The Talos Principle: Reawakened – In The Beginning – Blocked Puzzle Guide

The Talos Principle: Reawakened remastered the original 2014 puzzle classic and its Road to Gehenna expansion with an Unreal Engine 5 upgrade, but it also went further than that. It included a whole new expansion called In the Beginning, which adds another 18 puzzles to solve on the original game and its first DLC release.

Narratively, In the Beginning is a prequel to the events of the first game, but what makes it special is that 16 out of the 18 puzzles were made in collaboration with members of the community who had been making their own puzzles for the last 11 years.

The result is an expansion that is so tough, the puzzles included with In the Beginning are earning the reputation as being some of the most challenging to solve in the entire series.

This guide will show you how to solve the Blocker puzzle in the expansion. If you just want a hint, then all I'll say is to leave the jammer alone. It's already doing everything you need it to do. Keep reading if you want the full solution.

The Talos Principle: Reawakened - In the Beginning - Blocker Puzzle Guide

Phase One - Get the second connector

When you enter the puzzle area and look around, it won't take you long to deduce that you need a second connector to deactivate the shield blocking the way to the tetromino. It's easy to assume that the jammer you see on the right side of the area deactivating a shield between the two spaces is part of the solve. As I said in the hint, you don't need it at all, and you can leave it where it is, keeping the shield in the wall between the two sides of the puzzle area down.

Instead, what you need to do first, is get the hexahedron.

• Walk forward when entering the puzzle area and grab the connector (C1). Connect it to the red laser generator and the red node that sits just behind a fan that will launch you to a platform in the top-right corner of the puzzle area.

• When the laser has activated the fan, launch yourself onto the elevated platform and grab the hexahedron. Jump back down to the ground.

• Place the hexahedron in front of the fan. Grab C1 and connect it to the red laser generator, the node behind the fan, the blue laser generator, and the blue node on the other side of the puzzle area, behind a wall.

• Place C1 down on top of the hexahedron. Your laser pattern should look like this.

• Step in front of the blue laser generator so that the red laser can connect to the node that will activate the fan.

• When it launches into the air, the blue lasers will connect instead of the red, activating the blue node on the far left side of the puzzle area. That node simultaneously turns off the shield blocking the second connector (C2) and turns on a fan that will push it out onto the ground, letting you pick it up.

• Fair warning, the hexahedron won't fly for very long with C1 on top of it, so you might have to try this twice, as it's possible for the C2 to get stuck before making it onto the ground.

Phase Two - Solve the puzzle

• Gather C1, C2 and the hexahedron together.

• Grab C1 and connect it to the red laser generator, the red node behind the fan and the red node on the opposite side of the shield blocking the path to the tetromino.

• Grab C2 and use the fan to launch yourself, with C2 in hand, to the elevated platform. Connect C2 to the blue laser generator and the blue node to fully deactivate the shield blocking the path to the tetromino.

• Jump back down to the ground, walk over to the tetromino and claim your prize.

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