Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · April 19, 2009, 12:50 pm

After around 12 months of development it's finally here! The Spiritual sucessor to 'The Electric Castle'.

Taking place in around 8 different test chambers with a wide range of puzzles, this can be considered a fairly hard map; slightly harder than the advanced chambers. I hope you enjoy it and stick around until the end! More information can be found at http://www.farragar.co.uk/Maps.htm

Gallery:

[img]http://www.farragar.co.uk/Unnamed2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.farragar.co.uk/Unnamed1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.farragar.co.uk/Unnamed3.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.farragar.co.uk/Unnamed5.jpg[/img]

Full Gallery at http://www.farragar.co.uk/Gallery.htm

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#2 · April 19, 2009, 3:06 pm

This looks really awesome! I'm gonna download now. It really looks like you put alot of work into every small thing in this map. Can't wait.

EDIT: The link. It's broken. You may have the problem i had on Nevada. Have you released a WIP Version on this? Anyway, if it isn't just me who's having a problem you should try to change the filename and reupload it.

Abandoned Facility released!

#3 · April 19, 2009, 3:34 pm

Oh yeah, sorry. I changed the location of the file and forgot to change the link on TWP, should be working now.

#4 · April 19, 2009, 3:49 pm

Yay it works. I'll try tomorow when i get home from school.

Abandoned Facility released!

#5 · April 19, 2009, 5:19 pm

Just commented on myApertureLabs for this. Copy/paste/edit from there...

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I loved both of your previous maps and i really liked this one too.
Really enjoying. Tricky puzzles, but not frustrating at all. Nice!

Two notices:
-after the tutorial, the main map won't load. It looks for it in the main maps folder, not in "maps/farragar". I used the console to play it.
-to the point with the horizontal cube dropper, there is not really a clue that you have to be on the platform for the cube to come out. I stuck quite some time there, cause i didn't use the moving platform at all. Maybe add a button, instead of making it open by itself?

Anyway, except these two small issues, i loved it...
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That's all! Keep up the good work. :wink:

#6 · April 19, 2009, 8:26 pm

Gets "The_Beta_Complex.rar: Unexpected end of archive" every time I download the zip.

#7 · April 19, 2009, 9:41 pm

Same it wont extract.

#8 · April 20, 2009, 2:27 am

Damn, just hang-fire until I get back tonight guys, I'm reuploading a new version sorry!

#9 · April 20, 2009, 6:48 am

Farragar wrote:

Damn, just hang-fire until I get back tonight guys, I'm reuploading a new version

sorry!

I also got the level-changing failure bug from the tutorial level to the actual level. Anyway I loaded it up with the console and well, what can I say. A very good level. Highlight-worthy. Perfectly calibrated difficulty. I even found the secret area
Though I'd have liked a different ending

#10 · April 20, 2009, 10:55 am

Map has been updated and reuploaded, should work fine now!
Also,

Kiavik wrote:

Anyway I loaded it up with the console and well, what can I say. A very good level. Highlight-worthy. Perfectly calibrated difficulty. I even found the secret area

Though I'd have liked a different ending

Thanks, and I'm so pleased you found the secret area! I was wondering if anyone would find that...
There's a few other secrets in there too if you can find them!

And as to the ending, well I like it because I'm a miserable bastard.

[RELEASE] The Beta Complex