Quote from subject_name_here on February 20, 2008, 4:04 am

Hi! first time poster, long time lurker.

First up, fantastic map, just the right balance of puzzles and progress, really enjoyed it.

However, I'm so sure I didn't solve the last puzzle the way it was intended.

[spoiler]I put an orange portal on the wall then portalled back into the main room, climbed up where you got the first part of the portal gun, made a blue portal on the floor and jumped.... I got about 3/4 of the way across the goo pit and just swam the rest of the way. I took damage but didn't die, and finished the level.[/spoiler]

Obviously, I'm retarded, and couldn't work out how to do it properly, what was the intended solution?

Quote from rellikpd on February 20, 2008, 9:14 am

subject_name_here wrote:

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However, I'm so sure I didn't solve the last puzzle the way it was intended.

[spoiler]I put an orange portal on the wall then portalled back into the main room, climbed up where you got the first part of the portal gun, made a blue portal on the floor and jumped.... I got about 3/4 of the way across the goo pit and just swam the rest of the way. I took damage but didn't die, and finished the level.[/spoiler]

Obviously, I'm retarded, and couldn't work out how to do it properly, what was the intended solution?

well actually you basically did it the right way except that if you put you jump down from in the [spoiler]room with the rocket turret, or up from one of them walls and replace the same portal color onto the ground you'll get more speed and won't hit the goo at all[/spoiler] so you basically did it the right way. just could found a "higher" place to get more speed.

Quote from Adair on February 20, 2008, 12:01 pm

Duffedwaffe wrote:

Well for the most part yes. The idea of that puzzle was to [spoiler]confuse the player so they wouldn't notice the intended solution at first. The intended solution was to simply jump up the fan to the ledge.[/spoiler]

Oh, really? That's funny because I actually solved that part by using portals. [spoiler]I stood facing the floor fan so the exit was above and behind me. I then shot one portal on the vertical panel and the other on the ceiling a little beyond straight up from the fan so that I could do an inverse-angled-fling (or whatever you want to call it).[/spoiler]
I only pulled that off after a few tries though.

Quote from Grudge on February 20, 2008, 1:08 pm

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Quote from Duffers on February 20, 2008, 1:58 pm

Grudge wrote:

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Awesome.

Quote from JLipimpski on February 20, 2008, 3:36 pm

Great map! i actually flew through it, the only thing that actually took some thinking for me was the first part where you try to get the box out of the whatjamagigit cage thing. [spoiler]the fans were really fun, and it seems they were set up to be more confusing than they actually are. i loved the turret ambush, i was surprised i didn't die on it.[/spoiler] i did die however on the last jump across the goo once, due to faulty portal placements... i was all like but then i did it again and i was all like so life was good. The look and feel of it was all good, except for the combine wall thing for the first part. i feel that could have been replaced with one of those gate things made by aperture. thanks for the awesome map

Quote from Mr. Happy on February 21, 2008, 5:21 am

I can't get the box because im an idiot

edit: haha i AM an idiot. Good map!

Quote from n3cr0 on March 1, 2008, 11:47 pm

I really really liked the map. The new mechanics were skillfully done and seemed to fit with the whole style of the original game.

All that being said, here are the two things that I would suggest:

1 -- I believe it was mentioned before: [spoiler]the 2nd (3rd?) fan fling has a ledge at the ceiling that is fairly easy to get caught on.[/spoiler]

2-- [spoiler]The turret ambush is a really neat idea, but is sort of a "gotcha" moment. It will kill most people the first time, but not after that once they expect it. I know some of portal is like this, but if there was a safe area that was fairly logical (read: directly after the ledge you jump down) that allowed you to get the portal but still somehow made it difficult to get out of the ambush, but you could survey the area it might be more forgiving, even if there were more turrets.[/spoiler]

Overall though, it was a very fun map and I look forward to more from you!

Quote from FISHY CRACKERS on July 29, 2008, 9:38 am

I know it wasnt the intended solution, but i managed to get the fan puzzle with what i'm guessig was the 'portal solution' on like my third try. But on my first i ended up landing on the area above the portalalbe wall and just jumped down, but the next time i got stuck up there, started firing portals to try to get out, and portalled myself out of the map. (but i just went in the way i got out)