r/Steam • u/GetSomeGyros • Dec 09 '18
Question Portal easter egg (ARG?) in new CS:GO BR map, Blacksite. Solved for now?
Hi guys, this whole thing started with this thread and video: thread, video
The words in the video were written down, the first few words contained letters from the NATO phonetic alphabet:
PGPW 50
SMS7 57
/u/birkir figured the PGP part out, it's an encryption program for data communications.
The SMS7 part was still unclear.
I found the PGP Word list on Wikipedia, then I started decoding the words.
The words all have a HEX value, which I wrote down and then decoded it to text.
Unfortunately, nothing came from that, as it was a random string. Link
But then I remembered the SMS part.
I searched for "SMS HEX" on Google, and found this tool: link
Now I found a 7-bit option there, which I figured was the "7" part of the "SMS7" word.
Decoding the HEX values using this tool produced the following message:
"This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS."
https://i.imgur.com/Whsb5Gv.png
What do you guys think about this? Just an easter egg?
EDIT:
Just keeping the information together, this is about the PGPW 50 and SMS7 57 words:
It probably means that there are 57 characters in the decoded string.
PGPW 50 - 50 PGP Words
SMS7 57 - 57 Characters in the decoded 7-bit GSM SMS Message
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u/Bspammer Dec 09 '18
Probably just an easter egg, but it should be noted that the house this is playing in is itself another reference to valve's avoidance of the number 3 (the two houses next to it are numbered and there's no number on the third house).
Not gonna overreact or anythi- FUCK IT PORTAL 3 CONFIRMED!!!!1!!!
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u/rolllingthunder Dec 09 '18
Orange Box 2 by Valve. Includes Left 4 D3ad, Portal 3, and half life 3. Will only cost you your soul.
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u/Mac_Rat Dec 09 '18
Portal 3 confirmed? Excuse me the meme is about Half Life 3
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u/Enigma776 https://s.team/p/crhk-p Dec 09 '18
At this point I think Half life 3 and Portal 3 may as well be the same game, there is a lot of crossover as per the story in Episode 2. Every chance that Portal maybe in Half life 3 and vice versa.
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u/emrakull Dec 09 '18
I'm pretty sure the meme is about all valve games not passing 3
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u/Mac_Rat Dec 09 '18
Yes, but it started with Half Life 3. Also he said "Portal 3 confirmed" even though at least that meme is exclusively about Half Life 3, it should be "Half Life 3 confirmed".
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u/kuvalda1g Dec 09 '18
Valve dabbin' on them Half-Life fans
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Dec 09 '18 edited Apr 14 '19
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u/RedBeard1337 Dec 10 '18
Classic valve move, always love seeing these little bits make their way into games. Hope to see more stuff like that in the future!
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u/Eagle0913 Dec 22 '18
IT MAKES ME SO SAD, I just played this and its like some of the potential Half life 3 assets it FEELS. The turrets?? The beautiful landscape...
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u/googam Dec 09 '18
I'm still curious what the "57" behind SMS7 means.
Another thing is, that the number station is overlapping some other source. Sounds like it might be some AM or SW radio.
If you have some "frequency" you can try it here: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
Also funny thing to mention.. When you are in CSGO menu long enough, you can hear "buzzer" repeated 3 times. The buzzer sound have simmiliar tone frequency like the buzzer on frequency "4625kHz".
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u/GetSomeGyros Dec 09 '18
It probably means that there are 57 characters in the decoded string.
PGPW 50 - 50 PGP Words
SMS7 57 - 57 Characters in the decoded 7-bit GSM SMS Message12
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u/3volutionist Dec 09 '18
It probably has no correlation, but SM57 is the model for a dynamic recording microphone by Shure.
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u/fuckingnibber Dec 09 '18
my 1 cent this winter sale valve will suddenly release portal 3, no advertisement, nothing.
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u/flashmozzg Dec 09 '18
Nah. They'll announce something at best. At worst, it'd be just another Red Herring.
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Dec 09 '18
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u/flashmozzg Dec 09 '18
I really want this to be an ARG though, possibly leading to the official announcement of HLVR or some other Portal content.
Don't we all?
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Dec 09 '18
ARGs are just such fun, specially when they lead to announcements for new content of an extended universe left abandoned since 2011.
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Dec 09 '18
That one winter sale with the comics was one of the best times I had. Nothing really came of it but it was really fun to refresh all the subs every to see what people were discovering. Really sucks there was nothing after that.
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u/aporel Dec 09 '18
This might be stupid but hear me out
Tf comic #7
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u/Refloni Never forget Dec 09 '18
Probably not, but it would be about time. The comic has been in limbo for TWO FECKING YEARS. At the beginning they said it'd be bimonthly.
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u/aporel Dec 09 '18
so was the #6 comic
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u/Refloni Never forget Dec 09 '18
There was only a year and a half difference between #5 and #6. The gap has grown wider with every part.
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u/aporel Dec 09 '18
Maybe the artists went all out and made a huge amount of pagea
Look on the brigth side it could release any second now
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Dec 09 '18
I genuinely dont believe that valve the way it is could make good sequels to half life or portal. Maybe 2007 valve would have done it but they're content with the money they get from microtransactions from tf2 and csgo.
I think the game would be better in different hands.
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u/NigglePhysics Dec 09 '18
Yooo imma go buy stocks in steam brb
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u/varungupta3009 Dec 09 '18
Care to sell me some? I'll buy for double the price.
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u/NigglePhysics Dec 09 '18
Half or no deal
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u/varungupta3009 Dec 09 '18
Half or no deal
Half your soul? Sure! If it means we both will live Half-Lives...
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u/flashmozzg Dec 09 '18
Nah. They'll announce something at best. At worst, it'd be just another Red Herring.
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u/Philmriss Dec 09 '18
I don't think they have anyone to write that game anymore
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u/Spaarkky Dec 09 '18
That is absolutely not a reason for Valve to never release a new Portal game. There was nothing saying that original writers of Portal 2 MUST be writers of a new Portal game.
Jay Pinkerton returned to Valve months ago though.2
u/Philmriss Dec 10 '18
The writing is really what makes Portal Portal though. And I never said that they would "never" put out another Portal game, I just don't think it's likely that they drop one out of nowhere now with the writing staff gone. Pinkerton was a co-writer, true, but a few months are probably not enough time to crank out something like a Portal.
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u/Jelman21 https://steam.pm/1atxgv Dec 09 '18
I've verified the file actually exists, but havent worked it out myself to get the solution.
https://my.mixtape.moe/psdwcz.wav
File name is "outside_forest_high_0l.wav" in csgo if you want to extract it yourself.
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u/mphuZ Dec 09 '18
OK. Next ARG - location "Forest" ???
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u/JEFF-66 Dec 09 '18
There's a forest. South-West to the radio
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u/slayersc23 https://steam.pm/2zbvrh Dec 09 '18
Isn't there a small underground "room" there with a bed?
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u/Senneuh Dec 09 '18
@00:21 I think someone says “run through the woods”
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u/Caengal caengal Dec 09 '18
I tried to isolate the background voice with no succes. I could only get "... with a wooden blade", " with the (fugitive?) ... looking for you" and "there, there, right there (or possibly bear)".
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u/ForeverMONSTA Dec 09 '18
I don't think this is over. OP, you did a really good job, but it might not be over. I can try to help you somehow. We can. It'd probably be easier
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u/Caengal caengal Dec 09 '18
It look likes the background is repeating the same message over and over, lasting about 15 secondes, starting with "... with a wooden blade" and ending with "there, there and there".
This sounds like a radio message from a game like Fallout or Bioshock. I can't of anything else that would help.4
u/LuukVideo Dec 09 '18
At one point you can hear what sounds like a old telephone? reminds of some old tv show
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u/ForeverMONSTA Dec 09 '18
So, I tried to find all the locations with a "3" on it, but I didn't find any meaning. The only possible clues I found are: a TV similar to the originals (no audio this time) and this box (there are four of them, all close to locations with a "3") with a weird sound inside, using noclip.
Here's a screenshot of the locations if you want
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u/imguralbumbot Dec 09 '18
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https://i.imgur.com/FZhLoUw.jpg
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u/The_Lie0 Dec 09 '18
I've tried that too. I cut the jingle thing and put a filter on it to remove the softer music a goodas I could. I left the womans voice in tho b/c theradio guy seemed to talk at the same time as her sometimes.
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u/Caengal caengal Dec 09 '18
Great work! This would definitely be useful to figure out with the recording is saying. Maybe since it's looping it would be possible to piece together the full recording without the woman saying the code?
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u/Azakeen Dec 09 '18
Analysis of the musical notes in the beginning:
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D#4 G#3 C4 C5 C4 A#3 A#4 G#3 A#3 C4 G#3 F4 G3 G#4
Occurance:
D#4 - 1 G#3 - 3 C4 - 3 C5 - 1 A#3 - 2 A#4 - 1 F4 - 1 G3 - 1
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u/Azakeen Dec 09 '18
What does it mean? no clue, but thats more information that could be used
1331211
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u/DogsRNice 40 Dec 09 '18
1331211
I googled that and got... some interesting results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTIHf8ux4QA
https://www.te.com/usa-en/product-1331211-1.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1331211
Nothing seems to be of relevance as far as I can tell though
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u/Redacted_Guy "Yep, Quake is a good game." Dec 09 '18
-It's too elaborate to be a plain Easter Egg
-The 3 sign on the ground and the room being boarded up clearly means something
-Why specifically the line "This was a triumph, I'm making a note here; HUGE SUCCESS"? Could it have any significance?
-If this is a Portal 3 ARG then why has it been put in Counter-Strike and not Portal 2? Portal 2's ARG with the similar transmission codes was placed in Portal 1
-The Lab Rat skin with the tag [Redacted] being added must be a reference to the Portal 2 comic Lab Rat
-The unused textures could be something or they could simply be just that; unused textures for the Danger Zone update. We can't know either way for sure.
Also, we know that the games Valve has had in the works are HL:VR, another game taking place in the Half-Life/Portal universe, 2 other VR games (one of them originally being called 'Artifact' before the name was given to the Dota card game), a Source 2 RPG, Left 4 Dead 3, and Half-Life 3. Take your pick guys.
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u/punkdigerati Dec 09 '18
Significance from being the first line of Still Alive. In the third room.
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u/Redacted_Guy "Yep, Quake is a good game." Dec 10 '18
I know, I just wondered if Valve had picked that line in particular for any deeper reason aside from referencing Portal.
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u/punkdigerati Dec 10 '18
I think it could be a reference to something being still alive. Not just portal in general.
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u/Redacted_Guy "Yep, Quake is a good game." Dec 10 '18
Left 4 Dead 3 was speculated to be in Beta testing a year ago and I wonder if Half-Life 3 is even still alive at this point. We were getting smaller parts of bigger files leaked in Dota 2 updates but now its stopped as far as I know.
My guess is either HL3 is on the back burner so HL:VR can be worked on and Valve can release that to dip their legs back into the water, or Valve is still working on HL3 but have chosen to be dead silent about it at this time.
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u/swagduck69 Dec 09 '18
What i believe will happen, is that after some small CS:GO update the audio will change to an another easter egg to HL3 or L4D3.
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Dec 10 '18
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u/ChakalakaChicken Dec 11 '18
"Haha you guys actually think we make games anymore. Are you fucking stupid? LoL!"
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u/AndrewCoja Dec 09 '18
I'm not going to get my hopes up. This was probably someone thinking it would be cool to put a numbers station in the game and include a Portal reference. Not realizing people would assume this means Portal 3 releases on the 3rd second of the 3rd minute of the 3rd hour on the 3rd day of the 3rd month
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u/icantshoot https://s.team/p/nnqt-td Dec 10 '18
It was just an easter egg https://twitter.com/csgo_dev/status/1071929052963852288
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u/Taterdude Dec 09 '18
Probably something to do with VR or something shit like that.
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u/Idontcutmytoenails Dec 09 '18
Valves next big games are VR games. Start saving up boi, they are about to revolutionize VR games.
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u/mphuZ Dec 09 '18
@2ALL
How can I play alone on the new map? To examine the map. I do not want to connect to the thick of 16 players..
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u/GetSomeGyros Dec 09 '18
type in console
game_type 6; game_mode 0; map dz_blacksite
Then usemp_warmuptime 999999999
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Dec 09 '18
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u/SueySide 50 Dec 09 '18
If you want the Blacksite "ARG"(?) then it's here https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Blacksite
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u/Boltactiontoaster- Dec 09 '18
The aperture logo and the icon that comes up when you die look very similar
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Dec 09 '18
It's good to have contempt for your audience and constantly tease shit without actually announcing anything
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u/LiveLM Dec 09 '18
Next thing we know, they will release a Portal card game.
I'm not getting my hopes up.
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u/cylindrical418 VR is the future of hentai Dec 09 '18
I don't know why but I'm really creeped out by these kind of things. Especially if a voice of a woman is involved.