Forum | Thinking With Portals

#21 · January 8, 2011, 2:22 pm

kataruna wrote:

I first played Packrat and found this thread which was for both maps. So I went back to Portal and played Cold Conundrum as well before making any comments. Both maps were great. I had a lot of fun playing them. They weren't too hard. And they weren't one of those maps which make you go crazy with flinging and jumping and such uninventive stuff

Yeah, I had to invent the word "uninventive" as my English is not very good.

But I had a little confusion. You talk about ice floors and ice doors. I did see them in the map but I failed to see any difference they make from normal floors and normal doors. I played the map just like I play any other map without ice floors or ice doors. Can you give me a little hint or something?

Keep up the good work man.

By the way, what does BTS mean guys?

Spoiler

Ice Floors have a very slippery qulaity to them; try running then stopping on it, or putting a turret on it. They slide 'n slide.
Ice Doors are different in that they switch from a portalalbe surface (frozen) to an unportalable surface.(unfrozen) In Portal you could only have one or the other, and needed pistons to change it. (like the flipping walls in Cold Conundrum) Also, while unfrozen the player can go through them, unlike the pistons.

#22 · January 8, 2011, 2:34 pm

Groxkiller585 wrote:

Spoiler

Ice Floors have a very slippery qulaity to them; try running then stopping on it, or putting a turret on it. They slide 'n slide.
Ice Doors are different in that they switch from a portalalbe surface (frozen) to an unportalable surface.(unfrozen) In Portal you could only have one or the other, and needed pistons to change it. (like the flipping walls in Cold Conundrum) Also, while unfrozen the player can go through them, unlike the pistons.

Running? I have been playing Portal for 4 years and I don't know how to run; if you mean something faster than normal walking. How is it done? Thanks.

#23 · January 8, 2011, 3:29 pm

No he still means normal movement. No such thing as running in portal.

However hopping repeatedly does increase your speed but I think everyone knows that.

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#24 · January 9, 2011, 10:00 pm

Whysopro? wrote:

No he still means normal movement. No such thing as running in portal.

However hopping repeatedly does increase your speed but I think everyone knows that.

Yeah, sorry. Forgot in Portal you can't run, though I call it sprinting. I meant walking.

#25 · May 26, 2011, 9:52 pm

Really next dimension stuff, primarily devious puzzles in a perfect package. Now in hindsight, with P2 out, I start noticing how more variety (mechanics, themes) could have made P1 maps more... colourful. But it's good nonetheless, basically a distilled version of the same core mechanics.

the hills are alive... with the sound of music

#26 · October 10, 2012, 8:32 pm

Hello all,

How do you install Packrat and Cold Conundrum? I've downloaded Groxfiles.zip but see no guidance on how to install. Thanks for any assistance.

Vallibus

#27 · October 10, 2012, 8:41 pm

vallibus wrote:

Hello all,

How do you install Packrat and Cold Conundrum? I've downloaded Groxfiles.zip but see no guidance on how to install. Thanks for any assistance.

Vallibus

You install this just as all the other portal 1 maps:

Download the zip,
unzip it.
browse to steam/steamapps/~username~/portal/portal
copy the files inside the maps folder to
portal/portal/maps
and the files inside the scripts folder to
portal/portal/scripts
(if that folder doesn't exist, create it)

that should do it

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#28 · October 15, 2012, 8:50 pm

Lpfreaky90,

Thank you very much for your help.

Vallibus

Packrat & Cold Conundrum