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[SP] The Cosmogony Map Pack

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LAST TWO PARTS UPLOADED :omg:
The last map was so incredible, so many things I've never seen before in a map. All the structures, and everything made architectural sense and it was all plain fun.
Here are the last two things I had problems with:

Part 5

The space under the gel droppers was a little too wide, I accidentally fell in twice and had to restart, as funny as it sounds, it was really frustrating.

Part 6
The solution with the catapult and the fling, eluded me because I thought you were supposed to put a portal on the floor outside the mini test, one over catapult to fling through floor outside, put a portal on the slanted surface, and fall through and out. When I couldn't figure out the next part properly, I did the same thing again and strafed through the air to land on the slanted surface and used the catapult from there. I didn't know that you actually had to fling up to the button and shoot a portal on the slanted surface from inside the test chamber, because I thought that you were supposed to ignore the test and only use the catapult.

Everything else is wonderful and overall one of the best adventure maps out there.
PS Thanks for the response, I think it's great that you're updating it

"I thought this site was dead." -Conspiracy Core

An excellent map pack, loved the blend of portal 1 and 2, the puzzles where a pretty great difficulty level, not so easy you walked through but not hard either, though I did get stuck in part 5 a bit xD

Great attention to detail with subtle clues, e.g the ladder to draw players eyes up to the portal surface to enter a chamber etc, though for me personally the super strong blue fog was a little odd in places, especially the offices, I always assumed it was blue cause of the supposed ambient light from the panel arms in the huge bts areas, so it makes no sense in an office.

Interesting finale,

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enjoyed the ending credits

Overall I feel when you got in to the puzzle maps they were maybe a bit short, but then again im used to working with always putting 2 puzzles in a map or one large one. No major complaints from me

:thumbup: Great job

Great mappack, but you do need to fix the final map bug LoneWolf mentioned. you also ought to put some glass around the two exit elevator...tubes or whatever they are. and see where you have invisible brushes there, because I can walk on air on one side of the pit (where the exit elevator is) and fall on the other. and the test with the gels - despite the glass, I managed to solve the test without using the orange gel (note that I can't b-hop or use those kinds of glitches). I had to play it again to figure out why you put it there. if you can make the area where the cube is further from the place whre the gel falls, it would be better.

I don't want to sound like I don't like those maps, I think they are great and with these little bugfixes they'll be perfect. the visuals are awesome, the ending is outstanding, the story is fine and the puzzles were challenging enough, but not too hard, just the way I like them. nice job!

Hello everyone! I's been a loong time. I've been working on these maps for quite a while now. So without further ado: it was nice catching up, let's get to business.

Cosmogony is a 6 part map pack set during GLaDOS activation in the Enrichment Center, with custom story and visuals! I tried to follow the Portal story and capture the same atmosphere, so I hope I got it right. After a year and a half of developing and a lot of hard work, It's finally out. I hope you have as much fun playing it as we had developing it.

All feedback is appreciated. Please consider recording a playthrough. It helps a lot and it can turn into an official walkthrough (as I'm in need of one) and be featured in the maps pages!
On a side note, there are A LOT of easter eggs. Seriously. Every map has at least one easter egg. If you find one or more of them, be sure to post it here!
Enough chitchatting! It's you and me against the world, son! Now let's solve this thing!

Click here to download The Cosmogony Map Pack

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Can't say enough about this map pack, a masterwork of Portal mapping....Thanks for creating...
Will play through again to look for the Easter eggs....

To those who don't want to transcribe it, the two binary messages I found spelt

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But seriously, this map pack came out of the blue and instantly became one of the best out there, along side Designed for Danger and 12 Angry Tests. My only complaint is that after the exploring is over, and the other story elements, there's not actually that many puzzles. Dreey, I think that if you wanted to update it, adding a few more tests around Part 3 would be a great idea.

Current Community Contributor status: not a community contributor. Lost it. :(

Sexy :)

If you love puzzles - skip right to the 4th map. That is the only map with a decent puzzle - and it is a very good puzzle.

If you like adventure, environments, and great Graphics without any real puzzles to speak of - play all the rest of the Levels. For that alone I give this 5 stars. No, 10 stars - the coding is incredible.

Ninja mod edit: merged the two existing threads; adjusted the link in the first post :)

Thank you for the help Lpfreaky90!
Testing can continue, everybody back to work.

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