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| − | == A Code In the Sky ==
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| − | On the developer livestream that happened on August 3rd, Jeff Kaplan and other members of the dev team were asked about the compass ([https://www.twitch.tv/fairlight_excalibur/v/81627432?t=00h23m46s video]) ([https://youtu.be/itkhuDOeE6Q?t=21m15s mirror]):
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| − | "I'm being told to ask you guys about the compass. Are you allowed to make any comments on that?"
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| − | "The compass." "The compass?" "The compass? That sounds like deep CIA level stuff. Way above our heads."
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| − | The phrase "above our heads" led solvers to look towards the sky. They found that on the Dorado map, looking directly up at the sky would reveal this [http://imgur.com/8ZWMjIX image] after some editing. Even more visible images are [http://imgur.com/a/LQ8PK available here], the bottom two pictures have been "unwrapped" to be a square. This pattern was not visible in previous updates.
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| − | It is confirmed that the code in the sky is not a regular ShotCode, since a regular ShotCode can only contain 40 bits of data, and the code we are seeing in the sky is atleast 128 bytes big. It is also not an Annular Barcode since those need to have a [http://www.fhnw.ch/technik/imvs/publikationen/artikel-2015/fokusreport-stamm startpoint], which ours does not.
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| − | == Flight Times Board ==
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| − | Players also took use of the developer quote of "Way above our heads." as possible hint to the [http://imgur.com/QodZGda flight board in Numbani.]
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| − | Many attempts to correlate it to usable data have been proven inconclusive.
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| − | One of the attempts was to try an ADFGVX cipher on the flight number prefixes, to try to see if any pertinent data was available. Nothing has been recovered from the cipher.
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| − | Another attempt was to map out [http://i.imgur.com/hB3oI9D.jpg all of the locations] listed on the flight board, but nothing has come out of that yet.
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Revision as of 00:59, 12 August 2016
