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David R
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2010 17:51 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2010 17:52
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Just saw this:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1170872

And I'm simply speechless. The depth of these clues is just... bizarre. And the fact people found them

For lazy ones, look at the steps that are listed:
Quote: "
-Portal gets surprise update March 1st
-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 SSTV programs
-Produces 22 cryptic image files in a numbered sequence, 4 morse code
-Somebody 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 [backup/backup]
-End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork:"


(Check the thread for the images that were produced/found)

Hopefully this will be a full blown sequel rather than a map pack/expansion

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Posted: 3rd Mar 2010 18:00
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wow determination lol


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This is uber werid and exciting.Waiting for March 11 when Gabe Newell recieves his reward and that date is in the files.


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Posted: 3rd Mar 2010 22:04
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I hope this has something to do with HL2: Episode 3, like having the portal gun in the player's arsenal. It's been way too long without talks of Episode 3!


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This is very odd timing... I finished portal yesterday, I can still the case now lol.

I wonder how they'll do it? i never player half-life 1, but i have the orange box so i pretty much got the storyline from that. Gravity gun *drools* is a epic piece.

I think ill start playing that again.


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Posted: 3rd Mar 2010 22:27 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2010 22:39
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It just gets better and better!

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/03/valve-teases-upcoming-half-life-release-for-mac/



@Jeku: The fact they're porting to OS X probably suggests another HL2 episode in the pipeline (I'm guessing so at least - I mean, they'd probably bunch porting together with doing a load more work on source, and last time there were source improvements it was to support orange box)

EDIT: THAT is awesome:


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Posted: 3rd Mar 2010 23:47 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2010 23:47
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Well, a new Portal update has just been pushed through Steam about 5 minutes ago. I'm at work so I can't check it out, though. The release notes simply say:

Quote: "Added valuable asset retrieval"


Hmmmm...


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Posted: 4th Mar 2010 00:04 Edited at: 4th Mar 2010 00:05
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Quote: "Hmmmm..."

Quote: "
-NEW PORTAL UPDATE: http://store.steampowered.com/news/3547/

The valuable asset appears to be Chell, as after you beat GLaDOS she gets dragged off by a robot who says 'Thank you for assuming party escort position'."


So they're sort of... fixing the previous game to fit in with the 'canon' of the (assumed) second one. Clever!

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Ok I'm totally going to install Portal tonight and play through it Haven't touched that game in almost a year.


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Valve still isn't on the E3 2010 exhibitor list.

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Quote: "Valve still isn't on the E3 2010 exhibitor list"


That could be a good thing though: It might mean they're aiming to unveil/release things before e3 comes around

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Valve is the only developer anymore that genuinely gets me excited about their games, the kind of excitement you felt as a kid.

Can't wait to see how this pans out!

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Posted: 5th Mar 2010 17:13
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Quote: "Quote: "
-Portal gets surprise update March 1st
-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 SSTV programs
-Produces 22 cryptic image files in a numbered sequence, 4 morse code
-Somebody 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 [backup/backup]
-End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork:""


It's like a geeky version of national treasure where whoever was doing all this just seemed to know all the clues

Really though...? Hope this is a hint I really want to play Portal 2

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Posted: 5th Mar 2010 19:16
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http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/

This just came in. Check out the underlines. I don't have time to decipher this, not even a minute


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Posted: 5th Mar 2010 19:24
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!!!!

Didn't expect it to be announced so soon!

And the underlines seem to spell out "dratmannh0nee"

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Posted: 5th Mar 2010 19:26 Edited at: 5th Mar 2010 19:27
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Cool. Although I'm sure it will be fun, a part of me doubts that I'll feel the same magic as when I played the first one.

You can't bottle lightning, and it's hard to recapture the magic of a new experience TWICE. Although if anyone can do it, Valve can.

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As David R says, the underlined letters spell out "drattmannh0nee".
I just tried drattmann as the username and h0nee as the password on http://www.aperturescience.com/ and it didn't work (at least the password wasn't accepted, maybe it's another username and password for the BBS?

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Could "drattmannh0nee" perhaps be referring to the famous Ratman, the character who wrote the graffiti in Portal? (the cake is a lie, etc)

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Posted: 5th Mar 2010 21:37 Edited at: 5th Mar 2010 21:38
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It's a new password to the BBS.

Check this: Portal ARG Wiki

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Posted: 5th Mar 2010 22:23
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0305/First-look-at-Portal-2-images

It's been announced.

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Don't know how people found those clues but however they did, imagine the freaking rush of actually solving them. God damn, the developers went all out with that game.


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Quote: "Don't know how people found those clues but however they did, imagine the freaking rush of actually solving them. God damn, the developers went all out with that game."


I did some work with it.. I was in the IRC room when we found the telephone number and accessed it. Damn everyone was rushing with adrenaline when the ASCII pictures came in...
It was awesome!

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Posted: 5th Mar 2010 23:53
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Quote: "It's been announced."


The 'game' isn't over though because there are even oddities and clues in the announcement text

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Quote: "http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0305/First-look-at-Portal-2-images"


Am I the only person that noticed the article poster's name?

I can't freaking wait for this...although Episode Three would be much better!

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Quote: "Am I the only person that noticed the article poster's name?"


-_-

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Quote: "Am I the only person that noticed the article poster's name?"


And here I was thinking it was cool, like a character from the game or something. I'm well past 11 years of age so I didn't really notice his name, no


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Quote: "Am I the only person that noticed the article poster's name?"


Oh, yes!!! It must be a sign!!!
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This reminds me of the whole ilovebees.com thing from Halo 2.

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I'm not sure how many people use Gamespot, but I just got an e-mail from them with this link.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

happyhappyhappy!
this is so cool!!!
I can't wait.

Quote: "[UPDATE] Though Valve's announcement was minimal, GameStop's Portal 2 product page briefly listed the game as having "single and multiplayer co-op modes." Now, it only has the following short description of the game: "

oh yes. Yay!! COOP!
I am so excited.

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