After Last Night's Fun, Do You Feel More Positive About Valve?

[ailevation]

:frown: That www.half-life2.com/secret/pwned link is real? If it was I tried it and it doesn't work!

 

[Rupertvdb]

the website is having issues at the moment

 

[The.Spiral]

It's working now

 

[dura]

No, it's removed.

 

[GunPlay]

In trying to figure out a clue to the second test, I was trying to look at the HTML of the page through FrontPage, but it doesn't work. Maybe it has something to do with the bird in the image... it seems kind of random. There is also a link to this page http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd in the source.

 

[Andy]

/me looks at celerityfm's post


.... :O ....

 

[lonestar]

hey, that's pretty cool from valve! especially gordon in the source code of this page.. hehe..

i always like it when game companies are so close to the community, talking about their project and just have fun. 3drealms do it, valve do it. i really appreciate it.

 

[Andy]

Since we're in the business of hysteria building. Here's two interesting photos I dug out of google:

Image one shows that Grozny has a railway station on a main line intersection...

But image two grabbed me most ... Image two shows some of Grozny's very interesting architecture...

 

[lonestar]

thx for the pics, andy. look at this moldered building in picture two. that's really eerie!

 

[PvtRyan]

Remember Coastline with the oil pipelines in the start (over a dry seabed) too?

Looks familiar?
http://www.dhi.dk/images/NEWS/Tacis-CaspianSea/pieroildericks-1.jpg

Sure, this may be a long shot, but there are not so many points in asia/southeast europe where you will find big pipelines with oil going overseas.

Here's a map:

http://www.iranexpert.com/Pictures/pipelinejpg.JPG

Hmmm as I watch the coastline again, I'm not so sure anymore whether that long "bridge" is a pipeline. It seems to be too narrow for a bridge though.

LOL, speaking of overanalyzing...

But I think it's really likely that City 17 is near the caspian sea.

 

[GunPlay]

Look at the similarities between the building and especially the car in the second picture to screenshot #3 on half-life2.com. Kinda creepy.

 

[RogueShadow]

No, it's removed.

No it isn't.

 

[eediot]

didnt valve say city 17 was based on romania etc?

 

[dura]

Forget it, it must dislike me.

 

[eediot]

Worked for me 5 minutes ago.

 

[mortiz]

hmm, seem's like we have a winner for the location of HL-2, although we shouldn't get our hopes up.

 

[Rupertvdb]

what is the plus side of knowing? You gusy gonna go visit and hunt down some headcrab?

 

[shotgun]

Could you guys please explain what happened

 

[SMT]

I think the threads that have already been posted do a better job of explaining than any one of us would want to. You don't seem to mind digging through pages behind the front page, obviously.

 

[WaterMelon34]

I wonder what the next test will be...

 

[blindvomit]

its http://www.half-life2.com/secret/pwn3d
not http://www.half-life2.com/secret/pwned

 

[Asuka]

why should we feel positive?...wheres the sdk?where is the multiplayer?wheres the benchmark?wheres the release date?

Calm down buddy, take a few deep breaths and youll be fine now.