ARG Portal

This page contains information about the INFRA ARG, or alternate reality game, which consists of several extremely difficult codes embedded in INFRA and its game assets.

Zuntti is the game master of the ARG, and has responded to inquires about the puzzles before, as well as provided hints 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 some unknown place
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.

Existing codes

Body Code Related

• Body message
• Letter box
• Bunker computer code
• Wasteland notes

Unconfirmed Relation to Body Code

• Office monitor code
• Central projector morse
• Elo hideout symbols
• Reactor lights code
• Wasteland radio morse
• Villa paintings
• Villa woodboxes

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 resuling 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". There exists an instagram account @punainentu: https://www.instagram.com/punainentu/.
• 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.

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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