easter-eggs

[magic talon]

And no need to engage with that person either. Let the CM take care of it 💚

[turbid tinsel]

doesnt appear any managers are on

[magic talon]

Violet is here but prolly busy dealing with other stuff

[turbid tinsel]

they must appear as offline then

[dull marsh]

That person might have gotten their account hacked, they posted that same message in every single channel

[magic talon]

Mhm prolly dealing with other stuff, either way I hope someone comes ASAP

[alpine junco]

Rhodent poster

[oblique yoke]

guys, what about numbers in this trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVdKBnmvOLE&ab_channel=THEFINALS

[sand crest]

on windows you can also use the alt key + a combination from numpad to get symbols like ▲┴ etc. More on: https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/alt-codes.html

(re-sending cause it was meant as a reply)

have we seen the number 255 anywhere? cause it's the fake space (alt + 255)

[turbid tinsel]

ive seen what ive thought was 2 and 5 in a bunch of spots but i dont know if it was relevant

[alpine junco]

anyone decode this yet?

i posted about it before but no answer

[fallen jasper]

what is that?

[green turtle]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1212747235578609795

[fallen jasper]

oh sr

[sharp flame]

SR.!

more like 😂

[fallen jasper]

It's a portal to the underworld

[sweet thistle]

Doesn't even have 2FA 🤓 ☝🏽

[sand crest]

was the civic crown ever eyed? cause i think it's not a civic crown but a triumphalis crown (idk if it matters) in vvv.png

[hard forge]

source ?

[sand crest]

https://mariamilani.com/ancient_civilisation_civilization/ancient_rome_pictures_crowns.htm

[hard forge]

Triumphalis – made of Laurel (Bay) leaves.
An oversized corona triumphalis could also be made of gold, and held above the triumphant general’s head throughout the triumph.

[sand crest]

so the namatama in vvv.png is a general

[hard forge]

or a bride

[snow hemlock]

Wtf is this lmaoooo https://twitter.com/reachthefinals/status/1766441583392485523?s=46&t=GYnpLqmhp37BXz6VK6aIzQ

xX_CNS_RuRDy_CNS_Xx (@reachthefinals) on X

xX . H5-17-8A-BX-6S. PF . Xx

Twitter · Mar 9, 2024, 12:31 PM

[carmine trench]

Probably the CNS mascot

Counter to the Nama Tama

[alpine junco]

#1213500600117891122

#1213500600117891122

#1213500600117891122

PLEASE PIN

[coarse dagger]

👀

[idle gull]

probably it can be a traffic light and a tunel behind?

idk

[sick osprey]

Los locos kick your ass. Los locos kick your face. Los locos kick your balls INTO OUTER SPAAAACE!

[alpine whale]

Bro you just gave me a flashback to one of the funniest robot movies I've ever seen when I was a kid

[sharp flame]

The channel must be pinned

[tranquil barn]

No but with Kronägg

[snow walrus]

There are 4 main pyramids not 3
Giza
Khafre
Menkaure
Queens

[dull marsh]

Good point, although conspiracy theories conveniently ignore it

[snow walrus]

Queens are pyramids complex

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

[alpine junco]

dont forget the pyramids that are older

[snow walrus]

There is a pyramid in Rome also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius

[snow walrus]

https://www.crystalinks.com/pyramiditaly.html

Discovered May 2, 2003, from the air over northern Italy, 40 km from Milan, were three pyramids, with the same alignment as Giza and Orion.

The inclination degree of all the three pyramids is 42/43 and there is a perfect alignment with the Orion constellation.

"Famous Ancient Sites (Civilizations) that align with the Belt Stars of Orion"

X3C

[snow walrus]

Las Vegas Pyramid -Known temporarily as "Project X",
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_Las_Vegas#Luxor_Sky_Beam

ah you guys already have found! NICE

[full token]

6 more days until the Ides of March

[lusty lodge]

This Channel go far…

[solid jay]

@coarse dagger I found this last night in the beside you image. It's not marked in your vault findings.

#easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

you can create a pull request

[hard forge]

no it doesn't.

[solid jay]

I was not aware. I'll do it if I have time today. Got a lot going on.

[snow walrus]

it is just diversative now due to many themes

[lusty lodge]

Ok, good luck in your easter eggs reasearch

[unkempt dune]

interesting great comet from 1744 that had 6 tails https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1744

[sharp flame]

is the connection here Asteroid + 6?

[unkempt dune]

I just came across it will trying stuff for 70.68.71.67.72.png, but I don't think it's the answer for what I'm looking at. I did find the 6 tails part interesting because 6 6 6 has been a thing.

[worldly flicker]

i figured it out

Arc Raiders and Season 2 will drop simultaneously

[snow walrus]

there are many great comets

like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar's_Comet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_comet#List_of_great_comets

[hard forge]

based on what?

[deft wedge]

what kind of hook is above the building in the practice range???

[jade citrus]

it's the hook from the balloon that hangs there

[bright ruin]

Think it’s a joke lol

[deft wedge]

thanks, I forgot about breaking it🥸

[solid jay]

Something of note. In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass", the entire country is divided into tiny squares. Not unlike the squares that the Virtual space is made up of in The Finals.

[fresh lion]

Hey guys how do you join the white rabbit thread so you can join the conco there

Convo*

[solid jay]

You need to rank up in the server first

[fresh lion]

Just by commenting?

[solid jay]

-rank

[solid jay]

Ya but don't level up in this channel unless it's EE related

[fresh lion]

And you rank up just by engaging in the channel in any way or specific ways?

[bright ruin]

remind me how you got onto this book as a lead? So I can properly follow this thread

[fresh lion]

Gotcha thx

[jaunty mirage]

any new clues for the password

[solid jay]

White Rabbits and all of the countless other Alice in Wonderland clues

[bright ruin]

Ah right, I forget it's an Alice in Wonderland story

Haddocks' Eyes is a song sung by The White Knight (but he calls it his own composition "A-Sitting on a Gate"

[balmy shuttle]

Alice did climb through a mirror in Through the looking glass. Mirror has come up as a lead before.

[solid jay]

Ya there are tons of Alice related things that have been mentioned.

[marble lance]

the mirror = the arc

[bright ruin]

Thomas Norton... which side would he fall on, Gold or Egg?

It looks like egg to me, no?

eh nevermind I don't think where I was going is anything

[solid jay]

I was also just thinking that the 5 truths could be the 5 senses but I'm on mobile and can't see if this has been discussed right now.

[candid basin]

Jesus so many messages in one day

what happened

[solid jay]

Really unsure, but sounds like it was a dead end

[solid jay]

Not a lot yet l, but there are always lots of messages.

[sand crest]

maybe we're missing a clue from the 1.2.0 patch notes?
I don't think choosing for example the capital "L" from "Levels" instead of "l" was random. Same goes for the "G" in "Gas" and the "ng" from "stinging" which they could have used bold on "n" and "g" individually.

p[o]p
[L]evels
stingi[ng]
[G]as
Evenin[g]
[e]nemy
arch[e]type
Ad[d]ed

oLngGgeed

0[o]0
[L]00000
000000[ng]
[G]00
000000[g]
[e]0000
0000[e]0000
00[d]00

O2,L1,N7,G8,G1,G7,E1,E5,D3

217817153

106706042

ASCII
111 76 110 103 71 103 101 101 100

Logged Gen
GoLden egg

[solid jay]

Ya nothing about the 5 senses has been discussed. Which seems odd given that CNS might be Central Nervous System.

[balmy shuttle]

Central Network(ing) System?

[solid jay]

Ya that was the more discussed angle i believe

[hard moss]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_leaving_the_Solar_System
Five space probes that reached escape velocity. They can easily be traced back to earlier clues so maybe there's a lead here?
Couldn't really find anyone talking about it previously in here

[solid jay]

Can we link sets of 5 to the various 5 truths we have?

Gold
Egg
Space
Latin
Mirror

[dull marsh]

🕯️ SR 🕯️

[proud minnow]

I’m impressed, but unfortunately not correct…

[dull marsh]

So there IS something about that

[bright ruin]

Has it ever been asked what exactly Nama Tama's Yolk is for? Function-wise... He's alive, would that be his heart?

[proud minnow]

Pluto - Press F

[dull marsh]

I'd assume it's his brain, his Central Nervous System even

[dull marsh]

Once again, rob using F to "pay respect", it's been multiple times that it's been occurring

[velvet narwhal]

Maybe it's his blood and he is in constant agony

[dull marsh]

F = 6 = 9

[hard current]

almost like we need to look for something/concept/idea/person that once was relevant but passed

[bright ruin]

69, sex

Both a joke, and literally referencing the sex clue

[tranquil barn]

Just a thought, would you really type/say "combined them" or would you say "combine them"...?

[pure loom]

Did you have a chance to go through our ideas from a couple of days ago? Removing the numbers from the passwords to make a sentence.

[dull marsh]

Percival Lowell [...] started an extensive project in search of a possible ninth planet, which he termed “Planet X.”

International Astronomical Union (IAU) = 1AU

[unborn pilot]

Thanks for acknowledging! I’ll sleep better knowing that. 🙂

[dull marsh]

= 1 gold?

Press F to pay respect is a meme from Call Of Duty

Game made by Activision

Activison was founded in 1979, by the former Atari coders

David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller, Bob Whitehead and the former music manager Jim Levy

Seems like an interesting thread

Press F was on PC

X on XBox

And square on Playstation

[bright ruin]

Has Rob eye'd the brownian motion discussion from way back when

[tranquil barn]

Don't seem like it.

[dull marsh]

That action was to mourn the death of Private William "Will" Irons

[tranquil barn]

Are you just explaining CoD lore?

[dull marsh]

No, I'm looking at stuff that might link, William is a reccuring name (Shakespeare, Herschell)

And Iron is an element

[tranquil barn]

I'm just giving you a hard time.

[dull marsh]

No problem, good to challenge ideas a bit 😊

[snow walrus]

Can we consider these frames as X and crown?

[dull marsh]

Overall F = death

Or F = downfall of some sort

[hard current]

hm.. makes me think there IS something hidden in there then

[gloomy anvil]

I'm still mad we never got a clean frame of that lineup 😭

[balmy shuttle]

Humpty Dumpty?

[hard moss]

Thought that as well, but rob looked through the mirror and there were no walls

[proud minnow]

Yes it is, hehe

[spice lark]

I just want to find a monkey, i've searched high and low. Do the telescopes on Monaco have any significance with the monkey or is it purely time based?

I even shot a cannonball backwards off a jumpad towards the monaco zoo... that did nothing

[hard moss]

Gotta be 1638, or have we explored that?
666 HEX = 1638 in decimal
Just as RZR1911 got their 1911 from 777

[bright ruin]

You keep saying Press F, assuming this means "to pay respects" this assumes someone or something has died

Therefore, we need to ask a question. Or rather inquire about the cause of death. AKA "Inquest"
An anagram of question (without the o, lack of o being a common theme such as burrw)

fuck

there's no o

I've been bamboozled

wait, there's no o

I HAVEN'T BEEN BAMBOOZLED YET

[tranquil barn]

Yes there is?

[tranquil barn]

Iunno, see if something fun happened 1638

[dull marsh]

F = _

[sand crest]

or just check tier 1F for something common in the 2 question marks

[sweet void]

Is there anything visible **only **with the tungsten pink helmet

[quaint wing]

Those pictures are our key, it's just a matter of figuring out the right lock.

[jade cradle]

Give us a hint Rob we are hopeless little air heads

🥲

[hard forge]

He did give us more hints

Open your Eyes

[quaint wing]

He literally said "Yes it is". I'm pretty sure the password is in those two images we just need to figure out how to extract it

[jade cradle]

My eyes shall remain closed

One more hint

[hard forge]

X

[jade cradle]

I cant see that

[sand crest]

idk how we're meant to take this "oye". Is it a clue for the password as in its letters? Like it should contain "oye" in the middle? or should we take it metaphorically? eyes of an egg?

like the eyes of namatama constantly looking in various directions?

[dull marsh]

Pluto: Orbital period (synodic): 366.73 days

366 seems pretty... weird

(366 = EGG)

Surface gravity: 0.063g

[balmy shuttle]

Oh shit you cookin

[dull marsh]

Pluto has a moderately eccentric and inclined orbit, ranging from 30 to 49 astronomical units

30+49=79

It has 5 moons

Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered as a binary system

[balmy shuttle]

79 mirrored is 97 which is gold

[dull marsh]

79 is gold, not 97

[balmy shuttle]

Yea I’m an idiot. My bad. Ima just let you get back to cookin

[dull marsh]

Pluto was the ancient Roman god of the dead, wealth, and agriculture

That would like Pluto and Press F meme, to pay tribute to someone's drath

As commander of the subterranean realms, he was the master of ores, metals, and the precious stones found within them

So master of gold?

[bronze wolf]

trying to play a bit of catch up

any significant eyes/finds in the past week beside s2/CNS stuff?

[dull marsh]

Scroll up a bit, had a few interesting message from rob

Pluto’s parents were Ops, goddess of the earth, and Saturn, ruler of the cosmos. His brother Jupiter—the mightiest of all gods—freed Pluto and his siblings from their father’s wrath. These siblings included Neptune, lord of all waters, Juno, the matron goddess, Vesta, guardian of hearth and home, and Ceres, a fertility goddess associated with agriculture.

Quite a few interesting stuff that might link up a bit

Goddess of earth

Ruler of cosmos

Fertility goddess

Pluto flew forth upon his chariot, abducted Proserpina, and carried her away, leaving naught behind but a bow the girl had used as a belt. The scene—one of the most famous in ancient literature—was rendered beautifully by the poet Ovid in his masterwork the Metamorphoses

Proserpina is Persophone that has been mentioned before

The arc clue could refer to a bow

Ovid has been mentioned before too

[bronze wolf]

appreciate the lil write up, helps the ctrl+f'ing

[dull marsh]

Starts here #easter-eggs message
I didn't see much other really relevant stuff but might have missed some tho

[bronze wolf]

saved me a few hours of poking around, genuinely appreciated, also nice red now 🙂

[alpine junco]

what if the questions marks are hidden in other images

and they were given as is since they were not found

[dull marsh]

It's really not far up this convo tho hehe

But yeah you can't know when it starts etc.

[bronze wolf]

was gonna scroll from when i last was here, so this saves a TON of time

also decided to dump like 20 pages of notes and try to start fresh, things were getting messy

how up to date is the padlet?

[dull marsh]

No idea

We are not getting much stuff to tie in to the rest

I didn't even check it in quite a while

[bronze wolf]

also a kind of dumb question - the diamond clues - are they for this tier or next tier?

[dull marsh]

I think they're for next level or the final step of this whole hunt, but better have someone confirm it

Might be on the wiki

[acoustic canyon]

final step of the hunt #easter-eggs message

[snow walrus]

Planetary flyby???

Pluto's first name is Planet X

[alpine junco]

hes saying press f for respect

becuz pluto isnt a planet

[snow walrus]

But

[turbid tinsel]

i thought it became a planet again recently?

[turbid tinsel]

whats the F ascii show on c64 keyboard?

[snow walrus]

70 ASCII
$46 PETSCII

[turbid tinsel]

$46 would be 64$ or 64 backwards anyways

[snow walrus]

The name Pluto came from the Roman god of the underworld; and it is also an epithet for Hades (the Greek equivalent of Pluto)

[solid jay]

You are def cooking. I'll look up some stuff when I get home.

[snow walrus]

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

Julius Caesar, in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (VI:18), states that the Gauls all claimed descent from Dis Pater.

[dim silo]

The first name of Pluto was "O" (William Henry Pickering)

[sweet void]

I think tungsten helmet is a clue, here is why => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Langmuir

• this guy has won a **nobel **prize in Chemistry
• He has a Laboratory involved into clouds (**precipitations **?) => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langmuir_Laboratory_for_Atmospheric_Research
• Also linked to arc (**arcus **??) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_tungsten_arc_welding
• Tungsten is used as heat shield to enter atmospheres (space)
• Check the 👀 here #server-announcements message

[spare perch]

Does the good grenade count as an easter egg?

[gleaming crescent]

Whats the latest news on the training room roses?

I dont know much on easter egg stuffs, was just curious since it piqued my interest when it was first released.

[hearty meteor]

#1203859365610922036

[gleaming crescent]

Oh cool didnt know there was a whole chat

[hard moss]

Bro, this is not the channel for that.
Thaanks!

[sharp flame]

byeee

[shrewd fog]

so we do need to combine the 2 question mark photos, but how 🤔

[unkempt grove]

Can someone help me on the Morse code with the map?

[inner sand]

Goodbye

[sly geode]

I was gonna join in because this is kinda interesting but I realized I am waaay out of my depths here, Anyways good luck to you all impressive work honestly

[alpine pasture]

https://tenor.com/view/chrom-chromuwu-egg-eggs-gif-25952361 heres an egg now disscuss

[fallen jasper]

(idk if this is important but its weird how people overlook it)
ive heard a lot of people say "s lies" is to do with Sophia but i think its pretty obvious, with the way scotty shrugs off the glitches as if they don't matter, that there is something underlying with him.

[sharp flame]

Not a single one of us is "in" their depths here 😭

we need to sort that out before we can solve anything

[sly geode]

Hahaha best of luck

[hard moss]

I'm a bit confused on how we look at the "truths" on the padlet, isn't "Gold, Egg, Latin, Space" etc more topics or "threads"?
Especially with how rob worded the two clues at the top of the board; "two common threads that are consistent", which are Gold and Egg right?
Things that have been true/ or truths, are more like 3=iii, e=3, g=6=vi, o=0 etc etc

[unkempt grove]

I believe the new map is somewhere near saitama raiboc hall

[hard moss]

#1213954562856194048

[fallen jasper]

Tasty

[unkempt grove]

@hard moss how do we share what I think

Idk tell the people there what I have an idea of where

Or ask

[misty raven]

You go into the thread and tell them there

[unkempt grove]

I'm going into it

But it has the thing at bottom that says go into other channel

[velvet narwhal]

You need to be level 1 to be able to write into a thread

-levels

[wet leaf]

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[unkempt grove]

Thanks

How do I get to level one?

[acoustic canyon]

sending messages gives xp

[hard moss]

Keep chatting and check you level/rank in #🏆┇rank-check

[unkempt grove]

Oh, ok

Thanks you guys

[turbid tinsel]

argon and helium, nobel gases also mentioned during the arc welding process

[shrewd fog]

g e o g l g d, you can fit egg inside gold nicely

[unkempt dune]

I'm stilling thinking this is supposed to be something

vaguely reminds me of the "butterfly" from Into The Mystic

[austere palm]

Reminds me of a 4 leaf clover

[turbid tinsel]

ive always thought so but never really peaked anyones intrest. theres stuff inside the question mark as well

[turbid tinsel]

ive also thought i had it showing a 2 and 5 in there but not certain

[unkempt dune]

I've seen something that looks like two numbers in there before, but can't say for certain if they're numbers or not

[turbid tinsel]

have you played with it with both merged?

[unkempt dune]

a little bit, but I haven't seen anything of interest

[shrewd fog]

did you try overlaying the tfee_tion.jpg in this spot? maybe flipped as well and overlayed

[turbid tinsel]

ive tried overlaying in gimp as well as addition in gimp and making tweaks

[shrewd fog]

i remember rob saying we need to combine images, and the way we need to combine them isn't that hard, but also we won't randomly combine 2 images and something will show up easily. there should be a pattern for how we combine the images

[turbid tinsel]

with gimp the order of whats overlayed and the order of whats on top and bottoms changes what the image looks like visually. but addition just completley merges them from what i can tell

[shrewd fog]

i would think _ques goes on the bottom (1st layer) and _tion goes on top (2nd layer)

[turbid tinsel]

me as well, im to lazy to spend moeny for photoshop but feel like it would be alot better for this stuff

compared to gimp

maybe once we hit next tier ill get it

[shrewd fog]

im using gimp too, but also forensically (https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/#forensic-magnifier) is the easiest for sure. No way I can do in gimp what i can do with forensically, so I guess process in forensically first, then try to overlay in gimp, I might try that but sounds like a lot of work 😅

[turbid tinsel]

not sure what the screenshot quality will show you, but i thought this looked like xad 3 or something but in wiki search i found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAD_(software) which is used in amiga software. could just be a coincidence

[south wyvern]

I am not sure how did my previous message ended up on 'S01 Lore Video 02' so reposting again 😅

more ampersand (&) from The Finals' YouTube avatar/pfp (mobile screenshot)
C > 15, N > 22, and S > 17

Same goes for YT banner but a lot more so didn't count them

[bright ruin]

I use Affinity Photo, hate adobe

Could also checkout paint.net. Used to use that religiously

[solid jay]

MS paint. The OG not that Paint 3D garbage.

[bright ruin]

Love me some ms paint

[shrewd fog]

add those up joshnut and you get 54. woohoo! lol

[south wyvern]

True but don't think we have 54 😊 although this one is cool, C > 15 and we have three Vs, vvv > VVV > 15.

[gloomy anvil]

I know this has been mentioned before, but the whole "off-by-one" theme keeps popping up for me, and we got Caesar in vvv.png. Maybe a +1 or -1 casesar shift?

[unborn pilot]

Gold hex color is ffd700 (from tier f)
Mirror it to 007dff
Caesar shift by 1 to 118egg

[solid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/mike-smith-trailer-park-boys-bubbles-glasses-blink-gif-5292047

[unborn pilot]

lol. Yeah Rob’s got so many tricks.

[solid jay]

I'm legitimately astounded by that one

[rain comet]

Oganessonegg?

[nimble vault]

Hehehehe

[unborn pilot]

Ah the element

[rain comet]

Solidifies the use of elements in the passwords i guess

[unborn pilot]

It is a noble gas but i can’t connect anything else on it

Og egg 😉

What I’m wondering about is if F is 15 also then what’s up with the 7s. 007 was a clue too. LIGO 17. And then we had that 1551707. Also CNS seems to love 7 :::::::

Unless 17 is also IL and meant to show reverse of LI GO IL

[gloomy anvil]

I think 118 would just refer to the table / elements as a whole, since there are 118 in total

[unborn pilot]

Actually that makes more sense

[naive rover]

What is e

Is it 0

Never mind

[unkempt dune]

I was thinking the same thing when I ran into him right now. It got me thinking that Julius Caesar has never been eyed related to the civic crown on the vvv.png nama tama. Technically, Commodus is a Caesar and he would have also wore a civic crown.

Interesting quote about him (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus):

In the view of Cassius Dio, his accession marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust".

[unkempt dune]

fyi, I reached him from the nama tama artwork (#1212327783909429288 message):

Row 1: nama, nama, yolk
Row 2: yolk, yolk, nama, nama

1. Convert to morse code:
   ..- / --..

2. Decode the morse code:
   UZ

3. Convert the letters to numbers (A is alphabet method, B is decimal + sum method):
   -> A. 47 (the atomic number of silver)
   -> B. 85 + 90 = 175 (175 AD, Commodus, son of Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina, is named Caesar)

[strange breach]

I assume y'all have already noticed the blue CNS squares that started appearing?

Ive only seen it on Monaco but was curious where else people have seen them

[unkempt dune]

takling about the signs?

[balmy shuttle]

#1213500600117891122

[coarse dagger]

It was staring at us the whole time! Great work!

[unborn pilot]

Do you mean this or something else? #easter-eggs message

[strange breach]

maybe? I just noticed the blue squares that match the ones from the leaked skins that have been going around

[strange breach]

will check rn

no much brighter

and had some sort of animation in the middle, swirling pixels or something. On the side of Monaco facing the tiny forest area

[unborn pilot]

If you can post it or send to one of us plz do.

[strange breach]

Aiight will try and recreate tn, I was just passing by with my friends and didnt have my clipping software enabled like a dummy but I think i could pretty easily find it again

[unkempt dune]

talking about the one that looks like a body?

[strange breach]

nah, just looks like a 3d square

it was on Bank it, and looked like one of the money boxes in terms of size

[unkempt dune]

ahh, are you thinking of a glitched vault?

[unborn pilot]

So hard to tell what’s a CNS glitch vs a game glitch but considering how few graphical glitches if any at all I had before this it’s all really odd

[rain comet]

Can anyone drop the all level 2 passwords here?

[unkempt dune]

vaults are known to bug out sometimes

[strange breach]

thats what I thought it was at first, but then I stopped and looked at it and it stayed so perfectly still I thought I might as well check

but I think you may be right

if I can get Monaco tn will check again and if its not there I guess its safe to assume it was probably just a cash box glitch

[unborn pilot]

I know them without looking it’s sad lol: 1064 lxxix 5f137s2 0vif0rm cacoiii vit3llus viold evivi

[rain comet]

lmao

I think the t3 password is not that deep

[bright ruin]

#easter-eggs Check the easter egg website

[unborn pilot]

Tier 2 wasn’t that deep. It was just putting it all together + using 1 key

[rain comet]

I think it involves just 1 layer connection

T3 needs to go with one layer connection from t2

[unborn pilot]

everyone solved the gold & egg part very early that tier.

So the solution was kinda clear. But the key wasn’t.

[rain comet]

It has to be one google search away from viold and evivi

f0 50 500 3ff

[unborn pilot]

It made me laugh quite hard when it was just a simple shift of 1.

[rain comet]

f04503ff

[unborn pilot]

f0 5 050 0 3ff. Worth noting 050 in the middle there is ovo (egg) also.

[rain comet]

yeah

[bright ruin]

We haven't found any clues in the gold question mark image yet yeah?

[rain comet]

this is strange

oye again

bit distorted i mean

[unborn pilot]

We’ve tried but still at square one it seems

[bright ruin]

Ah okay great, so i'm not doing pointless work

I started this earlier today but had plans so I'm back at it

Found something 🙂

Only half though, so give me a bit to figure out the other half

[unborn pilot]

no you’re not. Idk what you’re doing exactly but it’s pretty much confirmed there’s something hidden in those we haven’t found

[bright ruin]

It's been a day full of research rabbit holes of learning a new skill, that's for sure

[unborn pilot]

Relatable

[loud stream]

ok this feels an awful lot like a coincidence

theres a million gold hex colors

no?

[unborn pilot]

Infinite. But only one that is officially “gold” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(color)

[loud stream]

i mean

[unkempt dune]

also, isn't it a hex color that rob picked himself?

[loud stream]

wikipedia isnt excatly official

official according to windows

if rob used then

yes

otherwise no

imo

[unborn pilot]

lol yes very very true but I didn’t mean wiki is official. Wikipedia just condenses info on the internet and that’s the agreed upon hex color of gold

[loud stream]

i mean the source is windows operating system color names not information on the internet

pantone differs

arguably pantone is more official

[unborn pilot]

But aside all that the direct clue I referenced is one from tier F

[loud stream]

then i agree

[unborn pilot]

Ffd700 is in the corners and middle of the picture itself in plain text

[loud stream]

i see

why is the 7 so weird?

but the 0s are normal

[unborn pilot]

Everything on the right half of the picture is mirrored

[loud stream]

oh i see

[unborn pilot]

Of the text

[loud stream]

heab

[unborn pilot]

The other F is backwards too

[loud stream]

hmm?

this is the 7

[unborn pilot]

Yup

[loud stream]

ok

[unborn pilot]

It’s simply mirrored. Back then it meant nothing. But now with mirrors and clues it seems to mean more

[devout cave]

U guys know the location of the new map? Wanna check it out on google maps

[unborn pilot]

Sure

[devout cave]

In Japan somewhere

[unborn pilot]

But explain why besides the fact everyone else is repeating it

[loud stream]

has it been confirmed?

that its there

[unborn pilot]

No

[loud stream]

i thought it was still speculation

ok

[devout cave]

Im sad. Had to take a couple days off the finals bc my pet rat bit my trigger finger so i cant use it

[loud stream]

i-

[hallow rivet]

Hello guyss

[devout cave]

Hi

[devout cave]

Also bc the art is all japan stuff

[loud stream]

i would be so unsuprised

if it wasnt japan

[devout cave]

Agreed

[loud stream]

an everyone is just like

[unborn pilot]

What art?

[loud stream]

<suprised_pikachu.gif>

[devout cave]

Uhm. I rhink from the twitter? I watched a utube and the 3 figurines were japan style

[loud stream]

i wouldnt exactly call them japan style

[unborn pilot]

The 3 figurines that were released a year ago and the guy put in the video

[devout cave]

One had an oni mask and the other was a samurai right?

[unborn pilot]

Again not new.

[devout cave]

Aaah i c

3 days and we find out

Do u think arc raiders is in the same universe?

As the finals

[balmy shuttle]

#📕┇lore

[unborn pilot]

No visuals still on these blue boxes??

[bright ruin]

Open Your Eyes

[solid jay]

imma just keep mine closed

[lyric umbra]

The comp structure at the bottom of the smoking guns picture is β-Carotene is an organic, strongly colored red-orange pigment abundant in fungi, plants, and fruits. It is a member of the carotenes, which are terpenoids, synthesized biochemically from eight isoprene units and thus having 40 carbons. Dietary β-carotene is a provitamin A compound, converting in the body to retino.

Not sure if it’s pointed out or if you are here but there’s also the letters to spell out food lol

Something to do with a red orange ish food- maybe related to Ospuse

[fallen jasper]

Bro dumb it down

[coarse dagger]

They're the same blue boxes as the corpse I posted, and that seem to follow light players around. I saw a table turn into them briefly upon breaking once.

[lyric umbra]

Basically a form of pigment in foods that’s considered “terps” sorta like weed.

What happens if we don’t unlock #3 before season 2

[unkempt dune]

we get to feel humiliated

season 2 contains more clues in case we don't solve it by then

which is.. closing in ⌛

[unborn pilot]

Oh that. Ok

[unkempt dune]

I find it interesting that there are 8 tiers before the last one. With binary, there's 8-bits in each byte:
passwords: gold gold gold egg egg egg gold egg
binary: 11100010 or 00011101 (226 or 29) (342 or 35) (E2 or 1D)
morse code: .../---/.- or -./---/... or ---/.../-. or .-/.../--- (SOA or NOS or OSN or ASO)

it's also interesting that NOS pops up here #easter-eggs message

[loud stream]

carrot

[loud stream]

also its alpha carotene not beta caroteen

i think

[lyric umbra]

I’m not too smart sorry

It’s all I could find by definition but I wonder if that would have any relevance

[loud stream]

actually its neither?

hmm

[lyric umbra]

Interesting to think about

It isn’t?

Hm

[loud stream]

gimme a sec

it has a few extra carbons on the rings

looks like this

more then anything

[lyric umbra]

That’s exactly what I described kind sir

[loud stream]

you said beta cartone

thats beta crpyoxanthin

its almost identical

[lyric umbra]

How do I send picture

[loud stream]

almost

[lyric umbra]

No wait

Holy shit you right

Man I need to stop drinking

[loud stream]

to be exactly correct it should be this

[bright ruin]

How familiar are you with binary?
I see most steganography tools use least significant bits, are there any that use most significant bits when manipulating the image? Is that even necessary if you have the former?

[loud stream]

most sig bit defeats the purpose of stegnagrophy

"make the most obvious change possible"

[unkempt dune]

you can view the bit planes of more significant bits

the least significant bit plane often times is really noisy

so sometimes you're better off looking at more significant ones

[dusky junco]

Just wanted to wish you guys luck, I love ARGs but I'm no good at solving them

[bright ruin]

What's a good tool for viewing MSB, I've been searching for hours and I'm not really finding much worthwhile, all seem to be LSB oriented

[loud stream]

well

eyes

work

its like

impossible to hide soemthing in msb

second least sure

but msb is the most obvious change to make

we use lsb because its the smallest chaange

[unkempt dune]

pi, you're not answering the question

[loud stream]

i mean you can write a program

[bright ruin]

Dawg I'm not programming something what

[loud stream]

loop through all pixels

[unkempt dune]

you can use CyberChef https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ it has a View Bit Plane operation

you can view all 8 bit planes with it from each color channel

[bright ruin]

Additional question

b4, rgba, msb, xy

the bit 4, it's referring to how many make up a bit? not which bit said information is on?
rgba - what is the a, alpha? Since there's also rgb

[loud stream]

a is alpha

since these are pngs they have an alpha channel

which could have information hidden it

[bright ruin]

Why would jpgs have rgba then if they don't have alphas 🤔

[unkempt dune]

JPEG/JPG files have just RGB while PNG files have RGBA

[loud stream]

jpegs also have really funny compression

[unkempt dune]

trying to view the alpha channel of a jpeg wouldn't/shouldn't do anything

[loud stream]

which make them unsuitable for alot of ee thing

[bright ruin]

so it's a false positive thing

Do we have pngs of the question marks?

[unkempt dune]

nope, they're jpg files

[bright ruin]

interesting

If I remember correctly, you determined the rgb on the gold question mark is 6,6,6 yeah?

[loud stream]

well thats def wrong

[bright ruin]

Sorry i mean in it

[loud stream]

cause if all three are the same its gray

[bright ruin]

black

[loud stream]

oh then maybe

[bright ruin]

I think I remember that on the padlet but I have too many tabs open to check

[unkempt dune]

the background color of tfee_ques.jpg is 6, 6, 6

[bright ruin]

Bit question, do you guys know the answer?

[unkempt dune]

never heard of b4, msb, or xy

[loud stream]

b4 is band 4

not bit 4

[flint carbon]

gffd

bg

gfd

dg

fd

gg

dfg

gdf

[bright ruin]

What is band 4 then?

[flint carbon]

fg

[loud stream]

uh usually green

band ~= channel

band 4 is the green channel from each pixele

[bright ruin]

that doesn't make sense

The band is determined by "r/g/b(a)"

it definitely stands for bit

[loud stream]

does it have docs

[bright ruin]

I just can't determine if it's how many digits make up a bit or if it's which bit the information is located on in the data

No lol, I only found this info by spending hours looking for bits and pieces (no pun intended)

[loud stream]

msb is brightness

[bright ruin]

It's not

[loud stream]

well

it is

[bright ruin]

most significant bit

[loud stream]

they are the same

[bright ruin]

Oh, didn't know that then, my bad

[loud stream]

i mean think about it

the brightness of the color that is most significant is the brightness of the pixel

[coarse dagger]

This is solved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthophyll

Please refer to existing documentation to avoid tangents debating solved clues

https://thelulzy.github.io/TF-EE-quartz-obsidian-vault/T1F/NeverOddOrEven

[bright ruin]

I've had to intake a lot of info today, correlating most significant bit with brightness of a pixel is not one of those things that seemed relevant enough to retain
It makes sense once you explain it

[loud stream]

techincally it could still be beta-xanthophll

since the difference is the oxygen vs hydroxyl

but thematically

xanthophyll fits much better

[coarse dagger]

The characteristic color of egg yolk results from the presence of a xanthophyll pigment…

Password to T1F was vit3llus AKA egg yolk

[coarse dagger]

Cool

[amber shell]

I'm probably slow but I found website holtow.com where there is "are you ready?" And a timer below. You can scan qr code from one of the stickers to go to this website

[turbid tinsel]

thats on every finals related social media and their websites

[amber shell]

Oh lol

Nvm then

[coarse dagger]

#1185727960980922488

[turbid tinsel]

has it been mentioned yet that fred hoyle, who was directly related in two nobel prize controversies (the one including Jocelyn Bell and another) is the same guy who wrote the book element 79?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_79_(anthology)

i searched his name but nothing relating to his short stories

in disc

[bright ruin]

Probably gonna call it quits for now, but do you guys see what looks like text at the upper portion of the question mark?

Almost certainly wrong, but the right word looks like "cats" lol

Left might say "Only"

[turbid tinsel]

i dont see anything unfortunately but dont let that discourage you

[bright ruin]

I can't entirely tell if it's letters or not... but it sticks out as not just normal noise

There's definitely something in that spot. A sentence or phrase. No light shines there in the original image. I'm going to dig deeper

[turbid tinsel]

im going to just toss out there, im like 60% sure the word "and" is significant.

[sweet void]

well maybe clues points to the guy Irving Langmuir ? :>

[turbid tinsel]

hard to say honestly. theres so much floating around

[dark dove]

something new here?

[dull marsh]

I didn't see any thread on mobile for the question mark images but we should make one for it, this is a lot of discussion (which is good overall) for the main thread 🥵

New image really looks like WALL-E

Located in New York at the beginning I think

EVE is here to check for plant suitability

And EVE is egg shaped

And a palindrome

[turbid tinsel]

we got the medieval migraine that is doing a hand sign
we got the electron config
we got VI
we got the number 5

vee backwards i hate to say it, is exactly how wall-ee says eves name

[lost wedge]

https://medal.tv/games/the-finals/clips/206ZUjIpP5JKDs/d1337aqqHYfl?invite=cr-MSxVOFksMjM0MTkyOTUs
Anyone seen these before?

[fresh quiver]

what should you see there?

[green turtle]

Can't see anything standout either

[turbid tinsel]

man password page went down briefly and thought i had got the password because i thought it was loading

[turbid tinsel]

we also got the civic crown,

civic is a palindrome, also if you use -1 you get cvc

if V is already used in passwords but we need numbers, is it possible v stays the same and we convert cvc into 3v3 which could also be EvE?

[coarse dagger]

No idea what we're supposed to be seeing

[sharp cave]

Hello guys, even my steam dowloads looks anormal ? is it a known issue or a CNS thing ? (same thing on both my pc) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1175167882305491007/1216337722441207929/image.png?ex=660005c7&is=65ed90c7&hm=436eef11067609fed496d4c3899021195bce4ca9801ea528d9cae920ebe97ce5&

[glass sundial]

Wrong channel, and it's normal doubt its a bug

[vapid holly]

Oh yeah

[plucky kettle]

nothing about the cns hacks will affect your ability to play or download the game (yet)

[sharp flame]

I think it would be cool if you could shoot the balloons around the map and pop them
the big ones
maybe it takes one million bullets

WHAT ROB?!

NO WAY!!

[hidden nacelle]

robby

fish knows something 🧐

[proud minnow]

It's not THAT obvious or that easy...

[hidden nacelle]

does the duck come down and destroy the map🤔

[gloomy anvil]

can you shoot the Monaco cannons into a jump pad and deflect them upwards? like the meteors lol

[hard forge]

Bullets, not Red Canisters or RPGs

[proud minnow]

fish and aspookabie were talking about this in another thread and I said that it belongs in the main thread... ._.

[hidden nacelle]

oh

[proud minnow]

I'm a nice guy, hehe

[meager quarry]

i want this if its not a thing

[hidden nacelle]

we know!

[proud minnow]

haha I have not tried, but now I will..!

[meager quarry]

thank you

[velvet narwhal]

You need a full team of jump pad users and bounce the cannon ball 3 times

[sharp flame]

first let us AIM the cannons..

[velvet narwhal]

Aiming cannons would be cool

[proud minnow]

I still think it makes zero sense that heavy can't pick them up, been whining about this since M6... perhaps one day..!

[gloomy anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/topsecret-cannon-cafeole-blackman-black-gif-19410325

[hidden nacelle]

can we rocket jump with them?

[meager quarry]

i just got an idea

[proud minnow]

(Unfortunately it requires some work (or actually a lot TBH) but back in the days I worked on games where you could mount weapons in the world... so we need to try and fix this in the future to keep me happy)

[meager quarry]

is game feedback also a suggestion chat?

[dusk veldt]

WHERE ARE THE DRAGONS ROB, jag har väntat sen podden kom ut :(

[proud minnow]

YES that is EXACTLY the reference I used..! Chocolate Mousse from Top Secret.!!!

haha, brilliant.

[fathom bough]

In Half-Life 2 you could simply stand next to the turret and control its XYZ, same with Left for dead 2, ended up working fine

[alpine whale]

Nice to see Rob again

[proud minnow]

It takes a lot of time to hatch dragons and then you need to train them... but relax... En vacker dag så kommer det finnas drakar i THE FINALS.!
(there will be dragons...)

[proud minnow]

We had that in the Closed Alpha I think... ._.

(or even in the CB1...?)

[dusk veldt]

Okay then i will be patient😔

[hard forge]

I have tried throwing grenades inside the cannon, nothing happened.

[fathom bough]

I don't remember there being any turrets in CB1*

the cannons functioned as they do now iirc

[dusk veldt]

I was amazed when i found out you could shoot with the cannons, ran around the map and shoot every cannon i could find

[alpine whale]

Some cannons are in weird positions thou, that are they pointing at?

[dusk veldt]

Yeah agree, theres some pointed towards the forest area in Monaco that wont hit anything…

[fathom bough]

They're all pointing at buildings right?

oh

🤔

[dusk veldt]

So how is the easter egg hunt going, i feel like people are getting progressively more insane for every day that goes by

[alpine whale]

It can't be, it's weird

I'll take a look next time I join a Monaco game, we should probably look into this

[dusk veldt]

No there is one pointed towards the forrest area i believe, upper right area i think

[hard forge]

DUCK AND COVER
Our duck mascot has decided to crash the party and crush part of the arena.

[eternal violet]

i wonder if anyone has ever mapped the angles of the cannons

[alpine whale]

What could that lead to thou? Maybe a point on the map?

[dusk veldt]

Maybe if you draw lines and they intersect somewhere

[alpine whale]

Yeah that's what I meant, sorry I forgot how to say it

[dusk veldt]

Wasnt there some graffiti found on the same map? Maybe it just leads there

[alpine whale]

Perhaps, but that's only on that other map thou, with the bunnies

[dusk veldt]

No it cant, that graffiti is on the far left, interesting. I wish we could have official images of the maps

[alpine whale]

From what I last heard

[sharp flame]

ROB EYES, WE NEED TO FIND OUT

[alpine whale]

Yeah

[fallen jasper]

It was just in Closed Alpha. CB1 didn't have it :(

Wish I used them more in the Alpha. Was fun sniping people with the cannons haha

[dusk veldt]

How much damage does a cannon even do

[strong hare]

Big duck

[alpine whale]

2 things, we need to find where they are point towards and map the angle on the top down view to see if they intercect anywhere

[hard forge]

During the Duck & Cover map modifier, the building is removed and replaced with rubble.

Either Scotty or June said something like "there was a cathedral here, I wonder what happened to it."

[alpine whale]

Enough to cause structural damage

[dusk veldt]

On a player i meant but yeah

The intersecting will be very hard without a map, is there a inoffical one?

[alpine whale]

Yeah there some all over the threads

[eternal violet]

monaco has an official map

[alpine whale]

Top down thou

[dusk veldt]

Oh where? Could you please link it?

That cant be a coincidence? The other maps dont have one right?

[dull marsh]

It would be funny if there was an EE with shooting the big duck, maybe from a specific spot on the map

[eternal violet]

https://twitter.com/reachthefinals/status/1669000104747970562

[dusk veldt]

This EE hunting is hurting my head, because they teased CNS since beta 2 i think. Imagine what they have cooked up for the future…

[hearty meteor]

is it possible to climb onto the duck? maybe cut it with the sword

although rob did eye 1 million bullets specifically

[dull marsh]

He said it's not that obvious tho

[dusk veldt]

Did we get anywhere with the latest images?

[alpine whale]

Not even that, it's existed way before that

Apparently CNS was tested on a periodic table on a wall in a developer photo all the way back in alpha

[dull marsh]

I believe that the eyes are about shooting those balloons, not the way to do it

[dusk veldt]

Oh i thought that was after

[alpine whale]

Nah it's been in the works for a while

[dull marsh]

I wouldn't be surprised if the canons are related to blowing up balloons

[alpine whale]

But the cannon can't be aimed

[dull marsh]

Either we need a specific sequence of events first

[fallen jasper]

once you see the three-headed monkey maybe it aims up one of the cannons

[dusk veldt]

That makes it easier though, testing is easier. There has to be a sequence or something

[dull marsh]

Either we need to somehow shoot the balloon with the canon, but yeah we'd need to be able to direct them first

[dull marsh]

Nah THM can be seen on all maps

[alpine whale]

I wonder if you can melee the cannons into rotation

Probs not

[dusk veldt]

Can the cannons be destroyed, because you might be able to move them with explosives and goo gun

[alpine whale]

They cannot

[alpine whale]

This sentence interests me thou

Jump padding the cannon balls

Maybe that's something????

[hard forge]

"Duck and cover" is a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion.

Duck and Cover are also taught as the response to other sudden destructive events, such as an earthquake or tornado, in the comparable situation where preventive emergency evacuation is similarly not an option, again, due to time constraints.

There is also a sandstorm Vegas variant, which has destroyed the map.

[dusk veldt]

Theres cannons on the upper part of the map that are aiming at a building, maybe putting a pad on that building?

[alpine whale]

Hmm

[dusk veldt]

At the ”royal plaza” area

[native frigate]

Hmm

[dusk veldt]

What if you use several jump pads like someone stated above?

[alpine whale]

Probably excessive, worth a try after other attempts

[dusk veldt]

What about leveling some buildings so the bullet travels further then using pads, i gotta try this out see ya🫡

[sharp flame]

definitely, and for the cannons facing outwards, we can continue the angle into the middle of the map, going backwards through the cannon

[alpine whale]

It'll be interesting to see what we find, I wonder if shooting the cannon outwards actually hits something too

[alpine junco]

canons deal damage to buildings and no damage to players

[dusk veldt]

So if thats the case, why did they remove the ability to aim it? There has to be a purpose🤔

[hearty meteor]

pretty sure cannons dont actually shoot projectiles, instead they apply a line that checks for collision with anything that has physics and then applies the damage to it

last time i played around with cannons i didnt see any projectiles

[dusk veldt]

Is there any cannons near the cathedral area? I know theres cannons at Pocket Park, Royal plaza and one at the edge of shopping district

[unreal marlin]

i never see anything come out of them either except for a puff of smoke and then if its pointing at something then the thing its pointing at just breaks apart

[spice lark]

There is projectiles, we've tried to make them collide before.

[unreal marlin]

can you hit players with it? i never seem to get the opportunity to try in matches since no one is really ever around or in the path

[sick osprey]

Every time I pass them I'll fire them off hoping to get a lucky kill with it. 🤣

Good to know it'll do the trick if it connects. 🤣

[jade citrus]

NEW CNS

[snow walrus]

New CNS DROPS
#1213500600117891122 message

[valid lichen]

Im sick rn what have I missed?

[sharp flame]

#1213500600117891122 message

[valid lichen]

[sand crest]

in Monaco some cannons are pointing outside the map, towards some sort of towers

like this one

i was so sure the monkey would be hiding behind one of those black things on them ._.

but maybe they're activation points for something else

can they be moved slightly with the goo gun maybe? 🧐

[sharp flame]

the soundtrack is so d!

[fathom bough]

true

[trail notch]

the guys who made it need a raise

[alpine junco]

go out

i thought there were 3

that shoot out

[solid jay]

re: cannons, maybe build a goo platform that extends over the side of the map and attach a jump pad to the goo?

[south granite]

Isn't there a barrier?

[sharp flame]

I was about to ask why those look like so realistic with a filter or something

then I remembered the new gamemode

[sand crest]

maybe try grappling on to the cannon ball that shoots out? 💀

[vast drum]

GUys, one thing about the cns leaked audios, they are clearly on wav format not mp3 so they can include some sort of spectogram message right?

[bright ruin]

#1213500600117891122

[vast drum]

ty and sry

[empty plaza]

Real and true, I respect the OG soundtrack but I'm making my own version for shits and giggles, and so I can get an Internship with Embark (please notice me Embark senpai)

[bright ruin]

I dunno if trying to one up their own stuff is a good way to show them that Regardless, are you also making it chiptune? I'd love to hear it when done!

[empty plaza]

Sadly no, but I can DM you my current status of the song (I'm revamping the menu music)

[bright ruin]

Sure, feel free!

[empty plaza]

It says you have DMs disabled. Shoot me a F.R. so I can send it!

@bright ruin

[bright ruin]

Sure, any other talks we can move to #🥚┇off-topic about this here

#1201288968562552863 This one

[empty plaza]

Oh nice!

[crisp glen]

What if the 5 truths ARE the password. Like written something like gold&egg&latin&mirror&space

Or goldandeggandlatinandmirrorandspace

some variation

[sharp flame]

oh you know what's crazy

the password is "goldenegg" not "goldegg" according to the patch notes clue at the start of S1

[crisp glen]

Or maybe we add gold and egg together, then Latin, mirror, and space together and thats the password GoldenEgg&?????

[sharp flame]

anyone who's been trying "goldegg" is doing it wrong

[bright ruin]

The new ones are also goldenegg isn't it? The new patch notes

Or whatever was being broken down yesterday. I'll try to find it

[crisp glen]

based on the whiteboard picture

[bright ruin]

ignore me, it says 1.2.0 patch notes lmao

[ruby nymph]

anybody have the cns audio file from that twitter post

reddit won't let me see it

this one

[solar glade]

#1213500600117891122 message

you can find all CNS posts here

[ruby nymph]

they've gotta pin that

[solar glade]

it is

[bleak wharf]

they can't, they're hacked :)

[ruby nymph]

ohh

[crisp glen]

GoldenEgg and satelles (the latin word for satellite a space mirror?)

[sharp flame]

#1213500600117891122 message

[snow walrus]

i believe this scene is related with this level

[plucky kettle]

this looks like a watermelon

and so does this

likely nothing important but just an observation

they are also only a couple of frames apart

[snow walrus]

Nama is the king of THE FINALS?

[bright ruin]

That yellow fluid, is that Ospuze?

Or is that yolk

oh it's yolk

nama tama gets rekt by the cashout

[snow walrus]

this looks like a map

i should check wiki

[bright ruin]

Kinda looks like the uk rotated to the left

if it is a map

[snow walrus]

i don't know how to search this image in discord

after that frame THE FINALS logo turns so bright and yolks explode

[fallen jasper]

this Hacked Soundtrack sound like a Cyberpunk 2077

[snow walrus]

any knowhow on this image? PreBeta players?

[fresh quiver]

@neon stream any idea?

[slate dagger]

why does it look like michael jordan

[dull marsh]

Just noticed the yellow theme of "THE FINALS", like all the signs on the map are in yellow, etc.

The Finals feels like it's red, but in-game it's yellow

Or golden 👀

[runic furnace]

Hey guys any big news?

[hidden nacelle]

new music

[crisp glen]

I know what im doing when custom games come out

[fleet sluice]

Damm next period will be playing this like cs1.6

[tacit basalt]

If Cyberpunk 2077 and Hotline Miami had a son

[dusk veldt]

Is there any hints so far towards the next map, as big and small as it may be? Or a hint?

Clue*

[hidden nacelle]

just an image i guess

[dusk veldt]

Hah, CNS even hacked Embarks Linkedin; that's hilarious

[strange breach]

Hey, had a small work emergency last night. Looked just now and I think it was a cash box glitch. Will send a clip with the location and a cashbox spawning on the floor above so maybe it glitched through the floor. It was center of this room floating in space.

LOL nvm cant upload to this chat apparently, but can PM it or put it anywhere. It doesnt show anything just the second to last building before the cannon courtyard area on the bottom floor\

[split scaffold]

So I don’t believe I can post photos yet

My level isn’t high enough

I just saw a post on the finals academy where the Holtow receipt gun is currently not working properly. The receipt now says “claim invalid”

[gloomy anvil]

🧐
https://i.redd.it/lwmss99s9inc1.jpeg

or the player's name is 'Error' lol

[sand crest]

what does that gun print when u kill a dummy in the practice range? 🧐

[fallen jasper]

Nothing

[sand crest]

aw 😦

killing dummies is tax free confirmed

[unkempt dune]

that's what's usually shown when there's no name associated

[neon stream]

Hmmm no idea 🤷🏻‍♂️

But it does look like a map 🤔

[hearty meteor]

maybe try outlining it so you have a black on white image and reverse image search

im not on my pc rn so i cant use my shitty skills to try this

[plucky kettle]

dont know where to put this but the fonts are different

[hearty meteor]

just looks like the same font but bolded to me

[plucky kettle]

its flatter and stuff to me

[fresh quiver]

so preBeta player also dont know. understood 👍

[plucky kettle]

europe?

[worldly cairn]

Any body make any sense of the numbers on the premiere for tomorrow or their website? They've got to mean something right!?

[worldly cairn]

Some bold fonts are more stretched with the normal being more flat like that. If you look at the 2 you can see it goes up straight before curving after the horizontal bit and this is the same on the un-bolded one. My guess is they are the same.

Then again, the 5 seems to look different. The bold 5 seems to go down and then come back up before making the backwards c (the bottom half) while the un-bold one seems to not dip and come up but instead just go directly horizontal at a 90 degree angle.

[hard current]

hey all, I miss any rob eyes this weekend? been super busy

[gloomy anvil]

#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

omg hell yeah

thank you raid

[bright ruin]

Where are these balloons by the way?

[hard current]

they’re around the map, outside the boundaries

[dusk veldt]

Yeah, the leading theory is that the cannons are somehow able to shoot them down, perhaps with the help of a jump pad or if there's a unique sequence. Another theory is if the lines of the cannon intersect somewhere and what could be found there

[worn flame]

has anyone gotten a group together to try?

[alpine junco]

so the balloons can be popped

[dusk veldt]

Rob is hinting at something like that yes

[alpine junco]

ive tried shooting them months ago

[dusk veldt]

Like i said above:

Yeah, the leading theory is that the cannons are somehow able to shoot them down, perhaps with the help of a jump pad or if there's a unique sequence. Another theory is if the lines of the cannon intersect somewhere and what could be found there

[green turtle]

Looks just like a glitched countdown to season 2 trailer

[wise trout]

Scotty says, "The arena has rendered perfectly this time." eluding to sometimes not rendering perfectly.

[plucky kettle]

Yeah, from the CNS hacks

[worn flame]

How many cannons are there?

[plucky kettle]

5 iirc

[worn flame]

Ok great. I was not able to move them at all. Tried goo gun and bounce pad

[plucky kettle]

It was hinted that what they point at something

[worn flame]

The NW one looks at a tower/speaker

The two at the west end up hitting building.

The one to the SW kinda looks at nothing??

And then the one on the east fires into another building

[plucky kettle]

Try firing them in the order 132

[worn flame]

Ill send this as reference.
Which order should i try?

[plucky kettle]

Not too sure

Rob gave a hint about 132 minutes but can't remember the rest

And people understood that as cannons in the order 132

[worn flame]

That could make sense. But I wonder how each are numbered

[wise trout]

The cannons are canon?

[plucky kettle]

What???

[gloomy anvil]

I feel like the 'Duck and Cover' duck is most likely to be pop-able

[unkempt dune]

it's probably the only one low enough for a cannon to reach

[alpine junco]

wait

what if it is to destroy all buildings that are in the way of the canons

so that they all shoot out the map

[worn flame]

Tried that. They only shoot so far and end up disappearing before hitting anything again

[alpine junco]

well someone did say they arent an actual canonball

just a registry

[worn flame]

Right. Sorry. After 2 shots they no longer destroy anything in their path. There is a range of sorts

[alpine junco]

4 canons so close to eachother

has to be a timing thing

2 players shoot 2 canons while one shoots the one at the end of the map

[worn flame]

You can reuse them after about 15 seconds ish. Might need a full squad to hit them at the same time within that refresh limit

[shrewd fog]

rob eye'ing 1 million reminds me when said this #easter-eggs message

[wise trout]

Can you grab the cannon ball with a heavy? rob said something about picking up a cannon as a heavy

[alpine junco]

no

[wise trout]

maybe somehting only heavy can do

dang

[alpine junco]

wait

[worn flame]

I’ve tried to pick it up with a heavy and nothin :/

Unless it really is someone shoots it and a heavy grabs it??

[wise trout]

yonk

[green turtle]

Maybe they have numbers on them?

[shrewd fog]

grab the cannonball no you can't lol, i'm thinking each of your teammates has to shoot 3 different ones at the same time

[alpine junco]

im going in

[worn flame]

No numbers on from what I could see.

[alpine junco]

goo gun the cannons

[wet locust]

LMAOOOOO AIN'T NO WAY YOU'RE ONTO SOMETHING LOL

[shrewd fog]

let's start poppin some balloons (if we can 🤔)

[alpine junco]

the cables on the fallen rubber ducky

shoot the cables?

duck falls and goes poof?

[shrewd fog]

*c4 nuke the cables

[alpine junco]

who wants to try?

[hearty meteor]

tried this before, doesnt do anything

[worn flame]

I’m down

[hearty meteor]

not sure about the muzzle

[alpine junco]

lets try and get duck and cover

[shrewd fog]

@faz im down to join up, launching now, my embark is same as my name

[hearty meteor]

but it mostly just doesnt do anything

[worn flame]

My embark is the same as my name too

[alpine junco]

added

[alpine junco]

no numbers?

lol

[worn flame]

I’m just special like that 😂

LukePamer#3431

[alpine junco]

added

in vc

[wise trout]

Smoking guns is monaco every time and they left it up for another week.

[dull marsh]

Monaco balloons & cannons

[dull marsh]

Made a thread for you guys #1216367110197084220

[alpine junco]

teamwork

[snow walrus]

no pop? 😭

[coarse dagger]

The edge of the map barrier doesn't stop projectiles.

[alpine junco]

speakers can be destroyed

[south granite]

I was more referring to putting goo on it and walking off the edge. The barrier would stop you

[hearty meteor]

well i know a certain someone who clips out of the map on a regular basis

two actually

[gloomy anvil]

how do you coordinate people like this 😭

[hearty meteor]

although it would def not be intended lmao

[coarse dagger]

Been seeing this occasionally, I believe only since CNS "glitches" started happening in game.

I suspect it is the trail of another spectator.

[alpine junco]

we didnt

they just joined

[alpine junco]

oui oui

[timid cedar]

i had this happening a lot recently

[alpine junco]

bullseye?

[snow walrus]

CRT effect can be seen easily without fulscreen lol

[alpine junco]

we have made contact

[hearty meteor]

is that the part thats marked by the bullseye thing

[alpine junco]

yup

[hearty meteor]

interesting

[sour needle]

Do you guys think that the smoking guns event was made longer was so we would have better chanche of finding the easter egg

[alpine junco]

canons on monaco can not destroy player placed gadgets or goo

[crisp glen]

nah it was just bc they didnt have anything for the last week before s2. and bc ppl liked it

[sour needle]

ah ok

[worn flame]

We also tried firing them at the same time to no avail. It may be sequence based.

[coarse dagger]

Yup CRT + moire effect from downsampling -> very visible

[coarse dagger]

Actually, I don't think think is a real spectator. Neither team is wiped during this clip and I see one of the trails while alive.

I think it's CNS "watching" our matches:

(video also features pinging failures)

[quaint stream]

Is this ranked or just.qp

[turbid tinsel]

Having dragons could lead one to believe a castle might be included no?

[bleak wharf]

imagine you ping enemy and red ping just moves by itself

[turbid tinsel]

also this kinda resembles this in a way, im not sure if its exact though

maybe if you flip it, it seems pretty close

maybe a dragon halftime event at a castle, like windsor castle

[unkempt dune]

going to share this map here just in case people aren't in the https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1216367110197084220 thread:

[snow walrus]

Another one

[snow walrus]

And higher res version

Looks like someone holding a triangle on his back.

ALSO started to see dragons at a bigger scale of the picture

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/shia-la-beouf-clap-clapping-applause-impressed-gif-4427576

[sour needle]

maybe there is something on the points the cannon balls cross

[gleaming estuary]

Thank you

[snow walrus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg

[peak oasis]

if you hover over The Finals in your steam library, it shows you an image of the new FCAR vaporwave skin
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/2073850/ss_63b3768695e3c2b5e1a492a6f8ea2624f23145ad.jpg?t=1706708396

[turbid tinsel]

that was from the betas

[peak oasis]

ah right, just never seen it before when hovering over the game, was it CB1 then?

[dire sparrow]

i think cb2

[worldly cairn]

Here, it hardly ever is!

[turbid tinsel]

yea i think the 2nd

[gloomy anvil]

whichever alpha / beta had these 😅

[small meteor]

damn I played cb2 and can't remember it 💀

[peak oasis]

Ah right, guess I didn't see it during CB2

[gloomy anvil]

actually I think these are just Embark accounts

[balmy shuttle]

clhqatfm994ck0087080 is the server? Or build? Next to Tournament in the top left

[dire sparrow]

they both had thoes i think

[peak oasis]

what?

[balmy shuttle]

Top left

[peak oasis]

oh that, idk its probably dev debug text

what it means i have no clue :((

maybe it's the game session id

[balmy shuttle]

Cause Rob earlier mentioned something about CL

#1213500600117891122 message

[peak oasis]

Oof, I really dont follow any of this, this is like my first post here. Im sure somebody else might know what's happening

[gloomy anvil]

This is just an old Steam store page screenshot, I don't think we're looking for anything in it

[shrewd fog]

I wonder if there's anything special about John Bardeen, the only scientist in history to win 2 Nobel Prizes in the Physics Category https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen

[queen oasis]

anyone see this weird blinking light on Seoul?

[pure loom]

Yeah, it's been looked at thoroughly - it doesn't have an actual object it's attached to, and we concluded it's just one of those aviation lights that tall buildings have

Other buildings nearby have them too

[crisp aurora]

I had the same thing about the light

[dusk veldt]

Holy shit no way

[dusk veldt]

Dragons…

[austere palm]

Dragon deez... 🤔

No funny business 🫡

[dusk veldt]

But seriously though i dont think the comment he said was reffering to any EE

[austere palm]

It was kinda funny tho 👀

[sour needle]

i think we get a traingle as a weapon

[turbid tinsel]

C64C or in other words the commodore 64c

is a palindrome

backwards

civvic

[dusk veldt]

From what?

[turbid tinsel]

or cviivc

[shrewd fog]

nice connection iTk

[turbid tinsel]

which would also connect the civic crown

[shrewd fog]

wait wouldn't it be C46C so not a palindrome?

[turbid tinsel]

but the hint was palindrome based on the key we have using roman numerals

so yes and no

[bright ruin]

We talked about that the other day

did it not actually lead to further digging? I'd be surprised

[turbid tinsel]

you got a message link by chance

[bright ruin]

Not cviivc
Just civic (crown)

I see you mentioned it this morning, I guess that's what I'm thinking of

There's also this that I think was overlooked #easter-eggs message

nvm not overlooked, Lulz pointed it out days later

@eternal violet pointed out another:
#easter-eggs message
is civic crown another clue for a palindrome?

oops wrong link

[shrewd fog]

this seems a little interesting (not trying to disrupt the current discussion), Rob eye'd a photo of Calcium's spectral lines: #easter-eggs message
there's something known as the Calcium triplet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_triplet:

is a triplet of three ionised calcium spectral lines at the wavelengths of 8498 Å, 8542 Å and 8662 Å (measured in air). The triplet has a strong emission,[1] and is most prominently observed in the absorption of spectral type G, K and M stars.

[bright ruin]

We definitely talked about that again recently. I don't remember when or if it lead anywhere new? Hmm

[dull marsh]

We did talk quite a bit, but we think that was a clue for a past tier

Might still be relevant now but not nearly as much