Quote from
Jepp on August 3, 2012, 12:03 pm
Just type:
give_portalgun
and then:
upgrade_portalgun
into the developers console and you should get a dual one...
Firstly I didn't like the puzzles in this map. It felt pretty well-built but it was too bloody dark in some places, I coudn't see what I was looking at at times. Other places were overexposed so it felt more like staring into the sun then a lamp. Other then that it looked very nice overall, some small stuff here and there though. Got myself stuck in various places in the first chamber, like I jumped onto the surrounding globe and slided down into a gantry model where I was stuck for example.
[spoiler]I played the second chamber for more then half an hour without any progress at all before just nocliping the cube to the button. I thought I'd checked everything, tried every bloody thing, because you can't really tell what will happen, so it was just a trial and error extravaganza beyond compare. I surely reloaded the map about 30 times while playing this, it was just no way to tell what would work and what wouldn't in the first map. I tried running from the redpainted ramp onto the blue platform and then into a portal and then out over that one and gave me too much speed etc. etc. When I finaly came up with the solution to get up onto the button-elevator-thing it worked well (bouncing into the blue-gel dropper again) and it gave a sence of staisfaction but it was so unclear how the proper way to do it was and everytime you do wrong you die and have to reload so that's also a pain in the arse.[/spoiler]
Loved cave and loved the turret-part. [spoiler]I don't think having alternate endings was a good idea, I really had to reload the map and do the other test with funnel aswell afterwards because you surely want to play everything right? It's not a mass effect type of game when you have decisions and stuff.[/spoiler] That test wasn't too fun either, not really a puzzle (once you've figured out what all the buttons did) just about execution and it was a pain in the ass if you screwed up really.
[spoiler]Infiniflinging the white gel was nice but by the time I've just totally lost my patince with the chamber and constantly dying so I nocliped. Do think I did it in the intended way and I was able to redo it after without noclip. And just remove that button outside the exit will you couse it has no function what so ever it was just aggrevating having to go back to get the cube.[/spoiler]
3/5 Good but needs work
Just type:
give_portalgun
and then:
upgrade_portalgun
into the developers console and you should get a dual one...
Firstly I didn't like the puzzles in this map. It felt pretty well-built but it was too bloody dark in some places, I coudn't see what I was looking at at times. Other places were overexposed so it felt more like staring into the sun then a lamp. Other then that it looked very nice overall, some small stuff here and there though. Got myself stuck in various places in the first chamber, like I jumped onto the surrounding globe and slided down into a gantry model where I was stuck for example.
Spoiler
I played the second chamber for more then half an hour without any progress at all before just nocliping the cube to the button. I thought I'd checked everything, tried every bloody thing, because you can't really tell what will happen, so it was just a trial and error extravaganza beyond compare. I surely reloaded the map about 30 times while playing this, it was just no way to tell what would work and what wouldn't in the first map. I tried running from the redpainted ramp onto the blue platform and then into a portal and then out over that one and gave me too much speed etc. etc. When I finaly came up with the solution to get up onto the button-elevator-thing it worked well (bouncing into the blue-gel dropper again) and it gave a sence of staisfaction but it was so unclear how the proper way to do it was and everytime you do wrong you die and have to reload so that's also a pain in the arse.
Loved cave and loved the turret-part.
Spoiler
I don't think having alternate endings was a good idea, I really had to reload the map and do the other test with funnel aswell afterwards because you surely want to play everything right? It's not a mass effect type of game when you have decisions and stuff.
That test wasn't too fun either, not really a puzzle (once you've figured out what all the buttons did) just about execution and it was a pain in the ass if you screwed up really.
Spoiler
Infiniflinging the white gel was nice but by the time I've just totally lost my patince with the chamber and constantly dying so I nocliped. Do think I did it in the intended way and I was able to redo it after without noclip. And just remove that button outside the exit will you couse it has no function what so ever it was just aggrevating having to go back to get the cube.
3/5 Good but needs work
