easter-eggs

[quiet silo]

She said it easily COULD be the start of a word.

[slender lodge]

maybe theres more korean characters

that we could connect

[sharp flame]

is it that those characters can't go together, or there isn't enough to form a word with

oh

[sharp flame]

great

[slender lodge]

time to hunt for more characters

wait Ralli

[sharp flame]

I mean do we know how narrowed down it is

like how many possibilities we got

cause I assume it's an actual word

and if it's less than 100 words I can work with that

[quiet silo]

I think she said it would phonetically sound like Na of Ka I showed it to her over tea lol, but I could text her and see if she can send me the text interpretation.

[slender lodge]

[sharp flame]

boks

[low summit]

what is that server

where you have the box and frank and stuff

I dont need to know I just need the emotes xd

[sharp flame]

can we get a Cashbox Emote here..?!

that would be cool

[golden karma]

Does anyone know the language in which the announcer speaks at 0:47 before "and he gets the backstab" and 1:16 ? (also 1:05, sounds korean to me)

[low summit]

it is indeed korean

the map is set in Seoul

[golden karma]

ok so no other language?

[low summit]

afaik not

[slender lodge]

i wonder what this one means\

[low summit]

VBS-

?

that's not hangul right?

[slender lodge]

hangul?

i dont think its hangul

[low summit]

korean alphabet

[slender lodge]

looks more like kanji

rounded

[low summit]

100% not

rounded

maybe

do you know some?

[slender lodge]

this part doesnt make sense

[slender lodge]

i do, but its more like mandarin kanji haha

theres like 4 types i think (across East asia)

[low summit]

the 日's right and left side isnt equally rounded

[slender lodge]

yeah its weird

the top isnt supposed to be a perfect V

either its stylized or not kanji lol

[low summit]

idk I only learn japanese and I know that simplified and traditional chinese has some diff characteres

[slender lodge]

yeah but the basic radicals look alike

since u learned japanese, does it look japanese to u?

[low summit]

nope

but japanese kanji is technically chinese characters

0 difference in how they write them, idk if they borrowed traditional or simplified characters tho

[latent peak]

My partner is japanese and according to her its not a kanji

[low summit]

yes it doesn't look like that

[slender lodge]

hmm

what can it be t hen

cuz my only thought was its a super stylized font

[pure loom]

Oh, like Sega Saturn

[slender lodge]

[timid solstice]

[low summit]

for me it looks like VBS- (lower half of B and upper of S being together)

[latent peak]

VBS or YBS to me.

The extra bit under the "V" could make it a cut off "Y"

[tacit creek]

YBS ?

i think ybs

or

YB5 ?

[native orbit]

no because the upper part of the 5 doesn't continue the full way

YBS

[low summit]

YBS makes sense

I heard that in some lyrics

idk what it means though :/

[slender lodge]

YBS makes more sense

since the lower left of the B isn't straight

tho then B doesn't make sense either

[quiet silo]

Kinda looks like stacked musical symbols to me

[slender lodge]

ooh

[quiet silo]

8vb is even one of them which this is close to

[sharp flame]

not quite to me

at least

[low summit]

I've read countless music sheets and it's resembling to nothing similar for me

[slender lodge]

for barcode these frames could be a good way ig

a lot of pixel stuff

[quiet silo]

I got onto this one last night it's what made me try combining the frames into a gif I couldnt assemble any qr or barcode but I am such a neophyte with Photoshop you guys could probably get a little more headway than me.

[slender lodge]

the cheese speaks to us

does that just say the finals?

[crimson yarrow]

could be I S at the end too

[slender lodge]

true true

[strong hare]

it says the finals yeah

[slender lodge]

[strong hare]

o crown :(

[slender lodge]

he died a few moments after

[strong hare]

oh no

[crimson yarrow]

:eggpet:

no premium, no pets ;-;

[slender lodge]

;---;

i feel like namatama is part of ospuze sponsor but ALSo that ospuze owns the finals arena and that namatama is kinda like the game masters' persona?

there must be a game master in a gameshow who controls the rules and spins the wheel on the modifier
kinda loose connection but when namatama gets squished by the finals logo, you see the screen shake for a bit and then chaos in the video so i was thinking what if namatama's lore is that he's just the game master

i guess since ospuze is all about energy and performance, it fits more in the game than other sponsors

almost like its partnered or smth, ospuze appears everywhere, even in an iseult map/theme

thats why, just a little theory

[sharp flame]

It actually says that??

[slender lodge]

seems to be

could also take the last 2 digits as 15 but thats like leet speak basically

[sharp flame]

No but like is that an actual screenshot

[slender lodge]

yeah

i just upped the exposure

[sharp flame]

Well yeah that says the finals

Clear as day

[slender lodge]

i was expecting to see something easter eggy

[sharp flame]

Weird angle though

Like it's been added in post

And the first word doesn't look like a THE at first glance

[slender lodge]

it translates through the next few frames

i dont think it was added in post

[sharp flame]

Any other angle?

In those frames?

[slender lodge]

nah just the user holding the cheese and 'reloading' it

which kinda looks like an LMG reload

another frame

[sharp flame]

Oh that is much higher quality than YouTube

[wary verge]

Cheese gun confirmed

https://tenor.com/view/cheese-gun-gru-minions-the-rise-of-gru-minions2-covering-with-cheese-gif-25300085

[slender lodge]

Hahaha

[low summit]

nah cheese LMG?

It would blow my mind

[steel smelt]

xD

cheese gun

[cedar dirge]

Chinese characters used in Korean are called Hanja

They've been pretty much completely phased out of normal use, but are still taught in schools to a limited degree

But it looks more like stylized latin letters or hangul to me

[slender lodge]

Ohhh

Latin letters 👀

[sharp flame]

As in ASCII characters as in english

Lmao

English uses Latin letters

[fallen jasper]

Gh lyvff cdzq WV-yiosdqr.! Lyzg jr z ldkjruf enq xgl, rbe enq xgl fbmx, he xgl jcmud sgaj rbe CL ld "frdo stkdr" qfl qbm vghky wcs nmd tfzhif mzlzlrdo.! Znt zqw xisbs, bgdwij FPA.!

[tacit creek]

what

[tacit creek]

I hope you have a cat

[neon stream]

Rule 3 plz #🟥┇rules 😛

[fallen jasper]

It's a message

[tacit creek]

@quiet silo

hey wake up

[quiet silo]

🫡

Yes sir

Kyne were you possesed by the spirit of SR?!

[fallen jasper]

No I just look out for things

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tsSCuWLbIr4rHGo4F8Ztkl6KEc1iBAB6OfO4jKYHHb0/edit#slide=id.g1b672f3d96c_0_955

[quiet silo]

Where did you find this wonderful bought of, currently, gibberish

[fallen jasper]

2nd to last slide

[quiet silo]

link - eehunters.? at the bottom

We're being called out

This feels like a direct challenge lol

[wanton sundial]

Rot13?

[fallen jasper]

No

[solar glade]

where'd this come from?

[fallen jasper]

It's been on the Press Kit for the past 5 hours

[solar glade]

huh

[tacit creek]

top right

menu ?

yea

[crimson yarrow]

What language is that?

[crimson yarrow]

hi

[tacit creek]

idk

[meager cypress]

interesting

[crimson yarrow]

There is some stuff in there

dm me and then something

hmm

[neon stream]

Where did you get that? 🤔 I see you got that from the press kit... it's been there for the past 5 hours...! 😇

[crimson yarrow]

U should have seen it, it has already been on the press kit for 5 hours Ouh u got it already, never mind then

[meager cypress]

I wonder who and what we are supposed to DM

[neon stream]

thx 😂

[quiet silo]

Most commonly appearing letters are l and d which makes me think they are vowels for the cypher.

[crimson yarrow]

Maybe if we put it through enother encode?

[crimson yarrow]

🤓

xd

[meager cypress]

mayhaps

[neon stream]

😛

[meager cypress]

with the vowels for the cypher maybe its a different one that uses that to clear it up more

[crimson yarrow]

That theory could be true

[crimson yarrow]

maybe

[quiet silo]

Oh how I wish I had my frame library at work

[neon stream]

I'm moving the assets around to see if there's anything else hidden 😂

[fallen jasper]

[neon stream]

Sorry to whoever created that great ppt

[quiet silo]

Not at my usual multi monitor set up @ me if something interesting comes up clue wise I'm diving into the rabbit hole of cryptography and cyphers.

[meager cypress]

was it thrown into a Caesar decoder? is that how we got here

[sweet narwhal]

Have we ever tried pixel sorting?

[quiet silo]

I threw it in every base version of a cypher and the only thing that returned something almost legible was Kyne's rot1 cypher

[meager cypress]

interesting

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/ken-jeong-community-too-small-to-read-read-reading-gif-5494204

[solar glade]

it might be Vigenere

hi there dear ee hunters this is a message for you and for you only if you solve this and dm me nama rules you can whish for one unique namatama you are great cheers rob

[quiet silo]

Sir Penger your eyes are so acutely tuned but I can't read any of that lol

[fallen jasper]

want me to DM him that lol

[quiet silo]

That is it for sure lol

A unique nama what a blessing this day is!

[meager cypress]

I think thats what it is

[fallen jasper]

Well I DMed him it

[crimson yarrow]

Who is rob 😳

[solar glade]

just needs the punctuations

i'll DM him

[quiet silo]

A Byzantine Empire enthusiast we all admire greatly

[fallen jasper]

[meager cypress]

do we all DM him or just one person?

[quiet silo]

Let's just do one it was addressed to us as a group

[crimson yarrow]

Idk if we should spam him

[fallen jasper]

Well, 2 people have already

[quiet silo]

No need to blow rob up lol

[neon stream]

I think just SPEAR should email him 😂

[fallen jasper]

I would suggest to not anymore

[meager cypress]

alright sounds good

[solar glade]

nvm then

thought nobody had

[crimson yarrow]

We have to debate what eg we want ingame tho

[quiet silo]

Although Whish stands out to me rob doesn't make spelling mistakes, not on accident anyway. Does this EE go even deeper?

[neon stream]

Rob is the CCO at Embark. He's the one behind these EE hunts

[meager cypress]

I wonder how crazy some of these codes are going to be

[crimson yarrow]

E thing et doesn't

[golden karma]

What key did you use for the vigenere cipher ?

[crimson yarrow]

They need to be crazier

[neon stream]

@crimson yarrow In here we call him "Saint Rob"... because he signs his messages with "... ._.", which is "SR" in morse 😛

[solar glade]

this is the actual msg, with punctuations and everything

Hi there dear EE-hunters.! This is a message for you, and for you only, if you solve this and dm me "nama rules" you can wish for one unique namatama.! You are great, cheers ROB.!

[quiet silo]

ZZSRROBZZ

[neon stream]

The ppt that Kyne linked

[fallen jasper]

What do you guys want the namatama to be

[golden karma]

wow how did you find that

[quiet silo]

Or Senor rob depending

[fallen jasper]

Since I already DMed him it lol

[quiet silo]

It's the default cypher

[solar glade]

auto-solve key

[meager cypress]

lol

[sweet narwhal]

Diamond namatama

[fallen jasper]

I know the answer is "Byzantine Nama" already but you know

[quiet silo]

Yeah I mean... a Justin I or Justinian the I nama would be pretty 🔥

[neon stream]

@prisma stump ☝🏻

[fallen jasper]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tsSCuWLbIr4rHGo4F8Ztkl6KEc1iBAB6OfO4jKYHHb0/edit#slide=id.g1b672f3d96c_0_955

[solar glade]

at least i got to solve something in this EE. didn't thought Rob would go for encoding msgs (finally)

[fallen jasper]

We should get a spear Nama

[quiet silo]

The tip of our SPEAR when it comes to decoding you are! 😛

[quiet silo]

Ooooo I like this! He was the one to find it after all.

[meager cypress]

I third this idea

[quiet silo]

Can we make a poll in discord? Put a couple popular choices in it for the EE hunters to choose from?

[fallen jasper]

I'll suggest what Spear wants lol

[opaque quartz]

why not a Byzantine Spear?

[fallen jasper]

I do think this brand guide does provide a bit of important information

Nama is the mascot for the game show, not for OSPUZE

The announcers names are Scotty and June. It's implied they're rather talkative throughout the match "THE COMMENTATORS Scotty and June, provide key information about the match, speaking to the fans who are watching."

[solar glade]

ye we got some lore

i'm eating good today

[quiet silo]

Noice dude loving this.

[tacit creek]

less goo

namatamaaaaaaa

[meager cypress]

oh so it is throughout the match

[fallen jasper]

THE FINALS is the greatest virtual game show on the planet, with a large, global fan base. THE FINALS is a window to a bigger world in which the game show is set, consisting of the Meatspace and the Virtual World, but most people spend their time in the Virtual World. This takes place about 75 years in the future.

meatspace hmm

[quiet silo]

https://tenor.com/view/super-meat-boy-dance-party-gif-20542405

The MEATSPACE??

[neon stream]

Makes sense that NamaTama is not OSPUZE only, since he was part of the tutorials

[tacit creek]

Easter egg hunter this namatama so her shell cracked

[fallen jasper]

The main gamemode is called Extraction

[shell spear]

Jarvis find me the latest east egg clue

[meager cypress]

there is even a glossary

[quiet silo]

While spectacular and exaggerated, Discovery is inherently intuitive — where if you instinctively think something will work, it probably will.
Absolutely love this and it's EXACTLY how I felt in the Alpha. I loved that 99% of the time if I thought to myself "I wonder if I could..." I almost ALWAYS could do it.

[sharp flame]

Yo!!

it looks like something is happening here

what'd I miss

[fallen jasper]

You're a bit late Fish lol

[sharp flame]

and is it over

[fallen jasper]

I discovered the brand guide

[sharp flame]

😭

[fallen jasper]

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tsSCuWLbIr4rHGo4F8Ztkl6KEc1iBAB6OfO4jKYHHb0/edit#slide=id.g1b672f3d96c_0_1051

[opaque quartz]

just the background animations are a nice new look

[fallen jasper]

At the end was a encoded message telling us to DM rob something, already DMed him it.

[sharp flame]

oh

[shell spear]

Damn

[sharp flame]

what Nama did you ask for

[shell spear]

😭

Has he responded

[fallen jasper]

Haven't asked him for anything

[sharp flame]

Ah okay

[meager cypress]

the whole thing feels like an easter egg guide

[fallen jasper]

The popular option seems to be a Byzantine Nama with a spear

[tacit creek]

dude the finals world awesome

[sharp flame]

gah sometimes I wish I could spend the whole day on this chat to not miss anytjing

🤣

[neon stream]

Interesting that they still call the game "Discovery" 🤔

[solar glade]

honestly i was just at the right time - i probably would've missed it as well

[quiet silo]

Would love this! If @solar glade is cool with it I think it should feature his little logo on it somewhere highlight his hand in solving it.

[golden karma]

I remember the first thing I thought when seeing the trailer was "This game could be in the Oasis", it's cool that it is indeed something like that in the world

[solar glade]

i don't mind it at all, whatever y'all hunters feel like

[sharp flame]

I think 'discovery corp' is then legit!

[tacit creek]

yea me too

[neon stream]

True!

[tacit creek]

namatama is a very beautiful mascot

both sweet and aggressive

[quiet silo]

Like a balanced breakfast...

[tacit creek]

lol

[meager cypress]

I do like the finals red glass look

[fallen jasper]

So, do we wanna ask for Justinian I Nama?

[tacit creek]

I'm curious about flamethrower

[sharp flame]

either that or this was made in the past...

it does seem more like an internal brief

right?

like how TF-produced media should look

[neon stream]

Hmmm I doubt they'll publish something like this without checking

[sharp flame]

something sent to people like Rockhound

I mean

as in this was made a while ago

[solar glade]

it's clearly an old doc meant to be used for external reference (probably press-media)

[sharp flame]

and it's just public now

[fallen jasper]

It is not old

[neon stream]

Not sure tbh, I don't think it's old

[quiet silo]

Yeah too much new info or refined info from the alpha.

[sharp flame]

How d'ya know hehe

[solar glade]

old as in, this wasn't made recently

just updated along the way

Brand Guidelines are created WAY in the beginning and updated

[quiet silo]

Oh yeah that for sure this has probably been iterated a ton

[tacit creek]

There is always a byzantine reference in the background. I wonder if there is a message to the ottoman

[sharp flame]

oh yes I love this

[quiet silo]

I think it's funny in true spirit of being EE hunters we've almost entirely put the choosing a nama costume on the back burner to rip this document apart lol.

[neon stream]

Yeah, but with the attention to detail Embarkers have, I doubt they would have missed the "Discovery" thing 🤔

[fallen jasper]

Where is Discovery at?

Which slide

[sharp flame]

I really feel like this is not directed at us players

[neon stream]

In the past, I guest they would have called it "Project Discovery"

[meager cypress]

I kept zooming in on the fine prints of everything trying to find something

[neon stream]

Slide 10

[solar glade]

this isn't the official document. this is most likely a copy for external use. might've been missed because of how many iterations they have

[sharp flame]

slide 10 yep

[solar glade]

(it's "official" for us, not for them i mean haha)

[neon stream]

Yeah, I guess that could explain it too 🤔

[meager cypress]

official use for the ee hunters

[sharp flame]

okay I mean this is really not directed at players

[solar glade]

i've worked with Brand Guidelines so i only speak from experience

[sharp flame]

it seems to be for content creators kinda

or press

[tacit creek]

on both sides

[fallen jasper]

Both

[sharp flame]

but not exactly da players

[opaque quartz]

does it make sens to post it into media to inform more players about these infos?

[fallen jasper]

I'll go ahead and do that

[sharp flame]

the second one sounds funny to me

but maybe im interpreting it wrong

[fallen jasper]

Actually Fish or Spear can do it

lol

There is NO soothing here

[sharp flame]

wait can this be in #1009830087715205281

or is it already in the drive

[fallen jasper]

It's on the drive

[sharp flame]

kk

media then

[solar glade]

it's on the drive, just hasn't been posted officially

[neon stream]

I like this btw, like with The Incredibles, or the Scooby Doo movies. "For kids", but a lot of "adult" content 😂

[sharp flame]

wait

they're kinda pushin the humor thing

are we getting comedy

like where does that even come in

[fallen jasper]

Hmm

[sharp flame]

what

oh right, updated recently

[timid solstice]

Hey hey

yeah ive read this before

[quiet silo]

HAHAHAHAHA

[sharp flame]

1 and 3 is great, I don't exactly understand how 2 is bad, from how they've phrased it

[timid solstice]

last year would be around sept

[quiet silo]

The latin on this translates to The internet itself is pain

[meager cypress]

lmao

[sharp flame]

woah!

there are loads of new gifs

in the background

[sharp flame]

it's technically nonsense

I like the slide in Slide 16 hehe

different name from 'cashout'

first time hearing this

[tacit creek]

yea

sword art online

ha

[golden karma]

I like the little cashout box animation

[meager cypress]

meatspace

sounds delicious

[tacit creek]

i like death animation

coin

[sharp flame]

yeees I knew it

[strong hare]

so am i 96 yo when i play the game?

im oooold

[meager cypress]

lol

[sharp flame]

oh crap!

you guys seen the commentator info?!

[meager cypress]

I have

[strong hare]

the what

idk about it i think

[meager cypress]

I thought that was just a trailer thing at first

[quiet silo]

Only in the MEATSPACE you are old, in the virtual world you are whatever you want to be.

[strong hare]

A BAT!!!!

[meager cypress]

aye

[sharp flame]

yesssssss I think I caught that a whiiiile ago

the word meatspace

[golden karma]

I was hoping we would get commentators during matches

[strong hare]

is that in some official site?

[sharp flame]

we do

well

the Announcer

[meager cypress]

its in the guide

[strong hare]

link meee

[quiet silo]

It's on one of these slides lol. They call the real world in THE FINALS the MEATSPACE

[sharp flame]

Kyne linked it way up

[strong hare]

Kk

[quiet silo]

It's on slide 19 if you want to check it yourself

[meager cypress]

I feel like we should have this pinned for the time being lol

[sharp flame]

heere we are

a while ago

[meager cypress]

.

[tacit creek]

pin pls

[sharp flame]

I think the term meatspace was used somewhere back in the Alpha period

[meager cypress]

there was also a code at the end of the slides but spear solved it already

[timid solstice]

During the second week of the closed beta, we will launch two drop campaigns with
exclusive in-game items as a reward for players who view THE FINALS drop-enabled
streams on Twitch.
is this info new?

[strong hare]

this is so cool

[meager cypress]

:3 indeed

[tacit creek]

maybe yes

[fallen jasper]

Yeah it's new

[timid solstice]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTbu7bKmArF2mR6SxmAEIUv2gbuNxCIJ/view?usp=share_link

[quiet silo]

Yup I think so that's exciting

Gotta remember my twitch password again....

[timid solstice]

so thats the items that carry over after the beta

[sharp flame]

where is that??!

[meager cypress]

well I gotta run happy easter egg finding yall

[timid solstice]

Press Releases - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W_RQ1N5x8F7FqKz11dYiTiZDEKgWmVOw

[sharp flame]

where is all this info suddenly coming from haha

did we miss this last week

[timid solstice]

no uploaded this morning

[solar glade]

we're approaching the Beta, that's why

[golden karma]

We're getting closer

[sharp flame]

agh

I am so hyped

I need to spend time reading allll this

this is totally internal

or (press)

maybe Rockhound knew all along... he would never lie

[tacit creek]

maybe beta skin ?

or charm

maybe beta acces drop ?

no no no

[timid solstice]

so we didnt unlock it 😦

[solar glade]

it's press / media

[sharp flame]

😭

[solar glade]

(which includes Creators usually)

[quiet silo]

a refer a friend program, and out-of-the-game activities.

[solar glade]

that's why i'm not surprised haha

[quiet silo]

A refer a friend program for the beta 😮

Contestants who want to stay close to the action are welcome to join the official
Discord Channel of THE FINALS, for playtester chat forums, a refer a friend program,
and out-of-the-game activities.
The full bullet.

[sharp flame]

yo?!!

[solar glade]

IRL hunts

[sharp flame]

there were people askin stuff like this all week

we gotta put this in one of the #1009829079077376040 channels

ngl

[opaque quartz]

also about the Commentators

[solar glade]

i'm sure Embark will

[quiet silo]

Who's ready to go geocaching in Sweden for EE?? lol

[sharp flame]

🙏 !

[solar glade]

or perhaps they just mean EE-Hunt like the ones we've been doing that are not in-game

[sharp flame]

hahaha that's probably it

from stealthy ninjas wielding katanas to
lethal ballerinas armed with rocket launchers

ninja skin!

[quiet silo]

Lethal ballerinas armed with rocket launchers. I feel seen.

[sharp flame]

target demographic

[fallen jasper]

Just so we're clear

We want the Nama to be Justinian I right?

[timid solstice]

sorry I was incorrect, it was the arc brand guide I read https://drive.google.com/file/d/19QDMOu5RcigaOuaIpVUQFPoxt2HdnXDj/view?usp=sharing

[tacit creek]

embark scooter cool

[sharp flame]

I'm gonna think of a Nama real quick

[fallen jasper]

You better be

Like 5 seconds quick

[timid solstice]

yeah the misuse of logo page is why I thought i'd seen it

[sharp flame]

oh right hahaha

[fallen jasper]

Hey Rob

[sharp flame]

but... wait a sec

00

[strong hare]

hey

[tacit creek]

where rob

[strong hare]

me rob

[tacit creek]

coming

rob

[fallen jasper]

Rob you seem to be a lot more bat like than usual

[strong hare]

im rob.! ._.

[sharp flame]

"you were not supposed to see that press content! removing now.."

[strong hare]

no cap.! ._.

[sharp flame]

... ._.

[opaque quartz]

oh

[proud minnow]

Hi EE-hunters.!
There are no more EE's in the Brand Guide... I just added one little shoutout in there, it is removed now... ._.

Let me know if you find any errors in the Guide (I was a bit tired when I finalized it last night... ._.)

[fallen jasper]

Slide 10 refers to THE FINALS as DISCOVERY a few times.

[sharp flame]

Referring to it still as 'Discovery' is correct, right?

👋

[strong hare]

the ".!" is normal

[fallen jasper]

That's just how he types

[tacit creek]

everything for me easter eggs

[strong hare]

yeah

[sharp flame]

👀 caught him

[strong hare]

ahahaha

[sharp flame]

there are two spaces after THE FINALS here...

[strong hare]

[sharp flame]

🙀

[quiet silo]

Well let me close all these tabs related to Whish real quick.

[proud minnow]

Discovery was the codename for THE FINALS...

[fallen jasper]

Project Pioneer: ARC Raiders
Project Discovery: THE FINALS

[sharp flame]

hehe yep.. it appeared on the Guns in T1B if I am not mistaken haha

I was hoping that Discovery Corp would be a real lore thing

haha

[fallen jasper]

For the uninitiated on the codenames

[sharp flame]

NEVERMIND

i knew it

[floral axle]

Codename Kyle

[tacit creek]

hmm I wonder if arc raiders and the finals universe are the same?

[proud minnow]

It started as a codename, now it is something else... ._.

[sharp flame]

Discovery Corp, official host of THE FINALS

you heard it from me first hehe

[timid solstice]

IRL hunt - Project Discovery ?
corp I see...

[sharp flame]

they at least make design/model the weapons

if that gun etching is to be believed

[tacit creek]

the finals not real

virtual shows

[sharp flame]

okay so if the THE FINALS guns are branded in the virtual world

who 'produces' them

probably the host of the game

[tacit creek]

maybe

idk

[sharp flame]

Discovery Corp made the FINALS

just saying this in case it's right

haha

mark my words

[strong hare]

marked

[floral axle]

I'm also virtual

[sharp flame]

aren't we all...

[tacit creek]

AI Manager ha

looks like a burgerman

[sharp flame]

this is my favourite pillar

cause I really hope it holds up

I want to be able to throw a C4 onto a jump pad and see it fly

I want to be able to put goo onto a wrecking ball to make it a bigger wrecking ball

[strong hare]

aha. i tink ma bran just comitted die

[sharp flame]

I wanna be able to throw the CASHOUT STATION onto the jump pad to get it places

[strong hare]

you run with the cashout station collecting the boxes instead of the other way around hahahaha

[sharp flame]

I wanna throw it off the building in Seoul so no other team can take the lead...

[quiet silo]

I mean that is how it was in the Alpha for me, almost every single time I thought "Can I...?" I would try it and 9/10 times it would work.

[sharp flame]

even shooting out the lights

and I know that's a tiny thing and people can still pretty much see in the dark

but I like shooting out lights okay

gives night-vision a bit more use

[meager cypress]

shooting the big screens was satisfying

[quiet silo]

I think the only thing I tried in fact that I couldn't do was this and I tried! I even tried pushing the thing around the map with c4 and mines (which kinda worked)

[sharp flame]

and now we can carry it hehe

[quiet silo]

Especially at night and you'd get that neon sparking in the alley's of monaco 😩

So goooooood

[meager cypress]

so good

[sharp flame]

ngl this caught me off guard a lil

I have been misusing these elements a lot for my wallpapers...

[meager cypress]

did you see the red glass finals logo?

[solar glade]

tbf, this is mainly for Press and Media

[timid solstice]

i was gunna message but its for press

[strong hare]

that looks so... weird

xd

[timid solstice]

yes, nothing hidden in that meta data

[strong hare]

the blue...

eww

[meager cypress]

lol I just like it

[fallen jasper]

COLOR CHANGES THEY'VE MISUSED THE LOGO

[sharp flame]

hehehe

[meager cypress]

red alert

[strong hare]

80's style logo

[pure loom]

What is flipped in the top left one?

[meager cypress]

hi rockhound

[fallen jasper]

That one is don't put text about the girl

[timid solstice]

the main character, flipped in all the 'bad' ways

[slender lodge]

Fish is alive

[sharp flame]

the girl points left

[pure loom]

I saw the blue one and was like “that’s cool!”

[strong hare]

the is a bit weird there

[sharp flame]

all of the girls are flipped

[strong hare]

oooh

bruh xd

[timid solstice]

nothing interesting just revealing

[pure loom]

That’s what confused me lol

[meager cypress]

nice

[strong hare]

yeah the vertical flip gave the space to be seen

[sharp flame]

they also have strict colour rules haha

[meager cypress]

did we get an update on the spear nama?

[timid solstice]

yellow is new

[sharp flame]

I would think OSPUZE

[strong hare]

"call to action" eww xd

[sharp flame]

but then iseul-t colours would be there too

[sharp flame]

idk I like that phrase haha

[low summit]

I love how thorough and straightforward they are with this guide

hype

[sharp flame]

again I think it's referring to the girl

go back a slide and you will see how she is supposed to look

[meager cypress]

yeah its usually the other way

[slender lodge]

In the doc it said trailer and gameplay video both will be released on 2nd

But trailer came early

[sharp flame]

I'm saying that's what they meant

too

[slender lodge]

So I'm guessing that was cuz of EE?

[sharp flame]

they said that?

[slender lodge]

In the fact sheat

[sharp flame]

okay screenshot the sheat pls

[slender lodge]

I'm on mobile

Gimme a min

[timid solstice]

it doesnt say that

but...

New Gameplay Trailer

wheres this?!

[slender lodge]

2nd

[timid solstice]

2nd is February

[slender lodge]

Yes

[low summit]

isn't it referring to the one we got already

[slender lodge]

Oh?

Oh

Wtf

[timid solstice]

23rd month lol ?

[low summit]

it was posted that day

[slender lodge]

Bet it's because of EE

[slender lodge]

I read it wrong

[quiet silo]

I think the announcement is just worded a little funky. It is the Beta AND gameplay trailer (singular)

[low summit]

shit this US/UK thing is confusing

[slender lodge]

Probs delayed trailer by few days

Or because of EE

Or whatever other reason

[low summit]

idek who reads it what way but one is d/m/y and other is m/d/y

[slender lodge]

2/2/2023

Nonetheless

[low summit]

23rd

[timid solstice]

It was released on 23rd

[hidden nacelle]

is there new news?

[timid solstice]

they didnt delay it

[slender lodge]

2nd

[timid solstice]

?>?

[low summit]

23rd is on the pic

[slender lodge]

Oh my god

[slender lodge]

I'm fucking stupid man

[timid solstice]

poor swa

[slender lodge]

My eyes for 3 whole minutes ignored the 23's 3

[low summit]

it happens

[slender lodge]

I'm going blind

[low summit]

have you had sleep yet?

you were the one saying you haven't slept for 2 days right?

[timid solstice]

yeah, 'Beta & New Gameplay' being the same

[quiet silo]

Yuppers!

[sharp flame]

I actually didn't think there'd be anything to get me more hyped than I was

but haha I love this sm

[low summit]

same but now its tripled

[slender lodge]

Yeah :/

I'll sleep well tonight though

[low summit]

get some rest, save insomnia for beta days

[slender lodge]

Hehhee

Had an exam but finished it

[low summit]

I'll have one tmrw

[slender lodge]

Ohh good luck!

Wait so gameplay trailer is the same as beta trailer?

[low summit]

yes

I'd assume

[sharp flame]

yeah haha

it's gameplay in there

[slender lodge]

Tru tru

[quiet silo]

Its the "Beta & Gameplay" Trailer, singular trailer so I'm thinking it must be.

[sharp flame]

wonder if this link will hyperlink at some point

[low summit]

where's this

[quiet silo]

Rob said he removed the EE part once we solved it so I don't think so.

[sharp flame]

on the EE slide

[sharp flame]

he removed the ciphered text

left the LINK - EE HUNTERS.?

in it

[quiet silo]

Oh huh, maybe then! We'll have to come back and look periodically lol

[sharp flame]

#official-art maybe?

[low summit]

these new backgrounds look pleasing as well

[slender lodge]

The smokkeee

[tacit creek]

text here

[slender lodge]

Where's that from

[tacit creek]

and little bit look down i take screen shot

[tacit creek]

idk

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tsSCuWLbIr4rHGo4F8Ztkl6KEc1iBAB6OfO4jKYHHb0/edit#slide=id.g1b672f3d96c_0_1051

https://discordapp.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1011929497139953744/1080518370337759355

39. image

but its deleted

[timid solstice]

@slender lodge if you ever spot things update again let us in here too know please
I missed this - #🔴┇media-chat message

[slender lodge]

For sure<3

[sharp flame]

I am really struggling to save images out of these google slides and documents

anyone have any tips?

ctrl C does not save them into computer clipboard

[slender lodge]

I can't even see them

Right click save image

Is there some kind of option

[sharp flame]

like I want this image

[timid solstice]

download the file maybe

file / download /pptx

[sharp flame]

I just downloaded it using google drawings

but I also want the gifs lol

[slender lodge]

That's a sick shot

[sharp flame]

yep this comes with the empty space

[solar glade]

download them as PDFs

the documents i mean

[tacit creek]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat

[timid solstice]

@sharp flame there ya go

[low summit]

beautiful

[sharp flame]

Tysm

Post it in main, it needs to be seen

I put it in media anyways

[timid solstice]

btw im looking at the arc guidelines now..

[slender lodge]

I was planning to do that haha

[slender lodge]

Oh

Rob

What's the full layer name?

Earth Ward - ...intriguing.! ?

[proud minnow]

haha... don't save these images... they are compressed like crazy.!

I will upload them to OFFICIAL later

[timid solstice]

Thanks Rob they look fantastic !

[meager cypress]

hey rob any update on that nama DM?

[slender lodge]

Earth Ward eh?

Wgat- what do we mean with that?

I'm tryna make it my phone bg haha

Kinda bored of this ISEULT one

Like for home

Lock screen ISEULT looks good

Only heavy

Hmmmm

[timid solstice]

earthward
towards the earth, from the air or from space:
The plane began to spiral earthward.

From the game reveal trailer :-

Killing machines falling from the sky

[sharp flame]

Where is that?

[timid solstice]

arc raiders guidelines - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FhiqZv8hitxvM1XRdF--H_BjTGjgv6SI

also found name of this Raider - RACERS

i think was known not sure

[sharp flame]

I did get a compilation of all the logos on an Artstation of one of the artists

but not the names

[tacit creek]

I want to be one more theory

I think the logos meet at one point and form another logo

[low summit]

wild one

[proud minnow]

JUST FYI - there are no EE’s in these files…

(just so you dont waste time searching for things… nothing linked to our EE-hunt until after the Closed Beta… relax now…!)

[tacit creek]

1 week free

[timid solstice]

Did we find all of the 'couple' of eggs in the beta trailer ?

[golden karma]

after the beginning of the closed beta ? or after the end ?

that we are not sure

surely there will be things to find ingame

[proud minnow]

After the end

[tacit creek]

3 week

3 weeks vacation

[sharp flame]

👀 rob

[proud minnow]

You found one… ._.

[sharp flame]

Does NamaTama count?

[proud minnow]

hehe yes

[timid solstice]

fo sho

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/popcorn-excited-nervous-expectant-gif-14990213

okay No.2 is still out there

yknow I'd say that final NamaTama kick is a FIFA reference and go to sleep

but it seems like there is something yet for us to find..

[timid solstice]

(it's only TWO EE's in there... but I will not confirm them... LOVE U.!)

truth then or ?!

[quiet silo]

I knew it! I'm not crazy everyone I haven't been combing these frames for nothing!

https://tenor.com/view/anna-faris-not-crazy-cindy-campbell-scary-movie-cindy-gif-12574853

[sharp flame]

hehe you made him go back on his word

[sharp flame]

"Earth Ward - Wait, what do we mean with this, intruiging.!"

hehe intruiging has a slight spelling error

should be intriguing

🤓

[slender lodge]

Massive it's another o=0 thing lol

Maybe*

Not massive

[meager cypress]

was that in arcs stuff?

[sharp flame]

yeah

[meager cypress]

lol were looking through all the files now

I guess if someone wanted to do a lore video on arc they could because there is a lore folder

[steel palm]

probably

[proud minnow]

Hi.!
I will upload some of the images from the Brand Guide you wanted to #official-art soon... sorry for the delay... ._.

[sharp flame]

Can't wait! new backgrounds hehe

[sharp flame]

Could you do the few GIFs too?

[proud minnow]

Yes, I can do that too... ._.

[sharp flame]

Thank you very much!
we will be gobbling this footage up, even though there will be an overabundance next week hehe

[slender lodge]

YESSS

[sharp flame]

nice name

[slender lodge]

thank you.!

oh you've updated i see

are we all slowly becoming clones of Rob?

[sharp flame]

us hunters should all end our names with .!

haha

[slender lodge]

yoio!

ess

yess

[tranquil ivy]

Huh

[sharp flame]

yknow.. Rob's signature.. .!

[tranquil ivy]

Oooooooh

Haha

[low summit]

(.!) !

[slender lodge]

this sounds like some mathematical formula bro

[sharp flame]

.!

[slender lodge]

full stop factorial

46!

[low summit]

that's a lot

[slender lodge]

haha yes

[low summit]

there's that meme

of a glass of strawberry jam

[slender lodge]

5502622159812088949850305428800254892961651752960000000000

[low summit]

and the caption is: 'do you know how many strawberries are squeezed into this glass? 25!'

and

my brother in christ

how did you find 15511210043330985984000000 strawberries

[strong hare]

how did you find my foot size?

[slender lodge]

stalked

its on ur myspace

[strong hare]

oh no

[sharp flame]

😭

[slender lodge]

HAHAHAH YES

[sharp flame]

haha

[slender lodge]

theres also this meme its like

this girl writing on a class whiteboard

"what is 5+5"

and the guy tries to help him by writing "10!"

so the girl writes '3628800' on the board lmfao

[sharp flame]

ngl if the girl is really asking 5 + 5

what is this class

actually probably Business 💀

[slender lodge]

business kids learning pythagoras theorem in last year of unis

[low summit]

secondary school, freshers camp, spec maths class, registration at the camp

we got our own little stickers to write our name on it and glue it on our shirts

[sharp flame]

😭

[low summit]

and we had to write pythagoras theorem on it

half of the ppl didnt manage to

[sharp flame]

aintnoway

[low summit]

yea I was like the 7th person to arrive there

and I was the second who knew the theorem

[upbeat badge]

XD

[coarse olive]

One of my favorite math memes is: 230 - 220 * 0.5 = 5!

[low summit]

damn

haha

[slender lodge]

wait

[tranquil ivy]

Ee?

[slender lodge]

i dont get it 🥹

[low summit]

one way the solution is 5 factorial

but if you solve the problem the wrong way it's just 5

[quiet silo]

The EE hunt has been a long elaborate plan for rob to conscript his own little personal army of clones.

[coarse olive]

so the joke is that if you calculate things in the wrong order you'll get 5, like (230 -220) * 0.5 so people start arguing about order of operations but with the factorial it's correct

[slender lodge]

OHHHHHHHHHH OIHHHHHHHHHH

omg

hahahaha

[quiet silo]

Hahahaha this is gold

[slender lodge]

i calculated it the wrong way

[low summit]

hah lmaoo

[slender lodge]

well if u give a programming language

230 - 220 * 0.5

it will give u 5 i think

[quiet silo]

The "!" changes everything though.

[slender lodge]

oh wait
im wrong on all accounts

[proud minnow]

“.!” you mean..?

[slender lodge]

😏

[low summit]

what does 5.! equal?

[quiet silo]

Hahaha of course! Punctuation is very important, especially for Easter Egg Hunters._.

[sharp flame]

... ._.

[coarse olive]

I think it depends on the language but pythons "eval()" handles it correctly

[sharp flame]

you gotta use brackets to always be sure... .!

[quiet silo]

C++ seems to get it right too.

[low summit]

I didn't even do eval, just printed the equation

and it's still correct

[sharp flame]

I wanna see at least one other person with '.!' at the end of their name

[coarse olive]

Now that you say it that makes sense, I just had my mind set on giving it as one input

[low summit]

I don't feel entitled to and I already have a title in my name

oh, Tim might be the one

[slender lodge]

oh eval automatically calculates bodmas/pedmas?

i used java on intellij and i got 120 too,i think it just knows

[coarse olive]

eval() just parses strings as code, it's incredibly dangerous

[sick stone]

assembly apparently doesn't

[slender lodge]

ouh

[sharp flame]

hehe I like your title

[sick stone]

which makes sense

[low summit]

ty

but we have a rival now who illegally uses our gif

[sick stone]

according to the internet assembly would give 5

[sharp flame]

now Tim The Enchanter.! incoming

[slender lodge]

wait what

[quiet silo]

Try assembling it a little different

[sharp flame]

ever since I discovered that Server Profile and actual Profile are two separate things I have been abusing my identity-shifting powers

[low summit]

hahah

[sick stone]

I drop by every now and then to see if the chat needs some wizarding up

https://tenor.com/view/kek-magician-wizard-pepe-power-gif-13819080

you have been wizarded

[sharp flame]

we still love you 'round here

[slender lodge]

tim: enters the chat last month, sees everyone working hard on ee

tim: enters chat now, sees people (me) doing simple math stuff wrong

[sharp flame]

look out Tier 1-E

we will look at it more literally, piece things together easier, find that password easily

that's a fish™️ promise

[quiet silo]

I'm surprised but Lua even nailed it with zero changes lol

I remember from my gmod days lua always messed up my calculations when I was making stuff. But to be fair it might not have been lua I was way worse at math syntax back then lol

[proud minnow]

PHEW, that was scary... feels good to be back, lol... ._.

[low summit]

huh

close one

._.

[sharp flame]

okay let me say it here instead.. right now the channel we need is
official-art .!

been itching for that background hehehe

[proud minnow]

what images did you want this one right..?

[sharp flame]

Yes! and one or two others.. hehe

[proud minnow]

two others... scrolling up...

[quiet silo]

We're all very proud of you for stepping out of your Easter Egg Shell rob ❤️ lol

[sharp flame]

Slides 7, 16, 17, 20 and 23 for the smoke background..

I know that is a lot and I will be happy with just one or two of those.. haha

[quiet silo]

What about that one we haven't seen yet rob can you put that one in there? The uh secret one you haven't shown anyone yet.

[sharp flame]

might've asked too much.! 😭

[slender lodge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011929497139953744/1080544788165697607/image.png

i need this lol

[quiet silo]

Hahaha, we're a bunch of secret fiends

[proud minnow]

You will get it... ._.

[slender lodge]

[tranquil ivy]

Rob who's your squad for THE FINALS?

[sharp flame]

I would say it's my favourite trio but honestly they all look so good in the Beta trailer!

[slender lodge]

they look so badass and so dope aaaaaaa

[sharp flame]

was vibing with the tactical green+orange skins too...

[proud minnow]

Currently I mainly team up with Högis & KungFungus... ._.

(you will see us during the Closed Beta, we are a dream team, hehe)

[slender lodge]

fungus amongus

[quiet silo]

KungFungus?! What an incredible name

[low summit]

kungfungus

almost as good as bear

[proud minnow]

I will tell him tomorrow..!

[crimson yarrow]

#squadgoals

[sharp flame]

is it pronounced Fungus or Foo-ngus

like the Fu in Kung Fu?

I have to know..

[slender lodge]

kung must be a fungi to play with

[quiet silo]

Ahh good ole Fungus puns... Pungus

[slender lodge]

[tranquil ivy]

You ready to be destroyed by me and my squad?

[proud minnow]

Yes we are..!
(GLHF... ._.)

[sharp flame]

Kung Foongus it is

[slender lodge]

darnoux you on one end of the map

me on the other

no one can get away

[sharp flame]

hope I kill you next week 😈

[slender lodge]

cardboard sniper warfare

[quiet silo]

Careful if you attack rob's squad from the front they have a very strong frontal defense. Looks something like this.

[slender lodge]

when you play using google cardboard

hahaha

[quiet silo]

I LOVE that the bolt has tin foil wrapped around the bottom on that skin lol

[slender lodge]

oh where

[sharp flame]

hahahah

[sharp flame]

newspaper

actually

[quiet silo]

Ohhh for real? I thought it was reflective

[sharp flame]

check for yourself

it's not quite newspaper

seems to be a single strip with black writing down the middle

[quiet silo]

Hmmmm yeah that might be like a comic strip? I'm excited to see it in game either way the cardboard skins are cool.

[slender lodge]

That's a grenad e

[sharp flame]

yes I need it for my rocket launcher, knife, shield, etc