Yeah, if the reddit is to be “believed,” then there is an Easter egg regarding boats that has yet to be found. I’m sure noclipping will eventually reveal it.
EDIT: That’s assuming the cheats work in this one. I will not try them until I earn the achievements, as I don’t want to accidentally disable them. I’m an achievement whore, to be sure (rhyme intended).
Cheating enables a flag inside the saved data. This means cheating only applies to saves you have cheated in. You could have two sets of saves, one with cheats, and one without.
If you save your game to A, cheat, and then reload A your achievements should be re enabled.
In other words, if I cheat without saving, I could still get the achievements? If it’s only a save-based thing, then I’m all for having a secondary save to play around with, or simply using them on my main save and ensuring I don’t save over the file.
I did this with Half-Life 2 and it worked perfectly.
This is an old bulletin board, the one with the supposed HAFB on it, and I noticed something new about it:
Smack in the middle, above the three circled and x’ed out areas, it looks like the word LIE but with the letters backwards. There are also a couple more documents with numbers on them:
Looks like “193”.
Says “PAGE 428.”
These are all things we had prior to the release of BM on Steam, and the IRC clues did point to going back and looking at things we had already discovered in the IRC clues and whatnot.
Does anyone have a copy of Dante’s Inferno on hand? If so, try looking at page 428?
It’s not 428 pages long. It’s around 300 pages for each version. The original Italian version was a little over 150 pages.
Here’s a scan of page 428 of Grey’s Anatomy. I had the tome lying around after I purchased it and a Lovecraft collection for cheap at a book sale. I’m glad to finally get some use out of both it and my scanner, which I have come to respect after it spit out a 10200x14028 png scan. (I shrunk it down and cropped it, don’t worry.)
The problem with guessing about page numbers is that it’s a really weak lead. Books are often republished, making page numbers for one edition hardly point anywhere near where you meant for any edition besides that. Chapters or Bible verses are used far more often for exactly this reason.
This is probably useless, and please don’t bother these random people, but if someone makes an account and asks for a lead on this here we might get some serious book worms taking a gander about that. Chances are high though that it’s one of three things:
Regarding books: I don’t suppose the bibles lying all around the place are of a version that exists in real life? If so: those things are generally thick enough to have a page 428.
Holy cow there might be something to that. That’s the only book in the game. (Right?) Can someone find one and post screenshots of the front, back, side, and at an angle for depth? Checking the texture file for the bible model might also uncover something.
That is unbelievably legit. I’m completely certain I could find a real bible that is identical or very, very similar. I have no idea why I thought the bibles were generically purple with a yellow cross with serifs.
Could you get a screenshot of the side binding and back too? It would help with finding it.
(Sort of) New here. Thought I would point this out.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Life-Good-News-Bible-ebook/dp/B00FD96JM6
There is a Good News Bible that’s been in print for a few decades. So this is something that actually exists.
Upon closer examination there indeed is a New Life Edition. This one having come out specifically last year. One of the key selling points is precise page numbers in comparison to the paperback edition.
Could be a dead end though, don’t imagine they’d have users spend money on this.
Here you go:
Also guys, stormseeker has spoken once again:
Maybe there is more to come?
Source?
Also: “original arg”? “Multiple paths”? Does that mean there is a new ARG (exclusive to the Steam release version)? And if there’s multiple paths, does that means several paths within one ARG, or the new and “original” ARG, or what?
Here it is. It’s from the reddit AMA. In case you haven’t read it yet, there is something about boats which seems to be a clue.
I think this might just mean that the website is a home base and as we discover other parts of the ARG we unlock different areas of the site; hence the term “umbrella.” I wouldn’t stress too much about what this means right now since we still have the Halos file to look at, although it is possible we will unlock other things from this new version of the game or possibly the website itself.
Just a thought, is boats a reference to the Borealis, or is there another boat in some parts of the multiplayer maps. I certainly don’t remember there being boats in any of the other HL chapters, that’s for sure
Boats could also imply we are meant to use items as boats to cross somewhere. Noclipping would reveal this rather easily, though.
EDIT: Speaking of which, can anyone confirm it works in this version? I tried briefly and was unable to activate it.
EDIT 2: On that bulletin board I referenced on the last page, I could have sworn there was a photo of some aircraft carriers. The board is found all over the office if someone wants to check before I get home later tonight.
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