marKiu wrote:
I think it can... If you stand one on a cube on the lightbridge you can shoot a portal to the very end of the tunnel. Once the cube dropped into the pit he can always get it out with the blue funnel.
I think you need to make the hole in the upper glasswindow smaller to prevent this.

You're right, this was possible. Edit: ah I see Jacu has done it as well. I made another update in v1.3 which just adds a glass panel to prevent this shooting angle. The intended solution is certainly not some evil special trick, it's just a bit different. Feel free to upload videos any time now. Mine is ready to go if you guys want.

@sicklebrick: thanks a lot, I appreciate that

I'd appreciate a video. I feel like I've tried every possible angle to get the stairs in room 1 going without success.

Balls, I stood on the cube too. Still playing v1, but I'll download the update after work

@zivi: A hint if you want it...
Both cubes in laser room, both portals in the stairs room
Edit: Still a pretty evil solution :p

Thanks, sicklebrick, grayarea was so kind to send me a hint via PM as well. To post this, I'm taking a short break from banging my head against the wall for not finding this myself, I was so close.

Anyways, what do I find upstairs? Yet another fizzler in the way!

I love it. This one is obviously brutally difficult but doesn't seem to need the super evil techniques that made Enigma for example unsolvable for me.

Hehe, the part you're on now is one of my favourite of any puzzle ever

sicklebrick wrote:

@zivi: A hint if you want it...
Both cubes in laser room, both portals in the stairs room

Hmm, that means I solved this part unintended too I did it with both cubes in laser room and one portal in each room

Picture or it didn't hapen. :p

zivi7 wrote:
Picture or it didn't hapen. :p

Any excuse to play portal at work

http://i.imgur.com/2eL3H.jpg
Wondering how Jacu did it now...

zivi7 wrote:
Picture or it didn't hapen. :p

Here we go:

Setup:

Then go to stairs room and simply

It will activate stairs for a sec and you can enter upper area. I know, that it deactivates laser, but there is a way to activate it again ^^ Will do a vid this evening

sicklebrick wrote:
Any excuse to play portal at work

http://i.imgur.com/2eL3H.jpg

I feel stupid, that looks so obvious right now...

Jacu wrote:
I feel stupid, that looks so obvious right now...

Haha, don't... that's an uber solution! I tried to do something like that for over an hour and failed >.<

sicklebrick wrote:
Hehe, the part you're on now is one of my favourite of any puzzle ever

Hearing that from you... makes me pretty certain this will take me ages again.

I think it's time Here's the first part of my solution with pressing the spark button once...

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Edit: This is how I solved it on my first run... Some setups can be made much easier,

Heh, glad you shot one cube out from under the other... It's in that gray area where I wonder if I've missed something much more obvious ^^

Jacu: wow there's some unexpected stuff in that screenshot. I think Xtreger was doing something like that in pre-testing but I never understood it until now. I've followed your recipe to raise the ramp but right now I have no idea how you restarted the laser from there. Very curious about that.

marKiu: also very unexpected methods in there. Mine is a bit different, without throwing or shoving. Easier for noob players like me to execute

I surrender - this is a bit much. Not used to very hard puzzles in Portal 2 yet Just you wait though, I'll practise with other hard maps, and then solve future maps like these!

Anyway, great map. It certainly fulfills the purpose it was built for. I'll try out your previous maps (or you can recommend which map of yours would be good practice)

They are even harder haha

Ok here is my solution video. Lots of small differences from what you guys have done, but the general idea is the same.
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Invorxt, my first map Kerplunk is the easiest I think.

grayarea wrote:
Jacu: wow there's some unexpected stuff in that screenshot. I think Xtreger was doing something like that in pre-testing but I never understood it until now. I've followed your recipe to raise the ramp but right now I have no idea how you restarted the laser from there. Very curious about that.

Video is here

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I just solved the first room and I enjoyed it a lot. I currently have one of the cubes from the first room in the second and portal with laser with me. I still haven't managed to turn the second laser on and I will continue this later.

Great challenge and really well thought out map.

I'm curious. How do you manage to make maps of this difficulty? Do you plan things in advance very well or how do you do it?

5/5 from me and I will try to finish it later.

grayarea wrote:
Ok here is my solution video...

Haha, you make it look so easy! Seeing it done properly, there's a beautiful almost machine like quality to the last bit.
Don't suppose there's any real reason to post my part1 solution, but I've been bored...
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