Outer Wilds New Patch 1.1.15 (June 2024) hides a very niche reference/easter egg, and a seemingly last goodbye to the Outer Wilds community. Enjoy! #gaming #outerwilds
In the series if an object enters a black hole it (sometimes) time travels, but because of the limitations, turns into jelly. If you jump through the ATP black hole while holding the banana scroll, it will appear in the next loop on the ground close to Self, broken, with the banana jellified.
The whole story around Steins;Gate revolves around the main character sending his memories back through time. He essentially relives the same day with the memories from the days before, and he wants to cause a "divergence" to change the way events play out. The core time loop mechanic of the game was just heavily inspired by Steins;Gate, and I think this has long been apparent to fans of both. It's sweet to see this acknowledged.
I remember the anime used a device that looked like numbers on a banana scroll and showed how much the timeline had changed, and the more the timeline changed, the larger the number. The first timeline started with 0.000000α, and if I remember correctly, when the first number changed, the timeline was changed so much that it was somehow divided (I watched it a long time ago and only the first season). The first message on the scroll is "Current Divergence value: X.712865M". M may be a reference to the Greek letter, because in the anime, when α was in 0.000000, when the first number changed, the letter also changed, but in the fandom they only use lowercase letters where lowercase M looks like μ, so maybe it's that, and maybe not (according to this formula, the first number would be 11). And they used bananas for "physical" time travel at first, then they discovered how to move a small amount of data through time, so they started sending messages through time, and then they used some device that collected memory from the brain and moved it back in time.
The device is a Divergence Meter, it measures "divergence" relative to the reference timeline it was built in. Steins;Gate time travel has "attractor fields" which are like sets of timelines where certain events are fated to happen. If you make a tiny change, the divergence is less than the meter can register, and objects are just rewritten to reflect the change. If the change is large enough, the number on the meter changes, and everyone's memories are updated too (except the protagonist). If you get to a new integer on the meter (which usually requires changing a fated event and being close to the divergence boundary) you can get to a new attractor field with different events. It's super cool.
@@yesianyeha7479 omg yeah, i had a deal with my friend where he would watch a show if i watched his recommendation (steins gate), and while the first half was kind of slow, the second half picks up and it gets really good, glad I kept with it
@@yesianyeha7479 Watch it!!! It has an insanely slow start ill admit but it's so worth it once you hit the midpoint of the show there is an episode that starts a domino effect that (at least for me) will make you just wanna sit and finish the rest of the show right there. It is also really short so it's not much of a commitment.
@@yesianyeha7479 It mostly still holds up, if I remember it right. It starts very light and low stakes and then suddenly things take a dark turn. I have no idea how it compares to the original source material, though!
It's nice to get a goodbye. I don't think about outer wilds nearly as much anymore, nowhere near as much as it deserves, but it... kinda defined how i ended up living because I played it, I'd say along with Undertale. I assumed it hadn't gotten many patches or updates at all since Echoes, and I'm surprised I missed this. Whatever mobius ends up doing, I'm sure it'll be something to remember. Be curious on your journey.
It’s sad to know that this might be their final update. However, it is awesome that they still supported the game up until now. I love the game, but have yet to actually complete it. The puzzles are tricky for me, and I don’t wanna ruin it by watching other’s content, but also I do. Idk man I love it and wanna spend more time in it.
You're right not to watch content until you've finished it yourself, it really is a special experience. Main advice I can give is really explore each planet as much as you can, one at a time. It's hard to piece things together until you have all the data
@@jimmyyrob that’s the thing, I’ve gotten really far in the game. It’s trying to figure out how to actually finish it. I filled out almost all of the ship logs, but couldn’t figure out how to do what I needed to do in the Sun station. Maybe I missed something. I’m gonna get back into it after these discussions tho for sure!
@@ttmranger1361if you ever feel completely stuck and inclined to google or watch a playthrough then I'd recommend asking for help either on some Outer Wilds youtube video comments or on the Outer Wilds Reddit (those guys are very helpful while spoiling nothing and never tired of helping)
I couldn't find anything else to do with it but you can Turn the banana "into" a gel-nana from the show....not telling how though cuz i don't want spoill anything else on AccidenT ::P
I can't even fathom what a new project would look like. How do you equal or improve on Outer Wilds? Maybe they will do something completely different to keep it fresh but I'm hoping for another sandbox puzzle
Yeah it’ll definitely be an exploration game like outer wilds because that’s what their player base wants. they can definitely make something as good as outer wilds, I mean look at the dlc
I have a suspicion they're going to keep the thread going and make another exploration game with horror elements... well, it's half suspicion, half wishful thinking XD
Раз уж мы всё-таки теперь похоже ОКОНЧАТЕЛЬНО прощаемся со вселенной игры Outer Wilds, я, пожалуй, не буду говорить: Ка же так, а я хотел продолжения!... Нет, я скажу только то, что я очень надеюсь, дождаться их новой игры, в которая удивит меня так же как и Outer Wilds... Всем добра!
This easter egg was made by Mobius Digital’s resident anime and vtuber enjoyer Jeffrey Yu. Fun fact: that number (called the world line value) is calculated based on your loop count.
I agree it might be a way off, I reckon an announcement next year to keep the community engaged. Absolutely no idea what it could be but I reckon they'll keep the space theme looking at their past projects
The nixie tubes alerted my reference detection, and suspicion rose as I heard the lines about world lines and convergence numbers. And than the short phrase, that made me smile uncontrollably. Truly a masterful reference to a great time travel story)
@@soraxdhyrule7253 I have sadly both watched the anime and played the vn, why would you assume I haven’t? gotta love people who think their favourite media is so fucking good that the only way someone could possibly dislike it is by not having experienced it.
@@Forsen807 Way too slow paced, really illogical, too much fan service, boring characters. I didn’t say it ruined outer wilds?? I’m just disappointed that the timelessness of the game is now sacrificed for a silly pop culture reference, and the shitty cherry on top is that it happens to be steins gate. It definitely doesn’t ruin anything, don’t get me wrong, but now there is just a tiny insignificant speck for me on an almost flawless game.
@@obscureskeleton because fundamentaly, outer wilds is very similar to Steins;Gate in its quantic explanation logic, and even use a black hole to go back in time, exactly like Steins;Gate So I really don't understand why you're saying that outer wilds now have a flaw, the whole game is a Steins;Gate reference
