Quote from josepezdj on June 4, 2012, 5:38 pm

INFO_PLACEMENT_HELPERS PLEASE!!!!!!!

My GOD!!! Dude! you should have used some info_placement_helpers! Sincerely mate, I swore at you a thousand times! Once I got the first key part solved in my head, it took me like 1 hour to finally make it, and all because the lack of placement helpers...

I have completed it and recorded my semi-blind run. It's semi because I've tried MAAAAANNY different approaches until I found the unique solution. And that is the important here: unique solution..

Greykarel, my most sincere congratulations! I'm completely excited after solving this. Absolutely my NUMBER 1 PUZZLE SO FAR... you even defeat my FAVOURITE puzzlemaker with this masterpiece, Chander! It's impressive how you have used all those mechanics into such a small space with such that fine ability. Dude, I'm amazed that there's only one damn solution for every step (at least I hope my solutions are the ones!)

This map so so clever that I think I've seen it all. Really. Unless you, Chander and maybe Jonatan join your strength and make a map altogether, I frankly think everything about Portal2 hard puzzles and clever maps has been already discovered.

Congratulations again and man, Thanks a ton for mapping stuff like that!

THIS PUZZLE IS SIMPLY INCREDIBLE

PART 1 VIDEO:

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("thousands" of tries later.....)

PART 2 VIDEO:

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(Sorry for such those bad editted videos but I wanted to upload the solution quickly... Oops... and sorry for killing the companion cube, was not necessary! )

Quote from Szieve on June 4, 2012, 8:50 pm

I'm still working on this, but from what I can tell so far, it's not so much a puzzle as it is a skill test.. how fast can you shoot a portal kind of thing.. doesn't exactly require the sharpest mind, but does require some advanced skills.. I'll keep at it, but maps of this kind just are not all that fun...

Quote from sicklebrick on June 4, 2012, 9:00 pm

Wow, that took me over 2 hours... but awesome - only slightly ninja, but on the whole, logic!
After the first mental manoeuvre to get the reflecto cube I kinda naively assumed it would get easier, but no, a double helping of brain melt. Thanks, it's an instant favourite for me too =)

Edit:

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Excuse the choppy cuts -- I was experimenting with joining multi part demos over the millions of quicksaves this took :p

El Farmerino wrote:

I managed to get into this position, but [spoiler]I can't inch the cube up to the button - it keeps dropping. Really frustrating.[/spoiler] Can someone who's done it at least tell me if this is how they did it, or should I abandon this approach?
Link to Spoiler Image
[spoiler]http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002380422/screenshot/594720461567189206?tab=public[/spoiler]

Yeah

Quote from El Farmerino on June 4, 2012, 10:01 pm

I managed to get into this position, but [spoiler]I can't inch the cube up to the button - it keeps dropping. Really frustrating.[/spoiler] Can someone who's done it at least tell me if this is how they did it, or should I abandon this approach?
Link to Spoiler Image
[spoiler]http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002380422/screenshot/594720461567189206?tab=public[/spoiler]

Quote from josepezdj on June 5, 2012, 1:22 am

El Farmerino wrote:

I managed to get into this position, but [spoiler]I can't inch the cube up to the button - it keeps dropping. Really frustrating.[/spoiler] Can someone who's done it at least tell me if this is how they did it, or should I abandon this approach?
Link to Spoiler Image
[spoiler]http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002380422/screenshot/594720461567189206?tab=public[/spoiler]

El, it happened the same to me... I already complained about the placement helpers. Dude, it took me ages to get the cube ON the ceiling button: even trying to raise little by little the bridge (same as sicklebrick does in his video), the cube kept falling down once and again... That was the most annoying part. It's a realy pity since the puzzle is impeccable!

If you check my video, I finally succeed shooting the floor portal parallel to the wall (below the floor button...). Looks like this way the ceiling button is better aligned with the portal... right?

Greyjarel, please add info_placement_helpers! At least 3 of them:

- On the front white wall panel right below the ceiling cube
- Right below the floor button
- Right below the celiling buttton

(I'd suggest a 3rd too below the light bridge!)

Thanks!

Quote from El Farmerino on June 5, 2012, 1:31 am

Haha, right. In that case, I might wait and see if greykarel takes josepezdj's advice and puts some placement helpers in. I was going insane trying that.

I'm looking forward to finishing this, though (if I can), mainly so I can settle down and watch sicklebrick's vid afterwards....

Quote from sicklebrick on June 5, 2012, 7:42 am

El Farmerino wrote:

Haha, right. In that case, I might wait and see if greykarel takes josepezdj's advice and puts some placement helpers in. I was going insane trying that.

I'm looking forward to finishing this, though (if I can), mainly so I can settle down and watch sicklebrick's vid afterwards....

Any luck moving the *other* portal to raise the bridge a little?
You've got more precise control of the portal on the bridge side, and can shuffle it about 32 units sideways and somehwere between 8 & 16 vertically. Also, it helps a lot if your cube is dead center, so it doesn't warp through.

To be honest though, if you always travel sideways in the portals (i.e. use strafe instead of forwardsbackwards), and line yourself up sideways before trying to move, or jump into a wall, then the only real tricky bits I'd say would be going from the panel above the door to the top floor in the reflecto cube room and that balancing act we just mentioned.

Still a bastard to try and record in a oner though... I'm wondering if GreyKarel just makes an impossible looking map then spends a day or so deciding if it can infact be solved! >.<

Quote from greykarel on June 5, 2012, 7:53 am

Jose, thank you for testing and highly estimated my humble work. Chander and Jonatan is the level I always try to reach.
Well I must say that there is placement_helpers on the front white wall panel right below the ceiling button and below the light bridge and for me they works fine. In new version I made there radius wider and and placed the first one a bit higher, hope this fix makes it not so frustrating for oters. The two other places you mentioned don't need any helpers for you can place a portal there any way you like. And even more a placement_helper under the ceiling button can prevent the intended solution for getting the laser cube.
As for your solution, the way you've got the laser cube is not exactly intended. My way is harder and much more impressive. So I've fixed that too.
New version is available.

Quote from greykarel on June 5, 2012, 8:41 am

sickelbrick wrote:

I'm wondering if GreyKarel just makes an impossible looking map then spends a day or so deciding if it can infact be solved!

Yeah, that's the way I make my maps.

sickelbrick wrote:

Still a bastard to try and record in a oner though...

I don't quite understand this. Do you want me to record my own walkthrough?