Quote from eladiozro on August 6, 2012, 1:32 am

hey I had the same issue with the portal publishing tool, I almost got frustated with it but i right clicked-properties-compatibility-Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows XP (Service Pack 3)... That worked with me

Quote from Shakky on August 6, 2012, 8:35 am

Here we go. Thanks alot eladiozro! That worked for me too.

Here is the workshop link for the map: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... d=87648921

Good luck guys! First one to solve it gets a huge cookie!

Btw. Am I allowed to alter the main post in any way? I'd like to write a better description and add more pictures but I don't want to get disqualified for that.

If you are wondering why the sv_cheats flashes on at the start, for some reason PTI doesn't allow mobile portals without it. It's just in the PTI version.

Quote from sicklebrick on August 7, 2012, 8:41 am

Heh, was hoping someone would have nailed at least the first half by now!

Quote from El Farmerino on August 8, 2012, 11:14 am

For some reason saves aren't working for me - every time I try to load it just kicks me to a screen with some random PTI animations. Needless to say, this is hindering my progress somewhat....

Quote from RogerL on August 8, 2012, 11:28 am

I had the same problem. Download the version on the regular forum; that one works okay.

Quote from Shakky on August 8, 2012, 2:07 pm

This post is mainly for the judges only and saving problem and some other improvements have already made on the V1.1. I would recommend downloading that from here: Color Me Rainbow and Spank Me Skyward

I can't update the contest post nor the PTI post or I get disqualified.

Quote from ChickenMobile on August 10, 2012, 11:36 am

My feedback:
Do not read if you are judge!

[spoiler]This map was ugly and a complete waste of time.

If there was a way to complete the red room, I could not get it. I got stuck inside a room with glass and could not get out.

After noclipping out of there to continue to the next area, it wasn't much better. It required advanced funnelling skills and reportalling in order to shivvy across walls. I could complete most of it, other than the fact the floor was goo, so one mistake was instant death. As soon as I did fall, I noclipped back up to the funnel.
Getting the cube was almost impossible, and required you to remotely control a funnel to push it through a laser grid.
There was a good concept in this room (putting funnel on wall so cube is off button, put funnel on different wall and it reverses) but that was about it really. It was frustrating and not rewarding whatsoever.

The last room involved a double lightbridge. The main technique in this room was to jump at the right moment so the bridge made you glitch on top of the topmost one. It was stupid and unnecessarily hard. After my autosave failed on me, I quit.

i.e. map was terrible.[/spoiler]

Quote from Shakky on August 10, 2012, 4:25 pm

Finally some feedback I was expecting. When you decide to make a hard map there are always people that wont like it. Well here is my response even though I doubt you will ever come back and read this.

[spoiler]-As for the looks I can't really defend it. I like the look but I can see if one doesn't like it and it would have needed alot more refining but I ran out of time. My main focus was in the complex puzzle not the looks.

-As for the red room. There is a solution and there are already plenty of people who have solved it. Also it's impossible to get stuck. I can see the room you "got stuck in" but the portal surface is all the way up to the roof for a reason.
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-The blue room does require moving yourself with the funnel and if that automaticly makes it horrible I guess there is nothing I can do about it. I don't personally see how the goo is a problem as there is only one point where you need to remove yourself from the funnel. The blue room does include one particularly tricky fling that I was sure people like you would whine about but I see you didn't even get that long.

-First of all the green room (which is not the last) requires no use of that glitch. I know how you got that idea as that puzzle is actually largely based on planning ahead. Here again I would have expected people complaining about the moving panel as the portal engine doesn't like moving portals but I see you quit before that part.

My biggest problem with your responce it the fact that you didn't even get half way done with the map. First 3 rooms are just the start of the puzzle and act as ways to solve the middle room. First you should move all 3 cubes from other rooms to the middle which is much harder than it may seem. Then solving the middle itself should give everybody a reasonable challenge. After that there is also an advanced solution which is alot harder than anything before.

I'm sorry that you don't like the map but I would have expected little bit more from a member with that much experience. Your contest map is great and I see it has done pretty well on the PTI charts also. But I wasn't aiming for that kind of map. I always loved maps by marKiu, grayarea, jonatan ect. Maps that took days and days of discussing inside a group of experienced portal players before the solution was found. That feeling of finally finding the right solution after 5 hours of playing is what I most love in portal 2 and I get to feel that pretty rarely. I understand that most of the people will decide to quit after 10 minutes of playing but I somehow hoped that the judges wouldn't be like that being really experienced with the community.

I hope you undestand what I'm getting at but I'm pretty sure this won't change your mind of the map. I know few of the judges will probably like this and it has already caused some of the reaction I hoped. El Farmerino and Xtreger are working on solving it right now but I don't think the solution has been found yet. Until then...

QQ more[/spoiler]

Quote from El Farmerino on August 11, 2012, 5:43 am

Shakky wrote:

First of all the green room (which is not the last) requires no use of that glitch.

Haha, that's my solution out of the window, then.

My thoughts on chicken and shakky's thoughts
[spoiler]To be honest, I don't agree with Chicken's assessment (quite the contrary, I really enjoyed the map overall) but I can totally see where she's coming from. Did I think this was a great map? Hell yeah, and I personally got more enjoyment from it than any other map in this contest*. Do I therefore think it should win? Hell no. It's not remotely accessible to more casual players (or anyone that isn't borderline-masochist for that matter) and your statement that 'this will be a real challenge to all portal players' should probably be reworded 'this map will cause most portal players to weep and forfeit'. What Chicken said was harshly worded, but I imagine it will be the most common reaction; I can see this going down well with some of the TWP regs (myself, Xtreger, greykarel maybe) but if I were you I'd prepare for general bile and loathing.

EDIT: I also don't really believe only playing half of the map really disqualifies Chicken from expressing her opinion. It's not like she took one look and said 'ugh, not playing that!'; from the sounds of it she gave it a fair chance, didn't like the puzzles or the visuals, couldn't get anywhere and took a good look around the rest anyway before making her comment. As a not-so-good analogy, if a date of mine cackles like a hyena, spits all over my food when she talks and smells like a bag of rotten tuna, I'm not gonna hang around to see if she makes up for it by being particularly mind-blowing in bed before making my decision...

(*pending josepezdj's fixed-up release of his map.)[/spoiler]