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Polu is the only one who got points, since he was host

mint and I only got to see the latter half of the game and polu also wanted to do every puzzle so we were defiantly wanting to do a replay at some point

I played every session and saw maybe 25% of the game this is for sure a "replay eventually" game

I was worried it wouldn't be since the hardest parts of the puzzles are figuring out what to do. So glad to hear y'all say that because I really want to do another session at some point

Yeah it seems like a 4 player game

you would definitely see more and do more of the puzzles yourself if you have a smaller party

It was so fun to split apart, get lost and stumble upon another little group 10 minutes later and help them with their puzzle

Yeah the game has an interesting premise

Definitely would like a sequel that polishes what they already have though

who knows

Add someway to knock people over and kill them

would be funny

throwing people off the mountain and watching their dead body bounce like a rubber ball was pretty neat

I'm really surprised they didn't add a way to throw/push people

even if it was an item and not just model physics

Friends love killing each other

thats what Friends do

anyway

I'm not interested in playing with <4 players, but I am curious how some of the puzzles get scaled down for the 2 or 3-player versions

I could join next weekend

I assume that that isn't a thing spooky

if they forgot the sound shit at launch 😭

lol true

some of the ones we did in 4+ mode, were just barely doable with 2, and were hard with 3

so I'm hoping they don't make everything easier, and only scale the ones that explicitly need 4 by compacting the rooms or w/e

that would be interesting if they did that

but it doesn't sound cost/efficient to do that

that's what they do though afaik there are 3 versions of every puzzle

the 2-player, 3-player, and 4+ player varients

thats alot of variants

I'm just wondering if some of the ones are the same for all 3

I guess they must be very simple changes if they do

because I think it would be lame if the 2-player version of, say the timer launch puzzle

launched it 2ft instead of 20ft

oh they do have player variants

ok well that is neat

I guess they go from friendslop to friendslop+ in the rankings then

I thinks its only some puzzles that change

we for sure found 2 and 3 player puzzles

and a 1 player puzzle...

they could have easily made it 4 player puzzles all of them

I liked splitting up, which is why I think 7-8 players was the perfect group size, but outside of the final area, having that many people in a single puzzle usually felt a little chaotic

Yeah it kind of felt bad

maybe should have tested that with more people

I mostly didn't do anything besides like 1 puzzle

because I figured out that sitting out was the best option and let other people do things would speed it up

most puzzles capped out at 3-4 people being useful, with a 5th being "fine"

but if you had 7-8 players on the map, you could split up sorta naturally

and there was a reason to use the communication items

versus if you all just stick together the entire time

Yeah, if you play with 4+ people, I'd say it's pretty much required to split up. People shouldn't be in massive groups.

I think the bean-testicle progress thing was a fun tangible way to do things, and I'm ok with everyone not having the same experience and being able to go back and play again and see puzzles they didn't do before

there's probably a different version of this game that had a pool of 100+ puzzles, that get randomized when the island is created or a version that ties puzzle completion to the player, and lets you "check-in" to a puzzle with different groups who hadn't done it before

to add more on-paper replayability

but I liked the way they did it, it's lightly replayable with different groups, but there is definitely a cap on any sort of puzzle game, because figuring the puzzles out completely blind is part of the experience

even if you can experience a different part/job of the puzzle on a 2nd attempt

Yeah unless they are randomized

their is only so much

Maybe we should restart the map from scratch and do all the puzzles again?

do we still have the map after the ending

or is it completely gone

Polu has it

we're still going to continue one more session so we can 100% the puzzles though

individually I think we all did 25-33% of the island puzzles + the ending

I advocate for a total reset so more people can experience the other puzzles

well that is my opinion kappa

If anyone aside from Polu hosts the game, it will be a new game

it feels like you could squeeze more out the game if you did that

yes but I want every achievement

I only have like 2 left for 100 percent

and I was just messing around

underrated appeal of 4 players could be the idea of having to hunt down lost players so you can complete puzzles

full on search parties looking for lost kittens

I just confirmed it still exists

I assume we need maybe an hour or so to get the true end and the tunnel rave paint achivement, I am fine with doing it either tonight or tomorrow if people want

tomorrow's better for me tbh

I've been playing with three, and I haven't seen any 4+ player footage to compare it to, but most of our gameplay so far is trying to locate our third so we can complete a puzzle, most puzzles seem to be "doable" with only two of us present but the third player just speeds it up immensely, it's also frustrating only being able to hold one item so far because using the items in some of the puzzles are very helpful but when we only have three total item slots (and one of our group is insistent on holding a sign the whole time) item usage is severely limited.

Yeah I do feel like carrying around items can be a bit of a pain . You find backpacks and hip packs later that help a bit, but even those are a pain to use because you have to put down what you're carrying to take from someone else's pack.