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The Metheus Chore


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Alright just tried this with a partner and it stopped responding and became impossible to complete. Several hours trying to complete this, after having spent several days waiting to be able to even do it. Rant time.

 

So. Klei releases a trailer teasing a new puzzle. But, the hints in the trailer lead nowhere. Nothing to be done with them.

Klei then makes a webpage featuring a blank wall, associated with the puzzle, and gives it a URL they know people will stumble onto while Googling the name Metheus. The whole community has gathered, eagerly awaiting a new puzzle. It is clearly ready to happen, Klei is calling everybody to it. Nobody has any information to use to solve the puzzle, they are awaiting Klei to give them the hints because all the current ones lead nowhere.

Klei then spends several days, filling in the wall with minuet details which provide no hints or information on anything. Until the wall is complete, and it is discovered that even when it is finished; the wall does not depict an image that can be used for anything currently applicable. It is just a generic cave painting, which has no value. Klei made people wait for days, bickering over meaningless tripe. Only for the final image to then not actually be useful in the time it was being seen. The finished image on the wall, told people absolutely nothing. So basically, Klei called people several days early to a puzzle they could not participate in at all for several days.

And then suddenly like a flash, Klei releases the real puzzle. Oh em gee, puzzle time. But actually it is not a puzzle.

 

The first portion, is a relatively neat but completely meaningless establish-a-link-with-a-stranger-using-a-code sequence. It has no significance or puzzle aspects to it, it is just a hoop to jump through for the sake of showing off a syntax mechanic.

The second portion, requires people to take a six digit tile code and arrange it through trial and error to the right spots. With lights indicating how many tiles are currently in the right position, although not which ones. Again, not a real puzzle; just a trial and error chore. But apparently this is not enough for Klei. You must establish a link with a stranger, and together you must arrange your cumulative twelve digit random code using only six lights between you to figure out what is correct. You then also have a penalty where if you make too many turns, it completely resets. And if this was not a complicated chore enough, it is currently broken and will randomly not respond. This is not even the end of the road either.

 

 

So. Klei the world famous puzzle makers. They sent out invitations to a puzzle that would not arrive for days, just so they could build false hype. They did not provide the community with anything meaningful to talk about it the meantime, because all the so called hints led absolutely nowhere. And to top it off, the thing the community spent days waiting for; turned out to be literally meaningless and was just an attention bait.

They then spontaneously hand out the interactive portion of the puzzle. And it turns out, this interactive portion is also not a puzzle. It is an arbitrary hoop; followed by a complex, poorly coded, trial and error guessing game which resets itself if you fail too much.

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This quote unquote puzzle. Wow. Been a long time since having felt that feeling of just, utter emotional clotting. Because you know you want the thing you want, and you know it is going to be around for only a limited time so you need to hurry. But you also know, not only is the process of getting it going to be slow and miserable, but from square one you cannot technically even perform the required pain.

Because it is that bad, you need to learn how to perform the chore that is going to screw with your time.

 

Props Klei.

Props for your completely amateurish and painful attempt at a reenactment of what a puzzle should be.

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I'm continually disappointed by your conduct on the forums, and today is no different.

 

You appear to complain at least once per day about the game not living up to "uncompromising" yet when you are unable to complete something you complain just as loudly.  The second part of the puzzle is not difficult but it does take coordination.

 

It's basically a variant of mastermind, and it is not 12 individual digits but 6 pairs to place in the proper slots, meaning 6 lights are sufficient.

 

While it is regrettable that the puzzle seems to not be working for everyone, it is probably a combination of user error and overloaded servers.  You personally need to stop complaining about everything because it is both disrespectful to the developers and frankly embarassing for you to be continually in a state of hypocritical tantrum.

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So rude to be honest, i got the puzzle done with a friend from the forums like an hour ago and even tho it took us a while to complete we did it, just because you couldn't figure it out doesn´t mean you have to come here and say that klei ''amateurish and painfully attempted to make a puzzle'', when in fact it was you who amateurishly and painfully attempted to solve a puzzle

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11 minutes ago, Toros said:

I'm continually disappointed by your conduct on the forums, and today is no different.

 

You appear to complain at least once per day about the game not living up to "uncompromising" yet when you are unable to complete something you complain just as loudly.  The second part of the puzzle is not difficult but it does take coordination.

 

It's basically a variant of mastermind, and it is not 12 individual digits but 6 pairs to place in the proper slots, meaning 6 lights are sufficient.

 

While it is regrettable that the puzzle seems to not be working for everyone, it is probably a combination of user error and overloaded servers.  You personally need to stop complaining about everything because it is both disrespectful to the developers and frankly embarassing for you to be continually in a state of hypocritical tantrum.

 

Just now, LuisLzn said:

So rude to be honest, i got the puzzle done with a friend from the forums like an hour ago and even tho it took us a while to complete we did it, just because you couldn't figure it out doesn´t mean you have to come here and say that klei ''amateurish and painfully attempted to make a puzzle'', when in fact it was you who amateurishly and painfully attempted to solve a puzzle

amen my dudes

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