Portal 'radio' Update

[Chopium]

I beat the achivement, but the game says I didn't

I am pissed that it would do that, It even gave me the "achivement unlocked" sign

then states I missed 3 radios

FUUUUU-

I got the same thing except I'm missing one radio.

[srredfire]

Got 'em all, and it says I got 'em all. Yay!

[joe_rogers_11155]

Got 'em all, and it says I got 'em all. Yay!

HAX

PS, someone logged into the BBS Glados using u/p backup/backup and got an ANCII picture of Glados





Also, the new version of Glados is v. 3.11 while aperturescience.com's version of Glados is v. 1.09. 3.11 is possibly the date March 11th, which is Day 3 of the Game Developer's Conference...and Valve is attending.

DUN DUN DUN

[staberas]

ok WTF , i just wake up ... can someone fill me in ?

[joe_rogers_11155]

Update: Here's more ANCII images from the BBS:



First Half:
- Aperture logo in the top left corner.
- At least 1 Aperture Turret, it also looks like an exploded view of the turret on the left of the completed one.
- Circular symbol of some kind, i cannot ID it. Combine orb? Nah... Front view of the turret? I don't think so...

Second Half:
- No aperture logo
- Two bipedal creatures holding hands? People think these look like Vorts...or they might be Stalkers...I doubt it but I guess you never know. Why is it in the Glados system, though? WTF is Valve trying to tell us? lol

[staberas]

its the Aperture Science Bipedal Android

[joe_rogers_11155]

Someone on Steam forums has a good point - do the new radios have the possibility to spoil the original Portal experience for brand-new players?

Or are the radios not available for first-time play-through? Interesting...

[Dionysos]

Haha so the bbs actually lead somewhere, nice.
Guess we'll know more when the GCD rolls around.

[krainert]

Anything happening? Just got the news

[skoften]

[joe_rogers_11155]

Here's the most significant update info so far, as I have tracked it from last night.

From the beginning.

Most of the radio transmissions turned out to images that were transformed into audio files in a process similar to what NASA uses to send video from space.

Many of these secret images contained a series of letters and numbers that were meant to be part of a 32 digit hexadecimal code, or an HD5 hash. The solution to another image, which showed the following: "BBS: (XXX) XXX-XXXX"...is (425) 822-5251, based on solving the puzzles hidden in the remaining images.

Hundreds of people tried calling the number, but got the sounds of a modem. So instead, hundreds of people hacked into it. They essentially reached a new version of Glados, which operates similarly to the Glados found on http://www.aperturescience.com. (The new version of Glados is v 3.11 while the old version is v 1.07) People got stuck for a long, long time...trying to guess the login and password for the new Glados.

This brings us way back to one of the very first clues found. One of the Morse Code clues reads, "Login Backup Active Password Backup Active" so somebody entered backup/backup and it worked.

I am not sure about the frequency of this, but all night long, people have been logging into the new version of Glados under the apparent (and probable) "Backup File" Glados created...and they have been getting this.

http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9306/portalasciilarge2.png

This may not be all of them. They are zoomed out pictures built using ANCII - otherwise known as letters, numbers, and symbols in a DOS style setup. You can all obviously see pictures of Glados, test chambers, mechanical Aperture objects like turrets, science happening, etc. If you rotate your head 90 degrees to the right, you will see some of the images tun into screen shots (!) of test chambers. The image below was blurred for ease of viewing.

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/9113/blurredportalascii.png

In addition, there is a text file labeled "'Low Risk' Human Acquisition Resources" where Glados (or somebody else) discusses social groups where test subjects may be obtained for testing in the chambers. There are also several messages that come directly from "cjohnson", the CEO of Aperture Science.

A final note for the lopers: information is still rolling in from the BBS, so whatever Valve has in store for us, it must be worth the immense community investigation.

Another final note for lopers: The new version of Glados is 3.11, which might refer to the date March 11th. March 11th is Day 3 of the Game Developer's Conference, where Valve is in attendance. Will they spill some heavily stacked beans next week? Only Gabe knows......

[ad_hominem]

Portal 2 = Ep 3, and Ep3 = Portal 2. That is all speculation.

[krainert]

Thanks, Joe

And yeah, my guess is either Valve is cooking up another Orange Box'ish package - or they're combining Half-Life and Portal. The addition of portal technology to Source was obviously too troublesome to be utilized in Portal only... So... Episode Three with a Portal Gun? *drooling*

[The Doctor]

I think it's all a big joke and Gabe has fallen off his chair from laughing so hard.

[staberas]

[img]

Is that a nade in the middle of the heart?
Could it be... CS:S2 ?!!?!?!