[WIP] Accident Prone

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Shmitz
167 Posts
#3245
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Map has been finalized and released in the contest thread. This thread can be kerploded/trashed/locked or whatever happens to obsolete WIP threads.

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This is my map for the contest. It has requisite three puzzle areas, but with a slightly different approach. Find out what happened in the previous Chamber 16!

Screenshots:

0.1.2 Changes
* Fixed puzzle 3 workaround.
* Fixed puzzle 2 glitch that threw players out of the world.
* Added challenges and challenge display at end.
* Fixed purple glare in certain reflections.
* Added minor easter eggs.
* Packed files into bsp for easier installation.

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msleeper
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#3249
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 39 minutes later
I accidently moved this to the Trash Bin.

Looks good though, can't wait to play!

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Rivid31
152 Posts
#3271
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 7 hours later
Awesome map. I'm not sure if I finished the last puzzle right though...

is the ball on the rope just a distraction? I ignored it...
Also, in the room with the flinging puzzle, if you jump down to where all the lift-pipes are, and put both portals on the wall... theres no way to get back up to where all the pieces of the wall are where you need to fling from, unless I just didn't see it.

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Shmitz
167 Posts
#3276
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 57 minutes later
Crappity crap. I forgot a rather vital file in the zip archive last night. If you've already downloaded it, grab this file and put it in your maps directory where the bsp is.

If you haven't downloaded it yet, the zip file now contains it.

Also, yes, the ball is used for the intended solution of the last puzzle.

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espen180
307 Posts
#3277
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 24 minutes later
Right after you maneuver those crushing pillars and fetch the orb, I get to an area where I'm supposed to reach a ledge on the high place. I travel around and search for a good spot to fling from, and I manage to create a pretty descent fling height, but it's not enough to reach the ledge. Later (while typing this) I stumbled across a possible solution. Are you supposed to gather momentum from the scaffolds standing at different heights?

Also, the sounds didn't play for me.

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Rivid31
152 Posts
#3281
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 43 minutes later
That flinging puzzle was pretty cool. I'm also not sure I solved that the way it was intended, but my solution involved portal tunneling down in that room with all the lift pipes
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Ralph
59 Posts
#3282
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 2 minutes later
Ok, I give up, how do you get out of the first room?
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Shmitz
167 Posts
#3283
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 1 minutes later

espen180 wrote:
Also, the sounds didn't play for me.

Was this even with putting that text file in your maps directory?

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Rivid31
152 Posts
#3284
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 3 minutes later
Silly Ralph. Figure it out! It is a very simple solution, you're trying to make it a lot harder than it is, I'd imagine. I don't want to keep telling everybody the solutions (that I found). Have some fun and figure it out
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Guitar
19 Posts
#3285
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 2 minutes later
Here is how I beat the ball part.

I placed the cube on the button that makes the platform extend, then when it was extended about 2/3 of the way. I put a portal on the wall above it, put the cube on the door button, then jumped onto the platform. I could jump the rest of the way. I would suggest making the left wall non-portalable. Or am I doing it the right way?

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Shmitz
167 Posts
#3289
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 14 minutes later
Guitar, you are correct in that method isn't the intended way. I'm probably going to move the destination ledge back a little.
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Ralph
59 Posts
#3317
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 2 hours later
I solved the last room the same way as Guitar, years of FPS jump puzzle indoctrination will take a while to be eroded by thinking with portals.
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Shmitz
167 Posts
#3318
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 1 minutes later
Haha, yeah, that's why I didn't catch that. I'm so busy coming up with portal puzzles I forget that people can actually jump. ;P
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Yekyaa
59 Posts
#3319
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 3 minutes later
arrrrggggg bastard crushing pistons
i have the portal where i need it, but now i have to manage to get
back THROUGH that room without dying or using portals otherwise
I get spanked by the ball....
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Yekyaa
59 Posts
#3320
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 3 minutes later
btw, i've done this twice already, but there's a floor across
the slime pit that's portable. if you stick a portal on the first floor panel
leaning against the wall and just attempt to walk through, you fall through
the map and just keep falling....
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DiddyKong42
192 Posts
#3323
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 7 minutes later
Nice map.
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Jagobah
5 Posts
#3333
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 50 minutes later
Nice map, with some platform elements and some decent problem solving.

The ball puzzle was very unique, as was the slime floor, kudos!

The ending elevator did not disconnect me however D:

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roger federer
75 Posts
#3339
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 24 minutes later
very creative puzzles, i really like the ball catcher puzzle, a lot of thinking involved in every room, but i think the first room took me the longest. lol.
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Mapster
396 Posts
#3344
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 20 minutes later
The first room took me a while, and then after a while i decided to see what happened when i fell into the hole of the elevator... AND WATTA YAH KNOW!

I love the variaty of detail that was used in this map, VERY well done and it gave me a few ideas for my maps... i'm not stealing just using textures that i didn't know the game had heh.

5/5 in everything.

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Shmitz
167 Posts
#3353
Posted Oct 30, 2007
Replied 1 hour later
Updated the map. See OP for details and download. Also, since I packed most of the map assets into the bsp, please let me know if you have any problems with missing textures or if the voice clips don't play.

EDIT: Ok, found that I can't pack the menu images into the bsp, which means next zip will be back to extracting from the portal directory instead of maps.

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