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6/14/2025, 12:29:26 AM
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The problem is the game is designed around yellow paint telling you what to do. One early puzzle in exploring the caves around the lake has you run up a small indoor tower with a lockbox inside, and then you have to go out and around and see the combination for opening it painted on the cave walls surrounding. Not only does it raise the in-universe question of "who the fuck got up on the cave wall opposite with lake water beneath to paint the answer", but if you remove the paint with a mod, it's 100% guesswork as the answer ceases to exist. Pushing aside logical factors of problems with this, it's just stupid from a game design perspective because there's more organic ways to create progression markers and puzzle solutions.
Fucking Half-Life 2 quite literally shines brighter map lighting on notable locations so players are more likely to go that way, and that was 2004.
The problem is the game is designed around yellow paint telling you what to do. One early puzzle in exploring the caves around the lake has you run up a small indoor tower with a lockbox inside, and then you have to go out and around and see the combination for opening it painted on the cave walls surrounding. Not only does it raise the in-universe question of "who the fuck got up on the cave wall opposite with lake water beneath to paint the answer", but if you remove the paint with a mod, it's 100% guesswork as the answer ceases to exist. Pushing aside logical factors of problems with this, it's just stupid from a game design perspective because there's more organic ways to create progression markers and puzzle solutions.
Fucking Half-Life 2 quite literally shines brighter map lighting on notable locations so players are more likely to go that way, and that was 2004.
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