This map is VERY close to completion but there are a few things that i need to do before releasing it to everyone which will take quite a long time considering i have lost my inspiration to keep on going, the only thing that makes me want to continue is the fact that people keep askign me when i am going to release this on YouTube.

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Cheers,
Mapster

EDIT:
I forgot to mention:
YES i do know that my turret models have a different skin, i just forgot to change it before i took the screenshots.

EDIT2:
I also forgot to mention that since i didn't add all of the files so it's in the bonus map menu, all you have to do is place the .bsp in your portal/portal/maps folder, load up portal, go into console by pressing ( ~ ) and type in: "Por_Facility_Adv" and it'll come up with the latest version underneath console, push the UpArrow and it'll go straight to it.

Only one comment so far; some may think that manipulating cubes in the dark, hiding an entrance in the dark, etc is "challenging", etc. . .to me it is simply an irritation and (most importantly) NOT FUN. I have yet to see a single map where a near-total darkness puzzle has added to the gameplay, enhanced the mood, etc. All it does is piss me off. Maybe I can vmex this thing and add a light. . .

Fixing the light would be great!

Made it through! Heres a few things I spotted:

• Goo under the turrets-on-lifts area does not kill (I should of died there a lot, but unfortunately had to kill myself everytime).

- That screen that one turret hides behind will kill? Kinda suprised me, but the worst problem was that I was in such a hurry to use a cube to kill the turret, that I dropped/threw it on the other side, and couldnt reach it anymore. I am pretty sure you need 3 cubes to do some of the rest of the puzzles. . .

• The pipes on the wall in the next room are misaligned at the bottom.

• A couple of walls look non-portable in the turret-maze, but are portable.

||- Was I supposed to squeeze a portal past the glass into the area that holds the switch to open the turret-mase? Its the only way I found to reach it; nothing else seemed to open the area. In the old one there was something that moved to allow entrance I think, but it didnt seem to happen, and I looked everywhere.

• Those holes in the glass were VERY hard to see, IMO. Maybe if you put an X on cube-side wall it would be more obvious? Maybe too obvious; I dunno.

• I dont know if there was an easier way, but it took 4 portals to get that darn rocket to hit the glass! My head hurts from the spatial geometry!

• The rocket-to-kill-turret thing was nice; it took me a while to figure out how to use the under-stair walls.

• Not sure about how it ended, because it. . .didnt. I reached the last room, freed the companion cube, and even put the other cube in. . .but the game didnt end. Does anything make the game fade out?||

xitooner wrote:
Fixing the light would be great!

Made it through! Heres a few things I spotted:

• Goo under the turrets-on-lifts area does not kill (I should of died there a lot, but unfortunately had to kill myself everytime).

Thanks, didn't know about that.

xitooner wrote:
- That screen that one turret hides behind will kill? Kinda suprised me, but the worst problem was that I was in such a hurry to use a cube to kill the turret, that I dropped/threw it on the other side, and couldnt reach it anymore. I am pretty sure you need 3 cubes to do some of the rest of the puzzles. . .

Yes, you need all 3 cubes to finish the entire map.

xitooner wrote:
- The pipes on the wall in the next room are misaligned at the bottom.
- A couple of walls look non-portable in the turret-maze, but are portable.

- Was I supposed to squeeze a portal past the glass into the area that holds the switch to open the turret-mase? Its the only way I found to reach it; nothing else seemed to open the area. In the old one there was something that moved to allow entrance I think, but it didnt seem to happen, and I looked everywhere.

There was a button that you pushed, it opened up the door above you with you had to get past.

xitooner wrote:
- Those holes in the glass were VERY hard to see, IMO. Maybe if you put an X on cube-side wall it would be more obvious? Maybe too obvious; I dunno.

Hmm, perhaps you are right there, i'll add a border to the hole so people can see it.

xitooner wrote:
- I dont know if there was an easier way, but it took 4 portals to get that darn rocket to hit the glass! My head hurts from the spatial geometry!

I am able to do it in 3 hehe.

xitooner wrote:
||- The rocket-to-kill-turret thing was nice; it took me a while to figure out how to use the under-stair walls.

• Not sure about how it ended, because it. . .didnt. I reached the last room, freed the companion cube, and even put the other cube in. . .but the game didnt end. Does anything make the game fade out?||

No, the map doesn't actually end yet, I'm not 100% sure on how i should end it, i don't really want it to just be an enter the room then fade away finish.

Please download it and check it out please.

Beta 01.02
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That's what i see in the tube.

infernet89 wrote:
i can't understand why, but the glasses in your map glitches really a lot.

That's what i see in the tube.

why are you in the tube? Mr. Speedrun (aka infernet89)... i never go in the tube.. takes to long

rellikpd wrote:
why are you in the tube? Mr. Speedrun (aka infernet89)... i never go in the tube.. takes to long

LoL!
all glasses has that look for me, very annoyng play a map with those strange reflections, i was in the tube just to show you all what trip it is.

infernet89 wrote:
i can't understand why, but the glasses in your map glitches really a lot.

I'm always getting that glitch on custom maps for some reason, I've got no idea what causes it though. I've been meaning to ask about it here before, but I thought it might just be down to my computer.

Great map, by the way. Looking forward to seeing the final release.

rellikpd wrote:
nice update... looking good, i don't really know what the hell i'm supposed to do for the final test (with the 2 rocket turrets and 2 gun turrets) what i did was shoot a portal over the emancipation grid back into the room with the single rocket turret (that is activated by button) and bum-rush the portable walls near the rocket turret, grab the cube from the swith then useing that as a shield go back through the portal to block the gun turrets... the rocket turret (behind me) shoots at me, i side step and let it knock down one turret, then do it again for the other turret.... how the hell are you "SUPPOSED" to do this puzzle?

Shoot a portal under the stairs, and 1 beside the rocket turret and then use the rocket turret that has the 2 machine turrets facing it to shoot a rocket at those. If that makes sense.

Mapster wrote:
Shoot a portal under the stairs, and 1 beside the rocket turret and then use the rocket turret that has the 2 machine turrets facing it to shoot a rocket at those. If that makes sense.

no not really lol post a quick video (of that section) i mean i can beat it. so no worries. i was just curious on how YOU wanted it completed.