Jammed Reality

[fleet copper]

Jammed Reality is a direct sequel to Connected Dreams, built with the same style and design philosophy, only this time it is focused on Jammers rather than Connectors. There are 8 puzzles, 5 stars, and 3 purple sigils.

This map should appeal to lovers of the core Talos experience, with level design inspired by Road To Gehenna. The difficulty is roughly that of RTG also, with a couple of harder ones thrown in.

Thank you as ever to the awesome community who have tested prior to release: @elfin patrol, @whole rapids, @chilly trout, @stark hearth, @edgy palm

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3648952797

[low hawk]

Playing it now, looks gorgeous 🙂 Only finished carousel thus far

[fleet copper]

Hope you enjoy them! If you have any feedback or questions hit me up 🙂

[low hawk]

Will do 🙂

First of all, Rubber Stamper is a wonderful puzzle, the way it looks, plays and the scope and length of it is splendid!
The only feedback I have is ||that it could be hard to see what the red receiver did, and that probably on me because i'm not used to the wall-indicators that you use (and they are somewhat hard to see through that many plasma barriers)||

Also, thanks for making it possible to leave the puzzle in just about any state, as I was writing the feedback I had to go back and double check what my issue was and then I noticed that I could leave at the start instead of the end 🙂

[fleet copper]

Thanks! I did briefly experiment with the more traditional wiring but for me at least I found it more confusing. It's good feedback about the visibility of the lights though, maybe I'll try lifting them above the doors for more prominence. I did exactly that in Slip 'n Slide 2 because I felt the same thing that it was difficult to see through several of them in sequence.

[fleet copper]

That's a huge part of my personal design philosophy. I really dislike when puzzles trap you or lock you in some way, so I really try to go out of my way to make it that you can't get locked, or at the very least if a lock is unavoidable, that there's almost no build-up/progress lost by resetting.

[low hawk]

Great to see, I share the same values 🙂

Thought I had soft-locked myself in ||claustrophobia||, but there was a ||ladder|| waiting for me 😄

[fleet copper]

I got you!

[low hawk]

Is this laser position intended? ||It felt like I was aiming quite a bit to make this happen||

||Really like the way you use this window!||

[fleet copper]

At the beginning of the puzzle it's not supposed to include the one furthest away (top of the pic) so that's probably why it was awkward. More natural if you exclude that one and come back for it later.

[keen glade]

You sink through the rubble

First collectable in the level 🐐 🐐 🐐 ;]

Why can't I row the boat I found?

[fleet copper]

I didn't expect anyone to get there lol

[keen glade]

||Jamming it from Cursed Buttons is intended?||

Isn't that from Platform University?

[fleet copper]

Wait how lol? It's supposed to be done from ||It's Dangerous to go Alone||

[keen glade]

I do not like to be told what I'm supposed to do 😛

You can help yourself with some cheez in Rubber Stomper & Lockpick the same way as the island star

[low hawk]

You underestimate the goats 😂

[keen glade]

So much easier to do it with my own jammie friends

[fleet copper]

Did you steal the jammer out of cursed buttons? Guess I'll have to encase it invisibly

[keen glade]

Someone doesn't like my jammie friends and set a trap here...

[fleet copper]

It was a real pain making invisible floors on that island match the topography

[keen glade]

You should have put 4 blue gates here 😄

[keen glade]

Or maybe 5

Baa

[keen glade]

Nope

Is it that you envied the trebucket from @chilly trout 's Enter the Void (https://discord.com/channels/464411560563965953/1404951753384005713) so you made your own launcher? I just flew here 😄
GOATING SOFTLOCK MADE ON PURPOSE!

I reserve here for my new goating chilling spot

I don't know if it's intended solution or not but seems too easy to solve Slip'n'Slide 2 without any slipping nor sliding

[fleet copper]

I gave you a good view in your prison

[fleet copper]

The sigil wasn't originally there. I split the puzzle and added the star. This is to say, the jammer is trapped like that and you can't get the star

[keen glade]

There is this fabled Reset feature ;]

[fleet copper]

You need the connector for the star, so you still need to do it as intended

[keen glade]

Unless I call my jammie friends ;]

[fleet copper]

They're not invited to this party

[keen glade]

They never are but still get their way in

[keen glade]

Cursed Steps
Is that intended? It doesn't feel like white

[keen glade]

Just checked the walkthrough:
||I didn't do double hat, just a plain good hat||

[fleet copper]

It's an alt I'm aware of but can't really block. It's a physics glitch that allows it because you realistically should be blown off the platform.

[keen glade]

I wasn't on the platform so why should I be blown off?

[fleet copper]

I'd have to see it but I don't see any other possibility since you have to have the left button pressed

[keen glade]

Here you go, my dear Shlam. Simple, yet elegant, hat

[fleet copper]

Did you use elevation from the pool to do it?

[keen glade]

No

I used the pool to take a better shot for you

[fleet copper]

I think I see the solution

I don't like it lol

But I don't think I'll do anything about it

[keen glade]

It's more elegant than that freaky double hat 😛

[fleet copper]

To my knowledge only 3 other puzzles have used a double hat before so that was the whole point of this one

[keen glade]

So there are still only 3 double-hatted puzzles ;]

[fleet copper]

Schrodingers Cat, Altar, Platform University

[keen glade]

And that's it as of now 😄

But if it makes you happy then I'll tell you that once my ghost stole my jammie with double hat by accident 😛

[keen glade]

Slip'n'slide 2 solved with just proper aiming of 1 jammie - is that intended?

[keen glade]

@fleet copper at least it's slipping & sliding like in the name ;]

[fleet copper]

That is the key move, though there's one other thing required afterwards of course. For as scary is it looks it can be solved with only 3 actions.

The original sigil was where the star currently is, but on @chilly trout advice I put the sigil at the halfway point and changed the real ending to be a star.

[keen glade]

This 1 move with placement of that jammie is enough for the sigil

But I still doubt it's the intended way as the jammie is just jerking a little

[fleet copper]

Oh, I see what you mean. Then no that's a cheese. I'm aware of it because Nazario did it too, but it's unavoidable

||The key move is aiming at the spot where the red laser meets the blue barrier. This sightline puts the jammer out of sight behind the obelisk. Then you can make a simple clock by jamming one of the fans from the back of the puzzle.||

[keen glade]

Will not read that and try to find some other way

https://youtu.be/jjwdMj-JrJY

https://youtu.be/YWYcCkQJ10U

[fleet copper]

Yeah it's unavoidable if people want to cheese it that way, but not the actual solution. As I said though there's only 3 moves to reach the sigil so it's not a hard puzzle

[fleet copper]

You leave that fan alone!

[keen glade]

This?

[fleet copper]

Very similar to that, if you slightly re-place the jammer then I think it works

[keen glade]

This works

This?

[fleet copper]

You can clock it from either side depending on your pre-setup. My intended way uses the lefthand window.

[keen glade]

Star in S&S2

[keen glade]

I use the window here but the open time is shorter than when using the blue gate

[fleet copper]

You must be using a cheesed jammer because that's not possible internally

For the star

[keen glade]

WDYM cheesed jammer? I used only items from this puzzle

[fleet copper]

You're jamming two things and there's only one available jammmer. The slip and slide one can't escape its room.

[keen glade]

There are 2 jammies

You can use the slipping one here

[fleet copper]

Lol very obvious cheese. Double door prevents it, but I don't have enough spare devices to implement it because rewind will break

Could lower it a little too I guess

Or add a fence

Man, that's ridiculous

[keen glade]

Just read it. This is what I did in all those 3 variations

You can get the same effect with the blue gate so the window is not necessary

Is the star solved from inside the puzzle?

[fleet copper]

Depends on your prior setup, but yes you're right. It was designed to use the window though so I like that as the "intended" solution.

[fleet copper]

Yes

[keen glade]

Ok, I think I give up on the star

The button has to be pressed, right?

[fleet copper]

Yep, button has to be pressed by the jammer which leaves the problem of the red laser being charged. That's the puzzle to be solved.

[keen glade]

Ok

Lemme see

Ok, done

I tried cutting the laser but from the other side so I couldn't find the sightline

For the red&blue obelisk- is it enough to use 2 puzzles?

[fleet copper]

Use as much or as little as you can get away with. I think it should take ||3 puzzles.||

[keen glade]

I mean this one, not with the star on top

[fleet copper]

||Both should require 3 puzzles unless there are sightlines I'm unaware of||

[keen glade]

Yeah, that's what I assumed but it takes too much time to look for it

[fleet copper]

There are only 3 puzzles with connectors in them, so that should make things easier

Also, ||look closely at all of the obelisks||

[keen glade]

Oh yeah, totally forgot about the special obelisk with scaled tip

You get stuck under the boat

That fan is nasty & stupid

[fleet copper]

This is kind of a "stop hitting yourself" situation. The fan only powers on when you collect the sigil from ABOVE. I guess if you fell off the rocks after it gracefully delivers you back to the top then, uh, yeah

[keen glade]

You get stack between the boat and its oar

Stupid fan

This obscure sightline is not nice because of those stupid trees

[fleet copper]

You have a cube

[keen glade]

And you have an axe tool

[fleet copper]

Using the cube from nearer to the entrance you can see the pole clearly

[keen glade]

I know, you can see it without the cube too but for me it should be visible from both places

At least this blue angle is simple

Ok, haven't found ghost, footbakk & MiB

& QR

[fleet copper]

They're very small as you know, so almost impossible to find on a big map like this without directions

[keen glade]

Give

[fleet copper]

Message in a bottle is at the ||fallen statue||, QR is ||right above you at the terminal|| and football is ||behind one of the puzzles, can't remember which, but it's just against a wall on the beach side||

[keen glade]

Is this star multipuzzle?

[fleet copper]

No

[keen glade]

So a hat

Iin the walkthrough the switch is active but when I play it it's not. Am I seeing wrong?

[fleet copper]

It's not actually active, just the game being janky and showing the light. If you got there it wouldn't work

Press the four yellow buttons to power the yellow switch

[keen glade]

But they have to be pressed all the time, right?

[fleet copper]

Yep

The fan is powered by ANY of the two conditions it's wired to, not ALL

[keen glade]

Oh, the switch is NOT needed for the fan to function??

[fleet copper]

Yes/no. You can power it with blue light or with four buttons. Both are needed at different points.

But not at the same time

[keen glade]

It looks like the 4 buttons (yellow outline) and the blue laser are required

[fleet copper]

There's no real way to indicate ANY vs ALL in this game. But given how impossible it is to do both I just figured people would try the blue and see what happens

[keen glade]

The yellow outline is so bright that it shouts USE ME TO POWER IT UP

Uh, you show the solve for the star before the sigil

[fleet copper]

Yeah rather than doubling back

[keen glade]

Wait a second, the switch does NOT have to be active for the fan to be working???

[fleet copper]

Nope, that's the cool part and why I did it that way.

I've never actually seen that used in a puzzle before

[keen glade]

I would never call it "cool"

Unless you put something to indicate that the power runs even when it's not active

[fleet copper]

Switch is locked on. Just like it was locked off to begin with. I don't see any part that isn't logical.

[keen glade]

It's not logical as when the switch is not active the lights are off telling the player that there is no power

[fleet copper]

Wire is lit up permanently

[keen glade]

I liked every other mechanic in this puzzle but the switch is stupid in its current form

So you can cheez It's dangerous to go alone or am I seeing things?

[fleet copper]

Lowering fences only open after getting the sigil. You can't (legally) jam that final door from outside

[fleet copper]

Yes, only after finishing idtga

The window is closed until you get the still

[keen glade]

But this is from rubber stomper

Oh

ok

Haven't noticed the window fence

So why the window fence at all?

[fleet copper]

The non cheese way to get that star

[keen glade]

That? But can't you just use the normal exit?

Oh, the jammie is left

[fleet copper]

Yep

[low hawk]

Damn did I overthink "Lockpick" or what hahaha, nice puzzle 🙂

[chilly trout]

With Lockpick I spent about 15 minutes focusing on how to move three jammers to open the double barrier plus the barrier before the sigil during one recording (and thinking that it's simply not possible) – and then I noticed the switch to lower the fence halfway 😄

[keen glade]

You just got lost in decorations, it happens sometime 🙂

[keen glade]

@fleet copper
Community Spotlight #2 is out!
And guess whose puzzle is highlighted? Congrats! 😄
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2806640/allnews/

[fleet copper]

Thanks!

[cyan plinth]

@fleet copper I liked Rubber Stamper puzzle a lot! It was very elegant puzzle!

Simple but elegant.

[fleet copper]

Thanks! That's one of my favourites too 😄

[cyan plinth]

Your puzzles are pretty difficult!

[fleet copper]

Some of them can be for sure! Cursed Buttons and It's Dangerous to Go Alone are the hard ones in this pack

[fading dock]

It's too Dangerous to go Alone not sure is it alt or cheese, ||solved it without last section with button.||

1. ||On the second section you can hang a jammer with your clone if you jump while moving under overhead cover.||
2. ||Then use plate to get that jammer on top of you with jump under it.||
3. || Walk around that overhead cover.||
4. || Wait here while recording ends and jammed barriers disappeared.||
5. || Walk to the last barrier with jammer on top of you.||

[fleet copper]

Haha definitely a cheese, but still quite funny so nice solve 😛

I love the intended solution in this one, but with some of the janky physics it's been quite hard to fully defend. Some others have found other alts that use kind of broken techniques too

[last jackal]

In "Carousel", There is an invisible platform near the wall.