Quick Look: Portal 2: Perpetual Testing Initiative

@Vod_Crack said:

He he he so funny he he he...

Everyone should check out and play through the 12 Angry Testscollection of user maps. They're an incredible narrative series of 6 levels/12 tests that even have a boss fight and ending.

This level editor is really impressive and simple to use. The panel extrusion concept is genius. While Ryan had some trouble, given the short time he spent with it this video actually a good demonstration of the tool. Inside of 10 or so minutes he was able to get a basic understanding of the way you manipulate the space, create something and iterate on it. He had low expectations but I think given an hour he could make a decent puzzle.

I beat most of the community levels they found before this video went up, and thought they were really difficult, but they're all solvable.

@rmanthorp said:

IF you don't end up playing this DLC but like Portal PLEASE take the time to listen to all the new Cave Johnson dialogue. It's a hefty 25 minutes long and it is hysterical! Check it.

Thank you for this.

@thomascaret said:

WATCHING THIS AS A 6 YEAR HAMMER EDITOR USER MAKES ME VERY UPSET.

Its cool that they would put out a simplified editor like this, but seriously. People have been making custom source engine maps for ever. This isn't Gods gift to Valve then Valves gift to gamers.

@Curufinwe said:

@Cyrisaurus said:

They're doing this so they don't have to worry about making Portal 3, which they can't anyways, because Valve can't count to 3.

Hehe... that is a good line.

It gets me every time haha

@Maajin said:

@Kartana said:

Another painful to watch GB Quick Look...

You're painful to watch!

You know a sites getting big when it has consistent trolls.....

Having just solved today the community puzzle they started on, watching them solve it was pretty infuriating. :P I really love the map editor: Just published my first test chamber today after extensive playtesting on my part.

@Cyrisaurus: The good news is that we'll at least get Portal 2: Episode 1 and Portal 2: Episode 2.

Definitely gonna spend some time screwing around with this at some point.

@Dogma: I was gonna say the same thing. It's fucking weird.

command c, command v is the greatest quick key mashup, makes illustrator and photoshop so much easier

These guys are so Portal dumb!!!!

@rmanthorp said:

IF you don't end up playing this DLC but like Portal PLEASE take the time to listen to all the new Cave Johnson dialogue. It's a hefty 25 minutes long and it is hysterical! Check it.

Is Greg the Pyro?

I scream and scream solutions at my screen, but you don't listen!!!

The 12 Angry Test series are definitely made in Hammer and not in this new editor but they're WAAAAY better than any other levels.

horrible quick look.

Most frustrating video to watch ever lol

Portal 2 just might be one of my favorite games ever. So glad this exists.

If I drink twelve cups of coffee I might be able to create something in this.

It's a great editor but it's also super fantastic how they allow Hammer puzzles to be added to the Workshop too.

Jesus, it's so hard to watch Portal 2 videos when you've solved the puzzle 5 minutes before they're anywhere close to solving it.

@Zidd: For sure, I was mostly commenting on Ryan's misunderstanding of how mapping works, even in an extremely simplified form. I am glad they made this, and made it a lot better then what they did for Alien Swarm. But I don't understand how this helps people get closer to the hammer editor, it lets people makes maps quickly, and fairly well, but it doesn't expand their understanding of brush work or really anything that would be required for using hammer properly.

@thomascaret: Hammer makes even the simplest task say hooking a button up to a door incredibly complicated with juggling multiple entities, models and triggers. I haven't used source hammer a lot but I used old hammer quite a bit and thats how you would accomplish it there. Valves tools are incredibly janky and counterintuitive compared to say UDK or Unity. I was surprised at how fast they seemed to pick it up and figure it out though.

lol I love Valve.

Was hoping by the screenshot you'd be able to throw a octopus into the test chamber.

What a letdown.

Patrick used Infer when he meant Imply! AAAARGH!

@Cyrisaurus: Yay the Valve 3 joke cause that's not old, tired, played out, annoying, what have you.

Looks amazing. Makes me wish I had something powerful enough for the PC version.

The ease-of-use and general interface of this Perpetual Testing Initiative editor have really impressed me. Plus, Portal's sense of humor is still amazing.

Also, @FrenchFriedFool, you're a naughty, naughty person. Who may have created the most brilliant "dirty" map ever. I particularly loved the Deadly Premonition music and "quotes" from major gaming publications.

I was happy to see there reaction to the little guy you play as. I want to play their puzzle, they should upload it.

@Woodles said:

I should reinstall this game to play these new chambers.

@AllanIceman said:

Always be testing! Reinstalling right now.

I don't know why you'd uninstall it

Man. Hate the new player SO MUCH. Video quality looks so bad.

I trust the top men, though.

That aside, MORE CAVE JOHNSON

@Eujin: Then change it to 720p...

Looks neat! Good quick look.

@ThatIndianGuy7116: 720p on the current player is worse quality than 720p on the old player or even youtube.

Portal 2 is 5€ on Steam right now, I guess it's time for me to buy it.

That's a nice looking editor

When did Cntrl become the default keybind for crouch? Maybe it's just my small hands but i find moving my pinky over to Cntrl to be pretty cumbersom, in every PC shooter that does that i always change it to C since that makes more sense.

@Eujin: gamespot player fail.

I saw Dave tweet about the new player saving preferences properly, now. Unfortunately, I don't know what preferences it would be saving. The quality options before playing don't do anything, and there are no quality options at all after playback has started.

@rmanthorp said:

IF you don't end up playing this DLC but like Portal PLEASE take the time to listen to all the new Cave Johnson dialogue. It's a hefty 25 minutes long and it is hysterical! Check it.

11 minutes in...Nolan, is that you?

@Jedted said:

When did Cntrl become the default keybind for crouch? Maybe it's just my small hands but i find moving my pinky over to Cntrl to be pretty cumbersom, in every PC shooter that does that i always change it to C since that makes more sense.

Its been like that forever, at least for me. And I thought my hands were small, but I hate using C. Also using your pinky lets you move around with the WASD since C I assume you would use one of the 3 fingers you would use for the WASD. I suppose this is why also because I don't like toggling crouch and instead like to hold it.

@TheHBK said:

@Jedted said:

When did Cntrl become the default keybind for crouch? Maybe it's just my small hands but i find moving my pinky over to Cntrl to be pretty cumbersom, in every PC shooter that does that i always change it to C since that makes more sense.

Its been like that forever, at least for me. And I thought my hands were small, but I hate using C. Also using your pinky lets you move around with the WASD since C I assume you would use one of the 3 fingers you would use for the WASD. I suppose this is why also because I don't like toggling crouch and instead like to hold it.

I use ctrl+c to ready my crouch and then hit WASD simultaneously to begin crouching.

@TheHBK said:

@Jedted said:

When did Cntrl become the default keybind for crouch? Maybe it's just my small hands but i find moving my pinky over to Cntrl to be pretty cumbersom, in every PC shooter that does that i always change it to C since that makes more sense.

Its been like that forever, at least for me. And I thought my hands were small, but I hate using C. Also using your pinky lets you move around with the WASD since C I assume you would use one of the 3 fingers you would use for the WASD. I suppose this is why also because I don't like toggling crouch and instead like to hold it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that ever since games started having the crouching option, most have either used C or Ctrl, I can't think of any game doing one of them long before another did the other (System Shock 1 and 2 used the S key though).

@Eujin said:

Man. Hate the new player SO MUCH. Video quality looks so bad.

I trust the top men, though.

That aside, MORE CAVE JOHNSON

Yeah, I've had nothing but problems since they switched to the Gamespot player, it can't get to 720p for some reason, randomly plays other videos than I wanted, and it feels a lot slower than the old player - the video hangs for a couple of seconds once every minute or so, something that only used to happen to me in the justin.tv player before, but never the GB player.

@FrenchFriedFool: By god...

wow, they played the first 3 chambers I played and in the same order. great QL, I didn't even know this had come out.

@fisk0: This won't help everyone, but the HTML5 player seems to be uncraptified, which makes no sense as I thought they were using the same source video, so I guess the new flash player must be doing some weird stretching or aliasing.

So, if anyone else is disappointed with the new player, and are a subscriber, load up in chrome.

The new level editor reminds me of the fantastic Descent Mission Builder that was bundled with Descent Definitive Collection and Descent: Levels of the World. Also very easy to use, especially for it's time, and you could create impossible geometry with ease, having two separate rooms occupying the same space and all that stuff.

@Ratsor said:

@Woodles said:

I should reinstall this game to play these new chambers.

@AllanIceman said:

Always be testing! Reinstalling right now.

I don't know why you'd uninstall it

Because there's very little point in replaying puzzle-ish games the first few years after finishing them?