Quote from wrathofmobius on August 22, 2012, 5:20 pm

In most cases you also have to restart portal 2 although I find it highly unlikely you haven't done that already.

Quote from portal2tenacious on August 22, 2012, 6:43 pm

The .bsp files are in the portal2/portal2/maps/workshop folder. Also, make sure you're connected to steam and using the correct account. When I didn't have steam, I was still able to get items from the workshop. You won't have an easy time finding specific .bsp files, because they're all numbers, but I'm sure it's better than nothing.

Quote from chabon333 on August 23, 2012, 9:10 pm

oh right, i dont have steam account. but as you say, you can play the maps without steam account.. also, i lost my portal 2 dvds so i download it from the internet. i thought this was irrelevant. is there any way for me to play? i think the only way is by download the bsp from .rar files like always

Quote from portal2tenacious on August 23, 2012, 9:54 pm

No, I don't think so. You need to have an account to get the test chambers. But you can extract .bsp files from the steam directory when you don't have connection to steam.

Quote from chabon333 on August 24, 2012, 12:04 am

how do you do that? are you saying there is a way to get the .bsp files without having a steam account? i mean, i have one, i created a while ago, but a free one. how can i extrat the .bsp file and get it to my computer so i can paste it to the maps folder and play it like i always do?

Quote from wrathofmobius on August 24, 2012, 12:14 am

You need a proper link between Steam and Portal 2 for community testchambers to work. It sounds like either you bought the retail version, in which case you can link it to your Steam account, or you pirated it, in which case you won't be able to play community testchambers.

Quote from chabon333 on August 24, 2012, 5:53 am

i knew this wouldnt be much helpful -.- so again from the beginig.
is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?
i would be eternally thankfull !

Quote from ChickenMobile on August 24, 2012, 7:58 am

chabon333 wrote:

is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?

Nope. Get steam and link your Portal 2 game to your steam account. We do not appreciate pirating on this forum.

Quote from wrathofmobius on August 25, 2012, 12:12 am

chabon333 wrote:

i knew this wouldnt be much helpful -.- so again from the beginig.
is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?
i would be eternally thankfull !

Just a little math:
~177960 maps (estimated) at about 5 or 6 MB each (just for PTI maps) gives us 1067760 MB, or 1.06 petabytes. This is uncompressed of course, but even assuming a 99% compression rate, this is still over 1 terabyte. (although you still need to uncompress each map to play it) That is enormous, and well beyond the limits of any well-known (i.e. not virus) hosting sites. So unless you have a friend willing to make 125 trips over to your house with a 8 GB flash drive, I can only repeat this:

ChickenMobile wrote:

chabon333 wrote:

is there any generous soul that can make a .rar file with a couple of .bsp files of community test chambers?

Nope. Get steam and link your Portal 2 game to your steam account. We do not appreciate pirating on this forum.

Happy trails