Portal 2

Portal 2

Peculiar
47 Comments
Bollen 21 Jun, 2024 @ 7:09pm 
@Mikeastro, oh, I can't believe you remember me. Yes I did try many different solutions, including ones online. Nothing worked because of the aforementioned i.e. things not lining up correctly. Maybe an update changed the physics? In any case, my comment was about the impossibility of discovering the solution since things don't line up. You are an amazing puzzle maker anyway!
Mikeastro  [author] 21 Jun, 2024 @ 1:24am 
@Bollen Great to hear from you again! I hope you are well these days. Have you tried looking at Joric's solution? It uses a different and more consistent method than bullfrog's :cozycrashfish:
Bollen 20 Jun, 2024 @ 8:29pm 
I just can't get it to work... I spent an hour figuring it out, tried everything. Eventually gave up and looked up the answer and there's the problem! The cube is either not landing in the white square or when it slides through the bridge it goes too far or not far enough. Therefore, it's impossible to find the solution, because even if you do, the physics don't work out...!
Mikeastro  [author] 26 Jan, 2024 @ 6:49am 
@RotakeR Thank you for the video! I'm happy to hear you enjoy the content on my channel :D It's an ambitious project to go through all my chambers, but at least the order you chose should hopefully assure a steady increase in design quality :cozycrashfish: If you persevere, you will be in for quite a few mind benders further down the road...
This puzzle is a bit rough; I might want to completely redo it at some point. Your solution seemed intended enough to me for as far as I can remember; thanks for the video! In the description you will find two more solutions; you might enjoy comparing them to yours
RotakeR 26 Jan, 2024 @ 6:29am 
Only recently I found out about your channel and I'm having a blast going through all your chambers (going in order from the oldest). Another cool puzzle here, I included a video of my solution , since some parts felt ever so slightly more gimmicky that usual, mainly middle bits. Also, what is this cube doing at 1:05
Mr Fab 14 Nov, 2021 @ 3:36am 
Great puzzle ! :steamthumbsup: I'm impressed that i beat it around the 20 min mark ! I also did the final step a bit different by ignoring the button on top of the stairs !
bullfrog 17 Sep, 2020 @ 11:25pm 
This is still a truly excellent puzzle. I read your comment 10 Apr @ 10:36pm; yes "vertically" makes much more sense and I have no idea why I didn't do it that way in the first place!
Dark Rozen 17 Sep, 2020 @ 11:35am 
Good. Such map.
Mikeastro  [author] 17 Sep, 2020 @ 5:35am 
@BehindPortal Thanks a lot for playing! I should really redesign this one some day :]
BehindPortal 17 Sep, 2020 @ 3:43am 
ohh man so much clever. stumped me. fav:p2cube:
Mikeastro  [author] 10 Apr, 2020 @ 2:36pm 
@Teo Thanks for playing! Indeed the design of this one could be improved a lot, as it's quite old, but again, the puzzle itself isn't terrible. My original solution considered that key more verically, so I was quite surprised to find that bullfrog's alternative worked so consistently! Anyway, glad you liked it
Teo 10 Apr, 2020 @ 1:45pm 
Wacky. I found it relatively easy, but I really enjoyed all of the reuse of surfaces and areas. Technically you don't have to do the 'cube slides across lightbridge to interrupt laser move' but it's more fun to do it that way :P Thumbs up!
Mikeastro  [author] 10 Jan, 2020 @ 10:38pm 
@Spider,_Dawg Thanks :] Excellent work solving this one. It is definitely quite difficult. Maybe I should remake this some day to improve the layout. Anyway, glad you liked it :D
Spider_Dawg 10 Jan, 2020 @ 7:02pm 
That was tough, I had to come back to this one a few different evenings before solving. Some very clever moves here that are not at all obvious. Well done.
Mikeastro  [author] 31 Dec, 2019 @ 10:23am 
@ShinDog Thank you! Excellent work solving this one. I'm honoured to have one of my maps serving as the inspiration for one of yours :D I'll try it this weekend. Happy new year to you as well ^_^
ShinDog 31 Dec, 2019 @ 10:09am 
I have to thank you twice.
First - for the pleasure received from solving "Peculiar".
Second - for the inspiration that led me to create my own map.
So, I wish you to be inspired and inspire others next year!
Happy New Year! :steamhappy:
Mikeastro  [author] 11 Dec, 2018 @ 9:56am 
@quatrus Yeah that is by far the trickiest bit here
quatrus 11 Dec, 2018 @ 9:39am 
Ya maybe a bit more than 7/10... Trick with the cube on the bridge was very clever - hard to see but easy to execute (thanks bullfrog for video). Thanks for creating.
Mikeastro  [author] 5 Oct, 2018 @ 5:14pm 
@Requiemsoul Thank you very much! I'll look at your idea tomorrow :)
Requiemsoul 5 Oct, 2018 @ 5:07pm 
A very ingenious map. Big Thumbs up!. I thought a more surprising alternative ending. Here a mini-test with my idea. Important note: Speed funnel= 200.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1531360252
Mikeastro  [author] 29 Jun, 2018 @ 4:04pm 
@leomievs Thanks; I'll try to continue making a tough one every once in a while :)
Leo 29 Jun, 2018 @ 2:20pm 
Well, couldn't solve this one. But I watched the video and I have to admit it's very clever. Looks like I'm not experienced enough to rate it any less than 8/10, so I hope you'll keep on making hard maps so that I can get better :P
Mikeastro  [author] 27 Jun, 2018 @ 2:50pm 
@Joric Excellent work, and thanks a lot for the video! You should keep in mind that my difficulty scale, as it is now, is sort of based on the perception of the average player. More experienced players will not rate this one so high, and rightfully point out that the hardest maps in the workshop would fly off the scale if this is 'really' 8/10 :)
Joric 27 Jun, 2018 @ 1:37pm 
Watched @jgaultney (already fixed) and @bullfrog post-factum yep that was an intended one. Wow I can solve 8/10 maps. Don't make it simpler it's pretty lenient as it is.
Joric 27 Jun, 2018 @ 1:25pm 
Took about a hour to figure out 2-minute solution https://youtu.be/KPkP-2hhPag
bullfrog 26 Jun, 2018 @ 1:00am 
:) thumbs up already, now also added to favourites. Re your question "make the timing a bit more lenient?" - it works fine and reliably if done the correct way, but maybe... idk.
Mikeastro  [author] 25 Jun, 2018 @ 11:27pm 
@bullfrog Once more a perfect solution! Thanks for the video :) Do you think I should make the timing a bit more lenient?
bullfrog 25 Jun, 2018 @ 4:21pm 
... spoiler video of hopefully the intended solution ?
bullfrog 25 Jun, 2018 @ 3:04am 
Absolutely brilliant puzzle. I could have done with a bit more time on one bit, so I’ll record walkthrough later to check with you.
Mikeastro  [author] 23 Jun, 2018 @ 2:58am 
@Nobody No-One Thanks! That is indeed the trickiest bit here
Nobody No-One 22 Jun, 2018 @ 8:38pm 
Nice map. Took me a while to figure out how to get a cube in the area with the funnel, but everything went pretty smoothly after that. Thumbs up.
jandlml 16 Jun, 2018 @ 7:18pm 
yay!!
Mikeastro  [author] 16 Jun, 2018 @ 2:48am 
@jandlml That is exactly the way! Well spotted :D
jandlml 15 Jun, 2018 @ 6:12pm 
i hope thats the way because its a great sequence. and then i was able to finish the map. very excellent!!:steamhappy:
jandlml 15 Jun, 2018 @ 6:11pm 
ok i went back and tried again to come up with the way to get the cube. i hadnt looked at your hint. is this the way? when on the funnel side i used the moveable panel to respawn the cube,quickly hopped back on and went back to the funnel side. then i hit the moveable panel button and put a portal under the dropper,then i put one on the wall where the bridge hits. i let the cube respawn and it slid on the bridge to block the laser beam. so then i put the funnel on to catch the second cube and take to the button. so once the little fizzler is down i put a portal under the cube that is now sitting on the bridge and quickly turned around andhit the portal surface behind the small fizzler. and now i have the cube
jandlml 15 Jun, 2018 @ 5:51pm 
i havent looked at your hint yet so im not sure if it may be the reason why i finished without using the button on the wall
Mikeastro  [author] 15 Jun, 2018 @ 3:51am 
@jandlml Ah, thanks for letting me know about that! I'll see if I can fix that. As a hint for the intended solution: observe the panel behind you that can open up, with a delay you must exploit, but to open it up you need the funnel. Can you think of another way to block the laser apart from near the receiver?
jandlml 14 Jun, 2018 @ 11:46pm 
ok i got it. not sure what you intended but i got it by using the moveable panel to grab the first cube and hold it low so it doesnt hit the fizzler.
jandlml 14 Jun, 2018 @ 8:11pm 
i thought i had one idea but i needed a couple more seconds
jandlml 14 Jun, 2018 @ 8:10pm 
ok you got me . i cant figure this one out. i watched a teeny bit of the walkthru but you changed the part of getting the cube over which what i was trying to do beofre and it didnt work. so what should i be paying attention to in order to get that cube?
Mikeastro  [author] 10 Mar, 2018 @ 12:57pm 
@dvdbillen Woah, the bugs in p2 just keep piling up, huh? Anyways, thanks for playing!
dvdbillen 10 Mar, 2018 @ 11:44am 
(Great one though. Made me game rage a little, but felt good to solve).
dvdbillen 10 Mar, 2018 @ 11:43am 
Whoa check it out. It's probably an engine bug you can't do anything about, but my cube hung in mid air after I removed the walkway... https://kek.gg/i/5ZP569.jpg
Mikeastro  [author] 16 Dec, 2017 @ 9:15am 
Hey jgaultney! Thanks a lot for your video, I really appreciate it! You did do something interesting to retrieve the cube that spawns above the goo that was indeed not intended. I'll fix it by adding a portalmagnet on the tile facing the cube button with the X. Apart from that you followed the intended path ^_^
jgaultney 16 Dec, 2017 @ 9:06am 
A tricky and enjoyable puzzle but I must have done something unintended since I didn't
use a couple of elements.
https://youtu.be/D5L2HkeGGOE
dire.fcs 15 Dec, 2017 @ 8:44pm 
Really cool test, well done.
Sector 5 7 Oct, 2017 @ 7:02am 
Excellent,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Quite a mind bender!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,