ARG
| “ | “好吧，这看起来不太妙...额...”
点击试听 （英语）
— The Scout attempting to solve puzzles
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侵入式虚拟现实互动游戏 (ARG) 是一种需要参与者在现实中与其互动的解谜游戏。
目录
纵火狂更新
第一日
TF2在2012年6月19日，不放出任何官方补丁说明的情况下进行了更新。在2012年6月19日补丁中，以下饰品被加入掉落系统中：金鱼、口袋棉絮、圆盘奶酪、香蕉皮、谷仓门框、秘密日记及几近熔化的电容。所有物品均可由掉落获得，但无法通过开箱获得。
第二日
在第二天， TF2更新了2012年6月20日补丁。在本次更新之后，所有装备了智勇神探套装的玩家将可以在看到19日更新中加入的物品的隐藏简介。隐藏简介随机的一部分内容将会被句号替换，这使得所有玩家看到的简介都将有所不同。
| 物品 | 隐藏解决 |
|---|---|
 金鱼 |
'想像一下' |
 口袋棉絮 |
'...这些...' |
 圆盘奶酪 |
'在...隐秘地发生...' |
 香蕉皮 |
'...发生...' |
 谷仓门框 |
'...年复一年...' |
 秘密日记 |
'凶残邪恶的行径' |
 被击穿的电容 |
' 在这种地方...' |
将这些句子拼凑在一起后，将会得出这句话：
| “ | 想像一下这些凶残邪恶的行径，在这种地方隐秘地发生，年复一年，无人知晓。
— 出自福尔摩斯办案记-“红桦庄探案”
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Day 3
An update to the item schema added new records to the Eliminating The Impossible set attribute, consisting of 8 MD5 hash strings:
| Record | Value |
|---|---|
| md5_388_1 | 9e86c9d1ba461d7c3b84ea4bac11b921 |
| md5_388_2 | f2629207217ce651f1a76ce33346d4c8 |
| md5_388_3 | 5d1a66650820b260b043443137c23dc5 |
| md5_388_4 | 0361ca75733f3c21f4ba4ae216e92155 |
| md5_388_5 | a0370078eaafd706e75e6a2a45b5678f |
| md5_388_6 | 0a009353adac7c721d8b4a188a9f8517 |
| md5_388_7 | 6f1d22a53f398fd4404b7fc9d7b1f356 |
| md5_388_8 | eae894257e8b1502807a3a94fd2fcc1c |
The 2012年6月21日补丁 added the ability to craft two or more Banana Peels together. This resulted in an error message; its header detailing a "Banana Error # (1-8)". The body of the message is in Spanish followed by Finnish roughly translated as "Banana Overflow Error; Detailed Report:". A numbered code follows comprised of a string of hexadecimal sequences. The sequences vary from player to player even among messages with the same Banana Error number. The dismiss button is replaced with its equivalent in Welsh. Crafting the items does not result in the loss of them, and any further attempts to craft them will result in the same error message.
An example of an error message received when crafting two Banana Peels together
Several communities, began collecting the unique error codes and sites and piecing the data together. It was discovered that the 8 error codes correspond to 8 different PNG images, with the hexadecimal codes corresponding to data chunks of the resulting image. The MD5 hash strings served to act as checksums for verifying the images are assembled correctly. The resulting images produce QR codes that linked to images on the TF2 Official Website; there are only seven such images as the codes produced by PNG images 7 and 8 are the same and link to the same page. The images contain sections of a transcript, divided vertically. The completed transcript contains an excerpt of a U.S. Senate hearing featuring Saxton Hale over the death of Poopy Joe and Saxton Hale's involvement with it as well as the disappearance of the entire United States supply of Australium.
The final stitched image from the images linked to by the QR codes
QR codes
| Error code | QR code image | Output |
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| 1 | 
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Link |
| 2 | 
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Link |
| 3 | 
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Link |
| 4 | 
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Link |
| 5 | 
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Link |
| 6 | 
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Link |
| 7 | 
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Link |
| 8 | 
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Link |
Day 4
On 22 June 2012, 15:00 PDT, a mysterious blog post[1] was written by the Pyro. This corresponds to the text on the Damaged Capacitor which reads '6.22V1500', giving a time and date of 6/22/12 15:00 PDT (the time zone in which Valve resides). The post reads:
"Mmmmph mmmmph, mmmmm mmmmmp mmmmmph. Mmmmmph mpm! Mmmmmph mph mm! Hm mmmmmph, hmmmmph mm mmmmmph mmmmmph!"
Replacing the long words with dashes and the short words with dots reveals a message in Morse code.
–– ––– –• –•• •– –•–– M O N D A Y
The following Monday, the Pyromania Update was announced.
Note: The 2012年6月27日补丁 incinerated the Mysterious Treasures into piles of Ash with the exception of the renamed Barely-Melted Capacitor and the Fireproof Secret Diary which retained their appearance. The 2012年7月11日补丁 removed the Ash, again skipping over the Diary and the Capacitor.
Mann vs. Machine
Day 1
On August 10, 2012, a bloodstain appeared on the site logo on the TF2 blog, which led to a hidden page containing the birth certificate of the previously unknown third Mann brother, Gray Mann. It is stated that he absconded with the unknown entity 'EAGLE'.
Birth certificate accessed from the link
The 2012年8月10日补丁 added Carrier tanks to 2Fort, Badwater Basin, Doublecross, and Granary. They can be seen in the distance standing motionless.
Day 2
On August 11, 2012, a second bloodstain appeared on the site logo, this time leading to a hidden page containing the now fully revealed last will of Zepheniah Mann. The missing lines disclose that he was being blackmailed by his son Gray and, in response, Zepheniah left Elizabeth his hidden cache of 'miracle' gravel.
The unobscured Last Will and Testament of Zepheniah Mann
The previously obscured will introduced during the 2009 Haunted Hallowe'en Special
In the 2012年8月11日补丁, the Barely-Melted Capacitor was updated to be equippable and several class-specific hashes were added to the Item schema.
| Record | Value |
|---|---|
| scout_md5_314 | 40119059ad74854a84f78a102fb6048d |
| soldier_md5_516 | 5f99cc6e57a84e6c52f6df772196a7ef |
| pyro_md5_323 | a8a7188d6911026801eb1a6279d7f0b9 |
| demo_md5_372 | 1c2594a0d12aba24d304487742205f04 |
| heavy_md5_308 | 2eb157506d8ca40c919541741b04d432 |
| medic_md5_328 | 6c5d3d7ea48af4c8ceb8eb801c65de84 |
| engineer_md5_500 | 928b4eba739114893aff40614aa74b17 |
| sniper_md5_276 | 6aa6787bc62adcd3d646164c9b68f026 |
| spy_md5_65 | 5696492788ca11dd2f1eaa9f5294e3d2 |
When high-fiving a player who has equipped the Barely-Melted Capacitor, text will be printed to the chat box. Each player can see three unique messages, depending on the class of the other person.
The text takes the form of this sample output (Text in italics varies from person to person):
Medic says: Did you hear the story from 1252 where Destruction PDA, Buzz Killer, Something Special for Someone Special, Ubersaw, Cowardly Mound, Crate, Buzz Killer, Frying Pan, and the Administrator walked into a bar?
The class listed in the text represents a sequence of data that corresponds with one of the MD5 checksums, and the items and characters listed in the text represent a subsequence of that sequence. The number corresponds to the position of the subsequence. An in-game example.
After several communities collected the outputs from high-fiving with a capacitor, the item names were mapped to hex codes. It was found that each class's outputs formed various file formats; The Scout, Pyro, Heavy, and Medic corresponded to a png file, the Soldier to a bmp file, the Demoman to a zip file, the Engineer to a text file containing C++ code, the Sniper to a MIDI file, and the Spy to a link that led to a zip file containing a KeePass key file. The image files were QR codes, the zip file contained ASCII art, the MIDI contained morse code, and the C++ code outputted text. It was found that these words corresponded to hex using the PGP word list.
Class Outputs
| Class | Output |
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| Scout | scout.png |
| Soldier | soldier.bmp |
| Pyro | pyro.png |
| Demoman | Demoman.zip |
| Heavy | heavy.png |
| Engineer | C++ code |
| Medic | medic.png |
| Sniper | Sniper.mid |
| Spy | Spy.kdbx |
PGP word list mapping
| Class | Format | PGP Word | Even/Odd | Hex |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scout | PNG | Adult | Even | 05 |
| Soldier | BMP | Councilman | Odd | 3B |
| Pyro | PNG | Baboon | Even | 14 |
| Demoman | ZIP | Apollo | Odd | 0A |
| Heavy | PNG | Goldfish | Even | 05 |
| Engineer | C++ Code | Resistor | Odd | C5 |
| Medic | PNG | Goggles | Even | 6D |
| Sniper | MIDI | Unicorn | Odd | EC |
| Spy | Keypass Database | N/A | N/A | N/A |
The password to the Spy's keypass database was the previous class's numeric byte values strung together in order, 053B140A6EC56DEC. The file contained an image of a QR code, which when XOR-ed with the other QR code images led to this link.
The link contained an image describing a recipe of 8 items, which, when crafted together, caused a system-wide alert in-game, notifying players that a new comic, Blood Brothers, was available.
In the aforementioned recipe list image, the letters T, O, B, O and R are visibly stained by blood; this forms the word "TOBOR". There is also a Tour of Duty Ticket stuck to the back with a paper clip.
The recipe from ARG 2 Day 2. The letters covered by blood spell "TOBOR", "ROBOT" spelled backwards.
The system-wide alert from ARG 2 Day 2, in-game. It appeared along with this sound.
The same text, but from the main menu.
Day 3
On August 12, a blog post entitled Blood Brothers went live, announcing that the ARG had been completed. The post said that Valve expected the comic with the same name to be discovered in a couple of weeks, and not twelve hours, as it turned out. A link to the comic was also included in the post.
Day 4
On August 13, the Mann vs. Machine update was officially announced.[1]
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