how to play custom maps.

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onemetroidprevails
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Posted Jul 15, 2011
how do I play a custom map I downloaded? and be specific cause I trid typing: angrybombs, angrybombs_v106, sp_angrybombs, sp_angrybombs_v106, angrybombsv1.06, angrybombsv106.rar, angrybombsv1.06.rar, sp_angrybombsv1.06.rar and sp_angrybombsv106.rar

I speciffically want to play angry bombs.

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Soundlogic
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Posted Jul 15, 2011
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type map [mapname]
replace [mapname] with the name of the map. You have to copy the bsp from the rar you downloaded into the maps folder.
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onemetroidprevails
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Posted Jul 15, 2011
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how do I do that?
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Skotty
671 Posts
Posted Jul 15, 2011
Replied 33 minutes later
Go to your game list in Steam. Right click on Portal 2, now Settings/Options whatever its called.
Now there should be a new window. Click on "Set start options" (or whatever it's called).
Again a new window opens with a emtpy textfield. Type into this field -console
Press Ok.

Open Portal 2, now you should have the console. Attention! If you press any button on the menu, the console will disappear. To open it later again, do the following:

Write this into the console:
bind "KP_MINUS" "toggleconsole"

Now you can open the console ingame by pressing Minus on your Keypad.

If the console is open at game start, type "map <MAPNAME>" into the console without "".

For Coop:
Open your game, start Coop with your friend and if both are in the lobby, just press Minus at your Keypad. Now the console should be open. Now type "changelevel <LEVELNAME>" without "" into the console.

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Rubrica
305 Posts
Posted Jul 15, 2011
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Um... Or you could just enable the developer console in the settings window in game, then press that weird key O can't get on my iPad to toggle it, couldn't you? Anyway, I think he knows how tonuse the console.

Also, by the fact that you're trying to enter the rar filename in the console, it sounds like you haven't opened the rar file yet. Open it with something like WinZIP and extract the .bsp file to your maps folder.

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Skotty
671 Posts
Posted Jul 15, 2011
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The button for the developer console used in the settings window is not on every keyboard.
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WinstonSmith
940 Posts
Posted Jul 15, 2011
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Skotty wrote:
The button for the developer console used in the settings window is not on every keyboard.

It isn't? I was under the impression that the tilde key was fairly standard.

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Skotty
671 Posts
Posted Jul 15, 2011
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Nope, on german keyboards there is no single button for ~ and ^. They are just mixed with other characters.
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WinstonSmith
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Posted Jul 15, 2011
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It's the same on standard US keyboards. The tilde is actually the secondary character on the ` key and the caret(?) is the secondary character on the 6 key.
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Rubrica
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Posted Jul 16, 2011
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Still, though, can't you just change the console key in the settings? You have a fair point though.
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WinstonSmith
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Posted Jul 16, 2011
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Rubrica wrote:
Still, though, can't you just change the console key in the settings?

Yes.

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Skotty
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Posted Jul 16, 2011
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Oh you are right. Sorry, after so many years of Half-Life 2 I never noticed that this option exists now.