Guardian obelisk glitch?

Kralone

Kralone
I have done some guardian material collection today, and I have remarked that all obelisks have this animation and sound :
Source: https://youtu.be/PeAgCdM0PNw


Did someone already notice that before? Or maybe it's a bug? In fact, we can say that all obelisks are trying to... compute something?

Let me know your thoughts, thanks!
 

Kralone

Kralone
Yes all! I have tested 2 structures and 1 ruin actually, and each obelisk are doing this animation with sound...
One variant is with only one symbol but same animation
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
That’s interesting! The pattern is what the obelisks used to be like before 3.0.

The sound has always been there but pre 3.0 it was too high pitched for most people to hear. They brought the pitch down a bit in 3.0. It seemed even clearer in the video, though that might just be me imagining it.

If you look near the bottom of my post here, in the ‘Barcodes’ section, you’ll find some more info. It’s still unsolved!

Good spot, OP!
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Kralone said:
Maybe related to this before 3.0 indeed, but it seems to be the same but different...
Source: https://youtu.be/GyGznaHFuVo?t=352


Maybe a bug ?
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It does indeed seem to be different!

Two things stand out I think:
  • The current versions appears to be changing more rapidly
  • The current version appears to be only using 2 grids on the display rather than 3 (if that makes sense)
Have you spotted anything else?

Also, is the new behaviour there in both Odyssey and Horizons?

I’m not sure if this actually is a bug. DB talked about moving the story forward, and the Guardian stuff has been semi-on hold for a while.

The Update 11 patch noted also mention a correction to terminology in the Guardians section of the Codex. Haven’t had chance to see what it is yet, but it’s interesting timing!
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Thatchinho said:
That’s interesting! The pattern is what the obelisks used to be like before 3.0.

The sound has always been there but pre 3.0 it was too high pitched for most people to hear. They brought the pitch down a bit in 3.0. It seemed even clearer in the video, though that might just be me imagining it.

If you look near the bottom of my post here, in the ‘Barcodes’ section, you’ll find some more info. It’s still unsolved!

Good spot, OP!
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FDs track record on regression testing has me worried that this is an inadvertent swith back to the pre-3.0 graphics, considering between Odyssey landing and now, the glyphs have been impossible to make out clearly due to the lighting issue.

I mean, good spot, but especially with the spot of the one with only one glyph, it fits with others that also only needed one.... so I'll hold my breath for now this is new, but it's already throwing a lot of red flags for me.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
I’ve always suspected there is a way to decode those patterns into a message. Possibly based on Braille?

(Edit: bearing in mind they had four digits on each hand, and I seemto remember they had an extra joint in their arms but can’t see that in the Codex)
Probably saying “hello world, watch out for the Thargoids!”
 
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Rochester

Rochester
Has any analysis been done on these markings, in relation to maybe a 3 dimensional image projected onto a 2 dimensional image, whenever I saw these images I can’t help but see 3D cubes…

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Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Jmanis said:
FDs track record on regression testing has me worried that this is an inadvertent swith back to the pre-3.0 graphics, considering between Odyssey landing and now, the glyphs have been impossible to make out clearly due to the lighting issue.

I mean, good spot, but especially with the spot of the one with only one glyph, it fits with others that also only needed one.... so I'll hold my breath for now this is new, but it's already throwing a lot of red flags for me.
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Yeah, it’s always a good chance that it’s just been an inadvertent switch back.

Though IIRC, pre-3.0 all obelisks had exactly the same display, with 3 sets of the ‘grid’ (for want of a better word). The change to using only 2 or 1 set only came in 3.0. OP’s video appears to show an Obelisk with only 2 sets of the grid, so it would appear that it’s not a full regression to pre-3.0 graphics.

But yeah, definitely a good chance it’s just a bug.

I wonder if we can just get some clarification…
 

Kralone

Kralone
Thatchinho said:
It does indeed seem to be different!

Two things stand out I think:
  • The current versions appears to be changing more rapidly
  • The current version appears to be only using 2 grids on the display rather than 3 (if that makes sense)
Have you spotted anything else?

Also, is the new behaviour there in both Odyssey and Horizons?

I’m not sure if this actually is a bug. DB talked about moving the story forward, and the Guardian stuff has been semi-on hold for a while.

The Update 11 patch noted also mention a correction to terminology in the Guardians section of the Codex. Haven’t had chance to see what it is yet, but it’s interesting timing!
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I have noted some others points with tests. I was not able to get the decrypt mission from Ram Tah when you dock on Felice Dock, Meene system.
Second thing is that the bug is Odyssey only, Horizon is working as intended.

Someone told me that he receive the mission at Felice Dock. So for me, it's just a bug, I'm looking to search more this evening !
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot

Gordon Freeman IV

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rootsrat said:
All of them? :O

Very intriguing! The obelisks are basically a Guardians computer network.
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IIRC the obelisks are actually guardian consciousness that have been digitized which is why they light up and "call" us when near. It be neat if we could give them a robot body and "resurrect" them from a purely digital state to learn and collaborate with them to help beat the thargoids (humanity and synthetic guardians vs thargoids)
 
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