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[luxarific]

Has anyone booted up the 360/PS3 versions of Portal? Any updates in console land as well?

 

[IceMarker]

Has anyone booted up the 360/PS3 versions of Portal? Any updates in console land as well?

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Vamphuntr]

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Borealis

The Borealis. Filled with Aperture Science tech, vanished from this reality taking a chunk of its dock with it.

Now its SOS can be heard in radio transmissions. Its coming back.

Gives me some awesome Event Horizon vibes.

Holy shit. Hype to it's fullest.

 

[Subliminal]

Has anyone booted up the 360/PS3 versions of Portal? Any updates in console land as well?

Probably not.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Are you playing the game? Each radio is clearly visible/audible in the early levels. Hell you're staring at the first one when the game starts up.

Grr, that's weird. I was thinking maybe I didn't update, but the achievement is there. I'm really not seeing any of these radios anywhere.

 

[evlcookie]

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Borealis

The Borealis. Filled with Aperture Science tech, vanished from this reality taking a chunk of its dock with it.

Now its SOS can be heard in radio transmissions. Its coming back.

Gives me some awesome Event Horizon vibes.

Oh wow. So i'm going to throw it out there and say the events of portal happen on board the ship since the portal technology was developed on there. It vanished due to a noob going a bit overboard.

God damn this seems awesome. I really need to get into the HL world / story more.

 

[teacupcopter]

Has anyone booted up the 360/PS3 versions of Portal? Any updates in console land as well?

Quick everyone check the ps3 versions guys

 

[Jarate]

The code isn't legible on the page, but the rest of the images contain what I'm assuming is the correct sequence.

It seems like (680)-821-2847, maybe.

It's really hard to tell, though. There are more numbers than there should be and some seemed illegible.

called that, it doesn't do anything

 

[Mindlog]

Feeding the Frankenstein?

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjugmuAuRM]???[/url]

IIRC, it's hungry for love.

 

[Blizzard]

Oh wow. So i'm going to throw it out there and say the events of portal happen on board the ship since the portal technology was developed on there. It vanished due to a noob going a bit overboard.

God damn this seems awesome. I really need to get into the HL world / story more.

That doesn't make any sense since you escape and see the surface at the end of Portal, right?

I would be too lazy to decode the morse code and not knowledgable enough to do all the sound-to-image stuff, but good job to everyone doing it, and kudos to those at Valve for thinking up this stuff. O_O I may have to play Portal again as well...

I haven't even played Episode 2 yet and that ship kind of makes me want to.

 

[Jarate]

also, that little sheet of paper says

B X dA = 3

 

[Cartman86]

lol love this shit. I'll never manage to do it, but just sitting here and waiting for the smart people to figure it out is fun.

 

[luxarific]

Probably not.

I only have the PC version so I was wondering. I doubt it too, but you never know.

 

[taoofjord]

I'm not seeing the radios either, but I have a feeling it's because I've deleted the game since I beat it, and so I have to beat it again for them to show up.

 

[mattiewheels]

I got this Achievement on the 360. Perhaps my greatest and most shameful moment in gaming at the same time.

No! You're one of the good ones. I gave up after trying to bring it along on a dune buggy ride.

 

[EatChildren]

I feel like such a tard. I cant get the fourth radio to find its signal :lol.

 

[valkillmore]

Anybody want to gift their license for Portal to me? I'd be willing to part with Team Fortress 2? Perhaps Max Payne 2?

 

[Spire]

We need to figure out what the HL2: Episode 2 update was. There are no patch notes for it, they might be cruel bastards and won't give us even a hint of what we're supposed to look for.

Btw, to get the first transmission unlocked carry the radio into the second room.

 

[Metiphis]

Imagine you are Gordon Freeman just getting inside of the freighter. The door locks behind you.

GLaDOS: Hello test subject, Aperture Science welcomes you to the experiment already in progress.

*shivers*

 

[Talamius]

http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Borealis

The Borealis. Filled with Aperture Science tech, vanished from this reality taking a chunk of its dock with it.

Now its SOS can be heard in radio transmissions. Its coming back.

Gives me some awesome Event Horizon vibes.

On that note

Spoiler

Remember when GlaDOS says it knows what happens after you die?

Holy shit.

 

[luka]

Anybody want to gift their license for Portal to me? I'd be willing to part with Team Fortress 2? Perhaps Max Payne 2?

You can do that?

 

[JaseC]

God damn this seems awesome. I really need to get into the HL world / story more.

http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/

 

[evlcookie]

That doesn't make any sense since you escape and see the surface at the end of Portal, right?

I would be too lazy to decode the morse code and not knowledgable enough to do all the sound-to-image stuff, but good job to everyone doing it, and kudos to those at Valve for thinking up this stuff. O_O I may have to play Portal again as well...

I haven't even played Episode 2 yet and that ship kind of makes me want to.

I just thought about the end where you see some sort of surface. What if that was the exit portal of it all? You exit the ship and end up back in the real world or something like that? :lol

 

[Rur0ni]

Has anyone booted up the 360/PS3 versions of Portal? Any updates in console land as well?

*laughingactionfigures.gif*

 

[jooey]

Imagine you are Gordon Freeman just getting inside of the freighter. The door locks behind you.

GLaDOS: Hello test subject, Aperture Science welcomes you to the experiment already in progress.

*shivers*

OH MY GODDDD EPISODE 3 WILL BE SOOOO AWESOMMMEE

 

[D4Danger]

This thread is like that scene in Black Dynamite when they're trying to solve the conspiracy

take that sound file and make it an image

now take that and spell it backwards, and drop the "s"

Portal 2?

 

[reetva]

also, that little sheet of paper says

B X dA = 3

Oh.

Okay, then.
I'm guessing that the letter "C" (which appears a couple times) corresponds to the number two, as you would see on a phone's keypad.

Try (680)-282-2128
Or
(368)-2822-1283

I might have more if those don't work.

 

[EatChildren]

http://members.shaw.ca/halflifestory/

It should be noted that while a huge amount of his timeline is pretty spot on, he throws a lot of his own theories into it that should not be taken as fact.

 

[Lijik]

Some heavy shit

:lol

I need to buy that movie on DVD and watch it again ASAP.

 

[butzopower]

also, that little sheet of paper says

B X dA = 3

I just learned today that this is the formula for magnetic flux. Clearly Valve has ties with the physics department at my university.

 

[theinfinityissue]

I feel like such a tard. I cant get the fourth radio to find its signal :lol.

man I could NOT get that one, I got tired of screwing with it and moved on. all I can think is you've got to put a portal on some piece of ceiling near where the sound starts and hope you randomly fall through the correct bit of air

 

[Vamphuntr]

I just thought about the end where you see some sort of surface. What if that was the exit portal of it all? You exit the ship and end up back in the real world or something like that? :lol

I'm pretty sure it's a facility. When you blow up GlaDos and escapes you can see rubbles next to you. Meaning you were in a facility on ground. It would be a weird ship to be able to contains the ''Cake is a lie fire pit'' in it's infrastructure.

 

[mattiewheels]

Images hidden in sound?! WHA?!

*

* image hidden in an aphex twin song

 

[tzp2gameknight]

This is so freaking exciting, please be something epic!

 

[Slightly Live]

Note - dinosaurs 1, 5, 12, and 17 are morse code, not images.

1.
interior transmission active external data line active message digest active

2-4 are different

5.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

6-11 are different

12.
system data dump active user backup active password backup active

13-16 are different

17.
beep beeeep beep beep beeeep beeeep beeeep beep beeeep beep beep

18-26 are different

dinosaur2 - http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2862/dino2.png
dinosaur3 - http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5395/dino3.png
dinosaur4 - http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8126/dino4.png
dinosaur6 - http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/474/dino6t.png
dinosaur7 - http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/804/dino7.png
dinosaur8 - http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4015/dino8.png
dinosaur9 - http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1900/dino9z.png
dinosaur10 - http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6002/dino10.png
dinosaur11 - http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5893/dino11.png
dinosaur13 - http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2015/dino13.png
dinosaur14 - http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6633/dino14.png
dinosaur15 - http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/2716/dino15.png
dinosaur16 - http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3671/dino16.png
dinosaur18 - http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5874/dino18.png
dinosaur19 - http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8443/dino19.png
dinosaur20 - http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8295/dino20.png
dinosaur21 - http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6334/dino21.png
dinosaur22 - http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6657/dino22.png
dinosaur23 - http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4641/dino23.png
dinosaur24 - http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1385/dino24.png
dinosaur25 - http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4139/dino25.png
dinosaur26 - http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3913/dino26.png

Wow.

 

[reetva]

I'm pretty sure it's a facility. When you blow up GlaDos and escapes you can see rubbles next to you. Meaning you were in a facility on ground. It would be a weird ship to be able to contains the ''Cake is a lie fire pit'' in it's infrastructure.

Well, we have blueprints of it, right?
http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Borealis
Scroll down and you'll see 'em.

 

[Aesius]

Where the hell is the radio in the chamber that first tells you "speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out?"

I can hear it faintly but can't see it anywhere.

 

[afternoon delight]

I'm pretty sure it's a facility. When you blow up GlaDos and escapes you can see rubbles next to you. Meaning you were in a facility on ground. It would be a weird ship to be able to contains the ''Cake is a lie fire pit'' in it's infrastructure.

Or the events taking place in Portal are from the docked ship, somewhere in Freeman's present? Once it returned from its slip-space?

 

[L00P]

F5'ing like the fist of the north star

 

[ahoyhoy]

Can someone cut out the space on the side and avatarize Homer spinning for me? plzkthx

On topic: AHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[aaaaaaaaaaaa7654]

Portal just updated again for me

 

[Metiphis]

Or the events taking place in Portal are from the docked ship, somewhere in Freeman's present? Once it returned from its slip-space?

At the end of portal we zoom through the facility and it is waaaaaaay too large to be a ship. It'd have to be over 1000 feet tall to accommodate how deep that basement is where we see the cake.

 

[theinfinityissue]

Where the hell is the radio in the chamber that first tells you "speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out?"

I can hear it faintly but can't see it anywhere.

I got so lucky on that one. It's on the back of one of the steel pipes, I happened to accidentally get back there and suddenly there it was

 

[ZealousD]

Imagine you are Gordon Freeman just getting inside of the freighter. The door locks behind you.

GLaDOS: Hello test subject, Aperture Science welcomes you to the experiment already in progress.

*shivers*

If you have a Portal save, you'll see the experiment as YOU went through it.

 

[Spire]

man I could NOT get that one, I got tired of screwing with it and moved on. all I can think is you've got to put a portal on some piece of ceiling near where the sound starts and hope you randomly fall through the correct bit of air

The signal is up in the air. Shoot the blue portal onto the ceiling or at the top of one of the walls and jump through the portal with the radio. I got it at the top of the inner wall at that corner.

 

[Jarate]

based on the number on the bottom right of those 4 blocked images, my best guess is their order should be this

1-4 http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5874/dino18.png
5-8 http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4139/dino25.png
9-12 http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8126/dino4.png
13-16 http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8295/dino20.png
17-20 ?
21-24 http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3671/dino16.png
25-28 ?
29-32 http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2015/dino13.png

 

[Mama Robotnik]

I just thought about the end where you see some sort of surface. What if that was the exit portal of it all? You exit the ship and end up back in the real world or something like that? :lol

The world Chel emerges into, with bold blue sky, clouds, untarnished signs of human capitalism (a clean "Aperture Science" sign and an entry gate), and most importantly... birds singing (!) is a far far cry from the HL2-era.

The entire exit-sequence at the end of Portal is a massive portal/rift of some sort, which seems to deposit Chell and various bits of metal junk into this pre-apocalypse world.

Theory - The events of Portal take place on the Borealis, which is trapped in some sort of alternate plane of existence. Chell's success somehow caused her to be ejected back to pre-Combine Earth (where the ship originally came from, and she was originally abducted from as a test subject before the ship vanished).

The ship is still trapped though. Does any of this idea contradict established canon?

 

[Vamphuntr]

Or the events taking place in Portal are from the docked ship, somewhere in Freeman's present? Once it returned from its slip-space?

Or maybe there is ''another GlaDos on the ship''. For all we know it could be a backup. Heck maybe they tried the backup GlaDoS of the one of the ship into the facility in portal. Heck she still killed everyone. Maybe that's why the ship got lost. GlaDos killed everyone and someone shot the ship through another dimension to prevent her from reaching land. In Portal they tried to use the backup data from the ship to continue the experiment.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Rebooted Steam and Portal a few times, still no radios.

 

[Foliorum Viridum]

The events of Portal taking place on the Borealis seems like a bit of a silly idea to me. I much prefer the idea that it was a similar place to Black Mesa, and was simply occuring before Half-Life 1.

If they try and tie it in too much with Episode 3 it could get a bit convoluted.