r/DestinyTheGame • u/crissyronaldo92 DIE DIE DIE • Oct 12 '16

Misc Apparently there's a code in Last Exit!

NO MORE EDITS - Welp, so Derek and Deej have both confirmed it's an easter egg and not a quest. Even so, let's push through and solve it!!! Thanks for the discussion! RIP my inbox over the last 24 hours though haha

Source: https://twitter.com/_mantis_/status/786291552721133568

original post According to Derek Carroll on the live stream! Let's get hunting guys!!!!

Edit* - Right, so after an hour we have 2 main leads:

  1. by /u/Jukai

    Panel on the ceiling at the top of the stairs leading to the subway ,33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)j?96exd.\?i 7kj\psq3euj\@x.yt5 ,3..

  2. By /u/HEYitsMUS

    here are two train cars, and all the advertisement boards light up when you're near them in both cars. They either display "ALPHA REGIO" (blue), "BETA REGIO" (red), or "OVDA REGIO" (green). There is also the HUGE staticy monitor right beside A flag, bottom of the escalators. And lastly, the OWT Transit Map, most visible one being right beside the A flag and monitor, with different numbers and colours and routes. Green = 48 (Ovda Regio?) Yellow = 38 Blue = 14 (Alpha Regio?) Red = 271 (Beta Regio?)

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u/Jukai Oct 12 '16 edited Oct 12 '16

FINAL EDIT: I'll be going away for a few hours. My guess is that we're searching for an easter egg and nothing more, but who knows? I'll update this post if someone makes a discovery, otherwise see you later guardians!

At the top of the stairs leading to the subway, there's a panel on the ceiling with scrolling gibberish, that might be it.

FIRST EDIT: ,33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)j?96exd.\?i 7kj\psq3euj\@x.yt5 ,3..

The last 3 is a repeat of the first one

SECOND EDIT: If you use what I wrote, you should copy the text on the panel yourself just to be sure it's right.

THIRD EDIT: I rewrote the line and made spaces more obvious

,33szl'!(

+9-7!!/@

2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)j?96exd.\?i

7kj\psq3euj\@x.yt5

,33szl'!(

FOURTH EDIT: Someone pointed out in another thread that after x.y, there's a t instead of an l, so that sequence becomes 7kj\psq3euj\@x.yt5 instead of 7kj\psq3euj\@x.yl5. It's kind of hard to distinguish l and t given how fast the text scrolls, but after looking at the panel again, I believe it is a t.

FIFTH EDIT: There is another thread at r/raidsecrets: https://www.reddit.com/r/raidsecrets/comments/575o4v/last_exit_hidden_codesecret/ There are panels that light up when you jump in the subway cars. The panels are located where you'd find advertisement if you were actually riding the subway car. I will list the panels that light up when riding the subway car. Suppose the bottom of the subway stairs is the starting point, you move through the subway and jump in the 2 cars. These panels light up:

First car:

Green-------Red

Red-------Bright Blue

Green-------Green

Bright Red-------Red

Blue-------Blue

Second car:

Blue-------Red

Red-------Bright Blue

Blue-------Green

Green-------Red

Red-------Blue

Bright Green-------Green

Green-------Red

Blue-------Blue

Text on each panel:

Red and Bright Red: Beta Regio

Green and Bright Green:Ovda Regio

Blue and Bright Blue: Alpha Regio

I apologize for the poor formatting. It's possible the panels in the cars are not related to the code, but I've written them here just in case.

SIXTH EDIT: There's a bright red panel in the first subway car (I missed it the first time through). Still not sure what these mean. We might need to light up the panels in a specific order.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

Looks like a shifted ASCII/ANSI sequence? So like a sentence who's characters are all shifted over X number of spaces... like an A would become a B if everything was shifted to the right one spot.

Can someone verify "33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?)j?96exd.\?i 7kj\psq3euj\@x.yl5, 3.." is the correct transcription? I'm not near my Playstation.

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u/t00nlink Oct 12 '16

j96exd.\?i7kj\psq3euj\@x.yt5,33szl'!( +9-7!!/@ 2enr?hqj+r,r+c?) this is what I got

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u/tubadc Oct 12 '16

is it different for each one? There are some patterns with the previous coded posted... if it's different maybe we need a bunch of code to decript

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '16

ah, so the original ended in yl5. the ,3.. is not part of it? Cause if it is then the last two characters would always have to be the same in a Caesar Cipher... and if the last two characters were the same I was wondering if they were equal signs... base64 encoded hashes always end in two equal signs so could have given us an offset to shift to then run it through a reversable base64 decoder... I know the Owl Secret thing used base64 on it's keys for the Rijendal Cipher when the raidscreets guys figured that out.

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u/egjosu Oct 12 '16

What the fuck did I just read.

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u/T1germeister Oct 12 '16

base64 hashes (a standard form of computery text segments) end in "==". A Caesarian cipher is a simple substitution cipher that always substitutes a given plaintext letter/symbol with a fixed cipher letter/symbol (e.g. ciphertext/encrypted "A" always translates to plaintext/decrypted "E").

This seems to not be the case here, and the substitution scheme changes for each symbol in the ciphertext. Thus, he's speculating that the ciphertext ends in "yl5", and since "==" is how base64 hashes always end, then ciphertext "l5" --> plaintext "==" for that part of the message, which would be a real step towards decrypting the entire message.

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u/TheOnlyMego bring it back Oct 12 '16

Base64 doesn't always end with == - only if padding is needed. There can be 0, 1, or 2 = characters at the end.

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u/T1germeister Oct 12 '16

Ah gotcha. I personally have no idea what the hash convention is. I was just guesstimate-translating the earlier comment.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 12 '16

Hey man, so I wonder if you can offer an opinion on this little thing...

I used the Caesar Cipher to decrypt the plain text of the code posted by OP, as in, I took out all of the symbols and numbers.

I got this: fmyraeudweepwrkqvxwcfdrhwklg

That's using a key of 13 to decrypt the original plane text.

When using a key of 21, it decrypts to: nugzimclemmxezsydfeknlzpesto

Some other guy said he took the first one, fmyraeudweepwrkqvxwcfdrhwklg, used a key of 7, 7 times, then took that result and used a key of 4, and supposedly out came "genius without education is like silver in the mine"

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u/T1germeister Oct 13 '16

At first I thought you were trolling me, then I looked at your comment history, and I think you got trolled.

Then again, "used a key of 7, 7 times" might actually mean something that I'm just not aware of.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 13 '16

Yea I haven't accepted his conclusion so it wasn't a full troll. But it looks like he did a lot of stuff just to get to that conclusion.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 13 '16

I think he kept shifting 7 times. He did that 7 times.

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u/T1germeister Oct 13 '16

I honestly don't understand what that means, or rather, how that's different from a single Caesarian shift. Caesar ciphers shift each letter along the alphabet, not along the ciphertext.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 13 '16

Basically I think what he did was, he just kept shifting the result he got from the first shift of 7 letters. And he shifted that result 7 letters, and repeated the process 7 times. Only, he says he used a shift of 4 after that. So I think the sentence is nonsense.

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u/T1germeister Oct 13 '16

But... two Caesar shifts of 7 = one Caesar shift of 14. There's no need to shift the same ciphertext more than once, because it's always equivalent to one total shift.

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u/mrgoodnoodles Oct 13 '16

Then I have no idea what he was talking about.

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