Quote from PCdoc on January 4, 2012, 5:49 pm

I am stuck in chamber 17 and 18 - both are catch-22s that seem to be impossible because the timings are so short:

[spoiler]open Door #1 with the pellet
need to open Door #2 - MUST backtrack to the beginning room and shoot both Portals there in order to send the pellet down the hallway and open Door #2
no way to get into that room, shoot both portals there - and get out to Door #2 !![/spoiler]
I have tried EVERYTHING. Can I get a clue here ?
It must be something dumb that I am overlooking.

I finally no-clipped to 18 and am stuck there as well. It is a catch-22 . . .
[spoiler]to shoot portal in the Exit room you need cube on button
you come back to main room
you now need cube to deflect pellet and allow one pellet to enter long hallway and then ride back to Exit room
but to get cube you must go through fizzlers
fizzler removes your Portal in the Exit room - and to ride back to Exit takes too long and Pellet is long gone[/spoiler]
AAARRRGGG - need a clue here too

Quote from Mevious on January 4, 2012, 7:50 pm

Here are some hints.
Hint for 17
[spoiler]You'll want one portal in the starting area with the launcher and the other portal on the other side of door 1. You can send a ball through portal 1 and move portal 1 to a different place. Meanwhile the ball bounces off a wall, goes back through portal 2, and returns out of portal 1's new location. Using this technique, you don't need to place both portals in the starting area.[/spoiler]
Hint for 18
[spoiler]PCdoc, you have all the steps, but you're doing them in the wrong order. Deflect the cube first, then get a new one for the button.[/spoiler]
Hint for 19
[spoiler]You are correct that you do not have time to launch a new ball and get it to the door in time. You need to keep a portal on both sides of the fizzler. To do this, use a technique simialr to chamber 17 to control the ball.

Idolon wrote:

When I enter the first room, my portals will fizzle. There is no way to avoid this.

There is a way to avoid that.
You need to deactivate the cleanser twice: once to get in and once to get out.[/spoiler]
It's good to know where you're getting stuck. This way I can revisit these levels and try to add some subtle hints. I like my puzzles to be challenging, but I want to avoid players getting stopped dead in their tracks and getting frustrated.

Quote from Random on January 4, 2012, 10:50 pm

I didn't have any timing problems with the others which is why I knew I was doing 19 wrong. I almost slapped myself when I thought of a more natural solution that I think would buy me time to run through the fizzler, but I can't check any time soon to see if I'm right.
Anyway this is how I did it at first, you might want to do something about it.19 unintended
[spoiler]I deactivated the fizzler. I kept the blue portal in front of the ball launcher and fired the orange on the back of the hallway behind the fizzler. Then I went back to the first room and waited for the pellet to go through. When it bounces back I switch the blue portal to the platform facing the angled wall.

I ran to the wall in front of the ball launcher and waited for the pellet to come back out the blue portal. Right away I shot the blue portal on the wall in front of the launcher and raced to the edge of the hallway as the pellet enters the receiver. There I could barely manage to fire the orange portal on the wall facing the angle before the fizzler turned back on. The new pellets would go
through the portals, continuously turning the fizzler off.[/spoiler]
Basically I added an extra step because I missed a really obvious step.
Chamber 18 was one of my favorites, by the way.

Quote from PCdoc on January 6, 2012, 10:49 pm

Even though I got stuck - I wouldn't want it any other way.
This rocked - don't change anything.

19 had me for a while but I managed to solve that without reading the hint. #14 also really had me for a while - that was a very vexing puzzle. Then of course, 17, 18, and 19 we all hard until you figure them out then you wonder why you were so stupid - LOL.
Great series man - here are my recommendations:

if not too much work - make more of the earlier puzzles tricky like the last few
but keep the beginning Intro puzzles for beginners - that is standard Portal 1 series
add one mega puzzle as a new map #20 something huge and daunting - a Boss Battle or just a very long and hard puzzle
change the sound of the Purple Spheres to a more pleasant "Electric zapping" sound as the ball is vaporized and do not shake the room as much or not at all. That is actually very annoying to me. I had to mute the sound each time
allow the cube stands to deflect in more than just one direction - just an idea but not important

Thanks for this marvelous effort - major Kudos on a job well done !!

Quote from Mevious on January 8, 2012, 10:22 pm

Updated to version 0.2

Changes include the following:
- Added easter eggs in rex_11, rex_14, and rex_18
- General restructure of rex_19 to have more portalable surfaces
- Made rex_19's energy ball be an infinite energy ball
- Aligned liquid textures in rex_07 (thanks Random)
- Made infinite ball naming time slightley shorter in an attempt to fix the multiple balls bug
- Added images for chapter and bonus maps
- Changed the portalable floor platform position in rex_18

See the readme for a more complete change list.

Quote from quatrus on January 25, 2012, 8:07 pm

I got all the way to 18 and am stuck - yes even with your hint....?
[spoiler]I deflect the e-ball - door is closed (red) - cube drops into floor portal to ceiling portal & down onto pad which starts transport - but I can't make it upstairs & make new portal and then move floor portal under cube drop to wall before the e-ball gets there...[/spoiler] Almost ready to give up....must be another easy way I can't see...

Quote from rossman231 on January 26, 2012, 4:53 pm

quatrus wrote:

I got all the way to 18 and am stuck - yes even with your hint....?
[spoiler]I deflect the e-ball - door is closed (red) - cube drops into floor portal to ceiling portal & down onto pad which starts transport - but I can't make it upstairs & make new portal and then move floor portal under cube drop to wall before the e-ball gets there...[/spoiler] Almost ready to give up....must be another easy way I can't see...

You're probably [spoiler]forgetting or not noticing another element to the level which at first seems useless. Look around a bit and see if you can figure out how to get infinite time to do what you're trying to do. Mevious very rarely forces you to do very fast, time-sensitive actions.[/spoiler] Hope that helps, and if it doesn't, I'll be happy to give you a bigger hint 🙂

Quote from soad667 on January 26, 2012, 5:32 pm

Played earlier the updated version as the changelog was quite interesting. Loved it even more, unlimited supply of cakes for you.

Quote from rossman231 on January 27, 2012, 2:55 pm

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