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This is a set of four coop racing maps that I have created. I have created racing maps that don't just include fast reaction puzzles, but a mixture of quick reaction puzzles, thinking puzzles, and new or different things you haven't seen. I did this so that if one player isn't good at one type of puzzle, then they could catch up in the type of puzzle they are good at. Map 4 is going to be laggy for P-Body, unless you have a really good connection, so it won't be very fair, but will still be fun none the less. I hope you all enjoy yourselves, and I want to see LOTS of feedback and videos, telling me which maps you liked the best, how close your races were, and your overall opinion of the maps. !!!Make Sure Both Players Finish!!! Tip: When you get into the maps, type into the console "+remote_view" This will allow you to keep up the screen of what your opponent is seeing, so that you don't have to hold down Tab. Play instructions: Unzip the maps from the archive and place all five in your Steam/steamapps/common/portal 2/portal2/maps folder. Both players have to download the maps. Start a normal co-op game and whoever is hosting (the Blue Robot) type in "changelevel mp_coop_theamazingrace" in the console (which is activated by the ` key under ESC. This will bring you to the hub I created and you will be able to access all the maps. Thanks to my playtesters: Xires, That greek guy, Hobbax, and Elephant v1.1 - Fixed heaven button on map 4 - Fixed Boulder bug - Fixed Portal texture on map 4 - Added helpful signs at start of map 2 - Fixed and added some props on maps 2&4 v1.2 - Fixed getting stuck on map 3 - Changed Glass on Map 3 - Fixed shortcut on last puzzle on Map 3. - Fixed Cube going out of map 2
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So many nice and new ideas, wow! 
Map is looking good and your ideas were really good, too.
These maps are really fun to play - thanks for sharing them.
5/5 for "race" and challenge fun. 
Finally someone posts on my map! My map has been up for a few days, and nobody has been saying anything. Well I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Ok we've played this map 3 times. And I must say I need practice! My favorite chambers were the destroyed and the machine room chamber with the conveyors and the nice flings!
I liked the first chamber as well - but I had a real hard time getting up the momentum to fling up to the next level. Im not that good at that and it got a little frustrating.
Worst for me was the motion chamber - Level 4 I think - we died alot, but practice makes perfect! One thing that surprised me was the fact that the puzzles were almost too detailed to be in a race map. There was alot to do and elements to use and tackle - of course I was always in the death pit at the end and my partner had tons of fun killing me! LOL - and I died and went to Heaven just to push the button to go back to the hub!
All in all - thoughtful, challenging and worth playing over. Thanks for making!
Excellent selection hub, great fun, fantastic design and diversity. If I could give 10 points I would. Top Drawer stuff. Myself and my 6 year old son play side by side (how quickly the pupil becomes the master though). Have played through 4 or 5 times on each now and its top of our list along with gelocity. Keep it up, look forward to you working for Gabe. Constructive feedback coming up: (in no specific order)
1. Level 2, The breaking of the glass by sneaking/dropping down was found after almost giving up for us, we did try flinging the cube at the window and other such attempts, perhaps make the window ONLY breakable by cube flinging?
2. level 4, found a possible oversight, while it doesn't seem to affect gameplay, it might be just a mapping thing:
, Not sure those surfaces should be portalable <--new word?
3. The bit with the sphere and the waving steps dogleg run through proved too difficult/frustrating for both of us so we ended up noclipping through it to continue, maybe remove floor fizzler or make it a little bit easier? Seems just a bit hard (unless I am missing the intended solution of course)
Hats off to a fantastic, well thought out set of maps, replay value is top notch too.
07 (salute)
PsyMan & Harvey
Great feedback, I had no idea those surfaces were portalable. If hitting the glass with the cube didn't work... then I should fix that, It should work if you or the cube hits the glass.
Now the ball puzzle. The solution is you have to slow down the ball in order to be able to go and catch it where you can put blue gel down. So, you have to make the ball hit the top wall and bounce into the grate catcher, while you are running towards the fizzler, then you need to portal under the grate catcher and to the panel that can launch it above the blue gel. once it gets launched you need to go through the fizzler jump up and catch it.
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i just realized you were talking about the other ball puzzle... that one you have to ride the top of the wave to the start of the middle fizzler... stop... let the wave move on, which will allow you to ride the bottom of the wave under the middle fizzler... then stop again.. wait for the next wave... then ride the top of that wave over the last bottom fizzler. It's really easy to do, just have to figure out the technique.
Cheers baca, that sphere/ball/catcher solution we worked out ourselves, in fact its one of the most ingenious puzzles there. itsThe one where you have to run through the waving steps and avoid losing you portal we had trouble with
glad you like my new creation. I'm going to upload a newer version of the map tomorrow. takes a while to compile one of my maps.
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Updated.
Great collection of maps!
I was really surprised because this is so large, so many maps and mostly nice visuals. When did you do all these?
I liked the cube/funnel/light bridge puzzle best. You have to think a moment and finally finish it with some timing and fast portals - Portal at its best
A few parts of the "motion chamber" were probably a little to hard (for me), but mainly because of lag. It was a little frustrating to fail again and again...
All in all a nice collection of race maps!
Wow, awesome stuff. Nice to see more race maps out there. And with such great quality. Only one thing comes to my mind trying to find something bad. We didn't really like the last race map with all the crazy rotating stuff etc. Felt kinda out of place for us. Other than that, it was amazing. Keep it up.
here is a almost first (blind) play-through of all 4 maps.
map 1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHm_S9DIORU
map 2
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYul4kHZgVs
map 3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I1Zjl1-Luw
map 4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OD7Az9M6b4
Part 3 / 4 coming soon
check here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... ORU#t=479s
does any 1 no why my portal gun wouldn't shoot a potal?
I dont know if making 4 different posts for four of you videos is the best idea. There is probably a better way of doing it... Like posting one, hiding the other three in one of those Big spoilers things. Or just posting the first one because it would be easy to go to the next parts on Youtube. Doesn't really matter to me. I can't wait to watch them. Can't watch them right now because I have to study for a Final. But when I get back. Time to Grab a Coke, and a snack and get to watching videos!!! For everyone else. You can never post too many videos for my maps. I watch them all!
Not bad, there were some really nice ideas in here. Most of them are probably still fun even if not played blind, because you need to be agile, not just figure out the how-to.
However, the order of the maps is weird. Map 1 turned out as the hardest one while map 4 was the easiest one..
map 1:
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map 2:
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map 3:
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(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkOqe0S4Yfg)
map 4:
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(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3R7_cNBCzk)
Fantastic work, very high quality and lots of originality seen in these maps . Definitely worth playing.
Per-map feedback:
1: Too difficult, maybe it isn't for the most hardcore players but it would be more sensible to place it later on in the pack. I would suggest making the timing in the section where you need to disable the lasers to jump a bit friendlier, throwing the cube at the button at the very latest possible moment is painful trial&error..
2: It's possible to throw your cube out of the map through holes in the wall and because they don't get destroyed in the void you need to restart the map. It also took us too long to accidentally discover it's possible to break the glass in the first room.
3: Perfect. Not too difficult and full of action/originality.
4: Nice platformer action, but looked a bit monolithic. Maybe a little more visual variety would help.
dinnesch wrote:
I would suggest making the timing in the section where you need to disable the lasers to jump a bit friendlier, throwing the cube at the button at the very latest possible moment is painful trial&error..
I don't think you found the correct solution... What you have to do is Stop the cube above the button with the light bridge. Once the funnel breaks, shoot the portal on the launching panel, and then shoot under yourself... If you shoot too early, the cube will move forward in the funnel and miss the button. It's just the rush of the race that makes it hard to figure out some of the basic mechanics of the races... Such as the wave machine and other puzzles where instead of trying to rush through it, you have to stop and look at all of the mechanics of it for a second.
I am doing a play-through with a friend on my channel.Here is the first video, the rest you can find with it. qkSFlizwbFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkSFlizwbFQ
I keep watching videos of people playing this map. Loving it. It makes me want to jump into my map and race some people. Who thinks they can beat me?
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One challenger has been defeated... Who is next? Steam name is "Merc. Baca"
hey baca i just thought i would say that me and dheppell are currently uploading a second attempt of these maps. which should be faster and are full hd due to getting better computer (amd FX 6core, ati radeon hd something,4gb ram), it will be 3 attempts on each race. the videos have been recorded i just need to upload them. (1.2gb a file) should be up within the next few weeks.
EDIT: completly forgot to mention I LOVE THESE MAPS I ALWAYS PLAY THEM EVERYTIME I HAVE A PORTAL 2 SESH. MANY BUGS THOUGH AS SHOWN IN MY SOON TO BE VIDEO
baca25 wrote:
Nice!
just realised part 1 didnt get recorded properly so will need to wait to re record part 1 before posting links and uploading
Here are ALL of the videos in one post
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This is a set of four coop racing maps that I have created. I have created racing maps that don't just include fast reaction puzzles, but a mixture of quick reaction puzzles, thinking puzzles, and new or different things you haven't seen. I did this so that if one player isn't good at one type of puzzle, then they could catch up in the type of puzzle they are good at. Map 4 is going to be laggy for P-Body, unless you have a really good connection, so it won't be very fair, but will still be fun none the less.
I hope you all enjoy yourselves, and I want to see LOTS of feedback and videos, telling me which maps you liked the best, how close your races were, and your overall opinion of the maps.
!!!Make Sure Both Players Finish!!!
Tip: When you get into the maps, type into the console "+remote_view" This will allow you to keep up the screen of what your opponent is seeing, so that you don't have to hold down Tab.
Play instructions: Unzip the maps from the archive and place all five in your Steam/steamapps/common/portal 2/portal2/maps folder. Both players have to download the maps. Start a normal co-op game and whoever is hosting (the Blue Robot) type in "changelevel mp_coop_theamazingrace" in the console (which is activated by the ` key under ESC. This will bring you to the hub I created and you will be able to access all the maps.
Thanks to my playtesters: Xires, That greek guy, Hobbax, and Elephant
v1.1
- Fixed heaven button on map 4
- Fixed Boulder bug
- Fixed Portal texture on map 4
- Added helpful signs at start of map 2
- Fixed and added some props on maps 2&4
v1.2
- Fixed getting stuck on map 3
- Changed Glass on Map 3
- Fixed shortcut on last puzzle on Map 3.
- Fixed Cube going out of map 2
File Name: TheAmazingRacev1.2.rar
File Size: 72.9 MiB
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