Portal 2. Reboot GLaDOS for earlier release!

mynameisguido

Sir Platypus wrote: »

Alright, too burned out right now to continue playing games. I don't think Toki Tori is really something that was meant to be played for many hours at a time.

It is a neat little game, but yes, this is true. That's the part where I think the ARG falls down the most---somehow award people for what they do in game as opposed to simple time spent.

That's why tons of people are likely just idling at this point.

CheesecakeRecipe

I want Cave Johnson to pitch me every idea his company has ever created. I would pay for a Cave Johnson simulation game.

Winky

Wait guys...

J. K. Simmons...

Just Kidding Simmons...

Portal 2 is actually just a joke and it's not going to be released. Instead on Tuesdays we'll be offered a buy-one-get-one free Mountain Dew coupon.

Aumni

Winky wrote: »

Wait guys...

J. K. Simmons...

Just Kidding Simmons...

Portal 2 is actually just a joke and it's not going to be released. Instead on Tuesdays we'll get another countdown to where we are offered a buy-one-get-one free Mountain Dew coupon.

Had to edit your post there slightly.

Just got all the Defense Grid Potatoes, so much crazy nonsense going on for this ARG.

Alegis

Better find out which portal 2 character you are while we wait!

http://www.thinkwithportals.com/coop_survey.php

Your Aperture Science Cooperative Testing Type is:
Weighted Companion Cube

Stalwart and dependable, you're always willing to give a friend the shirt off your back, a shoulder to cry on, or a step up. Compatible cooperative test partners include shirtless people who can't stop crying while they use you as stairs.

<3

The Count Of Midget Fisto

Your Aperture Science Cooperative Testing Type is:
Cave Johnson

You don't see crises-only challengitunities you choose to scale like mountains. You're a can-do, shoot-from-the-hip, silver-tongued self-starter. You're a good match for any cooperative test partner, providing they shut up and listen.

I like it.

CarbonFire

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

Where's that HL2 "I want to believe" image when you need it?

I really, really do.

Just_Bri_Thanks

So Toki Tori is about done, and it looks like the most apparent target afterwards is Bit.Trip Beat.

chiasaur11

edit: i think portal 2 looks like a fun game

Me too. GLaDOS is my second favorite AI after SHODAN.

No room in your heart for Durandal?

He ain't no slouch, pal.

Gandalf_the_Crazed

I hope the last fight in Ep3 involves killing an Advisor with the crowbar.

Toldo

Did Valve choose what order we should complete these games in? Killing Floor has had more CPUs than any other game since the countdown launched.

mynameisguido

The speed at which they complete has to do with how many bought copies there are, thus some complete faster than others.

Edit: Although, I still don't see how KF is going to get completed on time based on how slow it's going.

undeinPirat

Toldo wrote: »

Did Valve choose what order we should complete these games in? Killing Floor has had more CPUs than any other game since the countdown launched.

thats almost certainly because it just has a larger normal playerbase than all of these more indie games and its just people who would be playing it anyways playing it

Athenor

Toldo wrote: »

Did Valve choose what order we should complete these games in? Killing Floor has had more CPUs than any other game since the countdown launched.

The theory is weakest to hardest, as relatively speaking each game contributes the same overall % to the bar. By doing the easier ones, the date gets moved forward. More bang for your buck, essentially.

Rorus Raz

There's a few reasons:

1) If we fail to fill all bars, we at least got a bit of bump at the end.
2) We had no idea what filling a bar did at the beginning, so a fast one was a wise choice to better plot our approach.
3) Now that we know what filling a bar does, the difference hasn't been too great to focus on a big game.
4) Big games are popular, and thus will fill better on their own than the smaller games.
5) By the time we do the big games, we'll have more potatoes and get more mileage out of them.

Alphagaia

Wow, the potatocount is really flying up.

LittleBoots

Alphagaia wrote: »

Wow, the potatocount is really frying up.

ftfy :winky:

Tamin

what does ftfy mean?

chiasaur11

Tamin wrote: »

what does ftfy mean?

Fixed that for you.

Alphagaia

Tamin wrote: »

what does ftfy mean?

I dont know but I just turned my oven to make some ovenfries thx to this.

\\EDIT: ow, fixed that for you.

EDIT EDIT: damn it.

Dyvion

Tamin wrote: »

what does fixed that for you mean?

ftfy.

Spoiler:

You people. I can't believe that wasn't done already.

Tamin

Ah, gotcha.

Thanks.

@Dyvion: recursive humor, I like that

HappylilElf

Ok, I think I am burned out on indie games for awhile

Decius

So as it stands right now the countdown is a ballpark 36 hours.

That put's the release around early morning Tuesday.

Isn't that practically when the game is going to be released anyhow?

So what is the point of all this again?

Raiden333

Decius wrote: »

So as it stands right now the countdown is a ballpark 36 hours.

That put's the release around early morning Tuesday.

Isn't that practically when the game is going to be released anyhow?

So what is the point of all this again?

To add an extension to Valve's Scrooge-McDuck-Money-Pool

One Thousand Dicks

Decius wrote: »

So as it stands right now the countdown is a ballpark 36 hours.

That put's the release around early morning Tuesday.

Isn't that practically when the game is going to be released anyhow?

So what is the point of all this again?

Play a lot of indie games, maybe get Portal 2 early.

chipman

Decius wrote: »

So as it stands right now the countdown is a ballpark 36 hours.

That put's the release around early morning Tuesday.

Isn't that practically when the game is going to be released anyhow?

So what is the point of all this again?

Actually, I'm using the script that was posted here earlier, which predicts the release as roughly 24 hours from now (the 36 is just the release if we don't fill the bars and goes down a little each time one game is done).

It's not much of an improvement, but it's something.

Decius

Raiden333 wrote: »

Decius wrote: »

So as it stands right now the countdown is a ballpark 36 hours.

That put's the release around early morning Tuesday.

Isn't that practically when the game is going to be released anyhow?

So what is the point of all this again?

To add an extension to Valve's Scrooge-McDuck-Money-Pool

OK I thought there was something deeper to this. It's a rather shallow rabbit hole.

Toldo

Decius wrote: »

So as it stands right now the countdown is a ballpark 36 hours.

That put's the release around early morning Tuesday.

Isn't that practically when the game is going to be released anyhow?

So what is the point of all this again?

I think we're all holding out for some dramatic speed increase.

Entriech

I think of all the bars that need to finish in the next 40 hours, Amnesia may have the most trouble. Just because it's not a game that people really sit in and play like say, Killing Floor, or Audiosurf.

Actually I think Audiosurf will finish up without any focus from the community, it's got so many constant players. Though I can't fathom why, I never thought it was terribly good at syncing up against the music you give it.

Kudos to this sale by Valve, though. I'd have never played Killing Floor otherwise, and that seems like a right proper fun game.

Anyone else have any undiscovered gems that cropped up from exposure to this pack?

Toldo

Oh, and also:

Kick it --> Aaaaaa = 9 hours
Aaaa --> Rush = 7 hours
Rush --> Cogs = 6:15 hours
Cogs --> Toki Tori = 5:20 hours

Is this anything?

Nakatomi2010

I'm still figuring we'll either see it tonight after 9pm or Monday night.

Tonight is a bit tricky as it would imply someone at Valve flipping a switch, and we all know no one wants to work on the weekend. Monday night seems more plausible as it would mean they've had the day to figure out their game plan for dealing with bugs and such.

Should be interesting I doubt all this work will result in Tuesday morning vs. night. At the very least we're going to get it Monday.

Zek

If there's no potato-related boost or something, I would be very surprised if all the games get finished at this rate. Once Bit Trip Beat is done, there will be nothing but vastly slower games left to finish. Killing Floor alone will take an eternity even if everybody focuses on it. If all we get is the reductions to the countdown then it might not be released before early Tuesday morning, which is a wash for me since I won't get to play it until Tuesday night anyway. The only other real hope is that the slower games chop off considerably more time from the countdown.

Raiden333

Zek wrote: »

If there's no potato-related boost or something, I would be very surprised if all the games get finished at this rate. Once Bit Trip Beat is done, there will be nothing but vastly slower games left to finish. Killing Floor alone will take an eternity even if everybody focuses on it. If all we get is the reductions to the countdown then it might not be released before early Tuesday morning, which is a wash for me since I won't get to play it until Tuesday night anyway. The only other real hope is that the slower games chop off considerably more time from the countdown.

There are 4 options I see.

1. A speed boost will occur at 70%. I'm not entirely sure why I see this being said everywhere, but it seems to be a popular theory.

2. A speed boost will occur at 500k potatoes. But then, we've been saying the same thing about every round number of potatoes.

3. Each bar completed speeds up the rest at a geometric rate, so that by the time we get to Killing Floor, it'll only take an hour or so.

4. GG, Valve. G fucking G.

Dark Raven X

^I think option 3 is a given - every bar has filled faster than the one before it.

Alegis

That's because you have people playing the games regardless of what the current arg focus is, and the number of potatoes has only gone up.

Nakatomi2010

I'm more curious to see what happens when we hit 7 games completed. That would put us at 50% completion of the potato sack. Not all that impressive, but still interesting.

Tamin

Has anyone been keeping tabs on the source of the page? I meant to get a before-and-after on Toki finishing, but didn't grab it in time.

As of ~5 minutes ago, I saw this:
var g_originalEstimate = 140656 + ( Math.round( new Date().getTime() / 1000 ) );
var g_updatedEstimate = 122767 + ( Math.round( new Date().getTime() / 1000 ) );
with a potato count of 416,122

Maybe a minute ago, it had changed to this:
var g_originalEstimate = 140356 + ( Math.round( new Date().getTime() / 1000 ) );
var g_updatedEstimate = 122467 + ( Math.round( new Date().getTime() / 1000 ) );
with the same potatoes.

Nakatomi, we're already more than 50% of the way there.

Nakatomi2010

We're 50% on the release bar sure, but only 6 of 13 games are complete. I'm curious about 7 out of 13 cames complete. Would put us at 50% of the game completing.

That progress bar up top is a lie since, technically, we're past 50% of time to the release date since this whole shindig started. So of course that bar is positive thinking inducing.

surrealitycheck

This is really pretty shit

I was expecting some awesomeness steam

so far this has not been awesome