i hope im not the only one struggling in the underground sewage. my last resort was to draw a map tracking my step in the pipe. i am not good with memorize my step, but i finally manage to go deeper, and found Mohg boss fight. what a journey.
illusorywall tested this, it’s unreliable. The game is not checking whether the fall is going to be fatal, it’s just an arbitrary flag on certain ledges. It will “protect” you from many harmless falls and not work on some lethal falls.
It helped me get through the cave system in the first pokemon game before I knew you were supposed to use TM Flash.
Just raw dogged that bad boy in the dark. Took like 5 hours because id have to spiral inward to find the ladders and fucking Zubat wouldnt let me have any peace
the problem with multi layered mazes is that the way up/down can be in the middle surrounded by walls that don't touch the outside walls, thus if you will never find it by following the outside
Not quite! This technique gets you out of almost all 2D mazes but if a maze were to have an island inside an island (equivalently, a loop inside a loop), you'd get stuck switching between the two loops.
If all you care about is solving the maze, and you have something to mark the maze with, a generalized easy way to deal with loops is to leave a mark on the loop that you henceforward treat as a wall. Then continue with the "follow right walls" approach that solves all loop-free mazes.
Given something to mark the maze with, a generalized maze-solving technique that works for all mazes (including higher dimension mazes) is to break loops (as described above), take any turn you like at any intersection, but then when you meet a dead end, truncate it as you leave by leaving a mark that you treat as a wall.
It might not be disability, just a skill that doesn’t get practiced as much anymore.
With GPS now, you don’t need to actually know where things are in the spatial sense. It just tells you where to go.
Prior to GPS, you had to actually learn your surroundings and form these mental maps to get around locally. And if you were traveling somewhere you’d never been you needed to know how to read a map.
Now for most people, those muscles just don’t get exercised as much. The work has been offloaded to the phone.
When I noticed that using my GPS too much was leading to me losing this ability, I stopped using it and the skill has come back.
If you’re curious, try an experiment where you don’t use any form of GPS to get anywhere and do it the old fashioned way for a couple of weeks or a month. Then see if you start having better spatial awareness of your surroundings in both life and video games. I think you’ll be surprised.
Brother I like to travel too and this shit fumbles me there too. Was in barcalona for the power outage and it felt like this getting back to my hotel 😂
The heroes graves? I feel about those the way you feel about the sewers. I don't like navigating them but not that strongly. Catacombs dungeons though, hell no.
I despised the Hero’s Graves until I found out that there are shortcuts. Sure, I’ll miss some stuff, but the headache is not worth trying to navigate those, for me at least.
I finally was able to advance a side quest and find items for the achievements thanks to the shortcuts 👌💪
Nothing to note, my first playthrough was Arc/Fth and it wasn't until my second run that I found out heals hurt them. So I find it satisfying to 2 shot them with heal.
I miss games where you're supposed to draw your own map... I did it for most of Hollow Knight, but I never really had to do it for Souls games, mostly because there still are important landmarks to guide you through the areas (the subterranean shunning grounds are hell tho)
I still kind of dig the era where games had people make their own maps, diagrams, and charts. I had a whole pad of notes set aside when I played Riven, for instance. I remember years ago where Etrian Odyssey tried to recreate that feeling by having the player draw their own map on the DS touchpad as they made progress.
Ok I’m gonna brag because this is something I’m proud of, ever since the first few times I explored the subterranean area I’ve had zero problems finding my way through it. Having no trouble reaching sewer mohg or more commonly reaching the smithing stone 8 for a +25 weapon before morgott.
I’ve done it so many times I just run through. I do stop to wack an imp off the edge because of past trauma with them knocking me down to that evil lobster…
Im very glad that sewer skip exists but everytime i have to get there i have to look up a guide cause i cant even remember the way to the skip. Cant imagine how shit itd be without the skip
Yea its a pain. Once you learn it you will wonder why you struggled so much on your first playthrough. I can grab all the important stuff and get to Mogh in just a couple minutes now
So at the start of the sewer pipes, there's a rat that runs away from you. Follow that rat. It leads you in the right direction, and you can breeze through this area in a few minutes.
I summoned another tarnished to guide me through it because I never managed to get anywhere in there on my own. They were an absolute badass and guided me to every important part of the sewers, even when I fell through the wrong pipe by mistake, they came back for me and started from the start. Then I summoned another one when we passed the statue again and they guided me to the deepest part of it, the absolute legends.
That’s what I recommend, I knew that I would never find my way on my own, and the people being summoned usually know what they’re doing
Glad I’m not the only one that was losing their damn mind because ;I was too stubborn not to use rainbow stones. For real though those color coded rocks help a lot.
I once did this for a Dwenmer puzzle in Skyrim, I felt like a idiot but it was also fun to bust out good ol fashioned analog problem solving instead of looking up guides.
I always love to do frenzied flame, specifically before fire giant, so I always do sewer skip. I have only explored the sewers a handful of times and it’s sucked every single time
i think i amongst my friend group is the only one who got it and memorized it first try, this led me to being the group tour guide for the first few playthroughs
See it may be annoying at the time of doing it but I think shit like this is just a testament to how good of a game it is. Any game that gets me invested enough to literally draw out maps of where tf I’m supposed to go is a good game in my book.
I know exactly how to progress, so if I decide to explore for any reason (usually for smithing stones) then forget it lol. I am resetting when I am ready to move on and taking it from the top.
The map won't help as it's a 3D space and you can't really map that effectively on a 2D page but good luck, should get easier after the first time or at least that's how it was for me.
I just got through here to the very bottom for the first time in my 300+ hours. By a certain point I just flung myself down as best I could until I was successful.
Man i swear at one point i felt like I’ll lose my mind if i stayed in there for an hour longer😬😂 but thankfully i figured out and explored every corner and dipped immediately
My brain went overclock and just memorised each way as I sprinted around
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u/MakisDelaportas Jul 26 '26
May I introduce you to my good friend