Last exit super tight timing for my old 32 bit machine. Thanks for your good work!

This is a super cool map! Tho I thought the room to get the 2nd cube was the exit room and I was feeling so held back not knowing what order to do stuff in, thinking "there's no way I should be able to cheat to the end" is when I noticed a portable surface beyond the first upper door. Oh well, I guess it's the first in the series for a reason, but it's such a strong start. I still really enjoyed the use of colour correction you added later on. :>

https://youtu.be/kVB4sUflFSE

Some neat puzzles. The aesthetic looks good.

Truthfully, I thought the final sequence at the end was weaker than what came before. There wasn't a trick, the player just needs to be be very intentional. It can be done on the first try, but this is not obvious to the player beforehand.

Overall it's still a well-designed set of puzzles.

Played it this map long time ago and indeed, it looks better, great work. Eventhough at some points it felt a little too bright, but it all comes down to the style.
The moment I stepped out from the elevator and instanly though "I smell a color cerrection", I was dam right.

Great work once again.

That was a pretty good monoportal puzzle.

sheild can't stop block from falling out, i am sure its because of the mechanics of momentum.

Updated the map after all this time. :P Patch notes are in the description, and I'm sure the changes are obvious. I'll be updating all the other maps as well as adding another within the following weeks.

@Singh I know it's been a year since your comment, but no tricky acrobatic jumps where needed for this chamber at all. I have placed Portal surfaces around the map where they are needed. In fact, that's what the handrail is for, to stop the player from going to far after flinging downwards through the blue. If you do decide to give this map another go, try to find the simpler solution instead of going for the hard one. That last sentence sounded offensive when I say it out loud, but believe me that wasn't my intent.

Very nice... not too hard... lots easy flings. The final poral on the exit is a very tiny surface!

@Singh Maybe it's because there is an easier way to get up there by shooting a portal ?

I wanted to like this chamber more. Poor jump mechanics kind of ruined it for me. Overall I found it a bit too acrobatic dependant.

1st jump: the handrail and hampered placement of the blue portal really start to weigh down the map with a sense of frustration at not getting over the lip of the upper recess. Why is the handrail there?

2nd jump area has you constantly hitting your head on the ceiling and again missing the lip. Once a player makes a logical connection to solve a part of the puzzle why punish them with repetition of difficult jumps until properly executed. Once in this area if you make a mistake with the fizzlers you have to do both step 1 and 2 all over again, making the puzzle more punishing than rewarding.

Very nice chamber

Fun map!

Lovely map so far, and I do love it when chambers use the secondary fire as the only fire for the portal gun. very nicely done!

@Caden it's called PakRat search "Portal 2 PakRat" in google.

How do you make the textures so you don't have to download them to see them?

Because it causes lag on some systems due to the high amounts of lighting.
Speaking of which, it was nearly blinding in the second-to-last room.

A nicely pitched map. Complex, without being impossible and long enough to be interesting. Don't know why it isn't a 5.

Your welcome, and I completely understand. And again, thank you for making such a beautiful series of maps. I hope you have great success in the world of Portal, and I hope, and except you and people like you to eventually be hired by Valve. If that's what you want.

Wow, thank you. I honestly am very proud to have someone like you like my map that much. It means a lot to me. Also, yes I know the light bridges act the same way, to be honest with you I had light bridges in there from the beginning where the Shield Walls were. The only reason I left that one where it is is because of the fact it looked better to have it somewhat animated than the texture just going blank and than suddenly re-appearing. I can't thank you enough for your kind words. :D

Its really hard to come by a near-perfect combination of Aperture artistry. This level has amazing level design, so much so that I can't find a thing to critisize, & I can always find something to critisize. Beautiful art design with the wall patterns & little things like an observation room that's 1 & a half panels long, instead of 1 or 2. Or the light fixtures in the extended observation rooms, where a companion cube lies hidden. The only things lacking are animation (such as destructible environments smashed by crushers or falling objects; or more moving panels) and, of course, narrative. But I don't really expect those things, especially not narrative. I have the inability to give anything a 10 out of 10 or 100%, but the level design and art design in this level were near perfect.
I have liked & favorited this level, keep it up RubyCarbuncle, & thank you for improving society; even if just by a little.



-Gunnar

Wow. Just, wow. Best Secondary Fire yet. I've always said there was a lot of potential for new and completely different puzzles using just the non-dual portal device. And you've hit it right in the sweet spot. Excellent work.
Yes, the new barrier field is way better looking than a grate (in most scenarios) and its nice to get a change in art design, but not only does a grate do this job, but so does a light bridge. A physical wall or floor that you can look and shoot portals through, the descriptions of a light bridge and a grate. You should know, you used a light bridge to serve the same purpose as the orange fisslers in the same map. But still, like I said, it is nice to see some different art design.

It looks better than a crappy grate, which is why I used it.

Liked this one a lot, nice puzzle elements and good looking map.
Although I think Fourth Reaper's yellow grid is a little redundent.

@jsrfutureggs I used a program called Hammer, I'm glad you liked the map! :D

how did you make this? its really cool

Thanks for the feedback, also yeah I know the fields are basically just grates, but I like the look of these better.

The yellow fields (?) are a nice little touch but I think the grating available in maps already filled that roll (shoot through, not walk through). Having said that the idea of a map with only one portal colour was extremely well implimented. Love it.

Yes quite interesting and very good looking maps as well. Thanks for making!

Quite unusual to be able to place only one portal at will. Loved the back and forth requirements of it all, and the timing aspects were especially nice for the pace.

@G915 That's good to hear. I'm so excited to see so many people liking these maps. It's what makes me eager to continue making more. :D

This map was so incredibly good, I loved your idea with single portal gun and the orange grid.

I liked this it had a lot of ideas in it. That was a tricky part at the end. I would appreciate any feedback on my puzzle http://cs2bus.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=74231028

@error0x0 lol you're right it is an old screenshot, the only thing that change was the Primary/Secondary stationary Portal so I didn't want to change it.

@Fourth Reaper Nah it's cool. I like it when comments keep getting posted. Unless it's a flame war, that would be the only reason I would have to delete them. But it's not so there's no need. :)

@error: You're right, screenshot must be outdated. Wouldn't be the first time that happened to people. Still funny. :P

@RC: If these excess posts are a bit of an eyesore to you, feel free to delete them. ;)

This thumbnail shows the Primary Fire map not secondary.:D

@Fourth Reaper: yep, I meant it

Oh, lol I thought he meant the others. :P My bad.

@RC: I think he meant the pedestal button for humans to press. :P
If that's the case, it opens a blue portal next to it IIRC.

@error0x0 One opens the door another activates the bridge.

Awesome map! But I didn't understand what the pedestal button showed on this thumbnail picture does. It's not linked to anything

Nice map RC. I really liked this one. And good use of my orange fizzler texture, too. :D

I was pleasantly surprised— now that's what I call a good puzzle! Really fun, will be subscribing to the rest of the collection

*clicks favorite too*

Great map! I really enjoyed the puzzle, wasn't to easy, but pleasant to solve. I played all the "Secondary Fire" maps until now and I must say, they're great. The design was awesome, really liked the use of projected textures. Oh, and I found the cube. :)

*clicks favorite*

wow. this map was actually fun. it used my brain but wasnt too hard. it was a perfect blend of both. i really enjoyed this and i hope there is going to be more than 3 maps with this type of concept. im looking forward to it :)

Great concept and design. A+

I really liked this, right up until the last chamber with the speed/agility thing in moving the cube between the bridge and exit buttons. Still gets an upvote, though.