Quote from Enryu on August 27, 2011, 4:06 pm

The texturing and lighting is pretty bad. Things that are clearly defined in the single player game ( laser field letting cubes through but not people) are completely off. the water underneath the main console stunned you but didnt kill. Everything was so much longer than it was needed, and just beyond buggy. You should have tested this more internally and worked the awful annoying amount of bugs out.

Quote from dhavalmistry on August 27, 2011, 4:35 pm

could you please tell me what bugs you encountered?

Quote from Salamandra on August 27, 2011, 4:57 pm

I played it somewhat, had to stop midway because my partner had to leave (so don't have a video or anything), but I do have some criticisms:

In the center room, it's not clear which room you need to go into first. We activated the lasers for the door at the top, only for it to not open because apparently you need to go to a side door first. In the side rooms, it's really unclear how many cubes you need to bring in or if you need any at all. Also, if a cube gets destroyed in a different room you need to get out of that room, activate lasers to get into the other room and solve that puzzle again just to get it back. It's annoying repetition of previous puzzles.

Also there seems to be a bug in the room with the emancipation grills and laser-guarded door where your portals inexplicably disappear. There's no noise (like there is when you walk through an emancipation grill), and I know I didn't walk through an emancipation grill, my portals just vanished.

Quote from Enryu on August 27, 2011, 5:42 pm

on top of what was stated above, my partner had to no clip at the end when i ran in the final door and he delayed for 1 second and the door locked. everything was seemed to be just not polished and long run backs when you had to have 2 partners to get into the laser grid room and it would randomlly spawn on 1 and kill them and any cubes.

Quote from benvent on August 29, 2011, 1:01 pm

FYI
I had to change the file name in order to play. You have a period in the file name.
Other than that, i didn't run into any problems except for the door problem as stated in the previous post.

Quote from xdiesp on August 29, 2011, 3:48 pm

Beyond the pros and cons of each one, Dhavalmistry's maps always have his trademark. Again here are vast nonlinear chambers, connected through a hubkeylock - this time, a bit more detailed and credible.

We found it engaging and correctly challenging, but we met bugs and inconsistencies. Lasers not burning turrets; console going crazy over errors, and lag; no cubemaps; still the occasional weird geometry (but that's a minor offense). Most importantly: you can skip the entire left room.

Just bring along the starting cube, solve the right area and place it on the floor button - voil?. If I may suggest, have the 1-2-3-4 buttons spread across all three chambers so you can't just ignore the multiple lasercubes.

Quote from dhavalmistry on August 29, 2011, 9:15 pm

xdiesp wrote:

Just bring along the starting cube, solve the right area and place it on the floor button - voil?. If I may suggest, have the 1-2-3-4 buttons spread across all three chambers so you can't just ignore the multiple lasercubes.

Yes, I actully realized that first thing in the morning today. I will look into fixing it.

Could you tell me where did you find the weird geometry and/or textures?

Quote from xdiesp on August 30, 2011, 6:32 am

dhavalmistry wrote:

Could you tell me where did you find the weird geometry and/or textures?

It's a minor offense and gameplay in COOP is what matters most, but well, these column contraptions don't look like anything in the campaign.

Quote from KennKong on August 31, 2011, 3:32 am

My brother and I enjoyed solving the puzzles. We really worked hard to solve this thing the first time, because we were being super cautious about leaving an exit strategy available. We didn't notice [spoiler]the buttons to reopen the doors into the main room[/spoiler] at first, so we spent a lot of time.

The second playthrough was much easier, once we knew that you had built in some escape hatches (thanks, btw, we often need escape hatches.) We hate levels that make you start the whole thing over for one small mistake.

The turrets in the funnel room never fired at us when we walked into the room. We were going to drop them quickly through the floor, but that didn't work (not enough portal surface, should have been black in the first place.) Needless to say, we were surprised to still be alive.

[spoiler]Not knowing that we would not need the two cubes in the funnel room again, we were very surprised when they got stuck in the funnels.[/spoiler] We don't know if this is a bug or not, but we really don't care since it didn't affect the solution.

Others have noted the problem with the final exit door.

Summary: Clean look is OK, but boring; puzzle difficulty low to moderate; player skill very low; a little bit of fun but really no big "AHA" moments. We gave it 4/5, but after writing this, we think it might actually only deserve a 3.