mod: AnonymousStrangerOW.TheStrangerTheyAre

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mod: AnonymousStrangerOW.TheStrangerTheyAre

a somewhat large story mod that adds onto the story of echoes of the eye (by @AnonymousStrangerOW)

https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/thestrangertheyare/

[ghost]

wow this mod sucks!

[Spitflies]

dang that's mean

[harperawkward]

they stranger they are

[132568]

Im at a certain point in the mod where I don't know how to avoid _____ and I'd like a lil hint, because waiting only killed four.

[132568]

I figured it out, glad I saw it from a different perspective.

[132568]

I put my ship exactly where i was told not to put it
I'm kind of stubborn, aren't I?
Bad idea

[offprintatlas]

I'm getting a NullReferenceException at CullGroup.Awake() when I boot up the game with the mod, but the main menu works.
However, when I begin the expedition, it freezes before I wake up.

What could be the problem?

[offprintatlas]

Yeah, the trick is to just not click anything while the game is loading the scene, it works fine.

[NeroZashi]

HELP I'M STUCK! - SPOILER

I'm stuck at the huge tornado part I don't know how to get in, and I tried from the top area!! ??

[132568]

If you don't explicitly know, try to wait for later, you might learn something new.

[offprintatlas]

There're multiple spots where you can get stuck while being in your suit. For example, chairs and tables, you fall infinitely between them and get jump out. Also the "Extinguish" things are also a stuck hazard! Please clip out these spots!!

[Enialana]

In my opinion, this mod has the best narrative of any other, it is spectacular, visually it is a 10, in the puzzles it is mediocre, but the visual section, the spectacularity and the "ending", makes it top 3 of all the Outer Wilds mods. (I have not played Forgotten Castaways yet)

[ghost]

hi, mod creator here. i tried my best with the puzzles but i agree some do need improving. i'm trying my best to do what i can to improve the hints and quality of the puzzles.

as for castaways, play it as soon as you can! it is my current favorite ow mod and i even think it's better than my own mod. it definitely deserves the love it isn't currently getting (i have way more downloads than cleric).

[andycruz0802]

Hi! I'm the one who answered before, but with a different account, hahaha...

I really appreciate the work you've done on this mod. I'll never tire of saying how good the story is. With the puzzles, I imagine it's just a matter of practicing and practicing... I'll keep an eye on your new contributions to the modding community ::)

I have another question for you, but I don't want to ask it here because of a potential spoiler. Could I write to you on Discord, for example?

[ghost]

i can be found on the outer wilds modding discord. and i don't plan on making any other mods, unless i am able to participate in jams. however, i do have another grand idea i want to showcase to the community in hopes some people might pick it up.

there's an invite somewhere on the ow mods website.

[cashmen123]

Wow, this was an insanely cool experience and related to something I was really hoping the Outer Wilds modding community would take on after I finished the game years ago. This one was ambitious and I think you nailed it! Some bugs here and there, but given the scale I think that's fair. Great job Anonymous and those who contributed!

[Kitsu5242]

Amazing MOD, I am at more of 8 Hrs played and still not finished, really enjoying it! Thank You.

I would like to report some glitches that could be fixed in the next update;

• Once in the Theater, you can watch all these slide reels, however once you place them on the floor to take another one they disappear!?
• Picking up the slide reels, especially the one that reveals the secret passage is extremely difficult, took me forever and I had to do a second loop!
• On the ghost moon of dark bramble, a lot of storm lightning and the noise level is very high, could do with a bit more quiet.
• Once you reach the terraformed moon of the strangers, trying to read quite a few signs on the walls bring the “old translator” first, you need to play around a bit to get the new one.
• In the strangers solar system, trying to lock on the distant planet is impossible from the “solar system viewer”

[Cobray96]

The furthest planet is quantum! It's normal that you can't lock on from the map

[Kitsu5242]

Now playing version 2.3.2
I finally got through (very painful) to the point where you get the message that you ship can now warp to the destination. I did warp and ended up to Timber Hearth with no way back to the new world !? I have to do it all over again, what a pain.

[Deepmight]

I'm stuck:

Click to show

I explored the clocked moon and the simulation new area, talked with a code version of scientist, I got to the terraform base after the path in the seed. But it seems it"s not over yet. I explored the terraforming base and I have the doubt I missed something, what I found there was just a tree. Is there a way to go to their terraformed moon?!

[ghost]

spoilers!

it sounds like you missed the bridge at the bottom of the stairs. remember, the lab is basically 2 cinder isles towers. make sure you explore everything in the other tower before you head off in the bramble seed above said other tower. then just follow the blue lights and you're good.

[Kitsu5242]

Te game does not end:
After I get all paticipants around the camp fire, I go up the elevator and find the Scientist on the blue rings, get my signal identified (SGINAL IDENTIFIED: THE SCIENTIST), but I am still getting an UNIDENTIFIED SIGNAL NEARBY exactly at the same place, then stuck cannot end the game!
I play version 2.4.0

[UnsavouryOatmeal]

Hi, I'm either missing something or having some weird bug.

Spoiler

When trying to enter the Coma hall with no light, and going slowly, I instantly trigger the very first pair every time I try no matter how I try to approach it.

Am I missing something or is there a bug going on?

[ghost]

you are most likely missing a piece of the puzzle. keep exploring the following place:

spoilers!

the preserved planet.

[Kitsu5242]

You get a hint at 00:53:16 on this video
https://youtu.be/myHC1GWIpYE

Spoiler

Solution
You need to action both the artifact’s focus (press RT) and switch off the light at the same time

[woolyshambler]

i was almost immersed in the setting & puzzles, thankfully the mod threw in some 2012 internet memes right in my face to take me out of it again. god forbid we ever be genuine with each other

[ghost]

those are easter eggs and have nothing to do with the actual mod. am i not allowed to put little funny things in my mod? are you really that upset about it? some people never find them and some people do.

[Meuleuh]

one of the best story mod you want to play, thank you anonymous dev <3

[Cobray96]

Great mod! Very well made.
I wish you put a note in the description saying we should use a complete save (because I think some ship log entries are required to get the full dialogues with the scientist).
I used a fresh new save because I didn't want to potentially ruin my main save, and when I found out I needed a full save it was too late, didn't want to restart the mod from zero

[snakeeater4526]

one of the best story mod you want to play, thank you anonymous dev <3

[LordGlarthir]

MAJOR SPOILERS INC

First of all, as a modder of other games, I know how time consuming and difficult it can be and I really admire the scope of this mod. During the outer wilds half I had no idea what you had done, I just thought the mod would take place in the current game world, so very much hats off to what you managed to create!

However although this had some interesting ideas and puzzles, my overall impression while playing this was one of frustration and agitation. Not because of the difficulty, but because I feel you did a great disservice to especially the strangers.

The writing of their dialogue was very tame and they all in all got portrayed as huge douchebags.
I think the final part about them creating all kinds of weapons and just straight up killing a Nomai clan out of fear is a valid approach but imo way too much of an over interpretation of their conservative nature we are presented in the DLC.

There were a lot of lines scattered everywhere and use of too modern sounding language that completely broke the suspension of disbelief for me, especially the stuff in the ending and stuff like "maybe the eye is saving it's resources by just letting us see our own friends" thing was a huge wtf moment and that along with other stuff gave a huge impression that a lot of misconceptions about vanilla OW were present in the making of this mod

While I admire that new music was put in, I don't think much of it fit the atmosphere of the game and it's musical themes that are already established, especially for the strangers. Much of it was not ambient enough and gave more of a stressful vibe than a mysterious one as heard in the base game/dlc, notably the space music and the music on the strangers moon.
Consider how the scientist is playing an electric guitar from a sound perspective which is not only very out of character from how the strangers have been portrayed in the DLC, but he is also playing it on the same instrument the prisoner is which sounds completely different.

Lastly, it is riddled with bugs and jank and a lot of uncreative reuse of the vanilla assets. I see how you tried to recreate the moon from the images found in the DLC, but the terrain is squared everywhere and there are no rocks and all kinds of other stuff found within the stranger that they had supposedly harvested for building it.

I found some of the puzzles good and especially enjoued the time concept of the distant Enigma, same goes for the bramble trip, although a little shoehorned.
I was really amazed by entire pre dark bramble dream world and all in all I am super impressed with the amount of content in this mod!

TL;DR tho I think this mod would have been a lot better if it had gotten some more time in the oven, especially in the writing and planet layout department.

I'm sorry if I sound like an asshole, I just needed to share my frustrating playthrough of this mod

[loicHusson]

Was a really nice mod to do, wasn't expecting it to be this huge

[Charcoal190]

Found a mildly annoying softlock.

Spoiler: click to reveal

In the dreamworld section, in the room that's identical to the Angler's Eye projector house, you can accidentally get wedged between the chair and table. I tried to grab the lantern and got stuck there. You're unable to jump out and have to either save and quit, meditate or wait for the loop to end.

One possible fix would be to move the chair. Another would be to put the lantern at a more accessible spot, as to not require jumping on the table.

[TabernAAKK]

A huge thank you to the creator of this mod. A fantastic story!
I had a great time.
Excellent work, congratulations!
Thank you so much!!!

[Danatobob]

NO SPOILERS DESCRIPTION:
fantastic mod. I've enjoyed it very much. It's super long, way longer than i had expected and the amount of content is enormous. This is the first OW mod i'm playing that after some time got me thinking "am I really playing that same mod I started a few days ago ? I'm doing completely different things now!" Definitely feels like this is as close as you can get to an actual OW DLC. Thanks devs, playing this was well worth it :)

Spoiler-rich part of the comment (SPOILERS)

- I've enjoyed the music in other solar system. And the ringed giant, holy shit its beautiful. That solar system was like an escape from the apocalyptic mood in original OW system. Here its just fun exploration which i didn't realize how much i had the demand for after depressing OW system. I think one of the reasons I had such impression is because the music before supernova is actually positive, its like "time to end this on a positive note" kinda music.

BUGS:

• I didn't realize you need to use the elevator on Velvet Vortex planet and instead just submerged underwater in the ship, left the mineral on the bottom, picked up the tile and flew in the ship to the surface. Yeah the ship got shocked by the current but the engines were still operational so as soon as I got off the water I've repaired the reactor. Eventually I've still found out about elevator but thats just because the building had "there is more to explore here" symbol. I didnt get a proper note in shiplog about the high wall and got it only when I've threw scout in elevator shaft from the outside and then tried to come as close from the inside of the building as possible to the scout - I've touched the wall and got the note in the shiplog about high wall which was confusing because I was on the bottom floor. Eventually i've figured it out that i must be on the 2nd floor to actually see the high wall.

• The Projection House on the cloaked bramble moon was not added to ship log even though I was there previously i think. After countless attempts of passing through the Coma Hall i've been aimlessly exploring the bramble moon again, even though it had no "there is more to explore here" signs in shiplog. I stumbled upon Projection House by accident and vaguely remembered that i think i've been there previously by throwing the scout inside / using the flashlight on something inside. After I got in again and read the text inside again is when I've finally got the "Projection House" square in the shiplog with all the text details that I needed for Coma Hall. Prior to that I had no unexplored place on the moon in shiplog (Museum and other places were all visited and all text read), no square with questionmark and "Projection House" title etc.

• the idea with the artifact and Coma Hall is interesting but the fact that closing the artifact and moving very slowly with the analog stick on gamepad (which produces no footstep sounds) doesnt work is disappointing in the sense that it satisfies the criteria described by the scientist (darkness and silence) but still wakes them up. Also holding jump button, which results in crouching and slow movement, doesn't work as well. Same with slowly walking in astral form (without artifact). I wish there was a hint that would explain that just simply walking slowly in the darkness is not going to cut it, that I receive prior to actually reading the stuff in Projection House. Because otherwise I got the idea that I'm all set once I read "just sneaking in is not enough, i need darkness" text, which basically means "sneaking in + darkness" is the solution.

• the building used to trigger different states on Distant Enigma is glitchy, but I think devs are well aware of that. The spinning sensor gets stuck on "opened" position and even if you turn off your flashlight it just opens the door, making it harder to trigger the "no vision of planet" condition required to go to another state.

• the explanation of why the loop is 33 min has a plothole. Even if that sun explodes 11 mins later, that has no effect on the ATP which triggers when OW-system's sun explodes which is 22 min into the loop. Perhaps an explanation could be that time flows differently (faster) in another solar system, so by the time 22 mins pass in OW system, in that system 33 mins pass.

[ElLosas]

loved this mod ty!

[ribetm]

Is this mod compatible with keyboard ? I've spent two full evening dying from anglerfishes. Since they always guard the nodes, you are always in detection range and end up getting eaten. I have reached only once the signal source (b______ h____) but was never able to leave from it.

[ThePython10110]

Honestly I did that part without the ship.

[Bruhterwilds]

spoilers but does anyone know how to open the mineral display cases me and a friend are playing this with qsb and we have no idea how to open the case weve explored as much as we can just need a push in the right direction

[NikitaWang619]

I face the same problem. seems author made some changes on mine. as I remembered, in historical version of this mod, you don't need to unlock the display, the mine was be put on the table. in current version, you need unlock it with two password, I have get one of them but totally have no idea about the other one. And all of the video regarding this MOD is recorded with the historical version, can't find any information about new versuin unluck method. NEED HELP!

[Bruhterwilds]

i found the solution! (ala nomai by running everywhere)
SPOILERS

in the south pole of the preserved planet extinguish the root at the very bottom then go back to the elevator, a new revealed option to extinguish the water will also be there, jump into the node and enjoy!

[UninvitedDemon]

You dont need to run back, after you extinguish the first bramble you can teleport from the np to the sp and back. You need to go into the simulation on the Stranger after you find the vision depicting how to get to the coma house. This mod had some major fkn changes and I had to scramble my way through all this. It's basically a brand new mod with just the same story beats. No spoilers but I'm way past what the original ending was and I still have some puzzles to solve. I don't know where the end is or how to get there, but that's the fun of it! It feels like i'm the first person playing it though.

[UninvitedDemon]

Such a fun mod. There's been many changes from the older comments, and the puzzles are clearly more challenging from then as well. There is so much more than what everyone is talking about. How the heck do I get under the timesplit planet or safely make my way to the sunny side of sizzling sands??

[UninvitedDemon]

Spoilers: I figured out the timesplit planet, it makes sense that puzzle has changed but i didnt use the darkness rooms at all i just flew away and came back to change the planet. Idk how to do sizzling sands for the life of me even after the hint. Where do i put the code in when i do get sizzling sands? Im officially lost now.

[davie53]

Very cool mod! I couldn't manage to figure out the puzzle of the magenta thing, so I brute-forced it (there were only a few possibilities, so very easy to brute-force), but otherwise really cool! I don't think however that the ending works. I warped and instantly died (and by "instantly" I mean "after the long loading screen with the music glitching out"), which doesn't strike me as intentional

[Minecraft633]

were now waiting for eyes of the past

[CrazyHasNoIdeaWhatToDo]

W mod, best mod I've played for outer wilds so far. It's basically like a DLC and I had fun