Portal 2

Portal 2

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Funnelfication

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Challenging map for experienced players, which is centered around a reversible funnel and a sendificator. Basic knowledge of sendificators recommended.

Difficulty: 7.5/10
No special execution skills or fast running required.
All "timing based" actions should be easily manageable. If you run into serious trouble, you're probably doing it wrong.

List of unintended things:
  • glitches
  • cube tossing with wild mouse movements
  • speedrun techniques (bhop, strafing etc.)
  • standing on that small ledge of the laser portal

Additional item information:
- the conductive plate is portalable
- as long as a cube is in the cage under the reflector cube dropper, the "gears" connection stays active

- the death fizzler works like this: conductive plate deactivates the laserfield, but the fizzler part only gets deactivated via upper button AND conductive plate

- sendificator is connected to the laser and the weighted button
- there's a rescue path which only opens in a situation where the player could be trapped. It's never needed in the actual solution.

Known issues:
- if the player is close to the funnel emitter, the player gets dropped sometimes. It's a well-known glitch that I can hopefully cure in the future
- the player can accidently unlock the rescue path with noclip. Keep in mind that the path is not part of the solution.

Useful things:
  • F6 / F7 recommended
  • use the command "host_timescale 1.5" (or other values) for reducing waiting times
  • you can use the mouse wheel for better aiming
  • "noclip" can help to do some experiments.
  • adjust the music and/or sound effects in the options menu

Huge thanks to Libbybapa for playesting, technical help, advice and incessant support.
I also have to thank 可砸, Mikeastro and Nobody No-One for playtesting. Make sure to visit their profiles.

Music: "Track 7 (Butterfly / Suspense)" by Mikeastro.

Videos:
- playthrough by Joric
- playthrough by 可砸 - part 1 - part 2
- blind run by Nock

Feedback and playthrough videos are welcome. Feel free to ask for hints.
Have fun!
70 Comments
Mattchew 14 Dec @ 10:06pm 
Just wanted the world to know I solved this map, and yes, its fantastic :p Faved!
Hovering Harry 15 Oct @ 1:10pm 
There are 7 possible ways to activate the laser receiver, none of them are possible to get to while also being able to get to the exit door. What is the eighth method?
sashqo 4 Mar @ 3:10pm 
this is hardest chamber I have ever played.Solved it unintended way though. Thank you, need more:)
masaltzero 26 Jan @ 5:19pm 
i love funnel vacation by narkodes
Narkodes  [author] 21 Nov, 2023 @ 9:05am 
@mark: Thank you a lot for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
mark 20 Nov, 2023 @ 7:20am 
Deducing the solution felt like planning for an elaborate heist. 10/10. Brillient puzzle. Favorited.
Narkodes  [author] 22 Aug, 2023 @ 5:35am 
It's jinxed that the maps don't work for you the way they should :D While I get the Linux ontology thing, it's a bit odd to me that you had this problem in Funnelfication. I considered the scenario you showed and added a background mechanism (IIRC there should be a faith plate and a sphere outside of the map) which delays the actual sendificator (or the cube respawn?) process a bit, so that the messy ghost cube hitbox doesn't block the sendification. I'm confused how win 11 could be responsible for that, unless it calculates the speed of that background faith plate differently. HM! Hopefully there won't be more issues like that :/
skosh 15 Aug, 2023 @ 6:19pm 
Followup to my previous comment. I tried this map on an older computer using the same Save shown in my video and I was able to complete the map successfully every time. So this is a caution for future players. It appears Portal may execute certain actions differently depending on your system. FYI, I was using Windows 11 the first time and Windows 7 on the older computer.
skosh 14 Aug, 2023 @ 7:16am 
Amazing map, but it does not work for me. Watched the videos and confirmed I did as intended, but for some reason the final portal shot does not produce the same results. (Caution: Major Spoiler). When the reflector is in transit it collides with the other cube and lands on the button rather than against the wall. Tried shifting the portal, but nothing works. . What am I doing wrong? ... https://youtu.be/cPl7RDWSPG4
Narkodes  [author] 21 Jun, 2023 @ 4:58am 
@CoffeeCoder: Thank you for your feedback! I hope you still had a good time with it.