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charononus
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OK, gotten myself confused coming back to the game. I've now run into people treating the clock face as a clock face where north is 12, and people treating the steps or whatever they are as you look into the room before the fight starts as 12 which is actually east. Which is the more common designation?
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Just like a normal Clock
I agree, had a run where half were doing the run where the campfire was six and half were doing it like a normal clock and it was a freaking mess.
Door to banner. Banner to stairs. Stairs to snake. Snake to door. There are four easily recognizable points around the arena, at the cardinal directions, and they serve as an absolute reference that is not open to interpretation, as those four markers are in the same place every single time and there's no confusion between which clock system is being used.
'But new people don't know the landmarks!' They don't know the clock system either and the clock thing is confusing and there's two different methods of it. Take them to the door. Point out the stairs across the way. The banner is to the left, the snake is to the right, and it takes half a second during the start of the first phase to run to a new player's section and tell them 'here' to show it in practice.
This is the best way, seriously. Zero confusion. Your quadrant is snake to door? Oh look, there's a giant snake on the wall, and there's the door. Guess where your quadrant is! That's right, between the snake sculpture on the wall and the boss area door.
http://imgur.com/a/saQQZ
the clockwise thing is really something none understands so there's always someone who get caught in ghosts for an idiot that runs the other way
Anyways thanks to everyone that responded. Looks like the norm is campfire is 6.
It is, but there's an even easier way to cope.
IGNORE THE MINIMAP. It's quite.. mini. The world, on the other hand, is much easier to see under pressure. The big round green door opposite the entrance is the easiest thing to see, and that's always 12. When you're playing and need to get your bearings (after all, you get quite turned around, chasing Val), just spin the camera and look for the green door. Bam, there's your bearing, from which everything else may be found.
I tend to look up periodically, rather than waiting until the coffers actually pop. I found that with a little practise, it's quite easy to find your way to your area without conscious thought.
(It also might have something to do with the hundreds of VTs, without any offhard, GRRRR
Maybe it is because a lot of the players don't speak English so there is a communication issue, but it took me about 10-seconds to figure out what was going on in my first run when the first person said ''Door is 6 oclock, I am 6-9'' and the next person said ''9-12''. I knew exactly what was happening and just picked ''12-3''. Wasn't exactly sure what I was supposed to be doing in ''12-3'', but I figured that out quickly as well. I did run counter clockwise though, and got lit up.