Comments on: This Next Test Is Impossible

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:23:07 +0000

Wait, you wouldn’t even need to move the starting position back – the barrier would prevent a lateral launch from 0 anyway. I’m going to love this.

By: bob_arctor

bob_arctor — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:05:57 +0000

It sounds like it will make people be sick, being faster and spinnier than ND, especially when showing off.

I hope it is like AVP as the alien, the expert player will be a mentalist whirlwind, spinning round, flipping, zapping, flailing. Yeah.

/cries for the lack of //real// sequel to AVP.

By: Dabs

Dabs — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:15:23 +0000

Now you’re thinking with Portals.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:16:26 +0000

I’ve been wondering if there’s a way to modify this space so that the player’s solution is necessary. If I’m visualising it correctly I think you could just move the starting platform further from the destination, and put a barrier hanging from the ceiling such that you couldn’t see X from the start. You’d then have to use portals to shoot yourself under and up to the other side of the barrier, whereupon you could cast a portal into the side of it facing your destination, and fall back down to be catapaulted through it. They should do this. Or I should. Making custom maps for this is going to be genius. One of the main reasons I love games is that I get to use chunks of my brain that usually have nothing to do.

By: The_B

The_B — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:37:59 +0000

*Stump where head used to be explodes*

By: Dabs

Dabs — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:14:05 +0000

Sorry Tom, you’re right, I just re-read your post and see what you’re saying now. You’re right, it wouldn’t have made any difference had he “cast a portal behind him, then cast one in the same place as 2 as he falls”. Like you originally suggested, I think it was just complexity for complexity’s sake, showing how you can fiddle around/experiment with portal placement for fun in the game.

By: The_B

The_B — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:58:32 +0000

I blame me. For the last comment, thus creating this blog post. And for what's about to happen since I read the above post.

*Head Explodes*

By: Dabs

Dabs — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:28:09 +0000

You’re right actually, the walls at 0 look the same. In which case, I can’t explain how he cast a portal there – when I played, those metal walls were portal-immune. As for the second scenario, I can only imagine the reason why not being that you’d still lack enough forward momentum to make it to the other side. I don’t remember that bit though, to be honest, probably because I didn’t get that far or maybe my memory’s showing wear and tear.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:12:00 +0000

I don’t see a visual difference between the metal walls at O, which he casts a portal in, and the metal walls just to the left and right of X, before the brown ones start.

I also don’t see why he can’t turn around at the start, cast a portal behind him, then cast one in the same place as 2 as he falls. His downward velocity must be the same in both cases – the topsy-turvy turret earlier in the trailer demonstrates that principle fairly clearly.

By: Dabs

Dabs — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:08:04 +0000

He has to take that route (or any similarly complicated alternative). You can’t create portals against those metal walls.