#easter-eggs
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Same here 
so this namatama was bowie related too? and crash test was for cassini crash as in cassini Ovals?
two... ovals next to each other
my god
I gotta say, mostly I just have an overwhelming sense of relief
The vesica piscis me off! 
Bowie?
I thought we found this and yeah we did
two of them
just to be sure we got it
hehe
the Z on his face
oh the other one I'm thinking of is universal equation of an egg
Yeah, that pointed pretty much directly to "oviform" - it was the variation of the word that was actually the hardest part
ahh. to me it matches Zorro's mark, specially now that Vega is confirmed
Rob clearly has double meanings galore
just checking, yup yup yup
There was a lot of clues leading to the answer from the start
0vif0rm doesn't seem like it could hold a double-sided secret
like a Gold clue or anything
I suppose the 137 in T1C's answer was just a part of the answer
so maybe from 0vif0rm
we can extract 'VIF'
and maybe RM too
and see if that connects to anything, like gold or something
Okay, I'm going to eat some Spaghetti, see you tomorrow everyone!
oh! if you look very closely... you can see something written... '0vif0rm'...
I wonder what that means
hehe
Bruh
👀
/s
Whaat
Maybe zoom in more
It's true!!!
You'll find the next tiers pass
What if… the last picture is also related to the next tier?
Zoom, enhance, zoom, enhance
And you find all the tier answers
Just with one image
An image of an eye


Well now that we've solved this tier what else am I supposed to do with my day? My Job???
okay, in seriousity
here we had Ceres (first orbiting body (MPC no.1))
and the stripes are 4 and 8, 48 (0)
I think 'oviform' woulda been impossible with what we had
next to impossible - but with the 47 > 0 we could have discussed what 0 represents and almost got there
like gotten onto "orbits" and that they aren't round
1D SOLVED?
yes!
Is it from the same eye image?
The pw was "0vif0rm"
congrats EE folk
na
theres a couple of them in the image
and in 404 and also the slashed 0 namatama
yep, in #official-art if you scroll a bit
I need the audio, but rn I’m eating
i dont think its anything as theres alot of these in the image
yeah
but I mean it definitely could be in a certain area of the image
Rob hides his clues super well
as he has just demonstrated
see here
His clues are almost more like bread crumbs that lead us to concrete clues that we then put together to get the whole answer. rob and dusty are really good at making this like house of cards of little and big clues
Can anyone fathom how 404 fits into this?
Missing o’s in oviform =0
not found - I guess so
404 = Not Found. Usually when something doesn't exist, like a Planet X and Vulcan (if that was intended)
404 = Ø, Null, 0, empty also
As in not found in the new year namatama image
These seem more like audio than anything we’ve seen in previous images
At least to me
You'd have to manually transcribe it
insane level of dedication required
to measure each pixel height
unless there's a software which filters out light pixels from dark pixels on a coloured image
and transcribes it into a sound file
I think you can straighten it out then just run it through a image>audio program
You’d need to use PS first, yes
would be a crazy find for sure
Stripes are 4 and 8
I've added this into the padlet, for the record, but noted it was after the pw was known
I think next time we get those primary clues drilled down
And split off from there
Probably the biggest lesson for me is to keep focused on the most obvious clues and fully flesh them out
But "48=0" was known from before
Put what’s obvious
Yeah, I don't think we 'interpreted' the mic lines as 0 the first time round
But the mic lines wasn't interpreted as that, or was it?
but I really don't remember
I think they were
☝🏻
or a fib number
@prisma stump mentioned it within a few minutes of the first image and then nobody elaborated on it 😭
It's tough because your own personal interests can make certain clues seem for lack of a better word "flashier" than others. Like this one was 0vif0rm a generic shape with the o's replaced, while some clues have "flashy" topics like Titan and alien moons, greek mythology, cyphered messages. At least that is what hinders me lol.
Yeah, we all go to what's familiar to us, but that's the knowledge base
Yeah it's hard to ignore your own interests and bias to find the most common denominator in all the clues haha.
Rikta was first
I guess I can cross my underground Sydney creek off the list now 
and I think Rikta also mentions the other zeroes
Ok ok LEITH ?
what about her?
Virginia Leith played a literal Brain In Vat
Rosemary Leith is TBL's wife
Cecil
wtf... I just noticed this person was a resident in Leith, Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Anderson_(chemist)
Thomas Anderson (2 July 1819 – 2 November 1874) was a 19th-century Scottish chemist. In 1853 his work on alkaloids led him to discover the correct formula/composition for codeine., In 1868 he discovered pyridine and related organic compounds such as picoline through studies on the distillation of bone oil and other animal matter.As well as his ...
Matrix
Thomas Anderson, like The Matrix
I personally tend towards that being a coincidence, but that's just a hunch on my part
So LEITH was a burrw clue
But Burrw is still another path right? For later
I don’t think so
I thought it ended at YMF292
Hmmm so what do you guys think the 3 "primary" clues were? 🤔
Ovals, 0s, double?
Oh, I thought it was a diamond clue
all the binary stars
which stemmed from burrw
Makes sense
Double came later though
Matrix maybe? 🤔 for the cartesian coordinates, and origin 0,0?
There has to be a 3rd from the start
Matrix = 0, 0 maybe
Ah yeah
yeah, good point
I think it's a clue which is unlocked by other clues
so Thomas Anderson could have been a quaternary or tertiary clue
48 reference 👀 /s
2 0’s
imagine if after this tier
Rob stops giving us 👀s
because they were just referencing this answer 00
and now we get no more 👀 help 😭
I mean we've had his 👀 since the previous tiers too lol
well yeah
we also had those fiducial markers
and 00:00:00
in the images
and the spectra lying in the corners
They're like the Great Gatsby's Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg always there, guiding us, watching us, judging us.
we could make a new emote, like in bfee we made this for egg man Niklas Astrand 
How do we not have Byzantine related emote??? lol
I thought we did
literally called byzantine
I just can't do it myself due to... Nitro limitations
Ohhh I was looking in the finals emotes and didn't see it lol
hmm
Here are some others we made for nik
Nik Jones
Oh, it's actually from the Duhtopia discord, I think. Duhmeister is the emoji king
I wanna point out another cool connection
One of the most notable ships built in Leith is the SS Sirius, one of the first steamships to cross the Atlantic
Sirius is the Brightest star in the sky.. for now.
it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's night sky for approximately the next 210,000 years, at which point Vega, another A-type star that is intrinsicly more luminous than Sirius, becomes the brightest star.
so yeah, just on that Pole star path
🥹
Also, completely random
the guy who deciphered the hieroglyphs came from the French commune of Vif
this might be a reach but it looks like its making the number 28
Vif from (0vif0rm)
The disrupted blue light on the bottle (and the previous 404) is still puzzling - maybe it just refers to disrupting the normal (i.e. replacing the o's in oviform with 0's)
I think it's just a visual effect
711214 ❤️
omw
her?
she starred in this
she also starred in the series Solaris
and Californication
hehe
Rob as the AD for all these promo images and renders like "Alright guys they are still stuck on the 0vif0rm tier, I'm gonna need an octopus hugging an ospuze energy drink vaguely making the shape 28 with it's tentacles. I'm gonna need visual distortion hiding these 5 numbers and a long string of binary on the left that holds an anagram for letter o = 0."
❤️ can be 831 remember?
or like, just a bunch more people
I will soon, I just need to upload the right version with the metadata (I saved that file on my other PC)
"The number 831 is a cyber term used to mean "I Love You." Each individual number in 831 has a specific definition: 8 = The total number of letters in the phrase "I Love You.""
I reckon it is the date, like Octopussy/Vulcan
Golden Gate Bridge
A possibility
yeah, that seems like a decent path
Golden Gate = GG
Nuclear Test at the Nevada test sight too could be significant
I’ve been looking at spectrograms. That’s also why I thought some of it looked like audio waveforms. Looking up waveform from image converter lots only brings up weird online discussions of people on Reddit who don’t know what sampling frequencies are 🥲 and people saying it cannot be done. It is doable, however the only valid points the basement dwellers had is that there probably aren’t enough samples for it to be audio. Standard sampling size for audio is 44.1kHz, and there are way less in the picture. I don’t think 0.1s if audio is going to help us
So one could get sound out of it, but it would be low quality or too short for it to be usable
Oopsie, that was meant to be a reply to this^
Rob: 'Gah! When will they realise they have to add the noise from every image together to make a 0.3-second sound saying 'oo'!'
this is ngl not a good message
but it did remind me to hydrate
Don’t forget we’d have to PS it to isolate it; we’d have to warp it so it fits the format, then figure out the average amplitude and figure out a playback rate that works
also this just makes the product look badass
the kinda drink that legends drink yknow
Don’t know why, but the punctuation made me think of this:
reach.the.finals
Theres nothing. Like it.
I still feel like this is a thing
It’s so “asteroid/planet/moon filmed through a telescope”-like
^
The part circled in red…
oh, what was the binary?
I thought that speck was going in and out to make the binary
I think that was the ./! In the bottom left
there's like a random sphere behind the tentacle, at the top
WHO NEEDS WATER is an anagram for "Watershed Owen" - which leads to this: https://www.watershed.co.uk/studio/residents/owen-davies
ngl I thought it'd be watership down haha
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The “drops of color in water”-like bits would point to entropy and chaos theory again:
Aren’t those 2 dots new
always been there
Ok this is actual goodnight from me. Well done everyone!
Pretty sure it’s some kind of spectrogram
And Thankyou Rob and everyone from Embark for creating this hunt 
By the way we are sure that someone sent the Tier verification email
after clicking the link
right?
cause maybe nobody did it and we will be waiting for weeks 😭
the good old days...
🕵️
I sent it but it gives me an error no matter how I try to send it
Hahahahha
You proved my theory 😛
Tier 1a took 4 days
I've done it too - it seemed to work ok
🙏
oh, no, I got an error too
4 days is actually insane
if you think about it
imagine us doing a tier in 4 days now
hmmm maybe..
it's automated
and only takes the first person to send it
so only one email goes through
..maybe?
did you manage to get at least one email through?
I think that the email thing is to prevent people from brute forcing the password, but Rob saw how we solved it
😔
I'm not sure - it showed the error message. It would be easier if it just gave the email address to send the pw to
check your sent, maybe, if we're lucky it'll be there
yeah, it is
The email is always the same, I think it's just the code that changes
I just got one to go through now as well
Manually readded the address and then it sent just fine
yep yep
we're gonna have to wait at least a day for this next tier
Yeah, we might have to wait until he's back in the office... first thing... waaaay before @cedar owl 
I want to know how he cheated
maybe we will get another fakeout 404
slept in the office, duh
He slept in his office lol
Where do you send the password?
cause the simple entering of the password might not be enough or something?
to check if it's a human maybe
lies
The passwords can be brute forced. The email I guess is meant to give an explanation of how you came up with the answer
pasawords
pastawords
😂😂😂😂
I'm on mobile 😅
autocorrect slacking
Me too. I need to correct sometimes 

I can see why people turn it off though haha
on mate more likely 
It's the first setting I deactivate when I get a new phone 😂
if I'm talkin to someone and saying 'omw' and my phone turns that into 'On My Way!' I am throwing it into a pond
I remember when phones used to do 'Laughing My Ass Off!' too
gah, shuddering
Yeah, it's also more annoying when you have multiple languages on the keyboard 😅
I can very much see that
I was able to send the 3mail
we are 4/6 through Tier 1 🥳
(although the final two may take as long as the first 4 combined)
and it is Tier 1 of 3 of level 2 of god knows how many
You need to figure out better algorithms to find pixel-patterns… there are many cool ways… ._.
I use photoshop, I am the algorithm
me too
I scale the images up 500% and then push my face against the monitor. I'm down 4 monitors but it hasn't failed me yet.
haha then it will be hard, yes but have you tried to write advanced scripts and/actions..?
I guess those will be found more easily when the hunters with experience join us 😂
haha
agh, I wouldn't even know where to start..
Yeah I could do that
if(isClue) print(clue)
But takes the fun out of sliding levels around manually
0vif0rm incoming hehe
I'm confused just looking at everyone solving the clues, I couldn't imagine how confused I'd be if code started being dropped
I think my brain would overheat
hihi hilarious, right.?
So... T1E should not be difficult, right?
Tier 1 Ez
even if it doesn't get harder, that still means it's gonna take pretty long...
Hopefully it takes less than 96 days 🤞🏻
😂
I don't mind hard, but I would like a normal word as the password 🙏
shall we?
I honestly think we've outlived normal words
we will never see them in these passwords again
I guess there might have been clues that we didn't find that pointed to the format of the password earlier
unless the answer to Level Two is just like 'acutary'
LEVEL 1: THE C0MMENCE
lmao
That's the first password I'll try
I honestly think the c0mmence was pointing towards this answer
but idk maybe he did actually name it that not in reference to this tier
however replacing the O with 0 is literally only in this tier
Ooohh! You are right, I forgot about that!
only semi-sure that's what he means tho
Yeah was mentioned
00?
(we solved the tier)
0vif0rm yeah
around an hour ago
A few hours ago, Resk found the answer
the password is
0vif0rm
also yeah Resk has it 1-upped on the rest of us
they found 'burrw' too
What's that?
I KNOW.!
Rob posted some burrow clues
and we had to remove the O for that one
you coulda 👀'd it 😭
😅
😂
haha, i thought i did… BUT I was 100% sure you would get it when you wrote that.!
We are all in sync here @sharp flame
gah!! I didn't think we were close enough to toy around with different Passwords
The worst part is
it may have taken a tiny bit less time if it were eyed haha
🥹
I know I tried vifrm as a password
you had eyes on oviform on 3-4 places… and then “0 instead of o”… soo close.
So close
I just didn't expect the answer to (almost) literally be anagramed on the confetti hahaha
and there was also that A?
Namatama is super helpful
We tried “oviform”, I myself tried “vifrm” the only ones we didn’t try was “øviførm” and “0vif0rm”
I think I actually tried øviførm 💀
Namatama is always nice, always friendly.! (even if we beat him/her up every now and then, hihi)
…
is ø ASCII?
I don't think we'd ever need it...
but it would cut down on guessing outlandish password types 😂
In this context I don’t think it matters as it seems most likely it was pointing to “empty set” as in the o’s missing from “vifrm a”
I know, I just want to clarify for the future 😂
Me neither buddy, me neither 🥲
It appears the only one with sense is @latent peak
@proud minnow Is it possible to start working on the next tier with what we have already?
Too many rabbit holes, we get lost
We were barely able to work on the last tier with what we had 😂
Serpenger is a password machine 💪
you guessed A AND B correctly due to the collective intellectual efforts of the participants of this channel 👌
Nah, we all did
Ye of little faith
Clues don’t find themselves
No, I’m only use standard ASCII, actually to keep the password very easy to figure out, I’ve made sure to only use lower case letters and numbers, for this level that is… ._.
And neither do we sometimes …
corrected ^^
How about spaces in the passwords?
space is ascii
Wasthateverclearedup
Yeah you can do that
Can someone here point out the clues from previous tiers that Rob has refused to clarify? Those would likely be clues that have multiple uses (perhaps for the next tier?)
Most of them, except the ones pinned, I think
Everything in previous yeah
This was a good breakdown we got
This is the first time we’ve seen behind the curtain
I don't think he has mentioned that with any clues
the breakdown seemed pretty behind the curtain too
32
Like the 1404E210DDFD 4FA5E227933D2 1A3DC
I meant visually really but yeah the aithusa flower was not known to be in the image
No spaces in psw in this ee-hunt… ._.
define "this ee-hunt" 😂
“%” in URL’s tho?
ARC 👀
Yeah, or another level 😅
only if we get URL clues I guess
seems like the same Hunt
Or the in-game ones 😅
but I'm sure he will let us know
after we solve the level
and we don't have to worry about that
for about a year or two
the pre-launch ee-hunt for THE FINALS… the future ee-hunts when the game is live is a VERY different story..!
NIIIIICE!
damn, it's gonna be like some of the Battlefield ones which are unsolved to this day 😭
bf ee's were very good
Sorry, I meant “%20” @sharp flame
cause I'm sure we will have to drop off at some point, and not be able to continue
I wonder how many of Rob's EEs have never been found... 😅
Thank you.! ❤️
megladon ee? 👀
Which EE in particular are you referencing?
nothing in particular
ik, i was just saying that the ee was very cool
but I just know there are plenty which has never been found
UFO ?
There are MANY that never have been found…
Karelia audio..
Some IRL....
Because “%20” signifies space in URL’s, but is consisting of ASCII letters that aren’t spaces
@timid solstice see you in a few weeks with the candles and SR again 😛
They are back in the cupboard for now
gah if TF EE ever goes IRL idk what I would do
How does one find a lead on a 10yr+ old Easter Egg?
We'll have to buy a private jet for us to travel around the world
the same clues remain....
Should I start trying to find secret doorways?
it might even be easier than trying the current TF tier haha
I guess we won’t have “%20” in any psw either then
Eyes 👀
My boat!
NOOOO
I’m up for a Monaco hunt
@proud minnow when this happens, can we get a private Embark jet?
wait yeah the maps are in REAL PLACES
so if there is a locked door in-game
go there IRL to find the clue inside the real room
🗿
That was like tens of millions of dollars in equipment getting crushed.
Tier 3 might have a URL in the real world equivalent of an in-game park
time for a field trip...
I would love a global stat counter that keeps track of the total cost of all destruction inflicted in the gane.
there is half a QR code in-game on a light post in-game, and the other half is on the exact same light post IRL
🤯
Let’s go to Pisa, I’ll bring a step ladder and check up here
okay but don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love a reason to go visit Korea and visit some rooftops haha
I wish I got out more. There isn't much to do in my town.
Definitely no awesome EE's to find.
You should look up geocaching
Thank you for not giving up during this tier, it’s been extremely fun (and frustrating, haha) to follow your progress.! Now it’s time to sleep, take care, get some rest and good sleep tonight… see you sooooooooooooooooon.!
'yeah, I just live in the nowhere town of Eureka, California'
See you s000000000000n
17 o’s ?
I was just counting them 😂
Idk, eyes are to blurry to count
yeah 17
Genius
your eyes: your pfp
Ok... now I want to see RHB's video about the tier. I'm curious if there will be a new style for the thumbnail... 🤔
We might need to tidy up the documentation with the hindsight of the answer, eventually
I’m just happy mars stadium was actually a connection
what a journey, sorry i couldn't contribute much!
RHB has a sixth sense for clues I swear
1 is infinitely bigger than 0 
mathematically at least
Write a script for this... 
Can you stitch it?
ye so... (the end)
The whole thing!
It’s missing the last images too
probs, but we kinda gave up on the padlet towards the end
Yeah, the last image doesn't show any of the clues 😂
we were too lazy to finish it 😂
It's days like today that I regret that I have this insistence on reading every message before posting. Nice work on solving the password 🙂
😭
Next tier I want to start a Trello from the start with all the clues
was talkin about how this was an awesome contribution earlier 
Yeah I saw that, thanks ❤️
and how we probably woulda gotten 48 = 0 sooner if we'd listened to Darnoux saying 4 8 haha
I was happy that Rob pointed out the David Bowie link
why is it that the most vital interpretations get missed the first time round haha
the lightning bolt clue
💀
You are also the one that says the right things that lead people to find the answer btw
I just think it's really funny
how we always have someone getting something right
and it gets glossed over instantly and we talk about something else

It's crazy cause the first image was about asteroids
and we just left that there
or at least I did
I went straight to the statue lol
sometimes the best interpretation of a clue
is the most simple
Occam's Razor 💪
As Giriko would say: "Occam's razor" 😛
no way
still in sync 😂
we are in sync..
nah If I'm not connecting Ben Franklin to the World most famous Tuna sandwich then I haven't dug deep enough
Me tryna grapple to a roof in the Closed Alpha:
I see something...
okay I'm actually seeing things I need to sleep
It's 00:05 in your timezone, right? (fish)
its 00:05 for me
I don't even know where that is, I just saw the time difference in the images from a few hours ago 😂
🇬🇧
😂
Call of Halofield Warfare: Global OffenCraft is the real TF
in reality... I am from the sea.
You flew far east for Xmas break
🇮🇪
._.
Not Mongolian then
unfortunately..
Or Chad...ian...
we all have a little mongol in us
okay you know what The Finals should have:
popup Ads
between rounds or menus
slightly invasive ones actually
use ones like this
and Telemetry! :D
I think they should have highlights of the match too, to add to the game arena experience
Ospuze tsunami
timer is counting down from 15 seconds, you see a masssive tsunami approach the map
or a massive comet
or hurricane
or sandstorm
As many as 40 wild hogs stampeding
guaranteed decimation
In game eggs are gunna be so fun
Here’s the doc I made for this weekends BF2042 egg
BF2042 | SEASON 4 TEASER EGG DOCUMENT
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SfsbEXg3sJX_FCaAvCOu-YwfebhPIy3a-pRPhJii_8k/edit
Feel free to jump into TF wiki and cut loose with info about the EEs in there! 🙂
Yeah I should get on that at some point

Oh yeah, I meant to ask you. I was looking at Rob's previous hunts the other day, to see if it would help with this one (it didn't 😂), and saw your name. I was going to ask if it was you, but I guess this confirms it
I think that's probably post-Rob
He left DICE during BFV, I think
Oh, true, I didn't even notice it was for the last BF. I just looked for BF easter eggs 😂
Yup that’s me. breakaway maps before the rework
There are multiple EEs in the BFV Hamada map as a dedication to him
Yeah, I saw some of that too
Is that the Morse rock?
No, I think they're little art pieces scattered around the map - there are lots of them
And the chairs and parasol?
Yeah, as well
Nice jingle
No comment, I see.. hmm
I think we can afford to wait a day haha
Conspiracies this early on are bound to complicate things for our future selves
and any newcomers from beta
How do we know it is only 1 day? 😶
Giving a more serious answer to that now:
If it's like with previous tiers, we won't have anything that could lead directly to the answer without additional information. This tier will probably won't relate too much to the previous ones, based on the nomenclature of the other tiers, at least
We will have one image of a gun and be talking about the corpuscular theory of light within 10 minutes 😭
My point is hints like Yamaha YMF292 didn’t really get us anywhere
It might be worth looking into it while we wait
For tier2abc we might be looking for a golden oviform object
Idk Sega Saturn and Titan was a good connection
That sounds like a goose hunt
Wasn't that related to the saturn clues?
Probably, but it does seem like a double meaning kind of clue
Yup
also sonic = to do with sound
but again not in the hunt
These diamond clues could help us later as well
*Sonic the hedgehog is not in the hunt
we haven't looked at sound yet
Sonic as an adjective might be
Yeah, maybe
what if the sound video has A HINT?!?!?
we thought of that
Perhaps the wave formats in the ospuze/tentacle picture is pointing here^
so what if the location which is oddly specific a hint
just a swedish concrete factory
Guys I think the password had to do something with 007 hmm
Been looking at it for a while
I guess it might also point to the “making of” video that deals with sound
I reckon these were nods to the EE, but nothing more
I think it may point to the Byzantine empire
something like, during this event several factories were left abondoned
I think the 7
Yup
Has to be
what if james bond?
And 0=o
spose
Answer is o7
o7
o7
o7?
o7
why
Because
o7
o7
<o/
Poor Fish
=}
Well I'm off to bed but congrats once more EE team a little over three months of time spent on it but that tier is toast! Good job everyone! 
Gn!
So this is how Euler connected #easter-eggs message
So who’s down to learn image processing in python together?
Not that I’m a coding wizard or anything
My greatest achievement is probably some JS stuff with snake (game), Mandelbrot set depiction and Langton’s ant on a torus.
In python the most I’ve done was make a quadratic formula solver which takes full formula as input and spits out solutions (floats, not fractions) which I made in school
I wrote a script in Roblox that gave me sparkles when I spawned. That's my crowning achievement as a programmer.
I need to learn more.
I've wasted too much time.
My Mandelbrot set calculation drawing used too much power over 400x400 pixels. So it just kind of froze for a while at anything beyond that. It would get there, but 15min load time for a page in web browser is 90s talk
I was thinking about that when I saw Diablo 4's trailer. I thought," Could you imagine waiting 8 hours for this to load in the 90's?"
Disappointment...
Would be cool if people were interested. We could have a EE-hunters code camp channel where we learn image processing together to break down EE-images to find more clues
I wanna learn stuff.
Teach me image processing
😄
I was trying to find an app so I could invert the colors on the gif and Soda ad.
@sick stone Any suggestions for an app?
I do not know image processing. Just want to learn together with y’all should you be down
Photoshop
I'm down for all the good things.
😉
Any learning I can do is awesome.
But if you are asking for somewhere to learn some basic stuff you can try SoloLearn
Ok, I have a question - Rob said there were 3 primary clues for this tier - I think two are: 1. ovals and 2. replacement of o with 0. What is the third primary clue? (Or do you think I have 1 and 2 wrong?)
Just don’t rely on me in any sort of teaching capacity. I’ll share what little I know, but it ain’t much.
I thought the tier was solved?
It is, but I'm trying to sum it up for a video on it - the 3 primary clues thing is puzzling me
Egg shape, Ø=o=0, ovals?
See, I would put egg-shape and ovals together
The clues are the hardest part for me to grasp because I got here after they were given. 😦
Wish I was earlier...
Glad to be here anyway!
: D
"oviform" is egg-shaped, so maybe it was egg-shaped and replacement of o with 0, but then what is the 3rd one we had to have to solve it?
Yeah, I wonder how 404 and missing works out there
Because at that point, if we got oviform then the o’s wouldn’t be missing
So the 404 clue actually only fits with our current understanding as of new year namatama
Not found, so I guess the null set = 0
Null set does not contain 0
Which is what makes it weird
The only reasonable way to interpret it if it is pointing to the null set is if “0”=“ “
I suppose it could point to “Null” which in turn points to “0”
Yeah, it's a bit confusing
I did just find something weird. Looking at 1404 E210 DDFD I thought to myself “what if 1404 is backwards” so I went with 404.1 thinking I’d get some sub status code for 404. When I tossed in the rest as in “404.1 E210 DDFD” I get a page whose first line is “a list of vocabulary in Homer, not only in the Iliad and the Odyssey, but also in many other poems” the page doesn’t display properly, so I don’t know where the 404.1 connects, but the fact that homer, the odyssey and the Iliad showed up was a bit strange
Huh
That is a book that was created in Heidelberg in 1604
Oh, I think I get it. The 3rd primary clue was “orbit”
Which is where we were to get “oval” from
So we had egg shape, o=Null and orbit
So we would then connect the oval Null to be 0
hmmm... I'm not sure why we would need both egg-shaped and orbit though. Maybe together they make "oviform"
I suspect the oval part was more directed at the shape of the number and not the egg
While the egg was pointing at “oviform”
Oh, true, that could be a good interpretation
It would lead straight to “oviform” + “o=0”
In which case it was not supposed to be read as empty set, but rather “Null set”
It might’ve been easier if all we got was o=Ø, haha. We could have went null set>null>Zero. Instead we went 0(“Null/zero”)=>Ø(empty set ) and got lost
Especially since we got 404 as well, pointing to computer interpretation of “no data”=Null
Well, I suppose 404 in hindsight had 2 interpretations, “Null” and “void”. One of which was correct.
#easter-eggs message just going to leave this here before I go to bed. @upbeat badge has shown some interest already. Hopefully we can get a couple more as well❤️
Would be pretty sweet
All you needed was hidden on the first image. o=0 is actually written in a couple of different ways in the first image, actually even the numbers 111 205 48 are there (hidden in a pretty cool way).
Several clues to oval were hidden, 3 different ones I think. BTW did you ever figure out the link between René Descartes, Euclid and Jean-Dominique Cassini.?
Looking at the first image there are 2 Primary Clues presented oval and o=0... and by using one of the chifer keys that have been used in all tiers and levels so far you had 0vif0rm day one. But again, it would be boring and not a great hunt if you would solve it in 30 minutes, therefor as always 20-25 secondary and tertiary clues are also in there all pointing towards and linked to the primary ones ofc... ._.
BTW didn't anyone get the direct connection between Saturn and ∅..?? That was my "Leaning Tower of Pisa and /" of this tier... ._.
Yess iirc someone did connect ø to the side view of Saturn
as in it looks like saturn? yeah we defiantly got that part
I never said the hedgehog is dead, there might still be a place for a cute hedgehog in this ee-hunt, that's for sure, but not on this tier... (only that I steered away from anything that could linked to SHH)
chifer key? What is that?
Good question. I’ve never heard of that.
Google doesn’t seem to show anything
Mentioned it a few times hehe
Don't think I can connect Saturn to our answer yet....
how does Saturn even play in?
Is it the Ring which specifically was representing the Oval and 0?
We mentioned that a few times
I think it was the O=0=o=Ø clue that first brought Ø into it
I fear we will never find Rob's 'creative' ways of hiding clues haha
I think he means cipher key, chiffer in swedish : )
Yeah, analysis greater than PS is beyond me, but maybe others are good at that
'One of the cipher keys that have been used in all tiers and levels so far you have 0vif0rm day one.'
???
we were using that?
I don't think it's a literal cipher
he says by using the keys
we had 0vif0rm day one
however
the specific word OVIFORM
No way we coulda gotten that
I think I know the Cassini Euler Descartes connection but I'll double check
haha yes... ._. (too early in the morning, and my English isn't that good)
Is it the coordinate system? Euclidian Space, Cartesian Plane, Cassini Ovals or what Cassini did with Longitude?
Which connected to the later Oviform equations
Well, the MOST OBVIOUS link between them are OVAL, haha:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_oval
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss's_egg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini_oval
In geometry, a Cartesian oval is a plane curve consisting of points that have the same linear combination of distances from two fixed points (foci). These curves are named after French mathematician René Descartes, who used them in optics.
In geometry, a Cassini oval is a quartic plane curve defined as the locus of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points (foci) is constant. This may be contrasted with an ellipse, for which the sum of the distances is constant, rather than the product. Cassini ovals are the special case of polynomial lemniscat...
Yeah haha, I remember we got that
So these three names gave you OVAL in the first image and then o=0
still, Oviform is quite an irregular descriptor
not very common hehe (I guess that's the point 😅)
and then add the "cipher key" and you have 0vif0rm
You should all relax for a short while, do yourself a favor, don't hunt any EE-eggs today... ._. ❤️
I ate eggs for breakfast, I’m full.
Nama left uncracked.. for now
...Nama will crack soon again... that's a promise.!
shoulda called it THE PR0MISE
Ad was posted in #official-art, the name changed to THE_FINALS_OSPUZE_AD_bonus_candy - I guess to differentiate from Promo_Extra_OSPUZE_Candy
Hi.! GLHF dear EE-hunters, hope you will like this little extra candy from one of our sponsors.! From Embark with love.!
thanks for a good backread 
Is there any difference when compared with the version posted earlier?
hey! no hunting! 🤨
Ok don't work on anything till I wake in the morning in about 8 hours, I don't want to fall behind, deal? 🙂
What if it’s just an unfortunate accident that led to someone’s fertility to drop by half 
Yes, that was a great joke, thank you.
no difference
I'm definitely not trying to find secret meaning in this message...
new art today? 👀
😔
we put them into this website - https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2
we are on tier 1E now
5 more to go
Thanks Eoin. I'll check it all out now

1D isnt verified
mayb they just didn't have the time yet
interesting I could do it I even had the email ready hahah
Keeps saying error to me
0vif0rm is the pw
for 1D
works for me
me aswell
I'll try again
we need to wait, the page will be updated
can't upload files on mobile for some reason but I got the email prompt
Yea I knew it's already solved
Which says error, the password screen?
That worked I just had to wait
The page should be updated in maybe a few days
Am going to try to have a look at it all.
Good luck!
We have recaps in 📌 pinned messages
I've seen how hard the last one was ha
should speed it up a lot
I wanna get involved in EE hunting as well but it'd take long to catch up and I couldn't contribute that much
I assume that's the situation for a lot of people
Am sure any opinions help.
I hope we can document it well enough to get over this eventually
I'm sure they will, in some form or other
Some of the gun skins are quality
Definitely
Oh for sure
I hope we'll see you in this new tier!
Maybe now's the time to join
I think it is just hard to know where we are at
It is! We have a fresh new tier right around the corner
An infographic containing a few key points goes a long way
One thing for sure, i'll be lurking around way more frequently than before even if I can't say that much
as we've had in chat before, they were super helpful
the recaps
There will be A LOT more new people in the Beta period
Don't hesitate to give ideas! The crazier they are, the better 💪🏻
which I assume will fall within this tier
we really should consider the onboarding of newer hunters
Thanks for your kind words, it really means a lot to see such welcoming people amongst the hunters as well
Yeah, I hope @pure loom can create an introductory video for these hunts, explaining how they work, and how WE work. So we can point new hunters to that, and it's easier to them to join
That's a mammoth task
hehe
I know 😂
mentioning rockhound, I should watch his vids covering the hunt so far
but yeah
A field guide type thing
2-3 pages of text boxes and info in a concise format
What do you think a video like that should include? 🤔
- what is the EE hunt?
- how to find clues? (Examples)
- how are clues typically connected?
- example of a clue chain (Halley's Comet)
what any overall recap should do at least
Whether a video or an infographic
I would also include information about the Padlet, the Doc, Flex's summaries and Rob and Dusty's messages
@low summit Same question for you. What would you think would make it easier for you to join the hunt?
I suppose we can say those can be found in the main chat
Be difficult. One of hardest bits would be to make people understand what you try to explain ha
Could get confusing really quickly
But I like the idea of a video to help
Also tools that can be used to find information 🤔
you see, already contributing😅
well, the things fish listed are a perfect base but one thing I'd really like to see (exactly the thing I feel like I'd be the worst at) is finding methods to analyze and decode the information on the pictures, for example I saw yall talking about ASCII, using adobe programs and different software, etc.
yea just wrote that down
Speaking of zoos
Oh yea I've got the voluntary RTFPD thing to do as well
I've gotten a timeline up for ARC, THE FINALS, and now also the Creative Playground
so I'll probably be helping mods in a more informal, meme-ish way
The playground one is fairly small since well, there hasn't been much going on
how WE work
I think the harder thing with these long hunts, at least from my experience with this one, is right after the beginning of this tier work picked up for me and I couldn't contribute for about a month or two. When work did have lulls I would come read up on the padlet and everything but it becomes hard to draw connections the longer it gets drawn out, you fear drudging up past connections or accidently spinning people in circles on dead ends we already worked out. It can for sure feel like a herculean task for outside people or people who took a break to sort through what was 60-70 days of collaborative information without feeling like you might accidently knock over that "house of cards" for lack of a better term. I think this issue will compound in the near future as we bring up "diamond" clues as they are found. IDK how we fix this issue but I think getting some concise info on what will be important in the future, unsolved leads, etc. would help us onboard new hunters.
Flex! Also from you, that you seem to be the one with the most experience with hunts. Do you have any ideas?
It really does feel like this hahaha
do it!
updates on it are really hard
well for this little easter egg as Rob calls it we now know how to chew through it. as for in game hunts thats another matter...
lets work on a script!
i was in the cod zombies community which had alot of easter eggs, i have some experience
army?
I don't think we should fear digging up past connections, if we found something that has already been found, maybe it even solidifies that connection more, because multiple people reached the same conclusion. As for sending people to rabbit holes... that's the nature of the hunts, you don't need to worry about that 😂
I think presenting this info in a video would be very helpful
A joke about how I'm a mod I haven't been drafted 
Let me know if you need help, I know a video like this is difficult to make
I've written a document that covers the first level of the EE hunt
G'day SPEAR here!
i think the best way would be to keep it high level and make people curious – those who wanna dive in will do it on their own
(for an introductory video i mean)
Oh I know! But I'm just saying for new people who want to get involved they might feel like it's more of a hinderance than how the process works hahaha. Especially since if you go back through the chat logs or read the padlet us hunters must look like this to people trying to join in.



One for Easter
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