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Carrier Barrier

"Cave Johnson here. Apparently the lab boys said I oughtta stop making these unnecessarily deadly tests, so they came up with some less deadly variants of our beloved laser field. Unfortunately, the less death caused more not being able to shoot portals through 'em, and that is not the point of an improvement. Luckily, they also came up with a material emancipation grill variant that doesn't destroy your portals when you go through it, so that kinda fixed itself. Testing with these fizzlers also causes you to go multiple decades into the future, though, so if you can come back from there, please tell me if we will ever invent flying cars. Oh, and before I forget, you're the first subject to try those ones out, so don't be afraid to ask for help. Don't expect an answer though, I'm busy with coming up with ways to implement more death in my tests again. Cave Johnson, we're done here."

Part two of my Wheatley-styled testing track series about custom fizzlers from BEE2, this time introducing the Matter Inquisition Field and the Compressed Smoke Field. Please tell me your difficulty assession in the comments below, it helps for the estimated difficulty section a lot. I didn't initially want to introduce two different custom fizzlers in the map at once, but I needed to do so in order for the puzzle to still work. The two new fizzler variants also resulted in this containing four maps instead of the originally planned three (one tutorial map for each fizzler, one tutorial map with both plus a funnel and the actual, final puzzle)

The inspiration for the core concept of the puzzle, an excursion funnel blocking a faith plate's path, which is also the reason for this map to exist in the first place and the cause of the title, comes from Demon Arisen's example test chamber from his YouTube tutorial series "How To Make Great Test Chambers", Paradigm.

Optional quest: Destroy all of Wheatley's monitors.

Est. difficulty: Easy-Medium (2-3/10)

Est. completion time: ~10-20 min

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Credits:

Puzzle & visuals: TheCompanionCubeGuy

Puzzle (core concept): Demon Arisen's Paradigm

Playtesting: Ashikaga

Music: FrankenTurrets (Portal 2 OST) by Valve

Voice lines: Wheatley / Stephen Merchant
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