steps challenges started to become fun for me... its not to bad in "some" maps. i hate it in maps with ALOT of metal surfaces or platforms, or a fizzler right infront of the starting elevator (read: your map lol)
and yeah i'll make a video of it or something i could type it here but it might be a little confusing...

today is my first day off so gunna be doing family stuff. but i'll get around to it sometime soon

EDIT: as requested here's the video for least portals challenge (6). this is segmented to make it not a LONG ass video. if you notice me staring off into space for a few seconds, or the color and lighting change its cuz thats where i segmented it and hdr lighting gets confused when you start from a savegame i think or something like that. anyway. there are NO parts missing. just the "retrys" are missing so that this is what it would look like if i never screwed up and never had to reload a save game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBqT0RGU5p0

I don't know if I would consider that cheating or not but I'll probably never create a map that needs to be solved with these techniques. It's too hard core. Well done anyway! You've learned me what to watch out for in the furture.

there is a 4 portal sollution for this map too

Care to explain/show us?

Well, the key concept is that you can cross the last glass wall in the room with the rocket turret without placing any portals.
Tip: Use the stuff from the secret room you can enter under the moving platform (camera etc.)

Unfortunately I dont have a program I could make a video with, but I'll try to get one.

PS: since I just watched rellikpds' sollution, 3 portals are possible too, cause I passed the first room in a slightly different way.

Are you piling up stuff taken from the BTS room to get over the window frame?

yes

ok, 3 is the minimum I guess

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1318/aldez.jpg

Okey, that's very impressive. I'll try to do it myself now, but I don't think I'll change the gold record. To do it with three portals is kind of cheating.

Anyway, how did you manage to get both my maps into the same folder? Did you move one of them manually? Because when I'm importing both maps, Portal places the second one in a new folder.

EDIT:
I tried, and I can't figure out how to do it with three portals. Which version of the map do you have? contest 0108 or 1.0.0? These are the exploits I know of in 1.0.0:
- You can get the companion cube through the doors by jamming them with it.
- You can pile stuff from the BTS room to get over the window frame in the rocket turret room.

Ok, the key for the 3 portal sollution is in the link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9uzYdPm ... r_embedded

edit: I'm pretty sure I have the 1.0.0 version

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Ah, thanks, but I'm afraid that's the contest 0108 version, sorry. 3 portals is well done anyway.

This is was it looks like in 1.0.0:

and where do I get the contest version?

Oops, there was a little typo in my last post. The red word should not have been there.

I wrote:
[...]that's not the contest 0108 version[...]

You were playing the contest version, but the latest version is 1.0.0 which you can get here.

I could have SWORN I posted on this map, but I guess not. I've managed to get 1:20 without using item climbing, 1:08 with item climbing and save/loading, and then 1:13 single segment recorded.

You must know I love posting demos by now, so here goes.

http://files.filefront.com/SiiigAldexTe ... einfo.html

Liked this map, its speed is very limited by the energy ball you have to grab, but if you could manage to get to the drop in ~20 seconds, you could drop this time significantly, but that's asking ALOT.

Using out of bounds casually I was able to complete the chamber in 23 seconds.

Will go through normal runs.

What the fuck is "out of bounds".

Heh, It's when you force yourself outside the map, then back in at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd23FJhm ... annel_page

Video by Kich of Advanced 15, using OOB (Out Of Bounds).

Now off to write a review!

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haha wat

msleeper wrote:
haha wat

hahaha awesome.

It's usually the first thing I check for on portal maps, immediately see if they let you abuse OOB'ing. Then search the levels for possible exploitable areas.

For instance, if one was so inclined it's fairly easy to avoid the ball catcher part as well.