SPACE ACCIDENT Beginner’s Guide and Hits

Settings and Gameplay Mechanics Notes

No spoilers here – just some hopefully helpful setup and gameplay mechanics info:

SETTINGSThe settings can only be adjusted after you start and are in a game. Once you have a game going, press the escape (ESC) key to enter setup mode.

The action key for interacting with buttons and carrying objects is mapped to F by default which can be awkward. Recommend changing to left mouse button or something you don’t mind holding while you walk with an object.

You may wish to adjust the mouse sensitivity downward to prevent visual whiplash and the field of view upward to be able to provide more perspective when viewing rooms where you will have many laser redirection spheres and beams crisscrossing.

THERE ARE NO MANUAL SAVES – game saves only occur when you finish an area/level. This can be frustrating in areas where there is a lot of setup required or many steps to accomplish a goal and you have to step away from the game – you will need to start over from the beginning of the level.

BUTTONS – there is no mouse aiming reticle (red dot, cross, 등.) so you need to get close to a button and press the action key until it responds. Some buttons need to be activated – they will look dark until they are.BARRIER FORCE FIELD TYPES – blue barrier fields prohibit personnel (너) from passing through, but objects and lasers can; yellow prohibits lasers from passing but objects and personnel can; and green prohibits objects from passing but lasers and personnel can.

PRACTICE PLACING/ROTATING THE LASER REDIRECTION SPHERES – as mentioned in the guidance note when you first encounter the laser redirection spheres, they are rotated via the mouse scroll wheel (if you don’t have one on your mouse, this is going to be an issue). Once you encounter the spheres in the first area, you will note they are enclosed in a framework – this framework can block the beam from entering the sphere – my advice is to practice placing and rotating them.

There is another interesting attribute that may be useful that I will defer for the moment.

NOTE ON STEERING THE SPHERES – if two spheres are close to each other and you are close to both of them, even if you are pointed at only one sphere, both spheres will rotate with scroll wheel inputs which can be an issue – just move yourself so you are close to only one sphere to move only the one you want.

AREA 1 – ESCAPE THE STORAGE ROOM WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED

첫 번째 영역에서, your mission is to get past the blue personnel barrier field protecting a passageway tunnel. This first area is where you will become familiar with the physics of the game – pressure plate switches like Portal or Talos Principle or ReThink, 스위치, lasers and laser redirector spheres (hereafter just spheres). You will also encounter the various barrier fields – blue prohibits personnel (너) from passing, but objects and lasers can; yellow prohibits lasers from passing but objects and personnel can; and green prohibits objects from passing but lasers and personnel can.

NOT SURE WHAT TO DO NEXT?To open the blue barrier field to the passageway, turn on the three energy lamp cylinders in order to activate the switch to change the field protecting the second laser – pass through yellow laser barrier field, press the switch to activate second laser, then back out and deactivate the outer switch to change the yellow barrier field back to blue. You will see a laser activated panel protected by a yellow anti-laser barrier (and you at some point will be told if you can hit it with a laser, you can go further). Hit it with a laser and proceed through the passageway.HOW DO I ACTIVATE THE LASER ACTIVATED SWITCH PROTECTED BY THE YELLOW LASER BARRIER FIELD?Go back to the room with the first laser and turn it off in order to turn off the yellow laser barrier field protecting the panel so you can aim the second, higher elevation laser at it. First move at least one laser redirection cube to the main area to use in redirecting the second beam to the panel.
You don’t have to put the sphere on a cube to position it – you can just hold it.

AREA 2 – CREW QUARTERS, LASER LAMP POST ROOMS, AND BLOCKED PASSAGEWAYS

Proceed down the tunnels and pass through the green anti-object barrier field (which keeps you from bringing the cube or redirection spheres from the first area into the new area). You find yourself in a room with a pressure plate switch that changes a personnel barrier into an object barrier. So you don’t need me to tell you that we need to find an object to put on the plate.

WHERE IS AN OBJECT I CAN PLACE ON THE PLATE?

AREA 3 – REACTIVATING THE REACTOR TO POWER THE DRIVES

Explore where you can and see what you can solve. You have access to the main bay, you see a cargo mover hovering atop guide beams, there is a pressure plate, some barrier fields on the right and left of the lower bay (from perspective of looking at the reactor), a blue and yellow barrier field in front of the reactor, and passageways to the upper right and left levels, but only the upper right permits entry, and here you will find the control panel for the cargo mover.

CAN’T FIND AN OBJECT TO PUT ON THE PRESSURE PLATE IN THE MAIN BAY

HINT 1 – Are you sure? Take a close look at what is just beyond the blue barrier blocking the entrance to the right side (facing the reactor) upper passageway.

HINT 2 – There is a cube within reach just beyond the blue barrier – blue stops people but not objects. Once done you can activate the pressure plate to activate the barrier field switch and find some cubes to allow you to progress.

HOW DO I CROSS TO THE OTHER UPPER PASSAGEWAY?

HINT 1 – There may be another way to do this but here’s my way – involves using the platform as a stepping stone to jump across the gap.

HINT 2 – Stack the three cubes you have on top of each other just under the gap in the upper railing on the right side (facing the reactor). Now go set the slider to 43%, then jump from the upper left side to the platform, then from the platform to the right side and you will land atop the cubes and be able to climb up. You need to be walking when hitting the jump key to get maximum distance, and wait until the last possible moment to jump.

한 번 건너서, locate the sphere at the bottom of the stairs and put it on the pressure plate to activate the field change button for the right side lower barrier field.

At this point you should be able to pass cubes through to harvest the set of laser redirection spheres. Note that when you put a cube on the pressure plate inside the hallway, the right side blue barrier field turns off permitting access to the upper passageway and the laser switch is activated.

좋아요, I’VE POSITIONED THE SPHERES TO ACTIVATE THE LASER LAMP POSTS AND TURNED OFF THE BLUE FIELD BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW TO ACTIVATE THE REACTORHINT – You will kick yourself for this one if you need this hint – just press the red panel with your mouse and the reactor will energize.

So now just go back through the passageways and find a blue barrier is gone and you can now pass to the engine room…

AREA 4 – ACTIVATING THE ENGINES IN THE ENGINE ROOM

Follow the passageways until you are in the anterooms to the engine room. 탐구하다. You should have enough expertise to harvest the objects that can be found here.

HOW DO I COLLECT THE OBJECTS?HINT – You can use the cube from the first anteroom and pass it through the blue barrier to enable you to use the pressure plate in the sphere storage room to pass the laser redirection spheres out of the storage room. Move them all into the engine room.

HINT 2 – While there actually is a way to position the laser redirection spheres including the one on the pressure plate to activate all the laser lamp posts (I’ve done it), there is a MUCH easier way. Really think about the yellow field before you reveal more hints.

HINT 3 – 좋아요, you are stumped, fair enough. 내가 말했듯이: think about the yellow field. Laser beams can’t pass, but what can?

HINT 4 – What if you place the laser redirection sphere in the yellow laser barrier?

HINT 5 – 좋아요, here’s how you do it – place the sphere midway in the yellow barrier and rotate to activate the last laser lamp post:

AREA 5 – CHANGING COURSE BACK TO EARTH

Beautiful bridge rendering!

좋아요, ready for the last challenge? This is truly a tough one…

아니다! Just press the button in the panel in front of you and the ship will change course to slingshot around Mars and back to Earth.

Not sure about you but this was kind of a let down after the complex puzzles that came before. But hopefully, there is an expanded edition or more games to come!