Ethics Gradient

Upon further review, I'm going to have to go with: CoC6eF Right at the end of the loop, the flash has slightly different effects on the wall texture and the code laid on top.

https://twitter.com/WorldofEternity/status/963880530004471808 CbC6eF ? Edit, I'm thinking that it might be a CoC6eF. Lighting effects and wall textures might give the appearance of a 'b', but that second letter better fits a lower-case 'o' in the chosen font. See later posts.

Should have a new Bestiary twitter post in a few hours. In the meantime, we just have to guess which one it will be.

It's Deadfire Wednesday, fellow codebreakers. Fire up your Enigma machines and grab some Poké Balls; the bestiary hunt continues when we get today's twitter post!

It's an oddity rooted in the code, for sure. It's been around for a long time, and solving the mystery of the exclamation marks seems to have eluded us all.

Lets not forget the most essential secret of Dwarven physiology: The Dwarf is the beard. All the fleshy bits like arms and legs just help it navigate the world and perform essential tasks like working the forge or hoisting tankards. It is truly heartbreaking to see them in such a reduced state. It can only be hoped that the developers will allow these noble kith to grow to their fullest potential.

Also, we've barely made any progress on the egalitarian nature of beards for dwarven women. Hardly seems fair that they can choose a bearded portrait if they want, but the games denies them a proper beard of their own. Right, @Umbersona?

Oof. Then we'd be in some trouble. Aside from being able to do some simple transliteral shifts from, say, Aedyran-English to Latin-English, I don't think we know enough about the base languages to do much else.

It doesn't have to be a stutter! Sometimes you just need a trained Shakespearean actor to bring a line to life. EDIT: Originally misspelled Eothas in my low-quality meme. Am suitably embarrassed, and will carry this shame eternally, or at least until tomorrow or so.

Yeah. That feels likely. Embedding random GOG codes all over the internet is an esoteric way of dropping hints, especially when none of them seem to have any bearing on the game you're trying to hype. Edit: Yeah, generated a bunch of random 6-digit codes over here, and almost all of them redeemed to some expired offer without worrying about forward/backward nonsense.

Aside from XQrdGv on the front page of UK PC Gamer, the issue also features the screenshots with RMaM4A and KFK5Lj on pages 43 and 45. I wonder what further mysteries the US edition, or other magazine features might bring us...

Holy hell. That’s awesome! Nice find!

The code is hidden on the side of the stairs by the main entrance: As far as the order goes, I can put up a list by possible published date, but the last two and the mockup image were spotted on more than one site as we were looking around. It might take a little bit of investigation to determine where and when it was published first.

Since we're on a hunt for assorted clues, figured I'd go back and take a look at some older stuff. I don't recall if the opening page in the Campaign Announcement trailer ever got a critical look, but it says something like: neato.

also: 5. Five out of eight codes were images posted by obsidian, and in all likelihood, there are seven or eight more to come.* *(Assuming a new code every Wednesday through launch) The press kit codes are cool finds, but we're probably going to have at least a dozen codes straight from the developer's own twitter accounts that were never meant to be on other sites anyway.

Thanks! I added that to the first post. I'm not sure I can ever be 100% on that lowercase 'a', but as the bestiary gif loops over and over, you eventually see enough of that glyph that it probably can't be anything else. All the codes so far have used the (awesome) Pillars in-game font called Espinosa Nova. If a letter looks a little difficult to recognize, you can always compare it to some sample strings over here.

Yes.. Yes we have! Code 8, courtesy of @ManifestedISO. RMaM4A This post has like 20 leads on it. It's our best bet since it looks like different press kits might have different codes in them. Fun times!

Fellow codeninja BeautifulBearInATutu pointed it out to me over on discord. It looks to have been part of a Deadfire press kit that was posted here: http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/Pillars_of_Eternity_II_Deadfire/ The press kit includes that image, as well as the physical mockup image with the cCedpo code that was first seen on the THQ Nordic site. Since they were both part of a press kit, and their publishing and discovery are essentially whenever, it's really going to screw up any theories that require the codes to be in a specific sequence to make sense.

Hey. Know what always makes me feel better? More mystery codes!!!! Here's number 7! KFK5Lj

Ok, I've got an informant that tells me that the cosmic dog console code doesn't look anything at all like the alphanumeric strings we've been finding. Doesn't necessarily rule out the codes working in the console, but we're not going to know for sure until release when all the assets and scripts are in place. The doggo code currently doesn't work with the beta either.

I've also been wondering if that's the case. The whole thing reminds me a little of how Bungie randomly hid emblem/shader codes all over the internet in preparation for the Destiny 1 release. It might not be some clever cipher, but there's still some fun to be had playing scavenger hunt the next two months before launch.

You probably won't have to buy anything to get the dog. I haven't quite convinced anyone to give up the full details, but the "redemption" process is just an in-game console command, not a Steam key or something similar. I'm curious to know what that secret command is, but I'm willing to wait until the issue hits the US later this month.

From the editor of PC Gamer, regarding the US release of the Deadfire issue:

For those of us unable to grab a copy of the UK edition because they live in the American Colonies, good news!

I’m really interested in the redemption method. Mysterious codes aren’t exactly in short supply; sure would be nice if we had something to do with them... https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/95782-worldofeternity-funny-business-speculation/