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[Ian]

Even the Kell Hound unit that disappeared in August 3049 didn't really set off any warnings. It was more of a hey that's strange.

[Farmer]

Ian, on 04 June 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

Even the Kell Hound unit that disappeared in August 3049 didn't really set off any warnings. It was more of a hey that's strange.

Yeah. I just picture a bunch of pirates a few months later pointing and saying, "SEE? We TOLD you there was something out there!"

[Waladil]

Farmer, on 04 June 2012 - 01:01 PM, said:

Yeah. I just picture a bunch of pirates a few months later pointing and saying, "SEE? We TOLD you there was something out there!"

And we told you to shut up, prisoner #20648!

[Evex]

Yup its official the Devs have officially trolled you all. They knew this was going to happen with a large portion of the fan base.

Dev 1: hey lets give the forum users something to work on till the opening of E3.
Dev 2: sure well make some sort of puzzle or riddle for them. I bet they think its going to have something to do with E3.
Dev 3: yeah only lets make so it has nothing to do with E3, and watch them go into fan boy/girl mode speculating what it is.
Dev 4: Bet you most of the forum user think it has to do with the clans or one of the unseen.
Paul: well get to it. I need a good laugh.

You have forgotten everything the Devs have told us up to this point, and have gone off into candyland with wishful speculation. The devs want you thinking in this OMG clans, or OMG unseen unseen. Every post that has such a thing has the devs laughing. Laughing so hard that their actually crying in pity at you folks.

[Wolf Hreda]

Alistair Steiner, on 03 June 2012 - 10:35 PM, said:

Hmm. Was there any transmission received in 3049 having to do with the Clans? I know its 3050 that the Kell Hounds run afoul of them in the Periphery, but were there any sort of scattered transmissions? Maybe a scrambled image of a map, or even a design?

Wait... The images are zooming out. Image 1 has fewer squares going across than image 2. 3 is an anomaly in that assumption, but 4 has even more squares than 2, and 5 more still. Trying to piece them together wouldn't work, because they are at different levels of zoom. Like at the beginning of a movie or something where you're focused on a single object, then it zooms out, showing more and more of the big picture until it is revealed entirely. Or being so close to a collage image that you can nearly make out the smaller images, then pulling out until lines start to make sense, but not the image. That's what we're seeing here. BUT, they are also showing different parts of the image entirely, rather than zooming out from a single area. >.<

August of 3049 on Sisyphus's Lament in The Rock system. That was when Phelan Kell was captured and presumed dead.

[JaguarWarrior]

Dantes Cirque, on 04 June 2012 - 12:28 PM, said:

Some things of note when it comes to simply looking at the images, starting with the most obvious:
- Each whole image is made up of a collection of smaller pixulated images from what seems to be already released media
- Overlaying all of this is some sort of light-line...stuff that seems to bear some importance (yea i don't have the vocab for this sort of thing , bear with me)
- The smaller images, and their configurations are reused
- Additionally, ignoring the light-line stuff, the image seems to be zooming out (for example - compare the very first image and the last one and you'll notice that the smaller pixulated images are just about half the size of what they started out as)

I'm no photoshop/gimp/mspaint wizard so trying to line things up with the repeated parts of the image is a bit of a pain but at least i can resize everything so that the smaller images are all the same. Still, maybe this will give someone who's a touch more savvy in that department an idea of what to look for that I can't

Edit - A VERY rough image I messed about with to help illustrate what I meant. It's not super to scale or anything of that sort, but here it is anyways

Hey, I'm no image manipulation wizard or I'd try this, but how about actually placing these images where you have the red lines? Seeing if there's more to see once they're placed together?

[Hawkeye 72]

JaguarWarrior, on 04 June 2012 - 05:31 PM, said:

Hey, I'm no image manipulation wizard or I'd try this, but how about actually placing these images where you have the red lines? Seeing if there's more to see once they're placed together?

Did that yesterday to no avail. For the most part the images are identical, except for minor differences. This tells me two things

1) Either the individual squares are meant to be rearranged, and there is a small number of squares that will reveal a hidden image
2) You are supposed to overlay the images, but then the minor differences are supposed to be highlighted/extracted somehow to show a larger image

[JaguarWarrior]

Hawkeye 72, on 04 June 2012 - 05:40 PM, said:

Did that yesterday to no avail. For the most part the images are identical, except for minor differences. This tells me two things

1) Either the individual squares are meant to be rearranged, and there is a small number of squares that will reveal a hidden image
2) You are supposed to overlay the images, but then the minor differences are supposed to be highlighted/extracted somehow to show a larger image

Okay, fair enough. Still it's all very peculiar. And damn my time zone. I have to wait up until 1am to see what's going on!

[SyberSmoke]

Hurm...so the timer will hit zero at about 8am PDT on the 5th...may be that is when they will be releasing a batch of beta codes since they did say they would do it after E3.

[Kottonmouth]

m, on 04 June 2012 - 06:13 PM, said:

Maybe they had taken my idea about a mega mech where it is just huge and needs two pilots to pilot the damn thing (one for movement and one for firing).

Like it is one thing to start up the series again, another to reinvent it, and another to ADD TO IT. I hope they do the latter AT THE VERY LEAST. Like come on.

This was tried once (kinda) for the SNES. It made me wanna smack everyone who tried to play. Myself included.

[WolfSpider]

Evex, on 04 June 2012 - 02:08 PM, said:

Yup its official the Devs have officially trolled you all. They knew this was going to happen with a large portion of the fan base.

Dev 1: hey lets give the forum users something to work on till the opening of E3.
Dev 2: sure well make some sort of puzzle or riddle for them. I bet they think its going to have something to do with E3.
Dev 3: yeah only lets make so it has nothing to do with E3, and watch them go into fan boy/girl mode speculating what it is.
Dev 4: Bet you most of the forum user think it has to do with the clans or one of the unseen.
Paul: well get to it. I need a good laugh.

You have forgotten everything the Devs have told us up to this point, and have gone off into candyland with wishful speculation. The devs want you thinking in this OMG clans, or OMG unseen unseen. Every post that has such a thing has the devs laughing. Laughing so hard that their actually crying in pity at you folks.

Which if that is the case it will be a HUGH LET DOWN!!!!

[McDuff]

I hope not. This Artemis clock countdown has raised a great deal of anticipation and interest and the thread has been incredibly active. Whether the reveal is an unseen, clan tech or some other aspect of the game I hope it warrants the activity and dedication of the fans.

[Joe Mallad]

Dantes Cirque, on 04 June 2012 - 12:28 PM, said:

Some things of note when it comes to simply looking at the images, starting with the most obvious:
- Each whole image is made up of a collection of smaller pixulated images from what seems to be already released media
- Overlaying all of this is some sort of light-line...stuff that seems to bear some importance (yea i don't have the vocab for this sort of thing , bear with me)
- The smaller images, and their configurations are reused
- Additionally, ignoring the light-line stuff, the image seems to be zooming out (for example - compare the very first image and the last one and you'll notice that the smaller pixulated images are just about half the size of what they started out as)

I'm no photoshop/gimp/mspaint wizard so trying to line things up with the repeated parts of the image is a bit of a pain but at least i can resize everything so that the smaller images are all the same. Still, maybe this will give someone who's a touch more savvy in that department an idea of what to look for that I can't

Edit - A VERY rough image I messed about with to help illustrate what I meant. It's not super to scale or anything of that sort, but here it is anyways

actually you are right... I just did this very thing on my computer. And all the pics have a distinctive LANDMARK that when layered over another pic, they match up. Example... D and F have the same little WATER RIPPLE as you have them matched up and so on. All the LIGHTER lines do intersect and you can pick up in the other pics that they are there... just made darker. But once overlapped, the distinct lines are there. There also seems to be an image behind them that looks like a mech or at least a form of something. My problem is, for some reason, my program im using is now freezing up on me before I can save the finished image. CAN SOMEONE ELSE TRY THIS as the other poster has shown how to overlap the pics? PLEASE!

[Mano Del Dio]

Yoseful Mallad, on 04 June 2012 - 07:08 PM, said:

actually you are right... I just did this very thing on my computer. And all the pics have a distinctive LANDMARK that when layered over another pic, they match up. Example... D and F have the same little WATER RIPPLE as you have them matched up and so on. All the LIGHTER lines do intersect and you can pick up in the other pics that they are there... just made darker. But once overlapped, the distinct lines are there. There also seems to be an image behind them that looks like a mech or at least a form of something. My problem is, for some reason, my program im using is now freezing up on me before I can save the finished image. CAN SOMEONE ELSE TRY THIS as the other poster has shown how to overlap the pics? PLEASE!

I really hope someone does since my original post...well thats about all I can do (go go MsPaint!) otherwise I'd be having a ball doing mockups with the pics actually in the red sections and trying to form an image out of the multiple overlapping lightbands (at first glance I can't see that they'll actually form anything interesting but no way for me to be sure without being able to do so..). Plus it doesn't help that I have to work all day tomorrow and I'm already cutting into my sleep time as it is

[CrimsonOdyssey]

The pictures are not meant to be over-laid because many of the individual squares are upside down or reversed. From what I can tell from looking at the pictures closely (on a high definition 42" TV) The mech is either a medium or a light bi-pedal (not reverse joint and the hips look far too skinny to be heavy or assault).It does not appear to have full arms (I personally can't see any hands in any of the pictures). My best guess is the Trebuchet because of the one piece of picture that seems to be in everyone. (which is the almost iconic right arm with dual medium lasers). Then again from the pieces of picture that appear to resemble the cockpit, it looks nothing like the Trebuchet's. Guess we should just wait and see what the announcement is.

[Joe Mallad]

Avias, on 04 June 2012 - 07:42 PM, said:

The pictures are not meant to be over-laid because many of the individual squares are upside down or reversed. From what I can tell from looking at the pictures closely (on a high definition 42" TV) The mech is either a medium or a light bi-pedal (not reverse joint and the hips look far too skinny to be heavy or assault).It does not appear to have full arms (I personally can't see any hands in any of the pictures). My best guess is the Trebuchet because of the one piece of picture that seems to be in everyone. (which is the almost iconic right arm with dual medium lasers). Then again from the pieces of picture that appear to resemble the cockpit, it looks nothing like the Trebuchet's. Guess we should just wait and see what the announcement is.

dont look at the mech parts... those mean nothing. Look for random things like the water ripple or a matching pic that looks like a rock and so on. as he has them... E and F for example... look at the upper left corner where the dirt sections of the pics overlay perfect.

Edited by Yoseful Mallad, 04 June 2012 - 07:46 PM.

[Hawkeye 72]

Yoseful Mallad, on 04 June 2012 - 07:08 PM, said:

actually you are right... I just did this very thing on my computer. And all the pics have a distinctive LANDMARK that when layered over another pic, they match up. Example... D and F have the same little WATER RIPPLE as you have them matched up and so on. All the LIGHTER lines do intersect and you can pick up in the other pics that they are there... just made darker. But once overlapped, the distinct lines are there. There also seems to be an image behind them that looks like a mech or at least a form of something. My problem is, for some reason, my program im using is now freezing up on me before I can save the finished image. CAN SOMEONE ELSE TRY THIS as the other poster has shown how to overlap the pics? PLEASE!

Like I said earlier, there large sections that match up on each frame. However there are very subtle differences here and there. The key would be to either highlight the differences and filter out the rest, or rearrange each individual square while deleting repeat frames.

By just overlaying them you don't really get much of an image. I tried

[The Crow2k]

Rooster Fett, on 30 May 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

Marauder? or maybe a re-seen Rifleman.

Rifleman was my first thought too.

[MagnusEffect]

If it's not a new redesign of an unseen/reseen i will be severely disappointed.

*prepares to be disappointed*

[Allen B Caldwell]

So sad I will be out of town the next two days and have to with for what ever it is...