Interested in playing your portal 2 test chambers

I'm pretty sure I saw yours on a different steamgifts thread. I haven't gotten around playing it. I'll play your map as soon as I've had some sleep :)

I just solved it with a friend of mine. We were both not a fan of the chamber. We didn't really think it was a puzzle. It felt more like a find the next thing you can use and you will find the exit. I can see you put a lot of effort in it though.

Oh, my dad and me have finished the first one already quite a while ago. The second one however, we started it yesterday, and had no idea what to do. We'll try that one again on a different time.

I'm in! Looks complicated though O_O

Just solved it the intended way. Didn't really like it. Looks more complicated than it actually is. A+ for effort though.

Well, you already played mine.. if you want, you can add me as a friend, I have a map only visible for friends, but it is still in early beta so there is a reason for the restriction(:

I really liked your chamber! It took me a long while to figure out what to do, while it wasn't hard. I just didn't see it, which is the point of a good test chamber :P

I liked the chamber as well, but I was unable to solve it the intended way. So instead I took a shortcut and skipped the mechanical wall, thus eliminating the need to go for the small button and the pressure plate at the turrets completly. Essentially I went in to grab the cube, inverted the funnel, got the light cube and then had to place it cleverly on some edge of the grating to be able to target the second laser recepticle. Once that is done you can ride the lift and get out.

But I liked the layout of the turret puzzle. And at first I got to the small button by jumping on the grating and then to its ledge, but later on discovered the nice funnel ride through the room to reach it. So even if I didn't need to solve half of the chamber to finish I did it for the fun :)

Not a big fan of the chamber. I saw immediantly what to do when i found out that there was this third cube hidden in this little hole in one of the walls of the chamber.

These 4 test chambers are very well done. But I advise other participants to actually solve them counting down instead of up, the fourth chamber is the easiest one of them, followed by the third. The first and second map are both quite tricky, but for different reasons, so your opinion on which one of them is the hardest may vary.

Chamber 4 is pretty straightforward. I liked the concept of the visual clock to toggle the chambers two states that carried over to many different actions. The caged turret was a nice touch.

Chamber 3 is quite unique in terms of layout and the lack of portal action. It's path is still very straightforward, find cubes to work the switches until the exit opens up. The turret threat at the end has several possible solutions and depending on which one you chose the lasers only purpose is to force the player to crawl. It would have been really great if the rooms visuals were more varied, like glass walls, or even having at least one wall and several ground floor tiles missing to incorporate the behind the scenes visuals with the whole room being one of many, resting on giant springs or rails like the later original levels. Some vegetation or water would have been pleasing as well.

The second chamber starts of rather linear, but once you ride down the funnel it will start to puzzle you. Figuring out how to obtain cubes and where to place them at which time was tough but not frustrating. And you get rewarded by a fun aerial faith plate ride. It's hard to review this level without spoiling too much ;)

The first level has the main theme of confusing trigger relations and their memorization. It may seem overwhelming at first, but the steps are broken down into seperate rooms and hallways and although there are a lot of light up lines to follow, they are very well distinguishable from one another. Some backtracking required and features fair timers.

There is only one momentum based puzzle in all four test chambers and it is very obvious and easy to perform. No need for quick reflexes or mid flight portal shoting or anything, this series is all about the puzzle elements. I'm looking forward to new test chambers that let us play with gels and light bridges :)

Well, OK, we had some white gel in the second one, but I'd like to see how you would set up some repulsion and propulsion gel puzzles.

Final verdict: the third and fourth part is recommended to every player. Absolute beginners might have a hard time making the chase over the collapsible bridge or getting past the turrets at the exit, but other than that it's a beautiful piece of cake, even though it's a lie. The first two test chambers are tough nuts to crack, but they are fair and well done. The Tux series is well worth your time!

Didn't like the first three chambers, but the fourth one is good. the solution to that one was really original.

Didn't really like any of the tests to be honest. I was kind of enjoying the 4 chamber, 4 tests one until I had to do the last chamber with the 2 turrets. That one was infuriating, because it was easy enough to do what you needed to do, but the cube never stayed on the button, and I tried at least 6 or 7 times.

They both weren't good in my opinion, but they weren't bad either.

Your map is F*CKING awesome! I played your first one as well. Wasn't as good as the other one, but it's still a really good puzzle! Keep the good content up :)

Played and finished both as well, but I actually prefered the first episode over the second. That's not to say I dislike the second one, it's just that I wasn't able to solve it by logic alone, had to fall back on some throwing and cube/portal juggling. And the first test chamber simply offered more to do, a wider range of puzzles. There's something I like about your fair way of presenting puzzles, as in the continuous cube droppers ad having to walk past later puzzle elements to know about them and plan ahead for your return.

I played all three of them. Didn't like them. None of them actually felt like puzzles. It was just a certain order that you need to do without thinking.

I'm sorry buddy: exploit :(

I liked it. Good layout, several edgeless cube usages and thumbs up for repulsion gel and light bridge puzzles.

Would fencing the ball receiver solve the exploit? So that you would have throw the ball into the fenced box to make exploiting at least a lot trickier to perform?

Completed it the intended way. Didn't really like it. It was alright, but frustrating in my opinion.

Why... just... why?

What's there to thank?

Well, at least it wasn't my death ;)

I died a few times actually. You made use of my habit and made it my death. That's brilliant :P

To add on the latest comments you got in the workshop I think the map would be better if it required both cubes in the last room, even if that means a lot of players would have to redo the whole chamber once they find out about it. Maybe widen the hallway leading to the last room and add static glass panels to let the player get an early clue. So you would end up with either a two tiles wide hallway divided by a glass wall in the middle where the right path leads up to a glass walll facing the last room or you would have to rearrange the middle glass panel that blocks the way through that hallway to instead block the entrance to the double faith plate room (and still add a glass wall to let the player peek at the last room).

And the first faith plate could be left out completely to allow for either simple reportaling or momentum flinging through the hole in the glass wall at the ceiling. Plus you don't have to activate both laser relays in the lower room, one is enough to use the faith plate down below to get back to the first room.

Alright puzzle. Nothing to complain about, but nothing really stood out either.

How is that map possible? Looks like it would require some rage inducing jumps. if that's the case, that's not the kind of stuff I'm looking for.

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Honestly this is an example of what I'm not looking for. I have no idea what to do because there is just too much without knowing what does what. The turret room and the room with the ball are just plain frustrating, and when you fail at the ball room you have to kill yourself, which is just unnecessary. I can see that you put a huge amount of effort in it though.

Good one, but certainly no keyboard smashing rage quit material ;)

I was expecting to have to use the cubes after the lift you can bring along, so there's potential to add to the hair pulling of that test chamber. Could use some more lighting love. And maybe use the light bridge again in that upper laser receiver room to get to a switch to make that receiver accessible? Maybe block it with a glass panel that retracts after hitting that new button.

The map was alright, but please put some lights in your chamber. I barely see which tiles are portal tiles.

Hm, seems I broke your puzzle, as I easily finished without ever turning on the laser and using the reflection cube. Also never opened the wall panels to the left of your preview screenshot. Could have get through even faster if I knew about skipping the laser and using the reflector cube on the buttons right from the start.

But thumbs up for providing a side view puzzle, I really enjoyed that chamber in the co-op testing initiative.

I have no idea what most of the buttons do. It looks like a fun puzzle to solve, but there's no indication which makes it impossible to see what to do.

I know this is a really late reaction to your comment, but I've been thinking about your idea to put a francube in my map to make it more lively. I just realized people can exploit my map using the francube's walking ability :P

That map has some great moments! I enjoyed the leap of faith as well as the death defying bounces through the later lasers part. The long dark hallways could use a speed up as well to better fit the test chamber's setting.

Just completed it. I wasn't a fan of it honestly. Way too much space and unnecessary objects used for the easy puzzles that it actually contains. A+ for effort though.

Not a fan of either of them, sorry.