The Talos Principle

The Talos Principle

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79 Comments
Mauritsio  [author] 12 Apr @ 2:38am 
@Derek
Just to be sure, you're running the game from the legacy branch as outlined in the description, right?

If that's not helping, check that the file at this location: `{Steam installation path}\steamapps\common\The Talos Principle\Temp\SteamWorkshop\ContentPath_257510.txt`
Contains this line: "${Steam installation path}/steamapps/workshop/content/257510"

If that still doesn't help, here's a rather drastic option you could take:
- Navigate to this folder: `{Steam installation path}\steamapps\workshop\content\257510\484930087`
- You'll find a .bin file here. Copy it to: `{Steam installation folder}\steamapps\common\The Talos Principle\Content\Talos`
- Rename the file to give it the ".gro" extension instead of ".bin".
- Now you can start the game in the moddable mode and the campaign should appear.

I'm not sure if this is the most efficient means to do it, but at the very least the second option should work.
Derek 12 Apr @ 12:18am 
I have no idea why none of your content will not play on Talos P. I have tried everything to my knowledge. Have any suggestions?
ZHORA3000 14 May, 2019 @ 4:28pm 
i use moddable version of game but still get TRANSERROR
dogdu 3 Mar, 2019 @ 3:19pm 
The term is likely "geosynchronous" rather than "geocentric".. which is how the TV/communications satellites orbit.. in one massive "ring"
Mangel0 3 Mar, 2019 @ 1:12am 
Needless to say I figured it out after playing a bit farther. I really liked this mod. Good use of extra colors, unique environments, good level of difficulty on the puzzles, and none of the recording was 4d chess bullshit. Never did find the QR code for the last star, I eventually looked it up. Nice work!
Mangel0 2 Mar, 2019 @ 10:37pm 
What is the key in Warehouse for? I combed the whole level and never saw it. Had me convinced that the star is there. The only thing I think I could be missing is some pocket only accessible from the top of the walls, but I can't seem to get up there. Am I missing something?
Daniel Lee Howell 19 Dec, 2018 @ 9:08am 
"...geocentric orbit around Earth" is redundant mate. Geocentric literally means "with Earth in the center."
Macolest 13 Dec, 2018 @ 3:31am 
Awesome and funny, had a good hours with it
barrymead 3 Dec, 2018 @ 9:36pm 
Fun, challenging puzzles, and great colors. It really made me feel like I was in outer space. I especially liked the pipe walking star. I like it when puzzle collections have a mission and a theme behind them. Well Done!
ycarcomed 5 Mar, 2018 @ 6:52pm 
Good job mate these puzzles rekt me :D
Mauritsio  [author] 16 Nov, 2017 @ 8:44am 
Can you confirm that you are subscribed to this? https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/?id=350008985
If not, please do and load the level again.
shlam 7 Nov, 2017 @ 5:26am 
Had a lot of fun puzzles. Well made and very enjoyable. Just really wish for a different aesthetic, I got headaches from the bright colours.
baby 11 May, 2017 @ 8:00am 
Loved it :) GJ!
Mauritsio  [author] 23 Sep, 2016 @ 6:15am 
Sound is your only clue. Since you don't have that as your disposal, you should take a walk on top of the ship, specifically near the support beams.
ReusedNPCv2 22 Sep, 2016 @ 5:59pm 
Turned the setting to Low instead of Lowest and things turned out fine. Question, though, as someone who has to play muted, are there any hints for the red star? I've looked everywhere I can think to and I don't see how to manage things without seeing the telltale random scraps flying in a general direction or hearing it (which I can't).
Mauritsio  [author] 4 Sep, 2016 @ 1:38am 
@ReusedNPCv2 It has nothing to do with DLC, lol. The fix is to set your GPU speed from Lowest to atleast Low (options -> performance). This isn't a very graphically demanding map, anyway.
ReusedNPCv2 3 Sep, 2016 @ 4:48pm 
Having a bit of a weird issue with this mod. I can load in fine, but apart from some purple, everything's just white. Looking through the comments, it seems like this is caused by not having a necessary DLC? Is that still an issue or has that been fixed and something else is causing it?
Deplex_ッ 30 Aug, 2016 @ 12:26am 
hed
blue9244 23 Aug, 2016 @ 4:28pm 
I've tried timing it differently each time but still manage to fall off. I appreciate the feedback though. My timing ability probably sucks since I'm 72 now.
Mauritsio  [author] 20 Aug, 2016 @ 2:22pm 
@blue9244 It's just the way the talos physics engine works. You need to time it so you bump into the cube not directly above the middle platform
blue9244 20 Aug, 2016 @ 12:02pm 
I absolutely love this map but I'm having a terrible time in Vehicular Activity (?) trying to time getting the sygil correctly and I end up falling off the "world" and having to begin anew. Is there a secret here that I'm missing? I know this is late but I discovered The Talos Principle late as well.
Stormflare 18 Aug, 2016 @ 7:39am 
love the song :D
The Sojourner 16 Aug, 2016 @ 4:19am 
@Mauritsio, thanks for the hints. I found the green star ( whAt K1ND 0F PL^TFoRM1Ng H3LL I$ ThIS ALL F&R a St4R?!? ), but I'm simply not seeing the red. I hope this isn't a bug.
Mauritsio  [author] 12 Aug, 2016 @ 3:35am 
@p0rtalmaster
Thanks for the tip - this map is sufficiently old now that I don't really see a reason to go back to it anymore, and I never really got into Source modding so I wouldn't have thought of doing that. :P

As for the stars:
For ExtraVehicular Activity: There's a hidden switch hidden in a quite unconventional spot that will unlock the star.
For Docking Bay: Once you figure out where the hidden fan goes to, it should be straight forward to figure out where to go next. After all, once you go up, there's only a single way to continue going forward.
The Sojourner 12 Aug, 2016 @ 12:24am 
Also if you're thinking of giving out hints for the stars, I already guessed that there's a star hiding in Extravehicular Activity (I scanned everywhere and could not find a visible star) and there's a star in Docking Bay (I noticed the hidden fan too) , but I'll need a little more than that.
The Sojourner 11 Aug, 2016 @ 11:40pm 
If you're thinking of using music from Portal 2, it's not the best idea to drag it out from the OST. If you get a program like GCFScape, you can dig out the music files and use those (they'll loop better, for one :P). You might even be able to make certain pieces of music play in certain areas of the map.

Excellent set of puzzles :theta: Still seeking out two stars n the red and green areas; managed to find the other three.
lapicidas 31 Jul, 2016 @ 9:22pm 
challenging puzzles ;-) Thanks for this map :-)
Moloz53 28 Jun, 2016 @ 6:16am 
realy fantastic mod.thank you.
SacredBird 7 Jan, 2016 @ 1:15pm 
Thanks for this mod! It's very beautiful but the music scares me jajajaja. The puzzles are very difficult O.O Great job!
MakoSipper 13 Nov, 2015 @ 4:22pm 
Great map! The only thing that annoyed me just a bit was having to remove and replace a puzzle piece whenever I wanted to go through the door again. Thanks for putting so much effort into this!
Cerem 3 Oct, 2015 @ 8:00pm 
Seems good but the Yellow Sigil puzzle...I can't figure it out, won't lie I even tried an online puzzle solving thing and it told me there's no solution XD help?
Mauritsio  [author] 15 Sep, 2015 @ 11:12am 
@piripago Oh, funny you should mention that, I was playing a custom map yesterday and I have the exact same problem as you described. Thanks for that!
piripiago 15 Sep, 2015 @ 10:40am 
I un-subscribed all of my workshop items, opened the game and let it restart, closed, re-subscribed to just the additional laser colors and this puzzle, opened the game and let it restart, and it seemed to fix the problem.
piripiago 15 Sep, 2015 @ 8:04am 
In green ExtraVehicular Activity, something appears to be wrong with the fans. I found the box, but there are two buttons. It looks like I am supposed to remove a fan and put it on the second button for the other fan ... except I can't remove either of the fans. When I get close to either fan and put the cursor on it, it doesn't highlight and display the usual text to detach it.
-_//Double Inversion\\_- 6 Sep, 2015 @ 12:08pm 
well forgot to read the comments.... lol
-_//Double Inversion\\_- 6 Sep, 2015 @ 12:07pm 
The chamber works on my pc, but it is all in pure white. Some shards of the puzzle have a slight attached color on them but aren't like fully painted.
chris 1 Sep, 2015 @ 4:28am 
Brilliant - thanks for replying so quick! And your comment below about 42 liberated all my other stuck mods as well! So now the whole shebang is grooving!
inappropriately_gendered_fungus 31 Aug, 2015 @ 11:58pm 
I finally got to play through it. These were some great puzzles. Nothing overly obtuse. The recorder puzzles were even good. It was nice to actually be able to solve them pretty much on my own. Interesting setting, too. Great successor to Simplicity!

Some nitpicks: The colors are very intense, even with normal saturation. I think the red rooms gave me a minor headache. In a couple puzzles, it's very easy to accidentally exit the puzzle while backing up to position something. This is especially irritating when using the recorder. In Ring of Fire, it can be difficult to jump onto the platform where the jammer is and the final platform to block the laser. I think it would help if these were lowered a bit. Aso, most of the stars lack any real puzzle solving, so they feel kind of arbitrary. If they're just there as a fun afterthought, I can understand that. That said, this was a great map!
Mauritsio  [author] 31 Aug, 2015 @ 11:33pm 
@chris This is a known bug: You need to increase your GPU performance in the performance settings. Sorry about that. It's not like this map is too graphically demanding anyway. :P
chris 31 Aug, 2015 @ 11:19pm 
I'm playing on a Mac and the colours are nearly all white. You can;t see the othre rooms at all. You can't even see the sigils to orient them on the board. I've tried changing the colours to no avail.
inappropriately_gendered_fungus 30 Aug, 2015 @ 1:38pm 
Oh god, THAT'S what it was? I would have never thought to check that. Thank you so much.
Mauritsio  [author] 30 Aug, 2015 @ 1:52am 
Were you ever subscribed to Meaning of 42? 'Cause the creator of that map deleted it from the workshop, causing the enumerating to break. Go to your subscribed items, look for it and unsub.
inappropriately_gendered_fungus 29 Aug, 2015 @ 7:08pm 
It just says Workshop content update failed, or something like that. I don't know how to look at the error log.
Mauritsio  [author] 29 Aug, 2015 @ 8:44am 
Does it show any errors after enumerating workshop packages?
inappropriately_gendered_fungus 28 Aug, 2015 @ 9:06pm 
I would love to play this, but I can't get the workshop content to update in the game.
Mauritsio  [author] 18 Aug, 2015 @ 10:59am 
@Innocentive
Thanks for your feedback!

You can actually block the beam yourself and use the jammer to jam both turrets (you essentially have two because you're using the Recorder) on the other side. As for your second point, you should be able to walk onto the plasma wall and easily connect the red reciever with the other connector.

I think the "(TransError)" bug is caused if you didn't start the game in moddable mode.
Innocentive 18 Aug, 2015 @ 10:51am 
Incredible work! Thanks a lot for making this map pack. I liked all the puzzles but there were some minor details that were a bit annoying (maybe I didn't solve them correctly though): In the room with the five guns, I would have provided a little more space for the Jammer that blocks the beam. And in the room with the three energy receivers positioning the energy rod to get the cube out of the sealed cubicle felt sort of tedious.

Also, after stopping and continuing the game all puzzle titles just read "(TransError)". Maybe that needs fixing, maybe the error was on my side?

Anyway, I had a lot of fun solving the puzzles!!!

PS: Thanks for that platforming lesson ... I think it took me about 50 tries to reach that star ;)
Bdav 16 Aug, 2015 @ 11:34am 
nice map pack thanks
vodkins 13 Aug, 2015 @ 8:16am 
Ok, Mauritsio, thanks you and no problem! I just don't remember how it was implemented in Talos, but i think already opened doors are were kept opened there. Anyway - this is no problem to drag and drop 1 sigil:) Thank you for your amazing work!