Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · June 12, 2011, 1:29 pm

This is Hopeless ! It's a long map composed by 5 chambers, and a special end

This map is less harder than my previous map, sp_lovetrip, but not too easy. Now, you will find checkpoints on each hard section.

I wish you a good enrichment

File Name: sp_hopeless.zip
File Size: 14.67 MiB
Click here to download Hopeless

#2 · June 12, 2011, 1:31 pm

And some screenshots :

#3 · June 12, 2011, 4:05 pm

Seems to be a problem in the first chamber? I can't get enough speed up.

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The O gel doesn't get you just barely high enough to portal the angle plate and then it dumps you gel coming down/if you O off the angle plate you also end up in the goo. If noclip up higher, I drop back and fling to B gel area - Bgel the flat surface and then cant fling far enough to get the cube?

#4 · June 12, 2011, 4:06 pm

Sorry second chamber, I went fast thru the first.

#5 · June 12, 2011, 4:27 pm

I liked the length and the diversity of the puzzles but overall, I find the map "messy". When I solve the puzzles, I'm rarely sure that I did it correctly.

The room I liked least was room 3 because it's purely timing and aiming skills.
Then room 1 was only slightly better but there wasn't much of a puzzle and it's not clear what the correct way to solve it is.
Room 5 has a good puzzle but it lacks direction plus you pretty much have to die before you can find the solution.
Room 4 was alright but much of a puzzle.
I like room 2.

#6 · June 12, 2011, 4:31 pm

your problem is strange, there are 3 different ways to make this jump over goo to get the cube...

The "safe road" is like on this screenshot :
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3951/gelsolution.jpg

#7 · June 12, 2011, 4:36 pm

quatrus wrote:

Seems to be a problem in the first chamber? I can't get enough speed up.

Spoiler

The O gel doesn't get you just barely high enough to portal the angle plate and then it dumps you gel coming down/if you O off the angle plate you also end up in the goo. If noclip up higher, I drop back and fling to B gel area

After placing the portal on the angled plate,

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I just walked through the portal to get on that plate then jump from there into a portal below to get the momentum to fling across the acid pool

quatrus wrote:

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Bgel the flat surface and then cant fling far enough to get the cube?

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Use a orange + blue combination

#8 · June 12, 2011, 6:01 pm

Excellent! Very creative, I specially enjoyed the rooms 2,3 and 5.
And the end is... special :thumbup:

Thanks for mapping awesome maps! 5/5

#9 · June 12, 2011, 6:43 pm

Here is my video of the way I think it's supposed to be?

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#10 · June 12, 2011, 7:36 pm

Thanks all for the tips....appreciated.

[SP] Hopeless