r/CODZombies • u/Randomiser • Sep 06 '18
Discussion Comic 4 Enigma cipher solved
In a renewed effort to solve some of the remaining ciphers, I took another look at the unsolved cipher in Comic Issue 4. The cipher can be seen here.
WPEEN ZDYPG OTHVE KCLXA GNKGN AVGVF AWTMA XTWFW
The cipher ended up being an Enigma cipher. You can play around with an emulator of an enigma machine here.
It can be decoded with the following settings:
Enigma Type: M3
Umkehrwalze: B
Walzenlage: I II III
Ringstellung: AAA
Grundstellung: UPF
Of note, you must move the rightmost wheel in the Grundstellung forward an extra turn after decrypting the H in the ciphertext, skipping from UPS to UPT before decoding the next letter. Another way to view this is by decoding the first part of the cipher "WPEENZDYPGOTH" with Grundstellung UPF, and then the remaining part "VEKCLXAGNKGNAVGVFAWTMAXTWFW" separately with Grundstellung UPT.
After doing this, we have our final plaintext, ONTHEFINALDAYTHESOULLESSONESWILLBEERASED, or
ON THE FINAL DAY THE SOULLESS ONES WILL BE ERASED
Only one more comic cipher remains!
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u/Ed_935 Sep 07 '18
I wonder if the 'final day' has something to do with The Giant radios that talk about nuclear fallout in The House
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u/Lastilaaki Sep 07 '18
I believe the context of that radio message is a bit more subtle. Maxis talks about 'turning the tide on the battle' and 'at what cost' before mentioning the fallout. In this message, he seems to be talking about actual war (WW2 is ongoing during BO3 zombies).
Some of The Giant radios are still a bit of a mystery to us. Each of Maxis' radios could be from a different timeline or 'updates' on how Primis' and/or Richtofen's actions during the cycle have affected Maxis' surroundings at the House. I'd argue for the latter.
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u/JohnnyEvergreen Sep 06 '18
How did you know you need to use UPT and UPF? Seems random.
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u/Randomiser Sep 06 '18
A few of the comic ciphers have been a bit more difficult in that they don't seem to give us the key, and require some analysis or computation to solve. I used a script to test many possibilities and UPT returned the best fit for English text.
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u/TheJackFroster Sep 07 '18
Maybe it means that Nikolai will die in Blood of the Dead, as they don't have his original version's soul.
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u/imwithrichtofen Sep 06 '18
Is it talking about the primis crew?