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Lanthanide said:
glamhawk - the date for the easter egg has been posted already in this thread. The text above the website says "screenshot archive", of which you can see "archive" in the photo. I believe the blue "452" you see below is the password for the site, with the username being cut off in the shot.

merc - you said you'd taken another photo of this board when you went yesterday, but deleted it. It's not in your recycle bin by any slim chance, is it?

no... i cheecked sorry i wish it was

-merc
 
GOOD LORD ITS ALMOST FINISHED AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :bounce: :bounce: and now i stop..
 
Maybe the "important" writing on the board is the name and password.
 
what

what is the date for the easter egg?

also, i stand by my collector's edition / monday deadline prediction
 
hiln said:
so where was this at? On the desktop? Inside HL2?

on a program that was just on the desktop opened up...

-merc
 
Xcellere - I already decoded that. It says "hell8, tour visitors". I'm assuming that the 8 there is supposed to be an o.
 
Xcellere said:
Maybe the "important" writing on the board is the name and password.

the important writing is encrypted in Rot13...it says-

"Hell8, tour visitors"

They set this board up for people visiting obviously :)

EDIT: Oops...Lanthanide already said this :-P
 
Lanthanide said:
Xcellere - I already decoded that. It says "hell8, tour visitors". I'm assuming that the 8 there is supposed to be an o.

Its not an 8, its a B which ends up becoming o once it is ROT13 encrypted.
 
Lanthanide said:
Xcellere - I already decoded that. It says "hell8, tour visitors". I'm assuming that the 8 there is supposed to be an o.

It's not an 8, it's a capital B. B + 13 = O.

And I tried various permutations of it as the username and password at www.half-life2.com/secret/pwn3d with no luck.
 
merc, buddy i'd like to thank u again for being so generous about ur time and sharing ur experience.. seriously i am officially more pumped now about the game than i was the week of September 30th 2003.

merc RAWKS!!! :thumbs:
 
I've never seen the swedish college student visit media, but there's not a shot of this whiteboard amongst any of that is there? Perhaps in an earlier stage when not all of this was written on it?

Ahh, thanks for the heads up on the B. Their z's look like 2's also, tsk tsk.
 
I wonder

I wonder if the username and password is the thing written above "Finish by Monday" that is scribbled out. It looks like two separate words, so it could be a username and password. (They may also appear encrypted, outside the picture). Interestingly, the first scribbled out word (username) seems to end with "4". Can anbody make anymore of it out?
 
Man, NEXT TIME you go put up a hidden webcam....I want to see if they REALLY have a slippin slide......
 
Wow he is really spilling the beans, btw: did you sign off aim because you were getting hammered with aim's?
 
Wait...how did you guys know it said picture archive? The image i have has the word 'Archive' cut off....is there an image that isn't cut off as much as mine?
 
Time to ask an actual gameplay question I think :)

Re: Sash - Merc says he can remember it saying "screenshot archive" above the website URL, and since we can see "rchive", it seems his memory is good :)

Merc: when you die, what happens? Is it like Half Life 1 where if you kill an important NPC, it has an obituary thing saying something like "observation of subject: terminated"? Or does the screen just fade out to black?
 
underplay said:
Wow he is really spilling the beans, btw: did you sign off aim because you were getting hammered with aim's?

yes and i have a friend coming over to spend the night soon so i dont got much time left with you all... sorry

-mrec
 
I wont be able to make any friends if HL2 comes out during school ;(
 
Somebody

Somebody get a porn website hacker to crack the username/password or post the url as a challenge to a bunch of hackers on a message board. Valve probably won't care since we are supposed to figure it out.
 
Lanthanide said:
Time to ask an actual gameplay question I think :)

Re: Sash - Merc says he can remember it saying "screenshot archive" above the website URL, and since we can see "rchive", it seems his memory is good :)

Merc: when you die, what happens? Is it like Half Life 1 where if you kill an important NPC, it has an obituary thing saying something like "observation of subject: terminated"? Or does the screen just fade out to black?

i dont remember it saying anything but you do fall down and can see everything happening around you until you press a key then it loads up the last save point

-merc
 
Joeyslucky22 said:
I wont be able to make any friends if HL2 comes out during school ;(


Yes, im afraid if it comes out during school time i will skip ANOTHER 2 months just like i did with cs :(
 
glamhawk said:
Somebody get a porn website hacker to crack the username/password or post the url as a challenge to a bunch of hackers on a message board. Valve probably won't care since we are supposed to figure it out.

Bad idea. You think any self-respecting hacker would stop at the chore he's given? ;)
 
Yeah, thought it probably would do that (HL1 does that when you 'normally' die, too). Thanks.
 
Oh yeah...that's a great idea - hack one of Valve's sites.

Isn't that what got us into this mess in the first place?!?!
 
I wonder whats in that folder. Someone PM Cliffe and offer him a prostitute for revealing the password.
 
Hazar Dakiri said:
I'm sceptical too that he was playing the end. You would think valve would save that till it was released.

I love this quote :)

Playtest the map before we release the game? Hell no! :farmer:
 
What was the BEST part of what you played!?!? Im talkin all out BEST PART!
 
I'm thinking

The more I look at the randomness of the "CUT ITEMS" and "KEEP" lists, the more I think that they have something to do with the username and password. I've looked at the first letters of the words and the number of letters in each word. Somebody else check it out.
 
klown said:
What was the BEST part of what you played!?!? Im talkin all out BEST PART!

using the grav gun to fight off masses of bad guys :)

-merc
 
merc said:
using the grav gun to fight off masses of bad guys :)

-merc


What were some of the questions they had asked you about after you played it?
 
Well, just to add further to the speculation, merc said that he remembered something like vqr. Well this decodes into ide. However, since the dir name is pwn3d then perhaps it was actually qvr, which would be "die". Atleast that has a small correlation to the dir name. Unlikely, but vaguely possible.

Someone needs to e-mail Valve and see if we can't get a full picture of that white board. It was obviously meant to be solved, but seems immpossible with the left part cut off.
 
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