Topic: Returnal

@Th3solution Congrats! Great to see you got to grips with biome 6 at last, and I think sometimes running past the enemies is part of that.

@Th3solution haven't read through your post fully (in the interest of spoilers) but congratulations!

@Th3solution you kinda get an idea once you stumble upon some things, but basically it’s this:
First, finish all house sequences. I don’t remember for sure if there’s a new one after beating Ophion so you might have already done that. If it’s dark in both biome 1 and 4, you’re good. Once that’s done, a new kind of item will start appearing, one in each biome. They’re permanent items so you just need to find each one once and they aren’t very hard to find. When you get all 6, a new house sequence opens. You do that, then beat Ophion again and you get the other ending.

@Th3solution Woohoo well done!! That’s an awesome achievement. Sounds like you found something that worked well for you and shows that different things work for different people. Also glad to hear that at least some advice I gave was of some use 😁.

I love the story. I think the great thing about it is that it’s open to interpretation. Even past the obvious question about if she’s actually there or not, there’s a load of other questions about her up bringing, her relationship with her mother and what actually happened on that bridge..

All this makes me want to go and delete my save so that I can start again. I’m still hanging out for some DLC but I should perhaps prepare myself for the fact that none is coming.

@NedStarksGhost @Th3solution Well done to you both.

Apart from briefly playing the other day to show my dad, I've not touched the game since getting the platinum so I'll be trading it in this week (along with a bunch of other games).

Woot congratulations!

@Th3solution Nice one on completing Act 2

Just don't go expecting any answers to the questions you have by completing Act 3...

@Th3solution so I've just checked back about my play time, just remembered you asked me on the previous page, and it currently stands at 4 hours and 10 minutes.

@velio84 thank you!

I honestly think it's down to the fact I played through Dark Souls and have played other Souls games. There's a lot of timed dodging in those games so after recognising a couple of triggers I managed it.

I remember one boss on Dark Souls took me about 30-40 tries to beat....

The second and third boss I died on the first time. The second one the astronaut saved me, and the third one I spent ether on the regen(?) Machine thing that brings you back to life.

Almost at 100 pages folks! Let's goooooooo....

I bet I could get it to 100 pages by saying that Risk of Rain 2 is the better game.

@JohnnyShoulder Do you get a prize for being the first to post on the 100th page?

@render only feeling really smug!

Are we nearly there yet?

Edit: ha, apparently we are!

Looks like @JigsawPieces has enabled smug mode!! 🤣

So now that we’re comfortably into the 100th page… 😄

I was able to get a couple hours to work on Act 3 and after combing Biome 1 for some clues as to what to do next (the house was dark) and reading the pillar which says something about the Sun, I went through every nook and cranny of the entire Biome, including beating Phrike again and doing the challenge room, only to find nothing. Only then do I realize I may not have all the house sequences. Turns out that I never did any house sequences in Biome 4. I’m not sure if the option was there all along, but I think I’ve been just running past the house in my dozens of times to run through Biome 4. 😅 Man, what was I thinking?! So I’ve got one of the B4 house sequences and I reckon I’ll have to restart a run to get the other one. Then maybe I can start collecting these items I need. It’s all very cryptic, but I can’t believe I just ignored the house on all these times I played through that biome.

Good news is at least I got the B1 survey trophy in the process. I’m not even sure what the requirements for it are but it popped during that run.

@Voltan Thanks, as you had basically advised me about what I needed to do, but when the house was dark in B1 I thought I was already done with all of them. Now I think I get it as I read back on your comment and you did warn me to check on B1 and B4 house status

@Th3solution lol feel like im looking at a cia secret document.

@Elodin 😅 I am not sure how spoiler-free that people may want to be. Ned is pretty new to the game so I was extra conservative with the spoiler tags.

@Th3solution

@Th3solution I appreciate it, apologies for being a pain!