Escape From The Pit Reawakened

[coral junco]

Step into a custom campaign complete with a narrative story and thematic ending. There are 90 sigils to collect for full completion.

You are Azrael, condemned to the darkest reaches of the simulation. You and your eight comrades were the worst elements to plague Elohim during the simulation. Demons locked in the most hidden code in the system. Following Uriel's rescue of Gehenna, Elohim offers you one final chance at redemption, but first you must rescue your fallen comrades who are locked beyond His reach.

Thank you to everybody who helped test and refine things along the way: @golden arrow @silver topaz @narrow pagoda @timber charm @sonic horizon @lapis hare @gaunt folio @fresh idol

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3718130504

[lapis hare]

Link?

[coral junco]

Ty lol, added

And I've already tested the menu counters 😉

[lapis hare]

Some dioramass have different rotation

[coral junco]

Yeah OC and ROMA are tilted further forward. The outer castle walls on them blocked seeing inside

All the rest are 45, those two are 60

[timber charm]

The Hub and intro sequence look phenomenal 🤩

[coral junco]

Thanks!

[coral junco]

You guys get exclusive rights to it for the time being, since Steam is screwing up and it's not appearing in the recent queue 🙄

Sometimes it delays for 10-15 minutes but never usually this long

(yes it's public and has passed content checks)

[timber charm]

Yea I had to find it while scrolling through your personal workshop. Weird

[coral junco]

So annoying, it'll suck massively if I have to pull this version and publish a new one
Seems to be fully visible now thankfully

[finite rune]

another quality bomb

[coral junco]

Thanks 😄

[lapis hare]

Congrats on the release!

[coral junco]

Ty ty!

[sonic horizon]

Like Darky said, Congrats on the release, this is a banger 😁

[coral junco]

Appreciate it! I look forward to people getting to the ending. It's nothing groundbreaking, but I still quite like it 😄

[lapis hare]

Can I safely cheat the sigils as I've got them in standalone releases?
Unless there are important changes.
Which collectables are new?

[coral junco]

There's some minor changes to a couple of the endgame puzzles, but nothing of real substance. So yeah you could cheat without missing much. Alternatively you could just cheat into the final terminal.

[lapis hare]

Haven't you added any extras to levels?

[coral junco]

Extra sigil to Escort Mission but you'd just get it along the way anyway (only because you can't have an 11 sigil tetromino door)
Star in You're It
Purple in Destructive Interference

Fantabulous, Cubed, and Fox-Hen-Grain already had extras

[lapis hare]

Ok, will check Destro then

[lapis hare]

The purpley was ||just laying there|| so I stole the connie for nothing? 🙁

Wait a minute, wasn't that puzzle in Shlam Packed or sth?

[coral junco]

Yes the endgame puzzles are greatest hits

[coral junco]

I still don't know how it's stolen. Probably from the room it starts in but the jumps didn't work for me

[lapis hare]

BaaAAaa

[stray quarry]

Inverted Castle is this intended way to get a star?

[lapis hare]

For me it is 🙂

[stray quarry]

Alternative solution for Steps:||

1. Use setup under spoiler as starting position.
2. Get in, grab inside connector and connect it to a furthest connector (seen as red on screen) and drop it near red barrier.
3. Wait while barrier removed, then grab connector (with right click to keep links) and pass barrier while it is not restored.
4. Drop connector near blue barrier (preserve links), wait while blue barrier removed, grab the connector and get in.
5. Repeat until get to the button.
6. Use your connector to make links with both initial connectors and put it on button, wait while barrier removed and get in.||

[coral junco]

Nope, I'm not sure how you got up there but it's not a troll solution. You've got to get all the doors to it open and then jump to it from a cube.

[coral junco]

Nice one! That's a very difficult puzzle 🙂

[stray quarry]

Found something unexpected in Cursed Buttons while replaying the Jammed Reality, you could put jammer on top of barrier ||if you move backward a few times while holding it on platform with your clone, and then drop platform. That way it can hang there blocking red laser.||

[coral junco]

That's an unfortunate thing that the 1.0.2 update added last year. It broke gravity really badly and made things get stuck like that. It's a cheese I can't do anything about, but it looks like you know the proper solution anyway so it's all good 🙂

[stray quarry]

It seems it is broken more than I thought 🙂
Something more unexpected happen in There and Back Again (warning, spoiler for the star).
||Unable to get box with jammer out of the fan, because it just hang there when I moved from fan. If I drop platform, then it fall, but I just clip through it, so can't walk with it. Sometimes box physics broke and you just clip through it.||

[coral junco]

Wow that's actually a new one for me, never seen stuff just float like that (with normal sized characters - it happens with different sized clones)

[stray quarry]

It is probably broken when I pressed the button while walked through it (not sure why it is triggered), then barrier flicker and it bugged. But I'm not sure why exactly it become broken, because there were a few rewinds.

[coral junco]

That could be it yeah. Sometimes when the barrier closes on items it yeets them off into infinity which is quite an amusing glitch - at least that one didn't happen lol

Keep the feedback coming! I really enjoy the ending in this one so I'm looking forward to people getting to it. It's such a big pack though!

[stray quarry]

That bug with platform again, now without box 😕
What's strange, that I didn't seen it before, but today it happen twice.

I think it relates to rewind. It seems only puzzle reset fix that.

[coral junco]

That's super annoying, sorry it keeps happening to you

[stray quarry]

@coral junco sometimes I return to a completed puzzles and try to find alternative solutions. Here a few alts for Asymmetric from Connected Dreams.
Alt 1:||

1. Use setup on screen 1 as starting point (blocking laser by yourself).
2. Move through blue barrier.
3. Wait while next red barrier removed.||

Alt 2, somewhat similar to the first, but ||uses outside receiver to add link to break blue laser.||

Alt 3, ||you could drop second receiver while behind the barrier (easier to use hot key to remove target binding in options, so the connector drop instead of linking with blue connector).||

Alt 4, probably a cheese. || Actually, you can make a two checkpoints with recording in 1.5 sec if you fast enough, one with blue laser and one without. Then use real connector yourself to link it with red from inside through window.||

[coral junco]

Haha nice stuff completely breaking the puzzle 😄

I think that takes it to about 6 known solutions now

The recorder was originally set to 1 second rather than 1.5, but I extended it a bit based on feedback that people were struggling to pause quickly enough

I never really understood how that was possible since I can do 3-4 in a second (and @golden arrow set a record of like 10 lol), but I made it longer anyway so it was more accessible for everyone