My guess: fire. I'm trying to be as simple as possible, since OK always made the hints pretty straight forward. They are leaning over the candles, so yeah. Fire it is.

Originally posted by Trippindicular:

http://overkillsoftware.com/birthday/ was just posted today on their facebook site - pic may be worth looking at?
Also 2 more pieces of "info" to be realesed tomorrow and on Friday.

Probably yes. They did it the same way for the first ARG (hinting at gold masks and cameras that have to stay). My guess would be that it's hinting to fire or something that burns.

Originally posted by WeaponX:

I played Rats yesterday, and one thing hit me while playing an escape mission (no not a bullet). The garage escape started off by one player downed, what if you just leave him there? You have a timer you need to beat in order to complete the escape and it starts the moment the player is downed. Very close to this http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/577871834784043161/35D2050CC806B337FC3424735188DE2CFFCBACCD/

That's something that struck me and a mate some time ago. I mean, OK possibly know about this and it's in the game for a long time but still isn't resolved. So my guess is, it's intentional. It's only on Rats and it's only on the overpass escape as far as i know but i couldn't make out how that situation gets triggered. Sometimes all start out fine and sometimes one is downed.

Originally posted by Tankman:

Also, to keep this discussion alive (no one seems to pay attention to the group anymore, myself included)...people claim to have found it...some through coding...others just say cryptic shit...either way we will need to investigate further

I am still looking very closely, infact reading every post that is made since weeks. I tried many things but after a while i kinda burned out. And the stuff happening in the big threads makes it more frustrating. Don't know where to look or what for. That's why I chose to be quiet right now in the hope to find something along the way when I play.

Originally posted by Trippindicular:

I solo'd a framing frame no-kill run today. No cops killed day 1, escaped with minimum 4 paintings, day 2 was easy as shit - no ambush, day 3 is a fucking bitch. I got to 4/8 bags of coke planted in the vault before a guard snuck up on me. The hardest part about doing this is that if the bookcase that hides the vault is left open, the guards will sound the alarm if they walk up to it/in it. So you have to close the bookshelf after every time you plant the coke, then go back upstairs and grab more. It's a fucking nightmare but it's 100% definitely possible.

If you need help with it, just shoot me a message.

Originally posted by Panathius:

static/morse code in the ecm jammers. I am going to explore this Framing Frame extra music thing. Never done it out of stealth so i've never done escapes on it. Great work everybody, i have a feeling this will get interesting when Overkill starts giving us hints. wanna bet there's an overvault in four stores? be there will be one in FWB but it will be empty. :D

Bet it's Mallcrasher. You read it here first!

Originally posted by bkpaladin:

I bet you could just stealth it all the way to the end (all paintings in the van), and then trigger the alarm (possibly one camera you leave alone). That way, you may get an escape mission without having to do Day 1 the hard way.

I don't think its Day 1 but Day 3. Day 1 escape is the park escape in most cases.

Originally posted by Shapeshifter:

Well to be honest ... I never had to flee in Framing Frame .. since my first run there, i always made it out 100% stealth. When i got the alarm, i just reroll. I guess most people do it like that. So it would be clever to hide something in a place, no one wants to visit at all.

Same for me. I will try to get the escape after a good sleep.

Originally posted by Shapeshifter:

Analyzed "Wheres the van". Nothing there :(
But its a damn nice track :D

Yeah probably the best one (imho). I wasn't going for that something's up with the track itself, but rather with the escape connected with it.

- Framing Frame day3 carpets are exactly the same as in Big Oil, just in greyscale though while Big Oils are coloured. Might be a connection, or just lazy programming (see the Big Oil thread).

- Framing Frame day 3 server room beeping noise when stealthing (otherwise it might be too loud to hear it).

- FF D3 Every picture hanging is off the Whitehouse and area, even though you can see the stuff out of the window. Seems suspicous to me.

- Some vases are smashable, some are not. Instruments are smashable.

Originally posted by Jman:

I already posted something about this in the discussion, but it actually seems more fitting here now that I think about it.

I was reading through the interview with Simon Viklund that was posted on OVERKILL Software's Facebook page (http://www.vg247.com/2013/08/13/music-to-heist-to-payday-2s-musical-masterpiece/) and something Simon said just stuck out to me:
"However, I did write a unique track for the Framing Frame escape mission, so if you’ve pissed the cops off enough, I guess you’ll be awarded by hearing a different sort of track for the additional escape job.”

Why is there a song specifically written for this event? Does anyone know which song it is on the sound track? Has anyone had to do an actual escape mission for Framing Frame other than the mission on Day 2?

Its probably nothing, but its odd for a level to get a unique song, when previously he stated in the same interview, the songs were random.

This is something I noticed too. Going through the soundtracks "Where's the van" is the only one i haven't heard yet. So I guess there has to be something special.