easter-eggs

[slender lodge]

hmmmm

[fathom fractal]

dev cross

[slender lodge]

mann idk what else can we search for

[fathom fractal]

maybe make a new word with devon crossing

[slender lodge]

rocky said he already did that tho

[fathom fractal]

ah

? I think its okay you were trying

best to keep trying than nothing

[pure loom]

I tried the 8 combos of devoncrossing - like gnissorcdevon and so on

[fathom fractal]

:o At least its not hurt to try

but I don't think it is

[granite walrus]

Same, I say we need another art to continue

[lucid pebble]

the x crosswalk is only 1 block away from their headquarters

[pure loom]

If it's anything like the BF1 Fort de Vaux easter egg in Battlefield 1 (which revealed the BFV reveal date), there will be several parts and we might get a date for the playtest, or even the release date at the end, or something like that

The problem is, we don't have a map to wander around in to look for things

[granite walrus]

There is a meal called Devon Egg

[fathom fractal]

devoffstopping

devoncrossing

[granite walrus]

Same like when black ops cold war was revealed people went to black ops 4 and warzone looking for stuff

That was pretty cool ee hunt not gonna lie

[fathom fractal]

what if devoncrossing page works in the other game they are working on

[slender lodge]

ohhh i see

[granite walrus]

Worth a try I guess

[slender lodge]

I dunno if this is complete but I hope it is

[pure loom]

it doesn't

[slender lodge]

that wouildnt make sense either

ee related to the ip would probs be on the ip's website

[fathom fractal]

idk just what swa said yesterday like a small easteregg I thought

I guess out of context then

because the girl background is the same hex color as the cross I thought

[slender lodge]

it could be something but what could it be

since that symbol was already a thing in arc raiders

idek if its the arc raiders one it was just too similar for me to miss out on haha

[slender lodge]

yeah seems like they use the red color a lot

https://www.reachthefinals.com/cart

the 'continue shopping' button also uses the same color

i like how https://www.reachthefinals.com/checkout redirects you to the main page lol

[tulip matrix]

Oh yeah there's a /search page as well just fyi

[slender lodge]

oh dayumm

is that an index finder

[granite walrus]

The devs are probably looking at this chat and laughing

[fathom fractal]

:o

[slender lodge]

how'd you find this though

[tulip matrix]

A script that guesses common page names

[fathom fractal]

why does devoncrossing show the page
but not ospuze

in the index finder

[slender lodge]

Ahhh

[fallen jasper]

What if one of the maps is just called Devon Crossing?

[slender lodge]

Smart

[slender lodge]

Some are non indexable some are

So some are hidden from even crawling software

Unless ofc u do a common webpage script like Duh did

[fathom fractal]

wow

[slender lodge]

Devoncrossing
Search
Namatama404

These are all hidden

[daring bluff]

the search thing only seems to work for devoncrossing

like egg and namatama404 doesnt give any results

[slender lodge]

Yeah

@tulip matrix btw did u find other websites?

[pure loom]

It’s quite possible. But the X suggests we haven’t reached the end of the Easter egg.

Or more the lack of an obvious end does

[granite walrus]

Maybe X refers to a treasure to be found? idk

[lucid pebble]

yo devs who made this dead end goofy easter egg

[pure loom]

There could be multiple layers to the X, including that one. An X needs a map, as does a game like this.

And the X could also represent crossing

[tulip matrix]

Yeah but nothing we can access

https://korkortonline.se/en/theory/road-signs/traffic-signals/sig12/

[fathom fractal]

wow that's the same img

[granite walrus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRcK9ut6SXw&ab_channel=JTCrossingsUK

here's a video showcasing every crossing in devon

not that it's going to help or anything

[sharp flame]

I think there's something more to the X

[sharp flame]

I don't think the region of the cross is a clue, since Embark are Stockholm based anyway

[fathom fractal]

the top left img looks familiar

[sharp flame]

I'd interpret the cross as stating "wrong, try again".

[granite walrus]

Yeah it is true that the cross is slightly tilted

[sharp flame]

they probably knew we'd look in the metadata, but maybe there's something deeper we've missed

[slender lodge]

oh are all blocked by robot.txt

[sharp flame]

okay had to check to be sure

the crosses are not the same shape

there is a length overlap

[fathom fractal]

vagkorsning

Road junction

A junction is where two or more roads meet

[granite walrus]

the cross seems to have the same rgb values throughout

[sharp flame]

sure, but you can see a slight difference

not saying that it couldn't be that symbol

but it isn't that specific government image

however, the background colour of the main site and the cross have basically the same RGB value

meaning it was probably put together by someone on the team

[narrow ridge]

Maybe the X is a variable that we need to figure out

Idk I think we just need to wait

[sharp flame]

❌

[pure loom]

From Battlefield easter egg experience, usually (not always) there isn't any waiting required - you work out or stumble on the next step until the reward at the end (whatever that may be). The fact this easter egg has been presented to us in the month we know the trailer, and possibly the playtest, is coming makes me think we should be able to continue through it

[granite walrus]

Yeah there isn't any clear indication we have to wait

on pawntakespawn website there was a calendar that told us when treyarch would drop the next ee

[pure loom]

I've been trying converting possible text for the url back to binary and putting that in instead - for instance, River Exe is 0111001001101001011101100110010101110010011001010111100001100101

no luck yet

[narrow ridge]

What is we

Ee

[pure loom]

Easter Egg

[fallen jasper]

Easter Egg

[narrow ridge]

Oh

Oh blue let’s go

[granite walrus]

what's river exe?

[narrow ridge]

Yeah

[fallen jasper]

The river that cuts Devon county in England in half

[granite walrus]

nvm

[pure loom]

Trying to think laterally... if the cross was a compass - the 'points' are pointing to 45 (NE), SE (135), SW (225) and NW (315).

[fathom fractal]

you know when solving the first clue was looking at the image

the second clue maybe is still looking at the img?

[pure loom]

It's possible. Duhmeister and I spent a lot of time yesterday scouring it for anything else.

[fathom fractal]

also the img contains srcs about photoshop & its small file size

[fallen jasper]

Do these spell something, are they numbers, or just random decor?

[narrow ridge]

That’s what I thought earlier but I don’t know

[fathom fractal]

remember yesterday when swa talked about the weird rgb in the front of the site

I think it might be a clue?

:)

[slender lodge]

i like the idea of the X being a road sign

but theres gonna be so many road signs ;-;

[fathom fractal]

I'm thinking its the img itself that has the answer? since I looked at the samurai there is a pixel perfect 1x1 dot in each jpg

the cross is a bit off and has a weird lines all around it

maybe a message shows in the cross

:)

[slender lodge]

the cross was made in photoshop (apparently) and photoshop uses raster image (not vector like most symbols do)

so the weird lines around it could be because of that

[fathom fractal]

ah

[slender lodge]

the cross being a bit off is def weird its not perfectly symmetrical

[slender lodge]

wdym by the 1x1 dot btw

[fathom fractal]

the samurai had the hidden message in the picture so they put dots and lines and looking it very closely the .jpg its very pixel perfect the raster img

[slender lodge]

ohh

as in it could be manually edited?

oh no u mean these

[fathom fractal]

yeah

[pure loom]

yeah, they were definitely added after the artist finished with it

[fathom fractal]

maybe the edit like this exists in the X.png

but you need to get something out the img to show it.

[slender lodge]

ima try something with the red X

[slender lodge]

might have smth tru

[fathom fractal]

https://www.shanereilly.net/posts/basic_steganography_and_png_files/

its a bit like this

The fifth message

[granite walrus]

Are you all sure we're not missing a third word?

[daring bluff]

if you translate the binary backward does it spell anything?

from the original photo

[slender lodge]

i tried to learn some steganography and apply it to the X.png

i thought i found some /url but nothing worked so far ;-;

[daring bluff]

i feel like if we were supposed to find a message super deep in the image, they wouldnt have made it a giant red X at all...

[slender lodge]

problem is we can't assume anything ;-; its risky cuz we'd leave out opportunities to find it

im trying to get into hex dumps of X.png but its relaly long and nothing decipherable

[daring bluff]

/podEW

[slender lodge]

i dont think thats anything haha

im new to this so im probs doing something wrong

i just chose alpha channel 0 cuz it had the most noise/activity

[pure loom]

I'm fairly certain we don't need to go into files - the easter eggs that have been made by these guys in the past never require going into the backdoor of a file or anything like that. They either require deciphering or coming up with an answer or url, so something like that. They avoid anything that requires IT knowledge of any kind.

[slender lodge]

Hmmm

[daring bluff]

i agree

[slender lodge]

That is true but this doesn't require a lot of IT knowledge

I'm just automating the RGB value picking but idk if that's still too far? I was doing it manually but found it too time consuming

[daring bluff]

if anything, do a search of the other images and not the x

imo

[pure loom]

The areas we are likely to find something are: working out what the X is about, finding something else in an image, working out what "devon crossing" means in a different way aside from the URL.

or a combo of those things

[daring bluff]

i think there's something else in the image we missed, or we missed something in the info we already have found

[daring bluff]

anyone try this?

ill attempt it but no guarantees i do it right lol

[slender lodge]

i think you're right but i didn't wanna rule out the possibility.. plus i dont really know much about steganography so i kinda got sucked into the rabbithole haha

right now its probably better to search within the boundaries and clue's we just got with the whole X and what it means

[daring bluff]

in the teaser it played something forward, then in reverse... maybe reversing things is how you do it

[slender lodge]

yeah definitely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudfjzgEsWE&ab_channel=RockhoundBlack

rocky did some if u havent seen this already ^^

there might be even more

[daring bluff]

yeah ive seen them all

i cant post pics but there seems to be some letters hidden in the white drawings on the samurai's helmet, as well as some letters (or numbers) in the stuff right above his eyes

it looks like it says "OGO" above his right eye

er ig next to his eye

didnt notice they were on the level down in the helmet lol

[fathom fractal]

OGO doesn't seem to be anything its probably just a design?

[daring bluff]

yeah but if u combine it with other things

also that middle one looks too much like a G for it not to be

[slender lodge]

yeah 6 or G

[fathom fractal]

yeah, I don't know for sure.

I can't think of anything what 060, OGO, or any thing that can be a clue.

[daring bluff]

i will say, the fact that the binary looks like it was definitely kinda thrown on there last second or at least after the concept art was made... makes me think maybe we have found everything on the image already and should move on to just figuring out what devoncrossing is

[slender lodge]

thats what i was thinking too

i wonder if the hitman being slashed into coins image has anythign hidden in it?

its much lower quality

[slender lodge]

how did you get this whole text file btw

[tulip matrix]

I just opened the images in a text editor

[slender lodge]

which text editor did u use?

[tulip matrix]

notepad

[slender lodge]

pp or just regular

cuz when i do it doesnt give me unreadable text

[fathom fractal]

There is some readable text

its just more cryptic

[tulip matrix]

I don't know what you mean by pp but I just use regular old notepad

just gotta know what you're looking for

[slender lodge]

notepad ++

[slender lodge]

aaa ur right, gotta go through each line ig

also

all these screenshots seem to be 'modified' yesterday again after 23rd august upload

whatever that means

THE_FINALS_Screenshot_0011_20220823_1920x1080.jpg

oh nvm we're in september im dumb

[fathom fractal]

poor namatama

[slender lodge]

fr

on the coin rain guy, wonder what it means

the lines kinda look deliberatge

[daring bluff]

could be an "S2"

or 52

[slender lodge]

oh yeah

[solar smelt]

kinda reminds me of clothes by machine56

[pure loom]

Here's my current thoughts - a URL would be, by far, the easiest way to deliver us the next part of the puzzle if we work out this part. /devoncrossing is obviously not the right one (and the X could be interpreted as "it's wrong"), so maybe we need to go back to the code and figure out another way to interpret it or arrange it to form a new URL?

[slender lodge]

I was thinking the same however, I feel like other images should also be looked at for another code?

devon's crossing one as well of course

[pure loom]

For sure. I have hunted through all of them a lot previously though, expecting something like this one. But always worth another look by someone else.

[floral plover]

what if you just put crossingdevon?

👀 please tell me you tried that

[deep nebula]

[pure loom]

yeah, I've tried all the combinations of the two words both forward and backwards (8 combos)

[timid basalt]

i tried

[floral plover]

🤔 yeah. I am not really a easter egg kind of guy. So, I don't really know where to go. Hell the stuff you guys found blows my mind

[slender lodge]

ive also tried to look at them for a while now but can't find anything like a binary or something
maybe its something else in the form of some cryptic code rather than binary but i dunno...

for now tho ive just been doing random shit with devon crossing

[pure loom]

Duhmeister and I are working on it as possibly being an odd-looking morse code - we have a few letters, but it's tricky to work out what is what

[slender lodge]

oh naicee

i can also join and help if ud like

nice to have something to look at better than railway crossings in river exe

[pure loom]

Hopefully this makes the "devon" bit easier to read

[slender lodge]

same image?

[timid basalt]

how do you got that contrast?

[pure loom]

in photoshop - black and white then change the colour channels

[fallen jasper]

It probably isn't morse code as it would just be nonsense

ESSEEESH ESSSEESE ESSESSSSS ESSSEESS

Unless it's something like that lol

[slender lodge]

sheesh

sheeeeesh

[timid basalt]

hahaha

[slender lodge]

[fallen jasper]

Wait there's two dots in one of the bits of Devon?

[slender lodge]

yeah

i just thought of it as a full

[fallen jasper]

It's the only one that does that...

Hmm

[timid basalt]

i change it from 1 bit to 0

and convert to ASCII

"deron"

[fallen jasper]

yeah that doesn't do anything lol

[timid basalt]

all that dots are "." or "!"

[fallen jasper]

Are those layers from the image or ones you made

[slender lodge]

i still dunno where to find that lmao

x.png?

[timid basalt]

from image

i used this web https://fotoforensics.com/

the "strings" option

copied all that and pasted on Visual Studio Code, saved as .xml file and then format with shift+alt+f

[slender lodge]

weird one of them has this at the end

[slender lodge]

u smartrtt

[timid basalt]

not much

[timid basalt]

idk maybe just a name

[slender lodge]

ya maybe

but every photo has that

image has some weird artifacts on her head

probs nothing imp

[pure loom]

We could get a couple of letters at the start of devon - a P and an L but then it gets really hard to separate the words

[slender lodge]

i dont think the devon crossing is needed to be deciphered in morse since we already got it with binary

idk if its gonna be useful.. since you guys already solved that

[pure loom]

here's crossing easier to read

[slender lodge]

btw with morse how do you decide where to put space

di you just count all 8?

[pure loom]

yeah, that's the problem we ran into

[slender lodge]

https://www.dcode.fr/morse-code there's this website with the option to try and decipher spaceless morse

[pure loom]

so we tried an auto morse coder - ^yes that

it gave us too many results

[slender lodge]

yeah 😂

[pure loom]

the "devon crossing" just seems like we can reinterpret it or something - it's a weird phrase

[slender lodge]

yeah i hope you guys can find something out of that

i find it weird that there's also two 'devon's in that one image why would they do that

[fallen jasper]

What

[slender lodge]

i agree

where did u get this from ^

[timid basalt]

okay thats all wrong sorry

[slender lodge]

haha

isnt that just default morse stuff they put on show

[timid basalt]

yeah

https://tenor.com/view/stupid-stupid-tapping-head-oh-no-brain-is-not-working-stupid-gif-15478658

[slender lodge]

i knew it but i didnt wanna say it

[timid basalt]

hahahah

[timid basalt]

and 3 crossing

[slender lodge]

thats in the text thing right

[timid basalt]

yes

[slender lodge]

i give up for today

[narrow ridge]

Any news just got back from Elton John

[pure loom]

yeah, I think they just copied the layer a few times so it was easier to make it uneven and look more natural

[slender lodge]

wait is the map we saw in the teaser set in France or French speaking country? there's a bistro called 'Le Bistrel Des Tu-'

And has 'Je' in the wall idek lol

What flag is this

[pure loom]

Monaco is a french speaking principality

[slender lodge]

Ooh yeah it is Monaco

[night hemlock]

why are there polish flags everywhere tho?

[pure loom]

They are the flags of monaco

[night hemlock]

oh ok

[slender lodge]

from ur maps pic rocky

[tranquil ivy]

oh wow very good find

[pure loom]

Yeah, it's pretty cool eh! I actually tweeted what I thought was the exact location for that a while back.

https://twitter.com/RockhoundBlack/status/1562611903414685697?s=20&t=auhKcaXAkmI9RrMsAUlEhA

RockhoundBlack (@RockhoundBlack)

I missed this attention to detail by the @EmbarkStudios art team during my breakdown video yesterday for The Finals @reachthefinals teaser and GIFs, but check out these two images: one is from an in-game GIF from the game's Steam page, and one from Google Streetview in Monaco.

Twitter · Aug 25, 2022, 1:24 AM

They probably take the best bits of all the areas that look like that and combine them

[slender lodge]

Oh I didn't know!

This is super accurate

They did state it'll be real world locations

[pure loom]

The trees from your one look similar to the game though - could be a bit of a Frankenstein of both areas.

[tulip matrix]

those trees are very polish looking

[pure loom]

Enough easter egg hunting for me for the day - but I wondered if the X might suggest something like a Pigpen cipher should be used, instead of binary? But not sure how that would work on this. I'm starting to feel like devon crossing is a false trail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigpen_cipher

[solar smelt]

Could be the case that the X is telling us the devoncrossing is correct but putting it into the site is wrong and we should be putting /devoncrossing somewhere else.

[fathom fractal]

maybe the next photo in twitter might leave another clue

[lucid pebble]

hopefully

[fallen jasper]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

These two are probably the two you should pin rn @tawdry jungle

[timid basalt]

hello

updated public branch and the size change from 9,59 to 9,57

the public branch is the first time they update it

[lucid pebble]

interesting

[floral plover]

👀 that is some nice news

[timid basalt]

its good

[slender lodge]

Hahahaha

[solar smelt]

teaser soon

[slender lodge]

We need some geo guessrs to understand exactly where the other maps are

[plucky phoenix]

can you explain that to me like i'm dumb? i am assuming something was updated on the website and we are soon to see it

[narrow ridge]

Maybe the trailer will have the next Easter eggs and this all leads the the game’s release date

[lucid pebble]

no it means they just updated the public build of the game, it means absolutely nothing

[plucky phoenix]

ah, well obviously updates are going to happen a bunch until launch. fixing things and whatnot. agreed

[lucid pebble]

i just wonder if the game will actually be this small

I think for the testing they just didn't upload all the maps and etc. yet

[narrow ridge]

Yeah

[timid basalt]

the public branch is the version that we will download

[pure loom]

Here’s an avenue of problem solving I think we should explore: we have the words DEVON CROSSING and we have a RED CROSS - maybe we are supposed to add or subtract, or combine letters in those two phrases? There’s only a handful of letters VON and ING (and the second R maybe) that don’t appear in both phrases. Maybe there is a solution in that or the words themselves? After all, DEVON CROSSING is an odd phrase.

[fallen jasper]

Well it's not RVONING

[pure loom]

True. This seems like a word puzzle more than anything else right now.

[fallen jasper]

Or decrossing

[lucid pebble]

BOYS THE EGG HUNT CONTINUES

https://tenor.com/view/penguins-of-madagascar-skipper-kowalski-analysis-analysis-madagascar-gif-23546606

[fallen jasper]

Well if there's anything hidden in the background it isn't there

[slender lodge]

time to analyse it for 30 hours

[lucid pebble]

what about the poses

the statue on the left shows V

sign for peace or victory

[floral plover]

Everytime I think i see something... Nope clothing wrinkle..

[lucid pebble]

what about this

only different colors than yellow on all of these statues

[pure loom]

Unrelated to the EE - but what about the varying hit boxes!? This is not going to be a generic FPS.

[lucid pebble]

damn

didn't even think of that

[granite walrus]

If a character is tankier, has more health, it would make more sense for it to have a bigger hitboxes

like the tanks in overwatch

That samurai guy looks to be a tank

[pure loom]

Yes, interesting.

[lucid pebble]

2 days left till trailer release CONFIRMED!! 😱 🥵

what's that

down right corner

looks like number

it's just few pixels tho

don't tell me I'm the only one who sees it

[tulip matrix]

I see it

I also see more in each corner

[lucid pebble]

OH fr

I see it too

[pure loom]

Looks like 49 and 53

[lucid pebble]

yeah

[pure loom]

Or 40 maybe

[lucid pebble]

it's 49 53 in left top and right down corners

48 50 left down

54 52 right top

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/late-mr-bean-rowan-atkinson-wake-up-morning-gif-4529614

[lucid pebble]

are these coordinates?

👀

i love the game already just for the easter eggs

i don't even need the game to be released

this is fun

[fallen jasper]

I need some ibuprofen

[floral plover]

me running down the street to google map coordinates

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

And this will just be the tip of the eggberg!

[lucid pebble]

🫠

[lucid pebble]

wait i don't think it's 50

it's 5D

it's hex

yea it's 5D

[fathom fractal]

Oh boy

[granite walrus]

where did you get those statues from?

They weren't posted on twitter

[lucid pebble]

can someone get the clearest photos of the numbers?

[fathom fractal]

It's from this group the mod uploaded it here.

[lucid pebble]

I'm not really good at tweaking the colors

[fathom fractal]

Looking at that wallpapers corners

[granite walrus]

Yes it does sound like they understood we needed some help 🤔

[lucid pebble]

they saw my message 👀

[fathom fractal]

Each numbers are different

But what does this mean

[lucid pebble]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/815684074344677396.gif?size=48&quality=lossless

[fathom fractal]

[lucid pebble]

i think it's hex

we have to translate it from hexadecimal to text

[granite walrus]

wait what number?

[fathom fractal]

Look at the grayscale in that wallpaper

You can see weird numbers in the corner

Top left, bottom left, and bottom right

[granite walrus]

oh yes i see em

hold on

thanks

quite hard to make out, that 3 looked like an inverse C

So do you all think these numbers relate to devon crossing somehow?

[fathom fractal]

Yes, but I really don't know what is it used for

It could be cordinates

[fallen jasper]

Looks like it

[fathom fractal]

I can't see anything in the top right

It's a bit weird but if they keep messing the gray scales they can still see the number

[tulip matrix]

this might help

[fallen jasper]

54 52?

[fathom fractal]

54 52

[fallen jasper]

I wonder what it is like to have working eyes

[granite walrus]

I converted the numbers from decimal to text but they are letters in a language called amharic

[fallen jasper]

I wouldn't know

[granite walrus]

I translated combinations of those 3 letters and this is what I get

[fallen jasper]

Bottom right is 48 53 right?

[granite walrus]

Only rude makes sense

[fathom fractal]

It's 49 53

[plucky phoenix]

there is clearly a space between the group of two digits. as some one said it is hex 49 53 54 52 48 30 49 53 ISTRH0IS is my best guess

[lucid pebble]

yo it's 5D not 50

i clearly see D there

it's a straight line on the left side of D

[granite walrus]

Doesn't hext usually have letters in it too though?

[fathom fractal]

That's the thing

[floral plover]

Did you guys triangulating the numbers as coordinates?

[granite walrus]

like ABCDEFH

[fathom fractal]

There is no A to F

[narrow ridge]

This is crazy

[granite walrus]

yeah I don't think it's hex

[floral plover]

At work. Just throwing out ideas.

[plucky phoenix]

not all hex has a letter

[granite walrus]

it can just be decimal

you can convert decimal to text

when treated as double digits, it gives this

[plucky phoenix]

https://v2.cryptii.com/hexadecimal/text type them into this

if it is decimal and the 30 is changed to 50 the output is 15464021515

[fallen jasper]

ISTRIAHP isn't really useful hmm

[lucid pebble]

oh probably not, im stupid

looks a bit like D tho

[narrow ridge]

Maybe a g

What a day

Same day the queen dies

[fallen jasper]

So like

We've got IRTRISHP rn

Actually wait the top left and bottom right are both the same right?

49 53

[plucky phoenix]

well first we should all agree on the numbers, i believe it is 49 53 54 52 48 30 49 53

[lucid pebble]

if you remove 49 53 because it's twice there

you get something you can get the word THRIPS out of it

i got 49 53 54 52 48 50 49 53

[plucky phoenix]

i could be convienced the 30 is a 50 but not sure

[fallen jasper]

If it was it wouldn't make since

[lucid pebble]

ye

[fallen jasper]

Turns from Trishp to Trishø or something

[granite walrus]

what is top right

[plucky phoenix]

ok so it is 50

[granite walrus]

so hard to see

[plucky phoenix]

i think top right is 54 52

[fallen jasper]

54 52

Lake and Trishp don't lead anywhere on the website

[granite walrus]

I wish there was a way to easily look up correct combinatons of those letters

[plucky phoenix]

but there is deffinetly a space it is 49 53 not 4953

[granite walrus]

How? I don't get that

[fallen jasper]

Roadford Lake?

[lucid pebble]

bro how did you get lake

[fallen jasper]

It's in Devon

[lucid pebble]

send screenshot lmao

[fallen jasper]

I got Amharic but it won't translate it to English lol

[granite walrus]

see my shots above

#easter-eggs message

[plucky phoenix]

the numbers 49 53 54 52 48 50 49 53 are either hex which is ISTRHPIS or they can be decimal which would be 15640215, this is what i think

[granite walrus]

you don't get any 8 letter word when you unscramble istrhpis

[floral plover]

I think that is way off the mark

[granite walrus]

when you remove duplicate 4953, you still don't get a meaningful word that works

[fallen jasper]

䥓呒䥓䡐

It won't translate it LMAO

I do think you shouldn't be combining them

48 50 49 53 54 52 49 53

Gives you HPISTRIS

[granite walrus]

that's SPIRITS

[lucid pebble]

H where tho

[granite walrus]

what that doesn't lead anywhere on the website...

yeah's that's missing

[plucky phoenix]

same letters just different sequence

[granite walrus]

it can't find a word with that in it

[fallen jasper]

4850 4953 5452 4953 gives you uh

Hmm

[lucid pebble]

lmao

[fallen jasper]

Tbf I think it just does that if it's not a actual word

[fathom fractal]

I think it's cordinates

North South East west

It's the only thing its
devoncrossing in my mind

[fallen jasper]

Can't be a coordinates

[fathom fractal]

What does Google maps URL coordinates look like

Forgot

[fallen jasper]

Well coordinates go up to 180 and -180 iirc

[granite walrus]

😦

[plucky phoenix]

depending on which system, google maps even accepts Millitary Grid which has coords like: 13TDE6719441147

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/borat-borat-very-nice-verynice-thumbs-up-gif-25080066

[lucid pebble]

you got something?

[fathom fractal]

Looks like a place where you find a dead body

[granite walrus]

It reminded me of the eidolon ee from battlefield 5 which also pointed to Kazakstan. That turned out to be nothing at the end.

[tulip matrix]

just making Borat reference

[lucid pebble]

okay 😂

[tulip matrix]

he was from Kazakhstan

[fallen jasper]

We don't have enough EE people here

[plucky phoenix]

we have plenty, we just need to remember this is supposed to be a hint towards devoncrossing. how?

[lucid pebble]

we don't even know that lol

[granite walrus]

Idk, those letters don't even make up an 8 letter word

[tulip matrix]

I need more coffee for this

egg coffee

naturally

[granite walrus]

maybe we're getting the top right number wrong

that is so hard to make out

[plucky phoenix]

could be, i said what i think it is

[granite walrus]

nvm it's most likely 5452

[fallen jasper]

It is

[plucky phoenix]

i still think bottom left is odd looking

[fallen jasper]

48 50?

[plucky phoenix]

the 5 is what looks weird to me

[gentle bane]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/iseul-t i just looked through the sitemap and found this

[fallen jasper]

Yeap

[pure loom]

yeah, that's one of the season one sponsors which was found pretty early on

[fallen jasper]

It's one of the in universe sponsors

[gentle bane]

daymn i thought i was a genius

[fathom fractal]

Yep, I seen this before

[lucid pebble]

yo Embark, maybe make it a little bit easier next time? 👀

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-hard-lol-lmao-oh-wait-youre-serious-let-me-laugh-even-harder-gif-16553942

[lucid pebble]

clueless once again

[worthy gyro]

where are we stuck?

[lucid pebble]

we found numbers in the new concept art and that's it

[narrow ridge]

There’s like 16 numbers

Probably relates to the red X

[worthy gyro]

have we got a list?

of the numbers

[narrow ridge]

Yeah

[lucid pebble]

not the best color tweaking but yeah

the png files are named with the numbers in there

[narrow ridge]

Oh really

[tulip matrix]

Mason, what do the numbers mean?!

[narrow ridge]

Lol

[lucid pebble]

may be

[narrow ridge]

Possibly

But if the numbers are names in the files they shouldn’t be wrong

[lucid pebble]

no they are my pictures

i named them

nothing set

[narrow ridge]

Oh

[granite walrus]

The image rockhound posted was very clear about the numbers

[narrow ridge]

Ok

[lucid pebble]

ye we need clearer pictures

[narrow ridge]

I’m gold now

[lucid pebble]

.

4953 5452 4850 4953

[daring bluff]

its an embark credit card number

[lucid pebble]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/772840764706259024.webp?size=48&quality=lossless

[pure loom]

The third digit in the top right could be a 5 a 6 or even a 3 - it's probably the hardest out of all of them to distinguish

so 54 52 or 54 62 or 54 32

[granite walrus]

I still can't find a match with hex

[lucid pebble]

yea

maybe it has nothing to do with hex

still, there are the spaces between numbers

and hex is the only thing I can think of related to these numbers

[granite walrus]

Idk how else to work with those numbers

[plucky phoenix]

what do you mean? cant find what 52, 62, or 32 is in hex, or that they are explicitly hex?

[fathom fractal]

I don't think it's hex

[granite walrus]

no, the letter outputs can't be unscrambled to a word with the same length

[plucky phoenix]

i see

[granite walrus]

the best you get is spirits which is 7 letters

[fathom fractal]

But it might have to do with something with Devon crossing

Maybe the X means something else

[plucky phoenix]

the position of the numbers are in line with the X

meaning they are in the corners where the ends of the x could be

[granite walrus]

So maybe 4953 is matched with itself and 5452 is matched with 4850?

[plucky phoenix]

yeah

[pure loom]

The fact we have repeated numbers almost certainly means we can rule out it being some sort of grid reference.

[fathom fractal]

Top Left, Bottom Left, Top Right, Bottom Left

[floral plover]

What if the X is saying it is a grid.
Suppose to be x54, y52.
Gotta draw a line. The fact we have the same number twice is telling us this is a central point?

[fathom fractal]

4953, 4850, 5452, 4953

[floral plover]

Triangle easy

[fathom fractal]

49 53 just repeats

[tulip matrix]

sounds like those numbers are going in circles just like us

[fathom fractal]

Slowly turns into a egg

[lucid pebble]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/913341479655718974.webp?size=48&quality=lossless

they are just laughing at us

just spit random words and numbers at us

do you think there are even some results to these puzzles?

[pure loom]

definitely

[granite walrus]

should we post this in bfee discord, maybe they are bored and can help us?

[lucid pebble]

i did that already haha

but yea

there is another puzzle you can tell them

[granite walrus]

[lucid pebble]

let em know

[fathom fractal]

Two same numbers mean same letter

But why would they do that

🤔

[plucky phoenix]

i'm the only one to take interest from bfee afte Mike posted haha

[floral plover]

Single point

[fathom fractal]

What if they are saying there is a secret message inside the picture were looking

Like last clue in the middle

[tulip matrix]

48 49 50 52 53 54

where is 51?

[daring bluff]

oh shoot

[fathom fractal]

Oh my

[daring bluff]

and wasn’t there a binary 47 in the samurai tweet

[fathom fractal]

Yeah there was

[daring bluff]

or just 51 is the thing were supposed to find lol

area 51👀

area 51 map confirmed

[tulip matrix]

Maybe the games arena is in area 51

that's where they got the technology

from the aliens

naturally humans would make it a game show

The final frontier

[pure loom]

That's a good observation

[daring bluff]

so now we have to connect devoncrossing to area 51

or maybe look for “51” in the places we already found related to devoncrossing

[tulip matrix]

thanks lol

[daring bluff]

wait are we sure the one in the second image isnt 51

it could be 2 or 3 it’s weird

[plucky phoenix]

the image DUH posted is the most clear too me https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011929497139953744/1017510218525048864/the_finals_wallpaper_statues_001_1920x1080_4.png

[pure loom]

Yeah, I think the only digit in question is the 3rd one in the top right, but if it's 5, then the only number we're missing from the sequence is 51

If it's a 6 or a 3 then that idea probably goes out the window

[timid basalt]

Idk if its something

[daring bluff]

its literally 2 or 3 depending on what your thinking of lmao

its 3 at first glance

[plucky phoenix]

already mentioned

[daring bluff]

but when i blur my eyes a bit its 2

ig it would match the font of the others yeah

[floral plover]

That shit is a 6. How do you get a 2 or 3

Oh wait... I see 2 now

[granite walrus]

that's an 'a'

[lucid pebble]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/815684074429612063.gif?size=48&quality=lossless

[granite walrus]

BFEE doesn't seem interested

[pure loom]

The bottom right could possibly be 48 53

[granite walrus]

In hex, 4853 doesn't give results

That gives an '@'

[pure loom]

I think it's overall shape is still a 9 - it has been mangled a bit

[slender lodge]

Guys

I just woke up what happened

[granite walrus]

new art posted in #game-announcements

[slender lodge]

Ya

Oh there's numbers in them?

[granite walrus]

Yes, at each four corner

[lucid pebble]

ye

and that's all we have

[slender lodge]

From a mobile phone it looks more like 49 63

[lucid pebble]

haha

[slender lodge]

Ohhhh

[slender lodge]

Good

I wanna do something too haha

I swear I wake up and I see the whole thing solves ima be pissrd

[lucid pebble]

well I hope you will be more successful than I was

I'm going to sleep gn

[tulip matrix]

[slender lodge]

Thankssss

Ima go home and check it out again

[pure loom]

51 is the only missing number. Converted to the alphabet that is an E (5) and an A (1). EA...

[plucky phoenix]

glad to not include them haha

[pure loom]

haha

[granite walrus]

I still don't get any more than 7 letter words with hex

maybe it's not hex after all

[tulip matrix]

aw hecks

[indigo atlas]

Hi everyone, I'm joining the party.
I looked up what Devon means. There's a county in the UK with that name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon
So, the crossing could mean the Devon flag, as it has the white + on the green bg.

[pure loom]

Yeah, I also considered that the River Exe crosses Devon (Devon Crossing), but now I reckon we just need to find a way to reinterpret the code in the first image - and maybe that gives us a different URL that doesn't result in a red cross.

Perhaps these new numbers help with the reinterpretation?

[tulip matrix]

running the image through an AI upscaler to try and get a better look at these numbers

[timid solstice]

Hello everyone

[indigo atlas]

I guess as the current letters are all caps in hex, we're going the right direction.

[indigo atlas]

👋

[slender lodge]

What do each of these translate to

In ascii

If anything

[timid solstice]

it looks like there is spacing after pairs of the numbers, so its 8 pairs

[slender lodge]

Is that from the foto website

The pairs might be hex

If paired

Instead of decimal

[pure loom]

Added up they give 102 106 98 102

[tulip matrix]

I desaturated the image and put it through an upscaler

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/enhance-gif-10953787

[molten wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/spy-kids-lemme-zoom-in-on-that-zoom-watching-you-spy-gif-5212510

Is it just me or does tenor hate me?

[pure loom]

you need to level up to post images etc

[slender lodge]

Ahhh

[molten wedge]

Ah ok

[pure loom]

It doesn't take too long - you can check your progress in #🏆┇rank-check

[molten wedge]

Yeah just did that thanks :)

[slender lodge]

I wanna try and connect this to the other hints and the game itself

By its own probs gonna be nothing.. probs

Maybe about Devon crossing

Also hear me out

No offense to embark in any way but

I wouldn't consider this wallpaper material

I feel like 'wallpaper' is another clue

Why would they want us to set it as wallpaper

Maybe its a hint idkk

[hasty pecan]

[tulip matrix]

[slender lodge]

oooooh

wait is that lance from arc raiders?

[floral plover]

Possibly just the excuse to drop it

[molten wedge]

Id cover my bedroom walls in this image

[timid solstice]

I tried it clean up the numbers and then overlay text of what it could be, the font I used is Arial which is a little off. When scaling the image by 4x one numbers didnt look like five to me so tried with a six, experiments below;

**49 53 54 52
48 50 49 53

49 53 64 52
48 50 49 53**

Original scale
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1EfW8l_IrpsdpQtPCsQvHelShLpEqRAzr

4X scale
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1EEnKDZWvYvjfDRvuMVn-NL2QpsFe3tFg

4X scale inverted
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1wkl_z-AdlAPJ1ZoqerAU7iSj4m07rvdV

[slender lodge]

ok idk i might be dumb but i found this symmetry might be a strange coincidence

[molten wedge]

The numbers Mason, what do they mean?!

[slender lodge]

i still dunno if this is purposeful or some math induction/proof

[fathom fractal]

Noice

On my break and I thought it's interesting that the samurai is shown again as a wallpaper

Because we never got to see it in full detail

Looking what I see is that the puzzle is connected by the character from what I see

Maybe the cross means multiply

[slender lodge]

could could

[fathom fractal]

And since last puzzle it was discovered in binary code it might be again similar

Maybe ASCII code?

15, 02, 64, 15

[slender lodge]

wheres this fronm

[fathom fractal]

https://www.ascii-code.com/

[slender lodge]

no like what did you translate

to get 15 02 64 15

[fathom fractal]

Translate Decimals to Symbol

Wait, do you think the first puzzle is decimals

Or was it binary code

https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/binary-to-ascii.html

I will be back just gonna try looking at it again later tonight

[slender lodge]

yeah but where did you get those from

like what's the source im confused :p i think im just missing some information

ive been looking at a lot of numbers so got confused

[pure loom]

I've popped a video about the easter egg in #🪁┇off-topic-media

[slender lodge]

sickk

[timid basalt]

any new about the numbers?

[solar smelt]

so far nothing

[slender lodge]

just pain

[pure loom]

[slender lodge]

o

O

DUH YOU GENEIUS

they alwaysss like to flip/reverse shit

one more thing i noticed is that X has 4 corners just like the number easter egg we got

i wonder if thats related

[pure loom]

the "crossing" makes sense with this too

[slender lodge]

oh how

[pure loom]

In that it is crossing the word over

[slender lodge]

Ahhhh

Right right

[pure loom]

I feel like we're getting close

[slender lodge]

Yeah but I feel like we're still missing something important that would connect it all together

Right now it's very fragmented but yeah definitely

I hate working on this X thing but...

1+2+7+8 = 204
5+6+3+4 = 204

Another reference to the X

buttt it seems like this is all wrong because all the answers we got were quite obvious yet put in absurd places/took weird measures to find them

theyre like creatively hard

just like you said not too IT oriented but more creatively oriented

[granite walrus]

[solar smelt]

I'm not surprised if they made this one extra hard cause we spent so long dwelling on devoncrossing even though we found the x within the first few hours.
But it may just be the case we're missing something obvious

[slender lodge]

yeah i think so too
like we're going too deep for something so obvious

[tulip matrix]

I share this sentiment

but then again

battlefield easter eggs were not simple

[slender lodge]

Yeah some were incredibly challenging for sure

[solar smelt]

I think we've mostly exhausted all the simple stuff like ascii and byte to character so got no choice but to do stretches.

[slender lodge]

That's why I'm in a limbo between "Should I go back to square one" and "I should continue digging really deep for something"

[granite walrus]

You can get 'stir ship' if you decide to make it two words, doesn't work tho

[solar smelt]

or hipstirs if you count that as a word lol

[slender lodge]

haha

[solar smelt]

I know the word we're trying to decipher may have repeating letters but I find it strange that the top left and bottom right are exactly the same.

[slender lodge]

Yeahh for sure

[granite walrus]

also they contain the only vowel 'i' which is kinda needed to make a word

[floral plover]

What if. Hear me out. It is a noise sample? Frequency.

[slender lodge]

Hmm how would we analyse that

Are you saying we look at the waveforms and all?

[floral plover]

no clue. It was a random idea. I am just spitting out ideas at this point

[tranquil ivy]

Ya'll are too good at this stuff

[slender lodge]

It sounds cool

I dunno how to do it but I'm assuming it's possible with audacity?

[daring bluff]

what about the X in the nexon logo

[daring bluff]

this spells "No Sg Cf No" in the periodic table

imo this and then the 51 being missing are our 2 best leads

unless the lake thing was debunked

[slender lodge]

i have a feeling the misalignment of the X has to do something with this

oh shit i didnt see this :0

lake huh

which hex one did u use btw

oh

where'd you get that from

haha ayo

pee

i found some minute detail that may or may not be useful

so in the X.png, you know how its slightly misaligned? well i put some guidelines and noticed that the symmetry is 1 pixel off on the corners labeled with '1' and its perfectly touching the box guide lines where its indicated '0'

11 00
00 11

ignore the shit in the middle

but in the numbers we got from the new image, the same corners (corner*) is also same

ok fuck i just realised the other one is different so this makes no sense

one corner is same tho

[fathom fractal]

Back and wow that's a lot of info

[slender lodge]

nahh man :-; its all useless information

very

😂 ok

dont laugh

[fathom fractal]

Well it's hard but I did the same this break time

[slender lodge]

i had a theory which i still think has a purpose in this puzzle but no outcome yet

[slender lodge]

what did u try

[fathom fractal]

Changing the decimals into ASCII font

And did a lot of multiply in my head for 45mins

[slender lodge]

hahah

[fathom fractal]

And nothing came up useful

[slender lodge]

😦

[fathom fractal]

8EX80

[slender lodge]

if you make D capital it makes it B

like
D
D

[fathom fractal]

I see

I remember someone said in Twitter that there was a hidden msg in binary code

Idk where that is

It was a msg before the samurai was

[slender lodge]

one possible outcome of this is 'EXE'

[slender lodge]

oh, try to find it it could be useful :0

[pure loom]

The initial tweet had a single binary code in the tweet text itself that converted to a forward slash - which is how we knew Devoncrossing was a web address

[fathom fractal]

Oh that's what it was

[vast pine]

what in the

[solar smelt]

Yep we got time to kill

[fathom fractal]

This might seem a bit crazy but all the numbers there

add all together 8

numbers which is binary

and since someone said there is a pattern I can definetely see why they probably need a cross

[mortal cobalt]

the cross could also be an "X" hence 'EXE'

[tight trellis]

Seems like coordinates to me idk if people have tried this but

[mortal cobalt]

coordinates to the Embark HQ?!

[tight trellis]

No like on a graph

[mortal cobalt]

oh i see

[tight trellis]

If you enter all the coordinates

With the double 49,53

Alternated to 53,49 and 49,53

You get a intersecting point of the two lines formed of 5151

Or 51,51

[reef trench]

the numbers fall too perfectly within the hex character range, at least to me it is either hex or is pretending to be hex

[fathom fractal]

they fit in decimals

[tight trellis]

Also on a graph it forms a perfect cross and a perfect shape

[fathom fractal]

but it just turns into numbers

15026415

[reef trench]

hmm true

[fathom fractal]

there is also a hint for devoncrossing

which is x so x can be anything

I'm like writing notes down that I did this before

until I crack something

patterns

multiply

decimals

[reef trench]

alternative theory

[reef trench]

1564/02/15 is the birthday of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

[mortal cobalt]

E for Embark

or egg

[tight trellis]

😱

[fathom fractal]

wow

I did not expect that to come across related to math

maybe another clue?

THERE IS A CLUE

Square root

[mortal cobalt]

Oh god we are getting deeper into math

[tight trellis]

[fathom fractal]

sorry

xD

[mortal cobalt]

Oh Noo a typo ...whoopsie

[tawdry jungle]

I would much rather just ask you guys to not say that

[mortal cobalt]

boring

but right

[tight trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-walter-crying-walter-dying-gif-20964719

[fathom fractal]

its suprising that Galileo_Galilei has a bit of relation on what were doing

Curiosity is the key to problem solving

thanks Galileo

[mortal cobalt]

oh that's the solution

[fathom fractal]

welp I gtg sleep

[fathom fractal]

Thanks, Dwarf turns out there is something common about Galileo

[slender lodge]

Oh nice! I tried with some (x,y) coordinates even flipping them because embark but no luck

But ima use that strategy for all Easter eggs

[narrow ridge]

Did we get it

[slender lodge]

No ;-;

What we got are the new numbers and Devon crossing

[lucid pebble]

so basically we got what we found and didn't come up with even one clue to continue

with both pictures

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/562440524741476381.webp?size=48&quality=lossless

[narrow ridge]

Wow

What are the numbers

[lucid pebble]

no one knows

[narrow ridge]

Ok

[slender lodge]

https://c.tenor.com/mfWk9rfo51oAAAAM/what-do-they-mean-random.gif

[slender lodge]

I like where this is going then 😂

[lucid pebble]

oh my god im horny rn

another picture in #game-announcements

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/knowing-better-kb-know-better-gif-25459195

[slender lodge]

Bruhhh

This shit keeps coming up when I go to university

Aaaaaaaaa

[lucid pebble]

bro they are killing my social life with it

only thing I'm doing is being at home and trying to figure out what the hell they are trying to tell us

[slender lodge]

Any numbers?

[slender lodge]

Samee

[lucid pebble]

didn't look at it yet

[lucid pebble]

I'm addicted

[slender lodge]

I spent 8h yesterday on it

STRAIGHT

[lucid pebble]

same

[slender lodge]

Aaaaa

It's fucked

[lucid pebble]

it is

[slender lodge]

It's like a rabbit hole

Egghole

Ok that's uh..weird

New pic

https://c.tenor.com/izphN4vX4YQAAAAM/penguins-of-madagascar-skipper.gif

[lucid pebble]

yea more numbers

only 1 (2 digits) in each corner tho

[slender lodge]

Oh nice

What is it

[mortal ivy]

I'm new to this and not sure what to use to extract the numbers, but found some numbers in the up left corner

[slender lodge]

So we just zoom in usually

Alternatively you can use blending modes and websites to make it look clearer

Mess around with contrast and Hue

[mortal ivy]

can't really make it out, trying to get them more visible

[slender lodge]

Post a screenshot

[mortal ivy]

I can'y post images i believe

[slender lodge]

Oh right

Tf is that

How'd you get the 5

[mortal ivy]

I agree on the 4 at least 😄

[slender lodge]

Looks more like 8 to me actually

[fallen jasper]

looks like 54 to me

[slender lodge]

84

Looked like a tilted 8

Can't see a 5 :(

[floral plover]

I dont see a five either
I think it is a 0
But with the dash through it

[reef trench]

"8600"/"8601"?

like a phone number?

[slender lodge]

There's a 54 in the other one too

[floral plover]

04

[slender lodge]

I saw the dash as making it an 8

Wait I swear wasn't there a 55

Oh no nvm

[floral plover]

I honestly cant tell. Could be an 8 but when zoomed out looks like a 5. Then a blur. So I have no clue

[slender lodge]

53 ? Or 54

[mortal ivy]

It was achieved by applying threshhold with lvl 201 in ps, nothing else. Can't see anything else that appears as numbers

[reef trench]

new ones look like this to me

56 54
48 49

[slender lodge]

There's 4??

Bruh I wanna die