Portal 2 Officially Announced

[Hectic Glenn]

[br]
It's official and what most people were expecting, Valve have announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Steam News.[br]The news underlines several words which spell out - drattmannh0nee, which seems to be a new username and password for the BBS which was previously used to find new ASCII art.[br]Update:

• Two new images found from some complex decoding: First is an image welcoming you to Aperture Laboratories
• The second confirms co-operative play will be involved in Portal 2.

 

[Escaep]

Episode 3 announcement on March 11th?

 

[scotland1]

YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Also:
ruined it by putting it in the OP

 

[The Monkey]

Awesome!
When is the "next holiday season"? Easter?

 

[peter]

YES! EPISODE 3 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 

[Shamrock]

Here is the bit that came from BBS: http://pastebin.com/stHSgY2V

Also, apparently after the progress bar completed, it pointed to something called the Aperture Image Format. http://www.portalwiki.net/index.php/The_Progress_Bar

The puzzle is not complete.

 

[Sulkdodds]

****ING **** **** ****ERY **** ****

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

 

[Paulaner]

It's official and what most people were expecting, Valve have announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Head explodes for excessive excitement.

 

[danil1]

I am too old and tired to be excited
I'll just wait till you people post new shit u found

EDIT:
just saw scotland1's comment with the pic
HOLY SHIT!!@#?
%$?@#!#@!$?%$^#?%^#$:>%$#:#$%^Kinhtyhdgiwert=0jke$

 

[peter]

I knew this would be episode 3! YES! YES! YES!

 

[MFL]

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/05/april-cover-revealed.aspx

Progress Bar is almost complete as well.

Damn, everyone beat me to it. Lol.

 

[Shamrock]

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/05/april-cover-revealed.aspx

Progress Bar is almost complete as well.

Progress bar has completed. Look at my last post.

 

[Selkcip]

It's funny, the day before they released the first update, I thought to myself, "it'd be awesome if they announced Ep 3/Portal 2 for my birthday..."
I guess this really
*puts on sunglasses*
takes the cake
YEAAAAHHHH

 

[Polaris]

Hell yeah! I've been waiting quite a long time for this.

March 2008

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

Sure!

 

[peter]

quick! make a portal 2 section on the forum!

 

[The Monkey]

The magazine says it's a standalone game. What length could we expect? 17-18 hours like HL2?

 

[blackout]

**** ME! this is fantastic!









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:frown:



:angry:

I WANT EPISODE 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MFL]

I'm calling it now. G-Man hires Chell after events of Portal 2.

 

[Acepilotf14]

inb4 pi

 

[delusional]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/

The underlined letters spell,

drattmannh0nee

I don't get it.

 

[ríomhaire]

Portal 2: Now with green!

 

[Shamrock]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/

The underlined letters spell,

drattmannh0nee

I don't get it.

Read my previous post.

 

[delusional]

http://www.aperturescience.com/

hehe pretty music

 

[Blacksky]

WHERE IS MAAH EPISODE THREE?!?! SCREW PORTAL 2!!!

 

[The Monkey]

WHERE IS MAAH EPISODE THREE?!?! SCREW PORTAL 2!!!

 

[Deleted member 56031]

http://www.aperturescience.com/

hehe pretty music

Is that still up from last xmas or is it new?

If it's new then its a hint at a holiday release PLUS I saw some HL2 crates there. EPISODE 3!!!!

 

[Paulaner]

If it's new then its a hint at a holiday release PLUS I saw some HL2 crates there. EPISODE 3!!!!

Orange Box 2... Orange Box 2... Orange Box 2...

 

[dallozdoppler]

When.

 

[Paulaner]

Could this mean something?

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Crispy`>: To let you know what happened.
Crispy`>: The drattman/h0nee login
Crispy`>: it gave us a .APF file
Crispy`>: which is a fake filetype
Crispy`>: it was made by Doug Rattman
Crispy`>: of Aperture Science
Crispy`>: when we logging into the backup/backup account
Crispy`>: it gave us a BASIC program
Crispy`>: which would run the .APF file
Crispy`>: and from there I assume that's how Genesys got that image
CFSworks>: .APF + .AMF actually
CFSworks>: They come in pairs.
Crispy`>: Enjoy, and grats Genesys
Crispy`>: Yeah, what CFS said.

That's where we are up to. - new image http://bayimg.com/OaLeHAacA

With regard to Portal 2's story, check out this link - http://kotaku.com/5486657/an-insiders-guide-to-portal-2

 

[Shamrock]

That's where we are up to.

With regard to Portal 2's story, check out this link - http://kotaku.com/5486657/an-insiders-guide-to-portal-2

What image are you talking about Glenn?

 

[Hectic Glenn]

I edited and added the image now sorry, this one - http://bayimg.com/OaLeHAacA

 

[MFL]

Anyone know what's on the next page?

 

[Shamrock]

I edited and added the image now sorry, this one - http://bayimg.com/OaLeHAacA

Awesome. Thank you, Glenny.

 

[blackout]

With regard to Portal 2's story, check out this link - http://kotaku.com/5486657/an-insiders-guide-to-portal-2

seems a bit like we got a prequel coming our way. how is this possible?

 

[MFL]

http://booto.bur.st/portal/coop.jpg ?

Also highly unlikely that Portal 2 will be a prequel now. Seeing as how they retconned the end of Portal 1. Unless time travel portals are involved. Let's wrap our minds around those kinds of puzzles for a moment.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Here is some of the ASCII out so far - http://kevin.fobby.net/portal_puzzle/bbs_dump_pictures/progress2.png

Co-op picture is very interesting. Pi Mu Rho called co-op couple days ago!

 

[XenOrBust]

Re. drattmannh0nee

Cave's ramblings mention beekeeping in his office and winning a honey competition.

 

[Quixoticism]

Very exciting! I can hardly wait for this!

 

[XenOrBust]

What's really odd about the Gameinformer cover is, how could you encounter that situation during actual gameplay? As I've said in past posts, you fire the destination portal, then your origin portal, then you jump in the latter and come out the former. The only way to teleport from one room to another (or from inside a building to the outside as appears to be the case on the cover) would be to first go outside, fire a portal, then go back inside and fire a portal, then jump through and end up back outside again.

Thus, for this cover shot to be of actual in-game footage somebody or something other than the player would have had to fire one of those portals -- or there's a door nearby that leads in and out of the building.

The really odd thing, as mentioned by another poster, is that these portals are of different colors yet they appear to be shot into the same place on the same wall but at different times with different destinations. Note the wall panels and textures, especially at bottom-left.

Am I insane, or am I thinking with Portals?