Possible ARCInfiltration bug (pictures)

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Possible ARCInfiltration bug (pictures)

Postby Cæn » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:54 am

Good morning.

I am on the ARCInfiltration mission & I have managed to scan the LAN & get quite far in the network. After the transmitter, there is only one authentication server & nothing else around it: just that one authentication server. If I probe the authentication server, a yellow box like though around the locks appears randomly in the middle of the LAN. There's no picture of a key or anything, just the yellow box & the words underneath. I can't probe it nor can I find any way to get to it & I can't advance any further in the mission.

Any help would be appreciated since I can't move on in the game at all with this problem.

Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
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Postby Cæn » Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:28 pm

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The image host screwed up the image a bit. That Locks/Unlocks box you see in the middle is actually yellow.
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Postby Montyphy » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:40 pm

Probe EVERYTHING again. For things that have two states, such as Locks, probe them in each state (i.e. enabled and disabled).
Connect to EVERY terminal again and look for an IP or another frequency.

There's definitely portions of the LAN you haven't accessed but without being able to see everything we can't help much more than stating the above generic advice. It will probably be easier if you just upload your .usr file to sharebee.com so others can play on the LAN and tell you what you missed. If you do that though, create and save the bounce chain for connecting to the main portion of the LAN so who ever takes it on can just load it and connect.
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Postby Cæn » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:48 pm

I've probed everything over & over. There was one terminal that gave my the radio frequency (which is what I used on the transmitter/receiver) & another which gave me a phone number (but I haven't found a modem yet). I'll up load my .usr now for you.

Edit: just my luck that sharebee.com's upload service is down for about an hour. Would you like me to take a picture of the rest of the LAN for you?
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Postby Cæn » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:15 pm

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I spent ages on that in MS Paint so I hope it helps. :P That's everything that I can see after everything has been probed, both locked & unlocked. That yellow square in the middle is what I was talking about in my original post.
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Postby mr_anonymous » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:55 pm

Cæn wrote:... another which gave me a phone number (but I haven't found a modem yet)...

Have you tried dialing that number?
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Postby Montyphy » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:46 pm

As mr_anonymous suggests, enter the IP/number into IP_lookup and connect to the newly added node on your map. You should then be on the disjoint portion of the LAN.

Also, there are alternatives to sharebee such as Rapidshare, Megashare, etc.
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Postby Cæn » Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:59 pm

Thank you both. If this works then... I don't know what I'd do but I'd be massively grateful! I read the FAQ right though & the modlink.net guide but I didn't think to try this. Thank you again, sirs.
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Postby Cæn » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:44 pm

Yes! You guys are the best! I thank you so much! I got kicked off the LAN as I was deleting logs but I managed to delete all my logs anyway. Can I still be traced even though I cleared my logs & the trace timer didn't run out?
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Postby Cæn » Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:18 pm

Turns out I got caught. What I don't get is that I nuked my gateway when the motion sensor turned red & Uplink even sent me an email saying it was a lucky escape so how did I get caught? :s

Also: do you have to clear your logs when hacking to stop Revelation?

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