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Destiny viral marketing campaign/teaser sites begin
- Thread starter wwm0nkey
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I think we should stick firmly with that time and get as many people to spread the word as possible.
Jest Chillin
Member
It seems the image on the left stays at the maximum level of development that the concurrent hits achieved. It doesn't degrade or get clearer. So at least we know that once we unlock it, it should stay.
ncsuDuncan
Member
Heh, that's me and I think I'm changing it to 11:00am PST. (2:00pm EST)
Should work much better for Europe. We need this to be a global effort.
Jest Chillin
Member
Awesome! Can we get this added to the OP?
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
GOT IT! After hours of deciphering and altering urls and stuff like that, it led me to this.
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
outunderthestars
Banned
A part of me wishes the entire internet would agree to give up, forcing Bungie to just announce it. 
Jest Chillin
Member
A part of me wishes the entire internet would agree to give up, forcing Bungie to just announce it.
Awww no way man. The sense of accomplishment from getting stuff like this done is too awesome. It's my favorite aspect of The Secret World. The game is ok but the ARG's are magnificent!
MrGreencastle
Member
A part of me wishes the entire internet would agree to give up, forcing Bungie to just announce it.
They would never expect it!
Seriously though, let's Tip some gaming news websites like Polygon, Joystiq, etc. Kotaku probably already has it. ;P 11am PST. They'd be glad to pick this up, build some momentum for Destiny, and the return of Bungie.
Stahp.
outunderthestars
Banned
I think they have to give us a new message every day so I imagine the text will become clear no matter what....
7he Talon
Member
Pretty much. We'll get a new message each day until next week when I assume they'll do the full reveal.
Jest Chillin
Member
Interesting theory on the Bungie forums regarding the time of the ARG. Thus far we've all guessed that it must by 7 days but this poster posits that it could be 7 weeks, updating once per week.
outunderthestars
Banned
Nothing will beat the I Love Bees phone calls to pay phones.
Oh shit. That makes more sense... Looking at the way the numbers move around Monday in the center would support this. The brightened number would change but Monday stays the same..
les papillons sexuels
Banned
Here's a composite from 8:49 to 10:43. I don't think we're going to get anywhere with it a composite.
if someone has all the images they should be able to get the full image resolved to a readable level.
sunburned_goose
Neo Member
The points on the star map is just a projection of the world high above Africa, repeated several times onto the plane, at different angles.
If you look at this animation, you can see in the upper left hand the east coast down to Florida rotating into view.
If you look at this animation, you can see in the upper left hand the east coast down to Florida rotating into view.
The points on the star map is just a projection of the world high above Africa, repeated several times onto the plane, at different angles.
If you look at this animation, you can see in the upper left hand the east coast down to Florida rotating into view.
Yeah...I don't see that.
7he Talon
Member
The original URL says 'day=0'. So I'm just going to assume it's a day thing. 7 weeks seems like a long time.
ncsuDuncan
Member
Nice catch!
Oh I... Nope.
everyday math
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Jest Chillin
Member
Day 0 is a term that usually just represents the beginning of an event. Of course it could definitely still be a daily thing. I just think that the timing lining up to GDC works out rather well and seems to make more sense than ending up a few days before the Sony Conference. If it is indeed lined up with an MS announcement, GDC makes sense. Also the pattern of previous Bungie ARGs lasting quite awhile also fits with the Weeks theory.
I can see the panhandle of Florida. If you look at the top left largest cluster near the bottom of the cluster.. towards the end of the .gif the panhandle emerges.
Visualante2
Member
I see planes slowly shifting into place. Rotating slightly counter clockwise.
Maybe I'm stating the obvious but I think it's slowly going to oscillate in and out, flaring up the cloud. When it is peaked or troughed is when we should start hitting the site. I think that .gif shows progress half way towards facing viewer's perspective. Maybe that's when we'll get a good signal.
Maybe I'm stating the obvious but I think it's slowly going to oscillate in and out, flaring up the cloud. When it is peaked or troughed is when we should start hitting the site. I think that .gif shows progress half way towards facing viewer's perspective. Maybe that's when we'll get a good signal.
7he Talon
Member
Isn't Bungie having a panel and talking about 'Destiny' at GDC. So for it to end around the same time they do there panel would also make sense.
electricpirate
Member
Theres a ton of noise, but you can see it rotating to counter clockwise around a north-south axis. It appears that it's made up of 2D billboards that are jumping in and out of view.
outunderthestars
Banned
basic story details behind spoiler tag
Regarding the storyline, the document says "Our story begins seven hundred years from now in the Last City on Earth, in a Solar System littered with the ruins of man's Golden Age. A massive, mysterious alien ship hangs overhead like a second Moon. No one knows where it came from or what it's here for, but only that it's our protector. Meanwhile, strange, alien monsters creep in from the edge of the universe, determined to take Earth and the Last City. We are young 'knights' tasked with defending the remains of humanity, discovering the source of these monsters and - eventually - overcoming it."
As for the map. I think it is just a visual reference of how close we are. Eventually the sphere will be totally white, like the Traveler. At that point the message for that day/week will be clearly visible.
everyday math
Banned
This thing is like the ink stains they use in therapy.
I see a Crobat.
I see a Crobat.
Jest Chillin
Member
It's not actually rotating though it appears to do so. The image is mirrored through an axis and then flipped. That's also why it appears to look like a diagonally oriented Infinity sign. Through the Y axis specifically.
kingofthedead45
Member
"I don't want to play a game to see a game be announced that I'm going to play eventually"
I love the arg stuff. It's fascinating to see unfold
Ho shit, I see what you mean.
MrGreencastle
Member
Yeah, pretty much. Look at this image:
It is rotationally symmetrical. Compare the dots!
ncsuDuncan
Member
From Ptolemy's Almagest.
everyday math
Banned
Pretty neat. Those circles are pretty close.
outunderthestars
Banned
Dead on! Amazing eye. I knew I had seen it before, but would have never placed it:
From the Almagest:
"The cosmology of the Almagest includes five main points, each of which is the subject of a chapter in Book I. What follows is a close paraphrase of Ptolemy's own words from Toomer's translation.
The celestial realm is spherical, and moves as a sphere.
The Earth is a sphere.
The Earth is at the center of the cosmos.
The Earth, in relation to the distance of the fixed stars, has no appreciable size and must be treated as a mathematical point.
The Earth does not move."
I can't get excited about these kinds of things. It's out there, and someone else'll figure it out in a few days, and I'll look at it then without getting sucked in by some cheap marketing ploy to focus all my attention on a few deliberately obscured pixels for days at a time.
Also, I'M FUCKING HYPED.
Lemme know when you guys figure it out.
Also, I'M FUCKING HYPED.
Lemme know when you guys figure it out.
Cameron122
Member
Here are mine.
MrGreencastle
Member
Dead on! Amazing eye. I knew I had seen it before, but would have never placed it:
From the Almagest:
"The cosmology of the Almagest includes five main points, each of which is the subject of a chapter in Book I. What follows is a close paraphrase of Ptolemy's own words from Toomer's translation.
The celestial realm is spherical, and moves as a sphere.
The Earth is a sphere.
The Earth is at the center of the cosmos.
The Earth, in relation to the distance of the fixed stars, has no appreciable size and must be treated as a mathematical point.
The Earth does not move."
Destiny taking place in an alternate universe where mankind once ruled thinking Earth was the centre of the universe? Or how about, the Traveller doesn't actually travel. Everything moves around it.
I don't know, now I'm starting to get crazy.
bone_and_sinew
breaking down barriers in gratuitous nudity
I'm only mildly interested in the game (I haven't liked a single MMOFPS I've tried) but watching Detective-GAF work in real-time is a thing of beauty.
overlay of what has been posted after 10pm, yes it does look like it.
It is always incredible. The whole Phantom Pain/MGSV thing absolutely blew my mind.
les papillons sexuels
Banned
whats the clearest image we've gotten?
VGChampion
Member
I hope in a few years this crap stops. I hate teasers of teasers of possible teasers.
MrGreencastle
Member
Check here: http://forum.tiedtheleader.com/Destiny/default.php
As a long time Bungie fan, I'd be disappointed if they didn't do it.
RoombaDance
Member
The points on the star map is just a projection of the world high above Africa, repeated several times onto the plane, at different angles.
If you look at this animation, you can see in the upper left hand the east coast down to Florida rotating into view.
If you're right, and I think you are, then we should concentrate our efforts when the US comes into full view. Those of us on the West coast probably aren't even contributing until we rotate into view. Seems like it would be in the middle of the night sometime, which would make sense conceptually for stargazing.
Alternatively we already have a fair number of decent resolution images available. With some decent signal analysis tools we may already be able to make out the text on the left image.