Well, Rocksmith fans, it looks like Dan may have finally stumped us all for the longest time. 81 pages and counting, and nobody has solved it yet!
It all started with a reasonably inconspicuous GIF image of the Rocksmith twitter feed’s Dream Guitar Friday image, hinting that there may be a file hidden within:
Using Sourceforge’s hide-in-picture software, The_Working_Man successfully cracked it using SGDiabloTremolo as the password, revealing a reversed MP3 file. Ox1a4toke reversed it, revealing a mysterious phrase in Polish, with the sole English word “Placement” in the middle.
After several attempts to translate the phrase, Dan posted this MP3 (reversed by theramiro000), which is the same Polish audio clip with the addition of spaces between individual phrases.
RollingStone222 transcribed it as this:
pomięte przez chmury
połączenie zmian w pobliżu i placement
tu błedów i całego nieba za
samo
Which can be roughly translated as:
creased by clouds
combination of changes in the near and placement
errors here and the whole sky for
itself
Dan then hinted at the translation’s syntax being wrong, and that the Polish phrase itself is confused. Lastly, he asked us to pay close attention to the difference between the two audio files.
And this is where we leave off. Guesses ranged from Jimi Hendrix‘s “Little Wing” to Live‘s “Lightning Crashes,” and yet nobody has managed to solve the clue yet.
Since this DLC is coinciding with the launch of the game on PS4 and Xbox One, we have much reason to believe it may be a pretty big release.
What do you think we’ll see on Tuesday? Let us know in the comments!
(Oscar writing now) UPDATE: Well, we finally know what we’re getting, thanks to the reveal on Facebook.
That’s right, it’s a 3-pack of Killswitch Engage, and we know one of the songs thanks to the post.
So, The End of Heartache is all but confirmed, but what of the other two songs? Well, let’s speculate, shall we?
My Curse
This song has shown up in practically every other game KSE has, so it’s not unlikely that it will also come to Rocksmith.
HOLY DIVAHH
Because this song was awesome the first time it came to Rocksmith, logic states that it must be awesome the second time around!
Are you happy for moar metal in Rocksmith, or did you hype yourself up too much for this? Let us know in the comments.
@HA!
Seriously, do you just get off on being an elitist… On the internet of all places?! Get a life.
Nope, just doing my little part to try and fix stupid.
What did the Polish have to do with anything?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dutkiewicz
We interrupt the butthurt from the Killswitch Engage DLC announcement with some breaking news. According to an XBOX One leak, we will be getting a Tom Petty 5-Pack DLC.
The breaking news scene should be a picture of a guy smashing his guitar while in the corner there’s a Dan Amrich trollface.
Where is this alleged Tom Petty 5 pack?
Look at TRR feed and the Ubisoft forums.
Tom freaking Petty! Everyone! Tom freaking Petty!
The Curse is showing up on XBOX ONE store. Don’t see the third title though.
My Curse*
Thanks for the update 😀
Yeah. My bad. Sorry.
Get ready for My Curse and Holy Diver.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/Search?q=killswitch%20engage#All
Getting their cover of Holy Diver would be stupid. We already have the good version.
This is what all the hype and excitement was about…? Man here we were thinking we would actually get the likes of AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, Hendrix, SRV, some even guessed Pink Floyd.
Dan my man next time you throw such a curveball of a puzzle at us, it’d be nice if the reveal was a little more rewarding.
Well I’m not sure why you thought you would get any of those artists just randomly but that was your choice.
I wasn’t the only one lol.
Yup a lot of people like to get disappointed instead of listening to Dan and other members of the Rocksmith community explain how licensing works over and over and over. Stay tuned for a big announcement tomorrow though!
Has the ipad version left beta yet? I would think that’s the next big announcement.
It’s DLC related
https://twitter.com/crossieRS/status/529346977901727744
Yes I know you’re hungry oh look here comes the DLC I’ve been waiting for!
If its a Bill & Ted reference it’s Van Halen not what I thought…
Awesome looking forward to it. 😀
My friend likes Killswitch Engage
but I never really had the time to listen to there music, the only time was the holy diver cover and the song on guitar hero van halen
I really hope we get in due time in the pack, it’s one of their newer songs so also relatively likely. Rose of Sharyn would make this my fovourite DLC yet but it’s kind of unlikely.
Yes. Rose of Sharyn would be awesome. That would be the first song I have officially requested. Super excited about this pack!
Only 3 pack though…
Regardless of the song selection this in insta- buy for me.
Damn it, I was hoping for some Stones!
What’s the hate for KSE?
I don’t get it either…
still waiting for the megahits galore
By logic we could get a Dio pack, Poison pack, Billy Squier pack by the end of next summer…
Haven’t had this big an anti-climax since my viagra wore off.