I found something(Second Test Solved?)

[TheWart]

what is the password?

prospekt

What I want to know is how you people figure this stuff out?

lol

It is like you spend many hours sifting through sites to find this gman pic, and then what on earth made you input 'barnacle'?

 

[The Anarchist]

user/pass is nova/prospekt and at prompt its barnacle

 

[Triggerhappy41]

nova/prospekt. dont use valve and 437N452 or whatever that was.

 

[bouche]

Pretty cool little screw with minds trickery goign on.

I spotted the artist's sig "dHabih" on that image and visited his website. Maybe y'all should interigate him for more imagery .

http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/mainscreen.html

 

[<RJMC>]

do someone has found something writting in the white box?

 

[B.Calhoun]

Pretty cool little screw with minds trickery goign on.

I spotted the artist's sig "dHabih" on that image and visited his website. Maybe y'all should interigate him for more imagery .

http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/mainscreen.html

Omfg. The word dhabih was on the second whiteboard picture (lower left)......this may lead to more.

 

[mannyfresh027]

i dont think this was a planned part of the test, but they saw that we found that stuff in the gcf so they just added this to make us happy

 

[Stamp]

i dunno, but you could check out the css file.. dont know why they added it because theres no lettering.
theres nothing in the text file, but perhaps you could hex it.

http://www.half-life2.com/secret/secondtest/test.css

 

[Sub_Lon]

Wow Gabe, nice. How about alittle less time spent on puzzles and a little more time spent on releasing the game?? Just a thought...

but really I think it's neat.

 

[Narcolepsy]

i dont think this was a planned part of the test, but they saw that we found that stuff in the gcf so they just added this to make us happy

My thoughts exactly. I don't think this is the real second test. And this is why: I tried that exact URL a day or two ago, and it didn't exist! :O

 

[Sparta]

Its a real shame Dhabih hasn't updated his site since 2002, i used to visit it all the time waiting for some new artwork, but alas. Ahhh well, he's still awesome though

 

[pgod]

You probably tried:
http://www.half-life2.com/secret/secondtest/

That still doesn't work :E

 

[C-O-N-Spiracy]

I dunno how you guys are gettin all that cuz the password 437N452 wont work for me.

 

[dis]

was this ascii Alyx in the preload files or something because I ain't seeing it. Plus, where'd this "whatsmyname.jpg come from?

 

[bgesley426]

was this ascii Alyx in the preload files or something because I ain't seeing it. Plus, where'd this "whatsmyname.jpg come from?

when you get to the dialog box, right click in the black and view source.

 

[C-O-N-Spiracy]

Oh okay, the first guy had it wrong..

Its Nova/Prospekt

Ive already seen that picture of the barnacle strangling Gordon..

Wonder what the 3rd test is going to be?

 

[MrMethane]

I just did a rot13 on the Alex ASCII art and I have come to the conclusion that Valve want to kill us

I guess we finally went too far...

 

[<RJMC>]

and what was the first test?

 

[Triggerhappy41]

If anybody is having problems understanding what has happened so far, www.halflife2.net has a new news post that explains it very well. Thanks icarus!

 

[DarkStar]

i just found this, go here

http://www.half-life2.com/media.html

go to the 6th picture u see the face of GMAN when u get pointer over the 6th picture of GMAN, click on it, u get the page that asks for a pass.

enter this
valve and password : 437N452

then it takes you to this BLACK PAGE that has a white bar to type something ... i stuck here.
maybe this has been posted but i think its new.

This doesn't work for me. I put in the pass and nothing happens, I just get prompted for it again. What am I doing wrong?

 

[svet-am]

just a shot in the dark, but anyone else notice that the picture with the G-Man rollover is a picture of the combine citadel. Might there be some connection between the two? It's really late here and my brain is not in analytical mode, so i'll let you other folks see if there's any meat on that bone.

 

[gatts666]

nova\prospekt i had the wrong name and pass my bad.

 

[Neutrino]

This doesn't work for me. I put in the pass and nothing happens, I just get prompted for it again. What am I doing wrong?

I think that post wasn't entirely correct. There are instructions on the main news page though.

 

[Scapegoat]

This doesn't work for me. I put in the pass and nothing happens, I just get prompted for it again. What am I doing wrong?

Maybe the first post can be edited by a mod.

Just a note for people:-
Username: nova
Password: prospekt

 

[DarkStar]

Okay thanks. I feel like I've seen that barnacle picture somewhere before though.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Awesoem!!!!

Man I was there 2 days ago D: I can't believe I didn't see that...

 

[kaf11]

how did you see the second test section 2 days ago?

 

[DarkStar]

Has anyone figured out what those little birds mean in all this ascii stuff?

 

[Rafa 5.0]

Great find so far... keep it up guys

 

[Narcolepsy]

You probably tried:
http://www.half-life2.com/secret/secondtest/

That still doesn't work :E

Yes it does. :E

 

[SaintMog]

why dont you check that pcgamer magazine for clues to the third test maybe?

 

[aeroripper]

we probably won't get the 3rd test till the next preload or something

 

[pgod]

Yes it does. :E

OK your right, there's a difference between "The page cannot be viewed" and "Forbidden". You win

EDIT: OK quiet now :stare:

 

[Icarus]

Keep the spam out of this thread

 

[otomo]

Anyone tried to figure out what that text says on this image?

its really blured. In bottom left corner.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/otomo/GMANSECONDTEST.gif

 

[KagePrototype]

Anyone tried to figure out what that text says on this image?

its really blured. In bottom left corner.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/otomo/GMANSECONDTEST.gif

Looks a bit like the PC Gamer logo to me. heh. [EDIT]: No it's not, it just looks like it.

[EDIT}: My bad, that's the right hand side.

 

[<RJMC>]

and was what the first test?

 

[ktimekiller]

Anyone tried to figure out what that text says on this image?

its really blured. In bottom left corner.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/otomo/GMANSECONDTEST.gif

i made it a bit bigger, and there is nothin

 

[seinfeldrules]

I think it would be impossible to read that without some sort of CSI technology getting involved.

 

[KagePrototype]

The "writing" just looks like the health and "auxilary power" bits from a screenshot they used for the image. You can see the crowbar as well.