Black Mesa Research Facility ARG?

Half-Life Series
#221

I get this page:

#222

I also tried IE, Firefox and using a proxy. It is always this page:

#223

Hmmm… Odd…

#224

read page 7. solving the Field Studies Remote Access Gateway puzzle gives you a cookie, that’s why you get the ‘Site closed’ page.

Also, mouseover the lamda sign on the page.

#225

OH! i never clicked that second link so I never saw that… Whoops…

#226

I was wrong again. BM Announcement System said that external temperature is “93 degrees, with an estimated high of 105”. So only “pleasant 68 degrees” is from the Announcement System. They have a script for the temperature.
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#227

Um, why isn’t the Field Studies Remote Access Gateway puzzle on the website? And, if this is just a random ARG, how can we stop the BMI/RC, like it says on the designer’s website?

More importantly, if this isn’t related to Black Mesa, then why is there a picture of a BM security Joop? And why hasn’t it surfaced before now, not long but just long enough before the 25th of the 7th month?

So many questions!

Edit: in relation to the second question, the quote which appears on the red main page after it is solved indicates that puzzle is done. Submitting data that proves the RC will be started by crystal GG-3883 to BM, and a subsequent lockdown… I guess we’re done here. Sigh.

But what happens on the 25th? And what’s with the Joop??

#228

Oh oh oh! This is a building! It’s like a garage of some kind…

#229

There is no BM security joop.

#230

Yes there is.

#231

Probably because Andy hasn’t put it there yet… :hmph:

Because it’s an ARG. You are supposed to believe it’s true :hmph:

It is NOT the BM joop https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showpost.php?p=248913&postcount=19

Since it has NOTHING to do with ‘BM the Mod’ (and by extension the number 7), it is completely meaningless. The author has stated that the clues are looped, presumably, monthly.

#232

But we still don’t know what occurs on the 25th. Maybe the website will change to reflect the RC occuring, if you haven’t “stopped” it?

Also, why hasn’t this surfaced before now? Was the OP really the first person to get bored and put blackmesaresearchfacility.com in their address bar?

#233

I’m pretty sure this isn’t about the mod
“Designing the military approved Powered Combat Vest” is one of the listed projects
The BM marines don’t use it

#234

I didn’t know he meant my website. Anyway, I haven’t messed around GLaDOS and the website in general (I was mostly occupied by the YT video).

I visited https://blackmesaresearchfacility.com/cookie.php , and now blackmesaresearchfacility.com displays “currently closed for thorough safety inspections and training exercises”.

#235

because it hasn’t finished being designed yet 9_9

#236

oh yeah, clever :expressionless:

#237

Wait, what? That doesn’t even make any sense.

Adrian Shepherd used it. And don’t give me any of that “OP4 isn’t canon” BS, there’s nothing to suggest that, and there’s nothing that contradicts it.

#238

Contributing to synthesizing Sildenafil (compound UK-92,480)?

…Viagra?

#239

According to Opposing Force they do, but BM doesn’t take the expansions necessarily as canon with the exception of the placement of Barney.

Edit: Holy fucking shit it’s like ninja fest in here.

#240

“The design for the Marines’ uniform is based on the cutting edge Crye Precision range of body armor/apparel [17] and other real army accessories (for example the armored backplate in the marines’ armor) [18]. This is to give them a more realistic and elite feel as opposed to using the fictional Powered Combat Vest that appears in Opposing Force.”

Taken from the wiki, let’s not start that annoying Gearbox canon argument again

Edit: Haven’t you been here long enough to know that?

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