dialwarp. but im off by a few, it seems.

maybe ill find enough in salination, and i can set up a dialwarp to torrential. would be convenient, lol.

though dialwarps fade the same way regular warps fade, right? so id have to shelter less.
(always gotta shelter in AU, before the jumps though @-@ im so inconsistent with them)

i think i got... one more broadcast pearl? and then its time to start moving aaaaaall the watcher pearls from torrential to AU xD
ive grabbed one from the stash, when i took the chimney canopy and one of the broadcasts there

... y'know, i still dont know why bringing two broadcasts at a time worked once, and then didnt work again ._. weird!

(i guess the only thing that happened was that i toggled the key items thing afterwards. who knows. shrugs.)

[winged schooner]

Huh, odd.
I've had some issues myself with bringing things to AU. Maybe toggling that setting will work for me, too?

But, yeah, good luck with the pearl transportation!

[sturdy beacon]

...
hello salination pearl
in salination
in the default spot that the salination pearl is in

...BOY HOWDY AM I GLAD I THAT I ALREADY GOT EVERY PEARL.
ACCOUNTED FOR. AND IN A SPOT.

...CAUSE I THINK MAYBE EVERY PEARL GOT DUPLICATED BACK TO DEFAULT 8D;;;

at least the pearls ive already collected werent reset but
LOL...

[sturdy beacon]

also did yall know that anglerfish have red eyes when they come out of the water

cause i didnt

but also got some goodass footage of em xD

(three more ripplespawn, then i can set up a dialwarp! gonna set it up from salination to torrential)

[sturdy beacon]

horrifying
spectacular

some neat 3D-ish turnarounds on this guy

less cool : I

... surprised it even let me screenshot that.

game also crashed when i tried to go to sherrace from daemon... had pearls in hand and everything =3= crashed during the warp...

rn im sheltered in salination, with a dialwarp ready to go to torrential
plan is to do that, grab pearls, daemon to sherrace, sherrace to AU, and shelter in the elevator shaft. all in one cycle.

then i can die as many times as i need to, getting across that gap to the pearl room xD

then

• badwarp to OR
• OR to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to salination
• salination to torrential
• torrential to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to AU
• shelter

...i wonder how many portals I can go through before i start gettin badwarp effects now >->

cause its more than it used to be xD

...but I don't think itll be that much! x'D

if dialwarps stay open for... what, 5-ish cycles? give or take?
lessee

• dialwarp created, salination to torrential (get 3 porl)
• torrential to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to AU
• shelter

1 cycle elapsed

• (read & deposit porl) AU badwarp to OR
• OR to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to salination
• salination to torrential (get 3 porl)
• torrential to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to AU
• shelter

2 cycles

• (read & deposit porl) AU to OR
• OR to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to salination
• salination to torrential (get 3 porl)
• torrential to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to AU
• shelter

k thats 3 cycles there

• (read & deposit porl) AU to OR
• OR to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to salination
• salination to torrential (get 3 porl)
• torrential to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to AU
• shelter

4 cycles, there

• (read & deposit porl) AU to OR
• OR to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to salination
• salination to torrential (get 3 porl)
• torrential to daemon
• daemon to sherrace
• sherrace to AU
• shelter

and 5. prolly last i can do with the dialwarp. we'll see if it lasts that long.

though, the other thing is.

....that's 8 warps a cycle @v@;;;

1- surviving the whole trek
2- do i even have that many warps before i start having Bad Times?

also i guess, i wonder if warping to/from daemon or badwarping to OR counts...

if not counting OR, that's 7
if not counting daemon, that's... far less actually, just the sherrace-salinarion and salination-torrential

hm

...of course, i also need the game to not crash during that time

how many pearls do i have to transport. like, 15? 16?

i mean. if i could do that whole deal in one go. i could use the same dialwarp to torrential for all of them.

3x5
(though i got that one broadcast, so one of those ill just have to trek back to torrential xD)

welp. was hoping to get one batch of pearls to AU tonight, but between getting the dialwarp setup and also game crashing twice, didnt get to

but hey! if the game stops crashing, i might have them all done soon xD

then i suppose it'll be time to meet spinning top x'D

[sturdy beacon]

...

bwAUGH

HAHAHA

I made it all the way through that list

...and fell off a cliff in sherrace

welp. at least i made it that far.

....time to try again |D

(dang. and id gottan the AU parkour bit first try! x'D)

notable that the game chugged a bit as i entered the room that crashed last time, but... was able to keep going at least

wonder what it is about that room in TR

Or maybe its the fact that theres a dialwarp nearby

...

HAHAHA i hit "continue" on the game over screen and it crashed.

rude

...

cough

[sturdy beacon]

mmk...
so, made it to my dialwarp back in salination

but it took me to... aerial tramway? :/

i mean. only one away from TR. sure, ill take it.

cept then it crashed when i went through the portal to TR =v= (got a few steps into the room at least, but bweh

prolly wont be doing much dialwarping =v=

SIGHHH

TIME TO PARKOUR AGAIN...

if nothing else, i at least got the last broadcast pearl, and two watcher pearls to AU! (or, will, when i get a spot that lets me save xDD)

one really vivid purple one, real magenta-y highlight
and a soft foresty green

one of them, ive seen before online somewhere! i really like it.
the other, I haven't o:
and the broadcast...
...if they are white pearl equivalents...
...||i think i got pearl recursion. LOL.||

[modest charm]

Great one to get 🥹 lucky roll there

[sturdy beacon]

the ||recursion|| one? xD

lmao yeah

also wooo
abandoning my prev strat of dialwarps, since... they dont stay consistent... x'D
but, used a karma warp from sherrace, and made it to shrouded. then to pillars and to TR. prolly will just do it that way at this point

though, kinda curious if the dialwarp i left in TR is still there...

either way. finally got some pearls to AU. and plan on getting af least one more commute xD
i can whittle away at this bit by bit!

[winged schooner]

yeah, dialwarps are... really glitchy and odd sometimes 🥹

Every time I've returned through one I made before, the game just completely freezes

(except for music and some visual effects, but yeah)

Anyway, good luck with all the transportation!

[sturdy beacon]

hm
yeah i think going through from the other side is still borked

looks familiar to some screenshots of borked dialwarps xD

[modest charm]

When l got dial warp ability and was instructed to do it my game just outright crashed

Legitimate softlock

[winged schooner]

what in the world 🥹

[modest charm]

After several tries l devtooled out of the room to interrupt the sequence

[sturdy beacon]

yeah it crashed for me the first time, too xD

looks familiar?

[modest charm]

The cause of this has since been patched, apparently you couldn't use it without graphics being on High

I also couldn't use the Regions tab in the literal main menu

[sturdy beacon]

hmmm
i guess for now, dialwarping is good for a single use karma wa--
oh huh.

[winged schooner]

Yep, this looks exactly how it happens whenever I tried that (minus the slowdown)

[sturdy beacon]

...
im curious now

[winged schooner]

Like, the sequence?

Or dialwarp returns? Because I still have issues with those

[modest charm]

The selection menu with the world orb was the issue

[sturdy beacon]

hm. where do i change the graphics, again?

[peak cedar]

when i first tried using it the game forgot to spawn my character in and it just showed i died even after i used a command to respawn them. On my end this bug persisted even after i restarted. And yes, all of these attempts were added to my death count

[winged schooner]

Options menu... though, wait

Is that possible to even do on console???

Might be a PC-specific thing iirc

in which case,

[sturdy beacon]

yeah i dont see anything on options ._.

ah well

[modest charm]

Whatever causes your current issues wouldn't be related to that anyway

[sturdy beacon]

back to daemon!!! xDD

[modest charm]

[winged schooner]

Console options menu is barren, it's so empty 🥹

I don't remember it, but I've seen screenshots

Almost nothing there

[modest charm]

This was a very particular and different bug that's dead now

[winged schooner]

That's good, at least

[modest charm]

But yeah I've never used dialwarps since it's evil

Not that l ever wanted to either

I've also never used passages ever in other campaigns

I enjoy just walking the way and watcher makes journeys even easier

[winged schooner]

Honestly a pretty cool way of doing it! Walking the distance to get around is usually a pretty nice experience

[modest charm]

Only time I've ever used passages was in jolly coop with my partner to not put em through the hours long fetch quest hells

[winged schooner]

I just use dial warps to go directly from point A to B and ignore them afterwards, whenever I need them for any of my mapping shenanigans

[modest charm]

But if I'm alone I'm walkin

[winged schooner]

Rain World: The Walker

[sturdy beacon]

aight pearls on the menu today areeee....

...looks like another green and another purple! xD
and some kinda, uh.... dual colored, iridescent blue-purple. like a shell kinda iridescent.

yeah, i do kinda like the walking, ngl x)
also gets me opportunity to go ripple spawn collecting

lol i have no idea where any of these pearls are from

[winged schooner]

yeahh walking and exploring and gathering ripplespawn, and taking in the atmosphere(s)... that's fun stuff, right there

[sturdy beacon]

i think i brought the badlands one already? whichever one was the like. SUPER VIBRANT highlight on purple.

also its kinda more relaxing, exploring that way x)
I know how to get from point A to point B, a lot
but in general, i have the usual routes planned out, and ive walked em a hundred times

rolling up into a room very off the beaten path is fun

[winged schooner]

explorin' and finding stuff... honestly, there's nothing quite like it, it's awesome

But uh yeah, good luck with pearl stuff! We shall be Watching

[sturdy beacon]

ah dang. pearl rolled away as i portaled outta daemon to sherrace xD
aight, re-doing that. another randomization of which pearl im taking along xD

also def dont mind getting to shelter more frequently, with this method

so when i roll off a cliff or yeet pearls into the void, its less of a "omg i gotta do all that AGAIN" if i gotta reset somewhere

...also, i suppose its about time i start using karma warps

bonus cat
because he's here
and is very eepy and cute

[winged schooner]

EEPY KITTY

[sturdy beacon]

sooooooooo eepyyyyy

[winged schooner]

and yeah, sounds like a good pearl transport method

[winged schooner]

wow, a super eepy cat... he's just like me fr

[sturdy beacon]

10/10 toe touch

my console has to charge and im killing time. lol

[winged schooner]

ah right, almost forgot about the charging lol

been a while since I used my switch

At least you also get the mental recharge of hanging out with eepy cat

[sturdy beacon]

got a purple pearl, a yellow pearl, and a iridescent-ish blue pearl this time!

i think... was the ||blue|| one from ||torrid||, i wonder.
just. for a vibe.

...where was this purple one from, though o-o

that one is... interesting

I TOOK THE RAT TO OR

...
AND THE ROTTED CYAN THAT'S ALSO HERE IS
ALSO HERE

and ate it

...
and then ate me 8)

[sturdy beacon]

oh, lucky
the karmawarp in sherrace that took me to shrouded is still here

au to or
or to daemon
daemon to sherrace
sherrace to shrouded
shrouded to pillars
pillars to torrential

and then maybe after getting to torrential, the warp jetlag started to hit xD

[sturdy beacon]

next batch: got another iridescent looking blue, a very pale yellow, and another purple with... a blue shadow? and a real vibrant purple highlight

...oh! 8o pale yellow is neat...

iridescent blue is also neat!

purple is
....

i am enjoying this

hm. i think i have 5 left...

oh

lOL

lol

I was intending to badwarp to OR

But i had a karma flower

anyway im in DT now

...

how
do i get to TR from here.........

(coral caves maybe?)

lol the DT pearl is here, too

hm, RW had a lot of those squares that you have to jump across, same that OR has xD

fun to notice similarities

[sturdy beacon]

....WHAT QAQ

WHAT

WHEN DID PILLARS GET ROTTED QAQ

hOW

i never went there from anywhere rotte--

oh

oh 8c

i did 8c

if
you go somewhere
from a rotted region

every region
in that cycle

...omgggg.

i absolutely spread so much rot 8'I

not resting after being in OR

....WELL QvQ

I GUESS... I WANTED TO TRY FOR ENDING B, ANYWAY....

also, finally witnessing feathers |'D

bueh

pillars, TR, and shrouded

[sturdy beacon]

...someone in pillars sunk a BEAUTIFUL shot, from across the room, with an explosive spear, straight into my slugskull

didnt mean to. there were like, 3 lizards right on top of me =v=

this feels like karmic justice though.
for uh
whatever im doing to pillars by rotting it TTvTT

(suppose i would have rotted pillars last, at least...)

[sturdy beacon]

bah! why'd it crash...???

also.... yknow, last time i was in TR, i was wonderin if the place seemed a lil ourple... |D

figured it was just all the ripplespawn

now that im there again though, one of those rot trees is there =v= right in the way of the pretty window outside my pearl shelter.
im like.
rude. how dare.

well... i must have gotten the rot to TR from pillars
and pillars from shrouded
and shrouded from the karma warp from shattered
which i got to from OR

aight, made it to AU with three more pearls.

one more trip after this!

aight, got a green one, a purple one, and a periwinkle

i think periwinkle was from desolate tract
just a hunch

also, hm...
psure i saw the dialwarp in TR get closed right as i passed it

interesting

oh, feathers is in sherrace? huh!

[sturdy beacon]

also, interesting that you can still see rot particles in misty step!

also, that rot tree was bigger in another cycle... odd!

as unfortunate as it is that pillars is rotted...
...
im also very curious. what those weird rot blooms will look like.

huh, this pearl looks like it keeps changing colors xD
light purple or dark almost black purple..

purple one was neat!
did i get that one in fetid? I don't remember...
definitely not verdant, i remember that one was yellowish?

but anyway...
i guess that's all of the pearl trek done! xD

[sturdy beacon]

...finished mapping AU
went to see spinny
...
game crashed the room before the shelter

8v

i knew that i would be taking a risk by not sleeping

but
screms

[sturdy beacon]

MAPPING: redone
SHELTER: accomplished

UNLOCKS: gotten

[sturdy beacon]

bored at work. lol.
planning what to do next in-game...

suppose i oughta pay a visit to the throne! xD

see where we are on that
not sure what the progression checkpoints are
but theres like... at least three? rotted regions?

(godddd though, LOL...)

(getting jumpscared by seeing pillars rotted... and shrouded... and TR....)

(and the slow realization of the "if you go to multiple regions after visiting a rotted region. those regions will also have the rot spread to it")

didnt matter that i took daemon to get out of OR

id gone straight to other places right after =v=

guess im goin on a roadtrip!

[sturdy beacon]

outer rim lookin a lil...

gloobier than before

[sturdy beacon]

aight, that's fetid and DT down

also holy shit

saw the BLUEST fuckin blue lizard

like 0000FF blue

...gave it an eggbug
maybe we'll be friends : D

[sturdy beacon]

we're frieeeeeeends : D

...however, lil blue lizard
you do not want to come with me, to where im going

bah. game crashed.

maybe I was doing too much jumping

ah well. this is fine.

didnt really want one of these throne warps to be in salination, anyway xD

[sturdy beacon]

got sent somewhere that WASNT decaying tunnels! 8o

...
somehow, I feel like I should have known that purple daddy long legs also wouldnt have disappeared while misty stepping

holy visual glitch batman

...huh?

i didnt rot heat ducts?

bizarre...

ah- guess i didnt warp from a rotted room

slept in salination, but. well, didnt pass by a rotted room xD ...if that factors, hah

for the thing with shrouded snd tr and pillars, i guess id gone straight from OR to daemon to sherrace to shrouded to pillars to TR, all on one go

[sturdy beacon]

huh. found another shelter where some of my stuff is just... outside. lol.

vulture mask in turbulent

welp! at any rate.
throne warp took me to verdant, and in the same cycle i swung by turbulent and heat ducts.

got those three done

quite a few more....

🌻 shrouded coast
🌻 pillar grove
🌻 torrential railways
🌻 fetid glen
🌻 salination
🌻 desolate tract
🌻 verdant waterways
🌻 turbulent pump
🌻 heat ducts

🔜 signal spires
🔜 the surface
🔜 torrid desert
🔜 stormy coast
🔜 sunlit stacks
🔜 fractured gateways
🔜 badlands
🔜 aether ridge
🔜 coral caves
🔜 rusted wrecks
🔜 migration path

dang, i see what everyone means about having their work cut out for them when doing this! xD

[sturdy beacon]

the inside of the daemon tower in OR is beating like a heart

this is surely a visual glitch

but

ok i figured out now that the other glitch was probably because of the daemon portal in the room above

but uh

UH

Im

just gonna post this one

[sturdy beacon]

oh also have the daemon tower beating like a heart
(figured out what it was from, most likely)
(but still. lol.)

[sturdy beacon]

tv snow

[sturdy beacon]

🌻 shrouded coast
🌻 pillar grove
🌻 torrential railways
🌻 fetid glen
🌻 salination
🌻 desolate tract
🌻 verdant waterways
🌻 turbulent pump
🌻 heat ducts
🌻 the surface

🔜 signal spires (dialwarp? or Daemon > ST > SS?)
🔜 torrid desert (maybe 4th portal?)
🔜 stormy coast (same as Signals)
🔜 sunlit stacks (DT > RW > SS)
🔜 fractured gateways (?TD > BL > FG)
🔜 badlands (?TD > BL)
🔜 aether ridge (?TD > AR)
🔜 coral caves (DT > RW > CC)
🔜 rusted wrecks (DT > RW)
🔜 migration path (?TD > BL > MP)

last throne warp took me to torrid, bu the game had crashed
took the DT throne portal to the surface, and headed back to save progress
prolly gonna do the same, and head to RW

[sturdy beacon]

got more dialogue from the prince earlier
so im at 9 now, i think

wait im at 10 if my list is right

(hard to tell with the globe map xDD)

dont think id gotten dialogue when i woke up... and only infected one? i think?
hmmm
well, we'll see when i get home xD

next plan is to take DT's throne portal to rusted wrecks, and return and sleep
and see if i get any dialogue

then ill take the same trip from DT to RW to Sunlit

[sturdy beacon]

huh.
bizarre.

also, god. what a place for a portal.
i was drowning x'''D
(so many leeches came through.... o-o i have a clip actually-- but ill have to grab it tomorrow)

wao

also-- grabbed a perfectly timed screenshot in arena, apparently. ill toss this here, too

SO BLUE!!!!!
we're friends ovo

....or, were ;v;

lizard became rotted
which was fine, still my friend
but when i came back recently, couldnt find em :'I

i think another lizard got em.....

im seeing another blue
but its not the same blue x'I

mostly grabbed some still shots

[winged schooner]

why does this feel like a creepypasta 🥹

[sturdy beacon]

thats what everyone's sayin xDDD

yknow

youre always like
geez creepypasta character
how could you NOT know your game was haunted

but honestly

(especially with older games or bootlegs, like in most creepypasta, actually)

sometimes
a game is playable
but with some jank
and you just... learn to live with it xDDD

like the texture junk in the bg, i dont even notice it now xDD

but yeah i feel less judgy toward the ben drowned guy. lol.

yknow. i also had a copy of pokemon red that my partner got me when we were teenagers

and it just... got progressively more and more janked up ._.

textures were fucked

i had a mew (abra glitch)

and if i opened my pokemon's stats to where the "cry" would play, the game would scream and freeze |D

which was... inconvenient.
cause i wanted to do more glitches, namely the ones that involved the special stat

and I could only find out what a pokemon's special stat was upon leveling up, in-battle xD cause i couldn't open the out-of-battle stats
so I had to keep notes xDD

but yeah sometimes you have a glitchy ass game and youre like "yeah ok-- anyway though, lemme work on the next level"

[winged schooner]

Yeah, haven't thought about it that way before. Fascinating stuff for sure!

[sturdy beacon]

wait--
hAHAHA

cycle 420 blaze it

also dang. 4th throne portal doesnt lead me to torrid anymore

shoulda locked that in xD

easy badlands commute

[sturdy beacon]

got sunlit, made it back to the throne
(thank goodness it saved as being in the throne, cause it crashed right as the shelter closed @-@)

weird, but one of the visual glitches this time looked kinda like a food pip xD

ill have to upload that later

🌻 shrouded coast
🌻 pillar grove
🌻 torrential railways
🌻 fetid glen
🌻 salination
🌻 desolate tract
🌻 verdant waterways
🌻 turbulent pump
🌻 heat ducts
🌻 the surface
🌻 rusted wrecks
🌻 sunlit port
🌻 torrid desert

🔜 signal spires (dialwarp? or Daemon > ST > SS?)
🔜 stormy coast (same as Signals)
🔜 fractured gateways (TD > BD > FG)
🔜 badlands (TD > BD)
🔜 aether ridge (TD > AR)
🔜 coral caves (DT > RW > CC)
🔜 migration path (TD > BD > MP)
🔜 cold storage (TD > BD > FG > CS)

...huh.

this thronewarp sent me to fetid ._.

i... okay, yeah?? xD
sent me like. two rooms away from the daemon portal and the OTHER fetid glen portal xDD

[sturdy beacon]

aight, ended up goin to verdant with a karma flower (had to make a decision, i was startin to run out of throne flowers xDD)
warped from the next room over from the portal in verdant, and made it to torrid! hell yeah.
and the badlands portal isnt far, its like two rooms down.

ill have to be a bit quick about it though. since karma portals arent as stable.

[sturdy beacon]

damn. was making good progress with it, got to aether then badlands, but then i missed a jump and fell under open sky in badlands x'D

skill issue

(though lol, i forgot that torrid also connects to the surface. went the wrong way at first.)

[sturdy beacon]

BRO....

BRO I MADE IT TO COLD STORAGE

FROM TORRID

AND THEN I FELL IN A ROT PATCH

sighhhhhhhhh

aight i said that would be my last attempt before i went and started some errands =3=

[sturdy beacon]

found out that once youve witnessed the last prince dialogue, any karmawarp automatically targets uninfected regions

gave the 4th throne room another try, got stormy

🌻 shrouded coast
🌻 pillar grove
🌻 torrential railways
🌻 fetid glen
🌻 salination
🌻 desolate tract
🌻 verdant waterways
🌻 turbulent pump
🌻 heat ducts
🌻 the surface
🌻 rusted wrecks
🌻 sunlit port
🌻 torrid desert
🌻 stormy coast
🌻 signal spires

🔜 fractured gateways (SC > CS > MP > BD > FG)
🔜 badlands (SC > CS > MP > BD)
🔜 aether ridge
🔜 coral caves (DT > RW > CC)
🔜 migration path (SC > CS > MP)
🔜 cold storage (SC > CS)

...

THE WHITE KING VULTURE

IS STILL ALIVE

I FUCKIN KNEW IT

PRINCE DUTIES ON HOLD, REGICIDE TIME

[sturdy beacon]

multiple things--

NEOPETS GHOST BRUSH IS STILL ALIVE

STRAWBERRY SCAV IS STILL ALIVE
STRAWBERRY SCAV HAS A SIBLING???
PURPLE SEALPOINT IS STILL ALIVE

these fuckers will never die ._.
took down a vulture on their own, claimed the mask, nobody died
held their own when the real target showed up, distracted it, and i was able to line up the perfect got dang explosive spear shot

i got the vulture mask : D

nobody died : D
(except the two vultures lol)

mmk mmk mmk
back to the throne

before more chaos befalls this region

..

...

...I STARVED???????

HOW..

okAY WELL I GUESS THAT DIDNT COUNT, COOL

holy shit they did it again

strawberry sibs

decimated two vultures

got the first mask. i got the second mask and gave it to em

...can you ricochet a spear off a wall into yourself

cause
maybe thats what i did
lol

maybe regicide later =v=

[sturdy beacon]

what even.

⚠️ strobing lights ⚠️

screen purposely darkened during strobing section

unedited clip

[winged schooner]

wtf

Ok we definitely need another patch as soon as possible, especially for switch

I wonder what even causes that??

Also good rotting progress

[sturdy beacon]

oh!
just saw the patch notes! 8o

some of it's for specifically nintendo switch-- once nintendo releases it anyway xD

but these all seem like good fixes!

ALSO MAYBE MIGRATION PATH MIGHT LOOK CORRECT QAQ

...too bad im boutta rot it. lol.

also checks out, "memory leak for extended play sessions".... yeah seems bout right

might also fix the scrambly rot texture

@winged schooner some spoilers in the patch notes tho, heads up

Hey Slugcats,

We released a patch which fixed a large number of memory leaks issues that could lead to the game crashing randomly over an extended play session, made a large number of miscellaneous performance optimizations, and more.

This might be the longest patch notes I have ever received. It takes up almost two pages in the Google Doc I am reading from. If you would like to read the full patch notes, you can read them below!

Patch Notes

• Fixed a large number of memory leak issues that could lead to the game crashing randomly over an extended play session (especially on the Nintendo Switch version).
  fuck yeah!!! ...this is probably what happened to mine so much!!! xD tryna go through like 4 regions in one go.....

• Made a large number of miscellaneous performance optimizations that should improve frame rates with some creatures or in certain areas of the game.
  nicenicenicenice

• Fixed color palettes rendering incorrectly inside ripple rifts and within the Migration Path region on the Nintendo Switch version of the game.
  YEAHHH WOOO BABY THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUTTTT

• Fixed flashing graphical artifacts that could randomly occur on the Nintendo Switch version of the game in the presence of Sentient Rot floater particles.
  Oh shit! i might even miss this. an everpresent presence. glad they finally figured out how to fix it though
• Fixed graphics sometimes glitching out for a single frame, or sand terrain colors glitching for a single frame, when switching between rooms or screens on the Nintendo Switch version of the game.
  wonder if this is something that happened with the tv snow? or-- nah no i know what this was actually
• Fixed some graphics and particle effects unintentionally rendering with solid square borders on PlayStation and Nintendo Switch versions of the game.
  not sure what this wa-- OH! the bits in migration path, i bet!
• Warp points now pull important key items from a larger radius so there's less chance of them accidentally getting left behind.
  yeeee lets goooo
• Relocated a couple player-generated warp target destinations so they won't ever spawn above bottomless bodies of water that can swallow player's important items after traveling through the warp.
  oh thats handy
• Fixed pearls not getting brought through the portal into Ancient Urban sometimes.
  woo!!!

and then the rest have some spoilers, that ill mark

[fickle bane]

wooo

[sturdy beacon]

• Fixed the ||map icon|| ||still showing a region as being rotted even after all rooms in that region have had their rot purified||.

• Fixed ||rot lizards|| ||still remaining as rotted on subsequent cycles even after the rot has been purified from the room they spawned in||.

• Fixed ||the Prince|| ||not giving the player the mark|| during Watcher's ||==========final==========|| ending sequence if the game was set to certain languages.
  edited length of what's under that spoiler, so you cant guess based off of word length

• Fixed additional issues with key item trackers that could cause the game to crash if loading into a room adjacent to another room with a tracked key item.
  yayyyyy ;-;

• Fixed rooms containing void spawns crashing the game in Jolly Co-op mode if Player 1 got killed in a way that despawns their corpse.

• Fixed the "Friends Sheltered" counter on the statistics screen always incrementing every cycle when Jolly Co-op is enabled, even if a friend wasn't sheltered that cycle.

• Fixed an occasional crash with Drill Crabs due to their data in the save file being saved incorrectly.

• Fixed one of the Watcher tutorial messages not having been translated outside of English.

• Fixed adult and baby sandgrub spawning working improperly in Sandbox mode, where the number of adults/babies placed didn't match the amount of adults/babies that actually spawned.

• Fixed two of the dens in the ||Drill Site|| arena being impossible to enter.
  ...wait this might be a downpour arena lol i need to check

• Fixed incompatibility between the Region Kit mod and Watcher's ||Vortex|| arena map.

• Fixed Sandbox mode issues shortly after disabling Watcher in Remix Menu, due to the Peach lizard sandbox unlock still being present in the absence of Watcher.

• Fixed the player needing to visit the Prince throne room more times than necessary, if they had previously visited the throne room with an insufficient ripple level.

• Fixed a possible ||unintentional Game Over scenario|| during Watcher's ||==========final==========|| ending due to ||ripple creatures||.

• Fixed certain Downpour tutorials never displaying if you had previously been shown the starvation tutorial during other slugcat campaigns.

• Excluded certain minor creatures like batflies, leeches, and coalescipedes from spawner tracking, which could cause the no creature spawning glitch to still occur in certain scenarios.
  oh!! nice!

• Another fix for whales in the Fractured Gateways region in which they could still spawn in invalid locations sometimes.
  whalefix lets go

• General fix for offscreen creatures like Miros Birds, etc, where they also could sometimes spawn in rooms or locations they're not meant to.

• Tweaked light sources in underwater sections of Fetid Glen to make them less of a photosensitivty issue, and provide better guidance for navigation around the maps.
  oh, i hadnt noticed this. to be honest, im so rarely underwater in fetid glen xDD

• Made some other miscellaneous small tweaks to some Aether Ridge rooms.
  hm :hunterthinking: i wonder where

• Fixed the Scavenger trader in Badlands missing their trading outpost.
  oh i heard someone mention this before

• Fixed Rattler creatures having their graphics glitch out briefly when first entering a room with them in it.

• Fixed some miscellaneous glitches that would occur depending on the timing or order of rooms getting unloaded.
  wonder how many of these i ran into..... :hunterkek:

• Made some miscellaneous additional crash fixes and additional safeguards for crashes based on reported crash logs.
  yayyyy

ill slap a spoilersasuke in here

just for anyone who might wanna skip past them

but i marked the patch notes with spoilers above

[winged schooner]

Thanks, I've heard there's some pretty spoilery stuff I haven't seen yet in those, appreciated

[sturdy beacon]

np!
yeah the stuff above spoilersasuke is marked with that in mind, you should be able to read em safely xD
(though i also added comments and im realizing that those space out messages weird. lol.)

messy, but safe xD

[sturdy beacon]

....bwaaaaaaaagh

i went to stormy, to cold storage, to migration path, to badlands, to fractured, back to badlands

sheltered

as lil guy was laying down-

game crashes

sure didnt save that one = v =

🌻 shrouded coast
🌻 pillar grove
🌻 torrential railways
🌻 fetid glen
🌻 salination
🌻 desolate tract
🌻 verdant waterways
🌻 turbulent pump
🌻 heat ducts
🌻 the surface
🌻 rusted wrecks
🌻 sunlit port
🌻 torrid desert
🌻 stormy coast
🌻 signal spires

🔜 fractured gateways (SC > CS > MP > BD > FG)
🔜 badlands (SC > CS > MP > BD)
🔜 aether ridge
🔜 coral caves (DT > RW > CC)
🔜 migration path (SC > CS > MP)
🔜 cold storage (SC > CS)

maybe im bein overly ambitious with the FG stuff =v=

...huh.

i used my dialwarp

and it sent me back to the throne room i just came from ._.

[sturdy beacon]

aight
dialwarped to fractured
working backwards this time

made it to badlands

followed the spider to the migration portal

...game crashed =v=

...aight, NEW STRATEGY.......

Brought karma flowers with me to stormy from the throne

dialwarped to fractured

made it to badlands

karma warped from badlands, made it to coral

karma warped from coral (with the extra flower I grabbed while in fractures), made it to aether

sheltered successfully

lesgooo

🌻 shrouded coast
🌻 pillar grove
🌻 torrential railways
🌻 fetid glen
🌻 salination
🌻 desolate tract
🌻 verdant waterways
🌻 turbulent pump
🌻 heat ducts
🌻 the surface
🌻 rusted wrecks
🌻 sunlit port
🌻 torrid desert
🌻 stormy coast
🌻 signal spires
🌻 fractured gateways
🌻 badlands
🌻 coral caves
🌻 aether ridge
🌻 cold storage
🌻 migration path

badwarp took me directly back to OR, lucky!

also lol
the rot blobs, with the connectionsnand stuff, look like those cables that run out of the starcatchers

the big ones with the big infrastructure

wonder if thats relevant

(also hm. was wondering where id seen those pillars in west badlands before. prolly a lot of places, but also noticed em in OR just now)

[sturdy beacon]

AIGHT

IT IS DONE

just sheltered in migration

[sturdy beacon]

bam
second ending completed

watchin the credits now

i always end up watching the full credits xD
i guess cause I don't see a rw playthrough to the end that often

sad to see the prince no longer plays u-u
wonder if he knows im playing
(... throwing a spear, that is. but yanno)

body is limited

also apparently the head doesnt have collision, aha

but you can jump on em

huh.
that last path at the bottom of the throne is still blocked.

wonder if thatll open eventually.

[sturdy beacon]

hm, surprising! the lobetrees (or lobetree lookin things) in pillars arent any different, despite the rot

[sturdy beacon]

made a new friend in DT ovo

not the same lizard

but a green lizard

...who immediately rotted ._.

...but is still my friend <3

[sturdy beacon]

yayyy, made it to three sleeps <3
hard to figure out how to get the green lizard back to the shelter though xDD

DEFINITELY lineaged a red centi somewhere along the way...

also, got stuck in a pipe when the green lizard tries to enter right as i left x'D

lost my tail for a second ._.

also though

backflips without a tail are kinda hilarious looking

[sturdy beacon]

game crashed as i got to a shelter again, but this time it was after it recognized a successful cycle x'D lol

[sturdy beacon]

...

wasnt

wasnt there a shelter in aerial tramway

or am i thinking of something else

oh

im not in aerial tramway

lol

[sturdy beacon]

OH BOY NEW DREAMS???????

i knew where some spots were, and i decided i wanted to stop by DT as my first one

had to bide my time a bit xD
ended up with a bunch of different karma warps out of DT, just for groceries reasons

saw the feathers, back to DT, went to the spot and... hm. nothin
edit: except for a fully rotted lizard flying at me af hurricane speeds. straight up cow in a tornado. holy shit.

figured... well, one time i saw some stuff go down in TR when i had a warp that seemingly got closed? might as well go witness that

also ran into a spider on the way! figured-- hey lets see where this guy takes me

ran into the portal on the way! saw it closed. didnt seem to do much, nothing to interact with...
ripplespace time. just to see.

and woa shit, THAT'S NEW. HM!!!

i wonder if those would have been there if id gone into ripplespace earlier!

spider went left, but the spot i wanted to check out was to the right. figured id go see.

...more green lizards and hurricane force winds later...

got to the spot. rotted green lizard had a bad case of echo pacification right in front of the pipe, so i had to ripplespace again anyway xD

and woa 8v
what a view 8v

anywho: didnt get quite a good recording of it, cause i was showing my partner-- and he had some good bits to make about it xDD

but also he got a whole fuckton of sudden onset winter hellsick today ._. and completely lost his voice
poor motherfucker
(also im next. without a doubt..ahaha.(

so a lot of pauses in that recording xDD ah well
i got a chance to check out the weaver in stillframes, though!

but yeah, DREAM

looks like a continuation of the last one??
the one everyone was like "woahhh what... what even is this shore..."

i really liked the lil bit of watcher walking across a catwalk (aha), and then the scene cuts to something... familiar enough. but different.
and then a third time.

very very "these worlds are familiar enough-- and probably where the connections happen--" ok actually sidetrack there, just to mention a really neat theory i saw the other day, of like. portal placement.
iunno if it still holds up as well in 1.5 but i remember liking it a lot.
basically like, a static portal ending up being like... in a spot that would remind you of the spot it goes to.
mmmm cant think of a good way to phrase it quite as well right now and not much in the mindset to do so-- ill have to find the post xD

hm where was i

ah yeah
end of the dream... ill have to rewatch my recording

i wonder-- was that something being sewn up? and connected?
or something coming apart at a seam?

hmhmhm

something to consider

(xD)

also yeah, cerebral worlds, dream worlds, mind worlds.
interesting that you see so many neat regions that you wouldnt recognize as the player, in watcher's dream

watcher continuing to watch and dream, must be second nature to em

gotta babysit a lasagna for a bit, longass cooking time but almost done

then back at it xD

hmm... where do i wanna meet em next... i got some options
i remember i REALLY liked the area in turbulent pump, by the dam! thats gotta be one, no doubt

... haha, i got feathers everywhere, but i bet not in turbulent xDD

oh-- the fuckin. the sunflower HAS to be one, too.

mmk. decisions made.

also had another weirdass bg glitch xD like the one in sunlit

ill have to upload that

...ill have to upload a bunch of stuff, lmao

[sturdy beacon]

gosh im just gonna like

have my sd card

and just

SPAM SO MUCH at some point

...not tonight tho cause i dont wannaaa =v=

...huh?

ok the dial warp I used for fractured gateways over in stormy is... ???? on the map.

sent me to the surface
aight

hm!
okay... so!!
the room I met the weaver in the second time.

hang on one sec

[[SAFE...?-For-Pizza Sasuke Status: SAFE!]] WATCHER 1.5 ON SWITCH LETS GOOOOO

[[SAFE...?-For-Pizza Sasuke Status: iunno?]] WATCHER 1.5 ON SWITCH LETS GOOOOO

aight

im kinda running through these xD
dont wanna outpace

also hm, i wonder if that stormy coast + signal spires issue was anything similar
game not remembering where a portal went to