Spidery_Yoda
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Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Portal

    * Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations
Huh?

Edit: A quick look at the community page shows it has a new achievement.

WHATS HAPPENING

Edit 1:

Steam Forums have uncovered the following: Pick up a radio at the beginning, carry it tothe first red button and the light on the radio will turn green and play some morse code. This has to be something to do with Portal 2 or Episode 3. I'm currently downloading the game...

Edit: There are also now radios throughout the game that assumably play different messages. Something big is coming I can tell .
Radio in the next area:
https://i48.tinypic.com/10sgjs8.jpg

Thread on SPUF: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s … ?t=1168990

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FloppY_
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Transmission Received
..?














Spoiler (highlight to read):
Could they be sneaking out DLC / Portal 2 ?!?! OMFG VALVE DON'T TEASE ME BRO

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Flaming_Maniac
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FloppY_
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Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Edit 1:

Steam Forums have uncovered the following: Pick up a radio at the beginning, carry it tothe first red button and the light on the radio will turn green and play some morse code. This has to be something to do with Portal 2 or Episode 3. I'm currently downloading the game...

Edit: There are also now radios throughout the game that assumably play different messages. Something big is coming I can tell .
LINK! NAW!!
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mtb0minime
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I'm still a little upset that my achievement progress got erased when I had all but one level to get the records for steps/time/portals (would've gotten 3 achievements at once or something like that).


But some very cool stuff indeed! I enjoyed Portal more than HL2 tbh. And though I would like to see Ep3 come out soon, I really really really really want Portal 2. So maybe this update means that it'll come out within the next decade? I would shit my pants if I got to play Portal 2 by 2015
Spidery_Yoda
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I have 12/26 radio transmissions so far. I'm pretty excited to see what happens when I get all 26.

I've just got to this one. How on earth am I meant to get to that radio up there

https://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g2/Spidery_Yoda/testchmb_a_070002.jpg

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SplinterStrike
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Spidery_Yoda wrote:

I have 12/26 radio transmissions so far. I'm pretty excited to see what happens when I get all 26.

I've just got to this one. How on earth am I meant to get to that radio up there

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g2/Sp … 070002.jpg
Slap a portal on the upper left wall of the screenshot, fall into a portal and shoot the exit into the ground below the radio while falling. Good luck

Might just play again cause of this.
Spidery_Yoda
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Images encoded in the new sound files..?

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s … ?t=1169218
Spidery_Yoda
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Got the achievement and nothing happened, Steam Forums, Something Awful etc are still working at the code to figure out what it is. A number is in there that you can access using an ancient modem, and it takes you to a login screen and the word GlaDOS is there.

And thats it so far. Goodnight.
{M5}Sniper3
Typical white person.
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Lol, I love it when Vavle does shit like this. Pictures hidden in sound files, md5 codes, morse code. Good stuff!
Peter
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more portal content you say?
https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6139/jizzed.jpg
Poseidon
Fudgepack DeQueef
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Enjoy.

Portal 2 PLEASE. HL2: Ep 3 even MORE PLEASE.
wah1188
You orrible caaaaaaan't
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Valve, biggest trolls ever!
Spidery_Yoda
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This is from the data on the BSS line.

-- WARNING: UNDISCOVERED CORRUPTION IN ERROR CORRECTION ( ABEND 143 )

---- BEGIN RECORD 'C:\05083881.801\04186850.542' (1751 BYTES) ----

CONFIDENTIAL

October 17th, 1976

Re: Human Enrichment & Testing Initiative, Resource Acquisitions



1. "Low Risk" Human Resource Acquisitions



a. Hoboes and Tramps

Lives spent wandering aimlessly, cowering before authority, and drinking

concussive amounts of home-distilled potato alcohol make hoboes the perfect

Human Enrichment test subjects. The hobo questions nothing, will follow orders

if fed, and, like all hoboes, has a restless, wandering heart. (Note: The

wandering heart of the hobo should not be confused with Drifting Heart

Syndrome, which several transients contracted during testing.)



b. Child Orphans and Foundlings

Deep-rooted abandonment issues leave most orphans highly susceptible to

shame-based psychology (for a complete list of opportune moments to obliterate

the esteem of test subjects, please consult Training Video #89-D, "You'd

Perform This Test Better if You Had Parents"). Recent advances in the use of

scorn, flattery used in an ironic context and naked contempt as motivational

tools have yielded similarly profitable results.



c. Psychiatric Patients

Past experience shows these fellows are simply not shy at all about carrying

on, disrupting tests and defecating just about anywhere that pleases them.

Frankly, itís off-putting, and small wonder why Aperture-brand mental

institutions are being phased out in favor of more orphanages.



d. Seniors

Frail, brittle hands make holding science devices difficult. Most were born

before the advent of science, and can become confused and disoriented when

asked to participate in relatively simple tests (teleportation, invisibility,

adjusting esteem levels of orphan children).
---- BEGIN RECORD 'C:\02622005.965\06615262.757' (863 BYTES) ----
MEMORANDUMS: Filed under CJohnson: 1085839-G

This one's important, folks, so no skimmin'. Cave Johnson here, your boss and
founder of Aperture Science?the best damn applied sciences company on Earth.
How good is the science here? Get a load a? this: as of this morning, I am
dead!

Now, yer probably askin? yourself, "Cave, come on now, how is this possible?
Are you some manner of Dracula? Or Frankenstein? Or dependin? on yer cultural
heritage, a Blackula or Latin Frankenstein?"gh632jj3

ksjdo sir! It's science.  Thanks to our diligent Aperture engineers, I am
writin' memos to you today, literally, from beyond the grave! Furthermore I'd
l#ke t5o inf))))m 34verybody wePPPPPing a blue shi%%$rt today th32232t y*u
@##re f)*# TF FFs0&^t ##f gd fghDFRt 665 ^ $%& 4%^^$. ZSFGS D FGsd5 E$
5^57&w$% &6&778*$ 4^77 r6ty u$65####################3
---- RECORD ENDS ----
  -- WARNING: NO ERROR DETECTED
And more: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s … ?t=1170018

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Peter
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what the hell is going on
Spidery_Yoda
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You can hear a man and a woman talking in those clips. People say it sounds like dr kleiner and alyx, and while i'm inclined to agree with them it could well just be 2 random people.



People have also found the following on the old BSS line:

https://img63.imageshack.us/img63/9306/portalasciilarge2.png
https://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6278/portalascii.png
https://www.alexyork.co.uk/imagedump/noise_reducedj.jpg

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Flecco
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Ep3.
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FloppY_
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Flecco wrote:

Ep3.
Doubtfull...

More like Portal 2 / DLC
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Flecco
iPod is broken.
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Remember the end of Ep2?


Fucked up transmission from Moss?


...

Seems to fit to me.
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FloppY_
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Flecco wrote:

Remember the end of Ep2?


Fucked up transmission from Moss?


...

Seems to fit to me.
I haven't seen anything from the audio/pics that tie anything from HL into Portal... I see obvious portal levels and tons of GLaDOS pics...

I wouldn't get my hopes up for EP3... As much as I want it to be out soon!
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Flecco
iPod is broken.
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Dammit like a year and a half ago I saw a freakin interview where Gabe mentioned Prawtl 2, Ep3 and Counter-Strike2 fqapjigSOHjaehojdehfqaojhqah


DON'T RUIN MY HOPES FFS
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FloppY_
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Flecco wrote:

Dammit like a year and a half ago I saw a freakin interview where Gabe mentioned Prawtl 2, Ep3 and Counter-Strike2 fqapjigSOHjaehojdehfqaojhqah


DON'T RUIN MY HOPES FFS
Am I the only one that considers CS:Source to be Counter-Strike 2 ?


Anyway... Relax man, I just don't think Valve has had the time to finish EP3 since they want it to be as epic as possible to conclude the Freeman saga...

Portal 2 seems more likely... Keep in mind how much Valve have been working on lately... Between L4D2, TF2 updates, etc. I doubt they've had time to do serious work on EP3... Sadly

I'd rather stay "pessimistic" about the release date of EP3 than put my hopes up only to be dissapointed...

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henno13
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Look what was found in that update

Some are saying that's its garbled sound files from EP3 involving Barney Alyx and Kleiner. It's jibberish to me, but you can make out a few things, like someone yelling "GET DOWN!"



Spidery_Yoda wrote:

You can hear a man and a woman talking in those clips. People say it sounds like dr kleiner and alyx, and while i'm inclined to agree with them it could well just be 2 random people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRVZ1yRDHAo


Slightly cleaned up.

Last edited by henno13 (2010-03-02 13:10:30)

Flecco
iPod is broken.
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I'm banking on HL3 in the future too.


Shepard hasn't popped up again.


CSS is pretty much CS 1.6 with prettier graphics. You wouldn't call TFC the second TF game.
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FloppY_
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henno13 wrote:

Look what was found in that update....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ALEgQeBS4

Some are saying that's its garbled sound files from EP3 involving Barney Alyx and Kleiner. It's jibberish to me, but you can make out a few things, like someone yelling "GET DOWN!"
Welcome to 7 posts up

And no, I hear NOTHING in those clips...

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