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JonahFalcon
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Assassin's Creed 2 http://assassinscreed.us.ubi.com/assassins-creed-2/teaser/
Clicking on the Animus logo on the left brings a screen that just screams "SOLVE ME!!!"
And this is just strange:
http://static2.cdn.ubi.com/emea/gamesites/assassinscreed/teaser/pdf/us/artifact_efbui.pdf
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:25 am
phyzix
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Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 231 Location: Florida
looks interesting. According to the last part of the video, where you see the image of the circle, it wants us to look in game informer magazine on 4/16/09.
The letters are backwards. I can read backwards but some people might need a mirror to understand what it says.
Also, it is making a lot of references to Da Vinci who used to write backwards in his journal. The drawing of the man with the knife contraption looks a lot like something Da Vinci would draw. An then there is of course the Vitruvian Man.
EDIT: i just remembered that Project Abraham put its trailhead in Game Informer Magazine. Maybe it's the same company?
EDIT 2: That second link http://static2.cdn.ubi.com/emea/gamesites/assassinscreed/teaser/pdf/us/artifact_efbui.pdf wants us to print out the image and put it infront of a webcam to access the first file. I don't have a printer so can someone do this and let us know what happens?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:47 am
Harry Miste
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Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 25 Location: Santa Destroy
It says
Game Informer 04.16.09
Description
SEEKRITS
Filesize
120.67KB
Viewed
70 Time(s)
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:03 am
snorkle256
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Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 631 Location: West Central Wisconsin
im using screen camera to reroute a section of my screen containing the efbui artifact
seems to recognize it as a camera but nothing happens
eta: maybe the stream is blocked on my end, but lookup screencamera trial to try it out
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:20 am
thebruce
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Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6776 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
I've also got it, but it's not recognizing the symbol...
eta: "efbui" shift -1 alphabet = "death"
eta2: the five tabs on the left =
death hero upgrade anatomy fly
eta3: I've also tried regular webcam, with the symbol flipped, rotated, and inverted (b/w), haven't seen anything...
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:26 am
Talaisan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 133 Location: Billings, MT
Bah, beaten to the punch. I hop online to look for game cheats, and wind up wishing I had a webcam in my pocket.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:04 am
snorkle256
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Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 631 Location: West Central Wisconsin
weird, maybe we are supposed to wait for the symbols in game informer?
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:05 am
Wulf74
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Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 648 Location: SLC, Utah
I printed the symbol off, and then by clicking on the Animus symbol above, under the M. Frag: EFBUI link it activates your webcam.
From there, hold the printed symbol up in front of the webcam - hold it very still.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It zeroes in on the symbol, and apparently it authorizes some sort of access to data. It then starts to show a few diagrams of the hidden knife the assassin uses in the first AC. I snagged some screen shots, so if anyone is interested let me know, and I'll post them.
==edit==
That seems to be about all that is available at this point. I'm guessing we have to wait for the 16th.
==edit2==
I take that back. It looks like a few others on the forums for AC2 , have figured out a bit more. For those without a webcam, someone made a few videos of the answers:
I don't think this is going to turn into anything ARGish - more just promotional. Which IMO is really too bad, I think this would make an awesome backdrop/setting for it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:31 am
Burrito
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Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 80 Location: NH
Thanks Wulf! Not having a webcam is starting to become a major inconvenience.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:53 pm
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