ARG Portal

Commonly known as the Loiste ARG, or the INFRA ARG, is an Alternate Reality Game which consists of several interconnected, extremely difficult codes and puzzles, embedded inside INFRA, Obenseuer and their game assets.

One of the developers, known under the nickname of Zuntti, is the game master of the ARG, and had responded in the past to many inquires about those puzzles and codes before or had provided hints and clues on the Loiste Community Discord.

For miscellaneous unsorted assets, please see the Unsorted ARG Assets page. For audio files, please see the ARG Audio Files page.

Outline

On 15/01/2018 at 14:18 UTC, Zuntti posted this image in the #spoilers channel of the INFRA discord server. The image's filename is "Truth.png". (https://discord.com/channels/291497857725366272/361886463425642496/402448823122788352)

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  Image of the coded notes found in the Wasteland map, with heavy red colour correction applied.

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  Brightened image

In both images, the green text COR_ORD_1_BOD_MES_2_COM_QUE_3_CON_ANS_4_WAS_?_5_PAT_? can be seen. The "correct order" is:

1. The Body message
2. The question at the Bunker computer code
3. An answer at reactor console (this could also refer to the Reactor lights code)
4. The truth at the Wasteland notes
5. Fully unknown

On the first image, the text 1. BUN_BREAKER_CEN_CONTROL_VI_OFFICE_RE_SNW can be seen, and on the second image, the text 4. What are you looking for? The right Question? The right Answer? The Right person? can be seen.

• The first text refers to the Body message and where some codes can be found. See the article for what has been solved.
• The second text refers to the Wasteland notes and gives a generic instruction what to do to solve it.

Hints

On 27/10/2017 at (?), Zuntti posted this image in the #somewhat-off-topic channel of the INFRA discord server. The image's filename is "retupmo_reknu_srette_tsri.png". (https://discord.com/channels/291497857725366272/308341591683366913/373560426275012619)

This is an image of the breaker panels in the transformer room just outside the bunker blast doors. The filename of the image is backwards, not Finnish, and says "first letters bunker computer" which gives a clue to read the first letter of each word on the bunker computer code word grid.

Works In Progress

This is a list of unsolved puzzles that are being worked on currently.

• Body message - There are still few missing/guessed words that needs to be found/confirmed.

• The tunnel of water trees book has a code on the back cover that is yet to be solved.
• Elo hideout symbols still remains unknown.

Puzzle status

Name	Description	Status	Notes	Source (exemplary)
Body code	Codes like A1, G3, etc.	In progress		needs reference
Wasteland notes	Notes with red handwritten letter-dot-number code	Solved	Related to body code	wasteland_notes_001.vtf
Letter box	Large table of letters, with rows G1 to G3 at the top	Unclear	Related to body code	scientific_table_001_skin3.vtf
Bunker computer code	Text on computer screen, with three sections (word table, body code, number-dot-numer)	Solved	Related to body code	needs reference
Pegboard	Pins and pegs in Central	Unsolved		metro_control_panel_001.vtf
Villa woodboxes	Letters and numbers carved in wood boxes	Solved		hartman_woodbox.vtf
Reactor lights code	Letters and numbers on a control panel with red and green lights	Solved		control_panel_puzzle_ultimate_alternative.vtf
Central projector morse	Morse code playing in a video	Solved		video_1.wav
Office monitor code	Matrix-like screen saver with binary data	Solved		computer_screen_skin8.vtf
Elo hideout symbols	Simple bichromatic drawings with only blue and green pens	Triage		wall_painting_001.vtf
Wasteland radio morse	Morse playing in Wasteland in a radio	Solved		wasteland_radio_001.wav
Villa paintings	Several paintings in Villa "annotated" with red paint	Unclear		villa_painting_002_skin3.vtf
Binary code under red mailbox	Says "the truth is in tunnels / Robin"	Solved		mailbox_skin2.vtf
EL93FA342A G2222	On a wall in the collapsed stairwell of Pine Fell Water Treatment Plant	Unsolved		text_random_02.vtf
"Red cod"	Short handwritten binary on a control panel	Solved	Decodes to punainen turska (red cottage)	sign_07_skin10.vtf
Keypad binary	Binary on a damaged keypad display	Solved	Decodes to NOTHING HERE YET	keypad_003.vtf
Door alarm config panel binary	binary code when overriding door alarms after the raft ride	Solved	'help me! I'm stuck in the south tunnel B2.'	control_panel_007_screens_skin1.vtf
Raven book code	Letter-dot-number code written on the back cover of a book by "Silvia H. Raven"	Unsolved	E.1 S.9 H.8 C.2	bookset_skin1.vtf
Easter egg binary code	Used only in the infra_ee_binary map	Solved	Repeats the words OTHER SIDE	binary_001.vtf
Song 4	Spectrogram containing a set of repeating symbols roughly resembling letters or numbers	Unsolved	See Letter box	strange_hallway_004.wav
Mask sound	Slowed down male voice	Solved	"Below the undergroun city ..."	mask_sound_001.wav
Table 32DGFR	A 16x10 table of codes like K345, T213, Etc. Columns are numbered GD1 to GD15.	Unsolved		scientific_table_001_skin6.vtf
bunker control panels binary	a set of 8 bit binary to ascii codes on machines in the bunker control room	solved	'what happened to AH'
bunker control screen binary	a binary code in green text on a computer screen	solved
Bill code	letters and numbers written on the money bills	triage	A1275 3356 8123 C82 Contains Zuntti's logo	bill_001.vtf
Blue screens	Randomly generated text seen on blue screens	irrelevant	Game files contain an URL to a now defunct generator site.	needs reference
Darts scoreboard	Series of numbers ending with "... 154 WIN"	Solved	"24 60 82" refers to the 24th of June 1982, specifically the British Airways Flight 9 with its 154+112-3=263 survivors.	darts.vtf
Bunker computer sound	Sounds like encoded data	irrelevant	Random sample from freesound.org	strange_bunker_computer_001.wav
Bunker Breakers	Two breakers outside the bunker blast doors containing code	Unsolved	Applying the number to Table 32DGFR first column produces: "OUR CÄT EAT NAT", which is red herring, but could mean that the table and breaker code are connected. Other possibility is "OUR CURE AT N__"	sign_14_skin5.vtf, sign_14_skin7.vtf

Status descriptions

• Triage - not clear whether it's a code at all
• Irrelevant - not a code
• Unsolved - obviously some sort of code, but no starting point on how to decode it
• Solved - the code itself is solved
• Unclear - some of the code is solved, but there might be more to solve

Additional Clues

Over time, several codes have been posted by Oskutin and Zuntti on the Discord server, but it's not confirmed whether these have anything to do with the ARG or if they are just noise.

Clues from Zuntti

Shroom Bath clue

On 18/02/2019 at 21:29 UTC, Zuntti posted this image in #general in the Open Sewer discord. The image's filename is "bathroom_body_connection.png"

What are the observations from this image?

• The bath seems to be connected to a bunch of radios wired up together.

This image teased the addition of the Deekula tenement in Open Sewer, which added a scene in which the player's character talks with the body of "Jacob Cooper", the image filename may still have relevance.

Clues from Oskutin

"Look up at ceilings"

Oskutin has given multiple clues, perhaps forwarded from Zuntti, about looking up at ceilings to find data in multiple maps (from their map geometry).

"nobody ever looks up at ceilings"

Texture on one of the non-interactive cabinets/panels

Oskutin said these, after discussing what could be written on the wooden boxes in the Villa? (No idea if related but context might be helpful?)

Y93 755 on smallelectricalbox_004.vtf

Unknown (so far)

37DB 5069 64F8 6C 3076A3 1 A-XB2

How to decode: Remove -XB2, remove spaces, and divide the resulting hex value by 0xB2, then use the ASCII values of the resulting nybbles. The decoded string is PUNAINENTU.

• Oskutin said in Loiste Discord server that we should not waste time trying to solve this.
• "Punainen tupa" is Finnish and means "red cottage".
• This likely refers to the red cottage just before hammer valley dam.
  • underneath its mailbox is a binary code (see entry 'Binary code under red mailbox' in the table above). 'red cottage' is likely a hint for finding this
• One other possibility is that it's an incomplete version of "punainen turska" (red cod), as this is the solution to the binary code present in sign_07_skin10.vtf.
• There exists an Instagram account @punainentu: https://www.instagram.com/punainentu/.

Encrypted messages

On April 6th, 2019, Oskutin posted a series of messages in the Loiste Community Discord server.

Message Number	Message	Decoded Message	Method of Decoding
1: Posted at 6:46	10101100 10110001 10101000 1110101 10001011 10001101 10001010 10001011 10010111 1110101 10011100 10011110 10001111 10010110 10001011 10011110 10010011 1110101 10001100 10001010 10011101 10001011 10011010 10001101 10001101 10011110 10010001 10011010 10011110 10010001 1110101 10001101 10011010 10011011 10010000 10001010 10011101 10001011 1110101 10001110 10001010 10011110 10001101 10001101 10000110	SNW truth capital subterranean redoubt quarry	https://discord.com/channels/291497857725366272/291497857725366272/564144010533273610 https://discord.com/channels/291497857725366272/308341591683366913/568872426172317728 Invert the bits, then convert to ASCII. Every word is separated by a line break (ASCII 0x0A), but every line break is missing a leading "1" in the encoded message.
2: Posted at 7:21	00100000F 00100000O 01010010Ö G11011110 01011000A P10101000 00111101K	X != WR	https://discord.com/channels/291497857725366272/361886463425642496/564152842428874765 https://discord.com/channels/291497857725366272/308341591683366913/568872472053547016 If letter in front of bits, then invert bits. 00100000F 00100000O 01010010Ö 00100001G 01011000A 01010111P 00111101K Convert to ASCII and group... " " = "F" " " = "O" "R" = "Ö" "!" = "G" "X" = "A" "W" = "P" "=" = "K" Sort the list using the values on the right in Finnish alphabetical order. Then write down sorted values on the left.

• "Redoubt" is synonymous with fortification, hinting the upcoming DLC, Whiprock, will have more to add to the ARG.

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