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Sorry, I should have specified; I didn't mean in-game.
The coordinates of the three islands are F-7, G-16, and Y-3...can we do anything with this as far as ciphers go?
Conversely, maybe the author and/or any of the people he interviewed have something hidden in the words of the article.
Sea of Thieves has launched The Hoarder's Hunt. The new Mystery will take players across in the internet in search of clues, and there's a real-life golden skull to be won.
Looking at the deciphered image above and trying to maintain tabs on the discord and Reddit... Could something be hidden in one of these promotional images from the article on Xbox Wire? I may be stabbing at straws here
Just to update this, from what I gather, Xbox had one article published that day:
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is an exciting moment for Xbox to recognize the importance of accessibility, celebrate the players and developers with disabilities that are part of our vibrant, global gaming community, and highlight recent accessibility work at Xbox. To meet the needs of over...
Among the things Xbox highlights surrounding their accessibility programs, they talk about different filters we can apply to any game to make it more accessible for any given player. They specifically mention "Spatial Audio Support."
Any possibility we need to play with the audio of the "A Message From H" video to find a hidden recording?
@likeablebore362
The black screen at the end lasts for twenty seconds. If we can backlight the video with filters, there may be a message hidden underneath!
@figmentation743 There appear to be a large number of random letters and numbers hidden in the image, although whether that's a coincidence is difficult to determine.
@orion-aerospace said in Mystery [Mega Thread]:
@figmentation743 There appear to be a large number of random letters and numbers hidden in the image, although whether that's a coincidence is difficult to determine.
Pls give image
@likeablebore362 said in Mystery [Mega Thread]:
QUICK Anyone with a YouTube membership download the "message from H" video and look to the last 20 seconds and light up the black screen with filters and record findings here.
Any updates about the message from H vid?
@likeablebore362 We are kind of, way past that if there was something it would have to do with the whole W3W.
@lucky11 I looked and found something like HYVAX30, but not sure if it leads anywhere. Those aren't all the characters either.
@interstellar963 in the article image from an early version of the game of Sanctuary Outpost, they added a parrot. If you zoom in on the image there are a group of pixels that are out of place that look like a blue X.
The hex code for the blue color is #2faced, which ends up being the code.
@interstellar963 said in Mystery [Mega Thread]:
So, how was the Mystery Solved? Would anyone mind giving a brief explanation on the steps taken, because I am still a bit confused how 2FACED was gotten.
The letter, combined with a "livestream" of parrots doing parrot things in the Tavern, led to a list of sometimes hard-to-hear words (that quickly got corrected by Rare through an official subtitle file) and a Pigpen code on a banana eaten by a parrot.
The Pigpen code translated to "whatthreewords", which is a website using words as coordinates on a map. And a Google Maps link hidden in the YouTube version of the video hinted at a map, too.
Then everybody got stuck on which three words from the parrot video to use, for at least a day or two, until "someone" (whose messages got deleted quickly thereafter) reminded discord that Rare's team did visit the Cutty Sark museum on video, once, and that maybe, if a pirate wanted to get things moving along, they should take a look there and make sure to look 360 ° around them.
Rapidly, someone found out that three particular words (turkey.goat.lives - why those three, who knows ?) lead to the Cutty Sark museum through what3words, and then, looking at user-added content in 360° pics on google maps for this particular location, they found a turkey, a goat, and a parrot on a board with another PigPen to another bit.ly link.
There, there was an encoded parchment, and using the shanty clue from the original letter, pirates realized said parchment was the We Shall Sail Together shanty encoded phonetically, and the last line, once decoded that way, read "Xbox Wire marks the spot".
People then looked at the recent Xbox Wire publication re: the treasure hunt, where Rare had added a parrot on a picture, and when they looked at said image at the pixel level, they noticed a small blue X, with said blue being color-coded 2faced.
There you go. The more detailed walkthrough version with pics is on Rarethief (except the part where clearly, someone nudged the players in the right direction at the what3words stage, but everybody is pretending it didn't happen).
EDIT : others were faster than me, and more concise. Oh well.
Sea of Thieves’ New Mystery Aims to Be ‘The Ultimate Treasure Hunt’, With a Real-Life Golden Skull on Offer - Xbox Wire
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