post what you found in gwdat!

CougarTheTall

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Dallas, TX

The Blood Spikers

N/Mo

Could we use the Charr language thingy to translate the text or is it in another language other than Charr?

Bo Fairfield

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2007

Mu Tants [MU]

Me/

I don't think that that is Charr.

Windstriker

Windstriker

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2006

Missouri

The Torrencians

R/

Those skins of the bronze animals might perhaps be a monument as others have suggested. This is a wild guess but could it be part of the Party Animal title track or is that something else?

Personette

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aerian_Skybane
And no, the first shield does not like like vagina. Even with different colors. You have a stretched imagination.
Wha? That shield makes George O'Keefe look subtle. If you're not seeing the resemblance, you clearly have not spent enough time staring at female genitalia.

oracleofwoe

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2007

CNFC

N/Mo

lol, but that means if it IS a vag shield it'll have an armor rating of 0 coz most guys can't hit the cl*t anyway!!

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by ragnagard
Curious thing....

Someone got:



And other person got:



Those are unused images... as I know but i must not read someone's answer.

No answer for what they are for but...... ey! let ragna look with a zoomed image:



There are some... texts here!.


And if we look carefully......


They matched!.... looks odd.
And for the first text it matched 100% but a line + 1 "character".
The other text matched 100% but 1 "character" + 1 line

This is getting weird...
This looks really awesome. I hope we find out more about this in particular.

ragnagard

ragnagard

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

In Spain, of course

Gamer Espa??ol[GE]

N/Mo

Mini - Thread Necromancy FTW! lol

More about that strange circle-like simbol... it has friends now:



Also found this "tomb" or wall with the same symbols... looks like some1 praying to the sun....



We can also find the same symbols on this two pictures (they are rotated to be vertical):

Some... "flag"


The Dwayna / Melandru posibility posted a lot of posts before....


reeeeaaaally weird. Maybe some kind of Elven alphabet? It doesnt match with anyone of my researches....

And BTW.... does anyone know who is this woman? I havent seen it before, i think (maybe she's on a mural I didnt looked to). She looks like a Canthan Kurzick warrior / goddess, cause of his white painted face like Danika and the little dragons near her feet("same" little ones as warrior elite canthan shoulders dragons).

(2 images merged 4 u):

IlikeGW

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2005

on the DAW winners, any indication the shields have back textures?

Darksun

Darksun

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

USA

Karr's Castle

W/E

She's definitely on the Kurzick stained glass, but I don't remember her on brick..

you guys sure none of those stone textures are not from Gwen's mission?

ragnagard

ragnagard

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

In Spain, of course

Gamer Espa??ol[GE]

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Darksun
you guys sure none of those stone textures are not from Gwen's mission?
I dont have the BMP (yet) to assure ya that :P. Maybe the tomb is for her mother.... maybe is another thing...

[riVen]

[riVen]

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Refuge From Exile [RFE]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ragnagard
I dont have the BMP (yet) to assure ya that :P. Maybe the tomb is for her mother.... maybe is another thing...
Doesn't matter, you still have the content in your dat file

Aerian_Skybane

Aerian_Skybane

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

House of Caeruleous [HoC]

R/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Personette
Wha? That shield makes George O'Keefe look subtle. If you're not seeing the resemblance, you clearly have not spent enough time staring at female genitalia.
How juvenile.

Most people think anything oblong with something surrounding it looks like a vagina. I fail to see how that shield could be called a vagina other than immature 15 year olds that get off on just saying the word.

Fluffiliscious

Fluffiliscious

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2007

US

Gods Army of the [Dead]

E/

Lol.....btw it's Georgia O'Keefe...that's right, a woman.

Celestial_Kitsune

Celestial_Kitsune

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Me/

Shields.

The most reliable and valid projective tests.

Antitorgo

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Duty

Mo/Me

Oh come on... The shield is nothing, the friggin Dreadspawn Maw at the end of Stygian Veil gives me nightmares.

I suppose that a giant vagina that gives birth to Stygians is supposed to look scary, but the teeth and all just goes over the top.

Freke

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2007

N/A

D/

When you guys said "It looks wierd" I thought itlooked like Goatse, but nowhere in hell do I see a vagina.

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Freke
When you guys said "It looks wierd" I thought itlooked like Goatse, but nowhere in hell do I see a vagina.
Yeah, there's a pretty obvious goatse reference in the shield too, but you're looking too high up.


Regarding the runic inscription: The text in the circle is unlikely to mean anything, as it's simply two letters repeating (unless the message is 'kekekekeke"). The two blocks of text might be "real", but the same letters tend to occur next to eachother several times which to me suggests cut & paste. A frequency analysis should be able to determine if it's text or just cut & paste generic rune-looking graphics.

EDIT: Took a closer look at the text. The frequency analysis checks out, but the letters repeats upside down on the same line. I doubt that's real text.

Personette

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Fluffiliscious
Lol.....btw it's Georgia O'Keefe...that's right, a woman.
Woah...typo...I knew that...

I had a picture of her standing naked in Silver Bay, taken by her husband Alfred Stieglitz, on my wall all through college so I'm extra aware of her feminine assets...

ragnagard

ragnagard

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2007

In Spain, of course

Gamer Espa??ol[GE]

N/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius
Regarding the runic inscription: The text in the circle is unlikely to mean anything, as it's simply two letters repeating (unless the message is 'kekekekeke"). The two blocks of text might be "real", but the same letters tend to occur next to eachother several times which to me suggests cut & paste. A frequency analysis should be able to determine if it's text or just cut & paste generic rune-looking graphics.

EDIT: Took a closer look at the text. The frequency analysis checks out, but the letters repeats upside down on the same line. I doubt that's real text.
Yeah i was thinking and investigating about the frequency letters but..... i find that there are some letters upside down as you said... and even flipped vertically :S. and in the other texts... seems like they are read in vertical.... but... thar charr tomb texts are in horizontal.............. i dunno :P

DarkWasp

DarkWasp

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2005

Paradise

Agency Of Forbidden Fruits [Oot]

R/A

Woah!

-# 129602 (might be 129603, I think the RAW data extract takes off a number) -Pos 3106268160 -Section 6066930

(I don't know which of those are important)
(If they vary, the size is 2032824)

It's a song.

Is this in the game? It sounds like a theme, it even has the GW main tune in it.

It's awesome!

Anyone else find this?


I also noticed, GW has some REALLY good music. It all sounds like CRAP ingame, due to the fact that even with the music volume at max I have to set all other sounds to 25-45% and turn my speakers up to blasting loud.

isamu kurosawa

isamu kurosawa

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

United Kingdom

Me/

Look Fammiliar?



Hopefully we will get these soon.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Maybe they already are in the Zaishen chest...

Since the Xunlai Market fuss, probably they tried to remove anything not being already in the game.

Although it would be GREAT if that were a spear drop for factions... it really fits Factions theme. Specially Luxon side...

But it fits even better the Zaishen-Balthazar theme, tho.

Azael Durge

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

MIST

N/

Quote:
Originally Posted by ragnagard
Curious thing....

Someone got:



And other person got:



Those are unused images... as I know but i must not read someone's answer.

No answer for what they are for but...... ey! let ragna look with a zoomed image:



There are some... texts here!.


And if we look carefully......


They matched!.... looks odd.
And for the first text it matched 100% but a line + 1 "character".
The other text matched 100% but 1 "character" + 1 line

This is getting weird...
Can anyone translate or assign letters to characters?
Maybe the hold a few secrets of their own.
Perhaps there is a dat file somewhere with a few translations.

Try and assign letters to characters!

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

Where o where is Antigorgo he seems to be the best at finding the new items in this. Maybe anet silenced him with his own mini polar bear. Or maybe it is a cat, because curiosity would kill it if he posted more items

SirSausage

SirSausage

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2008

Poland

Architects of Forgotten Truths [AoFT]

W/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkWasp
Woah!

-# 129602 (might be 129603, I think the RAW data extract takes off a number) -Pos 3106268160 -Section 6066930

(I don't know which of those are important)
(If they vary, the size is 2032824)

It's a song.

Is this in the game? It sounds like a theme, it even has the GW main tune in it.

It's awesome!

Anyone else find this?
That's indeed an awesome track. Never heard it before.
I'm puzzled why it's not ingame, it rocks.

Here's what I found:

Vilaptca

Vilaptca

Pre-Searing Vanquisher

Join Date: Jun 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

^the second one looks like ranger undergarments.....

Thorondor Port

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2006

British Columbia

W/

I tried to open my .dat file with Microsoft Word and my computer froze lol.

Covah

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Ontario, Canada

Catching Jellyfish With [소N트T ]

Me/Rt

cuz you open it with the .dat viewer.

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

hahaha, if I was Bill Gates I would slap you for trying to view the dat file with word. That is about the worst way to do so. In this thread back a ways there are links to dat browsers, check them out they will do what you want, and keep bill gates from having to work on his backhand

Nevin

Nevin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by stretchs
hahaha, if I was Bill Gates I would slap you for trying to view the dat file with word. That is about the worst way to do so. In this thread back a ways there are links to dat browsers, check them out they will do what you want, and keep bill gates from having to work on his backhand
Except Bill Gates retired!

Lord Sojar

Lord Sojar

The Fallen One

Join Date: Dec 2005

Oblivion

Irrelevant

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nevin
Except Bill Gates retired!
He didn't retire from being the source of all modern technology evil to date. He will never retire from being evil... for he is the definition of it.

slowerpoke

slowerpoke

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2007

Cuba

lots of files in the last update, any new goodies in the dat?

Antitorgo

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Duty

Mo/Me

Heh, no new graphics files and lots of changes to the text that I'm shifting through now.

Did find this though:
Party Time!
Excellent! For %str1% second[s], you gain double points towards the Party Animal title track when using festive items.
Excellent! (%str1% second[s]) you gain double points towards the Party Animal title track when using festive items.

Kinda funny cuz I think Waynes World was on HDNet or UHD the other night and I ended up watching part of it.

Also this is new:
'Victory is Ours!'
You outnumber your foes. You deal +%str1%%% more damage.

Seems weird. Could be a monster skill or something.

I MP I

I MP I

Hustler

Join Date: Nov 2006

in between GW2 servers

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Antitorgo
Heh, no new graphics files and lots of changes to the text that I'm shifting through now.

Did find this though:
Party Time!
Excellent! For %str1% second[s], you gain double points towards the Party Animal title track when using festive items.
Excellent! (%str1% second[s]) you gain double points towards the Party Animal title track when using festive items.

Kinda funny cuz I think Waynes World was on HDNet or UHD the other night and I ended up watching part of it.

Also this is new:
'Victory is Ours!'
You outnumber your foes. You deal +%str1%%% more damage.

Seems weird. Could be a monster skill or something.
http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Victory_is_ours

Antitorgo

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Duty

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by I MP I
I knew it seemed familiar. Wonder why it showed up as having changed. Could have been punctuation or capitilization or something.

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Antitorgo
Heh, no new graphics files and lots of changes to the text that I'm shifting through now.

Did find this though:
Party Time!
Excellent! For %str1% second[s], you gain double points towards the Party Animal title track when using festive items.
Excellent! (%str1% second[s]) you gain double points towards the Party Animal title track when using festive items.
Time to stock up on festival items?

kokuou

Academy Page

Join Date: Nov 2007

N/Me

Which version of the GW dat browser allows you to compare differences between builds? Can anyone supply a download link to it?

Chthon

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Apr 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by Rahja the Thief
He didn't retire from being the source of all modern technology evil to date. He will never retire from being evil... for he is the definition of it.
And then he went and decided to use his billions to fight poverty and disease in Africa. He was so much fun to hate, but he's just not evil like he used to be...

MoriaOrc

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2007

Quote:
Originally Posted by kokuou
Which version of the GW dat browser allows you to compare differences between builds? Can anyone supply a download link to it?
That would be the one that Antitorgo made, and I'll warn you now that he won't supply a link.

GWDatBrowser is an open-source app, and a sufficiently creative person could replicate Antitorgo's work with it. I'd wager the comparison isn't done using the dat browser, only making dumps of the current state. Lots of external apps do comparisons just fine, no need to re-invent the wheel (hurray diff).

Tarus From Taros

Tarus From Taros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by ragnagard
Curious thing....

Someone got:



And other person got:



Those are unused images... as I know but i must not read someone's answer.

No answer for what they are for but...... ey! let ragna look with a zoomed image:



There are some... texts here!.


And if we look carefully......


They matched!.... looks odd.
And for the first text it matched 100% but a line + 1 "character".
The other text matched 100% but 1 "character" + 1 line

This is getting weird...
I don't think it has been mentioned but the picture of the human fighting the charr is very old and was part of the game. I went back through my pictures and my first suspicions were correct. That image was etched into the wall of the Tomb of the Primeval Kings. I found a SS of the holiday loading screen for the tomb in my folder. Here's the photo:



I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your wasting your time on this one. While the text is intriguing it's nothing more then just neat looking jibberish :P. You won't find any big secret out of it.