• Portal Update - Hidden achievement & Viral Riddles [Updated]

    Discussion in 'News' started by Evo, Mar 1, 2010.

    Portal has received an update, one line, check it out:
    Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations. - Steam News
    Timeline of events:







    Updates:
    - All ASCII artwork filtered further and coloured - click here for image (By Auricom)
    - New ASCII art showing female holding Portal gun (ASHPD) - blurred version
    - New Portal update tonight - <a href="http://www.halflife2.net/2010/03/03/another-portal-update-new-hidden-sounds/]see more here[/url] (new ending for portal)
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Discussion in 'News' started by Evo, Mar 1, 2010.

  1. Cpt Tenacious
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    Looks familiar...

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    Anyone else think this building looks exactly like an elephant?
  2. sixteenth
  3. MorganFreeman911
    Oh christ, this is intense. In one of those ASCII pictures, it looks like a running man. Maybe CJohnson is still alive, or maybe an android preserved just like Chell was?
  4. sixteenth
    There's a lot of chat over stuff like that in some of the IRC channels I've been following. Some people are even thinking CJohnson is synthetic or like mechanical now. Idk, too early to tell. Too much speculation.. I'm getting a headache.

    Here's another variation of one of the BBS streams:
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    I don't honestly even know, the left image is creeping me out (from third stream):
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    Annnnd another stream:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh8c9JkroEE
    Annnnd a third stream:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U0DUK2LJUw
  5. sixteenth
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    I laughed when I saw that.
  6. Crazy_killer
    In this sound file (people still working to clean it up) you can hear Barney, Kleiner and Alyx but it's almost impossible to hear what they're talking about.

    On 0:14 you hear either Barney or Kleiner say "That's amazing!" or "I can't believe it!" but I think it's the first one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNQ5fKldXjs#movie_player
  7. blackout
    sorry I'm kinda confused can someone explain whats going on?
  8. Sneaki
    Here's a general summary on what's been found so far.

    Also here's something continuing the dinosaur theme, for those of you that haven't already seen it..
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  9. JUL3
    Oh my god, oh my god.

    Please, please let this be something serious.
  10. Sneaki
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    Looks a bit like the old concept art, that shape in the middle at the top of the picture could be an advisor.
  11. blackout
    ah, many thanks!

    so is this just portal or do we think it has anything to do with half-life? (episode 3 maybe?)
  12. Sloth
    This will be great as it unfolds...
  13. sixteenth
    Another BBS image. Thought I'd point out some of the stuff I saw.

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    Alright. I'm out. Time to pass out.
  14. ríomhaire
    From the beekeeping page could it be that those rumours about Cave Johnson's brain being on a computer are true?

    Has anyone found any new logins for aperturescience.com? I can't access it from this PC due to lack of flash.
  15. The Monkey
    I don't understand why they could only access it with an old modem.

    EDIT: Been reading through the Steam forums, here's a compilation of all the images:
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  16. unozero
    valve spends more time making up this crazy shit then developing their games.
  17. Polaris
    I don't know how they did it but here it is...

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  18. DEATH eVADER
    Those last 3 thudding noises at the end sound like automatic rifle shots
  19. Zephos
    Hey guys look what I found:

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    Jokes aside, this is all rather riveting.
  20. DEATH eVADER
    The best Viral in ages

    News on the project/s have been stagnant for the past two and half years and now this comes along
  21. Paulaner
    Viral marketing is so funny. This reminds me of Star Trek 2009.
  22. Omnomnick
    At the top of those images I see...

    "GLaDOS Login: Backup"

    and below that...

    "GLaDOS v3.11"

    And those Morse code messages sounded like a machine being rebooted, GLaDOS...? :D

    EDIT: and on the final picture with the ball or sphere object, at the bottom theres a message from C.Johnson...
  23. Paulaner
    Let's see if this gives some hints about the "Portal meets HL2" matter.
  24. Tollbooth Willie
    3.11 is when Gabe gives that acceptance speech at GDC for that award he got for being fat, so we may get an announcement then. Of course this may just be wishful thinking.






    I'm just going to call this now. The Gman is the twisted, stuttering version of Cave Johnson, who got his beginnings as the Caveman.
  25. Hectic Glenn
    Summary so far for people late to the party:

    -Portal gets surprise update yesterday afternoon
    -People see new mystery achievement
    -People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light
    -Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places
    -Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement
    -Smart people yank wav files out of game content folders and run them through steganography programs
    -Produces 26 weird cryptic image files in a numbered sequence
    -Some dude runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number
    -Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ)
    -People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it
    -Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info
    -End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork

    http://www.alexyork.co.uk/imagedump/bigimage.png
  26. The Monkey
    Actually, it was 22 cryptic images and 4 morse codes.
  27. Tollbooth Willie
    There's an android in one of those images. The androids mentioned by Glados in one of the test chambers?
  28. ZT
    Here's this for those with bad sight. The paragraphs you can find in one of those pictures. There's a lot more I'm surprised hasn't been typed out.-


  29. DEATH eVADER
    Are you supposed to do something with the radios?
  30. GeneticM
    This picture
    should be look like this.

  31. ríomhaire
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    Combine soldier picture because it's kinda similar to the "android photos". Possible enemy recycling by Valve? Taking the combine super soldiers and remaking them into aperture robots?

    In the last picture the one to the left of the circle looks a lot like GLaDOS and the one under it looks like turrents (and a black turret?)

    The one undet the hand holding a flask looks a like a portion of the GLaDOS image, as does the one above it.
  32. ChiliFan
    Presumably these would be the 'military androids' that chamber 16 was designed for.
  33. Barnz
    It's not a Combine Super Soldier. Why would Aperture Science create super soldiers, anyway? They're obviously androids, or something similar.
  34. peter
    They never said it was, they just said it looked like it.
  35. ríomhaire
    No I'm saying it may be that Valve are taking their old super soldier code and redesigning it into the Aperture Science military androids that were mentioned in chamber 16.
  36. ZT

    I love you, Valve.

    Also, is that one Vort holding a portal gun?