easter-eggs

[slender lodge]

Too many man

I'm still figuring out whether or not it's a 0 8 or 5 lmao

49 53 48 in pair

It's a very weird range that if you add up one from each corner it adds up to somewhere between 200 and 208

202, 204, 206, 208 only

It's also very symmetric with the X.png

[reef trench]

Oh, I get it

the new image has dec for 8601 referring to ISO-8601 indicating that the image before it is in fact a date (2022-09-09)

which seems like it would confirm Galileo

[high ember]

🥚

[slender lodge]

Maybe there is some correlation

[reef trench]

i'm still not sure how devoncrossing and galileo connect though 🤔

[mortal ivy]

#🪁┇off-topic-media message In this youtube video, at 2:21 theres some kind of filter applied, what would that be called?

[fallen jasper]

just increased contrast

i think

[slender lodge]

It's this error filter I forgot what it's called

It on a website someone posted

[fallen jasper]

i think its 55 54 48 48

i turned up the contrast really high on photoshop and it came out like the filter in that video

the last one might be 49?

[lucid pebble]

yea i wonder too

[fallen jasper]

If it's 55 53 48 48 you get 7600 and UTHH. If it's 55 53 48 49 you get 7601 and UTHI.

[reef trench]

if it's going for a planetary link, devoncrossing could be referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_Island

[lucid pebble]

55 54 48 46 for me

[fallen jasper]

Idk why I said 53 instead of 54 lmao

[mortal ivy]

Thanks!
I did some brightness and contrast tests and found these four pairs, had to use legacy mode and different settings for all four

[lucid pebble]

yea looks like it

[fallen jasper]

i dunno i think the first one is shaped alot more like a 55 than a 56

theres justa bit of noise closing the bottom of the 5 maybe - its definitely one of those 2 though

[plucky phoenix]

hi dwarf, good seeing you are here !

[reef trench]

yo

[reef trench]

i'm still going with this

[lucid pebble]

can you explain how did you come up with Galileo please

[reef trench]

the numbers from this image stand for ''ISO-8601" which deals with date formats

the image before that had the following numbers in it 15640215 which can be converted to 1564/02/15, the birthday of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

or at least that's my best guess

def seems like the type of person you would reference in a puzzle

Galileo's birthdate

it's possible that it's giving us locations, devon, uk and pisa, italy that we join with lines to get an X over a location

possibly

assuming these two are connected (might not be), the point would be somewhere in France, Switzerland or Italy

but tbh at this point it's just a guess, not much to back it up yet

makes it more fun ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mortal ivy]

@pure loom did you do that, or did you find that image?

[reef trench]

other than that, there have been some stories of a "fireball meteor" "crossing" through the sky over Devon

although for this game, i don't understand a space element to it

[plucky phoenix]

dwarf for the win. now we just need to figure the connection between him and devoncrossing

[tawdry jungle]

yup!

[slender lodge]

try using fotoforensics

[tawdry jungle]

sad

[slender lodge]

BRO THEY KNOWWW

HAHAHA

[tulip matrix]

Yeah I made it

[mortal ivy]

How did you achieve it? 😄

[tulip matrix]

Putting my paint skillz to the test

[slender lodge]

"Hi there.!"
"This is not where you look for clues... from embark with love.!"

[timid solstice]

Thought they might do that haha

[slender lodge]

again with the .!'s

I wonder

if that's a clue

Well either way that's an assurance of sorts haha

[mortal ivy]

.!....! 0100001 if all . and ! are converted in order of appearance

[tulip matrix]

Oh I thought you guys were talking about the mirrored Devon image still 😆

[slender lodge]

😂

HOnestly Duh that one blew me away too

Good spot for sure

I hope it leads to something

[tawdry jungle]

accidentally removed a react there, my bad 😅

[mortal ivy]

No, about the pixelated, rainbow-eqsue picture of the three statues

[tulip matrix]

Give me a few minutes and I'll throw up a link to the tool I used to make it

[slender lodge]

Oh I didn't notice :p

[timid solstice]

Did you get that from the latest image, where was it posted?

[slender lodge]

Who reacted

[slender lodge]

Yep

[tulip matrix]

Doggo need to lay some mines

[timid solstice]

From the Twitter post or somewhere else?

[slender lodge]

.! ... .!

[tawdry jungle]

you can find any art we post in both #🎨┇off-topic-art and on our Twitter!

[mortal ivy]

Mod, how do i post images? How can I be a trusted member of the Finals society?

[timid solstice]

I’m guessing Twitter strips exif, so you got it from discord

[slender lodge]

from the 'not the clue' clue i got .!....! which is 0100001 which translates to '!' in ascii -_- ok wat

maybe morse

.- ... .-

[mortal ivy]

a s a

[floral plover]

They are watching but thanks for heads up

[slender lodge]

i feel like its a clue tho

[slender lodge]

oh i didnt see this,

[tawdry jungle]

you unlock that by contributing to discussions and leveling up

[mortal ivy]

Oh I see, I just need to up my game on discussions! Thanks Bluey

[floral plover]

It is. Stop looking there XD

[slender lodge]

I think... I think you do! You do need to up your game...!. Now decipher that

[slender lodge]

I'll look there until I find the meaning of life

[mortal ivy]

0001 00010 one to many for a normal binary

[slender lodge]

could be an extended binary

16bit idk?

[floral plover]

Maybe that is just a devs weird querk for typing

[mortal ivy]

@floral plover it was used as binary in the samurai image

periods for 0s and ! for 1s

[floral plover]

I'm aware

[slender lodge]

fuck man

we have A LOT of stuff we've observed and identified

the problem is we can't correlate or connect anything with anything

[mortal ivy]

One important thing is that the statue photo uploaded in share-your-art contains the comments, and not the one posted to twitter?

[slender lodge]

comments as in?

[mortal ivy]

The one you posted: "This is not were you should look for clues"

[slender lodge]

oh

i dont think so

only 2 photos so far had some proper comments for us, one was this and the other was the samurai one with the !.!..'s

This message is brought to you by OSPUZE! Stay hydrated and crush your foes with the power of PRO JUICE. <

also we have this

[mortal ivy]

The image posted to discord (the_finals_wallpaper_happystatues_002_1920x1080.jpg) is a different file than the twitter one (FcNy107WQAEMYED.jpg)

[slender lodge]

oh damn

are you sure thats not just twitter renaming the file upon upload?

[fallen jasper]

I should write a writeup

I'm good at writing meaningless shit not so much at solving anything

[slender lodge]

I might be wrong but I checked a few other twitter pics and they all have very weird and random-ish image names compared to their original names in THEFINALS drive

[slender lodge]

What you gonna write

[fallen jasper]

Yeap

[mortal ivy]

@slender lodge Yea, but if you look at fotoforensic, only the one with the descriptive name has the comment. https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=ef431c2145795357323d996084d6c75d366acff1.829967

And the twitter image does not https://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=876dd60436a29f71771704b84e42472e2b4015e8.655704

[tulip matrix]

👀

[slender lodge]

😮 i seee

the non-twitter photos have more information in them

Damn you know it's serious when a dev types in an EE chat

[tulip matrix]

I don't think there's anything else hiding in the data

[slender lodge]

I'm with you there too

I think there's only a certain part (the same LayerName part we see) where they can give us information like in Photoshop layer names but I also feel like the first time was an accident maybe we weren't supposed to look there because the binary was also in the image not only in the Strings

I should stop talking

[tulip matrix]

[fallen jasper]

Embark employees stalking the chat like:

[proud minnow]

Hi.! You are correct… Only look for clues in assets that we release in our channels where we can control naming, compression etc… don’t want you to fall down the wrong rabbit holes… ._.

[slender lodge]

MORE EXCLAMATION

[fallen jasper]

We have been exclaimed

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-worship-worshipping-now-bowing-gif-12297363

[plucky phoenix]

@

[slender lodge]

Thank you for the clarifications ❤️

There are Blues

Blues Clues

.! ... ... ... ._.

[mortal ivy]

I think this .! was just a joke, as it doesn't say anything

[slender lodge]

Haha prolly

I still give it a shot cuuz I don't wanna come back to it to realise he actually just typed out the release date

or something..yk

[tulip matrix]

For anyone looking to recreate the effect I posted yesterday, it's called steganography and you can use this tool to ENHANCE and ANALYZE
https://stegonline.georgeom.net/upload

[slender lodge]

tyy:)

[tulip matrix]

oh look

[mortal ivy]

Thanks, much appreciated

[tulip matrix]

more numbers

[slender lodge]

mason is tirewd

[tulip matrix]

56 54
48 40?

honestly some of these characters don't look like numbers at all

[mortal ivy]

56, 54, 48, 49 is what i got from my image previously

[tulip matrix]

ok

[mortal ivy]

But agree, its hard to read some of them, so its just guessing

[tulip matrix]

yeah I can't tell if that last one is a 0 or 9

or the screen door on the front of my house

[slender lodge]

the new pic numbers look hella weird

also where are those nums from

egg or normal statues

[tulip matrix]

the numbers I just posted are from the new image

[slender lodge]

ahh

[plucky phoenix]

imho, Dwarf already confirmed the new numbers are 56 54 48 49 and from decimal they are 8601 as in iso8601 date format. the new numbers are just telling us the old numbers are decimal and not hex and to use a date format 1564/02/15 being Galileo's bday. Good job Dwarf

[mortal ivy]

But the numbers..!. They mean.. something.!

[slender lodge]

Somefin

[slender lodge]

hopefully its not a strange coincidence

but it looks very right

oh also where did you get 'iso' from

oh thats the date format?

[tulip matrix]

I totally missed this information, Thank you for reposting.!

@reef trench Good find!

[plucky phoenix]

google 8601 and you will see that it is ISO-8601 and ISO is International Organization for Standardization, the ISO is not found in the image it is just the standard

[slender lodge]

isnt that the fuckin PUBG location

[timid basalt]

yeah

[slender lodge]

from erangal 💀

the finals is BR confirmed

[timid basalt]

one street and 54 population

[cobalt zenith]

hehe, but the pubg is a bit of a classless product to be honest..

I mean, its one of the best br games kinda

[slender lodge]

i wouldnt say so, it was a pretty well.. exciting genre back then

[cobalt zenith]

but technically its somewhere around 1-2/10 in engineering

whereas the other 2 are nearing 9 or even 10

some say it started the BR genre

[slender lodge]

i mean didnt the guy who made pubg makke h1 and then made dayz mod before that for BR

anywyas tho

back to EE

before i get banned by blues

[cobalt zenith]

but there was like a z1 or whatever before

h1?

that the same as z1

[slender lodge]

yeah, dayz mod, moinecraft hunger games

[cobalt zenith]

it had different name

[slender lodge]

its not a new concept tho

[cobalt zenith]

hehe, yeah sorry

[slender lodge]

its a very old concept "last man standing" concept

[cobalt zenith]

we can offtopic in lounge 😄

[slender lodge]

yuh

idk if its a coincidence

gallelio + pubg thing

how i see it is that 1 clue having two distinct results is a lil sus

[lucid pebble]

hahah, I love this

[tulip matrix]

Player Unknowns Galileo Grounds

Whomever can end up under house arrest by the Catholic church first WINS!

[lucid pebble]

holy, just came home and read Dwarf's theory

it makes so much sense

he is a genius

[timid basalt]

maybe

[tulip matrix]

Galileo discovered the Galilean moons. One of those moons is Callisto. The Callisto Protocol is a game in-development that was once meant to be part of the PUBG universe before they cut ties with Bluehole. blue hole. blow hole. whales have blow holes. whales. space whales. Treasure Planet has space whales. Treasure Planet was based on the novel Treasure Island. Treasure Island is the book responsible for depictions of pirates in popular culture including treasure maps marked with an X.

https://tenor.com/view/cra-cra-crazy-nuts-sleepless-gif-10559985

[slender lodge]

what the fuck

Duh is not okay

Rockhound take him to the ER

[timid basalt]

https://news.sky.com/video/large-meteor-spotted-over-channel-islands-before-shooting-over-france-12400712

[mortal ivy]

But you need 4 points on a map to make an X, with only two you're left with a line between?

And for what it's worth: This is the location in the middle of Exeter (in Devon county), UK and Pisa, Italy: https://www.google.com/maps/place/89630+Saint-Germain-des-Champs,+Frankrike/@47.4162786,3.9101721,13z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x486bf8abdac00247:0x12c6ba0cca9c58fd!2sDevon,+Storbritannien!3b1!8m2!3d50.7155591!4d-3.530875!3m4!1s0x47ee02c344a61b7b:0xc659250a707bbdf7!8m2!3d47.411207!4d3.918456

[granite walrus]

Just woke up. Someone update me on the progress please

[mortal ivy]

Found this while searching around on Devons county capital Exeter https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/events/museum-of-the-moon/

[slender lodge]

where did we get pisa

[mortal ivy]

The three egg statue image revealed the numbers 56 54 48 49 (most likely) and @reef trench has more or less cracked that those and previous numbers are all just decimal numbers and not hex. So if you convert old (4953 5452 4850 4953) and new numbers (56 54 48 49) you get 15 64 02 15 and 8 6 0 1.
1564/02/15 is Galileos birth: https://www.onthisday.com/date/1564/february/15
And (iso)8601 is the date standard that reigns supreme: https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

Edit: And the iso8601 from today just "confirms" that the previous 15640215 should be read as 1564/02/15*

[mortal ivy]

Pisa is Galileos place of birth / where he lived

[slender lodge]

ahhh

also the map we saw so far is set in Italy i believe

Monaco

[tulip matrix]

@tawdry jungle can we have this pinned please?

[pure loom]

Nah. This is his normal.

[slender lodge]

guess ill ned to get used to it

[pure loom]

Monaco is a French-speaking principality set in the French Riviera.

[slender lodge]

ohh i thought it was part of Italy

[pure loom]

It’s not far from Italy

[tulip matrix]

okay so this is what we have so far. We need two more points

[slender lodge]

yeah its in the border of italy

[tulip matrix]

maybe one of them is stockholm. just a guess

[slender lodge]

i guess we can apply some confirmation bias and see countries that fit the 'X''s other line (as a starter)

above germany maybe

[granite walrus]

Thanks. I'll try to work on it after breakfast.

[granite walrus]

Can we locate the mid point on that line and place another line same size that is perpendicular? That could allow us to approximate the other two locations.

[fallen jasper]

Yeah let me get the mid point for you

47°25'31.8"N 3°52'08.1"E

[lucid pebble]

he wants the other ends if there was another line to make the cross

[granite walrus]

You need to keep in mid this is a flat map and not a globe. So the areas towards the poles look bigger than it actually seems

[fallen jasper]

Yes I'm aware of how distortions are inherent in projections lol

[granite walrus]

Just incase lol

[fallen jasper]

Also I used like a actual midpoint calculator from latitude and longitude

[fallen jasper]

Either way it's around 400mi between the midpoint and Exeter & Pisa.

[tulip matrix]

Thanks!

[tawdry jungle]

anytime! 😉

[fallen jasper]

Hmm the third point if it isn't Stockholm, and it probably isn't, is somewhere around Hanover.

[tulip matrix]

These coords land right onto a church
58140 Saint-André-en-Morvan, France

[fallen jasper]

So wait what did we get from the image today? We got Exeter from the Samurai. And Pisa from the one yesterday? Or did we get it from the egg minis today?

[tulip matrix]

pisa was from today

because that's where galileo was born

[fallen jasper]

Ah

What did we get from yesterday's one?

[mortal ivy]

We got Galileos birth from the three statues, and iso8601 from the egg statues

[fallen jasper]

Okay

I'm slightly out of the loop I've been sleeping a lot

[mortal ivy]

Duh got my recap pinned by the mods

If you wish to have it in better text

[tulip matrix]

yeah that was the best explanation so i figured it would be good to pin it

[tawdry jungle]

if you need anything else pinned let me know and I'll pin it as soon as I see it

[fallen jasper]

Oh

I literally read it and didn't like mentally read it or something LMAO

[timid solstice]

Would people mind if I collate everything into a doc?

[fallen jasper]

I don't think we can really preemptively try to triangulate another point, we know Pisa is right, and we might be right about Exeter.

[tulip matrix]

the "crossing" part is what is still bothering me

[mortal ivy]

The clues are here: https://www.instagram.com/devon.crossing/

[pure loom]

So, today’s numbers had half of yesterday’s numbers, right? Do the other half give us anything?

[fallen jasper]

If Stockholm is the 3rd location for some reason then the midpoint would be in Königsborn

[mortal ivy]

if you convert old (4953 5452 4850 4953) and new numbers (56 54 48 49) you get 15 64 02 15 and 8 6 0 1 ... using decimal, not hex

[mortal ivy]

i think it could be a good idea, it's messy keeping track in rolling messages haha

[granite walrus]

My island is better

[fallen jasper]

Wait fuck hold on

[molten wedge]

[pure loom]

Ah, so new numbers aren’t the same as yesterday. Ok thanks. I haven’t seen the image close up yet (still early here).

[floral plover]

👀

[tulip matrix]

Rockhound and I considered starting a Wiki page for this whole thing lol

[fallen jasper]

Hey so if Stockholm and a place in Morocco are the other two points it'll line up in France again

[mortal ivy]

Darnoux helped me post my "solution" previously: #easter-eggs message

[fallen jasper]

One of the maps is in Morocco right?

[pure loom]

We’ll eventually need one for Easter eggs from these guys. As I keep saying, this is only the tip of the eggberg!

[fallen jasper]

Idk about Exeter but one of the maps they keep showing looks Italian. And I vaugely remember them mentioning Morocco at some point.

[pure loom]

It was Monaco

[fallen jasper]

Damn I'm losing it my egg has been cracked

[pure loom]

Which is just west of Italy

Galileo may have parked his super yacht there

[fallen jasper]

Well if Monaco, Pisa, Stockholm, and Exeter are all points the midpoint between them all is a highly rated mobile home park in Waldrehweiler, Germany.

[pure loom]

Interestingly, Galileo was buried in the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Florence. The cross is more of a T shape though.

Florence would make a great map though. As would Pisa.

[fallen jasper]

I am not prepared to do math to try to preemptively find the other two points

[lucid pebble]

why are you everyone so sure that we are supposed to find a spot on map?

[mortal ivy]

probably because of the cross here https://www.reachthefinals.com/devoncrossing 🤷 and since we can "guess" two locations so far, with two more we might have a point where the lines between cross

[lucid pebble]

oh ok thanks

[daring bluff]

this statue is by that church that is supposedly in the middle of the line

[mortal ivy]

ww1 memorial of some sort

[daring bluff]

lol

[fallen jasper]

To the children of St. Andre en Morvan who died for France.

[mortal ivy]

Text translates to: To the children of St Andre en Morvan who died for France

[daring bluff]

i wonder what the silver plate says

[pure loom]

I’ve just realised we missed a piece of info provided in the first image! We were given angles that the binary codes are aligned to. Do they match the Devon to Pisa angle??

[daring bluff]

Oo

[fallen jasper]

We were?

[daring bluff]

i think hes talking about the angle of the actual binary text compared to the image

[granite walrus]

I'm downloading google earth pro, web version is useless

[fallen jasper]

Based and Earth Pilled

[mortal ivy]

You can read more about it here: https://www.web-croqueur.fr/monument-aux-morts-de-saint-andre-en-morvan/ and there is a closer up picture of the steel plate, it seems to say guerre 1939 – 1945 Roger RAPPENEAU

[daring bluff]

what is rappeneau

oh a last name for roger

i doubt this church is anything significant

[daring bluff]

wait hang on

[lucid pebble]

They don't match

[pure loom]

Yes! Exactly. It’s a piece of info in itself.

[daring bluff]

i was confused about the line from devon to pisa because if it was just supposed to make an X then you could find the answer already and the other two points would be meaningless

but maybe you dont draw a line between devon and pisa at al

[pure loom]

Maybe Pisa is the middle

[daring bluff]

those are the corners on the same side of an x maybe

or that

[pure loom]

Or just on the line somewhere

We should extend the line and see where it goes

[daring bluff]

you could use the angle of the devon binary in the image to find out where the big x on the map actually is

[fallen jasper]

Just eyeballing it it would lead down to Lecce or something

[daring bluff]

like draw a line coming out of devon based on the angle of the binary

and then connect it to pisa

and see where it is then

[pure loom]

How about further? Into Africa?

[pure loom]

This exactly!

[daring bluff]

im definitely thinking pisa and devon are the two ends of either the right or left side if the x

[fallen jasper]

My eyeballing is wrong

But yeah it would lead into Africa

[daring bluff]

im thinking its not going to be an X that looks like the X we have

its just going to be crossing lines

could be any angle from each other

[pure loom]

It should probably be done on Google Earth to get it right. Flat maps will be screwy.

[fallen jasper]

Doing it on Google Maps since it rounds out

[daring bluff]

so it could lead up and to the right instead of into africa potentially

[fallen jasper]

It would go into Africa but like promptly avoid literally every populated area in Africa

[slender lodge]

Could someone update me if you guys found something

[fallen jasper]

Ye

Yeah if the line needs to go through Pisa then it comes in on the west of Egypt, goes through all of the desert, though the top bit of Sudan, cuts Eritrea in half, goes through the top bit of Ethiopia, before cutting Somalia in half

[pure loom]

These are not the romantic destinations I was hoping for

[daring bluff]

its also possible the angle of the binary is meaningless and we just need to wait for/find more information

[mortal ivy]

Speaking of locations for maps. I'm just watching @pure looms excellent breakdown of the game teaser and Shangai seems to be a good candidate, with the jellyfish roof

[daring bluff]

for a third spot

[fallen jasper]

I think the angle of the binary also doesn't really matter

If you didn't angle it, it stands out more lol

[slender lodge]

What if you just take the line and then flip it and place it intersecting the midpoint

[pure loom]

We shouldn’t rule it out though. It is info after all.

[slender lodge]

Cuz Embark has been doing a lot of flip/reverse stuff lately so I thought of it as an idea

[pure loom]

And was angled for a reason.

[daring bluff]

wait yeah lets make an x where shanghai and monaco are the other two points

see where the middle is

[mortal ivy]

It's not necessary for the line to be flipped, it would still be an X if the angle was totally different, as long as the two lines cross at one point

[mortal ivy]

That is a good point, with how they've done half images that needs to be inverted 🧠

[slender lodge]

Yeah for sure, I just thought it as an option we can do while we figure out the 2 other countries

[daring bluff]

thats what im saying i think its not gonna be a perpendicular or normal looking X

[fallen jasper]

So far the only thing we've really seen is this one Italian looking map.

[slender lodge]

This one's the Monaco one right

[fallen jasper]

Idk maybe?

[mortal ivy]

That is monaco yes, it has their flag

[slender lodge]

its got the Monaco flag

yeah

Shanghai from the half images (possibly)

[fallen jasper]

Where was the flag on this lol

[slender lodge]

They were in concept arts or I think the trailer

[mortal ivy]

The second location, is shown on this concept art with the samurai https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d5eH4mf4FLt2Y3I8XkVOpTffQ22Mo-BG/view

[pure loom]

Lines on a map is a good avenue to explore because of the emphasis on notable locations. Also Devon could be in the middle (Devon Crossing) - does the Pisa-Devon line go through anywhere interesting in Ireland?

[fallen jasper]

Ooo

Let me check

No lmao

[slender lodge]

Devon and upside down Devon form an 'X' with the two V's

I wonder if that's somehting that each of this location would have

Tho I don't think they will

[fallen jasper]

Well actually

If it doesn't have to go through Exeter and just Devon itself it does go to Limerick

[pure loom]

If Devon was right in the middle, where do the perpendicular lines go?

[slender lodge]

how did you get those lines to work btw

[fallen jasper]

I can't do perpendicular lines but let me see

Well it could also go to Minneapolis by going through Devon lmao

[fallen jasper]

The perpendicular lines would go up to Scandinavia and Upper South America.

[daring bluff]

maybe we need to think about think about it backwards like from the devs' perspective

like what information would they be trying to give us?

and then how would they hide it

[fallen jasper]

Watch them tell us not to look at the layer names and the next image has the clues in the image layers

[mortal ivy]

I'll keep looking at layer names, no matter what 😄

Oh, I've evolved into picture posting. Nice 😄

[fathom fractal]

Congrats

[fallen jasper]

Noice

[pure loom]

My guess is that it’s something like a map showcase page on the website and we need to find the location to get the right URL.

[fallen jasper]

Time to make a bot to search for every single named town on Wikipedia.

[molten wedge]

Sounds like fun

[slender lodge]

Someone probs did that xD

GitHub is ur friend

[mortal ivy]

This must be what we are missing https://youtu.be/yRcK9ut6SXw?t=93

[slender lodge]

Haaha

I saw someone post this way back

[molten wedge]

That is easily the most annoying sound I have ever heard

[granite walrus]

Yeah it was me XD

[mortal ivy]

It must be something with either the phone number at 1:31 or the little tram that comes after it. Too specific to not be important

[fathom fractal]

I spent an hour yesterday looking at devon crossing in google maps

and I stayed and looked at the crossing road and I thought there would be something on the crossing

there was nothing

[slender lodge]

wanna go there irl together

lil date

just u and i

sorry

[fathom fractal]

all good

[slender lodge]

We're still going right

[molten wedge]

I'll be watching from a distance

[fathom fractal]

·-· I'm going for the eggs

[rain turret]

Protein

[fathom fractal]

Body ｂｕｉｌｄｉｎｇ

[slender lodge]

Watch from Pisa

[rain turret]

G A I N S

[timid basalt]

maybe the meteor trajectory is the other line

[slender lodge]

Hehehe

It can't be-

Turns out it is

[granite walrus]

Devon Crossing and Galileo 🤔

[slender lodge]

Maybe the other line is in the moon

[fathom fractal]

and the other side is the sun

[timid solstice]

I have started a document, last couple of days to add still; @tawdry jungle could you please pin the message below?

The Finals Easter Egg Document

Level 1 - Status : Completed

On Sept 16th after 11 days, Level 1 was completed. Hunters pulled together all the findings and explorations, and made sense of it all. The answer they were looking for was the word “geocache” which led to the URL https://www.reachthefinals.com/geocache. The image shown on this page is a friendly egg wearing devil horns with the caption “LEVEL 1 COMPLETED YOU ARE AWESOME.!”.

Level 2 - Status : Loading

On Oct 2nd, Rob an Embark developer posted an image of half a QR code and also a message with many 0000000’s (edited to 407 to be exact).
This was confirmed to be the start of Level 2 of The Finals Easter Egg. A URL was decoded https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee_level2 with an image of the newly named Nama Tama egg decorated as an Easter egg holding a magnifying glass with the caption “LOADING LEVEL 2 - THE PROMISE”.

Here is the story documenting the hunting as it happened, including the direct links to the discord posts of discoveries.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit?usp=sharing

[daring bluff]

hear me out: the angle of the leaning tower of pisa is the key

[pure loom]

3.99 degrees?

https://tenor.com/view/math-numbers-confused-when-he-say-hes-straight-what-gif-7675506

[pure loom]

This is good - and would make a good basis for a wiki. You should add that the ..!.!!!! in the original tweet text represents a / in binary - that was our starting point really

[timid solstice]

thanks, yep that info is in there, will shift it too the top

[tulip matrix]

Is there perhaps another date that would reveal itself if we reorder the numbers from the first image?

[pure loom]

Good idea - Galileo's birthday was in that too, right? Someone mentioned that yesterday

[tulip matrix]

yeah so another date relating to someone or some event might be helpful

[mortal ivy]

Cant do much else with 15 64 02 15

[plucky phoenix]

if we follow the order in the new image to get 8601. we get Galileo's bday on the first image, which seem to the intended order

[slender lodge]

still cant believe thats a thing XD

crazy

[pure loom]

Yeah, so this last image was really just confirming one of the answers that came up yesterday

[mortal ivy]

Which makes sense, as the new image was a spin on the previous. Golden statues of Eggy with mask/accessories of the same sort as the figures the day before. They were very much connected

[plucky phoenix]

yeah exactly. technically no one related the numbers to a date until dwarf did.

[slender lodge]

seems that the public and dev branch are now the same

[pure loom]

yeah about 12 hours ago - ok that all makes sense

[granite walrus]

What github repository is that?

[plucky phoenix]

yeah still today for me. figured yesterday for you. haha

[slender lodge]

steamdb

[pure loom]

I think we should focus on Galileo and a possible map link to Devon - the line between Devon and Pisa is VERY similar to the angle on the original image that the binary for Devon is at

[slender lodge]

rock woke up and saw

date

[pure loom]

There are no really interesting features on that line though - except for Mont Blanc

It also runs through Geneva

Paris is a bit off the line

[granite walrus]

are you starting the line from exeter?

Is it because it's the biggest city in Devon?

[pure loom]

Yes, and just because of the X thing - seemed as good as any

[slender lodge]

Bro ASCII shit is making me go crazy
I'm sitting in this computer science course and the professor pulled up THE ASCII TABLE AND IM LIKE HOLY FUCK I HAVE THAT OPEN AS WELL WHAT A COINCIDENCE

[mortal ivy]

It’s the county capital, if nothing else

[granite walrus]

Like why wouldn't they just say Devon Cross instead of Crossing? I feel like trains must come into play somehow...

[pure loom]

The Galileo thing is very specific though - and this last image has made a point about his birthday

[granite walrus]

Yeah, Devon on the other hand is very vague. Can be interpreted in many ways.

[pure loom]

The problem is, if this is about a map, Italy has MANY locations that could be in the game

Rome, Pisa, Florence, Naples etc etc

I'm reading about Galilieo's life - seeing if there is anything that makes sense

[plucky phoenix]

what is the actual connection between the Galileo image and the devoncrossing bit. are we associated them when we shouldn't? just asking others thoughts. IMHO the Galileo was done as a clue for use for the devoncrossing as we didn't get it fully.

[slender lodge]

From gaming to geography to history

[pure loom]

Interesting that Battlefield 1 easter eggs included all of those things - I think these devs have run home to momma

[slender lodge]

They really missed doing this haha

And we really missed this too so goes both ways ig :_)

[granite walrus]

They both have the samurai 😕

[pure loom]

The samurai could be totally unrelated - concept art may have been done some time ago

Doesn't mean it isn't possible though

But I don't think we have to feel like it relates

Maybe Galileo is just a clue in itself - like it has something to do with stars or something like that

The flag of Pisa

[slender lodge]

Uh oh

@pure loom rock check the color real quick

Is it the same as the red x.png

[pure loom]

no it isn't

[slender lodge]

Oh rip

Try to overlap x.png over this flag

Do the end dots match

[pure loom]

well, it's symmetrical, so it kinda does, but then that could just be a coincidence

[slender lodge]

Oh damn

Ya true

I'm just wondering if there is a use for the X.png

[pure loom]

if you match them properly the red cross is smaller

Guys! I've made a breakthrough!!!

https://www.euronews.com/2019/01/09/monster-fatberg-bigger-than-the-tower-of-pisa-discovered-in-devon

[slender lodge]

Holy shit

Wait what

Lmao

I'm so lost now

[pure loom]

[timid solstice]

fatberg lol

[slender lodge]

Almost ;-;

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[timid solstice]

looks like a blockage to me

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tuss-jokes-gotcha-burn-ouch-gif-5645546

[slender lodge]

Embark Easter egg Devs looking at it like
"Fuck now they will be pulled into the wrong rabbit hole"

[daring bluff]

just in case: exeter to pisa is ~36.5 degree angle on a flat map

[molten wedge]

I feel like by the end of this we will reach the truth behind the illuminati

[daring bluff]

probably

i do feel like angle doesn’t have anything to do with it unless we get a number that..looks like an angle or smth idk

i definitely think the “x marks the spot” where we have to form a giant x is the right path lol

[narrow ridge]

What if we overlay this from earlier with the map

[daring bluff]

or at least more “right” than the other paths weve been down lol

[daring bluff]

thats a good idea

e being exeter maybe?

thing is

those numbers gave us Galileo’s birthday right?

[narrow ridge]

Idk

[daring bluff]

so i feel like they wouldn’t be used again

[narrow ridge]

I just saw it ealier and thought it might be worth a try

[slender lodge]

I was actually referencing this earlier

I still feel like it might be something haha

[narrow ridge]

Yeah it coud give us a location or something

*could

[slender lodge]

What if u try to overlap the X graph but align either lines

And then the other line will become the missing line

[narrow ridge]

Yeah thts what I was saying

*that's

Gtg

[slender lodge]

Cyaa

[pure loom]

I agree - there's no way that Galileo's birthday is just a coincidence

The curious thing is, that usually easter eggs like this are actually solvable from the first clue - so now we know Galileo too - how can that sharpen DEVON CROSSING and the red cross URL?

[daring bluff]

yeah it having to do with galileo is definitely correct

there’s also the chance that the x was never anything significant and simply meant we had to wait for more information…that we have now

like maybe it was always just “nope” and didn’t mean anything else lol

which would mean the only information we actually have is devon crossing and galileo

but who knows

[pure loom]

We also know that the DEVON and CROSSING were placed at an angle that would form a cross as well (we shouldn't completely discount that)

They aren't at 90 degrees though - which probably means they were just placed loosely in a cross shape to match the image

So, I'd say that has low-ish value

[daring bluff]

id say this is most likely

since the binary looks sort of “slapped on” after the concept art was made, and not the other way around

[pure loom]

I agree

[daring bluff]

i feel like we just missing information

[slender lodge]

i think if we convert the binary to 0's and 1's we'll get the answer

[timid solstice]

yes it feel like there is more to come

[slender lodge]

maybe the answer to the universe

[timid solstice]

i wonder if they have a team ready to release more on the weekend?

[daring bluff]

what if they are waiting until we finish the EE to reveal the gameplay trailer...

[pure loom]

What do you mean by that? Binary is already 0s and 1s.

[slender lodge]

https://tenor.com/8x3U.gif

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-michael-scott-steve-carrell-unamused-meh-gif-5167530

[daring bluff]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/928503391892676611/1005567734727331860/3x-11.gif

where on the new image were new numbers found? im looking for myself but i cant find anything

[pure loom]

in the corners - they are very faint, but legible

[daring bluff]

interesting

ah ic now

[granite walrus]

You need more than eagle eyes for this

[pure loom]

eagle brain

[timid solstice]

egg-le eyes

[pure loom]

eggy brain

[timid solstice]

doc is updated, ive enabled comments and added a theories section

#easter-eggs message

Ive added your video @pure loom to it, hope you dont mind

[pure loom]

All good, thanks! Hey could you also please add the original binary as numbers that can be cut and pasted?

[timid solstice]

is there a message somewhere i can copy pasta from?

ill use a convertor no problem

[pure loom]

01100100 01100101 01110110 01101111 01101110 DEVON

01100011 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 CROSSING

[timid solstice]

thanks

[pure loom]

Are there any other ways we can convert those numbers?

[slender lodge]

thanks for making it man 🙂

[timid solstice]

no problem, I was making the one for the bf2042 season 2 playercard crates but that went dry 😦

[slender lodge]

oh rip :/

oh wow you also added names of people who figured it out/observed it and shit

jesus such detailed documentation wtf

[timid solstice]

I like to think, if a new person wanted to start whatever egg this may be in 2 years, and wanted to find out how it was solved it can give some insight

[slender lodge]

oh yeah for sure

not just 2 years but like if someone tomorrow asked in chat he would have to go up and waste time between all our false theories to figure iit out

[timid solstice]

haha yeah exactly

[slender lodge]

im sure even we'll use it extensively to backtrack and recurse our way through this cuz for all we know, we could be wrong in step 3 while we're in step 5 or something... ykwim

thanks man ❤️

[timid solstice]

I joined BFEE in the mid BFV days, looking back at how BF1 was solved I have no idea

[slender lodge]

haha yeah

that'll be us now dw

maybe™️

[fathom fractal]

prehaps

[tulip matrix]

[pure loom]

definitely - we should document everything for those who come later

I'm happy to contribute to a wiki if we set one up

[slender lodge]

i retranslated everything we see in the first ever cipher and i got this, if its useful.
i wonder if theres more in the image now that there are so many layers that say devon crossing

'3' is just used to make those boxes to split up the words

[pure loom]

Interestingly, I just saw that trains use a system called Galileo to help them locate where they are compared to other trains

[granite walrus]

Interesting 🤔

also I came across this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)

[pure loom]

Yes, that's what they use

[slender lodge]

funnyt enough the fullstop means 'e' in morse

i se what they did there

[pure loom]

oh, yes

[daring bluff]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/cac370a9-8940-4e3b-a230"leavethisout"-2a0c1cd1c485/X.png?format=500w

anyways

[slender lodge]

doesnt open for me

[granite walrus]

me neither

[timid solstice]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/cac370a9-8940-4e3b-a230-2a0c1cd1c485/X.png?format=500w

[daring bluff]

yeah i put "leavethisout" in there lol

[timid solstice]

leave this out

[daring bluff]

its just the red X

the url of it

[timid solstice]

I dont have embed perms so mine works

[daring bluff]

when you open it in new tab

on chrome

idk if anything in the url is significant

[daring bluff]

12 stars

hmm

its interesting the search site wont let you search for anything with only 1 or 2 characters

https://www.reachthefinals.com/search

so you cant search for "51" or anything

[timid solstice]

devoncrossing / devon works

[slender lodge]

weird

Maybe thats done on purpose because if we can search with a,b,c,d,e,f... then we can figure out all hidden pages?

[pure loom]

The red cross on the deconcrossing page was such a good idea because it basically said "you're right, but you're not even close yet"

Otherwise we might have just thought the binary was a weird nothing

It's almost like saying "you have started the easter egg..."

[slender lodge]

ironically puts an X tho haha, smart ee sstart

[daring bluff]

how much we betting that they just give us a new image tmr with more numbers

[slender lodge]

31 quid

is it me or that looks like the finals logo lol

kinda like an F'

[slender lodge]

jesus?

[timid solstice]

toast

[slender lodge]

the jesus toast

[pure loom]

We need this as an emoji!

[slender lodge]

fr fr

[tulip matrix]

ez

[daring bluff]

giant egg found in pool on St Devon Crossing in John's Creek, GA

[fallen jasper]

Damn that's a good document

idk if it'll be relevant but there's also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons

[daring bluff]

i think at this point we just see if they give us anything tmr

[narrow ridge]

Yeah

[slender lodge]

whjat time do they usually upload

[tulip matrix]

when I'm asleep lol

[slender lodge]

hahha dw same same

tfw u wake up and see everyone else opening 5th dimensions and finding numbers in a new egg statue

[tulip matrix]

really gives me FOME

(fear of missing egg)

[slender lodge]

lmfaooo

I share the FOME with you

[mortal ivy]

Are we expecting stuff on weekends? 🤔 They already released images on Monday evening, Thursday evening and Friday afternoon (Swe time) this week.

[mortal ivy]

I'm looking through previous concept art, that doesn't seem to be involved and found this. I know nothing of guns, but from what I could tell googling MP5 it does not have that red setting in the middle

Ok 😆 no need to try to decode what that last setting might say then

Hmm 🤔 So the man in pink, who might be the samurai by the mask on his right hand, uses a airsoft guy to collect munny from people.... But what does it mean!

https://tenor.com/view/nightmare-before-christmas-jack-skellington-gif-19329701

[tulip matrix]

the MP5 is a 9x19mm submachine gun

the SD version is integrally suppressed

full-auto, burst and semi-auto are those settings respectively

[tulip matrix]

It's a real gun

There are airsoft replicas of it I'm sure

Those airsoft bros go hard

[slender lodge]

might just be safety on

[unkempt crypt]

The settings are:

• pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew
• pew
• probably lock/safety

And the game likely doesn’t have burst (pew pew pew) for the MP5

Maybe they limit each gun to 2 modes

[mortal ivy]

I think there might be a clue in the Moneyrain image. Of all the screenshots, concept art and wallpapers released so far these are the only 4 that have a descriptive name

And 3 out of these 4 have had clues in them

[slender lodge]

Oh yeah this too
I'm trying to find clues but the moneyrain has a lot of detail 😦

Oh it's a song?

Not aware :p

[mortal ivy]

Me too, not finding anything odd with it. Except that the character has two pairs of goggle 😂 One pair on his head and one pair on the helmet

[slender lodge]

oh yeah 😂 didnt notice that

does that say 15?

i also cant help but notice how they manually smudged his crotch area in post (i think)

[lucid pebble]

I remember the only thing we found interesting about the Money Rain picture is that if you place a copy of it on top, mirror it and make it transparent, the symbols on his chest are perfectly lined up

but that's about it

[slender lodge]

oh?

oh the symbol

[lucid pebble]

like this

[lucid pebble]

yea

[mortal ivy]

It looks like a shark

[lucid pebble]

but most likely means nothing

[slender lodge]

oh like that

haha these faces im seeing

[mortal ivy]

Yours look like a 💩 with a chicken face (eyes + beak)

[slender lodge]

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

[lucid pebble]

how is this document still not pinned

[timid solstice]

Late for mods and now weekend

[pure loom]

^ @tawdry jungle for later 😊

[lucid pebble]

@timid solstice was that document made in Word or in Google Docs?

[timid solstice]

@lucid pebble Google docs, it’s a live document

[lucid pebble]

ok, thanks! Because I tried to download it and open in Word and it wasn't compatible

[timid solstice]

Comments are enabled so anything that needs adding or changing let me know

[mortal ivy]

I guess this might have been discussed already, but if you look at the X.png on fotoforensics.com and select hidden pixels you'll see that the entire square is actually filled in with red, but then they hid it. What could be the purpose of that?

[unkempt crypt]

Probably Masking

If I can avoid deleting data i would 😉

If you cut the background out of a picture, ideally you use a clipping mask rather than straightup erase it

that way you can always recover whatever you made invisible

[mortal ivy]

Didn't know, i always just remove it haha

https://tenor.com/view/toy-story-i-dont-want-to-play-andy-woody-sad-gif-17075553

[tulip matrix]

Welp. This theory was clearly bologna.

[fathom fractal]

where is Bologna

[tulip matrix]

Italy

northeast of Pisa

[fathom fractal]

wow

[tulip matrix]

I put a Pisa Bologna on my sandwich from time to time

[mortal ivy]

Besides the pun, what was the concept of your theory?

[tulip matrix]

I'm looking at all the different places Galileo has lived in his lifetime

One video I watched mentions Munich, Germany but I haven't seen that in any other sources yet so that might be irrelevant

Unfortunately he's never been to Devon

[mortal ivy]

I have a feeling that we are supposed to do something on the /devoncrossing site, in order to unlock it. But can't figure out what that might be. That, or, we are simply meant to solve some clue and then the devs will update the content of /devoncrossing

[pure loom]

This is a good approach I reckon. Links will start to appear if we keep guessing. Like the trains idea and Galileo being a GPS system trains use.

[slender lodge]

No new pics rip

[pure loom]

Roman map of Great Britain. Interesting that Exeter in Devon (Isca) forms the bottom left of a large cross shape.

[slender lodge]

Oh yeah, that would explain the crossing

[timid solstice]

Could crossing be heraldry of devon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devon_heraldry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crossing

[mortal ivy]

Good finds! Seems highly plausible

And it strengthens the Exeter lead

Also Exeter sounds like X and and X is a crossing sign? 🤔

Secondly, Francis Crossing lived in the same time period as Galileo, although a bit younger

[tulip matrix]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltire

[slender lodge]

X's everywhere

[pure loom]

That’s interesting that it’s a name. I wonder if there’s any connections we can make.

[mortal ivy]

The X on /devoncrossing is very similar to the swedish "Lane is closed" cross https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafiksignal#Körfältssignaler

[slender lodge]

its crazy how similar they are but not the same

[fathom fractal]

That's a lot of X mark the spot

[tulip matrix]

A cross is also a Crux. The Crux Constellation is featured on the New Zealand Flag. Rockhound is from New Zealand. @pure loom WHAT ARE YOU HIDING FROM US???

[cold forum]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-suspicious-look-suspicious-doubt-dog-doubt-gif-23680990

[slender lodge]

Rock hound is our clue

[mortal ivy]

The second footnote on Francis Crossing page led me here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002002213917&view=1up&seq=269&q1=crossing

It depicts the family tree of Crossings in Devon

[timid solstice]

Yeah i searched devon 1564 and that came up for me too

[fathom fractal]

so what are we trying to do now are we looking for a clue what the x for devoncrossing mean?

[daring bluff]

Thomas Crossing

oh wait thats a family tree

interesting

[mortal ivy]

@fathom fractal Yes, I think it's to early to give up on the /devoncrossing site. The X on it must mean that we need to solve something in order to gain access/info.... or so I guess

[fathom fractal]

also the second clue is Galileo

so Galileo has something related to the cross

also what does this picture have a secret

[mortal ivy]

it cointained the numbers 56, 54, 48, 49 which when converted from decimal to characters gives 8 6 0 1

Here's my solve of it from yesterday

[fathom fractal]

I guess we look for something that is close to 8601

[mortal ivy]

8601 is thought to be (iso)8601, which is the YYYY-MM-DD date format.
So together with the previous statue picture, it gives us 1564/02/15 (Galileos birth)

Nothing has come out of the Galileo clue yet, though

[fathom fractal]

I guess the cross is related in Galileos wikipedia page

[slender lodge]

There's a lot of people with 'Crossing' as their last name which confuses me now

But another reference to Exeter which is great

[mortal ivy]

They are all family, the most important are probably Hugh Crossing (directly under Thomas, the OG crossing) who was Mayor of Exeter or his son Francis, who has a wikipage.

[slender lodge]

Oh right

Hugh Crossing comes up as Animal Crossing -_-

I had a question

Why is this image labeled 'Slash'

When he's not even slashing, it's more like he's breaking into a wall or door with his armor

Wouldn't this one relate to 'Slash' more

[mortal ivy]

My guess: It was presented with the binary that translated into a / (forward slash)

[slender lodge]

Ohhh

I did not think about that I'm such a smooth brain

[timid solstice]

that makes sense. the original would be just 003, and version with the hidden binary is 003_Slash

that way they know thats the version with the added binary

[timid basalt]

crossing something

[slender lodge]

So Slash had / as clue
Moneyrain has nothing so far
And the actual slash image has no name but has a weird resolution of 1400x787

[timid solstice]

no concept 001 is 1400x787

[slender lodge]

Yeah that's what I meant lol

[mortal ivy]

Shared this when i woke up, Moneyrain is the only named art that has not had any clues yet.

[timid solstice]

i see, the image showing slashing

[slender lodge]

Actual slash image as in 001
The 1920x1080 resolution Concept_001 was REMOVED by Rob

And replaced by 1400x787

[mortal ivy]

That's a bit weird 🤔 Why would concept 001 be the only image not in 1080p

[slender lodge]

And why did he remove the better quality version for a resolution that is not a common resolution

I guess maybe if anything 1400 and 787 mean something

[fathom fractal]

I think its just an error

[slender lodge]

Wdym

[fathom fractal]

I mean people make mistakes

[mortal ivy]

1400x787 is the actual resolution of concept_001

And it's not by any means a traditional resolution size

Closes normal resolutions to that is either 1366x768 which is roughly a 16:9 or 1440x900 which is 16:10

[slender lodge]

I know but it doesn't make sense to me when a 1080p resolution file existed and they replaced it

I have the 1080p version as well

I think..

[mortal ivy]

A thing I just noticed, concept_001 does not have a footer banner and it does not say "The Finals" either. It only has an Embark Studio watermark

[slender lodge]

Yeah

It was one of the first images we got

[fathom fractal]

I guess its their oldest work

[mortal ivy]

Yea, I figured. Probably was shown before they even had a title to present

[slender lodge]

Yeah which is why I thought it didn't have anything hidden, until I noticed this change...

[mortal ivy]

I only joined in on Thursday, so have no clue what happened before that 😄

[slender lodge]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit#

Here's the timeline of the Easter egg so far

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, I've read that. Just meant with orders of release for concept art and such 😄

[slender lodge]

Ahhhh

I may be wrong but I think that the 001 concept art was released before Arc Raider was delayed

This is the 1080p version

I see a lot of digital painting but idk if it's fully digitally painted, the characters look like it

[fathom fractal]

I read the doc and its pretty useful to catch up and understand

The only thing is devon crossing is not one word

its two words

[timid solstice]

but we have the url

[mortal ivy]

Yes, but the url is /devoncrossing

[fathom fractal]

are we supposed to do something with devon crossing

even after

or its just used up

[mortal ivy]

I do not think we are done with it yet, but the newer clues regarding Galileo doesn't add up with it so far

[fathom fractal]

I mean devon is place

crossing has a lot of meaning

I will think about this.

[tulip matrix]

The Arms of Crossing of Exeter features three red crosses and three bezants in a blue chevron. A Bezant is a gold coin from the Roman and Byzantine empires.

Gold coins seem to be featured quite a bit in The Finals concepts.

[slender lodge]

this is eating my brain

[tulip matrix]

[pure loom]

I’m so deep undercover that even I don’t know.

[tulip matrix]

[pure loom]

Funnily enough “Byzantine” was mentioned in the BF1 Fort de Vaux Isolement Easter Egg.

[slender lodge]

[pure loom]

When Galileo built his telescope he demonstrated it in Venice - that would make an awesome location for a game map. I wonder if we can uncover any links to previous clues?

[tulip matrix]

[fathom fractal]

wow so much stuff happen when I was gone

[pure loom]

There’s also a village in Devon called Starcross

[daring bluff]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/ospuze
could look back on this page maybe we missed smth

[pure loom]

I could do with a can of OSPUZE right now

[daring bluff]

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/c96db92a-a167-4180-8133-5432c8c880a6/egg1_optimized.png?format=1500w

letters before the dots. 3, 4, 7.

or its binary again

[pure loom]

Before the dots?

[daring bluff]

how many letters in each word

idk

isnt OSPUZE a date?

like sep 29

or just sep 9

[pure loom]

Yeah, the logo backwards says 929EZ

[daring bluff]

whats this in the reflection

im thinking way too deep lol

https://tenor.com/view/tom-and-jerry-tom-tired-cat-tired-anime-tired-gif-23674113

46?

(they're posted in the 4-6 order)

im 100% overthinking

but still

we now have 46, 47, and all the way through like 56 or whatever

maybe where galileo died matters?

uhh

so uh

arcetri

where he died

is in a place called called eggestraat

in belgium

but

it says he died in arcetri italy

but theres also an arcetri, eggestraat, mortsel, belgium

wait actually arcetri belgium is a planning service building

[floral plover]

👀 the rabbit whole is so deep

[timid basalt]

man i cant wait to play, hopefully playtest soon

[slender lodge]

Ikr

Gotta with till Monday

[floral plover]

why monday?

i think we will get a trailer soon

[granite walrus]

COD reveal is on the 15th

[reef trench]

strangely enough, searching "aviant" on the site leads to this page too

[timid basalt]

aviant?

[daring bluff]

hmm

where did that come from?

5CCX+QQ Mortsel, Belgium
plus code for the arcetri meeting planning service building

[phone] phone number

interesting

yeah maybe someone should call it then

[daring bluff]

didnt someone make an algorithm that autosearched a bunch of things?

[reef trench]

👀

[daring bluff]

any other interesting results?

https://www.reachthefinals.com/iseul-t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iseult

[reef trench]

nothing of note

[mortal ivy]

but searching for ospuze returns nothing 😂

[narrow ridge]

Do we only have 2 sponsors

?

[mortal ivy]

Confirmed, yes. ospuze and iseul-t are both on the homepage

I'm thinking that maybe this logo on Moneyrain is a sponsor

He has it both on his jacket, but also his leg pouch

[narrow ridge]

Almost definitely

Has anyone looked into the red writing on the money rain image

Probably nothing

[slender lodge]

i tried everything for this clue

52, 10 (upside down)

[mortal ivy]

On his gun? I brought it up yesterday around this time, and turns out its standard text on a mp5sd or something

[narrow ridge]

Oh

Yeah I meant the gun

[mortal ivy]

I'm 87% sure that Moneyrain is Slash the Samurai, because he has the same red oni half-face mask on his right hand.

[daring bluff]

also if ppl didnt already know you can go on google earth and make a project and draw perfect lines and stuff and color them, etc

[narrow ridge]

Cool

[daring bluff]

wait a sec

i just realized smth

[narrow ridge]

What

[daring bluff]

this

[narrow ridge]

Ok

[daring bluff]

the iseult of ireland

iseult is a sponsor ofc

and then pisa

[slender lodge]

i thinkt hey're different

[daring bluff]

guess what is perfectly between them if you draw a line

[daring bluff]

Devon.

[slender lodge]

moneyrain is the bald guy

samurai is the samurai guy

the masks are different even in trailers

but thats just my interpretation

[mortal ivy]

The bald guy on that statuse is https://www.reachthefinals.com/iseul-t

And the middle one is another skin of Egg Mask hero https://www.reachthefinals.com/

And Samurai is a different skin of Moneyrain, is my interpretation

[narrow ridge]

Iseult has 22 blocks in it if that means anything

[narrow ridge]

Cool

[daring bluff]

ugh its so close

it still could be in ireland and make sense

[daring bluff]

found this drone shipping company who operates close to Stockholm

maybe the easter egg has to be ordered kekw

[slender lodge]

i thought it was a girl

[pure loom]

One of the most viewed solar eclipses in history crossed Devon in 1999.

[mortal ivy]

Yes it is, I wrote guy without thinking 🤷 😆

[slender lodge]

oh ahhaa

defaulted

[slender lodge]

what's the red writing you were talking about btw

[pure loom]

I think it’s the red writing on the MP5. AFAIK it’s a normal MP5 variant with single shot, full auto and burst settings. You can find images of the same weapon IRL with the same markings.

[slender lodge]

I don't think that's writing actually those are bullet symbols in chain for.. just like you said the single/full shit

Idk what the white one is I'm guessing 'safety'

Is it me or do I see 12

[unkempt crypt]

yup

[fathom fractal]

I see it too

[tranquil ivy]

What's all the new information dug up?

[slender lodge]

nothing much yet

this might not be a clue but i find this really weird

this here doesn't seem like anything that needs attention

yet when i put a filter over it i get 'the finals (logo)' on it

the thing is.. its a wall that is tilted not even faced the way the text is positioned in

THE FINALS (some symbol) > THE

[timid solstice]

Yeah that makes no sense

Why is it in that location and opacity so low

Perhaps it’s a vertical banner, like the yellow one in the distance

[slender lodge]

I thought of that.. but think about it.. it still doesn't make sense

[timid solstice]

And it just got destroyed and the screenshot just captured it disappearing

[slender lodge]

The text is going over the window frame lmao

[slender lodge]

Oh Could beee

[timid solstice]

Yeah it could be banner attached to the drainpipe

Has low health to damage and explosion made it go poof

[slender lodge]

The only thing that conflicts your theory to me is how perfectly unaligned to eveyrthing else around it

[slender lodge]

It's too absurd but I think you're right with this one

[slender lodge]

Hahhaha the banner is killable

[timid solstice]

Normally things with destruction have health

[slender lodge]

Oh riht

ugh i hoped it was some sort of clue

[timid solstice]

Weird “the” is repeated

[slender lodge]

Ah yeah

i also dunno what these are

i and >?

it is like a banner lol

[lucid pebble]

maybe it's just watermark

[proud minnow]

Hmm, this looks like a bug, we will look into this…

[arctic flower]

^

Is that a meta clue 🧐

[proud minnow]

haha, no it is not a clue.

[molten wedge]

Thats what someone giving a really big clue would say!

[slender lodge]

This is like when the cops say "Anything and everything can be used against you in the court"

"Anything and everything Rob says in this server will be used as a clue we'll probably spend hours into"

[timid solstice]

I’m loving this dev team already, looking into potential bugs based off a screenshot.

@slender lodge congrats at potentially finding the first bug before any gameplay trailer or playable game 😂

[lucid pebble]

Just wanted to say this. Already love the interaction between devs and fans. Makes me more confident the game will be amazing.

[slender lodge]

Hahhaah

[mortal ivy]

I can actually see the logo without doing any manipulation to the image

But that's probably because my zowie screens colors are so off. Can't really see it on my samsung with "true" colors

Someone in Monaco is drinking what appears to be an off-brand pepsi

[molten wedge]

Maybe its the OSPUZE drink? Have we actually seen it?

Ah ok

I did think Id seen it somewhere

[pure loom]

A brand we can’t fully read yet.

[molten wedge]

Do these have any meaning behind them?

[timid solstice]

I think it’s an artistic choice

Similar is usually used for printing IRL

https://www.boxmaker.com/blog/spot-color-cmyk

[molten wedge]

After looking over everything I give up on finding something new haha

[mortal ivy]

After feeling the same as @molten wedge for the last 12 hours, I just googled the sum of 1400 x 787 (1 101 800).
Most noticable search results: Model 101 Series 800 Terminator (https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-800_(The_Terminator)), but this is missing the first 1
And guidelines for mobile device forensics: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-101/rev-1/final (the number has flipped 800-101 Rev1 instead of 1 101 800)

Doesn't seem that important though 🤷 😆

[tulip matrix]

This is why Terminator is so angry. He's been trying to solve this puzzle for 7 years and traveled back to 2022 to find Rob who is actually John Conner in disguise.

[molten wedge]

LOL