Vigenère mission chain: a possible hidden code?

[Estaca_de_Bares]

I entered the game and started by checking what missions I still haven't completed, and found that there's a new mission chain called "Vigenère":

 

For those unaware, monsieur de Vigenère was a French diplomat and cryptographer who is credited for the most famous pen-and-paper polyalphabetic cipher (although examples of such a system had been around since a century prior), which took almost three centuries to be broken. Add the fact that the missions' requirements look suspiciously like 7-bit binaries (the original ASCII standard) and my pattern-searching sense started tingling. The requirements, when considered as binaries and converted to ASCII, can be read as L U t S. I also suspect that the rewards might be part of the code, although I haven't figured out (yet) the kind of algorithm associated with them. Following Asimov's advice, I'll play some battles and let my brain work on the issue in the background, but I considered it worth mentioning, may some brighter minds get any clue faster.

 

Salute to all.

[Cyclops_]

59 minutes ago, Estaca_de_Bares said:

I entered the game and started by checking what missions I still haven't completed, and found that there's a new mission chain called "Vigenère":

 

For those unaware, monsieur de Vigenère was a French diplomat and cryptographer who is credited for the most famous pen-and-paper polyalphabetic cipher (although examples of such a system had been around since a century prior), which took almost three centuries to be broken. Add the fact that the missions' requirements look suspiciously like 7-bit binaries (the original ASCII standard) and my pattern-searching sense started tingling. The requirements, when considered as binaries and converted to ASCII, can be read as L U t S. I also suspect that the rewards might be part of the code, although I haven't figured out (yet) the kind of algorithm associated with them. Following Asimov's advice, I'll play some battles and let my brain work on the issue in the background, but I considered it worth mentioning, may some brighter minds get any clue faster.

 

Salute to all.

Could be totally wrong, but could the code be in the  Commander XP numbers??????  3001 3002 4003 4004 5990???

[Estaca_de_Bares]

47 minutes ago, Cyclops_ said:

Could be totally wrong, but could the code be in the  Commander XP numbers??????  3001 3002 4003 4004 5990???

It's a possibility, true. The thing is, although I share the feeling it should be read like progression you wrote (going through the missions until the final reward), it could also be read top to bottom as they appear on screen.

 

Maybe I'm just winding it too much, but one algorithm I can think of for the progression in the rewards' values is as follows: by using modular arithmetic, every two increases in the "units" (if expressed in modulus 5) brings an increase in the "thousands" (modulus >6, which precise one unknown); every time the "units" reset (value 0), decrease by one the value of the "tens" and "hundreds" (modulus 10 for sure).

 

Salute.

[Verblonde]

[MementoMori_6030]

Vor 4 Stunden, Verblonde sagte:

 

[Camperdown]

WG = masons? 

[MementoMori_6030]

Well.

Just some idea of mine.

A French cryptographer.

The ASCII Code for LUtS.

The XP add up to 20.000.

 

There is this famous French (Jules Verne) novel "20.000 Leagues Under the Sea" (which - coincidally? - features a submarine).

 

Addendum: Because it's commander XP, this might be a hint at Captain Nemo/Prince Dakkar.

[RossijskijAxisFlot]

that's some sherlock sh*t 

[RAYvenMP]

its the old supercontainer mission that bugged yesterday, but instead of removing it they changed it into this

[Estaca_de_Bares]

6 hours ago, MementoMori_6030 said:

Well.

Just some idea of mine.

A French cryptographer.

The ASCII Code for LUtS.

The XP add up to 20.000.

 

There is this famous French (Jules Verne) novel "20.000 Leagues Under the Sea" (which - coincidally? - features a submarine).

 

Addendum: Because it's commander XP, this might be a hint at Captain Nemo/Prince Dakkar.

Looks like the most plausible and logical explanation. I didn't think about adding up the rewards, but yes, it makes all the sense. Unfortunately, neither 20000LUTS, LUTS20000, 20KLUTS nor LUTS20K (only capital letters allowed) are valid codes, so it probably was just a small pastime by the devs (a clever one, though).

 

16 minutes ago, RAYvenMP said:

its the old supercontainer mission that bugged yesterday, but instead of removing it they changed it into this

I hope not, yet considering the amount of bugs and cover-ups going on, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if true. At the very least they had some wittiness with this one, I'll give them that.

 

Salute.

[DisorderZ55]

The super container mission that was briefly live yesterday was the TWITCH DROP mission. It was mistakenly active before the stream and thus WG removed it. It is a completely separate mission chain (That was unlockable yesterday during the 9 hour twitch stream 
The Vigenere mission was live a few days ago (not sure if it is needed to be activated or was active for everyone)

[MementoMori_6030]

Vor 34 Minuten, DisorderZ55 sagte:

The super container mission that was briefly live yesterday was the TWITCH DROP mission. It was mistakenly active before the stream and thus WG removed it. It is a completely separate mission chain (That was unlockable yesterday during the 9 hour twitch stream 
The Vigenere mission was live a few days ago (not sure if it is needed to be activated or was active for everyone)

It was there right after the patch went live, no prerequisites. I had nothing to do with the SC missons, which could be reacquired via Waffle Stream.

[RAYvenMP]

1 hour ago, MementoMori_6030 said:

It was there right after the patch went live, no prerequisites. I had nothing to do with the SC missons, which could be reacquired via Waffle Stream.

if that mission was legit, so wow, like 20k captain EXP? holy crap they are spoiling us indeed

[WaLzu]

I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a while now and this is what I've managed to scramble together:
3001 might refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-3001

3002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-3002

4003: Googled "submarine 4003" and got a 1:400 scale model of K-141 Kursk

4004: Googled "submarine 4004" and got a 1:400 scale model of Project 705 Lyra

5990: Googled "submarine 5990" and got a Patek Philippe 5990 Submarine watch.

 

Tried encoding and decoding the word "submarine" which was the common denominator with the key LUtS in this Vigenere decipherer but to no avail, neither code i got could be redeemed.

 

Edit: I've also tried encoding and decoding 20000LUTS, LUTS20000, 20KLUTS nor LUTS20K, 20KLEAGUESUNDERTHESEA and others but hav'nt yet found a working code. *I might have missed out to try some of the possible combinations so feel free to play around as there might be some loot hidden here.

[MrWastee]

On 9/17/2021 at 11:31 PM, Estaca_de_Bares said:

I entered the game and started by checking what missions I still haven't completed, and found that there's a new mission chain called "Vigenère":

 

For those unaware, monsieur de Vigenère was a French diplomat and cryptographer who is credited for the most famous pen-and-paper polyalphabetic cipher (although examples of such a system had been around since a century prior), which took almost three centuries to be broken. Add the fact that the missions' requirements look suspiciously like 7-bit binaries (the original ASCII standard) and my pattern-searching sense started tingling. The requirements, when considered as binaries and converted to ASCII, can be read as L U t S. I also suspect that the rewards might be part of the code, although I haven't figured out (yet) the kind of algorithm associated with them. Following Asimov's advice, I'll play some battles and let my brain work on the issue in the background, but I considered it worth mentioning, may some brighter minds get any clue faster.

 

Salute to all.

@MrConway@YabbaCoe@TheWarJaC.... please, before someone's catching a neurosis ^^ .... anything to it?

[webaake]

This is the best thread here ever!  A light in the darkness! Thank you! 

[YabbaCoe]

Před 19 hodinami MrWastee řekl/a:

@MrConway@YabbaCoe@TheWarJaC.... please, before someone's catching a neurosis ^^ .... anything to it?

Well, I can't tell you exactly, what is that about. But the name of the mission should help you. Some of you in this thread are on a good track.

[N00Boo7]

Can it be morse code in the 1's and 0's  in the title missions?

[black_falcon120]

22 hours ago, WaLzu said:

I've been trying to wrap my head around this for a while now and this is what I've managed to scramble together:
3001 might refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-3001

3002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-3002

4003: Googled "submarine 4003" and got a 1:400 scale model of K-141 Kursk

4004: Googled "submarine 4004" and got a 1:400 scale model of Project 705 Lyra

5990: Googled "submarine 5990" and got a Patek Philippe 5990 Submarine watch.

 

Tried encoding and decoding the word "submarine" which was the common denominator with the key LUtS in this Vigenere decipherer but to no avail, neither code i got could be redeemed.

 

Edit: I've also tried encoding and decoding 20000LUTS, LUTS20000, 20KLUTS nor LUTS20K, 20KLEAGUESUNDERTHESEA and others but hav'nt yet found a working code. *I might have missed out to try some of the possible combinations so feel free to play around as there might be some loot hidden here.

Just began rummaging myself using Nautilus (the fictional sub in that book) as the key and I'm now locked out of redeeming :( 

 

It isn't any combination of Vignere, submarine or nautilus encrypting each other. 

 

My guess is nautilus is the key, but I don't know what the plaintext is... 

 

My best (wrong) current guess was 'twenty thousand', as that's what's missing from the luts acronym.  it could be something to do with elite captain xp, but I'm unsure... 

[Duecut]

@black_falcon120Why would it be nautilus, the skill points are for captain XP, given that the numbers are in groups of 4 and repeat the key word is either very close to the actual text or fairly small so key word could equally be NEMO

[black_falcon120]

2 minutes ago, Duecut said:

@black_falcon120Why would it be nautilus, the skill points are for captain XP, given that the numbers are in groups of 4 and repeat the key word is either very close to the actual text or fairly small so key word could equally be NEMO

Because the code word is submarine, and this book was obviously chosen because of its submarine ties.  I am suspicious of the captain ties due to it being the most convenient reward for WG to giveaway 20,000 of.

[MrWastee]

2 hours ago, YabbaCoe said:

Well, I can't tell you exactly, what is that about. But the name of the mission should help you. Some of you in this thread are on a good track.

well.... fine, as long as u guys pay the psychatric bills i guess ....

 

thx 4 the smoking heads up

[Kiha]

I feel this is related to the Z(3+F)+G=? riddle in the port.

With 3 german DDs found at the bottom of the ocean following hints of pictures (Fault Line & Islands of Ice) and compass pointing North. Z23, Z46 and Z44. Surfaced around Z46 in Islands of Ice sits a sub. Numbered 578.

SSN-578 is USS Skate, which reached the North Pole the week after USS Nautilus. Skate was unable to surface during this trip.

On a later trip to the North Pole she managed to surface and spread the ashes of Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has led an Artic expedition in a submarine called Nautilus.

The north pole may have something to do with it, but don't feel it has.

Given the seemingly random characters of the login screen 'irosgfbyrympwuh' I feel there is something more to it than just a bonus code. Anyways, enough monday morning for me.

 

 

 

[Piratenmaedchen]

WG inscribed bonus codes on every map's ocean floor to lure players into using these sad sci-fi jokes of WW2 submarines... 

[black_falcon120]

52 minutes ago, Kiha said:

I feel this is related to the Z(3+F)+G=? riddle in the port.

With 3 german DDs found at the bottom of the ocean following hints of pictures (Fault Line & Islands of Ice) and compass pointing North. Z23, Z46 and Z44. Surfaced around Z46 in Islands of Ice sits a sub. Numbered 578.

SSN-578 is USS Skate, which reached the North Pole the week after USS Nautilus. Skate was unable to surface during this trip.

On a later trip to the North Pole she managed to surface and spread the ashes of Sir Hubert Wilkins, who has led an Artic expedition in a submarine called Nautilus.

The north pole may have something to do with it, but don't feel it has.

Given the seemingly random characters of the login screen 'irosgfbyrympwuh' I feel there is something more to it than just a bonus code. Anyways, enough monday morning for me.

 

 

 

Tried the random text string with 'submarine', no luck :(