Portal 2

Portal 2

Friction
33 Comments
Nobody No-One 9 Dec, 2018 @ 9:03am 
Ha, fun map. Thumbs up.
jandlml 23 Jan, 2016 @ 3:16pm 
oh my gosh,i tried this map awhile ago and couldnt get it. i finally got to the exit. i dont know if there is an intended solution but wow that was kind of hard.
󰀉tempeh󰀉 19 May, 2015 @ 8:14pm 
Nah, I got it after a couple minutes. I've just been sensitive about anything that makes me feel old lately. Like internships that disqualify crotchety old folks in our late 20's.
quat  [author] 19 May, 2015 @ 7:40pm 
My bad. Feel free to host_timescale it if you would like.
󰀉tempeh󰀉 19 May, 2015 @ 7:36pm 
Solution video is exactly what I've been trying to do, but I just don't have the reflexes for it.
Talisac 3 Jan, 2015 @ 1:19am 
Played it again, did it the right way, enjoyed it. Maybe just 2 things left to fix:
- You can skip light bridge part ( getting the cube while standing on the button ) by flinging yourself over the high glass next to angle panel, and then just jump down to elevator area;
- Still an "easy" way to do the final move by throwing the cube. [www.dropbox.com]

First part is a cool tutorial, and second part is a good development, nice work!
Stagger Lee 30 Dec, 2014 @ 8:32pm 
The very last part gave me fits for a while. The only thing I could possibly come up with was so off the wall that I knew it couldn't be the solution. I finally surrendered and watched your video and lo and behold, that is exactly what you intended and much to my surprise, it seems to work every time. Bewildering.
mechtakendall 30 Dec, 2014 @ 3:50pm 
Nah, I understood the concept, and it is a good puzzle, despite my inability to get it to work. I probably kept losing height, because for some damn reason the game likes to change the portal orientation just because a cube is flinging through it, so I always seemed to be running the wrong way in the exit area, which was frustrating. Stupid Portal.
quat  [author] 30 Dec, 2014 @ 3:47pm 
Sorry you're having trouble with it, that's shouldn't happen. Try repeating the move one more time to get a little more height on the box
mechtakendall 30 Dec, 2014 @ 3:41pm 
I was doing everything that was in the video. Otherwise I wouldn't have said anything. With the laser line moved over more to the far edge, I couldn't seem to get it to work. But I'm pretty shit at fast portaling too.
quat  [author] 30 Dec, 2014 @ 2:39pm 
Really? Hmm, you might be tossing the cube, which doesn't give it enough speed for sure, or doing something else. It's worked every time I've tried it, with more than enough momentum to spare. The solution is quite gimmicky so I don't blame you if you're doing something else. Try the video, it's a little outdated at this point but the solution is the same.
mechtakendall 30 Dec, 2014 @ 2:27pm 
For some reason, with the laser farther to one side in the beginning area, the cube I fling knocks the other cube out of the way, but keeps coming to rest in front of the laser (having lost its momentum to the cube it hit). I like the puzzle, but I either ended up with the fling cube in front of the laser OR the fling cube would hit an odd corner and jump over the other cube. Gave up on trying to finish it after spending 20 minutes just trying to fling the cube and knock the other one out of the way.
| \_/ () 27 Dec, 2014 @ 9:23am 
I played version 1 of this map and it felt pretty...ok, I guess - I mean it wasn't anything special, but it was still the best map I've played from the competition. The first area is fun and it's a bit odd that I managed to fling the cube without any problems even though there aren't any portal magnets (twice).

But the second part in the current version is absolutely awesome! I'm glad that you got rid of the big block in front of the bridge button, but the main reason I loved it is because just adding that glass there made things a lot more challenging and the "aha!"-moment - 10 times as satisfying.

great map. nuff said.
DeathWish808 23 Dec, 2014 @ 4:10pm 
OK, I'm done. I broke it again, but only by some crazy BS and luck to get a cube out of the first room and then getting things right in the last room to respawn the cubes.

No fixing needed. I just leave you with this and let you see if you can figure out how I pulled it off...

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=361326602

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=361326628
DeathWish808 23 Dec, 2014 @ 3:24pm 
Oh, and the computer has nothing to do with that. Portal runs smoothly on some old machines.
DeathWish808 23 Dec, 2014 @ 3:23pm 
Haven't checked it, but I'm going to guess you moved the laser further away? lol. If so, that's what I thought you were going to to start with.
quat  [author] 23 Dec, 2014 @ 3:20pm 
Damn it ;) Your computer's faster than mine, I guess that's why you could toss the box a little higher than me.

Updated, hopefully for the last time. There's no way you can cube throw it now >:)
DeathWish808 23 Dec, 2014 @ 2:06pm 
I tried it twice again as well... ;-D

The flip panel made it more obvious what your (I think) intended solution is. (I just went a bit retarded when I forgot to block the laser.) ;-P

Re-playthrough of last area: http://youtu.be/KEsBZ9wXbOo
quat  [author] 23 Dec, 2014 @ 12:17pm 
Hopefully I fixed it, I tried to do it twice and couldn't pull it off. The real solution isn't fiddly at all, and works the first time every time.
quat  [author] 23 Dec, 2014 @ 11:57am 
808 - That also skips the hard part... :P Will fixxxx
DeathWish808 23 Dec, 2014 @ 11:48am 
Straight forward, but fun. Nice job!

Blind Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7c7LPU72G4
quat  [author] 23 Dec, 2014 @ 9:11am 
Fixedddd
quat  [author] 21 Dec, 2014 @ 10:26am 
Odd, the weird fling in the video gives essentialy the same amount of speed as an infinifling.

If you can make an infinite fall from the other side I'm going to be mad, because that's the whole point :P
Jade BGE 21 Dec, 2014 @ 10:13am 
Ah, I did a bit different on the last shot terminal velocity - to get enough umph to move the block away from the lazer.
Jade BGE 21 Dec, 2014 @ 10:08am 
Duh, I think I'll watch the video now...
Jade BGE 21 Dec, 2014 @ 10:08am 
Yes! I did it! Not sure if I did the last step right as the line of sight wasn't the best for accuracy. But it worked the first time; lucky shot for me becausr my accurasy sucks.. Great map, thanks
quat  [author] 19 Dec, 2014 @ 11:40am 
Thanks all <3
The Sojourner 19 Dec, 2014 @ 1:13am 
Knock it off! This is awesome :p2cube: This may very well win the competition...
Daoud Baba 17 Dec, 2014 @ 2:35pm 
First time i have played this map i was wrong in the second part because i thought that one cube must been dropped on the button connected to cube dispensors but after, i kill it in my second try after 2 minutes of meditation on the map picture presentation xD
quat  [author] 14 Dec, 2014 @ 7:31pm 
Button moved & solution demo is rendered and uploaded. Soooo much motion blur, sorry guys o.o
quat  [author] 14 Dec, 2014 @ 4:22pm 
Yeah that's wrong, I'll move the button. The button is seperate from the rest of the puzzle, i.e. it's only really used once. Makes sense because the button was sort of a late addition.
Talisac 14 Dec, 2014 @ 1:55pm 
Nice test, fastly done but enjoyed it. I'm not sure about last solution: I dropped a cube into floor portal with a portal in front of button to reset the cube blocking laser. As first room is a kind of tutorial, I was expecting something else..?
jgaultney 13 Dec, 2014 @ 8:32am 
Each one of these is getting more and more devious :) Thumbs up!!