Portal 2 SP / Coop Discussion (SPOILERS ABOUND)
Well, there's one obvious point (GLaDOS is still there). Other than that, I think you're good to go.
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Yeah, nothing is spoiled from one campaign to the other. The coop ending is interesting, to say the least.
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Yeah. Finished the co-op this evening with my buddy. Good stuff! And really, the stories could be completely seperate. The only real spoiler is the fact that GLaDOS is in fact alive and not dead (if you've only played Portal 1 so far) and that is kinda hard to not get spoiled what with the game loading screen showing Cheel and GLaDOS facing off
But now I'm left with... hm... nothing really. Sure I can play the single-player again. Or even the co-op. But all in all Portal 2 has left me with less un-modded gametime than Portal 1. And that's a damn shame 
On the
Spoilers, obviously
- Does portal beam go at the speed of light, or at an infinite speed? In the first case it would take 2.6 seconds for Chell to see the glare of the portal, and in the second case it would be 1.3 seconds, as the commentary explains.
- Once the Earth is seen from the Moon, it looks kind of unrealistic with a straight shadow.
- Likely just a plot element, but what is the probability of shooting a portal almost directly near an Apollo station?
- With decompiling of the map, it may be possible to figure out what terrain and what Apollo station it is (if Valve didn't make it up).
- Since the Moon's escape velocity is 2.38 km/s, it is obvious that Wheatley did eventually land on the moon. Further speculation on the plot?
- Since Wheatley and the Space Core aren't massive enough, they couldn't possibly rotate around each other.
As to number 1,
As to number 1,
Sooo, iirc from portal GLaDOS stands for "generic lifeform and disk operating system" but
Although, I did notice all the load times. But they did go pretty fast. On the subject, Jeep Barnett was recently interviewed, and he stated they were mostly working on optimising the engine to work faster with more complaex shapes and calculations.They did use some sneaky bits though; at the beginning when your new relaxation chamber is being destroyed, you're not actually there, you're in a sepearate room with the same basic shapes, so you don't interfere with the physics and stuff.
I wasn't even playing it on full. Christ, can't wait to see what Episode 3 looks like
I would love it if you know where that interview was. I was avoiding pre-release P2 articles/interviews and want to go back and read them.
I think you misunderstood what they meant by being in a 'fake' room in the opening destruction sequence. How that usually works is that you ARE in the room with all the crazy cinematic physics, but non of those physics animations (they are precompiled) have collisions. The "fake" room your are "in" refers to a set of clip brushes that overlaps the modeled, falling apart, room. It is "hidden," as they say, in another part of the map only in that the clipping brushes are somewhere else in the map so that it is easier for the designers to look at inside Hammer, but when they spawned (used) the game moves them over. That's how it's done normally, though it's possible they did it a bit different for that sequence since the container is moving and moving clipping brushes can be glitchy.
She was always genetic lifeform and disk operating system as far as I remember.
I think you are misunderstood tbh. I can't say for certain of course (and nobody will until we decompile it) but as for the feel in the character controls it does not feel like you're standing on a moving platform. Apart from scripted physics pushes that happens at set points through the ride you're controlling as if you were in fact in a (fairly) clean and static room. If all the physics movements of the container would actually get applied to the character controls you would be in for a much more bumpy ride imo.
EDIT: In fact in the commentary node he specifically states that they simply reparent the camera view to the container to get the illusion of your position.
Well there wouldn't be any reason to parent the clip brushes to the container animation, just have them on a straight path_track that doesn't bump around but roughly matches the container.
But ya, thinking about it again, maybe you are right, they could be using a seperate camera entity. Honestly that commentary node confused me a bit since it's so technical about the animation and then just glazes over the in-game setup. I figured when they said "player camera" they just meant player since it was written from an animator perspective.
A lot of these questions are answered in the commentary. Both the "fake room" during the intro, as well as the stuff about the end of the game are all discussed there.
That said, regarding the ending:
looking at you, ASBusinessMagnet
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