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System Shock Puzzles
Grogan Aug 10, 2023
Quoting: KlaasOr you could post a screenshot here and we'll have a look…

Thanks, it's appreciated.

It took me an hour to bumble my way back here. I had saved at this Recycle station and forgot which crawl spaces, ladders, elevators, doors etc. had gotten me there. Also confused about which puzzle it was, it seems I encountered another along the way.

This is the one I had tried to figure out, the first one encountered. It was to enable a little lift just to the left of it. I think the lift would go down, as it doesn't look like there's an up. I don't know that this puzzle is necessary for game progress or not, but I'd appreciate a clue or two because I'm going to have to figure out how to do these.

I think I have to connect that other square orange doohickey at the bottom, third square from the left, somehow. I have no clue what that yellow lit thing up top is for either.

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Klaas Aug 10, 2023
So if I remember correctly you only have to connect the square thingies, i.e. first row first column and last row third column.

I'll call squares by row/column e.g. 1/1 from now on.

Rotate 2/2 and 1/2 so that 2/1 is connected to 1/3.
Rotate 5/8 and 7/8 so that 5/7 is connected to 7/7 through 6/8.
Rotate 3/2 so that 3/3 is connected to 4/2.
Rotate 6/1 so that 5/1 is connected to 6/2.

Edit: I've always wanted to draw with box characters…

 
12345678
X┏━━┓x   1
┗┛x ┗━┓x 2
 ┏━┓  ┃  3
┏┛x┃x ┃x 4
┃x┃┗┓ ┗┓ 5
┗━┓ ┗┓ ┃ 6
x ┗┓ ┗━┛ 7
  X┛━┛   8


Edit 2: I've missed the curved ones. ╭╮╯╰│⎻

Last edited by Klaas on 10 August 2023 at 7:39 am UTC
Grogan Aug 10, 2023
Yay, thanks, that was exactly right. Pretty good that you can just look at it and give me a numbered solution. My brain doesn't work that way.

So it was more straight forward than I was making it.

After all that, the lift it enabled just led down to the same area I was in earlier. Down to another defunct lift station in a little alcove down a ramp, with a dead guy. I didn't realize it was the same lift lol

I also did a circuit puzzle earlier, though I have no idea what, if anything, it enabled. I had to use this weird repulsor jump thing to get up to it.
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