A little map for experienced players.

Credits

Josepezdj for beta-testing and custom water texture.
MarKiu for beta testing and coming up with an awesome way to get the cube to the initial area that I left to be intended.
Omnicoder for TestChamberSign Maker.

Click here to download Da-Thoughts

Click here to download Da-Thoughts

Awesome map! Had much fun in this chamber. I can only recommend you to play it!

Excellent puzzle! Many experienced players will enjoy this MUCH!

Got through... Probably unintended...? This is how I bounced to the final area.

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Hehe, this move is unintended ofc. Looks like I should have all the walls made of glass

greykarel wrote:
Hehe, this move is unintended ofc. Looks like I should have all the walls made of glass

Hahaha... that sounds familiar to me...

josepezdj wrote:
Hahaha... that sounds familiar to me...

No wonder. You know that general idea of this map came to me while I was playing your map "Da-MaSK". So prefix "Da" is some kind of reference to your map.

Grey, I meant that I had to turn almost the entire map Da-MaSK into glass after all the unintended solutions some ppl like Shakky found! Damn gels...

Another solution... Let me know!

DaGrey.dem.zip

Wow, this was one of the smartest Single player test chambers I've ever played. It took me a while to solve this, but I really liked it.

There was one thing I noticed though. In the last room where the exit door is, there seems to be a missing brush, or tile, or whatever the right term is, to the right of the observation window.

Also as a suggestion I think it would be a good idea to implement a way to get back into the last room easier after you've already been there. that way if you leave there without leaving a portal in there(and with the cube off of the button in there), you don't have to implement the solution of how to get there all over again. err I may have worded that poorly.

but anyway besides those I don't have any comments to make besides the fact that I think this map was one of the better Single Player maps I've ever played. Great job.

@HeadSohot Awesome trick to get to the final area but I'm not so evil to make ppl be ninja to solve my puzzle. The intended solution is quite in Portal spirit. As for the final part, it's right the way I designed it to be done.

@Slimpack Thanks. Realy it have one brash covered with nodraw texture and I've missed it somehow. As for your suggestion about getting back to the last room, I think that Portal is the game where you must think some steps ahead and if you havn't and failed that only teach you. So all I can say here is "Think ahead"

Omitted the setup, which is all pretty straight forward. Let me know...

daGrey2.dem.zip

OMG. Man, you're awesome. But it still is not intended. You made amazing ninja jump that let you get back to painted vertical bridge.

EDIT. I've updated the map. It makes intended move easier to execute.

OK, here it comes my solution. I know from Grey that my way to get the cube in the initial are is not intended though, so I might keep on searching a different one ;D

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Really cool map, I had fun running back and forth planning each different part and replayed it a bunch of times
Thanks!

Also did a ninja run for funsies...
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My God, sickle, amazing ninjaing!

*EDIT*

@Headshot: really clean solution with the vertical bridge man In the beginning, I thought that was the only way to reach the last area and asked Grey if the intended solution envolved a vertical bridge, but he said no So I continued finding other ways... I'll watch your first demo later today.

That was a fun little brain-tickler!
Here is my solution to the map. If the update made the intended move easier to execute, I didn't see how.
http://youtu.be/weWQsZs4FXk
The technique used also reminded me of Da-MaSK, but in that case the move was prevented by adding all that extra grating (not glass). I just watched josepezdj's solution, and it seems such a move is intended this time, even though fairly unreliable to execute.

@Sicklebrick and HeadShot You're incredible ninjas. I don't even want to prevent all the crazy things you've done. Be cause it's useless .

@Calmly Frenetic Well done! It's absolutly what I originally designed. The only thing is the way of bringing the cube to the initial area - MarKiu's way is awesome and I admit it to be officially intended.

I can't find MarKiu's way on the thread anywhere - what is the actual solution for that part btw?
(It's not a vertical bridge, right?)

Mark came up with his way of getting the cube to the initial area when he was testing the beta version. He sent me a demo then I rebuild the map a bit to avoid his ninja jump and introduced an easier way. It does't envolve using vertical bridge that only appear in one of HeadShot's demos.