[SP] One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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mikmock
15 Posts
Posted May 17, 2012
My first map, a bit of a struggle to try and make it interesting without losing the will to live at the same time, hopefully I achieved it

Click here to download One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Click here to download One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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Logic
298 Posts
Posted May 17, 2012
Replied 3 hours later
Change the category. This is a PTI map...
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Lpfreaky90
2,842 Posts
Posted May 17, 2012
Replied 3 hours later
moderator note: this is an easy-map maker map so I moved it over to the PTI category.
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mikmock
15 Posts
Posted May 19, 2012
Replied 1 day later
Any feedback would be good
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El Farmerino
393 Posts
Posted May 19, 2012
Replied 48 minutes later

Played it. My main impressions are:

  • Way too much black - You have hardly any portal surfaces at all.
  • Nothing really original in how test elements are being used.

Both of these together makes the solution really obvious; I didn't have to stop and think at all.

More specific things I found were:
- If you fizzle the companion cube before you get the laser cube behind the glass you can render the chamber unsolvable.
- The third cube is unnecessary.

I made a demo anyway - I also found a way of getting the laser cube that you might not have thought of (if you don't know what to do with a .dem file, put it in your portal 2/portal 2 folder, fire up the game, open up the console and type "playdemo cuckoo", no quotation marks):

cuckoo.zip
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mikmock
15 Posts
Posted May 19, 2012
Replied 4 hours later
Thanks for the reply, nice to get some feedback for a change. It's beyond me how I forgot to respawn the cube

I'd only put enough portal surfaces because I wasn't sure if it was obvious enough, it was to me because I was doing it.

I've put the demo in
E:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\portal 2\portal2
is this correct? Not sure what you mean about open console and type "xxxx"

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El Farmerino
393 Posts
Posted May 19, 2012
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Somewhere in your game options you should have an 'Enable Developer Console' option. Make sure this is enabled and press the ~ key (top left of your keyboard) to open the console.