[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

All this hex code on the site makes me wonder if we should do something with the HALOS code.

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    $('.fadein').fadeIn(500);
    $(".glitch-time").countdown({
        date: "Tue, 5 May 2015 08:47:00 UTC-0600"
    }, function () {
        // moved complated function.
    });[/code]Hmmm. They changed the function () bit. I wonder why?

Hihihi :smiley:
20 minutes or so to go!

I’m guessing from here the ARG continues/reboots in the commercial release. One of the first pictures someone (presumably a dev) has posted to the community is a portrait of Dr. Welsh.

Whats the devs username/link because I would like to check this out.

Well, if the people with money could please get on that then, I’d be much obliged! =3

(P.s. I’ll try to save up so I can join the search myself, later.)

https://www.bmrf.us/assets/launch_trailer.mp4

I think if anyone has the steam release (I haven’t yet: I’m saving up unfortunately) then could they possibly check under the stairs in QE in the room that had the TV and the headcrab zombie in it, and in Unforseen Consequences? I think these areas are most likely to have new stuff in them. Maybe in Dr. Horn’s shack as well

The post was made by Deniz Sezen
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197965548942/
And the post
https://steamcommunity.com/app/362890#scrollTop=1300

Maybe someone who bought the game can go visit that area. I would but I too am saving up. Also why is it not showing up in the screenshots section?

As commercials-vulnerable person i bought it and installing now
Will see what i would manage to find

God damn it! I have to deal with midterms, but will join the search asap.
Please post anything you find here, I’m very excited.

Bought it, clicked install, and BSOD ,Goddamn. I hope there’s hints in the game.

Edit:Just played it and couldn’t find any hints other then the ones that were in the non-steam version. But it does look amazing! :smiley:

Now, THAT’s Cool!

Release has second emergency message transmitted trough radio in the beginning of office complex. Listening to it for some time causes two zombies to spawn and attack you

There’s an explicit reference to ā€˜Dr. Horns AI thing’ on one of the AM whiteboards, was that always there? Have i misunderstood or was the nature of his project (being an AI) not secret after all (i thought the plot was that they were using the Tau Cannon project to funnel the Nirobium to the secret-nature HALOS project)?

I’m seeing those satellite/birds-eye photos of the airstrip EVERYWHERE now. Like every chapter has them hanging somewhere, included in the break room in AM. IIRC they were previously just in Dr. Horns shack?

As MAXGEAR said the EAS (although I thought it was the first? should maybe go and listen again more closely) now plays in office complex. Perhaps related, there does not seem to be any military radios for you to listen in on, any more (which sucks), so maybe there are now (more) EAS radios instead?

G-Man bleeds. Probably just an oversight?

edit: Went back to examine the Office Complex EAS radio more closely, it’s interestingly the generic HL2 resistance radio. One of relatively few hold-over assets that I’ve noticed. Actually, the only other one i can really think of is the generic actuating door-handle. AFAIK EVERYTHING else is replaced with a new unique asset.

No, they used pizzas to smuggle/purchase Niobium, and tried hiding it from dr. Welsh, hence the phrase ā€œPizza is a LIEā€

I got trading card mentioning dr.Horn
It’s iron and it shows malfunctioning surgical complex

ā€œHe’s ready to see you nowā€¦ā€

So, to those with the funds to actually buy the game right now (read: not me):

  • Nothing new in the shack?
  • Nothing new under the stairs?
  • Still nothing where X01 / X02 are supposed to be? (noclip if you have to?)
    @EMUGOD: The satellite photos were spread around the game before this release - I know because I played the mod well after reading through most of this topic. Pretty sure I took some screenshots of several of the locations, too. Pretty sure the ā€œAI thingā€ reference was also there.
    Additional question: did they release the custom modding tools they mentioned we (or, well, those buying the game) would get yet? It might help us find more stuff.

Modding tools are available already. I’m putting the guides up for how to use them today.

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