Some interesting photos found in STEAMWORKS scene

[bobbysq]

That makes sense with the train whistle noise found in the DLC pack. Endgame confirmed?

[holazola]

The objects look like a crop of the end support of the roller conveyor image(s) to me.

[BMiller2559]

I agree, for end game teams must activate 3 valves to sound steam whistle,
one by parking on activation platform, one by pulling an activator, and one by turning an activator.

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by EmileH

Upon further inspection and looking at the smaller end of the object, I have a strong feeling that the object in question is actually a train whistle.

Originally Posted by bobbysq

That makes sense with the train whistle noise found in the DLC pack. Endgame confirmed?

They do look similar to the ones seen here...

[cad321]

One of our alumni pointed out that the 3 objects vaguely look like the buffer stops you would find at the end of a railroad track.

[JesseK]

Quick edit to help pages load faster. The artifact is attached to the machine, and it appears that everywhere the machine exists, this artifact will probably exist. If we project the scale and position of this artifact to the main machine the middle, I believe this artifact is somewhere in the steam pipes behind the machine.

Therefore, it may just be a photoshop copy error. Alternatively, since this artifact is only seen when we view an inverted representation of the machine, the top piece of it may be pointing at something. To me, the artifact kind of looks like a sign post.

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Bottom Left:


Mid Left:

[Kevin Ainsworth]

I would like to see someone overlay the image three times and use the artifact as the origin and use the artifact to scale the images. So you would have three images where the artifact was in the same position and the same size in each image. I doubt that anyone went through the trouble to create a puzzle out of the image but you never know.

[holazola]

This Artifact is just part of the end of the conveyor belt shown elsewhere several times:


I'm more curious about this Bin on a Pallet:

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by holazola

This Artifact is just part of the end of the conveyor belt shown elsewhere several times:

Excellent observation. Now it looks like that layer wrapped around in photoshop before they duplicated and flattened it. In the case of the lower-left graphic of the machine, it looks like they re-purposed the chopped-off conveyor (at the top of the machine) to be a steam pipe.

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by holazola

This Artifact is just part of the end of the conveyor belt shown elsewhere several times:

But is it just the end of a conveyor? It looks suspiciously like a fence to me... Where is there a similar-looking fence-like object? As for the sign post idea, it does look like it has a sign on top.

[SenorZ]

[quote=holazola;1608399]This Artifact is just part of the end of the conveyor belt shown elsewhere several times:

Bingo. I knew it looked "cut off" and odd. Now I can inform my team their hour of "enhancing" the image after school was wasted.

[AveryLevin.]

Now I can inform my team their hour of "enhancing" the image after school was wasted.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Our precious time!!!

[BotDesigner]

Originally Posted by holazola

This Artifact is just part of the end of the conveyor belt shown elsewhere several times:

Looking at this now (while keeping the new Andymark product "game hint" and WCP's new conveyor system in mind) it seems likely that the emphasis on the conveyor belt is a game hint.

[andrew4130]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Quick edit to help pages load faster. The artifact is attached to the machine, and it appears that everywhere the machine exists, this artifact will probably exist. If we project the scale and position of this artifact to the main machine the middle, I believe this artifact is somewhere in the steam pipes behind the machine.

Therefore, it may just be a photoshop copy error. Alternatively, since this artifact is only seen when we view an inverted representation of the machine, the top piece of it may be pointing at something. To me, the artifact kind of looks like a sign post.

Bottom:


Bottom Left:


Mid Left:

Wow, those are really crisp pictures, and I now also agree that there must if been some photo editing error on their part adding the end of the conveyor to anywhere with that machine
Thanks!