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golden snow
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This is the current decrypted message from the autophages

golden snow
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From @molten thicket "Life is never extinguished. The data remains. The will remains"

rigid gulch
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Yessir ARG

golden snow
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Let's Go!

scarlet kernel
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oh how I've missed these days

young turtle
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so
the games afoot...

golden snow
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Now we dig for info

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Oh, gotta add the audio datamines

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Brb

sullen spire
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probably a stupid question but, why hello games decided to put some ARGhhh to the game

scarlet kernel
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;-;

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but wait

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that means

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atlas is saying the hidden message!

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atlas is actually speaking to us

young turtle
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also be warned i have never done an arg in my entire life, so i don't know what i'm doing weed

sullen spire
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as if atlas is up to something

young turtle
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not yet

golden snow
golden snow
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Eeeeeee

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Someone said like the sound glass would make screaming

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Lol

young turtle
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i had my volume up a max
scared the hell out of me

rigid gulch
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any mention of Loop16/Emily yet?

golden snow
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Nah, this isn't going to relate I don't think

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Separate ARG

young turtle
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Loop16
that's a name i haven't heard in a long

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long

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time

eager anchor
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Are these the only ARG elements?

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I've got a data dump of all the hex codes from comparing the strings... Looks like I spoiled it for myself 😅

golden snow
eager anchor
golden snow
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Roger, you can post datamined stuff for the ARG here if you snag anything else

young turtle
golden snow
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Yeah!

young turtle
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fr whoever mad those sounds, good freaking job

rigid gulch
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What should this ARG be called?

young turtle
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Singular titan

young turtle
low kettle
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@stuck umbra have you gone through the posts here?

waxen imp
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well now i'm going through The Hoarder's Hunt AND The Void Mother ARG (temporary name?)

vague oriole
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This is exciting!

true dagger
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Apparently, the name of the user who discovered the expedition system planets is also hexadecimal

scarlet kernel
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From playstation blog from Sean!

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Hecking heck. Far reaching consequences and deeper story to come

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aaaa

young turtle
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i'm gonna see how i can integrate this into my expedition logs
i always go for a "quasi-meta" story

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for example i refer to the discord as the "Network"

obsidian silo
obsidian silo
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Stupid autocorrect 😑

scarlet kernel
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I am quite curious

molten thicket
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I'm living for this tbh

obsidian silo
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Count me in

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Can anyone show me welcome screen please

young turtle
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so how do i get involved in this arg?

molten thicket
scarlet kernel
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play the expedition, decipher the clues, work together with others!

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or kick back, relax and enjoy as the things unveil

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That's what I did during waking titan since I couldn't do most of the irl stuff required. Just enjoyed the stuff

flint knoll
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"We will never see home again."

rigid gulch
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I’m so freaking happy that there’s another NMS ARG. I’ve waited 5 years for this

scarlet kernel
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and I'm happy they're finally advancing the story!

keen oak
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i suggest the name "sleeping dwarf" for this ARG

flint knoll
flint knoll
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or why we'd be doing that now

keen oak
plush axle
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"Void Prime" That's new.

flint knoll
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Like eventually. But then why wouldn't it just be the Singularity ARG.

keen oak
scarlet kernel
keen oak
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so the voice of freedom is a front for the abyss?

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or controlled by it?

scarlet kernel
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seems to be

limber adder
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Oh

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My god

flint knoll
scarlet kernel
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I have no idea what other entity may have such power over all the races. Only atlas has been able to affect them so far

plush axle
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So is the abyss an opposing force to the Atlas?

keen oak
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maybe the voice is a propagandic way for the abyss to influence people and wipe out the influence of the Atlas

keen oak
scarlet kernel
flint knoll
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Was the Abyss what convinced the Sentinels to rebel from the Atlas?

young turtle
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aren't the biological horrors believed to have originated from the Abyss?

scarlet kernel
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well this part of the expedition proves my theory of Voice of Freedom being just Abyss

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Abyss promises freedom too

keen oak
molten thicket
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Other Hex quotes, just so they don't get lost
"We are a lifeboat"
"A new Atlantid is coming"
From @pine pike and @scarlet kernel

scarlet kernel
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They're rebuildig it!

limber adder
flint knoll
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Those fragments do NOT give much Atlantideum btw

molten thicket
keen oak
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so now do we have 3 different factions vying for power or is the second atlantid just "a lifeboat" for the first?

zenith gull
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So, i've been getting these corrupted balls everytime i go to the space station. Captured only two messages, has anyone decrpyted them?

young turtle
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yes

molten thicket
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Let me check if either of these is a new one Constant 🙂

zenith gull
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last one is probably new

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first one was decrpyted i see

molten thicket
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"Life is never extinguished. The data remains. The will remains" and "We are a lifeboat"

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Believe we've got both of those in here 🙂

scarlet kernel
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atlas certainly doesn't seem to like the autophage we're building

keen oak
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i dont think the Atlas likes anything to do with the Atlantid tbh

young turtle
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what ARE the atlantids?

limber adder
scarlet kernel
keen oak
limber adder
young turtle
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so is the atlantid, for all intents and purposes..

glass shoal
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I think HG are being a tad liberal with their use of "ARG" here, as after all it stands for Alternate Reality Game, where the game exists in an alternate reality to the game/media it's attached to. Like Waking Titan, or ILoveBees. The only actual ARG element they've dropped so far are the spectrographs in the datamined audio files, everything else I consider to be just in-game puzzles. Thus I don't expect we will receive trailheads, Twitter posts from strange accounts, and the like, and this will be mostly digging up some additional clues within the game files

young turtle
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Korvax Prime?

keen oak
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yes

young turtle
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huh

keen oak
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which is also the abyss which is also the void mother, yea

young turtle
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well that raises many questions

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most of which are terrifying

empty kelp
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In the trailer there's a voice talking it says "I've seen things", could this voice be Telamon? He went to the world of glass and is the voice in the exosuit.

molten thicket
young turtle
scarlet kernel
# young turtle Korvax Prime?

Korvax Prime is the original home world of Korvax. It was the center convergence, a living planet that the Gek destroyed for its valuable minerals.

Sentinels could hear the screams and cries of Korvax Prime through each iteration of the simulation, over and over millions of times, yet they did nothing to stop it

molten thicket
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There was also "Korvax honoured fallen - tried to bring back Atlantid, birthed failed Eggs... On the shoulders of a sleeping god, from flesh built a metal world." in the archives

scarlet kernel
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a remnant of Korvax Prime has somehow survived in the void, gathering strenght all these years, manifesting in all sorts of ways to us

keen oak
# young turtle well that raises many questions

so basically korvax prime/first convergence somehow managed to survive being glassed and has realized that the atlas is a simulation AND it is dying soon. so the-now atlantid is currupting everything in an attempt to escape destruction

molten thicket
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So maybe that's the eggs we're seeing?

young turtle
keen oak
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very scary

scarlet kernel
young turtle
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holy

scarlet kernel
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But yeah, Korvax Prime became the Abyss after its destruction

glass shoal
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Having said that I will peace out for now to avoid spoiling the expedition until the PS5 version lands. It's unfortunate that a community-based puzzle/game was not synced up in terms of platform drops. Good luck everyone!

sick lantern
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Yooo stupid question

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Anyone else thinking this poster looks like one of them QR codes to scan?

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Anyone finished the expedition phase to get this poster to check in game?

keen oak
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that part in the far left-top is very interesting

sick lantern
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Or should I yoink it from game files lol

keen oak
sick lantern
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Yup see you in 2 hours lol

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(jk but unpacking will take like 10-20 minutes)

keen oak
true dagger
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So this is a new space encounter that we're analysing?

scarlet kernel
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yups

true dagger
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Managed to translate the text yet?

lean apex
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i've decoded pretty much every first atlantid (i may have missed one)

true dagger
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Do we have the rest of the autophages now?

waxen imp
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i have like 10-12 minutes until i can hop onto nms and begin my journey to help solve these puzzles

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until then, how're we going

lean apex
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the giant orb says this:

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void rime (the text that appears on the transmission screen in first-person flight view):
We are a lifeboat
We will never see home again
autopilot locked . . reaching destination in ERROR years
A new Atlantid is coming
Life is never extinguished. The data remains. The will remains.

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one for each stage

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i would love to get more info but unfortunately my milestones are locked :(

scarlet kernel
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Hex from autophage names from phases 1 to 4
57 65 64 6F 6E 6F 74 6E 65 65 64

"We do not need... "

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still missing last 2 names

true dagger
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nothing too interesting

true dagger
pine pike
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Not encrypted stuff but, should probably have something soon cause ive got all the construct parts now

true dagger
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does anyone have the text to compare?

sick lantern
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The dots in the background

true dagger
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I know, thought it might say something interesting

lean apex
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there's also a hidden message in the new audio files, "she sees through their eyes"

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but so far that's everything i've had the chance to gather

scarlet kernel
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First one is "Our own"

lean apex
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second is "ownvergence"

glossy steppe
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So is this void mother a different one to Korvax Prime?

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Somehow

true dagger
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this one is SCRAP PARTS AVAILABLE

young turtle
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They’re the same

scarlet kernel
glossy steppe
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Ah okay

sick lantern
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There is a single texture file with all those posters lol

lean apex
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the construct just softlocked my game :(

sick lantern
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Just the purple one

pine pike
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Also the discoverer on each rendezvous systems all add up to "We will build our own"

keen oak
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wait so some are leaving the atlantid and building a new one? all these clues seem to lead to that

scarlet kernel
molten thicket
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"Korvax honoured fallen - tried to bring back Atlantid, birthed failed Eggs... On the shoulders of a sleeping god, from flesh built a metal world." in the archives

torpid girder
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What about the Abyss being called Atlantid? And Laylaps talking about being in contact with the Abyss entity?

scarlet kernel
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Korvax called their home planet Atlantid since it was a sentient entity

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it was the convergence

torpid girder
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Okok

scarlet kernel
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other races would call it Korvax Prime

keen oak
torpid girder
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Unfortunately I missed the 1. Part of the Story 🥲

scarlet kernel
keen oak
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so this expedition is about the reconstruction of korvax prime, right?

scarlet kernel
scarlet kernel
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nothing is certain yet. Things are in motion and pieces are finally moving

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I suspected it was being rebuilt last year when "Voice of freedom" began altering the different NPC races minds and making them deconstruct station cores for some unknown purpose

young turtle
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That’s whack

pine pike
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hex says "what is this place"

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for context it came from the same terminal where we put artemis

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or didnt put artemis

torpid girder
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Maybe it will change it's message after the threshold gets up

wild tartan
pine pike
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maybe

keen oak
scarlet kernel
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could be

pine pike
torpid girder
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Looks like we need to restore the convergences data

scarlet kernel
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hecking heck

young turtle
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Do they mean those civilization pods?

night mason
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Are you supposed to shoot the big weird crstal spheres you find in space? It looks like they did in the trailer

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Or rather what happesn if you shoot them

torpid girder
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Let's do it and find out SeanCursed

wraith valve
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Btw did anyone complete the 4th milestone of phase 4?

pine pike
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yeah

wraith valve
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I talked to nada, what do I do next

scarlet kernel
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probably head to the ritual site

pine pike
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yeah should just be go to the atlas station and talk to it

wraith valve
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Waypoint for that isnt appearing

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Even asked Polo to give me the coords

scarlet kernel
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you have a new quest in the quest menu. Something about Nada's location thingy

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highlight that and you should have a waypoint

scarlet kernel
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Have you done the Grand Divergence milestone in Phase 4 yet?

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I think I had to do that first

wraith valve
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Oh nvm it was that

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My bad

scarlet kernel
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Understandable. They're kinda in the wrong order there

young turtle
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Me waiting for Xbox Sloppydead

wraith valve
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It talked about a "milestone menu" but I thought they referred to the one for stuff like distance walked or suvival time

scarlet kernel
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Yee. Expedition Milestones

dusk thorn
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the names of the autophages decode to "we do not need you"

frail crest
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There is a new ARG? When is it starting? What will it be like?

dusk thorn
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the ARG is in-game enciphered text, thus far

pine pike
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Anyone know if the Anomalous Research milestone is community based

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feeding echo seeds into it and the percentage to the next tier doesnt even move

scarlet kernel
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one players contribution is only a fraction of a percent. Probably something around 0,001% or something

pine pike
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I guess that makes sense

scarlet kernel
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Yeah. Only when tens of thousands of players from all platforms start feeding it, it'll see any significant progression

pine pike
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think i remember other expeditions having some indicator on the milestone page whether they were community based or not

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unless im misremembering

scarlet kernel
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I guess HG forgot to mention it this time. but yeah. The percentage bar is always server side and community based

pine pike
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gotcha 👍

scarlet kernel
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time to find some echo seeds

versed beacon
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So we need to finish this in expedition?

scarlet kernel
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Yup yup. Expedition which will lead into some sort of cliffhanger or opening that will continue in the next one

versed beacon
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Damn just find we got arg clue to play lol

true dagger
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I hope this is another long arg

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like WT

frail crest
true dagger
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Its only been announced for a few hours

somber prairie
frail crest
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Still fun

true dagger
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it could easily get much more in depth

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there was irl stuff with WT, right?

somber prairie
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yes

frail crest
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I'm so new to this stuff. This is my first ARG in NMS.

scarlet kernel
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I love how the entire community can participate in this unlike WT. WT was really fun to follow but there wasn't much I could do to participate

somber prairie
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outside of the irl meetups, they even broadcasted messages on foreign radio stations

pine pike
frail crest
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I stumbled across an Autophage which said "the seventeenth ????"

young turtle
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so here's my take on things

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wall of text incoming

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actually nevermind

young turtle
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still too early

ember moth
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Iirc that’s been in there for a while

true dagger
frail crest
# somber prairie Loop17!!!

Usually those numbers (the ninth , the eleventh etc) are followed by a binary code but "the seventeenth" was followed by questionmarks.

rigid gulch
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Waking titan was amazing

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So happy there’s a new ARG

lean apex
rigid gulch
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Yoooo loop 17

somber prairie
scarlet kernel
wraith valve
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In crimson huh

frail crest
somber prairie
frail crest
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Or is the 17 iteration the Abyss?

somber prairie
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I dont know about new engine necesarily, but changes are sure to come

frail crest
young turtle
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it means that you're on to something

scarlet kernel
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rather than speculating we should focus on the things at hand. As HG have stated, this is only a part of a story arc which will only deepen and lead to something even bigger. Could be the stuff that they're teasing here like the Korvax Prime being reconstructed as Void Prime and so on

frail crest
hollow sleet
scarlet kernel
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Yeah. We aren't going back in time 😛

stuck umbra
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Heh. I've been wondering if ||Emily|| is ||Mother|| for a while. :P

scarlet kernel
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the clock is ticking down my fellow travelers

young turtle
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soon

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all shall be revealed

golden snow
hollow sleet
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[Journey]
Brain - kzzkt - formed in void, spontaneous, complete - kzzkt - Atlas protocol made flesh.

The Atlantid, called Void Mother by lesser voices, brought pilgrims - kzzkt - its mass -

Lived for millennia - kzzkt - died, whispering of the nineteenth minute. ```
somber prairie
scarlet kernel
frail crest
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It seems as if the lore is being revamped, because the Atlas only had ||16 minutes of operation time left||

hollow sleet
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not revamped just more backstory

scarlet kernel
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They can tell more about the earlier minutes

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as of now we have only known very little, if anything

viral dagger
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How are people deciphering those weird messages

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what's the cipher

true dagger
young turtle
hollow sleet
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base 64

true dagger
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well, base 16

hollow sleet
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oh right

scarlet kernel
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idk

hollow sleet
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too used to typing that thanks to horror ARGs

true dagger
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I dont know hardly anything about WT, so forgive me

scarlet kernel
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Waking Titan was about Ware uploading humans into a simulation and so on. It happened in our world. there are lots of twists and turns there which I'm not fitted to explain at this state of mind. Focusing on things at hand atm

frail crest
scarlet kernel
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16th minute was pretty chill

frail crest
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Maybe the time past ||the 16 minutes|| is not the end.

glossy steppe
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19th minute was probably 3 minutes ago

scarlet kernel
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but this ARG and story seems to be entirely focused on things happening within the simulation and stuff that affects us, the travelers and our world. Not the world outside of the simulation. (that could change tho)

glossy steppe
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As in the 19th minute before the end

frail crest
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🤣

wild tartan
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What is ARG?

It stands for alternate reality game. It's a "game" or series of puzzles that players work on, in and outside the game, to solve as a community.

scarlet kernel
glossy steppe
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Oh I misread you lol

stuck umbra
frail crest
frail crest
glossy steppe
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My brain is kinda fried atm

glossy steppe
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Aaaah okay

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I was saying it might count the other way

frail crest
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But doens't spaghettification completely destroy a computer? I cannot imagine a computer still working when that happens.

somber prairie
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For an entity near a black hole, time outside of the black hole will appear faster, while an entity far away from a black hole will see things near the black hole move more slowly. Time runs faster in gravitational fields proportional to the strength of said gravitational field

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This means your feet will be pulled into the black hole faster than your head, causing spaghettification

frail crest
lean apex
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is anyone else unable to find more Echo Seeds?

stuck umbra
somber prairie
frail crest
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But...||the Atlas is the entity near the black hole, but in the simulation 16 minutes are an eternity||

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That kinda goes against the physics

somber prairie
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time does not run uniformally

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it is relativistic

frail crest
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Because the ||simulation isn't the outside "observer" ||

stuck umbra
somber prairie
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If atlas is near a black hole, it would appear very much slower to an outisde observer, while its own perspective sees the universe passing by extremely fast

frail crest
# somber prairie time does not run uniformally

I know, but if time runs faster near a black hole then ||the 16 minutes would be over in a split second from the perspective of the simulation|| while it would be an eternity for the outside observers.

somber prairie
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Would be a way to run immense calculations really fast tbh

frail crest
# somber prairie Spot on

But then why are ||the 16 minutes an eternity in the simulation if it isn't supposed to be like that according to physics? ||

somber prairie
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Just make a computer, start the calculation, send it around a black hole and see what it returns with

frail crest
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No one has ever done that

somber prairie
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purely theoretical of course

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even voyager is barely out of our solar system

frail crest
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If you would send a message directly into a black hole it will certainly vanish but if you manage to send it close enough but not that it gets into the event horizon it will likely be severely warped.

somber prairie
somber prairie
frail crest
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Maybe the Atlas ||isn't going to be directly sucked in|| but is just passing by?

somber prairie
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if you are near a black hole, chances are you end up inside

frail crest
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Stars have been yeeted away by black holes tho.

somber prairie
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Depends on their trajectory

frail crest
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Could be the same for the ||Atlas||

somber prairie
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Could be, but if its in a close orbit, i doubt anything smaller than a planet is staying around it for long

true dagger
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From what we can gather from the lore, we are in the 16th minute now, and there are 16 minutes until the Atlas fails completely

placid phoenix
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it's time dilation

stuck umbra
# frail crest Maybe the Atlas ||isn't going to be directly sucked in|| but is just passing by?

||Can't be. It was built precisely because the 'progenitor' civilization knew they were en route to falling into the event horizon and needed the atlas simulations to actually develop interstellar travel capabilities fast enough to escape before it was too late. The ... remembrance terminals, iirc, spell it out very clearly that the creators of the atlas left for other stars leaving the atlas behind for whatever reason and debating shutting it down as being more merciful.||

limber adder
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We are well beyond the 16th minute i'm afraid

somber prairie
placid phoenix
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what is 16 minutes for the atlas is much much MUCH longer for us

true dagger
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of course, its not actually 16 minutes in our time

placid phoenix
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I think it's entirely possible that the entire simulation only runs in 16 minutes and that it's not the last 16 minutes but possibly the only 16 minutes

somber prairie
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A minute for something around a black hole might be centuries for anything not near the black hole

placid phoenix
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in which case the first few minutes would be the initial boot up and whatnot

true dagger
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theres information from what happened before the 16th minute

limber adder
true dagger
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?

true dagger
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I mean, the game does a very good and lengthy job at iterating 16

limber adder
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Ten minutes left

The Travellers are no longer separated, no longer kept apart. They stand side by side at the end of days, traversing the remnants of creation, laughing, dying.

frail crest
limber adder
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5 minutes is when it all begins to go to shit

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We are in between 10 and 5

true dagger
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Rogue data describes what happens at those times

limber adder
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We have been for a long time

somber prairie
true dagger
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Not what is happening

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the travellers are still seperated, we see them as holograms

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The boundaries have started to break, but they are not fully there yet

placid phoenix
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that was always my interpretation yeah

true dagger
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The game says, so many times, 16 minutes until the end

placid phoenix
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it's moments like these I'm glad I'm a lore person lol, there's soooo much to unpack

frail crest
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I love the NMS lore

stuck umbra
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Gotta be careful to separate the predictions about the future (which may or may not be accurate) from the 'reality' of the present.

true dagger
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This theory pops up every now and then, but I don't agree with it

somber prairie
frail crest
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Anyways, only time will tell, no pun intended

young turtle
# frail crest I love the NMS lore

when i got to the part in the artemis path where it says that ||the sentinels killed off all life in a universe in under an hour||, i actually froze in fear

true dagger
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there are other texts which contradict the interpretation of remembrance terminals saying we are at the 11th minute

placid phoenix
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first harmonic camp where you start in expedition the middle code isn't 9

frail crest
placid phoenix
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isn't it always 9?

true dagger
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I'll try to find the texts which talk about previous minutes

placid phoenix
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was it a bug? or intentional

stuck umbra
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I really like how aspects of the out-of-game history of NMS affected the in-game history / lore.

true dagger
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iirc, 17 and 19 are both mentioned

vague oriole
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Is there any good places to keep track of what is currently happening within the arg?

true dagger
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here would be the best place

ember moth
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So, what’s going on in the arg?

young turtle
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ngl i'm more interested in the arg than the expedition

scarlet kernel
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the ARG and expedition seem to tie together

lavish raft
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what is arg

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is it pirate themed. arrrrrg

rigid gulch
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Alternate reality game

lavish raft
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oh. thought it was an update

lone pendant
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I feel like I missed something important becuase I've not played recently but I saw today's release and ARG clues.

wild tartan
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The latest expedition is tied to this part of the ARG, which started with Interceptor (v4.2)

stone rose
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arg time lads partyblobpartyblobpartyblob

golden snow
young turtle
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any new developments?

golden snow
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Haven't seen any, but I'm not watching everywhere

rigid gulch
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Argggg

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Mfw the waking titan website comes alive

somber prairie
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Hello games got us turning into pirates with all this ARRRGGGG

stone rose
somber prairie
golden snow
somber prairie
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melee weapons would be so cool

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not that thats what it is, but that definitely made me think of a staff multi tool

true dagger
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Multiswords?!

golden snow
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No idea

viscid cove
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nms lightsaber gaming?!

fallow pagoda
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Well, if HG wanted to flesh out their VR audience some, what better way than tossing in the most highly requested activity in the history of the tech? lmao

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(While I'm not certain, I am at least confident that statement bears out true)

lethal zenith
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Im stuck on Player IV, Atlas is not show up in galaxy map and I already done with Nada. Nothing happen 😦 what is "grand divergance" ??

wild tartan
lethal zenith
vague oriole
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Anyone else seen that the Atlas Codex is back up to record progress of the ARG?

rigid gulch
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This ARG should be called “Void mother”

golden snow
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I hope they name it for us, but I like that

thorn acorn
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Are there any clues in that trailer? There seems to be something in those static as the trailer plays

golden snow
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Gracias

young turtle
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so let me get this straight
correct me if i'm wrong
so the Void Mother/Atlantid/Abyss is the fragmented remains of Korvax Prime, and these corrupted sentinels are attempting to start their own Convergence, becoming those humanoid robots that we've been seeing.

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is this right?

scarlet kernel
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it appears to be

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the korvax prime part is spot on at least

restive citrus
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Was asked to send this here aswell, likely in base 16 (realizing now it most definetly is because 16) so that is the first step to translation

unique tapir
golden snow
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We will never see home again

young turtle
rigid gulch
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Who else is super happy that NMS has an ARG again after so long?

golden snow
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<--- This Traveller

viscid cove
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wait

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when was the last time?

wild tartan
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There's no known connection between these ARGs. And as such, we're treating them separate. Most aspects if the old ARG can be discussed in #no-mans-sky as they wouldn't be spoilers.

edgy isle
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Do you guys think because of the arg and continued narrative that it may be building it up to a huge update like BEYOND or ORIGINS?

true dagger
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Upcoming: INFINITY

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I just pulled the first word my brain thought of

edgy isle
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I bet you it's gonna be called soemthing like VOID BREACH or VOID

waxen imp
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VOID MOTHER?

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i feel like it'd fit best

slate yew
flint knoll
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Did we point out the Rendezvous were discovered by hexes

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I've gotten to WE and WILL

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I'm assuming it was the quote I found before tho

meager tiger
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"we will build our" something idk the 5th

placid phoenix
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So like I can't imagine the arg thing will go on for very long right? Like I think we all have pretty much already figured out what's going to happen in the end, unless I'm missing something

rigid gulch
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Could go on for a few more months

waxen void
placid phoenix
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nothing good so far, some info here and there

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this isn't necessarily part of the ARG but it's a pretty good hint as to where this is all headed

wild tartan
restive citrus
edgy isle
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YALL

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THERES A VOICE THAT PLAYS IN THE MAIN MENU IF YOU SIT THERE A WHILE

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I WASNT RECORDING BUT IT SOUNDED SIMILAR TO LEAKED AUDIO FILES

true dagger
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hmmmm

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faaaaascinating

quasi kite
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Did anyone ever try to play those audio files in reverse?

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To see if it said anything?

true dagger
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I was about to say put stuff through a spectrogram but i’m a few days late

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lotta that had already been done lmao

edgy isle
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I gotta go to bed but let me know if you are able to screen record the mini voice thingy

native hill
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Someone catch me up on the arg lore please

versed scarab
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what is ARG?

rigid gulch
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Yooo what? There’s a voice in the main menu?????

wild tartan
dire cragBOT
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What is ARG? It stands for alternate reality game. It's a "game" or series of puzzles that players work on, in and outside the game, to solve as a community. Check pins Pins in #nms-arg-2023 for news on the latest NMS ARG (2023) Part II (*Part I started with Interceptor - v4.2)

wild tartan
true dagger
versed beacon
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whats this

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Is everyone got the same number or?

stone rose
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yeah what is this place

hollow sleet
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If only there was a way to find out

zenith gull
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Hi Sohail!

hollow sleet
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Heyo how's the research going

vague oriole
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probably unrelated to the ARG but it reads: System recovery initiated... standby...

snow rampart
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You can ignore that, it’s been like it for a while. Can confirm it’s nothing to do with the ARG

torpid girder
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What about the Autophages saying the third: 1001001 etc.

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did someone decode all the binary?

zenith gull
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Only part of it

torpid girder
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yeah what was the word?

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ah okk

zenith gull
torpid girder
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How do you make this type of redirect on discord lol

zenith gull
upper glade
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I went through the language files and pulled all the hex I could find from expedition 10 values. Most of it is already on the atlascodex. Here are the results:
||56 4F 49 44 20 50 52 49 4D 45 0A
VOID PRIME
57 65 20 77 69 6C 6C 20 6E 65 76 65 72 20 73 65 65 20 68 6F 6D 65 20 61 67 61 69 6E
We will never see home again
4F 75 74 20 6F 66 20 6E 6F 74 68 69 6E 67 2C 20 73 68 65 20 77 69 6C 6C 20 72 65 62 75 69 6C 64 20 75 73
Out of nothing, she will rebuild us
4C 69 66 65 20 69 73 20 6E 65 76 65 72 20 65 78 74 69 6E 67 75 69 73 68 65 64 2E 20 54 68 65 20 64 61 74 61 20 72 65 6D 61 69 6E 73 2E 20 54 68 65 20 77 69 6C 6C 20 72 65 6D 61 69 6E 73
Life is never extinguished. The data remains. The will remains
41 20 6E 65 77 20 41 74 6C 61 6E 74 69 64 20 69 73 20 63 6F 6D 69 6E 67
A new Atlantid is coming
57 65 20 61 72 65 20 61 20 6C 69 66 65 62 6F 61 74
We are a lifeboat
61 75 74 6F 70 69 6C 6F 74 20 6C 6F 63 6B 65 64 20 2E 2E 2E 20 72 65 61 63 68 69 6E 67 20 64 65 73 74 69 6E 61 74 69 6F 6E 20 69 6E 20 45 52 52 4F 52 20 79 65 61 72 73
autopilot locked ... reaching destination in ERROR years
65 76 61 63 75 61 74 69 6F 6E 20 66 61 69 6C 65 64 2E 20 6C 69 66 65 62 6F 61 74 73 20 6C 6F 73 74 2E 20 61 6C 6C 20 63 6F 6E 76 65 72 74 65 64
evacuation failed. lifeboats lost. all converted
74 68 65 20 77 68 6F 6C 65 20 77 6F 72 6C 64 20 62 75 72 6E 65 64
the whole world burned

64 6F
do
6E 6F 74
not
6E 65 65 64
need
79 6F 75
you

67 6C 61 73 73
glass||

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Sorry for the wall of text

zenith gull
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So it's something of a story about evacuation

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Which failed

junior raft
still cipher
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Man i swear we got some super juicy stuff coming

vague oriole
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Yeah, this is exciting!

waxen void
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Outside what's been translated do you think there will be anymore for this Expedition?
I wonder if it's leading to a No Man's Sky 2 or a new set of universes controlled by the Void Mother instead of Atlas?

vague oriole
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Perhaps the Void Mother was what they evacuated from?

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Either it’s their vessel/world or some sort of attacker?

waxen void
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No... previous lore bits and bread crumbs suggest that the Void Mother and Glass are the deleted files and systems Atlas needed to remove to slow down the reality everyone in the simulated universe lives in while in the real world, where Atlas's servers are in the Sol System the sun is officially/canonically now past 6 mins where as in the beginnign of No Man Sky I think it started at 12 mins (there are a lot of players who are either confused or insist the times are different or stagnant)

The Void Mother, for all we know and what little we do know wants to try and "save" everyone and stop get Atlas to do something else.

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Also if the older ARGs are still canon there's also sub-minds of Atlas so they could have seperated into their own servers/ai but thats just speculation.

still cipher
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I hope it leads to a hostile race or something that we have to fight

golden snow
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Void Mother = Abyss

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And we already sing together

still cipher
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:)

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Hostile robot guys maybe idk

waxen void
# golden snow Void Mother = Abyss

Yeah I'm glad that was answered for us.

I am curious if we might get our first big Update or maybe this is leading to the first giant expansion for NMS or like I said earlier maybe its leading to a NMS 2 🤔

I am loving this year of content though, its been absolutely incredible

dapper oriole
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mhhh what do you think the prize will be?

golden snow
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My guess would be that the Abyss replaces the Atlas, but I don't know if they would do that considering the impact on the main missions

waxen void
waxen void
# golden snow My guess would be that the Abyss replaces the Atlas, but I don't know if they wo...

Agreed; it's also really fustrating trying to discuss quite a few lore and story details with exactly what you're discussing.
There are terminals, abandoned buildings, little quips and pieces of information still in the game from when No Man's Sky released mixed in with their larger updates and their story beats as well as expeditions where Hello Game just decides to slide in a quip that is actually really concerning or important to the overall story that is from more recent updates so old and new information are just jumbled together

I don't know how they'll deal with that if they're continuing the story, soft-canon from recent updates and expeditions state we're past the "six minute mark" so I don't know how this helps the still incoming doom to us 🤔 it's certainly exciting

golden snow
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Yeah, I love not knowing what is happening

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Whatever it is, it's more icing for the cake

glossy steppe
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I have a feeling that the main update this year might be a full entrance of the Abyss into the NMS universe as a tangible thing

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Whether that's biomes, npcs, enemies etc I have no clue

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Just as a force we can interact with

waxen void
golden snow
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Sorta is happening with the corrupted biomes too

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I hope we do get a visual representation of the Abyss - Abyss Stations?

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Big purple thing of some sort

glossy steppe
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Maybe we get to communicate with it directly at some point

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Other than the arg stuff idk what happens in this expedition yet, though

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Cos xbox 😭

fresh garnet
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Did anyone figured out to translate "H4ars!!%%^7e3 5un" so far?

slate mesa
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my best guess: "harvested sun"

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my guess is probably extremely wrong though

fresh garnet
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hmm its just a guess...there should be a correct translation

golden snow
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Hears the Sun

fresh garnet
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yeah but HOW u translate?

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why and how u make an "e" out of an "4"

golden snow
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Datamine trickery

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Those will be revealed eventually

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Just what I've seen btw, not gonna commit until we see them uncorrupted

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The bugged milestone is likely what will start to uncorrupt those

fresh garnet
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yeah but what i mean is for the numbers and letters....u use Hexadecimal to encode it...how u encode "H4ars!!%%^7e3 5un". hexadecimal doesnt work and ohter codes that i found also not working

golden snow
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They aren't in code we can decipher - these are like the corrupted missions we see at the Nexus

fresh garnet
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hmm i dont think so

placid phoenix
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Gleam is right, there's no cipher it's just a jumbled mess it would be the same as blotting it out like "---------" or whatever

fresh garnet
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because when u use the reaktor to the autophage u get 67 6c 61 73 73 for the language of the sentinels/autophages

golden snow
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That's a hex code

fresh garnet
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when u decide for the SEED u get "H4ars!!%%^7e3 5un"

golden snow
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These are just scrambled

placid phoenix
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They did this with milestones in previous expeditions, it's just not readable until it's unlocked

hollow sleet
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Considering the meta nature of the story I would imagine them setting up a scene where the "countdown" stops when they're done with content updates for the game

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And the in game universe is now frozen

fresh garnet
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yeah but theres a meaning behind everything and hint to the solution everywhere

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for example "H4ars!!%%^7e3 5un"

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7e3 translates in hex to "2019"...the year 2019? maybe

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5un is not hex

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but it means sun maybe

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so there was a sun event in real life in 2019 related to the sun

glossy steppe
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It's just scrambled atm. It'll unscramble by itself at a later stage

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There's no cypher or anything for it

fresh garnet
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sorry but there is...

golden snow
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Let us know when you get it

fresh garnet
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sometimes there just some weird signs like in" ...whzzt 4r3 yI_I0 ...

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translates like u read it "what are you"

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its just a disturbence in sending it

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like kkzzzt or something like that

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but "H4ars!!%%^7e3 5un" is something diffrent

glossy steppe
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It's not something exclusive to this expedition. The same scrambling is used in the other ones, and it's never meant anything. It does get unscrambled but it's not a code

fresh garnet
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67 6c 61 73 73 is clearly a message (GLASS) and it rlates to the decision to use the reactor

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"H4ars!!%%^7e3 5un" is the answer when u decide for the atlas seed to use

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bcause the autophages talk about a code

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earlier after the interceptor update

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not only about the void mother..there where hints and numbers they lead to the rosettacode

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2, 3, 7, 43, 13, 53, 5, 6221671, 38709183810571, 139, 2801, 11, 17, 5471, 52662739, 23003

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these are not only numbers ....this is the euclid-mullin sequence....

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and these ar 16 numbers....the first 16 in a long row....16!?

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is anyone else working on this?

split kite
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I'll be honest, you lost me at euclid mullen sequence

fresh garnet
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because? wrong?

split kite
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Just generally confused by all of it

young turtle
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You and me both

fresh garnet
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yeah..i need a programmer/mathematician who know this stuff

dapper oriole
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You guys decoded the numbers that the atlantis ball give you?

stuck umbra
fresh garnet
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void prime also some term in the euclid mullins...or in the rosetta code in general

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euclid mullins sequence...2, 3, 7, 43, 13, 53, 5, 6221671, 38709183810571, 139, 2801, 11, 17, 5471, 52662739, 23003...are all prime numbers...funny right!?

stuck umbra
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Why is it funny? If they weren't prime numbers they wouldn't be part of either of the mullins sequences.

true dagger
fresh garnet
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ohh right... didnt noticed that...

stuck umbra
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There's also the encoded message in the autophages names

fresh garnet
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yeah ..the names translates to WE DO NOT NEED YOU...

true dagger
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What about other things that have been discovered? Do they have hex names?

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Like plants and animals

fresh garnet
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not that i know..

stuck umbra
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And ||77 68 61 74 20 69 73 20 74 68 69 73 20 70 6c 61 63 65 = what is this place||

true dagger
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So far, does this arg seem similar to WT?

fresh garnet
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WT?

stuck umbra
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waking titan

placid phoenix
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that was the name of the last ARG they did

stuck umbra
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and not really. This one is clearly NMS related, while Waking Titan it took a while to figure out what it was about.

true dagger
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As in, you don't think this one will have stuff outside of nms itself?

fresh garnet
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is this the story about the foundation who searched the alternate realitys?

stuck umbra
true dagger
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So far we just have a ton of hex

stuck umbra
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Yep. If they're doing it in-house its probably gonna be all in game. Waking Titan they hired some arg company to run it.

true dagger
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Did we know they hired them at that point?

stuck umbra
#

only after it tied to the game

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which was pretty far into the arg if memory serves

true dagger
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So, is it possible they've hired them again?

stuck umbra
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Sure, its possible. We'll only know if websites and stuff start popping up relating to it.

true dagger
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I really hope so

fresh garnet
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we know this is just an simultation on an big programm of alternate reality right`?

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and theres an problem with the loop 16 ...

young turtle
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Allison smith?

golden snow
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The problem with loop 16 is she is dead

stuck umbra
golden snow
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Rip Emily

young turtle
fresh garnet
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that means theres an loop of the first 16 euclid mullins sequence numbers

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it not going any further...

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u remember how many planets are in total in NMS?

young turtle
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hold on

fresh garnet
young turtle
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18,446,744,073,709,551,616

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that's a familiar number

stuck umbra
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Another of the New Atlantids: || 65 76 61 63 75 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 66 61 69 6c 65 64 2e 20 6c 69 66 65 62 6f 61 74 73 20 6c 6f 73 74 2e 20 61 6c 6c 20 63 6f 6e 76 65 72 74 65 64|| = ||evacuation failed. lifeboats lost. all converted||

young turtle
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65 days of static?

rigid gulch
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18 quintillion

young turtle
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that's the band that did the soundtrack for no man's sky

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or maybe i'm looking too deep into it

golden snow
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It's also 16^16

stuck umbra
#

and ||57 65 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 6e 65 76 65 72 20 73 65 65 20 68 6f 6d 65 20 61 67 61 69 6e|| = ||we will never see home again||

stuck umbra
#

ah, looks like gumsk had datamined all of those already. And here I was, wasting time with my screenshots. :P

young turtle
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nevermind

stuck umbra
#

?

young turtle
#

apparently an Atlas is a type of statue, also called an atlantid

empty kelp
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if you click on it it mentions Telamon

young turtle
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could i be on to something?

rigid gulch
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We will never see home again. Hmmm

fresh garnet
#

everything is old greek

lean apex
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telamon in this instance is the roman term

fresh garnet
#

see all the interceptors the letters in the names? all greek letters

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euclid is a greek mathematic

empty kelp
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artemis and apollo are also greek myths

stuck umbra
empty kelp
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it mentions titan (waking titan?)

stuck umbra
young turtle
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Atlas basically holds the entire world on his shoulders
much like ATLAS controls the entire simulation

stuck umbra
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Tho not the same Atlas as the one that ruled Atlantis (and that the island was named after) according to Plato. That Atlas was the son of Poseidon, instead.

young turtle
fresh garnet
#

for my guess was in 2019 something happens with the sun....they needed to evacuate all humans from earth but there was no solution for that. they researched the alternate realitys to get a chance to save everything...and the loaded all minds into a big simulation...but the simulation got a problem at the 16 loop of the prime numbers. and everything restarts. and here we go...

rigid gulch
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Where that all happened

fresh garnet
#

on earth!?

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sentinels and are maybe human souls...like we are,,and maybe like all the other races in the unviverse

stuck umbra
#

In my opinion we shouldn't be too quick to assume that the creators of the Atlas were necessarily human. Outside of Waking Titan, there's not even a single mention of humans anywhere that I can recall.

fresh garnet
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its just easy to assume

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because greek is on EARTH

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everything relates to greek history

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why would another race use these terms

stuck umbra
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Sure. Culturally we're all a product of ancient greece, and those roots always show up in all creative works. That doesn't mean that the universes depicted in those creative works must include Earth, or Greece for that matter. :P

fresh garnet
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the simulation is just a programm writen by humans and programmed with mathematics and programm language known on earth

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the evidence is everywhere

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humans doesnt know it better...and thats why all this hints and stuff is in the game

stuck umbra
#

That's an assumption that I'm not ready to make without in-universe proof. One might argue that a simulation created by humans would include at least one species that at least vaguely resembles humans. None of the four races known in game are even sort of human, only humanoid, and in my opinion the jury is still out on the Anomaly race until I can see what sort of face lies behind those helmet visors.

fresh garnet
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its a programm..u are human but u play an geek...does this mean u are not human?

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the souls need something to do..

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they are geek and korvax and vykeen and wanderers and sentinels....all human souls uploaded to this ARC not knowing what they are because of the loop

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korvax want believe (religous) and are peacful .. the sentinels do everything was the leader says..(soldiers) the geek are the aggressive ones who try to take over...everything is like in real life

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humans never change

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not even in an alternate reality

vague oriole
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What do you have against geeks? What have they ever done to you? 😂

glossy sage
#

the atlantid sphere things look awfully similar to the type B space stations......,,,,...

waxen void
glossy sage
#

even more interesting is that the encoded text from them refers to them as lifeboats

young turtle
glossy sage
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i see

waxen void
split kite
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What is that

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Can you land on/in it?

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And more importantly... does it have tea

young turtle
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No

stuck umbra
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||hidden text: our own ownvergence||

young turtle
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Dumb corrupted sentinels can’t even spell right

fresh garnet
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"OUR OWN VERGENCE"

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here are some number from the interceptor update...the autophages on the planets...

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2 3 7 43 13 53 5 6221671 38709183810571 139 2801 11 17 5471 52662739 23003 (Euclid-mullen sequence)

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5 34 65 111 175 260 (Magic constant)

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3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 (Fibanacci Numbers)

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1 3 7 9 13 15 21 25 31 33 37 43 49 51 63 67 (Lucky numbers?)

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70 836 4030 5930 7192 7912 9272 10430 10570 10792 10990 11410 11690 12110 (Weird Number)

young turtle
#

THE NUMBERS

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WHAT DO THEY MEAN

fresh garnet
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2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 (Sieve of Eratosthenes)

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these are all mathematic logics /rules/ techniques used on this planet mother EARTH

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i just see that as a proof that the autophages are earth/human related like everything else

young turtle
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Perhaps so

fresh garnet
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and all that stuff is used in the rosetta code

waxen void
fresh garnet
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yeah they are needed to programming i guess

young turtle
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So how are these related to the arg

fresh garnet
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the autophages tell u these numbers for a reason

young turtle
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Hmm

waxen void
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Whenever we I think either recieved or got a blessing the Autophage Life Pod would appear and give a string of numbers in our dialogue box as well as numbers on the ships internal screen when you see it.

All of them write out a sentence which is now posted in the pinned comments. Its as far as we've gotten outside what the bugs screech which is another reference to the Void Mother/Abyss

stuck umbra
waxen void
young turtle
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Imma have brunch rn
When I get home I’ll hop on the expedition

fresh garnet
#

did anyone put the sound files from the atlas seeds in an sound converter?

stuck umbra
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I don't think it was posted here yet, tho I think most users here will have figured it out by now, the message from the 'discovered by' usernames is: 77 65 77 69 6c 6c 62 75 69 6c 64 6f 75 72 6f 77 6e = ||we will build our own||

young turtle
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let the expedition

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COMMENCE

vague oriole
young turtle
vague oriole
young turtle
vague oriole
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I thought it still hadn’t released on console

young turtle
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it released a few hours ago

vague oriole
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Time to disappear for a few hours then

vague oriole
#

never mind, still waiting

vague oriole
stuck umbra
rigid gulch
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Any new developments?

young turtle
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not sure

glossy steppe
#

Okay so a quick thought

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An atlantid is a statue used on (or instead of?) columns, where the figure is made to look like they're holding the building up

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That's pretty similar imagery to Atlas in Greek mythology, who holds the world on his back

fresh garnet
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atlas in mathemathic is the way to find a certain spot.

empty kelp
dusk thorn
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do the 0x codes have any decipherable meaning?

empty kelp
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those are hexadecimal (I think)

crystal scroll
#

I'm sorry, what are the Atlantid?

young turtle
sturdy python
# empty kelp This is probably not important but yesterday, <@687032508188983341> said that th...

I've seen things...things you would not believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in the rain.

  • Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner
    They had him do the voice over for the trailer. It was originally used for the living ship update though iirc
    nvm, it was a launch trailer trailer as well
sour nexus
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Wait so if there are new fragments then that means its being resurrected/remade?

empty kelp
sour nexus
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Oh yeah

somber prairie
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the first rendezvous i got said "The ninth: 1001000"

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at the robot corpse

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1001000 is H in binary

sour nexus
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That sounds like normal autophage dialogue

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There are 1-12 plus 17

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Want me to spoil what the 12 say or nah?

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Not that crazy tbh

somber prairie
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o so thats the void mother one

sour nexus
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Yes

somber prairie
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the game crashed immediately after

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lol

sour nexus
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Void mother is op

stuck umbra
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I tried translating the ones from the 'scan memory' option on the expedition autophages and those seemed like gibberish.

dusk thorn
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interesting

stuck umbra
trim granite
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can these purple codes be translated? doesn't seem to be hexadecimal

stuck umbra
stuck umbra
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So far the messages seem to be ||We do not need you. We will build our own. Our own ownvergence.||, plus all the VOID PRIME stuff, and ||What is this place?|| from the item you get in the anomaly. @trim granite

trim granite
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has this audio been figured out?

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i thought the spectrographs were from the hidden audio files found in the Mac update

scarlet kernel
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Wait, the thing make a sound!?

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I was not aware

sturdy python
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All of them do

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Sounds like pokemon growls lol

scarlet kernel
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Heckie

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I suspect there's spectrograph stuff hidden within those too

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the spooky noises in mac release datamine turned out to be from Atlas

placid phoenix
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I think the noises from the mac datamines were the same noises that come from the seeds resonate option

placid phoenix
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To me it seems pretty clear that all of this is leading to the atlantids/crimsons being added to the game as a new race, at least imo

trim granite
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not sure if this counts as part of the ARG, but this thing has a coded message as well. I think it'll update what it says as the community makes progress. Translates to: "what is this place"

restive citrus
broken trout
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I've been loosely following the plot but a few things are still weird to me
Korvax prime somehow corrupted into the abyss and is now trying to take over the universe from the Atlas?
And someone mentioned the progenitor species that built the atlas?

hollow sleet
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Yeah sort of, and now these old fellas are coming back thanks to the crimson corruption

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And don't want to be part of the korvax convergence

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(they can't anyway)

dusk thorn
snow rampart
keen oak
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I wonder if they're gonna involve ol' Telamon in this ARG later on

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cause he seems relevant, with Laylaps talking to him about glass and whatnot

snow rampart
upper glade
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No, I don't

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Though considering some clues involve data mining the files for sound files and processing them, I don't see much difference 🙂

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Thank you for the site, btw

snow rampart
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Yeah, i'm in two minds about it. I wonder if the audio files were left in the mac build by accident... seeing as you're now able to access them in-game without datamining 🤔

upper glade
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Yeah, it's a conundrum

still cipher
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mannnn

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what if its like

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the korvax prime but still alive idk

dusk thorn
waxen void
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Has anyone else seen this at all, I feel like this is just weird schizo posting for this NMS ARG but I don't know https://twitter.com/GlimKami/status/1667092077346185216 🤔 you can never tell with these things because people just go off the wall on speculation and melding it into fanfiction

𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 geometry, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 life with 𝐍𝐌𝐒 font, I think. This is all I know and it is encrypted, I hope you can understand me. This is my bet for what will possibly be the biggest revelation. I will post more images later #NoMansSkySpoilers #NoMansSky

scarlet kernel
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Just some of their personal interpretation. Not related to the ARG

icy dome
waxen void
snow rampart
keen oak
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does anyone know if the changing numbers and letters that show up everywhere mean something or are just random?

signal spear
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They seem similar to the codes that flash when you do the anomaly scans.

waxen void
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Did anyone copy paste the numbers we get behind that dialogue box? You see them when you come across the corrupted life pods

rigid gulch
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2 5 52 96 120 124 146 162 188 206 210 216 238 246 262 268 how can I decode this? What can I use?

keen oak
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plugged it into hex and just gibberish, neither is it a registered series on https://oeis.org/

rigid gulch
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One of the autophages

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On the first planet

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I recently started the expedition

keen oak
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hmmm... im not sure

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i think its been decoded before

young turtle
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the code seems familiar

keen oak
rigid gulch
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Maybe

keen oak
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although im not sure

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it also could be this, https://oeis.org/A005114 but it doesnt match up perfectly. there are some numbers missing from what you sent when compared to the full series on oeis

keen oak
rigid gulch
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All good no worries

plucky herald
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Surely people are really not doing this stuff

young turtle
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what do you mean?

trim granite
plucky herald
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Is doing that community event enjoyable to you? Shocked I am

young turtle
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i'm enjoying it

trim granite
plucky herald
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Can you find where I asked about the difference

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Lol

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It’s fine

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You have fun

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Just don’t talk to strangers unless the arg says so

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And don’t scan poke stops in graveyards or alleys

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.—.

young turtle
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if you're not interested why are you here Blorgle

trim granite
plucky herald
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Still

slate mesa
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dunno if this has been documented anywhere but i just got the following void prime message: ||Out of nothing she will rebuild us||

keen oak
young turtle
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any new developments?

slate mesa
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not really, no

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(caps lock)

somber prairie
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Fun fact about untouchable numbers, 5 is actually the only one that is an odd number

drifting mica
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I got this:57 65 20 61 72 65 20 61 20 6C 69 66 65 6F 61 74
From one of the corrupted space thingies, anyone know if there's a way to decode it like the binary lines?

somber prairie
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that is hexadecimal

drifting mica
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Ty

slate mesa
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it's ||We are a lifeboat||

somber prairie
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yep

drifting mica
keen oak
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man HG really do love their hex codes

drifting mica
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Indeed

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But it's a base 16 system which is probably linked to nms importance with the number 16

keen oak
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yeah, but they COULD do rot16

drifting mica
somber prairie
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another cipher

keen oak
drifting mica
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Ah ok

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So it's ceaser cypher

keen oak
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iirc ceaser cypher is rot13

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right? or am i mixing some stuff up

somber prairie
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caesar cipher is any rot

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its more broad

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rot is just a more formal expression

keen oak
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then i was mixing up stuff

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good to know

somber prairie
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plus theres also ones like rot47 which uses ascii too

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harder to decode without being a computer

keen oak
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fair enough

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but i really think we should get stuff other then hex

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spice it up

somber prairie
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The hex is annoying to type for sure lol

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binary is arguable worse

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they used a bit of binary for the autophage messages

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and they have been using a lot of mathematical number sequences

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but the meaning of such sequences is yet to be determined

stuck umbra
stuck umbra
# somber prairie but the meaning of such sequences is yet to be determined

I don't expect there will be a deeper meaning to the mathematical sequences. I see it as just a nod to how they got the planet generation to work procedurally, by using various math formulas to create distortions on a sphere and so forth. There were a bunch of interviews about it when the game was still in development / had just been released, if memory serves. That being said, that could still end up playing some sort of role in the lore, it wouldn't be the first time that out-of-game stuff influenced the storyline...

somber prairie
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not uncommon for args to be very bizarre in the way they hide clues

trim granite
stuck umbra
somber prairie
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untouchables are one of the many strange mathematical number sequences out there

trim granite
# stuck umbra I don't expect there will be a deeper meaning to the mathematical sequences. I s...

||You mean how the Artemis story is an allegory for how the game initially launched with no multiplayer and us trying and failing to meet up with them is a nod to players trying to meet each other in game prior to multiplayer? And how the breakdown in the Atlas sim is an explanation for how we’ve been able to interact more and more over time, starting as points of light before getting to the full on multiplayer we have now?||

somber prairie
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i didnt know about them either until researching what the numbers might be

trim granite
stuck umbra
icy dome
floral tide
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I haven't finished the expedition yet, but I've been taking note of the glyphs that have needed to be used for each autophage and harmonic interface. I've been wondering if perhaps we could put those together at a portal, which would take us somewhere significant.

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It's a string of 12 glyph characters - are there four autophage pieces for the expedition? That would give 12 characters...

icy dome
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i think 5

floral tide
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If it's 5, that would throw that off. heh

icy dome
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|| head arm body legs core||

floral tide
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Are there also five harmonic interfaces ?

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Probably, since there's one at each place there's an autophage..

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Well - blows that idea. heh

icy dome
waxen void
somber prairie
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anyone notice that resonating the atlas seeds makes a sound? were those the sounds that were datamined?

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upon listening to the datamined ones, they are indeed the same sounds

slate mesa
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one of the required milestones is tied to a community goal

floral tide
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Something I noticed - I may have missed one, but so far, I have these from being at the rendezvous points:

"The Fourth: 1000100"
"The Ninth: 1001000"

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Seems like if we can get "the First" "The Second" , etc...

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1000100 = D
1001000 = H

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_ _ _ D _ _ _ _ H

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bah - didn't put all the underscores in. :/

somber prairie
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it was figured out few days ago

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the answer is in the pins

floral tide
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Ah ok. I'm behind. heh

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It's good to know what's solved though, so I can know I did find something, and then also know that there is a solution to it.

waxen imp
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if you're wondering, they say VOID MOTHER

somber prairie
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Yee

waxen imp
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(the space stations in Korvax systems, when given Atlantideum, say I SEE HER)

somber prairie
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most of the things to decode have been decoded

waxen imp
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and that's about what the arg has so far

somber prairie
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most dont lead much of anywhere other than giving us little lore tidbits about whats to come

floral tide
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Usually when I hear "ARG" , I think it's going to lead me outside of the game. Which it doesn't sound like this has. At least not yet.

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No website, no youtube video, document, etc..

gaunt vector
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Once we hit the community milestone I think it will lead IRL

floral tide
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That'd be cool. Hopefully we can get there. 🙂

glossy steppe
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I mean it's probably not a fully fledged arg

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They just said arg style clues tbh

gaunt vector
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True we never know but we can hope. Waking titan was a really good time