Portal 2 community Hydra maps

[RealoFoxtrot]

Well then, i said i would make a proper Hydra community map, and i am hoping that other more experienced people will also make their own maps, and put their own little cheats into the workings.

so here we go, i present:

The Hydra-Cant-Think-Of-A-Name!

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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=71185402

as far as i can tell, the only challenge that is easy to achieve with the Hydra's special tools are ones with one-to-one.

I can imagine that with some cheats and some clever lateral thinking, you could make some puzzles using the Portal surfing, but I've not found a way with the current tools.... yet.

Anyway, please please share your own puzzles, i know that i for one am keen to see what other people do with the new editor.

[Motion4]

The upgrade on the portal gun is overpowered that what my friend said.

[RealoFoxtrot]

The upgrade on the portal gun is overpowered that what my friend said.

I... guess? Not sure how you can overpower a single player game, the MP guns are different. I supposed that technically it's possible to use the gun to cheat certain levels but I've not seen many puzzles where it really matters.

[movieman999]

I subscribed to the map and will definitely play it upon launching Portal 2 the next time.

I will most definitely be making my own Hydra maps as well, and will post them here. :)

[cookies4you]

I wanna make a Portal 2 map now... But before that, let's see how many maps we can break with the Hydra.

[CarlKenner]

I tried creating a map with their new puzzle creator, but I always get an error when I tell it to build.

I thought that may be because I have the Sixense DLC installed, but if you can do it without issues, then I guess it's because I have the original authoring tools (Hammer) installed. Or because I hacked the Sixense DLC to change the tutorial videos to use Glados's voice instead of a normal woman's voice, and added Glados, wheatley, and announcer voices to some of the Sixence DLC levels.

:-(

[Danny]

Run with -nosixense if you want to use the new editor. We should have a patch tomorrow that fixes this.

[CarlKenner]

There's another issue. People report not hearing Cave Johnson's voice during the user-created levels. There's supposed to be 25 minutes of new Cave Johnson dialog, with a line or two for each level you play.

And people get prompted about one-to-one mode when picking up any object.

BTW, are we going to be able to place the scaling cube in that editor? And ideally, breakable glass too?

[Danny]

This should go live today. Everything should be functioning correctly. Sorry for the delay everyone.

We do plan on adding a custom control scheme for the editor and hopefully be able to support our cube type. For now you'd have to use hammer to do that. I was able to load the preview.vmf in hammer though. Preview.vmf is created with the new editor in sdk_content/maps.

[CarlKenner]

Wow, that's awesome. Unfortunately I can't play Portal 2 anymore because my right trigger button stopped working (the spring broke ages ago, but the button still worked until now). And there's no way to remap it. I don't know how to get it replaced, since I bought it in person from EB Games.

[SuperSoldier]

Wow, that's awesome. Unfortunately I can't play Portal 2 anymore because my right trigger button stopped working (the spring broke ages ago, but the button still worked until now). And there's no way to remap it. I don't know how to get it replaced, since I bought it in person from EB Games.

Yep, the Hydra isn't exactly of good build quality.

[Josh]

If you have proof of purchase from EB games you should be able to RMA your Hydra through Razer.

[Andrew]

So I have been playing around with the editor, here is a Hydra map that I made.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=72631671

Hope its fun!

[CarlKenner]

I made a collection for all the Razer Hydra Portal maps:
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=73864966

It includes my own DooM E1M1 map which contains a scaling cube, plus the levels people have made specifically for the Hydra, plus some that were designed for advanced cube throwing tricks but which work well with the Hydra instead.

[CarlKenner]

There seems to be a bug in the autosave for Portal 2 maps with a scaling cube. When you die and restart from the checkpoint, the scaling cube is frozen and no longer responds to physics or attempts to pick it up. This is a problem in my DooM E1M2 map, but I've also seen it in other Sixense maps.

[LambdaCore21]

I created a Hydra map for the Heavy-duty Super-mapping Super-contest 2012

called "Collateral Damage" http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=87339620

enjoy, feedback appreciated!

[LambdaCore21]

Here's my second one: Heuristical

Created for the myApertureInnovations First Official Mapping Contest!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=109950110