Portal 2 – rumors
Valve made a little update to the game Portal yesterday adding in a new achievement -- “Transmission Received”. Nothing special you would say certainly cause the achievement makes you go through all the levels again to collect all the radios and dump them on certain spots.
Once done the radios actually produce a morse code which hints towards GLaDOS rebooting.
Interior transmission active
External data line active
Message digest active
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
System data dump active
User back up active
Password back up active
Beep beep beep beep lol
Does this mean GLaDOS is rebooting!?!? If you get the achievement there is apparently an alternate ending to the blow her up scene.
There are more reports coming all over the internet that the secret messages also have a real terminal connected to them and that if you go to the specified adress the following appears:
GLaDOS login: backup
Password: backup
—- APERTURE LABORATORIES GLaDOS v3.
-- COPYRIGHT (c) 1973-1997 APERTURE -- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
—- RECONNECTING TO BACKUP STREAM —-
—- CONNECTION ESTABLISHED —-
—- RECORD ENDS —-
-- WARNING: EXTERNAL DATA-LINE STABILITY COMPROMISED
—- BEGIN RECORD ‘C:\03997821.398\06656556.646′ (4149 BYTES) —-
—- RECORD ENDS —-
-- CAUTION: UNEXPECTED DISCONNECTION EXPECTED ( #838 )
—- BEGIN RECORD ‘C:\07533945.935\09823219.940′ (570 BYTES) —-
MEMORANDUMS: Filed under CJohnson: 1564029-G
&&*&)90 &^@^@% &@!%@$%@!&@^ ((#(kjkjsdsajdlkdjsk ^@%% and do not 2612%^54talk
to me about casualty rates. The bean counters told me I couldn’t fire a man
just for bein in a wheelchair. Did it anyway! Ramps are expensive. Or when
they said I couldn’t practice beekeeping in the office. They should have told
that to the honey that won first place in the state finals! &43$$$ $#@^^&@*&^
Hell, they even said I couldn’t cheat death. You know where I’d be if I
followed the rules? Dead! Dead, and honey prize-less!
—- RECORD ENDS —-
-- CAUTION: ANOMALOUS EMOTIONAL RESPONSE DETECTED ( #654 )
—- BEGIN RECORD ‘C:\08692436.580\05637080.262′ (8340 BYTES) —-
*MESSAGE ENDS*
One of the images that appears
This is by far the best promo ever done, well done Valve
Update:
People are getting different message logs each time they log into the BBS system.
Here’s another one:
—- BEGIN RECORD ‘C:\09394469.756\07583916.313′ (371 BYTES) —-
MEMORANDUMS: Filed under CJohnson: 1
&&^521762 jsow remind you that Aperture Science is built on three pillars.ÛÛÛÛ
Pillar one: Science without results is just witchcraft. Pillar two: GetÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜü
results or you’re fired. Pillar three: if you suspect a coworker of bein’ a
witch, report them immediately. I cannot stress that enough. Witchcraft will
not be tolerated.
—- RECORD ENDS —-
-- WARNING: OUT OF MEMORY BELOW 640KB ( -3 )
—- BEGIN RECORD ‘C:\05889440.652\03173138.235′ (2167 BYTES) —-
