Portal and Updates

[Bartman]

Σύμφωνα με τι τελευταίες ανακοινώσεις το απόλυτο θα κυκλοφορήσει για PC και Xbox360 και θα έχει co-op mode , τέλος φήμες το θέλουν να κυκλοφορήσει τα Χριστούγεννα 2010.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/portal-2-due-out-this-christmas

http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/03/05/Portal-2-For-Two.aspx

Αν και ήλπιζα σε ανακοίνωση HL:EP3. Δεν θα το φτιάξουνε ποτέ ρε γιαμαμότο..

Είναι να μην πάρει τα πάνω της η Valve...In Valv3 we trust and love

[Evans]

OK, περα απο το γενικο FUCK YEAH του θεματος (το portal ειναι ισως το αγαπημενο μου παιχνιδι αυτης της γενιας), περιμενω καποια πραγματα: περιμενω ας πουμε την ενσωματωση του Portal gun μεσα στο Episode 3. Βεβαια αυτο ειναι κατι το εξαιρετικα δυσκολο, αρκει να φανταστει κανεις τις πιθανοτητες για puzzles που υπαρχουν στον εξω κοσμο με το portal αντι για "ελεγχομενο περιβαλλον δωματιων". Ομως πιστευω οτι γινεται, εστω και σε ενα σημειο.

Απο εκει και περα ξεχωριστο Portal. Fuck yeah!

Δεδομένου ότι το Portal Gun είναι κομμάτι της έρευνας της Aperture και δεδομένου ότι το Borealis φαίνεται να συνδέεται με την Aperture (και κάνει την "εμφάνισή" του στο τέλος του Ep2), λογικά θα δούμε κάτι τέτοιο στο τρίτο επεισόδιο. Θα ανησυχούσα για την υλοποίηση αλλά μιλάμε για τη Valve. Ας κάνουν ότι θέλουν, θα ξεπεράσουν κάθε προσδοκία.

Στο θέμα μας...

BART ΕΙΣΑΙ ΑΡΡΩΣΤΙΑ ΓΑΜΩ, PORTAL 2 ΠΟΥ ΝΑ ΜΕ ΠΑΡΕΙ Ο ΔΙΑΟΛΟΣ!

[ChrisTop]

Ωραία νέα!

Αν και ήλπιζα σε ανακοίνωση HL:EP3. Δεν θα το φτιάξουνε ποτέ ρε γιαμαμότο...

[McSolid]

OK, περα απο το γενικο FUCK YEAH του θεματος (το portal ειναι ισως το αγαπημενο μου παιχνιδι αυτης της γενιας), περιμενω καποια πραγματα: περιμενω ας πουμε την ενσωματωση του Portal gun μεσα στο Episode 3. Βεβαια αυτο ειναι κατι το εξαιρετικα δυσκολο, αρκει να φανταστει κανεις τις πιθανοτητες για puzzles που υπαρχουν στον εξω κοσμο με το portal αντι για "ελεγχομενο περιβαλλον δωματιων". Ομως πιστευω οτι γινεται, εστω και σε ενα σημειο.

Απο εκει και περα ξεχωριστο Portal. Fuck yeah!

[Bartman]

It's official , P0rtal 2 !!!! /m

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.

Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3559/

Valve confirmed to IGN this morning that Portal 2 is coming and is set for release this holiday. Valve did not say what platforms it would be released on, however.

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/107/1074758p1.html

Portal 2 Hub

http://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx

[Bartman]

Φυσικά όσοι το έχουμε στο xbox360 δεν έχουμε το update με το ach

Ότι ανακοίνωση και να γίνει από τις 3 φήμες που ακούγονται θα με χαροποιήσει ιδιαίτερα
Έτσι και αλλιώς οφείλει να δώσει κάποιες εξηγήσεις η Valve εκτός αν προσπαθεί να κάνει τους gamers να καταλάβουν από μόνοι τους τι πρόκειται να γίνει...

[Evans]

Τις τελευταίες μέρες κάτι συμβαίνει με το Portal. Δύο updates έγιναν στην έκδοση της Steam, μαζί με ένα νέο achievement. Λόγος γίνεται είτε για ανακοίνωση Portal 2, είτε για ανακοίνωση Half-Life Episode 3, είτε για την ανακοίνωση της Mac έκδοσης της Steam. Όπως και να έχει, πάρτε πράμα:

Valve's Portal Puzzle So Far: The Files Recovered From Aperture Science

Yesterday, Valve issued an update to its 2007 first-person puzzle game Portal, adding exactly one new Steam achievement and 26 audio transmissions that players could listen to via in-game radios. So started an impressive puzzle. Instead of listening to those transmissions in-game, members of various web forums, including the Steam, Facepunch and Something Awful forums—who we credit with the following discoveries—accessed them through more standard file system digging. Some were easily identifiable Morse Code recordings while the majority were SSTV (or slow-scan television) encoded transmissions.


The Morse code audio files included the following information.


1. interior transmission active external data line active message digest active
5. 9e107d9d372bb6821bd91d3542a419d6
12. system data dump active user backup active password backup active
17. beep beeeep beep beep beeeep beeeep beeeep beep beeeep beep beep


File 5 is a doubly encoded, the MD5 encrypted string "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." File 17 was Morse Code for Morse Code for "LOL." Good times.


The remaining sound files were translated from audio to a series of 22 images, which had the appearance of stills from security cameras installed at Aperture Science, the setting of the original Portal. Many of those images contained shots of numbers and letters from keyboards, chalkboards and whiteboards, as well as the odd equation or formula, requiring the mob of puzzle solvers to tap into their calculus and engineering backgrounds.



The mob eventually put those characters together to form the string 9459C6CAC8C203B8128B7CC63068D4FD which itself was an encoded phone number for a Bulletin Board Service. That meant dusting off a few modems, dialing up Valve's BBS, logging in and letting a mix of ASCII art and text files stream.


That text dump may offer some of our first low-fidelity peeks at the next Portal and gives us a bit of insight into Aperture Science founder Cave Johnson. First, the artwork, which contains (here's the word again) encoded visuals that may be familiar to the Portal player.



In the above image, we get a peek at an ASCII version of GlaDOS, a few shots of the research facility and what appears to be two robots holding hands. There's also a confidential document detailing "Low Risk" Human Resource Acquisitions, including hobos, orphans, psychiatric patients and senior citizens.





The above features another peek at GlaDOS, a trio of diagrams and a heart shaped "anomalous emotional response" detection warning.





Finally, two recognizable Portal items, GlaDOS (again) and a pair of automated turrets, among other things, plus a few memorandums from Aperture Science founder Cave Johnson.


CJohnson writes:

"…remind you that APerture Science is built on three pillars. Pillar one: Science without results is just witchcraft. Pillar two: Get results or you're fired. Pillar three: if you suspect a coworker of bin' a witch, report them immediately. I cannot stress that enough. Witchcraft will not be tolerated."


"A lot of you have been raising concerns about the so-called "dangers" of what we're all doing here. The beancounters told me to tell you that as of today, testing will no longer be as mandatory or as dangerous. That's not gonna happen and here's the reason."


"Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: Why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired."


"Plus, in the event of your death, I personally guarantee that, thanks to the form you were required to sign this morning, your family will not suffer the indignities of a prolonged and costly legal battle against Aperture Science. Trust me, I am rich, and it is a burden I would not wish on anyone."

One theory being bandied about by forumgoers is the version of GlaDOS responding from the BBS, which is 3.11, is a reference to March 11, the date that Valve will supposedly reveal more about what this Portal puzzle is all about. It's also the date the Valve founder Gabe Newell will receive his Pioneer Award at this year's Game Developers Conference Awards.
There may be more, so let us know if we missed anything in this summary.


Update: Reader Biomanware dropped this image from HL2.net in the comments, making some degree of sense of the visually nonsensical ASCII art.

Μετά από όλα αυτά (που έγιναν χτες και προχτές) έρχεται η παρακάτω είδηση:

Valve Updates Portal Again, Now With New Ending

Let the games begin. Again. Valve has whipped the Portal community into a fresh frenzy with one more update to the PC version of the first-person puzzle game. What does the the developer have in store this time?

Officially, it has "Added valuable asset retrieval." So... there you go? No new achievements, but the Steam forum community is currently chipping away at the new update to see if Valve has more potential Portal 2 or Half-Life 2: Episode Three teasers in buried within. Either that or one of the newly added sound files is a recording of Justin Long saying "I'm a Mac" backmasked, slowed down and run through some World War II era Japanese encryption code.


Earlier this week, Valve added a series of new radio transmissions and one new Steam achievement, resulting in a multi-layered puzzle that resulted in some very interesting findings. We're keeping an eye on the latest developments and will update this post when appropriate.

Και το νέο ending:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq9oKn-SJCU&feature=player_embedded

Aυτά . Κουραστικό ίσως λίγο το OP αλλά έχει όλα όσα έχουν ανακοινωθεί ως τώρα. Άντε να δούμε τι μας ετοιμάζει η Valve. Πάντως το όλο concept πίσω από αυτές τις "δημοσιεύσεις" είναι φοβερό, η δε φαντασία των "mobs" απίστευτη. Κρίμα που δεν έχω αυθεντικό το OB ρε γμτ...

ΥΓ:

Τα links των παραπάνω νέων είναι αντίστοιχα τα:

http://kotaku.com/5484157/valves-portal-puzzle-so-far-the-files-recovered-from-aperture-science

http://kotaku.com/5485075/valve-updates-portal-again-now-with-new-ending