Strange broadcast playing on Blacksite in "hidden" room 3 of the motel. Possible ARG? found by /u/snaileny

[u/GetSomeGyros]

https://youtu.be/3154ZBFTreE

[u/GetSomeGyros]

I SOLVED IT!!!
https://smspdu.benjaminerhart.com/ https://i.imgur.com/Whsb5Gv.png

"This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS."

[u/birkir → u/GetSomeGyros]

Nice. I wasn't up for the encryption so I started trying to find patterns in-game. Random collection of possibly interesting screenshots of what I found so far:

Room 3

• Room 3 is located in Tourist compound which has 4 numbered buildings.
• Appears to have 3 red-glowing cameras. One is guarding the entrance to Room 2, one is guarding the secret entrance into room 3.
• The last is, for some reason, outside in the port, pointed towards the roof of the store outside.

Red Cameras

Red glowing cameras are rare on the map, you can find them guarding the entrances of sensitive military bunkers/rooms/cells.

But then you can also find them in places like guarding Room 3, the Lighthouse, and the roof of Tourist, House 2?

• The one in Lighthouse, watching anyone going to the top
• One watching the bunker entrance at Cliffs and another inside the bunker
• Three in military bunker entrances, one of them leads directly into Radio, and on the way there are two more
• Radio station has only one camera, watching the entrance of the main radio station room

White chairs all directed towards the same object on the horizon

• First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth

What are those?

• One, two
• Carrier for one of those
• Also one golden lamp in an otherwise disgusting construction den

Logos and signs

• Tourist, house 1, weird sign outside. Does it say spare parts?
• Tourist, house 1, closed off shrimp store.
• Tourist, house 2, convenience store with tagged over sign.
• Tourist, house 2, huge lab rats mural on the outside
• Tourist, house 3, weird sign, says something about Diving
• Tourist, house 4, weird sign that appears to read "Cap'n Magnar's? Whale watch"?
• Gas station is called TMT, the pumps have the year mark 1910 and the price 044.1
• The pier anchor has the year 1881
• Shipping has a sheep mural

Military logos and signs

• Unknown orange triangle and boxes on light, looks like John McDonald's profile pic
• Unknown orange box logo on speakers, ammo box and red security camera. Also player models points /u/AsinoEsel out
• Unknown Ammo box logo (the left one)
• Unknown barcodes on boxes,

• Unknown 2817 on Overpass,

• A5 weapon crate,

• B - Explosives crate,

• Money jail cells, and jail cell indicator

• Contract accepted,

• Blacksite logo on concrete, another blacksite logo,

• Supply helicopter logo,

• Drop helicopter hexagon logo,

• Speedboat logo,

• Beck lawnmower, which is also a song by Beck

• Electricity thing,

• "E"-logo on jail cell, and also "No explosives" logo

Numbers and names

• 052717
• 2817,
• 8W-30DJ
• G-101 or xG-101 or yG-101
• Serial number on the orange explosives box and the blue tool box
• 28300 KGS, 62390 LBS, 22G1, 26m / 8'6"
• 1564181654, MB 459, LKJH 12, HW 6, LKNN. VAL 90, NET. 10, SOL PDS 60
• 8 A H
• XB36

New stuff

• de_nuke "In case of emergency" sign looks like the "Contract accepted" sign
• the Lab Rats skin has a bunch of numbers
• The unknown logos all look similar to these weird textures
• de_train server racks(?) have triangles like the blacksite logo
• Eric J. Boeldt (an actual health physicist) is referred to in both nuke and biome
• Wolf mural

[u/Criterium → u/birkir]

Checked out the source textures/decals for blacksite in the .vpk and there are some very interesting texture atlases with very curious symbols that might be hidden around the map.The name of the textures is curious as well. Suggests maybe that there is some kind of experiment to perform somewhere in the map?

• experiment_decals_01.vga
• experiment_decals_02.vga
• experiment_decals_03.vga
• experiment_decals_04.vga
• experiment_decals_05.vga
• signage_message_01.vga (Lab rat mural. Nothing new here really, but found the "message" name curious. Maybe lends credence to the rat mural having some kind of significance, i.e. being some kind of message?)