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Hummingbird
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Tags: Goo, Laser Emitter, Laser Catcher, Piston Platform, Franken Cube, Franken Cube Dropper
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12 Jan @ 6:09pm
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Description
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Tiny gimmick map, which showcases an uncommon move in ON/OFF chambers.

Difficulty: 0.5/10
No execution skills required.

List of unintended things:
  • cube tossing with wild mouse movements

Explanation:
As far as I know, the move works for turrets, cameras and frankencubes. When the player gets their gun via blue or orange ON/OFF-button AND is holding one of the mentioned objects, they will "freeze". I have no idea why and suspect bad coding. With some unreliable bruteforce methods it's also possible to unshackle the frozen objects.

Trivia:
  • made for the current Mikeastro/PMaM-contest, where you had to build an ON/OFF test
  • it's also my interpretation of Portal 2's campaign map Chapter 2: The Cold Boot (Test Chamber 1)
  • to all authors out there: Please don't use this technique, it's just silly. Be careful when using turrets or frankencubes in ON/OFF maps!
  • in 2017/2018 I didn't know how to create good puzzles, so I used the shown move in a large, terrible map. Masochists who want to play that, click here.

Huge thanks to Nobody No-One and Mattchew for playtesting. Make sure to visit their profiles.

Music: "Four" from the Rexaura-Mod by Ben Bryant (Mevious).

Videos:
- blind run by SHOOD
- blind run by Leo
- blind run by Nobody No-One (outdated)

Feedback and playthrough videos are welcome.
Have fun!
25 Comments
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PDX 8 Feb @ 3:41am 
Found it in the first 30 sec by total accident. Could have just as easily taken me 30 min. This would be quite the devious thing to put in a puzzle. Nice showcase of the move tho :steamthumbsup:
Qwerbey 31 Jan @ 6:33pm 
That's an odd one. The 3 entities you noted as being affected by this glitch are all NPCs, so I'm guessing being forced to drop somehow breaks their vphysics behavior. I wonder if you could get it to work with cores as well, though I believe there are parts of the campaign where you force drop wheatley, so they may be more robust there
DiDo Killer! 30 Jan @ 10:42am 
I don't even know how you find these
dreamy3817 23 Jan @ 9:54pm 
:steamthumbsup:
giorgio.placanica 19 Jan @ 8:25am 
Not an easy one.
ti1 18 Jan @ 9:11am 
Played a map a little while ago, where I managed to get a regular cube stuck in mid air by accident
Didn't involve a portal on/off button, but perhaps a related glitch?
Maximized 17 Jan @ 10:55am 
cant solve this
BehindPortal 16 Jan @ 2:00am 
i didnt know this before, smart us of in game bug
jandlml 15 Jan @ 6:00pm 
cant make it work
Dolphiner 14 Jan @ 9:51am 
incredible