Quote from Idolon on May 26, 2011, 3:33 pm

Beautiful looking and brutally difficult. Took me 30 minutes before I [spoiler]deactivated the last death field[/spoiler], and after that I quit (mostly out of confusion). Excellent work, but could use some more direction.

Quote from Cau3T on May 26, 2011, 3:47 pm

Idolon wrote:

Beautiful looking and brutally difficult. Took me 30 minutes before I [spoiler]deactivated the last death field[/spoiler], and after that I quit (mostly out of confusion). Excellent work, but could use some more direction.

Thanks.

I don't understand your last remark. As "more direction" do you mean "more elements" (like lasers, funnels) or "more ways" ?

Quote from msleeper on May 26, 2011, 3:55 pm

Not having played the map, I assume he means "more visual indication of what the player needs to be doing or what their goals are".

Quote from Cau3T on May 26, 2011, 4:04 pm

Ok, so I'll try to update it.

Quote from Tinsil on May 26, 2011, 6:29 pm

got angry and quit.

Quote from Djinndrache on May 26, 2011, 8:02 pm

We did it but due to a bug the last laser-catcher did not turn on even though we PERFECTLY hit it with laser...
Recording coming soon (I'll try to render it until monday, so I can upload it Tuesday when I'm at university. Due to this big bug this map gets high priority in the uploading queue, but the size is too high for an upload from home.)

it took us a total time of ~45 minutes

Quote from Cau3T on May 26, 2011, 8:09 pm

Ok, thanks for finding bug

As soon as you put the record, I'll try to correct it (if it comes from the map).

Quote from xdiesp on May 27, 2011, 12:44 am

Map design efficient and expert, don't expect much eye candy though. As for the puzzle, well... magisterial, godly. Get beers and pen&paper, it lasted us over 1 hour.

Is it fun? Your mileage might vary: as for me I'm used to grind my teeth but my mate was being possessed by demons. It's definitely a bit across the border.

The following might have been us messing around, but something I didn't like because unfitting for the general polishing level: [spoiler]to reach the second laser target (the one across the chasm which extends the lower bridge), we used portals to bring a very obliquely laser (the first one) to it.[/spoiler] Had to be done a second time, and felt strangely disjointed with the rest of chirurgical, mirror shine logic.

Quote from Cau3T on May 27, 2011, 5:31 am

Thanks xdiesp.

When I started this map (this set of maps because it's the first of a set), I didn't want to make an easy or medium map because I found all maps of the original game easy (maybe 1 or 2 difficult maps, but not really very difficult). So this map isn't easy (it's the goal) and is maybe not accessible to everyone (not the goal, but we don't have difficult map without public restrictions ).

However, [spoiler]it's true that the laser beam is very oblique. Maybe by having angles less than 45 degres, the map will be "more intituive"...[/spoiler]

I'll see what I can do [spoiler]to reduce angles[/spoiler]this evening.

Edit :

Release of the rc2 of the map.

Due to the strong difficulty of this map, I add a first room which is simpler (version rc2) to motivate those who aren't very patient .

Changelog rc1->rc2
- Add some Glados voices
- Add some signs
- Add a room
- Add a middle spawn

Enjoy !