the turrets are the product of brainscans of all the daughters brought in combined into one crazy ass AI.
Chell is just some person who was hired to run through the tests. apature probably hired people who had very little family ties.
Gas only hits the room where GLaDOS is at. The people in the test areas were 'safe' and living there for a few months with constant harassment from a crazy GLaDOS eventually driving them all insane. Eventually they had made their way through to the room where GLaDOS was and installed a component in her to stop her from gassing people. It was probably poorly written and hastily designed. Also it probably took them many tries. I say this because all of the notes on where to go lead you to GLaDOS not a way to get out of the complex.
Apature Science folks completely forgot about the test subjects in their sleep pod things and got the hell out of dodge, all aboard the Borealis. Portal gun they brought out with them Malfunctions sending them to whever judith finds them.
GLaDOS rationalizes this requires more testing and starts activating test subjects to test the gun and make sure it doesn't malfunction. Your number comes up.
I'm almost certain
All the Apature Science folk are all long dead. They make that pretty clear in the commentary that they are all dead with the red phone thing. And if they were still alive you can bet they would of came back for all the science stuff to fight the combine. They pretty much said in episode 2 that everyone from AP is dead on the Borialus since its been missing in ice for years and years.
But GLaDOS was originally an ship fuel de-icer you can guarantee she is up there somewhere.
Ok I am on the level 16 with the gunrobots for the first time. And there are two facing each other right by the hidden room. I can't figure this out....do i have to make a wall or what?
Ok I am on the level 16 with the gunrobots for the first time. And there are two facing each other right by the hidden room. I can't figure this out....do i have to make a wall or what?
So where's a good room to get the TV and the 300 ft fling achievments?
I set up a couple of portals and just let myself drop through them for about 5 minutes or so (my "darken screen" screensaver kicked in) and I still had nothing.
A test chamber # will be fine.
I think Terminal Velocity will take longer than 5 minutes. I walked away from my PC for probably 15 minutes while doing that one, came back and I had gotten it. Obviously for that one you just need any area where the floor and ceiling are both portalable.
The Jump achievement is eluding me, too. Is it specifically for a jump, ie you start with the space bar and head into a portal? Or is it for any fling? I'd also love to hear a suggestion for where to do that one.
For the Terminal Velocity achievement I used chamber 18, the last room where you have a giant pit off to your left and the series of platforms in front of you, a portal on the ceiling and floor of the pit leads to a fall time of around 4 and a half minutes. (I timed it and for me it took 4:35)
As for the long jump, I got that one by luck during the escape in the room with all the turrets. The last fling you have to do in there if you time it just right is 300 feet.
A sure way to get this one is to make a big fling into a wall and then shoot another entrance fight before you hit it, effectively making you cross the distance twice.
Even though my video card isn't optimal, I couldn't wait any longer and purchased Orange Box on Steam so I could see what all the Portal raving was about. Four hours later (including the setup time and one restart), I'm just blown away. Wow. What a great game. Now to catch up on the topic. Just... great.
So where's a good room to get the TV and the 300 ft fling achievments?
I set up a couple of portals and just let myself drop through them for about 5 minutes or so (my "darken screen" screensaver kicked in) and I still had nothing.
A test chamber # will be fine.
I think Terminal Velocity will take longer than 5 minutes. I walked away from my PC for probably 15 minutes while doing that one, came back and I had gotten it. Obviously for that one you just need any area where the floor and ceiling are both portalable.
The Jump achievement is eluding me, too. Is it specifically for a jump, ie you start with the space bar and head into a portal? Or is it for any fling? I'd also love to hear a suggestion for where to do that one.
You can do it through multiple portals I think. I got it during the one part where you had to fling yourself that huge distance; rather than just landing like normal, I threw down another portal at the top part just to see what would happen.
This has probably been pointed out in the much speculation in the thread but last night while playing through on commentary mode, Glados says something along the lines of "Aperture Science just wants to remind you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the slightest inclination to disobey" - again something along those lines.
Pretty straightforward way to tell the player that Chell is indeed an android or...she could be talking about those Aperture Science minigun turrets but they're not exactly androids.
Anyways, probably pointed out but just adding my two cents.
This has probably been pointed out in the much speculation in the thread but last night while playing through on commentary mode, Glados says something along the lines of "Aperture Science just wants to remind you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the slightest inclination to disobey" - again something along those lines.
Pretty straightforward way to tell the player that Chell is indeed an android or...she could be talking about those Aperture Science minigun turrets but they're not exactly androids.
Anyways, probably pointed out but just adding my two cents.
This has probably been pointed out in the much speculation in the thread but last night while playing through on commentary mode, Glados says something along the lines of "Aperture Science just wants to remind you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the slightest inclination to disobey" - again something along those lines.
Pretty straightforward way to tell the player that Chell is indeed an android or...she could be talking about those Aperture Science minigun turrets but they're not exactly androids.
Anyways, probably pointed out but just adding my two cents.
That is exactly the same bit of not paying attention at the beginning of that level that caused the whole "android or not" argument in the first place, please don't start that crap again.
This has probably been pointed out in the much speculation in the thread but last night while playing through on commentary mode, Glados says something along the lines of "Aperture Science just wants to remind you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the slightest inclination to disobey" - again something along those lines.
Pretty straightforward way to tell the player that Chell is indeed an android or...she could be talking about those Aperture Science minigun turrets but they're not exactly androids.
Anyways, probably pointed out but just adding my two cents.
Wrong.
GLaDOS explicitly states at the beginning of the level that it has been refitted as a training course for combat androids. Apparently GLaDOS is just programmed to say that to the androids upon completing the course.
And for those that think the weird springs on her legs are proof she's an android, go through the developer commentary. They just added the springs so people would stop asking why the player can fall so far without getting hurt.
This has all been stated already, I'm sure, but I guess it needs to be reiterated every few pages or somebody's going to start their misinformed theories again.
This has probably been pointed out in the much speculation in the thread but last night while playing through on commentary mode, Glados says something along the lines of "Aperture Science just wants to remind you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the slightest inclination to disobey" - again something along those lines.
Pretty straightforward way to tell the player that Chell is indeed an android or...she could be talking about those Aperture Science minigun turrets but they're not exactly androids.
Anyways, probably pointed out but just adding my two cents.
Wrong.
GLaDOS explicitly states at the beginning of the level that it has been refitted as a training course for combat androids. Apparently GLaDOS is just programmed to say that to the androids upon completing the course.
And for those that think the weird springs on her legs are proof she's an android, go through the developer commentary. They just added the springs so people would stop asking why the player can fall so far without getting hurt.
This has all been stated already, I'm sure, but I guess it needs to be reiterated every few pages or somebody's going to start their misinformed theories again.
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Not only does it have a great concept, it is polished visually and strategically.
It's also pretty tough.
It also made Portal crash for me, when that energy pellet started bouncing through walls.
I can't figure it out. I'm stuck on the energy pellet; it looks like it's supposed to go through that hole in the glass wall, near the large room entrance, but it doesn't, it bounces off.
this leads me to believe that cake eating indicates failure, and that the reason chell "passed" is not that she escaped or destroyed parts of glados but because she didn't eat the cake.
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Not only does it have a great concept, it is polished visually and strategically.
It's also pretty tough.
It also made Portal crash for me, when that energy pellet started bouncing through walls.
I can't figure it out. I'm stuck on the energy pellet; it looks like it's supposed to go through that hole in the glass wall, near the large room entrance, but it doesn't, it bounces off.
Not only does it have a great concept, it is polished visually and strategically.
It's also pretty tough.
It also made Portal crash for me, when that energy pellet started bouncing through walls.
I can't figure it out. I'm stuck on the energy pellet; it looks like it's supposed to go through that hole in the glass wall, near the large room entrance, but it doesn't, it bounces off.
Is there some way to
move the hole?
Yeah, you can rotate the room, and it'll go in, but so what? You obviously need the room in the other position so that you can have the portal in the top left corner, where the Pellet Catcher is (during the original room config, pre-rotate), and while it's in upside-down you can't get up to the other door to open it without moving the portal you'll need once you rotate back.
*edit* I figured it out.
Set the room to upside-down, raced the pellet to the other side and let it in, trapped it in there, portalled back, set the exit, rotated to original, raced over, set the other side for the pellet, did it just before it exploded. *phew*
I have to admit, that was an awfully well designed puzzle, hehe.
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I'm almost certain
But GLaDOS was originally an ship fuel de-icer you can guarantee she is up there somewhere.
I never asked for this!
Look up at the ceilings above them.
Did you even watch the credits?!
I never asked for this!
A sure way to get this one is to make a big fling into a wall and then shoot another entrance fight before you hit it, effectively making you cross the distance twice.
im pretty sure it was a joke comment.
I would hope... But there was this guy who turned off all the audio in portal and listened to music instead so...
I never asked for this!
*prepairs*
God this is taking so long.
Still can't get 2 on 13. Grrr.
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Not only does it have a great concept, it is polished visually and strategically.
Actually, no. Somebody modded Portal to have Half-Life 2.
It also turns out that they're from Soviet Russia.
It's also pretty tough.
You can do it through multiple portals I think. I got it during the one part where you had to fling yourself that huge distance; rather than just landing like normal, I threw down another portal at the top part just to see what would happen.
It also made Portal crash for me, when that energy pellet started bouncing through walls.
Ok so I extracted this to
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Pretty straightforward way to tell the player that Chell is indeed an android or...she could be talking about those Aperture Science minigun turrets but they're not exactly androids.
Anyways, probably pointed out but just adding my two cents.
Blue portal, go.
hurr
That is exactly the same bit of not paying attention at the beginning of that level that caused the whole "android or not" argument in the first place, please don't start that crap again.
Wrong.
GLaDOS explicitly states at the beginning of the level that it has been refitted as a training course for combat androids. Apparently GLaDOS is just programmed to say that to the androids upon completing the course.
And for those that think the weird springs on her legs are proof she's an android, go through the developer commentary. They just added the springs so people would stop asking why the player can fall so far without getting hurt.
This has all been stated already, I'm sure, but I guess it needs to be reiterated every few pages or somebody's going to start their misinformed theories again.
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NO CAKE FOR YOU
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I can't figure it out. I'm stuck on the energy pellet; it looks like it's supposed to go through that hole in the glass wall, near the large room entrance, but it doesn't, it bounces off.
this leads me to believe that cake eating indicates failure, and that the reason chell "passed" is not that she escaped or destroyed parts of glados but because she didn't eat the cake.
Is there some way to
One portal, ass.
Portal the 2nd, dildo factory.
Oh we'll do it. Don't test us.
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*edit* I figured it out.
I have to admit, that was an awfully well designed puzzle, hehe.