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Smoke and Mirrors

I'll look into it and thank you.

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Strange that jandlml seem to have played this map in 2022.

fun map!!

Good points. Thank you.

Great puzzle, really liked the way you gat the companion cube with the piston :D
Some points you should improve :
- Make more visible the fact that a ball button is linked to the exit door, you feel a bit lost and out of options when you placed the 4 cubes and the exit door still don't want to open XD
- Make the more visible the fact that the 3 angled panels are open in the exit area when you are on a specific position of the central switch.
- Also I think the little tunnel at the top of the map is useless : if the idea was to avoid being stuck in the exit area, you may notice that this can never happen as there is fizzlers on the floor level so the player can just walk through and find the open panel to reach the center ^^

It's one thing to not know the solution, but it's another to have all the connections to the exit ticked and not have it open: screenshot After noclipping around, I eventually found the hidden button in the ceiling, that only opens if one particular door is open...

My blindrun: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6y82s9lcesq537s/smokeandmirrors.dem

Really liked this map!
I think the lonely companion cube in the glass cage (bottom center of the preview pic) should be a standard cube, since it won't do the same job as all the others.
I also know there is a way to make the switch MUCH faster, though you will have to resort to a walk-on button instead of a pedestal. But even the pedestal version can be as quick as 3s per press!

While writing this I realized what the vertical light bridge was for AND the white floor tile. I did not use either one, so I recommend moving the faith plate one square to the side.

In your description it says "one laserfield", I count two. ;-)

just re-published again, as it was showing the old version.
new version is working. just played it from list.
steam was telling me their was a problem with my connection.
but when I tested it, it was great.
also on re-starting steam, it said my pc was out of sinc with the steam cloud.
I am getting this a lot & don't know why.

I just re-published it.
you may have to re-start steam, to see the latest version.

Did you take it down? I keep getting an error message and I don't see it in your workshop.