So today there was an update for Portal....the update news states the following:

Odd, yes, but it doesn't end there. In every challenge there is now a radio hidden. If you get the radio and take it to a certain spot in the challenge static interrupts and morse code starts playing:

http://www.xfire.com/video/2369a0/

On TOP of the morse code, there's also some new audio as well, including some weird science-y stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f7Iw3YMslc

as well as a new voice who ISN'T GlaDOs. Actually sounds like a slightly modified MSSam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksbyi40PqaI

And then there's "dinosaur_fizzle", a new sound which is borderline TERRIFYING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3uog2tKAQ

What is going on? Something big- that's for sure...I doubt they'd do something like this willy-nilly two years after initial release!

Keep up to date here:

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=902479

and here:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1168990


EDIT: Apparently if you somehow convert the morse code to images you actually get stills from what appears to be aperture science cameras.

dinosaur2 - http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2862/dino2.png
dinosaur3 - http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/5395/dino3.png
dinosaur4 - http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8126/dino4.png
dinosaur6 - http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/474/dino6t.png
dinosaur7 - http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/804/dino7.png
dinosaur8 - http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4015/dino8.png
dinosaur9 - http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/1900/dino9z.png
dinosaur10 - http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6002/dino10.png
dinosaur11 - http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5893/dino11.png
dinosaur13 - http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/2015/dino13.png
dinosaur14 - http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6633/dino14.png
dinosaur15 - http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/2716/dino15.png
dinosaur16 - http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3671/dino16.png
dinosaur18 - http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/5874/dino18.png
dinosaur19 - http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8443/dino19.png
dinosaur20 - http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/8295/dino20.png
dinosaur21 - http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6334/dino21.png
dinosaur22 - http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6657/dino22.png
dinosaur23 - http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/4641/dino23.png
dinosaur24 - http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1385/dino24.png
dinosaur25 - http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4139/dino25.png
dinosaur26 - http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3913/dino26.png

Edited by Teej on March 1, 2010 at 19:18:52.

Dooble poost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8iKolbkxA&feature=sub

They added a new ending to the game today. Has what sounds to be a male version of GLADoS saying "Thank you for assuming the party escort transmission position" before dragging you off.

I have this feeling single player will remain isolated. They confirmed that the co-op mode is an entirely different story altogether, so I think they'll take the opportunity to throw some characters your way through that.

By the sounds of it they're also going for a full retail release, which is fine by me- Portal was an amazing game, but even if you had no idea what you were doing you could still clear it in two hours (and I can say this with confidence since I literally did beat it in two hours, I haven't touched it since I got it....two days ago, lol)


Edited by Teej on March 5, 2010 at 23:15:43.

I liked portal, couldn't beat it myself though. I'm not a puzzle person so I just let one of my friends beat it (and in exchange I did pretty much everything for them on their Wii RE4).

I'd definitely check out Portal 2 though. The first gave a promising first, if small, step forward towards a great new series, but I doubt they'd completely blow off single player. Valve has been known to pretty much excel on all aspects of their games, granted most of their games have either been single player or multi and (as far as I can recall) never both. Still, I doubt Valve would let themselves do a half-ass job.

Maybe they'll just delay it like almost everything else.