Crew Quarters Cots (spoiler)

[Alex]

Did I miss something or were the cots in the crew quarters a complete red herring? After chipping away at the puzzles, I eventually pieced together what the hint with the foil and the shapes was trying to tell me and, after noticing the triangle was upside-down, realized all of the numbers probably were, too, which got me the escape password.

Then, I proceeded to waste far too much time running back and forth double-checking the cots and the poster, since the holes which matched up to the numbers on the poster and had a very clear numbering based on the room numbers, hinted very strongly at that being the second solution for the gold file... but no matter how many times I punched in the numbers or fiddled with them (I even tried flipping the digit on the right arm, since it's raised in the poster but down on all of the cots), I got absolutely nowhere. Eventually, thoroughly convinced I was doing everything right and the game just wasn't registering it correctly, I looked it up... and the solution was to punch the first password into the phone? Seriously?!?

Did I miss something or was that one of the worst-designed puzzles in the entire game? "Don't follow the obvious bread crumbs! Instead do this completely random thing you have no reason to attempt other than for sheer randomness!"

Sorry for the mini-rant, but I searched and found surprisingly few complaints about that, specific element (more complained about the unfairness of mirroring the escape password), and I'd been doing pretty well figuring out the puzzles on my own, and for the most part, the game had been pretty good at signposting where you should be looking... or, at the very least, not deliberately leaving useless clues that send you on wild goose chases. :p

[Tirear]

As I understand it, the cots simply let you skip the hassle of scraping the entire poster, by telling where the shapes were hidden. Which room each cot was in was irrelevant.

[Alex]

If true, I still think my interpretation makes for a better puzzle, but oh well! With so many, I suppose there are bound to be a couple missteps.