So I don't know if anyone has posted this already, but I thought that I would make a forum thread for it in case someone hadn't already.
Like many of us I got Arkham City today and I now have the Cryptographic Sequencer which not only allows you to hack doors but it also can tune to radio frequencies. Please don't read this if you want to find this for yourself later on!
Please contribute any knowledge you might have to cracking these codes. Thanks!
*Begin Potential Spoilers*
So I was messing around with the Sequencer just scanning the airwaves when I came across this. At approximately 715.27 on the x-axis (horizontal) and 524.60 on the y-axis (vertical) there's a number station. Here is a transcript of the recording from that station:
"9, 23, 9, 12, 12, 18, 5, 20, 21, 18, 14, 2, 1, 20, 13, 1, 14 <musical chime plays> <message then repeats>"
I haven't performed any mathematical manipulations to the sequence yet, but it doesn't appear to be a Fibonacci sequence or really anything readily apparent. I can't figure out what it means and when I try to decode the transmission using the sequencer I get nothing. I am currently at the part early on in the story where I am looking for Mr. Freeze and have just rescued the first Riddler hostage. I'm not sure if the codes are event specific or progression based, but if you can't find out chances are that you haven't gone far enough with the main story to reveal it.
Edit: Answer to first code:
So the first code translates to "I WILL RETURN BATMAN"
But now it seems that there is more than one number station:
Coordinates 105 and 510:
3, 20, 26, 18, 26, 16, 24, 1, 11, 4, 24, 9, 3, 8, 5, 2, 12, 18, 6, 16, 7, 11, 3, 10, 17, 5, 13, 4, 21, 8, chime.
Currently this one doesn't have an answer yet...
Coordinates 500 and 900:
5 15 9 7 21 18 18 14 3 5 24 15 12 7 22 3 10 5 15 9 22 3 8 25 26 15 16 25 10 15 17 25 *music chime* repeats
Edit: Potential answer to third code from the GameFAQs forums. It's possible that this one does not appear until later in the game.
Translating the above to letters we get:
If we change it to letters we get this
E O I G U R R N C E X O L G V C J E O I V C H Y Z O P Y J O Q Y
This answer comes from one of the users at GameFAQs:
"YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME"
"when trying to solve cryptograms you have to look for patterns, and you need to know a few tricks of the trade i suppose. since i didnt have any spaces i had to look for repeating patterns. the first thing you do is assign all numbers with a letter. TC was kind enough to do that for me. next you look for repeats. in this case EOI and RR showed up. now through experience if your first 3 letters show up a few times odds are its either going to be YOU or THE, in this case it was YOU. now that i had those letters i can place the O in a few other places. the next think you know through experience is the last series of numbers all ended with a Y since two letters before it was an O that most likely means its going to be a vowel. in this case E. this process continues until you have the whole thing solved. it takes some trial and error, and figuring out the spaces is the hardest part, but this cryptogram was kinda easy since its just a bunch of 4 letter common words :P"
These two codes aren't simple A=1 substitutions, but the double 18 in the second code could be a T,L, or S.
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