The GTA V Secrets and Mysteries Hunt

[CanOdope]

Those arrows just mark the hiking trails along the coast. I noticed one a few months back, thought it was significant, then upon further inspection realized that there are several of them marking the trail.

[Eram]

I'm on holidays and internet access is way too hard to find around here.

Anyway, just wanted to welcome all new posters in here, mainly Tiger and Aqua.

It's always nice to have some new eyes around, even if looking at known stuff.

 

All the best and Happy Hunting!

[Cutter De Blanc]

Well, this is interesting. I just parachuted off of the Zancudo UFO and into the bunker underneath it without being spotted. I hid in the bunker... and I lost my Wanted Level. In Fort Zancudo.

 

I've quicksaved in the bunker, not sure what to do now, guess I'll stay hidden and wait for the lightshow.

 

Edit: Okay, I've never actually seen the lightshow yet, it's supposed to happen outside the tiny bunker with the elevator in it at 3am right? I saw no lights. Also I gained a 4 star wanted level as soon as I stepped foot outside the bunker.

Edited August 13, 2015 by Cutter De Blanc

[CanOdope]

If I remember correctly, the light show at Zancudo starts at 1am and goes until 4am. Do you have 100% completion?

[jp9865]

Also the lights don't show up if you visit the ufo first. Not sure if glitch or intentional.

[Cutter De Blanc]

If I remember correctly, the light show at Zancudo starts at 1am and goes until 4am. Do you have 100% completion?

Yes, I do, that's how I parachuted off of the UFO and into the base undetected.

 

 

Also the lights don't show up if you visit the ufo first. Not sure if glitch or intentional.

I wonder if the lightshow will happen after I load my quicksave. I'll check in a bit, I suppose.

[gavinthegreat12]

i believe i might have solved this mystery in the past few months people heave been saying that the fountain in the maze bank plaza is the cracked egg and i overlapped the mural and the map and had the egg at the maze bank and when i did this all the little x's in boxes coincided with important land marks and areas in story mode and online. as soon as i figure out how to paste an image on to a post i will show a picture of the map keep in mind that i some what hand drew the mural but it is as accurate as possible

[CanOdope]

Yes, I do, that's how I parachuted off of the UFO and into the base undetected.

 

 

My bad, had a derp moment there...

[Fran_Halen]

The last time I was in the Fort Zancudo bunker the lights didn't show up for me. I didn't go to the UFO first either. This time was a bit different though. I got into a shootout with the soldiers and then lost my wanted level while remaining in the bunker. In the almost 2 years I've played this game I've never got that to happen before. Every other time I've gotten into a shootout they just keep coming. Maybe that was why the lights didn't show up, who knows.

Edited August 14, 2015 by Fran_Halen

[Cutter De Blanc]

^Same, no lightshow when I reloaded the Quicksave. I decided to take Michael to the UFO while Trevor was in the bunker. Switching characters in that situation takes a really long time, like I spent at least 30 seconds in the clouds. I thought the game had frozen, but it eventually loaded.

 

It seems you can use cheats to spawn cars and such on top of the FIB UFO. They do not start when you get in. They don't slide off either though. I spawned a Comet and a Dodo. The Dodo caught on fire for no reason.

[Slate Mc 2]

Good day all, I would like to propose a new theory (supported with some evidence) that the two faded glyphs are not actually faded glyphs at all. Let me try and explain - people have been trying to solve the meaning of the last two faded glyphs commonly known as "cs1_10_clue_moon02.cdr" & "cs1_10_clue_rain02.cdr" since the mystery began, as it is now commonly accepted that the other glyphs just refer to being able to see the Chilliad UFO at 3 am in the rain. Lots of reasons have been given as to why these glyphs are "faded", a common thought is that perhaps they represent the partially buried UFO on the sea bed or the slow fading out of the Chilliad UFO in relation to observed distance.

 

However, the more i have investigated the more I am convinced that moon02.cdr and rain02.crd are in fact identical textures to moon01.cdr and rain01.crd. So the big question is...why are they faded ?

 

Okay - to understand why they appear faded you need to grasp that a texture will only appear in game when applied to the surface of an object in the game world. Trying to wrap an image like one of the glyphs directly onto a rock formation would be extremely difficult and tiresome to accomplish because of all the variations in the rocks surface, so far easier just to paint the glyph onto a flat partially invisible object - think of it as painting the glyph onto a piece of glass. Then you can just place your sheet of glass on to your rock and job done - nice and easy - as in the first example pic I show below :

 

Example One

 

 

This example was not photographed in game, but the texture of the glyph is the same, and I have used some random rocks I already had for this test.

 

Example two is below and this shows not only the glyph itself but the flat square it is attached too - highlighted in red so you can see it. This is the piece of glass I mentioned earlier.

 

 

Now what i am doing in the next example below, is slowly lowering the texture (glass if you will) into the rock itself. Because the texture is flat and the rock craggy, you can see that certain areas of the texture are now obscured within the rock.

 

 

And here it is now partially within the rock itself.....see how the cloud part of the texture image is now fully within the rock and can't be seen ? It now appears as if it's a faded Glyph.

 

 

Ok now doubters may say - if the two faded glyphs are identical to moon01.cdr and rain01.crd - then why even have duplicates of these textures in the game ? Why not use the same textures ?

 

Well - this may come as a surprise but when we talk about the textures being named in the game files as "cs1_10_clue_moon01.cdr" that is actually not the name of the texture at all, but just the name of the associated file the texture is within. In fact - as far as I am aware - nobody has still managed to open up the files containing moon02.cdr and rain02.crd so right now we can't look at the original textures within to prove or disprove my theory, however it makes sense that the file name may be something to do with image placement rather than anything else. So the two files may indeed have exactly the same textures within them as the known Moon & Rain textures we tend to refer to as "1". (scroll down on this page to read about the Glyph files from the games files thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/chiliadmystery/wiki/gamefiles?v=348d8f6e-a479-11e4-8ef4-22000b3d0b17 )

 

I hope I have managed to describe this as I had hoped, and tried to explain for those without knowledge of texturing within games. I would be interested to hear you thoughts ?

 

In conclusion, if I am correct than all of the Glyphs are now solved - why Rockstar decided to duplicate two of them and partially bury them in rock is anybodys guess, but maybe it's just supposed to look natural as if the weather has faded them over time as would have happened in real life had somebody painted these on the side of a mountain.

Edited August 14, 2015 by Slate Mc 2

[Vertighost]

Great work Slate, really good demonstration images.

 

Since you have access to the game files, any chance on pin pointing the in game clipboards files (I've been speaking of the clipboards many times in the past). Why I ask is because they've added a black covering on the next gen version of the clipboards, it is not a natural cover as it glitches through the wire clip section of the board...to me this screams easily solved mystery. Not easy for me anyway as I have not a PC version of the game, Let me know if you think it would be easy to access.

 

If needed I can get some photos of them, I haven't got any at the moment since I thought it was easy to explain without a photo. Also anyone still on last gen I know the cover is not there on PS3 (unless a patch has added the "patch") check to see what the paper looks like, I don't expect readable text but it may give a vague idea on what's on the paper.

[Slate Mc 2]

Great work Slate, really good demonstration images.

 

Since you have access to the game files, any chance on pin pointing the in game clipboards files (I've been speaking of the clipboards many times in the past). Why I ask is because they've added a black covering on the next gen version of the clipboards, it is not a natural cover as it glitches through the wire clip section of the board...to me this screams easily solved mystery. Not easy for me anyway as I have not a PC version of the game, Let me know if you think it would be easy to access.

 

If needed I can get some photos of them, I haven't got any at the moment since I thought it was easy to explain without a photo. Also anyone still on last gen I know the cover is not there on PS3 (unless a patch has added the "patch") check to see what the paper looks like, I don't expect readable text but it may give a vague idea on what's on the paper.

 

Wish i could bro but the only files I have seen are those that others have managed to open. I don't have the PC version of the game unfortently only on XBox One. It does seem very odd that they would cover up these clip boards, it would have been easier just to change the original texture if there was somethning they didn't want us to see.

[Aqua97]

I was just browsing under the map and I found this? What it could be, I don't know. But it's interesting.

Edited August 16, 2015 by Aqua97

[humanoidanimater]

⬆related to races maybe ⬆

[gtaguy95]

I was just browsing under the map and I found this? What it could be, I don't know. But it's interesting.

I think it's a cigarette lighter!

[Slate Mc 2]

 

I was just browsing under the map and I found this? What it could be, I don't know. But it's interesting.

I think it's a cigarette lighter!

 

I am not sure what we are supposed to be looking at in this image ? The blue 1 and 2 are merely the capture team spawn points ?

Edited August 16, 2015 by Slate Mc 2

[Aqua97]

 

 

I was just browsing under the map and I found this? What it could be, I don't know. But it's interesting.

I think it's a cigarette lighter!

 

I am not sure what we are supposed to be looking at in this image ? The blue 1 and 2 are merely the capture team spawn points ?

 

I didn't put down any points... it was just there, under the map.

[Soulshroude]

Just found this from the Paleto chat topic...

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When I saw the arrow though, I thought of these...

 

EDIT: Just checked it out... it's not pointing to the sign...

maybe it's pointing to the sign with the coding on it?

Please add a page number to the link.. instead of the entire forum thread of 200 plus pages.

I was just browsing under the map and I found this? What it could be, I don't know. But it's interesting.

Maybe a Shoot to the Stars connection? BE below the map and align the building stars and circle with the stars on the ground. Anyone think of this?

[Cutter De Blanc]

I doubt they'd require you to glitch to solve the mystery. I feel it has to be something anyone can do conventionally, given the right circumstances. They wouldn't promote an under the map glitch.

[Vertighost]

Are the numbers offline also? They may be related to the interiors under the map like the Comedy Club and online races garage place. Try to get there in person and take a closer inspection.

[Eram]

@Aqua - Can you confirm that you found those under the map numbers on SP? Can you post a small video of it?

Thanks in advance.

 

@Verti - There's a pic on the OP showing the scientists's "black" clipboard.

[GTAMilik]

Hey guys,

 

A question. I have a laptop that is nowhere near running GTA, with Intel HD 4000 haha, but I want to participate in File Hunt. If I downlaod GTA as torrent, could I then search the files with OpenIV?

Edited August 18, 2015 by GTAMilik

[Fran_Halen]

Hey guys,

 

A question. I have a laptop that is nowhere near running GTA, with Intel HD 4000 haha, but I want to participate in File Hunt. If I downlaod GTA as torrent, could I then search the files with OpenIV?

There is a hunter on this thread named XHaviiHx that could probably answer that for you. You can PM him, or ask the guys over in the File Hunt thread: http://gtaforums.com/topic/656269-game-file-mystery-hunt/page-1?hl=%20file%20%20hunt

[Aqua97]

Yeah, the number thing was in SP, and I will try to make a video. ( :

Edited August 18, 2015 by Aqua97

[Soulshroude]

An idea:

 

Has anyone tried using the WOW signal research and used the satellite dish as a start point, instead of Chiliad? I've been wondering about this.

[Slate Mc 2]

An idea:

 

Has anyone tried using the WOW signal research and used the satellite dish as a start point, instead of Chiliad? I've been wondering about this.

Which satelllite dish are you referring too as there are multiple in the game bro ? Mostly they are in Sandy Shaws. If you mean the large dishes (the array) as it's known (one always points in a weird direction ?) then they are not satellite dishes but radio telescopes. Sorry to wreck your theory. Just so many people assume "well it's "dish shaped" lol with no idea of why. Believe it or not, years ago idiots even tried to connect the direction of the radio telescopes to those TV dishes on Sandy Shaws and the microwave dishes on Fort Zancudo !!!l I think the reddit guys are still trying to connect it !!!l Once they crack that hamburger sign They occasionally have some great ideas, just zero intelligence to back it up. Giant Squidd is the only intelligent person on that sub and I don't know why he continues to even Mod it as it must be so damn frustrating. I only go there to read what Squidd has to say as the rest is all bollocks.Apologies, that was a bit of rant In no way was I having a pop at your post Soulshroude dude. Just needed to vent some gas bro

Edited August 19, 2015 by Slate Mc 2

[CanOdope]

 

*snip*

*snip*

In his defense, the "WOW" signal was, in fact, detected by the Big Ear Radio Telescope...

[Slate Mc 2]

That is correct, just as a technical person by profession I feel my inbuilt auto correct come out when someone calls it a "Satellite Dish". Just trying to un-muddy the waters Totally different things. Anyone who confuses the two maybe one of the O'Neil Brothers.

Edited August 19, 2015 by Slate Mc 2

[Slate Mc 2]

An entire day and no posts ? Come on guys ! Keep this thread alive ! Just not with bullsh*t theories is all I ask !