[Release] The Watcher Chambers

Talgoran · New Employee Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 13

I'm going to make this short and to the point.

Most of this map was infuriating for me. I was minimizing and coming back to it when I was less pissed off by the 'puzzles'. I found myself changing host_timescale and using noclip a lot. On the positive side: the behind-the-scenes hallway with all the rooms was a nice touch. The puzzle near the end where you have to get the cube to jump up higher was clever. The glass semi-dome room was a very cool puzzle and looked very nice! This was second only to the energy bridge puzzle. It was a tad too difficult I think, as you had to bunny hop and time it very well, but this got my adrenaline going and was very nice to complete. The very end was kind of disappointing...the speech and gas and energy wall and portal was nice and all, but I wanted to do something, not just lie down and die.
Overall: Very annoying puzzles, but it definitely picked up towards the end. Great presentation, too.

pestchamber · Loves Cake Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 252 Location: Earth

Doomsday192 · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

pestchamber · Loves Cake Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 252 Location: Earth

lol whats wrong with me saying lol?

Doomsday192 · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject:

pestchamber · Loves Cake Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 252 Location: Earth

i know it was a "blatant insult"... i just think its funny

penapappa · Test Supervisor Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 112

please.. don't tease pestchamber, even he indeed is mega-idiot.

ps.
pestchamber, do not get angry, you are my best friend rightly. This math prove it: intelligence (x) foots size (+) potatoes kilo price (-) ex-girlfriends (/) pimples number (=) critical error

pestchamber · Loves Cake Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 252 Location: Earth

more ultra

penapappa · Test Supervisor Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 112

I admit that you're right, I was wrong Wink

Kokoyote · New Employee Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 13

Gorgeous presentation, but damn, this was one of the hardest levels I've every played. Some of the precise flinging...I really spent like a half an hour on some of these. I'm proud not to have noclipped past any of it, out of sheer determination, but I wouldn't have been able to figure out how to do some of the flings without watching the speedrun video and reading the hints in this discussion. The water pit particularly had me stumped, as did the angle fling across the pit. The step-fling-to-angled-fling room had me trying over and over for close to an hour before I finally managed it, only to find I had to do it a second time on the way out. Great work overall, but a little too painful for me.

WackoMcGoose · Superior Participant Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 70

My comments about this map can be summed up in three words:
これ。ある。懸命に。
GLaDOS: The Enrichment Center apologizes for this obviously broken post. If we were you, we would use an internet translation site.
Oooookay... Well, in English:
This. Is. Hard.
But despite being near-impossible without heavy console usage, the maps look really great, and I loved the bts area, including the cake chamber. Oh, and finally having a test chamber with natural lighting was epic.
But the end of the game really confused me.

FISHY CRACKERS · Test Participant Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 23

Finally i have the right to say:

Old thread is old.

rellikpd · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:26 am Post subject:

WackoMcGoose · Superior Participant Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 70

Besides, July 14 to August 13 technically isn't a necropost. (Yes, it is one day short of one, but it doesn't meet the one-month definition.)

An ending I would've liked to see would've been the energy field coming down after the g-man's portal closed, and you have to go through the door and escape the facility before the gas gets you.
But I did like the usage of the blue energy fields from Portal TFV Mappack in test chamber five...

EDIT: In Chamber 1, you can fool the security camera at the last lift before the chamberlock by holding the storage cube above your head while on the lift. The lift should rise, because it doesn't detect the cube. This is infinitely easier than the nearly-impossible boxfling maneuver.
And chamber 4 has potential for some real lulz. If you noclip into the Vital Apparatus Vent near the blown-out wall, then shoot one portal into one end of the tube and the other portal into the other end of the tube (possible to do without portal_placement_never_fail), and deactivate noclip, you fall through an infinite tube. It's even funnier if you increase sv_gravity to something in the range of over 9000.
And did you know that cubes and turrets are unaffected by sv_gravity, and if you change sv_gravity to -600, gravity is flipped. Too bad Chell doesn't flip to align with the opposite gravity Very Happy