[RELEASE] Affinity

Farragar · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

Visually stunning, absolutely breathtaking. Puzzle content fairly easy, but nicely tuned. Two bugs you might want to have a look at; the orb catchers seemed to have an orb sprite loaded in them before it caught an orb, and one combine energyball still had 'small particles' turned on, but whatever. An excellent map, truly one of the best I've ever played.

Sythes · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject:

Had a great feel to it, classic look, and a good design. Not too hard, and not too easy, very balanced. I loved the ending! XD really origional. If I were to rate it, it'd recieve a 9/10.

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

Personally, I'd say you had too much good looks and not enough good puzzle. It's like the entire map was gilded to make it look nice when the basic puzzles weren't awesome.
Gah I'm being too harsh. The puzzles were pretty good, albeit not too difficult. The looks, and the GLaDOS and the effects and all the little things were AWESOME. Truly amazing how you built such an atmospheric map.
The ending was freaking incredible. Enough said.
Great great job...I imagine this took a crapload of time.
Couple of things: On the fling puzzle, I merely jumped off the ledge, fired one portal at one of the tilted side panels, and shot another one at the ground just before I hit. I was launched all the way to the other side and beat the puzzle instantly. I fear this is not how you intended it. Also...I had something else but I forgot it. >_<

reepblue · Test Supervisor Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 195

Pros:
-Good and original design
-New start. Replaced Relaxation vault with cage.
-The ending was lol moment. The City was cool too.
-Hard at first, but good puzzles.

Cons:
-"Node: Graph out of date" Message.
-Too dark in some areas.

But an update can fix that ^

Awesome map. The new style won me. This is a map that Portal Mappers of all types will look back on. 9.5/10

Needs to be in Community Spotlight!

Mek · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:43 am Post subject:

Now this is an awesome map. Great look, balanced puzzles. At first I looked at the fling puzzle and I thought "oh man, another impossible fling", but I managed to do it on second try Very Happy

In the chamber with the two buttons accepting cubes only, I thought I had to fling the cubes across the fizzler, but they got always destroyed. After it became frustrating I realised it had a much easier solution Cool

At the elevator I thought that it's the end, but it wasn't. This map didn't start in an elevator and didn't end in an elevator, but the beginning and ending were both great.
The only glitch (but no real one) in this map was that there were no subtitles. I understand the trouble using custom-made choreographed scenes. I guess the glados speech was made just of plain sounds.
However, i didn't find the cake room (will have to look for it again, heh), but, overall, this is a must for everyone, imho it deserves spotlighting.

ultradude25 · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject:

Why isn't this in spotlight yet, it's been sitting here un-spotlighted for a whole 2 days, that's as bad as leaving a companion cube alone and companionless.

Kayaia · Test Participant Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 29

It was a pretty good map. Beautifully stunning at the start and i liked most of the puzzles. the one with the 2 buttons and the energy ball didn't feel to me much like portal .

I didn't really like the end though... seemed too much of a quick way to get out of a good ending. Also, where is the voice(text) coming from that tells us we're a pigeon?

Mek · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject:

Duffedwaffe · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject:

Probably won't be in the spotlight until it's put into the database.

MrTwoVideoCards · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

Regardless it needs to be spotlighted, Now.

Hober · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject:

Usually stuff doesn't even go to Release until it's on the DLDB, much less community spotlight.

But since it's already halfway...

insta · New Employee Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 3

Hey! Glad that you like the map. The reason there's no subtitles is that I just used ambient_generics to trigger the GladOS voices. And yeah, the cameras play sounds from the anger-sphere when they are detached. I thought I'd give them some personality Smile

I'd love to tweak some of the puzzles a little bit, especially the last two chambers. Also, the map could use a few more signs to help the player understand what to do, especially towards the end. I'm not sure if I'll have the time to do it in the near future though, but we'll see.

I've also uploaded the map to the Download DB now, the link is http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/dload.php?action=file&file_id=277 if you're having trouble downloading it from the other hosts.

Again, glad you like the map. Try out the Challenge version if you want more, least portals should be a fun challenge.

-insta

Bulska · Test Supervisor Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 174

I jumped into the goo below the cage and got a funny message =D

From start to finish, this map is amazing.
If the puzzles required a bit more thinking, it would be perfect.

Kiavik · Superior Participant Joined: 29 Nov 2007 Posts: 60

jimmyb · New Employee Joined: 06 Mar 2008 Posts: 8

Small bug in the final challenge chamber: I ended up with 3 cubes. Probably could have exploited it to get 18 portals, but I didn't feel like orb-bashing for an hour to get it right. 20 was difficult enough Very Happy