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Titanfall ARG / Puzzle Marketing Campaign - DetectiveGAF required

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flkraven

Member
Reddit users first spotted the update, which aired in the UK last night. The advert now includes flashes of binary code when translated lead to the following website: gl16790101.com.

Upon visiting the website, there are terms and conditions posted for the promotion, and while Eurogamer notes Titanfall isn’t mentioned itself, the next stage upon signing up links to ArchiveHammond.com.
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http://www.vg247.com/2014/01/24/xbo...ate-adds-titanfall-viral-marketing-promotion/

Alright DetectiveGAF, what can you dig up? It seems to be for UK residents, but anyone can visit the site.

So it appears that we need to find codes for 4 different games: Titanfall, Dead Rising 3, Ryse, and Quantum Break.

Sites Found

www.gl16790101.com
http://www.pinterest.com/x113899/blossom
http://imgur.com/a/t7tJO#0
http://archive-hammond.com
http://sdrv.ms/1dyY84X
StillEdge said:
I don't mean to spoil the fun for everyone, but...
All links are related somehow.

https://soundcloud.com/x189356/latine-portae-verbum
http://nomencompletum.com/
http://neroclaudiscaesaraugustusgermanicus.com/_/
http://lost-time-is-never-found-again.com/
http://imgur.com/a/dBudb#0
http://keeplookingfortheone.com/
http://dr3152251812125b.com/
http://241201203207245240180170230.com/_/
http://dr3152251812125a.com/

Weird one where you enter some kind of keyword?
http://16119192315184.com/

Prize claiming pages where you need the "Passcode"
http://81131315141815215209319.com/
http://x120855144.com/
http://1251910107435061132.com/
http://10516318did05.com/

If anyone has an extra UK address that I could use. :)
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Door Puzzle

Doffen said:
Start decoding folks.
aVcLAC9.jpg
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Solutions

Dead Rising 3
Titanfall
 
ramuh

ramuh

Member
IMO it looks like a Mech reveal. A
pinterest with nothing but blossoms and a picture of a crate with the weight. The word "angel city" and a series of numbers 15_14_5_20_9_13_5_16_1_4_F and a phrase WZCOC LEBMUYXBH.
 
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besada

Banned
So, the imgur picture appears to be a substitution cipher. I have not decoded it yet, but I can tell you it's not a simple Caesar cipher, which means it will need to either be done via letter frequency or through discovering the key elsewhere.

So, under the archive-hammond site, under A/1, there's a snippet of video:
http://archive-hammond.com/archive/A/1/

So, each directory under archive is a letter (26 letters), and there are 8 directories under each letter, numbered 1 through 8. So far, there is nothing but empty.jpg down through I, but I'm still going through them.

[Note: I suspect the cipher is a Mod 26 cipher with A=0]
 
J

Jarmel

Banned
So where the fuck is the 360 info? It's getting somewhat frustrating with the info they're selecting to release.
 
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flkraven

Member
besada said:
So, the imgur picture appears to be a substitution cipher. I have not decoded it yet, but I can tell you it's not a simple Caesar cipher, which means it will need to either be done via letter frequency or through discovering the key elsewhere.

So, under the archive-hammond site, under A/1, there's a snippet of video:
http://archive-hammond.com/archive/A/1/
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Wow, this is getting deep. I saw the video, but it is only the logo spinning around. Is there more to it? I can't tell since the work PC basically crashes half way through anything.
 
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OvDemise

Neo Member
flkraven said:
Nice! Once we get all 6 pieces, looks like we will need some code breakers.
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Speaking of code breakers.

[09:52] <%stckr> O N E T I M E G P A D
[09:53] <%stckr> Or rather: O N E T I M E G P A D C
[09:53] <%stckr> If you alphabetize 15_14_5_20_9_13_5_16_1_4_C
[09:54] <%stckr> Ignore the random G in there
[09:54] <%stckr> One Time Pad
[09:54] <%stckr> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
[09:54] <%stckr> Using on those letters in the image i imagine
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besada

Banned
http://archive-hammond.com/archive/S/7/

Another part of the photo.

So, after going thorugh all 26 directories and their 8 subdirectories each, all of them have the empty.jpg photo other than the two I've listed, one of which is a title sequence for Hammond robotics and the other of which is part of the picture mosaic.
 
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antitrop

Member
Anyone that reads GAF knows how excited I am for this game, but there is nothing more boring than lame-ass Titan reveals.
 
D

Doffen

Member
antitrop said:
Anyone that reads GAF knows how excited I am for this game, but there is nothing more boring than lame-ass Titan reveals.
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http://gl16790101.com/ for UK only thoug:

12 PRIZES:

There will be 182 physical prize(s) in total. There is a maximum of one prize for each consumer journey path per person. There are four prize pools as follows:
&#8226;
Xbox console bundle. There are two prizes in this pool.

&#8226;
1 x Xbox console bundle, 14 x Xbox items.

&#8226;
Digitally signed artworks (unlimited), 100 x signed comics, 16 x Xbox items

&#8226;
48 x game artworks, 10,000 codes for in game extras.
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and more:

Winners of certain journey paths may be required to travel within the United Kingdom, no more than 50 miles from the address they provide, in order to complete a final puzzle and claim the prize. Microsoft will provide the transport.
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StillEdge

Member
I don't mean to spoil the fun for everyone, but...
All links are related somehow.

https://soundcloud.com/x189356/latine-portae-verbum
http://nomencompletum.com/
http://neroclaudiscaesaraugustusgermanicus.com/_/
http://lost-time-is-never-found-again.com/
http://imgur.com/a/dBudb#0
http://keeplookingfortheone.com/
http://dr3152251812125b.com/
http://241201203207245240180170230.com/_/
http://dr3152251812125a.com/

Weird one where you enter some kind of keyword?
http://16119192315184.com/

Prize claiming pages where you need the "Passcode"
http://81131315141815215209319.com/
http://x120855144.com/
http://1251910107435061132.com/
http://10516318did05.com/

If anyone has an extra UK address that I could use. :)
 
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Alienous

Member
StillEdge said:
I don't mean to spoil the fun for everyone, but...
All links are related somehow.

https://soundcloud.com/x189356/latine-portae-verbum
http://nomencompletum.com/
http://neroclaudiscaesaraugustusgermanicus.com/_/
http://lost-time-is-never-found-again.com/
http://imgur.com/a/dBudb#0
http://keeplookingfortheone.com/
http://dr3152251812125b.com/
http://241201203207245240180170230.com/_/
http://dr3152251812125a.com/

Weird one where you enter some kind of keyword?
http://16119192315184.com/

Prize claiming pages where you need the "Passcode"
http://81131315141815215209319.com/
http://x120855144.com/
http://1251910107435061132.com/
http://10516318did05.com/

If anyone has an extra UK address that I could use. :)
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The bolded one tells me, after some futile tries, "Go back to the glitch".
 
A

Alienous

Member
The "lost time" site (Quantum Break I presume) tells you to come back later.

So I don't know if this can be solved, yet. But, then again, I'd have no idea.
 
B

BumblebeeCody

Member
StillEdge said:
I don't mean to spoil the fun for everyone, but...
All links are related somehow.

https://soundcloud.com/x189356/latine-portae-verbum
http://nomencompletum.com/
http://neroclaudiscaesaraugustusgermanicus.com/_/
http://lost-time-is-never-found-again.com/
http://imgur.com/a/dBudb#0
http://keeplookingfortheone.com/
http://dr3152251812125b.com/
http://241201203207245240180170230.com/_/
http://dr3152251812125a.com/

Weird one where you enter some kind of keyword?
http://16119192315184.com/


If anyone has an extra UK address that I could use. :)
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Stop guessing. OK :(

That being said, keeplookingfortheone tells you to 'come back later'.
 
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StillEdge

Member
Alienous said:
The "lost time" site (Quantum Break I presume) tells you to come back later.

So I don't know if this can be solved, yet. But, then again, I'd have no idea.
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When I view the page source the sound playing is referred to as a "glitch" so I think that one might be titanfall.
 
M

Milennia

Member
I wonder what they are doing, each site seems to be linked to others and for different games..

An ARG for every major title they have announced/released so far.

Maybe its a reveal for each game.
 
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jem0208

Member
That zombie thing I posted earlier has this string in it. I'm not sure if it's complete because it gets extremely distorted and speeding it up in audacity didn't help so much.

05.63.8tit05
 
N

Nonentity

Member
I scrolled to the end of this thread thinking 'yada yada yada people found beta signups, right?' and now I'm sad.

...still totally gonna be beta signups, right? If it's just the last Titan class hidden behind an ARG that is kind of a bummer.
 
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king grimlock

Member
Nonentity said:
I scrolled to the end of this thread thinking 'yada yada yada people found beta signups, right?' and now I'm sad.

...still totally gonna be beta signups, right? If it's just the last Titan class hidden behind an ARG that is kind of a bummer.
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Unless they confirmed there is a fourth titan then I don't think there will be one because there is already a titan for each play style heavy, medium, and light what else could they add?
 
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