Portal 2 to release early, with ARG's help
Valve is letting users earn early access to Portal 2, but nothing in life comes free. First, they need to band together to restart GlaDOS, by playing Potato Sack games.
Valve's alternate reality game (ARG) countdown clock has reached its apex, and revealed that the rumors are true: you can play Portal 2 before its set release date, but nothing in life comes free. The new GlaDOS@Home page promises an early launch of the game, if players generate enough computing power to restart GlaDOS. How? By playing the indie games from the Potato Sack bundle, of course.
So is this shameless marketing for a sale in the Steam store? Maybe a bit. But we have to hand it to Valve for being clever, and early access to Portal 2 is sure to attract some attention from fans. The progress bars are starting to inch towards completion and it's only been active for a few minutes, so maybe PC players will be able to start having fun with science soon.
PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players, on the other hand, will probably still have to wait until its official street date on April 19.
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replyComment on Portal 2 to release early, with ARG's help, by Steve Watts.
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Summary: Valve is letting users earn early access to Portal 2, but nothing in life comes free. First, they need to band together to restart GlaDOS, by playing Potato Sack games.
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I believe that's true, I don't understand why it wouldn't be.
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Seems I actually have a game on the list. Time to do my part!
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Makes me a little sad about going the PS3 route, but I'll survive.
I do already own several of the potato-sack games. An early Steam unlock wouldn't help me, but I'm curious about seeing any actual new content in those games, especially if it's temporary. Is there a good summary somewhere of what's been added? The ARG wiki seems to be dead. -
I'll give them credit. That's pretty damn clever.
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So far it's gone down by about 10 minutes.
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No it hasn't; the countdown is still exactly on track for 10am EDT Tuesday
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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i believe you
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but what if you dont know a sneaky place to get games early =O
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Yea no one on consoles ever beat it
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MFW he thinks Portal is an FPS.
That's just adorable.
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You guys should probably mention getting potatoes is also extremely helpful. Quoted from a source community site:
In case anyone doesn't currently understand the system: CPU's are indications of how many people are currently playing the potato pack games, per game. Whereas the number of potatoes acts as a multiplier for that cpu count.
So even if you do not own all the games, be sure to get as many potatoes as you can!
Here is a list of the required actions needed to obtain the potatoes in each game: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id ... KUfE&pli=1
Lastly joining this group will automatically grants you a FREE potato. It seems odd I know, but apparently it has some meaning with the ARG. UPDATE: The user who created this group has some portal 2 images on his profile, from his current play-through, however they are masked with Portal 1 thumbnails. This now more or less explains it's involvement with the ARG.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nelipot
If you cannot login via the steam community site, just search for the community inside of Steam.-
Looks like the link was cut off for the potato guide, here it is again:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1vPutCkoZKA9XL5ZjSuNXfX8NfoeHW3xcrv7DgalKUfE&pli=1-
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Yeah, your profile should have some taters right under your name in the page.
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I haven't seen a single reliable source claim the potatoes acts as a multiplier.
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Defence Grid's additional levels are hilarious. Kudos to Valve for coming up with this stuff, - love it.
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Two additional levels added, both Portal related. Yes they can be challenging, but in line with the rest of the game. It's been really well done.
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doooo it
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I could be right, for once?
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There already are a couple
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You mean something like this? http://hasportal2launchedyet.com/ (Via dahanese her twitter feed)
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That disagrees with http://www.gamingmasters.co.uk/portal/ !
Which is right?
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What a stupid idea.
buy me the potato sack, I'm cooler
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Chell for me.
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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.-
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Your Aperture Science Cooperative Testing Type is:
Turret
No nonsense and all business, you don't have time for anything not immediately in your field of vision. Look for cooperative test partners who don't mind telling you they're still there every five seconds, and test partners willing to solve tests while always standing in front of you. -
I got Glados :(
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Glados. Hmmmmm.
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Anyone have an extra copy of Amnesia or Aaaaaah? http://steamcommunity.com/id/TheWilhelmScream/
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So it's done and they're not releasing it early to promote an indie game? I don't mind unless games begin to be release months after due becuase of marketing for another game. If Valve made Fighters Uncaged (sorry for the insult, can't think of another bad game right now) and were asked when the next Half Life episode will be released and replied in 10 years time but if 1,000,000,000 people buy fighters uncaged then I'll be pissed. I doubt anyone is stupid/crazy enough to do that anyway.
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EVERYONE join this group to get a free potato: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nelipot
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Sucker born every minute? A ton of the Sack games are really quite fun. Damn it I hate deals on great games!
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