Steamcommunity map pack

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chabon333
16 Posts
#84630
Posted Aug 20, 2012
hello everyone, i was wondering if there is somewhere a map pack of the maps that you can only download from steamcommunity.com, and if there is not any, if some generous soul could make one and upload it somewhere.
this is because for some reason i cant play maps from steamcommunity, i always download them from the direct download and at some point everyone started uploading maps from steamcommunity so there are lots of maps i've never played.
thank you in advance, im sure im not the only one who cant play from steamcommunity so you are making a favour for a lot of portal 2 players like me :biggrin:
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HMW
806 Posts
#84646
Posted Aug 20, 2012
Replied 5 hours later
Can you describe why you can't download maps from the workshop?
It currently contains over 100000 maps, and nobody is going to pack up all of those into a single download.
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chabon333
16 Posts
#84681
Posted Aug 20, 2012
Replied 13 hours later
i dont know. its been a few months since almost everyone started uploading maps via steamcommunity, i just want that ones, only the single player ones. i didnt know there were over 10000 maps over there. i've played all single player maps that can be downloaded from the direct link of this page but since steamcommunity became mainstream i left aside a lot of maps, i thought there were less than 100000. anyway, any map pack of maps you can only find via steamcommunity would be great. if someone has the time to make it and upload it it would be great :biggrin: thanks!
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MasterLagger
1,695 Posts
#84682
Posted Aug 20, 2012
Replied 19 minutes later
So why exactly can't you download Workshop/Steam Community maps?
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chabon333
16 Posts
#84700
Posted Aug 21, 2012
Replied 7 hours later
i dont know how man! is there somewhere a button that says "download" and it downloads a .rar file with the .bsp files in it? like the other way? i bet if you put all your maps in a rar file i would resolve them easily ;D
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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
#84716
Posted Aug 21, 2012
Replied 3 hours later
You know you can click the subscribe button on a workshop map and it auto downloads when you get into portal.

Just saying.

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HMW
806 Posts
#84719
Posted Aug 21, 2012
Replied 21 minutes later

ChickenMobile wrote:
You know you can click the subscribe button on a workshop map and it auto downloads when you get into portal.

Just saying.

Oh, that's right, Chicken! I should have mentioned that right away but I forgot!
There's a fair number of people who don't get that and keep looking for a download button on the workshop page.

Chabon, do what ChickenMobile said, then (re)start Portal 2 and select "community maps" -> "play single player maps". They should be right there.

Also, I just noticed that this topic is in "Portal single player". It should probably be in "Portal 2 Single Player / Coop", so I'm moving it if that's ok.

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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
#84725
Posted Aug 21, 2012
Replied 39 minutes later
Unless they are talking about Portal 1 maps. Then the whole workshop deal is a bust.
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chabon333
16 Posts
#84735
Posted Aug 21, 2012
Replied 1 hour later
no dudes, i dont get it.. i click subscribe and the button changes and says im subscribed, but nothing happens. i open portal and nothing downloads, i dont know where the bsp files are, i dont get it. a download button would be much easier :sad:
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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
#84737
Posted Aug 21, 2012
Replied 9 minutes later
GO to community test chambers. It should be in your list.
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Kaleido
272 Posts
#84780
Posted Aug 22, 2012
Replied 13 hours later

chabon333 wrote:
no dudes, i dont get it.. i click subscribe and the button changes and says im subscribed, but nothing happens. i open portal and nothing downloads, i dont know where the bsp files are, i dont get it. a download button would be much easier :sad:

Do you have a legal version of Portal 2 purchased through Steam?

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wrathofmobius
216 Posts
#84810
Posted Aug 22, 2012
Replied 16 hours later
In most cases you also have to restart portal 2 although I find it highly unlikely you haven't done that already.
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portal2tenacious
393 Posts
#84816
Posted Aug 22, 2012
Replied 1 hour later
The .bsp files are in the portal2/portal2/maps/workshop folder. Also, make sure you're connected to steam and using the correct account. When I didn't have steam, I was still able to get items from the workshop. You won't have an easy time finding specific .bsp files, because they're all numbers, but I'm sure it's better than nothing.
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chabon333
16 Posts
#84939
Posted Aug 23, 2012
Replied 1 day later
oh right, i dont have steam account. but as you say, you can play the maps without steam account.. also, i lost my portal 2 dvds so i download it from the internet. i thought this was irrelevant. is there any way for me to play? i think the only way is by download the bsp from .rar files like always :sad:
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portal2tenacious
393 Posts
#84940
Posted Aug 23, 2012
Replied 44 minutes later
No, I don't think so. You need to have an account to get the test chambers. But you can extract .bsp files from the steam directory when you don't have connection to steam.
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chabon333
16 Posts
#84951
Posted Aug 24, 2012
Replied 2 hours later
how do you do that? are you saying there is a way to get the .bsp files without having a steam account? i mean, i have one, i created a while ago, but a free one. how can i extrat the .bsp file and get it to my computer so i can paste it to the maps folder and play it like i always do?
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wrathofmobius
216 Posts
#84953
Posted Aug 24, 2012
Replied 9 minutes later
You need a proper link between Steam and Portal 2 for community testchambers to work. It sounds like either you bought the retail version, in which case you can link it to your Steam account, or you pirated it, in which case you won't be able to play community testchambers.
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chabon333
16 Posts
#84966
Posted Aug 24, 2012
Replied 5 hours later
i knew this wouldnt be much helpful -.- so again from the beginig.
is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?
i would be eternally thankfull ! :biggrin:
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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
#84970
Posted Aug 24, 2012
Replied 2 hours later

chabon333 wrote:
is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?

Nope. Get steam and link your Portal 2 game to your steam account. We do not appreciate pirating on this forum.

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wrathofmobius
216 Posts
#85023
Posted Aug 25, 2012
Replied 16 hours later

chabon333 wrote:
i knew this wouldnt be much helpful -.- so again from the beginig.
is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?
i would be eternally thankfull ! :biggrin:

Just a little math:
~177960 maps (estimated) at about 5 or 6 MB each (just for PTI maps) gives us 1067760 MB, or 1.06 petabytes. This is uncompressed of course, but even assuming a 99% compression rate, this is still over 1 terabyte. (although you still need to uncompress each map to play it) That is enormous, and well beyond the limits of any well-known (i.e. not virus) hosting sites. So unless you have a friend willing to make 125 trips over to your house with a 8 GB flash drive, I can only repeat this:

ChickenMobile wrote:
chabon333 wrote:

is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?

Nope. Get steam and link your Portal 2 game to your steam account. We do not appreciate pirating on this forum.

Happy trails :wink:

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