Seeing fucking Postal 3 of all games be involved in this ARG involving source games is a fucking trip. What's next, Vampires of the Mascarade: Bloodlines, cause that is ALSO a source game.

@Yourlocalwordrobe

5 ай бұрын

I can see postal dude in 2 FPS beat the hell out of umbrella man with some ultra suggestive mini nuke fetus luncher or something

@dondion7913

5 ай бұрын

Maybe even titanfall, or nightmare house 2, etc.

@joemamamiba2761

5 ай бұрын

I swear. If sombody makes the "Postal III doesn't exist" joke again, i'm gonna scream.

@ImNotSimon_totally

5 ай бұрын

hunt down the freeman when

@Cat-xh3zk

5 ай бұрын

what about cry of fear? isnt that a source game?

13:06 boot jumpscare

@GeneralBitBoat

5 ай бұрын

American boot!

@zacharylegaspi7594

5 ай бұрын

when the discord mod asks you the shape of Italy

@Deadgirl97

4 ай бұрын

Get booted!

@harrynoodlemeyer4450

4 ай бұрын

that litterall asia

2:33 FTP is File Transfer Protocol, a common method of sharing files over the internet. Kind of confirms that these are taken from a server hosting these files, but it could also be a message left for someone else. Also 2:07 the port 27016 is used by Steam, specifically for game traffic. You can use ports 27000-27100 for Steam game servers. This would indicate that whenever this is run on a Source game you are being connected to a server for said game. Interestingly, Postal 3 actually does require an internet connection in order to get around its DRM, and when that authentication server went down in late 2022 no one could play the game anymore. So whatever's allowing Postal 3 to work with the interlope command is acting as an authentication server or cracked the game.

@D9fjg

8 күн бұрын

also possible the thing generating these stuff are also generating old messages left behind by an admin or smth

@D9fjg

8 күн бұрын

okay on second thought maybe not, maybe there's actually some person

My two takeaways are that 1) at least one of the people behind this seems to be a real piece of work, judging by the "pleasant demeanour" of their comments and the mocking jumpscare for people looking into what they are doing, and indeed what they are doing is-if these truly are 'living NPCs'-torturing people by contorting their bodies, drowning them, and playing with their severed heads... 2) the replica of Anomidae's camera-scouting-vehicle means either there is some history involving him and this stuff that he hasn't told us about, OR whoever or whatever is behind this whole thing is well aware of his meddling and is actively doing things behind the scenes right now in the present day (rather than all of this stuff having taken place in the past in Eida's day)... or even both!

@timurthelame4479

5 ай бұрын

With regards to point 2, I’m leaning towards Eida hiding stuff from us. He is suspiciously silent on the use of the researcher character from Episode 7, and dismissed the DM Editor tool as being a “hoax”, despite documentation on Eida’s channel.

@spaceacepl4636

5 ай бұрын

​@@timurthelame4479 also anomi didn't even mention the sample tool when the logo popped up we even saw the sample tool at least twice in the series, once when eida deleted the mona and then when eida got jumpsacred by the scout then there's the whole psb.lucy thing psb is bsp spelled backwards and the name itself is just strange instead of just lucy it's psb.lucy then near the end of the vid where she debuted, she was in a wrong position and t-posed we then saw her again in a weird version of half life(?) where she was standing out in the open the place was strange, it seemed to be half life 2's lost coast map, but the movement and the way the gun was held made me realise that this ain't half life 2 anymore and anomi didn't even say what that thing was (unless he did somewhere else, but i don't know), i think he only said that it was project skybox or something?

@MahNamJeff

5 ай бұрын

@@spaceacepl4636we know its a bit more than that as in the stream, anomi stated that its a custom source game for future investigations or something like that i could be misremembering though.

I get creeped out how the mercs get twisted apart, limbs bent, necks snapped at impossible angles. It’s like watching a shitty kid rip the arms off his action figures.

@4GB-Man64

4 ай бұрын

It's literally GMod Players but the TF2 Faces only

@user-oi7mo6xk4w

3 ай бұрын

and when you imagine that sentient ai is in them or some stuff, i got creeped out a bit :(

@D9fjg

8 күн бұрын

don't say shitty kid, unlike the thing contorting the bodies kids that pull apart their action figures are only having fun and dont know what they're doing (i know because i was once a kid that ripped figures to pieces then reconstruct them)

2:32 meet the heads 3:49 demoman dreams be like 4:44 book flying captured on camera 5:15 scout: im gonna say goodbye to my skeleton chucklehead 5:49 pyro having a stroke 6:37 engineer first time smiling 6:51 i forgor to install css 💀 8:29 a man has fallen into the river in cp_well 8:57 sfm animators when they bored 9:20 BETA SFM ITRO LEKED!!!1!1! 1! 1 10:02 pov: you touched sash 13:05 boot jumpscare 13:30 soldier mains calling a medic 13:55 scout: im in the walls 15:17 a man has fallen into the river in cp_well but mans pov: 15:38 medic ubercharge worked not correctly 16:37 proof that aliens are already here on earth

9:19 Anyone else notice how the random shifting about of the sfm logo in data19 mirrors the ediamiona video where he tries to get a "spirit" to spell it's name

"I'm leaving SFM for last because the findings weren't that interesting" 13 minutes in we're presented with the glorious boot jumpscare. NIK, you gotta apologise for misleading us like this >:(

@NIKToper

5 ай бұрын

I'm sorry 😔

On Data35 the console will display a bunch of info about how the player respawn timers has been set for the max amount of time and players only getting 1 respawn. Then it repeatedly sends "Player_Damaged" event notifications in pairs even with the video player paused and after quite a few of them it prints "ERRORNAME died" in a pair. An error message will then get printed saying there isn't a respawn location on the level. This will then repeat with the ERRORNAME players getting hurt until they die and getting warned about not having a respawn location indefinitely. My theory is that the SFM session of data35 is holding DMNPCs since there is some garbled text in the "Source Filmmaker 10th Anniversary Intro" DMX file about how DMNPCs can't be killed which is then further backed up in TF2s Data86 Heavy being immune to getting deleted. Perhaps the house we see the Demo Void probe in still has the DMNPCs we saw in Misty?

13:05 boot jumpscare lol

@vinesauceobscurities

5 ай бұрын

Someone needs to adapt that into a SFM video with silly jumpscare music.

@Maske4

5 ай бұрын

Beat me to it

the map in data20 is actually just the "meet the heavy" map that's in SFM normally

source bimbaker 🤤 thanks nik

Theory: these are session recordings from the DM Editor which could be a modified version of SFM to explain why they can be loaded into SFM, but all the other functionalities don’t work which is why you get those error messages in the console. Most of these are probably some unknown person in the editor creating a bunch of useless session recordings because they can’t delete their recordings off the FSKY server so they just feed Anomi with a bunch of junk to avoid them downloading any actual sessions they don’t want shared

I have a suspicion that you are actually Anomi and part of the whole ARG... and if you aren't, kudos to you. This is phenomenal work. It matches the main investigation in tone extremely effectively. My jaw dropped when I saw a version of the surveillance truck thing reconstructed in the Half Life map... with the damned Ravenholm sign too. Something here is screwing with us.

Thank you for doing this, the Source community can be spared of the console's terrifying insults and the rainbow shoe at 13:06.

I feel like these sfm demos should be classified completely differently from the other games. For example, some demos included the TF2 mercs getting slowly distorted, like the AI was learning, we could classify them as type A. We can also see that some demos are actually trying to do something, like the engineer smiling, or the boot jumpscare, we could classify them as type B Again, this is just a suggestion, the ranking can be different

Man when I think I have a good grasp of this series 10 new questions come up that baffle me. The SFM models move pretty similarly to how the crasher moved in the eida mona video. If we take the idea suggested in episode 8 of eidas interloper investigation, maybe this "spirit" (probably not an actual spirit but may function in a somewhat similar way) can posses a variety of things. Maybe am umbrella man is the result of this spirit possessing the dm editor (the ending of episode 8) maybe the crashers is sfm (or box rocket) getting possessed. Maybe the weird maps we keep generating is the Hammer editor getting possessed. Another theory about the crashers is that either its a fsky employee using a type 5 or sfm as a model to spook eida, or it's a disfigured type 5/sfm thing repurposed like the cheaples/dudes from spooky coast All of these pieces we've seen so far would in theory create a self sustaining world. The Hammer editor ai would create the world, the umbrella men would clean it up, the crashers might police it (eh I'm not confident in that) and the type 5 would live in it. If we assume four'two is fsky, their presentation was called "the anatomy of a world" Anyway interloper is my hyperfixation bye bye

SFM is weirdest one its either really uncan replay with someone roasting you for nothing or just random twisting

You guys remember how Eida had "captured a spirit" by allowing it to possess a ragdoll? Could this be what FSKY is doing here as well with those models slowly shifting and breaking? The scanner is also an interesting thing to see as well, maybe it's some kind of rudimentary type 6, scanning for potential DMNPC's? As for the boat that is a tough one, either it's a very recent demo or Anomi has some potential history with this whole Interloper buisness...

17:02 in data35 is really interesting. If all the maps are connected and are a part of one big world, is it possible that a probe was captured by someone from fsky? If not and they only caught wind from the recent uploads, what purpose would they have in making one themselves?

These videos are so detailed and well edited I'm half convinced this channel is secretly run by is Anomidae themselves

@ScripFing

3 ай бұрын

The editing style is so similar that I'm convinced

Thought it was all scary before "hehe smile : 0" appeared

I also appreciate you documenting the console commands in SFM. I have not seen another video that does that. It really adds more context to wtf is happening in the sfm demos

The movements of the light in data15 and its weird patrolling behavior reminds me of the head from the Type 5 in CS:GO. Makes me wonder if it's capturing something similar, but the model hasn't loaded in properly.

16:55 TRANSFORMERS!!! ASSEMBLE!!

The “Scout Crasher” from Eida could be a result of the interloper messing around with the scouts limbs, remember how the interloper can make its own maps? Well what else can it do.

It's weird how it is possible to record your animating session, which essentially is an equivalent of demo

@boreiafarofa8066

5 ай бұрын

as far as i know, these files aren't recordings, these files are like save files for sfm

@nervehammer1

4 ай бұрын

@@boreiafarofa8066 save files with a replay?

@boreiafarofa8066

4 ай бұрын

@@nervehammer1 yes? i mean, a save file is everything you have done so far in the project. the lighting, animation, audio, etc. the replay thing is here so you can see what is ok or what is weird, then fix it sorry if i sounds too rude, but i couldnt find a better way to explain it

The ones where the mercs are T-posed and being contorted brings to mind what someone might do when they first use SFM, grab a TF2 model and mess around with the posing. Might have similar connotations to the similarities between Type 3 Demos and the Flashlight Nuke Glitch.

Boot was too scary, can't watch vid anymore

yo', i love the research you've done for these demos! Even after the ARG, I hope you will continue to upload videos, because your style is kinda good

hyped up for the stanley parable demo

Видео на глазах появилось. Очень ждал

@evgenim1

5 ай бұрын

Здесь все ждут новых материалов расследования. Почти 20 лет прошло, а загадку начали конкретно решать лишь недавно.

BEEN SO EXCITED FOR THIS

I have to wonder about the meaning of all the demos where the Mercenaries & other NPCs are getting mutilated or twisted. There has to be SOMETHING to that, right? Is it just to show that whoever's POV they're from likes doing this to them? Is it a weird way of an AI learning something? Is how their limbs are being twisted a secret code? I've no idea what to even think of them. They're just weird. Data13 makes me think that maybe it's the first option - someone's obviously leaving notes in there, and the idea of making something "smile" feels like something only a human would want to do. But then, why?? And more importantly, who????

@alriune

3 ай бұрын

Looking at some of the other findings, my conclusion is that these (the SFM ones anyway) are probably amalgamations of Anomidae's files, except messed with by something. Likely an Interloper of some kind, unless Anomidae REALLY doesn't like people going through their files. That being said, whether the NPC Manipulation is Anomidae's (maybe why they tried to brush off the SFM files in the first place?) or influenced by something else is yet to be seen. I still feel like the NPC Manipulation is really important, though - there HAS to be something to it. It feels so deliberate in some ways. Too deliberate just to write it off.

Data 21 was really creapy I just watched it to the end and... BOOT JUMPSCARE

@User-hg4xn

5 ай бұрын

American boot!

dude your channel already has 1,250 subscribers Good job dude Keep making these quality videos

Those next FBX files are going to be a doozy, Especially that postal 3 one, yeesh!

The heavy and the boot was the umbrella man. We cant trust pootis and the boot. Anyway do anyone got jumpscare by the boot? I dont so i just asking

@Dirimesavir

Ай бұрын

I'm not

That scout one actually gave me chills

Why does the demo head blinking looks so cool

6:38 reminds me of that one scene from terminator 2

the boot jumpscare was scarier than the hello guy

every time i see d2_coastal i feel like i'm returning to the scene of a crime.

So anomidae took the idea of the floating car from the demo? I think anomi knows more than he tell us.

@MichaelHybrid

5 ай бұрын

Well we know the voice over in Eida's videos is done by his friend Jman. It's possible that Eida and Anomi are the same person. At the very least I agree that Anomi is an unreliable narrator.

@notIndecisive

5 ай бұрын

they copied the car from anomi's video because FSKY is probably monitoring it

@dualsite1173

5 ай бұрын

How do we know that? These demos were generated during the tuesday incident, giving Anomidae no time to recreate the car once he came back to his computer. I say it’s more of a sign of FSKY being aware of his interloping. I do agree that something up with Anomi, as he’s been proven to be an unreliable narrator and is been elusive with information so far pertaining to his PROJECT//SKYBOX mod and whatever made him leave so abruptly during the Tuesday Incident.

@bigoistin9125

5 ай бұрын

Lol I think that means one of the skybox voyagers reached another map

@dondion7913

5 ай бұрын

@@dualsite1173 were they generated? Or just extracted from a data bank? The maps even have dev's coments in them.

Inb4 this is another one of anomidaes accounts

I think the Datas of the Mercs Limbs Going crazy is how a crasher is created idk

What some people are saying about Data 32 is that it’s from Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe. I don’t think that is the case because if I remember correctly, that version runs on a different engine.

@NIKToper

4 ай бұрын

That's right, The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe was made with a different game engine. Instead of using the Source Engine, Ultra Deluxe uses Unity.

POSTAL??

@NIKToper

5 ай бұрын

Yup. Apparently, it's also a source engine game.

@fourlion_everywhere

5 ай бұрын

Only Postal III uses Source though

13:06 АААААААААААА САПОГ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@thesonic

4 ай бұрын

АААААААА МЫ ВСЕ УМРЕМ

I have a feeling that anomidae will get the same fate as eidamona

@__Obscure__

2 ай бұрын

How did I only just now notice that anomidae is an anagram of eidamona

@Spoon97

2 ай бұрын

@@__Obscure__ bbug it is

these are so creepy ,i might try to animate a vhs tape kind of video based on these

8:21 is that meant to be a crude recreation of SPOOKYCOAST?

You are the best

8:52 I thought that was my cursor and I got scared the dmx files are somehow coming through the video, your cursor looks strikingly similar to bibata cursor or it IS bibata lol

Gonna be some real shit if this ARG turns INFRA into a horror game.

on data15 you missed something- that 'scanner' has a missing texture, but you can still check its properties for the name of the texture its meant to have

you edit really well for someone who has 1.23k subs

@NIKToper

5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

know this is probably pretty off, but data11 shares some similarities to type 5's. from the floating arms we see, to the way the camera moves. know its just the first person viewmodel, but the camera makes me think its something related.

oh my god imagine if anomi uses the 27016 server instead of 27015 in interloper 10

Data 11 sticks out to me a lot. It looks like the camura tries to make the view model to fit in, But fails. So it spaz out in frustration

We should try to investigate source 2 along with goldSRC and see if they also have something similar…

@carlosarti2002original

4 ай бұрын

The ARG, sadly(?), is only from the Source engine, so until Anòmidae says something or someone else makes an ARG derived from it, nothing can be done in GoldSource and Source 2.

@BHC_08

4 ай бұрын

@@carlosarti2002original It was a joke as if it wasn’t just an ARG, and more like a real thing. B R U H

13:55 the scout in the wall in a red 2fort base reminded me of the second type 5 generated in the original Interloper video. Then followed up with what looks to be similar to the map from Spooky Coast. I’m reaching here, but could many of these be the genesis of (or even the aftermath of) the type 5 demos? If that’s the case many of these would be type 5s that haven’t been found. Also, chillingly, if this is correct then the implication here is that whoever made these demos is playing with the ‘corpses’ of the dynamic NPCs spawned in the creation of the type 5s. Going with a lot of assumptions here but didn’t see anyone else mention that. Does anyone have any thoughts?

Can't wait for the crosscode shill Snoucher requested.

you know this kinda reminds me of sk toi

Fuckin boot jumpscare

13:53 this might have caused skyghost

Nice video, but for some reason, this weird umbrella man appears on my Minecraft game. Do you have any idea how to get rid of him?

@NIKToper

5 ай бұрын

Try communicating with the Umbrella Man

@nervehammer1

4 ай бұрын

@@NIKToper I LOVE HOW HE WASNT LYING AND THERE IS LITERALLY AN UMBRELLA MAN IN HIS MINECRAFT GAME

ОоОоОо! Прикол (OoOoOoh! Cool)

Interloper learned how to animate in SFM 5:07

6:16 mwah!

The prop movement in data35 is very VRAD error-esque.

WAKE UP NIKTOPER POSTED

Isn't data20 just using the map designed for Meet the Heavy's officially-released SFM files? Might be worth double-checking that, a lot of the map oddities could just be from grabbing chunks of other maps for the scene-setting. Sloppiness that doesn't matter if unseen.

in data26, the console was spamming commands concerning the 'vault doors' maybe that demo is worth investigating for anything off camera?

(Originally in spanish but translated for your comfort) NIKToper, I noticed that you haven't put "data16" in the list, I saw in the description of another video that it's from the game Dystopia, I don't know if you know, but I'm telling you anyway because I don't see that you've put it in. Greetings. (Video where the description says that the data16 file is Dystopia: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qY6Lus2uk7XZmdI.html)

@NIKToper

5 ай бұрын

It was an accident that I forgot to include this game in the video, but I will definitely do so in the next. In addition, I forgot to add Black Mesa to the list; I will include it in part 2. I appreciate you telling me!

Half life 2 beta on the list?!

Data 35 is really weird

hey NIKToper what's your next plan after SFM EP2 out?

@NIKToper

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking of making a video of the things I've missed in these demo/map files.

I never expected Postal 3, of all games theres this seemingly random ass inclusion?

Whats the music playing in background?

@NIKToper

4 ай бұрын

Half-Life 2 Song 8

10th!!!

When will part 2 come out?

@NIKToper

4 ай бұрын

Last week, I was planning to upload my next video, but I didn't have enough time. At the moment, I am editing my new video, and I plan to upload it tomorrow, or even today if I have time.

@thesonic

4 ай бұрын

Okay 👍👌 ​@@NIKToper

A few of these oddities seem to have the SFM bugs that Valve never wants to fix. Entire maps are just broken or need to be manually edited just to fix. Best example to learn about how bad SFM is LazyPurple's video shoing how much he suffered making how it feels to play engineer in SFM kzread.info/dash/bejne/mYF4yaqJgZO_lqw.html

How about Titanfall?

6:00 are this is a face?

@Dirimesavir

Ай бұрын

Actually looks like it is

12:13

why messages from console so mad

@NIKToper

4 ай бұрын

Perhaps it is a message for someone trying to enter the FSKY server. They're mad at Anomidae for generating the demos and DMNPCs.

@potspy

4 ай бұрын

@@NIKToper that explains why, thanks

American boot

Now im actually wondering about l4d. I only have l4d Xbox 360 version. I actually made it so it can play on pc.. Dont ask how.. When i trued the interloper command. I saw ellis. Which doesn't exist. Smiling slowly then crashing my game. I dont know how this is possible. Ill try to post it on my channel.

@The_Goose2

5 ай бұрын

seems legit.

@Zimmer-dq8mx

5 ай бұрын

Im not joking. Posting it tommorow

@KrankuSama

5 ай бұрын

I respect your creativity but it does suck to gamejack an ARG with cheap creepypasta cliches, you should make your story its own thing

data9.dmx The scout is probably alive he knows anything he trying to escape but the interloper captures him and twists his body and takes his gun away. data17.dmx too except this time a male _09 got capture

27015 and 27016 are likely network ports. maybe the sfm demos are pulling with a different protocol?

13:06 boot jumpscare