I have noticed something kind of weird in crossfire earlier.
In at least two places there are lanterns with the BM logo on top of them.
I am pretty sure that is an Easter egg, however i do not know if it is one that is related to the ARG or is just a random unrelated one.
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Yeah it looks to be just a Easter Egg, especially since itâs a MP map. Anything like MP we should disregard unless given super solid evidence as to why we should consider it.
Same as my username on here. I tried wrestling with it and got it working, but the terribleness that is Source engine games on Windows 10 and Open Broadcasting System eating up my framerate is forcing me to find fixes to the thing right now. I have the next 3 days off at least, so I should be able to stream since I got my new monitor finally working after my bad one pooped out finally last night. RIP you old Acer piece of shit.
Yeah I remember seeing that somewhere I think, dunno where. But I remember seeing something in an old post about maybe a ROT-2 so itâd fit in nicely with the Time Reveals All clue to guide us to the clocks.
By the way, Iâm curious as to your thoughts on the whole â247â reoccurring clue. Iâd also recommend finishing up Black Mesa for sure. Great game, and itâs more than likely the later levels we have so far tie straight into this ARG, like Lambda Core.
this is the first I have heard of the 24 7 clue
In the Questionable Ethics hidden room where we got one of the codes from(the SSTV one) there was â247â and âDIE FREEMANâ written all over the walls. 247 has particularly bugged me a lot, as it shows up later in the game in Lambda Core for a teleportation puzzle.
I found that while going through UC. It was in the guard room in front of the tram station.
More interesting to me is whatâs right below it.
That is⌠oddly legible unlike most things in this game. Itâs really easily overlooked, hell I missed it until now, but itâs really detailed. I wonder if it has anything to do with the ARG.
I also found the computer with those broken circuits as well you mentioned a few posts back, forgot to screenshot though. Itâs the blown up computer in front of Eli and Kliner in UC.
Iâve said this before and Iâll say it again, Iâm not convinced we have all the clues we can find in-game really so far. We need to examine a lot more in regards to 4 chapters: Questionable Ethics, Anomalous Materials, Unforeseen Consequences, and Lambda Core. We need to pay attention to everything regarding these chapters.
haha, I just ran back to the beginning to get a better shot of that myself. so something else I found and I donât know if it has already been put on the forums, there is scrolling text on a screen I recorded, Iâm going to take it frame by frame and play with the contrast, something about war technologies child, son of mars and some other stuff, I cant make it all out yet, has this been touched on before?..I think I can something that says I am a god killing virus?, â
update, and this is really odd. its the lyrics of a song. here are the full lyrics, by angelspit, called wreak havoc. wtf?
Brutal acts of sapiens
Leaves Jehovah in disgust
Creative acts of clever monkeys
Leaves the Devil envious
Add up all of Hadesâ blessings
Total all of Heavenâs curse
Let you know weâve done it better
Horrifically we did it worse
I am the sixth son of the sixth son of the sixth son
I am the borged again, son of war
Technologyâs child, daughter of rebellion
Son of a bitch, blossom of a whore
I am a god-killing virus
Destruction with eight arms
Monster with seven severed heads
I am the son of Mars
Cleansed with infected blood
Vile disease walking on two legs
The devil made me do it
Wreak havoc right now, right now
Riot now, unleash hell
Dirty human gone insane
Outshadows any part of Hell
Hope and horror mixed in blood
A seething mass out of control
Our shining future in revolt
While senile gods are in retreat
Left, right, wrong, right
Makes the heavens obsolete
I am beyond god, I am human
I am the razor blade on the Communion tray
I am a freak in control, not a control freak
I am the sheep that got away
I am burning but never consumed
Determined with nothing to lose
I am who I am, who I am, who I am
Who am I?
Wreak havoc right now, right now
Riot now, unleash hell
Pretty girl, pretty boy
Pretty insane, pretty f^%$&d up
Made real put into action
Surgically atoned to perfection
Made flesh, son of bland
F#$k your plans for redemption
The devil made me do it
Wreak havoc right now, right now
Riot now, unleash hell
Well great, more biblical references.
Anyway i found something in QE and forgot about it until now.
It can be found in questionable ethics but also be found throughout the game.
I do think we do have more clues to find in game considering that Storms original purpose of the ARG was to see how detailed the game is.
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Thereâs a monitor in questionable ethics and other parts that says data bank server write. Itâs a grid (19x35;665 blocks I believe) with red and blue lights where a set number of ones are burnt out. About half of them alternate between red and blue, while the rest maintain color that youâd have to count in screenshot. I canât get a screen shot right now but itâs in the office across from the balcony gman is staring from. This is where the whiteboard with the pie chart was found I think. Coincidentally itâs also next to one of the monitors with the lyrics mentioned in the last post. Could the sequence of lights/malfunctioning bulbs hold a pattern or code we could use to access halos? Iâm confident this monitor is in plenty other parts of the game. Stormseeker did say itâs every where you look.
what you just said made me go back and look at the video again, and I noticed the scrolling screen on the right of the lyrics. looks like there is some info to gain from this.
UPDATE. this is what I got from it, but I havenât any clue what it means.
10101010101010101010101
10011001100110011001100
11100001111000011110000
11111110000000011111111
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and one other thing, has this been like this for a while?
https://www.blackmesasource.com/team.html
there are comments on the time zone being utc, also things about the time being set required Iâm still kind of new, so has it been there for a while?
That has been mentioned so many times, and the answer is no. Black Mesa is ONLY remake of original half life, and is in no way connected with Valve, since it is developed by dependent team of devs, Crowbar Interactive.
Not really. I believe someone already found this, and itâs a lyrics from a song (canât remember itsâs name).
But still, it could be used as clue in ARG, for HALOS AI.
Another reversed find.
HUWARF submitted this image to the wiki back in November.
so, the current 752 character code, how can we apply the binary pattern above to it? Like 1 being a letter and then 0 being a number, or the other way around. I think by mirroring the code in some way in a positive negative type of pattern like the picture cpu posted above, it might give us something. I feel like we are right there
can anyone make anything of this?
YjUyMjBhMzMzOGI5ZDk2MjU1N2IyZmNmNGZjZTEyMGM0MzQ4ZDkzM2E2YzE3MmE0MTBjNjAwZWIxZjA0ODE4ZDJhOWQxMmMxMTc2NmM1NDc4ZmU0MTYzNTI1NzU1ODU2YjVhOGRkZmUyMDEyMThkNGU0YTFlMzcwZDAzOTczNzcxYjExMDJjOTRmODhlODQxNDVkMjFhâŚ=
^ Perhaps the code cannot be decrypted because it is not in its âdecrypting formâ?
Maybe we need to take only few pieces of the code by following some other clues and then arrange them to make sense?
I got the screen shots of the data bank-server write. As you can see there are three sequences with a set number blank . Could this help us arrange the halos file or piece together a particular string by algorithm? Maybe it holds a whole different clue all together.
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waaaaaaait for itâŚ!!!
LADIES AND GENTS, âŚim proud to pass on. THE KEY TO THE HALOS TXT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculator_spelling
every clue that has been given is on this page. Iâm translating now, but all I have is notepad, if someone has a calculator that you can program for the variables, awesome,
WaitâŚisnât this that school trick where you can write letters with a calculator?
In my country, Croatia we were able to write upside down the âFâ word with âyouâ.
But HALOS being hidden in such a wayâŚcould be i guess.
You would need an Excel based and made calculator to transcript the entire file.
yes, written on a calculator, but also clockwise and counter clockwise variants
also using BENALOHPAILLIER to determine differences between 8 being B or B being d and so on.
https://www.dcode.fr/tools-list
Maybe one of these tools in the link above was used to encrypt the code?
Thereâs a lot of them, anyone up to try some?
I will try a few and report back.
Iâm trying to find a tool so I can rotate numbers and text 3 w E m something like that, lots of html and css stuff, but I know jack about how to use that.
you can write a simple equation in excel that will look up a single number or letter and using a grid will bring back the rotation of that letter or number depending on what way you want to rotate it just by expanding the equation to another cell and changing if it look at one column or another.
Okay i tried a lot of tools in the link i posted. Only one made sense to me.
ASCII85 Encoding with âBinary to ASCIIâ encoding option.
Result (i think this was tried before, but here it is anyway):
xbtoa Begin 68LA0JG:K+>YlA5t"+!2BXk92a]>W6ST]?7RK0j3A1,^jE2EZ&1,LpM1,DPZ@2DRWf1a"M41.=2X6SfiO1,_âX2)I055sdq)779F2+>>Q/0f:[>6m+<t76rxs3&si6o-vd2a]m22_dc1gcgv+@@t@3&!cf1a"p11inrp2)hff0jkuu3c?7y2dr9n6odsâ+@:g3bâa1e\\33b>YG6T@%]1GV6U+>QDS7PHMO3$9qD2DRh6pi(R7R]7)1c@W,76%h2).HU+@A+B2F95T0d&A275H_c69-/D6TI%a2DR]D0K(mW0LIQQ+@@hC3B8c[3$:":0gRKI6pVqS3AEBX2E+)475R:c0Ldo[+?;bB7PR4f6m+G30g\/d1*B"B7R]6n0gm-=75?\T6UWm@3(>b[6oI%_+>kl63&iiO1E\SA2a];W5sZV[6oRFh0JG=+1c[Y];3AEuX2]seD2E!oi68KO0f(gH2D[W+2ao\3C,G[+@/:Q2D[fh1AM80Ju<e3b&â:0gdwt6t@fu2wqm2aoyc+?;535r:8r2'=_668cab3c+cg1-%zv2fb5,6uar1dxvf+?2hj3&s8\2]sti77&ph0h9q1dog1,vea0ekxe3($.p+?;kg3aeui1*am11g_$m0lhs:2d[6g3&eq$1do)]1,psb+@s[d2e4>GW,2+0l!1a#1P0ekL=7R\Fd2D@TY2)$rr1c7$F0gdiZ+>Yo92)mQO6m+i1,23U7RA4e77KU13&NuE1-%?L3A]L+>YoA2)7KU6i xbtoa End N 845 34d E 0 S b66d R 9629ebbb</e3b&':0gdwt6t@fu2wqm2aoyc+?;535r:8r2â=668cab3c+cg1-%zv2fb5,6uar1dxvf+?2hj3&s8\2]sti77&ph0h*9q1dog1,vea0ekxe3($.p+?;kg3aeui1*am11g$m0lhs:2d[6g3&eq$1do)]1,psb+@s[d2e4></t76rxs3&_si6o-vd2a]m22_d*c1gcgv+@@t@3&!cf1a"p11inrp2)hff0jkuu3c?7y2dr9n6odsâ+@:g3bâa`1e\33b>
Only interesting bits are the âxbtoa Beginâ and âxbtoa Endâ.
This encoding type might not be the exact one used, but this code that i generated above is much easier to understand the entire text.
For example the Begin and End might tell us that the message between is a different encoding type.
An message in a message.
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