thank you so for the game...it's great fun and i've played a few times now, but i am intrigued by a note left by sdranger, regarding "an easter egg in an easter egg"...could it be that there is some treat missed? other than the rooms found by random(don't want to spoil them)...and, would it involve the third dragon or some other item? tried weighing the companion stone on scales and such, but that did nothing...just wondering if we should be on the lookout for some secretive twist. again, many thanks.
I have the weight companion cube, but I don't know how to use it. What should I do with the weight companion cube? I have nothing to do about that item.
Adding 12 cipher plates in Submachine Universe would be very nice. I would suggest using the transporters. I finished playing through version 4.5.4 and can I ask you a question?
Will you release Submachine Universe version 4.5.5?
I would be happy to see new locations in newer versions of Submachine Universe. Thank you so much! And I don't know how to use the weight companion cube.
I'll create more locations once I get to port this game to Game Maker, which will be several years from now. But not in flash. This flash version is done.
I just deleted the old zip file and downloaded a new one, it somehow didn't occur anymore. Maybe it will still occure, but I made sure, that everything was alright before I was going to play it again...
Hellooo! Happy Holidays! Thank you for the game! :D
I can't describe the following bug without mentioning a location; it's one of the very early locations, easily obtained, but still:
SPOILER SPACE
which I'm going to fill with my system details:
MacOS High Sierra, Macbook 2017.
The sub_loc folder, the .app, and the .swf are kept together as in the zip.
I've temporarily disabled the Gatekeeper, or I wouldn't have been able to run the app itself, but I get the bug when I run the .swf file too.
I've started a completely new game, as advised. Everything is new: the sub_loc folder, the app, the swf.
Bug: In location 628, when I press the red button that should take me to an "alternate universe", all I get is a blank screen. The main menu keeps working, so I can quit the game for example, but I can't do any more in-game actions. I'd try to add a screenshot, but it would just be a black screen.
END SPOILER
I'd be happy to provide more details, including a screenshot, if needed. I'm hoping it's just a case of Mur messing with a location file and Liz can persuade him to cease this prank.
hello...how did you get the app to work...i've tried everything...disabling and such, but no luck...can you dumb it down and walk me through it? where do you keep the files, on desktop or app folder? with swf, i can get the initial screen, but it won't load the others, and with the app, even with firewalls off and "any app download ok" it still doesn't work for me...and i have same system high sierra...thank you.
I keep the .app, the .swf, and the sub_loc folder at the same level, inside a SNEE folder which sits inside Applications.
And the only thing that worked for me was to drag and drop the .swf file in Chrome. (Opera and Firefox didn't work, got "file not found" or a blank screen.)
PS: Oh, and I also removed the old files from Applications. (I kept a backup, just in case, but not anywhere inside Applications.)
At 000 the switches are meant to be up up up, after connection it still wont open because the start position was already up up up.
Same Problem in final area with that pipe thingy they should be all horizontal but they are already from the beginning . After switching it, it still doesn't do anything.
I know the solution to 000 changes with each game although I have yet to see up up up. I am just about to play through again using the latest download and will see if I get a problem in the final area; can you please give a bit more of a clue to which location you mean with pipes?
At ... after you got the switch, and go in the karma portal at that location there is also a similar puzzle with horizontal and vertical lines, like in submachine one. I don't know what to call it, a pipe with three regulators which leads to sort of a big container. The clue clearly says horizontal horizontal horizontal, but it is the same as the starting position. I tried every possible combination and it wont open for me 2^3=8. (There is Karma Light flowing out , when you have them vertically).
I have completed the game a few times with different solutions for 000 but in 966 I always do the same thing and just open the 3 valves so that the container lids pops out. I'd never taken any notice of the position of the lines on the pipes above until I read your bug report!
I have updated my zip file, I don't know if it will happen again. Maybe my Download File was corrupted or something, because every time I started a new game, it had the same starting position and clue.
Hello i found a visual glitch at 859: If youu click the reading book with all submachine pages swice realy fast you will get two books over each other and when you click continue your items will glitch and get stuck in the corner. :)
Astounding work here, just finished playing through, made my holiday season! Saving up the updates was definitely worth it, finding 19 separate locations in one go is like getting an entirely new submachine game! I suppose I should go live my life now, lol, thank you so much for your dedication to this project, it means a lot! Looking forward to the new year!
tried to follow wizwardicuz's lead in opening with mac, but no luck...nothing shows up marked flash and if i try to simply dump into browser, a blank page shows up...when i put it in the app folder, it states that the certificate has been revoked...the privacy settings were set as suggested...don't know what else to do...any thoughts?
by the by, the swf shows up blank as well.
but, i am able to download all of the others successfully.
Now I have soap×2, weight companion stone, piece of chalk, tile B and tile C.I don't konw how to use them. I also don't know why there is Japanese in location 314. It's we Chinese calculated π exactly long long ago, not Japanese.
Thank you for your reply. I have played your game since sub1 in 2007. It's difficult for westerns to difference Chinese and Japanese. I like sub4 best.
Sorry for posting locations. But you're doing a good work with your drawings about Submachine. I like your games and these updates are just amazing for sure and I hope to see more games from you.
I had to make an account here for the sake of this, just wanted to express my journey with the submachine.
It has been a long journey, and as the first three submachine games were released, i randomly stumbled over it and it baffled me, the desire to explore/escape into an endless layer of confussion and still to the very end, it all made little to no sense as if regardless of years of knowledge we never fully understood it's universe. This game has been a place for me to escape, *ironically* my own little submachine. IT is truly one of the greatest game and concept i have played and seen, it is facinating in so many ways.
I don't know where you got this crazy idea to make this game, Even buyed some of them even if i had the option to not, you deserve it. I want to thank you for sharing this amazing world of yours. and i hope to see more games from you, and i will keep supporting. Also cover front was also a really good game i enjoyed allot
I presume you are on Mac? When all else failed, this is how I got it to open for me, it might work for you. Open up the "Terminal" application. Then find "Submachine universe" in your files. Right click it and a list of options appears. Click "Show package contents". A folder called "contents" should appear, inside that folder should be another called "MacOS". There should be only one file in there called "Flash player". Drag that into your "Terminal" window and then press enter. Submachine universe should start up with no issues. And then, if you ever wish to play it again, you don't need to do that full song and dance every time. After your first time doing this, you need only press up while in terminal to see what should your most recent command, opening submachine universe. From there press enter and it should start up again.
I just wanted to play it now, but there is only a black scene. I can go back to the menu and I hear the sound, but can nothing do there. Does the game begins like that? Or is something wrong?
I can tell you right now, that's not supposed to happen. How did you try opening the game? Because , personally, I have never had that happen using the "Terminal" method. It does happen sometimes when I use use the SWF version.
Was just wondering, will there be another update before the end of the year? I have been "saving up" the last few updates for a larger play through over the Christmas break, but wanted to make sure I wasn't waiting in vain!
So, as I perused your lovely game, I noticed something... a little odd. In the theories that litter this game, you leave hints for locations, but only ever at the end(presumably so people aren't forced to read theories). In fact, location coordinates are redacted in the theories themselves, except for one. In location 051 there is a theory that mentions the locations 947 and 553. The fact it does this is odd enough, but what makes it even odder is that all the other location codes are redacted. So, I have to ask, was this intentional or did you just miss these two in what is certainly a very long theory?
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32 d (LH) ---> 32y (LAB) , oh wow 1 day in layer one equals 1 year in another, what theory was it again... time dilation, moving, shifting layers?
you know the game is good, when the first thing you grab is a hammer...
but wtf man, who put's naphthalene in a pocket of a lab coat, shame on him- murtaugh has to go chemistry class, no safety glasses either... pfff
always turn of the gas handle when you are leaving,
Have you ever been to Kent, Mateusz?
also i love the root transporters because i want to see whats behind the walls, where the wires go, and where they split to other transporters.
i love this game so much it hurts. because its all tied together so perfectly i want to dig deeper.
What version works best with a Chrome OS?
No idea. Try them all? :D
Well, it looks like the answer is: none of them. But this disappointment is nothing I'm not used to; very few games work on chromebooks.
I'll go back to pining for a mobile version.
Thank you for all the games.
thank you so for the game...it's great fun and i've played a few times now, but i am intrigued by a note left by sdranger, regarding "an easter egg in an easter egg"...could it be that there is some treat missed? other than the rooms found by random(don't want to spoil them)...and, would it involve the third dragon or some other item? tried weighing the companion stone on scales and such, but that did nothing...just wondering if we should be on the lookout for some secretive twist. again, many thanks.
No.
I have the weight companion cube, but I don't know how to use it. What should I do with the weight companion cube? I have nothing to do about that item.
it's... your companion. It accompanies you. You don't use it for anything else.
I gather you haven't played portal, have you.
I'll delete this SPOILERY comment soon.
Adding 12 cipher plates in Submachine Universe would be very nice. I would suggest using the transporters. I finished playing through version 4.5.4 and can I ask you a question?
Will you release Submachine Universe version 4.5.5?
I would be happy to see new locations in newer versions of Submachine Universe. Thank you so much! And I don't know how to use the weight companion cube.
I'll create more locations once I get to port this game to Game Maker, which will be several years from now. But not in flash. This flash version is done.
source:https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/7i6rct/perfectionist_gas_pipin...
yep, looks legit. :D
looks awesome
completed the game, as always: fantastic game mateusz.
How did you get around the issue you were having with 000 and the pipe room? I have the same issue
I just deleted the old zip file and downloaded a new one, it somehow didn't occur anymore. Maybe it will still occure, but I made sure, that everything was alright before I was going to play it again...
So you had to start all over progress wise?
yes, and it was a pain in the [location redacted], because I didn't save my notes.
In Linux: when I transmit, screen was black! When I returm to main menu and back all be OK before new transmit.
And scroll of texts works bad!
There will be more updates in a few years when the game is ported to GameMaker, but this is currently the last update the game will see in Flash.
Hellooo! Happy Holidays! Thank you for the game! :D
I can't describe the following bug without mentioning a location; it's one of the very early locations, easily obtained, but still:
SPOILER SPACE
which I'm going to fill with my system details:
MacOS High Sierra, Macbook 2017.
The sub_loc folder, the .app, and the .swf are kept together as in the zip.
I've temporarily disabled the Gatekeeper, or I wouldn't have been able to run the app itself, but I get the bug when I run the .swf file too.
I've started a completely new game, as advised. Everything is new: the sub_loc folder, the app, the swf.
Bug: In location 628, when I press the red button that should take me to an "alternate universe", all I get is a blank screen. The main menu keeps working, so I can quit the game for example, but I can't do any more in-game actions. I'd try to add a screenshot, but it would just be a black screen.
END SPOILER
I'd be happy to provide more details, including a screenshot, if needed. I'm hoping it's just a case of Mur messing with a location file and Liz can persuade him to cease this prank.
hello...how did you get the app to work...i've tried everything...disabling and such, but no luck...can you dumb it down and walk me through it? where do you keep the files, on desktop or app folder? with swf, i can get the initial screen, but it won't load the others, and with the app, even with firewalls off and "any app download ok" it still doesn't work for me...and i have same system high sierra...thank you.
I keep the .app, the .swf, and the sub_loc folder at the same level, inside a SNEE folder which sits inside Applications.
And the only thing that worked for me was to drag and drop the .swf file in Chrome. (Opera and Firefox didn't work, got "file not found" or a blank screen.)
PS: Oh, and I also removed the old files from Applications. (I kept a backup, just in case, but not anywhere inside Applications.)
you can download itch.io app and play the game from under it. works like a charm I was told. :D
thank you for the response...finally got it to work with the itch.io app. yay!
Adding a back pack in the submachine universe like in the exit, would be very nice. I would suggest next to the bed, or just next to the computer.
If you have finished playing through 4.5.4, you should know the answer to this question ;)
i have a question. when is where is 2018? coming out
this page is for submachine. but i think its already out
Please fix this bug:
At 000 the switches are meant to be up up up, after connection it still wont open because the start position was already up up up.
Same Problem in final area with that pipe thingy they should be all horizontal but they are already from the beginning . After switching it, it still doesn't do anything.
I know the solution to 000 changes with each game although I have yet to see up up up. I am just about to play through again using the latest download and will see if I get a problem in the final area; can you please give a bit more of a clue to which location you mean with pipes?
At ... after you got the switch, and go in the karma portal at that location there is also a similar puzzle with horizontal and vertical lines, like in submachine one. I don't know what to call it, a pipe with three regulators which leads to sort of a big container. The clue clearly says horizontal horizontal horizontal, but it is the same as the starting position. I tried every possible combination and it wont open for me 2^3=8. (There is Karma Light flowing out , when you have them vertically).
I have completed the game a few times with different solutions for 000 but in 966 I always do the same thing and just open the 3 valves so that the container lids pops out. I'd never taken any notice of the position of the lines on the pipes above until I read your bug report!
I'm on Windows 10 and I have the same issue.
I have updated my zip file, I don't know if it will happen again.
Maybe my Download File was corrupted or something, because every time I started a new game, it had the same starting position and clue.
Having just played this game through to the end for the first time I wanted to say how enjoyable it was. Thanks so much for making it!
Evertime i close the game then come back and hit continue it start a new game or something
updated the zip file, works fine now.
my game is not saving
should work ok now.
thanks
I have the weight companion cube but I don't know how to use it.
I just completed the game and didn't use the Weight Companion Stone.
yeah, you can keep it. ;)
Also an idea, you should be able to place one of the dragon toungues in the dragon statue at 992 and then remove it.
good idea.
[edit]
Done. :D
Hello i found a visual glitch at 859: If youu click the reading book with all submachine pages swice realy fast you will get two books over each other and when you click continue your items will glitch and get stuck in the corner. :)
Where do i post bugs is this the place im supposed to post them?
thx, looking into it.
[edit]\
found and fixed. Good find! Thanks!
New version coming up probably tomorrow.
Astounding work here, just finished playing through, made my holiday season! Saving up the updates was definitely worth it, finding 19 separate locations in one go is like getting an entirely new submachine game! I suppose I should go live my life now, lol, thank you so much for your dedication to this project, it means a lot! Looking forward to the new year!
Thanks!
Yes, this latest expansion is game-sized.
Enter 001 for the first time the right fence is open but the bell is the close state,plz fix this bug.
fixed.
update coming up probably tomorrow.
tried to follow wizwardicuz's lead in opening with mac, but no luck...nothing shows up marked flash and if i try to simply dump into browser, a blank page shows up...when i put it in the app folder, it states that the certificate has been revoked...the privacy settings were set as suggested...don't know what else to do...any thoughts?
by the by, the swf shows up blank as well.
but, i am able to download all of the others successfully.
I guess Apple is just trying to kill flash for good.
idk...don't have any issues with other flash games, but thanks for the response.
iOS treasts them differently once they're actually downloaded and not in browser.
Try opening .swf through browser as shown in the thoubleshooting .txt.
i did...no go. doomed to go without.
Stuart,
I have the same problem. :(
Now I have soap×2, weight companion stone, piece of chalk, tile B and tile C.I don't konw how to use them. I also don't know why there is Japanese in location 314. It's we Chinese calculated π exactly long long ago, not Japanese.
items: wait for next update (December 20th)
314: point me in the right direction of Chinese symbols for this (preferably a similar image).
Thank you for your reply. I have played your game since sub1 in 2007. It's difficult for westerns to difference Chinese and Japanese. I like sub4 best.
Sure, but can you show me the chinese symbols?...
Centre is 圆心 Radius is 半径 Diameter is 直径 Circle is 圆周 They are similar to Japanese.
thx :D
changes implemented. :D
Sorry for posting locations. But you're doing a good work with your drawings about Submachine. I like your games and these updates are just amazing for sure and I hope to see more games from you.
I had to make an account here for the sake of this, just wanted to express my journey with the submachine.
It has been a long journey, and as the first three submachine games were released, i randomly stumbled over it and it baffled me, the desire to explore/escape into an endless layer of confussion and still to the very end, it all made little to no sense as if regardless of years of knowledge we never fully understood it's universe. This game has been a place for me to escape, *ironically* my own little submachine. IT is truly one of the greatest game and concept i have played and seen, it is facinating in so many ways.
I don't know where you got this crazy idea to make this game, Even buyed some of them even if i had the option to not, you deserve it. I want to thank you for sharing this amazing world of yours. and i hope to see more games from you, and i will keep supporting. Also cover front was also a really good game i enjoyed allot
Thanks for reading this, keep up the good work :)
Thank You.
And yes, more submachines coming up later on.
Hi Mateusz,
I have High Sierra running but although I managed to change to "Anywhere" it tells me: Cannot open, throw away!
What can I do?
Maui
move it from downloads do applications
The Crecy Evaluationen I could play now. Very good! :)
Unfortunatly, it didn't work with Submachine Universe. :(
I presume you are on Mac? When all else failed, this is how I got it to open for me, it might work for you. Open up the "Terminal" application. Then find "Submachine universe" in your files. Right click it and a list of options appears. Click "Show package contents". A folder called "contents" should appear, inside that folder should be another called "MacOS". There should be only one file in there called "Flash player". Drag that into your "Terminal" window and then press enter. Submachine universe should start up with no issues. And then, if you ever wish to play it again, you don't need to do that full song and dance every time. After your first time doing this, you need only press up while in terminal to see what should your most recent command, opening submachine universe. From there press enter and it should start up again.
Wonderful, Wizwardicuz!
It worked!
:D
Thanx a lot!
I just wanted to play it now, but there is only a black scene. I can go back to the menu and I hear the sound, but can nothing do there. Does the game begins like that? Or is something wrong?
I can tell you right now, that's not supposed to happen. How did you try opening the game? Because , personally, I have never had that happen using the "Terminal" method. It does happen sometimes when I use use the SWF version.
WORKED! Thank you so much for providing this workaround.
Oh yeah it works !
Thanks to you I have created a start.command file in the "submachine_universe_mac" folder with the following 3 lines script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if you give execution permissions :BASEDIR=$(dirname "$0")
"$BASEDIR"/subnet_mac_osx.app/Contents/MacOS/Flash\ Player
chmod 755 start.command
Then next time you will only need to open this "start.command" file from the Finder (and won't need to use the terminal)Hey Mateusz!
Was just wondering, will there be another update before the end of the year? I have been "saving up" the last few updates for a larger play through over the Christmas break, but wanted to make sure I wasn't waiting in vain!
yes. Hold on a bit more. If you have saved few previous expansions, this one will be epic for you. ;)
Qh, get it. :D
does the game start completely blacked out
No. Are you on a Mac?
Move it from Dwonloads to Applications, please.
So, as I perused your lovely game, I noticed something... a little odd. In the theories that litter this game, you leave hints for locations, but only ever at the end(presumably so people aren't forced to read theories). In fact, location coordinates are redacted in the theories themselves, except for one. In location 051 there is a theory that mentions the locations 947 and 553. The fact it does this is odd enough, but what makes it even odder is that all the other location codes are redacted. So, I have to ask, was this intentional or did you just miss these two in what is certainly a very long theory?
that might have been missed. :D
Thanks for the heads up, will blank them out with next update.
I'm a Mac user, and the game is working perfectly :)
hey, i know a few of the locations. if you are interested knowing them
Please don't post any locations in comments (to prevent spoilers) ;)
sure thing. btw are there any other big games that you may or may not be releasing in the future??
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