Ubisoft is currently running an ARG through Uplay on occasion of April Fools. It's quite innocent at first but it seems like there's something deeper and with E3 arriving I'm more suspicious that this could be some ARG fuckery.
A new glitched out button has appeared on UPLAY marked as "admin_console".
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58141/e427e3f7-55e5-495e-b51e-9ca3ac285ba1/upc_2018-04-01_13-23-47.png
Typing Help leads to this screen, most commands either nonfunctional or jokes:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58141/8fdbe10e-f1f5-4d7e-994d-20de43bdd919/upc_2018-04-01_13-24-00.png
"List-unreleased-games" is where it gets interesting. Entering it leads to this screen:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58141/efe94429-dff4-44ef-9edc-32dd7e7edd5b/upc_2018-04-01_13-24-20.png
Some of those truncated names are recognizable; Far Cry, Origins, Assassin's Creed and The Division. But there's also #start-map, which leads to a small text based adventure game through which one can find first a series of numbers and then a string of text:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58141/1f4c49d7-c3ab-43ff-9d25-6ddbb7edeabc/upc_2018-04-01_12-59-28.png
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58141/b138f73f-a4dc-477d-980c-7a977663465e/upc_2018-04-01_13-00-40.png
I've tried relating the text to the numbers but I cannot find the relation. I thought the numbers could be a key to reorganize the character string but after looking at it a little I guess it's the opposite, and the text string is some kind of key to turn the numbers into letters. The string looks a lot like an encryption key but I have no idea how one could convert that into anything.
The whole text adventure thing is also designed around obvious horror themes so this is either a watch_dogs thing since it's so built around hacking, or is some kind of horror game. I'm kind of stumped at the numbers and text string but maybe you guys would like to look into this deeper.
Sort the letters alphabetically and you get:
Happy April Fools! Type "af-reward" to get a reward.
Well it's a cool wallpaper, I'll take it
Too bad the reward is so simple. Could have been more or something a bit more significant.
Anyway, a cool ideia
Would be better if it didn't have uPlay on it.
Kinda cool but underwhelming.
I honestly didn't realy think much of the whole admin console thing. Nice find
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