[Portal]New update is out

SwampFae

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For those of you who do not subscribe to the RSS feed:

Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Portal

  • Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations


More...
 

BiG D

Administrator
Staff member
Valve is firing up the hype machine for the sequel, I bet... Anyone actually believe we'll see it in 2010?

There's a new achievement related to moving the radios around...
 

KillCrazy

Active Member
Was giving this a try tonight.

A radio has been added to every single level (bar the few that already have them of course). You now have the new challenge of moving the radio around each level to find a "signal". The radio lights up green and you gain a progression in the new achievement.
 

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
hype hype hype!

Wol shall play portal! (or at least play with gcfscape)

Looks fun. Mebbe portal 2 will have multiplayer headfsck
 

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
dude. theyre using sstv.

valve have put a lot of complexities into this!
 
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Gombol

Guest
So what excatly does this do? Im hearing about Morse Code and seeing pictures.. ._.
 

BiG D

Administrator
Staff member
So what excatly does this do? Im hearing about Morse Code and seeing pictures.. ._.
Previously on this very thread:

Updates to Portal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Portal

  • Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations

There's a new achievement related to moving the radios around...

Was giving this a try tonight.

A radio has been added to every single level (bar the few that already have them of course). You now have the new challenge of moving the radio around each level to find a "signal". The radio lights up green and you gain a progression in the new achievement.

There's many discussions about the "signals" you receive on the steam forums!
Linky


dude. theyre using sstv.
DUUHN DUN DUUHHHHHH

Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion?
 
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Gombol

Guest
Yes. But how do they get those pictures and stuff? All you get is morse code..
 

KillCrazy

Active Member
Yes. But how do they get those pictures and stuff? All you get is morse code..

Only a few radios that you move around give out morse code. As for the rest..

If you followed the links to see those pictures, and if you had read the threads as well as looking at the pictures, you will have read about sstv.
 

T-Bone

In Cryo Sleep
New ending for portal - upcoming big announcment likely.

Yeah, you just read that right. There's been a lot of hype with portal ever since the ninja update with the radios on 01/03 and there was another today which stated that the game had added "Valuable Asset Retrieval." As I was playing today getting the radio achievements I found there to be a new ending. I've put the details in the tag below so don't open it if you'd rather start a new game yourself and find the new ending.

You get dragged off by someone with a robotic voice who thanks you for assuming the party escort submission position. I found a video link for those who don't/can't play through it all to see it.

For those who've missed the excitement with the new update you can find most of the info here. Valve have put a lot of effort into this by hiding images in sound which then translate to a sequence, which turns out to be a dial up modem which can be logged onto for more images along with Morse code with a cryptic message which is the login info for the remote connection. It is quite frankly astounding.

So, in the words of CSI's Horatio Caine: "It looks like Portal....*puts on sunglasses*...is still alive." YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

-- Bone
 

BiG D

Administrator
Staff member
Re: New ending for portal - upcoming big announcment likely.

[mod]Merged with thread already discussing the changes[/mod]
 
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Gombol

Guest
Re: New ending for portal - upcoming big announcment likely.

I c wut steam did thar.

"Added valuable asset retrieval."

Being valuable assets for the win?
 

Angelic

Active Member
o_O I had NO idea about all this and I'm flabbergasted tbh to see what people look for in games and what can they figure out. Seriously, who would think of that?! o_O Like the SSTV, md5hashing and everything... What the fuck.
 

thatbloke

Junior Administrator
o_O I had NO idea about all this and I'm flabbergasted tbh to see what people look for in games and what can they figure out. Seriously, who would think of that?! o_O Like the SSTV, md5hashing and everything... What the fuck.

ppl is smrt innit
 
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