gtfo-lore

[eternal talon]

well i mean, there is no contest for it

it's not rundown 7 related

so i doubt it's anything specifically 'major' since it was recorded in such a short period of time

unless they already had this pre-planned for weeks and just needed voice files to drag and drop into whatever it was needed for

i just hope we get more info on wtf this thing was.

[harsh saffron]

yeah I was pretty surprised they are going to be used already (or I guess revealed what they were used for, if we take the quote literally)

[harsh saffron]

A circle

[eternal talon]

well, yes. we know that, well, technically not even that

it could be a partially buried cylinder

i dunno man. it's a bit wierd that there's just a random carved sandstone circle in the middle of nowhere

[harsh saffron]

Agreed, so its probably not random

[eternal talon]

thinking like crop circles. just so utterly random and without any obvious purpose

here is the pic with every different flashlight on it

it's certainly textured with patterns

though it's basically impossible to tell what it actually is

still neat tho

[hot burrow]

Just got to wait and see if we do something with it again

[eternal talon]

well we didn't do anything with it in the first place

it was just a piece of scenery in b1

behind where the squad teleports in

[solar carbon]

I love the two separate nerd communities

Got the wiki workers and the lore lovers

[subtle verge]

I'd like to think we work hand-in-hand.

Even though that's a little lewd.

[solar carbon]

Kinda hawt

[small solar]

Yeah

[solar carbon]

Hand holding

[small solar]

Whats up Man.
I glad to be here, and see you all talk about the lore of G.T.F.O.

[subtle verge]

Welcome aboard! You can find all of the logs in the pinned messages through the notion.so Timeline, or you can check out the GTFO fandom wiki! There's also a small newcomer guide and TL;DR in the pins, as well!

[finite vine]

honestly looks like missing rock from the first jump to that part of destination alpha.

[eternal talon]

wdym "missing rock"

and what do you mean first jump to that part of destination?

we only visit each place once

[dim scroll]

Schaeffer has, tank doesn't

Hence why you can call it Father as well

[finite vine]

there had to be a first “jump” to that part of destination alpha. maybe that first jump displaced some rock in that area and made that circle there.

[eternal talon]

again, d1

it has nothing to do with the teleportation

we've talked about this before, haven't we?
no genuinely, haven't we?
i don't recall if you were in on that convo or not it was like a month ago

why is the moon so luminous?

here is another pic

[finite vine]

you mean the stone circle? how do you know it has nothing to do with the jumps?

[eternal talon]

two reasons.

1. in b1 you don't jump onto it, it's like 5-10 feet behind you depending on what player you are in the lobby

2. it is in zero of the other jumps, including d1 where you use an identical auxiliary teleporter

[finite vine]

I thought you jump onto it in b1? the reason for b1 could honestly just be gameplay/ dev reasons.

[eternal talon]

it isn't sand either, it's like cut stone. so if it was from the jump in d1, it would be visible

wdym you jump onto it in a1? you don't.

i've loaded into a1 to check before

it's just sand

[finite vine]

my bad i wrote that by mistake

[eternal talon]

no, it's behind you

[eternal talon]

your good

i had a picture but i can't find it

looking at it directly from where you teleport in

by just not moving and turning around

i could run it again in a bit and take another pic if you'd like

[finite vine]

well the reason for it not being in other levels could be because in a1 we jump onto sand, which will not leave a circle. in c1, i think we jump onto sand as well? not sure. in d1, we jump onto metal, which is more durable.

[eternal talon]

here is a VERY rough paint picture

sometimes you spawn closer, sometimes you spawn farther

but the two guys on the side don't spawn close to it at all

[finite vine]

well i mean that’s pretty close.

[eternal talon]

i've seen it spawn me up to like 15 feet away before

i don't understand the variance

[solar nova]

Lore database now has all of the available query information for what should be every item in the game.

There's also a weapon database, just to track weapon models and manufacturers.

[harsh saffron]

2 New logs in the corrupted directory
8RT-NSA-BUN.LOG and GLD-4R4-XU5.LOG
They are readable in 4 days 15 hours / 1 day and 3 hours respectively
(10th of April at 12 am and 7th of April at 12 pm UTC+2
but in the past, the logs were unlocked about 1 hour after their dates)

The Logs from R6 are in the Archive006 directory and aren't readable in the near future (probably again for R7)
The logs that were previously in the corrupted folder are the bottom 5 logs in Archive006 and are readable

[civic knoll]

I have a question on sleepers. So I know that they are ex-employees that got locked up, but what made them to change into what ever they are now?

[dim scroll]

supposedly nam-V and the parasite that is in symbiosis with it

#gtfo-lore message

This should give you the answers you are looking for

[unborn steppe]

Any theories on what Dauda's ID prefix stands for? F is probably fault class, O for operative and GO for genesis operative but what could T stand for?

[small bobcat]

Technician?

[unborn steppe]

could be, my only theory is Test since they found his pod after the initial outbreak so they probably didn't have the time to train him like other operatives

[pine agate]

I think it's Tau, I've heard that generation before, but not sure in which log.

But I might be wrong.

[hot burrow]

Y’all talking about their ids?

[harsh saffron]

https://www.notion.so/Behavioral-anomalies-among-Sigma-gen-431cd1850c2d4c6f8e067feaee6da3bd#08e34f1fc42a4ea1a183336f6623e613
This one has the Tau gen mentioned

[pine agate]

Ah, thank you very much!

[unborn steppe]

I don't think it adds up. Woods is confirmed Sigma gen before being a fault class and the generations are implied to be by year. With Tau being right after that means Dauda would've been captured in 2049 which can't be because things don't go to shit until 2052

[pine agate]

Oh, true. Nevermind then, I was wrong

[solar nova]

There are a few ideas about sleepers and why they look humanoid.
-People have been zombified, and turned into sleepers through some mechanism by either NAM-V or the parasite.
-Sleepers create themselves, and are simply mimicing/modeling themselves off of human bodies. People are only killed for food or to control territory.
-Some mix of the other two perspectives.

Right now, it seems like the first option alone is not what's going on. We see respawn sacks and birthers seemingly creating life from some rudimentary flesh, so, even if zombification is how things started out (which some logs seem to imply), the primary mechanism at play seems to be a modeling after the human form.

[solar nova]

It might also be the case that the second option alone allows for zombification. The formation of a sleeper starts in a human body and uses this start to take on a human shape, but the formation process itself doesn't depend on a human body to go through, it's just a viable incubator. This seems like zombification, a person turning into a sleeper, but it's just a sleeper forming in place of a human.

[subtle verge]

Im not sure if the parasite needs NAM-V to convert the host into a sleeper. We can see in a log that after parasites are removed, NAM-V still ramps up, calcifies ligaments, and eventually kills the host.

It's plausible they work together, but all evidence I'm currently aware of states otherwise.

[subtle verge]

This is mint, my guy. Cheers!

[subtle verge]

An NSA log? 👀 If it means National Security Agency, that might be a little spicy.

[harsh saffron]

Didn't even notice that, its probably an NSA log with information about Bunnies

[eternal talon]

read the "for dummies" document to get yourself up to date. it's in the pins. on the topic of sleepers, they aren't neccessarily employees that got "locked up" just infected by the parasite and virus that were sealed away deep within the meteor for millions of years.

most sleepers are infected crew and personnel, but it would appear mothers can use modified genetic dna to essentially breed more infected hosts

specifically in the case of humanity, with mothers

[quick grove]

Can i pls have link pls

https://tenor.com/view/let-me-in-eric-andre-wanna-come-in-gif-13730108

[harsh saffron]

You'll have to wait 7 more minutes
Edit: nvm thats the other log

GLD-4R4-XU5.LOG:

ACCESS -BIOCOM -29$525GVTHR2%456FS
Instantiating BIOCOM.net(CLI)…
ready:_
unknown file type
read:_
MzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzkgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMz
AgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzggMjAgMzggMzEgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzcgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzYgMjAgMzYg
MzkgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzMgMjAgMzYgMzcgMjAgMzQgMzggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzIgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMz
IgMzEgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzkgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMzAgMzUgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAg
MzcgMzggMjAgMzggMzMgMjAgMzUgMzIgMjAgMzUgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzUgMjA
analyze(_cryptog.all)
…
Analyzing. Wait…

[quick grove]

So its not an audio log

[harsh saffron]

nah, the other one isn't either

[quick grove]

Damn

So when can i read it

[harsh saffron]

the other one should be on 11th of April at 1 am (UTC + 2)

[quick grove]

And the one today

[harsh saffron]

thats the one I sent

[quick grove]

Hmm yeah can't read

[harsh saffron]

same, but somebody will figure it out no worries ^^

[subtle verge]

Another brainfuck-like code?

[quick grove]

Man all i want to do is read not fucking descript shit

[subtle verge]

Going back to sleep. 6am and 1 hour of sleep. Will be back later.

[quick grove]

[harsh saffron]

tysm

I love it

Was hoping there would be larger version

[hot burrow]

Blood door 👀

[cedar eagle]

is this a Proclaim art?

[dull crest]

Collaborative

[subtle verge]

What in the fuck is that thing with the gaping maw. That's gonna be cool to fight.

New subspecies eeeee

[carmine tendon]

So there's a third alpha huh?

Wonder if we get to see it soon.

[harsh saffron]

Pretty sure one of the 6.5 levels will have us going there

[carmine tendon]

Maybe. Maybe not

Not gonna flip a coin today

[dim scroll]

It would make no sense to extract Alpha 3 data on BX if not for going into Alpha 3 on CX and/or DX

[celest pagoda]

yyeeAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

FELLAS ITS HAPPENING

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[finite vine]

yea it looks like we are looking for the coordinates of alpha 3. once we have to coordinates, i assume we will travel there.

[solar nova]

Has anyone tried to decode this, yet? It looks like it's two-letter pairs to me.

[subtle verge]

I'm working on it.

[celest pagoda]

The trailer appears to show the dusty dunes of Planet Alpha (Alpha Planet? what we calling it i forgor) so I'm certain we are going back

[celest pagoda]

On second thought, maybe that's just lighting and fog. I cant seem to tell. What yall think?

[solar nova]

I mean, we do get a shot of a bunch of dust.

So it's not all that far-fetched.

The shot right after this also appears to have the sun in the top right.

[celest pagoda]

Yea, didnt see that at first. Plus, the mention of Alpha 3 seems to seal the deal.

[subtle verge]

AIN'T SHE A BEAUT

[celest pagoda]

Ah yes, the M A W

[hot burrow]

Yummy

[hot burrow]

Those extra zones are probably loot rooms or evac

[subtle verge]

🎶 If a floater's big maw has a four-way split jaw it's a horror~ 🎶

[dim scroll]

Hmm yes

BX

the "" level

[hot burrow]

Ngl. I’m kinda of excited

[dim scroll]

I wouldn't set my expectations too high if i were you

[hot burrow]

Mostly for more cosmetic items 🙂

[solar nova]

No optionals?

[dim scroll]

yay

[hot burrow]

If they were wouldn’t they be in the hundreds?

[dim scroll]

Not always

[hot burrow]

Hmm

[solar nova]

There would probably be splitting as well, instead of just 13-21.

[dim scroll]

The numbers would be drastically different though

Another possibility is that this screen wasn't taken at extraction

Thus the optional objectives were behind

Nvm the distorted ground implies it's extraction

[solar nova]

No, the tile is very clearly a datacenter elevator tile.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/667720797539926016/961599799713464400/Screenshot_3_1.png

[dim scroll]

i just can't get used to that light i swear

[hot burrow]

Oh god I just realized it’s a data center themed

I hate that environment. I get lost and shit

[solar nova]

I love datacenter, has a similar vibe to Storage for me.

[hot burrow]

I prefer the refinery, storage, and dig site environments

They fit well with the game imo

[solar nova]

Just not a fan of the Research environment?

[hot burrow]

Ya

But it does not matter that much

[final sentinel]

Oh I wonder if its “big flyer”

Hmmmm

[still stream]

Either CX or DX is also gonna be research since we gonna have to jump gate to alpha 3 most likely

[lapis crystal]

lab is nice, the only cool datacenter tiles are d4 t scan zone and the bridge one

[final sentinel]

Nah bro floodways jump gate

In all honesty I really hope we get one more floodways level

I fucking LOVE floodways

[lapis crystal]

we're gonna teleport to the one of the tiles in r7 new environment

then come back

[still stream]

I hope the R7 environment connects to floodways

so layered floodway levels have more variety

[final sentinel]

Flooderways

More floodedways

[still stream]

pooways

[final sentinel]

We heard you all liked floodways, so we put more flood in your floodways

Swimming sleepers

[lapis crystal]

fish ai

[final sentinel]

I mean we do have a squid/clam

[solar nova]

Could be like a ventilation environment or something.

Would give them an excuse to add Service/Maintenance gen clusters.

[still stream]

And the oxygen mechanic

[lapis crystal]

oxygen_death.wav

[final sentinel]

if those flashy things on either side are bullets, these guys are MASSIVE

also a tumor that could be its weak point

[hot burrow]

I think those red lines are part of the storm

But ya the red “eye” is probably the weak point

[frozen inlet]

then the only time you can shoot is when it will attack you head on?

thats a bit daring and out of the usual for "boss" or big enemies

[final sentinel]

what if it's mini krarken

[subtle verge]

So I'm stuck on the cipher. I don't think I'm doing the right thing(s).

I think it uses a multitude of encryptions versus just one or two.

I think it just uses two, actually.

[dull crest]

I love this channel

[subtle verge]

We love you too, Calle!

[agile plinth]

what has happened here

damn i've missed a lot

[subtle verge]

Uhhh TL;DR - 6.5 announcement, new log dropped today that's definitely a cipher and not just bumblefuck corrupted text, M A W, and... shenanigans.

[agile plinth]

ooooooh shit

well I'll try to stay in the loop till i get back home

[solar nova]

Is it by chance a common form of encoding, similar to how brainfuck was something you could find on Google?

[eternal talon]

Opening log file GLD-4R4-XU5.LOG: DONE!

##########################################

ACCESS -BIOCOM -29$525GVTHR2%456FS
Instantiating BIOCOM.net(CLI)…
ready:_
unknown file type
read:_
MzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzkgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMz
EgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzggMjAgMzggMzEgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzcgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzYg
MjAgMzYgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzMgMjAgMzYgMzcgMjAgMzQgMzggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzIgMjAgMzcgMz
ggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzEgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzkgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMzAgMzUgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAg
MzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzggMzMgMjAgMzUgMzIgMjAgMzUgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzUgMjA
analyze(_cryptog.all)
…
Analyzing. Wait…

##########################################

End of file, Exiting ReadLog 1.12>
//Root/CORRUPTED/

wtf is this

[hot burrow]

A text log with funny letters and symbols

[solar nova]

Btw

you should escape your underscores.

use a backslash.

[eternal talon]

bruh i literally just copy-pasted

[solar nova]

I can tell.

[eternal talon]

why you gotta be this way?

[finite vine]

lmao

[subtle verge]

I put the body of the encryption through an auto-detection algorithm and it pulled up as "unknown encryption"

The body, by this algorithm, points that its most likely an Affine Cipher, but it's only 85% or so positive.

[eternal talon]

a severe overabundance of 'M'

[subtle verge]

The header, the 29$525---, however, pulled up as a "most likely lon/lat" cipher, so I threw that into a lon/lat cipher decoder, and it pulled up a lon/lat that was in the middle of the ocean.

Just southwest of the Pitcairn islands.

[sonic citrus]

I read the jA as character separators

Comes out as 22 unique characters if you do that

22 unique combinations of letters, rather

tried assigning those to normal letters and putting it into an online affine cipher decoder but it doesn't give me anything interesting

[eternal talon]

that floating thing isn't the mimic.

that means there are multiple new enemy types

elsewise the voice recording bit wouldn't make sense, since it is confirmed to be added in 6.5

[hot burrow]

It would be nice to see another new enemy with the new flyers

[eternal talon]

well it's certain.

the logs describe the mimic as "almost human"

only a blind and deaf person could see that thing as almost human

[solar nova]

Was it?

Also, we don't know if the mimic is an enemy.

[eternal talon]

yes. @dull crest on the steam forums.

[solar nova]

Interesting.

[eternal talon]

on the "live roadmap" post, i believe

i took a picture a couple weeks ago

it's in this channel

[subtle verge]

I wonder if the cipher is a substitution encryption... let me try to figure that one.

[eternal talon]

found it

@solar nova

[solar nova]

Interesting.

We'll see, I guess, but it might just be a log or set of logs.

[eternal talon]

dunno why they'd announce that kind of thing on the steam forums of all places, but it was there.

was reading through all the comments from people angry about content removal. lel

[magic solstice]

does the current encrypted log atleast look like something complete? or is it half of a code that we'll need the second log for?

[eternal talon]

it is a spaghetti of letters

we don't know yet.

punk said he is looking into it

[sonic citrus]

I'm not an expert but I'd guess that there is enough there to decode it. Having more to work with is always helpful but I doubt there would be a key in the second half prohibiting us from solving it

[eternal talon]

but honestly anybody that wants to should take a crack at it

[magic solstice]

tried the affine decoder but i couldn't get anything sensical, can't say I've tried codebreaking before lol

i love me some lore tho

[subtle verge]

I think... I think I have it figured out. Let me see...

[magic solstice]

:o

[sonic citrus]

Ooh

[solar nova]

That's what we thought initially for the brainfuck, but it was eventually decoded as a self-contained log.

[eternal talon]

i tried a Polybius cipher, no dice.
(using the letters number as the letter) (g=7 for example)

[subtle verge]

So I threw it into a frequency analysis tool

[solar nova]

It seems like it's letter pairings.

So, every two letters looks like it might have a definition.

[sonic citrus]

If you're looking at whats after the Mz there are only 11 different combinations which seems unlikely to make a full message

[magic solstice]

anything pop out? 👀

[subtle verge]

I've not pieced it together yet, but let me share:

[eternal talon]

@agile plinth if you were able to find a translation of a 16th century colonial era Spanish/Mayan medical document, surely cryptography isn't outside of your skillset?

[subtle verge]

These are the lists of characters, bigrams, and trigrams.

They are in order from most used to least.

[magic solstice]

this is a bit beyond my understanding lol

godspeed to you

[agile plinth]

depends, but i am unable to do it currently

when i'm back I'll be able to check

[eternal talon]

well i mean that proves it's not nonsense

all languages on earth follow a curve

1 sec.. trying to find the name of it

[subtle verge]

TL;DR - in a Caesar Cipher, a letter is always encoded as itself. For example: if the letter E is found to be encoded as a K , that means all Es in a cryptogram will always be the letter K in plaintext.

In the English language, the TH is the most common bigram, while THE is the most common trigram.

Now, that's not going to immediately say that, in our analysis, GMZ is going to be THE, however it's a starting point.

[dull crest]

I confirmed what?

[sonic citrus]

Punk have you noticed that MjAg splits the other 4 letter blocks into groups of 2 or 3 always?

[eternal talon]

found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE

[subtle verge]

I've not delved into that, let me take a peek.

[eternal talon]

Q: "will we find out if our voice lines were chosen to be put in the game??????"
A: Yes, in April 🙂

[dull crest]

Ah!

[sonic citrus]

Might be going in the wrong direction but its the only block that goes Mj instead of Mz. If you rule out the z from the remaining blocks and count the MjAg as spaces you get the following: cc gq kk EAM cc gQ cc EAM cg Yg gE EEc cc EAY Yk EIA cM Yc Qg EII cg EIE YU EEk cg EAU YU EIA cg gM UI UM

[dull crest]

Thought I had spilled the beans on what it is for 😉

[sonic citrus]

I feel like this is partially decoding it but I've not had any luck with the remainder

But like I said there are 22 unique combinations in there which looks a bit like the most part of an alphabet to me

[eternal talon]

wink twice if you are under an NDA

[agile plinth]

he isn't

[eternal talon]

it always works

[dull crest]

Haha!

[solar nova]

@rare scaffold Noticed what looks like an electrical arc on the new enemy

[sonic citrus]

Anyway, I've stayed late at the office looking at this I'm gonna head home and keep an eye on your progress on the cipher

[subtle verge]

Hmm... I see what you're getting at, however there are a couple of Mg present.

There's an MgMjAg in two places that I've seen so far.

[sonic citrus]

Ah, right you are

[hot burrow]

Haha funny burnt meat ball goes zap

[sonic citrus]

Right so when I was looking at it I divided the Mg | MjAg

Because the Mg is the second part of MzMg

[subtle verge]

Ahh, gotcha.

[sonic citrus]

If you chunk it into blocks of 4

[subtle verge]

Here's the analysis for 4-blocks.

[sonic citrus]

Its possible I'm losing some meaning by assuming it works that way and the M isn't of significance in that instance, or its possible its part of the code within it

[solar nova]

Do we have the French on this yet?

[eternal talon]

WOAH WOAH WOAH HOLD UP

[sonic citrus]

The second part of what I did was discard the MZ and G because they all have that in common, besides MJAG

well anyway, I'll leave you to it

[eternal talon]

@dull crest i need to know RIGHT NOW... is that my baby 556!!??

DMR doesn't have a square sight

[lapis crystal]

dtr

ah sorry

it's the hanaway psb

[eternal talon]

there is no such thing as a "hanaway psb"

oh you mean the double tap

[lapis crystal]

there is

[eternal talon]

did they change the name of it?

[lapis crystal]

i have to use official names because it's totally not confusing

[solar nova]

This might just be part of the R6 trailer.

[eternal talon]

oh wait no this isn't dmr

i've never seen this gun before

what's this?

https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/Hanaway_PSB_Double_Tap_Rifle

[hot burrow]

That was in R5

[harsh saffron]

its the double tap rifle

[eternal talon]

i thought the "double tap" was just a dmr variant

is it?

[lapis crystal]

sorry

it's the hanaway psb

[lapis crystal]

please use official names

[eternal talon]

well why is it there

if it's not in the game

[harsh saffron]

because it looks cool

[hot burrow]

Ig they still had it when filming the trailer

[eternal talon]

i know your doing this purely to spite me from yesterday, and i'm only going to ask you one time to stop before i dm the mods

[solar nova]

Bro, people actually don't know what 556 or PSB are off-hand.

[harsh saffron]

I mean, they most likely have every weapon lying around

[hot burrow]

Probably

[eternal talon]

i am not having this argument with you again, ray.

[hot burrow]

Discord drama 👀

[solar nova]

Do you mean the Rifle?

[eternal talon]

yes.

the drekker 556

the sort of pistol/dmr hybrid

[solar nova]

No, the model is definitely the DTR.

[pine agate]

It's probably the double tap

[eternal talon]

wait wait wait

guys

i just found something

that is not the new sledge, is it?

isn't that the old one?

[pine agate]

I don't think they had the R6 weapons during the trailer gameplay recording.

[hot burrow]

Yes

[lapis crystal]

placeholder is a hard concept to grasp

[eternal talon]

is this reused footage aswell?

or is this scene new to the 6.5 trailer

[eternal talon]

can you please just stop?

[hot burrow]

Yes. Most of the scenes in that trailer are re used for the R6 one

[pine agate]

I think the only new scenes are the ones featuring the new enemy.

[harsh saffron]

I think the only new part in the 6.5 is the new flyers

[solar nova]

R6 trailer also has the HSMG.

[lapis crystal]

you can also see the heavy smg

and also a unused enemy model

[hot burrow]

And the old player models

[lapis crystal]

during the community review

[eternal talon]

unused enemy model?

[solar nova]

And yes, found the clip in the R6 trailer.

[hot burrow]

Oooooooo

[eternal talon]

well player models still in the game, but only on bots

[hot burrow]

A little bit changed

Rip daudas gloves

You will be missed

[pine agate]

Technically you can still cosplay the original characters, using the right cosmetics and color palettes.

But you gotta be pretty lucky to get the exact cosmetics.

[eternal talon]

i just hope we get more cosmetic requisitions

[hot burrow]

It’s probably going to be 3 main 2 secondary, and probably 1 or 2 overloads with this extension

[eternal talon]

we could also just get 3 mains like d4 is

but who knows

[pine agate]

I just want my Dauda's top.

The one that looks like a bulletproof jacket

[eternal talon]

it's in the game

i have it

as a matter of fact

[hot burrow]

Knowing my luck I’ll probably get only color pallets

[eternal talon]

my guy i know that feeling. i have 11

[hot burrow]

I did unlock most of them from main so there is a chance I get a new torso

[eternal talon]

it's the primer grid model I

[pine agate]

That one, yeah.

[hot burrow]

Notice how most of the torsos say model 1. Could we possibly see an more “upgrade version” of them

[eternal talon]

i just hope a: we get the original melees back as skins for the sledge
b: we get either far more requisitions for apparel, or the option to trade out apparel we don't want for apparel we do

[dull crest]

Nope 😉 Animations wasn’t finished then

[hot burrow]

When will the voice lines be fix

I’m tired of the characters being muted for most the run

[lapis crystal]

i guessed it

placeholders

[subtle verge]

Ok I thought my cryptogram idea was the right one, but now I'm even more lost.

[eternal talon]

work backwards

it's worth a shot

try to determine what it certainly isn't

given it's only letters, that's quite a few ciphers already removed from the table

[subtle verge]

Well, here's the issue that I'm facing: it's not a standard cryptogram, as that would be too easy.

[eternal talon]

do you think delving into ancient 16th century texts set the bar too high for our skill level?

and now the devs are giving us unsolvable sequences?

[subtle verge]

My plight is: when I key in certain letters that I believe to be the correct sequence, it becomes jumbled garbage, word salad that makes zero sense.

So I'm probably looking at it incorrectly.

[eternal talon]

what if it

it's multiple

stacked ontop of eachother

that jumble might be another cipher

[subtle verge]

Plausible, I just don't know what would be stacked if it even is stacked.

[eternal talon]

maybe 6.5 ciphers

[sonic citrus]

thats not really how ciphers work

[subtle verge]

I'm probably looking at it incorrectly. My mind goes to "one letter = one letter" when in reality it could be: capital letters + lowercase letter(s) = one letter.

[eternal talon]

it's not written in base 64

that's all of the ciphers i know knocked out

because 64 has numbers

one odd thing though

in base64 it's all numbers

but it is 1,000% in pairs of two

do these numbers mean anything to you?

[subtle verge]

Not a damn thing.

[eternal talon]

like i don't know what kind of miraculous thing that turned all of that into not a single letter

[sonic citrus]

What do you mean

[eternal talon]

base64 uses the entire damn alphabet

[sonic citrus]

you're decoding from base64 to decimal

right?

[eternal talon]

i dunno

i just threw it into a decoder

[sonic citrus]

right

its a base64 decoder so its taking it FROM base 64

[eternal talon]

yes

why would i encode something already coded?

[sonic citrus]

I'm not sure what format you are expecting at the end that would not have numbers?

Were you trying to turn it into hex or something?

[eternal talon]

you know it doesn't give just numbers, right?

all 24 letters and the first ten characters are eligible

[sonic citrus]

Okay I still don't understand what its supposed to be decoding into then

[eternal talon]

well neither do any of us

i said it's weird, not that it's the answer

[sonic citrus]

not the cipher, that tool I mean

[eternal talon]

that it didn't contain a single letter

https://www.base64encode.org/

[solar nova]

Link?

[eternal talon]

put the stuff in

well click decode first

then put all the stuff in

and click decode

[solar nova]

Oh, so it's similar to the Brainfuck, only the numbers are encoded differently.

[eternal talon]

what's that?

[eternal talon]

"Base64 encoding schemes are commonly used when there is a need to encode binary data, especially when that data needs to be stored and transferred over media that are designed to deal with text. This encoding helps to ensure that the data remains intact without modification during transport. Base64 is used commonly in a number of applications including email via MIME, as well as storing complex data in XML or JSON."

"Meet Base64 Decode and Encode, a simple online tool that does exactly what it says: decodes from Base64 encoding as well as encodes into it quickly and easily. Base64 encode your data without hassles or decode it into a human-readable format."

that's all it says

[solar nova]

Brainfuck was the code used for the last encrypted message we had.

Does anyone have a link to the French doc?

[eternal talon]

french doc?

[harsh saffron]

its pinned I think

[solar nova]

I want to try to follow their methodology, since the output seems very similar.

[eternal talon]

i'm so confused

[harsh saffron]

oh nvm its not

[solar nova]

BIOCOM:online (the log) had an encoded message last time. Most of the work on it was done by the French GTFO Discord server.

[magic solstice]

found it https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hgRdH-O_qTBwOZ-ADTdnS6-ozUsYQepk9vJjvTReces/edit

[solar nova]

Okay, it doesn't seem like it's that simple, or at least I'm not sure how to convert the values.

[magic solstice]

i may be misunderstanding but it seems like the brainfuck cipher has different symbols, unless it works with this code too?

[eternal talon]

but you recognize strings of 2 diget numbers?

[subtle verge]

Not me asking a professional cryptogram solver for help later today

Definitely not my mom.

[magic solstice]

thanks mum

[eternal talon]

did i help?

[solar nova]

My understanding was that the brainfuck converted into decimal which converted into text.

[eternal talon]

honeslty base64 is such a fluke. i know it's been used in games before like DDLC (i think)

[solar nova]

Yes.

[magic solstice]

ah, so you're maybe trying... backwards?

[solar nova]

37 37 20 38 34 20 39 39 20 31 30 33 20 37 37 20 38 34 20 37 37 20 31 30 33 20 37 38 20 36 38 20 38 31 20 31 31 37 20 37 37 20 31 30 36 20 36 39 20 31 32 30 20 37 33 20 36 37 20 34 38 20 31 32 32 20 37 38 20 31 32 31 20 36 35 20 31 31 39 20 37 38 20 31 30 35 20 36 35 20 31 32 30 20 37 38 20 38 33 20 35 32 20 35 33 20 37 38 20 36 35 20

[eternal talon]

to encode stuff

but i've never really bothered much at all with cryptography

[subtle verge]

brainFuck ended up not being needed to convert to decimal at all, however.

[eternal talon]

i only know it because it's the best way i know to write reaaaaaally compact code in C#

[subtle verge]

At least we had come to find out.

[solar nova]

We're already pretty far along if we have a long string of decimals, though.

[eternal talon]

ahhh, C#. the torture that is making games in Unity

[sonic citrus]

So I'm guessing the Base64 converted kinda grabs things in chunks of 4 too?

Because these numbers equate to the stuff that we got earlier

The 20 is the MjAg

[eternal talon]

all those endless months of dicking around in the Unity game engine finally pays off!

maybe

[subtle verge]

Well, thats why I think the capital letters are the start of a new sequence, right? So for example: Mcgz could just be the letter A, MjAg could just be B & E respectively.

Just as an example.

[eternal talon]

though honestly i kinda doubt it. there is no fucking way i just randomly guessed the encoding method to this text file in 10 minutes.

[sonic citrus]

I'm not sure

The M is the most consistent thing in the message

[solar nova]

Depends on if a clean set of numbers is likely to produced by semi-random noise.

[sonic citrus]

It would make sense right, if the base64 converter can output lots of stuff besides numbers, the fact that every chunk it picks up the most significant character is an M would explain why its giving values in the same ballpark (numbers)

actually only numbers beginning in 2 or 3

[eternal talon]

well it works with just about anything. technically speaking; abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890._ i belive

but i 100% could be wrong on those last few characters

[sonic citrus]

But if you give it that input you'll get lots of different stuff because the chunks are starting with a, d, h, etc

I'm just surmising why its given all similar numbers

[eternal talon]

i only used it a little while in unity. mostly copy pasting code to make stuff only partially function

[eternal talon]

that that's kinda all very very weird, that not only is it all sets of two, but not a single letter

that bit does have me a bit confused

[sonic citrus]

Try deleting the first character one at a time and decoding each time

you'll note that each time the output is kind of samey but consistent with itself

[solar nova]

"Malformed Input"

[sonic citrus]

And once you try it after deleting 4 characters you are back to mostly the same thing again

[eternal talon]

2 4 8 16 32 64

that's kinda how it works

[sonic citrus]

Odd, I got this:

[eternal talon]

it's layers of encoding to pack text, code, and just about anything into as small of a size as possible

[sonic citrus]

the squares might be showing up for multiple characters

but the H is consistent at least

[solar nova]

You didn't remove the carriage returns.

[eternal talon]

i'm going to be both very sad and very happy if it does turn out to be formatted in base.

[sonic citrus]

As far as I can tell I get the same thing after removing carriage returns

[solar nova]

Odd, seems to be a part of the live decode

[eternal talon]

because it wasn't a eureka moment, it was just a dumb "oh let's try this stupid thing i used to work in a couple years ago"

and to have it work, that's just kinda sad because it isn't really earned

very happy that it's done and over with because fuck coding, it sucks, but honestly i dunno anymore

this kinda has me a bit stumped

like i don't know where to go from here at all

and my knowledge of base is so minimal to not be of any actual help

[sonic citrus]

So

this is roughly equivalent to what you can do by hand with the message

that top string is the message with a lot of fluff removed

c= 20

[eternal talon]

how did you get to that, i'm confused

[sonic citrus]

Okay I'll go back a bit

I'll just explain my process, not saying its right

Take the original message and chunk it into blocks of four

They all start with M, so discard that as not helpful information

[solar nova]

The numbers are 20 and 30 through 39.

[sonic citrus]

I then viewed everything else as groups of 3 letters and all but one of them which repeated most frequently started with a z. the repeating one is jAg
They also all end in g so I discarded that as well

[eternal talon]

@dull crest are we anywhere near the ballpark? or is this a goose chase?

[solar nova]

Stage 3: Bargaining.

[solar patio]

Lol

[harsh saffron]

Calle: Its not even encoded

[sonic citrus]

After discarding the M and g which is repeated in each of them I ordered them in a list and saw that the jA always splits it into groups of 2 or 3:

I also then got rid of the z as apart from in the jA which is treated as a space it is the same in everything else

Write that in a line and you get this: cc gQ kk EAM cc gQ cc EAM cg Yg gE EEc cc EAY Yk EIA cM Yc Qg EII cg EIE YU EEk cg EAU YU EIA cg gM UI UM cg YU

And that for the most part is what I've been playing with since then

there are repeating sequences especially at the start like cc and gQ

And 22 unique 2 and 3 letter combinations

I assigned each of those combinations an alphabet letter and tried plugging it into an affine cipher solver but with no luck

And thats where I'm stuck

Obviously its very likely I took the wrong tack to begin with and this is all rubbish

[solar patio]

Yeah, I'm sorry I'd help, but I have no idea what's happening or why y'all are doing any of this😅

[solar nova]

New encoded log

[solar patio]

In the actual game?

A terminal or something?

[solar nova]

On the Santonian website, it's also on the log database.

Original text:

MzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzkgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzggMjAgMzggMzEgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzcgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzYgMjAgMzYgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzMgMjAgMzYgMzcgMjAgMzQgMzggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzIgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzEgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzkgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMzAgMzUgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzggMzMgMjAgMzUgMzIgMjAgMzUgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzUgMjA

Base64 Decode output:

37 37 20 38 34 20 39 39 20 31 30 33 20 37 37 20 38 34 20 37 37 20 31 30 33 20 37 38 20 36 38 20 38 31 20 31 31 37 20 37 37 20 31 30 36 20 36 39 20 31 32 30 20 37 33 20 36 37 20 34 38 20 31 32 32 20 37 38 20 31 32 31 20 36 35 20 31 31 39 20 37 38 20 31 30 35 20 36 35 20 31 32 30 20 37 38 20 38 33 20 35 32 20 35 33 20 37 38 20 36 35 20

[solar patio]

Okay, wow that's cool

[dull crest]

I don’t have a clue about these parts.

[solar patio]

Well I for one, like it! Crazy obscure crap like this is super fun

[solar nova]

@sonic citrus You could try a similar thing for the Base64 decode output, 20 might be a divider of some kind, everything else is 3X, where X might be the value of significance.

[magic solstice]

maybe some sort of hint in the earlier string before the long code; "29$525GVTHR2%456FS"?

[sonic citrus]

I've just tried doing something like that and I get a very similar code to the first one I made but with some letters dropped

Makes me think that I've made a mistake so I'm double checking

Because I thought I'd get the same sequence back

[magic solstice]

the full message is phrased interestingly

ACCESS -BIOCOM -29$525GVTHR2%456FS
Instantiating BIOCOM.net(CLI)…
ready:_
unknown file type
read:_
MzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzkgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMz
EgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzggMjAgMzggMzEgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzcgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzYg
MjAgMzYgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzMgMjAgMzYgMzcgMjAgMzQgMzggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzIgMjAgMzcgMz
ggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzEgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzkgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMzAgMzUgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAg
MzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzggMzMgMjAgMzUgMzIgMjAgMzUgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzUgMjA
analyze(_cryptog.all)
…
Analyzing. Wait…

the bottom implies some command was submitted for a program to analyze the cryptog

maybe the earlier code is a hint to some biocom instance with a solution?

[sonic citrus]

Yep okay my original decode was incorrect

I get the same thing using the numbers

ABCDABADEFGHAIJKLMNOEPQRESQKETUVEQ

[magic solstice]

out of curiosity is there any staff in the discord who work on arg/deeplore stuff 🤔

[solar nova]

37 37
38 34
39 39
31 30 33
37 37
38 34
37 37
31 30 33
37 38
36 38
38 31
31 31 37
37 37
31 30 36
36 39
31 32 30
37 33
36 37
34 38
31 32 32
37 38
31 32 31
36 35
31 31 39
37 38
31 30 35
36 35
31 32 30
37 38
38 33
35 32
35 33
37 38
36 35

77
84
99
103
77
84
77
103
78
68
81
117
77
106
69
120
73
67
48
122
78
121
65
119
78
105
65
120
78
83
52
53
78
65

[sonic citrus]

Hmmm

[solar nova]

Hmmm, I get MTcgMTMgNDQuMjExIC0zNyAwNiAxNS45NA

[sonic citrus]

Is that an ASCII conversion?

[solar nova]

?

[sonic citrus]

O.o

coordinates?

is that a lat/long that makes sense

Looks like the sea. Did someone else get that earlier already?

[solar nova]

17 13 44.211 -37 06 15.94

[subtle verge]

I did the header, the 29$525 etc. etc.

[sonic citrus]

interesting that they both end in decimals

around the same place

[subtle verge]

Got Southwest of the Pitcairn islands.

[magic solstice]

trying to put the info in as coordinates (which i already barely know how to do) pulls up random spots in the ocean, mozambique, sudan

[solar nova]

17.2289475 -36.89557222222222

[magic solstice]

middle of da ocean 🤔

[sonic citrus]

how did you get those adjusted coords? Bit different from the output

[magic solstice]

maybe not it

[solar nova]

This is what I'm getting.

[sonic citrus]

I got about the same

[magic solstice]

same

[solar nova]

Guys, I think we're getting trolled.

[magic solstice]

doesn't seem like anything significant lol

[sonic citrus]

Someone buy a boat

we're gonna sail out there and find it

[magic solstice]

are we like, sure this is the output of the code lmao

[solar nova]

It's extremely unlikely to be an accident, I think.

Hold on, I'm going to put everything in one place...

[sonic citrus]

Well, idk

There are countless ways you could manipulate the code I'd say

I'd have thought it would be more obvious than this if it was the final answer

[subtle verge]

I genuinely believe that converting the cipher to numbers is simply a waste of time / the wrong way to go about it.,

Just like the French Discord did w/ the brainFuck.

[harsh saffron]

I mean its a bit of a stretch, but we could learn about something later on that's located in the middle of the ocean and relevant to the lore

[sonic citrus]

I was looking up to see if there were any asteroid events there 😂

Can't see any right away

[magic solstice]

"My logs? They're yours if you want it! I left all the lore the world has to offer there!"

[solar nova]

Original text:

MzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzkgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzggMzQgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzggMjAgMzggMzEgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzcgMjAgMzcgMzcgMjAgMzEgMzAgMzYgMjAgMzYgMzkgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzMgMjAgMzYgMzcgMjAgMzQgMzggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzIgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMzIgMzEgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzEgMzkgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzEgMzAgMzUgMjAgMzYgMzUgMjAgMzEgMzIgMzAgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzggMzMgMjAgMzUgMzIgMjAgMzUgMzMgMjAgMzcgMzggMjAgMzYgMzUgMjA

Base64 Decode output:

37 37 20 38 34 20 39 39 20 31 30 33 20 37 37 20 38 34 20 37 37 20 31 30 33 20 37 38 20 36 38 20 38 31 20 31 31 37 20 37 37 20 31 30 36 20 36 39 20 31 32 30 20 37 33 20 36 37 20 34 38 20 31 32 32 20 37 38 20 31 32 31 20 36 35 20 31 31 39 20 37 38 20 31 30 35 20 36 35 20 31 32 30 20 37 38 20 38 33 20 35 32 20 35 33 20 37 38 20 36 35 20

Decode output with 20 as a divider:

37 37
38 34
39 39
31 30 33
37 37
38 34
37 37
31 30 33
37 38
36 38
38 31
31 31 37
37 37
31 30 36
36 39
31 32 30
37 33
36 37
34 38
31 32 32
37 38
31 32 31
36 35
31 31 39
37 38
31 30 35
36 35
31 32 30
37 38
38 33
35 32
35 33
37 38
36 35

3X converted to just X and combined into decimals:

77 84 99 103 77 84 77 103 78 68 81 117 77 106 69 120 73 67 48 122 78 121 65 119 78 105 65 120 78 83 52 53 78 65

Combined into decimals converted to ASCII:

MTcgMTMgNDQuMjExIC0zNyAwNiAxNS45NA

Base64 Decode output with new ASCII text:

17 13 44.211 -37 06 15.94

[eternal talon]

wait wait wait, you actually got coords from my random base64 hunch?

wtf?

what did i miss while i was gone

i only left for like 20 minutes...

[magic solstice]

we found the one piece

[eternal talon]

i've never been both so helpful and so useless at the same time before..

[solar nova]

It seems like it works a little too well, though.

Also, they were on the right track w/ the BrainFuck, it just so happens that the online translator does the work for you (it automatically outputs decimal as ASCII).

[eternal talon]

@solar nova that coord is deadset in the middle of the "U" of the mid-Atlantic ridge

[solar nova]

Someone should attempt to repeat all of the steps I've taken here to see if I've messed up somewhere, as well.

[subtle verge]

But the brainFuck never had anything to do with ASCII?

[eternal talon]

is this pacific rim>

[subtle verge]

There was no image transfer.

[magic solstice]

you misspelled “the grand line”

[solar nova]

If you decode BrainFuck by hand, it gives you decimal, and that decimal needs to be converted to ASCII.

[eternal talon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge

[magic solstice]

okay i am just having fun with the one piece riffs lol

[eternal talon]

oh.

i'v never seen one piece

[magic solstice]

damn rip its real now

[eternal talon]

i thought you were saying an actual fault line or something

jesus that's deep...

[subtle verge]

Even so, I don't think throwing numbers at a cryptogram makes any sense.

[solar nova]

Feel free to keep hacking at it, but getting coordinates on accident seems very unlikely to me.

[sonic citrus]

Hmm I didn't realise how specifically the format the decryption Raya did matches what seems like is standard format for it

[subtle verge]

I mean, I got coordinates from the header, but it was just the middle of the ocean.

[eternal talon]

well i mean this is also the middle of the ocean

[solar nova]

Are they the same?

[subtle verge]

No.

Opposite sides of the world, actually.

[solar nova]

Wack.

[eternal talon]

pacific vs atlantic?

[subtle verge]

The coords I got were in the southern hemisphere, almost halfway between Africa & New Zealand.

[eternal talon]

the ones ray got were in a fault line in the middle of the atlantic between africa and south america

honestly i still don't know how we got to this point, i'm just kinda going along with it

i left for like 20 minutes to go the the store and i come back to google earth coordinates

[solar nova]

It's possible that the intended take-away here is that the source of these requests is from a ship somewhere.

[sonic citrus]

I was skeptical at first but the match with the format is so good I think I'm on board with those coordinates from the text now

[eternal talon]

it is quite a ways away from garganta

[subtle verge]

I'd argue to look at the formatting of the file. BIOCOM is instantiating the file with its CLI, it doesn't know the file type, and then it spews out the encryption. The encrypted message looks just like a few words of dialogue, like a radio broadcast or a few lines of code.

It reminds me heavily of telegram format.

[eternal talon]

could it be a deep sea platform like an oil rig or something?

[solar nova]

No idea, there's just such little context.

[eternal talon]

well yeah, but why just track a random boat out there?

boats move. platforms are relatively stationary

[solar nova]

Could be a ship, a rig (can you even build those that far out?), one of the flying sleepers, etc.

[eternal talon]

and it's way too deep for it to be a building or something unless it's an underwater base

[eternal talon]

they are mostly floating. hardest part actually would be the tether cables.

[solar nova]

@subtle verge Btw, are you including the - in your decoding of the command at the start of the log?

You might not want to if you are, as it appears to be signifying an argument rather than a negative coordinate.

If you aren't, I guess try it with for the hell of it? Not sure what that would change.

[eternal talon]

inb4 rundown 7 is Monstrum II

[solar nova]

Actually, nvm, I might be mistaken, the string looks like it might be the entry for the argument "BIOCOM," which would mean the - is real.

[subtle verge]

I've tried both with and without, no real change. I genuinely just believe that the Mzgc----- text is just a cryptogram that reads as just a paragraph of something.

As far as deciphering it, I'm working on ideas.

[magic solstice]

I also feel that the midocean coordinates are probably a stretch

[subtle verge]

I feel it's like searching for a canary in an ocean versus looking in the woodland, you know?

Or a submarine in the sky.

[solar nova]

It just fits too well in my mind.

I feel like you shouldn't be able to do all of those steps and then end up with something intelligible on the other end if at any step you got random garbage.

I'll wait for something else to turn up, though. It's definitely possible that Base64 is a proxy for some other encoding strategy.

[eternal talon]

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

[eternal talon]

it's just so funny that those things actually exist.

[dull crest]

Simon is heavily involved

[subtle verge]

Smartass science.

[magic solstice]

spamming the warden bot with BELUGA WHALE! BELUGA WHALE 123! until it activates answer message "beep boop schaeffer is the warden dot e ecks e"

[subtle verge]

e ecks dee.

[eternal talon]

got a picture

this is from exactly where i spawned

i just turned around 180

[finite vine]

yea i did not realize players spawn that far from it

did you guys end up cracking the cypher?

[eternal talon]

well, i have no freaking idea

ask @subtle verge and @solar nova

we got coordinates for the middle of the atlantic, but i dunno

[sonic citrus]

Rayalot documented his process here @finite vine

[subtle verge]

Not cracked it yet. Still working on it.

[finite vine]

cool thanks. i’m not really experienced with ciphers so... maybe something from the other corrupted log might help us when it gets released.

[solar nova]

Something I've just thought of, what if it is actually coordinates but there's some additional information we need to transform those coordinates into something useful?

Also, have you tried checking the midpoint of both coordinate results?

[eternal talon]

https://tenor.com/view/write-that-down-taking-notes-school-universities-university-gif-17937210

[eternal talon]

^the devs reading the GTFO-LORE channel and writing the next corrupted log to feature something in the atlantic

[celest pagoda]

been gone for the day. Anyone had luck crackin the code?

[subtle verge]

Taking a dinner break and I'll get back on it; getting closer.

[eternal talon]

closer to what?

anything new as opposed to what ray ended up at?

[subtle verge]

Closer to solving the jumblefuck that is the log.

I have a base ground of all of the most common words and phonetics in the English language, and I'm currently handwriting all of the possibilities.

[solar patio]

its a full time job

[subtle verge]

I'd love to get paid for figuring out some lore.

[solar nova]

What methods were you using to look at the argument string btw?

-29$525GVTHR2%456FS

[small bobcat]

Dare I say that the Alpha Three maw looks like the hivemind from Dead Space 1

[subtle verge]

I threw it into a cipher detector, the result was: "this seems most likely a Longitude/Latitude cipher" which then recommended me to throw into that decoder, and I got the coords for the middle of the ocean just southwest of Pitcairn Islands.

[solar nova]

Interesting, can you point me to the decoder?

[subtle verge]

https://www.dcode.fr/cipher-identifier

[solar nova]

So, Geohash seems to ignore certain symbols in the argument, so I agree that this is probably not it.

[subtle verge]

Yeah, Geohash has a problem with symbols outside of what you'd see in lat/lon arguments.

[quick grove]

so has it been decoded

[harsh saffron]

Depends, one result was a set of coordinates in the middle of the ocean but that seemed a little too straightforward so... maybe 🤷‍♂️

[full hull]

Can we figure out the depth of that particular part of the Atlantic?

If we end up on an expedition down to that exact depth it would probably mean something

No clue what that something would be

But still

[full hull]

Click this to jump back up to the original log posting

Could the log name: GLD-4R4-XU5 have any significance?

[rich blaze]

By the way for those trying to analyse 29$525GVTHR2%456FS
It is the BIOCOM access key used to try and get generators (You can see it in the Warden wiki page in the logs)

[sonic citrus]

The what 3 words for those coordinates appears to be "precinct birthed toughie" 😂

I don't know if that's just coincidence but it's amusingly fitting

[solar nova]

Ah, so the - is in-fact an indicator of an argument.

[eternal talon]

yes. i posted a pic

scroll up

[eternal talon]

depth @full hull
(assuming it's at the lowest point, not at the surface)

[eternal talon]

where you been merv? you missed all kinds of stuff

[harsh saffron]

Merv was actually the first person here after I posted the log ^^

[eternal talon]

huhhhh? i don't see him around very often anymore

sad

what are you thinking duck btw? Pitcairn or mid-Atlantic ridge?

[harsh saffron]

Honestly no idea ^^
I'm still thinking we might get something in another log that either hints at something in the middle of the ocean, or we get additional info to make sense of the message overall

[eternal talon]

list archive006

is this new?

[harsh saffron]

nah, the last 5 logs in archive006 are the ones that were previously in the corrupted directory

[full hull]

That's at the lowest point though, I was wondering about the depth of that specific point

[eternal talon]

no idea

you'd have to look at a topographical map

and overlay it

not accounting for it being on a sheer cliff or something being so close to the ridge

[harsh saffron]

Go diving with a measuring tape

[eternal talon]

why does archive001 have literally nothing?

[harsh saffron]

no logs in R1

[eternal talon]

well yeah, but it's just blank

confused me at first

[harsh saffron]

Same, when I first tested that stuff out, I thought I did something wrong ^^

[finite vine]

average depth of the atlantic ocean is 3600 meters, which is like three times the depth of the deepest expedition we have had so far. also that point is literally in the middle of nowhere, far from land.

[rich blaze]

I don't think it's a good avenue of research, but if you guys wanna search it, check if it's on the Atlantic Dorsal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_Ridge

[solar carbon]

I think this channel is more nerdy then #wiki-chat

[eternal talon]

honestly i don't really ever use wiki-chat

it isn't as active as gtfo-lore

[vocal cove]

[solar nova]

It's very possible that the coordinates are actually meaningless, and that we need some additional information to translate them to a new spot.

Probably going to be up in the air until the next log drops.

[finite vine]

yea like triangulation

we might get 2 more sets of cords

[eternal talon]

don't you need 3 for that?

oh nvm

that's what you said

[solar nova]

R2C1 moment.

[eternal talon]

what happened in r2c1?

[lapis crystal]

3 uplinks, all shadow spawns

iirc

[toxic wagon]

you mean a fun time

[unborn steppe]

damn 350 unread messages in only a couple days. you guys find anything interesting?

[smoky sigil]

schaeffer bum big

[analog frigate]

i'm back

[topaz flare]

is that the myth, the legend Daraxus

[analog frigate]

the coords that were gotten from this seem like the only legible option

i'll try to throw a couple things at it as to see if anything else comes out

also seeing the supposed new enemy, it appears to be a variant of the flyer that's more armoured

the extra things on the back have a crystalline formation, appearing ?pentagonal?

could hypothetically be an increased amount of growth of the crystal that we normally find on the backs of the normal flyers

[shut mountain]

Wb Daraxus

[solar nova]

New Santonian log, has an encrypted message, seems to be a set of coordinates.

[celest pagoda]

Probably nothing, but "analyze(_cryptog.all)" I'm fairly certain "cryptog" is short for Cryptography, relating to ciphers. Maybe BIOCOM is using its big ol' metal brain to just brute force the file to read it proper by trying ALL possible methods of decryption?

[rich blaze]

What if your Base 64 output was In Hexadecimal? Then it'd make numbers that could get translated back to ASCII

[subtle verge]

I'm still working on the cryptography part of it. I've been busy with IRL the passed couple of days.

I'm making progress, albeit slow.

[solar nova]

I can try it, but I think the final result is fairly compelling as is.

WAIT

It is hex

I'm actually a little confused.

I might have to look into this more, but apparently the method I used of treating 20 as a divider and then treating 3X as encoding a decimal is a way of encoding ASCII, I just recreated it by accident.

Okay, figured it out.

20 is a space, and 30 through 39 are all digits when converted from Hex to ASCII.

So, treating 20 as a divider and treating 30-39 as 0-9 is technically correct.

Talk about dumb luck.

This actually explains a lot, as 20 and 30 values seemed really weird if it was absolutely meaningless.

[finite vine]

damn that's sick

[subtle verge]

That's standard ASCII coding. ASCII runs numbers as percentiles, however in ASCII, the 20 (aka %20) will always count as a blank space, or a space bar.

Converting anything over to ASCII converts it into %[number].

It's how you're able to shorten URLs.

[solar nova]

Interesting.

[subtle verge]

6 weeks of coding class in high school taught me that one.

That's quite literally one of the two or three things I remember.

[quick grove]

So what's going on

[eternal talon]

not much really

same set of information. still looking like middle of the atlantic.

tomorrow when the next file unlocks we will know more.

[silver vine]

Charger Flyers ?

[rich blaze]

By the way since I took a tad of look at NOAA Data

Source : https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/

Conversion to decimal

Nothing very interesting in the vicinity except the rocket Seamount

[quick grove]

-5115 wtf

[rich blaze]

We're also between the Mid Atlantic Dorsal range and the Cabo Verde Islands

Alternatively, if the coords are in lon lat instead of lat lon (It happens, please don't talk to me about it ))

uh oh

Alternatively we're here, on the slopes of some unnames seamount by the coast of the cape

Which could make more sense

since KDS labs are in guess what

South Africa

Is this yet another red herring, or are we uncovering the secret underwater KDS Labs?

Who knows

Although Angela Klein A106 is in Pretoria, way more in the East than the cape

OH MY GOD

BRUH

WE'RE IDIOTS

IDIOTS

WHAT IF THE COORDINATES WEREN'T FOR EARTH

BUT FOR SPACE

The Butterfly Nebula's location is 17h 13m 44.211 (R.A.) and -37d 06` 15.94 (Dec.).

[harsh saffron]

Ok thats an awesome idea 👍

[rich blaze]

It's the only thing that makes direct sense

maybe it's the location of the Alpha Locations

[hot burrow]

This scooby doo mystery is getting crazier and crazier by the minute

[harsh saffron]

Time to read up on planetary nebulae

[rich blaze]

Also : If it's related to the matter wave projector, know that at the time the matter wave projector went on earth (65My ago) , the star hadn't exploded yet

Source : https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/ero_ngc6302.html

[eternal talon]

what's noaa data?

[rich blaze]

NOAA is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a US Gov Branch responsible for studying Atmosphere and Oceans

[eternal talon]

surely we'd be able to see such a spectacular sight, were it in the butterfly nebula, no?

both day and night there is not a star in the sky

aside from the sun and.. whatever the moon is

[rich blaze]

This is a caveat yes

it could also just be where the Whatever is in the earth deep inside Garganta originates from there

[eternal talon]

well it would seem that the Meteor would originate from Destination, though

[rich blaze]

With MWP and other Datacubes which were quoting Stokes, "Used for Propulsion"

[eternal talon]

that could be a different kind of propulsion. we call still call moving through a wormhole traveling despite it being closer to translocation

[rich blaze]

Agreed

What I mean is that maybe the Chixculub impacter was what was transported and could have accidentally hit earth

(or intentionally, depends)

but considering whatever's inside did fuckall in 65 My, I'd be inclined to say it may have been an accident

[eternal talon]

well weither intended or not, it likely burned up in the atmosphere to an extent so that the outside of it was sterilized

rather than teleported directly there, also.. crater

given Destination is somewhat habitable to us,

earth could have been the target for the ancient allens for the same reason

[rich blaze]

somewhat being a huge question mark, considering plants couldn't survive

[eternal talon]

there is more on this in my ancient allen theory

[rich blaze]

although outside interference can not be ruled out on this one

[eternal talon]

we talked about this before, most likely time dilation from the jump

[rich blaze]

Could also be gravity affecting space time at destination

[eternal talon]

well yeah, that IS time dilation

[rich blaze]

Yeah, just two different possible causes

[eternal talon]

given it's been 65 million years and the only intelligent life we have seen are barely more intelligent than something along the lines of a bear, i don't really think that's entirely accurate. the ancient allens are long dead.

[rich blaze]

It's not because we can't understand them that they're not intelligent

Maybe the flyers are like expandable drones

[eternal talon]

well what about infected humans?

[rich blaze]

Could be Cross contamination from two different biospheres, not unlike smallpox epidemics

[eternal talon]

wdym cross contamination?

they are infected by the same parasite, is the thing

the colonies don't attack eathother

[rich blaze]

Us getting infected like Smallpox ravaged Native Americans during the 1500-1600s

that's what I meant by cross contamination

[eternal talon]

well whatever wiped humanity out did the same to the allens

[rich blaze]

idk if we can count Humanity out yet

[eternal talon]

30k people left, i'd say that's just about as close as you are gonna get

99.98% being dead that is

[rich blaze]

Where does this number come from?

is it an estimate or is it stated somewhere

[eternal talon]

an analysis done with the CDC rating and modern covid response statistics by @analog frigate and @subtle verge i believe

[rich blaze]

There's caveats to that number, such as 2050 earth having experienced Covid and other pandemics after, but I guess

[eternal talon]

humanity had the black plague. it's normal for people to be idiots

[rich blaze]

I do agree

It's an interesting projection, that's what I'm saying, that doesn't mean it's the actual situation on the ground and should be taken into account as hard facts

[eternal talon]

i mean, prior to the war starting, people had completely forgotten about the invasion of crimea in 2014. and that was only like 10 years. we are talking about 3x that

[rich blaze]

Depends on your perspective and where you were, for Crimea, imho

Also the scale between crimea and a Pandemic is completely different

[eternal talon]

well yes, but initial response was denial by santonian in the complex

and nobody took it seriously

kind of like a plague inc run

infect everyone then go hyperlethal once adapted to human morphology

[rich blaze]

Yeah yeah, I'm not arguing that

It's an interesting projection, that's what I'm saying, that doesn't mean it's the actual situation on the ground and should be taken into account as hard facts

until we get actual numbers this projection is the best we have I guess

[eternal talon]

yes.

GTFO tends to habit of that

[rich blaze]

but in any case it's a minor point towards what was discussed earlier

[eternal talon]

giving only half-truths and confirming nothing

[rich blaze]

R Naught being given is quite telling tho

[eternal talon]

makes it a roit pain in the ass to research

[rich blaze]

being second most infectious disease just a bit under Measles

[eternal talon]

thats how nam-v works it would seem

infect and spread rapidly, killing as many as it can, the parasite keeps hosts alive and keeps nam-v from burning itself out

well not really "human" alive alive,

just alive enough to maintain cellular growth and microorganisms.

[rich blaze]

Paging @solar nova here for the first discovery in case it gets burries before it goes online

We don't even know how sleepers works or if it's "just" NAM-V

[eternal talon]

it's not.

it's the parasite either by itself or the parasite with nam-v

we aren't sure which

but we do know nam-v by itself can't cause sleepers

[rich blaze]

Hard agree

because while they have hallucinations or can become violent, I think the broadcast would tell us about sleepers lmao

[eternal talon]

well mostly because the logs mentioning nam-v and logs mentioning sleepers are over a year apart

[rich blaze]

Also we don't even know if all sleepers come from the Santonian period

[eternal talon]

but yeah, no evidence of the parasite on the surface

the santonian peroid?

santonian is the mining company

[rich blaze]

By this I mean that we don't even know if all sleepers are from the Santionian exploration of the inner or if they predate it

[eternal talon]

well,

we do know the first sleepers encountered weren't humans

likely the infected aliens

[rich blaze]

do we?

[eternal talon]

but it is all but confirmed-

yes.

[rich blaze]

wait where

[eternal talon]

the logs describing sleepers that can teleport

not floaters

[rich blaze]

what log are we talking about here

[eternal talon]

and almost 30 years again, from when we actually let floaters into the complex on accident in b1

[rich blaze]

Cause I don't recall that one

or are you talking about the entity

[eternal talon]

i'll have to find it..

give me a min in a mission

[rich blaze]

Fair

[eternal talon]

not schaeffers' creature

punk, could you be a pal and get this one?

[subtle verge]

We have no basis for the claim, it was just a fun calculation to see what the worst/best case scenarios would have been.

[rich blaze]

Yeah that's what was said earlier, dw

[subtle verge]

Gotcha. Sorry, waking up. Need more coffee.

[rich blaze]

Haha

no worries

Opinion on the Nebula find?

[eternal talon]

probably unrelated. space is huge

also no stars in sky

[rich blaze]

I mean it may not be where we teleport, but I think the Nebula is most likely what the coordinates are for

[subtle verge]

I don't know how I feel about it, honestly. There have been so many coords thrown out the past few days that it's hard to feel like that's the right track to take because there's so much variance. (I think I've seen 5-6 different sets of coords so far)?

[eternal talon]

https://www.notion.so/Timeline-0e93a62e8cfd44b3a36beb4ab245a2d0?p=be964f47904647b191d3ad6149a9228b

@rich blaze

[rich blaze]

I've used Rayalot's coord which line up to the exact digit

[subtle verge]

And we haven't fully deciphered the cryptogram yet other than converting it to Hex/ASCII.

[eternal talon]

really i've only seen two

though tbf i haven't been paying all that much attention

[subtle verge]

And ASCII seems to remove a lot of the information because ASCII removes 20s from the equation.

As 20s count as blank space in ASCII format.

[rich blaze]

It's base 64 -> Hex

[eternal talon]

ray said the 20 which was the odd number out he was using it to convert 30-39 or something

[rich blaze]

I litteraly posted to Ray that's it's just that his output is in Hexadecimal, hence why 20 goes to 32 which is whitespace in ASCII

[subtle verge]

If it truly is the butterfly nebula, I'll be impressed. But I'm not 100% on board, quite yet.

I'm like 70% atm.

[rich blaze]

Once again, as you can see, it lines up to exact digit on coords, which is better than any other lead we have using the coord Rayalot found

[eternal talon]

well exact digit coords we don't know what there is in the atlantic

[rich blaze]

unless you consider the slope of an unnamed Seamount near the Coast of the Cape or a random point in the atlantic interesting

[eternal talon]

if it's a ship or a station or whatever

i think i giant oilrig is very intesting

big fan of monstrum

[subtle verge]

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just leaving room for nuance.

[eternal talon]

neither am i

[rich blaze]

Fair

[eternal talon]

i just hope it's the atlantic coord

at about 8PM EST today the next log will unlock

we will see, i guess

or it could be completely unrelated

who knows

also either there are still some allens alive on destination, or the floaters are alot smarter than they seem in-game

or i suppose it could be another infected species we haven't seen yet.

maybe these new armored floaties

[celest pagoda]

lord alive, what happened while I was out?

[rich blaze]

I analysed the Rayalot Coordinates

[solar nova]

Interesting.

[rich blaze]

Then I discussed the implications

[solar nova]

Where are these coords from btw? Want to verify they're actually 1 to 1.

[celest pagoda]

Ooh, neat.

[rich blaze]

Lemme get back to my PC

[solar nova]

I'm convinced, this is way way too specific.

[rich blaze]

I was going to link you to it

but yes