Portal gets an unusual update...

Micnax

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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

Also, a new achievement:

http://steamcommunity.com/stats/Portal/achievements/

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Transmission Received

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAAAAAAN?

Edit: Reports being confirmed of the radios around the test chambers playing morse code whenever you pick them up and standing on the red button.

Edit 2: The sound clips are called 'dinosaur#'?
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ricardojvc6

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Wut the...!? :O :huh:
 

Retroid

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Yeah I've started getting the achievement, when you get the radio into the destruction area it makes a whole "raaarggh" sound. Quite cool really, adds a bit more challenge to the old puzzles (a bit like gnome chompsky). I want to see where this leads so I'm off...

(Hopefully hinting at a Torok inspired Portal 2 thing)

(Also Dinosaur.wav is one of the default sounds for some program or another (can't remember))

Edit: And it's not necercerilly near a red button
 
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Micnax

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Yeah I've started getting the achievement, when you get the radio into the destruction area it makes a whole "raaarggh" sound. Quite cool really, adds a bit more challenge to the old puzzles (a bit like gnome chompsky). I want to see where this leads so I'm off...

(Hopefully hinting at a Torok inspired Portal 2 thing)

(Also Dinosaur.wav is one of the default sounds for some program or another (can't remember))

There was also the addition of a male-sounding GLaDOS voice for the 'Assuming party escort' line

This is really freaking me out
 

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Soon they're going to change the Apeture Science Droid Testing Facility to more properly test prospective droids to newer standards set forth by the Apeture Science Droid Testing Facility Testing Standards Division.
 

Retroid

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I'm so stuck on the 17th... I can possibly get in but I don't think I'll be coming out again.
 

Firest0rm

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dinosaur1.wav says:
Code:
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lana

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Beep beep boop boop that crazy router is my friend.
 

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This is why we unconditionally hand out money to Valve without question.
 
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Here's a summary on the last page, I was idly flicking though when I saw it.

-Portal gets surprise update yesterday afternoon
-People see new mystery achievement
-People play and see the radio in the beginning room now has a green light
-Carry it around and notice it makes strange broadcast interference noises in certain places
-Locate and place all 26 of these mystery radios for achievement
-Smart people yank wav files out of game content folders and run them through steganography programs
-Produces 26 weird cryptic image files in a numbered sequence
-Some dude runs the number string through an md5 hash translator and gets a landline number
-Internet traces it to Kirkland, WA (near Valve HQ)
-People find out its not a phone/fax line but a data line hosting a BBS and telnet it
-Use a clue from one of the files to figure out the BBS user/password login info
-End up with a bunch of weird ASCII artwork
-We're trying to figure out wtf it means
-XJR asks for summary on the forums

I must say, this is amazing work and complexity, it has been speculated that this is the work of the creater of Minerva, a mod for half life 2, who has since been hired by Valve and is well known for his puzzle skills.

Anyways, I'll leave that for the forums, there's the summary.

EDIT: In a few hours they have outdone our longest thread :p
 
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