Steam update last night...
Huh?

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... 2&site=pcg

I wish they would spend more time designing new games than thinking up new ways to tease us!

I really should play this game, I got bored after the first few levels.

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The stats below lie. I'm actually much much worse.

JUST MAKE ***TING EP 3 OR HALFLIFE 3 OR PORTAL 2 YOU RICH **NTS! ...

im so bored of new hats and left 4 dead add ons!

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

I thought it might be something like this when I read the changelog yesterday.

I've been reading the Steam forums, it's so crazy! Over 3000 posts on this topic alone.

By now, way more has been deciphered than in that post you linked, but it's not quite sure yet what it all means.

Thats why I love Valve.

Excactly! I LOVE their marketing!

Is there a post which summs all findings up?

True, great marketing, but how about they make some games to market. I miss my speechless physicist.

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

Yes, there are some posts that try to summarize everything, but most of the are outdated.

What it all comes down to is this:
There are radios in portal, as there always used to be. You need to go get those radios, pick them up and carry them to some location. Suddenly it will start transmitting morse code or SSTV. SSTV is a way to transmit pictures through sound. In total, there are 26 radios, 4 transmitting morse code and the rest SSTV.

The best summary is here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1169027

What this summary doesn't mention so far is, that they have found a phone number, used for BBS (a 90's forum system through modems). If you connect to it, you get some weird shit like this:
http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.php?p ... count=1441 (2nd picture is an elephant)
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6278/portalascii.png
http://i.imgur.com/Z01I6.png (blurred ASCII, so you can easily see the contours of the Portal sentry)

What it all comes down to is this: EPISODE 3 and PORTAL 2. Many of the hints feature some known theme (image, voice, ...) of one of the games. Speculation is, that the next part of those games will feature them more interconnected than before. (as we already know, Portal takes place in the HL universe)


The funniest thing is this: One radio transmit morse code, which if you spell it out translates to:
BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP
BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP
BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP
And if you translate that back it spells out LOL.
Valve is trolling us!

Whahaha thats fkin awsome

Another thing I forgot: the title in the BBS system is GladOS 3.11.
March 11th is the during the Game Developers Conference. Gabe Newell will receive the Game Developers Choice Pioneer Award on that day.

Speculation is, that an announcement will be made during that speech.

He better bloody do, if he announces left 4 dead 17 i will... well... piss and moan about it like an inconsiderate prick on forums to people who can't do anything about it anyway.

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

I hope he announces L4D3.

I think I'd laugh until my heart exploded.

now you get a tooth pick melee weapon, and they added brand new f**k all.

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

I love how valve started avalanche of speculations and discussions with something that brilliant They extracted the sounds, cleaned them a bit http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1169929 , it sound like 2 people talking, speculations are Barney and Alex. I bet in Ep3 we will find out a lot of connections between Aperture Science, GLaDOS AI and a main mystery.

im sick of being teased, it's given me blue balls from all the teasing - just give me the stinking game that we should have got ages ago. Short episodes that come out frequently... ha!

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

Whatever is announced it will be shipping Nov 10, then delay until March 11, then Sept 11 until finally launched Jun 2012.

However pre-orders will be availabe from next month with a free exclusive skin for Freemans Crowbar

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The stats below lie. I'm actually much much worse.

Seems like Borealis might be the link between portal and hl series and ep3 will focus heavily on the infamous Borealis.

This makes no sense whatsoever, gonna have a look for myself.

The newest version of that image:

How exactly was the audio converted to images?

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just release/announce the game! i seriously cant be bothered with all this bullshit teasing... just gives the steam forum "insert name here" something to waste the days with... no offence, im just sick of it... id rather have the game given to me in a timely mannor than get an erection from a load of BS propaganda then receive a 4 hour game 700 years later.

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

They don't look like EP.3 images, maybe more likely something to do with Portal 2.

So impatient

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a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig

MOOSE!!!!!!

oh wait,... i get it... hardy ha ha.. my bad i get impatient when im made to wait 3-5 years... for a 4 hour game.

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

http://tinyurl.com/yecbo5q
True, at this point it's pretty much just speculation. But still, one of the pictures shows the contours of either 2 vortigons or dog and someone else. Another one looks like a combine soldier. And the voices in the audio transmission sound like people from HL2.

So hopefully this event is related to EP3 and Portal 2, because if it is only for Portal 2, there will be thousands of upset fans. Would be strange if Valve manages to upset people with their last two game announcements, even though their games rock

at the end of ep2 it hinted to portal so im pretty sure they will stick both together...

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-"You've really worked out your banter, haven't you?"
-"No, not really. This is a different thing, it's spontaneous and it's called wit."

Well the portal guns technology and probably GLaDOS are located on Borealis, so two games must be related And I'm sure combine would love to get the hands on portal gun

Thanks.

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