Portal: Prelude

[clamum]

Wow that looks fucking awesome. Definitely getting this. I've been wondering if there were any quality level packs out but the quality of this looks like an official expansion pack.

 

[JTsyo]

maybe it'll show up on Steam too.

 

[shortylickens]

I finally bought Portal for ten bucks.

The first thing that dawned on me is this game is so fucking cool!

Did anyone else feel like a genius when they beat a room?
I got past Room 14 without any help and the only thing on my mind was: "GODDAMMIT SHORTY! You are so FUCKING clever!!!"

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I got past Room 14 without any help and the only thing on my mind was: "GODDAMMIT SHORTY! You are so FUCKING clever!!!"

Wow, I don't think anyone else has ever gotten past that one... You are clever.

 

[Raduque]

Does this work with Portal: The First Slice?

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: Raduque
Does this work with Portal: The First Slice?

Give it a shot. The devs say that you need Portal and nothing else, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with just 'Slice'.

On another topic, interesting development going on at the official site: http://www.portalprelude.com/2...10/world-war-three.php

This is a really weird situation. There's a lot of people who didn't like the game at the point to insult us and there's at least the same amount of people who liked it more than Portal. There must be a problem somewhere, because there is also hardcore gamers saying that the game is impossible, and in the meantime there are casual gamers saying that they had little to no problem to finish it. I believe we have some sort of illogic situation here.

For the moment, the forums are temporarily down because of two reasons:
* First, because there is too many flamewars and insults between people who liked the game and people who don't. We don't have the time to moderate everyone, it's useless and it leads us to the second reason...
* Second, because our server won't take it much longer, that's way too many posts and users for this little board and database to handle. Not than PunBB can't take it, but because the server has limited capacities.
I don't like this idea, but I need to shut it down for a while, we need the processing power of the server to work on the mod. The poor thing had to serve 233,470 pages during the last 36 hours, and this is only for the website, not the forum.

Also, we're currently working on an "official" walkthough of the game, because we found that a lot of "unoffical" ones are using way too difficult and unnatural solutions and doing a lot of unnecessarilly complex things. Not that it can't work, but it gives the impression that one can only beat this mod with tricks and stuff... there is no need for tricks and we'll prove it in this walkthrough.

Also, I'd like to apologize again to everyone I could have offended during the last days. I think I never apologized so much than during these last two days. I have a hard time talking and writing in a foreign language for 90% of the day and at some point, I'm starting to be unable to explain correctly what I mean and it looks like I'm basically saying "go f*ck youself" at every post... that was not my intention of course.

Anyway, the mod has been downloaded a little more than what we initially though... Oh, just a little ten times more than the best result we though we could achieve... even the guys at FilePlanet.com are keeping us on their front page although the exclusivity ended two days ago. We never made this game to fit a such huge number of gamers and I'd like to personally apologize if we wasted your time. We made a stupid mistake by forgetting to add a disclaimer in the description of the mod, or when people start it. We'll work on an update this week and try to fix the uneven difficulty as good as we can (especially for the first 3 levels)

I'd also like to thank the hundreds of people who sent us very long, detailled, efficient and clear emails with their thoughts on the game. Beeing good or not, as long as it's not insults or just "your game sucks" things, I try to answer to everyone (10 hours writing emails today, my hands hurt).

PS: Please, don't be silly in the comments.

Wow, I really feel bad for the devs... The game is definitely more difficult that Portal, but I can't imagine why anyone would think to insult the devs. Even worse, that the devs feel the need to apologize to the people that do.

 

[bamacre]

Agreed. One should never complain about a free game anyway.

 

[nitromullet]

...anyone know how to get past room 08/19? I'm completely stumped... I get to a point where there isn't even really even any puzzle left. I just can't do anything.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
...anyone know how to get past room 08/19? I'm completely stumped... I get to a point where there isn't even really even any puzzle left. I just can't do anything.

Must assume you are talking about the add-on.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/comput...oswin/game/934386.html

First person to do a FAQ for this expansion gets a .
Maybe even free :beer:.

 

[linkgoron]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
...anyone know how to get past room 08/19? I'm completely stumped... I get to a point where there isn't even really even any puzzle left. I just can't do anything.

(this is the room with the glass wall?)
What I did was put a portal on the upper area (on the right side of the stairs), and then another portal just below it on the lower level. Then you need to try to jump out of the upper portal, and land in the lower one. This will give you more height. It took me two entrys to the lower portal to get enough height to be able to shoot a portal over the wall.

Just watch out that you shoot the right portal over the wall, because you still need your velocity for the other side (you need to get to a ledge there)

 

[bamacre]

There are some video walk-throughs on youtube. Just search for "Portal Prelude Chamber."

 

[hdeck]

just fyi, i went to best buy and they had portal on sale for 9.99. finally picked myself up a copy.

 

[zagood]

I couldn't get this game to start at first, it would show the intro movie, then as it was loading it would flash back and forth between the loading screen and desktop, then crash to desktop with two "HL2.exe has stopped working" error messages. Their forums are down (as mentioned before) so no support help, tried to figure it out myself.

Since it looked like the resolution was going crazy while this was happening, I tried using the cmd line parameter "-window" to open in windowed mode. Which worked! Switching to native resolution (16x10 - looks like the game starts at 1024x768) and back to full-screen in Options, however, made the cursor register about an inch down and to the right of where I wanted it to be.

I left the settings on fullscreen with the native resolution, closed the game, removed the cmd line, opened back up, and it works fine now. Ready to play.

p.s. - no problems with the original Portal or the Map Pack.

Vista x64 Ultimate
8800GTS 640mb
e6400 @ 3.2
1680x1050 22"

-z

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: zagood
I couldn't get this game to start at first, it would show the intro movie, then as it was loading it would flash back and forth between the loading screen and desktop, then crash to desktop with two "HL2.exe has stopped working" error messages. Their forums are down (as mentioned before) so no support help, tried to figure it out myself.



-z

I had that exact same problem with Portal. I had started the game at release, and it worked fine. I put it down for awhile, and restarted it a couple of months ago and had the same problems you did. I solved them in the same fashion also :^) I was expecting issues with Prelude, but it worked fine, first time :^/

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

It's pretty good. And much more difficult than Portal.

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
It's pretty good. And much more difficult than Portal.

Downloaded this last night. It took me 2+ hours to figure out how to get out of the first room . Leave it to the French to make a fun game tedious.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: bamacre
There are some video walk-throughs on youtube. Just search for "Portal Prelude Chamber."

That did the trick. Impressed that there are already videos up. I don't think I would have ever gotten that on my own.

 

[Zenoth]

I've been playing at ease for about five or so hours since I downloaded it but I'm still in Chamber #7, by then I already had finished the original. I've very happy with Prelude so far, in a gaming market where we players are surrounded by easy-as-pie games in general with only the very few occasional exceptions with a certain amount of challenge, this mod is one of those rare exceptions, and it's certainly welcome.

 

[zagood]

"Our server is currently beeing DDoS attacked..."
http://www.portalprelude.com/

WTF? Why are people getting so pissed off at a game mod?

-z

 

[Liet]

I'm enjoying it, but for some reason the puzzles aren't as satisfying as Portal. The level design just feels too much like a mod.

This isn't a complaint, I'm happy about any free content.

 

[Slick5150]

Cripes this thing is hard. To the point where I'm not sure its enjoyable or not, more just frustrating. Its well done, but yeesh.

 

[fatpat268]

Yea, sounds awesome in principle, but the levels aren't appropriately balanced for difficulty. You'll have a ridiculously hard level at the beginning, a couple easy ones, and then some more ridiculously hard levels.

There's no ramping up of difficulty at all here.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: fatpat268
Yea, sounds awesome in principle, but the levels aren't appropriately balanced for difficulty. You'll have a ridiculously hard level at the beginning, a couple easy ones, and then some more ridiculously hard levels.

There's no ramping up of difficulty at all here.

Once you realize that the modders intend you to use the portal gun in a different way from what valve intends, it's not too bad. Basically, Valve always set things up so you could play in a pretty relaxed manner - no timers, just figure out where to put the portals and jump through. Here you have to use the portal gun to shoot portals at the right time, shoot while flying, etc. It's kind of cool. I liked one of the levels where you had to drop into the ground, come out the ceiling, then make yourself come back out of the ground to go flying up. Took me a little while to figure out what I was supposed to do...

 

[911paramedic]

Originally posted by: zagood
"Our server is currently beeing DDoS attacked..."
http://www.portalprelude.com/

WTF? Why are people getting so pissed off at a game mod?

-z

The denial of service is probably from so many people trying to download it.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: Raduque
Does this work with Portal: The First Slice?

Give it a shot. The devs say that you need Portal and nothing else, so I don't see why it wouldn't work with just 'Slice'.

Well, it doesn't work with First Slice. Steam just tells me to buy Portal.