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I’m still in the “Too tedious not to skip” Chapter 4. I’ve set the bees on fire, but now find myself stymied because the grapnel will not hit anything. I can’t aim to the left or right of dead center. An no matter how I try to adjust elevation I come up “short/rewind/repeat.” I am open to suggestions.

rtrooney - 25 July 2022 06:49 PM

I’m still in the “Too tedious not to skip” Chapter 4. I’ve set the bees on fire, but now find myself stymied because the grapnel will not hit anything. I can’t aim to the left or right of dead center. An no matter how I try to adjust elevation I come up “short/rewind/repeat.” I am open to suggestions.

There are no mysteries. Keep aiming and shooting, you’ll hit something. I think the first small rock well in front of you is the target, where those birds were resting.

There was a game in my Top 100. Timelapse, where, in one chapter, you had to shoot an arrow through some sort of ring. All the while factoring in things such as wind velocity/direction, which were all visually clued by things such as the direction trees were bending in the background. One of the most difficult puzzles I ever encountered.

I’m giving this one a rest for the night. Not that I think there will be some magic revelation in the morning. Just that I am tired of failing what seems to be a random puzzle.

Think I will be watching a video WT of this particular scene.

Just shoot where the two fishing critters were.

rtrooney - 25 July 2022 08:35 PM

Think I will be watching a video WT of this particular scene.

Did you read and therefore try what I told you?
Where those two birds were, shoot there.

Chapter 5 Finished. I really liked the village, it looks so peaceful and in touch with nature. I could definitely live there (although…what was that skeleton lying there?) and abandon the current modern world, give up this so called prosperity, empty prosperity for a much more austere life. There is still time to do it, I just have to tie up some loose ends, try a few more things and then find the right place.

Enough raving, as for the game….

I enjoyed this chapter more than the previous ones, although like the preceding ones it was about how to continue with our journey due to certain misfortunes, in this case I felt more room for exploration and things to do, they are still minimal but I appreciate the small change. I liked it.
Anxious to see how this continues now that we can no longer rely on the hydrofloat.

Lady Kestrel - 25 July 2022 08:39 PM

Just shoot where the two fishing critters were.

I am past that point. I smoked the bees. The attacked animals have flown away. The rocks on which they sat are no longer in view. The nearest rock is a football field away.

Tenebra - 25 July 2022 08:46 PM

Did you read and therefore try what I told you?
Where those two birds were, shoot there.

See response to Lady K. The answer is yes, but that target is gone.

rtrooney - 25 July 2022 06:49 PM

I’ve set the bees on fire

I’m glad I had finished the Chapter 4 before you posted this in plain sight, because it’s a spoiler.

Lady Kestrel - 25 July 2022 08:39 PM

Just shoot where the two fishing critters were.

He must have shot there already because how else would he know to go look for the bees.

Tenebra - 25 July 2022 08:46 PM

what was that skeleton lying there?

That’s the last guy who fiddled with the egg .

rtrooney - 25 July 2022 08:59 PM

I smoked the bees. The attacked animals have flown away. The rocks on which they sat are no longer in view. The nearest rock is a football field away.

Post the screenshot of the position where you got stuck and I’ll post you a link to the screenshot with the exact point you should aim at - I’ve made screenshots of all the exact spots you have to put the grapnel on in order to pass to the village.

Finished chapters 4 and 5 over two sittings.

I’m still enjoying the environments, though in chapter 5 my mouse speed slowed down to a crawl so instead of taking in the jungle atmosphere it felt like I was dragging around a dead water buffalo. It was only a few minutes before I finished the chapter that I discovered Alt-Tabbing out and back into the game fixes the problem - something I wish I’d known earlier.

I’m noticing the audio a lot more, the background creatures, insects and bird noises really evoke the sweltering humidity of the South American jungle. I wonder where they captured it from.

I don’t seem to mind that every circumstance is lining up perfectly for my journey (at least so far) and that much of it has been “on rails”. In some ways I’m relieved that it is, because it cuts down the amount of exploration needed to find to find a tiny black beetle on the jungle floor. If you didn’t know Benoit Sokal is a comic book artist, you could tell because the grapnel lining up perfectly with the rock directly ahead of you is something you might find in a Tintin comic. And that’s a huge compliment in my book!

The only difficulties I had this time were overlooking a room I needed to visit in the village and also knowing that I needed to return to the boat and make it go without fuel. I’m not sure how the ignition was able to start since previous times it’s had fuel it didn’t, but by this stage of the game I’ve learnt to put these things down to “Amerzone logic”.

zobraks - 26 July 2022 01:43 AM

He must have shot there already because how else would he know to go look for the bees.

At the time, he hadn’t said he was past that point, so I didn’t assume he was.  

Charo,
Once we pulled the first lever to open the sluice gate, we just floated to the rail mechanism as a boat.

Slowly but surely getting into the game. Chapter 4 now.

Good!  I’m glad you’re moving along, VGP.

Yay, Chrissie!  You may want to stretch your legs a bit with a walk.