The Clock Room

[IOnEI Falcon]

I don't understand the grey arm. In the past 14 hours it hasn't moved more than an inch.

[JelDeRebel]

I'm in the area with the warp gate before the clock room, but how do I get in the clock room?

[mas4mune]

Originally Posted by JelDeRebel

I'm in the area with the warp gate before the clock room, but how do I get in the clock room?

it's on the little island next to the floating blocks.

[steve19137]

I read that the grey hand hits 12 every 48 hours. I like 48 much better than one week. Source: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ques...the-clock-room

[gamerscorhunta]

Basically, the time for people on Fez completely depend on the exact time they first started the game. For example, if I loaded up Fez for the first time 6 p.m., then the grey clock switch, every 48 hours, with arrive at 12 a.m. in-game time at 6 p.m. real time. Same goes with the green, only every 24 hours.

[gamerscorhunta]

On a separate note, if I only have one hand on the clock from all perspectives, does that mean that I have all anticubes in this area? After collecting the green one, I saw the long hand dissapear.

[Fenrakk101]

Originally Posted by gamerscorhunta

On a separate note, if I only have one hand on the clock from all perspectives, does that mean that I have all anticubes in this area? After collecting the green one, I saw the long hand dissapear.

You've collected all the cubes when the hands go away.

[gamerscorhunta]

Originally Posted by Fenrakk101

You've collected all the cubes when the hands go away.

The area is still highlighted white. Is there anything I'm missing? I've done all the owl room puzzles, so I can't find anything left in the clock level.

[Mikey Nooch]

Originally Posted by steve19137

I read that the grey hand hits 12 every 48 hours. I like 48 much better than one week. Source: http://gaming.stackexchange.com/ques...the-clock-room

It seems like I had to push my internal clock all the way to the PM April 21st to get it to reach 12:00. But hey, it's done.

[ll X ll]

I too can confirm that it is based on when you first played the game

[Natz]

I cant count to save myself been trying to chnage the time on the clock while offline and still stays in the same time area even if having a large jump

Anyone know how to calculate it for dummies?

[IOnEI Falcon]

Originally Posted by gamerscorhunta

The area is still highlighted white. Is there anything I'm missing? I've done all the owl room puzzles, so I can't find anything left in the clock level.

Did you figure out what you were missing in that level?

[MoldyClay87]

I don't think it's based on when you started at all. Or at the very least, 48 hours is totally wrong and so is a week.

I started the game at 12pm on Friday the 13th when it came out (11am if it counted when I played the beginning of the demo before quitting and buying). Almost on the nose (I know because I took pictures and sent them to my girlfriend and they're timestamped on my phone).

When I last posted in this topic, it was 5:30pm on the 14th and the clock was at the 11 o'clock position or so. I don't know when I actually missed it, but say it was 48 hours after I started the game, and every 48 hours after that. That'd mean it'd be 12pm (or 11am) for me every 2 days right?

So today, Thursday the 19th should have been another chance to get it (because my chances would've been Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday with the 48-hour theory), but the clock was at the 7:30 position from 3-5pm.

I messed with the clock to see when it'd change to 12, and it doesn't until 4am between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

So if it IS from the time you started, it's definitely not groups of 48 hours. It has to be AT LEAST 2 and a half days (or 60 hours) or something close for my time to make any sense.

Unless I am missing something and can't count.

EDIT: It can't be every 60 hours either. The time between 7:30 on the in-game clock and 12 was at least 60 hours for me. Using logic, that'd mean another 60 backwards would be around 2:30 in-game, which makes it at least between 5-6 days or something.

I don't think it has anything to do with when you started the game. I think people were just lucky when they got it over the weekend it came out.

But this has really put me at a loss to what the actual interval was, because I feel like a week is too long.

I guess we'd have to figure out when people got the game and when they got the cube or when it was close to 12 and if they missed it and stuff.

[Bum Commando]

So my understanding is that the blue one strikes 12 once every hour and the grey one once a week? They are my last cubes .

[Snake Pliskinn]

This is what I believe the pattern to be:

Red = 60 seconds (1 min)
Blue = 60 minutes (1 hr)
Green = 24 hrs (1 day)
Grey = 168 hrs (1 Week)

I got the first two anticubes without really knowing why. (I was obviously, by chance, in the room at the right time). The green and grey anti-cubes were my last two cubes to get, so I spent a long time in the clock room watching for changes. Looking back at my notes, I can say, with certainty, that it took the grey hand at least three days to move half of the clock face - hence I'm pretty sure its a week. These time increments are logical when you think about it.

[sanctusmortis]

I'd read elsewhere on a guide it's once a minute, once an hour, once a day, and once every 2 days. I've got 2 (minute, day) but my daily seems to be at 1:30 and I sure as heck wasn't staying up for it (hard to get to network cable).

[DFILL450]

I'm still waiting to get the anti cube for the grey hand. It's the last one I need. I'm pretty sure it takes a week because in the last 2 days it's barely moved.

[Natanji]

Originally Posted by heinstach

Deciphering the symbols, the columns read:

1: EVER END
2: SPACE DOES IT
3: OUTSIDE OF
4: THE SPACE
5: AND SPACE AND
6: ALL OF TIME

Perhaps it could be useful!?

You apparently didn't solve the rosetta stone puzzle yourself... or you would realize that in Fez, all texts are read from top RIGHT to bottom LEFT. The text therefore is:

"All of time and space and the space outside of space - does it ever end?!"

...needless to say, it's not useful for the puzzle at all.

[el panel0n]

Just want to reconfirm that the grey one is definitely not every 2 days. My grey hand was a in between the "6" and "9" hour mark and I had to move my xbox's clock aproximately 2 days and 12 hrs later for it to reach "12".

So yeah, its not a universal time, looks like its starts running whenever you started your game. You just have to get it to 12.

[JCA1567]

One hand is every minute
The next is every hour
The third is every 24 hours
The fourth is every 48 hours

The times are from when you begin the game

[Curnybop]

I hope someone can help me as I am finding it pretty annoying! The last Anti-Cube I need is from the grey hand in this damn clock tower area. I'm pretty impatient and planned to set my clock forward offline in order to get this quicker.

When I do this and load up Fez, it will not let me continue my saved game and also asks me to unlock the game, but I need to be on Xbox Live. Everything works fine when I am connected to Live, but once I go offline to speed up the time, I can't do anything.

Hopefully someone can help!

**EDIT** I just had to go into my XBox Account settings and transfer the license agreement to my new console. Achievement got!