Took me a bit to see the final cube position. A bit connection heavy for my taste, but this is a nice one!

Clever solution with the bootstrapped laser.

Went around in circles until I realized the setup for the bootstrap, which undid the pair of ducks. After that, just had to make sure to use the correct panels to do the exit.

A new fave!

Small but devious. Took some time for me. I felt that it had to do with a bootstrapped laser , but halfway through I lost the focus and could only solve the map by trying and trying and trying different setups ^^

I broke the fizzler: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561199244363354/screenshot/2473115214791275090/
I also had it solved for like 5 minutes without realizing it.

1.2 Hours, and some looking at comments for hints, and i eventually got it.

Spent way too long thinking i needed 3 portals, and then got it in my head that the only way i could get the cube in the 3rd room with portals in the proper place was to drop it thru the angled panel while it was on the floor, (which upon viewing a Solution video after completing the test, BOY was I wrong)

Always pleasing run. Small chamber and satisfying game.

Another good one! The connections for that one death fizzler were confusing at first, not sure how you would've made it clear though. Maybe some signage.

Neat map, i like the bootstrap but I feel there's too many connections.

Thanks for creating, another great puzzle.

Ok, I'm not getting the answer right now. I am very close, but I'm honestly just procrastinating from practicing my presentation. So for now "IT'S A PARADOX THERE IS NO ANSWER!"

After reading the comments, I feel like such a rube for not commenting on your Cave Johnson vignettes....I'm usually so busy commenting on how good+frustrating (the good kind) the puzzle is. It's too bad you can't get these voiced. There have been so many good ones I don't know if this is the best, but I think it is safe to say it is near the top of going with a concept and mercilessly beating it to a pulp.

Puzzle: I had such a wrong idea initially of which laser would power which catcher. However, once I got the cube into the back room and was trying to implement my idea, I saw that one could power the other catcher and simultaneously set up a perpetual laser, I knew that had to be it. ...But then did it take a bit to figure out how to get out of the back room and have portals where you need them. Boy howdy, did I get lethally zapped by the laser several times while trying to exit the floor portal! Another great one!

Brilliant as usual - the Portal 2 community is truly lucky to have you.

Great map! The trick is to keep that annoying panel from popping up all the time! Thanks for your work!

Thanks, Tronsnake! Glad you enjoyed :)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=760355200&searchtext=Rexaura
Is this it?

@Dhfoe It's from the mod "Rexaura", although I can't remember which specific track it is

What is the BGM in this puzzle? I like it very much.

Thanks guys, I think I'll bump up the difficulty to Medium-Hard, since a lot of people seem to be having trouble.

Ditto the last comment. That or I just suck at laser puzzles cuz it took me so long to see it :P
Playthrough video

Geez Louise! Your definition of "easy-medium" is WAY different from mine. Very nice challenge.

@Spider_Dawg Well done for solving it! I hope you remembered your towel ;)

That hurt. My brain feels like I've had about ten Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters. Thanks, I think.

@quatrus Thanks very much! Glad you liked it :)

Ahhh where to put that laser cube so it turns itself on... Well done again. Thanks for creating the challenge.

I think this was the intended solution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbLy8ftAnY

Thanks zigzag, much appreciated!

Oh my god. I'm more of a moron than Wheatley. Took over 2 hours for me to solve.. from a person with over 2100 hours on Portal 2. 2200 if you count the original Portal. I'll never forgive myself for not seeing the solution quicker.... wow am I dumb....

You've done it again.

P.S. Best CJ description ever lol

Thank You ;D

@Eternal Abyss Lord - It's taken from the Portal 1 mod "Rexaura" :)

Maybe it sounds like a stupid question but, you know the "OST" (soundtrack) used in your map?
I searched it on the "Portal 2 Soundtracks" And I couldn´t find it, Do you know something?

@Magnum Thanks! :D

So satisfying :o

@| \_/ () Thanks very much! Really glad you liked it. More tests on the way!

Everything in this map is just so satisfying - the size of the chamber, the blue lights opposed to the red lasers, the simple layout and especially that perpetual laser mechanic. Not that it hasn't been done before, but I just found it really enjoyable here. And yeah - solving the puzzle was, of course, also very fun. Good work!

My playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8zyO1vObuw

Awesome laser puzzle. The double bootstrapping was my favorite part, by far. Excellent work!

is this intended or are you aware of this?
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1233796474

Great concepts. Thanks for your efforts.

I'll call that last move a Bank Shot.

Apparently you can get stuck if you do this

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1209211658

I could hear in my head: Ha ha (Nelson)

Sorry if this has already been said, I did not went through all the comments.

Otherwise good fun puzzle, in fact I found myself rather amused at being stuck. You have to try hard. Perhaps it could be a hidden challenge :)

Good as usual! Fairly easy, but probably because I've suffered through Veldrax's bootstrapping megalomagnum opus :D

Both awesomeness in the map and the Desctiption. Thought it would take me a lot longer to solve the map, but I guess it probably took longer to read the description in the end :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z40ZXDziHg

@K7 Avenger Thanks very much, K7! I'm not very good at solving laser puzzles either, but I *am* good at making them if I do say so myself, and I hadn't made one in ages, so I thought it was about time I did! Glad you enjoyed it, hope the satisfying ending was worth it!

Yes I got it! I'll be honest, before I started and saw it was a laser puzzle, I thought "oh no.. I am not very good at these test with hundreds of different angles you can place a redirection cube in." But then I remembered your map "the pulse experiment" (which also reminded me of a mevious map I forgot the name of..) And thought "hey, with the name Paradox, this is probably about activating a laser with a laser, going into a loop." Then I spent about 10 minutes total figuring out where to place the cube to get that loop, and it was easy to solve after that.

Always love puzzles with a satisfying ending like this one. Excellent stuff again Demon! Thumbs up and favourited.

This test has been favourited by me! what a puzzle...

I was messing about with the lasers and ended up getting to the exit, so I retraced my steps and realised that it was a bootstrapping puzzle. Then I realised how simple it was.

And how stupid I was...

Yes brutal until you realize the trick needed to make it work. It's almost a static problem where you have to just envision the end arrangement and then do it, and then BE somewhere where you can get out. I managed to trap myself completely in one room by not sequencing things right.

How do you do the custom thumbnail? Editing in the files?

Wow, very awesome. Haven't played this game in a while but this was an amazing way to come back to it!