FreedomFighter7
November 16th, 2009, 08:14 PM
My friend has been trying to complete one of the advanced portal challenges, number 11 I think, and he can't beat it. I watched him try it over and over for like three hours, and some time after I left he was still trying.
Let me describe the challenge, there are three of those motion sensing sentry bots on platforms, with a platform going between the main platform you start out on and a small room on the other side. On the bottom there is that disgusting black liquid which you die if you fall into and a platform just above it and below the room. Above that and below the first room is another room with a button in it.
The room has only one spot to hide from the sentry bot. His plan is to get across the chasm to the room where one of those companion cubes is, put it on the platform which moves across, drop down and press the button in the room below that one (and just above the bottom platform suspended just above the goo).
The button opens the wall on the main platform. Since the room where the companion cube is in is well guarded by those sentry bots, he has to do this all while being shot at and usually when he gets to the room he dies trying to put the cube on the platform, and then try to drop down and press the button.
What my friend has been doing is placing a blue portal on the wall, and an orange one on the ground. He walks through the ground one to come out the blue one and places another orange one as he falls. He comes out the blue one again and has even more velocity. He places another orange one as he falls, and misses most of the time. If he presses back, he lands before the portal and fails to carry his momentum through the portal and send him flying across the chasm to land on the lower platform. If he presses forward he goes flying across the main platform and into the goo below. Is he doing this right?
Let me describe the challenge, there are three of those motion sensing sentry bots on platforms, with a platform going between the main platform you start out on and a small room on the other side. On the bottom there is that disgusting black liquid which you die if you fall into and a platform just above it and below the room. Above that and below the first room is another room with a button in it.
The room has only one spot to hide from the sentry bot. His plan is to get across the chasm to the room where one of those companion cubes is, put it on the platform which moves across, drop down and press the button in the room below that one (and just above the bottom platform suspended just above the goo).
The button opens the wall on the main platform. Since the room where the companion cube is in is well guarded by those sentry bots, he has to do this all while being shot at and usually when he gets to the room he dies trying to put the cube on the platform, and then try to drop down and press the button.
What my friend has been doing is placing a blue portal on the wall, and an orange one on the ground. He walks through the ground one to come out the blue one and places another orange one as he falls. He comes out the blue one again and has even more velocity. He places another orange one as he falls, and misses most of the time. If he presses back, he lands before the portal and fails to carry his momentum through the portal and send him flying across the chasm to land on the lower platform. If he presses forward he goes flying across the main platform and into the goo below. Is he doing this right?