Quote from Xindaris on June 7, 2013, 6:57 pm

flarn2006:
Unnamed Chamber #1
Fun little chamber, nothing wrong with it. One possible leak, as pointed out in the video, which could be fixed by windows but really doesn't need to be as there is at least one point where the player needs to do exactly what you want them to do anyway.

No Trespassing #2
The beginning of this chamber is broken, or at least appears to be, because tossing even the stable cubes using an angled panel is tricky and inexact, much less trying to do so with a sphere. Other than that, I liked this.

False Hope (READ DESCRIPTION)
I couldn't work out how to actually get the secret cube, nor where the secret room it supposedly opens up is, but the main chamber works fine. You could stand to make the area around the entrance less risky by adding a little bit of window, as I pointed out after getting killed by turrets on my first attempt.

Donderbus:
I tried Lumpers one more time. Did not discover anything new, except that the exit is completely, utterly unopenable. Are you absolutely sure everything is set up the way you meant it to be? Because it seems, based on your hint and my looking around the chamber, that some test element like a button you meant to be present is not there. Even after using noclip to explore the entire chamber, I still have absolutely no idea how you expect the player to get across that moat the first time around. Also, move the light strips away from the exit a bit, the way they are now blocks it from showing any of its connections, which makes it quite impossible to figure out how I'm supposed to open it, especially since all of the most obvious ways don't work.

Quote from Donderbus on June 8, 2013, 7:30 am

hm... im sad now
Im gonna give some more hints from a little hint to the solution of that part of the puzzle.

the goo:
1. [spoiler]You have to notice the ground under the solid cube dropper, it's part of the solution. I will make more walls portable to make it clear that you have to use that later.[/spoiler]
2. [spoiler]Dont try to throw the cube through but think of another way to use the portable surface (it's high ground for instance)[/spoiler]
3.
[spoiler]Make a portal at the cube dropper, go to the room with the goo and make a portal on the left of the 2 portable surfaces. Use the gel to get through that portal (takes 2 jumps) then, at the cube dropper go one level down. Use falling speed to make the jump.[/spoiler]

after the goo:
1. [spoiler]You don't need to destroy the laser cube yet[/spoiler]
2. [spoiler]You can redirect the laser from the angled panel to the 2nd cube. From the 2nd cube aim to the receiver at the exit room. Now you can get in final room[/spoiler]

Exit room
1. [spoiler]Remember the first puzzle?[/spoiler]
2. [spoiler]Use the 2nd laser cube in the final room and the first lasercube at the start.[/spoiler]
3.
[spoiler]Aim the laser in the final room with the 2nd cube to the receiver that activates the light bridge. Get back to the first lasercube and take it with you to the start (destroy through fizzler and you get a new one) Put the new cube on the light bridge and aim for the receiver in the final room. Walk over the light bridge back so that your portals stay intact. In the final room walk up to the exit door and make a portal on the ceiling in the middle of the room. The exit door opens.[/spoiler]

Quote from Xindaris on June 8, 2013, 9:45 pm

Okay, you got me on that first one Donderbus. [spoiler]Momentum really should have been my first guess.[/spoiler] But I insist that if you expected the player to use the [spoiler]first laser target to open the exit door[/spoiler], that should definitely be clearly marked. This sort of thing is exactly what connection visibility is for.

Quote from bmaster2000 on June 8, 2013, 10:28 pm

Hello sorry if you are tired of me by now but just a heads up that RCTI 11 through to 14 have been uploaded and I would quite like a blind run if you get a chance. Spent today spewing out a load of chambers so they maybe kinda rushed but let me know any issues you find

Quote from flarn2006 on June 10, 2013, 8:02 pm

Here's another one you might like.

You did say you liked repulsion gel, didn't you?

Quote from Nyctha on June 11, 2013, 9:22 am

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =152186908

After you successfully found some flaws with my last map, unfortunate placements, i'm hoping this one should be more to your liking/less simple to overcome. I've playtested it thoroughly and taken your feedback on board, hopefully this should be a much more worthy offering.

Quote from AD_79p2 on June 11, 2013, 7:56 pm

Here's a map that I uploaded quite a while ago, and few people played.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =138657246

Quote from Xindaris on June 11, 2013, 9:29 pm

Okay, bmaster, I did the new RCTI 7, and 11-14, on the playlist starting here. Unfortunately, I didn't notice that my mic wasn't quite plugged in all the way until about halfway through the second of those chambers, so my commentary (and sound in general) is missing up until that point. I think most of it was just me going from saying "Hey, what's this?" to "Oh, that's how it's supposed to work". I think maybe near the beginning of 07 I complained a bit about the portalable walls being arranged so I can't actually put a laser through them without crouching or zapping myself, but it's not a huge deal and I don't know how it could be fixed in view of what the puzzle there is anyway.

Anyway, all of these are good, though I honestly am not sure why you feel the need to put these in a series-type collection in the first place, since they're all pretty much independent chambers and don't really follow any sort of theme that I can tell. I ended up rather liking the alternating mechanic used for the hard light related puzzles, it gave a nice action challenge that wasn't too difficult to get right, and felt sort of refreshing next to headache-inducing puzzle chambers. Most of my deaths in 11 were just me being careless/not getting the timing right/standing not quite in the right spot, and none of them felt cheap, which is the most important thing.

Next time I run chambers, I'll do the ones that have been requested since bmaster's post up there. They're already in my queue.

Quote from Xindaris on June 12, 2013, 5:54 pm

Sorry, double post, but I don't seem to be able to delete my old posts and wanted this to show up so the mapmakers would know I did the next 3 chambers...

Flinging and Bouncing got me lost for a bit, but I caught on after a while and managed to solve it. The trigger right on top of that one tile that turned the laser off when the player would be hit by it was pretty clever and helpful. I will say that the death pits next to that tile gave me a tiny bit of trouble, but that's about the worst complaint I can say. Lots of fun in the end, this one.

Permeate required me to think through my actions before doing them, which I really liked. Loved it.

Revive left a bad taste in my mouth, because I really dislike frankencubes, or at least the ways custom maps tend to attempt to use them. I just don't think it's possible to make a good puzzle using their one unique trait that sets them apart from normal cubes, because the walking thing is not predictable or precise enough for the player to really make use of. Even ignoring that, this puzzle was a bit frustrating as I only got one try straight through making a portal very quickly and then immediately needing to direct my landing onto the platform the exit door was on. I can't fault you for trying to make a decent puzzle with a frankencube, but I strongly recommend raising the roof a bit in the room with portalable ceiling to take out a bit of the frustration.