So today I learned that while in the cockpit of your space ship you have the ability to fire the probe into space, I never pressed the button before as I saw no possible usefulness in firing said probe at the inside of my windshield. I now ponder if that is how I figure out what the south pole of the quantum moon is as supposedly there are ruins or something on the north pole, today I was looking at said moon very closely and going “well the atmosphere is spinning around it, so if it is rotating around the equator then I just have to pick the point at the bottom that it rotating the least/not at all and aim for that” and that it either wrong or very finicky.
I also figured out the lakebed cave deal which doesn’t seem particularly useful overall but I could see perhaps being key regarding the above spoilered part. I am driving myself a bit mad as I know I found the black hole forge or something like it on Brittle Hollow once before but I cannot for the life of my figure out where it is now, I even screwed around until I could finally get myself to that “4th floor” place by the “ceiling” but aside from a couple bits of swirl text there was nothing there. I’m rather sick of that place now and had to cut short my playing today because of it but I’ve hit the point where I’m down to very few places/things left to find that I am aware of: Got under the surface of Giant’s Deep but apparently need to figure out what missing guy knew to deal with the electric core, he next went to Dark Bramble and I’ve been putting off revisiting as I am no closer to figuring it out but might have to brute force it until I get a better idea. I’d really like to find the black hole forge but again I must have literally walked all around it without stumbling upon it once again. I still have a “more to learn” mark on the sand filling city but I’ve explored it fairly well and it is still a pain in the ass to reach/deal with. The sand losing planet I’ve gotten very little from, believe there is something in its hard to break core but aside from a room full of spiky plants blocking me from one of those blue “levitate you to a different floor” things I’ve stumbled upon nothing of worth. The missing guy has a signalscope thing seemingly from the center of my home planet and I did explore down in the geysers and underwater tunnels but found very little.
That basically leaves me with three leads: black hole forge which I can’t find and is truly under my skin by now, dark bramble which is a huge pain and the sand filling city (sunless city I think?) which I guess I can try that lowermost bit again and see if I missed something before working my way up through there. I think this was eventually a problem I had with Riven too where no matter what you do you eventually end up just left with all the bits that confused you or you didn’t like and the game becomes entirely about them for a long stretch.
There also is that small thing rotating around the sun but it’s very close to it and I can’t lock onto it so I’ve got no idea how to do that without accidentally crashing into the sun several times first.
Also I am on a PS5 with ultrafast loads, let me skip the few dozen flashback images with the press of a button when I end a cycle if I want.