Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · June 19, 2011, 1:20 am

Updated to v1.1 to fix some minor bugs.
1950's style map featuring 50's style aerial faith plates.

Medium difficulty.

unzip to your portal2/portal 2/maps folder.
to play, enter console and type "map sp_marlow_underg_afp_v1"

Please let me know if you find any bugs.

File Name: sp_marlow_underg_afp_v1.zip
File Size: 2.58 MiB
Click here to download Marlow's Undergound AFP's

Marlow's Underground AFP's

#2 · June 19, 2011, 2:08 am

Nicely constructed, but I felt lost some of the time. I think I made it through by sheer luck.

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I was searching around for some way to get the cube over, then realized I didn't even need it as I completed the map with it left behind. Didn't activate that switch with it.

One really annoying thing:

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Perhaps I was doing something wrong, but this just seemed like luck when I could make the jump to reach the painted blue walls and bounce up. By then, the timer had run out and I had to start all over. Finally just noclipped to the next step.

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That's a LOT of faith plates in the exit sequence. I recall someone mentioning on another map that the 5 they had seemed like too many. You seem to have more than that.

#3 · June 19, 2011, 2:17 am

jimmyb wrote:

Nicely constructed, but I felt lost some of the time. I think I made it through by sheer luck.

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I was searching around for some way to get the cube over, then realized I didn't even need it as I completed the map with it left behind. Didn't activate that switch with it.

One really annoying thing:

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Perhaps I was doing something wrong, but this just seemed like luck when I could make the jump to reach the painted blue walls and bounce up. By then, the timer had run out and I had to start all over. Finally just noclipped to the next step.

I don't think you did the gel chamber as intended if you ran out of time.

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There are 4 places to put blue gel. Think with portals.

I'm not sure

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which switch you didn't activate?

Please elaborate.

Marlow's Underground AFP's

#4 · June 19, 2011, 2:25 am

On thinking it through, you're correct. I probably should have:

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placed the 2nd portal only after bouncing up speed between the 2 surfaces. I tried everything but... my fault.

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Meant to say button, not switch. I was looking for a way to get the cube to the "chute", but couldn't see any. Instead, I found an outside portable surface and the next thing I knew I was landing on a metal walkway. Like I said, I think I made it through with a bit of luck.

#5 · June 19, 2011, 2:42 am

I would like details on how you got around the first chamber.

edit- Nevermind I know how you did it. I'll fix the texture and update tomorrow.

Marlow's Underground AFP's

#6 · June 19, 2011, 4:03 am

Great map!
And those who say they can not, they just have not found a solution. The only drawback - it's a long name.

Thank you! Played with pleasure!

For those who can not find the solution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHuoDz4qUvc

#7 · June 19, 2011, 9:52 am

Cache wrote:

Great map!
And those who say they can not, they just have not found a solution. The only drawback - it's a long name.

Thank you! Played with pleasure!

For those who can not find the solution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHuoDz4qUvc

Thanks for the kind words.

Marlow's Underground AFP's

#8 · June 19, 2011, 7:56 pm

nice map... I searched for like half an hour how to get the cube to the other side, that's a big thumbs up!
I liked the style of the map, really felt like an official portal 2 map. The 1950's faithplates are nicely done as well, however I found a few errors:

Once my cube got stuck in the cube dropping-column:
if you want to see a screenshot: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/57780 ... DAC53F05E/ (sorry, image is too big to upload) (1366x768)

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The faithplate where you are catapulted on has a very small no-air-control time, I managed to escape and land on the roof, gently walked to the place where I had to go and placed a portal, walked back and got myself launched in the other portal so I could continue.

not sure if this was intended.

Lastly I think the timing for the last two portals is a bit too tight =/ I crashed myself 5 times to death and then I felt like whatever, I finished the map, let's noclip to the end.

Besides those points; great map!