There are an entire lot of puzzles in The Talos Principle 2, and a few of them aren’t apparent. Hidden in every of the sport’s 12 major areas are two statues that carry puzzles of their very own, every depicting both Pandora, Prometheus, or the Sphinx. Solving these facet puzzles unlock further secrets and techniques within the sport, however they are often powerful to master–some are among the many most troublesome The Talos Principle 2 has to supply.Of all the key puzzles, the Pandora statues are usually essentially the most vexing. They require you to attach a laser beam to the statue to unravel them, and often want you to suppose exterior the traditional puzzle rooms. All the options would require you to make use of instruments from a number of rooms along with issues hidden within the setting to unravel them.Here’s a whole information to fixing each one of many Pandora statues that can assist you declare the celebs and unlock a few of The Talos Principle 2’s greatest mysteries.East 1You’ll discover the Pandora statue to the best of the bridge ring initially of this space, close to the No. 8 puzzle room. The Pandora statue has a inexperienced laser receiver on it, so you may want a inexperienced beam to activate it. The excellent news is that there is one very shut by.Head to puzzle No. 8. It’s greatest to unravel the puzzle room first, which is able to deactivate all of the forcefields. You want the crystal tripod, the RGB Converter, and the hexahedron (the dice).Connect the crystal to the purple beam and set the crystal within the middle of the world so you may ship the purple beam towards the fan on the far finish of the puzzle space. Head over to the fan and flip the change to deactivate it. Place the hexahedron on the deactivated fan, then seize the RGB Converter. Connect it to the blue beam and the purple crystal to show it inexperienced.With the RGB Converter in hand, join it first to the inexperienced receiver subsequent to the fan. Now look over the outside wall of the world. You ought to be capable of spot Pandora from right here. Connect the RGB Converter to the inexperienced receiver on Pandora’s field. Finally, place the RGB Converter on prime of the dice.Flip the change on the fan and the RGB Converter ought to stand up into the air, finishing the connections and fixing the Pandora puzzle. Return to the statue to snag a Star.East 2The Pandora statue on this case is close to the no. 7 puzzle, however you may begin at puzzle no. 3. Use the RGB Converter right here to create a inexperienced beam. You’ll want to make use of the Quantum Driller to get entry to one of many coloured lasers, and the 2 crystal Connectors to ship over the opposite.Once you could have connections to the RGB Converter, look out the doorway you entered by and you need to see one other Connector protruding of the triangular archway simply past the doorway to the puzzle. Connect the RGB Converter to it to ship a inexperienced laser bouncing throughout the entire space.Follow the inexperienced laser all the best way again towards Pandora and puzzle no. 8. When you get inside 8, you need to be capable of look over the facet wall and see the inexperienced laser hitting the Connector caught in a rock close by.Grab a Connector from contained in the puzzle and use it to attach the inexperienced beam to the Pandora inexperienced receiver to complete the puzzle.East 3Pandora waits for you close to the no. 6 and 7 puzzle rooms and requires a inexperienced laser. If you search for as you are making your manner by this space, you would possibly see a dotted line crossing overhead, indicating a collection of unpowered Connectors. Following the road provides you with a clue the place to begin.Head to puzzle no. 3, the place you may discover an Invertor and an RGB Converter. Use the Inverter on the purple laser emitter to create a blue laser and join it to the RGB Converter, then join the RGB Converter to purple emitter to create a inexperienced laser. Look over the wall close to the best nook of the room and you need to be capable of spot the Connector on the finish of the dotted line you adopted to get right here.That ought to ship a inexperienced laser all the best way again throughout the island, similar to in East 2. Follow the inexperienced line all the best way again towards Pandora and head to puzzle no. 6.Inside, use a Connector to seize the inexperienced laser from the Connector on the finish of the road, which stands on a tower, and bounce it to the Pandora statue.North 3You’ll discover the Pandora statue subsequent to the no. 3 puzzle room. Once once more, you are going to have to bounce beams from different areas so far. The factor you may want to notice right here is the RGB Converter that is on prime of a tower to the left of the Pandora statue. You’ll want that to create the inexperienced beam wanted to complete the puzzle.First, head to puzzle no. 2, which is behind the Pandora statue. As typical, you may wish to have solved this room already so as to have full entry to the instruments. Use the fan to seize the dice on the ledge above it, then swap it for the Accumulator. Ride the fan as much as the ledge and join the Accumulator to the blue beam, then drop it so it takes the cost. Pick it again up once more and intention it on the RGB Converter on the tower past the best nook of the puzzle room. It will be powerful to identify, however having the Accumulator in-hand ought to make discovering the connection simpler. Drop the Accumulator on the ledge with the beam linked.For the purple beam, you may want increased floor. Make your technique to puzzle no. 5. Swap an merchandise for the Accumulator and use it to seize the purple beam. Find the RGB Connector on the tower over the wall subsequent to the purple beam emitter and make the connection.Now return to puzzle no. 3. You want to attach the inexperienced beam created by the RGB Converter to the Pandora statue. Find the Connector that is bouncing a purple beam across the puzzle room. You will not be capable of hit your targets from this facet, nonetheless. Head again towards the doorway of the room and seize the dice, then swap it for the Quantum Drill. Aim the Drill on the wall and move the Connector by the opening. Run round to the opposite facet and seize the Connector.From right here, you may goal each the Pandora statue and the RGB Converter to complete the puzzle.South 1Leaving the transit hub, you may spot this Pandora statue proper beside the beginning space as you come down the winding path close to the tetromino bridge ring. You must also discover instantly that it has a dotted line linked to it, indicating that you’ll ship a inexperienced beam by some close by Connectors.Start at puzzle no. 2. When you’ve got accomplished it, look off the facet of this raised space to the north, to the best of the picket bridge you used to enter the puzzle. You ought to see a wall under you, throughout the water, the place a Quantum Drill could make a gap. Zap a gap in it to disclose a inexperienced laser emitter hidden behind it. Grab a Connector from this similar puzzle and join with the inexperienced emitter, then search for for a rock spire above the emitter. At the highest, you need to see one other Connector. Bounce the inexperienced laser as much as that Connector.Next, you may have to go to puzzle no. 4, which is close to no. 2 and barely under it. Inside, seize a Connector and search for towards no. 2 to identify the inexperienced Connector protruding of the rock tower. Connect to it and switch towards the transit station. Underneath the flat platform, simply to the left of the large statue hand that is holding it up, is a Connector, protruding and pointing downward.Bounce the inexperienced laser to that Connector and it will proceed to the Pandora statue to finish the puzzle.South 2Look for the Pandora statue in an alcove to the west of the place you first begin on this space, close to one of many bonus puzzle rooms. This one takes some work to get executed, for the reason that inexperienced receiver on Pandora is dealing with away from mainly all the things within the space.Start in puzzle room no. 2. If you stroll across the puzzle room’s exterior to the alternative facet from the doorway, you need to discover a cave minimize by the rock that creates a path to the opposite facet of the world. Look up by this path and you may see a collection of Connectors linked collectively. You’ll have to bounce a laser to this group. Back within the no. 2 room, search for the anti-gravity panels on the ceiling that create an L-shape. Grab the Gravshifter and intention it on the vertical anti-gravity panel, in order that if you happen to have been standing on it you would be sideways, parallel to the bottom. When you place the Gravshifter, ensure that it is on the button that prompts the fan and that its anti-gravity column travels over the fan.Grab a Connector and use the fan to ship your self to the anti-gravity panel. Jump as much as the highest panel so that you simply’re upside-down and use the Connector on the blue laser emitter and the Connector hanging from the ceiling of the cave pathway. You’ll most likely have a tricky time recognizing it due to bushes in the best way, however the distant Connector will likely be highlighted in case your intention passes over it.Leave no. 2 and return to the bonus puzzle room close to the Pandora statue. You can discover it by following the blue laser. In the cliff wall beside the bonus room, you need to see the purple particle wall that stops you from taking objects by it, indicating you may attain an alcove there. To the left of the particle discipline is an anti-gravity panel excessive on the rock partitions. Inside the bonus puzzle room, discover the Gravshifter and intention it out of the puzzle room on the anti-gravity panel. Use the anti-gravity column to achieve a pathway there and head by the purple discipline to search out an Inverter. Connect the Inverter to the Connector that is receiving the blue beam on prime of the bonus puzzle room. You can simply drop it right here with that one connection, however put it near the sting in order that it is seen from the bottom.Now drop down and go north, previous the bonus puzzle room, alongside the rock wall the place you discovered the Inverter. Here you may discover a canyon that cuts by the rocks. If you search for, you need to spot a few followers. You’ll have to do some climbing to get to them, and you’ll find the beginning of that path within the nook of the rock wall to your left. Hop up on the rocks and make your manner upward to the followers, then use them to fling your self throughout the canyon. After the second fan, you may discover an RGB Converter. Grab it and carry it again towards the Pandora statue.Finally, carry the RGB Converter again to the area in entrance of the bonus puzzle room close to the Pandora statue. Connect the RGB Converter to the Inverter you left above and to the blue beam coming from the Connector on prime of the bonus puzzle room.That ought to offer you a inexperienced beam that you may connect with the statue.South 3This one’s powerful, and it may be troublesome to identify the Connectors essential to make it work. Find the Pandora statue manner out within the japanese stretch of sand the place there would not appear to be something round. There are not any hidden connections being made right here, and seemingly, nothing with a line of sight that may be linked to the purple laser receiver on the Pandora statue.To clear up this one, it’s a must to activate a particular change. First, make your technique to the no. 2 puzzle room. Turn round and look again by the doorway, after which up on the tower excessive above. You ought to see a giant blue laser receiver on the facet of the tower by the holes within the ceiling. This is the important thing to fixing the puzzle, and your first step.Grab a Connector and join the close by blue laser to the receiver on the tower. Watch for a moment–you ought to see a Connector rod rise out of the tower to the best of the receiver. You’ll have to bounce a purple laser to that Connector.To get that purple laser, go away puzzle no. 2 and go round behind it. Head south into the desert to the bonus puzzle room nestled among the many dunes. Inside, you may discover a purple laser emitter. Use a Connector to ship it as much as the Connector that appeared on the tower close to the blue receiver.The last step is essentially the most complicated. Go all the best way out towards the Pandora statue and the no. 3 puzzle room close by. As you enter, flip left and look to the nook of the room, alongside the wall with the entryway in it, the place you need to discover a hidden compartment that was opened while you activated the tower’s blue laser receiver. Inside is the ultimate Connector you want.Grab it and place it on the elevator platform subsequent to the stress plate. While standing on that platform, place the dice on the stress plate to lift the elevator.From right here, you’ll join the purple laser from the tower to the Pandora statue.West 2Full disclosure: We could not work out the way to clear up this one “correctly,” or at the very least, evidently manner. We’ll replace this answer if we work out the way to do it because the builders supposed, in the event that they did, actually, imply so that you can do it a unique manner. Until then, this is how we solved the ultimate Pandora statue.First, monitor down the statue on the decrease space of the mountain area, down the steps from the no. 4 puzzle room. If you look above you as you stroll this path, you may see the dotted traces denoting lively Connectors within the space.Start by heading into the no. 4 room and grabbing a Connector. Standing close to the entranceway, join the blue laser emitter to the Connector protruding of the rock simply exterior the room to your proper when dealing with the doorway. You could make the connection by the purple entrance discipline fairly simply.This is the place issues get tough. If you head to puzzle room no. 6 up the mountain some and stroll round its outer partitions to the best, you may see a wall that you could possibly make a gap in utilizing a Quantum Driller. You also can see a clear bubble emanating from behind the wall, indicating that there is a Universal Activator behind it. That tells you what you may want.We by no means did discover the mandatory Quantum Driller. However, you will get a blue Activator out of puzzle room no. 6. First, go into the puzzle room and seize a dice. Carry it over to the wall close to the left facet of the doorway, the place there is a nook, subsequent to the no. 6 signal on the opposite facet. Park the dice subsequent to the wall after which place a blue Activator on prime. Leave the room and go round to the left, previous the no. 6 signal to the place there is a pile of pretty low rocks. Jump on and you’ll climb them to the highest of this heap, which lets you drop down on the wall of the puzzle room. From there, you may seize the Activator from on prime of the dice and take away it from the room.Now head again to the Pandora statue. There’s no receiver for a laser beam on this one. Instead, that you must use the Activator to snag the blue beam from the close by Connector and drop it beneath the statue to activate it and get your star.With that, you are executed finishing Pandora puzzles in The Talos Principle 2. Want extra from the mind-bending puzzle sport? Read our The Talos Principle 2 evaluation, as effectively.
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