Pretty easy, since I had just played the easier version, but some steps still took me a minute or two to see.

Nice one; the last move had me stumped for a while!

still cant finish prison remake or cognitive dissonance. haha

well 2 out of 2. these maps looked familiar like i tried to play them once before. not sure if i was able to finish them but i did today. great maps. lots of fun

That's a Star Wars Prequels reference you don't need to know. In fact, forget that I mentioned that there are Star Wars Prequels, there's no such thing.

I've just finished the easy version and now this medium one and enjoyed both. I must agree with
Ganymede that they aren't the extreme challenge of many of your later maps.
Yes, I've visited your workshop in the past, with rather humbling results :) With a little more
experience now, I'll be trying some of your maps again, starting with the easier ones first,
of course :) I'm off now to another of your maps, after I look up the meaning of 'midichlorian'.

Well, as you've noticed this is rather aimed at the mainstream audience. Masochists should find satisfaction in the final installment of "Piece of Cake", this one didn't feel like it needs a hard version. I was very nice at that time. ;)
Thanks for playing and putting in perspective where this puzzle ranges.

After playing many of your later maps, I was expecting a real challenge. I was surprised to find out many of the moves were quite simple! I would be looking for some advanced way of manipulating the funnel in obscure ways and, Nope! Just walk through a portal. True, I felt kind of dumb when I discovered it, but it made solving the puzzle a lot easier. You might consider making a One of these Days (Hard) for those of us who are true puzzle masochists.

Also, I was totally not expecting you to be so nice with that pedestal button. It was a real "what did I do to deserve this?!" moment when all the paths opened up. Up until then, I was thinking I'd have to do something really nasty with the funnel to reach the exit.

Although it took me a while to solve the last part, it is a good chamber

The last part of chamber the best,with movable stairs and door

Deserve a thumb up on this test chamber.
Demo walkthrough - https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfp8wovb38ksn1n/these_days_medium.dem

Helpful comments shouldn't be deleted. Your feedback also pointed me towards two other small issues that could be easily fixed. Thank you.

Knowing what was not intended I was quickly able to see the intended path, which is easier than climbing. Again, what makes this map so good, in my opinion, is the cube retrieval from the Easy version and the complicated ending. Thanks. Feel free to delete the discussion to clean up any spoilers.

Map updated. Maybe you're right. In all the playthroughs I've seen only one time a player was using the intended step instead of trying to climb up the wall again. It must be the fifth time or so that I'm trying to fix that part.

Maybe another lesson is that test subjects will be lazy and will re-use something that they've figured out already if at all possible. I plan to repeat the chamber looking for your intended path.

I see, thanks for telling. Never underestimate the determination of test subjects to do the exact thing you don't want them to do. ;)
Will try to fix it, again.

If you used it twice then it was unintended. I tried to make the situation where you could use the climbing the second time virtually impossible, as I did not want to have that repetition. Apparently I have not fixed that issue successfully. Can you show me what you exactly did?

What's wrong with the climbing? You have to do it once in the beginning and it's pretty easy. Don't tell me you used it again later. This was possible but I tried to fix that.

I didn't much like the funnel climbing either, but the end was a real brain twister and very enjoyable.

Not a big fan of gimmicky wall climbing , but otherwise all of this was excellent. If this is medium then you sure do rate difficulty on a scale far different than that of the core game. o_O Nice work.

The end part made me feel stupid. And it was so simple that I overlooked it!

Very nice, took me a while to work out the end part but very satisfying to complete :)

Quite challenging for me. Don't know how hard it will be if there is a hard version...

Thoroughly enjoyed. Especially getting ground to a halt at the end. Took several attempts before the solution became apparent. Been watching and learning from your walkthroughs and examined everything I could find before jumping into the fray. Sometimes a little thought is worth more than a lot of pressing buttons. I liked the below the scenes area and fizzlers that stop short of the ceiling. Also liked the varied uses of the funnel. Great map and puzzle. Will be a favorite.

Fun, took me a while...the last part was tough.

Thanks very much for the playthrough. I thought I had eliminated your way to reach the pedestal button but you managed to make it despite of the measures. Well, can't do much more except saying there is a more relaxing way. Good job anyways. :D

And for anyone wondering how to pronounce my nick name: ton-tshi-tza

*tshi is a well known chinese word, it means: dissapointed in the cooking of the duck meat

Excellent map! Playthrough here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFv4E-wbvQ

And done with medium as wel. Last part kept me thinking for a while good job!

Love this map. Had me really stumped at the end.

You need to use the funnel . Further down is a video by Metzger Ben showing how.

There's one thing I can't work out: how to get the cube in the first place.

Wow, and I thought the easy version was fun. This one was a blast!

No further version planned by me. Somebody might do an "advanced" though.

Ahhh... got this one too (: Just don't make a "hard" version please lol!

Steam has finally allowed me to update the map. Should now work as intended.

Nice map, thx

Ah, you're saying the Steam Cloud is testing my faith?

Steam Cloud, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good mappers or bad. Why we mapped, or why we tested. All that matters is that one map version stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Steam Cloud... so grant me one request. Grant me an update! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!

Just belive in the steam cloud. At some point the chamber will be correct. There is no point in time were we have to demand a absolut correct chamber from a certain timesecond. If my solution is not that far away from what you had in mind then its fine. At least for me - enjoying all puzzles thrown at me. :-)

@Wonkothesane13, it's very doable. You might not have used that technique before but it's very common. You can see it in the video by Metzger Ben.

@Waterhandle and Metzger, I was very alarmed by your postings and checked the map. Bloody hell! Steam did it again to one of my maps. The Steam server keeps an older version of the map and doesn't refresh any updates anymore. This is not what I had in mind. The preview shows the actual version but you and everyone else are downloading a version with a flaw I had already removed. The glass barrier in front of the wall where you have to climb up is not supposed to touch the ground. You should never come in contact with the glass, to reach the pedestal button the intended way the not yet deployed angled panel in the exit room was supposed to be used.
It's not that a big deal but annoying. I would need to delete this map and publish it as a new one to be able to update again, thus losing all subscribers.

My solution: http://youtu.be/SXob7W8w2SY

I suppose people refer to 'funnel climbing' as moving up in a funnel while your pressed against a wall? Cause that was somewhat annoying, rather then hard... It's not horrible, but I prefer moving with the funnel while having portable surfaces on both sides. Anyway, that's the easy part, the part where this becomes a puzzle is the end. A bit sneaky, but satisfying when I pieced everything together. Thumbs up.

As far as I can tell, this puzzle is unsolvable. I figured out the easy version, it was tricky, but doable. But with the removal of some of the portal surfaces, it doesn't seem possible to acquire the cube, the only interaction that can be had is continuously emancipating it as soon as it spawns.

Very nice, the ending took a while to work out, but i got there in the end. Good work!

@KennKong, I'm not sure about that. With Hammer I would be lucky to release one map per year.
You may experience some difficulties on the other maps sometimes if you're still using a controller.

Very good. Now drag both version into Hammer, start with the easy version and have Wheatley force you to do it again in the harder version (a la Seven Gates by Jonatan). Now I'm off to play your other stuff!

Haha, man I'm so blind. I don't know how often I've seen the space core picture of your map without making the connection. Nice. I just played it and deemed it worthy to be linked to. Maybe your little overlooked map gets some attention now. ;)

To anybody else trying to plug his map here: Pow! Right in the kisser!

Hey, love the level! I'm not usually one to plug my own work on other people's comments, but I couldn't help but notice how well your title ties into one of my own:

To the Moon, Alice

Thanks for all the feedback. Changes have been applied. The only thing I can't improve further is how to land the cube on the button without introducing an element that would do more harm than good. It is possible to do it with only one try though, by placing the cube correctly on the panel and by avoiding an angle when you shoot the portal. That's why only the ledges are accessible which are in a straight line.
Wall mounted flip panels - gone, dead end - averted.

Great map. Definitely harder than the easy version. I do think this can still be classified as medium though.

I had no trouble seeing what I had to do the whole time. Maybe only at the beginning because I missed a few elements that were present in the easy version. Maybe you need to let people test this map without showing them the easy map first.

I had a bit of trouble at the exit to get the cube to land on the button. Took me 4 or 5 times. If you can fix that somehow, I'd do that. Otherwise, this is a good, solid map.

toncica, you're dead on with your assumptions. I did talk about the pedestal button . Had I known that it is connected to the fizzler I wouldn't have used the funnel climbing technique to lift the cube over that fizzler . Yep, that's possible but it's still a dead end because (a) even if the cube doesn't move all the way to the ledge with the pedestal button (b) there's still no way to reach that ledge.
I agree that if any the fizzler connection should show because that way it would be clear to the player that he has to press the pedestal button first in order to get the cube to the exit room.