You should make clear that code B is pretty much confirmed if you look at the order of the codes apperiances it’s all in qe and in the right order even the laser labs are last so D, just saying
No pizza yet, but this may be new? (WGH, the outdoor bit with the mortars and osprey)
Yes! That is very new.
But sadly seems to just be another nod to QE.
I already knew of that, no point posting the locations of the pizzas and that simble, its every where, the area that was the bullsquid and grunt during the generator part in hl1 has one there 2.
All roads lead to QE it seems…
Hm, what other levels have we not investigated for clues? Maybe there’s something in OAR…
seems everything is in QE area… any one tried searching it after saving the scientists to see if anything changes or is that not possible?
I thought of that, considering the guard specifically mentions getting pizza, but nothing seemed to have changed.
Hmm. Did anyone check the exterior map thoroughly?
Also, are you guys all looking for codes when you noclip around, or just hidden rooms?
One reference in WGH so far; just “the pizza is a lie!” and the QE lab insignia on the floor. First map, behind a door in the first turret room and down the hall.
edit: sorry, didnt realize I was a page behind. Thats two on WGH then.
Geez, that logo is turning up everywhere.
looking throug hte QEW labs now foudn a book that says lab report #43 days 431-440 and some random repeated numbers but nothing else
teh random nubmers are 348 976 512 , they appear every where and in random orders but it is always the same 3 3 dgit nubmers, don’t think they are relaited.
also noted headcrab containers have 20547 on them , once gain don’t think this has anythign to do with this.
The “pizza is a lie” text in WGH.
And this may not be too important but one of the monitors in the room where you open the doors to Blast Pit says user: guest password: guest
EDIT: Yeah it doesn’t work on https://www.dalsystems.com/
Thanks for the location of the shack, found it this time.
Had a good look around it and it’s probably nothing but I found a green ‘Accounts’ book with a handwritten note on the cover.
https://picasaweb.google.com/HughJundys/BlackMesa#5790401685917910098
It might be interesting given that it mentions something about finances on post 424:
“misappropriation of funds regarding cheesy oven-baked bread products”
Edit: Found same message on the ‘accounts’ book elsewhere so not unique to the shack
Thanks PanMieszko, that’s the spot. For some reason my Fraps didn’t want to take a screenie.
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but I noticed something about the large collaboration of code that is addressed to Dr. Bottomley and signed by Dr. Horn. When you take the codes found thus far, and use the first two digits and last two digits of each one–so, for Code B that would be 08 and 51–and use those pairs as well as the inverses of those pairs, there are many instances of them throughout the main code. I think Code A might be a nod to this, since it is 1001–AKA, you can use either 10 or 01 to knock out pieces of the code.
So, for example:
The first ten digits of the code are:
31529
You can therefore knock out 15 in this group because it is an inverse of 51 at the end of Code B.
So on and so forth. I am going throughout the Lab D portion of QE at the moment to see if I can figure out the fourth code. Once it is found, either by myself or someone else, I will attempt to use those digits and cross out all of those numbers in the big code. I’m thinking the numbers left behind will be the “actual” code, or the spaces / crossed out parts will form a picture or a message.
Any thoughts on this?
hmm, tried going back to the map with the a-grunt after beating the soldiers, extra long loading then map started then a game crash, wonder what changed? will try again later but steams not wanting to start back up.
A bit of a stretch but I just had a thought.
Could the message being written in blood mean that the pizza’s are made of alien meat, like the pizza is ALIEn…
In other words the facility is harvesting aliens as food for humans and that’s what the big secret of the facility is and why the soldiers have been told to kill everyone so it doesn’t leak out. Maybe that explains the taco next to the alien body in the morgue way back in this thread.
O HAI i found whats cipher like in the #2 message its the SECOM Cipher
see for yourself: https://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/secom.htm
Scroll down for an example, it’s very similar to our message.
EDIT: OR maybe its the Vic Cipher (aka Victor Cipher) as mentioned by phlOgistOn.
https://www.quadibloc.com/crypto/pp1324.htm
Remember the #3 code message?
“VICTOR WOULD
LIKE THIS
EXTENSION
CODE C - 3914”