Early Start Thread

[Lantyssa]

Their google research plan appears to have hit the obvious hitch already.  Anytime you run into a puzzle now it's just going to auto-complete you to a relevant forum post basically telling you the answer.   Curious if they'll start deleting threads that even have hints.

Isn't that what most people use Google for when researching a problem?  They just need to make their website non-searchable.  Why they didn't add a robots or meta tag is beyond me.

It was helpful to find that a quest I was on was bugged.  I was positive I knew what to do, so I didn't mind looking it up, and sure enough others are having trouble, too.  They really need to make these bullet-proof though.  I like the challenge.  I don't want to check if it's bugged out of frustration and accidentally find out I was wrong and HERE IS THE ANSWER.

[Falconeer]

Actually in the beta the Devs were encouraging people to use Google. Sure, they meant it to solve the puzzles, not to get the solutions, but they aren't fools and they knew people were going to use the internet for spoilers instead of hints. I think it all boils down to what game you want to play. If you want to rush through the content using spoilers, you are free to do so and they know there's no way they could make it any harder for players.

If you instead want to enjoy the game the way it was intended to be played, you can do so.

I really don't think they care in the slightest about fighting internet spoilers. Sure, they'd love for them not to exist, but the game has launched and "customers" have the right to play it any way they want at this point.

[Riggswolfe]

On the investigation missions I generally give it a good try on each tier. Once I hit about the 20-30 minute mark though I start looking for spoilers. :) I'm finding that so far I usually do pretty well but I hear late game investigation missions are harder.