Update 3: I think I’ve found them all! I’m gonna try to put together a quick update video because the F!00R solution is insanely well hidden! Update 2: After talking with Daniel a little more, there are hidden numbers in the floor textures. The normal map of Leshy’s Cabin floor has a faint 2 in it, and the Mycologists’ Hut floor has a pretty obvious 7 on it. I’m still on the lookout for 3, 4, and 1 if anyone wants to look at floor textures and find those. I wish I’d known about this when making this video because I think it’s a cooler solution than the holes in the roof. Update: The solution for the "F!00R = 27341" puzzle was not the intended way to solve it. I reached out to Daniel Mullins, and it's pure coincidence that the holes on the roof matched up with the answer. As far as he knows, nobody's found the real solution yet. I asked for a hint and he pointed me towards the floor textures. I've been digging around looking at all the textures, but I've got nothing at the moment. I'm really curious about the intended solution, so, if anyone is able to find anything, please let me know! In the meantime, I'm gonna keep digging a little more and see if I can find anything. Also, it's awesome to see all the positive response to this video! I really appreciate it!
So I was just thinking about this what if po3 uploaded the videos from Luke’s camera instead of inscyription it self cause then that would tie into the comments and time he knocks over the camera by accident
I think it's hilarious how the real-world players who are solving the ARG are doing the exact same thing that Luke is. Like- he's solving an ARG in-universe. He's got the sticky notes, he's pulling up wiki pages, etc. It's almost eerie
Act 1: Decode this small number of puzzles to make the game easier on yourself and progress to the next chapter with even more content The ARG: Decode this 12 part cypher so you can read some text in polish and see an ascii image of a stoat
ah yes, use the knowledge of azathoth, the blind idiot god who cannot think I'm mostly just messing with you, the exact god doesn't matter so long as it's some kind of lovecraftian being
So my interpretation of the ending is that Stoat DID NOT uploaded copies of Inscryption. The Great Transcendence failed. However, he did upload himself onto Luke's computer, saving himself from deletion. From there he took the video files on Luke's PC and cobbled it into the entirely new game, then uploaded it to Steam. In other words, the game we play is just gamified found footage from Luke's Kam Werks memory drive, not the demoic game Luke played, or even a copy. Stoat just made an inscription of what happened.
I think this is also hinted at in act 3. P03 is very obviously self-serving, so why does he need to play a game with Luke for the great transcendence? Aside from the Scrybes' programmed urge to play a card game, the answer is simple: the uberbots are how he's gaining access to Luke's computer. The Photographer takes "pictures" of the board, but interestingly P03 refers to these as screenshots near the end of the act. That's because he got access to Luke's screen when he made it. The Archivist is him attempting to gain read/write access to Luke's computer, but he only gained read access when he fails to delete the file you choose. For the Magnificus fight he's getting control of Inscryption itself, letting him change game code for the boss battle on a whim. And for the G0lly fight, well... you watch him connect to the internet. He doesn't even bother hiding that one. So, in short, you help him complete the great transcendence by confirming he has access to your screen, the game, your files, and the internet. Fortunately he gets Leshy'd before he can copy the true game to the internet, but he was already free of the game's files by then.
@@grey-spark Mostly, yeah. On one hand, yes he does explain the uberbot part and I can't believe I forgot that. I swear, I remember everything he said EXCEPT the part where he describes his Steam plan. On the other hand, he only describes this in the perspective of uploading the OLD_DATA to Steam under the guise of Inscryption. Though his explanation combined with the ARG finale video makes my conclusions seem like I spent hours figuring out something the game was trying to tell me directly... oops.
I believe the stoat managed to upload ~60% of the game, before it was canceled. Hence all of the corrupted footage and data. That's why the Old_Data isn't (or at least not in large enough chunks) in the game WE play. The Archivist boss did access Lukes computer data, so the stoat also had access to his footage. It wasn't really a "gamified version" as the game was real at one point, the stoat just had to upload it. There are many ways to interpret what's going on here, and both of our answers to it do lack an explanation to everything, but that doesn't make it any less fun to theorize.
So the game is just the Stoat's story about how he's the only remaining scribe, how he successfully uploaded himself to the internet to ensure he doesn't die and to immortalize the deletion(deaths) of the other scribes. Wow, props to him.
One little detail I noticed was when you tried to remove the OLD_DATA for the first time, the message was briefly "You must not do that" before changing to "You cannot do that", possibly implying a deliberate meddling/warning imstead of software limitations.
@@kennyholmes5196 that does nothing like secret wise. I think it would just brick the game like make the textures not load. Unless it's like ddlc which has fake files ie. .chr files which aren't real so those can be deleted but if it's a genuine file like .exe or .rar, .cdr, .dll and so on; don't touch those unless you plan on making a copy. So all in all i doubt deleting the OLD_DATA would do anything else then breaking the game.
I really like the way this is formated! It feel like I'm in a discord call with a friend who's enthusiastically explaining their most recent obsession to me. It's a little rambly but I can't help getting enthralled by the mystery!
Watching it back, it is so rambly in some parts. I think that’s just how I talk when I’m really excited though. I need to work on that for future stuff
@@Flemmonade It adds so much charm to the video. I can feel your excitement, and it makes me feel like I'm on the verge of a breakthrough myself, even though I'm just watching your video. Thank you so much for making this!
I’m really sad I didn’t know this when putting this together. I’d seen it mentioned, but I just looked at a picture of that room and I don’t know how I missed it
@@gorgan6801 I hadn't thought of that before but 'bone lord' would be a fitting title...but the bone lord doesn't really act like they're supposed to BE hitler, so I'd wager it's more likely that the bone lord wearing his jacket is more referring to the bone lord deeply looking into the OLD_DATA
Just finished the game and decided I wanted to see what I missed and my lord. There's so so so so much more than I thought. The amount of commitment and years of planning. Blows my mind that the first version of inscryption had codes planned.
I believe it was updated around the time Inscryption released. But still, it’s crazy that he went back to update his older games with secrets. It’s also a genius way to advertise his other work too lol
@@r.j.tammaro8383 he may not have planned the arg when he first made those card games long ago. He used the ARG to reference keywords from work he had done back in 2014.
They didn't quite understand how computers worked, the Scribes, when killing P-03. Carter didn't understand that the game was probably stuffed into RAM, anyways, whatever of it at least, uploaded into his computer. The upload being disturbed was probably already finished, when it was being "deleted." And then all it needed was himself. And all in one last laugh, he wrote in the Stoat, and winked. He's won. Thanks for explaining all the parts of the ARG. It's amazing that people solved things rapidly, but that's what you get when you have professionals on the case.
Thing is, if P03 uploaded Inscryption in the form we play it in, and we see the other three Scrybes [sic] in it, that means that they, too, got uploaded. Which means that P03 is in for a bit of an ugly surprise when Inscryption 2 comes out.
@@kennyholmes5196 just that in my opinion, in the context of a discussion about Inscryption, inserting a “sic” is overkill. But whatever, I’m not here to create another useless argument, opinions are opinions.
I think the Karnoffel code was some kind of method for unlocking some kind of ancient evil - it was put on a disk, which just so happened to be reused for a game. Crucially, a card game, which allowed the festering Karnoffel code (AKA Old_Data) to leak into the game and affect it.
I believe this is the best reading of the mystery. The idea being that karnoffel cards (being the precursor to Tarot cards) might of had magical/demonic connections with them. With the right combination of cards at the destined time leading to a welcomed result such as becoming immortal. Much like Tarot though, the future can be expressed but not defined. "Immortality" doesn't mean what people want it to mean. I believe the implied story is that the Bone Lord is kept alive by the humans unwittingly looking for their own immortality.
This is way better than many other viewings, since the karnoffel code is (possibly?) made by Hitler himself, and seems to be dealing with he devil/bonelord, rather than just magic
Great recap of the whole ARG. It was a blast to be a part of it and this was a nice trip down memory lane. I'm going to get the disk framed for a memento of the ARG. Keep up the awesome content.
On a the eggplant podcast where they talked to Daniel Mullins about inscryption, Daniel actually said that there would be a DLC coming with an endless mode.
I also noticed that in the "Beneath The Surface" game, the fish on the surface on the ice look the same as the "More Fish" Card that the "The Angler" card can give in PO3's act, though this fact is irrelevant to the ARG.
We likely won’t get an Inscryption sequel, but that doesn’t mean we won’t get more info on the elements of Inscryption. Pony Island, The Hex, and Inscryption are all set in the Mullins universe, and whatever comes next will likely be too
24:55 Oh god, the whole F!OOR thing. You mentioned that you wouldn't have been able to figure that out but to be honest, no one in the discord was able to figure it out either. By that point, we had the rest of the clues to that cipher but no one knew what F!OOR meant. We tried looking at every possible floor texture that could point out a clue, we tried to apply a similar solution of playing cards like the 23K2 cipher but now in act 3 which had 5 lanes for the 5 letters in "floor". None of that worked and everyone was growing desperate. We didn't even know if the solutions to the other clues were written down correctly so we lost a ton of time trying out every combination of solutions with what we thought the F!OOR answer was, as well as trying to do the answer backwards to account for the MIRROR RORRIM note. It wasn't until someone ran a program to try out every possible combination of the solutions we had with random characters for the F!OOR puzzle til they eventually had the answer. They didn't give out the answer but they told us the correct combination of solutions we had before and told us that what we needed was a combination of numbers. If they hadn't told us that then we would've been stuck there for weeks.
I didn’t know that it was brute forced like that. It makes sense though since it was only 5 characters. I’m glad whoever found the solution didn’t immediately share it
Yep, the noise is just a flap opening/closing and is the same length. There, you'd actually be looking at the gaps between the flap noise if you're looking at sound - note how the dashes are really the longer gaps between noise, while the dots are the short gaps between noise.
im sure someone has mentioned it but "carla", the implied name of the developer of beneath the surface, was a developer working for lionel in the hex story!
At the end of the game, when luke opens the old data. You can actually see a lot of the hidden stuff, there's an image with the name "location.png", the daus card, some sort of certificate or something called "big_ear_id" and a part from the hidden conversation, and other stuff too
Hi, so only just found your video, and despite being 2 years late, figured I'd give more info for the final decoding, and what happened. After the livestream had shown |PLAYING##|, and saw ##e E##, I figured it was "The End", and had a thought that it could be a final thank you for doing the ARG. In previous puzzles we learned that you could use # to fill in blank spaces, so I tried THANKYOUFOR#|PLAYING##|THEGAMEYOU!#####, with the final part being from what shows up at the end of the credits when Golly shows up. At first the letters still looked jumbled up, and I was about to call it wrong, until I recognized some of the letters as Russian, and remembered that Russia was mentioned in the lore, and that helped me realize I'd accidentally "solved" it via "a meme" as I kept calling it. That happened within around 5 minutes of the livestream. Turns out the main body of the cipher could be decoded by getting the first two parts correct, and the third part was more necessary for ensuring the following ciphers could be solved, but as this was the last cipher, it wasn't necessary. We got |NSCRYPTIONFRIEND over the next two days by people brute forcing it. Source: Technically me, but if you're in the Daniel Mullins discord, you can look up the user TweakTH (which is me), and find my messages from when it happened on October 27, 2021.
I finished the game this morning, this couldn’t have been better timed - thank you so so so much for the detail! I couldn’t imagine being part of the ARG, those are some smart people.
I’ve watched this video multiple times and absolutely love it. It makes me really sad too because watching MatPats video on this ARG basically feels like he stole this video, while making it sound like he find all the information on his own
There is so much to the whole Mullins trilogy Pony Island is a quick start of the lore. Not much hidden details - all of them are kinda on the surface the main characters for the next games are shown.
This was amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed your secrets vid you did as well. Most arg creators will just describe what happens when you solve the ciphers, but it was so entertaining watching you actually going through the steps yourself. It really did add something to the breakdown. I just subscribed and am excited to see what you make next whether it is a breakdown on the hex or something else.
I really liked the voiceover of this - made an 1hr+ long video not even remotely boring to watch as it felt very human-y, if that makes sense. Some longer vids explaining stuff like this can get very dry, but here it really felt as if your friend decided to bring you along for the ride of finding all this interesting details. Again, very cool video, thanks man
Man I knew there was some ARG thing going on with all the strange clues and messages scattered throughout the game. Just wish it wasn't so... Intense for the average person. I mean I wouldn't have even thought to do the Ctrl+C in the console to begin the whole thing lol good job
I love how for certain puzzles you can tell very clearly that Daniel just kind of had to work with what was around because there’s no way in hell he knew that manatee antony was going to be vital to his future works.
This blew my mind, i picked up on some cryptic hints within the game but i would never have imagined something that deeply hidden within the game and the real world. Thank you for putting this together!
Oh man, i never considered P03 might actually show up in future daniel mullens games! maybe the other scrybes too, considering they've been spread around *with* p03... very well done video, not the most organized or clean, but it has character, which i appreciate
40:37 I’ve never seen a game developer who has made his game, so immersive does he has to beat the snot out of his fans for finding the solution to his game because in lore, that’s what he should do
first time i've participated in an arg, i mostly just added to and kept the discord's evidence document concise and tidy as possible until it got locked. it's SO damn cool to see everything collated in a video! i understand why people love participating in ARGs now - it's such a cool feeling to be part of a community effort. daniel mullins did such an amazing job setting this up.
My take on the 1:00:00 bit is, some Russian spies confirmed AH was dead, took the "carefully arranged" deck of playing cards from his body... and (either not knowing what it was, or intentionally,) used the playing cards to play some cards, presumably shuffling or otherwise messing up the order of the cards. So the ending would mean, "The old data (the code) *is* in fact, nonsense. An un-recoverable mess, all that remains of some important secret."
Gotta say I love these inscryption vids cause it sounds like you’re actually doing the theory in real time not just reading from a script, it feels much more real, keep up the awesome work dude!
No cap was just digging though TH-cam a couple days ago to see if I could find a video on the ARG and was super bummed when I couldn’t. Thank you for taking the time to make this!
36:00 the time period is probably somewhere between 1980-1989. Probably more of the second half It's due to the fact that the game market really opened up around that time (thus they could use game developing as a cover up), and the constant mentions of big russian men just showing up on your doorstep men means that soviet union still had to have control over Poland.
Thanks for the great video ! I was waiting on someone to make a video describing/explaining the ARG and you knock it out of the park ! I can finaly rest easy now that my curiousity about the secrets of Inscryption is satiated
Just saw your video on the secrets and caught this in the corner of my eye, can't believe it was uploaded just hours ago. Thank you for your investigative work, sir!
bro i love how thorough you are with this, the execution and editing of this video is absolutely phenomenal! you made this so entertaining and captivating, thank you!
I would love to see an ARG recap of the Hex for all those who missed (like myself). Your videos are very well produced and you have a great charisma for explaining things lile this. I look forward to seeing more of your content!
This video rules. I’ve never been so enraptured by an hour long video before. I’m absolutely subscribing and really hoping that you do more arg videos in the future. I love that you really showed every step of the process instead of just giving the information. Really made me feel more invested!
I had just watched your secrets video and am so glad you made this one covering the ARG! Gotta say, I'm keeping up with Markipliers playthrough and he noticed that Leshy's door was flashing in Morse code, I was skeptical about that so it's neat to see it was actually part of the ARG!
This is great-I LOVE Inscryption but I am the opposite of code-minded and even the tutorials about this seemed pretty inaccessible to me. It’s really nice to have someone just lay it out in a way that explains everything simply without making me feel stupid, and I can follow along easily.
Wow the style in which this is made almost resembles what we are watching in game, pulling up side tabs, hastily trying to remember cyphers, i don't know if its intentional but i love it! Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much for making this video! I just finished playing Inscryption the other day and couldn't wait to watch videos about the lore. I did find the large document that describes the ARG, but watching it in video format was way more enjoyable. As someone who didn't know what an ARG was before, it's mind boggling to think that not only could someone come up with such cryptic, roundabout ways to leave all these clues, but that people were able to solve them in such a short time.
i was in the vc when the first floppy was being read, it was solved so fast that the first clue was already solved before the floppy was read. it was wild
Thank you for walking us through the discovery of the ARG. The level of difficulty here is just overwhelming - and utterly prohibitive. Fortunately - Daniel Mullins' games stand on their own without the ARG elements. ^_^
A neat little detail that might not have been intended was the metaphor of the soviet soldiers playing Durak after discovering the Karnoffel Code. Durak can be translated as to mean "The Fool" which fits well with the fact that the soldiers discovered one of the most powerful and destructive codes in history. They are fools, playing with forces much greater than they could ever imagine.
I love the format of your videos where instead of the usual pieced together "audio recording + visuals" you recorded all in one go. It ends up way cooler, please keep it if you plan on making more videos on this type of subject, even if you up the time on editing
I would like to point out, I don't know how many people watched ALL THE WAY to the end to see this... but what a great clip to end on. It was a great video :)
thank you so much for making a video about this! i played inscryption after the arg finished, and the giant doc was kind of daunting. this felt like i got to watch it happening with the way you presented it :)
Thank you so much for all your hard work. Now I finally understand the true story behind Inscryption. Heck, if P03 just knew what he was spreading... I don't think he would be crazy enough to share some WW 2 shit !
Having this on in the background and getting to the hitlers body part part of me briefly thought this lunatic somehow involved the actual irl corpse of hitler.
32:29 So I'm no morse code expert myself, but it basically has three states to look for. A long Beep (-), short Beep (.) or no Beep in the time you would expect (Pause). Looking at 32:29 you can see A Dash is a Signal with a longer Pause after it, and a Dot is a Signal with a very short Pause after it. So you're not really looking at the Signal, you're looking at the Pauses between them. Now I just got this from the Screenshot and working backwards, after you enter the solution. But you said you we're having trouble reading it still, maybe this helps. I assume the problem is that you're supposed to be looking at the light, and you were looking at the sound. It appears the sound plays the same no matter what Signal is coming in (- or .), just making a short Bump sound. But the light stays on longer between some bumps which are the Dashes, and sometimes only shortly which are the (.), hence why you need to read the pauses in your screen here. Morse code was not just traditionally used as sound Signals. It's was also used by sailors with light signals, that might be what's confusing you, not sure. Edit: Rewatching that part, I realize you were just confused about when the Code starts, but I'll leave this here if someone else was having trouble.
Jeez that was one heck of a rabbit hole to fall into. And a massive plug to Daniel Mullin's old games which is kinda cool now that i think About it. And i like how he attacked the person who got the floppy disk and the camera man the moment he saw his secrets about to be revealed. By the way, i kinda already second guessed that po3 managed to upload inscryption on steam, but i wouldn't have been able to guess that he's the STOAT, which explains the fact that every reset the stoat becomes more and more like a computer
I was laughing so hard when he said here comes the jumps are, and right when the frames glitched, right where he started backing away from the table a McDonald's ad came on about their big macs. I was so scared. Terrified even. This event may have traumatised me for the rest of my life.
Morse code can be conveyed with not just sound length but also frequency; the newgame morse was likely that, as all of the sounds are the same length but there's two distinct variations to it. This is because some methods of transmitting morse can't vary sound length (clicking, tapping, etc)
Okay watching parts of this video this shows easily how this right here it's a child to the creator of importance. And that he tried to use old stuff. That, even if it did not worked. Given it a purpose. Which is both wholesome, and inspiring! So keep that in consideration! As I really deeply admire how truly "meaty" this entire foundation is. There's more in the horizon to see. And even as a bystander. I will try to see what I can do. That, or simply enjoy what happens next!
That was a wonderful summary of everything, thank you so much. I'm fascinated by the Mullenverse but I just don't have the time to dig into these things myself anymore. Wonderfully done. However, on qq. Your video doesn't quite answer the question what the Karnoffel Code actually is. Like... the hidden images and the stuff we see at the very end of the game that makes Luke go insane. Is there anything more about what actually IS this Code?
The images at the end were of Barry Wilkinson, Kaycee, the log.txt that was decoded, and other locations (that I don’t know much about). As for the Karnoffel Code, I probably forgot to mention it, but it’s essentially some kind of evil code that wound up being used by GameFuna to grant sentience to the characters of Inscryption. I was more focused on the ARG stuff at the moment, so I didn’t really get into it as much as I probably should’ve. There’s a ton of discussion about what it is in the Daniel Mullins Games discord if you were wanting to learn more though
@@Flemmonade Thanks. Yeah, I figured there wasn't much "more" to it anymore (yet) but thanks for your reply and for all your effort. I had already joined the Discord, but those huge servers often overwhelm me, haha. Inscryption is already my GOTY for now, and getting all the nitty gritty bits from your video gave me even more enjoyment, so thanks!
35:05 Yep. Polish without polish exclusive letters. Although it looks more like english to polish translation, rather than an actual polish text. Mostly because of use of word "okładka" instead of "przykrywka" as a translation of "cover". Since "okładka" means a cover of a book, while "przykrywka" means a cover of a buisness.
for the second morse code, i think its safe to say you were doing smth wrong by looking at the audio when its about the light flashes being in dots (short flash) and dashes (long flashes) just like the written version
This video was so great! Just finished the game and was dying to dig into all the secrets and ARG stuff. Love how you walked through each stage and recreated the discovery yourself. Please do a hex video!
before i even knew about this entire ARG and stuff, I found the log in act III of Julius Seastar, and found the reddit account, thinking it was all an elaborate easter egg. If only i knew how deep it went lmao.
Also for the Blood Letterbox: Take a good look at the basic shape of the symbol of the blood altar of the bone lord... yep...good old 4:3 monitor (so letterbox mode for 16:9 monitor)
There's actually a hint at the fact that P03 is in control from the beginning and pretending not to be (which lines up with the secret ending), as there's a random jumpscare that can happen during act 1 where the leshy uberbot shows up and takes your photo.
my friend helped with the translation. Something worth noting, the polish isn't actually real polish. It's more like if you chucked the english version into google translate. The original translation referred to the 8ft russian as a "russian with an 8ft rise"
Thank you so much for this breakdown! Was trying to read about it but this makes it so much easier to understand. It’s seriously so fascinating, love this game, thank you again!
The comprehensive explanation you give in this video is really well-done. I am thoroughly impressed. It's not easy to make palatable something so complicated. Subscribed.
Update 3: I think I’ve found them all! I’m gonna try to put together a quick update video because the F!00R solution is insanely well hidden!
Update 2: After talking with Daniel a little more, there are hidden numbers in the floor textures. The normal map of Leshy’s Cabin floor has a faint 2 in it, and the Mycologists’ Hut floor has a pretty obvious 7 on it. I’m still on the lookout for 3, 4, and 1 if anyone wants to look at floor textures and find those. I wish I’d known about this when making this video because I think it’s a cooler solution than the holes in the roof.
Update: The solution for the "F!00R = 27341" puzzle was not the intended way to solve it. I reached out to Daniel Mullins, and it's pure coincidence that the holes on the roof matched up with the answer. As far as he knows, nobody's found the real solution yet. I asked for a hint and he pointed me towards the floor textures. I've been digging around looking at all the textures, but I've got nothing at the moment. I'm really curious about the intended solution, so, if anyone is able to find anything, please let me know! In the meantime, I'm gonna keep digging a little more and see if I can find anything.
Also, it's awesome to see all the positive response to this video! I really appreciate it!
That's actually hilarious, but makes sense that it wasn't the intended solution since it looks like it was extremely obscure.
Can believe they saw the code “f!oor” and thought “hmmm, this is clearly roof in reverse” instead of floor
Or was it supposed to be taken both ways, to find the room?
Or is even the room wrong?
@@-ZH they thought that, because the M!rror and Rorrim thing, insisted that f!oor would be roo!f
So I was just thinking about this what if po3 uploaded the videos from Luke’s camera instead of inscyription it self cause then that would tie into the comments and time he knocks over the camera by accident
I think it's hilarious how the real-world players who are solving the ARG are doing the exact same thing that Luke is. Like- he's solving an ARG in-universe. He's got the sticky notes, he's pulling up wiki pages, etc. It's almost eerie
Because he interested too, just like we
Everybody gangsta until Amanda comes to their house with a gun
By watching this video, we have each of us invited Amanda to our door...
And we’re stealing his answers
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Act 1: Decode this small number of puzzles to make the game easier on yourself and progress to the next chapter with even more content
The ARG: Decode this 12 part cypher so you can read some text in polish and see an ascii image of a stoat
As MatPat would say: "THERE'S THE LORE!!!! THE LORE! THE LORE!"
Laughs in being a Pole
@@real_szop4692 there are many benefits to being a pole
Can I learn this power?
jokes on you i was born in poland so i know polish
Normal Dev: *makes game*
Daniel Mullens: O GREAT AZATHOTH, LET ME USE YOUR KNOWLEDGE TO SCRAMBLE WITH MY PLAYERS SANITY.
Daniel messing up with our sanity, just like Scott cawthon when creating fnaf lore for us to reveal
@@benthasome Daniel understoodwhat made Fnaf lore so addictive: hiding little shit for people to speculate on
@@hoarder1975 ex-fuckin-actly
Where does Dan Salvato stand in all this? xD
ah yes, use the knowledge of azathoth, the blind idiot god who cannot think
I'm mostly just messing with you, the exact god doesn't matter so long as it's some kind of lovecraftian being
So my interpretation of the ending is that Stoat DID NOT uploaded copies of Inscryption. The Great Transcendence failed.
However, he did upload himself onto Luke's computer, saving himself from deletion. From there he took the video files on Luke's PC and cobbled it into the entirely new game, then uploaded it to Steam. In other words, the game we play is just gamified found footage from Luke's Kam Werks memory drive, not the demoic game Luke played, or even a copy. Stoat just made an inscription of what happened.
That's why the game is called Inscryption, right?
I think this is also hinted at in act 3. P03 is very obviously self-serving, so why does he need to play a game with Luke for the great transcendence? Aside from the Scrybes' programmed urge to play a card game, the answer is simple: the uberbots are how he's gaining access to Luke's computer. The Photographer takes "pictures" of the board, but interestingly P03 refers to these as screenshots near the end of the act. That's because he got access to Luke's screen when he made it. The Archivist is him attempting to gain read/write access to Luke's computer, but he only gained read access when he fails to delete the file you choose. For the Magnificus fight he's getting control of Inscryption itself, letting him change game code for the boss battle on a whim. And for the G0lly fight, well... you watch him connect to the internet. He doesn't even bother hiding that one.
So, in short, you help him complete the great transcendence by confirming he has access to your screen, the game, your files, and the internet. Fortunately he gets Leshy'd before he can copy the true game to the internet, but he was already free of the game's files by then.
@@liger04 Not to be blunt but doesn't he explain this in-game?
@@grey-spark Mostly, yeah. On one hand, yes he does explain the uberbot part and I can't believe I forgot that. I swear, I remember everything he said EXCEPT the part where he describes his Steam plan.
On the other hand, he only describes this in the perspective of uploading the OLD_DATA to Steam under the guise of Inscryption. Though his explanation combined with the ARG finale video makes my conclusions seem like I spent hours figuring out something the game was trying to tell me directly... oops.
I believe the stoat managed to upload ~60% of the game, before it was canceled. Hence all of the corrupted footage and data. That's why the Old_Data isn't (or at least not in large enough chunks) in the game WE play. The Archivist boss did access Lukes computer data, so the stoat also had access to his footage. It wasn't really a "gamified version" as the game was real at one point, the stoat just had to upload it.
There are many ways to interpret what's going on here, and both of our answers to it do lack an explanation to everything, but that doesn't make it any less fun to theorize.
So the game is just the Stoat's story about how he's the only remaining scribe, how he successfully uploaded himself to the internet to ensure he doesn't die and to immortalize the deletion(deaths) of the other scribes. Wow, props to him.
fuck the stoat
One little detail I noticed was when you tried to remove the OLD_DATA for the first time, the message was briefly "You must not do that" before changing to "You cannot do that", possibly implying a deliberate meddling/warning imstead of software limitations.
How did I miss that?? I’ve watched this video over at least 10 times and never noticed that
like 0.25 slow
spooky
@@Flemmonade So... what happens when you root around in the game's files directly like the Daus would and manually excise OLD_DATA by deleting it?
@@kennyholmes5196 that does nothing like secret wise. I think it would just brick the game like make the textures not load. Unless it's like ddlc which has fake files ie. .chr files which aren't real so those can be deleted but if it's a genuine file like .exe or .rar, .cdr, .dll and so on; don't touch those unless you plan on making a copy. So all in all i doubt deleting the OLD_DATA would do anything else then breaking the game.
also during the podcast with daniel, he stated he is trying to make an endless mode, and may continue inscryption after his next game
This aged well lol. He just put the beta for that out today
yooo an endless mode is exactly what i wanted
omfg that makes me so happy
@@jesuschrist9677 epic thanks
“May continue inscryption after his next game”
How much money do I have to pay to guarantee that this is true
I really like the way this is formated! It feel like I'm in a discord call with a friend who's enthusiastically explaining their most recent obsession to me. It's a little rambly but I can't help getting enthralled by the mystery!
Watching it back, it is so rambly in some parts. I think that’s just how I talk when I’m really excited though. I need to work on that for future stuff
@@Flemmonade I like hearing you all excited, it still makes sense and you get your point across. It's nice hearing someone so enthusiastic!
Summed it up so well
@@Flemmonade It adds so much charm to the video. I can feel your excitement, and it makes me feel like I'm on the verge of a breakthrough myself, even though I'm just watching your video. Thank you so much for making this!
Man I wish my friends would react like that, how do I aquire you as a friend mr mr monkeydad
53:34
The bone lord's room in act 2 features a ribcage wearing a jacket with a set of Karnoffel cards in its pocket
I’m really sad I didn’t know this when putting this together. I’d seen it mentioned, but I just looked at a picture of that room and I don’t know how I missed it
Wait, does that mean that the Bone Lord is supposed to be a analog for Hitler?
@@gorgan6801 I hadn't thought of that before but 'bone lord' would be a fitting title...but the bone lord doesn't really act like they're supposed to BE hitler, so I'd wager it's more likely that the bone lord wearing his jacket is more referring to the bone lord deeply looking into the OLD_DATA
@@gorgan6801 certified Adolf Hitler moment
Actually, doesn't it seem like the pocket has a cursor-thingy in it?
Immediately after he said “here comes a jumpscare” i got an ad from meta, which was more terrifying than what i predicted
i got an ad for toothpaste
Just finished the game and decided I wanted to see what I missed and my lord. There's so so so so much more than I thought. The amount of commitment and years of planning. Blows my mind that the first version of inscryption had codes planned.
I believe it was updated around the time Inscryption released. But still, it’s crazy that he went back to update his older games with secrets. It’s also a genius way to advertise his other work too lol
It’s not just the first version of inscrytion, it was planned years ago in the arg of his first fucking game.
Wow I'm blown away as well by the rabbit hole of stuff as well excellent video
@@r.j.tammaro8383 he may not have planned the arg when he first made those card games long ago. He used the ARG to reference keywords from work he had done back in 2014.
They didn't quite understand how computers worked, the Scribes, when killing P-03.
Carter didn't understand that the game was probably stuffed into RAM, anyways, whatever of it at least, uploaded into his computer.
The upload being disturbed was probably already finished, when it was being "deleted."
And then all it needed was himself.
And all in one last laugh, he wrote in the Stoat, and winked.
He's won.
Thanks for explaining all the parts of the ARG. It's amazing that people solved things rapidly, but that's what you get when you have professionals on the case.
Thing is, if P03 uploaded Inscryption in the form we play it in, and we see the other three Scrybes [sic] in it, that means that they, too, got uploaded. Which means that P03 is in for a bit of an ugly surprise when Inscryption 2 comes out.
@@kennyholmes5196 why the “sic”?
( I do not ask what it means, but rather why did you put it there? )
@@chri-k Because that's what the game spells it as. Ever heard of a Scribe IRL?
@@kennyholmes5196 just that in my opinion, in the context of a discussion about Inscryption, inserting a “sic” is overkill. But whatever, I’m not here to create another useless argument, opinions are opinions.
@@kennyholmes5196 so if I do Inscryption [sic] does that make me smart and cool too?
I think the Karnoffel code was some kind of method for unlocking some kind of ancient evil - it was put on a disk, which just so happened to be reused for a game. Crucially, a card game, which allowed the festering Karnoffel code (AKA Old_Data) to leak into the game and affect it.
I believe this is the best reading of the mystery. The idea being that karnoffel cards (being the precursor to Tarot cards) might of had magical/demonic connections with them. With the right combination of cards at the destined time leading to a welcomed result such as becoming immortal.
Much like Tarot though, the future can be expressed but not defined. "Immortality" doesn't mean what people want it to mean. I believe the implied story is that the Bone Lord is kept alive by the humans unwittingly looking for their own immortality.
This is way better than many other viewings, since the karnoffel code is (possibly?) made by Hitler himself, and seems to be dealing with he devil/bonelord, rather than just magic
Great recap of the whole ARG. It was a blast to be a part of it and this was a nice trip down memory lane. I'm going to get the disk framed for a memento of the ARG. Keep up the awesome content.
Ayyy it's the person who got one of dem floppies!
I would love a series that goes through the history of solved ARG's kinda like summoning salts speed run videos.
there's a podcast for that, if you like podcasts! check out ARGonauts!
Inside a mind does good ones
Hoped for a DLC
Also the fact that the ending right there was the answer to how Inscryption was up there was amazing
On a the eggplant podcast where they talked to Daniel Mullins about inscryption, Daniel actually said that there would be a DLC coming with an endless mode.
Well we’re getting a free DLC called ‘Kaycee’s Mod’ that’s a full on roguelike in Leshy’s Cabin
I come to you with good news
DLC is a thing now
DLC has become part of a new official Inscryption ARG.
I also noticed that in the "Beneath The Surface" game, the fish on the surface on the ice look the same as the "More Fish" Card that the "The Angler" card can give in PO3's act, though this fact is irrelevant to the ARG.
That’s a pretty good hint, if not subtle
The ARG recap is much appreciated; I've never been any good with reading ciphers, much less attempting to figure them out in any capacity.
We likely won’t get an Inscryption sequel, but that doesn’t mean we won’t get more info on the elements of Inscryption. Pony Island, The Hex, and Inscryption are all set in the Mullins universe, and whatever comes next will likely be too
24:55
Oh god, the whole F!OOR thing.
You mentioned that you wouldn't have been able to figure that out but to be honest, no one in the discord was able to figure it out either. By that point, we had the rest of the clues to that cipher but no one knew what F!OOR meant. We tried looking at every possible floor texture that could point out a clue, we tried to apply a similar solution of playing cards like the 23K2 cipher but now in act 3 which had 5 lanes for the 5 letters in "floor".
None of that worked and everyone was growing desperate. We didn't even know if the solutions to the other clues were written down correctly so we lost a ton of time trying out every combination of solutions with what we thought the F!OOR answer was, as well as trying to do the answer backwards to account for the MIRROR RORRIM note.
It wasn't until someone ran a program to try out every possible combination of the solutions we had with random characters for the F!OOR puzzle til they eventually had the answer. They didn't give out the answer but they told us the correct combination of solutions we had before and told us that what we needed was a combination of numbers. If they hadn't told us that then we would've been stuck there for weeks.
I didn’t know that it was brute forced like that. It makes sense though since it was only 5 characters. I’m glad whoever found the solution didn’t immediately share it
Wait! Wouldn't that be Roof and not floor?
@@Weigazodi think it's related to MIRROR RORRIM.
F!oor is roo!F. Just remove the exclamation point.
That's how i see it anyway lol
@@MistSGM
I see
It definitely say “What lies ahead”, right?
As in, leshy’s full sentence was “I cannot unlearn what lies ahead.”
Yep, that makes more sense to me. I think in the moment I didn’t realize it was continuing his sentence
The glitchy card which has a binary as description is actually named "Deep Beneath" and its a hint to the 56-57m game for the code
For the second morse code, you're supposed to look at the flashes, its less of a sound thing (Newgame part)
Yep, the noise is just a flap opening/closing and is the same length. There, you'd actually be looking at the gaps between the flap noise if you're looking at sound - note how the dashes are really the longer gaps between noise, while the dots are the short gaps between noise.
im sure someone has mentioned it but "carla", the implied name of the developer of beneath the surface, was a developer working for lionel in the hex story!
Wait. Really?
Bruh when are wegetting Mullins' version of Avengers Endgame with all this interconnected stuff.
Damn I didn't know. :D I haven't played his other games ( besides pony island)
@@shanethebrownwolf5575Yup! And it's made by Carla, in-universe. The end of the game has a message from Lionel Snill, another character.
At the end of the game, when luke opens the old data. You can actually see a lot of the hidden stuff, there's an image with the name "location.png", the daus card, some sort of certificate or something called "big_ear_id" and a part from the hidden conversation, and other stuff too
Hi, so only just found your video, and despite being 2 years late, figured I'd give more info for the final decoding, and what happened.
After the livestream had shown |PLAYING##|, and saw ##e E##, I figured it was "The End", and had a thought that it could be a final thank you for doing the ARG. In previous puzzles we learned that you could use # to fill in blank spaces, so I tried THANKYOUFOR#|PLAYING##|THEGAMEYOU!#####, with the final part being from what shows up at the end of the credits when Golly shows up. At first the letters still looked jumbled up, and I was about to call it wrong, until I recognized some of the letters as Russian, and remembered that Russia was mentioned in the lore, and that helped me realize I'd accidentally "solved" it via "a meme" as I kept calling it. That happened within around 5 minutes of the livestream. Turns out the main body of the cipher could be decoded by getting the first two parts correct, and the third part was more necessary for ensuring the following ciphers could be solved, but as this was the last cipher, it wasn't necessary. We got |NSCRYPTIONFRIEND over the next two days by people brute forcing it.
Source: Technically me, but if you're in the Daniel Mullins discord, you can look up the user TweakTH (which is me), and find my messages from when it happened on October 27, 2021.
I finished the game this morning, this couldn’t have been better timed - thank you so so so much for the detail! I couldn’t imagine being part of the ARG, those are some smart people.
I’ve watched this video multiple times and absolutely love it. It makes me really sad too because watching MatPats video on this ARG basically feels like he stole this video, while making it sound like he find all the information on his own
Ah, so you've found the source of inspiration for most of MatPat's theories...
He still cites Flemmonade for the floor clue.
They're both recounting factual events from a Google doc, how much variation did you expect?
There is so much to the whole Mullins trilogy
Pony Island is a quick start of the lore. Not much hidden details - all of them are kinda on the surface the main characters for the next games are shown.
Wait really?
This was amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed your secrets vid you did as well. Most arg creators will just describe what happens when you solve the ciphers, but it was so entertaining watching you actually going through the steps yourself. It really did add something to the breakdown. I just subscribed and am excited to see what you make next whether it is a breakdown on the hex or something else.
I really liked the voiceover of this - made an 1hr+ long video not even remotely boring to watch as it felt very human-y, if that makes sense. Some longer vids explaining stuff like this can get very dry, but here it really felt as if your friend decided to bring you along for the ride of finding all this interesting details. Again, very cool video, thanks man
Man I knew there was some ARG thing going on with all the strange clues and messages scattered throughout the game. Just wish it wasn't so... Intense for the average person. I mean I wouldn't have even thought to do the Ctrl+C in the console to begin the whole thing lol good job
Its not a arg if it doesnt require very heavy commitment from one person or a coming together of the community to solve it i feel like
The ctrl-c is a standard for command line programming but def not for the standard user
I love how for certain puzzles you can tell very clearly that Daniel just kind of had to work with what was around because there’s no way in hell he knew that manatee antony was going to be vital to his future works.
This blew my mind, i picked up on some cryptic hints within the game but i would never have imagined something that deeply hidden within the game and the real world. Thank you for putting this together!
I love your editing style, the little adorkable flashes of your personality make this a joy to watch.
Oh man, i never considered P03 might actually show up in future daniel mullens games! maybe the other scrybes too, considering they've been spread around *with* p03...
very well done video, not the most organized or clean, but it has character, which i appreciate
40:37 I’ve never seen a game developer who has made his game, so immersive does he has to beat the snot out of his fans for finding the solution to his game because in lore, that’s what he should do
first time i've participated in an arg, i mostly just added to and kept the discord's evidence document concise and tidy as possible until it got locked. it's SO damn cool to see everything collated in a video! i understand why people love participating in ARGs now - it's such a cool feeling to be part of a community effort. daniel mullins did such an amazing job setting this up.
My take on the 1:00:00 bit is, some Russian spies confirmed AH was dead, took the "carefully arranged" deck of playing cards from his body... and (either not knowing what it was, or intentionally,) used the playing cards to play some cards, presumably shuffling or otherwise messing up the order of the cards. So the ending would mean, "The old data (the code) *is* in fact, nonsense. An un-recoverable mess, all that remains of some important secret."
Gotta say I love these inscryption vids cause it sounds like you’re actually doing the theory in real time not just reading from a script, it feels much more real, keep up the awesome work dude!
No cap was just digging though TH-cam a couple days ago to see if I could find a video on the ARG and was super bummed when I couldn’t. Thank you for taking the time to make this!
36:00 the time period is probably somewhere between 1980-1989. Probably more of the second half
It's due to the fact that the game market really opened up around that time (thus they could use game developing as a cover up), and the constant mentions of big russian men just showing up on your doorstep men means that soviet union still had to have control over Poland.
I hope than that ending means than we will have more Inscryption, this was such an inovative game than really has to have a sequel
No, the ending is how inscryption was uploaded
Thanks for the great video ! I was waiting on someone to make a video describing/explaining the ARG and you knock it out of the park ! I can finaly rest easy now that my curiousity about the secrets of Inscryption is satiated
Just saw your video on the secrets and caught this in the corner of my eye, can't believe it was uploaded just hours ago. Thank you for your investigative work, sir!
bro i love how thorough you are with this, the execution and editing of this video is absolutely phenomenal! you made this so entertaining and captivating, thank you!
I would love to see an ARG recap of the Hex for all those who missed (like myself). Your videos are very well produced and you have a great charisma for explaining things lile this. I look forward to seeing more of your content!
This video rules. I’ve never been so enraptured by an hour long video before. I’m absolutely subscribing and really hoping that you do more arg videos in the future. I love that you really showed every step of the process instead of just giving the information. Really made me feel more invested!
I really like how you walk us all through this. With lots of detail and even the other games footage. High quality stuff.
I had just watched your secrets video and am so glad you made this one covering the ARG!
Gotta say, I'm keeping up with Markipliers playthrough and he noticed that Leshy's door was flashing in Morse code, I was skeptical about that so it's neat to see it was actually part of the ARG!
This is great-I LOVE Inscryption but I am the opposite of code-minded and even the tutorials about this seemed pretty inaccessible to me. It’s really nice to have someone just lay it out in a way that explains everything simply without making me feel stupid, and I can follow along easily.
Wild that Mullins actually murdered two people for this ARG and waited 4 years for an easter egg.
Wow the style in which this is made almost resembles what we are watching in game, pulling up side tabs, hastily trying to remember cyphers, i don't know if its intentional but i love it! Keep up the great work!
YES, SOMEONE DOING A VIDEO ON THE INSCRYPTION ARG LETS GOOO!
IKR! Pretty sure this is the first one. One of my most anticipated vids in 2021. Time to binge
The amount of secrets this game contains and how hard it's trying to hide it actually makes me scared and have chills.
Thanks so much for making this video! I just finished playing Inscryption the other day and couldn't wait to watch videos about the lore. I did find the large document that describes the ARG, but watching it in video format was way more enjoyable. As someone who didn't know what an ARG was before, it's mind boggling to think that not only could someone come up with such cryptic, roundabout ways to leave all these clues, but that people were able to solve them in such a short time.
i was in the vc when the first floppy was being read, it was solved so fast that the first clue was already solved before the floppy was read. it was wild
Thank you for walking us through the discovery of the ARG.
The level of difficulty here is just overwhelming - and utterly prohibitive.
Fortunately - Daniel Mullins' games stand on their own without the ARG elements. ^_^
The entire time playing Inscryption I kept think “Man, AAA companies could never pull this off”
they never would even try something like this, unless we talking about black ops 3
“Here comes the jumpscare” immediately cuts to a Raid Shadow Legends ad, pretty scary
A neat little detail that might not have been intended was the metaphor of the soviet soldiers playing Durak after discovering the Karnoffel Code. Durak can be translated as to mean "The Fool" which fits well with the fact that the soldiers discovered one of the most powerful and destructive codes in history. They are fools, playing with forces much greater than they could ever imagine.
I love the format of your videos where instead of the usual pieced together "audio recording + visuals" you recorded all in one go. It ends up way cooler, please keep it if you plan on making more videos on this type of subject, even if you up the time on editing
I would like to point out, I don't know how many people watched ALL THE WAY to the end to see this... but what a great clip to end on. It was a great video :)
I was originally gonna make it so he was watching the video on his screen as it panned out, but that ended up being more work than it was worth
thank you so much for making a video about this! i played inscryption after the arg finished, and the giant doc was kind of daunting. this felt like i got to watch it happening with the way you presented it :)
Thank you so much for all your hard work. Now I finally understand the true story behind Inscryption.
Heck, if P03 just knew what he was spreading... I don't think he would be crazy enough to share some WW 2 shit !
You wouldn't upload an Adolf Hitler
@@Fennaixelphox hehe thanks for making me giggle
Having this on in the background and getting to the hitlers body part part of me briefly thought this lunatic somehow involved the actual irl corpse of hitler.
YES THANK YOU SO MUCH your content is amazing and i LOVE your voice
32:29 So I'm no morse code expert myself, but it basically has three states to look for. A long Beep (-), short Beep (.) or no Beep in the time you would expect (Pause).
Looking at 32:29 you can see A Dash is a Signal with a longer Pause after it, and a Dot is a Signal with a very short Pause after it.
So you're not really looking at the Signal, you're looking at the Pauses between them. Now I just got this from the Screenshot and working backwards, after you enter the solution.
But you said you we're having trouble reading it still, maybe this helps.
I assume the problem is that you're supposed to be looking at the light, and you were looking at the sound.
It appears the sound plays the same no matter what Signal is coming in (- or .), just making a short Bump sound.
But the light stays on longer between some bumps which are the Dashes, and sometimes only shortly which are the (.), hence why you need to read the pauses in your screen here.
Morse code was not just traditionally used as sound Signals. It's was also used by sailors with light signals, that might be what's confusing you, not sure.
Edit: Rewatching that part, I realize you were just confused about when the Code starts, but I'll leave this here if someone else was having trouble.
this is so good!! I'd absolutely watch a deep dive into the Hex ARG.
Jeez that was one heck of a rabbit hole to fall into. And a massive plug to Daniel Mullin's old games which is kinda cool now that i think About it. And i like how he attacked the person who got the floppy disk and the camera man the moment he saw his secrets about to be revealed.
By the way, i kinda already second guessed that po3 managed to upload inscryption on steam, but i wouldn't have been able to guess that he's the STOAT, which explains the fact that every reset the stoat becomes more and more like a computer
3:20 since it's a directory you need to specify recursive (-r), so the full command would be "rm -r OLD_DATA".
I was laughing so hard when he said here comes the jumps are, and right when the frames glitched, right where he started backing away from the table a McDonald's ad came on about their big macs. I was so scared. Terrified even. This event may have traumatised me for the rest of my life.
tyyy for making a detailed explanation of the arg. was searching for this for so long and couldnt find one
I’d absolutely love a video on The Hex! I just finished it and adored it.
Phew, what a ride. I just finished the game and was intrigued by all these clues. Thank you and everyone who participated in the ARG for your work!
Morse code can be conveyed with not just sound length but also frequency; the newgame morse was likely that, as all of the sounds are the same length but there's two distinct variations to it. This is because some methods of transmitting morse can't vary sound length (clicking, tapping, etc)
Okay watching parts of this video this shows easily how this right here it's a child to the creator of importance. And that he tried to use old stuff. That, even if it did not worked. Given it a purpose. Which is both wholesome, and inspiring! So keep that in consideration!
As I really deeply admire how truly "meaty" this entire foundation is. There's more in the horizon to see. And even as a bystander. I will try to see what I can do. That, or simply enjoy what happens next!
I just finish this game and trying to look for ARG and then this came up. Thanks
It must have been hellish editing this much. Excellent video.
That was a wonderful summary of everything, thank you so much. I'm fascinated by the Mullenverse but I just don't have the time to dig into these things myself anymore. Wonderfully done.
However, on qq. Your video doesn't quite answer the question what the Karnoffel Code actually is. Like... the hidden images and the stuff we see at the very end of the game that makes Luke go insane. Is there anything more about what actually IS this Code?
The images at the end were of Barry Wilkinson, Kaycee, the log.txt that was decoded, and other locations (that I don’t know much about). As for the Karnoffel Code, I probably forgot to mention it, but it’s essentially some kind of evil code that wound up being used by GameFuna to grant sentience to the characters of Inscryption.
I was more focused on the ARG stuff at the moment, so I didn’t really get into it as much as I probably should’ve. There’s a ton of discussion about what it is in the Daniel Mullins Games discord if you were wanting to learn more though
@@Flemmonade Thanks. Yeah, I figured there wasn't much "more" to it anymore (yet) but thanks for your reply and for all your effort. I had already joined the Discord, but those huge servers often overwhelm me, haha.
Inscryption is already my GOTY for now, and getting all the nitty gritty bits from your video gave me even more enjoyment, so thanks!
Amazing work! I'm glad to have spent the time to watch this. It's incredible how you made such a long yet cohesive video.
35:05 Yep. Polish without polish exclusive letters. Although it looks more like english to polish translation, rather than an actual polish text. Mostly because of use of word "okładka" instead of "przykrywka" as a translation of "cover". Since "okładka" means a cover of a book, while "przykrywka" means a cover of a buisness.
You're fun to listen to. You just sound friendly and personable. You talk in a way that's full of personality. I love that.
Just FYI after finding this randomly the up/down bar "|" is called a pipe in coding.
Love the video.
As an audio engineer I was really entertained by your enthusiasm for spectrum analysers.
for the second morse code, i think its safe to say you were doing smth wrong by looking at the audio when its about the light flashes being in dots (short flash) and dashes (long flashes) just like the written version
This video was so great! Just finished the game and was dying to dig into all the secrets and ARG stuff. Love how you walked through each stage and recreated the discovery yourself.
Please do a hex video!
before i even knew about this entire ARG and stuff, I found the log in act III of Julius Seastar, and found the reddit account, thinking it was all an elaborate easter egg. If only i knew how deep it went lmao.
It's pretty endearing to see you fumble around a little while explaining. Pretty pleasant to watch.
Also for the Blood Letterbox:
Take a good look at the basic shape of the symbol of the blood altar of the bone lord...
yep...good old 4:3 monitor (so letterbox mode for 16:9 monitor)
Ohhh that's a nice point! My explanation for it was kinda off the cuff, and the reasoning I gave was the first thing I thought of
"Here comes the jumpscare" - Amazon prime commercial starts playing. Oh god my heart!
There's actually a hint at the fact that P03 is in control from the beginning and pretending not to be (which lines up with the secret ending), as there's a random jumpscare that can happen during act 1 where the leshy uberbot shows up and takes your photo.
Do you happen to know where to find footage of this? Quick googling/searching on YT gives me nothing
This video is gives me nostalgia for old TH-cam in the best way possible. Thank you for the wholesome content and good video!
my friend helped with the translation. Something worth noting, the polish isn't actually real polish. It's more like if you chucked the english version into google translate. The original translation referred to the 8ft russian as a "russian with an 8ft rise"
Thank you so much for this breakdown! Was trying to read about it but this makes it so much easier to understand. It’s seriously so fascinating, love this game, thank you again!
please do more arg content I'm also curious about the other args from Daniels previous games :)
after this, fez and animal well, i think a developer can make any kind of insane arg/puzzle and the community will solve it in a month.
Oh my gosh i was waiting for this!
The comprehensive explanation you give in this video is really well-done. I am thoroughly impressed. It's not easy to make palatable something so complicated. Subscribed.