Kraken Mega-thread [SPOILERS]

[2koreds]

DISCLAIMER: SERIOUSLY LOTS OF POTENTIAL SPOILERS ABOUT THIS FISHING RELEASE; IF YOU WANT TO FIGURE THE CLUES AND/OR FIGHT OUT ON YOUR OWN DO NOT CONSULT THIS THREAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

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To make a long story short I know this community is capable of coming together to figure out exactly what the heck we need to do to kill this b**** and figure out all the clues that Brass left us. As a result of my belief of the ingenuity of this community I will be creating a mega-thread discussing all of the known clues and strategies to combating Kraken so we can eventually get the dank loot of
EDIT: We have killed this biatch but there is still much we do not know, nor any unique loot that has been discovered officially.

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Seriously don't read this if you don't want a spoiler

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Rip Brass for allowing FRG Launcher to see file names (You fixed it yay am proud) and again seriously don't keep clicking "spoiler" if you don't want a spoiler

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• Wind Blade
• Dragon SMG
• Trident
  

During the release of the fishing update Brass posted in the Announcements chat of discord:
(SHOUTOUT TO NIVENDO FOR TRANSLATIONS)

Code:

Gsv Xivzglih rmul, xlmgzrmh gsv xofv blf mvvw.
Translation: The Creators info contains the clue you need

After this leak in discord, Brass's forum profile / signature now has a Binary Sequence of

Code:

01101000 01110100 01110100 01110000 01110011 00111010 00101111 00101111 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110010 01110101 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 01101111 01110010 01100111 00101111 01100110 01101001 01110011 01101000 00101111
Translation: https://forerunnergaming.org/fish/

On the https://forerunnergaming.org/fish/ webpage there is a video of someone who we can presume is Brassx starting in the spawn point of the lobby. The assumed Brassx then no clips / flys / runs from the lobby spawn point to the fishing dock area following the normal route/without clipping through walls or teleporting and then dives into the water to see the Kraken eyes.

KEY POINTS OF THIS VIDEO:

• The flying person is at 21 hp (Could potentially be a hint, 21 in binary is 0001 0101 or 10101)
• At the top of the lobby stairs an encryption phrase fades in, and then fades out as Brass gets closer to the water. The phrase reads as follows:
  
  Code:
  

  Ocz vixdzio wzvno yrzggn di ocz yzzk. Diqvydib nompxopmzn nvdy oj ydnopmw don mzno.
Translation: The ancient beast dwells in the deep. Invading structures said to disturb its rest.
• There is a hidden Morse code message in the page source of the website (https://images.forerunnergaming.org/10.21.04-22.09.18.png) that roughly translates to:
  
  Code:
  

  Originally the accepted translation was "The eyes bring power to the beast" but recent events bring more possibilites;
"THEEYESBRINGTHEPOWEROFTHEBEAST"
"THEEYESBRINGPOWERTOTHEBEAST"
"IHEEYESBRINGTHEPOWEROFTHEBEAST."

So what have we learned from this journey so far?

• Brass's profile has a clue leading to the https://forerunnergaming.org/fish/ webpage.
• That webpage has both an Encryption clue and a hidden morse code clue that we as a community have not fully translated, and they are:
  • The ancient beast dwells in the deep. Invading structures said to disturb its rest.
  • The eyes bring power to the beast **This is the currently accepted translation, it may be incorrect**
    
• ***EXCERPTS FROM BRASS***
  • Brass has confirmed there is something we are missing to the fight although it is not crucial to winning
  • The clues he left mentioned above should help us find what we are missing in order to assist further with fighting the Kraken
  • There are major differences between the possible translations about the eyes of the Kraken and there is definitely a clue hiding within it
  • Eyes serve a purpose other than just weakpoints
  • Confirmed - The spiky tentacles are weaker and easier to kill, SERIOUSLY FOCUS THE NON-SPIKY FIRST
    

Essentially what I want from the amazing FRG community from here on out is further speculation and answers on how we can beat this SOAB while also debunking the clues left by Brass.
Please leave any questions, ideas, or answers below so that the community of FRG can work through this together to find an answer and also kill this biatch for that loot .

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This area is for speculation/answers when appropriate, as well as full translations of the morse code and cryptograms.
Again, this area may also include large amounts of spoilers. VIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK;

• Speculation submitted by 2koreds:
  With Brass mentioning something we are missing in the Kraken fight but not crucial to winning it I speculate that one thing we could potentially test is shooting the boulders that are hurled from non-spiky tentacles. Perhaps they work similar to boulders being thrown by Bullymongs from Borderlands 2, possibly even deflecting or damaging the tentacles or Kraken.
  Reference:
  
  Code:
  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAnmXQQX_PM

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• Speculation submitted by Axe:
  The file name for the Morse Code spoiler/hint in the source code of the https://www.forerunnergaming.org/fish/ website is as follows;
  10. 13. 14- 22.09.18
  Now at first glance one would assume the 22.09.18 would be the release date of fishing which is possibly, but Axe thinks it may be part of the puzzle.
  There is a chance it is simply the date, but what about the rest of the video filename? spaces or underscores can stand for a break in Morse code or another dash in morse code. Brass's profile also implemented Binary Sequences for ASCII hints, meaning the video filename itself could be things such as;
  • 10. 13. 14- 22.09.18
  • [Binary translation of the above
  • or a mix of binary for the numbers with Morse Code for the (dots), (spaces), and (dash). Someone feel free to test possible translations plox.
    

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• Speculation and translations submitted by Nivendo:
  • Code:
    

    Ocz vixdzio wzvno yrzggn di ocz yzzk. Diqvydib nompxopmzn nvdy oj ydnopmw don mzno.
Translation: The ancient beast dwells in the deep. Invading structures said to disturb its rest.
  • Code:
    

    Originally the accepted interpretation was "The eyes bring power to the beast" but recent events bring more possibilites;
"THEEYESBRINGTHEPOWEROFTHEBEAST"
"THEEYESBRINGPOWERTOTHEBEAST"
"IHEEYESBRINGTHEPOWEROFTHEBEAST."
    
    

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• Speculation submitted by Alex Summers:
  I'm going to guess that with brass' hint on the eyes that they function similar to the orbs on ignis/glacies where they indicate which tentacle to shoot in order to break it faster.
  

My rant about myBB, not pertaining to this thread

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WOO Finally fixed all of the formatting. Fun fact, myBB changes your tags after you edit them. Literally have to have this thread saved in a txt doc to edit it without it breaking :^)

[pickle]

b-but we know that you only have to shoot it a lot to kill it

and

that windblade is just a particle effect

[The Black Parade]

yeah we have to make the best strategy to kill all tentacles fast enough, I think all of the other little hints and Easter eggs are for something else that relates to fishing, but not how to kill Kraken.

[TJ1524]

It would be easier if everyone was divided evenly into groups to kill the nonspike tentacles so they would all go down at the same time. Then we could rush the spikes.

Too bad that's wishful thinking.

[pickle]

(10-03-2018, 11:32 PM)TJ1524 Wrote:  It would be easier if everyone was divided evenly into groups to kill the nonspike tentacles so they would all go down at the same time. Then we could rush the spikes.

Too bad that's wishful thinking.

brass changed the fight so that nonspike tentacles, when they go down, add Downed time to already-downed nonspikes. i dont think thats the problem

[Brassx]

Some of my design choices with kraken though:

• Eyes serve a purpose other than weak points(figure this out yourselves)
• Different damages on each tentacle was at first a way to attempt to help promote targeting as a group and allow for slightly different strategies, as the tentacles themselves serve a much different purpose. Spikeys are generally less dangerous, so I was sure players would target the 'non spiked' ones as they are harder to kill, stay down longer, are more dangerous, and have multiple attacks: throwing headcrab spawners, rocks, and grabbing people. I was definitely wrong, and even in the fights right now I see people shooting spiked ones over non-spikeys because of how easy they are to down.
  I found it VERY odd that some people even thought tentacles stayed down at random intervals, with some 'respawning instantly'. That never happened, they are static timers with non-spiked staying down 15% longer, and upon-downing, they add downed time to other downed non-spiked ones
  The concept of it is a simple 'timed' minigame, where you must down all 8 tentacles within said time to deal damage to the boss.
  
  
  The fight itself isn't complex due to the fact it can have up to 32 people, and has minimal scaling. Anything too complicated would be way too hard to manage with that many players. But, I make up for that in other ways, not fully disclosed.
  

I will end on the fact that you have a mistranslated line in one of the clues I left.

[Alex Summers]

I'm going to guess that with brass' hint on the eyes that they function similar to the orbs on ignis/glacies where they indicate which tentacle to shoot in order to break it faster.

[Man]

The first line is a Atbash cypher that directly translates to:
The Creators info contains the clue you need

Now, this might not mean Brass, but who knows.

So we have two options for the mistranslation:
It's probably nothing, but the "T" in the first line of morse code is a dash made up of two dots. It'd be an "I" if you made it two dots instead of a dash, which makes the sentence-
"IHEEYESBRINGTHEPOWEROFTHEBEAST."

And the other one is a Keyed Caesar with a shift of 21, which gives:
The ancient beast dwells in the deep. Invading structures said to disturb its rest.
I kind of doubt this was a mistranslation, because I did it myself, but idk.

Everything here I've translated myself using their respective cyphers and can say that they are correct - probably.



In conclusion, I'm pretty sure the mistake stems from the morse code. I don't have experience with it, but chances are, the first two dots in the beginning aren't meant to be a "t", at the very least.

My best guess is that the two dots are actually a modifier to the encryption, and the phrase itself should be put through another form of encryption of some sort, but I'm not entirely sure.

[Anthony]

HE EYES BRING THE POWER TO THE BEAST (are you possibly suggesting that maybe we don't look at him??? so the eyes are actually ours and by looking at him we give him some power?????) no idk

[Brassx]

"THEEYESBRINGTHEPOWEROFTHEBEAST" and "THEEYESBRINGPOWERTOTHEBEAST" are two way different meanings.