Mysterious Portal Update!
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Yesterday, you may have noticed a Portal update: "Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations."
Of course, this makes no sense. But as we know, nothing stops the internet detectives over at the Steam Forums!
Here's what's happened so far (thanks to ModernLR's post on Steam Forums):
And here's the latest finding!
New messages from the BBS! It looks like...Chell with the portal gun? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116597/Portal/human.png
So, could have anything to do with episode 3?
Much of the evidence above would suggest so, but here's the deal breaker for me!
It may well be that the end of Episode 2 predicted this! [The guy who found this]
Skip ahead to 1:42 seconds to hear:
"We have coordinates, blueprints, hailing frequencies. Quite ingenious of Dr. Mossman to hide it all in the carrier wave."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9QoP3ghlo
This is exactly what the people over at forums have been doing, and there's still more information being uncovered hourly!
Post your findings here :D. What do you guys think?
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Typical Valve, this is brilliant. My friend thought it was for Portal 2, but your theories make more sense.
My own info on Episode 3 is much more limited, but there is a new weapon, and a potential act structure. Which is probably gone now, because it was on a whiteboard.
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Somebody runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number
The MD5 string was actually "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog". not a phone number according to the valve forum.
EDIT: there are 2 checksums.
This is fucking crazy....
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This is awesome. So when is everyone guessing for Ep. 3 - My money is on Christmas 2010 or early 2011
EDIT - scratch that, just realised that we've already been told Ep. 3 isn't out this year. Portal 2?
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I'm really looking forward to the announcement now, whenever it may be :D. All of this investigation has reminded me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
EDIT: Mitch, your image isn't working. What was it?
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This guy explains his theory on the update:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhmIiG3UfQ
Hear him out, it actually makes perfect sense.
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That guy makes me want to kill myself with his nerdiest.
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This would be like a geekorgasm if i cared
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Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
Portal
- Added valuable asset retrieval
Interesting...
EDIT: Oh look, a new ending!
<object width="425" height="305"><embed src="http://media.xfire.com/swf/embedplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="305" flashvars="videoid=2393cf"></embed></object>
Also, new sounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVH75XVu5Go
Maybe...
Quote:
Dragging robot = called 'Dinosaur'.
Cave sends it back from the future to save Chell. She's that important, hence 'valuable asset'.
NEW STUFF:
Thanks AlphaFox!
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This is like a sextape for nerds...although it is pretty fucking kool :D
Chalex clearly had a good fap!!!
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Thanks for the nightmares Chris.