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Cyborg771
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 		Surgeon Simulator 2013 Puzzle
previously "[TRAILHEAD?] Another Valve ARG?"
Hey everyone, I'm new here, only lurked before. There's some rumors floating around of another ARG from Valve, the company behind games like Portal and Half Life.

First there was an update to their game Half Life 2 that broke the language options setting everything to Korean: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=603896

Valve wrote this off as a mistake on their part and quickly fixed it. Today it was noticed that another game, Surgeon Simulator 2013, which features cameos from two Valve characters, featured korean writing on the bottom of a statue of one of those characters along with a map of the solar system: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=606131

Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up.

~~~~~ Changed title to reflect new info ~ Pixie

PostPosted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 3:02 am
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 		As far as I can tell, there is a puzzle yes but ARG? Not all puzzle trails are ARGs. Also before anyone can say it here - I do NOT believe this is a HL3 announcement, goofballs.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:49 am
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Amelić
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 		Steam support released this on twitter

https://twitter.com/Steam_Support/status/349989979734278145

Quote:
PSA: HL2 and EP1/EP2/Lost Coast are being converted to SteamPipe today. This isn't an ARG, just STEAMPIPE: http://ow.ly/mpRK1


So unless they are really lying or trying deter people off it, no its not a ARG

PostPosted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:27 pm
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ginji
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Amelić wrote:
Steam support released this on twitter

https://twitter.com/Steam_Support/status/349989979734278145

Quote:
PSA: HL2 and EP1/EP2/Lost Coast are being converted to SteamPipe today. This isn't an ARG, just STEAMPIPE: http://ow.ly/mpRK1


So unless they are really lying or trying deter people off it, no its not a ARG


What does the Korean translate to, anyway? For curiosity's sake.

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Amelić
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ginji wrote:
Amelić wrote:
Steam support released this on twitter

https://twitter.com/Steam_Support/status/349989979734278145

Quote:
PSA: HL2 and EP1/EP2/Lost Coast are being converted to SteamPipe today. This isn't an ARG, just STEAMPIPE: http://ow.ly/mpRK1


So unless they are really lying or trying deter people off it, no its not a ARG


What does the Korean translate to, anyway? For curiosity's sake.


The Korean in surgeon simulator says "Time" or more specifically "Time is"

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ginji
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Amelić wrote:
ginji wrote:
Amelić wrote:
Steam support released this on twitter

https://twitter.com/Steam_Support/status/349989979734278145

Quote:
PSA: HL2 and EP1/EP2/Lost Coast are being converted to SteamPipe today. This isn't an ARG, just STEAMPIPE: http://ow.ly/mpRK1


So unless they are really lying or trying deter people off it, no its not a ARG


What does the Korean translate to, anyway? For curiosity's sake.


The Korean in surgeon simulator says "Time" or more specifically "Time is"
What about the Half Life?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:46 pm
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RoryF
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 		The steam support tweet translation is...Prepare for unexpected results

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ifryan
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 		http://kotaku.com/how-a-game-made-people-think-half-life-3-would-be-relea-635457349

Sorry to break the bad news.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 1:42 am
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ginji
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 		Surgeon Simulator 2013 Puzzle


People gave up on this puzzle a long time ago, but I think we can do it. We've done it before.

This came as a prize for beating the Surgeon Sim 2013: Meet The Medic TF2 update.

All that can be assumed right now is that the center line is symbol for the solar system.

~~~~~ Merged threads - there was already had one started for this, which you knew because you posted in it. ~ Pixie Ginji thinky you're just being sassy.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:44 pm
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 		Well, if it goes left to right and starts with the Sun (the only way I can see it, with the sizes) that means the arrow's pointing from Saturn. Fits with the spaces on the top of the paper, and it seems they're pointing out the first two letters, which are Sa...thought that might be an element symbol, but I can't find anything for it.

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draghkar
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 		found the following on the large interweb..

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http:/ /i.imgur.com/xrenLAE.jpg


this might help.. although the mentioned date is already gone..

also, the following from another site:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Indeed it's an ARG, but I'm afraid it doesn't have anything to do with a Valve game. It's a key piece of an upcoming update to Surgeon Simulator, and the info found there is relevant to the puzzle — we just had no idea it could have been read in such a broad way to fit so many theories!
Hope this helps, and sorry for the trouble.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:29 am
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the D
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RAD24 wrote:
Well, if it goes left to right and starts with the Sun (the only way I can see it, with the sizes) that means the arrow's pointing from Saturn. Fits with the spaces on the top of the paper, and it seems they're pointing out the first two letters, which are Sa...thought that might be an element symbol, but I can't find anything for it.



the pronunciation of Sa in Korean is the number 4 if i remember correctly.

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ginji
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Bossa Studios is sending this Post Card to anyone who sends one to them. There are a couple oddities within it:


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