Quote from redunzl on February 14, 2012, 2:07 am

The fact that I got through this map at all is a testament to its playability. Up until about 3 days ago, I had been playing Portal 2 either on my PS3 or over at my brother KennKong's house, on his PC, with PS3 controllers so we could do split-screen coop. I finally got a graphics card with enough horsepower to run this on my PC and it's taking me a while to get used to playing with a keyboard and trackball. I'm still massively fumble-fingered on the WASD navigation because I have almost never played any games which used that particular scheme.

It took me just a little over an hour to finish. Would have been quicker if I hadn't wasted so much time trying to use [spoiler]both gels[/spoiler] instead of [spoiler]just repulsion gel in combination with a fling[/spoiler] to get to the exit.

Kenn commented about the map being laggy during his yo-yoing. The whole thing seemed laggy to me, both in keyboard response to move and mouse response to aim. My PC is not quite as fast as his. I have an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3Ghz) CPU with a Radeon HD5450 1GB video adapter so maybe that's a factor.

The only nit I have is that at the end of the map, the game never returned to the menu. The "To be continued..." text faded out, then I was just left in the dark elevator shaft. Maybe I just didn't wait long enough??

With all that said:

I liked the "old Aperture" look, enjoyed the puzzles, and didn't get "stuck" anywhwere, so 5/5 from me.

Quote from Lpfreaky90 on February 14, 2012, 7:34 am

redunzl wrote:

The fact that I got through this map at all is a testament to its playability. Up until about 3 days ago, I had been playing Portal 2 either on my PS3 or over at my brother KennKong's house, on his PC, with PS3 controllers so we could do split-screen coop. I finally got a graphics card with enough horsepower to run this on my PC and it's taking me a while to get used to playing with a keyboard and trackball. I'm still massively fumble-fingered on the WASD navigation because I have almost never played any games which used that particular scheme.

Welcome to the pc world! We have cookies, oh wait, we do have custom maps though ^_^.

redunzl wrote:

It took me just a little over an hour to finish. Would have been quicker if I hadn't wasted so much time trying to use [spoiler]both gels[/spoiler] instead of [spoiler]just repulsion gel in combination with a fling[/spoiler] to get to the exit.

Do you think that I need to place some sort of indication thingies there so it is more clear what to do?

redunzl wrote:

Kenn commented about the map being laggy during his yo-yoing. The whole thing seemed laggy to me, both in keyboard response to move and mouse response to aim. My PC is not quite as fast as his. I have an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3Ghz) CPU with a Radeon HD5450 1GB video adapter so maybe that's a factor.

The map itself is the biggest cause of lag. The map itself is about 3 times as big as the enrichment spheres in portal 2 and practically everything can see everything. That does two things: make the map look awesome and make the map lag a lot.

redunzl wrote:

The only nit I have is that at the end of the map, the game never returned to the menu. The "To be continued..." text faded out, then I was just left in the dark elevator shaft. Maybe I just didn't wait long enough??

Good point, I will fix this in the next version.

redunzl wrote:

With all that said:

I liked the "old Aperture" look, enjoyed the puzzles, and didn't get "stuck" anywhwere, so 5/5 from me.

Glad you liked it

Quote from redunzl on February 14, 2012, 8:15 pm

lpfreaky90 wrote:

redunzl wrote:

It took me just a little over an hour to finish. Would have been quicker if I hadn't wasted so much time trying to use [spoiler]both gels[/spoiler] instead of [spoiler]just repulsion gel in combination with a fling[/spoiler] to get to the exit.

Do you think that I need to place some sort of indication thingies there so it is more clear what to do?

No, I don't think so. This was just a case of me expecting the puzzle to be more devious than it actually was, in combination with not examining the environment carefully enough. Once I really looked around, I realized that I was only making it difficult for myself.

[spoiler]The original game used the "propulsion gel runway with repulsion gel at the end" in several places and I mistakenly thought you were doing the same thing. My first thought was that because I could get a portal in the propulsion gel plaform from that spot, it must have been part of the solution.[/spoiler]

Quote from KennKong on February 15, 2012, 12:52 pm

redunzl wrote:

Would have been quicker if I hadn't wasted so much time trying to use [spoiler]both gels[/spoiler] instead of [spoiler]just repulsion gel in combination with a fling[/spoiler] to get to the exit.

Funny, that's the exact opposite of what worked for me. I tried [spoiler]flinging to the repulsion gel on the platform facing the exit catwalk[/spoiler] without success. What worked for me was [spoiler]a propulsion gel runway leading to the repulsion gel on the same platform[/spoiler].

Quote from Moth on February 18, 2012, 4:51 pm

ExecutorElassus wrote:

Is there a way to play this without having Steam? Running Portal 2 under Linux runs without Steam, so I don't actually have it installed.

Cheers,

EE

The solution right now is to download WINE, then install Steam within Wine, provided you add Portal2 as a game shortcut to Steam, it should work. I use this method on one of my PCs running Ubuntu 11.

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Quote from redunzl on February 19, 2012, 3:20 am

KennKong wrote:

Funny, that's the exact opposite of what worked for me. I tried [spoiler]flinging to the repulsion gel on the platform facing the exit catwalk[/spoiler] without success. What worked for me was [spoiler]a propulsion gel runway leading to the repulsion gel on the same platform[/spoiler].

Yeah, I hear you. The [spoiler]fling[/spoiler] worked for me on the first try, once I realized that I could get to that area. I didn't see it at first because it's so deep in the shadows and, at first glance, it looked like I was facing [spoiler]the back side of the tower[/spoiler]. After I thought about it, [spoiler]a propulstion gel runway in the same area where I did the fling[/spoiler] would have worked just as well, but that's a much more complicated solution than is necessary.

Quote from Blaizer on March 6, 2012, 2:36 am

I made a video of a collection of bugs I found in this map. Everything I have to say is in the video descriptions and annotation. Thanks for mapping!

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Quote from Lpfreaky90 on March 6, 2012, 7:16 am

Hey Blaizer!

Thanks for the video!
Most of the bugs you showed are known issues
1) Getting the cube again will be fixed in an upcoming update.
2) I will look into the hard jump on the bridge, fixing this will maybe also fix the way you can get on the ceiling.
3) The in-plain sight spawning cube will be fixed when I also fix a proper button+cube dispenser.
4) Getting on the ceiling isn't much of a problem. This usually shouldn't be a problem.
5) The strange behavior of that panel in front of the white panel is something that is fixed on the most recent version which I haven't uploaded yet.
7) That final shortcut you found with the blue gel is nice. I don't know about placing a placement helper there, because I like it when people have the freedom to place their portals where they want.

Thanks for the feedback, I should start fixing some things

~Lp

ps: I like it how it took over a month for someone to report the getting stuck bug.

Quote from Lpfreaky90 on March 6, 2012, 11:00 am

Version 1.2 is out:

- Fixed a way where you can get stuck.
- Add a proper cube dispenser.
- Added proper fog
- Did some more optimization.
- Changed the damage done if you fall down.
- Changed the layout of the blue gel room.
- Fixed some clipping models.
- Added some models to make some parts of the level look better.
- Lowered the bridge a bit so it's easier to jump onto it!