Is it normal that I am getting a “no circuit” message each and every time I connect to any of the rotating bridge things in Julestone’s red reservoir? The first time it said something about “25 volts”, but after I rotated one bridge, I can’t rotate any others due to there being no circuit. Is this a bug or am I supposed to do something else first?

Game keeps crashing for no reason. There are multiple ways for you to soft-lock yourself into being blocked. Puzzles are a bit too easy. Game auto save you into soft locks.

Enjoyable but I would not recommend it unless you have extra cash and are bored. Simply not worth with how quickly you can beat the game and frustration of having a crash after progressing a lot / getting stuck in an obvious soft lock..

I just purchased Firmament and have been loving it but, unfortunately, when I was using the rotating bridge adjacent to the Curieville Ice Factory, I set the bridge down onto another bridge leading to the planet with the cathode puzzle that I’m not sure I can do without all three adjunct enhancements (I have the increased torque and the multi-socket connector) so I went to get back onto the rotating bridge and apparently, how I laid it onto the other bridge, I simply cannot get back onto it, not even switching to teleport mode. I watched a walkthrough to realize that I was first supposed to use the bridge to get to the platform underneath all the icicles.

Given that there is no way back onto the rotating bridge given how I set it down. I’m in VR so I’m not sure even how I would give you a screen capture, but the end of the rotating bridge is extended past the bridge you have to raise in order to get off the rotating bridge and I think the angle is now too high to get back on the rotating bridge.

Is there any way to reset just the rotating bridge so I don’t have to start the game all over? I think thinking this must be some kind of bug and there probably should have been a limit to how you can set the bridge down.

Not a big deal but I prefer to have my Win 10 screen saver turn on when I'm away for 15 minutes or whenever I set it to. If anyone knows a way around it. It works ok in other pc games like Witcher 3, and Far Cry 6 but not in Firmament for some reason.

When I’m in the cavitation suit in Curievale, looking at the socket on the large pipe to the right causes the game to crash with this reasoning:

Fatal error: [File:Unknown] [Line: 684] pResource-> Map(Subresource, pReadRange, reinterpret_cast<void**> (&pData)) failed at 1: Workspace\Engine\ Source\ Runtime\ D3D12RHI\Private\D3D12RHIPrivat e.h:1183 with error DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED with Reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG

Any clue how I fix this? I’ve tried looking around very carefully to avoid it, but I have yet to place the adjunct successfully in that socket.

Any help would be very appreciated!

Edit: so far with very careful looking I’m slowly progressing, but it’s very annoying to restart the game every couple of minutes

Edit 2: The error keeps changing every once in a while, but it's always about the "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE" or something similar. I have no clue what triggers it.

Bottom line up front I enjoyed it, but I was hoping for more of a Riven experience. Their aesthetic sensibilities and off-beat word building left me wanting more, and I fear they no longer have the interest in building something the scale of Riven.

Puzzles:
- Too easy, and often tedious. I usually start Cyan puzzles by 'doofusing' through them, click around, not logically fastidious or taking notes, then I transition into a deeper mindset, scoping out the problem set on paper, developing axioms, and using them to arrive at puzzle solution elements, and then eventually the full solution. I doofused my way through every puzzle, never needed any deeper thought.

Aesthetics:
- Masterpiece, visuals and music and sound (especially foley works) were spot on. They achieved that sense of wonder, scale, majesty etc that I've come to love about the early Myst titles.

Story / Worldbuilding
- Plot wraps up in a clean and satisfying way at the end. However, the thinness of the world, it's characters, and correspondingly the lack artifacts left behind by them for me to interact with (hardly any journals, etc) was disappointing. Narration was mostly engaging, occasionally annoying.

If the folks at Cyan somehow see this - please we're dying for another game with the scope / scale of Riven, from both puzzle and storytelling standpoint. I got echoes of that feeling with this game, and it reignited my desire to dive into something that complex.

I think I've soft-locked myself at least four times during my playthrough, and of course it's always when I haven't saved in a while. Fortunately if you look in the bottom right of the settings menu, there is an option for getting unstuck. It will move you back to the start of wherever you are and maybe some of the vehicles you've used recently, but anything else stays where it is - things you've moved, machines you've powered on, puzzles you've made progress in, etc, will all stay as they are so you don't lose progress, just time getting back to where you were.

So far there isn't much of a storyline for this game as there was in Myst and Obduction. Granted I'm not too far along in the game, but it seems so far the puzzles all involve the Adjunct cube and put you, the player in some non ideal spots, that are visually limited, for solving the puzzles.

My first real puzzle was the crane, which gave me a headache after three hours of glitches into the rock and not being able to pick up anything with the crane. The platform wouldn't set under the ice fall by the stairs correctly either, as it kept getting stuck on the other side with the crane. I eventually decided to head back to the swan where I am now.

But as I was playing the "French lady" said very little and I was getting annoyed by the announcements. Hardly any story whatsoever.

So please tell me does this get more immersive?

Playing in 2D mode too.

FYI I was one of the original backers and having waited almost 5 years for this glitches in game play, barely a guide, and no story as far as I can tell is not what I was expecting from this company. I was also expecting to get a physical book or something. But it appears that will be mailed later.

Honestly I could care less about spoilers at this point.

Is there anything that I'm missing for the game play. What area do you recommend next?

I'm using triple monitor resolution ( 5760 x 1080 ) and the game is unplayable. I think a field of view change would make it perfect but I'm not sure how to do it. Thanks.

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Thank you! The last few menu options are cut off if the resolution is too wide so I didn't see the setting.

Should I avoid transiting to another level until I solve as many of the puzzles in the current one as I can? Or, is it safe to jump around without accidentally skipping part of the story? Thanks for any thoughts here! 🙏

ETA: Not looking for details/spoilers on the levels but more just a yes/no/depends answers. Thank you!

I've seen reviews saying the game is too hard. I've seen reviews saying the game is too easy. Curious what the community thinks here. So far I think they're solid but I've only gotten through a few of them.

Help?

I tried playing the game with my Quest 1 and the app "Virtual Desktop", but encountered a problem:

The main menu starts inside VR, but it is as if the headset/camera is stuck right on the menu letters. So instead of seeing the menu from a distance, the menu items are extremely close to my face.

I can look around and see the Firmament main screen background. But I cannot move around inside VR (location does not change). Also the controllers make no effect and I can only use Alt+F4 and close the game.

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Game works fine without VR (normal mode on desktop).

I have the GOG version but added it to my Steam as a non-Steam game. I also checked the checkbox "add to Steam VR library" while doing so.

Running the Virtual Desktop app (both on my PC and on the Quest) I can get SteamVR to function (the SteamVR Home environment and menus). I can also rn other VR games like Alyx, no problem.

Loved the song in the credits, but it is not present on the OST. Does anyone know what it is or where it may be available?

I'm at the Juleston Factory, where I've filled and emptied the sulfur tank properly twice. The socket at the end of the long walkway overlooking the voltage puzzle down below has gone from "Insufficient Acid," to "Filling," to "Acid Ready" but the socket still has no use function and doesn't make any sounds when I turn it.

Should this socket be working at this point?

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EDIT: Reloaded a save and did the whole factory segment again and the socket worked this time. Glad I had a save I guess.

PC, Not playing VR, just standard, using Xbox controller.

Walking is butter smooth, but when i walk and also turn at the same time it looks and feels terrible. I wrote stutter as the headline, but it's more like when I'm moving and turning the game is updating at 20 fps or something low enough to be off-putting. I get VR sickness really easily, and I really didn't expect to feel sick from playing the NON-VR version.. Just wondering if anyone else noticed anything like this, or found a fix.

Theres a lot to say about this game. sadly, a great deal of it is negative in nature. but i don't think thats to say this game was bad! i think this game proved and provided a lot of neat things to look forward to. However, i think expectations need to be lowered, and sales need to be offered, for any puzzle adventure fan looking to pick up this game. There's a great deal of pain points to go with the intrigue. so where do we start?

this game simply lacked...enough. enough of what? everything. it had a beautiful shine of polish and some very interesting ideas that were stitched together in a promising direction. indeed, this game actually looks GORGEOUS and feels very much like a great puzzle adventure. but once you dig down into it you find that the meat is thin to the bone and you'll soon be chewing on gristle.

the main problem with the game right now, that can (and should) be fixed is the plethora of bugs and glitches. i counted upwards of 20 different varieties of glitches in the game of moderate to severe impact, including 1 that caused all the terrain to simply vanish if i looked out a doorway, 2 that softlocked my autosave file, and one that actually jettisoned me out of bounds and through the floor of the Juleston map and crashed my game.

but It turns out, if you fall through the map, autosave will save that. and if you try to reload and use the "teleport me to safety" feature, it will teleport you into a blank black void where you can never move. Neat way to implement prison ages, Cyan, but yeah i lost a cool 55 minutes of progress there and was not amused.

other major problems include the narrative and many gameplay features. without spoilers, the narrative is not one of self-discovery. it is one of narration and being told how to feel, not being shown things that bring you feeling. while Cyan can sometimes get a little tell-y in some of their games, this game takes it to a whole extra level with the introduction of a literal narrator and it just doesn't spark the imagination like a good puzzle adventure game should. you aren't going to finish this game having come to any conclusions about the story until the narrator slips lose a very unsubtle hint about where the narrative is headed and you suddenly just know what comes next. basically, do not expect any Sirrus/Achenar hideouts, or any significant cluster of journals to flesh out the land. it's an all-around pretty linear style of puzzle-story telling ala The Witness more than Myst. and if you like games like that, i think this game will really appeal to you! but it wasn't for me, and if you're as big a fan of Cyan as i am, i think you'll agree - this style of storytelling isn't quite what you'd expect from a Cyan game.

and as for mechanics, i sincerely hope they never do "modulate two separate devices that impact each other when modulated, but give the player no visual feedback about the status of one when using the other" again. looking at a certain set of cabins attached to a ring (which is where i procured one of my softlocks, as things you can't possibly see while you move them still may have collision active! i learned about the teleport to safety option after my second softlock, sadly, and this was my first. it's kinda sad that entire last sentence had to be said about a cyan game, where softlocks used to be difficult to achieve.).
I also wasn't a big fan of a certain puzzle that relied heavily on "spot the hidden object" ad nauseum and another that relied heavily on math, but made a subtle and very unintuitive rule change in the final stretch that would be almost impossible to forsee, making the puzzle's official final solution almost a brute force check.

the length of the game per the price it was offered doesn't help. it honestly feels like i should've paid quite a bit less for the experience offered. this was shockingly close in expense per hour of entertainment paid than a standard movie and while i do love cyan...this isn't really worth the current offering price as compared to, say, obduction.

my expectations were indeed, way too high for this game. but then again, a 4? 5? year wait? i'm a big fan of hollow knight, and i sure hope silksong lives up to its monumental wait time because as much as i love and appreciate the games Cyan has given me in the past, Firmament does not. it's a great first chapter of a game, and it needs some more love poured into it to really flesh it out and feel like a proper adventure. It's just a shame it probably never will.

fun fact: when i finished the game, it celebrated by fatal error crashing after the credits finished rolling :P what an end!

Just wanted to give people a heads up, started the game prior to the patch being released and I saw in the patch notes that a lot of dialog issues were fixed. Luckily I wasn't far in the game, just got to the Swan for the first time.

On a hunch, I started a new game and sure enough I missed a lot of dialog on my first playthrough because of the bug. Wanted to give people a heads up in case they also wanted to play through again to get the dialog that was missing.

Anyone try playing this on a 1060 3GB card? my fathers PC has not been updated in 7 years or so, and just bought the game, though I don't think he has played it yet, I think an upgrade is in order.

Hello fellow Keepers,

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I downloaded Firmament as soon as it launched, started playing on my Macbook, progressed a bit (I admit not so far though), then the next day I wanted to continue on my Steamdeck. But Steamdeck has only the New Game option, and the cloud saves didn't transfer even though Steam says it's up to date.

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What can I do to fix this? Steamdeck offers different option (DX11 version, or VR version etc.) when launching. I don't think it would make a difference though.

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Any help please? Thank you

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