mod: pikpik_carrot.BandTogether

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mod: pikpik_carrot.BandTogether

Entry for the OW 2024 modding jam. (by @Etherpod)

https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/bandtogether/

[Ultrinik]

I got a bug where the shrub keeps spawning in the island, and the greed guy doesn't accept that one.
The worship guys are in attack mode, but there is nothing in the shrine where the shrub is supposed to be.
So I think Im softlocked

[Etherpod]

Have you tried placing the shrubbery back in the shrine?

[Ultrinik]

I did it and nothing special happened, I can not grab it again from it and when the loop restarts it's on the island again

[Etherpod]

The next update should fix this, along with everything else on the issues page. Sorry about the bugs.

[1FC7]

Is there any way I can reset all my progress for the time being just to avoid the shrubbery softlocking?

[Etherpod]

If you want to restart the mod, selecting New Expedition or making a new profile should do the trick.

If you want to only reset certain parts, there's a file in AppData/LocalLow under Mobius Digital and your profile name that's called data.owsave I think. Everything that saves across loops is controlled by conditions in the dictConditions section, so you can play around with those (Worship clan is called Ghird B).

[GreatGoldenchip]

This was definitely my favorite mod from the jam. It's so good!

[MrCrankunity]

Finished this mod today and had a lot of fun with it. I'm just a bit annoyed with Ernesto, because getting him seems kinda bugged or I misunderstood something heavily.

[Etherpod]

Thanks for playing!

Ernesto is weird because... (expand for spoilers)

the location that the quantum rocks travel to are directly beneath the South Pole, and the game code works by only moving the quantum objects once you look in their direction first. So to make the white rock appear, you need to look directly down first and then once you look up again it will appear on one of the pillars. The same thing happens when you're in the underground shrine, you need to look directly up (or maybe down?) for the rock to appear again. Opening the map also makes them appear, but outside of doing that it is pretty difficult for someone who doesn't know any of this.

[DaveLH]

This is my second time playing this mod. I really like it, and I had no issues when I played it back in April or May. But now there seems to be a bug I should report:

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

Shortly after I started the mod, I went to the Exploration clan to give the Gatekeeper my cockpit. Then, because I didn't want to be without my ship for the rest of the mod, I did a "Meditate Until next loop," which somehow triggered the "Breaking the Fabric of Space Time" animation, but not the text indicating that -- Instead the game just went to black and then completely froze... Though I know the game timer was still running, as I have the "Clock" mod enabled. But no further user input had any effect. Have no idea how this happened, but thought I should report it as a potential bug.

[DaveLH]

Update: Looks like the issue was that my Game profile was broken, because I created a new one and the issue went away. Really weird though, anyway, what it was doing...

[BURG3R5]

An awesome mod with interesting puzzles and a cool story!

I'll mention some small issues because this is so close to perfect (for me, at least)!

1. The forced interaction at the start almost made me quit because I thought the mod was broken. I landed in a village and wanted to explore a bit before going to the signal. But I couldn't talk to people, I couldn't pick up scrolls, etc. There has to be a better way to introduce the premise. The current way seems to go against the non-linear and curiosity-driven gameplay of OW.
2. The ending could've been more fleshed-out. Everything after entering the door felt super rushed and I almost got jump-scared multiple times by the characters just appearing near the campfire as fast as possible without narrative pressure to be friends again.
3. Is there any way to not have all the physical progress persist across loops? Or else (now that the jam is over) have it be on a system without the loops? The persistent progress breaks immersion...

Anyway, I really liked this mod and I hope to see more mods from you soon!

[Etherpod]

Thanks for the feedback! We're not planning on working on this mod anymore, so it's not likely any of this will be fixed ::/

I agree, forcing you to go to the signal at the start is a bad way of doing things, but it was also the fastest way and nobody bothered to fix it afterwards.

The ending used to not work at all and we had to spend a bunch of time fixing it, so I’m happy with how it is right now, even if it does seem rushed. The quantum characters is something you can see throughout the mod, not just the ending.

Incorporating the time loop would likely require a complete redesign of the mod. It would be so annoying to do all the quests over and over again because they can’t remember who you are. Maybe they remember everything because of the Sacred Shrubbery or something XD

Moving the mod to a new system would defeat the point of Jam 3, so that sadly wasn't an option either.

It has some imperfections, but I’m glad you still enjoyed playing the mod!

[DaveLH]

Personally, I like that it isn't reset by the time loop , for the reasons you mention -- It would be just too much to try to do everything in only 22 minutes. I can also see how improving the ending would be a challenge -- Especially since the available animation cycles for the Nomai are so limited.