games

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...

Now that I think about it kind of feelings like the game wants you to split up with these puzzles

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