Deus Ex Human Revolution ARG

[bucyrus5000]

I've been working on the grid
here's my spreadsheet so far.

[.phl]

Originally Posted by Silentbutdeadly

HEX codes don't go above F - (HEX = hex(6)-a-dec(10)-imal = base 16 counting: 0123456789ABCDEF)

yep ur right. my fault.

Just looked like it from the build.

[Mobius32]

Originally Posted by .phl

Do u read any posts before u post? It was mentioned 2 posts before.....


God damn, everytime the same is writen again. Sry, nothing against you, but everybody first read, at least the last 3 sites and the first one.

It was edited into the post after I made mine

[BruDrew]

Originally Posted by miraa

A3 B2 B3 C2 C2 B2 O2 I3 B2 C2 N9 P2 J3 C2 O2 R9 Q2 K3 B7 O2 P2 S9 R2 O3 B6 C7 P2 B2 Q2 P3 C6 D7 Q2 C2 R2 Q3 E7 R2 O2 F7 P2 G7 Q2 H7 R2 I7 K7 L7 M7 Z7

Looks like hex but I ran it through a translator and just got gibberish

Translated to base64 you get

o7KzwsKyI7LCkjwikjtyKSO2xysiPG1ywiPnIvcnJyd3dw==

maybe it's another cipher code?

Oh yeah, and referring to the "FC +SG = AW", I posted a long ways back that I think the AW = Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illuminati. As we know the Illuminati is central in the game, and Adam Weishaupt is actually mentioned by name in DX1 so he's part of the canon. If we can find out who the other two people are maybe it's some kind of mathematical cipher?

base64 you put out is gibberish with the old code, so its either new code, or nothing.

Originally Posted by Discoman

You sunk my battleship?

I've been clueless as to what to do with the grid set up. We don't even know what the respective siding is supposed to be.

Don't assuming there is sliding. Might not be a translate thing at all.

[.phl]

Originally Posted by Mobius32

It was edited into the post after I made mine

Then it is forgiven.



But we still need to know where the code is from. Is it all letters in the grid as coordinates?

[BruDrew]

Originally Posted by bucyrus5000

I've been working on the grid
here's my spreadsheet so far.

Very nice, this will help us keep track of progress at the very least.

[KingNL]

Originally Posted by bucyrus5000

I've been working on the grid
here's my spreadsheet so far.

Wow that is very nice work

[BULLHIT101]

Anyone have any luck getting anything out of the picture besides the slight changes?

[BruDrew]

Originally Posted by BULLHIT101

Anyone have any luck getting anything out of the picture besides the slight changes?

Nope. I'm seriously doubting there is anything more to the image, if those small changes even HAVE meaning.

[KingNL]

But why would they go through the trouble of changing the image

[Critical_Angle]

Head of Ra the Sun god next to the words Big Bro.........maybe?........Ancient egyptians sometimes considered Nephilim.......or just coincidence?

[pswhite]

Does it do any good to overlay the grid onto one of the other images? I only ask because they are all the same dimensions, and the grid appears to be purposely offset. Why bother putting the grid off to the lower right and having empty space when it could fit in a smaller image?

[BULLHIT101]

well were still looking for a login and password so there has to be something to it. Still waiting on a direction from Eidos on what to do with the grids

[BruDrew]

Originally Posted by KingNL

But why would they go through the trouble of changing the image

Red herring? For funsies? the ONLY changes are they moved the arrows down (which i doubt means anything) and the time changed by 2 seconds (could possibly mean something)

Originally Posted by Critical_Angle

Head of Ra the Sun god next to the words Big Bro.........maybe?........Ancient egyptians sometimes considered Nephilim.......or just coincidence?

Most religions reuse things from other religions to help them be more easily adopted, so I doubt it's related, though good eye on the Ra bit. Sadly, I doubt it's of use. Keep looking though.

Originally Posted by pswhite

Does it do any good to overlay the grid onto one of the other images? I only ask because they are all the same dimensions, and the grid appears to be purposely offset. Why bother putting the grid off to the lower right and having empty space when it could fit in a smaller image?

I'm not sure anyone has tried that. Why don't you see what you ind when you do?

[benjymans]

Originally Posted by BULLHIT101

WAIT! In the code for the image, it breaks up into smaller pieces. small squares. maybe that might be something! that mixed with the grid

Is that not just related to the transition after inputting the first username/password? (not saying it's not worth a try, just offering a possible explanation).

[Silentbutdeadly]

Originally Posted by pswhite

Does it do any good to overlay the grid onto one of the other images? I only ask because they are all the same dimensions, and the grid appears to be purposely offset. Why bother putting the grid off to the lower right and having empty space when it could fit in a smaller image?

Someone with a better GFX editor pls do this - it seems they all line up with letters on the page, but I cant enable transparency in MSpaint and do it accurately xD

EDIT: Just to clarify, make the grid image so that white is transparent, then overlay it onto the original Belltower.com image and give the letters from underneath (or even better - post the composite image)

[BULLHIT101]

i dont know. it might be. but the code breaks it up into smaller squares at the top with some coordinates i believe. I dont remember where in the code this is, I looked at it all last night when it came out and everyone was asleep.

I was all alone....
*tear*

[BruDrew]

Originally Posted by BULLHIT101

well were still looking for a login and password so there has to be something to it. Still waiting on a direction from Eidos on what to do with the grids

Don't double post. Also, we know what to do: Solve it

[benjymans]

Does anyone know anything about image headers/metadata etc? Just had a glance at the details of the images using identify -verbose (running linux). The background pics don't look too interesting, but there's quite a bit of info in the output from the grid picture, but I don't know what to make of most of it (looks like quite a bit is from Photoshop Elements). Definitely nothing as obvious as the coordinates anyway.

[pswhite]

Originally Posted by Silentbutdeadly

Someone with a better GFX editor pls do this - it seems they all line up with letters on the page, but I cant enable transparency in MSpaint and do it accurately xD

I've tried doing it with flipping between instances of irfanview, unfortunately that's not quite cutting it. Sadly, nursing school never prepared me for photo editing =( Probably a long shot, but I'd like to see if it does anything.

[Silentbutdeadly]

Originally Posted by Silentbutdeadly

Someone with a better GFX editor pls do this - it seems they all line up with letters on the page, but I cant enable transparency in MSpaint and do it accurately xD

EDIT: Just to clarify, make the grid image so that white is transparent, then overlay it onto the original Belltower.com image and give the letters from underneath (or even better - post the composite image)

Best I can manage from flicking from one image to the other with my finger on the right area is:

EL/ation/Bel/por/nu/secret or/Fam/rganiza

Originally Posted by pswhite

I've tried doing it with flipping between instances of irfanview, unfortunately that's not quite cutting it. Sadly, nursing school never prepared me for photo editing =( Probably a long shot, but I'd like to see if it does anything.

Forgot I had irfan installed - I'll see if it does transparancies

[BruDrew]

Originally Posted by Silentbutdeadly

Best I can manage from flicking from one image to the other with my finger on the right area is:

EL/ation/Bel/por/nu/secret or/Fam/rganiza

As much as it looks like that could be something...I fear it more than likely isn't.

[miraa]

Hmm.. anyone else notice the notebook in the original pic is on grid paper? Maybe that has something to do with it..

[KingNL]

Damn they really turned it up a couple of notches

[Silentbutdeadly]

Originally Posted by BruDrew

As much as it looks like that could be something...I fear it more than likely isn't.

I rly dont know either way - I can't do the image editing without redownloading photoshop (several GB) - which Im not gonna do - surely someone can has something like that installed? It'd be soooooo easy to prove/disprove, Im just curious because the first two clues clearly give ELation - but then it gets fuzzy, at least using my fingers to specify the area - if no-one does it in the next ten mins Im gonna make a little square cut out and blu-tac it on my screen while I switch between the two