Did Mystery Archipelago get nerfed?

[flameterror91]

I've been doing a 100% playthrough of the series, currently getting through the 4 mystery levels. Last time I did this level was maybe over a decade ago? I don't remember the barrels at the end being so straightforward. The solution on the nutters page shows that the barrels were all over the place, as how I remember it too. I haven't seen anyone talk about it and I can't find any video solutions that show this.

Just a very curious observation

[nasko222]

As someone who holds archive with alpha and beta versions, archipelago went through several changes, in the alpha there was yellow gem and some transporters were tweaked, then in Beta1 the tile that this yellow gem was at was just replaced with water for whatever reason and in Beta2, hear this, instead of the tile being replaced with floor again like it was in the alpha, the yellow gem was removed and thats how it was left in the public version, so in the public version there were no changes to Mystery Archipelago, and nutters were created 2009 I believe so I doubt any of the images there are from the Alpha.

[nasko222]

Okay I just checked the nutters and WTF IS THIS???



I am lost, I thought for a second thats the transpoter positionining cause you had to do some trickery to get it to the right place, but no thats the blink part, thats not it??????? No?? The barrels are in straight forward curvy like shape that goes to the final island, they were always like this.

Unless................ Wait I got it. He put those signs on his monitor, so when he jumps on the first one, the second one will be on that particular pixel on the monitor from his new viewpoint (the first one), same applies for the next and so on, You can see how it follows the curvy shape i described, Its just really weird but interesting way to solve it

[Wonderman109]

My only thought is that some screen resolutions failed to capture a "barrel" (wood bridge) at the corner or edge of the screen, so they were moved closer together. However, a level being updated after so long seems unlikely.

[flameterror91]

Oh yeah now I see it definitely. I swear the barrels used to be so much harder to click on and you had to have nearly perfect timing. Maybe I had some Mandela effect or it's just a lot easier as an adult.