The official Portal 2 thread!

TheMailMan78 · Apr 29, 2011

AphexDreamer said:
Its just sad that Co-Op can be completed rather quickly and afterwards it yields very little in terms of repeatability. Its not as much fun solving a puzzle once you already know the solution.

I hope they have lots of free (Challenging) DLC's in store for us. Both SP and Co-Op.

Valve is releasing the SDK soon.

AphexDreamer · Apr 29, 2011

TheMailMan78 said:
Valve is releasing the SDK soon.

Yup and can't wait for it

bear jesus · Apr 29, 2011

TheMailMan78 said:
Valve is releasing the SDK soon.

Soon? so taking in to account valve time, it should be out in maybe 3 to 6 months? possibly 9 to 12? :laugh:

TheMailMan78 · Apr 29, 2011

bear jesus said:
Soon? so taking in to account valve time, it should be out in maybe 3 to 6 months? possibly 9 to 12?

Naaaaa. I think within a month or so.

bear jesus · Apr 29, 2011

TheMailMan78 said:
Naaaaa. I think within a month or so.

I find it hard to get my hopes up

i remember waiting so long for so many SDK's.

theJesus · Apr 29, 2011

Using this chart as a reference for Valve Time, I would say that "soon" means "whenever we get around to it"

qubit · Apr 30, 2011

Disaster has struck!

I'm about 80% through the game and I've got a little bored! :eek:

It's just one damned puzzle after another and is beginning to feel rather samey, excellent though it is.

I think I need a bit of a break from it. I will finish it though, I'm just taking a little breather for now.

Anyone else got burned out with Portal 2?

theJesus · Apr 30, 2011

qubit said:
I'm about 80% through the game and I've got a little bored! It's just one damned puzzle after another and is beginning to feel rather samey, excellent though it is.

I think I need a bit of a break from it. I will finish it though, I'm just taking a little breather for now.

Anyone else got burned out with Portal 2?

Nope, not at all. It's a puzzle game; if puzzles bore you, you shouldn't be playing lol.

PVTCaboose1337 · Apr 30, 2011

ctrain said:
I finished it

the moon was ridiculous. i looked around for a second before going oh fuck...

also the opera was awesome

the end parts were amazing.

You are a retard. "I looked around." Holy fuck the game was like hinting at it the WHOLE FUCKING TIME. Please see spoiler for me game related rage.

PORTAL MATERIAL MADE OF MOON ROCKS, FANCY THAT! MOON ROCKS KILL CAVE JOHNSON, HOW DID YOU NOT SEE THIS!?!?

Anyway congrats on finishing it.

qubit · Apr 30, 2011

theJesus said:
Nope, not at all. It's a puzzle game; if puzzles bore you, you shouldn't be playing lol.

It's not that. I just need a little break from it. The fact that I played Portal 1 almost from the start just before it simply means that I've had so much Portal that I'm a little "fatigued" with it.

I certainly want to finish it and the storyline and wickedly funny humour are great.

SaiZo · Apr 30, 2011

qubit said:
Be aware that getting the disc doesn't actually help all that much: the game will invariably be auto-patched by Steam before you can play it. And the more time goes on, the more updates will be needed, so you will still face significant downloading. It will be less than downloading the whole thing from scratch, though.

You mean like that huge patch that was released some time ago for CS:S? What was it, like 1Gb or something, that did take me long time. I have a 2Mbp/s connection. Only at work it is faster - an idea, take the system to work, plug it in there - buy and download it from work. Can this be done??

qubit · Apr 30, 2011

SaiZo said:
You mean like that huge patch that was released some time ago for CS:S? What was it, like 1Gb or something, that did take me long time. I have a 2Mbp/s connection. Only at work it is faster - an idea, take the system to work, plug it in there - buy and download it from work. Can this be done??

Yup and talking about huge patches, just today Steam downloaed 150MB worth of updates for Portal 2. :eek:

I'd be careful about using your work's network. There's often firewall/proxy restrictions along with a lot of big brother monitoring. I'd ask someone there first if I were you. It's seriously not worth getting a disciplinary over this.

DannibusX · May 1, 2011

Portal 2 DLC #1 will be free for all platforms this summer!

Source

Including Xbox

theJesus · May 1, 2011

DannibusX said:
Portal 2 DLC #1 will be free for all platforms this summer!

Source

Including Xbox

I was about to mention Valve Time, but the article already covered my concern: "it's not clear if that estimate is Normal Time or Valve Time"

PVTCaboose1337 · May 1, 2011

DannibusX said:
Portal 2 DLC #1 will be free for all platforms this summer!

Source

Including Xbox

Yeah so "this summer?"

I wonder what that means!

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time

Probably November.

DannibusX · May 1, 2011

I was less concerned about Valve Time than I was with Microsoft Profit in that story.

qubit · May 2, 2011

Help I'm stuck

I think that as this game progresses, it's getting harder and I'm getting stupider. :eek:

I'm currently stuck on chapter 7 The Reunion on this level:

How do I get to the platform above to get to the doorway? I've got just one portalable spot on the floor to the left and that's it. Jeez, I dunno how people can say this game is easy!

I've cheated a little bit by using noclip to fly around, but I still can't figure it out.

I was in a similar situation with the lift shaft just before it, but I just got fed up and flew my way out of that one.

PVTCaboose1337 · May 2, 2011

qubit said:
I think that as this game progresses, it's getting harder and I'm getting stupider.

I'm currently stuck on chapter 7 The Reunion on this level:

http://img.techpowerup.org/110501/2011-05-02_00001.jpg

How do I get to the platform above to get to the doorway? I've got just one portalable spot on the floor to the left and that's it. Jeez, I dunno how people can say this game is easy!

I've cheated a little bit by using noclip to fly around, but I still can't figure it out.

I was in a similar situation with the lift shaft just before it, but I just got fed up and flew my way out of that one.

You have bounce stuff and you have white gooey stuff, this should be really easy! Look around, the goo is how you win! Also, spoiler tags around that picture please.

HINT: Use gravity.

qubit · May 2, 2011

PVTCaboose1337 said:
You have bounce stuff and you have white gooey stuff, this should be really easy! Look around, the goo is how you win! Also, spoiler tags around that picture please.

HINT: Use gravity.

Tags added!

Yes, but the bouncy and the gooey are inaccessible. If you'd rather not give it away in public, please PM me.

theJesus · May 2, 2011

Is there a way to jump to a specific chapter and start playing from there? I'd like to take a look at this level again so I can provide some help.

edit: aha, you can jump to specific chapters with the developer commentary

TheLaughingMan · May 2, 2011

The game gets harder as you go. Think about it for a while.

qubit · May 2, 2011

TheLaughingMan said:
The game gets harder as you go. Think about it for a while.

Sorry, I got too frustrated and found this YouTube walkthrough that gave me the answer. Yeah, it sure does get harder! And past a certain point, it stops being fun.

The answer is at the 15 minute mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y93KiAHySY

theJesus · May 2, 2011

lol I just played through chapter 7 a few times and couldn't tell which spot you were stuck at from your screenshot for some reason

edit: After watching a little bit of that video, I now realize that I couldn't tell because of where you took the screenshot from. I never walked over there so I never saw it from that perspective.

edit2: btw, I thought that part was really easy >.>

qubit · May 2, 2011

theJesus said:
lol I just played through chapter 7 a few times and couldn't tell which spot you were stuck at from your screenshot for some reason

edit: After watching a little bit of that video, I now realize that I couldn't tell because of where you took the screenshot from. I never walked over there so I never saw it from that perspective.

edit2: btw, I thought that part was really easy >.>

Hey, thanks for looking for me. :toast:

I tried to take a screenshot which took in the whole scene, so I didn't have to take multiple screenshots, therefore it wasn't from the usual angle. The clue (irony!) to which platform I was on was to look at the entrance on the right. I was on the level below.

I'm now at the bit where I have to go up the vertical passage with all the gloop pipes. I'm doing ok now, but I'll take a break, because it's 3:30am over here and I need some zeds.

Yeah, P2 has got the usual Valve awesomeness. :rockout:

qubit · May 5, 2011

Chapter 10

Ok, so I finally finished the game. It really was good, wow.

Took about 15 hours in all.

But what's with chapter 10? It's still greyed out and locked. I tried googling for it, but couldn't find much on it. There was one forum post saying that it's just credits, but that doesn't sound right.

Anyone know about chapter 10?

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