r/outerwilds • u/ArchangelMichel_X • 58m ago
Base Game Help - Spoilers OK! Dark Bramble Frustration/Help Spoiler
>!I’m near the end of the game, and I am/was loving it, probably my second favourite game ever. Most of the game has been really fun and rewarding. However, I’m at the end stage now and navigating Dark Bramble is sucking all the joy out of my experience. I’ve already been to the Vessel and marked it on HUD and have been able to obviously therefore get there once before, but now I just can’t for the life of me to drop off you-know-what there. I don’t particularly struggle once the red seed is entered bc obviously you can do nothing and coast, but I can’t get INTO the red seed in the first place. I’ve just attempted it and I kid you not, I died 13 times. I spent 2hr+ just dying without getting into the red seed once. I took less than that to figure out Ash Twin Project, Sun Station and Quantum Moon combined. it’s kind of sucking the joy out of it. I know they’re blind so don’t thrust, but here’s my issue. I go into Dark Bramble and thrust towards the red seed. One of two things happen - Either I collide with something like a branch and my ship goes off course & therefore I either go stationary or have to thrust to correct my aim (therefore die by anglerfish) OR I get near the Red Seed but I’m not perfectly aligned with the hole so either crash or float past it. I can’t match velocity or thrust bc instant anglerfish death.
Any solution or tips would be great. I am happy with spoilers if I missed something earlier. Please don’t just say “thrust away from the anglerfish” because i’ve tried so many times to do exactly that and whenever I get near the red seed, same fate. I’m slightly misaligned so either crash & have to thrust, or thrust bc I’m floating away. anglerfish kills me each time. Its genuinely making me want to just watch a video of the ending but I think that’d be a really underwhelming ending to such a great game. pls help me salvage my love for it! thanks so much.
I especially want to know technique wise because I have to do this while carrying the *** so I don’t want to waste even longer loops trying to catch lighting in a bottle just cuz I got cocky getting lucky once on DB practices.!<

