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PORTAL UPDATE

Postby volt on Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:31 am

Portal released an update yesterday. What did they possibly have to change? The release
notes are as follows:

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


What's this mean? They added a bit of new stuff to the game. Nothing amazing, but most
everyone infers that this hints at upcoming releases (Portal 2, HL2:Episode 3)

The new content:
So long as you have beaten the game once, you'll find radios in the game are changed to have
a red LED on them. When you carry the radio to a part of the level, the LED turns green and a
different (eerily creepy) sound comes from them. There are 26 signals to acquire.

What do they mean? Three are morse code, and the other 23 are images encoded into sound
using SSTV.

That's all I'll say here. There are a lot of other things going on, too, like a BBS that you can
connect to using your computer over a landline telephone for more (encrypted) information.

If you wanna learn more, head over to Steam's Portal forum to check it out.
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby Outboard on Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:30 pm

cool. I like when people use these kinds of riddles to promote things.
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby Hamstar on Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:08 pm

Valve are seriously masters at their art. /swoon
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby Luke on Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:37 am

Now there's a new ending as well.


And, Steam is coming to MAC's
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby Fox Mulder on Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:07 pm

I enjoy it
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby Hamstar on Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:40 am

Update:

I attended the Game Developers Choice awards at GDC tonight. Gabe Newell accepted an award and managed to work in a bit of Portal 2 viral marketing. My buddy took a photo of the BSOD he posted, which is now circulating around the internet like wildfire. He wouldn't have uploaded them if I hadn't told him to do it right away. As a result, people found the tinypic I uploaded and then Kotaku and Joystiq picked it up.
Link: http://kotaku.com/5491651/portal-2-hija ... e#comments

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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby volt on Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:03 am

Fuck yeah. Love it, even though that means I have to wait until June.

Also, your name is on a Kotaku article! Wooooooooooooo

FYI: Keep a close eye on this: http://gameinformer.com/mag/portal2.aspx
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby Fox Mulder on Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:42 pm

Why are they updating portal when they should update engie? He needs new weapons :|
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby volt on Fri Mar 12, 2010 2:24 pm

Fox Mulder wrote:Why are they updating portal when they should update engie? He needs new weapons :|

They aren't updating portal, they're making portal 2.
And FYI:

Portal 2 : Portal :: Half-Life 2 : Half-Life

AKA Portal 2 isn't going to be just some more Portal, it will be an epic standalone game that uses Portal as a jumping-off point.

And they're also working on Engineer too. I'm sure they've got different development teams. Didn't you read the recent blog posts on www.teamfortress.com ?
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Re: PORTAL UPDATE

Postby Fox Mulder on Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:19 am

Hmmm sounds like their idea flopped before they started it lol
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